After the gambling shopkeeper settled Xing Zhutou's payment, he didn't let out a fart, and he took people back to the city, and even the rest of the fist and foot competition was no longer involved, and he deserved to admit compensation and pull down, such a result made Gao Huaiyuan endure more than laughter, and finally let this guy who opened the casino take a big mouthful of blood, see if this guy dares to take advantage of this opportunity to make money in the future.

Dong Qiang was obviously very unhappy with this failure, and Gaojiazhuang took away the top names of the two groups, which made him very unacceptable, so he walked to the Gaojiazhuang Bow and Arrow Club and found Zhou Jundao: "This strong man, is he willing to compete with Dong on the stage?" ”

Zhou Jun smiled slightly, hugged his fists and said, "I'm sorry, I won't accompany Brother Dong if I don't do it well!" I do not participate in the next one! ”

Originally! Winning the first place in two groups in a row is enough scenery, Zhou Jun knows that Gao Huaiyuan values group competitions, not individual competitions, and he doesn't want to be too sharp, according to Gao Huaiyuan's instructions, he took the initiative to give up the competition in terms of fists and feet.

Dong Qianggan glared, he originally wanted to find Zhou Jun on his fists and feet to get some face, who knew that people wouldn't play anymore, and he didn't have a problem this time, so he couldn't stop Zhou Jun and start fighting on the spot!

"Since that's the case, then Dong will come to the door again another day to ask for advice!" After that, Dong Qiang snorted and turned around and left, he was not convinced, he felt that he had lost the battle just now too unjustly, and he had lost really badly.

"Zhou is waiting for Brother Dong!" Zhou Jun is really a young man's fiery nature, and when he saw Dong Qiang's disbelief, he said to his back.

After the competition reached this point, the rest was the competition of fists and feet, and those who practiced martial arts in the folk were ready to show their faces on stage, and ran to the registration office to sign up, waiting for the lottery.

Just when Gao Huaiyuan was busy arranging the next draw, a person suddenly ran in the distance, his expression seemed to be very flustered, and he ran out of breath, separated the crowd, and squeezed towards the stands, and soon squeezed under the stage, and wanted to go to the stands.

But he was immediately stopped by the officials in the audience, everyone didn't notice him at first, and continued to stretch out their heads and wait with great interest to look down at the more fierce fighting ring, but after a while, a government official ran to the stands and reported to Liu Zhixian and Gao Huaiyuan and others: "Ladies and gentlemen, something is wrong!" Jinjia Village, Nushan Township, was attacked by lake thieves last night, and more than 40 people were killed in one village, and the villagers came to report to the official! ”

After hearing this, everyone who was still interested in it was taken aback, Nushan Township is also the boundary of Daye County, located on the east bank of Niangzi Lake, lake bandits have been rampant in the past two years, but it is really rare to attack villages like this and kill so many people, such a big thing, how can they not care, so the matter of preparing to draw lots just now was also put down.

Liu Zhixian immediately found the head of the household who came to report to the official, and asked in detail, only to find out that the daughter-in-law of a family in Jinjia Village was washing clothes by the lake two days ago, and two fanatics wanted to insult her, but they were discovered by the people in the village, chased and beaten, and one of them was seriously injured, but he didn't expect these two maniacs to be lake thieves, and as a result, they caused the lake thieves to retaliate, killed dozens of people in Jinjia Village, and kidnapped several young women in the village.

"What a good thing that is! County Lieutenant Gao, look at this incident......" Liu Zhixian was so anxious that he stomped his feet, lost his mind for a while, and asked Gao Huaiyuan.

"Xia Guan understands, it seems that this competition can only be stopped, so I will immediately arrange for everyone to disperse first! The lake thieves are really hateful, and this time the officials will definitely let them see what it means to be a king! Gao Huaiyuan immediately replied, for such a group of evil bandits who plagued the people, he had long been interested in finding trouble with them, but some time ago, these guys did not commit many crimes, and he did not have the ability to go to them, and now that such a big thing happened, he naturally would not stand idly by, and immediately decided to stop this competition and concentrate on dealing with this matter first.

