Green Smoke Hall

Li Banfeng opened the box, released the children, and hired a coal cart from nearby to load them onto the cart.

He lowered the brim of his hat and urged the car forward, while Luo ZhengNan also lowered the brim of his Forward Hats and followed behind the car.

He was in a good mood because he had avenged himself.

Although the mastermind behind it all Xiao Zhengong, is still alive, killing Xiao Zhengong is not something that can be done overnight. Killing Pei One-Bite at least vents our anger for now.

Working with Li Qi is a truly enjoyable experience.

If it were someone else, revenge would take at least a year and a half, or even ten or eight years, and it would be normal for the matter to be dragged out until it's completely forgotten.

Is it too conspicuous to drive around the streets with a car full of children?

Luo ZhengNan lowered his voice and asked Li Banfeng, "Seventh Master, shouldn't we be leaving?"

"No rush, go and call that old man at the street corner."

An old man was standing at the street corner, anxiously looking this way.

How could he not be worried when his granddaughter went missing? He's been searching for her all night.

He suspected his granddaughter was in the car, but he didn't dare come to look for her.

In Green Smoke City, the Jiang Xiang Gang often robbed people in the street. If the old man dared to rush in, he would be committing suicide.

Luo ZhengNan invited the old man over, Li Banfeng pointed to the children in the car. "Which one is yours?"

The old man trembled for a few minutes before stepping forward to pick up his granddaughter, thanking him, and turning to leave. Li Banfeng frowned and said, "You're leaving already?"

The old man got scared, took out some money from his pocket, and gave it all to Li Banfeng, which totaled more than eighty yuan.

Li Banfeng pushed the money back. "Who asked for your money? Can't you even catch the bus?"

"Meeting."

"Is your voice loud?"

The old man paused for a moment, then nodded and said, "It's alright."

"Shout it out while you drive the cart, say that the child is lost and they should come here to look for him!"

The old man didn't understand.

Li Banfeng gave him two hundred-yuan bills. "Shout, shout as loud as you can!"

The old man didn't understand what was going on, so he could only drive the cart forward, shouting as he went, "Is anyone lost a child? Come and look for them here!"

Luo ZhengNan looked at Li Banfeng and lowered his voice, saying, "Seventh Master, what's going on here...?"

"Don't worry, just follow along."

The two followed the carriage at a distance, and soon someone came to pick up the child.

At first they were scared, but when they saw their own flesh and blood in the car, they didn't care about anything else. They rushed over, hugged the child, and ran home as fast as they could, crying as they ran.

More and more people came to pick up their children. Luo ZhengNan pointed to one of them and said, "This person seems to be from Jiang Xiang Gang."

Luo ZhengNan couldn't recognize all of Jiang Xiang Gang's disciples, but this person was wearing Forward Hats and his attire was very similar to that of Jiang Xiang Gang's men.

He picked up the two children and started to leave, Li Banfeng blocked his way. "Who are you?"

The man said, "I am the child's father."

The two children were crying loudly and struggling. Luo ZhengNan looked at the two men and said, "Which ship are you from? Report to the front."

The man looked around and lowered his voice, saying, "I wonder what happened to the third branch of the Green Smoke Hall tonight..."

Swoosh~

Li Banfeng cut his neck.

You still dare to come here looking for business?

Good thing you came, it saves me the trouble of looking for you all one by one.

Before long, the children were all taken home by their respective families. Li Banfeng asked Luo ZhengNan, "Where is the branch office located?"

"The church is on the next street."

"Are you familiar with all the steering ports?"

Luo ZhengNan paused for a moment, then said, "Not a single one left?"

Li Banfeng nodded and said, "Leave no one alive."

Luo ZhengNan led Li Banfeng to the nearest shipyard, which was a two-story building where several Jiang Xiang Gang disciples were packing the two children into boxes.

The two children had just been kidnapped, and the gang leader didn't want to keep them; he was eager to hand them over to the Hall Master.

"Hurry up!" the Sub-Gang Leader shouted from the stairs. "The Hall Master is leaving soon, or he'll miss his train."

