Chapter 22: The Morning of the Cottage
The bonfire dispelled the pre-dawn darkness, and the pieces of meat that were boiling in the clay pot began to emit an enticing aroma with the sound of boiling water.
"Brother Donkey, Brother Donkey, although I always say that I want to stew you on weekdays, it's just a joke, and I really don't mean it." Liu Yi tasted a mouthful of soup, put down the spoon, folded his hands, and bowed to the clay pot: "You and I have known each other, and it is also fate, now that you have reached Bliss, I will also be happy for you, as for this skin, instead of being buried in the soil and corroded, it is better to enter my belly, so that it can be regarded as the fate of you and me." ”
Wangcai on the side also followed Liu Yi's appearance and lay on the ground, nodding frequently at the clay pot, his tongue was about to hang to the ground, and he looked at Liu Yi with blank eyes.
"Well, it's almost, let's eat!" After Liu Yi finished worshipping, he picked out a piece of meat with a double chopstick, Si Ha grinned for a moment and swallowed it, nodded with satisfaction, and then took out the plate that had been prepared, picked out the pieces of meat from the clay pot, and divided them into two parts, one for himself and one for Wangcai.
"Wang~" Wangcai called happily, lying on the ground and biting a piece of meat, the meat was too hot, Wangcai bit it in his mouth and kept sighing, but he was reluctant to spit out the piece of meat, and kept circling around Liu Yi.
"Stupid dog!" Liu Yi shook his head helplessly, slowly picked a small piece with a double chopstick, blew it and threw it into his mouth, and closed his eyes as if he was enjoying it.
Dragon meat in the sky, donkey meat on the ground, the taste of this donkey meat is the best in the world.
Your cooking skills are now passable, right?
After a long time, Liu Yi opened his eyes and thought a little smugly.
The diffuse aroma attracted many thieves to watch, and Wangcai looked around with some vigilance, baring his teeth from time to time, and his mouth let out a warning whin.
"There's still one over there, let's start a fire and eat together." Liu Yi hesitated for a moment, beckoned to the bandits around him, and said, he can't eat the meat of a donkey and Wangcai, so he should have a good fate.
The surrounding bandits were also not polite, and immediately thanked them, and each of them ran to cut a piece of meat to roast.
The two thieves who took Liu Yi up the mountain yesterday also came up, Liu Yi found that although there were many people who came to cut meat, they were orderly, and he had doubts since yesterday, these bandits looked more well-behaved than the ordinary army.
"You used to be in the army?" Liu Yi looked at the bandit who brought him up the mountain yesterday with some confusion.
"How do you know?" The thief frowned and looked at Liu Yi, and said vigilantly.
Liu Yi pointed around: "Don't talk about ordinary bandits, even ordinary people don't have such discipline. ”
Although he hasn't really seen it, let alone these years, even two thousand years later, the quality of the Chinese people may not be as high as the current gang of bandits.
"I did join the army in the past." When the thief heard this, he nodded silently, and then said no more.
Liu Yi didn't ask more when he heard this, and he wasn't going to stay in this cottage for long, this kind of thing, naturally, the less he knew, the better, so as not to bring trouble to himself in the future.
"Brother, when can I leave?" After eating a piece of donkey meat, Liu Yi looked at the thief again and asked.
"This is the time to talk about meritorious deeds today, you can ask the owner of the village." The thief smiled: "Didn't the owner of the village say it yesterday, you have made a meritorious contribution to the thief this time, maybe you will be the leader." ”
Ringleader?
Liu Yi's eyes widened in astonishment, looking at the other party, if he didn't want to, would he be in danger? But he really didn't want to be a thief.
"Woo~Woo~" A horn suddenly sounded in the distance, Liu Yi remembered that it was the direction of the Zhuangzi who passed by yesterday, and before he could react, the thieves who were roasting donkey meat on a fire around him stood up in a hulala.
"It's Baimu Village!" The thief threw the donkey meat in his hand to the ground and shouted, "Brothers, assemble!" ”
"Whoa!" In Liu Yi's stunned gaze, the bandits who had just been in chaos quickly gathered in one place.
"Not yet!" The bandit glared at Liu Yi and shouted.
"Oh!" Liu Yi subconsciously stood up and followed a group of people in the direction of the main hall, Wangcai wanted to follow, but was stopped by Liu Yi with his gaze.
"Housekeeping!" Liu Yi said to Wangcai.
"Woo~" Wangcai silently lay on the ground and continued to eat meat, just now a group of thieves threw half-baked donkey meat on the ground, for Wangcai, this is the happiest thing.
Follow the team to a clearing in front of the main hall, but see that the whole cottage is here at this moment, the female thief is wearing a white robe and silver armor at the moment, a nine-foot silver gun in her hand, under the bronze mask, a pair of clear eyes, without the slightest emotion, seeing a group of thieves arrive, immediately waved the silver gun in his hand, without saying much, and led everyone to the direction where the trumpet came.
"Brother, outside this cottage, how can there still be people living at such a close distance?" Liu Yi followed the team blankly, pulled the familiar bandit on the side, and asked in a low voice.
"You think the bandits will only rob houses?" The thief glanced at Liu Yi and asked with a smile.
Isn't it?
Liu Yi looked at each other suspiciously.
"These people are fleeing, or do not want to be recruited by the government, the people are fierce, do not buy the official account, sometimes will directly fight with the government people, we are here, do not rob them, do not collect taxes, and many times, the looted property will be exchanged with them for food, and they help us to cover, the government generally even if it finds there, no one will report it, and will also report to us, and we will also provide shelter for them, if other bandits come to oppress, we will take action to solve it, This is also the rule of the bandits, and even many people in the cottage have women here. The bandit smiled.
This is the so-called rabbit does not eat the grass next to the nest, Liu Yi somewhat understands, why it is difficult to exterminate the bandits in ancient dynasties, I am afraid it is also related to the local people helping to cover up.
"The trumpet before that was...... Feudal official? Liu Yi looked at the other party and asked.
"It's not a warning horn, it's a distress call, there should be other cottages that have crossed the line." The bandit shook his head.
This Funiu Mountain is connected to Jingshan, there are many cottages like this, yesterday they connected more than a dozen cottages to deal with Cao Jun together, and it is normal for them to have conflicts with each other.
Liu Yi didn't want to go, after all, there might be a fight, and he had no attributes on his body, what if he was injured?
However, the current situation obviously did not give him a chance to choose.