For the county government suddenly terminated the competition, everyone was quite dissatisfied, feeling that they had not finished their fun, and the ring had not yet started, so they stopped, so some people shouted and were unwilling, but soon learned that there was a big incident in the county, so they had to give up, and the onlookers dispersed with regret.

And those village warriors who were ready to fight had to give up, but the village warriors of the bow and arrow societies in each township were ordered by Gao Huaiyuan to stay and wait for the dispatch of the government.

After hearing about the lake bandits, these villagers also felt very indignant, so they clamored to go to Niangzi Lake with the county lieutenant to exterminate the lake thieves, and this enthusiasm was quite good.

"Everyone, listen to the words of this official, as the saying goes, raising troops for a thousand days and using soldiers for a while, you have all gone through half a year of training, and you are all local people, it is the responsibility to maintain one side and defend the territory, this time the lake piracy is rampant, slaughtering innocent people, it is really hateful, if we continue to let it be the party, don't you make people laugh off their big teeth? Since this incident has been bumped into today, this official will take you to Nushan Township to find the bad luck of those lake thieves! Do you dare to go with this officer? After Gao Huaiyuan gathered these villagers together, he loudly encouraged them.

So the villagers immediately shouted in unison: "Yes! …… Fuck ...... Kill all the damned lake pirates! ”

Not long after Gao Huaiyuan took a team to protect Liu Zhixian's sedan chair, all the way to the direction of Nushan Township, this time is also a test of his efforts for more than half a year, in the end is a mule or a horse, it is time to come out and slip, so Gao Huaiyuan took Xing Zhutou and other hunters, and ordered the archers in the county, plus the township warriors of the twelve bow and arrow clubs, enough to gather a team of nearly 200 people, and drove towards the direction of Niangzi Lake.

Liu Zhixian, as a county parent official, had such a major event in the land under his jurisdiction, so he naturally had to go to check it out in person, and by the way to appease the suffering people, so he also went with the team, and the county government was temporarily guarded by the county Cheng and the lord.

Although it was getting late when they set off, but the group did not dare to delay, and they hurried overnight, and finally arrived at Jinjia Village, sixty or seventy miles away early the next morning, for these villagers who came out for the first time to suppress bandits, this is also a test of their strength, and they traveled in a hurry overnight, and there was no one left behind, everyone followed the team over, and it can be seen that the quality of these people is still quite good, compared to before the establishment of the Bow and Arrow Club, the personal quality has improved a lot.

Moreover, the villagers of each township also know that when they line up and run to Jinjia Village, although they are tired enough, their respective teams have not yet run away, which is a huge progress!

When Liu Zhixian rubbed his sore waist and got down from the sedan chair, Gao Huaiyuan also turned over and jumped off the yellow horse, and there were people kneeling on the side of the road crying and shouting outside the village, and the village was even more mournful.

Gao Huaiyuan ordered Xiangyong and the archers to rest on the spot outside the village, and only brought the first class of the servants and Xing Zhutou to escort Liu Zhixian into the village, as soon as everyone entered the village, they were immediately shocked by the scene in front of them, Jinjia Village is a small fishing village, there are only more than 20 families in total, but when they entered the village, the sight was indeed full of corpses, some of the surviving people saw the people from the government coming, and immediately cried bitterly, crying and begging the government to make decisions for them, to avenge their dead relatives, There were also people who rushed over to stop Liu Zhixian's feet, crying and asking Liu Zhixian to save their daughter.

Where has Liu Zhixian seen this scene, smelling the smell of blood still in the air, he was a little nauseated, but he finally didn't make a fool of himself on the spot, barely suppressed this disgusting feeling, raised his hand and said: "The official has come, everyone should be calm and don't be impatient, after taking the official to find out, I will definitely give you justice!" This time, the county lieutenant in the county has already brought troops over, everyone can rest assured, he will definitely avenge you! ”

After a while of appeasement, they began to inspect the scene of the massacre, Gao Huaiyuan slowly walked in the village, looked down to check the corpses lying on the ground, the more he looked at the more angry he became, from the corpses he saw along the way, it can be said that there are men and women, old and young, among them, only a few young descendants lost firewood knives, harpoons and other things, obviously when the lake thieves attacked, they tried to protect themselves, but unfortunately the incident happened suddenly, coupled with insufficient manpower, no one led, so that they were killed by the lake thieves, The rest of the men, women and children were basically wounded in the back, apparently after the incident during the night, trying to escape, but were killed from behind by the lake thieves.

