After a full hour, Dong Sanlin came out of the mansion with an excited face.

The second hammer and the sixth son had already been released, and they were all waiting outside the house, and when they saw it at this moment, they all hurried to meet it.

"Less in charge? What's going on? Have you seen your uncle? What does he want to do with us? The second hammer's face had returned to the same kind of respect and caution he had for Dong Sanlin, and he asked with a smile.

Dong Sanlin glanced at him and scolded with a smile: "You rammer, you ask me so many questions at once, how can I answer?" ”

The second hammer smiled, and his face quietly took off a touch of relief.

He was originally worried that because of his previous attitude, he would make the young master unhappy, but now it seems that he is worried in vain - the young master obviously didn't take the previous offense to heart.

He thought to himself in his heart, how could a person who does big things like Shao Boss care about such details.

Dong Sanlin turned over and said, "Let's go, let's go to the cottage first, I'll tell you on the way!" ”

The second hammer and the sixth son both understood it and knew that it must be a great deal, so they hurriedly followed Dong Sanlin and got on the horse.

Dong Sanlin carried the document seal with the seal of General Songhuajiang in his arms, and naturally went out of the city unimpeded, in fact, he just shook the thousand household tokens of the Wu Yi Army given by Lian Zining, and the miscellaneous soldiers who defended the city were busy letting them go.

Out of the city, he rode eastward for about thirty miles, and turned into a path, which was surrounded by a dense forest.

Dong Sanlin got off the horse and beckoned: "Come, let's go into the forest and talk." ”

The second hammer complimented: "The young master is really cautious. ”

"You!" Dong Sanlin nodded at him and smiled faintly.

In the dense forest, Dong Sanlin beckoned: "Come, you two come here." ”

The second hammer and the sixth son poked their heads according to the words, and the second hammer suddenly felt a sharp pain in his chest, and he looked down and saw his chest. A one-foot-three-inch-long boning knife had already been inserted. The insertion was very ruthless, just in the gap between the ribs, and it was inserted into the heart accurately. The second hammer knew that he would not survive, and he had plunged a sharp knife into someone else's chest for an unknown number of times.

It's like this.

Gaze seems to slow down. He looked at the hand holding the knife, and it turned out to be a young master?

The mild and indifferent smile on his face had become fierce and cold, he held the sharp knife in one hand, and the other hand was strangling his throat, and he had no strength in his body, and he couldn't even move a little finger.

The second hammer can feel that the warmth and vitality in his body are draining. He raised his head with difficulty, looked at Dong Sanlin with a stunned face, his lips fluttered hard, and turned into three subtle words: "Why?" ”

"Why?"

What happened just now was so rapid that the six sons didn't react at this moment.

He looked at the second hammer who had widened his eyes and his face was gray, looked at Dong Sanlin in shock and anger, and asked loudly: "Don't be in charge." How can you kill two hammers? ”

"Of course you want to kill!" Feeling that the body in his hand had become cold, and the already weak struggle had completely disappeared, Dong Sanlin stretched out his hand and twitched. The knife was pulled out, and only a little blood splattered out. The corpse of the second hammer slowly fell to the ground, his eyes widened, and he seemed to be wondering why Dong Sanlin would suddenly kill himself.

"He has a backbone in the back of his head." Dong Sanlin turned his head to the sixth son: "Since he can sell me once, he can sell me again, the matter that the uncle handed over to us is extremely important, and the matter is very important, I must clean him up so as not to cause trouble." ”

The sixth son was stunned, and he looked at Dong Sanlin in a daze. His eyes were full of strangeness, and he suddenly said, "Less in charge, you have changed." ”…,

Dong Sanlin has indeed changed.

If it was the upright and hearty man before, he would be dissatisfied with the second hammer in his heart, and he would naturally show it, and then a punishment would be inevitable. But it will never be like this, let the second hammer be paralyzed, and then take advantage of his unpreparedness to suddenly kill the killer.

