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Shen Xi didn't want to recognize the appearance of these thieves.

The thieves don't want to show their true faces, and once they see the appearance of these people, don't think about going down the mountain.

Seeing Shen Xi's evasive expression, the "big boss" probably understood what was going on, and said with a smile: "I heard that the president of the Tingzhou Chamber of Commerce is a lady...... I don't know what Xiao Xiucai and this lady are called? ”

Shen Xi said: "Our two families are not related by blood, the president of the Chamber of Commerce is widowed, his surname is Sun, and his husband's surname is Lu, which is for Lu Sun's family." Under the surname Shen, his mother helped with things under Mrs. Lu, and the two families had a close relationship. On weekdays, I call Mrs. Lu an aunt. ”

"Oh!?"

The "big boss" still has a hint of suspicion.

Judging from Shen Xi's performance, he was very wary of them, but suddenly he said the relationship between the two families so frankly, which inevitably made the old "big boss" doubt the authenticity of Shen Xi's words. After a while, Fang asked, "What age is Shen Gongzi now?" ”

Shen Xi said: "Twelve years old. ”

The "big master" nodded slightly: "At the age of twelve, you can be a middle school member, since the founding of the Ming Taizu, Fujian Province can be regarded as the first person." Shen Gongzi, you don't need to draw a line with us like this, just raise your head and speak. ”

Shen Xi continued to close his eyes and drooped his head.

The woman standing in front of Shen Xi said in a deep voice: "Let you raise your head and speak, do you hear?" ”

Now Shen Xi had no choice, so he could only raise his head, and the first thing that caught his eye was a tall woman...... The woman was about sixteen or seventeen years old, but she was about one meter eight tall, her hands and legs were not as thick as expected, but they were very well-proportioned, with a beautiful goose egg face, slightly messy hair, and large eyes. The bridge of the nose is high and straight, and he looks handsome, but his eyes are blank and he looks a little honest.

She wears a round-necked half-sleeved bikini on her upper body. Inside is a black patched long-sleeved lining, different from the average woman wearing a skirt, this woman is a tight coarse cloth shirt and pants, and under her feet is a pair of straw sandals that leak everywhere, and her toes are playfully exposed.

Look at the situation. Shen Xi knew that the situation of the cottage was not very good.

On the other side, the "big boss" in his forties sat on a chair in the main hall, in addition to being accompanied by the "three masters" just now, there were several men of different ages standing next to him, and everyone's eyes fell on him. All of them were in shabby clothes, and none of them looked like a bandit.

Shen Xi arched his hand and said, "You are polite. ”

The "big boss" smiled: "Shen Gongzi is polite, this time it is the dog who is rude, and invite a few of them to the mountain......"

Is it up the mountain? You kidnapped us, right?

“…… Wrong and wrong, we are originally from Shanghang County, Tingzhou Prefecture, and the land of Lingnan was hit by a disaster more than ten years ago. I had to move to this mountain forest as a last resort, and I only made a living from farming and hunting, but this year the world was not very good, and I really couldn't hold on, so I had to offend you. ”

Shen Xi thought to himself: "You have been in the grass for more than ten years, and you just can't survive this year, so you robbed along the way, and you happened to meet me?" Who believes this kind of nonsense? ”

I didn't believe it in my heart, but I had to believe it in my mouth, Shen Xi said: "No offense." A little entanglement, as a greeting gift. It's just that my uncle, I, and a few servants want to leave early and go to the city to take the exam in two or three months. The family is looking forward to returning. ”

The "big boss" nodded and said, "Shen Gongzi has been out for a long time, so he should return to his hometown...... How about having the old man send you back in person? ”

"Still don't want it!?" Shen Xi shook his head and smiled bitterly, did he think that he was not honest enough to answer, and then made a threat?

"Ming people don't say secret words, Shen Gongzi, that's the case."

The "big boss" looked a little grim. Eyes flushed: "In the past few years, the wind and rain were good, we planted some crops by ourselves, and hunted on weekdays, and our lives were okay." It's a pity that after the first two years of flooding, the insects in the surrounding area continued, the land was not harvested, and the local government ordered a strict investigation of the homeless, and if there was no household registration, they could be arrested at any time, and it was very difficult for us to hunt the prey and exchange it for rice and salt in the town......"

"Those people from the inspection department are staring at us, and once they encounter us, they will attack us in groups, if they are unlucky, they are likely to lose their lives, and their heads will be taken back by them for reward......

