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"Old fellow, I'm going to cut your tongue again."

The young bandit had a bad temper, so he slapped Shen Mingwen in the face in the past, and returned to Shen Xi, "Little baby, say it, where did you hide your things, and tell me to keep you safe." ”

Shen Xi explained: "I have taken the initiative to give it to you, we are all Xiucai who went to Fuzhou to catch the exam, and we are not doing business, forty or fifty taels of silver is already a big deal, okay?" ”

The rain became heavier and heavier, and the bandits searched around for a long time but found nothing. The young thief said sharply: "I can't find it, take the person back and interrogate it slowly." ”

The "third uncle" came over and stopped: "No, the rules of the cottage, it's okay to rob money, don't do the thing of kidnapping people for extortion, otherwise how are we different from thieves?" ”

The young thief sneered: "My father is confused, why is the third uncle confused?" If we don't think of ourselves as thieves, others won't treat us as thieves? Take people away! ”

Shen Xi said: "This young man, in order to avoid misunderstanding, can you blindfold us...... We don't want to know the way up the mountain, and besides, if we are blind at night, it will be difficult for us to know where we are, so we don't have to worry about bringing the officers and troops to encircle and suppress you in the future. ”

"If there is any work, it is best to send us down the mountain as soon as possible after finding out, we have no intention of making enemies with you."

The young bandit said, "There are a lot of troubles...... Okay, blindfold them. Take. ”

In the face of many bandits, even if there were ten people on Shen Xi's side, they didn't dare to fight head-on, Shen Xi pondered whether he could escape in the middle of the road and move the rescue troops, but he was afraid that the local government would not act.

In this land of Fujian, ethnic minority conflicts and bandits abound, and the local government cannot manage it, and now the focus of the official army is to clean up the Japanese in the coastal areas of Quanzhou. I don't even bother to pay attention to the bandits in these mountain nests.

Shen Xi was blindfolded, braved the rain and walked up the mountain, groping his way for about five or six miles, and he didn't know how many heels he fell on the way. I heard the sound of "crunching" opening the door, and it should be that the cottage door was opened. Because of the successive wrestling, the black cloth covering Shen Xi's face at this time had been greatly loosened.

Shen Xi looked around, it was a pitch-black place that looked like a depression in the middle of the mountain, and there were some houses scattered in front of him. It's not the kind of bandit village in my impression, it's more like an ordinary village.

As the crowd returned, men, women, and children came out to greet them, and it seemed that these people were not professional bandits, but mainly engaged in farming and hunting.

Shen Xi and the others were locked in the firewood room, and as the door slammed shut, they fell into the darkness again.

After the tea time, I heard the surroundings gradually become quieter. The group of people who were taken from captivity did not know where they were, and the fear in their hearts grew stronger and stronger, and Li Qu knelt there and wailed: "This ...... Where is this? ”

"Brother Li, don't make a noise." Shen Xi hurriedly reminded.

As soon as Shen Xi finished speaking, someone opened the door of the firewood room, ready to throw some food inside. At this moment, Shen Mingwen just rubbed the rope in his hand, took off the black cloth covering his face, and was looking out in front of the door of the firewood room, ready to find an opportunity to slip away, and almost collided with the person who came in.

"Want to run!?"

The two people who came up pressed Shen Mingwen to the corner of the wall and beat him hard, and then the "third uncle" among the thieves walked in. The young descendant who drank and stopped beating people picked up the food on the ground and threw it in front of Shen Mingwen.

Shen Mingwen lay on the ground and groaned for a while, his nose came to sniff in front of what he was eating, and then quickly picked it up and stuffed it into his mouth. It doesn't matter if it's clean or not.

Shen Xi looked out through the gap in the blindfold, and couldn't help sighing in his heart:

Shen Mingwen: This is a starving ghost!? I couldn't see what was thrown in and grabbed it and ate it, as if I hadn't eaten it for days.

