Legend of Shi’En - C68

When the girl called He Min went into the room with her cousin, Wang Dachui immediately called the two boys over and started to clean up the table. After the dishes were well washed, he poured Shi En and Shu Xiaoxiao two cups of tea and faced with their doubts, opened a bottle of beer and took a big gulp, then explained to the two of them: “Cousin Sangbiao, Erya, you two already know that cousin Big Hammer is not allowed to see the light of day, I do not want your sister-in-law to know about this, so please help me keep it a secret.”

Shi En and Shu Xiaoxiao nodded. He wanted to see if he could get some information out of Wang Dachui’s mouth, so he pretended to be ignorant and asked: “Cousin brother, why are you in that place? I didn’t even know what happened before.”

Wang Dachui drank another mouthful of beer and recalled: This is a long story, my cousin came here from the old home just to earn some money, we only have this little bit of strength, we could only move around the pier and work, but that day, I met your cousin, she brought three children and was being bullied by a group of ‘External Devil’, I did not know why, but I came forward to help her get rid of them, and when I saw that she was pitiful, I brought her home.

While talking, Wang Dachui took out a cigarette, and was about to light it up, but then a cough came from the inner room, he quickly took the cigarette out of his mouth and poured a cup of hot water before taking it out, then continued to speak with the two of them: “Who knows, that group of ‘External Devil’ did not give up, they found me at the pier and brought me to the prison. Originally, they were waiting for me to be executed on the execution platform, but a group of people came over, saw my arm, and ransomed me out of the prison, and from then on, I would fight with my opponent everyday.

Shi En thought in his heart, he never thought that this Wang Dachui was also not some evil villain. Wang Dachui drank a mouthful of beer, then suddenly asked: “Oh right, why are you two here?”

Immediately, Shi En broke out in a cold sweat, he had never thought that this would happen, and was stuttering about not knowing how to answer in order to not arouse Wang Dachui’s suspicions. Shu Xiaoxiao who was at the side smashed his palm into Shi En’s face, stupefying him. Wang Dachui was also very confused by Shu Xiaoxiao’s actions. He only heard Shu Xiaoxiao wailing: “It’s still not him, once we arrived at this place, we were dragged away by a stranger to that place filled with smoke and miasma, and even brought to gamble with all of the things that we’ve saved up painstakingly, to the point that we almost fell into the streets. Luckily, we met him there, otherwise, how would we live tonight?

Hearing that, Wang Dachui scolded Shi En: “Cousin brother Sangbiao, how can you go gamble, ten out of ten times you will lose, and that place is not a place we ordinary people can go. For your own safety, don’t get involved, promise me, Cousin brother Sangbiao, or else don’t recognize me as your cousin anymore.” Shi En felt wronged in his heart, thinking that Shu Xiaoxiao was actually framing me like this, but he had to say it out of pain, so he could only cover his mouth. Resisting with great difficulty to not let its tears fall, it nodded at Wang Dachui.

Wang Dachui was overjoyed when he saw Shi En agree to his request. He opened a can of beer and drank from it, and the little boy called Harry, who was doing his homework beside him, walked over. He pointed to the two beer cans on the ground and extended three fingers out. Shu Xiaoxiao asked Wang Dachui in a daze: “What is the child saying?”

Wang Dachui shrugged his old face and explained: “This brat is saying that I can only drink three cans of beer today and manage me for his mother.” With that, he looked at the two children dotingly and said guiltily, “Do you think a person like me can be the father of children? To raise them with dirty money, am I worthy of their family? ”

He lifted his head and closed his eyes, probably because of the stimulation of alcohol, but he still had a lot to say, “Sometimes, even I am a little unable to face the four of them, mother and son. When I think about how I was an executioner who killed people in the Underground Fighting Ground, my hands were full of blood, and those who were injured or even beaten to death by me, there are relatives in my family as well. When Shi En saw that Wang Dachui’s eyelashes were wet from having both his eyes closed, he put a hand to his forehead and said rather emotionally, “Therefore, I can only treat them well, and thus reduce the guilt in my heart.”

Perhaps it was because their voices were too heavy, when Ron and Harry heard this, they both put down what they were doing and went to Wang Dachui’s side. They shrugged their shoulders and massaged Wang Dachui’s hands and feet. I know he’s talking about hard work, Dad. It was really a fatherly and filial scene, causing me to feel tearful.

