"Childe, I'm not a thief, please spare my life!" Yue Kuan knelt down directly and begged.

Not a bandit?

Zhao Rui was surprised, and after asking carefully, he learned that this Yue Kuan was a soldier.

"What if it's not a bandit, although you didn't kill the person, but it was because of you that he was defenseless! So, you're still going to die! ”

Zhao Rui raised the gun again.

"Childe! I was stopped by them when I was leaving, and by the way, I can teach you marksmanship! My ancestor was the general of the Yue family's army, and I can teach your subordinates the ancestral Yue family's marksmanship! Yue Kuan said hurriedly.

"Yue's marksmanship? You're the one who has good marksmanship? ”

Zhao Rui was really interested at this time, so he put away the gun and let him get up.

"Yes, Childe, your guns aren't actually called guns."

Yue Kuan and Kun Nu next to him wanted to pass over, and then held both ends with both hands and pressed down sharply, and his right knee was raised high at the same time, and with a click, the barrel of the gun broke in response.

"You try mine again!"

Yue Kuan picked up his red tassel gun and handed it to Zhao Rui, Zhao Rui also learned his movements, but he didn't expect the gun to be so elastic that it was impossible to break it.

"Okay, it's kind of interesting, then you can teach them marksmanship, which can be regarded as atonement. If you do anything wrong, my musket will not spare you! ”

After Zhao Rui finished speaking, he went to clean up the battlefield.

Yue Kuan smiled bitterly and wiped the sweat on his forehead, this fate was saved!

A lot of grain, rice wine, meat, and a large handful of Jiaozi in Xue Fugui's arms were found in the village.

These are the money that the Zhou family wants to pay for themselves! Zhao Rui smiled coldly.

The bandits have been gathered by the house slaves, standing in a row honestly, Zhao Rui's weapons are amazing, he will kill when he says kill, these bandits dare not have any eye contact with him.

"You have done many injustices before, and you have committed many sins, but I need manpower to build up my power, if you stay, you will not be blamed for the previous things, if you don't want to stay, I will take you to see the official now!"

Zhao Rui paused, saw each of them, and said: "If you stay, then you have to obey the order, and there will be no more life of spending time and drinking, there is only endless training!" If someone wants to repent, it's still too late! Have it? ”

The bandits looked at each other, which one dared not stay?

If you go to the county seat to see an official, you must not be beheaded to show the public.

So they all saluted Zhao Rui and expressed their willingness to follow.

Zhao Rui then found three squad leaders, and asked them to stay in the mountains in the future, and while learning marksmanship with Yue Kuan, they also had to take these bandits to practice.

Zhao Rui said that he did not shy away from anyone, and those thieves were terrified when they heard it.

After everything was arranged, Zhao Rui breathed a sigh of relief, but the loss of one of the house slaves made him feel very heavy, and he originally wanted to find a training method for the special forces after he went back.

"Zhao Gong, you went and cut off the head of the leader, as well as the bandits over there, let's take them back!"

Zhao Gong didn't ask much, and did as Zhao Rui instructed.

The two of them smeared a lot of blood on their bodies before they went down the mountain.

Lingshan County Yali.

The Li family and the Zhou family themselves are old rivals, and Steward Li is still reading Zhao Rui's gift, so naturally he will not help the Zhou family speak.

"Young Master Zhou, what you said is light, no matter how cheap Kunnu is, it was bought with silver, how could his Zhao family agree?"

Steward Li represents the largest Li family, and no one else really dares to refute it, but Zhou Junnan opened his mouth again.

"What's so difficult about this, there are a lot of us, isn't it okay for each family to make some money, in this way, my Zhou family will pay ten taels of silver!"

Zhou Junnan shouted loudly, but there was really not much money out.

Someone took the lead, and everyone responded.

This is five taels, that eight taels, and in the end, it is less than a hundred taels of silver.

Steward Li secretly thought, isn't this bullying? Who is sitting here who doesn't know the price of Kunnu? It's just pretending to be confused!

Liu Xianling sat on the main seat, and his heart was about to bloom!

Originally, the suppression of bandits was a loss-making business, but now it is good, first, you don't have to pay for yourself, and second, you don't have to pay for yourself, and in the end, if the bandits are successful, the credit will still be counted on your own head.

The more Liu Xianling looked at Zhou Junnan, the more pleasing he was, this son really didn't have to be bad with his father! People are handsome, and they speak so nicely!

Steward Li was lonely, so he had to pay 10 taels of silver, and the total amount was just over 100.

Everyone was about to go to Zhao Rui to discuss the matter with the silver, but was stopped by Zhou Junnan.

"Lord Liu!"

Zhou Junnan bowed deeply and said to Liu County: "Please also go with us!" That Zhao Rui has a small belly and chicken intestines on weekdays, and he is afraid that he doesn't know how powerful he is, so he just shirks it. If adults can let him understand the truth, wouldn't it save us a lot of tongues? ”

Look, I'll just say he's a nice talker.

Liu Xianling felt that Zhou Junnan was a particular person, so he stroked his beard and said triumphantly: "What Zhou Gongzi said is very true, for the benefit of everyone, this official will go in person!" ”

Lord Liu came forward, and the matter was basically decided, and everyone only felt a lot more relaxed, and followed Liu Xianling and Zhou Junnan behind them, and went out together.

