"Half of the big cole. ”

"Whether it's a copper or a mountain of gold, let's only grab half of it. ”

"Give others room and give yourself room. ”

"Isn't it meaningful?"

Zhou Jianlai's eyes were blazing and excited, explaining the deep meaning of the name "Half Dakou" to Zhang Xiaopu and the others, and then looked at them eagerly, hoping to get their recognition and praise.

"Good name. Good name. Lu Kaixue, who was smooth-minded, immediately clapped his hands and praised.

He has seen Zhou Jianlai's strength, and he has won five consecutive victories, which is even more powerful than Zhang Xiaopaw. In the current troubled times, it doesn't matter if he is a bandit or a robber, it is always right to follow such a strongman.

"Good, good. Old man Wu hurriedly echoed.

"No—not bad. Zhang Xiaopu was uncomfortable by Zhou Jianlai's eager gaze, and gave a thumbs up against his will, he really didn't want Zhou Jianlai to be a thief ship and do the work of bandits and robbers, which was contrary to the village chief's grandfather's earnest teaching of kindness to people.

What's more, Zhou Jianlai also gave him a position as the second leader, if the village chief's grandfather knew that he was a bandit, and he was also a bandit leader, he had to use a willow stick to smash his ass.

"Grandpa, aren't all bandits and robbers bad people? Why should we be bad people?" Only the innocent little girl dared to question.

When Zhang Xiaopu heard this, he immediately nodded like pecking rice. The little girl spoke her mind.

Old man Wu hurriedly tugged the little girl's arm, his eyes signaled her not to talk nonsense, and hurriedly apologized to Zhou Jianlai, for fear of angering Zhou Jianlai, "Children are ignorant, nonsense, there are a lot of adults, don't be like children." ”

Zhou Jianlai was not angry at all, but squatted down in front of the little girl, and explained in a kind tone: "We don't be bad bandits and robbers, we are good bandits and robbers." ”

The little girl had big eyes, very confused, and asked, "How can it be good for bandits and robbers to rob people of money?"

"Do you see these people on the road are pitiful?" Zhou Jianlai asked the little girl, pointing to the refugees on the road.

"They are all poor homeless people. The little girl said with a gloomy expression, because she and her grandfather were like these people.

"Look there again. Zhou Jianlai pointed to the Yancheng in the distance, and the Yancheng under the sunset was even more majestic and magnificent, and asked: "There are many rich people living in that city, who are rich and unkind, and they have endless silver, endless steamed buns, endless meat and bones, and endless water and wine, but they would rather feed the leftovers to the dogs, or pour them into a swill bucket and stink and rot, rather than give us poor people a mouthful of food, do you say their conscience is very bad?"

Gollum –

The little girl was greedy for the steamed buns, meat bones and water described by Zhou Jianlai, and swallowed her saliva involuntarily, she nodded vigorously, looking at Yancheng with a pair of big eyes, and even showed angry eyes, as if her brain made up the picture of being rich and unkind described by Zhou Jianlai.

Zhou Jianlai smiled and said, "Then you say that we will rob them of half of their money, half of the steamed buns, meat and bones, and clear water and wine, and then distribute these robbed things to these poor people, so that they can live, do you say we are good people or bad people?"

"Good people. The little girl replied without thinking.

Zhou Jianlai suddenly showed a relieved look and said, "So we are good bandits and robbers." ”

"Hmm. The little girl nodded vigorously, and the little mustard in her heart was suddenly swept away.

Zhang Xiaopaw shook his head and smiled, he knew that although Zhou Jianlai was explaining the little girl, he was mainly talking to him. I have to say that it works very well, and he no longer rejects the thief ship that Zhou Jianlai is so much in his heart.

"Without further ado, the top priority is to save our three masters. Zhou Jianlai stood up, and at the same time held up the little girl with one hand, dragged her thin body to his shoulder, walked towards Yancheng, and said, "Enter the city!"

"But we don't have any money. Zhang Xiaopaw said with a bitter face.

"Ahh Rich. Rich. Lu Kaixue hurriedly shouted, took out four silver tickets from his arm, and his tone was so excited that his tone floated, "This is left by the old man who drove the car, five hundred taels each, a total of four, two thousand taels." We're going to get rich!"

