I see, no wonder it was burned by fire, there were funerals and deaths, and even chickens and dogs couldn't see it, this thief was very cruel.

However, there will be more murderous things in the future, not only the bandits will kill people, but also the officers and soldiers, and it will not only be a small mountain village that will suffer, but a city.

During the ten years of war, the rebels in Ankang Mountain were extremely ferocious, and they often slaughtered the city and left no chickens and dogs behind.

Li Minglou sighed lightly and stood up: "Let's go." Looking at Yuanji again, "Keep the money for them." ”

With more money, life is better, although it is a drop in the bucket.

Yuan Ji responded, put the silver wallet that Shicai had recovered and put it in the old man's yard, accompanied Li Minglou out, and told the details of what he heard: "More than 30 thieves came in the middle of the night, robbed from house to house, and beat those who dared to resist, and a few weak ones were killed, including this Zhang Xiaoqian's father and mother, the mother died at that time, and the father still held on to his breath. ”

Li Minglou silently walked to her horse, and when she heard the cry of a heart-rending man in the village, she withdrew her gaze and took the reins handed by Fang Er, Kumquat had already got on the horse with the help of the guards.

Li Minglou originally knew how to ride a horse, and during his ten years in Taiyuan Mansion, he often galloped on the mountains on horseback, without the slightest discomfort along the way.

The crying over there suddenly disappeared, and there was a commotion.

"Xiaoqian, don't!"

"Stop him!"

Li Minglou immediately saw the young man in the village in soap rush out, holding a knife in his hand, and the villagers behind him hurriedly chased and stopped.

"My father and mother are dead, I want revenge, I want to save Lan Niang." Zhang Xiaoqian shouted loudly.

Yuan Ji urged the horse to Li Minglou's side: "In addition to robbing livestock and grain money, the thieves also robbed more than a dozen women, and Zhang Xiaoqian's newlywed wife was among them. ”

Zhang Xiaoqian ran very fast, and Li Minglou could see his red eyes.

"Stop him!" The limping old man shouted with a wooden staff.

Two villagers standing on the side of the road pounced on Zhang Xiaoqian and held Zhang Xiaoqian down.

"Xiao Qian, you are going to die alone." The old man wailed, "You are the only one left in the Zhang family." ”

Zhang Xiaoqian knelt on the ground and roared: "I'm the only one left, what am I still alive to do, I've only been gone for a few days, and when I come back, there will be nothing." ”

When the villagers heard this, many of them wept.

The old man tearfully pulled up his trouser legs to reveal his injured legs, the blood was no longer flowing, and it was terrifying to turn over the flesh and expose the bones, "It's not that we won't let you take revenge, we also want to take revenge, but how to take revenge?" Xiaoqian, you go to the county and ask the master to send someone to suppress the bandits. ”

Originally, the person who sent the letter was looking for Zhang Xiaoqian for this.

Zhang Xiaoqian was the only errand boy in the village, and he could talk to the county lord, thinking that he would bring the official errand here.

Zhang Xiaoqian's expression was even more painful, like a beast with a severed leg falling to the ground, and hitting the ground with his head: "There is no official errand." ”

What does it mean to have no official errands? The villagers were puzzled.

"When I heard the news, I went to see the adult, and the adult said...."Zhang Xiaoqian buried his face on the ground, and saw his neighbors without face, "There is no manpower to suppress the bandits, let me wait." ”

How can there be no official errands? There are many people in the county government, and there are officers and soldiers in Dou County, and everyone has seen the soldiers who can almost level the village when they are caught and escaped.

Zhang Xiaoqian's voice sobbed blood: "I want to escort the birthday gift to the governor of western Zhejiang." ”

Li Minglou reined in his horse and looked at the young man who was banging his head on the ground, not only his eyes were red, but his forehead was also red, oozing patches of blood.

The governor of western Zhejiang, An Dezhong, the eldest son of Ankang Mountain.

Although the An family did not have a son to succeed his father to inherit the Jiedu envoy, the An father and son were both named the Jiedu envoys, which was also the first part of the Great Xia Dynasty.

Ankang Mountain is in the north, Andezhong is in the southeast, although they are all the festival envoys of one place, but the deterrence is two or three places, and even a small county town in Huainan that does not know the name will give him a birthday gift.

In the past, I just listened to Jiang Liang and Liu Fan tell how Ankangshan's father and son were arrogant and extravagant, and the feeling of listening to the story was different from seeing it with my own eyes.

The villagers looked dazed and didn't understand who the envoy of the western Zhejiang Festival was, let alone why human life was not as important as the birthday gift, but they understood that this meant that there would be no officers and soldiers to suppress the bandits and save people.

Zhang Xiaoqian jumped up from the ground: "I'll save people myself." ”

The old man looked sad: "You are sent to death alone." ”

"It's better for me to live alone than to die." Zhang Xiaoqian smiled miserably and looked around: "Let's all go together." ”

The surrounding villagers looked terrified.

"Didn't someone else get caught too?" Zhang Xiaoqian shouted, looking at a man, "Uncle Chunshan, the wheat has been snatched away, right?" ”

The man who was called Uncle Chunshan looked sad, and a woman beside him was already crying: ", I can't live." ”

"Okay, I'll go." Chunshan shouted with red eyes, "I can't even protect my wife and children, so I'm dead." ”

Seven or eight men also came forward.

The old man covered his face with grief: "It's not that I'm afraid of death, those bandits have weapons and occupy high places on the mountain, and we really want to die if we have no weapons and no weapons." ”

"How many bandits are there?" Someone asked.

The old man wiped away his tears: "More than 30 people came that night." ”

"Have they been here for a long time?" The man asked.

The old man thought for a while and shook his head: "It didn't take long, and there was no such thing in the first half of the year. ”

"Then there aren't many of them, and we have enough." The man said.

How is it enough? There are only more than 100 people in the village, more than half of them are old, weak, sick and disabled, and there are only twenty or thirty people who are young and strong, and the old man sighs: "Don't say stupid things, you guys, you ....."

His voice stopped, and he looked at the person who spoke in surprise, and the other villagers also looked over, Zhang Xiaoqian also raised his head, and a person who was covered in a big black cloak condescendingly covered the shadow cast by the morning light.

The last sentence that Yuan Ji said was enough for us people, and he said it to Li Minglou.

Li Minglou nodded: "It's still a short time to come here, and there has never been this kind of looting, the number of people should be those dozens of people." Her gaze fell on Zhang Xiaoqian, "You are a local, you are familiar with this place, take them to check it out first." ”

Zhang Xiaoqian's gaze looked behind her over Li Minglou, where there were fifty tall and sturdy guards, and they were bulging on horseback, obviously carrying weapons.

"Who are you?" He asked in a dry voice.

The old man came out first and waved his hand to Li Minglou: "This young lady, this has nothing to do with you, you go quickly to find a doctor." ”

This is a timid old man, but also bold, in the rainy night that he has just been robbed and injured, he dares to open the door to let passers-by who he has never known to spend the night.

Li Minglou smiled: "Since you don't want to ask for the cost of accommodation, let's offset it with work." ”