After sitting down and taking a sip of tea, Hu San said to Zhou Tong in a deep voice: "Uncle Zhou has been fighting with Bai Shouhu in the past few days, and the Hu family knows about it, but the Hu family's village in the mountains was burned down by Bai Shouhu a few days ago, you don't know yet, right?" ”

Zhou Tong sat up when he heard the voice: "Really? How is it burned? ”

Hu San smiled bitterly: "It's the little seventeen's village, the Bai family touched the one hundred and ten elites, and the wall of the five watches was turned over, and it was burned through by dawn, and only seven of the more than forty people in the stockade ran away." ”

Zhou Tong and Chen Huoding glanced at each other, and Chen Huoding said with certainty: "The Bai family has strong reinforcements, and there are a lot more faces in the past few days, all of which can be killed. ”

Steward Hu nodded: "Hu San is here for this matter today, do you still remember Bai Shouye?" ”

Chu Jianli slapped him a few seconds later: "Isn't it the third child of the Bai family, I didn't see the old man Bai when he died of illness?" ”

"The third master has a good memory, this matter is a long story, and my master also got the letter the day before yesterday, let me talk about it in detail."

Steward Hu took another sip of tea, and as soon as he raised his voice, he slowly told the story of Bai Shouye......

After Bai Shouhu inherited the Bai family's business as the eldest son, the third son, Bai Shouye, left Baijiazhuang and did not die by the roadside, but under the pseudonym Bai Qi, he went all the way to the Taihu Lake bandits to worship the door and join the gang. This Bai family may have the passive talent of being a strongman, and Bai Qi has succeeded in fighting in Taihu Lake in just a few years and has become the leader of a group of thieves.

Originally, Bai Qi was his water king in Taihu Lake, and he had nothing to do with the mountain kings in western Zhejiang. Who knew that this Bai Qi was still young and too ambitious, and after taking the position, he successively engaged in several big projects, robbing officials and silver, tying up salt merchants, and being in the limelight for a while.

It's a pity that the good times never last long, and Bai Qi has never read Mao Xuan, so he doesn't know how powerful the united front is. This head of Bai is drinking in a big bowl, the official salt merchants and the water bandits have begun to work intensively, a month ago, the government was written, the merchants would make money, the water bandits jointly swept away, Bai Qi had a strong enemy outside, and there were hidden piles inside, and in just three days, the gang of 400 people disappeared......

After the defeat of Bai Qibai Shouye on the same day, the government went to sea to catch papers, and the Taihu bandits chased and killed, but they were really desperate, so they could only take dozens of henchmen and fine soft, abandon the shore and land, and cross the mountains and counties to join their eldest brother.

It was only after the Hu family was burned down that they received a letter from relatives in Suzhou Prefecture, coupled with the sea fishing documents sent by the official, that they gave Bai Qi's details.

At this point in the story, Steward Hu stopped drinking tea.

A few people sitting suddenly realized, Chu Jianli patted the armrest of the seat: "This is against the mouth of the falcon, it turns out that Bai Da is the stock of Bai San." ”

Chen Huoding also said slowly: "Well, the people are also right." ”

Zhou Tong coughed at this time: "Steward Hu came to report the news hard, I thank you here first, this is the situation now, what kind of regulations does your lord have, let's assign it, let's discuss it together." ”

Hu San put down the tea bowl in his hand, but still didn't answer positively: "Bai Qi is Bai Shouye, or did he arrest Bai Qi's cronies over there and torture him." At present, the government can't count on it, and a hundred and ten thieves can't work on military horses. My master's mind is also simple, this Bai family brothers are joining forces, the momentum is soaring, the villagers naturally can't sit idly by, and now while his foothold is not stable, everyone will work together to pull out this thorn, and it will be clean in the future. ”

Zhou Tong drooped his eyelids, holding the tea bowl, without raising his head, and three words popped out of his mouth: "How to pull out?" ”

Steward Hu said slowly: "Let the villagers take action first, all the heroes only need to recuperate, my lord plans to post a meeting, and everyone will send food everywhere, gather five or seven hundred Ding Zhuang to come out, surround on all sides, and beat the people released by the Bai family first." ”

Seeing that Zhou Tong didn't react, half of Hu San's face twitched: "When the village is broken, heroes from all walks of life must contribute, you will contribute some manpower, and the miscellaneous work will not be bothered, and the grain and grass will be prepared."

Zhou Tong looked down at the tea bowl, didn't say a word, and after a while, three words popped out, "What about afterwards?" ”

"Zhuangzi burned it down, the inside was fine and soft, and the heroes from all walks of life were divided according to the amount of effort, and the Hu family only needed the heads of the big and small leaders, and Zhang Bang wanted to take them."

When Zhou Tong heard this, he was obviously a little impatient, and put the tea bowl on the table: "The brothers are exchanging their lives for silver, how is this different from what was discussed in the past?" ”

Hu San was not a little impatient: "Uncle Zhou may have forgotten, the first few times we discussed, the Hu family wanted to occupy Baizhuang afterwards, and you didn't want the Hu family to get a dangerous place, so they couldn't talk about it after all." This time, as long as the Hu family has a head, what do you still care? ”

Zhou Tong sneered: "That Baijiazhuang is steep, and now there is help, how much is enough for the brothers?" The head of the white guard household is easy to take, your five or seven hundred Ding Zhuang has already succeeded, and you still have to come to me to talk about it! ”

When Steward Hu heard this, he finally sank his face: "Hu San went over the mountain and walked the path to worship the mountain yesterday, and you haven't been to Lin'an Hangzhou for many years, right?" This Baijiazhuang is stuck in the middle of everyone, and everyone who is blocked at the moment can't move, and after a while, you don't say business, I think it's difficult to go down the mountain, Uncle Zhou is still thoughtful. ”

After Zhou Tong listened, he didn't say anything, leaned back with a gloomy face, and the scene became quiet.

At this moment, an unexpected person, Cao Chuan, suddenly sat up, raised his hand and said, "Slow." ”

Steward Hu was very surprised, the boy in front of him didn't say a word from beginning to end, just smiled lightly, drank tea and ate pine nuts, with a light and breezy attitude, why did he suddenly speak?

Chen Huoding and a few people were also very surprised, according to the rules, this kind of key scene of talking about major events can only be the master, a few of them sat and listened, and then discussed it together afterwards, never thought that this Mr. Cao would intervene.

Zhou Tong was even more surprised, seeing that Cao Chuan didn't know what to say, Cao Chuan didn't care so much, stood up and arched his hand to Hu San: "Steward Hu went up the mountain overnight, and he was also tired, so it is better to go down and rest first, and then talk about it." ”

After speaking, Cao Chuan turned his head and looked at Zhou Tong with a smile. Things are already like this, what else can Zhou Tong do, he can only nod and call Zhao Si to come over and send Steward Hu to the guest room.

Hu San stood up and walked a few steps, stopped and turned around and said another sentence: "That Bai Qiguang is a salt merchant, and he will get four hundred taels of gold, which is not counting the official silver that has been robbed, you ......" Speaking of this, Hu San arched his hand and turned his head.

Seeing Steward Hu go away, Cao Chuan sat down, rubbed his chin for a while, and suddenly asked: "Lin'an County is in the east, right, this Baijiazhuang is in the middle, can't everyone get by?" ”

Cao Chuan has nothing to do these days, and has been thinking about a question: what should he do next in the Ming Dynasty?