Chapter 30 Preparing to Move South Sixteen___ to Sweep Boar Ridge

Zhang Zhimu saw that most of the remaining 22 bandits who did not commit major crimes were seventeen, eighteen, or twenty years old. I thought that in the bandits' den, as long as he stayed for a long time, his hands would have to be stained with blood, and they would all have to be dyed a color, otherwise, he would not be able to blend in the bandits.

Calling these two dozen people together, Zhang Zhimu asked, "Do you want to live?" ”

"I want to, I want to live." The bandits all knelt down and kowtowed.

"Well, I'll give you a chance to live. Kill two of the bandits each, and I will spare you with your life. What do you think? Zhang Zhimu asked. The results are all willing.

Zhang Zhimu made a large pile of wood in the courtyard, beheaded the thirty-five heinous bandits, and burned the corpses on the wood.

Zhang Zhimu shouted to the sky: "Those unjust souls who were killed, rest in peace." ”

After killing these bandits, Zhang Zhimu walked towards Li Zhi, who was tied to the pillar, this Li Zhi, seeing that thirty-five people were killed one by one in front of him, he was already soaked with sweat all over his body. Zhang Zhimu asked Li Zhi, "Did you do the same when you killed those merchants here, and how did you feel at that time?" ”

"I was also caught up in the mountains, because I knew how to raise pigeons, and I was left behind. At first, I watched them kill people, and I couldn't sleep well for a few days. However, people are like this, as long as they are still alive, they don't care about anything else, they can't take care of it, and they slowly get used to it. Speaking of the person who died just now, it is also retribution, and the life owed to others will have to be repaid sooner or later. ”

"As the steward of Wild Boar Ridge, Wild Boar Ridge owes so many lives, and you can't get out of it!" Zhang Zhimu said.

Seeing that Zhang Zhimu revealed his murderous intentions, Li Zhi said: "Leave me a life, I am useful, I released all the informants in Wild Boar Ridge." I know where the mountain belongings are. ”

This is Zhang Zhimu's purpose. Loosen the rope on Li Zhi's body and let him lead him to find something. Li Zhi hurriedly led Zhang Zhimu and the others to the back mountain. On the way, Li Zhi told him how he joined the gang. It turned out that Li Zhi, who lived in Hengshui, Zhongshu Province (now Hengshui, Hebei), made a fortune because he envied others to do business in the north, so he took out his little savings and borrowed some silver taels and went north to do business with others. Sent letters to the families of several people, those who had money, took the money to ransom people, and those who had no money were torn up. Since he knew how to keep pigeons, he didn't kill him and stayed in the mountains. Because the family had no money to ransom him, they thought he was dead a long time ago. When he can go down the mountain, he won't dare to go back. The first is what to do with the money owed when I go back, and I don't dare to think about what happened to the family in the end, and the second is that when I go back to the government, the whole family is implicated. As soon as you grit your teeth, you should treat yourself as if you are dead. Because he is serious in his work, he will come to work again, and he will slowly take charge of the entire Wild Boar Ridge chores. Since he can keep pigeons, all the expatriate informants have to pass on information through his pigeon flying pigeons, and slowly the matter of the expatriate informant is handed over to him.

When they arrived at the back mountain and opened a warehouse, Zhang Zhimu and the others were stunned. Inside, gold, silver, jewelry, silk and satin, and all kinds of valuables were piled up in a warehouse. Another warehouse was opened, and it was full of grain. Li Zhi whispered in Zhang Zhimu's ear, there are a lot of good things in the homes of the three masters. There is also a lot of gold and silver buried in the ground, and there are many people here, so I will talk about it later. It seems that Li Zhi has really worked hard to please him, and Zhang Zhimu has begun to like this person who can do things.

returned to the Juyi Hall and called the wife of the big boss. This is a woman in her thirties with a bit of beauty, wearing gold and silver, who was originally robbed of the mountain, and later became the wife of the big boss, and gave birth to a son for Liu Qi, who is thirteen years old this year. Zhang Zhimu asked him to hand over Liu Qi's money and belongings, which were all stolen things. But this lady who pressed the village, crying and crying, just said that she didn't know. Chen Yufeng invited Zhang Zhimu out. Liu Yun and the others came to interrogate, and after a while, the lady led Liu Yun to her house and found a lot of gold and silver treasures, fox skins and other valuables. The other two ladies were also very happy. The things of the three families can't be pulled by two cars. However, Zhang Zhimu felt that there was still a little less gold and silver dry goods, and several village owners had been here for so many years, and the gold and silver would not be so much. Zhang Zhimu personally came to the room of Liu Qi, the owner of Dazhai, and saw that it was already very messy. I can't see where I can hide anything. Zhang Zhimu asked people to lift the bed. It took a lot of effort to lift this bed, if it weren't for Zhang Zhimu's insistence, a few people said forget it, and they didn't want to do it. Zhang Zhimu called a few more people to come and lifted the bed out. ordered someone to open the floor tiles under the bed and cut the soil, and as a result, everyone once again admired Zhang Zhimu's magic. At his insistence, three jars were dug out under the bed, one full of gold bars, and the other two full of silver ingots. Then, the other two families did the same, and they made a lot of gold and silver.