To put it mildly, this kind of method is simply inferior!

"Whoever has been in prison for a year, I don't know if I live or die, and I am scared, I will also become." Dong Sanlin was stunned, and then said lightly. His face turned pale, stared at Liuzi and said, "Liuzi, I will only explain this matter to you once." I'm going to tell you about what my uncle told me now, no matter what you think in your heart, or that sentence, the overall situation is important. ”

The leper head is a thief, and he is a horse thief.

He is thirty-three years old this year, and since the age of fifteen, he has been engaged in the promising and glorious profession of horse thief, although he is not very old, but he seems to have been an old man for nearly twenty years.

He was born in a military household in Liaodong, and his father was an ordinary officer and soldier of the Nuer Gandu Si Agu Hewei, and he must have been very lucky with the other guards, because Agu Hewei was located inland and did not border the Jurchens, so there was almost no fighting. Although compared with those border troops who were born like this all year round, the salary is much less--people pay seventy percent of the salary, and they are only thirty percent, and they are all the kind of variegated silver with black color-but they don't have to work hard, guarding the three points of thin fields divided by the guards, how much can you earn a little food and clothing. All day's price is nothing more than how to stammer, a hundred households, can reduce taxes and rents a little, or take advantage of the heavy snow to go into the mountains to pick up some rare things, so that they can go to the collection to exchange some money, pull two feet of coarse cloth for the mother-in-law and children, and make a new dress.

This kind of life was already humble and difficult enough, but Zhengde's 30-year military system reform deprived them of their last bit of hope.

The land of the guards was evenly distributed, the military households were converted into civilian households, and the soldiers were recruited with the money and food handed over by the renovated households. Originally, the intentions of the central authorities were absolutely good, but it was not uncommon for the central authorities' decision-making to change their flavor at the local level, and it was not uncommon for officers at all levels to take advantage of the major reform of the military system, and they were crazy about corruption. And taking advantage of this opportunity, a large number of land in the guard house was drawn with a large pen, and it was pulled into his own private land. And many officers and men at the lower levels, let alone the rated tens of acres of land, could not scoop up even an inch of land, and became destitute.

There were only two paths before them, either to serve as tenants for the officers. Or just go and ask for food.

No matter how kind a person is, he will kill people if he is forced to do his part, let alone these soldiers who are not very honest.

At the beginning, his father took a few henchmen to the house of the officer who had a holiday, and killed all his family - these henchmen. It's his father who has leprosy. Then again, if you weren't forced to do anything, who would dare to do this deadly thing?

His father followed the second hammer and his father to the Black Tiger Mountain and defected to Dong Laohu's big boss.

Heihu Mountain is the largest group of horse thieves in the entire Songhuajiang General's territory, and it can also be ranked in the top ten among the seventy-two large and small locks of the Nuer Gandu Division!

Because he was born as an official. is quite knowledgeable, and he is a person who has a name, so his father Liu Degui is quite trusted by Dong Laohu, who is a big boss, and now he has two or three hundred brothers in his hands, and he can rank fifth among the leaders of Black Tiger Mountain!

His father died early with dysentery, so Liu Degui took good care of him, and now he is also a small leader, responsible for the guard of the first checkpoint at the foot of Heihu Mountain. …,

A cottage. It's not just the lonely cottage on the hill that exists independently, but it's a fairly large system.

In the case of Heihu Mountain, the cottage is located in a large open space slightly higher than 300 zhang in the middle of the mountainside. It stretches for miles, and thousands of people live in it, and the scale is very large. Behind the cottage, there is a steep mountain wall, and in front of it, there is a hundred-zhang high cliff, which is difficult for apes to climb.

In the whole cottage, only a steep and rugged path can go up and down.

On the periphery of the cottage, on the slopes of the hills on all sides, seven or eight checkpoints and towers were built. There are all values on it to ensure that they will not be attacked.

