Hao Siwen said: "Okay, I'll convey it, it's just that my brother Guan Sheng's temper is like this." ”

Chao Gai said: "Don't disturb the wine because of some small things, let's continue to drink the bar." ”

Everyone returned to the wine table, but it tasted tasteless, and the wine was gone.

After the meal, Hao Siwen said: "It's not that I'm afraid of things, it's just that these salt rods are originally a team of ruffians, and they must take revenge for such a big loss this time, and my brother and others are naturally not afraid of martial arts, but if they hit hard, they will inevitably have to eat people's lives if they kill a few salt rods." ”

Chao Gai sighed: "Okay, my brother won't embarrass you, let's go back to the hotel to pack up our things and leave, just hurry to Yan'an as soon as possible." ”

Hao Siwen bowed and said, "When I have leisure another day, my younger brother will definitely go to my brother's house to apologize." ”

"Haha, what is Brother Hao's crime, don't take it seriously." Chao Gai said. Chao Gai left Hao Siwen a cavalry knife made of stainless steel, and Hao Siwen liked it very much.

Chao Gai and the others returned to the inn and immediately settled the room payment, packed up their things and immediately prepared to leave the city. There was a pair of eyes staring closely in the backyard of the hotel, and when Jiao Ting was taking the blanket, one accidentally dropped the three hundred taels of silver and hundreds of taels of gold in it to the ground.

Li Kui said: "You are such a big man, you will drop all this money on the ground, don't you hurry up and pick it up." ”

After that, Li Kui helped pick it up and put it on the horse's buttocks. Jiao Ting said: "My brother asked me to take the money because I trusted me, if I let you take the money, I don't know which hotel I will spend it on." ”

"Go, go, am I Tie Niu that kind of person?" Li Kui said unconvinced.

Chao Gai, Wu Yong, Xu Guanzhong, Jiao Ting, Li Kui, Pang Wanchun and a group of six people and more than ten horses went away, not much gain in Pudong, did not find Tang Bin, but made Hao Siwen strong, but also offended Guan Sheng.

The team walked for more than an hour, and walked out for more than 40 miles, seeing that the sun was already red and setting in the west, and the weather in late autumn was already dark very early.

Xu Guanzhong said: "It's not early, it's better to find an inn to rest early." ”

Li Kui said: "Where is there an inn in this barren mountain and wilderness. ”

Helplessly, everyone had to continue to hurry, and also encountered a few small villages, but the people looked at six big men, and those who rode horses and knives did not dare to stay overnight.

Chao Gai saw that it was getting dark and said: "We have two choices, the first is to bring a tent, and we can rest temporarily as soon as we set it up on the edge of the official road, and the second is to find a nearby temple to spend the night." ”

"Let's find a temple, our tent is too small, and there can't be a fire inside, it's weird." Li Kui said.

Jiao Ting smiled: "You must want to eat some barbecue." ”

As he was talking, Xu Guanzhong pointed to the barren slope not far in front and shouted, "There is a temple there, let's go there and have a look." ”

Everyone came to take a closer look, it turned out to be a mountain temple, dilapidated and dilapidated, and the gate didn't know which one to split open when the firewood burned. The three halls are still intact, and there is naturally no problem to shelter from the wind and rain.

Pang Wanchun put the horse on the sentry, Xu Guanzhong Jiao Ting cleaned up, Li Kui made a fire to barbecue meat, Wu Yong looked around, and suddenly found that the goose feather fan was missing, and asked, "Who took my goose feather fan?" ”

Li Kui said with a smile: "No wonder you have a fan on a cold day, it turns out that you can fan the wind when you make a fire."

Chao Gai said: "I always feel that something is wrong, I'm afraid the night will not be peaceful." ”

Wu Yong said: "Why do you say that? ”

"I always feel that there are a pair of eyes staring at us along the way, could it be that Guan Sheng has a grudge against Pang Wanchun and wants to take revenge at night?" Chao Gai said.

Wu Yong said with a smile: "No, these generals are descendants, one by one, they are pretentious, even if they want to come, they will come in a righteous and bright way, and they will definitely not come secretly." It may also be the person who Yan Ding has found, you must know that my brother turned out to be trafficking in illicit salt, these salt Ding theory methods are still some, we brought a lot of money, or it may be that the bandits on the road found the traces, it seems that tonight is not peaceful. ”

Chao Gai called the big guy over and said, "We may be targeted by the bandits as fat sheep, and it is too late to move when the sky is about to get dark, so I decided to defend and strive to wipe out the bandits, which can be regarded as eliminating harm for the people." ”

Chao Gai's words made the newcomer Xu Guanzhong look at it differently, what is a hero, this is called a hero, the fat sheep wants to annihilate all the thieves, what a hero.

After Xia Chao Gai made detailed arrangements, Pang Wanchun was still sentry, and the horses did not need to graze, and they all returned to the yard to plant ** materials and replenish energy. Wu Yong and Xu Guanzhong inspected the suspicious places in the mountain temple to see if the thieves had done anything wrong, and searched all the places where people could be hidden.

Li Kui, Jiao Ting and Chao Gai took out sapper shovels and axes together and began to busily cut trees and dig pits.

