"Ximen Ba? Do you still remember me?" Manager Xu first confirmed that Cao Yi was indeed not seriously injured before coming to Ximen Ba and asked.

Ximen Ba, who was still in a stalemate with Taibai Secret Guard, looked up after hearing the sound, and then he drooped his head like a frosted eggplant, and stopped struggling anymore, as if he had accepted his fate.

As the leader of the Yangzhou branch of the Cao Gang, Ximen Ba was responsible for all matters of the Cao Gang in Yangzhou. Such a person in charge naturally had to be familiar with local officials and often deal with them. Although Ximen Ba had only had private contact with Yangzhou magistrate Guo Chao, as the magistrate of Yangzhou, he was naturally familiar with him as the dignified governor of Yangzhou. He even had to know that even the chief officials of the prefecture, otherwise they were all fools who ran around the world. If they were not aware of it, it would definitely not work.

He did investigate Cao Yi before and knew that he was the junior brother of Fei Haomiao, the governor of this prefecture. He should not have touched Cao Yi again according to the gang rules set by the Cao Gang, but he found out that Cao Yi had only been in Yangzhou for less than a month. What does this mean? This shows that Cao Yi was only here to join the relationship because of Fei Haomiao's official position.

Ximen Ba saw more people like this. He was really the kind of person who was poor in the downtown area and no one was asking about it. He was rich in the mountains and had distant relatives. There were many people who rushed to the door because someone was promoted and made a fortune. He was nothing more than thinking that one person in the clan would be able to achieve enlightenment. The chicken and dog wanted to get some connections and also wanted to ascend to heaven.

However, according to the information found by Ximen Ba, Cao Yi seemed to be not very popular in front of Fei Haomiao. When he came to Yangzhou, he was first harmed by their archenemy, the young master of the Liu family of the four major families of the Salt Gang. However, so far, although Cao Yi was released from prison, he had not seen any revenge from the Liu family, let alone Fei Haomiao vented his anger for his junior brother to ask for an explanation.

It can be seen that Cao Yi's status in Fei Haomiao's mind is not very high, and he is not willing to have a conflict with the Liu family, the richest man in Yangzhou. The main reason for this misunderstanding is that Ximen Ba wants to take the money alone, so he neither uses the intelligence system within the Caobang Gang to investigate it well, nor does he say that the Caobang Branch in Jiangning should be notified to cooperate with the investigation of Cao Yi, which is why the current situation is caused.

From the moment he saw Xu, the governor of the prefecture, he knew that he had been wrong. Until now, he still felt that the guards that suddenly appeared around him were all the guards of the prefecture, not Cao Yi's personal guards. He was just defeated by the prefecture, Fei Haomiao, and not Cao Yi.

However, he also realized one thing, that is, Cao Yi still had a certain position in the heart of the prefect Fei Haomiao, otherwise he would not have sent Manager Xu and so many guards to protect Cao Yi.

"Hmph! Ximen Ba, your Cao Gang is really bold. Under Lord Fei's rule, you dare to openly steal people in broad daylight? Fortunately, Mr. Cao asked me to come over and be a witness, otherwise I really didn't know that the Cao Gang was already so arrogant and domineering?" Manager Xu looked at Ximen Ba who was forced to "kneel" on the ground and said coldly.

"What did you say?" Ximen Ba's face, which was originally drooping, had a bad and listless face suddenly burst into disdain.

Xinhe asked with a slightly angry expression.

"Huh? Are you provoking me?" As the chief supervisor of the prefect of the prefect, Manager Xu still has his own majestic momentum. When he heard Ximen Ba's rebellious words, he raised his eyebrows. Ximen Ba was really bold and reckless. He was actually subdued and he came forward to warn him, and he dared to provoke him. He really never repent!

"No, no, no, I don't mean that..." Although Ximen Ba was tall and fierce, he immediately surrendered when facing the great manager in the magistrate's mansion, Xu Jincheng, who could represent the magistrate Fei Haomiao to a certain extent. "What I mean is that Cao Yi... Master Cao has already notified you to come here and be... a witness?"

Manager Xu kicked his eyes and said angrily: "What? I am not qualified to be this witness yet? Ximen Ba, you are so brave! You dare to hurt Lord Fei's junior brother! I witnessed it with my own eyes on the scene, otherwise I really couldn't believe that in Yangzhou City, there are still people who don't take us Lord Fei seriously."

"No...No..." Ximen Ba looked timid at this time, and he did not look at Cao Yi at all. He was arrogant and domineering when he slapped Tan Yun in the face. He looked down at the ground, but was thinking in his heart that Xu Laogou said just now that Cao Yi had asked him to come over as a witness, wouldn't that mean Cao Yi had guessed that we would attack him?

