79 The brief silence before the storm

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The people and horses on both sides confronted each other at a distance of about a hundred paces, and whoever dared not step forward easily, both sides knew that they would trade in the middle of the field, handing over salt with one hand and handing over people with the other.

On Li Zixiao's side, two soldiers escorted Cai Xuantong and slowly walked towards the open space between the two teams, while the Cai family also sent two family members to push a wheelbarrow with a cart of salt on it.

At this time, Li Zixiao was observing the Cai family's armed family, and found that there were more than a dozen archers among them, and even a few family members were carrying firearms, which suddenly made Li Zixiao feel that he was really weak, and he still needed to work hard!

The people sent by both sides to trade were not wearing weapons, and after arriving in the middle, they checked each other's people and goods, Zhang Ergouzi swaggered to the trolley with salt, tore open a bag of salt, tasted it, and then counted the number, then nodded to Li Zixiao, and the transaction between the two sides was successfully completed.

The whole process was very smooth, there was no conspiracy on both sides, and at this time, it was approaching the end of the year, neither the Cai family nor Li Zixiao wanted to fight.

"Ah, third brother, you're here to save me." As soon as Cai Xuantong saw Cai Xuanguang, he directly hugged his thigh and cried bitterly.

"Useless things, it's a shame for our Cai family, go back and be grounded for half a year." Cai Xuanguang looked at his fifth brother with a look of hatred for iron and steel, and said coldly.

Cai Xuantong also knew that he had made a big mistake this time, even if he could hear that he was going to be grounded for half a year, he didn't dare to squeak, even if he was grounded in the Cai family, he was still a young master, eating and drinking well, it was better than being cold and starving in the bandits' den.

Originally, after the transaction between the two parties was completed, it was time for each to go back to their respective homes and find their own mothers, but at this time, Cai Xuanguang took the initiative to take more than a dozen steps forward and stopped, looked at Li Zixiao with a gloomy face and asked, "You are the leader of this group of bandits?" ”

Li Zixiao listened to Cai Xuanguang's unkind tone, frowned, glanced at him, and said coldly: "What are you doing?" Anything else? ”

Cai Xuanguang saw Li Zixiao's contemptuous gaze, and suddenly felt a burst of anger in his heart, and a cold light burst out of his eyes, at the interface of Yongcheng County, no one dared to speak to him like this!

"Do you know that in the realm of Yongcheng County, the people who offended my Cai family have never ended well.

If you are willing to submit to my Cai family, kneel down to apologize, and return all the property you looted from my shop before, I can keep your cottage safe and sound, otherwise maybe soon there will be one less bandit in this Mangdang Mountain. ”

Cai Xuanguang looked at Li Zixiao coldly and said, these words were full of naked/naked/naked threats.

After hearing Cai Xuanguang's words, Li Zixiao laughed angrily for some reason, looked at Cai Xuanguang with a pen-like gaze, and said: "I just heard about the three tigers of the Cai family, all of them are very good, but I didn't expect that they are really knowledgeable now."

What are the 'Three Tigers of the Cai Family', and the 'Blood Tigers', ah, I'm sorry, just by what you said just now, I really laughed to death, what else can you Cai family do besides threats? It's so disappointing to me, the Cai family is nothing more than that.

If you want to deal with me, even if you come, if you have any tricks, I will follow up, others are afraid of your Cai family, I am not afraid.

Ao, by the way, this cotton armor given to Lao Tzu by your Cai family is really good, Lao Tzu likes it very much, if your Cai family still has such good goods, remember to keep it for Lao Tzu, and when Lao Tzu washes your Cai family with blood, take it by the way. ”

After saying this, Li Zixiao didn't even look at Cai Xuanguang's expression, and knew that he turned around and left with his subordinates, but Li Zixiao just didn't look at him and knew that Cai Xuanguang was probably angry.

That's right, if the gaze can kill, it is estimated that Li Zixiao has been killed countless times by Cai Xuanguang's gaze at this time.

At this time, Cai Xuanguang, who was standing in place, had a gloomy face like water, and there was murder in his eyes, he watched Li Zixiao lead people away, and said through gritted teeth: "Wait for the day when you fall into my hands."

I'll see if your mouth is still so hard, and when the time comes, I will pull your tendons and pick your skin, and I will make you want to live and not die. ”

"Let's go." In the end, Cai Xuanguang also waved his hand and quickly left with a group of family members.

"Third Young Master, let's just let those bandits go? This group of bandits has been fighting with us endlessly, and it is almost impossible to reconcile, and there is only one way left, to exterminate them.

If the third young master can solve this trouble, presumably the old man will be very happy, but recently the old man has not been able to eat well because of this bandit, and I heard that the eldest young master has already taken action. ”

At this time, the Cai family housekeeper walked up to Cai Xuanguang and asked in a low voice.

This housekeeper is Cai Xuanguang's own confidant, in a family like the Cai family, competition is everywhere, especially in the past two years, the direct open and secret battles between several young masters of the Cai family have intensified, and everyone is supporting their henchmen.

Therefore, Cai Xuanguang did not dare to be surprised by this housekeeper's inquiry, and said with a sneer: "This bandit must be destroyed, and if you dare to go against our Cai family, there will be no good end."

However, this group of bandits is not simple, it is not the same as those other bandits, you just saw those bandits standing straight one by one, neatly arranged, at a glance, they are strictly trained.

