Chapter 369: Pot King Contest (Part II)
The three bandits soon went home and called out to their own people.
After a little counting, there were 166 people in total.
The black woman has the most people, she can give birth by herself, and she has also caught a lot of men and women over the years, plus after a long time, she is full of the benefits of Shanhai County.
After a few spies went to the county to inquire a little and learned that the county order had left with Hu Zhong a few days ago, everyone was more relieved.
"Hu Zhong is not in the city, so it will be much easier to deal with." Ma Lanfang is still very jealous of Hu Zhong.
Hu Zhong's fame is mainly concentrated in the Yanshan Lake generation, and there are some people who know this person in the nearby edge of Jinshan County, the grassland area of Tianmu County, and the mountainous area of Shanhai County.
Shanton said: "Yes, if he is here, we will not be able to do it." ”
Hei Pozi didn't know Hu Zhong so well, and said with a smile: "He's just alone, and now he is still a dog for the official family, what is there to be afraid of this kind of person!" ”
Ma Lanfang explained: "That's not what I said, this person knows a lot of people, whether it is the horse thief in Jinshan or the officers and soldiers of Tianmu County, he can speak, and he has a good relationship with the people of the Yanwang tribe, if we offend him, it will be a lot of trouble." ”
Shan Ton said: "No matter how much, he and the dog officer are not here, it is just convenient for us, and when the scouts come back, we will set off!" ”
More than a hundred people gathered near the valley, which was a remote place at the foot of the mountain, and not next to the road, so no one else passed.
The three of them waited and soon saw a young man on horseback running quickly.
"King!"
The little minion quickly stopped three meters away from the team, and hurriedly said: "It has been investigated, and there is no problem from this road to the county seat!" ”
The little minion said happily: "This Shanhai County is different now, I saw a stall selling porridge and salty buns on the road, and the two old men were cooking there, and they used iron pots for cooking!" ”
Shanton became even more excited when he heard this, and quickly said, "Okay! Little ones! When you're ready, give me a rush! ”
The black woman also raised the big knife in her hand, "Children! Rush! Grab the pot! Grab the food! Rob a woman! ”
"Rush!" Ma Lanfang's legs kicked violently in the horse's belly, and quickly followed the few people in front.
The more than 100 of them were not going on an outing, and this robbery was to arrive in the county before the rest of them could react, and then quickly loot home.
Of course, it is impossible to go to the food stalls to eat on the way...... Whoever stepped on the horse stopped to eat when he was charging halfway
Anyone who sees them, unless they are running fast, as long as they are not too far on the road, will be killed by these horse thieves to prevent them from running back and reporting in advance.
Once the people in the county prepared in advance, the robbery efficiency of the more than 100 people would be low, and they could only bully those scattered people outside the village.
Everywhere you are, at least in this era, people prefer to live in places where populations are concentrated, and houses in the wilderness are either haunted houses or black shops.
At this time, the two men who opened a food stall in the wilderness are just hard to say.
Guo Shujiu sat on the small bench peeling edamame, and said absentmindedly: "Brother Tao, you said that it was almost noon, why did you come and go alone, there was not even a ghost else, did that person not take it seriously?"
Lao Tao was washing the dishes, and just now there was a kid who ran away after drinking a bowl of porridge in a hurry, and ran away without giving him the money for the meal.
If it weren't for Lao Tao being doing something big now and not wanting to cause trouble, he would have to cripple that kid's dogleg!
Lao Tao said calmly: "Take your time, don't rush." ”
Guo Shujiu nodded, but he was still a little uneasy, looking at the direction of the mountain from time to time, like an old father who was worried about his son at home.
In fact, Tao Kun was also a little unconvinced, wondering if he had done it too hard and beat people to death
It's impossible, I've been with each other for so long, and I can't go wrong with my hands!
The people who learn martial arts in Heishui County are basically cut off, and under the high-pressure policy of the imperial court and the job provided by Wang Lanling, many people have no time to learn and practice martial arts.
Wouldn't it be nice to go to a restaurant after work every day to eat some side dishes and drink some wine
Except for the kung fu of running and flying off the wall, the rest of the kung fu has gradually lost its use, whether it is the conflict between the time required to learn martial arts and cultural lessons, or the fact that people will be wary of learning martial arts, all of which have caused a fault line among the younger generation of masters.
If Hu Wangxiang had followed Wang Lanling a few years earlier, he would not have had time to practice martial arts.
Hu Guiqiao has fallen a lot behind in kung fu, he is busy with official business every day, and when he was in Heishui County, he exercised at most, and did not have time to exercise and polish his muscles and bones for a long time.
For example, since Zhao Wenrou had Lord Xiao Wang, he basically abandoned his martial arts, and he only occasionally stretched his hands and feet after ten days and half a month.
