Chapter Seventy-Two: A Trap
Hutou Mountain refused to serve Shi Weiyi, which made Shi Weiyi very angry, not only did not relax the checkpoint between Song Cheng and Xiao Song City, but forbade the business travelers to pass through Hutou Mountain again, and wanted to trap all the mountain bandits on Hutou Mountain. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
Although Hutou Mountain is trapped, it is much more difficult than the previous days, but Hutou Mountain extends in all directions, Wang Chang and others are elusive, and they go out to loot nearby township forts, and the cottage can barely survive.
Since Liu Gouwa persuaded the mountain bandits in Changmaoyuan Township, now when the mountain bandits go down the mountain to loot, they consciously kill a lot less, and there are fewer atrocities that harm the villagers, and the property they have grabbed is much less than before, which makes Wang Chang and others very unhappy and disappointed.
But Wang Chang was helpless, these mountain bandits listened to Liu Gouwa's preaching, and they also disobeyed their own orders, only robbed property, and no longer killed people to establish authority, but let those villagers take advantage of it, risking death to transfer a lot of property.
Wang Chang robbed the property every time, after returning to the cottage, he saw those mountain bandits happily joking with each other, this said that he robbed who's township, if it weren't for the four-headed people who said that they couldn't kill people, they would have killed your ancestors for three generations, and that said that the next time they robbed your village, Lao Tzu would not listen to the four-headed people, let you be a cheap brother-in-law first, etc., eight out of ten sentences are not separated from Liu Gouwa, Wang Chang listened, and his heart felt irritable and depressed.
One day, Wang Chang, Zhao Qiu, and Sun drank together together, and when they were half drunk, a minions came from the bottom of the mountain to report, saying that there was a batch of tax grain in Xiayi County to escort Songzhou, passing through a place called Sanshui Township in the territory of Xiaosong City. In the past two days, it happened that Liu Gouwa went down the mountain to loot, so Wang Chang ordered someone to call Liu Gouwa and asked him to take someone to rob this batch of tax grain.
Sanshui Township is in the southeast direction of Xiaosong City, there are four or five miles away from Hutou Mountain, it is on the edge of the canal, there are many mountains and ridges around, the grass and trees are dense, there is an official road from south to north through the township, there are only more than 100 households in the township, and they make a living by farming and weaving and embroidery.
Because Xiayi County handed over less tax and grain to the state capital, and there was no need for large ships to transport grain, the county order only arranged a dozen ox carts to consign, and slowly rushed all the way to the state capital along the direction of the canal.
Most of the people who escorted the tax grain this time were some people and more than a dozen officials, and they would not pass through Sanshui Township until the next day. Therefore, Liu Gouwa only took Huang San's fool Li Zhoubo and more than 30 mountain bandits, and sneaked down the mountain in advance, avoiding the officials and troops of Xiao Song City, and came to Sanshui Township.
Sanshui Township is a gathering area of villagers, and a market has been formed spontaneously to sell various agricultural and sideline products. The bazaar is not big, and the flow of people is not very large, Liu Gouwa disguised it, and planned to take Li Si and the two mountain bandits into the bazaar to inquire about the situation in the township.
But Liu Gouwa has not yet entered the township, and he saw a villager wearing a bamboo hat walking out of Sanshui Township, the bamboo hat was pressed very low, covering his face, and walked towards Liu Gouwa, and when he arrived in front of Liu Gouwa, he said in a low voice: "Come with me!" ”
When Liu Gouwa heard this, although she was a little surprised, she heard that the person's voice seemed familiar, and she couldn't remember it for a while, so she followed him and walked out of the countryside.
Walking to a remote place outside the township, the man reached out and lifted the hat off his head, Liu Gouwa recognized this person, it was Wu Qi, who was promoted to the head of the team when he was in Songcheng, I don't know why he was here, Liu Gouwa was very surprised, and couldn't help asking: "Wu Qi, why are you here?" ”
"Lord Liu, the villain came to you on a special trip, and the villain knew that you would definitely come to this Sanshui Township, so he came here first to wait for you, and really let the villain wait for you." Wu Qi grabbed Liu Gouwa and whispered happily.