Li Banfeng said, "If we miss this one, let's try the next one."

"What do you know? This is the last trip tonight..." The Sub-Gang Leader stared blankly at Li Banfeng, unaware that someone had appeared beside him at some point.

"Not tonight, but this is your last trip in your life. You will definitely make it." Li Banfeng grabbed the Sub-Gang Leader's head and smashed it against the stair railing until it shattered.

If it weren't for the worry of hurting the two children, Li Banfeng would have easily taken care of everyone in the room with Trample Ten Thousand Rivers.

Everyone in the cabin was stunned. Luo ZhengNan entered the cabin, picked up the two children, and went out the door. He knew what to do and when to do it.

All the Jiang Xiang Gang members were looking at Luo ZhengNan.

Luo ZhengNan also greeted them, saying, "You all go about your business, don't worry about me."

After closing the door and carrying the child, they hadn't gone far when the small building at the helm collapsed.

Li Banfeng brushed off the dust and walked to Luo ZhengNan's side. "Send these two kids back, and then we'll go to the next port."

There are quite a few shipyards in Green Smoke City.

Luo ZhengNan said, "Pei Yuzeng done a lot for Xiao Zhengong and is highly valued by Xiao Zhengong. In addition, with the help of Bastard Slope, his gang has grown bigger and bigger over the years, with a total of ten branches under his command."

Li Banfeng said, "Such a large establishment, still relying on human trafficking to make a living?"

Luo ZhengNan shook his head. "You can't support so many people by human traffickers. Pei Yuzeng has a lot of business in the mines. He kidnaps children not just to make money."

Li Banfeng understood the reason. "It's probably to please that Bastard Slope, don't you think that makes sense?"

Just as Luo ZhengNan was about to answer, Li Banfeng patted the face of the Fourth Sub-Gang Sub-Gang Leader: "I'm asking you, whether what I just said makes sense or not."

The Sub-Gang Leader nodded repeatedly.

Li Banfeng gave him a quick death by slitting his neck.

As dawn approached, Li Banfeng and Luo ZhengNan arrived at the hall. The people of the Green Smoke Hall knew that their Hall Master had an accident. They had heard that there was a mangled corpse in the warehouse and that the abducted child had been returned.

But they still don't know the reason why.

They contacted all the shipyards, only to find that the shipyards contained nothing but ruins and corpses.

They wanted to contact Xiao Zhengong, but all the people in the gang who knew how to use hooks were gone.

When they saw Luo ZhengNan, they seemed to know something.

Several people in the gang who knew the inside story looked at Luo ZhengNan and said, "Hall Master Luo, this has nothing to do with us. This is a matter between our Hall Master and the Gang Leader. The grievances should be settled by the perpetrators, and the debts should be settled by the debtors. You can't make things difficult for us!"

Luo ZhengNan smiled and said, "Brothers, what are you saying? Pei Yuzeng already dead, why would I make things difficult for you?"

I didn't come here to see you; I just came to help you close the door.

After saying that, Luo ZhengNan closed the front door.

A group of people took off running towards the back door.

Luo ZhengNan gave a reminder: "Don't go through the back door."

The person who ran towards the back door ended up outside with their body, leaving their head in the backyard.

The remaining few people rushed up the stairs, and Luo ZhengNan reminded them again, "Don't go upstairs either."

The disciples who rushed up the stairs left their bodies upstairs but their heads downstairs.

Jiang Xiang Gang is a second-rate gang. The Hall Master only has a fifth level of cultivation. How high can the quality of his subordinates be?

They didn't even get a glimpse of Li Banfeng before they were all sent away in the blink of an eye.

Blood seeped from under the door cracks. Luo ZhengNan sat in the courtyard of the hall, covering the child's eyes.

The child was found in the hall; he must have just been acquired and hadn't had time to be sent to the warehouse yet.

Li Banfeng came out of the house, wiped his hands with a handkerchief, looked at the child, and asked Luo ZhengNan, "Ask him where he lives."

