Early in the morning of the same day, around midnight, there was a knock on the door outside the house, which disturbed Chen Cai and several other bandits who were working on the ground on the first floor.

"Damn ......"

Chen Cai scolded in a daze: "Who? Early in the morning, huh? ”

Immediately, a man's voice with a little fear came from outside the righteous house: "Steward Chen, it's me, Gao Bing." ”

As soon as the words ended, another voice came from outside the house: "Also, there are still women." ”

"Huh?"

Chen Cai replied with a deep sense of sleepiness.

At this time, a thief sleeping on the side turned over, opened his eyes slightly and glanced at the door, and then said in a daze: "Big brother, it is one of the cooks we hired, and his mother-in-law." ”

"Oh."

Chen Cai suddenly realized, and immediately, he patted the thief angrily: "You know that you don't want to open the door yet?" ”

At Chen Cai's urging, the sleepy thief reluctantly got up and opened the door.

At this time, Gao Bing and his mother-in-law were waiting outside the door, and saw a thief open the door with a black face, and the couple were also startled.

Fortunately, the thief did not bother to talk nonsense with them, and when the door opened, he turned and walked to the first floor of the house, and went on sleeping on the original bed.

The couple looked at each other, and cautiously walked into the hall to the kitchen in the back room.

In order to run this house, Chen Cai hired three couples to wash vegetables and cook rice, and Gao Bing and his mother-in-law were one of them.

As the couple got busy in the kitchen, the woman couldn't help but ask her husband secretly, "Daddy, what do you say these people ...... What the hell are you doing? I always feel like I don't look like a good person......"

"Silence!"

Gao Bing, who was chopping vegetables, whispered, and immediately listened attentively, and only then did he breathe a sigh of relief when he heard the continuous snoring in the hall outside.

In fact, he also felt that the 'Steward Chen' and a 'miscellaneous servant' outside were not like good people, especially when these people taught a ruffian who cut in line a few days ago, the ruffian had a few small reputations in the local area, but that Steward Chen went up and opened two big mouths on the left and right.

Of course, the ruffian was not convinced, and shouted and threatened the steward Chen to be more careful when walking at night in the future, but he was dragged to another alley by the steward Chen and beaten on the spot, and it is said that one of the ruffian's legs was broken.

Thanks to this, Gao Bing has been worried for the past few days, not only his wife, in fact, the other two couples also feel that these people are wrong, once they become fierce, they are even more fierce than those ruffians in the city, he didn't want to take the risk of continuing to work in this righteous house, but when he thought of the monthly pay, he couldn't bear it.

According to the previous agreement, he can get 200 yuan a month, and the mother-in-law who gave him a hand has 150 yuan, and the couple has a total of 350 yuan.

Even for the sake of wages, they have to keep this job, anyway, that Steward Chen and the rest of the miscellaneous servants are fierce outside, and they are still quite polite to them, just a little idea, for example, don't disturb those people sleeping.

Thinking of this, Gao Bing instructed her mother-in-law to wash the vegetables honestly, and Hugh to talk nonsense again.

After a while, the other two couples also came one after another, because they have been working together for a few days, the three couples have gradually become familiar with each other, after greeting, picking up vegetables, washing vegetables, boiling water, cooking rice, and cooking rice, the division of labor is clear.

About an hour or so, the smell of rice wafted out of the kitchen, and it turned out that the two wooden barrels of rice were steamed.

At this time, Chen Cai walked in from outside with a yawn, and when he saw him, the three couples in the kitchen hurriedly greeted: "Steward Chen." ”

"Hmm."

Chen Cai nodded with a yawn and asked casually, "What kind of dish did you cook today?" ”

The three couples glanced at each other, and then Gao Bing stood up and replied cautiously, "Today's main dish is stewed beans." ”

As he spoke, he secretly glanced at Chen Cai, and hurriedly explained: "I saw that the bags of beans that Steward Chen bought had been piled up for several days, and I thought that if I left it for two more days, it might be bad, so I just cooked it today, Steward Chen, do you think?" ”

"Beans?"

Chen Cai was a little confused, walked to a pot and looked at it twice, and asked with a strange expression, "This is a bean?" ”

"yes." The other cook nodded and asked.

"So it's a bean......"

Chen Cai muttered with a strange expression, and immediately, he coughed, nodded and said, "Okay, then we'll stew beans today." ”

As he spoke, he turned his head to Gao Bing and said, "Besides, the old rules." ”

Gao Bing nodded again and again: "Understood, understood." ”

The so-called old rule, that is, preparing meat for Chen Cai and other people in charge, after coming to this righteous house for many days, the three couples naturally knew it.