This kind of situation can be said to be a slaughter without humanity, just to kill people to vent their anger, the fishermen are already very hard, the family is relatively poor, there is no money to be made, but I didn't expect to provoke the lake thieves, but ended up in such a miserable end, it is really angry Gao Huaiyuan's forehead is bruised, I can't wait to find those lake thieves immediately, and slaughter them clean to relieve my anger.

The next survey site, Gao Huaiyuan almost couldn't bear to see, two of the families up and down, killed by the lake thieves, the hostess of one of the families, naked lying on the bed, the lower abdomen was cut open by the lake thieves with a knife, the head was also cut off, rolled under the bed, obviously before death was also the lake thieves bullied, humiliated and then killed, another family a pregnant woman was also split by the lake thieves with a knife with a head and shoulder, died in front of the house, its state is unbearable, it can be seen that the ferocity of the lake thieves, but also shows how inhumane they are!

Such a scene made the people who came with him all indignant, although they would do things like making things difficult for the people and extorting some money from time to time on weekdays, but they couldn't see such a scene, they gritted their teeth angrily, and some people shouted to find the lake thieves to settle accounts.

Liu Zhixian's face was pale, and he was invited by the head of the village to a clean place to sit down and rest, and served tea, and told the story of what happened the night before with tears, even the head of the household's house was ransacked by the lake thieves this time, and the son of the family was also killed by the lake thieves.

Gao Huaiyuan walked over and listened carefully to the head of the household telling the situation again, and after asking in detail, he could be regarded as fully understanding this matter.

It turns out that the lake thieves of Niangzi Lake can be said to have been around for a long time, and these lake thieves are not too ferocious in the early years, most of them are just some fishermen along the lake, and occasionally do some black work, robbing a fortune in the name of ferrying in the lake, but the harm to these fishermen along the lake is not serious, but gradually with their gradual development, these lake thieves are becoming more and more arrogant, and gradually the people around Niangzi Lake are becoming more and more harmful, especially after two years ago, it is rumored that a person surnamed Jiang came among the lake thieves. Lake thieves became more and more rampant, taking advantage of the geographical advantages of Niangzi Lake, doing evil on the lake, for the sake of one party, constantly harassing the surrounding villages and towns, robbing and killing people from time to time, and often blackmailing the people along the lake, saying that Niangzi Lake is their territory, and asking fishermen to pay fish tax to them, which makes the fishermen in the area of Niangzi Lake miserable.

And this time, it was the indignation of the young descendants in the village, and as a result, they inadvertently injured the people in the lake thieves, and caused the bloody revenge of the lake thieves, the lake thieves attacked at night, and the people in the village were defenseless, and a few bloody fishermen heard the news, and got up to try to resist it, but the result was that there were too many lake thieves, and several of them were quickly killed by the lake thieves, but they also killed two lake thieves, and the result was that they caused the crazy revenge of the lake thieves. It took forty or fifty people in the village to kill this tragedy.

"Uncle! Let's mourn for a moment, and it's not too late for me to ask you something! Gao Huaiyuan listened to the elderly head of the household crying and talking, and it took him a long time to get a general understanding, so he asked him to stop crying for the time being and ask in detail.

The head of the household finally suppressed his crying and nodded, and Gao Huaiyuan then asked, "As far as you know, how many lake pirates are there?" Do you know where their lair is? That's what he's most concerned about right now.

