Chapter 318 Rapid Progress

The whole hall was dead silent.

In front of the main niche, incense smoke was curling, and candles were swaying with bright candle flames.

Cheng Chong quietly arranged the tablets and cleaned the ashes on the table.

He had gray hair, a strong and sturdy figure, a steady breath, and a loose white linen robe. He was calm and unperturbed, like a vast sea without wind, and didn't care how big a storm his words had stirred up.

Hot mist rose in the teacup.

Liang Qu's mind was in a mess, staring at Cheng Chong's back.

Lian Jingye put his hands into his hair and combed it back fiercely, pulling it out so hard that it hurt the roots.

Qiugong Dike collapsed, flooding for four consecutive days, killing people, and the culprit was the gang leader Cheng Chong?

He did a big thing without telling the whole Shahe Gang!

Why?

What was he thinking?

What was he trying to do?

"My life is over!"

Lu Xinqing sighed in his heart, his knees weakened and he fell to the ground.

Dam destroyed, dam collapsed, flooded.

The leader of the Shahe Gang, the Lord of the Hebo, and the County Magistrate.

All kinds of people and events converged, which was beyond the ability of a small bandit like him to participate in and know.

"Haha, hahaha!"

In the Juyi Building, an old man with gray clothes and long beard suddenly laughed loudly, breaking the silence in the Juyi Building.

Everyone looked at the sound and found that it was Huyan Shijing, the deputy of the gang.

Huyan Shijing had a very long experience, and no one would not come to ask for advice on any matter in the gang.

Facing everyone's confusion, Huyan Shijing stroked his long beard slowly, facing the middle hall and the front hall, and shouted loudly.

"The leader's words are very clever. There is a flood outside, and the people are displaced. If the Hebo Office wants to borrow a boat to do business, it's fine!

Our Shahe Gang is the most loyal, and most of you are from the common people. How can you remain indifferent when you see the innocent people suffering!

But he doesn't burn incense! He has no rules! He even mocks our Shahe Gang as a rotten land!

This is so righteous, and those who don't know really think that the collapse of Qiugong Dike was done by our Shahe Gang! Brothers, tell me, is it true or not!"

The gang members suddenly realized.

That's it.

Liang Qu doesn't burn incense, has no rules, and mocks the Shahe Gang. How can he borrow a boat?

Those who don't know really think that the Shahe Gang dug the dam and owed it to the Hebo Office!

The leader's words are meant to mock!

"The gang leader is really funny."

"Even I was almost scared by the gang leader. I really thought that the dike was dug by our Shahe Gang."

"Huyan Chenshi is right. If you ask someone to do something, you should look like you are asking for help. Even if it is the government, it is too arrogant!"

"We Shahe Gang don't owe you anything! Either burn incense to the plaque or get out of Shahe Mountain!"

"That's right, either kowtow and burn incense, or get out of Shahe Mountain!"

"Kneel down and kowtow! Get out of Shahe Mountain!"

"Kowtow is enough..."

Lian Jingye coughed twice, and his words were drowned by the waves.

Huyan Shijing called a hundred responses, and countless people's faces turned red, stimulating their blood.

Hundreds of people roared together, tables and chairs shook, and murderous aura filled the air. The surging sound waves shook the tea water.

The gang members on the second floor jumped down one after another, joined the gang members on the first floor, and surrounded Liang Qu.

The killing intent was like a tide.

Lu Xinqing hurriedly stood up from the ground and hid behind Liang Qu, avoiding everyone's sight.

"It's not a joke."

Cheng Chong said lightly, and everyone was like a rooster with its neck pinched, and the vast sound waves stopped abruptly.

Plop.

Lu Xinqing knelt down again.

Hu Yanshijing, Lian Jingye and other high-level gang members felt heavy in their hearts.

It's not a joke?

Cheng Chong put three long incense sticks together, put them on the candle flame to light them, and after separating them, he inserted them into the incense burner in a proper manner and bowed three times.

When he turned around, everyone finally saw what Cheng Chong did.

The original tablet of the old Shahe Gang's generation leader had been taken down long ago, and replaced with a name that no one had ever heard of.

Cheng Yingjian.

Who is Cheng Yingjian?

Lian Jingye felt that the name was very familiar, and it took him a while to remember that there was indeed a young man named Yingjian in the Shahe Gang.

But his name was not Cheng Yingjian, but Zheng Yingjian.

The son of the big gang leader Zheng Tianhe, who was only 23 years old, was gifted and righteous. Even as a rival force, he was still a man worthy of admiration, but he had already died in the previous purge of the river and lake.

