The weather was a little cold, and the heat was constantly coming out of the mouths, and the fire was flickering, and suddenly the sound of dogs barking came from afar, and then many dogs barked together, and they knew that there was a big village here. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Everyone was happy, and there was a forest in front of them, and around the woods, a few lights flashed in front of them. Soon after nightfall, people probably haven't fallen asleep yet. Ma Yuan felt very good, and he sped up his speed, and had come to the middle of the village, an open field, surrounded by many willow trees, and a small fish pond next to it, and the dogs barked even more violently. People heard the sound of horses chirping, and knew that soldiers were coming, and each family even inserted the deadbolt.

At this time, the sound of "dong dong dong" sounded like the sky cracking down, and there was a bright light in the village, and Ma Yuan saw that the village was full of adobe houses, and some houses were still shaking a few times in the sound of shock. Ma Yuan was shocked, and only one cloud thunder was released in the future after the order. And send heralds to inform in all directions. The dogs in the village were silent, perhaps frightened.

Soldiers scattered leaflets around the village, the ground was covered with paper, and three jars of salt were placed to press some leaflets. Seeing that these were done, Ma Yuan gave an order, and the carriage started, and the fire flashed and jumped forward.

There are 5 villages in a row, some large and some small, and I haven't seen a single person come out. Ma Yuan and his team had just walked out of a small village, bypassing a forest, and were walking forward, only to see the fire in front of them, and the people shouted and screamed, and the cries and scolding were real.

Ma Yuan shouted, "Quick." With his feet on his feet, he urged his horse forward, and the cavalry galloped after him, and the carriage followed closely behind. Three miles ahead, I came to a large market town, and I saw that the fire was still burning in the town, and no one was fighting the fire, but I saw dozens of figures shuttling on the road, holding torches in their hands, and holding messy things in their hands, some with chickens and ducks, some with cattle and sheep, and some other people, holding torches in one hand, spears in the other, and one with a ring-headed knife. The man with the ring head knife in his hand was shouting loudly: "If you have money, you have the strength to contribute, the rich will be safe if you pay for it, and the rich people will be safe when you cook, we want to eat here, hurry up, hurry up." ”

Ma Yuan knew that he had encountered bandits, and he was annoyed, the officers and soldiers here have gone to war, and it is your turn to go wild.

Ma Yuan drew his saber, held it in his hand, urged the horse forward, and shouted loudly: "Where are the bandits, spread the wilderness here, and the heavenly soldiers are here." ”

After saying that, the first team of horse aid had already come to the front of this group.

The man with the sword in his hand took two steps forward, walked up to the horse, and said, "Where did you come from, do you know who I am?" ”

Ma Yuan smiled and looked at this person, under the light of the fire, the sharp-beaked monkey cheeks, and the appearance of a thief's eyebrows. Ma Yuan said: "I don't care who you are, if you don't stop, I will kill you here." As he spoke, he raised his saber and slashed at the man's ring-headed sword. I only heard a bang, sparks splashed everywhere, and the man's knife had been broken in two. Ma Yuan's knife pressed forward against the man's chest and said, "Say, where are you bandits?" ”

The man was frightened, and only then did he know how powerful Ma Yuan was, and suddenly softened his voice and said, "A good man spares his life, we are really not bandits." We are just here to urge food, the front army is fighting, and the great Sima Cui Yi leads the troops to Shanyang. Because there were too many people coming, in order to fight for the winter, we asked us to gather more grain, grass, and cloth to deal with the thief Wang Mang. ”

Ma Yuan asked, "You were sent by the White Horse County Order?" ”

The man nodded hurriedly and said, "Exactly, exactly." The county order sent ten teams of men and horses to collect grain, and we were only one of them. ”

"Where's your leader?"

The man pointed to the place where the fire was soaring and said, "Rich Master Li has not enough food, and the leader of our team has gone to his house to urge food." ”

Ma Yuan said: "Let your people gather, and we will go to Rich Li's house together." ”

The man saw that it was a small leader, and after a while, everyone was assembled, all the weapons were confiscated, and he lined up with his bare hands, and followed the horse aid team to the rich man's house.

A few steps away, the horse aid rode on the horse, looking at a large courtyard, the gate was open, and I could hear someone inside shouting: "Take off, take it off for me, and I want to hide." The army is fighting against the thief Wang Mang, what about you? Forgetting the high righteousness of my Han and refusing to contribute to the court, do you want to leave the money and grain to Wang Mang? ”

The voice was mixed with low sobs, and it seemed that there was a woman's voice, and the horse's anger rose, and with a wave of his hand, he called the warriors behind him to follow, and the pikes dismounted, and followed the horses with spears in their hands, and the saber team first stayed outside to watch the men and their horses.

Ma Yuan jumped into the courtyard first, and the pikemen behind him followed closely with spears in hand. The yard is very empty, and there is a brick road underneath, and the white horses of the horse aid are stepping on it, and the sound of stepping on it is particularly crisp. The people inside turned their heads one after another, and saw Ma Yuan holding a long knife in his hand, and under the light of the fire, it glowed coldly. Behind the horse, a group of infantry rushed inside, spears raised.

When one of them saw Ma Yuan coming, he rushed over with a ring knife in his hand and said, "Who are you?" ”

Ma Yuan didn't answer, he held a saber in his hand, and slashed at the ring knife, this time he hated it, and after a bang, he saw the person who stopped him, only the ring-shaped handle in his hand, and the blade fell to the ground with a ding.