At the foot of the mountain, there are dozens of checkpoints, guarding various traffic arteries, which is not only for communication, but also for defense and defense.

Leper head here. It is the biggest and most important place, because five miles in front of the checkpoint, there is a village - don't think that the location of the cottage, the horse thief must be inaccessible, in fact, man is always a social creature, and horse thieves are no exception.

Around the cottage, there are many villages, horse thieves also have to eat, dress, and train, their food, meat, weapons, arrows, leather robes, clothing, etc., are from the surrounding villages. Just as the location of the university in later generations always drove the economic development of the surrounding villages, the thousands of horse thieves were also a large consumer group, and everything they needed came from the surrounding villages.

Horse thieves usually don't eat grass on the edge of their nests, so these villages are safe and you don't have to worry about being attacked by other horse thieves.

Of course, if the officers and soldiers come to suppress the bandits, they will be the first to be unlucky, but the problem is that the officers and soldiers on the ground in Hulin have been living peacefully with the horse thieves for more than ten years, who will have nothing to do to suppress the bandits?

"Give Lao Tzu a little spirit!" The leper walked down the hill with a curse, and walked sideways in the middle of the road like a crab. A horse thief was hiding from the sun under the wall, so that he caught a square, and when he went up, he kicked the heart, and the little guy was soothed for a while, but he knew the character of the leprosy head, and he jumped up like a rabbit, and said good things with a smiling face.

The leprosy scolded him again before turning away and going up the wall.

This outward is like a small city-like structure, the outward side is three walls, more than two zhang high, one zhang thick, all of which are rammed with crushed stone mixed with loess, which is very strong and solid. There were also wooden fences on top, and gates on the bottom, with some specifications. On the back, there is the path that leads to the mountain.

"Boss Lai, what's wrong?" Seeing that the leper head was walking away from the wall angrily, a horse thief who was wiping the head of the gun turned his companion with his elbow and asked softly.

"Do you still need to ask? It must have been eaten and hung up. The partner pursed his lips and sneered lowly: "Boss Lai is not very capable, his temper is not small, and he offends more people, I don't know how many people think about watching him joke all day long." There was no news of the young master a year ago, and the six sons and the second hammer sent to find them did not know where to go, Liu Sanye was the second hammer, the son, who was anxious like a fire on the wall all day long, and I heard that he had quarreled with the big boss twice, and he moved the real fire, and slapped the table......"

"Quarrel with the big boss? The third master is dying? The partner's eyes widened and he exclaimed.

"What can't you do for your own son? It's not that you don't know, when you beat Xuanchengwei a few years ago, the third master asked the officers and soldiers to shoot an arrow, right there! The horse thief had a lewd smile on his face: "I saved my life." But there, I can't keep it, I heard that the whole thing has been cut off......"

"Click!" He crossed his hand and made a slashing motion with his knife. There is also a dubbing in the mouth, which is very infiltrating. …,

The partner's teeth ached, and he reached out to cover his vital parts.

"Just thinking about it, you know how miserable it is!" The horse thief looked around, and seeing that no one was paying attention to this side, he bared his teeth and grinned: "I heard that the third master didn't grow a beard a few years ago. Don't look at his beard, it's all glued. In the third master's life, he has only one son of the second hammer, and he relied on the young master for the disappearance of his son, saying that if it weren't for the stupidity of the young master, he would have to go down the mountain to learn what Wu Yijun's skills were, and the second hammer would not have an accident. ”

"What about the big boss? What do you say? "This man must be better at telling a story than being a horse thief, and he has aroused the curiosity of his audience. The partner asked excitedly.

"Can the temper of the big boss be easy to provoke? The young man is also his only son, can he not protect his own calf? At the moment, he scolded the third master. said that if it wasn't for the cottage, how could the young man go down the mountain? The second hammer has no ability and is lost, what is the matter with Guan Shao? The storyteller clicked his lips: "Aren't the two of you going to stand up?" ”

"The big boss is ...... with the third master," the listener shook his head and asked sneakily.