Although the foundation is still there and the body is good, it is indeed not as good as the peak period a few years ago.
A place like Heishui County, which has a serious military atmosphere, has been suppressed to this point, let alone Muzhou.
The old people in Heishui County are not dead yet, and although there are not many young people who know martial arts, there are still some.
There are far fewer in Muzhou, and no one living in the city will pass on their martial arts.
Many martial arts are equivalent to identity, and once someone finds out what genre the martial arts moves belong to, they can be traced back to many things.
So in order not to cause trouble for yourself and your family, you have to endure being bullied.
In this case, of course, it is impossible to pass on martial arts, let alone let your family know that you know about martial arts.
There is also the rise of guns and gunpowder, but this is not the main reason, the main reason is the empire's suppression of the martial arts sect.
Martial arts masters who are caught will be severely punished.
In short, it is to take out the strength of suppressing the underworld to suppress those martial arts masters.
Except for the people used by the emperor himself, there are very few places where a large number of martial arts masters will be used as thugs, even if it is the Jiang family.
Especially in the inland areas of Longzhou and Tongzhou, these people have to be reported, and whoever hires this kind of master at home must be registered.
What kind of martial arts you use, what you do in the house, whether there are any successors, where you are told, and where you have been recently, these must be registered.
If Wang Lanling goes to Tongzhou and Longzhou to develop, 90% of his subordinates will not be able to get by.
These people are very aggrieved, Lao Tao can't practice martial arts on the surface, for fear of being discovered, so when he is aggrieved, he uses the kung fu in his hands on the dough, and over the years, the craftsmanship has become more and more exquisite.
So Lao Tao was very sure that he didn't beat that man to death.
Then why hasn't he come yet?
I didn't hear what I said
This hurts the child, why are the ears so blind!
Lao Tao was very anxious, and after thinking about it carefully, he felt that he was not confident at all, and the other party did not necessarily really take the dream talk seriously.
Just when Lao Tao was sighing and anxious in his heart, Guo Shujiu, who was picking beans next to him, looked into the distance in surprise.
"It's coming! Here it comes! They're coming! ”
Lao Guo was shocked, and after looking at it, he suddenly became happy, and said happily: "Sure enough, it is not what I expected!" Hurry up and follow the plan! Pay attention to the vernacular spoken here! ”
"Good!" Guo Shujiu also became serious, and the time to become famous is today.
Both looked at the rider running on the dirt road in the distance and quickly realized that something was wrong.
"Why are there so many people, is this really a horse thief" Guo Shujiu was a little unconfident again, in case these people were not horse thieves, but people who took refuge in Wang Lanling, it would be boring.
Lao Tao was also a little muttered when Guo Shujiu said this.
"No, no, you don't see that these people are not good people, they must be horse thieves!"
Lao Tao comforted himself, hoping that these people were horse thieves, but he ignored the objective factor of quantity.
After the two sides approached, Lao Tao, the thunderbolt of the mountain, quickly walked to the road happily and shouted loudly: "Uncle! Eat porridge no"
咴儿咴咴儿...... Several horse thieves quickly approached the place on horseback, and surrounded the old man who nodded and smiled politely.
De'er rode up to the old man, and after glancing at the old cook with a flattering smile, he looked at the iron pot and the stone pot outside the straw shed.
"Hey!" Shan Ton laughed, "This broken county town hasn't come for a while, so the rich put the pot outside and burned it, hehehe!" ”
Shanton's subordinates quickly asked: "King, what to do with these two people?"
When Lao Tao heard it, he hurriedly said: "I have good cooking skills, and everyone who makes porridge and salty buns say it's good, uncle, you can taste it."
Although there were some people, Lao Tao still wanted to feed the drugged salted buns to these people.
There is no poison in porridge, because if you put something in light porridge, it is easy to be perceived, and salty buns have a strong flavor and are easy to cover up the taste.
What is professional, this is professional!
"Kill! Take the pot with you when you get back! Shan Ton obviously had no idea of waste utilization, and at this time pointed the rifle with the metal tip at Lao Tao, "Stinky old man, try Uncle Ben's spear thrust!." ”
Bullets are very expensive things, and they are troublesome to reload, so if you usually kill people, you still have to fight with bayonets.
Just because they are bandits, they must be more frugal.
Riding on a tall horse, this man of one hundred and dozens of pounds, at this time held the butt of the rifle in his hand with one hand, and stabbed the bayonet into the motionless ordinary person.
It's like being beaten, most of the time, untrained people don't know how to hide, even if they are pierced with a bayonet, they will only endure it.
However, Heishui County has always been a simple people.
Lao Tao's brain was blank, what he was thinking about was to give these people steamed buns, and then he would make a great contribution.
