On the gentle slope, Zhang Fengwu is directing the men of the same village to bury the corpses and sort out the salt trucks.

He was originally a showman, but he repeatedly failed in scientific examinations, and at the age of nearly forty, he couldn't even support his wife and children.

The future is hopeless, and there is no lower limit, so he took risks in order to make a living, and took a few people from the same village to start a private salt business.

Last month, two loads of illicit salt were approved from a salt dealer, and before they could be shipped back to sell, they met the county's errand officer, Zhang Fengwu hid in the grass to escape, who knew that it was the salt dealer surnamed Pan who colluded with the government to eat black. When he saw the surnamed Pan quietly appear and take away the illicit salt from the errand officer, Zhang Fengwu's teeth were crushed, and that was all the funds that he and the villagers had worked hard to scrape!

Since your surname is Pan, don't blame me!

Zhang Fengwu sent someone to figure out the traces of the salt seller surnamed Pan, and when he escorted the salt truck to pass by again, he took the villagers to kill with masks, and seven or eight men killed the four people surnamed Pan with hoes and bamboo guns, and only the surname Pan fled in embarrassment.

"Hurry up and bury the body, and leave with the salt cart." Zhang Fengwu instructed that these two carts of salt could be sold for at least two hundred taels of silver, and the future would be much better.

Although this place is remote, you have to get out of here quickly, and be careful not to be seen. Besides, the person surnamed Pan has fled, and he will definitely attract people to come.

The group buried the corpse, and was about to pull the salt cart away, but they were stunned all of a sudden, and saw two people coming out of the woods in the distance, wearing strong suits and holding sharp blades, and they were clearly dressed as officials and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty. One of them, apparently a general, was directing east and west with his hands, while the other leaned down and listened, and then turned back and ran towards the woods, clearly to call someone.

"It's not good, there are officers and soldiers!" Zhang Fengwu was taken aback, there were only seven people on his side, all of them were farmers who farmed the land, where were the opponents of officers and soldiers! If the officers and soldiers rushed out of the woods, it would be difficult to escape!

"Run, everyone!" Zhang Fengwu turned around and roared, but was surprised to find that several villagers had already thrown away their hoes and bamboo guns and ran wildly.

I'll run too, Zhang Fengwu turned around and ran, the robbed salt truck can't be taken care of, it's better to run for your life.

They've all fled! Yang Xiaolei looked at the robbers running wildly not far away, and secretly said that Brother Gu's method was really good, just pretending that there was still an army in the woods, so he scared these robbers into the desert and fled.

"Wow, where to run!" Yang Xiaolei couldn't call Gu Jincheng, who pretended to go to the woods to move troops, and chased him out with a sword.

When Gu Jincheng ran out of the woods, Yang Xiaolei had already chased him away.

Zhang Fengwu ran away in embarrassment, he couldn't run fast at all because he was not diligent in studying all the year round, and the accomplices in the village only knew how to flee by themselves, and no one paid attention to him, a talented man.

The footsteps behind him were getting closer and closer, and Zhang Fengwu knew that the official army had chased behind him, and in a panic, he tripped on the raised clod of soil and fell into a rolling gourd.

"Okay, you are a thief, you dare to kill and rob, you must know that your grandfather Yang is here!" Yang Xiaolei stepped on Zhang Fengwu's body and laughed proudly.

Zhang Fengwu's hands were only tied with a rope and thrown next to the salt cart, his heart was full of frustration, it turned out that there were only two people on the other side, and if he fought hard with them, he would not be able to win. And now, it's all over! His own future, his reputation, all go down the drain. Since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, the Xiucai who killed and robbed but was caught, he is the only one!

After a while, an ox cart drove over, and the bastard surnamed Pan was sitting in the car, and it turned out to be the two people he was looking for! Zhang Fengwu glared at Pan Sanchun fiercely.

