The night's noise finally returned to calm, Liu Ru heard the footsteps outside, and quickly got up to get up, but Xiaolian, who was sleeping next to her, had already gotten up and put on her shoes, and trotted open the door.

"Haven't slept yet?" Yu Guozhen's question came into his ears.

"Where can I sleep, the little official hasn't come back, and he hasn't slept either." Xiaolian muttered casually and affectionately: "Do you want the little official to rest?" ”

"No, I'm going to exercise in the morning after washing my face, you can help me fetch water, and then go catch up on sleep."

Liu Ru walked out of the door, Yu Guozhen gave her a smile, Liu Ru's pounding heart suddenly calmed down, she bowed down, and saluted Yu Guozhen.

"You can catch up on sleep, I just arrived here yesterday, and I encountered this incident again, so I definitely didn't sleep well." Yu Guozhen said.

"Little official, last night...... What happened? ”

"It's not a big deal, the liar He Yuanli who sank in Suzhou, has a brother who is a water bandit in Taihu Lake, and he gathered a group of people to come and take revenge." Yu Guozhen took the towel from Xiaolian's hand, wiped his face, and then continued: "All of them were captured, and not a single one was missed." ”

"Taihu Lake...... Water bandits! Liu Ru took a breath of cold air.

After staying in Wujiang for ten years, of course she knows what kind of guys the Taihu Lake water bandits are, they are as ruthless as wolves, they are as cunning as foxes, they are like ants when they gather, and they are like birds when they disperse, these guys are much more ruthless than the water thieves on the small islands of Chaohu Lake!

But listening to Yu Guozhen's tone, it turned out that all the Taihu Lake bandits who would commit crimes in the future were captured and killed?

"How many bandits are coming?"

"Fifty-one, not many in number, but with a lot of gold and silver on them." Yu Guozhen laughed: "Together, it is also worth fifteen or six hundred taels, plus two ships, it just so happens that I have no money to build a house for Xiaolian and Ru, so they will send it up." ”

When she heard that she was going to build a house for herself, Xiaolian was immediately happy, but soon she felt that something was wrong: "Little official, slaves don't want any house, slaves just need to wait for little officials!" ”

"Hehe, even if you're waiting for me, you can't stay here forever." Yu Guozhen gestured: "Moreover, the fifth uncle should be back soon." ”

Xiaolian pouted, not knowing what to say for a while, Yu Guozhen turned his eyes and saw that Liu Ru was frowning lightly, and seemed to be very uneasy, so he asked, "What, what else are you worried about?" ”

"The petty officials had far-reaching ideas and captured and killed fifty-one bandits...... It's just that this thing may not be a good thing, last night like that, the town can't hide it, and the government will inevitably send someone to ask, how to deal with it? ”

Xiaolian didn't think about this problem, because she couldn't think about it that much, and all her thoughts were on how to complete the things that the little official explained. But Liu Ru is different, she thinks more comprehensively, and asks about the key things as soon as she asks.

Yu Guozhen laughed: "This matter, of course, will be handled by my fifth uncle Yu Yixuan." ”

Yu Yixuan returned from Shandong at the end of July, and he returned with more than 40 families, including 83 teenagers between the ages of 12 and 15 whom Yu Guozhen had agreed to want. This number is lower than Yu Guozhen's expectations, but in less than a month, it is already good to be able to collect these.

"Fifty-one Taihu Lake bandits......" Looking at the brother and cousin in front of him, Yu Yixuan, who had not yet taken a breath, was stunned and stunned for a while before he said as if pleading: "Guozhen, second brother, you have a good time...... It's too big. ”

"When I returned to China to clean up the water thieves in Chaohu Lake, I also robbed 20,000 catties of salt, and I am waiting for you to come back and dispose of it." Yu Yiqin said again.

Yu Yixuan was already numb at this time, and he pondered for a while: "The Taihu Lake bandits came to our Luzhou, this matter can't be suppressed, the government has to deal with it, as for 20,000 catties of salt...... Wait a minute, is it 20,000 catties of official salt or private salt? ”

"Illicit salt."

"Can you tell if it's Huai salt or green salt?"

"Naturally, it's Huai Yan."

Yu Yixuan was stunned for a while, and his face gradually became ugly: "This ...... This ......"

He is a person who understands, and naturally knows what kind of forces will be behind the smuggled Huai salt! This batch of salt is extremely hot, and if it is not good, it will inevitably attract the crazy revenge of the salt lord, and what is even more terrifying is that the force behind the salt lord!

"The beginning and end are very clean, leaving no traces, in addition, I also went to Wujiang County, Suzhou Prefecture, and scared the retired cabinet elder Zhou Daodeng to death."

Yu Yixuan knew in advance about Zhou Daodeng's nephew's collusion with the sixth child, but now that he heard that even Zhou Daodeng was scared to death, Yu Yixuan was not worried - the matter has come to this, what is the use of worrying?

"The matter of private salt must be done cleanly, so we must be cautious." Yu Yixuan turned around twice with his hands behind his back, and then said categorically: "Second brother, I will hand over a name to the magistrate to ask to see - now our Yu family, only relying on my identity as a person, I am afraid that I will not be able to protect it, and our family must also have a name......"

The combat effectiveness shown by the Yu Mansion family, especially the combat effectiveness of the eighteen teenagers led by Yu Guozhen himself, cannot be concealed now, since this is the case, it is better to let them be made public and obtain a legal identity.