Shu Xiaoxiao, who was sitting beside Shi En, seemed to be moved by this as well. She asked: “Brother Dachui, have you ever thought about leaving the Underground Fighting Ground?”

Wang Dachui shook his head, and said with a heavy tone: “I can’t get out, and I don’t want the children to be in danger.”

“Then take the children and cousin and leave this place, to a place that does not belong to the Great Ming Dynasty.”

Shi En saw that Wang Dachui was a little moved and continued to advise her: “Even if you aren’t thinking for yourself, you should still be thinking for your cousin and the children. If something were to happen to you, how are you going to let your cousin and the children live?”

Refusing to stay the night with Wang Dachui, Shi En and Shu Xiaoxiao left Wang Dachui’s room. Under Wang Dachui’s warm welcome, the two of them agreed to come tomorrow to help with the wedding ceremony. At the door, Wang Dachui secretly stuffed two taels of silver into Shi En’s hands. Without saying anything, he entered the house to accompany the children.

At this moment, Shi En’s mood was exceptionally heavy. Originally he had planned to approach Wang Dachui and find some evidence related to his Underground Fighting Ground and capture him in one fell swoop. But now, they realized that Wang Dachui was actually such a tragic guy who had feelings for friends. This made the two of them have the impulse to help him escape from this damned place known as the Underground Fighting Ground.

The two of them returned to the inn where Shang Qian and Shang Qian were, and reported all the information they had gathered to the two.

Shang Qian listened as the two explained in detail while adding some coal to the stove. The snow storm outside the window was wreaking havoc on the streets, and the originally closed windows were being blown by the wind, causing snowflakes to fly in through the gaps in the windows and into the houses.

The four people inside the room couldn’t help but shrink their necks. Shi En got up and walked to the window, and just as he was about to close the window, he realized that on this stormy night, there were still many wandering people on the street. Looking at these scene, Shi En’s heart was in a mess. The majority of the homeless people were women and children who did not have any labor, and he did not know whether these people could survive through the night. Even some of the experts and experts might not even be able to survive in this kind of weather.

Shang Qian saw him standing in front of the window in a daze and asked, “What happened? Brother Shi En? ”

Shi En closed the door, and replied with an ugly expression: “Nothing, I just saw many women and children wandering on the streets, and wondered if their husbands or fathers were also severely injured or already dead at Underground Fighting Ground.”

Hearing Shi En’s words, Shu Xiaoxiao and Shang Qian’s face became gloomy.

Shang Qian continued to add coal into the furnace, he sighed, and said to the two of them: “Brother Shi En, Sister Shu, we were careless this time, I just contacted Lao Zhang, he wants us to give up on the mission this time, as for the compensation, Lao Zhang will help us settle it.”

Hearing that, Shu Xiaoxiao said strangely: “To think that Lao Zhang would do such a thing, looks like the matter is really complicated.”

Shi En was also confused: “Strange, didn’t Snake say that the goal of our ‘Bu Gan House’ is to do whatever the price is reasonable? If you think the price is unfair, then we can just go find Shou Tou and add him.”

Shu Xiaoxiao took over and said: “This also means that the forces involved are too numerous and too messy, even Lao Zhang would find it difficult to interfere, the Underground Fighting Ground dares to disregard human life, even the imperial officials would turn a blind eye to it, the mastermind this time is not someone that we can take care of with just our hands.”

Zhu Xiaochang held his cheek with a face filled with displeasure. No matter what, she was a member of the royal family, so when she heard him talk about her ancestor’s background like this, she was a little angry. She asked Shang Qian: “Hey, Xiao Shangzi, do you know who is controlling all of this behind the scenes?”

Shang Qian added the last piece of coal, picked up his teacup and drank some tea, then slowly said: “Do you know of the External Devil Group’s eight great clans?”

Shi En and Zhu Xiaochang both stared at Shang Qian with wide eyes, but Shu Xiaoxiao had a face of relief, he did not speak, and waited for Shang Qian to continue, “Back then, the eight great clans of the External Devil Group invaded the Great Ming Dynasty, and with the Great Ming Imperial Family as a puppet, they did whatever they wanted to control and change the entire Great Ming Dynasty. That lowly interesting Underground Fighting Ground is actually just their playground.”

That night, their conversation came to a halt and they both fell asleep with their hearts in their mouths.