After finishing the order, Chen Cai left the kitchen by himself and walked to the hall.

At this time, the thieves who had been laying bunks in the hall also rose one after another, and they gathered up their bunks and put the low tables stacked together in order.

Just as they were busy, Zhao Yu walked in from the back door with Jingnu and Niu Heng.

"Childe."

Chen Cai hurriedly stepped forward to say hello, and when he got closer, he added in a low voice: "Big leader." ”

Zhao Yu nodded with a smile and said, "When I came, I saw that you hadn't opened the door yet, so I came in through the back door." ”

Hearing this, Chen Cai said with a pale face: "Well, the brothers got up late today......

Seeing his restrained expression, Zhao Yu waved his hand and said, "I don't blame you, just say it casually, anyway, it's not a business to make money......

With that, he walked to the window and looked out at the street.

The street outside the house was not very lively, but now there was a long queue outside, from farmers who had probably just returned from the fields outside the city, who were fighting hoes, to those who dragged their families, couples with two or three children, and of course, there were also local ruffians who looked ruffian at first glance.

Zhao Yu only swept it slightly, and felt that the team outside the house had exceeded more than 100 people.

There is no doubt that after a while, there will be more and more people.

Patting Chen Cai's shoulder, Zhao Yu instructed Chen Cai: "You guys are busy with yourself, I'll go find our rich man Chen." ”

"Yes."

Saying goodbye to Chen Cai, Zhao Yu took Jingnu and Niu Heng to the second floor, and after walking up the stairs, they saw that Chen Cai was still sleeping soundly wrapped in a quilt.

The bandits in Black Tiger Village generally get up late and there is nothing wrong with it.

Holding Jingnu's hand and signaling her not to get closer, Zhao Yu turned his head to look at Niu Heng, who was smiling evilly, and admonished, "Be careful." ”

Niu Heng nodded knowingly, stepped forward, and leaned over to pat Chen Zu's face.

At this time, Chen Zu opened his eyes suddenly, and his right hand, holding a short knife, stretched out from the quilt and stabbed straight at Niu Heng, but fortunately, Niu Heng was prepared and grabbed Chen Zu's hand.

"Is that you? You brute. ”

Chen Zu saw clearly that it was Niu Heng at this time, and said angrily, and Niu Heng also let go of Chen Zu's hand with a strange smile, and said with a smile: "Chen Da Rich Lord is vigilant. ”

Chen Zu rolled his eyes.

If they don't sleep with one eye open, God knows when they will be killed.

After a while, when Chen Zu put on his coat, Zhao Yu said to him with a smile: "How did you find the manor?" The rich man is nestled in the righteous house, which is not so convincing. ”

"I have a clue, but I don't have manpower." Chen Zu complained: "It's okay to have Chen Cai and others watching from the Yishe, but you asked me to find a manor to live outside the county, can I live alone?" Or you can call Zhang Feng and Ma Hong. ”

"Call them here, and they won't be able to show their heads." Zhao Yu said with a smile: "Let's stay up for two months, Zhang Feng and Ma Hong are trying to change their body shape, and when they turn around and grow a beard again, maybe they won't even recognize you." ”

As he spoke, Zhao Yu walked to the window on the second floor and looked condescendingly at the team on the street below.

Seeing this, Chen Zu also walked over and said with a little emotion: "After all, there are still many poor people, it's only been a few days, and there is a long queue outside the righteous house, remember that these people had a conflict because of the queue the day before yesterday, right?" In a few days, I am afraid that it will get worse. ”

"Hmm." Zhao Yu nodded.

But this is also helpless, due to manpower limitations, they can only provide free food to 300 people every day, and this will inevitably lead to conflicts between people queuing outside to compete for the quota of those 300 people, after all, it is free vegetarian food and rice, although there is no wine and meat, but it is full.

Therefore, it is inevitable that these people outside will clash with each other in an invisible place.

The day before yesterday, Chen Cai and the others caught a brutal cut in line, if Chen Cai hadn't remembered his advice, it is estimated that the ruffian would have been hacked to death and thrown away.

Shaking his head, Zhao Yu turned his head to Chen Zu and said, "Let's not talk about this for now, hang up that sign." ”

Chen Zu was stunned when he heard this, and asked with some consternation: "This is hanging?" Didn't you say how many days you had to wait? ”

Zhao Yu looked at the long queue below and said with a smile: "It depends on the situation, the length of this team ...... Almost, hang it up. ”

Chen Zu nodded, and immediately called Chen Cai.