Everyone was shocked, the first person, full of armor, was the person who shouted just now, and with a wave of his hand, he was about to command his team to counterattack. By this time, the spearmen had surrounded them with spears in their hands, and the spears were so long that they could not move. Ma Yuan gave an order and collected all their weapons.

There is a rockery behind these people, and there is a group of people on the north side of the rockery, with disheveled hair and disheveled clothes, and a few of them are still stripped of their clothes, wearing only a pair of shorts, shivering in the cold wind. Ma Yuan shouted: "Put on your clothes, hurry up and put out the fire, quickly." ”

On the east side of the rockery, the fire candles are burning, and there are a lot of copper coins, gold, or horse head gold placed underground. Ma Yuan didn't care about money, pointed to the pile of belongings, and said to the people over there: "Hurry up and put away the belongings." ”

At this time, there was a person standing on the ground, and he was also in shorts, tall and chubby, and his fat flesh was particularly conspicuous in the firelight. I saw him stand up, pick up an overcoat from the ground, and turn his head to the crowd around him and drink: "Why don't you hurry up and put out the fire, do you want to drink the northwest wind?" ”

All of his men, women, and children, groped their way through the ground, picked up their clothes, draped them over their bodies, and rushed to the west to the fire, and a few to the houses behind.

The big man clenched his fists and saluted Ma Yuan: "Thank you for the help of the righteous people, these financial rights are a thank you gift, I hope the righteous people will not shirk." As he spoke, he pointed to the pile of belongings on the ground.

Ma Yuan smiled: "We are not here for money, we are not interested in this, I want to know what is going on here?" ”

The man saw that Ma Yuan did not show the slightest enthusiasm for money, and his heart was overjoyed, and he hurriedly said: "The righteous man dismounted, please go to the house to talk in detail." ”

Ma Yuan said: "Let's put out the fire first, otherwise we won't be able to speak with peace of mind." ”

The man smiled indifferently and obeyed Ma Yuan's arrangement.

Ma Yuan called some soldiers and told them to tie up all these people who robbed the money and took them outside to guard, and the rest of them were drawn to fight the fire.

Ma Yuan arranged a stop here, and the fire over there had been slowly extinguished. There are still soldiers on this side who are constantly rushing over there, and it seems that the meeting will be completely extinguished by the moment.

Ma Yuan then entered the house with the rich man, and the house was already lit with high candles and bright lights. The hall was a mess, with a lot of things piled up on the floor.

The rich man smiled bitterly and said, "I have wronged the righteous man, and I don't even have a place to sit." ”

Ma Yuan said: "Mr. is polite, it doesn't hurt to stand." What the hell is going on? ”

The man said: "My name is Li Bin, I am from this Baima County, and I also have a small income, and some people are worried about it, so they take the opportunity to eat me." If you come a little later, I guess they'll all eat. However, they are also collecting food and money everywhere for the needs of the battlefield, and I am just a piece of fat that people eat in the name of this food and money. ”

Ma Yuan nodded and said, "I know, why do they collect money and food at night?" ”

"A soldier is a bandit, a bandit is a soldier, you can do things that are inconvenient to do during the day more unscrupulously at night." Li Bin said quietly.

Li Bin said and looked at Ma Yuandao: "Little General, can you tell me who you are?" ”

Ma Yuan did not pretend to be a ghost and said that it was providence, but bluntly mentioned that Pingzhou was short of people, and just wanted to take advantage of the war to see if there were any displaced people who wanted to flee, and then take it to Pingzhou.

Li Bin said: "That's great, can I go too?" ”

Ma Yuan said: "Of course you can, you can gather on the Golden Embankment on the sixth day of October, and you can clean it up in the next two days." ”

Li Bin said: "Okay, I can still gather some people, do you have any restrictions, such as the number of people, or men and women?" ”

Ma Yuan said: "We welcome men, women and children, the more people the better, it is best to come from one family to another." ”

Li Bin said with a happy face: "You have also seen it here, it's difficult, I don't have much land here, it's just the property of my ancestors." Jindi is not far from here, so I'll just bring more people with me when the time comes. ”

Ma Yuan nodded, and then went out and asked the soldier to fetch some salt and bring it into the house. ”

Ma Yuan said: "Anyone who comes to my Pingzhou, we have a small gift, this is some refined salt, but also a voucher, you take a look." ”

Li Bin stretched out his head and looked at the salt in the jar, Ma Yuan grabbed a handful and put it in his hand, although it was dim under the light, it also looked much whiter than ordinary salt.

Li Bin tapped the salt with his fingers, put it in his mouth and tasted it, his eyes lit up and said, "Sure enough, it's salt, it's good salt." ”

Li Bin was convinced, Ma Yuan left the refined salt, and he was about to continue to hurry. Li Bin could not be saved, Ma Yuan told him that he could meet on the Jindi on the sixth day of October, and that he would have something to talk about when the time came, and he now had to strive for more people to know the news that they had come to save people.

Li Bin saw that he couldn't keep it, and said that he would try his best to persuade people to go. Ma Yuan took his leave, took those prisoners, and left this market town, and this town was left to Li Bin to mobilize.

When they left the town, they sent a few men to escort these men to the boat, and immediately sent them away in a small sailboat, so that they could be salted for two years first.