Chapter 10: The Broken Cottage
Although he had been mentally prepared, after Su Yi came to the cottage, he still had to sigh that this place was too broken. The cottage is littered with garbage, and there is a pungent smell everywhere, and the only thing that can be defended is the three wooden arrow towers, which are loose and crumbling with loose ropes.
The cottage is surrounded by a simple wooden fence that adults can cross with their legs raised, and if someone is attacking the mountain, it is all decoration.
In terms of materials, there were a few sheep tied to the training ground, and the corners of Su Yi's eyes trembled, no wonder Liu Hong and his party of more than 60 people were wiped out by Jia Lao Er and more than 30 of them, and the huge training ground was overgrown with weeds, not only that, but these bandits also simply put sheep on the training ground......
The chickens and ducks and other poultry left in the cottage are almost eaten, there are more than 800 catties of grain in the warehouse, and I don't know how long it can last, 50 catties of iron ingots, 3 long swords, 5 iron knives, 21 simple knives, 15 crude spears, 15 short wooden bows, and more than 2,000 crude hardwood arrows.
There were even bows and arrows, which made Su Yi slightly surprised, but when he saw the shoddy hardwood arrows, he felt quite a headache. More than 2,000 hardwood arrows are completely cut from branches, and there are no iron arrows, purely the top of the wooden arrows is sharpened with a sword, so as to increase the lethality, and many hardwood arrows are even bent.
Su Yi almost spurted out a mouthful of old blood, this is simply a dilapidated cottage, maybe it will be wiped out by the officials and soldiers at some point.
Liu Hong stood aside, his face was slightly red, he was a little embarrassed and said: "Now the form of Youzhou is complicated, the Hu people, Xianbei, Xiongnu and Houjin and other ministers have invaded the border passes, and this place is the border of Youzhou, close to the cold land of Liaodong, there are many Karasuma villages that have moved south, they are arrogant, often cause chaos in Youzhou, and the conflict with the Han people is intensifying day by day. We're a small cottage again, and it's not easy to live. ”
After a pause, Liu Hong said embarrassedly: "And the people here are strong, those large villages are strong, implement the tuntian system, farm on weekdays, practice in leisure time, there are weapons and armor hidden in the village, the scale of some powerful villages is not inferior to the small town, ordinary thieves can not help them, and those small villages and small households in order to resist the thieves and Hulu, they are also connected to the tunbao, relying on each other, some of the large-scale forts, the fort wall is more than ten meters high, the population is large, and the people are fierce. ”
In fact, not only in Youzhou, but also in Dachu, there are not a few Haoqiang manors of this scale as Liu Hong said, and those small villages that are unwilling to join forces with other villages and are not large will suffer from the same disaster as the people captured by Jia Laoer.
As soon as he thought of Jia Lao Er, Su Yi's immature face appeared in front of his eyes, he didn't expect that the young man covered in blood would really persevere all the way and follow them back to the cottage.
Originally, Su Yi was a little resistant to falling grass, but then he sadly realized that it was not easy to be a bandit.
Su Yi, Liu Hong and others are all in good health, and the wounds on their bodies have also been bandaged simply, and it will not take long to recover. Moreover, Su Yi also deliberately used one of the few spirits in the cottage to clean the wound, and briefly introduced the importance of wound disinfection to Liu Hong.
After raising in the cottage for some time, Su Yi's body has almost recovered, he followed Liu Hong throughout the cottage, and he also has a general understanding of the surrounding terrain, the cottage is located in the vertical and horizontal mountains, the vertical and horizontal mountains are endless, it is like a chasm entrenched on the border of Youzhou, Youzhou is different from Liaodong, and there is not much land bordering the grassland outside the Saiwai.
Youzhou has a vast area, the forces of all parties are intertwined and the environment is harsh, and this village is hidden in the depths of the vertical and horizontal mountain range, inaccessible, more than 200 miles away from the nearest Shangjun county outside the mountain, and the vertical and horizontal mountain range is full of crises, except for some outlaws, few people are willing to go deep here, the deep mountains are full of cliffs and thorns, there is not only a black armor army that defected in the year, but also poisonous snakes and beasts can be seen everywhere, the rebels, bandits, and robbers who have absconded here in various states and counties have their own forces in the vertical and horizontal mountain ranges, It can be described as a forest of cottages.
