"Second uncle, I can faintly see the pursuers behind, what should I do? Shall we flee with it? Li Guo's voice sounded in Li Hongji's ears again.

"No, go to the forest, the thieves have a few fast horses, we will definitely not be able to escape, and now the crowd is so crowded," Li Hongji pulled Li Guo, who was still in a daze, and hid in the forest, there was a thick tree in front of him, with many branches on it, he pointed with his hand, "Quick, let's go up the tree." ”

"Up the tree?" Li Guo looked up and looked, "Such a thick tree, the trunk is slippery and ......."

"Don't say it, quick, you go first, don't let these thieves find out." Li Hongji pushed behind him, Li Guo couldn't do it, so he had to climb up along the trunk, Li Hongji himself climbed up, and sat down against the trunk on a huge branch, just in time to see the official road.

Li Guo lowered his voice and said, "Second uncle, we stay in the tree, if we are found by thieves, there is no way to escape." ”

"How can thieves search for these big trees on both sides of the official road?" Li Hongji looked complacent, "Besides, it's going to get dark soon, how can thieves come to the trees in the dark to look for it?" ”

Li Guo thought about it, so he stopped talking, but turned his eyes to the official road.

On the official road, the thieves have already chased over, three groups of fast horses take the lead, the man on the horse holds the knife in one hand, holds the reins in the other, catches up with the people who are running fast, and does not speak, go up is a knife.

The thieves on foot followed, and when they saw the package in the hands of the people, they grabbed it first, and if they didn't find what they wanted after opening it, they threw it away, but cut the owner of the package to the ground, and cursed in their mouths: "Poor ghost, what are you running, Lao Tzu has chased so far, ......and there is no silver at all."

More of the exclamations of thieves and the screams of refugees, and the hysteria of women......

It's both heaven and hell.

A thief's paradise, where property, women, and human lives can be harvested at will, and in front of them is a flock of two-legged sheep, two-legged sheep without horns, and there is no resistance except that calling can make the thieves' blood expand even more.

The hell of the refugees, their belongings, their bodies and even their lives, turned out to be so fragile at this moment, they spontaneously squatted on the snow with their heads in their hands, let the thieves humiliate them, knowing that there was no hope, they still let out desperate screams, except begging for mercy, not even scolding.

In this game of heaven and hell, there is not even a judge, the north wind and the snow, soon blow away all these evils, they are the masters of this world, but they cannot speak.

Li Hongji and Li Guo were hidden in the woods south of the official road, as soon as the north wind blew, the voice on the official road was clear, and even the smell of blood could be smelled, Li Guo's body trembled slightly, and in order to cover up, he scolded softly: "These thieves who kill the heavens......"

"Double Happiness, now you know why I don't want to join the thieves, right?" Li Hongji closed his eyes slightly, as if he didn't want to witness the tragedy in the world, and he might be thinking about something.

"Is it because they killed these people?" Li Guo also learned from Li Hongji, closed his eyes and thought about it, he was not avenging the people, he just felt that these thieves were too cruel.

"Hmm." Li Hongji nodded, opened his eyes slightly, but his gaze fell on the official road outside.

"These people, if you kill them, you will kill them," Li Guo was puzzled, when did the second uncle become so merciful? "Second uncle, you weren't like this before......"

"It's different now," Li Hongji twisted to make his body sit more comfortably, "If you disregard people's lives like this, you won't get the support of the people, and besides, they will kill the chickens and eggs, they will rob the people and kill the people, who will grow food for them in the future?" If this continues, they will not be able to survive unless they are surrounded and suppressed by officers and soldiers. ”

Li Guo didn't care at all, "Change places, as long as you change places, you will have food and silver." ”

"If this continues, as long as the officers and soldiers encircle and suppress in the future, and they will always be driven around by the officers and soldiers, it will be really a rogue," Li Hongji sighed slightly, "Double happiness, if you don't have your own territory, how can you have a fixed source of food?" It's not as good as the king of the mountain! ”

Li Guo still doesn't understand, the country is so big, how much food is waiting to be grabbed!

Li Hongji continued: "We only talk about the food problem, if the whole country is robbed of grain, what will we do then? ”

Li Guo's eyes widened, "Won't it?" Daming has so much food, how can he grab it? ”

"Double happiness, if you rob everywhere, the people can't engage in production with peace of mind, how can there be food for thieves to rob?" Li Hongji knew Li Guo's thoughts, destruction is always a thousand times easier than construction, and getting something for nothing is what he really means, "Do you know the king of the mountain?" They generally only rob the passing merchants, and the exploitation of the local people is not too serious, why? ”

"Second uncle, I understand a little," Li Guo retracted his gaze and looked at Li Hongji in front of him fixedly, "We have an old saying, rabbits don't eat the grass by the nest." ”

"Yes, that's the truth," Li Hongji praised, "the key is to protect the territory and the people, whether it is thieves or the imperial court, if you can't let the people in the territory have a life, the people will rise up and rebel, sooner or later, these people riding on the heads of the people will be driven out by the people." ”

