The moon is dark and the wind is high on the night of murder, at this time the sky is scattered with dark clouds, covering the bright full moon, but the birds in the forest are screaming loudly, and in the small courtyard of the inconspicuous post station, a massacre is going on silently.

Yang Yi's brows were about to wrinkle, and he felt a little guilty in his heart for not informing these caravan guards, but he really had no choice, this matter was far from being simple on the surface.

Soon, the massacre was over, and the corpses of the caravan guards of forty or fifty lay on the ground, not a single one alive.

I saw that the golden steward waited for the battle to be over, and then walked in from outside, and walked around the field, and found that there were no dead caravan guards, so he did not hesitate to make up for it.

Although Yang Yi couldn't see it, he could fully imagine how shocked and desperate those guards must have been when they saw that their housekeeper was about to kill him.

When the golden steward inspected each corpse, he was shocked to find that there were no Yang Yi and others.

"Oh no, why aren't those people here?" The gold steward turned back to the masked head.

The masked man frowned, waved his hand to the bandits to extinguish the firewood around the post station, waited for the smoke to clear, and led the people into the post station cautiously.

Yang Yi, who was climbing on the mountain, saw that the bandits had entered the post station, and hurriedly returned to the back mountain with Monkey Jian'er, preparing to leave this place of right and wrong with everyone.

As soon as Yang Yi and Monkey Jian'er got into the forest, Hu Shou, who was hidden in the shadows, greeted them.

"Childe! A wounded caravan guard fled to the back hill and was spotted! ”

"Huh?" Yang Yi was surprised, and didn't seem to expect that there would be a caravan guard who could survive, so he hurriedly said, "Where are the people?" ”

Under the leadership of Hu Shou, Yang Yi soon saw the guard, but that person was no different from dead, his stomach was split by the bandits, blood and internal organs continued to gush out, obviously he didn't have long to live.

That person Yang Yi had seen, he was one of the dozens of caravan guards, he rarely spoke, and there was nothing to attract attention.

At this time, the man was holding a package in his arms, staring at Yang Yi with a strange look, and wanted to speak, but all blood came out of his mouth. Soon he took his last breath and stopped moving.

Yang Yi sighed, he didn't know what to say, a human life was worthless and died like this, this is the saddest thing in this era.

The monkey on the side was not as compassionate as Yang Yi, and when he saw that the caravan guard was out of breath, he unceremoniously pulled out the package that the guard was holding in his arms.

When he opened the package, there was a delicate iron box, and Monkey Jian'er suddenly became curious, and he wanted to open it to see whether it was his or not.

At this time, the general who was observing in front of him ran up and whispered, "Childe! The bandits are searching the mountains! ”

Yang Yi was startled, obviously the bandits found themselves and the others fleeing into the mountains and forests.

"Prepare for battle!" Yang Yi decisively gave the order, and there was not much panic in his words, fighting in the mountains and forests is the strength of Hu Shou and others, but they can't beat the bandits, but there is no problem in escaping into the mountains.

As soon as everyone hid their figures, they saw countless figures shaking under the mountain forest, and the bandits began to slowly search the mountain up.

Yang Yi took the iron crossbow handed over by Tie Niu, and when he put on the crossbow arrow and was about to shoot, Hu Shou beside him said softly: "Son, wait..."

Yang Yi glanced at Hu Shou in puzzlement, and was about to speak, when suddenly a painful scream came from under the mountain forest, and a bandit rolled down with a bang.

"Trap?" Yang Yi glanced at Hu Shou in disbelief, and when he saw Hu Shou nodded, Yang Yi gave him a thumbs up.

In the extremely dark mountain forest, a trap could be arranged in such a hurry, and it was obvious that Yang Yi underestimated the ability of Hu Shou and a few of them.

Thinking about it, there were several screams from below, and the bandits suddenly retreated in a panic, in this environment, in the face of unknown death, people can easily fall into fear.

However, this gang of bandits obviously didn't want to let Yang Yi and the others go like that, but in a moment, countless torches lit up under the mountain, and the bandits started to attack again with torches.

This time, the bandits successfully avoided the simple trap arranged by Hu Shou, but when they walked forward in the dark night with torches, the bandits became bright live targets.

When the bandits reached the mountainside, there was a sudden sound of crossbow arrows breaking through the air overhead, and suddenly, more than a dozen bandits rolled down the mountain screaming.

The strange thing is that the remaining bandits were not frightened back this time, but continued to kill up the mountain, obviously getting a death order to catch Yang Yi and others.

Yang Yi no longer hesitated, and ordered everyone to shoot with crossbow arrows. Every strong crossbow arrow will shoot over a bandit, and even Yang Yi is basically an arrow without missing a shot, just because the bandit holding a torch in the dark is too easy to aim.

The bandit walked forward with great difficulty, but nearly thirty corpses were thrown down behind him, which made the masked head man who was supervising the battle under the mountain almost crazy, and Yang Yi could clearly hear his angry voice.

The bandits used the method of stacking corpses, paid the price of nearly sixty people, and finally moved forward to a place more than ten steps away from Yang Yi and others.

