Chapter 1248: Repay kindness with hatred!

Jiangnan, Lin'an

In a private room of a tavern, several agents from the Coordination Office in plain clothes were drinking to celebrate their success.

"Master, we really showed our face this time. If you hadn't acted decisively, we would have let Zhu Damao get away!"

"That's right! That's right! Don't be fooled by the fat and chubby appearance of Zhu Damao. I didn't expect him to be so cunning that he even thought of disguising himself as a woman!"

"We were almost tricked by this guy. Fortunately, the captain was smart and we were able to catch this bastard!"

"Captain, with the merit of capturing Zhu Damao this time, I'm afraid you will be promoted to a higher level this time!"

"That's right! Although our centurion is young, he is young and promising. He should make further progress. I think it won't be long before we are called thousand-householders!"

Wang Huixian, a centurion of the General Coordination Office, was somewhat absent-minded in response to the congratulations from his subordinates. Seeing this, his subordinate Shi Ming whispered:
"Master Baihu, I heard that Hongyun, the proprietress of Yijing Fusheng Cloth Shop, is the woman of our Director Wang. The reason why our Captain Lin was able to get promoted was because she paid tribute to our Director Wang!"

"Sir, do you want to take this path? With your contribution this time, as long as you burn enough incense, the position of Qianhu will be a sure thing!"

“But I heard that Hongyun has a big appetite. At first, our Captain Lin planned to give her three thousand taels, but she ignored him. Later, our Captain Lin scraped together another three thousand taels, and she reluctantly accepted the gift…”

After listening to Shi Ming's words, Wang Hui came back to his senses from his thoughts and waved his hand and said:

"Don't believe these groundless rumors. Believe that everything above is fair and just!"

After hearing what Wang Hui said, everyone at the dinner table looked at each other, not knowing whether Wang Hui was serious or just saying something for show.

Wang Hui didn't seem to care what everyone thought. After chatting with them for a few more words, he paid the bill and left the table, saying that he was tired and wanted to go back to rest.

"Master Bai Hu, why are you so abnormal today?"

"There are some anomalies. It seems that the captain has been acting a little strange since Zhu Damao was captured!"

"I think it's normal for you to be a centurion. If I were you, I would be thinking about how to make further progress and I wouldn't have the time to think about anything else!"

"Stop talking so much! We finally completed the mission, now we should enjoy the moment!"

"Yes, yes, yes! Let's drink and have fun today! Let's have another one!"

Listening to what everyone said, Shi Ming, who had just suggested that Wang Hui should respect Wang Xuecheng, seemed to realize something, and a barely perceptible strange color flashed in his eyes.

An hour later, an agent from the Coordination Office knocked on Wang Hui's door.

"Captain Wang, Captain Lin wants you to go to his place!"

When Wang Hui heard that it was his boss Lin Kun who was looking for him, he was shocked but pretended to be calm and said:

"Oh, I see! By the way, do you know what Master Lin wants to talk to me about?"

"I don't know this!"

"Okay! I'll be there right away!"

An incense stick later, Wang Hui, dressed neatly, appeared at the temporary office of the Coordination Office in Lin'an, located in the west of Lin'an. As soon as Wang Hui arrived, he was led to Lin Kun's study by a special person...

At this time, Lin Kun, a captain in charge of Jiangnan affairs at the Coordination Office, was writing furiously on the table. Seeing this, Wang Hui stood obediently by the side, not daring to disturb him at all. Fortunately, Lin Kun only wrote for a cup of tea and then ordered someone to send the written memorial to Plum Blossom Cottage to present it to the Marshal.

After handling this matter, Lin Kun looked at Wang Hui and said with a smile:

"Are you anxious?"

"No! My Lord, you are very busy, it's okay for me to wait for a while!"

After a brief greeting, Lin Kun went straight to the point and said:
"Wang Hui, you did a great job in capturing Zhu Damao this time. It really made me proud in front of the Marshal. I was planning to ask the Marshal for credit for you!"

Wang Hui was immediately delighted when he heard this, and he bowed and said:

"Thank you for your cultivation, sir!"

Lin Kun waved his hand and said:

"It's your own fault!"