Li Guo understands these truths, like the current Shaanxi, if the people are not without food to eat, how can these thieves appear? Sooner or later, they will drive the forces of the imperial court out of Shaanxi, but these thieves, if they can't treat the people in the territory well, new thieves will be born among the people, and sooner or later they will be driven out again, or even eliminated, "Second uncle, I understand, or I say that the second uncle has a good brain, and in the future, I will listen to the second uncle." ”

Li Hongji said with a smile: "As long as our uncle and nephew have one heart, are we still worried that we can't break a way?" Double happiness, don't look at us as poor now, but wealth will belong to us sooner or later. He smiled secretly in his heart, as long as he found an opportunity to release these technologies on his body, why didn't he worry about wealth and nobility beckoning? But not now, not only do you not have the money and space to use these technologies, but you also don't have the ability to protect these technologies, and what you saw tonight proves that heaven and earth regard everything as a young dog, and in this troubled world, not to mention wealth, it is a blessing to be able to save your life.

It's himself, if it weren't for Gao Ligong's desperate righteous anger, he wouldn't know if he could eat this Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, who did he recruit and provoke whom?

Thinking about it this way, going to Ganzhou to join the army and building up his own forces step by step, this will is even firmer, although I don't know the specific details for the time being, but this step must be continued.

At this moment, there were voices on the official road outside, in addition to the chaotic and dense footsteps, the hoarse and weak moans of women, and the triumphant laughter and scolding of the thieves.

It was already completely dark, but many of the thieves lit torches, Li Hongji looked at it, three horses were headed, and on the back of each horse not only sat a leader with a serious expression, but also a woman was placed horizontally, judging from their plain clothes, it should be a young woman, the woman was lying on the horse's back, and her upper and lower limbs were hanging on the belly of the horse on both sides, and her face could not be seen.

The thieves who followed behind were all holding bright steel knives, and most of the thieves were carrying a woman with a buttocks on their shoulders, and the women didn't know if they were overly frightened or had lost the strength to resist, at most they only squirmed slightly on the shoulders of the thieves, as if they were tickling them, and the strong men who were caught formed a team of their own, they drooped their heads, and occasionally peeked at the woman on the shoulder of a certain thief.

Maybe it was their woman, or sister, but not only could they not save their relatives, they didn't even dare to look angry, and all their grief could only be buried in their hearts.

Li Guo didn't say a word, his hands clutched the trunk of the tree beside him, the original snow on the trunk had melted, and the blood flowed down his wrist into his sleeve, he didn't know it.

"Double Happiness, what's wrong with you?" Li Hongji knew that he was going through great labor pains in his heart, and hoped that he would no longer envy the free way of life of these thieves.

"It's really a thief's eyes," Li Guo came back to his senses and whispered, "They treat the people nearby like this, how can the people be willing to grow food for them?" It is these young men who have been arrested, seeing that their relatives have been robbed and killed, and in the future, the officers and soldiers will come to suppress them, and it is difficult to guarantee that they will not turn back! ”

"Shuangxi can think like this, I am relieved," Seeing these ordinary women being robbed, but he couldn't help, Li Hongji's heart was extremely self-blaming, although he knew that at the end of the Ming Dynasty, this was a normal thing, but seeing such a thing happen with his own eyes was another thing, he did not have the desire to "level the world" and "save the people from fire and water", but the people were so killed, robbed, and forced to become a gang of thieves, there was an indescribable blockage in his heart, fortunately, Li Guo experienced this bloody lesson, There is no longer a desire to join the thieves, "These thieves, sooner or later, will be destroyed by the officers and soldiers!" ”

"Well," Li Guo found that the snow water flowed into the cuffs, he reached out and shook it, and squeezed the water stains on the cuffs again, "Second uncle, what should we do now?" If you stay in a tree all night, I'm afraid you'll be frozen. ”

"Wait until the thieves are far away."

The faint fire dragon gradually went west, except for the north wind on the official road, there was no sound, Li Hongji and Li Guo quietly slipped down from the big tree, and carefully came to the official road, looking around, the official road was gray-black, in sharp contrast with the snow on both sides of the road, although Li Guo bowed down, he was still tripped by a corpse on the ground, and almost fell, he stabilized his body and asked carefully: "Second uncle, among these people, are there any alive?" ”

"I don't know, let's ask, if there is a minor injury, see if we can save it!" Li Hongji is not a bodhisattva, but such a tragedy happened under his nose, which is really unbearable.

"Fellow ......"

"Fellow, the thieves have gone far away, how are you doing?"

……

The two of them traveled all the way east, and they walked and asked, but all that answered them was the whistling northwest wind, coupled with the strong smell of blood, Li Hongji frowned, "These thieves are really killed!" ”

"Second uncle, what should we do?" Li Guo was also dead-hearted, and finally prepared to do something to save the life and help the wounded, but God didn't give him a chance, and now the most important thing is their own situation.

If you continue to go west, it is to chase the thieves, in case you meet them to patrol the night, it is to send them to death, and it is not realistic to turn back to the east, not only will you have to go a lot back, but the hotel is also far away, and when you find the hotel to stay, I am afraid that the sky will be bright.