This group of bandits, as Zhang Shuting expected, is not a local bandit, but from the deep mountains of Taihang. This open-mouthed bandit leader is surnamed Gou, and he is known as the open-mouthed and numb-faced old Gou.

The bandits have been entrenched in the Taihang Mountains, and the bandits with a dozen bandits, burning, killing and looting are also all tossing in the mountains, and they have never stepped out of the mountains for half a step. It is precisely because he has never walked out of the mountains that few people outside the mountains know that there are bandits in the mountains.

Not only are people outside the mountains not clear, but even few people in the mountains know that there is such a group of bandits as open-mouthed and numb-faced old hooks. This is also the difference between this group of bandits and other bandits. The difference is also that this group of bandits farms at home when they are busy farming, and only gather in one place when they are not working, cover their faces with cloths, and take advantage of the night to kill people everywhere and steal goods.

And because their "work" is clean and neat, they rarely leave their horses and feet to others, and people in the mountains only know that there is such a very powerful bandit, but few people know the details of this bandit.

It is precisely because few people know their details that they attract the attention of one person. This person is none other than the guy surnamed Gou in the North Burning Pot.

This young man surnamed Gou said that he also lived in Goujiazhuang in the mountains. Half a year ago, I came to Ansu City to beg for food. Later, he settled in the North Pot and became a handyman in the backyard of the North Pot.

But this handyman is different from other boys. This handyman boy, although he is only sixteen or seventeen years old, has grown an adult heart since he was a child, and he is extremely clever, not only relying on his cleverness, he quickly gained a foothold in the North Burning Pot, but also relied on his cleverness, which quickly attracted Zhang Lianqi's attention.

It is precisely because of this that these days, whenever Zhang Shuting, the owner of the South Burning Pot and the South Burning Pot, is mentioned, Zhang Lianqi looks hateful. Regarding this, others didn't take it to heart, but the guy surnamed Gou saw it all.

Just a few days ago, Zhang Lianqi went to run errands outside the south gate, and when he passed by the south pot shop, he happened to bump into Qi Zhankui standing on the steps of the store, directing a group of men to load wine baskets into a carriage, looking like a smooth sail. When Zhang Lianqi saw it, he was angry again, and when he returned to the north pot, he dropped the tea bowl. After falling over the tea bowl, he still felt angry, so he opened his mouth again and scolded Qi Zhankui for being ungrateful, and scolded Zhang Shuting for not knowing life or death.

Seeing that there was no one left and right, Gou guy stepped forward, aimed at Zhang Lianqi's ear, and said quietly:

"The old club doesn't have to be angry, I have a way to ensure that I can solve the hatred in the heart of the old club! And you can do it without knowing the ghosts! ”

When Zhang Lianqi heard this, his eyes lit up, and he couldn't help but say eagerly: "What can you do?" ”

That's what the guy said. The general meaning of the hook guy is that he is allowed to go back to his hometown in the mountains, try to find this bandit, and come to rob the south of the pot. At that time, if the south pot is willing to give out silver, the south pot will hurt the wealth; If Nan Yao Pot refuses to give out the silver, this group of bandits is used to killing people again, and they will definitely kill people. At that time, if he can really kill Zhang Shuting's family, it is uncertain whether the South Burning Pot can continue to be done.

After hearing this, Zhang Lianqi also felt that this was a good way to take revenge on Zhang Shuting in the south pot, and his spirit was inevitably lifted. But Zhang Lianqi is Zhang Lianqi after all, and after listening, he asked worriedly:

"Let the South Burning Pot lose a sum of silver, if you really kill Zhang Shuting's family, once the incident happens, you and I will be more than worth the loss!"

When the guy Gou heard this, he smiled again:

"I can tell you that there is a way to keep us from getting involved in it in the first place!"

Zhang Lianqi:

"What can you do?"