So... Chu Mingxuan really colluded with him in advance to cheat us? He remembered the words Cao Yi had shouted before, and said he was thanking Chu Mingxuan for his cooperation... Now that I think about it, it seems that things are really suspicious.

Chu Mingxuan is just an ordinary family of merchants, and he can't even rank the top twenty in Yangzhou City, and he has no big backers at home. His biggest backers are only his teacher Wei Mu, and he is just a personal aide to Guo Chao, the magistrate of Yangzhou. Did Chu Mingxuan get rid of the courage of Xiong Xin and Leopard? He dared to hire him to force his brother to abduct Fei Haomiao, the governor of Yangzhou.

No matter what, Fei Haomiao, the governor of Yangzhou, was always older than Guo Chao, the governor of Yangzhou. Moreover, his junior brother was closer than his private aide, right? Besides, there was a master in Chu Mingxuan. So no matter how you compare, his status is far inferior to Cao Yi.

Even in this case, Chu Mingxuan dared to attack Cao Yi, and even expressed his intention openly and secretly that he wanted to kill Cao Yi. He had told himself more than once that it would be better to be a living person. If the living person could not be kidnapped, then he would have a corpse.

Now it seems that there is something strange everywhere here. First of all, the status and power of the two are not equal, and secondly, the reward of the 30,000 taels of silver is too high. Chu Mingxuan didn't even pay the bargain and agreed directly. This kind of generousness is also contrary to ordinary. Looking back now, if this was planned by Chu Mingxuan and Cao Yi long ago, everything would make sense.

Thinking of this, Ximen Ba began to look fierce again. It was Chu Mingxuan who caused him to fall into his current situation. He first offended the Yangzhou magistrate. If the Xicheng headquarters knew about it, it would be because he wanted to embezzle the 30,000 taels of reward. I guess his position as the head of the hall would have been over!

While Ximen Ba was still lowering his head to ponder, he heard a sound of footsteps approaching, and then he saw boots with very good materials. He recognized this boots, which were just tragic with Liu Dazhuang.

Cao Yi is fighting, a "scholar" who is beyond his understanding!

"Ximen Ba, I don't care what Chu Mingxuan promised you to deal with me at that time, but now you have succeeded and defeated. Since you have lost, you should recognize your situation carefully." Sure enough, Cao Yi's voice was right in front of him. In this way, it was equivalent to Ximen Ba kneeling in front of Cao Yi at this time.

This made Ximen Ba feel very frustrated and wanted to struggle to stand up, but the four Taibai Secret Guards behind him naturally would not let him succeed, so they pressed him down tightly.

"What? Are you not convinced?" Cao Yi's cold voice continued to come.

Although Ximen Ba's body was pressed down, his head could still be raised. At this time, his head was high and his face turned red because of his struggle, and even his eyes were red at this moment. "You are using conspiracy to control us, what kind of heroes are you?"

When Cao Yi heard this, he laughed out loud and said with a loud laugh: "Ximen Ba, Ximen Ba, are you still the master of the hall? Let me ask you, when I was the only one of me and Liu Baiqing, you thirteen of you threatened us, even if you are heroes? When I, a weak scholar, asked me, were I, a hero, or were you, heroes?"

Under Cao Yi's gaze, Ximen Ba gradually lowered his head. This was indeed what they did. However, if he collected money and eliminated disasters, he still had to have professional ethics. With money, heroes would become less delicious.

"I have said everything, success, success, defeat, bandit, you must recognize your current situation. I still say the same thing. All of you kneel down and apologize to Tan Yun, otherwise it would be more than that simple now!" Cao Yi looked at Ximen Ba and said lightly.

Ximen Ba raised his head immediately after hearing this and said with a little excitement: "Does we apologize and let us go?"

"Haha!" Cao Yi smiled contemptuously, and looked at Ximen Ba with sarcasm, and said softly: "Ximen Ba, Ximen Ba, are you too naive or think of me too naive? Have you never been brained before speaking? Do you think the things you did to me will make me forgive so quickly?"

"Then what do you want to deal with us?" Ximen Ba was a bachelor. Since the hope of letting go was gone, he asked the final result in a straightforward way.

"How to deal with it? How to deal with it is the decision. The government has the final say. I invite Manager Xu to come over, hoping that he can be a witness and truthfully report everything about you to the government..."

"Since you are going to send us to the office! Then I will apologize, are you so funny, are you?" Ximen Ba simply gave up his compliment to Cao Yi and said toughly.
Chapter completed!