After a while, Chen Cai led a few people to hang a plaque engraved with the words 'Black Tiger Yishe' in front of the Yishe, attracting those who were waiting in line for free rice outside the Yishe.

Seeing this scene on the second floor, Zhao Yu asked Chen Zudao with a smile: "Are you arrogant?" ”

"It's a bit arrogant." Chen Zu nodded with a smile.

Hearing this, Zhao Yu smiled, and immediately explained: "Seeing the word 'Black Tiger', these people should be more or less able to think of the notorious 'Black Tiger Village' a while ago, so they retreated, and the people who chose to stay for free food are more or less prepared in their hearts, and when you provide them with 'meat' in the future, they will not be too shocked, this is step by step." ”

This 'small' leader is really much more powerful than Yang Tong.

Hearing Zhao Yu's explanation, Rao is Chen Zu was also quite impressed in his heart.

Although there are some secrets that he doesn't know, this does not prevent Chen Zu from judging Zhao Yu's origin, in Chen Zu's opinion, this Zhou Hu Zhou leader is definitely not from an ordinary family, because the latter's vision is too powerful, such as this righteous house.

Thinking of this, Chen Zu praised from the bottom of his heart: "The leader is high-minded and impeccable. ”

Just when he admired it to the extreme, he suddenly heard the cow scratching his head and asking, "Then what if the people below are illiterate?" ”

Zhao Yu: "......"

Chen Zu: "......"

"Uh......"

After a period of silence, Zhao Yu said with a strange expression: "If you don't know how to read, you will ask." …… There will always be people who are curious about the plaque in front of the door. ”

"Oh, yes." Niu Heng suddenly realized, gave a thumbs up and praised: "It is worthy of Ah Hu." ”

Zhao Yu and Chen Zu glanced at each other, and then they both couldn't help laughing.

Not to mention, Niu Heng's question is really good.

Previously, Zhao Yu subconsciously thought that everyone could understand words, so he deliberately wanted to make some small moves in the title of 'Black Tiger Yishe', subtly weakening the vigilance and prejudice of the poor people who came to eat against the word 'Black Tiger', and slowly let these people accept the word 'Black Tiger', so that they could privately recruit some of them to the cottage in the future and strengthen the strength of their cottage, until Niu Heng asked Zhao Yu to realize that nearly ninety percent of the people in this world may not be literate.

But this problem is easy to solve, just go back and let Chen Cai and others deliberately call themselves 'Black Tiger Yishe' in front of people, even if those people below are illiterate, they can always understand it, right?

After hearing Zhao Yu's command, Chen Zu did not nod his head in a hurry, but pursed his mouth outwards and said with a smile: "This will arouse the vigilance of those people, right?" ”

"Those people?"

A little puzzlement flashed on Zhao Yu's face.

He looked in the direction that Chen Zu was pointing, and then saw that Kunyang County Wei Ma Gai was walking from the far side of the street with a team of county guards.

"This man must be literate."

Chen Zu chuckled, then turned his head to look at Zhao Yu and said, "If he wants to see you, do you want me to come forward and send you away?" ”

Zhao Yu thought for a while, nodded and said: "It's up to you to come forward, in the future, you will inevitably have to deal with the county government." …… Okay, I'll leave this side to you, I'll go first. ”

Seeing that Zhao Yu had handed over the affairs of this side to himself and did not worry about his bad things, Chen Zu was naturally happy in his heart.

After Zhao Yu, Jingnu, and Niu Heng left, Chen Zu stood at the window on the second floor, looking at the horse cover below with a smile.

However, at this moment, Ma Gai couldn't laugh.

Just like Zhao Yu said, as soon as Ma Gai saw the horizontal plaque with the words 'Black Tiger Righteous House' in front of the righteous house, he immediately thought of the 'Black Tiger Village', and was shocked into a cold sweat.

It is undeniable that there is no direct connection between the two, but the question is, this has only experienced the chaos of the bandits in Black Tiger Village, who in the entire Kunyang County will be full of hanging a horizontal plaque with the 'Black Tiger'? Aren't you afraid of provoking criticism?

Only a thief from Black Tiger Village would be so unscrupulous!

It's so arrogant! It's so arrogant!

Staring at the plaque, Ma Gai gritted his teeth with hatred.

Not only him, but the county guards around him also noticed the horizontal plaque hanging in front of the righteous house, and they showed surprise one by one.

