It is about 60 kilometers from Wubao County to Suide County, during which it is full of mountain roads, out of Wubao County is out of our family's sphere of influence, although this short dozens of kilometers is not far, but the mountain roads are extremely rugged, and there are often bandit activities, and it is quite troublesome to encounter bandits and horse thieves.

I caught up with Uncle Wu and asked Uncle Wu, "Why don't we start directly from Wubao County, take the waterway all the way south to Huayin, and then go west by land to Xi'an?" Instead, you have to go far away from the mountains and rivers rampant with bandits? ”

Uncle Wu said with a smile: "Tiancheng, you don't know, the Yellow River was still relatively high in the past few years, and you can sail." However, in the past ten years, there has been a lot of construction in various places, trees have been decreasing, the Yellow River has been cut off from time to time, the water flow is getting smaller and smaller, and various reef waterfalls are more and more exposed. For example, if you think there is still a wide area of water in front of you, but a few hundred meters below you may either be covered with reefs or rivers running underground, and the river will dry up. The boats either ran aground and sank or ran aground on the river, with steep cliffs on both sides, making them a dilemma.

Therefore, in recent years, no one has taken the waterway anymore, and everyone would rather go around the mountain road than take the waterway, the so-called "natural disasters cannot be violated, but man-made disasters can be turned into waterways" is this truth. ”

I exclaimed, "I see, now that the world is so hot and cold, people's hearts are not ancient, and even nature has begun to take revenge on human ignorance!" ”

Uncle Wu also shook his head helplessly.

I then asked Uncle Wu: "How many bandits and horse thieves are there in the middle of this road to Suide County?" ”

Uncle Wu thought for a while and said: "This area is mostly the Loess Plateau, the mountains are poor, the population is sparse, and the bandits are also a relatively small force, and the main strength is the Yihui Gang led by Guo Qinghui who is entrenched in Mogu Mountain, but this Guo Qinghui is still a good man in the green forest, and ordinary poor people will not rob it." This righteous gang specializes in robbing wealthy landlords and businessmen, and I still have some old friendships with this Guo Qinghui, so I don't have to worry too much.

We are doing business in this area all the year round, and they are more tacit, from time to time to send money to the past to stabilize people's hearts, it can be regarded as a kind of "protection fee", presumably it will not embarrass us, and the other two or three people who have a share of bandits and horse thieves cannot be counted, but we are not afraid of them! ”

When I heard Uncle Wu say this, I was a lot more relieved.

This way, we talked and laughed, the time soon came to noon, and we also came to Suide County after all the hardships, everyone was tired all the way, and they were already hungry. I asked Uncle Wu to quickly find a better place for the brothers to rest and eat.

Uncle Wu thought for a while and said: "The mutton noodles here in Suide are more famous, I know that there is an old shop in the city that does it better, let's go directly!" ”

I nodded again and again, thinking about the hot noodle soup, the large pieces of mutton, and the somersault noodles, and my saliva flowed, and I hurriedly beckoned everyone to go.

Uncle Wu took everyone and his party to a store, this store is okay, a two-story small building, the door plaque reads "Forty miles of mutton noodles", look at the past A group of people lined up at the door, I didn't expect the business to be so good.

We were a group of more than a dozen people, Uncle Wu and a few guys went to the backyard to settle the carriage in person, and the shopkeeper beckoned us to go to the store first. This shop looks very grand from the outside, I didn't expect the inside to be brighter, we just found two empty tables ready to sit down, who knows that there is not a seat, there is a big man in the queue shouted that the table has someone, we just saw the table under the package and other things, but we changed two empty tables, did not come to the front, and heard a middle-aged woman with a thick waist and fat ears pulling the gong voice shouted also said that there are people at this table, we changed three or four empty tables are like this, Everyone dragged their tired bodies and watched these six or seven empty tables not being able to sit down and eat a full meal, and they were all very angry.