The handling of the remaining people in Wild Boar Ridge made Zhang Zhimu a little difficult. The twenty-two bandits, each with a string of copper coins, were ready to let them go down the mountain. But fifteen of them, kneeling in front of Zhang Zhimu, just didn't leave. He said, "We have no other way to live when we go down the mountain, and we have to go to other mountains to be bandits and continue to do evil." We don't want to be bandits, and we were forced to be helpless at the beginning, because we can't go back to our homes, we can't recognize our relatives, and we are poked in the backbone when we live. I hope that the owner can take it in, and it is okay to be a cow or a horse. "Then I couldn't stand on my knees. There was no way, so I picked one, and there was nothing wrong with the right age, and I left twelve, and the other three gave them a little more silver, and let them go home. Left behind the joyful land. Chen Yufeng explained the rules to the few people who remained. They have heard of the name of "Mountain Harrier" for a long time, and today I will personally tell you the rules, so I can only listen to them.

Regarding the matter of the three ladies, Zhang Zhimu had a conflict with everyone. According to everyone, there is no need to have any doubts, it must be killed. In particular, they conceal their belongings, and they cannot be forgiven. If there are endless troubles left behind, the two little mongrels can't stay, and the grass must be cut to the roots, otherwise, it will be very troublesome to seek revenge when it is big. Zhang Zhimu resolutely objected, saying: "One and these three women, they were all robbed and were victims. Second, it is human instinct to hide possessions. Don't worry about it. As for the children, when they grow up and think that their father does not deserve to die and wants revenge, let them come to me. ”

The lady of the big boss said that she wanted to go back to her parents' house. Zhang Zhimu asked their old servants to set up a carriage and bring the children, their maiden rings, and clothes and supplies. Before leaving, Zhang Zhimu gave each person a gold bar and told them that no matter how much evil the child's father did, the child was innocent and that the child should be raised. As they stopped by the way, the three ladies set off together, but they came to the drawbridge. The third lady quit, jumped out of the carriage, knelt in front of Zhang Zhimu, and said that she couldn't go home, and let her family know that she had been robbed up the mountain by bandits for two years, and the whole family would not be able to raise their heads in front of everyone, and she might as well die, anyway, the family thought they were dead. Zhang Zhimu had no choice but to say, let's stay first. Seeing that Zhang Zhimu spit out, he gave Zhang Zhimu a secret book of the three masters, saying that all the damn tricks to harm people were here. Zhang Zhimu asked Chen Yufeng to keep this cheat.

The remaining twenty or so women, the oldest of whom was only thirty years old, and the younger one was seventeen or eighteen years old, all said that they were unwilling to leave, which made Zhang Zhimu difficult. These women said that the women who went up the mountain did not dare to go home, and if they did not go home in this troubled world, they could only go to the Qinglou if they didn't want to starve to death outside. But everyone would rather die together than go to Qinglou, and Zhang Zhimu was still moved by his integrity. But these women are really difficult to handle, and they can't be arranged. Looking at Chen Yufeng, Chen Yufeng turned his head away, regardless of this. He didn't care about it, Zhang Zhimu was easy to do, and said that he would stay first.

Ignoring these people for now, Zhang Zhimu and Chen Yufeng said: "It is not advisable to stay here for a long time, and things must be transported away as soon as possible." ”

Chen Yufeng said: "Walking towards the mouth of the tiger, the front station is a big town, and there are several inns of various sizes. Going forward, it's a tiger's mouth. Because from the mouth of the tiger to the east to Zhangjiakou, Beijing, Tianjin and our line are all resting there, so it is very lively, and it is also convenient for us to put things there, which is also called quiet in the noisy. Tomorrow, I'll take someone to pull a few truckloads of goods over to see if I can charter an inn and transport all the things. We'll take it with us when we come back from the tiger's mouth. ”

Counting the numbers, there were 26 wagons, 85 horses, 10 mules, and 5 oxen and donkeys. In this way, with the four cars brought by Zhang Zhimu and them, there are a total of thirty cars.

The next day, thirty carts of grain were loaded, because the grain was not eye-catching, Chen Yufeng led Liu Yun and others to bring the newly left brothers in Wild Boar Ridge, drove thirty carts, and rushed to the next stop, Fanjiaying.

Li Wei, Yan Boju, Fan Chengkun and other four people accompanied Zhang Zhimu, as well as some people from Wild Boar Ridge, who stayed in the cottage.

It was dark, and Chen Yufeng and the others drove the car back. They chartered a small inn over there, gave the boss a double share of the store money, and told him that he couldn't arrange other guests. Leaving Li Yunhe and Liu Chenghuang and other four people to watch things. This road is not close, this is a three-horse cart, barely a round trip. Chen Yufeng said that the horses will be fed some good food tonight.

The next day, there was another trip to pull food. It's about the same as pulling the grain in the granary.

In the past two days, Li Zhi took Zhang Zhimu and four others to use the evening time to dig up a buried and sealed cellar, and the result was that there were five boxes of gold ingots, fifteen boxes of treasury silver, two boxes of agate, cat's eye, red and green rubies, beads, and so on. Li Zhi said that he just knew there was something here, but he didn't expect there to be so many. Zhang Zhimu couldn't figure out why these bandits were fighting, robbing and robbing desperately, and as a result, they got some cold things and buried them in the ground. Why is this so painful?

According to the statistics, a total of 18,156 taels of gold and 53,275 taels of silver were obtained at Wild Boar Ridge this time. Zhang Zhimu didn't understand the jewelry, and it was estimated that the value would not be much less than these gold and silver.

On the last trip, the gold and silver were loaded into several large wagons. I loaded everything in the library into the car. Seeing that there were still empty cars, he pulled up a pile of cowhides in the warehouse. Finally, pots and pans are also pulled up. Zhang Zhimu wants to live and use money everywhere, and these things are all money.

Then the cottage was poured with oil, and a fire was ignited. Everyone watched the fire crackle, and their feelings were very complicated.