Li Kui stood in the middle, with a woman standing behind him. She was holding Li Kui's arm and trembling.
On the bed next to him stood a naked baby of about five or six years old, wearing only a red bellyband.
Glancing around, I realized I was in a house. Sunlight shone through the windows, illuminating the room.
Zhang Shixun touched his head and seemed to be fine. He looked at the ground and saw only half a string of leftover candied haws.
It turned out that what hit his head was half a string of candied haws.
Hei Wuchang also crawled out of the cave silently and stood behind Zhang Shixun with a wooden face.
Zhang Shixun asked the naked kid, "Did you hit me with the candied haws just now?"
The naked baby clapped his hands, jumped and laughed, and was extremely happy. "I was the one who smashed it."
Zhang Shixun was infected by the little kid and couldn't help laughing. He asked him, "Why did you hit me?"
The naked baby put his hands on his hips and said, "Who told you to bully my dad? If you bully him, I will hit you."
Zhang Shixun glanced at Li Kui and said to the little kid with a smile, "Your father and I are friends. I didn't bully him."
Wawa was quite clever and looked at Zhang Shixun warily, "I don't believe you, are you lying to me?"
"Everything I said is true. I didn't lie to you."
The baby looked up at his father.
Li Kui said to the baby with a sad face: "Hulu, he... he really is Daddy's friend."
"You have to compensate me with the candied haws." The baby looked at the candied haws on the ground, grinned and burst into tears.
"Okay, okay! I'll compensate you with a string of candied haws... No, no! Five strings." Zhang Shixun stretched out five fingers with a serious expression.
"Really?" The baby stopped crying immediately, but there was not a single tear in her eyes.
What a little brat!
Zhang Shixun smiled inwardly and nodded, saying, "A real man should keep his word. If I say I'll pay five strings of cash, I'll pay five strings of cash."
"Pink pinky!" The doll raised a little finger.
"Okay! Pinky promise!" Zhang Shixun also raised his little finger.
"Make a pinky promise! I'd rather hang myself than live for a hundred years." Wawa and Zhang Shixun made a pinky promise, smiling broadly.
After sending this young man away, Zhang Shixun turned his attention to Li Kui and looked at him carefully.
Apart from his size, this guy doesn't fit the image of the Black Li Kui described in "Water Margin". He doesn't have a bear-like body and his chest is not broad.
In short, his bearing is not majestic at all, but rather a bit vulgar.
Judging from the fact that he left his men behind and escaped alone, this guy was still a coward, far from Li Kui's silly character.
The most crucial point is that he does not have an axe in his hand, which is Li Kui's iconic weapon.
All signs indicate that this guy is not the legendary Li Kui.
The conclusion is, if it is not Li Kui, then it must be Li Gui.
In front of women and children, Zhang Shixun didn't know how to deal with this fake Li Kui.
Just as he was hesitating to make up his mind, Li Kui's legs went weak and he fell to the ground with a thud, kowtowed profusely.
"Good man! Please spare my life."
Zhang Shixun frowned and asked him, "Is your name really Li Kui?"
"My real name is Li Kui."
"Black Whirlwind?"
Li Kui looked at him blankly, not understanding.
"What's your nickname?"
"My nickname is Di Chuliu."
Escape?
This nickname is vulgar.
Zhang Shixun continued to ask him: "What's your name? Which Kui?"
"I can't read, but my military advisor told me that there's a character for 'ghost' in my name."
It turns out that this guy’s name is Li Kui.
It wasn’t Li Kui, Zhang Shixun was a little disappointed.
Li Kui kowtowed repeatedly and said, "Please, for the sake of my child, spare my life."
The woman also knelt down and kowtowed.
Hulu stood on the bed, opened his big eyes, and looked at his parents curiously, not understanding why they were kowtowing to this man.
"Why did you steal my things? And kill my servants?" Zhang Shixun asked with a gloomy face.
"You...you are?"
"My name is Zhang Shixun."
"So it's you, sir. I know you." Li Kui kowtowed again and said, "I didn't send anyone there."
"Not you?"
"It's the cunning fox Huang San." In order to save his life, Li Kui sold the man out without thinking.
"Huang San?"
"He's the fourth in command in Wuyou Cave," Li Kui stammered, explaining, "Good man! Although I'm the boss, I'm not the one who's really in charge. It's that cunning fox Huang San. He has the final say on all important matters. My words are worthless."
"Why is Huang San the head of the household?" Zhang Shixun knew there must be something else going on. He pressed the issue, "Tell me the truth, or you and your entire family will be dead. Even if I'm kind enough to let you go, the government won't let you go. Think about it, assassinating the emperor is a heinous crime."
Li Kui broke out in a cold sweat, knowing that this matter was of great importance, so he told the whole story in detail about what had happened in Wuyou Cave.
Wuyou Cave is an underground city and also a city of crime. It is so vast that it almost covers the entire city of Tokyo, with caves connected to each other and rings interlocking.
The gang of thieves in Wuyou Cave is well organized and has a long history. It existed long before the founding of the Song Dynasty and has continued for many generations. It has a tight internal organization and forms its own system.
Wuyou Cave is a den of filth and filth, housing all kinds of criminals. They are like a group of rats hiding in the sewers. They do everything except rebel, hiding weapons, shielding criminals, cheating and deceiving...
This may be the most secretive and darkest corner of the Song Dynasty, a den of filth and a gathering place for the dregs of society.
From a justice standpoint, everyone in Wuyou Cave deserved to die.
Li Kui's leadership position wasn't earned through his own abilities, but rather inherited from his father. Because he lacked prestige and skill, he couldn't control this group of fugitives. Gradually, his power dwindled until it was gradually taken away by Huang San and others.
In name, Li Kui is the master of Wuyou Cave. But in fact, the one who has the final say is Huang San, who is the real master of the cave.
It took Zhang Shixun a whole meal to get a preliminary understanding of the inside story of Wuyou Cave. After listening to it, he felt his scalp tingling and his head as big as a bucket.
It seems that if one wants to eradicate Wuyou Cave, it is useless to capture Li Kui, and the key is to capture Huang San.
"You haven't answered my question yet. Why did you kill my servants and steal my things?"
"I've already said it, it's none of my business. It was all Huang San who did it." Li Kui kowtowed again, then said, "A few days ago, Huang San took on a dirty job."
"What a dirty job."
"That's slang. We call killing people dirty work."
"Well, go on. What dirty work did Huang San take on?"
"I heard from a close confidant that a high-ranking official offered one thousand taels of silver for your head, and Huang San accepted it."
"What the hell! My head is only worth a mere 1,000 taels of silver?" Zhang Shixun sneered and then asked him, "Do you know who that great official is?"
Li Kui shook his head: "I don't know. Anyone who hires a killer wouldn't be stupid enough to tell the killer their true identity."
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