"Tell me how you found out that Zhu Damao was going to escape and how you captured him. When the Marshal asks about it, I will tell him for you!" Wang Hui said without hesitation:
"Your Excellency, this is what happened. We are following the planned plan to monitor Zhu Damao who is hiding in the textile workshop!"

"It was 3:45 in the afternoon when we discovered someone leaving from the back door of the textile workshop. This immediately caught our attention. However, after discovering that these people were female workers getting off work, we relaxed our vigilance and did not stop them from leaving..."

"But we soon discovered something. This textile factory usually closes at 15:00, so I realized something was wrong and chased after him with my men. At that time, Zhu Damao had already boarded a carriage and was heading to the dock. We chased him all the way and finally arrived at the dock!"

"There were many of Zhu Damao's thugs at the dock. Zhu Damao asked them to hold us back while he took two of his trusted men and tried to flee on a small boat. When Deputy Captain Shi Ming saw that he was about to flee, he killed the two men rowing the boat with a musket, forcing Zhu Damao to row the boat himself. I took the opportunity to go swimming!"

"Zhu Damao was so pampered that he couldn't row the boat, so I got on the boat, caught him, and brought him back!"

Listening to Wang Hui's words, Lin Kun seemed to realize something and asked with a smile:

"So you were alone on the boat with Zhu Damao?"

As soon as Lin Kun asked this question, Wang Hui realized that he had said something wrong. Although Lin Kun still had a smile on his face and seemed to appreciate what he had done, Wang Hui felt a little uncomfortable for some reason!

If possible, Wang Hui would definitely want to take back his words, but unfortunately time cannot be reversed, so under Lin Kun's gaze, he had to bite the bullet and nodded and said:

"That's what my lord is like!"

Upon hearing this, Lin Kun clapped his hands and praised;

"You are truly an invincible young man, Wang Hui, you are truly extraordinary! I must tell the Marshal everything that happened to you!"

“Thank you for your appreciation! Without your cultivation, there would be no Wang Hui today…”

Lin Kun smiled and said:
"It's almost evening, let's have a couple of drinks, then you can go back and rest!"

Feeling Lin Kun's enthusiasm, Wang Hui couldn't help but wonder if the thorny feeling just now was an illusion. Was he thinking too much?
At 15:30 in the evening, under the warm hospitality of Lin Kun, Wang Hui, who had drunk three kilograms of wine, set out on his journey home. Although his head felt a little swollen from drinking, Wang Hui was still very happy in his heart. Just now at the banquet, Lin Kun confidently told him that he would recommend himself to the Marshal and Director Wang to be the commander of a thousand households!

Wang Hui felt happy when he thought that it would not be long before someone would call him Captain Wang. He was from Hebei and Henan. In the past ten years or so, Hebei and Henan had often suffered from famines due to a series of natural and man-made disasters, and the people were living in dire straits.

Wang Hui was born in such a background. His parents were ordinary farmers. When Wang Hui was three years old, due to drought, the whole family embarked on the road of fleeing famine. More than a month later, Wang Hui's parents died one after another due to hunger and illness, and Wang Hui was adopted by a temple.

Wang Hui lived in the temple for eighteen years and mastered Kung Fu very well. Just when Wang Hui was striving to become a temple monk, he was attracted to the daughter of a farmer living near the temple. The two young people fell in love with each other and ate the forbidden fruit. After the matter was exposed, Wang Hui was expelled from the temple.

Wang Hui, who was living on the streets, happened to meet the Coordination Office recruiting soldiers in Hebei and Henan by chance. Because Wang Hui’s Kung Fu was very powerful and he could beat seven or eight people by himself, he was absorbed into the Coordination Office. With his superb Kung Fu, Wang Hui grew from an ordinary spy to the current Captain of the Coordination Office in just a few years...

At the beginning, Wang Hui joined the Coordination Office just to make a living, but as he became more and more powerful, Wang Hui, who had tasted the sweetness of power, also wanted to climb to a higher position and gain more power. He knew that he had no background in the Coordination Office and no good father, and the only one he could rely on was himself!
Therefore, when carrying out the mission, Wang Hui also led by example, was brave and fearless, and dared to fight to the death. This style also enabled him to successfully capture Zhu Damao in this operation!
Although when drinking at the party at noon, Wang Hui told his subordinates not to believe in those rumors, saying that their efforts would be noticed by their superiors.

