Chapter 34 The Old Man is Involved in the Zhan Family Scandal
This house used to be Zhan Hengyi's home, and he was quite familiar with its internal structure.
He led his men around the screen wall and rushed into the three courtyards. The main houses and wing rooms in the first two courtyards were covered with dust and empty. The courtyard was also overgrown with weeds, and it was obvious that no one had lived there for a long time.
When I rushed to the backyard, I saw thick smoke coming out of the two houses on the side, and I couldn't see inside through the etched glass windows.
He rushed over and kicked the door open, only to see the old man and several tall men lying on hard pillows, smoking their pipes with great pleasure.
The old man was the one he and Su Zhijie saw in the Pear Garden that day.
The old man and his group were completely stunned. After the door was kicked open, they felt scared for a few seconds and sat up in panic. "Who?"
The brothers of the Qing Gang had already rushed towards them.
The old man and several of his accomplices also knew kung fu, and they started fighting with the Green Gang brothers. However, in less than half a minute, they were all knocked down by the Green Gang brothers and beaten to a pulp.
Pei Dong stepped on the old man's head and asked, "Where are the children?"
Before the old man could speak, Zhan Hengyi told his brothers to look for it in the cellar next to the big locust tree.
When you walk out of this house, you can see a tall locust tree in the southwest corner of the backyard. Next to the locust tree is a stone staircase leading to the basement. Going down the stone staircase is a large cellar. When the Zhan family worked here, they stored the seafood, wine, and some summer vegetables shipped from overseas in the cellar.
Zhan Hengyi thought that this should be the only place in the entire house where someone could hide.
The brothers searched according to Zhan Hengyi's instructions, and unexpectedly found the children practicing acrobatics and martial arts in the cellar, and Wang Pingzhi, the current owner of the house, who was tied up in a corner and dying.
The Qing Gang brothers quickly rescued everyone.
When Nan Xiaoxiao and the others arrived at the backyard, they saw a group of timid, pale-faced, skinny children.
Wang Pingzhi covered his heart with his hands, bent over and bowed repeatedly to express his gratitude to the person who saved him.
"Amitabha, Mr. Wang, what's wrong with you?" asked the monk.
Wang Pingzhi looked at the toothless old man with hatred and said, "My house is haunted. I moved out a while ago and it has been empty. I don't know when this old man brought people to live here secretly.
A few days ago, I wanted to find someone to help me exorcise ghosts, and I ran into them when I came here again.
After I caught them, these shameless guys tied me up in the basement and didn't give me any water or food for two days, hoping to starve me to death.
"Ahem, ahem! You're not human, you've kidnapped so many poor kids from nowhere, you don't let them have enough to eat, and you force them to practice dangerous acrobatics in a dark basement every day. Are you even human, huh?"
Wang Pingzhi was locked up here for two days. He watched these poor children practicing martial arts day and night without enough to eat. They didn't dare to cry out when their stomachs ached with hunger in the middle of the night. They just gritted their teeth and endured it. He felt so miserable!
He thought of his deceased son, who was also this age when he died. Children are the apple of their parents' eyes. If parents knew that their children were being accused of abuse, how desperate and sad they would be!
After hearing this, Pei Dong clenched his fists and rushed to the old man's side. He grabbed his hair, forced the old man to look up, and said fiercely, "I'm going to catch you and feed you to the wolves now."
The old man's wrinkled face showed a strange smile, as if he was not afraid of Pei Dong's threat at all. He tried to look at Zhan Hengyi, "You are so lucky, you are still alive!
Want to kill me? Aren't you afraid that your big brother will hate you forever?
Ha, ha! I am so arrogant, because the backer behind me is..."
Before the old man could finish his words, he fainted.
When everyone looked, they saw that it was Nan Xiaoxiao who swung the stick and hit the old man directly on the back of the neck, making him faint.
Pei Dong let go in disgust, and the old man fell to the ground.
Nan Xiaoxiao looked at Zhan Hengyi meaningfully, "It's not too late to deal with these villains later.
Right now, the more important thing is to deal with the evil spirits in this house and break the bad luck and death here. Otherwise, all of us who come in and leave here will be contaminated by unclean things. Bad luck is a small matter, but if we lose our lives, then it will be the end of us!"
Zhan Hengyi immediately understood the meaning in Nan Xixi's eyes. What the old man had just said was the Zhan family's dirty laundry, which should not be made public. Now that there were so many outsiders around, the old man could not say a word.
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