Dealing with the government is Yu Yixuan's business, and Yu Guozhen himself is busy gathering new people, while Xiaolian and Liu Rushi have become his main assistants, responsible for arranging the residence.

The new boys, numbering eighty-three, seemed to be weak because of the fatigue of the journey, especially the hardships they had suffered while fleeing. A lean porridge cured their weakness well, and they were driven to the top of the school yard in the large courtyard, and Liu Ru looked at them from a distance, and then at the sky.

In the autumn of Xiang'an, it is still very hot, especially in such a sunny season, standing on the school field for a while, these teenagers sweat profusely.

"What do you mean by this, little official?" Liu Ru asked in a low voice: "Sister Xiaolian, they were the same with the big pillar and the second pillar at the beginning?" ”

"That's natural, Brother Dazhu is fine, Brother Erzhu has not suffered less, and Brother Jiuhe and Brother Wuya." Xiaolian flashed her eyes, slightly proud, although the new sister is very smart and beautiful, but when it comes to being close and familiar with the little officials, she is still far from herself: "It's me, and I've also stood!" ”

"Huh?" Liu Ru was stunned for a moment, and looked at Xiaolian in disbelief.

"Really, if it's my sister, every morning when the little officials and they run, I also run, they run ten miles, I run five miles!"

Thinking that after serving Yu Guozhen every morning and getting up, Xiaolian would indeed leave the courtyard for a while, Liu Ru nodded. Looking at Xiaolian, she hesitated: "Do I want to run too?" ”

"Naturally, the little official said, if the gangsters come, we must at least be able to run away as fast as possible!"

Hearing this, Liu Ru couldn't help but laugh softly, and when she laughed, half of the eighty-three teenagers standing were stunned.

Liu Ru avoided it from a distance, but she didn't hide, she was very curious about what kind of method Yu Guozhen had to use to train these teenagers to be like Ye Wuya and Luo Jiuhe.

At this moment, Ye Wuya and Luo Jiuhe came over with a cylinder and lifted the cylinder head, and there was clear cold water inside. Xiaolian said softly: "This water is well water, but it has also been boiled, the little officials are not allowed to drink raw water, if it is a sister, we must also remember that if the little officials find out about drinking raw water, we will have to be punished." ”

"There is also a penalty for drinking raw water?" Liu was surprised.

"Well, the petty officials call this personal hygiene, and he said that if you don't pay attention to personal hygiene, you will easily get sick. Like in the water, there are countless small insects, but we can't see them with our naked eyes......"

"I also know about this, the Buddhist scriptures say that there are 84,000 insects in a bowl of water......"

"If my sister knows a lot, but the little official said that these small insects are an important cause of people's illness, if you don't boil the water, they will burrow into the stomach of the person's body, causing all kinds of diseases."

Liu Ru pondered for a moment, secretly wondering in her heart, where did Yu Guozhen's statement come from?

She was thinking about it, and those teenagers on the school field were already thirsty when they saw Qing Shui, and if they hadn't come to a new place, they would have hugged them a long time ago. Even so, there were still a few bold people who walked over, and walked towards Ye Wuya and Luo Jiuhe, who were looking at the water tank, with smiling faces.

"Two little butlers, let's enjoy the saliva and drink." One nodded and said with a bow.

Luo Jiuhe looked at him with a smile: "Want to drink?" ”

"Yes, yes."

"How much do you want?"

This question made the young man who asked him stunned for a moment, and seeing that they seemed to be talking very kindly, the rest of the teenagers also surrounded him, and in a blink of an eye, Luo Jiuhe and Ye Wuya were surrounded by groups.

"Hehe, Brother Jiuhe loves to play tricks on people the most, he must be playing tricks on these newcomers." Xiaolian laughed in a low voice: "If you are sister, you remember, if there is anything that Brother Jiuhe wants to do, you must be more careful." ”

"How dare he even tease you?"

"If it's something that the petty officials confess, of course they don't dare to be sloppy, but if we have something to do with him, he has to do something, hum, nasty ghosts."

said this, but Liu Ru felt that Xiaolian didn't really hate this Luo Jiuhe, just like an old sister who said that she hated her naughty brother.

Luo Jiuhe looked at the crowd around him, and glanced at Ye Wuya, Ye Wuya understood, and the two of them suddenly poured the water tank over, and a tank of water was poured on the ground covered with yellow coarse sand in front of the eyes of the more than eighty thirsty teenagers.

The coarse sand seepage is excellent, and in the blink of an eye, the water is gone.

"You...... What do you mean by that? Finally, someone couldn't help but ask.

Luo Jiuhe sneered: "It's simple to drink water, the petty officials will not let you die of thirst when they bring you here, but you will remember it all to me, take the ride and be obedient, then you will have food and drink, if anyone dares to be naughty, even if this water is poured, it will not give you a sip!" ”

Although more than eighty teenagers were thirsty, but after all, they were only newcomers, and they all dared to be angry and did not dare to speak, Luo Jiuhe and Ye Wuya put down the water tank and said: "The first thing you have to listen to is that you can only drink boiled water, not raw water, and those who drink raw water will be whipped ten times and run twenty miles!" ”

Xiaolian laughed with a "grunt", she looked at Liu Rus: "If you are sister, you see, this guy is a fox and a fake tiger...... I'm going to scare him! ”

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(The situation is in danger, when you ask for a big arm, think I help!) ）

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