With the locals leading the way, Xu Hao led the people to search forward from a rugged sheep intestine path when they broke up, and because of the dawn, the vision also became better.

However, after a whole day of searching, except for abandoned objects such as embroidered shoes and cloth strips, no trace of living people was found. But in any case, the absence of blood and corpses proves that these women were not killed.

At dusk, the guide pointed in one direction and said, "My lord, two miles away is Hexia Village." ”

"Hmm!" Xu Hao nodded, and pulled out a silver hairpin inserted in the ground, "It should be someone who recognizes the road and leads them over, brothers work hard, find someone and let's rest." ”

But it seemed to be two miles away, and after walking on this undulating hill for a full hour, the guard at the front shouted, "There is a fire in the village." ”

Xu Hao strode over and raised the clairvoyant mirror, and saw that the village was full of smoke, the fire burned the houses red, the people were running around, and there were many thieves with sticks around the village who were setting fire to the reeds, forcing men and women to run in one direction, and one came out and captured the other.

The number of thieves was about one or two hundred, and Xu Hao immediately ordered: "Cross the river and block the road from the rear, and kill them." ”

This time Xu Hao did not take the lead in attacking, looking at the hundred guards walking across the shallow stream and touching it, there was a dark night as a cover and was not noticed by the thieves, and then unexpectedly hit the rear attack, and in a blink of an eye, the thieves were killed dozens of people, and the rest of the people were scattered, and ran towards the village in a panic.

The guards did not chase them, rescued the villagers who were tied up and guarded the intersection, and let the thieves who had nowhere to escape rush out and kill one by one.

Suddenly, the guide excitedly shouted, "My lord, my lord, I am hiding here." ”

Xu Hao hurriedly looked, and saw dozens of women with wolf hair coming out of the reed firewood pile by the river, it turned out that they couldn't walk after walking for a day and a night, so they simply made a shack to sleep in. Luckily escaped.

After all the thieves were wiped out at dawn the next day, the surviving people in the village refused to leave their homes, and the entire village was burned to the ground, and they really didn't know how to survive the winter.

Bidding farewell to the poor villagers, Xu Hao rode a horse and returned the woman the same way, just as Mu Yi was not at ease and sent five hundred people to come to answer, Xu Hao then organized four or five hundred strong men, and took a thousand people to enter the city in the dark night, and killed more than three hundred thieves. Thousands of people were brought back.

At the same time, on a barren mountain only twenty miles away from here, Xu Wen was bumping into the forest like a headless fly in the south and north, followed by two women in unusual clothes, walking for a while and crying for a while.

Xu Wen said impatiently: "Cry again, Lao Tzu slaughtered you with one knife, it's really fucking unlucky, Li Huzi, you wait, sooner or later I will have to cut you with a thousand knives." ”

It turned out that in the next big battle in Zhending City, Xu Wen, who was mixed in the army, was found by the vengeful Li Huzi first. The relatives in the chaotic army were all killed, so frightened that Xu Wen ran away on horseback, and Li Huzi chased after him, chasing and fleeing, and staged a scene of thousands of miles of chase and killing.

finally got rid of Li Huzi. Xu Wen returned home to Beiping alone, because he was penniless and worried about being caught up by Li Huzi, he heard that a widow's family was going to Suzhou to join relatives, so he simply went to others to be a guard.

Xu Wen is handsome and talented. Within a few days, I hooked up with the widow, ate and drank well, and someone warmed the bed, and I lived happily for half a month.

Who knew that it had not been long since I left. happened to meet the thieves who were killed by Xu Hao, and saw that the traveler was like a hungry tiger pounced, and the family was killed in an instant, Xu Wen had to resist desperately, and fled into the mountains with a widow and a maidservant.

Frightened by Xu Wen's shout, the master and servant didn't dare to cry, this widow's maid name is Qiu Niang, and her maid is named Xiaocui, wiping her tears and walking forward with a deep foot and a shallow foot. Half an hour later, I saw a path in front of me that was bright and bright by the moonlight, and there was a faint sound of dogs barking, and the three of them walked over with great joy.

Several thatched huts were lit by candlelight, and there was a small fence door, which looked like a farmer's house, Xu Wen looked around with a long knife with a cold face.

Xiaocui said: "We're tired, and there's nowhere to go in the moonlight, so let's rest here for a night." ”

Qiu Niang, who still had the charm, nodded lightly, and was limped to the stone mill in the field behind the house by Xiao Cui to sit down, and told Xiao Cui to call the door to ask for a bowl of water to eat.

Xu Wen, who was like a frightened bird, was silent, stood under the big locust tree outside with a vigilant expression, and said in a low voice: "I'm afraid it's not the thief's nest of the previous gang of strongmen, Lao Tzu can warn you, don't blame me for leaving you ruthlessly if you can't run out." ”

Qiu Niang smiled bitterly: "Even if you run into the thief's nest, the slave family will not escape, it is nothing more than death." ”

Xu Wen said coldly: "With the appearance of the two of you, no one can die, but the strongman will not leave me alive. ”

Qiu Niang sighed in her heart, she thought that she had met a wishful husband who would be relied on for life, but she was also ruthless, but she was still a good man with clear grievances and grievances to protect herself today.

Here, Xiaocui pushed the door tremblingly and took a look, only to see an eighty-year-old woman with unkempt hair and white hair sitting in the house, and a poor woman in her twenties with barefoot and barefoot shoes standing in the alley outside the house, looking at her blankly.

