Yangzhou Mansion is surrounded by gentle hilly areas, there are no mountains and rivers, only the southern suburbs of the city more than ten miles away there is a copper mountain less than 100 zhang high.

Tongshan Mountain is steep and wooded, and only there is a winding mountain trail in the south of the mountain that can reach the top of the mountain. There is a "Tianchi" on the mountain, although it is a small pond, but the water is not dry all year round, which can be called a miracle. Standing on the top of the mountain, the whole Yangzhou city can be seen at a glance.

Before Daming moved south, Tongshan had always been a good place for Su Chinese inkers to sell their articles, and the local gentry also built a Tianchi Temple on the top of the mountain.

However, now this Tianchi Temple has been reduced to a cottage of Tongshan bandits.

"Girl, didn't you go hunting in the mountains? How did you bring a soldier back? You see, he's a starving ghost reincarnated! Don't look back and make our village poor. ”

The one who spoke was a one-eyed dragon man in a gray and black shirt, and at this time he was looking at Fan Jinyan who was immersed in his head and competing with a large pot of hare meat.

The woman in the power suit standing next to the one-eyed dragon looked at Fan Jinyan's eating appearance, and her eyes narrowed with a smile, "Dad, don't look at him to eat, it's amazing, my daughter saw him kill a knight of the Shun army by himself." Maybe"

Before he finished speaking, he heard a 'pop' sound.

"What?" As soon as the one-eyed dragon heard that his daughter ran down the mountain secretly, it was okay. A slap on the wooden table, slamming the bowl on the table, "You're so bold, didn't you tell you not to go down the mountain?" Turning a deaf ear to your father's words? ”

The woman in the power suit was not frightened by the one-eyed dragon's reprimand at all, but returned it with a glare, killing the one-eyed dragon in an instant in her aura.

"Hiccup"

Fan Jinyan threw away the rabbit leg that he had gnawed on in his hand, patted his swollen belly, and burped, "Huh is finally full." ”

The discordant voice suddenly attracted the eyes of the father and daughter with swords and swords, which frightened Fan Jinyan.

"You go on, you go on." After Fan Jinyan finished speaking, he hurriedly stood up and was about to leave the room, but before he could take a few steps, he was frightened by a coquettish shout.

"Stop, where are you going?"

Fan Jinyan looked back, and saw that the woman in the power suit was with a calm face, staring at herself with sharp eyes, so she hugged her fists and said: "I'm also full, it's time to go down the mountain and go home, thank you two for your care, I will thank you again in the future." ”

The words fell, and before he had time to lift his steps, he heard a 'choking' sound, and after a cold light, a sharp sword was placed on his neck.

Fan Jinyan knew from the father-daughter conversation just now that this girl wanted to keep herself, but he had already thought about it along the way, he was not here to be a bandit, he was going to find his lost relatives, and the bandit would not be able to become a climate after all.

"What kind of place are you here, can you come and go if you want?"

Fan Jinyan ignored the sharp sword around his neck, turned around, and said with a wry smile to the woman in the power suit with a gloomy face: "Girl, let me go down the mountain!" I also have to go looking for my lost relatives. ”

"Oh?" The one-eyed dragon man patted his daughter's shoulder and motioned for her to put down her sword, "You want to find a relative?" Then how did you become a soldier? Where are you from? ”

Of course, Fan Jinyan would not say that he had crossed over, so he made up a tragic story in which the listener was sad and the listener shed tears. At some point, the sword on her shoulder was also retracted by the woman in the power suit and quietly inserted back into the scabbard.

The story he made up brought back the past of the one-eyed man.

The one-eyed uncle, nicknamed Liang Blind, was originally the hereditary military household of this Yangzhou Guard, who had fought the Japanese in the east, and also went north to resist the Tartars, and that blind eye was blinded by the Tartar stray arrows in Liaodong. is such an iron-clad man, who did not die under the enemy's knife, but was forced to go up the mountain and fall to the grass by corruption. The occupation of real estate and fields, and the starvation of his parents, wives and children made him completely desperate for this corrupt country, so he took his only remaining daughter Liang Xiangru and a few fellow villagers with the same fate to come to this copper mountain and became the king of the mountain.

