Xiangzi stared for a long time, sighing and admiring. I really can't bear to break the picturesque and tranquil beauty in front of me.

This place is called Shimizu Spring

With the sound of low horses' hooves, the group approached.

Seeing the scene in front of him, the bandits on horseback looked restless. The horses burst into a brief commotion.

Xiangzi hurriedly said to Heiwa: "Tell them, no matter how honest they are, they will be shot on the spot, and even their families will not be spared." ”

These words really worked. The bandits, who seemed to be a little excited, for a while, drooped their heads like frosted eggplants, and sat obediently on horseback.

Shoko said to the big man, "Divide the people into two groups and surround them on the left and right." The idea is to observe, as soon as you find someone with a gun, immediately hide it, and don't shoot unless you have to. ”

After sending the big man away, Xiangzi said to Tiedan, "Take Bharati and come with me." He turned around and beckoned to Heiwa.

Shoko and Shuzhen rode in front, and when they could clearly see the outline of the yurt, people poked their heads out of the yurt and looked this way.

After a while, a few people came out one after another, dressed in colorful clothes.

Standing on tiptoe, he scrambled to look at the visitor for a while, and as if suddenly frightened, he panicked into the yurt.

Around the yurt, except for a few fat dogs barking wildly, there was only one person who looked like an old man, like a long-withered plane tree, standing there stiffly.

When they were about 100 meters away, Shoko restrained the horse. said to Heiwa: "Let Bharati shout, just say that we are the county security group, and their people are dead and caught." Let all the people come out of the yurt and hand over their weapons, and we guarantee the safety of their lives. ”

After the black baby muttered to Bharati, she saw that the baby looked excited, and sad, and shouted for a while, and the people in the yurt gradually walked out.

The messy words were mixed with the sound of sobbing.

Xiangzi glanced at Tie Dan, and Tie Dan walked forward with Bharati knowingly, and Xiangzi and Shuzhen followed aside.

From a distance, the big man had secretly surrounded the yurt.

Bharati, when he saw the silver-bearded old man, burst into tears, and said something in his mouth.

Xiangzi glanced sideways at Heiwa, and Heiwa hurriedly said: "That old man is the grandfather of this baby, saying that we are too powerful, they can't beat them at all." ”

Xiangzi beckoned to the big man, and the lurking people immediately rushed towards the yurt, and Xiangzi dismounted and said to Shuzhen, "I'll go to the yurt to have a look." ”

Sook-jin said, "I'll go." He galloped over, commanded the surrounding team members, and inspected the yurt room one by one.

Except for a group of frightened women and dolls outside the yurt, there were only two half-dead wounded bandits in the yurt, which were probably the two who were defeated by Xiangzi and Xiaogucheng yesterday.

Xiangzi Chong has been standing in front of the old man in front of the yurt, according to the etiquette of *, saluted and said: "Good old man"

After Heiwa translated, the old man looked at Xiangzi blankly. returned the salute with a blank expression. His chapped lips squirmed slightly, but he didn't make a sound.

Two lines of crystalline liquid flowed down the coarse and swarthy face of pine bark like permeation, barely reaching the mouth, and there was no more water.

Xiangzi glanced at the old man with pity, and said to Tiedan, "Let him go." ”

Tie Dan hesitated slightly, and then quickly untied the rope from Bharati's body.

Bharati rolled the saddle and dismounted, and threw himself into the old man's arms and cried "whining".

The sad cry moistened the old man's cheeks again. A few drops of turbid water finally stubbornly rolled down to the ground.

Xiangzi sighed lightly in a heavy heart, turned around and rushed to the iron egg and said, "Let them all come over!" ”

As he spoke, he said to the big man: "Take my brother and guard a hundred meters away." ”

His voice was low and weak, as if he had lost the battle.

Seeing the iron egg Pegasus walking away, Shoko seemed to suddenly remember something, picked up the treasure cloth bag, and got into the tent.