This made Yang Yi feel very surprised, because this is not like the style of the bandits, it stands to reason that the bandits can leave calmly after getting the goods of the caravan in the post station, and the masked man does not look like a person without brains, there is no reason to fight to the death with Yang Yi and the others for the sake of a momentary anger.

But at this time, there was no time for him to think about it, seeing that the bandit was about to climb up, Yang Yi shouted the iron bull beside him.

Hearing this, Tie Niu hurriedly put down the iron crossbow in his hand, walked behind an oval boulder half a person high next to him, and pressed the boulder on his shoulder. "Drink !!" The Iron Bull let out a loud shout, and the boulder slowly slammed up, and then rolled down with a bang.

The force of the boulder falling was so great that all the trees, grass and blades that blocked the way were broken. The bandits, who were climbing cautiously, suddenly heard a loud noise above their heads, looked up and saw that they were suddenly frightened, and hurriedly avoided everywhere.

The bandits who couldn't avoid it were smashed into meat without even shouting out the screams, and the bandits who dodged lost their shelter in front of them, and immediately became the live target of Yang Yi and others.

The remnants of the bandits finally broke down, screaming in despair and running down the mountain, not even caring about their companions who had not lost their breath and were constantly wailing along the way.

"Quickly assemble your equipment and prepare to retreat!" Yang Yi decisively gave an order, although there were no casualties, but the consumption of arrows was huge, if the bandits attacked again, I am afraid that they would fall into hand-to-hand combat, which is not what Yang Yi wants to see.

"Childe, the bandit seems to have retreated?" Hu Shou pointed to the bottom of the mountain and said in a low voice.

Yang Yi squinted his eyes and took a closer look, and sure enough, he saw that all the bandits who had come down the mountain had retreated to the front of the post station, and they were carrying the goods in the post station.

Monkey Jian'er said: "I'll take a look?" ”

Yang Yi thought for a while, nodded and said, "Be careful." ”

The probing monkey Jian'er soon came back, and said with some excitement: "The bandit was beaten away by us!" ”

Although the bandits are just a rabble, and they can't be compared with the fierce people, but more than a dozen people repelled more than 100 people, and left half of the corpses of the other party, but there were no casualties on their own side.

Yang Yi thought about it, took everyone down the mountain, and after confirming that the bandits had left, he came to the post station.

Looking at the corpses of the caravan guards all over the ground, Yang Yi felt very heavy, although the lives in his hands were uncountable during this time, but these caravan guards were innocent people, each of them had their own stories behind them, it was conceivable that these people were the pillars of their own families, and their death meant that dozens of families would face a desperate situation.

Yang Yi sighed and said, "Put their corpses away, don't let the beasts eat them, and send them back to their respective homes when the government comes." ”

None of the generals spoke, and most of them had been like the caravan guards, running around in order to make their families live better, and none of them wanted to die one day, and the bones of the beasts would be gone.

Yang Yi sat aside and didn't speak, sighing and sighing, many of these things still made him very confused.

Who would have thought that the seemingly kind-hearted gold steward would be the culprit of the caravan's demise.

But what made Yang Yi puzzled was that the golden steward had colluded with the bandits so much and plotted his caravan twice, was it just for that batch of goods?

As far as Yang Yi knows, the manager of a commercial bank will not be low in terms of status or status, and Jin Pengyuan is still the manager of Wanfu Commercial Bank, one of the three major commercial banks in Shuzhong, can be said to be not worried about eating and drinking, and the future is immeasurable, there is no need to take such a big risk and collude with the bandits to plot the caravan led by himself. The caravan was destroyed, the goods were lost, and even if the golden steward returned alive and put all the blame on the bandits, the master would not be able to forgive him like this, at least his future was already worrying.

How can a person do something bad that goes beyond his or her own interests? In Yang Yi's view, the only possibility is that the benefits obtained from doing this bad thing will far exceed his existing interests!

The existing interests of the gold steward are not low, Yang Yi does not think that these goods worth thousands of taels of silver can compare to the future of the gold steward for a lifetime, and he has to risk killing his head.

So where are the interests of the financial steward?

The interests of the financial steward are undoubtedly linked to the bandits, who had almost no casualties when they attacked the caravan guards, but suffered heavy casualties when they attacked Yang Yi and others.

They just wanted to kill Yang Yi and the others? Obviously it's not that simple.

The affairs of the two parties, the golden steward and the bandits, were connected, and the answer was soon clear.

"Monkey Tips!" Yang Yi called.

Hearing this, Monkey Jian'er ran over quickly: "What's the matter with Childe?" ”

Yang Yi reached out and said, "Bring it." ”

"Huh? What do you want, Childe? ”

"What do you say I want!"

Monkey Jian'er pursed his lips in frustration, and reluctantly took out a delicate iron box from his arms, which was exactly what was in the caravan guard package that had just escaped to the back mountain. Seeing that this iron box was delicate and beautiful, Monkey Jian'er must have been a valuable object inside, so he naturally regarded it as his own trophy.