Du Youliang ran back to the county seat with a few cronies, but his hundreds of men and horses were attacked by a group of masked thieves.

As soon as the hundreds of villagers heard the shouts of killing and the thunderous hooves of horses, they threw down their weapons and fled in all directions.

The thieves didn't chase and kill those villagers, but only stared at a barely neat, well-equipped and commanded group of people rushing to kill.

That group of people is the Du family's nursing home, they have been trained for a long time, and they have also beaten a small group of bandits and bandits, so they are naturally not so flustered, but they have also become targets because of this.

The thief killed with a round of javelins and a charge, and more than forty courtyards were all lying down.

Immediately afterwards, the thieves began to drive away the fleeing Xiangyong from the north, shouting and killing in the direction of Lou Fu Town in the south.

The townsmen were almost frightened, spread their legs and ran wildly, and fled for half an hour, when another cavalry suddenly appeared in front.

About a hundred horsemen, shouting "Lou Fu patrol Lord Qin is ordered to exterminate the thieves", while crossing the trembling Xiang Yong, and killing the thieves chasing behind.

Only one of them rushed to kill, and the gang of thieves fled.

Lord Qin symbolically chased for a short while, and then led a hundred horsemen to gather back all the fleeing villagers, blaming himself and saying that he was late.

Then, Lord Qin said that there were still thieves in the vicinity, so let those villagers go back to Jingyou Town to clean up and follow him to Loufu Town to settle down, only there is safety.

On top of that, there's sweet yellow rice porridge and piping hot broth.

In the past, the Du family always said that Qin Chuan, who was annoying, was a bandit leader, who burned, killed and looted all kinds of evil, and also occupied the magpie's nest, wearing the skin of the inspector and the chief steward of the Meng family to bring disaster to the township.

But now the villagers feel that Lord Qin does not seem to be the kind of person the Du family said.

At least he didn't kill innocents indiscriminately, and he had to take them to Lou to avoid trouble.

Escorted by Lord Qin, the villagers returned to Jingyou Town, and they were surprised to find that the gang of thieves had not robbed their home.

Their houses, their belongings, and even their soft livestock are still there.

So, they happily packed up everything they could bring and followed Lord Qin to Lou Fu.

When they arrived, they were surprised to find that most of the villagers who were quietly traveling were here, there were five or six hundred people, including their families, neighbors, and so on.

There are also dozens of cauldrons boiling with yellow rice porridge and broth, and hundreds of newly dug nests.

The patrol envoy, Lord Qin, led one or two hundred soldiers and horses, riding tall horses to patrol the neighborhood to protect their safety.

Soon, thousands of villagers in Jingyou Town were gobbling up sweet yellow rice porridge and hot broth, while thanking Lord Qin, who loved the people like a son.

The next morning, Lord Qin was still sleeping, and the work of relocating the villagers was handed over to Wang Jizong.

Mr. Wang is a well-known talent, most of the villagers who travel quietly recognize him and convince him, and it is much more convenient for the villagers to speak and do things.

Wang Jizong asked some of the villagers to go back to Jingyou Town to clean up the belongings that had been left behind, and the other part dug another 300 nests with the help of the villagers of Lou Fu.

Lord Qin said that the thieves would go to Jingyou to find the Du family to extort food recently, but the place was still not safe, and the villagers of Jingyou had to live in Lou for ten days and half a month.

During this period, Mengjiazhuang will provide three meals a day for free, two thin and one dry, at the cost of the villagers having to go to work and dig ponds to repair water conservancy.

A thousand villagers have to eat ten stone of grain every day, and it is more than 100 stone in half a month, and Qinchuan now has a total of more than 11,000 stone of grain, which can still be raised.

Among the villagers who returned to Jingyou to clean up their belongings, some of them secretly went into Dujiazhuang, wanting to find some missing belongings, or move a few tables and chairs, and take a few pots and pots and cans.

But as soon as they entered, they were dumbfounded: the originally splendid Dujiazhuang had become a ruin.

Almost all the objects that could be moved in the Zhuangzi, including tables, chairs, stools, clay pots, stone grinders, etc., were gone.

Even, most of the houses in Zhuangzi have been demolished, the beams and columns in the houses have disappeared, the doors and window lattices, etc., have disappeared completely, and even the rafters have disappeared a lot.

When other villagers heard the news, they gathered around in amazement in front of the ruins.

That gang of thieves is really ruthless, it's not enough to rob people's money and food, and they also demolished people's houses, even the doors and windows.