Seeing Wu Qishen's mystery, Liu Gouwa couldn't help but ask again: "What's wrong, is something wrong?" ”
"My lord, the escort of tax grain in Xiayi County is a trap, which is specially set up for you, and now Sanshui Township is full of officials and soldiers inside and out, just waiting for you to fall into it." Wu Qijie said.
"What the hell is going on?" Liu Gouwa heard that Sanshui Township was full of ambushes inside and out, and it was a trap specially set for herself, she couldn't help but feel very surprised, and felt afraid for a while, so she hurriedly asked Wu Qi.
"The villain doesn't know what's going on, it seems that the people of your cottage went to the state yamen to report your whereabouts, and the state yamen ordered our county yamen to assist the army and set up an ambush in Sanshui Township to arrest you, Qian Zhutou heard the news, and was afraid that you would be tricked, so he asked the villain to go to the cottage to inform you one step earlier, but the villain saw that it was too late, and he might not be able to see you immediately when he arrived at the cottage, so he came to this Sanshui Township to intercept you, and really let the villain wait for you, otherwise, the consequences are unimaginable." Wu Qi replied.
I heard that there was a traitor in the cottage, thinking about it, Liu Gouwa couldn't think of who it was, if it wasn't for Qian Feng asking Wu Qi to inform him this time, maybe he would have really been tricked, Liu Gouwa couldn't help wiping a cold sweat, and asked: "Then this time the escort tax grain in Xiayi County is also fake?" ”
"This is true, but after the tax grain left the county government in Xiayi County, it was transferred to the ship and sent to the state capital along with the tax money from other counties." Wu Qijie said.
When Liu Gouwa heard this, she already knew that the tax grain was loaded onto the ship and transported away in Xiayi County, so these dozen ox carts were empty, and they came all the way to lure themselves into the bait, so it can also be inferred that the traitors in the cottage had already colluded with the government and wanted to frame themselves in Sanshui Township.
Liu Gouwa doesn't know, who in the cottage will be plotting to kill himself, he hasn't been in the cottage for a long time, and he hasn't had time to offend people, if he wants to offend, he also has some disagreements with the three big heads in the cottage, and he has stopped Wang Chang and others from killing people when they looted several times, but the crime is not death, Liu Gouwa denied this idea.
Liu Gouwa couldn't figure it out, so she didn't think about it anymore, she just wanted to go back to the cottage first, and then slowly find out this traitor. So, Liu Gouwa said goodbye to Wu Qi, and called Huang San and others to find the original way back to Hutou Mountain.
Huang San fool and others heard that someone in the cottage colluded with the government and designed an ambush in Sanshui Township to murder themselves and others, and they couldn't help but be very careful along the way.
Liu Gouwa and the others returned to the foot of Hutou Mountain and found that the bandits guarding the village on the mountain had no more ruffian fights and scolding voices in the past, and their expressions seemed relaxed, but they were actually full of a strange atmosphere.
Liu Gouwa knew that there must have been a change on the mountain, so he no longer went up the mountain according to the original road, but climbed up from a shortcut in the back mountain, and came to his residence not far away, and saw that the cottage was no different from before, and the fool was about to go out.
The fool didn't understand, so he couldn't help but ask softly, "It's nothing unusual, why hasn't my brother gone back?" ”
"Don't you see? Zhang San: Where have they gone? Don't you think it's strange that you don't see a single one? Huang San asked the fool softly beside the fool's voice.
Huang San said Liu Gouwa's question, Liu Gouwa couldn't help but nod approvingly to Huang San, but the fool still didn't quite understand, and asked stupidly: "Yes, where did they go?" Usually they are all like monkeys, but now they are quiet. ”