However, after a while, there was a commotion in the distance, Xia Jun was checking the buffalo's injury, the buffalo's chrysanthemum was blown to a mess, and it was estimated that he would not live long.

Hearing the voice, Xia Jun looked up, and saw a group of villagers wearing coarse cloth clothes, braids, and straw sandals rushing towards this side, and after a cursory sweep, there were more than a dozen people, it seemed that they were nearby villagers,

Soon those villagers came to Xia Jun, seeing that he was carrying a gun, these villagers were a little in awe and did not dare to step forward, at this time a middle-aged man wearing black satin and a melon skin hat walked out, arched his hand to Xia Jun, and asked in Mandarin: "Thank you little brother for taking a righteous shot, I don't know my little brother's surname?" ”

"In Xia Xia Jun, I got lost on this mountain, I don't know what kind of place this is?" Xia Jun asked the middle-aged man, judging from the middle-aged man's dress and conversation, he should be a local squire.

"This is Tangkeng Village, Xixiang, and you will reach Jian'an County after walking thirty miles." The middle-aged man said, Xia Jun was stunned when he heard this, and asked, "This is Jian'an County?" ”

"Yes." The middle-aged man nodded. Xia Jun was very fortunate that Jian'an County was located in the northern Fujian region of Fujian, which was later known as Jian'ou City, and he happened to grow up in the city.

"Saigo? What is the surrounding area? Which gate is to take from the prefecture? Although Xia Jun is a local, he has no impression of this place in Xixiang, and there seems to be no place called Xixiang in later generations.

"Take the north gate, there is Xiaosong below Xixiang, and if you go around it, you will take the east peak in the direction of the east gate......" The middle-aged man recounted, Xia Jun was a little dizzy when he heard it, isn't this the Longcun Township of the later generations? Could it be that this year is called Saigo?

"Little brother, what are you going to do with these jackals?"

"This ...... You guys deal with it! It's useless for me to bring these things, but I don't know if I can let you sleep in the village for a night? Xia Jun asked.

The middle-aged man was stunned, and hurriedly nodded and said, "Okay, good, it's great that the little brother can stay in the village, the strong man please." ”

"Okay." Xia Jun nodded.

Then a group of villagers happily carried the six jackals back to the village, Xia Jun and the middle-aged man chatted for a while, and learned that this was the first year of Xuantong, which was also 1909. The middle-aged man's name was Lin Debao, and he was the landlord of the village.

"Where is the little brother from?" Lin Debao asked while observing Xia Jun on the road, Xia Jun was dressed very strangely, without braids, and wearing strange clothes.

"Natives." Xia Jun replied.

"Why didn't that little brother keep braids, he was caught by the government, but if he wants to kill his head, it's better to buy a fake braid and connect it." Lin Debao said, but Xia Jun was not afraid at all, and said with a smile: "I just came back from studying abroad, and it doesn't matter if I pick it up or not." ”

At this time, the rule of the Manchus had entered a stage of getting out of control, and the outbreak and success of the Xinhai Revolution two years later were no accident. Xia Jun is confident that he has a gun in his hand, how can the government tolerate him?

Lin Debao was a little surprised that Xia Jun was a local, but he was not surprised that he came back from studying abroad.

"Which country did my brother study in?" Lin Debao changed to the local dialect and asked Xia Jun, Xia Jun thought about it, he seemed to only be able to speak broken Chinese English, so he said: "Graduated from the United States [***] school." ”

"Military Academy! Why didn't the little brother go to the book? I heard that now the army only needs to study abroad, and all of them like Germany don't want it! The United States is not clear. Lin Debao obviously had some knowledge and asked Xia Jun strangely.

Xia Jun didn't understand very well, the Manchu Qing Dynasty in this era didn't want German students?

It turned out that when Yuan Shikai was training the new army, as long as German students were not called students. The Manchus wiped out their armies during the invasion of China by the Eight-Nation Alliance, and the rest of the armies were in the hands of the Han Chinese. In order to return the new military power to the hands of the Manchu elites, the Qing court sent Yuan Shikai home to recuperate. The Qing court sent Zaitao to control the army, Zaifeng's younger brother is actually a drama fan, he is timid as a mouse in his life, the actual controller of the army is Liangbi, after Liangbi came to power, in order to weaken Yuan Shikai's influence, the army only needs to be a student and not a German student. As a result, it was said that there were many revolutionary parties among the students, and the revolutionary party took the opportunity to infiltrate the army.

At the same time, Yuan Shikai was not honest when he lived in seclusion in his hometown, whenever his old department visited him, he would give them a gold bar, and later even the revolutionary party officers also admired it, Yuan Shikai was also not stingy, it was still a gold bar to send, 80% of the returned personnel of the League went to visit Yuan Shikai, Yuan Shikai gave him a lot of money, causing riots in various provinces.

Xia Jun casually made up an excuse, saying that he had an uncle who was doing business in the United States, so he brought himself to the United States. I sighed in my heart, what a cliché excuse! It seems that all the protagonists of time-traveling novels use this excuse! Then follow the trend yourself!

Soon came to the village, the village is not very large, there are only more than fifty households, and the villagers in the village looked at Xia Jun with awe.

Because Xia Jun has a gun on his body, and he is dressed strangely, but from the outside, he is very glamorous.

Lin Debao welcomed Xia Jun into his home and asked people to prepare a table of meals to entertain Xia Jun. Most of the meals are home-cooked and very refreshing.

After eating, Xia Jun asked Lin Debao about the local bandits.

"How did the little brother talk about bandits?" Lin Debao asked puzzledly, Xia Jun casually ran the train and said: "I can't hide it, I returned to China this time because my whole family was killed by bandits......