"Can't fight!" The storyteller snorted disdainfully: "Don't fucking think about it, these two masters are doing big things, that is, making noise, venting evil fire, and can they really use knives?" ”

"Speaking of which, though. It's really frustrating! The storyteller sighed and said in a low voice: "The age of the big boss is not young, I can't tell when I will have it, right?" The young master has been gone for more than a year, and he hasn't sent a message back, as if it's gone. After this cottage. But what should I do? ”

His imagination was interrupted by a scream, and he heard the leprosy head on the wall scream like that of a woman in childbirth, and he stood on the edge of the wall, his head stretched out, his fat neck stretched to the extreme, and his big eyes were full of shock, almost falling out of their sockets. He stretched out his hand and pointed not far away, trembling, like a chicken claw wind.

The storyteller and the audience glanced at each other, and both saw the soul of gossip burning in each other's eyes, and the two people had a tacit understanding of three steps and two steps, and climbed the wall.

They followed the fingers of the leprosy head and saw a scene that made them incredulous.

The two knights rode their horses and stood not far away, and it turned out to be Dong Sanlin, the young master who had been missing for more than a year, and his sixth son, who had gone out to look for him.

And what is even more shocking is that the young master is wearing a mountain armor that only high-ranking officers can be issued in the Ming Dynasty - with the rich experience of the Black Tiger Mountain horse thieves who have dealt with officers and soldiers for so many years, it can be seen that this is at least the armor that only officers at the level of thousands of households can have!

Less in charge of the family?

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The news of the return of Dong Sanlin, the young master, spread like a whirlwind in the cottage.

This is not the main event, the big news is that the young master is not only back, but also an official!

Wu Yijun's 11th Wei Zheng Thousands of Households, Appointment Letters, Guan Fang Seal Letters, Thousands of Household Tokens, etc., are all available, and they are definitely not fake!

A horse thief can also be an official?

And it's such a big official as a thousand households?

This news has made many horse thieves scorched and tender, and the sky is thundering, completely subverting their values.

After the shock, it is sincere admiration and admiration.

Dong Sanlin ran down the mountain at the beginning, saying that he wanted to go to Wuyi Army to learn from the army and find a way to get through the cottage, but at that time, many people said strange things and spoke coldly, and there were even jokes that I don't know how many people watched coldly and waited to see him. And Dong Sanlin has been gone for many years, and there is no news, many people think that he has been unexpected, and those who opposed it at the beginning are even more proud, because of these things, the relationship between the big boss and many old brothers has been divided. …,

But I didn't expect that the young master really did it! Not only did he enter the Wuyi Army, but he also achieved the high position of a thousand households in just one year!

God, this is the court official of the fifth grade!

Many people have never seen such a big official in their lives!

Although they are horse thieves, they are engaged in the trade of licking blood with knives, but this does not mean that they do not have reverence for the center of the court - in fact, on the contrary, they are more afraid and awe of the court and the government in their hearts than ordinary people. Otherwise, the imperial court would not have shown a little bit of the intention of recruiting peace, and those bandits would have responded in groups.

Dong Sanlin, an officer of a thousand households, is an out-and-out big man in their eyes.

And many people have hope in their hearts - maybe, the young master can really take us out of a way!

If there is another choice, who the wants to be a horse thief in this life, who is raised by a little mother!

The news of Dong Sanlin's return also reached Liu Degui's ears.

The place where he lives is a cross-courtyard on the west side of the cottage, just at the bottom of the cliff, where there is no sunlight all year round, and it is very damp. A simple courtyard house, the north room, the east and west wings, and the south room add up to more than a dozen rooms, but only Liu Degui lives alone - his son is missing, his wife has long since died, and speaking of which, he is also very lonely.

The walls were covered with thick moss, and as soon as you walked in, there was a clammy and cold coldness. (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to (.) to vote for recommendation, monthly pass, your support is my biggest motivation. )