When Huo Tong left the mansion, he was still carrying a heavy bag of money in his hand, followed by Youchun.

This girl is less than Huo Tong's chest, a short one, it seems that with a little force, she can be thrown out whole, and then fly a few laps in the sky, and then fall down with a "snap".

Youchun walked beside him, and when he heard Huo Tong laugh softly, he couldn't help but wonder a little.

"You're not so happy, are you?"

Huo Tong came back to his senses, touched his nose, and was just about to explain, only to understand that Youchun thought that he was happy because he took the silver, and breathed a sigh of relief.

Turning his head to look at Youchun, he saw that this little girl frowned with a pair of thin eyebrows, her eyebrows and eyes were small and exquisite, and she couldn't help but sigh that she was really a maid in a rich family, and she was raised so well.

Unconsciously wandering again, Youchun sighed, revealing a hint of pity.

"Are you pitying me?" Huo Tong glared, the wound on his face was torn by the slightly undulating facial expression, and he gasped.

mountain bandits!

As the saying goes, you don't hit people in the face, but fortunately he flashed quickly at the time, otherwise the big knife wouldn't just cut his face.

Youchun nodded: "It's a little sympathetic." ”

Then, she pointed to Huo Tong's face and asked carefully, "Will it leave a scar?" ”

Huo Tong touched it lightly and said with a smile: "Manly man, it's nothing to leave a little scar." ”

Youchun snorted: "When you can't find your daughter-in-law in the future, it's okay to leave some scars." ”

Huo Tongyi was stunned and suddenly regretted it.

His family has three generations of single inheritance, but he can't live without a daughter-in-law!

"You're from a big family, do you have that kind of plaster to remove scars?"

"Scared, aren't you?"

"I'm scared, I'm afraid." Huo Tong is as good as a stream.

"There should be, I'll ask Madame when I get back."

"Is Madame so good? This plaster should be expensive, right? ”

Youchun smiled and patted him: "Madam is generous and kind, just a little plaster, and I won't be stingy with you." ”

"In fact, Qiongzhou is so far away from Yicheng, why do you have to come all the way to suffer from the ladies?"

Youchun said with a "sure enough, you think so" expression: "Madame originally didn't want to come, but she had no choice but to take over the errand with the general, Madame was worried about the general, rather than sitting in the house and waiting for news, and the heart couldn't be hung back in her stomach every day, so it was better to follow." ”

Huo Tong's time was a little sour.

Probably this is a couple, right?

However, don't they all say that General Baili likes to kill his wife and concubine?

Why is the relationship still so good?

Youchun looked at Huo Tong, saw the expression on his face change several times, pondered for a while, and said: "The rumors are not credible, our general is good to Mrs., otherwise Mrs. would not have come to Qiongzhou because of worry." ”

"Yes, yes." Huo Tong, who was seen through his thoughts, was very embarrassed, so he had to nod.

The maids in the big families are so accurate in their minds that they can't afford to provoke them.

"And!" Youchun said very seriously: "Don't underestimate the female streamers, you can scratch your face when you fight, not to mention that my wife is very capable!" ”

"I didn't mean that." Huo Tong was very weak-hearted.

"What do I mean by you?" Youchun choked angrily, and then eased his tone: "How many people have had an accident before?" Is that money enough? ”

Huo Tong opened his mouth, then counted the silver taels in the money bag, and then counted with his fingers: "It's almost enough, our small territory in Qiongzhou can't spend so much silver." ”

Although he heard Huo Tong say this, Youchun still felt that he had to talk to his wife and add a little more.

After all, it's human life.

She nodded, and saw that Huo Tong stopped at the door of a family's house, and there were two white paper lanterns hanging outside the door, his expression gradually became serious, and he straightened his clothes and knocked on the door.

The door was opened by a woman with a haggard face and red and swollen eyes.

Youchun pursed his lips and lowered his head.

Huo Tong glanced at her, and then reluctantly pulled a smile at the woman: "Sister-in-law Bai, I'll send a bereavement pension." ”

The woman wiped her face and showed a hint of surprise: "Haven't you already sent it?" ”

"It was given by the government before, but this time it was given by the general."

"General?"

"Yes, someone is coming from Yicheng, and the general will lead troops to suppress the bandits." Huo Tong's voice was very low and soft.

Youchun looked at the opportunity and added: "Those mountain bandits will finish playing soon, don't worry, sister-in-law!" ”

"Who is this?" The woman nodded, and turned to look at the strange little girl.

"I'm the general's maid, and I'm accompanying Huo Yu to send the bereavement quickly." Youchun grinned, revealing a row of clean white silver teeth, which looked very bright and lovely, dispelling the haze that pressed on people's hearts a little.

Huo Tongyi shook his eyes a little, and following Youchun's words, he handed the money he had prepared earlier to the woman.

After that, he went to the house of the person who had the accident one by one, and Youchun would see the opportunity to say a few words every time, giving people a reassurance, and laughing all the way, his face was stiff.

On the way, Youchun rubbed his face and asked vaguely, "How many are there?" ”

"It's gone."

"Gone?"