At this time, the beggar was furious and shouted: "Shopkeeper, what's going on, seeing that there are so many empty tables in the store, but you can't sit?" ”

The shopkeeper said apologetically: "I'm really sorry, the boss has recently launched a new product of sauce and fried beef, and no one cares about it on weekdays, this is not to win over customers, it is sold at half price for the past two days, I didn't expect the effect to be so good, you see that the long queue over there is queuing up to buy beef." ”

The beggar said angrily: "What is the reason for buying beef to occupy a table?" It's been a long time since I saw a queue over there, so you let those of us who want to eat a bowl of mutton noodles just look at the empty table and wait? ”

The shopkeeper said helplessly: "I can't help it, it's like this now, people who come to occupy a table regardless of anything else, and then go to line up to buy beef for dinner, so that many customers come and don't have a table to sit." And our beef is a by-product, the output is very small, these days many guests look at the empty table and wait really don't want to wait any longer are angry to leave, the boss so set, we are also looking at the dry anxious. ”

I said to Xiao Er: "You go down first, let's wait a little longer!" ”

After the shopkeeper left, we waited for about a stick of incense, and there was still no one to buy beef to sit at this empty table.

The beggar said angrily: "What kind of reason is this, obviously occupying the pit and not, we have already eaten and left these times, today I will rectify their crooked atmosphere!" ”

After that, the beggar told us to stand aside so as not to be implicated, and we retreated to the counter, and the beggar flashed his electric steps, and in an instant swept away the things that occupied the empty table, and this action was so fast that I could see it intermittently, and the people who stood there staring at the beef window did not notice it at all, and the beggar instantly moved to the front of the store, smiled at me, and instantly returned all the things to the street, and returned to us in a flash.

The group of people still stood there numbly waiting, and the beggar pointed to the door and shouted: "There are thieves stealing things, there are thieves stealing things, chase after you, chase after you!" ”

The group subconsciously turned their heads to look at their things, but found that their things were gone, and suddenly made a mess, hurriedly ran out of the door to look for it, and instantly the dense crowd that was originally standing there suddenly became empty, and the beggar hurriedly beckoned everyone to occupy all the empty tables and sit down, I smiled helplessly at the beggar and sat on the table.

The beggar came to the window where the beef was sold, and the beef was ready, and the beggar bought all the beef in one go and put it on our table.

After the noise, the crowd of people who had picked up their things from outside returned to the store, only to find that the table was no longer there, and the word "sold out" had been hung on the window of the beef seller, and they all scolded angrily. At this time, they saw our table and the beef on the table, rushing over and surrounding a dozen of us, the big man who had just shouted said that this table was his, and the middle-aged woman pointed to the table of the caravan with her hands on her waist and said that it was hers, and everyone kept talking.

The beggar shouted, "Quiet! Stop! The table is yours, what proof do you have? The big man and the woman shouted, "Just now we put everything here......

Before he could finish speaking, he swallowed it back, and the beggar had already pointed to the things in their hands and said, "I saw you all go out and get your things just now!" The tables in this shop are meant for customers, and when someone leaves, the table is empty, so why can't we sit there? Now that our things are here, you have to see clearly, you have your things all by yourself, how do I know if you are new here? ”

That group of people was speechless by the beggars, and it was really "dumb people who eat coptis chinensis, and they have a hard mouth".

The woman pointed to the beef and then to the window and muttered, and the beggar stood up and cried out, "What? Is it okay for us to spend our own money on beef? Brothers, see how to solve ......"

With the beggar's words, the brothers of the caravan instantly stood up in unison, drew half a knife and looked at the crowd, the crowd was frightened and took a few steps back, and ran away in a hurry. I hurriedly motioned for my brothers to sit down, we are serious businessmen, not bandits and bandits, don't frighten them.