What's more, the bandit leader is not simple, two days ago I just came back, I heard from a friend of the underworld that Scarface entrenched in the west was killed, and then I sent someone to find out that it was this young man who killed Scarface.

Now Scarface's White Tiger Village is still occupied by him, and Scarface has a lot of men, and he was killed by this young man, which shows that this person has some ability.

Since the boss wants to move people first, let him do it, let's take a look first, but I guess I can't do it with the boss's ability, the boss is indeed better than me in business, but when it is his turn to fight and kill, he is far behind.

I have already sent someone to send 1,000 taels of silver to Wu Qianhu of Suiyang Wei as a New Year's gift, and Wu Qianhu promised that I would personally bring troops to exterminate this bandit after the year. ”

"It turns out that the third young master has already planned it, and the little one is relieved, but in order to deal with such a group of bandits, it costs a thousand taels of silver, and we have to greet that group of officers and soldiers, it is estimated that we will spend a lot of silver, isn't it a little worth it."

"This bit of silver doesn't matter, that group of bandits robbed our Cai family's shop, and they have a lot of silver in their hands, destroy them, and everything will be made up.

In short, after all, this bandit is exterminated, and I just want everyone in Yongcheng County to know that offending my Cai family is such an end. ”

When Cai Xuanguang said this, his face was ruthless, murderous, and extremely domineering.

Li Zixiao didn't know at this time that the people of the Cai family were already preparing to deal with him after the New Year, and even if they did, he wouldn't be surprised, because this was also something he expected.

Anyway, the soldiers will block the water and cover the earth, and the people of the Cai family want to destroy him, why don't he want to destroy the Cai family, so let's see who can have the last laugh.

Li Zixiao believes that as long as he is strong, he will not be afraid of the power of the Cai family, and he needs to be hard to strike iron, instead of worrying about the revenge of the Cai family day and night, it is better to find a way to enhance the strength of his subordinates, and then fight again.

With this batch of salt, even if the crisis of salt shortage in the cottage is solved, there are still three days to go before the New Year, Li Zixiao plans to send a team to disguise themselves as a caravan to the nearest Wenjiaji to purchase some New Year's goods.

As for the county seat of Yongcheng, he didn't expect to send people over, he offended Cai, Liu, and Wang's three families, and the county town had become a forbidden place for him and his subordinates, so he could only retreat to the nearest market town, Wenjiaji, to purchase supplies.

It's the New Year, and Li Zixiao can't give it all to his subordinates, he can only make sure that these people can eat fragrant meals and eat a few meals of pork during the New Year.

At this time, the people at the bottom may have this luxury for the New Year, some people have worked hard for a year, and during the New Year, they are willing to buy clothes for their children and eat pork dumplings.

But with the famine everywhere in the past two years, it is difficult for the people to even eat enough, just like these people in the cottage at this time, they originally needed to spend this year in hunger and cold, not to mention being fed, clothed, warm and meat, whether they could survive this unusually cold winter is a problem.

Now the life in the cottage makes them very satisfied, no one wants to go back to the old days when pigs and dogs were not as good as before, everyone knows who brought them all this, so at this time, the whole cottage can be said to respect Li Zixiao and swear allegiance.

Because they are not only serving Li Zixiao, but also protecting their hard-won good life.

On the last day of the New Year, Li Zixiao was already preparing for the New Year in the cottage, and turned the cottage upside down, and at this time someone came to report that someone outside had come to their cottage.

This made Li Zixiao wonder very much, how could he have nothing to do during the New Year, and ran into his bandit's den, and soon a person was brought in.

"Who are you? What's the matter with coming to my cottage? Li Zixiao sat in his seat and frowned at the somewhat obese middle-aged man below, who he didn't know.

"See the big boss, the villain's name is Luo Daqian, he is the shopkeeper of the Luo family firm stationed at the helm of Guide Mansion, and I am here today to send a letter to the big boss at the request of my young lady."

Luo Daqian smiled on his face, like a Maitreya Buddha, and said respectfully to Li Zixiao.

"Oh? Who is your young lady? "Li Zixiao is a little blindsided, when did he know the woman surnamed Luo?

"The big boss is really a noble person who forgets things, my young lady's name is Luo Yulan, this is a letter from the young lady to you, you will know it when you read it." Luo Daqian saw that Li Zixiao didn't even remember Luo Yulan, and he was a little displeased.

Li Zixiao only remembered who Luo Yulan was at this time, and took the envelope, on which was written with a brush a line of Juanxiu small characters 'Saving Grace and Kindness', with rounded strokes and even pen power, implying a weak beauty.

Even Li Zixiao, a layman who doesn't know how to read, feels comfortable after reading this word, and it looks like it is from everyone's hands.

After Li Zixiao opened the letter, sure enough, it was a letter written by Luo Yulan to him, and at this time Li Zixiao knew that just a few days ago, Luo Yulan had been; The people of the Luo family found it and brought it back to the Luo family in Jinling.

In the letter, Luo Yulan not only expressed her gratitude to Li Zixiao for saving his life, but also told Li Zixiao that if he needed to purchase any materials in the future, he could find this Luo Daqian through the rudder set up by the Luo family in Guide Mansion, the price was absolutely fair, and he could also get things that Li Zixiao couldn't get by himself.

After Li Zixiao read this letter, he was very happy, this is an unexpected joy, what Li Zixiao lacks now is this kind of source of goods, and he is also clear about the strength of the Luo family, if there is the help of the Luo family firm, maybe some of his plans can be implemented in advance.