After returning to Sansha Town, Elder Niu called several trusted hall masters to his home.

When several hall masters rushed to Elder Niu's house, Elder Niu asked his son to close the door and not let anyone in.

Then he led a few people into the inner room.

Several hall masters were surprised to find that Madam Shen was there too, and there were tablets of the old gang leader and his son on the table.

"Kneel down and talk." Elder Niu shouted in a low voice.

Several hall masters quickly knelt down and followed Elder Niu to pay homage to the tablets of the two gang leaders.

Then Elder Niu stood up and shouted to the people kneeling in front of him:

"There's a big traitor in our gang! He killed the young leader, poisoned Master Teng, and colluded with the Japanese pirates to kill Madam Shen. He is guilty of ten unforgivable crimes and deserves death!"

"Ah?" The hall masters were shocked when they heard this. They were stunned for a long time before they asked in unison: "Who is it? How could there be such a bastard in the gang?!"

"Who else could it be? It must be that evil creature Guo Donglin!" Elder Niu's eyes were blazing with fire. "He didn't appreciate the old gang leader's life-saving grace, and ignored the old gang leader's kindness in taking him in and promoting him. In order to take the position of gang leader, he even set up a trap to poison the young gang leader with mercury!"

Elder Niu said this and showed the hall masters a corpse chart drawn up by Li Shizhen.

"This is what Divine Doctor Li wrote when he came to the island the day before yesterday to examine the remains of the Young Gang Master!"

All the hall masters were dumbfounded, silently looking at the body sheet signed 'Li Shizhen', only to see that it proved that the young gang leader died of an overdose of mercury poison!

"The man surnamed Guo was so mad that he tried his old tricks again to poison Young Master Teng in order to avoid returning his position as the leader of the gang! This was found in Young Master Teng's porcelain pillow."

Elder Niu did not give the crowd any chance to comment, and raised a transparent crystal box in his hand to show the mercury rolling in the box.

All the hall masters were horrified by what they saw.

But this matter was so big that no one dared to express their opinions easily. Someone asked in a low voice:

"Is there any evidence that Guo Bang, no, Guo Donglin did it?"

"Of course we have evidence, bring the person up!" Elder Niu said in a low voice.

Elder Ma walked into the main hall with his head held high, followed by four big men, each holding a person in a cage.

"Please look, everyone. This is what I got when I went to Bailusha earlier."

As Elder Ma spoke, he pulled off the hood of one of the men, revealing an ugly bald head.

"Hiss, Japanese?!" The hall masters felt that they had received too much information today and their heads were buzzing.

"Yes, he is the real Japanese Kazuo Umekawa who led the crowd to attack the madam!" Elder Ma shouted coldly.

"Ah? Umekawa Kazuo has been arrested? What is that gang...oh no, what is Guo Donglin still doing?" the hall masters asked in a lost voice.

"He was just putting on a show." Elder Ma sneered and said, "We deliberately leaked the information about the Japanese pirates in Bailusha to him yesterday, just to see if he was colluding with them. Boss Guo really didn't let us down!"

"He sent this kid to Bailusha to tip off the enemy, but I caught him red-handed!"

As he said this, he pulled off the hood of another person, revealing a small man with a bruised face and nose. One could still vaguely tell that it was Guo Donglin's younger brother, the head of the Punishment Hall, Guo Qilin!

Elder Ma took out a stack of papers and handed them to the hall masters, saying, "These are the confessions of the two men. You can read them for yourselves."

When the hall masters took the confession and looked at it, their expressions changed several times, and finally turned into anger.

In his confession, Guo Qilin admitted that he was instructed by his elder brother to set up a plan to poison the young gang leader; and that Guo Donglin poisoned Xiao Teng's pillow when he was teaching him.

In addition, he confessed to a lot of illegal activities, which according to the strict rules of the Sand Ship Gang were enough to make his brothers die more than ten times.

As for Umekawa Kazuo's confession, he admitted that Guo Donglin sent someone to tell him the incident and location of Mrs. Shen's returning ship and asked him to take people to intercept and kill her.

Now the hall masters finally believed that Guo Donglin was the culprit behind all the recent misfortunes of the Shachuan Gang!

"I thought that God was not blessing our Shachuan Gang!" They beat their chests and stamped their feet, crying like dogs in front of the spirits of the two gang leaders.

"So it was that bastard Guo who did this!"

"Guo Donglin is a beast in human form, with no conscience. If we don't cut him into pieces, we will never be able to vent our hatred for the Sand Boat Gang!"

"I swear I won't be a human being if I don't kill this Guo!"

After all the hall masters had expressed their opinions, they all looked at Madam Shen who was sitting next to the tablet.

"Madam, tell us how to take revenge! We will protect you till our death!"

"Yes, ma'am, even if it costs us our lives, we will kill Guo the thief and avenge our leader!"

"Thank you, everyone. I thank you on behalf of my late husband." Mrs. Shen stood up with tears in her eyes and bowed to everyone.

"During these precarious times, it is best to minimize the number of deaths."

"Madam, don't worry. The thief Guo doesn't know that we already know everything!" Elder Niu snorted and glared at him, "We will take advantage of the moment when he and his gang are off guard and wipe out all his followers on the island!"

"That's easy!" Elder Ma stared at Ma and said in a low voice:

"I'm celebrating my birthday tonight. I'll invite them to my house for a drink when it gets dark. We'll arrest whoever comes. Arrest the leader, and watch the others. We'll wait for Guo to come back and settle the score!"

"Well, I will send people to watch over the docks when the time comes, and we will make sure that the news does not leak out." Elder Niu organized the group again, made detailed arrangements and deployments, and formulated several emergency plans.

After saying that, he looked at the hall masters and asked, "Do you have any other opinions?"

"It all depends on the two elders!" Seeing such a thorough plan, the hall masters gained confidence and responded in unison.

"Okay then, it's settled!"

The two elders, Niu and Ma, were ready to fight, full of murderous intent.

"It's up to you to kill the bandits, avenge them, and wipe out the Sand Boat Gang!"

"How dare you not fight to the death?!" The hall masters were excited.

Everyone pricked their fingers again, drank the blood wine, and swore to be loyal to the lady, to share life and death, and to retake the Sand Ship Gang!

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Meanwhile, when Guo Donglin led his men to Bailuxa, the sun had already set.

He first followed the routine and sent a team of scouts to row a small boat to the sandbar for reconnaissance.

In fact, I wanted to see whether Kazuo Umekawa and his men had withdrawn.

After a while, the men came to report that there were only some broken ships and shacks on the island, and there were no Japanese pirates.

Guo Donglin was finally relieved and nodded with satisfaction, thinking that Guo Qilin was becoming more and more reliable.

He stood at the bow and said with a relaxed smile: "It seems that Elder Ma's message was wrong. The Japanese pirates have already withdrawn."

"Of course. How dare a mere pirate run wild under the nose of the gang leader?"

Apart from those who came from Songjiang to seek refuge, there were also those sweet-talking and opportunistic guys in the gang, so naturally they were full of flattery at this time.

But since we are here, we have to do something. Guo Donglin pointed his sword at the shack and the broken boat on the sandbar and said:

"Light up the Bailusha. No one in Chongming can offend our Shachuan Gang!"

"Yes, I've ordered it!"

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