I smiled and said to the beggar: "You, just teach them a lesson, why bother to show the guys, they are all vulnerable people, how can they withstand such a fright?" ”

The beggar said angrily: "There are still vulnerable people, why didn't they say that they were weak people when they occupied the table just now, I just used the way of others to treat others, if they met real bandits, they would have died in Huangquan long ago!" ”

I patted the beggar on the back and said, "Okay, okay, don't be indignant, why don't you hurry up and eat!" ”

The beggar called the shopkeeper and ordered more than a dozen bowls of mutton noodles, and the shopkeeper gave the beggar a thumbs up after ordering, and the beggar couldn't close his mouth happily on the side. Beggars do this, although it is a bit excessive, but I can't say anything, after all, now the world is declining, everyone thinks about themselves, and there are too few people who can really think about others, and there are those "crooked tendencies" that arise at some point, sometimes I am also angry and crying and laughing, and it is good to have someone to cure.

Uncle Wu had already come back at this time, and I told Uncle Wu what had just happened, and Uncle Wu couldn't stop laughing after hearing it. Uncle Wu has been in the rivers and lakes all the year round, and he also hates these immoral and unscrupulous behaviors, but he can only talk about them, and he can't kill them all as long as they don't go his way like bandits.

Uncle Wu said: "I really don't know how to say this world, people nowadays are red-faced and even life-and-death in the face of their own interests, indifferent and even insensitive to the affairs of the country, look at the current court, just as the people are as weak as now!" ”

Uncle Wu sighed and said that everyone was in a low mood, seeing that the hot and fragrant mutton noodles had come up, they had no appetite.

I laughed and said, "Don't think about it, everything will be solved, let's hurry up and eat now, let's eat first before we talk about anything else!" ”

Everyone was already hungry, so they picked up the mutton noodles, picked up the sauce beef and ate it in a big gulp. The taste of this sauce fried beef is really good, the beggar took four large pots of beef and was swept away by more than a dozen of us, but unfortunately the store has been sold out, otherwise it is delicious to pack some and eat it on the road.

After everyone finished eating, Uncle Wu and I discussed staying in Suide County for one night tonight and continuing to travel tomorrow.

Uncle Wu led everyone to the Yuelai Inn in the east of the city, all the way through Suide County.

Although the county seat of Suide is small, the city is built according to the Wuding River, and the scenery is also very beautiful, and it can be regarded as a bright pearl on the Loess Plateau.

Suide is also a place where talents come out in large numbers, like the Southern Song Dynasty anti-gold famous general Han Shizhong is a Suide person, supporting the entire stormy Southern Song Dynasty Empire standing in the south without falling, his heroic deeds are also admirable tight, there is a folk song called: "Mizhi's mother-in-law Suide's Han, Qingjian slate tile kiln ditch charcoal" is to praise the outstanding people of northern Shaanxi.

Before we knew it, we had come to the most prosperous downtown in Suide, where pedestrians were weaving and lively, when suddenly a tight gong sounded, and the crowd instantly gathered under the high platform in front.

We just passed by, only to see a few big men standing on both sides of the platform with steel knives in hand, a man with a tiger's back and a bear's waist sitting in the middle drinking tea and looking at the onlookers, a few entourages stood on the platform and shouted: "Old and young masters, fathers and villagers, this is the bandits who do all kinds of evil in the vicinity, today our brothers will capture them to show the public, and tomorrow they will be handed over to the government to deal with, and everyone can walk in Suide with peace of mind in the future, and do not have to worry about being robbed and robbed!" ”

There was a commotion below the crowd, and everyone was talking.

After a while, the crowd grew more and more, and the street was already crowded and shaky, when a thief-eyed guy quickly walked through the crowd, touching the pocket, looking at the package, obviously a thief, and the people who were crowded around to see the excitement did not notice it at all. The beggar and I both saw it, and the beggar was about to step forward to stop it, but suddenly he thought about it and stopped going.

I asked the beggar curiously, "Why didn't you stop the thief all of a sudden?" ”

The beggar sighed: "If you look at those people, you will know that they are joining in the fun, squeezing into this way and drilling inside, this is obviously creating opportunities for thieves, and these numb people deserve to be stolen!" ”

I smiled and shook my head and said to Uncle Wu: "We still have important matters, so let's not join in the fun, go to the inn to rest!" ”

Uncle Wu didn't know what he was thinking, he didn't come back to his senses for a long time, and he didn't come back to his senses until I called him again. Uncle Wu said to me a little anxiously, "Okay!" Immediately, we walked through the crowd, and I was still wondering, what was wrong with Uncle Wu, I had never seen him like this.

