Robbers often raid at the foot of a mountain or in the jungle.

Such terrain is convenient for concealment and easy to escape.

After Xia Houan overturned more than a dozen robbers who blocked the road and robbed, he also learned a lot of advanced robbery experience.

Again, with multiple technologies in hand, there will be multiple ways out in the future.

On this day, the three of Xiahou'an dismounted, and after entering Hangu Pass, they mixed in with a group of civilians who had returned to their hometowns.

This team was about fifty or sixty people, mostly old people, and many of them were young and strong, each carrying a bag on their backs, and most of them were wearing linen clothes and straw shoes, which was the lowest level of civilian clothing.

Xia Hou'an thought at first that they were a certain clan relocation, but after inquiry, he learned that these people didn't know each other at all, and they walked in groups to prevent robbers from looting.

The three of Xiahou'an want to join the gang, they are extremely welcome, of course, the more people, the better.

Knowing that Xiahou'an was a scholar who had read books, the eyes of these people immediately changed, and when they spoke, they all used honorific titles.

They subconsciously believe that people who have read books have a great chance of becoming officials.

Different classes naturally carry awe.

In the team, there is a thin coffin.

A young man named Du Ji was pushing and walking, and it contained the spirit of his stepmother.

Du Ji's hometown is in Jingzhao Duling, and he took refuge in Jingzhou before. When the stepmother died, she wanted to be buried in her hometown, so Du Ji rushed all the way to Guanzhong.

Near noon, everyone came to the foot of a mountain, where the team rested and ate to replenish their strength.

"If I were a robber, I would definitely choose to ambush here, surrounded on three sides, with mountains behind me, and none of the people here would want to escape..."

Xia Hou'an, who was nibbling on the cake, expressed his experience.

Xu Chu didn't make a sound, just ate the cake.

Whatever the lord says, it's what it is.

Cao Ang squatted down, and there was no shelf to simply bandage some old people whose feet were bleeding, and he was praised by everyone.

Before the bread was finished, a gang of thieves came out of the forest at the foot of the mountain.

About thirty people, each with a sharp blade in their hands, surrounded them viciously, and the fierceness in their eyes was like looking at a lamb to the slaughter.

"Hand over all of them, otherwise, none of them will want to leave alive!" The thieves were arrogant, and said viciously in a tone that could not be ignored.

The people in the team panicked, although there were more people than the other party, but they couldn't stand the thief with a guy in his hand.

If you really put it together, they don't have any good fruit to eat.

If I had known, I should not have gathered at the foot of this mountain to rest.

At this point, my intestines are all repentant.

"Zhong Kang, you say, do I have a future as a dry mountain bandit?"

Everyone panicked, but Xia Hou'an finished eating the cake in a hurry, stood up, put his hands in fists crossed on his chest, only put his thumb up, and smiled at the thief: "Friends on the line, the little brother is new to the springboard, and I am together."

The thief was stunned for a moment, but he didn't expect that there were people in the crowd. So in the same way, he returned a salute: "It turned out to be side by side, and the buds said ten thousand."

Side by side are friends, and Bud is a teenager.

"It's easy to say, it's easy to say, carry the handle in Lower Causeway Bay."

Xiahou An's posture was changed to clenching his fists, and he said it in a decent way.

The thief was suspicious, obviously he had never heard of this name.

At this time, Xia Hou'an said again: "The lantern is a little higher, this is the yellow grass kiln."

Meaning, these are poor people who don't have money.

The people didn't understand it, but they also knew that it was black talk.

Unexpectedly, there is a traitor among us!

The civilians in the team even began to suspect that it was the group of bandits contacted by Xia Hou'an, and the respect for him in their hearts turned into hatred.

Since ancient times, moles have been the most hateful.

The thief leader couldn't figure out the details of Xiahou An, but since they all ate this bowl of rice, they were barely peers, so they said that they could let him go, but they had to leave a horse as a meeting gift.

Of the three horses, he only needs one, and the thief leader feels that he still has enough face for this bud.

Xiahou An nodded yes, and asked Xu Chu and Cao Ang to lead the horse forward, which horse do you want, and let the thief leader pick it.

Seeing that this young man knew each other, the thief's face softened a lot, and he stepped forward and wanted to take away Xu Chu's gray mane. Xia Hou'an licked the corners of his mouth, and said with a smile, "Shoulder to shoulder, I'm a little thirsty, bring a bowl of water to everyone to drink!"

Hearing this, the thief leader's face changed suddenly, and before he could react, Cao Ang killed the thief leader with a sword.

When the other thieves saw that the boss was killed, they picked up the guy and wanted to pounce on him for revenge, but they were killed by Xu Chu in three or five clicks and fled.

After solving this gang of robbers, Xiahou An came over and said calmly to the people: "You don't need to panic, it's fine, rest for a while, let's go on our way."

The people who were still scolding Xiahou'an for being a traitor in their hearts just now were ashamed and ashamed, and they knelt down and kowtowed one after another: "I'll wait to thank Gongzi for saving his life!"

"Guys, this is what you are doing, you can do it, you can do it!"

Xiahou An stepped forward to help the kneeling people, indicating that it was a trivial matter.

As for the black words he said, he learned them along the way and tried the effect.

Now it seems that it is working well.

After resting, the team set off anew.

After the incident, Xia Houan also went from the edge 0B to become the leader of the team.

Someone asked him curiously: "Young Master Xiahou, you just said to drink a bowl of water, why did that gang of thieves suddenly turn their faces?"

Xiahou An didn't say anything about this, and said with a smile: "Maybe this gang of thieves is too poor to afford a bowl of water!"

The people laughed, and the road was full of joy.

With Xiahou'an and the three of them in charge, the robbers along the way almost came and sent as many as they wanted, plus they continued to gather the people along the way, and when they arrived in Xinfeng County, Guanzhong, this homecoming team had reached the scale of thousands of people.

Out of Xinfeng, Xiahouan and the people parted ways.

The people were very reluctant.

Xiahouan said that there was no way, because he had to go straight to Chang'an, and these people had to cross the river to the north and return to their hometown.

Before that, the people had persuaded him many times not to go to Chang'an, because the national thief Dong Zhuo was there, although these people had never seen Dong Zhuo himself, but from other places, he was a big devil who killed innocents indiscriminately.

It is enough to see from the corpses of the displaced people abandoned along the way.

Speaking of the corpses of the homeless, after Xiahou'an had enough manpower, he began to slowly bury the bodies of the homeless people on the way, because after the corpses rotted and smelled, in the hot summer, the plague would break out.

At that time, more people will die.

Xiahouan thought so.

But in the eyes of the people, this kind of big and selfless behavior is undoubtedly a model of benevolence, and the admiration and respect for Xiahou'an in his heart has directly reached a new level.

At the time of separation, the people were reluctant.

Xiahou An waved goodbye, and after watching the people cross the river, he turned around his horse, looked at the flat and open eight hundred miles of Qinchuan in front of him, and galloped his horse.

Thousands of miles away!