The sun gradually sank in the west, and the forest path became darker and darker, Liu Qin followed out for nearly twenty miles, but he still didn't see a suspicious figure, but the thin man in front of him didn't stop, and he didn't dare to stop.

Lao Li's stomach came with a "gurgling" sound, he hadn't eaten all day, his strength was at the bottom, if he couldn't find that place again, he had to find a place to rest, along the way he turned back several times, but he didn't catch a glimpse of Liu Qin's figure, if it was getting dark today, and the surrounding trees were thick, if you want to find Liu Qin, it will be even more impossible.

Liu Qin half-squatted behind a tree, watching the man's every move through the gap between the bushes, fortunately, the man should not have discovered himself yet.

Lao Li gasped twice, gritted his teeth, and grabbed the trunks around him and moved forward slowly.

Finally, after crossing a small hill, he saw the fire.

"It's finally here!" He breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, but a cold knife was pressed to his neck.

"Who are you?!" The man with the knife scolded in a low voice, while looking around, probably to make sure that there were no accomplices of the man around, "What are you doing here?!" ”

"I, I, I......" Lao Li was startled by this sudden posture, and he couldn't even speak clearly for a while, "I'm ...... I ......"

"You what you! Say it! Otherwise, there will be no chance! As he spoke, the man with the knife exerted a little force, and the knife, which was not too sharp, still cut a bloody mark on Lao Li's neck.

Lao Li suddenly threw away the hoe in his hand, and he stretched out his hand to his chest, trying to pull out the red cloth strip on his chest.

"What do you want to do?!" Seeing this, the guard thought that this man was going to catch some hidden weapon, and stretched out his other hand to catch it, but it was still a step too late, and Lao Li had already taken out the red cloth strip from his arms.

"I ...... I am here to join you. ”

"Join us?" The guard stared at Lao Li's face for a long time, and then looked at the clothes all over his body, as if he still didn't want to believe it.

"Boss, take him over to the general," a voice suddenly came from the other side, and a tall and thin man came out of the shadows behind the tree, holding a bow in his hand, "I'll look at it for the time being." ”

For every branch of the Red Turban Thieves, there is a "general", whether the general has 500 or 800 men under his command.

"You're alone, okay?" The man called Lao Qi unloaded the knife that held Lao Li, but he had no intention of leaving.

"There's no going to be a mess, and besides, there are other brothers around," the tall and thin man waved his hand, "go, go and go back quickly." ”

"That's okay, you pay more attention," the old man said, pulling Lao Li in front of him, "Okay, let's go, follow me to meet our general." ”

Liu Qin listened carefully from twenty paces away, and by the light of the fire, he could tell where the camp of the red turban thieves was, but how many of them were? How is the equipment? Everything is still unknown, and it is okay to go back to your life like this now, but the information you get is very little and it will not help much, if at least you can find out how many of them there are, everything will be much easier.

From the mouth of the man with the bow and arrow, these sentries should have been in groups of two, but how far apart were the groups, twenty paces?

Fifty steps? Or a hundred steps? Now that secret sentry is pressing Lao Li to go to the camp, if you want to start, now is the best time, if you miss it, you can only retreat, and there is no reliable news here.

How?

Liu Qin stared at the tall and thin figure with a bow and arrow, and it must be fatal with one blow, otherwise once it makes a little noise, it is very likely to attract other secret sentinels, and it will be difficult for him to get out again.

"Heaven Descends"

The dark sentry with the bow watched the old man grab the thin man and walk towards the camp, and was about to turn around and hide in the shadows again, when there was a sudden sound on the right.

"Who?!" Without hesitation, he stretched out his bow and arrows, aimed in the direction where the voice came from, and after a long time of no response, he bent his waist and slowly approached that side.

Liu Qin pounced out from behind the dark whistle at this time, he locked the neck of the dark whistle with both hands, so that he couldn't make a sound, the dark whistle tried hard to break Liu Qin's hand that locked his neck, kicked the ground with his feet in vain, and after a while, he didn't move anymore.

Liu Qin didn't let go immediately, he counted ten more silently in his heart, and then slowly let go of his hands, tested the pulse of the dark whistle, and made sure that he was completely dead, before dragging the body into the nearby bushes, and then bent his waist and cautiously walked in the direction where the fire came from.

......

Lao Li was held by the old man, and after walking a distance of about 500 steps, he finally saw the campfire, there was no tent, only a campfire, and a few dilapidated cauldrons on the firefly.

Groups of men wearing red scarves or with red cloth wrapped around their arms gathered around the campfire, staring at the cauldron of thin, uninformed food. Lao Li swallowed his saliva, although the appearance of those foods was indeed not very good-looking, but the fragrance did reach the tip of his nose, and he had been hungry for a day, so he ......