Uncle Wu suddenly rode to my side and said, "Tiancheng, please take the convoy to the inn to settle down, I have some personal matters to go back!" "I didn't ask much when I saw that Uncle Wu was not in his soul, so I let Uncle Wu go, and I took everyone to the inn to settle down, waiting for Uncle Wu to come back and discuss some things.

But I waited for nearly three hours and didn't see Uncle Wu come back, and I and the beggars and the caravan had already finished dinner and couldn't see any trace of Uncle Wu, so I was inevitably a little worried, but I thought in my heart, it is not impossible for Uncle Wu to go to drink with his old friends, anyway, I won't leave today, and it doesn't matter if Uncle Wu is there or not, as long as I come back at night. We were tired all day, and after eating, we went back to our rooms to rest, and I took out "Wentianlu" in my room to study and study, and unconsciously fell asleep.

I didn't sleep tightly, and when I woke up it was already dawn, and I was still asleep in a daze, when I heard a beggar knocking on my door outside me.

I casually agreed, and the beggar said in front of the door: "Uncle Wu has not returned overnight, and he still does not know where to go!" ”

As soon as I heard this, I jumped up and got dressed, "I'm going to leave the division, and the coach is not here" How can this be, besides, I am more worried about Uncle Wu's safety at this time.

I went out and asked the beggar about the specific situation, and the beggar said anxiously: "Yesterday, we all went to bed early, and I woke up early this morning, so I went to see what arrangements Uncle Wu had, who knew that I knocked on the door a few times, and there was no answer inside, I thought something was wrong and rushed in, and found that it was empty, and Uncle Wu didn't come back at all, I hurriedly went to ask the shop boy, and the shop boy also insisted that he didn't see anyone come back last night!" Only then did I know that something was wrong, and Uncle Wu must have had an accident. ”

I asked the beggar to calm down first, and called everyone up, and everyone hurried up and came to the backyard, and I briefly explained the situation, leaving two people to watch the truck, and the rest of the people were all sent out to inquire about the news.

I went to the front of the inn alone, waiting for them to come back and give me news. About a stick of incense later, a sloppy old man dressed as a gentleman hurried to the inn and asked a guest surnamed Mu, I just heard it, and asked what was the matter, the old man said that a young man dressed as a head was seriously injured by a group of strong men, and now he was lying on the street of the West Market and asked him to come and report the news. As soon as I heard the head of the sect dress, I immediately thought of the beggar, so I asked the old man to lead the way, and hurried to the West Market, and hurried a few streets.

But how do I feel that this old man is getting more and more wrong, and always wants to take the opportunity to get rid of me, I calmed down and thought about it, the beggar is the head of the church, it is right, but I never told him my surname is Mu, and he never asked my name; Moreover, although the beggar's martial arts are not weak, but the lightning light is so powerful, there are almost no people on the rivers and lakes who want to catch up with him, how can he be injured?

When I thought about it, I realized that the old man was lying to me, so I jumped in front of the old man and asked angrily, "Why did you lie to me?" ”

The old man was also a timid man, so he fell to his knees with a thud, and hurriedly said: "It was someone else who gave him ten taels of silver, and asked him to go to the Yuelai Inn to find a person surnamed Mu, saying that a young man dressed as a head was injured and asked him to save him to get two taels of silver, and my old man did it for a moment of greed for money." ”

I was so angry that I was just about to grab the old man to ask about the situation, and suddenly I was shocked, this was a plan to divert the tiger from the mountain, and immediately threw the old man to the ground, and quickly rushed back to the Yuelai Inn with light skills.

When I rushed back to the inn, the shopkeeper was already lying unconscious in front of the door, and I rushed into the backyard, all the carriages were without a trace, and the two men were knocked unconscious on the ground.

