Chapter Twelve Someone is Stirring Up Trouble

  Heizi gave a long speech to Zhu Xiaofei, making him understand his plans for the future. Zhu Xiaofei also highly agreed with Heizi's views, and now they have a goal, working together is even more effective.

  Heizi's precautions were effective, and the other stalls in the village were caught several times, but Heizi's stall always managed to avoid them. As a result, more and more people came to Heizi's stall, while the number of customers at the other stalls gradually decreased, with some even closing down altogether.

  In the village, several mixed-race kids were very unhappy. They thought Hei Zi was blocking their way to wealth, so they planned to find a time to smash Hei Zi's game and drive away Hei Zi, Zhu Xiao Fei, Yin Le and others.

  Although he didn't know about these black kids, he also had his guard up. When the number of people in the village increased, someone reminded Hei Zi and Zhu Xiao Fei to be careful, as several rascals in the village were not easy to mess with.

  Wishing Xiao Fei Ren a great horse, dealing with a few thugs is simply not worth mentioning. He listened to someone's advice and burst out laughing: "What are you afraid of? They're just a few little thugs. Black son and I can handle them."

  Hei Zi, however, took other people's advice to heart. The entrenching shovel was left in the army's exhibition hall and became a teaching material for soldiers. He didn't even have the blade of the vegetable knife he carried with him, let alone use it. It was placed at Zhuo Xiao Fei's house. When he returned from the army, he secretly brought back a dagger used by scouts, which was originally kept as a memento and is now hidden on his body.

  Heizi and Zhu Xiaofei are usually not around, but at night when someone needs to borrow money, Da Kui takes people to the farmhouse courtyard to find Zhu Xiaofei, everyone knows this.

  That night, several rascals from the village who had made a plan beforehand came to Hei's place with hidden weapons on them.

  Today, Hei Zi's place is located by the riverbank in Shahe, at over 9 pm, there were already seven or eight people gathered inside, as soon as someone arrived, Yin Le busied himself to take out the Pai Gow tiles, and the seven or eight people set up a game.

  The five rascals in the village felt something was off as soon as they came in, these five people were familiar to him, they ran a big game in the village, everyone who played big games went to their place, even those with 300-400 yuan couldn't play at their place.

  "Hey guys, you're here?" Er Cheng hurried over to greet them.

  Five people looked around, but didn't see Hei Zi and Zhu Xiao Fei, not even Yin Le was there, only Da Kui sat beside the small stove table watching with great interest.

  "Where's Hei?" a mixed-blood asked.

  "Hei Ge and them don't usually come here, it's just us two." Er Cheng's eyes darted around, looking everywhere.

  They are all from the same village, these few people didn't fight, they moved small stools and sat there smoking.

  He didn't dare say more and could only look at him awkwardly, after a while more people came and two more stalls were opened, the room suddenly became noisy.

  A mixed kid threw the cigarette butt and stepped on it to extinguish it, saying: "Er Cheng, it's still lively here, but my brother is miserable, no one has been there for several days."

  He heard this and hastily put on a smiling face, saying: "Brother, you know how people who love to have fun are, they run to wherever the crowd is."

  "Let you fart, it's all because of you guys snatching people away." someone nearby interrupted.

  He is young and affable, always welcoming everyone with a smile since he took charge of this place. People have a good impression of him. When they saw several village hooligans looking for trouble, someone said: "Hey, what are you guys doing? Want to play? Go wherever you want, it's up to the players, what does it have to do with the host?"

  The mixed kid was topped a few times and the fire in his heart suddenly came up, and his voice also became louder, roaring: "Mind your own business, you play yours."

  Everyone stopped what they were doing and some immediately understood the situation, starting to scold these five rascals.

  Two Gui saw someone making trouble and jumped down from the kang: "What's going on, causing trouble? Are you looking for death?"

  "Your dad is looking for death." A thug swung his fist at Da Gui.

  Da Gui didn't defend himself and was knocked down by a punch from the thug.

  The house was suddenly in an uproar, with the gamblers and the five thugs they knew well all accusing them. Seeing that things were about to get out of hand, Er Cheng hastily ran outside to find Yin Le.

  Yin Le arranged for the two younger brothers to guard at the two intersections in the village, but he was still a bit worried and went to take a look himself, instructing them again. As soon as he returned, he hadn't even entered the door when he met Er Cheng, who was flustered and anxious.

  "Second Growth, what's wrong?" Yin Le grasped Second Growth and asked.

  "Second Brother, someone is causing trouble."

  "How many people?" asked Yin Le.

  Five.

  "You go find Heizi and Xiao Fei, I'll go in first."

  Yin Le's words made Er Cheng fly into a rage and run away quickly, Yin Le hastily entered the house.

  Hei Zi was chatting with Zhu Xiao Fei when he saw Er Cheng rush in, flustered and anxious. He knew something had happened and asked about the situation. The two of them hastily followed Er Cheng to the house by the riverbank.

  As soon as they entered the courtyard, they heard a mess inside. The two of them went in and saw that Da Kui and Yin Le were lying on the ground, with one foot still stepping on Yin Le's head. The five men who had beaten them up were smoking, while most of the gamblers had run away. Those who hadn't left were all familiar with these five thugs and were blaming them.

  The gangs have never interfered with each other since the beginning, those who want to open a business can do so freely, and those who want to play can do whatever they want without being forced. There won't be conflicts between them even if someone thinks another gang is stealing their business, they will just warn each other privately. Being looked down upon for breaking the rules is something even the most unreasonable gangs don't want to do.

  "What does 'ge er ji ge' mean?" Hei Zi asked.

  "You've taken all our people, I won't stand for it." A hoodlum spoke loudly, as if to boost his own courage.

  "Let him go first." Hei Zi pointed at Yin Le Er on the ground.

  The rascal who was stepping on Yin Le's head didn't move, while the others pulled out short knives from their bosoms.

  They used a short knife, a pig-killing knife bought from a street stall, about one foot long, with a sharp blade and a narrow body. This kind of knife is suitable for stabbing but not for chopping. Fighting with this kind of knife can easily lead to accidental killing.

  Several gamblers changed their faces as soon as they saw them, knowing that these five people were going to make a move, otherwise they wouldn't have brought out this kind of knife. They weren't inexperienced young men who had never been in a fight before, and those who often fought knew that bringing out this kind of knife would easily lead to trouble.

  Hei Zi took a look at them drawing their weapons and whispered to Zhu Xiao Fei, "Today I'll go first, you stay behind and keep an eye on them, don't let any of them escape."

  Wishing Xiao Fei knew what Heizi did in the army, Heizi had once bragged to him about how he could defeat an opponent with a knife bare-handed, and he believed it. Now seeing that both sides were armed, and the space inside was small, going up would only add chaos.

  Hei Zi was the first to make a move, his speed was extremely fast. In an instant, a gleaming dagger appeared in his hand, and with a flash of movement, he pounced forward.