Lin Debao was really fooled, and comforted Xia Jun a few words, saying: "There is a group of bandits on Shiniu Mountain ten miles away, I heard that there are more than 20 people, it is very difficult to provoke, and the little brother has to do what he can!" ”

Xia Jun didn't make a sound, but he had the idea of the group of bandits in his heart.

In the evening, the villagers killed the cow and six jackals, Lin Debao set up more than a dozen tables, and prepared some wine and food, and invited Xia Jun and the villagers to have a big meal together.

Lin Debao saw that Xia Jun had some skills, and he was still an international student, so he had the heart to make friends with him.

At night, Xia Jun was settled in the guest room of Lin Debao's house, Xia Jun drank some wine and quickly fell asleep.

I don't know how long it took, suddenly there was a commotion in the village, Xia Jun was quickly woken up, and under the dim light of the kerosene lamp, Xia Jun saw Lin Debao looking anxious.

Seeing Xia Jun wake up, he hurriedly shouted: "Little brother, go, go, the bandits are coming." ”

"Bandits." When Xia Jun heard this, he quickly got up from the bed, and under the leadership of Lin Debao, he wandered through the alleys of the village, and soon Lin Debao fled to the woods behind the village with his family and Xia Jun.

Xia Jun ran very simply, he didn't want to fight the bandits, he didn't fight the bandits, when he fought the bandits, he naturally played yin, he had to fight if he had a heart or not, and now how to fight the black light. There was no electric light in the village, and at night it was pitch black with no fingers visible.

"A group of coffin stacks, fortunately they ran in time." Lin Debao gritted his teeth at the bandits who entered the village, and then Lin Debao's wife shouted, "Oh, where is the princess?" ”

Taigong?

Xia Jun thought of the old man in Lin Debao's house who was wearing straw sandals and had many holes in his clothes, and he was still wearing them, the old man was Lin Debao's grandfather, others were eating food, but he was eating bran vegetables, but he just asked for a bowl of dog meat. It's not that Lin Debao abused the old man, but that the old man was too economical, and perhaps it was because of his savings that Lin Debao's family became a landlord.

When Lin Debao heard that his grandfather didn't know where to run, he was so anxious that he jumped up and down, but he didn't dare to return to the village.

In the village below, a group of bandits of more than 20 people rushed into the village and soon began to rob things from house to house.

Soon they rushed into Lin Debao's house, and apparently found nothing of value in Lin Debao's house, so they ran to Lin Debao's granary, only to find more than 1,000 catties of rice.

An old man sat curled up outside the granary, and the bandits didn't pay attention to the old man in tattered clothes.

But the bandits, who were unwilling to grab such a little thing, quickly caught a villager and asked, and under the questioning, the bandits learned that the old man was the landlord's father-in-law.

A group of bandits were overjoyed and hurriedly kidnapped Lin Debao and his grandfather.

After dawn, Lin Debao led people down the mountain, there were no casualties in the village, and the bandits did not rob the villagers or kill people after entering the village, obviously they went to Lin Debao and his house. Soon learned from the villagers that the bandits told him that he would tear up the ticket if he didn't take 3,000 silver dollars to Shiniu Mountain within seven days.

"What a good thing that is!" Lin Debao was as anxious as an ant in a hot pot, but Lin Debao's family did not agree to take money to ransom people, after all, the old lady was old and had few years to live.

Xia Jun proposed to Lin Debao: "I can solve this group of bandits, but the old lady is in their hands, but I can't do it, it's better to redeem the people first, and then I'll help you get the silver dollar back." ”

"This ...... Can the little brother really clean up the bandits in Shiniu Mountain? Lin Debao asked in surprise, Xia Jun nodded affirmatively, at this time he has advanced weapons, dealing with a group of bandits with ** earth cannons, if he can't clean it up, then he really doesn't need to be a person.

"Forget it, just redeem the person." Lin Debao shook his head, not believing that Xia Jun could single out more than twenty bandits.

Xia Jun saw that he didn't believe it, so he didn't say much.

Lin Debao was about to ransom people, but his wife strongly objected, thinking that it was too much of a loss to ransom people with 3,000 silver dollars, and the two quarreled, and three days passed in a flash.

On the fourth day, the bandits of Shiniu Mountain suddenly sent a little thumb, Lin Debao panicked on the spot, regardless of opposition, the next day found more than a dozen young people in the village, and dug out the silver dollar in the back mountain.

In order to defend against bandits, these landlords naturally do not keep all their money at home, and the common practice is to find a place where no one knows about it and bury it.

Then Lin Debao counted three thousand silver dollars, and then invited more than a dozen villagers to rush to Shiniu Mountain with silver dollars, and Xia Jun also followed.

However, Xia Jun had already changed his clothes, and he also had a fake braid on the back of his head, although he hated this braid very much, but in order not to attract the attention of the bandits, Xia Jun still connected it, and hid a pistol at his waist, and the rifle was thrown in the village.

When the group arrived at Shiniu Mountain, the bandits in Shiniu Mountain had already received the news, and a group of people came to the bottom of the mountain, and prepared a sedan chair, and the old lady of Lin Debao and his family sat in the sedan chair.

It seems that there is no chance to go up the mountain, and Xia Jun's intention to go up the mountain to observe the terrain is tragically aborted. Lin Debao paid the ransom, and one of the bandits shouted, "Brothers, it's on your way." ”

I saw four bandits lifting the sedan chair, and some of the other 20 bandits were responsible for setting off firecrackers, and some were laying silver dollars in front of the sedan chair.

The silver dollar went all the way to the front, the road was paved to the full, and the sedan chair passed and then put away the silver dollar, and then took it to the front to pave the road, Lin Debao and his old lady sat in the sedan chair, the silver dollar paved the road, and the firecrackers kept returning to the village.

What a grand ceremony! It turns out that bandits can do the same.