Chapter 21: Recognition
On the same day when Brother Sun asked her to go fishing, Zu Tingfeng... also started to take action.
On that day, the leader of the Zu Gang asked the brothers of the Zhenyun Gang to send an invitation to all the more prominent figures of Green Forest who are currently gathered in the Guangzhou territory.
The content of the invitation is roughly: My ancestor Tingfeng has found a way to find out the truth about Mr. Gong’s death, so he asked everyone to gather in front of Mr. Gong’s grave tomorrow to witness how I came to break up this "head case".
As soon as this happened, the entire Green Forest Road, as well as the officials like Li Chongda and Bai Zhulong were all surprised.
Everyone thought it was strange: Your Zu Tingfeng has been in Guangzhou for many days. Earlier, you didn’t make any noise when Mr. Gong was not buried. Now that the "Siqi" is coming, you suddenly said that there is a way to solve the case? Or to make a case on the grave? What is this going on? You might as well think of tricking us into the wilderness in the middle of the night, right?
But no matter how suspicious it is, no matter how puzzled it is, how can they not go?
That obviously cannot...
According to normal thinking, no matter whether the leader of the Zu Gang can solve the case or not, it is always possible to go and see it. At most, it will be a waste of time.
To the extreme, if the Zhenyun Gang really has the strength, he can kill all the Green Forest Road crocodiles except them overnight in a place that is not his base. Then it is also worthy of the position of the leader of Zu Tingfeng.
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As the saying goes, if you have books, you will be long, and if you don’t have books, you will be short.
So the next day we will be in the transition section.
That night, just arrived at midnight (that is, eleven o'clock in the evening), and it was already very lively in front of Mr. Gong's grave.
Whether it was the big guys who received the invitation or the people who had not received the invitation, all the people who learned the news came.
What are the Zhenyun Gang, Cangdu Gang, Longmen Gang, Tingfeng Tower, Hunyuan Star Gate, Liushemen, etc., these well-known figures stand closer (nearly from the grave), while those Green Forest heroes and stragglers who are not classified as sects and gangs stand backwards.
Anyway, there must be hundreds of people in all walks of life.
There is no doubt that everyone wants to come and see how Zu Tingfeng is going to cut off this dragon head case.
The people from Zhenyun Gang were prepared for a long time. During the day, they set up a large number of torches and lanterns nearby. At this moment, these light sources illuminated the cemetery. I wondered if there was a night market here.
"Dear fellows, and... a few sirs." Zu Tingfeng was impatient. When he saw that the time had arrived, he stopped dragging him. He stood on a stool. He clasped his fists and bowed and said loudly, "Zu is a rough man. I won't talk much about those polite words with silence. Let's get straight to the point..." He paused for a moment and said, "Today, Zu asked everyone to come, not for anything else, just to find out the truth about Master Gong's death and make it public, which can be regarded as giving Green Forest a contribution."
Before he finished speaking, a voice sarcastically continued: "Hmph... find out the truth? I'm afraid it's not a thief who called to catch the thief?"
I have to say that Gong Jingyi is such a good supporting actor. Although everyone knows that Zu Tingfeng and Gong Lianjun are not in harmony, the current sentence is only Gong Jingyi who will be called out in front of others, and others dare not say it randomly.
"Oh?" Zu Tingfeng heard this, and immediately turned his attention to Gong Jingyi, who was standing in front of the crowd. "Sister Gong, do you don't trust Zu?"
"What are you pretending to be?" Gong Jingyi was not polite to the leader of the Zu Gang, "Who doesn't know that you are not in a relationship with my father? Maybe you killed someone... You will check the real murderer, what's wrong if you call for robbers?"
"Hey, this is wrong." The next second, Zu Tingfeng hadn't argued anything, but Huang Donglai interrupted first and said to Gong Jingyi, "Young Master Gong, you say it's 'not sure'. Isn't it just that it's all without evidence? There are many people in this world who are not in harmony, whether in the world or in the green forest, as long as you are in the Tao, you will naturally have interests with others... If you have people who can talk to you, there will be people who can't talk to you, but this does not mean that if you die one day, someone must be killed by someone with bad relationship with you."
Brother Huang’s words make sense.