Of course, there are also some chambers of commerce and big family caravans passing through the vertical and horizontal mountains, these people who are hungry for profit risk their lives to smuggle goods through here, they pull the goods through the official road, not only to accept strict checks, some controlled items also do not want to be transported out of Yanmen Pass, these chambers of commerce and big families have a lot of trade with the Saiwaihu people, once they are found by the imperial court to smuggle food and weapons, at least the head is different, and the heavy is the family.
Moreover, the customs duties of Dachu are heavy, and the caravans need to pay a lot of taxes when they pass through the official roads, so the profits will shrink, so it is no wonder that they will take this risk.
The cottage is built on a mountain range about 300 meters high, the mountain is steep, easy to defend and difficult to attack, and it is inaccessible here, not to mention that the officials and soldiers will not find it, even the bandits of other cottages are too lazy to run here, which is also the reason why the cottage can be preserved to this day, and because of this, the original owner of the cottage had to take people out dozens of miles away in order to rob and live, and finally met Jia Lao Er and others, almost all of them were wiped out.
At this point, if you are a bandit, you should be a bandit.
In the dilapidated Juyi Hall, Su Yi stood in the lobby with a solemn expression, and beside him stood a hateful-looking scar man, Liu Shisan and He Kui stood side by side under them. There are more than 30 little minions standing noisily below, they are giggling and playing below, even if they hear the death of the owner of the village, they don't care, they can't say that they are numb, they can only say that they don't have much loyalty to the old owner, in other words, they don't have much sense of belonging to this cottage, this is just a place where they can stay.
Counting the minions who stood guard and sentry outside, there were a total of forty-two bandits in the stockade, and a total of forty-five bandits, including Scar, Liu Shisan, and He Kui. Except for Scar and Liu Shisan, who were border soldiers and had some combat effectiveness, although the rest claimed to be bandits, most of them were lazy, and at best they were only stronger than ordinary homeless.
With a sound of "Qiang", the scar man pulled out the head knife, looked coldly at the messy minions in the hall, and shouted: "The master of the village is dead, and the snake has no head!" From today on, Brother Su is the owner of our Peach Blossom Village, if anyone is not convinced, stand up and talk to the knife in Lao Tzu's hand! ”
Below was suddenly quiet, and Liu Shisan frowned when he saw Liu Hong recommending Su Yi as the owner of the village, a little unconvinced. But after Liu Hong glanced at him murderously, Liu Shisan immediately lowered his head obediently and obeyed his brother's arrangement.
After a pause, the scar man continued: "I believe everyone has listened to me, Brother Su single-handedly killed the famous Jia Lao Er of Baihu Village, is there any problem for everyone to be the owner of the village?" ”
Jia Laoer's martial arts are not very high, but he is ruthless and vicious, and he takes pleasure in skinning people alive, especially by peeling off an intact human skin, such a perverted and fierce person is more palpitating than those who are strong in martial arts, and when he heard that Su Yi could kill Jia Laoer, the numb little minions in the hall changed color one after another.
"From now on, only the master of Su Village is the first to look forward." Liu 13 was the first to shout.
"Listen to the sword master!"
"Follow Su Dazhai in the future!"
The sound of commotion continued to be heard from the hall, and the bandits agreed weakly. Su Yi and Scar Man glanced at each other, and they both saw a trace of helplessness in each other's eyes.
This village was named Peach Blossom Village by the original owner of the village, the name is enough soil, but Su Yi is too lazy to change it, how long can this village exist, Su Yi doesn't know, if it comes, it will be safe, and the top priority at the moment is to clean up the garbage in the village.
The terrain of Peach Blossom Village is steep, the location is hidden and remote, Su Yi is quite satisfied with this, the only thing that makes him dissatisfied is the environment in this village, Peach Blossom Village is smelly and dirty, and the garbage is everywhere but no one cleans it up, and in the long run, it is easy to breed plague. After listening to Su Yi's instructions, the scar man didn't have any opinions, but the minions in the village and Liu Shisan were dissatisfied.
After muttering a few times, Liu 13 took all the minions to clean up the inside and outside of the village, and finally even Liu 13 was dumbfounded, he had never found out before, it turned out that so much garbage could be swept out of the village. After cleaning up the stockade, the bandits felt that the air was much fresher......
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