You see that the plan and the future are all thought out after success, why is this process wrong?
After seeing the bayonet fixed on the barrel close to him, Lao Tao didn't think too much about it in his mind at all, he directly stretched out his left hand, which had beaten tens of thousands of catties of dough, and firmly grasped the metal barrel of the rifle.
Shanton's spear was held by Lao Tao with one hand, and he tried to break free, but found that it was like it was stuck in a crack in the stone, and he couldn't get it out.
Shan Ton yelled angrily: "Hey! You still dare to block it! Let go! Let it go! You hillbilly old man! ”
Lao Tao has always been a person with lofty ideals, and after being said by this person to be a hillbilly, he immediately became angry.
At this time, the surrounding minions were all looking at this side, and after seeing that the old man's body was as stable as a wooden stake, the black woman realized that this was a martial arts master!
"Do it! Shoot! The black woman shouted decisively.
How can a martial arts master still be able to block bullets!
The master of the sect at the beginning of the black woman, those people who jumped in the air were beaten into dead birds by rows of bullets.
Lao Tao didn't think about these many factors at this time, but thought that he might have to achieve nothing again, and he suddenly became even more angry.
"You're a fucking kid!!"
Lao Tao roared angrily, and slammed the man on the horse towards him with one hand, and the unprecedented anger and unwillingness drove him to concentrate all his strength on the palm of his right hand, and slammed the palm on the chest of the mountain man who flew towards him.
Shan Ton was dragged directly from the horse's back by a strong force, and before he could react, he suddenly felt a burst in his chest, and a flood of blood pressure rushed from his chest to his whole body.
"Poof!"
The two-meter-long blood flew out of Shanton's mouth, his eyes were about to bulge out, and the place under him was also wet and smelly!
The scene fell silent......
The horses moved away in fright, while the rest of the group stared at the dead body that had been beaten to the ground.
Lao Tao looked at his palm blankly, he didn't seem to have moved it for more than 20 years......
Oh...... It turns out that he can still beat people to death with one palm......
Guo Shujiu was the first to react, he suddenly kicked the iron pot next to him, and kicked all the hot porridge in the pot towards those horse thieves.
"Brother Tao! Come on! ”
Guo Shujiu shouted, and then quickly ran out towards the cornfield in the distance.
Although it was after the autumn harvest, there were still a lot of straw and other debris in the corn field, and there was a pit on the periphery of the field, and the inside of the field was not flat, but deep and shallow, so humans were much faster than horses in this kind of field terrain.
Lao Tao quickly reacted, and under the cover of a pot of hot porridge, his body bent down suddenly, and he flew out directly from under a horse's belly like a dog planing!
In just a few seconds, Lao Tao distanced himself from the people behind him, and even if the few little minions who reacted at this time shot, they couldn't hit Lao Tao, who ran faster than a dog.
After running for more than ten meters on all fours, Lao Tao quickly changed to a two-foot running posture after jumping to the empty field where the harvest had been completed, and quickly ran out of range with his body tilted.
These masters in Heishui County are extremely difficult to guard, and some of them are even elites who escaped from the repeated encirclement and suppression of the martial arts sect by the imperial court army.
The two quickly ran into the back of the haystack, and then ran to the left and right respectively, passing to Shanhai County from different directions.
To deal with this kind of particularly slippery, particularly spineless martial arts people, the role of the imperial court army is much weaker, and these martial arts masters who do not fight in the front are far from being able to deal with dozens or hundreds of people.
Because of the relationship between Lao Tao and Lao Guo running very fast, the bandits who fired a few shots didn't have time to chase after them, everyone looked at the corpses on the ground, you look at me, I look at you.
Ma Lanfang looked at the miserable death, and really couldn't understand why this person died.
"This ...... What do I do next?"
The black woman can see it, in their era, it was very common for people to die because of some small things.
Hei Pozi said: "Those two don't look like people from Shanhai County, but this matter can't be left like this, the mountain lamb died here, let's take the body of the mountain lamb and go to the people of Shanhai County to ask for an explanation!" ”
When the second leader of Shanton's gang heard this, he shouted loudly: "Yes! I want to ask the people of Shanhai County for an explanation! If he doesn't give us an explanation, don't blame us for being rude! ”
When the rest of the people heard that someone was taking the lead, they also shouted, "Avenge the king!" ”
"Revenge! Avenge the king! ”
The black woman is going to make a decision in the Xianshui Palace today, and at this time she raised her hand and shouted: "Children! Walk! We must seek justice for the Lamb of the Mountain today! ”
So, the gang of horse thieves took the corpses of their companions and went to the people of the county town to ask for an explanation.
This is actually very common in places where banditry is rampant...... Reasonable.
It is not yet certain who this pot will be.