Zu Tingfeng was also very comfortable when he listened. He thought to himself: "Wow? When he saw this, Nephew Huang was actually looking at me. Why did they avoid me when I picked them up a few days ago?"
He thought for a few seconds, then suddenly realized: "Oh! I understand!"
What did the leader of the Zu Gang understand at this time?
Simply put, he inferred that Huang Donglai and the others deliberately avoided his reception and appeal a few days ago, in fact, in order to avoid suspicion. It is precisely because they were not picked up by him at the beginning and had never had any contact with the Zhenyun Gang since then, so now Huang Donglai stands up and talks for him, which sounds like "fairness".
Thinking of this, Zu Tingfeng couldn't help but sigh inwardly: "Nephew Huang is so good at this skill. It's more than one level higher than my plan. Haha... OK! OK, it's worthy of being the post-Huang Sect. I said that Mr. Huang has worked with me for many years, and his son will not deliberately go against me. It seems that I was shallow before."
The leader of the Zu Gang was thinking about it, and on the other hand, Gong Jingyi had arguing with Huang Donglai again: "Ha! OK, even if he didn't kill the man, then take a step back... My father has been dead for almost a month, and no one could find a bird before. Now people have been buried for so long, and his surname is Zu suddenly said that he could find something? Don't you think this is ridiculous?"
His view was also a point that most people present, including Shuangxiu, did not understand.
At present, a relatively possible and logical assumption that Sun and Huang could think of was that Zu Tingfeng found a very powerful coroner and planned to "open the coffin and examine the autopsy", so he summoned everyone to wait at Gong Ye’s grave.
Of course...
"Ha! Absurd?" Zu Tingfeng smiled generously when he heard Gong Jingyi's words, and continued, "Well, I thought this was ridiculous, but the facts were in front of me, and it would be impossible not to believe it."
"Zu Gang Master, what are you going to do? Don't keep it a secret, let me tell you clearly." Ah Yi, who was in the crowd, raised a more constructive question.
"It's easy to say." Zu Tingfeng said, raising his hand to show.
At the same second, the Zhenyun Gang members behind him cooperated very much and invited a young man who looked very strange in appearance.
"This... is the 'Onmyoji' invited by Zu to Japan." Zu Tingfeng followed the trend and introduced to everyone, "Master Hayato."
When the words came to an end, the heroes present were in an uproar.
"Brother Huang, what's the way? Is it true or false?" As a time traveler, Sun Yixie is familiar with the word "Onmyoji" and its representative meaning, so he asked Huang Donglai in a low voice.
"How do I know what his path is? It's the first time I know there is an Onmyoji in this world." Huang Dong replied back and forth; this is the truth, because when he was practicing on the mountain, his master never told him whether there are any other people who can magic outside the Central Plains.
"Ah? Isn't he your Japanese colleague? You should know." Sun Yixie started to be nonsense.
"He is still your Japanese fellow countryman, why don't you ask yourself?" Huang Donglai's counter-complaints were also openly.
"Get out! You are just a fellow Japanese!" Sun Yixie said with a crooked mouth, "In addition, what's wrong with this guy's name? It's called 'harmful', even if he calls it 'self-interest'?"
"Tsk..." Huang Donglai looked at Sun Yixie with illiterate eyes, "They are the 'Hawk' falcons."
"Yes, it's the damage of 'invisible'." Sun Yixie said, "Do you think I'm illiterate?"
"I'm so fucked...oh, forget it." Huang Donglai held his forehead and shook his head, giving up explaining.
Just as they were chatting these few words, the crowd around them slowly calmed down.
Immediately afterwards, a bird of the forefront asked again: "What kind of Onmyoji gossip master is, I haven't heard of it! Why are you looking for him? Could it be that you want to be a master, right?"
This shout emerged from the middle of the crowd.
As they shouted, everyone looked in the sound. Soon, they saw lying on a roofless sedan chair, their arms fixed by wooden boards and bandages, and many bandages were wrapped around their heads.
"Uh... Master Lei Hall..." Zu Tingfeng said hesitantly when he answered the conversation, because he was also startled by his bigger appearance, "You are..."
"What are you doing? Can't I slip by the river? Have you never fallen when you grow up so old?" The bigger one is like a firecracker now, and it explodes at a glance. That anger is really great.
