In the blink of an eye, it was the second year that Zhao Yu spent in Black Tiger Village.

In the morning, while Jingnu was cleaning the house, Zhao Yu lay on the couch with his hands on his pillow to reflect on the harvest of the year.

In terms of status, he has become one of the leaders in the cottage from a miscellaneous boy who was not even a formal bandit in the Black Tiger Village's gang - although he has no power in his hands so far, and he has not obeyed his subordinates around him, but considering that ordinary bandits dare not provoke him, he can be regarded as a leader.

In terms of connections, for some reason, he is only close to two people for the time being, one is Guo Da and the other is Niu Heng.

Guo Da doesn't need to say much, he is not only Zhao Yu's 'internal decision' team, but also the key person for him to replace Yang Tong, because only with Guo Da's acquiescence, Zhao Yu can let the 'old school' Yang Tong and his gang obey him at that time.

Therefore, Zhao Yu paid great attention to the relationship with Guo Da, and in order to restore his friendship with Guo Da a while ago, he also took the risk of resisting Liu Heimu's overtures, but fortunately, Liu Heimu also knew the stakes and did not hate him because of this.

If Guo Da is the target of Zhao Yu's deliberate envelopment, then Niu Heng, this person can almost be said to have come up by himself, and he didn't let Zhao Yu spend any effort.

On the same day, after Zhao Yu resisted Liu Hei's overture, not only Guo Da was very moved, but he came to visit Zhao Yu with wine and food that night, and drank with Zhao Yu for a night, and the next day, even Niu Heng ran over, gave a thumbs up and praised Zhao Yu for being a brother and righteous enough.

After all, Niu Heng hates Liu Heimu deeply, and in this Black Tiger Village, the person Niu Heng hates the most now is probably that Liu Heimu.

Since then, Guo Da and Niu Heng will gather in Zhao Yu's house from time to time, or go to Guo Da's house, and the three of them will get together to drink a little wine, and they will gossip a few sentences one by one.

At the beginning, Niu Heng complained the most, and the object of his initial complaints also involved Liu Heimu.

But gradually, Niu Heng began to complain about Yang Tong's favoritism.

At first, Guo Da would interrupt Niu Heng and remind Niu Heng, but as the things in the village he was responsible for were gradually shared by Liu Heimu, Zhang Feng, Chu Jiao and others, he gradually remained silent in Niu Heng's words about Yang Tong.

Such an obvious weather vane, Zhao Yu naturally would not miss it, he swore to Guo Da: "Where is Brother Guo Da, where is my Zhou Hu!" ”

These words of expression made Guo Da quite moved, and also made Niu Heng have a better impression of Zhao Yu.

After all, Guo Da and Niu Heng have not had a good time recently.

With the acquiescence of Yang Tong, the 'defection faction' headed by Liu Heimu, Zhang Feng, Chu Jiao and others gradually began to occupy the position of the 'old faction' headed by Guo Da and Niu Heng.

Those defectors didn't dare to provoke Chen Mo and Wang Qing, after all, Wang Qing had already put down his cruel words in that Juyi Hall that day, who dared to reach into their bowls to fight for food, reach out to chop their hands, reach out to chop their heads, that arrogance was simply arrogant, however, because these two people used the Ma Gai incident as a threat, Yang Tong did not dare to touch them.

And when Yang Tong didn't dare to support it, how could the owners of the defection faction dare to do something to Chen Mo and Wang Qing?

It is under this premise that the old school led by Guo Da and Niu Heng has become a sacrifice in the struggle for power and has become the most vulnerable group in the entire cottage.

The reason for this is nothing more than that Guo Da, as a leading figure, was gradually reduced by Yang Tong to be in charge of matters - which is tantamount to weakening Guo Da's authority in disguise.

Guo Da's authority originally came from Yang Tong, but now that Yang Tong is gradually taking it back, Guo Da has no choice.

No, to be exact, Guo Da is not without a choice, because he can still use the last resort, that is, to threaten Yang Tong like Chen Mo and Wang Qing, after all, Guo Da knows far more secrets than Chen Mo and Wang Qing.

But in doing so, Guo Da was equivalent to completely tearing his face with Yang Tong, and the brotherhood of more than ten years disappeared in an instant.

Therefore, Guo Da did not do this, he chose to endure silently, hoping that Yang Tong would be able to figure out a way one day.

But endure silently, it does not mean that the heart is calm, seeing that Guo Da has gradually stopped Niu Heng's complaints about Yang Tong recently, I know that he is gradually dissatisfied with Yang Tong, and the 'iron triangle' composed of Yang Tong, Guo Da, and Niu Heng may have quietly collapsed.

And what Zhao Yu had to do was to seize every opportunity to further deepen Guo Da and Niu Heng's dissatisfaction with Yang Tong, until the two led their subordinates to break away from Yang Tong's gang and stand on their own.

Around the clock, Jingnu almost cleaned the house, so Zhao Yu took her to the room.

Because of the arrival of the defection faction, there have also been some changes in the room, originally the room was ruled by Zhu Wang, the 'leper head', and now, there are a few more people in charge in the room, Zhu Wang gradually lost the right to speak, and even the days with Deng Bai, Deng Song, and Ning Niang were sad - this should have been the case, but fortunately, thanks to Zhao Yu, the few thieves who defected to the faction in the room also recognized Zhao Yu, and saw that Zhao Yu had a very good relationship with Zhu Wang, Deng Bai, Deng Song, Ning Niang and others, and he didn't dare to embarrass them.