On the carpet, lying stiffly were two gunned bandits, their eyes slightly closed, and their faces were as colored as earth. If it weren't for the slight rise and fall of his chest, he would be like a dead man.

Shoko reached out and touched it, her forehead hot. Hurriedly ripped off his clothes, and saw that the wound had festered. He hurriedly cleaned the wound with soju, then applied the golden medicine, soaked the cloth in cold water, and put it on his forehead to cool down. While Xiangzi was doing all this, the old man had been standing silently behind him.

As the sound of horses' hooves approached, a large group of men and horses escorted the alive and the dead and wounded, and came to the open space in front of the yurt.

Xiangzi asked the living bandits to be put together in a yurt to be guarded. The dead were silently handed over to the old man.

Suddenly, three women with two and a half children rushed to the corpse and cried and cried.

Xiangzi's heart sank again, and he turned his face to Heiwa and said, "Tell the old man, the corpse will be handed over to him, and let him look at it and bury it." ”

The old man glanced at Xiangzi blankly, and beckoned Bharati to carry the guy towards the earthen beam not far away.

Xiangzi hesitated for a moment, and said to Tie Dan: "Let those two younger ones go to work as well, and send two people to keep an eye on them." ”

He also said to Heiwa: "You tell them that if they are not honest, they will be shot on the spot with his family." ”

The colors of the setting sun gradually spread over the western sky. The appearance of the grass has become more vivid. The chirping of cattle and sheep from far and near has added a lot of fresh breath to the silent and empty field.

Xiangzi arranged the team members, and then took the black baby Shuzhen to the old man's yurt together.

A middle-aged woman, sitting on the carpet and sobbing, two babies of a few years old, with a dirty face, snuggled up to the woman in gray. And the old man, like a clay sculpture, squatted on the edge of the yurt, staring at the ground with a lost look.

Seeing Xiangzi and his entourage coming in, the old man's gaze flickered like coals in the ashes of the wind, and he immediately returned to the coldness of death.

Xiangzi moved a piece of wood, which was used as a bench, and sat opposite the old man, and said with a gentle smile, "How old is the old man?" ”

The old man glanced at Xiangzi blankly, took a long breath, and said, "Seventy-one." ”

"Are you just a child?"

"There's also a girl who married to a new land."

"How many livestock do you have to make a living?"

"One cow, thirty sheep is about the same."

"What are you going to do with the stolen livestock?"

"Wait for Ashan's people to come and sell it to them."

"How many livestock are you robbing in total?"

"More than 500 sheep, more than 40 cattle, and more than 30 horses."

"Are they all here?"

"The people of Ashan at the head of the moon drove away more than a hundred sheep and replaced them with robberies and bullets."

"Don't you know that it's illegal to rob other people's things?"

The old man shook his head sadly and helplessly, and said, "They don't listen to my advice, saying that they have the support of Ashan's Usman, and they don't need to be afraid of the government." ”

After a pause, the old man's eyes flashed with something shiny, and he looked at Xiangzi eagerly, and muttered, "What are you going to do with them?" ”

Xiangzi Zhengse said: "They not only robbed livestock, but also killed people, and they should be escorted back to the county to be questioned." ”

The old man sighed sadly, a glint of despair in his eyes.

Xiangzi glanced at him compassionately, and said in a soothing tone: "Bharati is still young, you are so old, and there is no helper at home." So, I'm going to leave him to you. ”

When the old man heard this, his dull eyes suddenly became clear and lively.

He looked a little excited and said, "Are you telling the truth?" ”

Shoko smiled softly at him and said, "It's the truth. Moreover, I will leave you forty sheep, a cow, a horse and two camels. I hope you can take your children and live a good life here. ”

The old man, as if he was a little excited, stretched out a pair of hands that were rough like tree bark and held Xiangzi's hand tightly.

Chapped lips, wriggling spasmodically, but unable to utter a word.

In the light blue deep eyes, two nests of clear tears flashed.