"More than 24,000 dollars!?"

Heifu was stunned by this "astronomical figure".

Obediently, this can be exchanged for ten pairs of good armor. Converted into millet, it is more than 300 stones, nearly 20,000 catties!

But it's right to think about it, the government of kings, don't rush thieves. Qin Law, like its predecessor, the Book of Laws, ranked first in the law of catching thieves, because thieves were rampant on the road, which would cause great damage to social security. Nanjun Taishou was saddened by this situation in the official document, so it was reasonable to encourage officials and people to catch thieves with heavy rewards.

Now Heifu is a little beautiful, if everything is as Ji Ying said, he will change from a poor soldier who has nothing to become a 10,000-yuan household in the Qin State.

However, he noticed that Ji Ying looked at the three thieves' eager eyes, and a thought flashed in his heart, so he smiled and said, "Ji Ying, what you said is not right. ”

"What's wrong?" Ji Ying was stunned.

Heifu said: "Obviously, you and I were murdered by thieves on the road, so we will arrest them together, and you should have a share of this credit!" ”

"I ......" Ji Ying was a little speechless, he just regretted a little, why didn't he take down the thief who confronted him, and he was also a little jealous of Heifu's good luck, but he was embarrassed to mention the credit. Because these three thieves were all taken down by Heifu by himself! He just watched from the sidelines, and didn't do anything to help.

Heifu didn't think so: "Thanks to you holding back a thief, otherwise the four of them would have swarmed up, and I would have been dead by the side of the road at this moment." ”

"I can't stand it."

Ji Ying blushed and wanted to excuse himself, but Heifu had already paid attention, patted him and said, "We can also live and die together, this wealth should be shared!" ”

This can move Ji Ying so much, he opened his mouth several times, swallowed it back, and only after half a sound did he slam at Heifu: "Heifu, from today on, I, Ji Ying, will treat you as a brother!" Whoever is useful to get me, let it be! ”

Heifu hurriedly helped him up, in Heifu's opinion, although this Ji Ying is a little worse and has a lot of mouth, he is not bad, especially when he did not run away when he was in trouble. So Heifu thinks that this friend is worth making, and if he can get one of them, maybe he can really use it in the future.

Moreover, the husband is not guilty, and he is responsible, and Heifu has received such a great reward alone, and he is also a little uneasy in his heart. Relying on him alone, he can't watch the three of them at the same time, so it's better to have multiple conspirators to escort the thief together. Anyway, minus one, the remaining two can also give him a reward of more than 16,000 dollars, which is enough.

With this money, even if he joined the army a few years later, Heifu didn't have to write home to ask his mother for money and clothes, and the gears of his fate were also pried a little bit.

During the time when the two of them gave in to each other, two of the three thieves were screaming in pain, but the bearded man who was tied up suddenly burst into laughter.

"Hahahaha!"

He laughed so violently that his saliva flowed onto his beard, as if he had seen the biggest joke in the world, and wanted to laugh out loud.

Ji Ying was furious, went over and kicked him hard, and scolded: "Thief, what's so funny!" ”

The bearded man raised his head and grinned: "What I laugh at is that I didn't expect me to be so valuable, why did I live for more than thirty years and never know?" “

Heifu and Ji Ying were stunned, and the bearded man chattered endlessly: "My name is Pan, and like you, I was also a soldier of the Qin State, Wu Liangmin, and I never left the county for half a step, until one day, the government recruited me to enlist in the army, so I set off in rags, I was in an urgent mood, and I thought that I could cut a few heads to get a knight, in the glorious township, who would have ......"

"Who would have thought that you would find that the taste of the battlefield is not wonderful at all?"

Heifu could probably guess what the bearded man had gone through, in his previous life, an uncle in his family who had participated in the self-defense counterattack had told them that not everyone could adapt to the battlefield, and for some people, the slightest smell of death was enough to break them, and when you charged forward, someone always ran in the opposite direction.

This was even more true in ancient times, when the Qin State did not raise troops every year, and theoretically everyone would only be called up twice, but only this law became a dead letter. The reality was that under the will of the King of Qin, every soldier had to participate in countless wars year after year. On the battlefield, the younger brother watched his elder brother die, the father lost his son, and the belly of the village party was slashed open by a sharp sword...... Even those who survived the first ten battles are at risk of crumbling in the eleventh fight.