When the door closed again, Shen Mingwen, whose hands were tied and covered with a black cloth again, said confidently: "You don't know, you have the strength to escape." If I don't eat this meal, I don't know when I'll have to wait. ”

Sounds so reasonable. But from Shen Mingwen's cowardly mouth, there was something wrong with it.

There was some light outside, but it was pitch black inside the firewood room.

Li Qu's two little guys were all cowardly, and at this time, they desperately moved to Li Qu's side, almost crying and asking, "Young Master, what should we do?" ”

Shen Xi didn't pay attention to it, and walked to the four chariot and horse gang brothers, these four have recently followed Ma Jiu to grab land in Fuzhou City, and they have done a lot of fighting, killing and killing, Shen Xi told them not to be impulsive for the time being, and to act at the opportunity, to see if they can take advantage of the dead of night to solve the guards and quietly touch down the mountain.

Based on Shen Xi's previous observations, the guarded guard of the cottage was extremely lax, and it didn't seem to be very difficult to leave here.

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Shen Xi thought that he was in the mouth of the tiger, so he said that the people in the cottage should also come over to "interrogate" and ask if any valuables had been secretly hidden, but after half an hour, no one came.

But from time to time there was a voice of conversation at the door.

A few "bandits" were left outside the firewood room to guard, because the door of the firewood room was locked, and the people inside were tied with their hands, and these few guards were very slack, and they didn't pay attention to the movement in the firewood room at all.

These thieves have been talking about the "big masters" and the "three masters", and there are also many about the "less masters".

Shen Xi probably listened to it and basically understood what was going on, in fact, he had just seen the clue...... This is the contradiction between the old subordinate and the successor, the "big boss" of this cottage should still be alive, and he will pass the cottage to his son in the future, but the brothers who fight the world with the "big boss" do not believe in this junior very much.

But the young people in the village seem to be on the side of the "less master", the older generation only wants to be stable in front of them, and does not want to cause trouble, but the young people are working hard and want to follow the "less master" to do something big, and the value orientation of the two generations is different, which makes the new and old generations of the cottage look contradictory.

"Three masters......

Suddenly there was a greeting outside, it turned out that it was the "three masters" who had gone out to loot with the "young masters" before, and only heard the "three masters" say: "The big bosses want to see the people inside." ”

Soon a few young men came in and sent Shen Xi, Shen Mingwen and Li Qu out of the door. It seems that the leader of the cottage wants to see the one of these ten people who can take care of things.

Because Shen Mingtang was dressed in a rustic manner, like a subordinate, and had no momentum, the thieves regarded him as an ordinary servant.

When I came out of the firewood house, the rain had stopped outside, but the road in the village was extremely muddy. This cottage is not like an ordinary mountain village, and the houses are not mud and masonry. Most of them are wooden buildings with overhanging ground floors, and only a few houses are made of stone strips. The village is not very large, and it is estimated that there are only a few dozen families.

After walking for a while, there was a sudden light in front of me. It was a spacious house like a conference hall, and Shen Xi and the three of them were pushed in.

As soon as he entered the house, Li Qu was blindfolded, not understanding the situation in front of him, and knelt on the ground with a "poof".

"Everybody. The contemptible person is just a passing showman, there are a few acres of thin land at home, a high hall above, a wife and children below, and please raise your noble hands to let me go. ”

"Young Master" walked over to Li Qu: "Damn, why is there so much nonsense?" Kicked Li Qu in the abdomen, and Li Qu rolled on the ground in pain.

The "young master" still wanted to do it, but he heard a rather majestic shout: "Stop!" ”

The voice was vigorous and powerful, and Shen Xi thought to himself, this should be the leader of the cottage. Listen to him full of anger. There should be no major illness or disaster, and it is not yet time to pass on the throne.

"Dad, the people are tied back, what if you hit him twice? It's long-winded, and it's annoying to listen to. There was a little unconvincing in the tone of the young master.

A deep woman's voice next to her came: "Dad told you to stop, you have to stop!" ”

Shen Xitou turned to that side slightly, although his hands were tied and his eyes were covered with strips of cloth, because the strips of cloth had already been loosened, Shen Xi could take a look through the gaps.

