Crooked Mouth Mountain is located in the northeast direction of the Yellow River beach, and you can reach Zuoyi City by crossing this mountain. Further north of Zuoyi City is the city of Beimeng.

The Yellow River flows from west to east, passing through Crooked Mouth Mountain and Zuoyi City, and diverges out of a river, which is called the Crooked Mouth River by the locals, which means that the Yellow River has a crooked mouth.

The river stretched to Linhe City and joined the Yellow River again, and most of the residents of Zuoyi City and Linhe City lived and irrigated their crops with water from the Crooked Mouth River.

During the flood season of the Yellow River last year, the Weizui River also flooded, and half of the farmland in Zuoyi City was flooded, and all the millet at the good end was soaked in water and deteriorated.

The paddy on many paddy fields fell off and sprouted when the flood season receded.

The peasants whose rice fields were flooded by the flood had no crops and no food to eat, so many of them went to the fields and cut the rice seedlings to satisfy their hunger.

However, the people who live in Zuoyi City do not worry about eating and drinking, after all, due to this catastrophe, the granary in the city has to be opened to put grain.

It's just that the little grain in the granary in the city is just a drop in the bucket, except for those nobles and landlords who have surplus food, the ordinary people are almost hungry.

Moreover, those greedy landlords, not to mention taking the opportunity to raise the price of grain, also dressed up as disaster victims and blended in.

Normally, a family of three would receive one liter of relief food a day, but these landlords colluded with some greedy officials to count all the people in the family, and one landlord took away 20 liters a day, and gave up a lot of disaster relief food. As a result, the government has less and less food, less and less food that can be used for disaster relief, and more and more food for these landlords' families.

The people in the city could not survive, and many people joined the ranks of the people outside the city to harvest rice seedlings to satisfy their hunger.

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And the people of the city called them rice people, and when they saw them, they all retreated, for fear that they would ask them for food.

When the rice seedlings first sprouted, they could be eaten, but after a long time, they grew, and the leaves turned yellow, so naturally they could not be eaten.

At the end of October last year, a man named He Yuankai among the rice people suggested that everyone go to the gate of Zuoyi City to ask for food, and soon received a response from all the rice people, and nearly 200,000 people came to the city gate and begged the government to give them some food and a way to live.

The government decree of Zuoyi City did not appease it, but declared it a chaotic people, called it a rice thief, and dispatched a large army to suppress it.

These people originally belonged to Zuoyi City, and they never thought that the Lord of the Mansion would actually raise the butcher's knife and aim it at them.

How could these unarmed and hungry people be able to defeat a well-trained and strong army? However, in only three days, 200,000 people, except for a few who escaped with quick hands and feet, the rest were killed by cold-blooded and ruthless soldiers.

However, the government decree of Zuoyi City said that this incident was that someone gathered a crowd to rebel, and it was all due to his proper command that he was able to protect Zuoyi City and annihilate 200,000 rebels.

For such things, it happened in various places in Great Xia. Ming didn't have time to care about it at all, and he didn't investigate carefully, so he casually wrote a letter of commendation and rewarded him with some gold and silver.

And the bandits on Crooked Mouth Mountain are these rice people who escaped.

They had no way to escape, so they went into the mountains and found a place to rest on them. Fortunately, there are some wild fruits in the mountains, and they can also hunt some prey, so that they will not starve to death.

Later, after a stockade was built in the mountains, it was proposed to rob passing caravans.

So, they robbed a caravan from Linhe to Ningdu and got a lot of supplies.

This caravan had more than a dozen carts of supplies, enough for them to live for a long time, and when they had food, they did not go down the mountain to plunder again.

By the end of this year's Chinese New Year, the dozen or so truckloads of supplies were about to bottom out, so someone suggested that they loot again.

The inquirer learned that a town was being built at the foot of the mountain, so he set his sights on the town of Huanghetan, and so what happened today happened.

At this time, in the crooked mouth mountain cottage, a bearded man sat on a tiger skin chair, and several big men sat on the left and right.

"Big boss, I don't think this town is easy to mess with, today thanks to the light shot, we won! What if they send another master? Someone spoke to the bearded man.

The bearded man's name is He Yuanxuan, and he is He Yuankai's younger brother. In the massacre in Zuoyi City, he fled into the mountains with less than a hundred rice people, and became bandits. Because his prestige was the highest among the group, he became a great leader.

