Chapter 67: The Devil

Sang Ganshui comes from the east of the river, of course, this is the name of the former Song Dynasty, and now it is the Xijing Road of the Yuan people, after flowing into Dadu Road, it has been called Lugou by the Jin people, and the Han people call it "Wuding River".

Starting from the capital, it takes only half an hour to go out of Daxing County, and after crossing the Sangganshui, you will arrive at the destination of this trip, Xiagou Village, Wanping County. Li Shiyi rode his horse onto a majestic stone arch bridge, followed by more than 100 horsemen, all dressed in Han military attire, except for the two people on his left and right.

"Lao Ding, how long is it left?"

Ding Yingwen raised his hand to cover his eyes, trying to block the sunlight from above, and looked into the distance, he knew the general direction. The village was not big, and he had taken a caravan to rest in it, but it had been a few years ago, and it was the first time he had done such a thing, and he didn't dare to hold it up, so he looked at it again and again, and decided to confirm it again.

"Is it the other side there?" The object of his question was a middle-aged man, it was the steward in Deqing Building, who was on a horse at the moment, with nowhere to put his hands and feet, and the road of just half an hour was already miserable, how could he have suffered such a crime.

"Exactly, there is a tea shop at the head of the village, and you usually have to go there to contact it first, and that person may not necessarily be in the village, or maybe he will go to the south." He paused for a moment, and then continued: "A few masters, if you can trust the villain, wouldn't it be cheap to let the little one go and inquire first and ask someone out?" ”

"Is the village big?" Li Shiyi didn't answer him, he took out a double-linked cylindrical thing and put it on his eyes, Ding Yingwen glanced at the steward, he was not impressed, and he was afraid that he couldn't say it clearly.

At this moment, the sky is already bright, pedestrians appear on the bridge deck, all in the direction of the capital, most of them push small carts, on which are placed the planting things from their own fields, a little farther away is a little blurred, but there is indeed a cloth banner in the distance, it should be the tea stall that the steward said.

"If you go back to the military master, there are only twenty or thirty households in the village, you have to find someone to live in the west entrance of the village, it is a huge courtyard, the courtyard wall is very high, there is a big locust tree at the door, it is extremely conspicuous, you can see it when you enter the village, or small" The steward wanted to say something more, but was unceremoniously interrupted by Li Shiyi.

"How many guards are there in the courtyard?"

"A splash, where are the guards, but there are some scoundrels, about seven or eight people." The steward unconsciously turned his head to look behind him, and the slaughtering cavalry made him shudder, and he didn't dare to say his original words.

The general situation is already clear, Li Shiyi summed it up in his heart, the people he brought are enough, there is no need to make any extraneous branches, they are acting openly this time, even if the villagers find out, they don't dare to take action, the only thing to worry about is the local Guanmin Qianhu, that is a Mongolian!

"You take people around, first surround the house, don't let one escape, search carefully, see if there are secret doors and tunnels. The rest of the brothers, spread out for ten miles, staring at various intersections, especially in the direction of Wanping County, go. ”

A sergeant who looked like a hundred households who was called by him responded with a fist on his horse, made a gesture towards the sky, and galloped away with a large group of men and horses, while Li Shiyi took a dozen or so people, together with Ding Yingwen and the steward, and rode towards the tea stall, looking as if he was passing by.

"How many guests do you want to rest?" A tea doctor greeted with his sleeves curled.

"Bring a pot of tea, the guy surnamed Hu is back, why don't you see anyone?" Li Shiyi jumped off the horse and snorted, asking casually.

"Which surname is Hu, don't hide it from the guest officer, most of our village has this surname, even the small ones." Dr. Tea came over with a pot and poured them one by one, but his eyes wandered around, and he stayed on Ding Yingwen and the steward for a moment, and then returned to normal.

"Naturally, it's the one at the west end of the village, otherwise you're a place where birds don't, what do you come to do." Li Shiyi sat down with a big grin, patted the table and said.

"His house, the guest officer will sit down for a while, and the little one will send someone to find you."

After that, he didn't wait for Li Shiyi and the others to answer, he glanced behind him, and the guy who looked like a small guy walked out knowingly, and after getting on the road, he walked faster and faster, and glanced back as he walked, looking slightly flustered.

"What's the hurry, call him back, Lao Tzu hasn't spoken yet, he runs like a rabbit." Li Shiyi scolded with a smile, but instead of turning back, the little guy ran up, and Dr. Tea on the side also stood there with a calm face, without saying a word.