"Ugh." After Liang Blind finished telling the past, he patted Fan Jinyan's shoulder, "Young man, we have all lost our relatives, and I can also understand your feelings, but the world is big, where are you going to find it?" Stay! ”

Fan Jinyan was silent, it was difficult to find people in his era of developed information, let alone in ancient times when traffic was almost on legs and communication was almost on roaring. Do you go all over the street to post missing person notices? Looking for a village, a town? Maybe he died of old age, and he might not be able to walk half of the land of China.

After some contemplation, Fan Jinyan suddenly thought of the most likely way, that is, rights, have absolute rights, as long as you have rights, your relatives will not hide from you, it should not be difficult to find them.

Thinking of this, Fan Jinyan clasped his fists and said to the blind man: "I don't know if the big boss can be ambitious in his heart? ”

"Ambition?" Liang Blind was stunned when he heard this, and looked at Liang Xiangru, who also looked confused, "What is ambition?" ”

When the words fell, Fan Jinyan couldn't wait to give himself a mouthful and say this to a group of thieves who couldn't read big words, didn't he play the piano to the cow?

At this time, a magnetic middle-aged male voice suddenly came from behind.

"Could it be that this brother has some lofty ambitions in his heart?"

Fan Jinyan was overjoyed in his heart, and he could be regarded as having met someone who understood. Looking back, it was a middle-aged man with a beard who spoke, and I saw that he was dressed in a green shirt, which was completely inconsistent with the image of a thief in Fan Jinyan's mind.

After an introduction by Boss Liang, I learned that this was the fake show talent of Tongshan's second master, Jia Wenhe. He was born in a wealthy family in Tongzhou, but his family fell into the middle of the road, and he was framed and cut off his reputation, and his wife thought that he would not grow up, and he only knew that he was drunk every day, so he abandoned him. When he committed suicide by jumping into the river, he was rescued by Boss Liang and followed him up the mountain.

Of course, the unknown stories of fake Xiucai were later told to Fan Jinyan secretly by Liang Xiangru.

During the conversation, Fan Jinyan found out that Boss Liang was just the nominal boss of this gang of thieves, and it was the fake showman who really took the idea. In the words of Boss Liang, the reader has a bad stomach and many ideas, which is much stronger than my boss.

Fan Jinyan finally decided to stay, because he found that the fake Xiucai was not as bookish as he appeared, and he was ambitious; It is precisely because of his ambition that Fan Jinyan made up his mind that only by following such restless people can they go higher and have a greater chance of finding their relatives.

After a personal test by Boss Liang, he also recognized his skills and gave him a position as a fourth-in-command very boldly.

The third master is called Huang Yaozu, who was born with five big and three thick, and he is an old man who follows Boss Liang, making a sharp knife in one hand, but he also has a fatal shortcoming, that is, he is lustful, almost to the point of starvation.

The village is not big, there are more than 30 people, and the whole village except for Liang Xiangru has not found a second woman, all of them are young and strong, and their comprehensive strength is not bad.

After dinner, Fake Xiucai personally led Fan Jinyan to the house arranged for him, and the enthusiasm along the way was terrifying, which made him very uncomfortable. It wasn't until the fake show left that he felt that something was wrong, and as for what was wrong, he couldn't say what was wrong.

Just when he was thinking wildly, he suddenly heard the sound of dragging and teaching a lesson outside, Fan Jinyan hid in the crack of the door and looked out, only to see Huang Yaozu, the third master, dragging a young thief with a beautiful face into his room.

Fan Jinyan smiled dumbly, "It's really hungry, isn't there a Liang Xiangru?" ”