Only then did the guy Gou say that the leader of this group of bandits was an open-mouthed and numb old hook, and he was the one who made the Gou family. Everyone in the village knows what the old hook does in secret. But the open-mouthed and numb-faced old hook never harmed the village and the nearby villagers, so no one said it. As I said, the hook guy is very sure to say:

"I went back to the village and found the old hook with a nocky mouth, and in the middle of the idle talk, I intentionally or unintentionally told him that Zhang Shuting, the owner of the South Burning Pot, had a lot of money and a small population in the family, and I didn't believe that this old hook with a nocky face was not moved."

When Zhang Lianqi heard this, he also felt that it made sense, and he was allowed to go home immediately.

When the hook guy returned home, he quickly found the old hook with a numb face, and he turned the silver earned by the Zhang family in the south of the city into a mountain of money over the years, and the owner Zhang Shuting drank a few days ago because of the competition with the owner of the north pot, and almost drank to death, and now he is still sick and crooked.

The open-mouthed and numb-faced old hook listened to it, but he was not moved at first. The old hook has the principle of doing things: his territory is in the mountains, and no matter how rich the people outside the mountains are, he doesn't want to go out of the mountains to take this risk. But this year, the situation in the mountains was different from previous years.

In the autumn of the Republic of China, there was a major flood outside the mountains, but there was a great drought in the mountains, and there was not a single star of rain and snow all year round. The land in the mountains is as dry as a net, almost every household has no harvest, and there are many people who go out of the mountains to beg for food.

Of course, the rich man in the mountains was no better. Everywhere you go to rob, if you don't kill a few people, you won't be able to squeeze much oil and water at all. The old hook with a numb mouth was also annoyed and killed, and when he saw the guy who came back from outside the mountain, he was not moved at first, but he was finally moved.

So, he first sent his men to Ansu City to inquire about the situation. The person who inquired about the situation came back and said: The situation is basically as Gou Guy said, and finally made up his mind to rob the Zhang family in the south and rob it.

But a few days have passed, and I have always seen the guys in and out of the South Pot, and I saw that these guys were all big and round, and they all slept in the backyard closest to Zhang's house, worried that once there was a movement, it would alarm them, and I was afraid that it would be difficult to deal with for a while. I didn't dare to do it for a long time.

Seeing that this night, the guys on the pot finally dispersed, and I saw a dozen guys playing cards in the front yard, which was a good opportunity to start. The open-mouthed and numb-faced old hook let his subordinates spread around Zhang's house early, and waited for the day to pass.

But they are still careless. They only saw a dozen guys left behind by the South Pot playing cards in the front yard, but they didn't know that they would go to the middle courtyard and backyard every half an hour to check and flip through.

Also, they may be used to killing people in the mountains, and the houses in the mountains are sparse, and they can cry and scold the robbed family, but not in the city, the city is dense, although the south of the Zhang family house is a city wall, and the northwest side is a river pit, and there are no people, but the east side of the Zhang family's house is next to the pot. As soon as the Zhang family cries, they can hear it clearly in the backyard of the pot.

It was precisely because they could listen to the movement of the Zhang's house when they stood in the backyard of the pot, and just after the first watch, they jumped into the Zhang's courtyard by a small bandit, opened the courtyard door, and a group of bandits poured in. After succeeding, the crying and scolding of several women and children of the Zhang family were heard by the old grandson, a big guy who went to the backyard of the pot.

As soon as the big guy Lao Sun heard that voice, he understood that the Zhang family might be robbed. So, without saying a word, he went to the front yard to call a few guys, and the guy went straight to the owner's house.

The big guy Lao Sun took the lead, with an iron rod in his hand, and first put down the two bandits standing at the gate of the owner's house, and then rushed into the courtyard, and then put down several bandits in the courtyard and at the door of the house, and the action was so fast that it was almost in the blink of an eye. When the old hook with a numb face understood it, he was already poked to the ground by the big guy Lao Sun with an iron rod.

Then, under Zhang Shuting's questioning, the bandit leader also told the story of listening to the words of the Bei Pot Gou guys before he decided to come to Ansu to burn the pot in the south of Ansu City to rob Zhang's house.

Zhang Shuting didn't listen to it, but when he heard it, he was speechless for a long time.