"I just asked, but the child is too young to explain."

Li Banfeng suggested going to the Guanfang Envoy, Luo ZhengNan shook his head and said, "Seventh Master, the Guanfang Envoy doesn't handle this matter."

"Why should we just ignore it? We collect so much money every year for nothing. Let's take it over and see."

Luo ZhengNan disguised himself slightly, took the child to the Guanfang Hall, waited in the lobby for an hour, and asked dozens of people, but no one paid any attention to him.

Finally, someone asked him a few questions, and those few words pierced his heart.

"Is this child yours?"

Luo ZhengNan shook his head and said, "No."

"If it's not your child, why are you holding it? Are you a human trafficker?"

"I brought the child here after I saw he was lost."

"How do you know someone's child is lost? How do you know that child wasn't just out playing? You look like a human trafficker!"

"Sir, have you ever seen a child this big playing outside in the middle of the night?"

"What haven't I seen before? That child just likes this. What proof do you have that the child is lost? If you can't produce any evidence, I'll accuse you of being a human trafficker!"

This guy is a total Bartering Cultivator.

Luo ZhengNan led the child out of the Guanfang Hall and said to Li Banfeng, "Seventh Master, I just now..."

Li Banfeng waved his hand and said, "No need to say anything, I heard everything."

Luo ZhengNan wasn't angry; he'd seen this kind of thing many times before.

Li Banfeng's hat brim was pulled low, so it was impossible to tell whether he was alive or not.

He picked up the child, found a Carriage Driver, and stuffed two hundred Huan Country Notes into his hand. "My surname is En, and my name is Benefactor. I found a lost child by the roadside. Could you please help me take him home?"

The rickshaw Carriage Driver listened to the child's mumbled words, guessed the gist of the situation, and found the child's parents in less than an hour.

The child's parents thanked the Carriage Driver profusely, but the Carriage Driver waved his hand and said, "Don't thank me, thank those two gentlemen instead."

Which two gentlemen?

Li Banfeng and Luo ZhengNan have long since disappeared.

The Carriage Driver said to the couple, "That gentleman said his name was 'Benefactor,' but I don't know if that name is true or not."

"My Benefactor?" Xiao Zhengong's cheeks twitched. "My Benefactor destroyed the Green Smoke Hall?"

"Upon investigation, the man claimed to be my Benefactor." The messenger was Song Yuwei, the Hall Master of the Sea Eat Ridge branch. He went to visit Pei Yuzeng, only to find a pile of corpses and ruins.

Xiao Zhengong gritted his teeth and said, "Isn't my Benefactor He Jiaqing?"

Previously, Li Banfeng claimed to be his Benefactor at Bastard Slope, but the sage has already determined that the Benefactor is He Jiaqing.

After sending Song Yuwei away, the White Clothes hanging on the coat rack said to Xiao Zhengong, "Senior Brother Xiao, this time the trouble has already happened to you. Are you going to do anything about it or not?"

Xiao Zhengong, with a cigarette dangling from his lips, pondered for a moment and asked, "Is He Jiaqing in Outer State, or in Pro State?"

The White Clothes also somewhat confused. "Perhaps he didn't do the Green Smoke Hall thing, but rather he instructed his subordinates to do it."

Xiao Zhengong took the White Clothes off the hanger, threw them into the back seat of the car, and drove to Yuezhou Third Hospital.

He Jiaqing, dressed in a suit and impersonating He Haisheng, was feeding He Haisheng a cigarette in the ward. "Third Uncle, this is the last one. We can't smoke in front of the doctor when he comes for rounds."

He Haisheng exhaled a puff of smoke, which swirled and quickly drifted from the ward toward the elevator.

He Jiaqing was taken aback and rubbed his scalp.

My perception has been declining lately, so I need to exercise some restraint when it comes to leveraging popularity.

"Third Uncle, lie still and don't move." He Jiaqing groped around on He Haisheng's body and put the remaining half of the cigarette in his mouth.

PS: Can Xiao Zhengong tell which one is He Jiaqing?