"Okay..." Zu Tingfeng could hear that the other party was afraid that there would be a hidden secret, so he should not ask more questions, so he quickly brought the topic back on track and continued, "What Master Lei said should be the concern of everyone present. Zu didn't want to talk too much about it. After all, no matter how much I said it, it would be better to see it." He paused for two seconds and made a gesture of invitation to He Mao, "I will ask Master He Mao to do a 'spiritual' method. When Master Gong's soul arrives, the authenticity will be obvious."
As soon as these words were spoken, everyone clamored again.
Although the discussions were coming one after another, no one was asking or interrupting anything loudly.
Master He Mao did not delay. He knelt on a straw mat prepared in advance and began to "interpret the spirit".
His "spiritual" practice was unexpectedly simple, so he just needed to sit in front of the deceased's grave, close his eyes, mutter something in his mouth, and then shaking his upper body, even if he was working together.
To be honest... the fake psychics in modern Japanese variety shows look more real than him.
Because when those scammers do these things, they often use props to make a sense of ritual in a serious way; some scams will chat with their families in advance, and draw some information indirectly.
If they just sit there without using any props, and do not talk to any acquaintances of the deceased before their death, they close their eyes and sway, and open their eyes and say that they have "please give me a soul", then ordinary people will definitely think that this person is unprofessional.
"What's this thing? It's too unprofessional." Sun Yixie felt this now, "This Zu-san is looking for someone to dance with a decent person. Is this good at harming people?"
"I understand..." Fortunately, Huang Donglai knew what he was doing. He looked at He Mao intently, and then he knew that the other party was indeed capable, "This is the so-called 'spirit-summoning constitution'..."
"Hmm? What does this guy mean? Is this guy really psychic?" Sun Yixie said, "No way... you can't even do such a thing, right?"
"This is called having a specialty in art... For example, some things are simple for us Taoist priests, but monks don't, and some are easy for monks to do, but we can't... Their Onmyoji should be the same." Huang Donglai explained, "For example, his 'spirit-summoning physique'. As far as I know, people with this physique can use the 'art style' without having to study too deeply about the 'Tao', and can easily 'please' and 'spiritual'. If their bloodline is pure enough, they will open the Yin-Yang Eyes as soon as they are born..."
"Oh, is that awesome?" Sun Yixie exclaimed.
"Awesome is awesome, but there is a price." Huang Dong replied, "This physique is the same as the so-called 'innate spiritual bone', and it is actually in all. Moreover, unlike the 'innate spiritual bone', people with the spirit-sucking physique are not protected and guided by people who know how to do things, they may be occupied by ghosts and monsters or die in a crazy way at a very young age..."
When Sun Yixie heard this, she thought for two seconds and said, "Then this Hayato Kamao can live such a big life and become a professional, which means he is from a noble family?"
"It's 80% true." Huang Donglai said, "When it comes to the legendary 'Onmyoji' we have heard in the universe before, it seems that most of them are aristocratic families, right?"
They were right, but they didn't think deeply, and they didn't know anything... In this universe, the existing Onmyoji families have a huge obsession with the bloodline purity of their family heirs. In order to ensure that at least one "spirit-summoning body" in each generation will be the head of the family, they can do almost anything.
It is already a trivial matter to prevent the descendants of their families from falling in love freely and "inducing birth". Since the "spirit-sucking constitution" among the people is rare, even if it exists, it may encounter unexpected problems before being discovered. Therefore, it is normal for those Onmyoji families to intermarry each other. In some eras when people are withered, family exchanges and even competitions for women in the other family are common.
A descendant like Hayato, who is not born in the legitimate lineage, who is not so pure in blood, can live a more relaxed and freer life.
"Well"
Finally, with a moan with a "repeated sound", He Mao's "spiritual communication" was completed.
When he opened his eyes again, not only did he become bloodless, but his expression and expression on his whole face seemed to have changed.
"I'm really uneasy even if I die..."
After He Mao opened his eyes, as soon as the first sentence was said, the scalps of the people in the Longmen Gang became numb.
One is because He Mao's voices were the voices of two people, one was his own, and the other was Gong Lianjun's. These two voices were made together, which was very strange.
Secondly, because of the tone he said this, as long as someone familiar with Gong Lianjun, he would understand that this is Mr. Gong himself.
