In ancient times, there were natural disasters and man-made disasters, such as floods, droughts, locust tides, etc., and man-made disasters were wars and thieves.

The reason why thieves are spurned and disgusted is mainly because of their cruel methods and indiscriminate killing of innocents.

Historically, thieves have invaded villages, most of them like locusts crossing the border, and they have killed the men in the village, robbed the village of food rations and women, burned down the village, and did all kinds of evil.

But the Ying mountain thieves 'Yang Tong and his gang' are still thieves with a bit of a bottom line, and the reason is that there is a second village owner Chen Mo inside.

Even the group of fierce bandits under Yang Tong's hands did not dare to continue to slaughter in front of Chen Mo, especially since Chen Mo had already taught a 'forbidden' bandit a lesson.

But then again, even if you don't kill people and don't burn houses, you still have to rob the food that should be robbed.

Under the supervision of Yang Tong, Chen Mo, and Wang Qing, a group of thieves drove the villagers to a vacant lot in the village, and then went door to door to collect money and grain.

Millet and wheat are all put into wooden barrels and carried away, and chickens, ducks, pigs, cattle and other poultry and livestock are also caught and pulled away.

Seeing this, the village chief of Feng Village trembled with a cane and begged Yang Tong: "King, you don't leave any rations for the village, how should the hundreds of people in the village live?" ”

In the face of the old village chief's plea, Yang Tong and the thieves under him were indifferent, and even some thieves pushed the old man away: "Old man, don't toast and don't eat and drink, for the sake of the face of the second village master, if we don't kill people or burn down the house, we will ask you to borrow some food and poultry, so you still want to mutter?" Be careful with me...... I ......"

The thief glanced at Chen Mo in the distance, and swallowed back the second half of the sentence in a daze.

The old man of Fengxiang was forced to sigh and return to the villagers, and watched the gang of bandits loot with the villagers.

At this time, Zhao Yu came to Yang Tong's side and called softly: "Lord Dazhai." ”

Yang Tong glanced back at Zhao Yu, and a slight smile appeared on his gloomy face: "It's you kid, you don't go to move things, but you're lazy here?" ”

That being said, but the tone of the lord of the big village was still relatively polite, probably because Zhao Yu had just lifted the siege for him, which made him have a little good impression of Zhao Yu.

Although I don't know how long this good impression can last, at the moment, Yang Tong is relatively polite to Zhao Yu.

This is also the reason why Zhao Yu is ready to strike while the iron is hot, he glanced at the group of thieves who were moving things, and said in a low voice: "Dazhai master, are we going to empty all the grain in this village?" ”

Hearing this, Yang Tong frowned, turned his head to look at Zhao Yu, and said casually, "Do you think they are pitiful?" Hum! I'll tell you what it means to be pitiful, we can't eat, that's what it's called pitiful! …… Do you think these people will give food then? ”

"No, it won't."

Zhao Yu shook his head and said as he liked: "My brother and I went to the cottage last winter, before we went to the cottage, we went all the way from Luyang to Yexian and then to Kunyang, no one took pity on my brother along the way, and was willing to take in my brother, only the cottage ......"

Yang Tong was quite satisfied with these words.

At this time, Zhao Yu changed his words and said: "Dazhai master, I don't pity them, just like the second village master, I just think that we shouldn't kill the chicken that can lay eggs in order to eat a bite of meat...... Now at the beginning of April, the grain seeds have just been planted, and if we rob the village of all the rations, these people will surely starve to death. In order to survive, these people will definitely flee and flee to the county and become refugees, so that the fields here will be wasted and the villages will be deserted. Of course, we can rob another village, but over time, there will inevitably be fewer and fewer villages that can be looted for us, and when the people in those villages abandon the village and flee, who else can we rob? ”

“……”

Yang Tong glanced at Zhao Yu in surprise, feeling that it was not easy for a teenager to say these words.

"And what do you say?" He casually asked, "Leave them some rations?" ”

Zhao Yu nodded and said: "The master of Dazhai is wise, as long as there is still a way to live, these people will not abandon the village and become refugees, so that we will come back every few months before we can gain something." It's not just rations, I don't think there's any point in robbing the village of money, so why do we want money? Can we still go to the county seat to squander? It's better to leave it to this village, and keep them to buy food, or exchange it for something else...... Killing the chickens can certainly eat the meat, but the next meal will not be settled, leaving the chickens that can only lay eggs, we have chickens to collect every day. ”

"Hmm......"

Yang Tong frowned and pondered.

What the kid next to him said made sense, but as a thief, he let go of the food in vain, which made him a little entangled.

As if seeing Yang Tong's hesitation, Zhao Yu said in a low voice: "Of course, there is no reason for us to give up the grain in vain, but we can 'lend' these villagers so that they can survive, and when the harvest is this year, we will take it back exponentially......

Hearing this, Yang Tong's face was moved, he looked at Zhao Yu in surprise, and praised him: "This is a good idea!" …… Tsk, boy, look at your young age, your heart is really evil, 'borrow' the food you stole from this village and then 'borrow' this village, hahaha! Good boy, born to be a thief! ”

"You're a natural thief!"

Zhao Yu scolded secretly, but his face did not show any clues.