There is a chair under the entrance of the main hall, on which sits a middle-aged man in his forties. There is one person on the left and right of this man, like a protector of the Dharma, one of them is the "three masters" who brought them in, and on the other side is a man with a strong body. When Shen Xi first entered the door, he thought he was a strong man with five big and three thick, but now he realized that it was a woman, or the daughter of the leader of the cottage.

"Young master" said angrily: "I'm talking to my father, what are you talking about as a woman?" ”

As soon as the woman heard the fire, she strode forward. With a punch, he greeted the "less master" at the door.

The "young master" reached out to block, but the woman just made a false move, grabbed the man's arms, sank under his feet, tied up the horse, and said "on", like pulling out the weeping willows upside down, and directly "pulled" the "young master" in place.

"Pull it up" is not counted, just turn around in a circle on the spot, "Young Master" was still aggressive just now, at this time there "woo wow" shouted, and finally begged for mercy: "...... Old girl, if you have something to discuss...... Ah, let me go! ”

The woman did this, and no one was present to stop her, obviously this woman was very important to the leader of the cottage. The "three masters" over there couldn't help but shake their heads, obviously, he felt that this woman was more suitable to be the leader of the cottage, but unfortunately she was a daughter and couldn't convince the public.

The woman turned around more than a dozen times before she put the person down, and her brother was dizzy, and he sat on the ground and couldn't get up for a while.

The "big boss" waved his hand: "Remember, this is a lesson for you!" This is the council hall, and I'm still there, so it's not your turn to speak. ”

"Dare to ask, which one is the manager of the Tingzhou Chamber of Commerce?"

Shen Mingwen began to shake his wit at this time: "We are not from Tingzhou, we are from Fuzhou. His thick Fujian accent is quite a bit of a silver three hundred taels here.

The "big boss" looked at Shen Mingwen: "Are you the principal?" ”

Shen Mingwen straightened his waist: "I am a scholar, how can I be in the same stream as the peddlers' pawns?" ”

The "big boss" shook his head: "Since you are not from the Tingzhou Chamber of Commerce, how can you have their account books?" Could it be that you stole this ledger? I wanted to spare your life, but it seems a bit difficult! ”

Shen Xixin said, this is obviously forcing us to confess and be lenient, and immediately said loudly: "This master doesn't need to ask, he is a person from the Tingzhou Chamber of Commerce, this time I went to Fuzhou with my uncle to participate in the township test, and by the way, I brought the accounts of the Fuzhou branch of the Chamber of Commerce back to the township for inspection." ”

The "big boss" nodded: "This is like a sentence, since it is back to Tingzhou, how did I come to Yanping ground?" ”

Shen Xi replied neither humbly nor arrogantly: "Recently, the Quanzhou Mansion has been raging, openly robbing merchants and pedestrians on official roads, harassing local people, and it is said that there is also a tragedy in which the entire village was slaughtered...... The government is making every effort to encircle and suppress, I have no choice but to go north, I wanted to take advantage of Datian to turn west through Longyan, Shanghang and other places to return to my hometown, but I didn't expect that I was not familiar with the place, and I didn't get out of this mountain for a few days, and strayed into your land. ”

"Oh."

The "big boss" was finally relieved, and with a wave of his hand, the woman walked over to Shen Xi and took off Shen Xi's blindfold.

Shen Xi hurriedly closed his eyes: "Heroes, you know the rules below, and you will die when you see the light...... I haven't seen anything, and I'm not going to write down the faces of all the heroes, so please raise your hand. ”

The "big boss" laughed and said: "Sharp teeth, not like a young man, you said that you participated in the township test with Ling Bo, so you are also a student at this age?" ”

Shen Xi closed his eyes and lowered his head, arched his hand and said: "No, in the first year, the Tingzhou Mansion took the test, and he ranked second. ”

The "big boss" got up and returned the salute: "It's actually a little showman, disrespectful and disrespectful." ”

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