"It's you!" Pan Sanchun got off the ox cart and looked at Zhang Fengwu in shock, at the beginning of the robbery, Zhang Fengwu and his villagers were wearing face towels, Pan Sanchun didn't know that it was an acquaintance who robbed him.

"Good boy, I pitied you for doing business with you at the beginning, but I didn't expect you to have a thief's heart!" Thinking about the guy who was killed, Pan Sanchun was angry, and stepped forward to kick Zhang Fengwu.

"Bastard, if you hadn't colluded with the servants to eat black and rob me of my salt, why would I have led someone to rob you?" Zhang Fengwu's eyes were red, and he scolded Pan Sanchun viciously.

"Nonsense, what collusion with the black to eat and drink!" Pan Sanchun's face changed suddenly, and he looked at Gu Jincheng and Yang Xiaolei with some weakness.

"You two know each other?" Yang Xiaolei asked with some curiosity.

"I had a business with him and sold him salt, but I didn't expect him to be a thief!" Pan Sanchun explained.

"It's true that you sold me salt, but you colluded with the servants and robbed it again, and I was almost caught and imprisoned." Zhang Fengwu argued while looking at Gu Jincheng and Yang Xiaolei, secretly guessing their relationship with the surname Pan.

"Brother Gu, what do you say you should do?" Yang Xiaolei was a little stunned, and he didn't know who to believe!

"Two generals, don't listen to his nonsense, he is just quibbling and can't cover up the fact that he killed people and sold goods. As long as the two of you help me send him to Yizhen County, I will definitely be rewarded. Pan Sanchun hurriedly said.

"Yizhen, we are going to Yangzhou, not by the way." Yang Xiaolei said casually.

"General Yang," Pan Sanchun felt that Yang Xiaolei was better at talking than Gu Jincheng, who had a gloomy personality, so he hurriedly pulled him aside and whispered, "It's okay if you don't send him to Yizhen, just ask General Yang to just kill him, anyway, he will die innocently." Saying that, he stuffed something into Yang Xiaolei's hand, Yang Xiaolei looked down, but it was a crystal clear jade pendant.

Looking at the character of this jade pendant, it is worth at least thirty or forty taels of silver, although Yang Xiaolei is not short of money, he is also a little moved.

"Is your salt official salt or private salt?" At this moment, Gu Jincheng on the side suddenly asked.

"Of course, it's illegal salt, and the one who walks on this road may be official salt." Pan Sanchun's expression changed, and before he could speak, Zhang Fengwu, who was tied up on the side, spoke, with a face full of ridicule.

"This surnamed Pan was originally a smuggled salt dealer, who transported illicit salt from Yangzhou and sold it in Chuzhou."

"Nonsense, mine is a serious official salt, which is purchased from the Jiang family in Yangzhou, how can it be private salt!" Pan Sanchun jumped three feet high and shouted.

"Two generals, the Jiang family is the largest salt merchant in Yangzhou, how can his family's salt be private salt! You must not believe him. ”

"Hmph, one is a robber who kills people and steals goods, and the other is a smuggler of salt, both of which are not good things!"

Gu Jincheng grabbed Pan Sanchun to the ground and tied him up with a rope regardless of his dispute.

"Brother Gu, what's going on?" Yang Xiaolei looked at it blankly and asked suspiciously.

"Brother Yang, since we are going to Yangzhou to join the Pingnan Army, let's first give a gift to the old man of Pingnanhou, and then escort the two of them to Yangzhou together." Gu Jincheng said lightly.

The capture of a robber who killed people and sold goods and a salt dealer who trafficked illicit salt is also a great achievement, so maybe the names of the two can reach the ears of Ping Nanhou, which can be of great benefit to the future of the two! With this merit, it may be appreciated by the Marquis of Pingnan, so that the two of them can obtain higher positions.

"Oh, yes!" Yang Xiaolei thought about it and became excited. If these two people are escorted into Yangzhou, it will definitely cause a sensation, and maybe the whole Yangzhou will know my Yang Xiaolei's name! It's cool to think about!