At this moment, a newly built greenhouse in the Black Mountain Mine, which was intended to be used to store pig iron, was full of tables, chairs, benches, clay cylinders, stone grinders, and many girders, beams, columns, rafters, and so on.

Hundreds of miners and a hundred Guan Emperor troops slept everywhere.

Last night, they demolished the house all night, and they were really tired.

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Jingle County, Zhixian Yamen.

He Changbao paced back and forth in the study, irritable.

Dozens of old and young women and children of the Du family came to the gate of the county government early in the morning, knelt there and cried, shouting injustice, saying that the thief from Lou Fu Mengjiazhuang had ransacked their Du family, arrested more than 30 young people in their family, and asked him, the head of a county, to send troops to exterminate Lou Fu Mengjiazhuang.

When He Changbao heard the news, he jumped up in shock, and hurriedly sent the official to Jingyou to check if it was true.

Not long ago, the official came back and said that Jingyou Town was empty, hundreds of villagers were nowhere to be found, and Dujiazhuang was in ruins, and everything that could be moved inside had been removed.

There were a mess of ruts and horseshoe prints on the west side of Jingyou, which stretched in the direction of Black Mountain, and it was estimated that the number of the gang of thieves was not less than five hundred.

The officials did not dare to chase in, so they only had the courage to go to Lou Fu, and from a distance they saw a lot of nests dug next to the town, where thousands of villagers were arranging pots and pans and other household goods, and dozens of cauldrons were set up next to them, as if they were cooking.

The official waited nearby for a long time, and finally came across an old peasant who came out to graze his sheep and graze, and when he asked, the old peasant told him what had happened last night.

After listening to the return of the servant, He Changbao's two eyebrows were twisted together.

Is this really done by the surnamed Qin?

The gang of thieves came from the northwest, and the leader called himself Wang Gang of the Three Cliffs.

Before the incident, the surnamed Qin extorted a batch of grain from the Du family, and at the time of the incident, he was slowly inspecting the grain, as if he was deliberately delaying time.

The gang of thieves only robbed the Du family's property, and did not even let go of the wooden beams of the doors and windows, but they did not move the stitches and threads of ordinary villagers, and some of the villagers did not have time to take away the pigs, sheep, mules and horses in the livestock pens, but they did not lose a single head.

The thief asked the Du family for 2,000 stone of grain, obviously knowing the Du family's movements well, and knew that the Du family had a batch of grain in the county seat.

The thieves first forced Du Youliang to retreat, and then quietly caught up and attacked and killed at night, killing more than 40 courtyards, but more than 400 Xiangyong were safe and sound.

The surnamed Qin gathered thousands of villagers in Jingyou Town, provided them with food, and asked them to help dig a pond and repair a reservoir.

Before that, he had been gathering the hearts of the people in Loufu Town, taking in the hungry people, and leading the villagers to build water conservancy.

All kinds of indications show that the matter of Dujiazhuang is related to the newly appointed inspection envoy.

One of them is unreasonable: the surnamed Qin has obviously trained 800 Xiangyong, why can that gang of thieves still bypass Mengjiazhuang, go to Jingyou to rob a big family, and then pull the money and return to the three cliffs from Montenegro around Mengjiazhuang unharmed?

It doesn't make sense.

Even Emperor Guan Mountain Guo Yan was destroyed by the surname Qin, how could he let Wang Gangbao pass through his territory in a grand manner.

However, is it really done by the surname Qin?

What is his purpose in doing this?

Could it be that he has been colluding with bandits and causing trouble to the township?

Or, he wants to raise a bandit with self-respect, or even ...... Or even want to rebel?

Thinking of this, He Changbao was shocked, and when he saw Chen Congzhi next to him, his brows were also tightly knit and his face was solemn, so he knew that this matter was difficult to do.

And no matter whether this thing was done by the surnamed Qin, or whether the three cliff kings had just done it, he, the magistrate, was inseparable.

Whether it is surnamed Qin or the three cliffs Wang Gang, it is not something he can deal with, the former is strong and strong, and the latter occupies the natural danger, and it is impossible to defeat without an army of three or five thousand.

Not to mention three thousand, even three hundred, he may not be able to make it up.

Unless...... Those gentry are willing to help.

When he was irritable, a servant said cautiously outside the door: "My lord, there is a group of people outside who ask to see your lordship, there are several squires from this county, as well as people from several wealthy families in Lan County, and the master of the Wu family is also here." ”

When He Changbao heard this, his eyes suddenly lit up.

"Hurry, hurry, please."