I jumped on the roof of the Yuelai Inn and looked around, without any clues. I went down and helped the two guys to the chair, and gently touched them in the middle of the people, Baihui acupoint, the two guys slowly woke up, I asked them how they had passed, and both guys said that they were standing guard in the backyard, and suddenly they felt hit hard in the back of the head, and they didn't know anything.

At this time, the beggars and other fellows returned to the inn one after another, and they were all shocked to hear that the carriage had been hijacked. I asked everyone to calm down first, and first ask the beggar Uncle Wu how the news is.

The beggar sorted out the news that everyone inquired about and said: "Yesterday, after we left the downtown area, we heard from the nearby merchants that a man dressed as a forty or fifty-year-old master rushed to the stage to rescue the people trapped in the cage, but the people on the high platform were already on guard, and the master rushed up and injured the two guards, so he was restrained by the trap that those people had prepared a long time ago, and then escorted away with the people in the cage!" ”

I continued, "Can you find out who is on that high platform?" ”

The beggar replied: "I heard some passers-by who walked the rivers and lakes say that sitting on it is Zhu Chun, the second leader of the Mogu Mountain Yihui Gang ten miles away from Suide County. ”

"Can you tell who is in the cage?" I asked

"The face of the man in the cage is either painted or blacked out, and passers-by can't tell where it came from!" The beggar replied

The beggar said anxiously; "Uncle Wu just disappeared over there, and the convoy was hijacked here, could this be the Qing Gang?"

I thought for a while and said, "Impossible, if the Green Gang comes to retaliate, they will never rob money, nor will they deal with Uncle Wu, Uncle Wu's matter may be an accident, and their real purpose should be to rob money." ”

The beggar asked, "So what should we do now?" ”

I thought for a while and said: "Now that we know the whereabouts of Uncle Wu, then let's take Uncle Wu out first, and then investigate the whereabouts of the goods, I think this series of actions should be done by a group of people." Let's rectify it a little now, and then go to Mogu Mountain to explore the truth and take the opportunity to save people! ”

The beggars and the crowd were quickly ready.

I asked the beggar to go to the city to find a guide who was familiar with the terrain, and for half an hour he would gather at the inn and set off whether he could find it or not. As soon as the old man entered the door, he ran away when he saw me, and the beggar stopped him.

The beggar was looking for no one else, it was the person who had deceived me just now, I walked up to the old man and said coldly: "What's the matter, are you here to fool us again?" ”

The old man was so frightened that he didn't dare to say that he didn't dare to do it, and I pointed to the beggar and said, "The head of the sect you just said can stand here now, how do you see how I handed you over to him to deal with?" ”

The beggar listened to the conversation between me and the old man with a puzzled face, I told the old man in detail about the old man deceiving me just now, and the beggar was angry when he heard it, and he was about to beat the old man, and the old man was so frightened that he quickly kowtowed and admitted his mistake, and I signaled the beggar to stop first.

The beggar put the old man down, and I said, "We are going to Mogu Mountain now, are you familiar with the terrain there?" ”

The old man hurriedly replied, "I grew up in a nearby village, and I am more familiar with Mogu Mountain than anyone else!" I continued: "Now, you lead the way, I will not investigate what I lied to me just now, of course, the benefits are naturally indispensable to you." Otherwise, I'll hand you over to this sect leader, do you know the consequences? ”

The old man secretly glanced at the beggar, the beggar deliberately glared angrily, and the frightened old man hurriedly said: "Old man, I don't want money, I don't want money, I can't help you after I deceived you just now, I will give you the right to guide and make amends for your sins!" ”

I smiled and took out ten taels of silver and put it on the table, and asked the old man to take it. But seeing that there are so many of us, we don't dare to take it casually!

The beggar looked at the old man and kicked the old man angrily and said, "If you want to take it, you can take it, just do the things that are explained to you well, don't pretend to be serious here!" ”

When the old man heard this, he quickly ran to the table and watched me smile and put the silver in his arms.

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