"Hmm."

"That's great." Youchun opened his mouth vigorously, and the soreness came immediately, followed by a broken finger, and the posture was exactly the same as when Huo Tong counted the pension before.

"We're going to have twenty-seven."

"Hmm."

"God is pitiful, I saw that white-haired man sending black-haired man, I really couldn't help it, wasn't it embarrassing just now?" Youchun hung his head and walked slowly, without waiting for Huo Tong to answer, he opened his mouth again: "It shouldn't be ashamed, anyone who changes it will not be able to bear it, maybe it will be worse than me crying!" ”

Huo Tongyi thought of himself at the same time.

Indeed, at the time of the accident, he cried as if he was much worse than the little girl.

A few years of brothers, in the blink of an eye, the corpse was in front of his eyes, and no one could help it, Huo Tong was only in his early twenties, and it was when his emotions were difficult to control.

"Why don't you speak?" Sensing the silence around him, Youchun raised his head and saw Huo Tong's eyes slightly red.

It suddenly occurred to her that this was the person concerned, and she should be more upset than her.

Youchun gently tugged at Huo Tong's sleeve: "Don't worry, the general is here, the good days of these mountain bandits are over." ”

Huo Tong wanted to show her a smile, but because of his injury and mood, his smile was extremely distorted.

Youchun swallowed his saliva: "Don't laugh." ”

"Huh? Unsightly? ”

"No, it's a careful wound." Youchun replied with a clear conscience.

After living for twenty years, the first time he was cared for by a girl, Huo Tongyi blushed a little, but fortunately he looked black, and the shame couldn't be revealed for a while.

On the other hand, in the palace, Li Tong already had a general understanding of the situation in Sifang Mountain and the process of them entering the mountain to rob people.

It's not thrilling.

A large part of the traps, traps, and outposts in the mountains were bought by them with their lives.

The new map that Biyu got was also redrawn on the basis of the old map according to their statement.

Now, Bai Li Ye and Li Tongbing are divided into two ways.

Bai Li Ye took Biyu to continue to study how to enter the mountain, Li Tong and Youchun, as well as the red clothes hidden in the shadows, planning to go and see the unlucky Xishui Village.

Governor Lin was worried that something would happen and wanted to send a few more teams of men to protect Li Tong, but he was refused.

The reason is that there are many people.

Youchun accompanied Huo Tong to send the bereavement pension, and the red clothes could only appear temporarily, and the two of them changed into extremely ordinary people's clothes, and walked quickly all the way to Xishui Village.

Xishui Village is in the east of Qiongzhou City, and it is a mile away from the city gate.

Because of the number of robberies, there are not many people in Xishui Village, and most of them are placed in some abandoned houses in Qiongzhou City.

The rest are young adults with sharp hands and feet.

As instructed, they dug tunnels and traps in the village, both to escape and to trap the bandits who came to attack the village.

However, since Baili Ye came to Qiongzhou, the mountain bandits seem to have gotten the news and hid in the cottage and did not come out.

Baili Ye sent heavy troops to surround several passes in Sifang Mountain, and the rest did not move, doing whatever they wanted every day, forming a confrontation posture with the mountain bandits.

However, there were not enough supplies on the mountain, and there were 200 mountain bandits and dozens of prisoners, all of whom had to eat, and Baili Ye didn't believe that they could hide forever.

Either sneak down the mountain and loot the village, or take hostages in exchange.

Two roads.

Each one is a dead end.

Baili Ye's bet is that they show up.

There is a military division in that group of mountain bandits, who knows some troop formations, and is also a little clever, never comes forward, those who have fought mountain bandits with the government in Qiongzhou City say that they have never seen this military division, but the leading leaders in the cottage have mentioned it in and out of the words.

Li Tong and Chiyi walked slowly on the edge of Xishui Village, both petite and hidden in the weeds more than a person high, difficult to spot.

There were not many people walking in the village, except for the occasional figure that a few figures would come out, as if to tell outsiders that there were living people in the village.

"Please enter the handle of the urn." Li Tong said in a low voice.

That tone didn't sound like disdain, it didn't sound like praise.

"I wonder if those bandits will believe it?" Chiyi asked.

Li Tong shook his head: "I won't believe it." ”

"Why?"

"According to what they said before, Xishui Village has been robbed seven times in half a month, and it is robbed once every two to three days on average, but we have been in Qiongzhou for a while, have you ever heard the news that Xishui Village was robbed?"

"Isn't that because the mountain bandits learned the news that the general was coming with his troops, so they hid for the time being?"

Li Tong shook his head again, stretched out his finger and pointed in a direction: "Look over there, I wondered why Xishui Village was frequently robbed before, and when I came, I knew that Xishui Village was only five miles away from Sifang Mountain, and the mountain bandits were the first to see Xishui Village, in fact, as long as they moved fast, they would leave if they robbed them, and no one could catch them when they went up the mountain." ”

Li Tong paused, stretched his neck to look into the distance, and quickly shrank back: "Moreover, Bai Li Ye didn't plant soldiers and horses over there, which is equivalent to missing an opening for them." ”