He raised his hand and snapped his fingers, and the two men came out of the crowd, and raised their hands and drew the riding bow in their hands, and did not urge the horse, so slowly opened the bow and set up the arrows, and the two feathered arrows came out of the string, one left and one right pierced the man's feet, and immediately he fell to the ground in a daze, and screamed as if he were killing a pig.

Dr. Cha's face changed, he didn't expect people to say that he would do it, and he didn't say anything at all, seeing that guy lying on the ground and not knowing whether he was alive or dead, his voice slowly lowered, and he suddenly understood in his heart that people didn't dare to kill people, but in Liwei in this way, how dare he find someone to treat him, he was about to lose his footing.

"At this point, the surname Hu hasn't gotten up yet, right? Did you bring something good back with you? Li Shiyi took a good time to pick up the tea bowl and glanced at it, and then put it on the table, he also has some eyesight now, and he can't look at this kind of coarse tea at all.

"Yes, I just came back from the south the day before yesterday, and I brought more than a dozen people, oh, more than ten people, all of whom were hidden in the granary at the east end of the village, and the small ones didn't dare to lie, and they were willing to take the official to see them."

It's good that people are here, Li Shiyi got the news he wanted, and he didn't talk nonsense anymore, let the two subordinates escort Dr. Tea to find the granary he said, and he took the people on the horse and walked towards the village, this will be kung fu, his people should have completed the siege, and it is time to go out by himself.

"Crash it off!"

Outside a courtyard in the west of the village, surrounded by nearly a hundred cavalry, the hundred households leading the army came to the main gate, and was about to take out the microphone to inform Li Shiyi, when he heard a woman's scream from the door, and he shouted without hesitation. One of his men turned the horse's head down, began to accelerate from a distance, and took a long object in his hand, which turned out to be the nail palladium used by the people to turn the ground, and just held it up and rushed over.

"Bang!" There was a muffled thud on the ground, and the thick wooden door and the thick deadbolt flew upside down, smashing up a cloud of dust on the ground, and the horse rushed straight into it without slowing down, and when it was about to collide, the sergeant slammed the rope, and the horse leaped high, avoiding a girl under the horse's paw.

All the people in the courtyard were stunned, so when Baihu entered, the situation inside was clear. There was a girl kneeling on the ground, holding a plate in both hands, her eyes were terrified, and her exposed arm was as thin as a firewood rod, covered with scars, and she looked less than ten years old. There were several men who looked like Lai Han standing around, and in front of her was a girl younger than her, dressed in a fine satin hammer, holding a stick in her hand, and was about to fight.

"Trespassers, die!"

Baihu galloped quickly, pulled out the saber in his hand, and cut down a man who was running inside to the ground, blood splashed all the way, perhaps it was the screams that shocked the others, everyone including the little girl stopped, and watched motionlessly as he rode his horse in front, and the bright red blood beads on the long knife dripped down, like a god from hell.

"Which master has arrived, Hu has never greeted him from afar, and forgive his sins."

It was impossible for such a big movement not to attract attention, and after a few moments, a voice came from the backyard, and then a man in his fifties came out, wearing a gown and a loose bun on his head, and he looked like he had just gotten out of bed.

The situation in the front yard made him frown slightly, one of his subordinates was lying on it, blood was flowing, seeing that he couldn't live, the others were holding their heads and squatting on the ground, the youngest girl looked up timidly to see herself, but she didn't dare to make any movements, the only one standing was the dirty girl, with her head down and not knowing what she was thinking.

"What are you doing, Hu is not well entertained, you can accompany the sin, why don't you invite the brothers in first and have a glass of wine?"

He didn't know what was going on, he just looked at the figures outside the collapsed courtyard gate, and it seemed that there were more than enough people to come, no matter what, he would accompany the smiling face first, and then ease the atmosphere first.

"Go over there and squat down, don't make a sound." Baihu ignored him, the bloody knife pointed at him, and pointed in the other direction, there was no one there, it was actually let him go alone, the man wanted to say something more, but when he met Baihu's cold eyes, he was afraid that he would do it if he didn't agree with him, so he had to squat honestly, and the whole courtyard showed a strange calm.

The peace was quickly broken, and when Li Shiyi arrived with people, his people had completely controlled the mansion, and there were more than a dozen people squatting in the front yard, except for a few gangsters with green skins, the others seemed to be the family members of the man surnamed Hu.