It was dark, the wailing of the wild foxes in the barren mountains and mountains, the chirping of the night owls, there was no moon, only a few stars. It was busy until midnight. Li Kui said: "If the bandits don't come, won't we lose money." ”

Chao Gai said: "What a civil engineer must know, even if he doesn't come, he should practice, but my hunch is very accurate, everyone should rest first, I will be on duty." ”

Xu Guanzhong said: "You guys rest, or I'll be on duty." ”

Chao Gai said: "Okay, you and Jiao Ting are on duty, and they will wake everyone up whenever there is a disturbance." ”

"Brother, don't worry." Xu Guanzhong and Jiao Ting said.

Jiao Ting took the war hammer and stood outside the door, Xu Guanzhong took the cavalry knife and turned over on the roof, it seems that Xu Guanzhong is indeed both civil and military, Chao Gai has always regarded him as a literati, it is indeed a mistake.

Everyone lay down in their clothes, and the bonfire in the ceremony was very warm, and soon everyone entered the dream.

Xu Guanzhong was lying on the roof, there was a bit of chill in the air, and after more than an hour, he suddenly found that there was a black shadow flashing in the grass in the distance, and the black shadow slowly moved forward, and it was actually a very dexterous person This person sneaked to the root of the wall, and wanted to peep, but suddenly he was knocked unconscious, and it turned out that Xu Guanzhong smashed it with a scabbard.

Xu Guanzhong dragged this person into the main hall, and Chao Gai woke up and said, "Where did you come from?" ”

"Come and peep, let me get knocked out." Xu Guanzhong said.

Wu Yong said: "It must be a spy of the bandits, if the screams of the interrogation are easy to alarm the bandits, it is better to tie him up, the bandits will definitely launch a strong attack if they can't wait for this person to go back for a long time." ”

Chao Gai and Pang Wanchun all prepared their bows and arrows, and Li Kui was sleeping with a big axe. Sure enough, not long after, Jiao Ting outside said: "There has appeared, a piece of black pressure more than 200 meters away." ”

"Let's go, go to the door."

Chao Gai arrived at the door, looked around, and saw a group of people more than 200 meters away in front of the mountain temple, Chao Gai said: "Lest there be a misunderstanding, let's say hello." ”

Jiao Ting's voice was loud, and besides, it was the middle of the night, and it was very quiet.

"What are you doing, what are you doing in the middle of the night?" Jiao Ting asked.

The opposite side said: "It's dark, there is no place to live, go to the temple to rest." "When the bandits saw that they were exposed, they also lit torches one by one.

"Don't pretend, which mountain are you from, report your name." Jiao Ting asked.

The person on the other side scolded anxiously: "Report a ball, Lao Tzu will rob your horses and money, and if you send the horses and money over, you will die, otherwise, hum." ”

Chao Gai didn't speak, and the bow and arrow shot through the thief's torch with an arrow to the thief who was talking back.

I heard the thieves being frightened, and they were busy extinguishing the torches one by one. Li Kui said: "Why are these bandits so shrewd, it's not easy to shoot without torches." ”

The bandits took advantage of the darkness to prepare to charge up, shouting one by one: "Go on, rob the money, rob the horses, let's go to Datong to play with the girls." ”

Chao Gai smiled: "I have been prepared, Pang Wanchun, shoot rockets." ”

Pang Wanchun lit a rocket, and swooped into the barren grass in front of him, although the dry grass was not high, but it was already very dry, and when he saw the fire, the flames were high. Pang Wanchun shot four arrows in a row, and the wasteland in front of the mountain temple was full of fire, and the thieves didn't expect Chao Gai and others to set fire, so they suddenly became chaotic, and a few of them were surrounded by the mountain fires, which quickly ignited the clothes on their bodies, and they wailed and screamed one by one.

Chao Gai and Pang Wanchun were not idle, the feather arrows swished forward, and in just a dozen seconds, they shot more than ten bandits, most of these thieves were in the thighs or shoulders, and they couldn't die for a while, but they were seriously injured, wailing one by one.

The bandits retreated, retreated to a few hundred meters away and waited for the fire to be extinguished, Wu Yong looked at it interestingly, and said: "This group of bandits is quite powerful, more than 20 people were killed and injured this time, there is no chaos, it seems that they have met bandits." ”

Li Kui said: "The bandits are good, the bandits are good, my pair of plate axes should be good to see the blood, I used to train all day without fighting, and I suffocated people to death." ”

After waiting for only a stick of incense, the fire of the weeds was extinguished, and the thieves stepped on the ashes of the grass and pounced again, this time their eyes were red, and they shouted one by one: "Avenge the dead brothers, kill them, there are only six of them, there are many of us, go on." ”

Chao Gai sneered: "I don't know whether I live or die, Wan Chun, don't be merciful, shoot hard." ”

Pang Wanchun said: "Sympathy for the enemy is cruelty to oneself, and Wanchun naturally will not keep it." ”

Two people with two bows, completely weaving a big net of death, the bandits who rushed to the front were shot to death more than 20 in succession, fell on the way to charge, the bandits were completely blinded, I didn't expect this to be the case, fools know that this is the archer, but the bandits don't have armor and shields or anything like that, and they retreated again in desperation, the bandits were not dumbfounded this time, and the internal was divided into two factions, one faction advocated attacking, and the other faction advocated retreating.

In the end, the bandit still killed the red eye, thinking that it would be too embarrassing to retreat like this, so he simply went to the nearby village to get the door panel.

Xu Guanzhong said: "The bandits are going to find a way, I don't think we can sit and wait." ”

Chao Gai said: "This group of thieves doesn't know that the sky is high and the earth is thick, Wan Chun, Li Kui and I will kill them and destroy the prestige of the bandits." ”