Although He Yuanxuan is five big and three thick, his head is quite flexible, otherwise he would not have escaped the massacre.

He frowned, sighed, and said, "But there is not much to eat in the cottage." It's winter, and all the prey in the mountains is hiding, and we can't catch any more prey. These days, I heard that something big happened in Ningdu, so there are no passing caravans. We're going to have to go down to this town, or we'll all starve to death. ”

He is talking about the problems faced by the cottages at the moment, and they only have this way to survive at the moment. In this era of human life, life is their only pursuit. As for others, what will happen to them where they care!

The whole hall was silent.

"Mr. Yang, you take someone down tomorrow. Then give them an ultimatum, and if they don't give money, they can pay for it with food. He Yuanxuan said to one of them as if he had made up his mind.

"Okay."

At this moment, a man walked into the hall and said, "Great boss, someone from the town down the mountain!" ”

He Yuan stood up in a swirling manner and asked, "How many people are here?" ”

Although he is just an ordinary person, he also knows the saying "When two countries are at war, they will not be killed." ”

This morning, someone from the town below the mountain refused to pay the money, so he wanted to teach the people a lesson, but there were so many people in this room, and none of them was anyone's opponent. You have to rely on light and agile shots to defeat it!

However, he started lightly, but he was not light or heavy, and he accidentally injured others.

Now that the town has sent someone over again, it must be to avenge that person, and he regrets a little why he didn't kill him ruthlessly at that time.

Well, now that they're coming to the door again, this time they're definitely going to be even more powerful.

He knew very well the situation in the town below the mountain, there were at least a hundred thousand people. He only has a hundred people here, how can he be someone's opponent?

"Alone." The messenger said.

"Huh? How much do you say? He Yuanxuan was a little suspicious that he had heard it wrong, why was there only one person here? No matter how powerful you are, you won't be an opponent of more than a hundred people

"It's a man, a big boss." The man replied repeatedly.

"You're not mistaken, are you? Is there really only one person? Is there someone secretly hiding behind him? Another thin man in the hall asked incredulously.

"No, it's just one person, three masters. Our brothers have been watching that town, and when that person left the town, he came out alone, without a single person with him. We watched him come to the stockade! ”

"That's weird!" He Yuanxuan frowned, "You bring people up the mountain for me!" ”

The person who came over this time was Xu Xiang, and he came alone.

Yang Dianfeng's complexion improved a lot after Lu Tianyao poured some internal strength into him, and the doctor from Ningdu City also came to see it, as long as he rested for a period of time, he would recover, and the stone in his heart fell.

Although Yang Dianfeng is fine, this matter still has to be resolved.

So, he single-handedly came to the crooked mouth mountain.

After waiting at the bottom of the mountain for a while, bandits came and led him into the mountain, while still blindfolded.

Although he was blindfolded, he was an excellent special soldier, and the feeling of the battlefield was still there, and he had memorized the way up the mountain in his mind, which was blindfolded, not much different from not being blindfolded.

The man who led him up the hill stopped, untied the black cloth that blindfolded him, and before his eyes appeared a wooden village built from a cave.

Now they stopped at the gate of the stockade, and at the gate stood two men on the left and on the right, each holding in his hand a sickle, the same kind used to cut rice.

When he entered the stockade, he saw dozens of people inside, busy with their business, some skinning wild beasts, some boiling water, and some chopping wood.

If it weren't for the fact that some men with scythes stood in two columns, he would have thought he had come to an ordinary village.

Judging from the equipment of these bandits, they should not be serious bandits, and they don't even have a decent knife. Moreover, what Xu Xiang saw from the faces of each of them was not the kind of ruthless villain, but like the kind of victim who was forced to take up arms.

When he was brought to the hall, he saw a bearded man sitting on top of him, with one foot on a tiger skin chair, and on the tea table beside him was a mountain knife, sharpened to a very sharp point, and a red cloth was tied to the end of the knife, which was about to be dirty and black.

"The big boss, someone brought it."

"Alright, you go down first." He Yuanxuan waved his hand at the bandit.

"Presumably you are the master of He Da of Crooked Mouth Mountain?" Xu Xiang said with a hint of a smile.

"Who are you?" He Yuanxuan picked his ears with his little finger and asked nonchalantly.

"I'm from the town on the beach of the Yellow River down the mountain." Xu Xiang replied truthfully.