"If you have something, say it quickly. I can't stay for long." He Mao, or Gong Lianjun, did not show any surprise after scanning the surroundings for a while, but just said calmly.
"Gangmaster! Is it really you? Gangmaster!" Ah Ji's reaction was so fast. While pretending to be excited, he walked out of the crowd. Before he could take two steps, he staggered to his knees. While his knees fell on the ground, his tears fell.
Although the "Gangmaster"'s larger reaction was half a beat slower than Ah, his movements were more imposing. When his hands were unable to move, he exerted force on his lower body, rose from the sedan chair, rushed to the front of the crowd, and slid and kneeled.
"Dad!" Gong Jingyi saw that the two outsiders were more excited than their son and could not fall behind. He quickly knelt down and climbed in front of "father" with his knees.
Looking at Gong Lianjun again, when he saw these three people surrounding him, he immediately stepped on the ground and kicked Ah Yi's heart first: "You smile tiger!" Then he kicked a bigger kick in the same way, "You are troublemakers!" After kicking, he turned to Gong Jingyi, changed his foot to a hand, and cursed, "You are also a prodigal son!", and slapped Gong Jingyi with a big mouth, slapped Gong Jingyi twice in the air, flew out one meter before landing.
If these three moves continue, the effect will be significant.
Originally, Ah, Dadai and Gong Jingyi were only 70% confident and 30% doubtful, but now they can be sure that this is the real Mr. Gong in front of them.
Because such beating and scolding will not be shown in front of any outsider. Only the parties involved who have experienced it know... When they did something wrong, Mr. Gong beat them and scolded them in private.
"Don't let go of the fart! Don't pretend to be mourning me here! It's embarrassing!" Longtou is Longtou, and he is also the eldest brother of Green Forest Road when he dies. In terms of momentum alone, he is even more powerful now than when he was alive.
And when his strange "accent" resounded throughout the cemetery at that night, the others present felt that the scene was a little cunning.
"Mr. Gong." At this time, the Zu Tingfeng was still plucking his courage, holding his fists and bowing, and said to Gong Lianjun without being humble or arrogant, "This time I disturb you from peace and quiet is nothing more than just hearing you say in person, who killed your life... so that everyone can uphold justice for you."
"Hmph..." Gong Lianjun sneered when he heard this, "Be fair... It sounds nice. Isn't it just that I want to get things done earlier and then be able to grab the leading position justified?"
His words were really, explicit.
Zu Tingfeng dared to answer: "Yes, that's what I can say."
"Ha! Hahahaha..." After hearing this, Gong Lianjun laughed out loud, "Okay! I am worthy of the leader of the ancestral gang, and I dare to act! I, Gong Lianjun, admire you!"
"Everyone is the same." Zu Tingfeng's words were also inspired.
Although these two people have never chatted with each other in a friendly manner or had a glass of wine, this does not affect their understanding and admiration for each other.
Many of these superiors who have been living in Tao'er for many years are like this. They appreciate the most, often their old enemies, and the most annoying, despised, and disliked... are the "loving relatives and friends" around them.
"There are people here today who think that Zu Tingfeng will find someone to plot against me... they are all fucking stupid guys!" Gong Lianjun scolded his son in.
When Zu heard the news, he was happy and thought that this person with the surname Gong was OK. This is the person who is dead, and his words are good, right?
Unexpectedly, Gong Lianjun's next sentence was: "But I have to say that the most suitable person to take over the 'Dragon Head' team must be the brothers Haojing Yuhao. The surname Zu, you are still a little worse than him."
"I turned around and raised your ashes..." Zu Tingfeng felt like he was taking an elevator, and he was happy and cursed.
"But who to choose in the end must be decided by you living people. I'm not going to be optimistic about who I think of. If I can see through it, I won't die." Gong Lianjun's words were repeated and said, "It's equivalent to not saying it, but he finally said something useful, "Okay, you are not here to listen to me talking about these things. Don't you just want to know who killed me? That's easy..." At this point, he suddenly raised his hand and pointed at one of the crowd, "It's him!"
Swish swish swish swish...
At this moment, everyone looked in the direction he pointed.
And the one he identified was already in horror.
Chapter completed!