There was a pile of dried cow dung burning in the stove, and the house was full of black smoke, Xiao Cui was a maid of a rich family, and she saw a lot of people and things in the countryside Zhuangzi, so she covered her nose and opened the door, and walked in with a smile after the smoke dissipated.

Xiao Cui, who was tired and hungry, glanced at the big iron pot first, but sighed that there was not half a grain of rice in the pot, but half a pot of yellow vegetables was boiled. Two bunches of radish leaves were tied to the beams, and a few gourd strips hung behind the door. In addition, a wooden rake is placed on the ground, and the grass is fed to the cattle during the day; Two ploughs were broken, and the fields were ploughed and wheat was planted after autumn, and the walls of the family were empty.

The daughter-in-law was not wearing a cloth skirt, dragging a pair of patched autumn pants, and asked, "Who are you?" Like a young lady from the owner's house. ”

Xiao Cui smiled: "Although it is not far away, what about your man?" ”

The daughter-in-law said: "In the past two days, the strongman has been strong, the village told us to hide, the man took the guy to help fight the thief, the mother-in-law is too old to walk, I don't worry about guarding her." ”

Xiao Cuixin said that this country woman is a filial person, and the old mother in the family knows that she is a good family at a glance, and said that my eldest mother is still outside, and ran out to invite Qiu Niang into the house, Xu Wen thought about it and did not go in.

The old woman said hello tremblingly, and the daughter-in-law took off the oil lamp, helped Qiu Niang to sit on the kang, and was busy scooping water in the tank to cook.

Xu Wen, who stayed outside, reluctantly swallowed a bowl of boiled wild vegetables, laid straw and lay directly in the yard, looking at the bright starry sky and couldn't help but sigh deeply, thinking that now he is miserable like a lost dog, since he goes home, he will suffer all the white eyes, but the third child is a group of high-ranking officials and concubines, who doesn't respect him like a god? God is so unfair.

"No, King Yan's strength is exhausted, and he can't go back."

Xu Wen turned over and got up, muttering: "Anyway, since my father's tragic death, the whole family no longer takes me seriously, and I can't protect my mother when I go back, so I just ask you to stay in Beiping with the third child and suffer well, at most, the woman will not be given her life if she is confiscated into the army, I will hide incognito for a while." ”

Thinking that it was too cold outside, Xu Wen entered the house and whispered to Qiu Niang: "The soldiers are in chaos, and you can't walk to Suzhou with your legs, so it's better to go home quickly." ”

Qiu Niang had already regretted it, nodded and agreed busily, and the next morning, the three of them said goodbye to the old woman and daughter-in-law and headed in the direction of their hometown.

Unfortunately, I walked for a day, and found a temple in the wilderness to stay in the evening, and was politely invited in by the elders, and when I arrived at the main hall, Xu Wen suddenly secretly complained, and there were more than a dozen thieves pretending to be monks sitting in the hall, and dozens of thieves poured out of Hula outside, and there were women who were robbed lying all around.

Fortunately, some of the nearby scoundrels, who got together to be monks in the past, bullied, and did not have bows and arrows and horses, but only some dealers' guns and sticks in their hands, and took advantage of the chaos to rob a full temple of women because they were familiar with their hometowns, and basically did not kill anyone, and some relatives and neighbors who knew them were directly let go, and some simply stayed and joined the gang.

The elder looked at the disgraced Qiu Niang's master and servant, and said: "Monks quit killing, you can't let go if you are a raw face, women are good to say, you either obey us or wipe your neck yourself." ”

Without waiting for Xu Wen to speak, suddenly the strong man inside stood up and smiled: "Aren't you Xu Qianhu?" I saw you when I besieged Yanwang's Mansion that day, and I ran back to my hometown when I was killed in the city that day. ”

After speaking, he walked over and untied the rope for Xu Wen, and invited him into the hall to drink wine and eat meat, Qiu Niang breathed a sigh of relief and pulled Xiaocui to carefully find a clean place, and no one came to entangle.

Xu Wen was confused while eating and drinking, and said that Lao Tzu was behind the gate, how could he commit himself to being a thief?

The man's name is Hou Er, and he is the second leader of a group of people, and he knows that Xu Wen is from a noble background and has good martial arts, so he calls him a leader.

Xu Wen, who planned to be false and wronged, had no way, in order to show his determination to fall into the grass, he was shaved in public, and the elders of the big boss found out to get the old ragged clothes to change for him, and some women made monk shoes and hats, and the name was empty, which was considered to be a gang.

These people are quite righteous, knowing that their brothers' women can't touch them, Qiu Niang and Xiaocui are used to being pampered, and they don't know anything except sewing clothes, so the elders asked the two of them to be responsible for pulp and laundry.

Among the women who were robbed, there were a few beautiful women, and Xu Wen, who was not worried about his life, couldn't help but start to be greedy, but they were all people with masters.

Xu Wen hesitated whether to flee with Qiu Niang's master and servant, and didn't forget to ask around when he came out to rob the house.

In the blink of an eye, on the first day of October, Li Jinglong worshiped heaven and earth and swore to the north, leading hundreds of thousands of troops like a rolling torrent surging, and everywhere he went, he was crushed to pieces, and nothing could stop him.

The good news was frequent, and the cities and counties that passed through were easily recovered, and the chaotic places were forcefully suppressed, of course, the unlucky people were still the people, but fortunately, compared with the indiscriminate killing of innocent thieves, the officers and soldiers were not so unscrupulous.

Even the gateway town of Tongzhou was abandoned, and the Yan army disappeared without a trace. Just ten days later, hundreds of thousands of troops arrived in Wanping County, Beiping Prefecture. (To be continued......)