"Who's the main master?" Li Shiyi casually swept over the people and corpses on the ground, and asked without looking back, the steward followed in, and suddenly saw the situation in front of him, and he didn't hear this question clearly in a panic, and waited until Ding Yingwen poked him before he came to his senses, and it was him who asked.

"That's the man." He dodged and pointed to the ground, facing the man surnamed Hu, and before he could jump behind Li Shiyi, the two sergeants lifted the man up according to his instructions, and lifted his head high with his hands between his back, so that they could see more clearly.

"The surname X, you dare to harm Lao Tzu" Before he could say anything, he was covered by the sergeant behind him, and he repeatedly pumped dozens of mouths, his face was swollen, and Li Shiyi signaled to stop.

"Don't call Lao Tzu in front of Lao Tzu, Lao Tzu doesn't like it." Li Shiyi glanced at this person in disgust, and continued to ask, "Is it him?" ”

Once this person is sure, he must die, so he doesn't mind asking for verification again, it's just a small character, he does things with such fanfare, in order to deter the small people behind him, no matter what the result is, it's good to let them restrain somewhat, so it may save one more life.

The steward sighed secretly, stepped forward and looked carefully, this face has been deformed, there is a trace of fear in his eyes, but more is confused, he doesn't know why people want to deal with him like this, come up and kill without asking for a reason, today I am afraid that it will be difficult to be good.

"Old ~ Hu, you just accept your fate, you have been doing things that hurt nature and reason for more than 20 years, there will always be retribution, don't blame so-and-so, who let you bump into it."

Hearing that he was scolding people who opened a green building, the sergeants accompanying him were a little crying and laughing, Li Shiyi received a positive reply, did not say anything more, and beckoned, the two sergeants who grabbed the man immediately dragged the man up, ready to pull him out.

"Military master, general, uncle, what did Hu do? Can you give a happy word, do you want money or a woman, open your mouth, the little one is just a worker, and there are also your people behind it, Xie Jia? Ho family? Or the Zhang family"

"Drag it back." Li Shiyi heard his vague begging for mercy, and his heart moved to command, and the person was immediately dragged back to the same place, but suddenly smelled a smell of urine, and looked down to see that there was water flowing under the person, and Li Shiyi couldn't help but wrinkle his nose.

"You said there is still the head and tail of the Zhang family here?" He asked with a feigned hesitation, and the man nodded busily with a look of hope.

"Isn't it, a few days ago, the little one came back from Xiangyang Mansion, and I saw the ninth and tenth masters, and when I crossed Baoding Road, I also went to visit the uncle, if you don't believe it, you can go and inquire, and the little one has no lie." The man swore an oath.

"What is Boss Zhang, it's worth asking Lao Tzu, you said you met Lao Jiu, what is the situation, tell me in detail." Li Shiyi spat out without sleeping, slowly guiding his words.

"Don't hide it from the general, this batch of goods was ordered by the nobles in Beijing, and I was in a hurry, seeing that there was no war, where to collect so much, and I had to rely on a general like the master? Don't look at only more than ten people, it takes a lot of effort to work on the old nose, there is no misunderstanding among the generals, if you want to be in a hurry, you take it away, spare a small life. ”

"People don't talk about it for the time being, over there in Xiangyang Mansion, how did you get in touch, who you are looking for, it's all clear, how does Lao Tzu know if you are lying?"

After listening to this, Li Shiyi had a rough number in his heart, and there must be a lot of people involved in this line, otherwise it would be thousands of miles away, it would not be transporting livestock, and being able to pass unhindered means that the forces behind it are not small, although the big action can't be done, but those small fish and shrimp, he doesn't mind collecting a few more heads, and it can be regarded as paying for Sister Pheasant's revenge.

The man surnamed Hu did not hesitate, his life was in the hands of people, how could he think about it, he just hoped that these evil gods were interested in this way, even if they let it out, it was better than losing their lives, and after a while, a sergeant handed him a written piece of paper.

"Send it to the address above, and send it in a box after it's done, the truck is too slow, send it urgently, six hundred miles in the army is urgent, and I want to see it on the fifth day at the latest."

Li Shiyi's words sounded a little clueless to others, but his subordinates heard a killing intent, the people above were the same as the man surnamed Hu, they were all local green skins, it didn't take much to take their lives, and it wouldn't attract much attention, so he answered at the moment, and went out and got on the horse.