"In the past few years, the Japanese have been rampant in the coastal generation, and the Fujian Metropolitan Division has sent troops to pacify the Japanese several times, thinking that the war has reached a critical moment, and when the Japanese are eliminated, the commander of the party will inevitably transfer troops to wipe out this cottage near and far in one fell swoop."

Shen Xi thought about it, Fang Guan will step down from his post as the commander of the Fujian Metropolitan next year, shouldn't he seek a smooth transition this year? If Fujian Dusi really wants to make any big moves, it can only be explained that Fang Guan is not stepping down, but continuing to rise.

The commander of the capital is already the highest military governor of a province, and if Fang Guan continues to be promoted, only the governor of the five military governors will know the same knowledge and even the left and right governors, the former is a member of the first rank, and the latter is a court official of the first rank.

Among them, the former military governor's office led the Qianwei, Longxiangwei, and Leopard Taowei in Beijing, and the guards of the former military governor's office in Nanjing.

That is to say, Fang Guan used a lot of sword soldiers in Fujian, and the official position he coveted was likely to be the left and right governors of the former military governor's mansion.

The Governor's Office and the Military Department of the Five Armies are all under the orders of the Emperor, the Governor's Office of the Five Armed Forces has the right to command troops but not the right to transfer troops, and the Military Department has the right to transfer troops but not the right to command troops, and the Governor's Office and the Military Department of the Five Armies control each other and do not subordinate each other.

Shen Xi was silent for a while before asking, "What does this have to do with us?" ”

"Big boss" said: "Seeing that the road is at the end of the road, the old man can only find another way out, I heard that the Tingzhou Chamber of Commerce is expanding rapidly and is recruiting people everywhere, so ...... Shen Gongzi should understand the meaning of old decay, right? ”

Shen Xi nodded.

This is obviously not a group of robbers who are closed to their eyes, it is more like an army hidden in the mountains, they actually have a clear understanding of the news outside, knowing that the Tingzhou Chamber of Commerce does not say it, but also knows that Fang Guan is peaceful, and predicts that Fang Guan will be promoted, and he is going to make a big battle before leaving office.

Shen Xi said: "You can't do this kind of thing. ”

"Big boss" Zhengse said: "So the old man is going to go to Tingzhou Mansion in person, and I want to discuss openly and honestly with Mrs. Lu of the Chamber of Commerce, so that I can make a living under the name of the Chamber of Commerce." ”

Shen Xi scolded secretly in his heart, this is a threat from Chiguoguo. Can I say no? You bandits, instead of surrendering to the court and accepting Zhao'an, you want to go to the Chamber of Commerce to fight. Who would dare to trust you? Don't have other plans...... Or they are going to tie us up and go back to Tingzhou Mansion and ask for ransom from Hui Niang!

"Since the big boss is willing to go together, it is naturally better...... Don't know when to go? Shen Xi asked with a reluctant smile.

"Always prepare for a day, when the old man will explain the things in the mountains, and the day after tomorrow will be early in the morning. Personally take someone to send a few back to Tingzhou Mansion! ”

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Shen Xi didn't know what this "big boss" meant, but fortunately, there was one thing, they temporarily restored their status as guests and moved from a firewood house to an ordinary house.

Although no matter how you look at it, the conditions of the private house and the firewood house are almost the same, the quilt is worn, and the inside is not bounced cotton, but rough linen wool.

Cotton was introduced to China around the time of the Northern and Southern Dynasties, but it was mostly used as an ornamental plant, and cotton cultivation was widely developed in the early Yuan Dynasty. Yuan Shizu set up "Kapok Lifting Division" in various parts of the south of the Yangtze River to supervise cotton planting and collect cotton cloth.

In the middle of the Ming Dynasty, the price of a quilt required three or four hundred Wen, but ordinary people could still afford it, after all, the quilt could be used for more than ten years or even decades, and it only took a long time to play it.

As for the bed in the bedroom, it was simply put together with wooden planks, and it was even inferior to Shen Xi's sleeping conditions in the Gongyuan house.

The tall woman walked in. Seeing that Shen Xi was holding the quilt and looking at it there, his cheeks bulged tightly: "Don't get the quilt dirty!" ”

"Huh!?"

Shen Xi was stunned for a moment before reacting, the woman was so nervous, could it be that this quilt was hers?