Zheng Tianhe, Zheng Yingjian.

Cheng Chong, Cheng Yingjian.

The big gang leader had only one son, and the third gang leader had no children...

Lian Jingye's pupils shrank sharply, and ten thousand horses galloped through his heart.

Huyan Shijing's face was pale.

Liang Qu saw the faces of several high-level gang members changing constantly, and guessed that the new tablet must have some unknown secrets, but due to incomplete information, he didn't know the details.

Could it be that Cheng Chong was the one who dug the dike?

The script is wrong!

I just came to borrow a boat, how come the mastermind was suddenly found?

If the one who destroyed the dike was really Cheng Chong, wouldn't I have completed most of the tasks assigned by Xu Yuelong in one day?

Cheng Chong didn't care about the surprise of the crowd, and sat down on the third chair under the plaque.

The armrest of the chair was covered with a layer of shiny leather, reflecting the candlelight.

That was the seat where Cheng Chong sat for the longest time and was the most comfortable. Now sitting down, he thought of the past.

"Jingye, Shijing, you two have always been smart. Have you guessed it?"

Lian Jingye and Huyan Shijing looked at each other, both of them were terrified.

Lian Jingye stepped forward to confirm: "Young Gang Leader... is it your son?"

Cheng Chong nodded.

Young Gang Leader is the son of the Gang Leader?

Lu Xinqing was stunned.

"Excuse me." Liang Qu interrupted, "Is it abnormal that the young gang leader is the gang leader's son?"

Cheng Chong looked at Lian Jingye.

Lian Jingye wiped the sweat from his forehead and whispered, "The young gang leader is the former young gang leader, and the gang leader is the current gang leader..."

Liang Qu stroked it and his heart was shocked.

The son of the big gang leader of Shahe Gang is actually the son of the third gang leader?

What kind of outrageous relationship is this?

Looking at the tablet on the table, dead?

"Qiugong Dike..." Huyan Shijing still couldn't believe it, "Is it really the gang leader's hand?"

"What about Zheng Tianhe, the eunuch, is nothing to me, but I only have Yingjian as a son." Cheng Chong said in a light tone, "He's dead."

"Dead, dead..." Lian Jingye's eyes went dark, and his hands kept shaking, "Then why destroy the dike! Gang leader, that's Qiugong Dike!"

Once Qiugong Dike was destroyed, especially during the rainstorm season, it would not only cause the death of tens of thousands of people, but also such a huge crime. One person's head is definitely not enough to calm the anger!

Cheng Chong's move was tantamount to dragging the entire Shahe Gang into the water without anyone knowing!

For a moment, everyone didn't know how to deal with themselves, and there was no sign of indignation.

The quick-thinking senior executives had already cast their eyes on Liang Qu, thinking whether they could get a lighter sentence and leniency if they turned against him now?

Cheng Chong looked down from a high place, taking in all the people and their faces, and said leisurely.

"I am fifty-six years old this year, which can be called the prime of my life, but compared with the sons of noble families, I am afraid that I will never have the hope of revenge in my life.

Destroying the dike is my only way to make them pay the price."

Lian Jingye and Huyan Shijing's breathing stopped.

The purpose of Hebo was to maintain the shipping of the Black Water River, so they did not kill the Shahe Gang, but instead supported the third gang leader who was at odds with the first and second gang leaders to take the position to maintain stability.

There was no problem with the handling at first, who would have thought that the relationship inside was so complicated and Cheng Chong could be so tolerant.

The officials responsible for cleaning up the Shahe Gang should bear the primary responsibility for killing Cheng Chong's only son and not killing all of them, which led to Cheng Chong's unauthorized destruction of the dike and flooding Huazhu County!

It makes sense logically, but Liang Qu still feels something is wrong.

A martial artist can avoid suffering and disasters for a hundred years through training. At Cheng Chong's age, he is not bad in that aspect and has a chance to regenerate. Why must he risk his life to carry out revenge?

If it were two officials from the Hebo Office with no background, they would have lost their heads.

But those who came to clean up the Shahe Gang must have a family background and their lives will definitely be saved.

It's not worth it at all.

You don't have a son, so you can't empathize with the pain of losing a son?

Liang Qu frowned.

"Lord Liang." Cheng Chong lowered his head and stared at Liang Qu's waist badge, "I don't think I'm a very smart person. I know that with the ability of the court, it is not difficult to find the culprit, so I don't want to embarrass you, but..."

Cheng Chong raised his head, his eyes deep as the sea.

"If you want to arrest me, I will not surrender. It all depends on your ability."