"You dare to come to my cottage single-handedly, which can be regarded as a bit of guts. What do you think? Did you bring the silver? ”

"What? Didn't Master He invite me to sit down? Xu Xiang asked.

"Hey, that's a nuisance! There's a stool there, sit down. He Yuanxuan casually pointed to the low bench at the door and said.

Xu Xiang looked at the stool at the door, it was a very low stool, if you sat on it, it would be no different from sitting on the ground. He Yuanxuan asked him to sit on this kind of stool, which was a typical insult.

"Huh...... It turns out that this is the hospitality in the village of He Da's family. Since this is the case, then Xu will leave! Xu Xiang sneered, turned around and walked out directly.

"Stop!" Immediately at the gate, two bandits with scythes appeared, staring at him fiercely and blocking his way.

"Do you come when you want to come and leave when you want to be in our cottage?" Another big man got up and said loudly, Xu Xiang felt that his ears were about to be blown up.

He turned around and asked calmly, "Does the boss want me to go?" ”

"No silver, you rest and leave!" He already regretted letting Yang Dianfeng and the others go down the mountain before, but now that Xu Xiang is here, he can't let him leave so easily.

"It's okay if I don't leave, then let's consume it! Anyway, if I stay in the cottage, I will have one more mouth to eat. Xu Xiang said fearlessly.

Hearing this, He Yuanxuan was stunned, he didn't expect Xu Xiang to say such a thing!

He hadn't thought about how to deal with it yet, after all, they weren't really cold-blooded and ruthless bandits, and they still had some conscience in their hearts, and they didn't dare to kill someone. The last time I plundered the caravan, I didn't hurt a single person, and I let them all go.

But if you don't kill him, people can't help but give him something to eat if they stay in the cottage, right? This is to watch a person starve to death, he is not as cold-blooded as those officials, he can't do it.

"Go, get a stool." He Yuanxuan said to the people around him.

This time, they got a decent chair, which they made from their own trees, and they had a bit of craftsmanship.

Xu Xiang sat down, and He Yuanxuan spoke, "What's your name?" What's the matter with coming up the mountain? ”

"In Xiaxu Changsha, the town under the mountain is what I am responsible for building." Xu Xiang replied, "This time I came to discuss the matter of mining stones in the king's pass, and I specially came to discuss with the big bosses. ”

"Oh? How to negotiate it? ”

Xu Xiang took out a stack of silver tickets from his arms, all of which were denominations of ten taels, about three hundred taels. Everyone, including He Yuanxuan, had a scorching glow in their eyes after seeing the silver ticket.

"I don't know, how much silver does the big boss want?" Xu Xiang asked leisurely.

"The more the merrier, of course! Only...... That's all you have! That's it! With all this silver, I won't bother you when you quarry stones in Junshan Pass in the future! "He Yuanxuan should have a few hundred taels of silver tickets when he sees them, he is just an ordinary person, he has never seen ten taels of money, where has he seen so much money.

"These silver tickets can be given to you. But I have one request. Xu Xiang shook the silver ticket and said.

"What are the requirements? Whatever you ask, I'll give you a promise! He Yuanxuan hurriedly said.

"Oh?" Xu Xiang smiled slightly, "In that case, I have to talk to the big boss." ”

"You say."

"The big boss said that this Junshan Pass is your territory, and I don't refute this. We quarry, and you have to collect the money, and I agree with that. ”

"I've always been in charge of this town! So I didn't get the money to the big boss in time at that time, which was my fault. ”

Hearing Xu Xiang say this, He Yuanxuan was a little embarrassed, after all, they wanted silver, and it was completely a robbery! But with the silver in front of him, he naturally can't care about his face.

"Well said, well said! Young Master Xu, you can send the silver now, so naturally we won't care. He Yuanxuan didn't notice that his current address to Xu Xiang had changed unconsciously.

"Hmmm! It's good that the big boss can understand! Xu Xiang nodded, and he took the initiative in this negotiation with three hundred taels of silver.

"So...... I brought the silver to the great masters. Xu Xiang's tone changed, "Then, my subordinates were injured by the big boss, and they were very seriously injured!" ”

"What if...... The big boss, who can hand over the person who injured my men, these silvers are the big bosses. ”

Hearing this, He Yuanxuan's face changed.

"So, that's what you're asking for?"