So there were deserters and dead people, and in the legal code of the Qin State, this kind of person was already synonymous with dead people and slaves.

"In the Qin State, if you flee once, you will never be able to return to the army, and you will not be able to return to the township, and even if you go back, your parents and brothers will already serve their sentences." The bearded man's voice was lowered, this was the story of how he was forced to fall into the grass.

Heifu was silent, this thief, made him think of the Heifu brothers in history, maybe with a thought, they would end up with this person.

In more than ten years, Liu Bang, the ancestor of the Han Dynasty, may be in a similar situation, fleeing in the mountains, wanting to ask for amnesty but can't, his wife and children are also arrested and imprisoned, and finally he simply reversed.

"Tell me, when you were a soldier, you were as small as a mustard, worthless, but when you became a bandit, your worth doubled, isn't it funny?"

Ji Ying scratched his head, but hardened his heart again, kicked the bearded man again, and scolded: "But you are a thief in Yunmengze, you must have injured a lot of lives and robbed a lot of money!" You deserve it today! ”

As if he had been greatly wronged, the bearded man blushed, spat on the ground, spit out a tooth that had been knocked out in the fight, and scolded: "Nonsense! Naigong has a few lives in his hands, but all he meets are poor ghosts, Hugh said fourteen gold, and he has never seen even a single gold!"

Ji Ying no longer paid attention to him, and came up with an idea: "Brother Heifu, anyway, we are going to serve in the county seat, and now it is only twenty or thirty miles away, hurry up and hurry, you can get there after dark, just escort the three thieves over, and hand them over to the county jail to receive the reward earlier, you and I are so relieved." ”

"Makes sense." Heifu bowed his head, although he had a sense of sadness about the death of a rabbit and a fox, but it was a matter of his future life and death, and he couldn't tolerate his soft-heartedness, so he had to let these people make a stepping stone for his wealth.

The bearded man was tied with his hands behind his back and tied to the other two, but he was still shouting: "From the time I died out of the barracks, I knew that there would be a day, whether to cook or kill, and I also let it go, but there was still one request......"

Hefu looked at him, "You say." “

The bearded man said with an expression that looked like crying and laughing: "After you escort me to the official mansion, if you get a reward, you must let me take a look and touch it!" Let me know that I am worth so much money! “

"Shut up!" Ji Ying was sad for no reason, and kicked the big man again, but this time, it was not so heavy.

Heifu and Ji Ying picked up the three thieves and forced them to go on the road. Unexpectedly, at this moment, a group of people came running on the road, fully armed, armed with bows and arrows, spears, short swords and shields, and even a man on horseback.

Seeing Hefu and the others from afar, the rider sped up and shouted, "Where are the thieves?" A few paces before he took the reins and stopped the horse, the dust raised by the horse's hooves blew the two of them in the face.

Ji Ying spit out the sand and scolded: "You guy, what do you want to do!" ”

The man on the horse was in his twenties, he wore a red silk on his head, leather armor, crimson clothes inside, a sword at his waist, and a slender horse face.

Seeing that the three thieves were bound, the comer's face was overjoyed, and he was about to dismount and go to check, but the black man was very dissatisfied with his arrogant attitude, so he stretched out his hand to stop him from going.

This person was suddenly unhappy, and said with a straight face: "Bold! Do you know who I am? “

"I don't know, but I know that the thief has been captured by me." Hefu didn't budge.

The two looked at each other, and for a while, the atmosphere was tense!

"Strong man, pavilion chief...... Misunderstanding, misunderstanding. ”

At this moment, the merchant who had just been chased and fled by the thieves also came here out of breath, hurriedly stepped forward to persuade him, and saluted the two black husbands: "Thank you two strong men for saving your life." ”

Then he introduced the man again: "This is the local Huyang Pavilion Chief, the rescuer I found, Pavilion Chief, those thieves ambushed and attacked me here......"

"Pavilion Chief?"

Heifu secretly said that it was not good, and sure enough, at this moment, those people with weapons also came over one after another, and there were as many as four of them, and they surrounded Heifu and the two of them, aiming their bows and arrows at them!