Ke Xiaochuan crawled forward little by little on the ground, and the closer he got to the pile of stones, the more careful he became, for fear of alarming the guards. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Taking advantage of the opportunity when the guard turned around and went to drink water more than thirty steps away, Ke Xiaochuan picked up a small pebble and threw it at Fourth Brother Zhu.

Fourth Brother Zhu had actually seen him hiding in the bushes behind the stone pile, and he also moved slowly to this side in advance, in order not to disappear in the sight of the guards to arouse suspicion, a few steps away from Ke Xiaochuan, he knocked on the stone and asked in a low voice: "This good man, I don't remember seeing you before?" ”

Ke Xiaochuan stared at the guards in the distance, blocked his mouth with one hand and replied secretly, "Fourth Brother Zhu, do you remember me?" I'm Ke Xiaochuan, and I lived in your Zhujia Village for a few days more than a month ago.

Then one day I led the dogs and a few of them out, and later brought back a rich businessman, who gave a lot of food and silk cloth to the villagers and villagers. ”

Fourth Brother Zhu squinted and looked at him carefully, although he was not very sure that he was the Ke Xiaochuan that day, but since he knew these things and knew the dogs in the village, he shouldn't be able to fake it.

"It's Brother Xiaochuan, why did you come to Liangshan too? Were they caught? ”

"Yes, but the six of us were captured by them and cooked for a few leaders, what happened to these villagers who carved rocks?"

The good and evil of people can sometimes be judged by their eyes. Ke Xiaochuan saw these people doing work, he didn't think that these people were thieves at all, these people were too kind in their clothes, expressions, especially their eyes, and they were obviously ordinary people.

Fourth Brother Zhu sighed and said that the truth was similar to what Ke Xiaochuan expected. These people who dig the rocks are fishermen from the surrounding fishing villages.

Since the thieves on Liangshan sealed the lake and forbade the surrounding fishermen to fish in Liangshan, the lives of fishermen have completely changed.

Most of the remaining people in the fishing village are elderly, women and children, fishing for small fish and shrimp not far from the lake.

There are also a small number of young adults in the village who have not left, just to take care of the elderly or children at home.

But a month ago, the thieves on Liangshan suddenly appeared in the fishing village, as long as they saw someone who could work, they would not let go and all of them were arrested in Liangshan, and Fourth Brother Zhu was arrested by them at that time.

In the surrounding villages, a total of more than 100 people were arrested in this way, and only one-third of those in their thirties like Zhu Sige were in the prime of life, more were teenagers of fourteen or fifteen years old, and middle-aged and elderly people who were over 50 years old but were still in good health.

After they were caught, they were forced by these wicked people to do some heavy physical work of digging mountains and rocks, and in the past month or so, more than a dozen people have been exhausted to death.

Ke Xiaochuan remembered that Fourth Brother Zhu just stopped and glanced back at them just now, and was whipped by the wicked overseer, thinking that in this harsh environment, it was normal for more than a dozen people to be tortured to death by them in more than a month.

The anger in his heart rekindled, staring at the overseers in the distance, and secretly swore in his heart that one day he would slaughter these bastards who took people's lives seriously.

It was inconvenient for Ke Xiaochuan to reveal his identity and his purpose of following Yang Huairen to Liangshan, but he told Fourth Brother Zhu that in the next month, that is, before the end of the lunar month, they would definitely rescue these laborers from the sea of suffering.

Fourth Brother Zhu will be skeptical, but in the current situation, he has no other hope, so he has to believe that Ke Xiaochuan and the person he followed have such ability.

Ke Xiaochuan remembered an important thing and hurriedly asked, "Fourth Brother Zhu, are you fishermen who have been caught familiar with the terrain of Liangshanbo?" If there is a boat, can you sail out of Yangsan? ”

Fourth Brother Zhu didn't want to reply: "We are fishermen who grew up in Liangshanbo, and we are more familiar with Liangshanbo than on land.

But if you want to leave Liangshan, it's unlikely, there are so many people guarding the dock, you can't leave if you want to. The stones that are being mined now are for the purpose of expanding the wharf, and when the wharf is bigger in the future, there will only be more guards. ”

Ke Xiaochuan was overjoyed in his heart, the guards on the dock didn't have to think about it for now, as long as he could find someone who could drive the boat out of Liangshan, as for the rest, he believed that Brother Ren would naturally have his way to solve it.

Before leaving, he asked Fourth Brother Zhu to have the opportunity to secretly contact these captured coolies, who could be trusted and knew how to drive ships, and these people were the key to the plan to escape from Liangshan in the future.

Fourth Brother Zhu's current mental state is basically in a state of numbness that can be passed, Ke Xiaochuan gave him a little hope of leaving this den of thieves, and he also clung to it like a life-saving straw and hurriedly accepted it.

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When the sky gradually darkened, the four people who went out to inquire about the news also came back and reported the information they had obtained today to Yang Huairen.

Yang Huairen carefully analyzed this information and found that many things were much more optimistic than he had expected.

For example, in the previous cognition, there were about 400 thieves on Liangshan, except for the news from the previous internal guards, after he went to Liangshan, according to the number and size of the house, he roughly judged that this number was not a big deviation.

But now, among these 400 people, it is estimated that only half of the thieves who really fell into the grass are about 200 people, and most of these people live in cottages in the west of Shanxi.

About 100 of them were the fishermen who Ke Xiaochuan saw today who had been forced to work as coolies, also living in a simple house on the edge of a cottage on the west side of the mountain.

And the last hundred or so people are those who live on the eastern slope of the mountain, these people are estimated to be the first group to go up the mountain, they are probably the group sent by the Cangzhou Chai clan to occupy the beam, when they first came, they were all with their families, so there are a lot of old people, women and children here.

With such a personnel composition, it can only be regarded as a large den of bandits, but if you want to rebel, it is simply impossible.

Yang Huairen realized this, and also guessed that Chai Zhizu's purpose in raising this Liangshan may be to make a village similar to the green forest bandits under such a dangerous geographical condition, the purpose is to use the cottage of Liangshan to attract some scattered wanderers on the rivers and lakes for his use.

A Liangshan may seem to be a small force and is nothing, but if Chai Zhizu raises a dozen or even more cottages like Liangshan, then this power should not be underestimated.