The old man shook his head and said: "Lake thieves have been very rampant in the past two years, how many people there are, Xiao Lao'er is not very clear, but it is said that they have about one or two hundred people, as for the nest, these lake thieves have no fixed place, and they haunt everywhere in the area of Liangzi Lake, and Niangzi Lake is the junction of our Daye County and Jiangxia County, they are interested in this cheapness, but it is said that they should now have a place to settle in the Yujiazui area, which is about 30 miles away from here, but this is also hearsay from Xiao Lao'er, Few people dared to go fishing in that area, for fear of provoking them! ”

The old man said well, Niangzi Lake is indeed the junction of Daye County and Jiangxia County and Ezhou, basically belongs to the place of three regardless, plus Niangzi Lake is wide, the inlet is dense, the waterway is vertical and horizontal, the lake thieves are indeed very safe to hide in it, although Ezhou is the place where the garrison army is located, and the garrison army and the navy, there was not much trouble here before, but after the Song and Jin wars in recent years, the government and the garrison army have paid attention to the Jiangbei battlefield, and the navy is also deployed along the river, and there is no time to care about these lake pirates, Even if they are the party to the disaster, the government is powerless to pursue and suppress them, so they can only let them cause chaos, so that now they are rampant to this extent.

After Gao Huaiyuan heard this, he frowned, so he waved his hand to let the head of the household go out first, and then turned his head to Liu Zhixian and said, "Lord Liu, it seems that this time things are not very easy to handle!" There are a lot of lake thieves, and this time the officials brought less than 200 people, and there are no lake thieves who are familiar with this place, if you want to exterminate this bandit in one fell swoop, I am afraid it is not enough!

But we can't let the lake thieves run rampant so much, after all, the people here are also the people of the court, and those lake thieves can't continue to kill and harm the scourge, otherwise, it will cause a civil uprising, and once the fishermen are disappointed in our government, they will be among the lake pirates, and the area around Daye County will probably never be peaceful in the future!

And after the matter is big, the adults and the subordinates will not be able to escape the blame, and they will inevitably be punished for negligence and unfavorable punishment of banditry! Xia Guan thought that since we had a trip this time, we couldn't just let go of this matter! Otherwise, it will be a big disappointment for the local people!

Fortunately, the lake thieves are so rampant and ferocious that the surrounding fishermen hate them to the core, but the people's hearts are worthy! Xia Guan thought, this time we might as well move bigger, and then recruit some villagers from the Bow and Arrow Society to come over and search for lake thieves along the lake, and it is the best policy to capture these lake thieves in one fell swoop, I don't know what Liu Zhixian thinks? ”

Gao Huaiyuan analyzed the situation, although he is not afraid of lake thieves, but he is not reckless, a huge Niangzi Lake, if he only relies on his manpower, it is basically impossible to exterminate the lake thieves in one fell swoop, even if the lake thieves are rampant enough to come and fight with him, they may not be able to capture them in one fell swoop, so he wants to gather more people to come over and enhance his strength, but this kind of thing has to be nodded and agreed by Liu Zhixian.

After listening to this, Liu Zhixian hesitated, and only said after a while: "I'm afraid this is difficult!" Although the lake thieves are indeed rampant and hateful, but the county is now collecting food taxes, and it also needs manpower to do these things, this juncture to mobilize a large number of villagers to come over, in addition to the difficulty of manpower to gather, there is also the consumption aspect, the food and money that the villagers eat are all problems, let me raise so much money and food for you to suppress the bandits? This matter is also difficult for the official! ”

Gao Huaiyuan scolded secretly, you dog official is money and food, now the people are being killed by bandits, you don't say much, but you think about this matter vigorously, what a bastard! But think about it the other way, Liu Zhixian does have difficulties, he is a small county magistrate, and he wants to launch a large-scale anti-bandit operation, and it is really a little difficult for him to take out money and food to support such an action at once!

So Gao Huaiyuan thought for a while, and then said to Liu Zhixian: "What the lord said is the same, but in the opinion of the officials in this matter, it can't stop there, if it is allowed to develop, it will be harmful and unprofitable to us, and the long pain is better than the short pain, this time we must be ruthless and pull out this gang of lake thieves!"

As for the matter of money and food, Xia Guan has an idea, I don't know if the adults are willing to adopt it? ”