However, at this moment, he suddenly saw Yang Tong squinting his eyes and asked, "Boy, I heard that your two brothers were brought up the mountain by Chen Mo?" Why didn't you tell Chen Mo about this? ”

As soon as he heard this, Zhao Yu guessed that Yang Tong had already inquired about his details from the rest of the thieves, and he did not hesitate, and said with a natural face: "You are the big master of the village, of course I want to tell you." ”

This natural reason made Yang Tong feel very good when he heard it, and he saw him looking Zhao Yu up and down, nodded and said: "Boy, you are very smart, different from ordinary children, are you willing to follow Yang in the future?" ”

These words hit Zhao Yu's heart, and Zhao Yu immediately showed joy: "Of course I do!" …… Thank you Dazhai master. ”

"Okay."

Yang Tong was very satisfied with Zhao Yu's attitude, waved his hand and said to a thief next to him: "Please come over with the second and third masters, and say, I have something important to discuss with them." ”

"Okay, boss."

After a while, Yang Tong sent someone to invite Chen Mo and Wang Qing, and he told Zhao Yu about his suggestion, which made Chen Mo and Wang Qing both surprised.

Chen Mo frowned and looked at Zhao Yu with a confused expression.

Zhao Yu's suggestion is of course good, as a bandit who still has a bottom line, in fact, Chen Mo can't bear to snatch all the rations in the village - in the past, he took a bunch of bandits to the nearby villages to loot, and he would not rob them all.

But this time, the cottage is in urgent need of food, and besides, he is out with Yang Tong and Wang Qing, so he is naturally not easy to stop some things.

You must know that he has already said that they are here to grab grain, not to kill people, since they are to steal grain, how can they persuade these bandits to leave some grain in the village?

However, what Chen Mo didn't expect was that what he couldn't do, someone helped him do it.

Although Zhao Yu's suggestion is also very 'vicious', and lending the grain stolen from Feng Village to the village in turn is simply bad to the limit, but in any case, the people in this village at least have food to spend their days, and in general it is still good.

Therefore, Chen Mo did not object to Zhao Yu's suggestion, he frowned because Zhao Yu was standing behind Yang Tong at the moment.

To confirm his suspicions, he asked, "Who came up with the idea?" ”

"It's this little brother."

I saw Yang Tong, who was sitting on the wooden pier, turned sideways when he heard this, patted the arm of Zhao Yu, who was standing behind him, and immediately said to Chen Mo with a smile: "Chen Mo, I heard that you brought this little brother and his younger brother up the mountain?" Ha! You've done another good thing, this kid was born to be a thief! ”

“……”

Chen Mo looked at Zhao Yu expressionlessly.

The more Yang Tong praised Zhao Yu, the more ugly his face became, faintly with a bit of anger, and his gaze staring at Zhao Yu became sharper and sharper, as if there was a kind of 'angry and indisputable'.

From the side, Wang Qing also looked at Zhao Yu with interest, and suddenly grinned: "Boy, you dare to fool me?" ”

It turned out that in view of the fact that Zhao Yu relieved Yang Tong and Chen Mo from the siege, so that Wang Qing could not see a good show, Wang Qingyuan would teach Zhao Yu a lesson afterwards, but at that time Zhao Yu was very witty and pretended to be ignorant, Wang Qing saw that he was young, so he gave up, waved his hand and told this kid to get out.

Originally, Wang Qing didn't think anything about it, but now after listening to Yang Tongyi, he realized that this kid was far smarter than children of the same age, and he reacted immediately: he was just fooled by this kid.

Seeing that Wang Qing was angry with himself, Zhao Yu immediately apologized: "The master of Sanzhai is angry, I didn't mean to fool the master of Sanzhai, but the master of Sanzhai blamed me at the time, and my small body can't afford to punch and kick the master of Sanzhai casually, I am afraid that I will be in a hurry, so I have to do it." ”

In the process of Zhao Yu telling the cause of the whole incident, Yang Tong also understood how Zhao Yu 'offended' Wang Qing.

It's okay not to mention it, as soon as he mentioned this matter, Yang Tong was angry with Wang Qing in his heart: If this kid hadn't fanned the flames at that time, wouldn't he and Chen Mo have been able to get off the stage?

Thinking of this, Yang Tong stretched out his hand to stop Zhao Yu behind him, looked at Wang Qing and said in a deep voice: "Our little brother has already apologized to you, and that incident didn't start because of him, for my sake, how about sparing him?" …… You spare him, there are some things, just treat them as if they never happened, Chen Mo, what do you say? ”

"......" Chen Mo looked directly at Zhao Yu, and then glanced at Wang Qing, although he didn't speak, he had already expressed his attitude.

Of course, Wang Qing understood the meaning of Yang Tong's words, touched his chin and said with a smile: "Boss Yang, why are you so serious? I didn't say what I wanted to do to this kid, I just thought this kid was kind of funny......"

"That's good."

Yang Tong nodded, and asked again, "Then what do you think of this little brother's proposal?" ”

"Yes." Chen Mo endured the unhappiness of Zhao Yu in his heart and nodded.

From the side, Wang Qing also spread his hands: "The practice of smart people." ”

Seeing that Chen Mo and Wang Qing had no objections, Yang Tong immediately sent someone to call the village chief of Feng Village to negotiate with him.

When he learned the content of the negotiations, the village chief of Feng Village couldn't help but be a little stunned.

These bandits are actually going to 'lend' the grain they have stolen from their village and then 'lend' them in turn......

He'd lived his whole life and had never encountered anything like this.