More than a dozen people, through the streets and alleys, came directly to the front of the "Stone of the Mountain" store.

"Where is Zhao Rui? Lord Liu is here, why don't you come out to meet you soon! ”

When the customers in line saw the official coming, they were all silent and did not dare to speak.

Liu Xianling waited with a smile, and his own servants helped him call people.

Unexpectedly, Zhao Rui didn't show up, but Lin Shizhao ran out in a hurry.

"The villain Lin Shizhao has met Master Liu."

Because he was not in court, Lin Shizhao bowed respectfully.

Liu Xianling recognized the son of the Lin family, what did he do when he came out? So he waved his hand impatiently and said, "What about Zhao Rui, why haven't you come out to see me?" ”

Zhou Junnan looked at the store and was only a few people selling goods, and he was also surprised in his heart, could it be that Zhao Rui was so frightened by the thieves that he couldn't stay at home? That's really looking up to him at the beginning!

But Lin Shizhao's next reply made everyone's jaws drop.

"Oh, Brother Zhao, he took the house slave and went to Lingshan to suppress the bandits! I've been walking for about an hour......"

What the!

The unexpected result made Zhou Junnan feel incredible!

What a situation!

Before being persecuted, he led people to suppress the bandits, isn't it too ignorant of the sky?

Those thieves are all extremely vicious people with human lives, isn't Zhao Rui afraid of death?

Zhou Junnan was embarrassed for a while, and he was still proud of his ingenious arrangement, but now it seems that it is just a superfluous move.

The county commander and everyone were also surprised, but after a moment's effort, there were still people who suspected Zhao Rui.

"Lord Liu, I think Zhao Rui probably ran away!"

"Yes, I guess he was worried about the bandits committing again, so he hid."

"Either he guessed our purpose in advance, lest the adults call his guardian and avoid it!"

"This son is really a small-bellied chicken intestine, it can be seen that what Zhou Gongzi said is true!"

Zhou Junnan listened to everyone's discussions, and his face was stunned, yes, Zhao Rui's house was mostly hidden!

Liu Xianling's face was gloomy and ugly, if Zhao Rui really hid, the heavy responsibility of suppressing bandits would still fall on him, and he would have to pay compensation to the dead when the time came, it was really troublesome!

Zhou Junnan pondered for a moment, and said to the county order: "My lord, let's go out of the county seat together to investigate, there are so many people coming and going, someone must know their whereabouts!" ”

Want to run? Hehe, how can I let you get what you want? After Zhou Junnan finished speaking, he smiled secretly in his heart.

"Yes, Zhou Gongzi is right, let's go out of the city to investigate!"

"That's right! Anyway, it's all here, and it doesn't take much time to get out of town! ”

"If Zhao Rui hides, Lord Liu, you have to teach him a good lesson! Defending the county seat, the husband is responsible, so many of him still shirk and hide, and he clearly doesn't take the villagers in his eyes! ”

Zhao Rui's disappearance directly made him the target of public criticism.

Liu County's order could only do so at first glance, but he was still a little worried about safety, so he asked a servant to go back and bring all the soldiers, and then he took everyone out of the West City Gate.

Yesterday's harassment by the bandits did not have any impact on the surrounding area, the west gate was wide open, and from time to time people from the surrounding villages came into the city to buy things, or sell their own vegetables and local products.

There were two guards standing at the door, and a tax officer, who was checking the pedestrians entering the city one by one, and if they were carrying goods, they were all required to pay a little tax.

Seeing Lord Liu coming arrogantly, the guards and the little officials all stepped forward to pay their respects.

"Have you ever seen Zhao Rui go with his family?" Liu Xianling waved his hand impatiently and asked.

"Back to my lord, dozens of them hurriedly went in the direction of Lingshan, and they all carried spears, presumably to suppress bandits." One of the guards said respectfully.

Really went to suppress the bandits? Everyone couldn't help but look at each other, and there were still some doubts in their hearts.

"Bastard thing! Such an abnormal situation! Why don't you report back to me in a timely manner? ”

Liu County's order was anxious when he heard it, these two guards didn't report it, it was too hateful, and they would be questioned after scolding.

"Oops! Adults are angry, we also have to stick here to prevent the bandits from attacking again, please forgive me! ”

The guards hurriedly begged for mercy, in fact, they followed the tax collector here to make oil and water, and both of them were afraid of making a few less money, so in the end they did not report it.

As for resisting bandits? I'm afraid they will flee faster than anyone else.

Liu Xian Lingxin was not here, but just snorted coldly and did not pursue it.

There are dozens of them, and their deeds must be obvious, and the county order summoned the head catcher, asked him to chase the traces, and led everyone to continue walking outside the city.

He, Zhao Rui, may be a bandit, or he may run away in the name of suppressing bandits!

Most of the people had this idea, and they directly followed the footprints to the foot of Lingshan Mountain.

Seeing the traces of going up the mountain, everyone did not dare to move forward, stayed in place, and kept looking towards the mountain.

"Look! Who is that? ”

Someone spotted two figures, walking down the hill.