But this is really convenient for Li Qingyuan, calmly arranged, and then began to interrogate the prisoners, identify those who committed the most heinous crimes, and then report each other to find out those villains hiding in the house.

The original more than ten people have now become old bandits, and the leaders are basically related to each other, including the more than 100 who died, are all relatives of these people, so the question is, what should these people do?

After picking out those who are not closely related to these people, there are more than 100 people in these more than 10 families, and in addition to the dead family members, two or three hundred people must be cleared out, and if they are released, they are afraid that the other party will report it.

Everyone discussed it together, Li Qingyuan thought about it and said: "The secret of this place is secret enough, but it is not a suitable choice for copycats, and besides, our main purpose is to eliminate this bandit and not to occupy this place." ”

Everyone nodded, and Li Qingyuan continued: "After defeating Wu Daoscar, then this piece of Shexian County is our territory, just find another place to settle down, take away those who are evil, and leave those who have no evil deeds here, leave them here." ”

The goatee military master, who had been kneeling on the ground, spoke: "Master, I know that there is a place suitable for being a cottage. ”

Only then did Li Qingyuan think about it, there was also a military advisor who knew the treasure of Wu Scar! Li Qingyuan was still very interested in digging treasures, and immediately asked, "Didn't you say that you would take me to find the treasure of Wu Scar?" Take me there! ”

"Hey! Okay, you come with me, this Wu Scar has a cellar at home, and he usually hides it very strictly, and I also found it by accident, so you come with me. The goatee took Li Qingyuan and walked towards Wu Scar's compound.

The Wu family is in the northernmost part of the village, next to the cliff, the whole village is a wooden house, only the Wu family has three blue brick houses, so they can be recognized at a glance, and when they come to the backyard of the Wu family, there is no difference, stone tables and stone chairs.

The goatee pointed to a stone under the cliff and said, "Look, big boss! This is here, and under this stone is the cellar, and I have seen Wu Scar go in and out of it. ”

Li Qingyuan nodded, Wu Sanniang lifted the stone with all his might, leaking a small hole that could make people bend down to enter, Wu Sanniang was about to lift a knife to enter, Li Qingyuan hurriedly grabbed her, just kidding, dare to break into a cave without a clear cave?

Li Qingyuan gestured to the goatee, and the goatee nodded and said, "I know, I know, it's too dark inside, I'll go get a lamp." ”

Li Qingyuan stopped him and asked Zheng Jing to fetch it for him, and after a while, the oil lamp was fetched, the goatee took the oil lamp and walked carefully inside, Wu Sanniang followed behind with a knife, and Li Qingyuan followed behind Wu Sanniang.

After entering, there is a room the size of a room, which should be dug on the basis of the original cave, and there are two wooden boxes inside, and they are locked, and Wu Sanniang uses a knife to knock the lock and open it.

Li Qingyuan was a little disappointed when he opened the box, he originally thought that there were many gold and silver jewelry, but he didn't expect it to be scattered silver and copper coins, as well as a small amount of gold and silver jewelry, and these two boxes were only a few thousand taels.

Li Qingyuan shook his head and was about to withdraw, Wu Sanniang said: "This is not right, there is a dark room here, you see that there are only copper coins and broken silver here, silver without big ingots, and gold, this is not right." ”

As soon as Wu Sanniang said this, Li Qingyuan remembered that it was really unreasonable for the two boxes to be filled with some scattered silver and inferior jewelry, and the three of them carefully observed it again, and finally found a small room under another stone, which contained two boxes, one large and one small, this time the big box was full of silver, and the small box was full of gold and valuable jewelry.

Li Qingyuan touched these jewels and asked the goatee: "How is this Wu scar usually distributed?" ”

The goatee was stunned for a moment, knowing what Li Qingyuan was thinking, and hurriedly said: "He took half of all the harvest first, but the good things were hidden by him in advance, so the others didn't get much, even the second boss didn't get much." ”

Li Qingyuan was a little disappointed, but this time the harvest was also twenty or thirty thousand taels, if it was just to rob the past merchants, it was true that he couldn't earn so much, but Wu Daoscar had broken through a few villages, robbed a lot of villages, and the father and son had accumulated for decades, so they had saved more.

Li Qingyuan came out, looked at the goatee again, thought about it and said: "You still have a bit of a scholar's conscience, your evil deeds are not much, the main thing is to accept a three-room concubine, but for the tiger, help the abuse, you have come up with a lot of ideas for Wu Scar, right?" ”

The goatee immediately broke out in a cold sweat, his lips trembled and he wanted to explain, but he didn't know how to explain, Li Qingyuan thought about it and said: "Forget it, seeing that you are still honest and knowledgeable about current affairs, I will not blame you in the past, but if I find out that you are evil in the future, then don't blame me for being unkind." ”

The goatee immediately felt pardoned, knelt down and kowtowed, and said: "Thank you for the grace of not killing, Xie Da for not killing." ”

Li Qingyuan didn't have a good impression of these old literati, especially those literati who groveled to the Tartars, so this goatee was certainly hateful, but those Han officials in the court were much cuter.

Li Qingyuan glanced at him lightly: "Get up, you just said that you know that there is a place that is very suitable for building a village, now talk about it." ”

Goatee immediately got up and said: "Yes, that place is more than thirty miles away from here, called a beam, there is only one mountain road leading to a canyon, there is a stream in the valley, behind the valley is a cliff, down more than twenty zhang high, connected to the deep mountains, can be attacked, retreated and defended." ”

In the end, there were only more than 80 people who did no evil deeds, and those who had done evil were also taken away by Li Qingyuan, planning to take them back to be coolies or something, after all, it was a bit of a waste to kill the precious human resources.

The large army returned to the mountain first, Li Qingyuan, Wu Sanniang and three hundred members of the Tianli Society followed the goatee to find the beam, and everyone walked in the mountains and forests to rest for the night.

The next morning we arrived at the place, first through a hollow, the narrowest part was only more than a man wide, and then climbed a steep slope of forty-five degrees, and came to a small waterfall, where the goatee pointed and said: "Look, big boss, this is the stream I am talking about, and we will go around this mountain, this mountain has no road, only a little slope, everyone should be careful." ”

Everyone followed the goatee along the slope around the peak to reach the waterfall, and finally saw what he said suitable for the cottage place, there are mountains and water, there are soil and forests, indeed the key is that there are two dangerous passes of the mountain recess and the slope, in addition to the detour of the place in the repair, this three levels are difficult to attack under the ground.

To the west of this mountain recess is a cliff, and when the war is urgent, you can throw a rope and everyone is going down, and the officers and soldiers who want to siege the mountain to attack must have at least five or six thousand people.

Li Qingyuan asked Meng Can, who had been following without speaking: "Are you satisfied with this place?" ”

Meng Can was inexplicable: "What am I satisfied with?" What's the matter with me? ”

"This is your lair from now on, what do you say has to do with you?" Li Qingyuan asked speechlessly.