The weather in April has gradually warmed up, and more than 30 people lying on the dirt slope with Lu Aliu are so hot that they are upset and irritable, the soil slope is full of thorny shrubs and new weeds this year, and the breeze makes people itch and sting, everyone scratches or fanned the wind with their palms, and the weeds and bushes are all sounding.

Lu Aliu glared back and roared, "It's all ready!" Don't stir up any more trouble. ”

The commotion behind him immediately stopped, and more than thirty men in Kusama cursed a few words in their hearts at the same time, but they were only unconvinced, and they didn't dare to say more. Behind Lu Aliu's heels, the boy closest to him finally couldn't hold it back, and muttered in a low voice: "Who knows whether what the man said is true or not, so he said that, and we have been squatting here for three hours, and the idea of eating in the morning has melted into our stomachs early." ”

Lu Aliu raised his foot and pushed it towards the young man's shoulder, "Don't you want to talk nonsense, don't you also see the letter in the hand of the little lang." "The young man is thin and agile, slightly leaning his shoulder, dodging this kick, still unconvinced." If you don't believe him, stay in the village, starve to death sooner or later, as he said, we fought last time, took things as a gift, and since then we have been included in the regular army, there is full food every day, and clothes for all seasons, which is not better than robbing the neighbors with a clear conscience, and having to endure hunger? Lu Ah Liu turned his head and whispered to his people in the bushes behind him.

When it came to food, twenty of the thirty or forty people quietly pressed their gurgling stomachs, and the hunger once again reminded everyone of the importance of this ambush. So everyone swallowed heavily, and they all settled down, and lay down without saying a word, and even the young man who was not convinced pouted his lips, and shrank into the grass without saying a word, and carefully looked at the other side of the official road.

Lu Ah Liu's threatening and appeased words temporarily suppressed everyone's complaints, and these words were not all spoken to his subordinates, most of them were also talking about themselves, and if they were honest, it was himself, and he didn't dare to believe all what that Lang Jun said.

The day before yesterday, he counted in the village to report, there was no rice grain in the kiln, although the food to be cut off a few days ago has been known, really in front of the eye, still taught him to face a stick, hurriedly with the counting down to the kiln, sure enough to see the leftover grain millet noodles scattered in the ground, took the broken broom and swept it three times, barely put together a handful.

Lu Aliu threw it out angrily and said loudly: "How can the old man come back? After not responding for a long time, he ran upstairs from the hole in the ground, rushed to the courtyard and shouted in his throat, "But are they all dead, and they are silent when they ask questions, what happened when they robbed the official food that day and wanted to fall into their heads, and what if there is no food to raise today!" As he spoke, he picked up a wine vat and slammed it on the trunk of an old tree not far away, and the wine vat shattered to the ground, causing the crows on the old tree to flutter and fly.

That old man He could write a few strokes, and he was originally the counting gentleman when the village paid the official grain, and he thought that the official grain was transported out of the village for less than ten miles, and he was robbed by dozens of hungry people from other villages. Lost the grain, the transport can not escape the involvement, the old He is helpless, had to sneak into the valley with the people who robbed the grain, became a grass coward, and then because of the literacy, quite respected by Lu Aliu, who was in charge of the village, everyone was called "Mr. He".

At this time, Lu Ah Liu was furious, and Lao He shrank in the house and didn't dare to go out, but he taught a sharp-eyed one to take it and said loudly to Lu Ah Liu in the courtyard: "Mr. He is back." ”

He couldn't escape, so he had to walk out of the house with an embarrassed face, and said curtly: "I have walked three times in a few days, don't say it's talking about it, even if I see it, I can't see Li Erlang's face." ”

Lu Ah Liu choked suddenly, didn't say anything for a long time, then picked up a wine jar and smashed it out. That Lao He quietly took half a step back, peeked at his face, and whispered: "Let's count you and me, and the gang leader, there are only about 200 people in total, and all of them are crooked and not right, and robbing a merchant still has to pick the weak." Then Tang Guogong's second son heard that the phoenix was a dragon, how could we get into his eyes? Not to mention being incorporated into his command. ”

Here, Lao He shrank his head and hid by the wall, watching Lu Ah Liu smash into the fifth jar, one of his subordinates ran and stumbled into the yard, muttering that he wanted to see the master, Lu Ah Liu shouted violently: "Down-and-out thief! Lost your soul or what, a certain pestle in front of your eyes, shouting nonsense. ”

The subordinate was scolded by him directly, obviously getting good news, but he said with a sad face: "Fang Cai...... A carriage passed through the rocky valley under our stockade, and only a dozen people went to rob it. There are only five people, looking at the line, I am afraid that it is Ah Lang from a rich family, and one of them seems to be sick. A box of money strings and a few accessories were found, and the person was already in the house where the miscellaneous items were piled up, waiting for the fate of the main incident. ”

General Lu Aliu suspiciously took the few items that were found, which were nothing more than a jade hook on a leather belt and a sword. He took the sword in his hand and looked at it repeatedly, the scabbard was not gorgeous, but the polishing was of the highest quality, and at a glance he knew that it was not owned by ordinary martial artists. A word was slightly engraved on the hilt of the sword, and Lao He didn't know when he stepped forward, squinted his eyes and looked closer, and pointed to the word: "It's a Tang character." ”

A jet-black object hanging from the sword caught Lu Aliu's attention, and he picked it up to look at it carefully, but saw that it was a small piece of black wood, on which was carved a horse with white hooves and black body. "Rich disciples like to decorate their swords with gold and jade, why is there hanging wood on this sword, and what is the labor." Lao He fished out the black wooden section, rubbed it once, only to feel that there was a mark on the back of the horse, which seemed to be a name seal, and he hurriedly flipped it over and carefully distinguished, but he didn't recognize the seal inscription, and only vaguely recognized the word "Shimin".

Somehow, Lao He was stunned, and others couldn't hear him talking, and suddenly he picked up the black wooden block again, and read the seal text carefully a few times, his face changed, and a cold sweat broke out on his back. For a while, he couldn't even spit out the words clearly, holding the black wooden block, and stammered: "The world...... Min, that, that seems to be the name of Tang Guogong's Erlang......"

At that moment, all the people standing in the courtyard were stunned, looking at each other, unable to speak. It wasn't until Lu Ah Liu slapped his thigh and said a heavy "hey" that everyone came to their senses, and at the same time asked Lu Ah Liu and Lao He, "How should this be?" ”