But Wang Hui was just talking nonsense, in fact he didn't believe it in his heart. He knew very well that what Shi Ming said was true!
Why was Lin Kun, this bastard with a poor name, able to become a thousand households? It was because he presented Wang Xuecheng with six thousand taels of silver through Hong Yun, that stinky bastard. Only then did Wang Xuecheng wave his pen and promote this bastard Lin Kun to the position of a thousand households!
Wang Hui has been working in the Coordination Office for five or six years. He knows that if he wants to move up in the office, he needs not only ability but also money.

But unfortunately, although Wang Hui works very hard and is not afraid of death, he is short of money. That bastard Lin Kun always leaves the lucrative jobs for him and leaves the hard bones for him to chew. So even though Wang Hui wants to get some benefits, he never has a good opportunity...

Although his subordinates all believed that Wang Hui could be promoted with this achievement, he was skeptical because he had no money to offer as a tribute. But Lin Kun's promise at the banquet just now really gave Wang Hui a lot of confidence!
Just when Wang Hui was thinking about the wonderful scene of himself returning home in glory as a thousand households of the Coordination Office, he felt the urge to urinate in his lower abdomen. Without thinking too much, Wang Hui found a secluded corner to relieve himself!

Just as Wang Hui took off his pants to drain the water, the hairs on his back suddenly stood up and he felt a strong wind blowing towards him. Wang Hui did not even bother to finish draining the water and turned sideways. The next moment, a flying knife brushed past Wang Hui's face and hit a big tree nearby!
The biting coldness of the flying knife immediately scared Wang Hui back the water. Wang Hui pulled up his pants and turned around, only to see a masked man in black appear behind him.

Seeing that Wang Hui had discovered him, the other party immediately waved his hands again, and the next second two flying knives with blades flashing strange green light flew towards Wang Hui again.

Although he was still a little dizzy from drinking three pounds of wine, Wang Hui relied on his years of martial arts experience to quickly dodge the two poisoned flying knives.

Wang Hui knew very well that the other party was here to take his life, so after dodging the flying knife, he did not show any mercy and rushed directly towards the man in black.

The man in black wanted to throw the flying knife again, but Wang Hui had already arrived in front of him, so the man in black had to give up the idea of ​​throwing the flying knife and blocked Wang Hui’s fist······················
Wang Hui was not discouraged after his punch was blocked. He immediately used the close combat skills he had learned in the temple, and punched the man in black one after another like endless waves.

Although Wang Hui's fist was not as powerful as when he was sober due to the influence of alcohol, the black-clothed man's boxing skills were obviously not on the same level as Wang Hui's. After barely blocking a few moves, he was knocked to the ground by Wang Hui's punch. Before he could stand up again, Wang Hui kicked him hard in the abdomen with a whip kick!

This kick was fast, accurate and ruthless, embodying the twenty years of Wang Hui's martial arts skills. The man in black was kicked half a meter away without any suspense and was completely motionless.

After killing the man in black, Wang Hui was almost sober. He first drained the water that he had not yet drained, and then walked up to the man in black and removed the black cloth covering his face. He saw that the man was his subordinate Shi Ming!
Wang Hui was not surprised at all when he saw Shi Ming's face. From the moment he saw the two flying knives, he realized that the man in black was Shi Ming!
Looking at Shi Ming's face, Wang Hui's expression gradually became angry. He had realized why Shi Ming came to kill him!

But he really didn't expect that Shi Ming would come to kill him. After all, he had saved Shi Ming's life twice. Without him, that bastard Wang Hui would have died in Anqing long ago!

It was me who did not give up on him when he was seriously injured on that rainy night. I carried him on my back and ran two miles to avoid the pursuit of the Thousand Tiger Guards. I never thought that he would turn against me and kill me!

Thinking of this, Wang Hui had the urge to punch Shi Ming in the face, but after thinking about it, Wang Hui finally gave up the idea!

After standing there and pondering for a while, Wang Hui's eyes gradually became firm. He knew that he had no other choice at this moment!
The only thing he could do was to burn his boats and fight to the death. Thinking of this, Wang Hui no longer hesitated and ran directly towards the direction of Plum Blossom Villa...

(End of this chapter)