Ten people were taken captive into the mountain. Arranged in three rooms, outside the wooden house on this hill, not to mention the fence, there is not even a fence, let alone a yard.

Shen Xi, Shen Mingwen and Li Qu live in the same room, except for Shen Xi's quilt, which seems to be built by people. The other two only had woven straw to keep out the cold.

"Qilang, you are filial, how about covering this quilt for the uncle?" Shen Mingwen walked over to Shen Xi with a hippie smile.

Shen Xi blew out the tung oil lamp, picked up the quilt and walked to the wooden board where he was sleeping, lay down first, put the quilt on his body, turned his head inward, closed his eyes, and didn't look at Shen Mingwen at all.

Shen Mingwen was bored with the boss, muttered a few words, and reluctantly returned to the corner of the bedroom, grabbed the straw and covered his body, and curled up in a ball to sleep.

Before dawn the next day, the wooden door of the room was kicked open, and the woman nervously lifted the quilt covering Shen Xi's body, took it in her arms and looked at it carefully, looking very distressed.

"I told you to cover it well, how did you get it to the ground?" The woman looked at Shen Xi angrily, clenched her fists, and could hit someone at any time.

Shen Xi screamed in his heart that he was wronged, this sleep was not a bed at all, but a spliced plank, he rolled out of bed once in the middle of the night, and it was indeed a little difficult for the quilt to be clean.

Shen Xixin said: "Eldest sister, the conditions of your cottage are not good, but when we are sent back and the ransom is collected, you can buy as many quilts as you want." ”

Just when the more the woman thought about it, the more angry she became, and when she beat Shen Xi with her fist to relieve her anger, the "big boss" came in from the door: "Don't be rude to the guests." Shen Gongzi, the matter has been explained, and you can leave in advance today. ”

Shen Xixin said that it would be better to walk earlier, and if he lived in this mountain for a few more days, he would be almost like a wild man.

Shen Xi, Shen Mingwen and Li Qu came out of the room, it was just dawn outside, Shen Xi had no time to look at the layout of this cottage last night, and now I looked, there were more than 30 wooden buildings and two or three stone houses scattered in the depression, and there was a path leading to the depths of the dense forest, and there should be some houses in the forest.

Last night, there were about forty or fifty men who went out to rob together, and at a ratio of two to one, there were about 100 men in the village, and there should be two or three hundred men in the village, plus the elderly, women and children, and the scale was actually not small.

The tall woman followed behind with the quilt in her arms, looking extremely angry.

For breakfast, I ate gruel boiled with wild vegetables, which tasted very strange and was a little difficult to swallow. The "big boss" smiled: "Don't dislike it, we have a hard time on the mountain, so we can only eat these." ”

Shen Xi has been eating wild vegetables since he was born, but he hasn't eaten them for a long time, and he suddenly encountered something that he was not used to, but he got used to it after even taking a few sips, and it was still a familiar and bland taste, the same as the original feeling, if only he could add a little salt to this wild vegetable porridge.

I saw that many people in this village looked very young, but their heads were already white, which showed how difficult it was to get access to salt in the mountains.

After breakfast, the group went down the mountain, and the "big boss" returned all the things he had robbed yesterday in order to show his sincerity.

Of course, the silver tickets, silver taels, and copper plates can still be counted, but some of the clothes and shoes have already been worn on people, and there is little point in coming back.

Shen Xi couldn't see clearly in the dark last night, and when I look at it again today, where is this bandits' den, it's just a beggar gang rudder! Those young men were all dressed in tatters, and what they held in their hands was not a weapon at all, but a hoe or shovel, and none of them wore cloth shoes or boots on their feet, all of them were straw sandals, and most of them were bare-toed.

"Look at what! Down! At the gate of the cottage, the "young master" scolded Shen Xi and a few people.

The "big master" took his daughter out of the house, and the "young master" temporarily took over the power of the village with the assistance of the "three masters", which seemed a little arrogant.

Shen Xi thought to himself, no wonder those young people don't want to mess with the "big boss", this thief is even more miserable than a beggar, who can stand this?

As soon as he came down the mountain, Li Qu knelt down and kowtowed: "Big boss, I still have wives and children at home, and I can't travel far to Tingzhou, please be merciful." ”

The "big boss" sneered: "Don't sue the official? ”

Li Qu swore: "Never sue the official, sue the official and hit five thunderbolts in the sky." ”

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