Zhou Jianlai had been talking about bandits and robbers just now, but he couldn't interject and didn't find a chance to mention the silver ticket.

Zhou Jianlai glanced at the silver ticket in Lu Kaixue's hand, raised the corners of his mouth and said with a smile: "The donkey-faced old man is righteous and trustworthy, the next time we meet, the master will definitely let him make two more moves." ”

Zhang Xiaopaw's eyelids jumped twice, and he said in his heart that it was better not to be arrogant, and be careful of being slapped into a meatloaf.

Zhou Jianlai carried Xi'er on his shoulder, Zhang Xiaopaw held Niu Dawa, and a group of six people went to the sentry post to pay two hundred and forty taels of silver, each of them got a wooden identity token three inches wide and five inches long, and was told that the identity token must be properly kept, and it will not be reissued if it is lost or damaged.

Through the checkpoint, there were still ten miles away from the city gate, and it was about to get dark, so Zhou Jianlai spent ten taels of silver to hire a carriage on the side of the road to solicit passengers.

Lu Kaixue called it too expensive, and called the carriage driver to make black money.

The carriage driver's name is Zhao Daqiang, about forty years old, with a dark skin and a wide face, and an honest appearance, and he is a native of Yancheng.

Zhao Daqiang complained to Lu Kaixue while driving the car, and said: "I'm afraid this uncle doesn't know the current prices, the white flour rice is about to rise to one tael of silver and one catty, five taels of silver for a bucket of water, and eight taels of silver for a catty of meat." Horse material is the most outrageous, in the past, two pennies a pick, now it has risen to ten taels of silver, and it is still priceless. I ran your business, and most of the money I made was eaten by the horses. Hey, when is this hard day a head? ”

"This-this-" Lu Kaixue was dumbfounded, frightened by the price Zhao Daqiang said, and couldn't help but shake his head and smile bitterly: "The people have no way to live." ”

"Not really. Zhao Daqiang also smiled bitterly.

Zhou Jianlai sighed and said, "Prices are soaring, I'm afraid there will be a war." The Big Tooth people used the dry underground river channel to invade the Black Forest unconsciously, and then came out of the Black Forest to directly bypass the strong defense line of Yancheng and go straight into the hinterland of the southern border. Now the southern border must be suffering from the crazy attack of the Big Tooth Army, if the Black Armor Army can't withstand the attack of the Big Tooth Army, and the border defense line is lost, the Big Tooth Army will definitely drive straight in, attack the city, and kill under the city of Yancheng in the blink of an eye. At that time, with the invasion of the Big Tooth Army from the Black Forest, the north and south echoed and attacked the city at the same time, and Yancheng was afraid that it would be difficult to hold on. And once Yancheng is lost, then the Big Tooth Army can act recklessly in the entire southern border. The tragedy of 68 years ago is bound to be repeated. Therefore, Yancheng must not be lost. The wild goose city is not lost, and the southern border is not lost. ”

"With the war, we ordinary people have no way to live. Zhao Daqiang, the coachman, lamented.

"It's useless to think too much, it's a day to live. Lu Kaixue said with a smile on his face.

Old man Wu hugged Xi'er tightly in his arms and muttered a prayer: "May the gods and Buddhas bless me and bless my family Xi'er to survive this disaster and grow up safely." ”

"Brother Zhou, you know a lot. Zhang Xiaopaw looked at Zhou Jianlai in admiration, scratched his head, and said shyly: "I don't even know where our Baiyun City is. Brother Zhou, can you give me an overview of it?"

"Yes. You reach for it. Zhou Jianlai nodded, asked Zhang Xiaopu to spread out his palm, and then he put his left index finger on Zhang Xiaopaw's palm, and said: "For example, this is where we are now, Yancheng, to the north of Yancheng is Jincheng, and then to the north is Haoyue City, and to the north of Haoyue City is our Baiyun City." Baiyun City is about 1,200 kilometers away. Our Baiyun City is just an ordinary first-class main city, compared to the vast and majestic Yancheng, it is much worse. ”

"What?!1,200 kilometers?!" Zhang Xiaopu exclaimed, looked at Niu Dawa, and said incredulously: "In just one month, how could he have traveled so far to come to this wild goose city?