"Huh? Has this righteous house hung up a plaque? I didn't have it when I came yesterday. ”

"You were here yesterday? …… Been in there? ”

"How can I be? At that time, the queue outside the house did not have to be small now, and besides, I was wearing the clothes of a county guard, so why was I embarrassed to go in? …… Anyway, what is this righteous house hanging? Let me see...... Not? Black Tiger Righteous House? Black Tiger ......"

Reading the plaque of the righteous house, the county soldier's face immediately became a little strange.

From the side, the faces of the other county guards also changed slightly.

"Black Tiger ......"

"Eh, it's really a black tiger ......"

"Why the name? Does this righteous house have anything to do with the black tiger thief? ”

"Probably not...... Even if those thieves fled to the county seat, they couldn't open a charity house and provide food for free, right? ”

As he spoke, the county guard turned to Ma Gai and asked, "County Captain, do you want to send someone to change the name of the owner of the righteous house?" The name ......"

Damn bastard!

Ma Gai secretly cursed the group of black tiger thieves in his heart.

At this moment, he would rather that group of black tiger thieves continue to rob the passing caravans, rather than let this group of black tiger thieves run into his county town in Kunyang.

But unfortunately, he can't threaten those black tiger thieves, and even has to cover for those hateful bastards!

But...... Is it really from Black Tiger Village?

Just when Ma Gai was secretly guessing, he suddenly saw a child's cry in the team outside the righteous house, and then a woman's voice begging for mercy was heard: "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, please don't do this, my son is just kind to persuade ......"

Before she could finish her words, she was interrupted by an arrogant man's voice: "Good persuasion? Fuck your ......"

At this time, another man said: "This little baby is right, Steward Chen clearly said a few days ago that it is not allowed to cut in line!" Besides, in order to catch up for this meal, we people have been waiting here early, why can you cut in line? ”

"Why? With Lao Tzu's fist! The brutal man's voice said.

For a moment, the crowd outside the righteous house was chaotic, and someone was vaguely seen fighting.

Seeing this, Ma Gai didn't care about peeking at the righteous house from a distance, and immediately walked over with a county guard, shouting: "What are you doing?!" ”

Hearing Ma Gai's shouting, the crowd gradually dispersed, and people were discussing, most of them were happy: "Captain Ma, it's Captain Ma, Captain Ma is here!" ”

Pushing them aside, he walked to the center of the crowd and saw a woman slumped beside him with a little girl in her arms, and beside him, a man dressed as a farmer was confronting two ruffian-looking men with a hoe.

Glancing at the two guys with ruffian faces, Ma Gai immediately recognized each other, and snorted coldly: "Cai Huangya, what are you doing?" ”

"Uh......"

The man obviously recognized Ma Gai as well, and said flatteringly, "No, I didn't do anything, I just waited for food in front of this righteous house." ”

"Is that really it?" Magai sneered.

Before Cai Huangya could speak, some people in the surrounding crowd angrily counted his evil deeds.

"County lieutenant, this guy saw that he was late, and he refused to line up honestly, wanting to occupy the position of the mother and daughter......"

"He's still beating people, county lieutenant, take him to jail."

"What's it called? Tired of living? ”

Hearing this, Cai Huangya's eyes widened and he roared towards the crowd.

Seeing this, Ma Gai stepped forward and grabbed Cai Huangya's clothes, leaned forward slightly, stared at the beads of his eyes and said, "How dare you be so arrogant in front of me?" I think I've learned less, don't you? ”

"Don't dare, don't dare ......"

Cai Huangya was not afraid, and explained with a smile: "The county lieutenant clearly saw that it was not a small trouble, the villain was just in a hurry, and ran away and pulled a bubble of, who knew that there was no place after coming back, then of course I was not convinced, County Lieutenant Ma, you can't arrest me for this, right?" ”

"What do you say about beatings?" Ma Gai asked coldly.

Cai Huangya immediately quibbled: "Where did the villain beat people?" ”

"Then why did the woman sit on the ground?"

"Oh my God, county lieutenant, I'm not related to that mother-in-law, can I blame her for falling to the ground? So, don't believe me asked her. As he spoke, Cai Huangya faced the woman and asked, "That mother-in-law, in front of the county lieutenant Ma, you made your words clear, did I beat you?" ”

Looking at the ferocious eyes of Cai Huangya and his companion, the woman looked frightened, hugged her daughter tightly and did not dare to speak.