"Hungry?" The old man turned his head to look at him.

Lao Li nodded vigorously and did not speak.

"Later, when the general sees you and recognizes you as a member of our Red Turban Righteous Soldiers, you can also eat it."

"Really?!" Lao Li almost screamed.

"What are you doing?" The old man glanced at him, lowered his voice at the same time, and said, "The general is in front, you give me some respect." ”

Lao Li did not answer, but looked straight at the man sitting on a wooden pier, the fire light gently reflected the man's face full of vicissitudes, and on the campfire in front of him, a rabbit was roasting with oil.

"General." The old man suddenly bowed respectfully to the man.

The man nodded, raised his head to look at Lao Mi, and then looked at Lao Li beside Lao Mi, stunned for a moment, and asked, "Raw face?" New to the new arrival? ”

"I was caught by me just outside, carrying a hoe, and I don't know the identity, I wanted to solve him on the spot, but he took out a red cloth strip from his arms, and the third persuaded me to bring him to you to see, so I brought him over."

The man nodded again, "Well, that's good. ”

"General, look at it," the old man pulled Lao Li in front of him, pointed at him, and said, "If this kid is sent by the government, I will cut him down now." ”

This sentence frightened Lao Li's heart, and he hurriedly waved his hand, his voice was weak like a mosquito humming, "I don't."

It's ......"

"Whether you are or not, the general has the final say." Lao Yi kicked Lao Li heavily, if he hadn't been caught by Lao Li, it is estimated that this kick would have kicked Lao Li to the ground.

The man called "General" slowly got up from the stump, he crossed the campfire, took two steps forward, and carefully looked at Lao Li, a pair of worn-out straw sandals, patched clothes, almost rotten burlap trousers, dirty hair, toenails stuffed with mud, both feet turned black because of the mud, it is estimated that the hands he hid behind him will not be much better.

"Where's your strip of red cloth?" The man asked suddenly.

"In ...... In this. Lao Li slowly stretched out his left hand, and the red cloth strip was slowly being held in the palm of his hand.

When the man saw it, he suddenly frowned, the color of this red cloth strip is too new, and the quality is not bad, it doesn't seem like a poor family can take it out at all, these people who came to join the Red Turban Army, the red cloth strips in their hands are almost all torn from somewhere, very old, incomplete in shape, and almost faded strips of cloth, very few people can't find the red strips, so they pull the light-colored strips of cloth, soak them in juice, and they become red.

"Who the hell are you?!" The man suddenly shouted, "Why do you have such a strip of red cloth?!" ”

Without thinking, the old man pulled out the knife and put it on Lao Li again. Lao Li was so frightened by this roar that his legs were weak, and he fell straight to his knees all of a sudden, looking at the condescending man in front of him with trembling all over his body, as soon as he opened his mouth, even his voice was trembling, "I....... I am, I'm here to join you! I, my name is Li Youcai, I live outside Honghuai Town, I have an aunt and a son, this strip of cloth is from my year ago, I plan to give my aunt and the child's ragged cotton clothes a new turnover, as a new clothes, in recent years, the government has been raising taxes and taxes, my family's one acre and three points of land to pay taxes, even rations can not be left, some time ago, my aunt took the child back to her parents' house, I was heartbroken, simply voted for the Red Turban Army, maybe there is a way out, I heard that to join the Red Turban Army to have a red cloth, I just ripped off the cloth, Just to be a token! ”

"Originally, my mother-in-law could have come back," Lao Li suddenly said faintly, "She said that as long as I fill the rice jar at home, she will come back with the child, I desperately picked up firewood for more than two months, I ate wild vegetables and chewed grass roots, saved more than 200 yuan, just about to buy rice, but I have to pay taxes, after paying taxes, I only have a few yuan, not even enough to eat a bowl of noodles!" ”

As he spoke, Lao Li burst into tears, he knelt on the ground, snot and tears flowed out together, "Adult, I just want to have a full meal with my mother-in-law and children, and have a new dress to wear!" I only dare to drink a bowl of two-penny wine a month, and all the money I earn is given to my mother-in-law, but no matter how tired and tired I am, as soon as I get taxed, all my efforts throughout the year will be in vain! During the Chinese New Year, my family can't even make up a bowl of white rice! ”

"My lord, I just want to have a full meal! Am I at fault? ”

The surroundings were quiet all of a sudden, and only Lao Li's snort, the crackling of firewood, and the slight sound of the wind, as well as the low whimpering of some people, most of them were like Lao Li, silent for a long time, the man suddenly sighed softly, he leaned down, patted Lao Li's shoulder, and said, "Get up, from today on, you will be one of us." ”

And in the darkness of the woods, a black shadow quietly receded.