Zhou Jianlai's eyes fell on Niu Dawa, and he didn't feel strange at all, and said: "He is fully open, and it is normal for him to travel so far in a month." ”

"Ah?!" Zhang Xiaopaw was a little confused, wondering if his ears had heard it wrong, his finger pointed at Niu Dawa, his eyes looked at Zhou Jianlai, and asked word by word: "You said that he - the battle door is all open - all open?"

"yes, the battle is open. Is there a problem?" Zhou Jianlai nodded very surely.

"This-this-" Zhang Xiaopaw's mouth was half open, his eyes were wide, and he was also surprised by this for a long time, and finally spread his hands towards Zhou Jianlai and said: "He didn't even know what the battle gate was a month ago. Sup- I don't know, right?"

Zhang Xiaopaw was suddenly a little unsure, because Niu Yao was Niu Dawa's father, maybe he secretly taught Niu Dawa to cultivate the battle gate.

"Impossible!" Zhou Jianlai didn't want to deny it, and said: "Open three battle gates in a month, do you think he is a peerless wizard who has not been seen in the first five hundred years and has not met in the next five hundred years? Even Su Mou, a century-old wizard in Baiyun City, took five years to penetrate the three battle gates. ”

"Hmph. A century-old wizard, not very good. Zhang Xiaopaw pursed the corners of his lips with a disdainful expression. He did not despise Su Mou's strength, but despised Su Mou's conduct.

"What, you have a grudge with Su Mou?" Zhou Jianlai heard Zhang Xiaopu's evaluation of Su Mou, and immediately became interested and asked curiously.

Zhang Xiaopaw said: "Don't dare to hide it from Brother Zhou, I have a grudge with Su Mou, and I almost died in his hands." ”

"Oh, did you fight with him? how many swords did you take from him?" Zhou Jianlai asked with an urgent gaze.

Zhang Xiaopaw smiled bitterly and said, "At that time, I was still very weak, and I was not his opponent at all, so I could only let him handle it." ”

"Strange, he has always been arrogant and conceited, his eyes are above the top, how can he be embarrassed with you?" Zhou Jianlai asked puzzled.

"Yes—don't say it. Thinking of the relationship between Zhou Jianlai and Qin Xinru, Zhang Xiaopaw waved his hand, unwilling to say more, not wanting to have a gap with Zhou Jianlai because of this matter.

Zhou Jianlai thought it was something he was ashamed to talk about, so he didn't ask, patted Zhang Xiaopaw's shoulder, and said, "When I return to Baiyun City, I will fight with him, and I will avenge you." ”

"Brother Zhou has an enmity with him?" asked Zhang Xiaoshu in surprise.

"Nope. Zhou Jian said, "He is the number one wizard in Baiyun City, he cultivates the way of the sword, and I also practice the way of the sword, and I have lived under his shadow since I was a child, I am eager to fight with him, eager to defeat him, otherwise it will be difficult to let go." But I'm still far behind, far from his opponent. ”

"I also want to fight him. Zhang Xiaopu clenched his fists and said, thinking of Su Mou's despicable behavior in the Black Forest, he couldn't help but be angry, and felt that his heart was unsettled.

By the time the carriage reached the North Gate, it was already completely dark.

The towering gate was closed, and only a foot-wide corridor on the right side was opened, and in another hour and a half, this corridor would also be closed.

Burning torches hung from the mottled stone walls on both sides of the city gate, illuminating the city gate as bright as day.

Two groups of heavily armed soldiers stood solemnly on both sides of the city gate, exuding a chilling murderous aura that made people involuntarily fearful. The sharp gaze like a knife scrutinized everyone who entered the city, but if there was any suspicion, they would stop and interrogate them carefully.

At the entrance of the Yongdao, there was a group of soldiers guarding the door, and everyone was carefully examined and interrogated, and the carriages, wagons, and even large boxes and barrels were strictly inspected wherever it was possible to hide people. The main thing is to strictly prevent the big tooth people from taking advantage of the opportunity to blend into the city.

Zhang Xiaopu and his entourage successfully passed the inspection, passed through the deep corridor, and finally entered Yancheng.

Zhang Xiaopaw thought that the scene in the city would be much better than the outside, but as far as the eye could see, it was still a desolate and dead disaster scene.

Both sides of the road were filled with fleeing refugees, wailing everywhere, no different from the scene outside the city.

"Go to the biggest hospital!" Zhou Jian ordered the coachman.