Cai Huangya smiled proudly, but at this time, the farmer holding the hoe said, "You just started beating people!" ”

Cai Huangya looked at the other party viciously, and then smiled: "You said that if you beat someone, you will beat someone?" Do you have proof? It's all from the villagers, don't look up and look down, don't talk nonsense......"

"Who the are you scaring about?"

A county guard behind Ma Gai couldn't stand it anymore, stepped forward and grabbed the placket of Cai Huangya's clothes, and said to Ma Gai: "County lieutenant, what do you think of letting this kid eat in prison for a few days?" ”

Before Ma Gai could speak, he saw that Cai Huangya said indifferently: "Catch it, catch it, anyway, there is food in the prison, although the food here in Yishe is not bad, but it is all vegetarian, and the food in the prison is still a little fishy......"

"You guy!"

Seeing that this guy was so arrogant, several county officials were a little angry.

I have to say that in the face of Cai Huangya's hob meat, Rao is Ma Gai also felt a little headache.

And at this moment, Chen Cai walked out of the righteous house with a few thieves and shouted, "What's the matter? ”

"Steward Chen."

"It's Steward Chen."

It's funny to say, when the crowd saw Chen Cai, it was as if they had found the backbone.

Sure enough, it's the bastards......

In the crowd, Ma Gai looked at Chen Cai deadly, his face changed slightly.

He may not be able to recognize the rest of the bandits, but how could he not recognize Chen Cai?

At this time, Chen Cai also saw Ma Gai, different from Ma Gai with a gloomy face, Chen Cai showed a somewhat inexplicable smile on his face, and greeted with a smile: "This is not ...... The county lieutenant. ”

…… Darn!

Ma Gai scolded secretly, but on the surface, he had to talk to Chen Cai with a pleasant face: "You are the steward of this righteous house?" ”

"Hey."

Seeing that Ma Gai deliberately pretended not to know himself, Chen Cai smiled, and an unknown refreshment surged in his heart.

Of course, he was not so stupid as to get carried away, he arched his hand in a proper manner and said: "No, it is the steward of the righteous house, and he is in charge of the affairs of the righteous house under the order of my master......

Speaking of this, he glanced at Cai Huangya and the crowd and asked, "What's going on?" ”

It is also strange to say that everyone who was originally frightened by Cai Huangya did not dare to speak out, and immediately opened their mouths to accuse the former and the two of them of evil deeds.

After listening to everyone's story, Chen Cai slowly walked up to Cai Huangya and asked lightly, "Is that you?" Causing trouble here? …… You bastards, you just can't learn well, right? Do you know what happened to the last guy who caused trouble in front of my Black Tiger Righteous House? ”

Maybe he had heard some rumors, so Cai Huangya took a step back with some fear, and immediately, he glanced at Ma Gai beside him, puffed up his chest, and said with an indifferent face: "Steward Chen, right?" Lieutenant Ma is here, what do you want? ”

"The county lieutenant is here, isn't he?"

Chen Cai chuckled, and immediately, he grabbed Cai Huangya's hair violently, pressed his head hard, and at the same time, he raised his right knee and hit Cai Huangya's jaw hard with a knee.

"Ahh

Hearing only a scream, Cai Huangya immediately sat on the ground with a mouth full of blood.

"You ......" His companion was full of anger and wanted to rush over, but Chen Cai just glanced at him fiercely and scared him into stepping forward.

"Humph!" With a cold snort, Chen grabbed Cai Huangya's hair and dragged the latter up from the ground.

"That's enough." Ma Gai reached out and grabbed Chen Cai's arm, and said meaningfully: "Don't ...... Overdone. ”

"What is the county governor referring to?" Chen Cai asked deliberately.

"......" Ma Gai narrowed his eyes and looked at Chen Cai.

Seeing this, Chen Cai chuckled, let go of Cai Huang's teeth, only to see him kick the latter, and said coldly: "For the sake of the county captain's face...... Get lost! ”

Watching Cai Huangya and the others flee in fear, the crowd was stunned, and looked at Chen Cai with respect and awe, but immediately, the crowd erupted into cheers, as if justice had been carried out.

"Ashamed, ashamed."

Chen Cai smiled and hugged his fists at the crowd.

You guys...... Do you really know who you're cheering for?

Looking at the crowd of people with happy faces around him, and seeing the woman and her daughter sincerely thank Chen Cai, Ma Gai's heart was very entangled.

In addition to the entanglement, the uneasiness in his heart became more and more intense.

Black Tiger Thief ......

It's becoming less and less like a bunch of bandits.