"As for this man." He turned his head to look at the man, changed his tone and said, "Owl, send it to the city, and the rest of the people, clean it up." ”

The man was stunned for a moment, and before he could come back to his senses, one of the sergeants locked him firmly, and the other drew his saber and slashed it without hesitation, and the big head rolled to the ground, and a stream of blood spurted out of the headless neck cavity, and in an instant it stained the ground red.

As if a signal, all the sergeants moved, and began to do things on the spot in pairs, the crying and screaming in the courtyard were remembered again and again, Li Shiyi stood there and looked up at the sky as if he had not heard it, Ding Yingwen and the man in charge were so frightened that their faces turned white, and they couldn't suppress a stream of sour water, and they lowered their heads and vomited.

But in a sentence of ten words, more than ten lives disappeared, and the only one who was still alive was the little girl, who was holding his sergeant and carrying a knife with some hesitation, as if he didn't know where to start. Li Shiyi was about to step forward to remind him, when a figure rushed out of the side, took the knife from the sergeant's hand, clenched his hands and stabbed it with all his strength, almost stabbing the girl in half, she pulled out for a long time and didn't have enough strength to pull it out, so she simply let go of the knife, squatted on the ground and cried loudly.

Li Shiyi walked over to take a look, the little girl who was stabbed by the knife was already dead, still being grabbed by the sergeant, and when she saw him coming, she threw herself on the ground soberly, but she didn't have the courage to pull out the knife, Li Shiyi's brows immediately furrowed.

"After this incident, you can go back, go to the mansion to find the eldest lady, and let her arrange an errand for you." Li Shiyi stepped on the small corpse and pulled out the knife, wiped it twice on the corpse and threw it to him, but what he said shocked the sergeant.

"Why?" He subconsciously asked, glanced at the corpse on the ground again, and distinguished: "Li Tou, you can't be like this, a certain is not a bad seed, there are several Tartar lives under his hands." ”

"I didn't say that you were a bad seed, but I wasn't suitable for this, and even a girl was better than you." Li Shiyi glanced at the girl who was squatting on the ground and crying, so thin that she was like a hemp stick, and she actually burst out with so much strength, and then stopped the sergeant's discernment.

"The squire once said that the Tartars are extremely cruel, and if you can't turn yourself into evil ghosts, there is no possibility of defeating them, and we are the evil spirits, crawling out of hell, and you can't do it."

After dealing with these people, he withdrew from the courtyard with the people, but did not leave immediately, but ordered someone to bring the tea doctor over, and this person unintentionally glanced into the wide open door, and he was so frightened that he fell to his knees on the ground, for fear that he would kill himself.

"There are dead people here, if the government asks, how will you answer?"

"I don't know."

Dr. Tea kowtowed again and again, Li Shiyi shook his head to express dissatisfaction, he was stunned for a while, and finally seemed to remember something, and quickly spoke.

"Vendetta?"

"Mountain bandits?"

"Thief?"

Li Shiyi gave a few answers in a row, his mind was a mess, and he couldn't think of anything anymore, so he had to look at each other.

"It's dry, and there's water occasionally, right?" Li Shiyi nodded his head with some hatred, and the latter showed a sudden expression of realization and nodded again and again.

"The small one is going to arrange, there was a fire in the middle of the night, burning the entire yard, and even the neighbors next door suffered, pitiful, no one in the room could get out, uncle, the small one is right?"

"If you have understanding, go for it."

Li Shiyi nodded with satisfaction, watching Dr. Tea run out with a rolling belt, the whole village was surrounded, he was not worried about what demon moths would come out of this person, but he still had to watch them finish with his own eyes to rest assured.

When the black smoke rose from the sky, Li Shiyi took a large group of people and more than a dozen rescued girls on the way back to the city, these girls are all from the south, most of them are newly occupied by the Tartars, they will not enter the capital, the Ding family has some industries outside the city, just enough to be placed, and they will be sent home when the time is right.

"This nobleman!" Li Shiyi waited for the fire to burn almost and was about to turn the horse's head, when suddenly a person stood in front of him and stopped him.

"You go and sit in the back car, follow them to the Zhuangzi, don't worry, no one will bully you anymore." Li Shiyi said in a gentle tone as much as possible, and he suddenly remembered another girl, almost the same experience.

"I'm not going with them." The girl shook her head.

"And where do you want to go?"

"I want to follow you and be a demon." There was undoubted stubbornness in the girl's eyes, but her tone was extremely cold, and she felt a chill in her heart.