It's no wonder, after all, Zhao Yu's status in Black Tiger Village is indeed quite special, at first glance he has no power in his hands, but basically everything Yang Tong has to ask Zhao Yu's opinion, even if Yang Tong is gradually starting to swell now, and he has gradually stopped obeying Zhao Yu's words, he will first ask Zhao Yu's opinion.

At noon, a banquet was also held in the cottage to celebrate the New Year.

Some people may find it strange, do these unkempt bandits also value the removal of the year?

Of course not, in fact that's just a name.

A small banquet on the fifth day and a big banquet on the tenth day, this is a true portrayal of this group of bandits.

On the same day, in another big house where the banquet was held, the leaders of the Black Tiger Village gathered in one place.

At first glance, it looks happy, but if you look closely, it is not difficult to find that the people in the house can obviously be divided into four groups, a group of defectors led by Liu Heimu and Chu Jiao, a group of Chen Mo and Wang Qing, and a group of small groups of old schools led by Guo Da, Niu Heng, and Zhao Yu.

As for the last remaining group, that is Yang Tong's subordinates, such as Zhu Cheng and Sun Yan, who strictly monitored Zhao Yu at the beginning.

Because of the gradual estrangement of Yang Tong and Guo Da, the thieves under them also gradually became estranged, and the Yang Tong faction began to drink with the defectors, while the henchmen under Guo Da and Niu Heng formed their own faction, drinking their own and not contacting any force outside the circle.

And this is the best portrayal of the current forces in the Black Tiger Village, which seems to be in a balanced situation, but in fact there is an undercurrent.

The next year is the beginning of spring, and the restoration of the old village continues in the village.

Liu Heimu was responsible for this matter, Guo Da and Zhao Yu were not involved, and Liu Heimu probably felt that the old village was not conducive to defense, so he didn't spend too much energy, so he did it casually, maybe he felt that after April, as soon as the Kunyang officers and soldiers came, it would be difficult for this old village to be burned again.

Anyway, it's going to be burned, what to do with more energy?

I don't know if the old village that this guy repaired was so broken that Wang Qing, who originally planned to grab the owner of the village with him, frowned and left after looking around, and later did not ask Yang Tong to move to the old village as the owner of the village.

Even, even Liu Heimu himself was not very satisfied.

Eventually, the old village became a temporary base for the bandits who were responsible for plundering caravans down the mountain.

During this time, Zhao Yu and Guo Da were in charge of repairing mountain roads.

The repair of the mountain road is to prepare for the construction of the sub-village in the future, which both Yang Tong and the rest of the village owners know, but considering that repairing the mountain road is tiring and unprofitable, it is too late for others to hide, and no one comes to rob Guo Da.

It is not difficult to see from this point that Guo Da's status in the cottage and in Yang Tong's heart are far inferior to the beginning, but on the surface, Yang Tong still calls Guo Da a brother and brother, and even talked to Guo Da several times, hoping that Guo Da will understand him.

Every time Guo Da was called by Yang Tong to have a private conversation, Zhao Yu would always ask Guo Da afterwards.

At first, Guo Da was still very pleased with Yang Tong, and answered Zhao Yu with a smile several times, but when Zhao Yu asked again after a while, Guo Da only had a faint smile.

I'm afraid this smile is still on Zhao Yu's face.

Once, when Guo Da came back, he was angry, and when Zhao Yu asked him the reason, he said the reason with an indignant face: "I don't know who slandered him in front of him, as soon as I passed, he asked me if I planned to defect to Chen Mo and Wang Qing, and then ...... Forget it, don't mention it! ”

At that time, Zhao Yu knew that the brotherly relationship between Yang Tong and Guo Da for more than ten years was probably already weak to the extent of a piece of paper.

As long as there is an opportunity, reach out and poke, poof, this layer of paper-like feelings may be pierced.

But even so, Yang Tong and Guo Da still maintain this relationship that is comparable to tissue paper.

It's not surprising, after all, Guo Da's status in the cottage really needs to rely on Yang Tong, and Yang Tong obviously plans to use Guo Da again - not to mention that Guo Da still has Zhao Yu on his side.

Losing two boosts at once, and giving him advice, I don't think Yang Tong will swell to this point.

In late February, Chen Zu sent several people to the Black Tiger Village.

Needless to ask, these people must have come to urge the two cents.

Under the instruction of Yang Tong, Liu Heimu came forward to receive those people, and after some bitter remarks, those people were embarrassed to urge again, and they were sent away by Liu Heimu in a daze.

Two days later, Chen Zu sent someone over again, and Liu Heimu tried to send it away again.

As of mid-March, Chen Zu sent people six times, but all six times were perfunctory by Liu Heimu, and Heihuzhai did not give Chen Zu a clear answer.

On 19 March, in a fit of rage, Chen Zu led his brothers down the mountain and plundered a caravan.

This suddenly broke the tacit understanding between the Ying bandits and the passing caravans.

I have to say that the robbed caravan, his master was also bold, ran to the foot of the Black Tiger Village Mountain, fearful and angry to ask the truth.

The thieves under the Black Tiger Village didn't know anything about it, and hurriedly reported it to Yang Tong.

And Yang Tong was overjoyed when he learned about this, and he waited for a few months just to wait for Chen Zu to take the lead in breaking the established rules.

He immediately summoned all the leaders in the cottage in the Juyi Hall to denounce Chen Zu's evil deeds, and discussed leading the crowd to crusade against Chen Zu on the grounds that 'Chen Zu broke the rules and harmed the interests of the Black Tiger Village'.