The midday sun illuminates the land after the rain, and although the village still does not have chickens and dogs barking, the smoke of cooking has already risen.

Two women carefully brought a table from outside, which was old but apparently the best in the village, and two more women were anxious to bring food from the kitchen.

"Everything has been robbed, and nothing good can be made." The women muttered in a low voice, not daring to look at Li Minglou, who was sitting in the shade of the courtyard, not only because of her unique dress, but also because of what she had to do.

The lame old man sat in the courtyard and sighed, not caring about entertaining the guests to eat and drink, and tried to dissuade him: "This young lady, those bandits are very cruel, you are not officers and soldiers, don't take risks." ”

Li Minglou did not speak, because they were officers and soldiers.

Kumquat grinned: "This is called eliminating harm for the people, and we are not afraid." ”

The old man couldn't cry or laugh, the road was uneven and the people were just lightly said, this woman was not enough to listen to the voice of fourteen or fifteen years old, why didn't the family follow, and these people who followed didn't care, she said to go to suppress the bandits, and she really obeyed the order.

"Little girl, you're going to die." The old man sighed, where have these little girls seen dead people, and know what real life and death are, "I didn't want to keep you yesterday, because I was afraid that the thieves would come again and you would suffer, alas, I should have driven you away." ”

"The bandits are kings of the mountains in front of us, and we may also suffer if we pass by." Kumquat said seriously.

The old man had nothing to say for a while.

Footsteps sounded outside the door, and Yuan Ji and Zhang Xiaoqian returned.

"The mountain is high and steep, and there are several checkpoints on the front road, and the sentinels are very alert." Yuanji introduced the situation of the investigation, "Let's try it when it gets dark in the back mountain." ”

Of course, he's not here to tell how difficult things are.

"Are these bandits caught alive?" He asked, "Or is it settled on the spot?" ”

Arresting and solving problems on the spot are two different ways of fighting, and the suppression of bandits is the business of the local government.

A county official who only cares about giving birthday gifts is unreliable, and it is useless for the thieves to hand them over, Li Minglou said: "Solve it on the spot." ”

Falling grass is robbing and killing people, and there are more innocent deaths, and this kind of people are even more harmful to stay in troubled times.

Motoyoshi responded yes.

The old man and Zhang Xiaoqian's expressions were complicated, is this little girl talking about murder? It's so easy and easy, this little girl......

"Miss, who are you?" Zhang Xiaoqian couldn't help but ask.

He took Yuanji and his party around this circle, although Yuanji didn't say anything superfluous, as an official who has only been in the industry for a year and is not very experienced, he can still see some clues, either rich or expensive, and it is very likely to be an official eunuch.

The eunuchs who can use such guards must be higher than the county officials.

Li Minglou glanced at him: "The passer-by asks the medicine man." ”

In fact, he didn't show his identity at the beginning to cover it up, Zhang Xiaoqian lowered his head knowingly and didn't ask again, as long as they can punish the traitors and eliminate the evil, it doesn't matter if they are immortals or monsters.

Yuan Ji took most of the people away, leaving only Fang Er and four others to accompany Li Minglou, and more than a dozen people from the village stood up to go together, and after a brief consideration, Zhang Xiaoqian followed with seven people.

"Dad, mother, wait until your son saves Lan Niang, and then I will bury you after taking revenge." Zhang Xiaoqian knelt down and kowtowed heavily in the direction of his home.

The other men also swore an oath, carrying a sickle and an iron hoe on their backs, and followed Yuanji and his party away in the tears of the villagers.

The people in the village looked forward to rescuing their relatives and were afraid that their relatives would be injured, so they took revenge and rejoiced, and it was not impossible to steal their lives, until it was dark and no news came, and the village became more nervous and no one slept.

Li Minglou was not nervous, the mountain bandits still needed to worry about the humiliation of the soldiers and horses of Jiannan Dao, she didn't fall asleep, her current sleep is day and night, it seems that she can fall asleep at any time, it seems that she can never sleep, this life and that life alternate between waking and sleeping, and she was called up by Yuanji between half asleep and half awake.

There was a lamp lit in the room, and Motoyoshi was stained with frightening blood.

"The bandits in the mountains have a bit of a problem." He whispered.

In the late autumn night, the old man stood in the courtyard and looked at Li Minglou who was about to get on the horse, and then saw that the kumquat was also carrying a small burden to follow, and his expression was even more frightened, is this going to run .....?

Li Minglou turned around and saw the kumquat: "You don't have to go, wait here, it's scary on the mountain." ”

Kumquat thought about it, stuffed the burden to the old man, and insisted on getting on the horse: "Miss is not afraid of me, I am not afraid." ”

Miss is not afraid because Miss has seen dead people.

When Ankang Mountain attacked Taiyuan Mansion, the thief army raided, the Taiyuan army almost couldn't resist, the people of Taiyuan Mansion went to defend the city, of course she also went, took out all the food, a pot of porridge and a pot of meat in front of the city gate day and night, not only to ensure the food and drink of the soldiers and civilians defending the city, but also to feed the refugees who rushed to hear the news.

At first, the Taiyuan garrison and Master Xiang wanted to drive the refugees, but then it was these refugees who provided enough manpower to defend the city, so that they could hold out until Wu Ya'er killed Ankang Mountain, and the rebels finally retreated.

She not only provided rice and grain, but also personally went up to the city wall to defend the city, and saw the rebels rushing into the city with stacks of dead bodies, and saw the rebels intimidating, threatening, and killing refugees like pigs and sheep.

She also personally pulled the bow and shot arrows, but unfortunately the archery failed to kill the thief, and afterwards Xiang Nan wrote to her that he would come back and hand her archery, so that she could become an archer in the future and kill the thief in a hundred steps.

It's a pity that her archery skills were not successful, and she was shot through by him as a thief first.

Li Minglou retracted his thoughts and looked at Kumquat and nodded, then go and see, there will be no peace in the troubled times in the future, let's adapt to it first.

The old man held the burden in his hand and watched the group gallop away, panicked and worried in his heart, and now he could not do anything but pray for God's blessing.

The old man's worries were unnecessary, and when Li Minglou came to the bottom of the mountain where the bandits were, the cottage had already been captured.

The night covered up most of the blood, but Kumquat, who had never even seen a chicken killed, was still trembling with fright, and was pulled by Li Minglou and staggered.

Li Minglou's brows furrowed under the cloth: "How many casualties do we have?" ”

Yuan Ji said: "Ten people were injured and four people died." ”

How could there be such casualties against a group of bandits?

"They don't look like bandits." Yuan Ji said, "Their sentry posts are very tightly arranged, and the sentry agents are also extremely powerful, and they advance and retreat in an orderly manner after the battle, which is not the combat effectiveness that a rabble can have." ”

"You mean they look like officers and soldiers?" Li Minglou understood what he meant, and was a little surprised, "Is there a living mouth?" What do you say about interrogation? ”

Yuan Ji shook his head: "All fight to the death, there is no live mouth." ”

This is also the problem, the bandits who fall into the grass are in order to survive, and the rabble often collapses before death, how can there be the belief that they will not retreat from the battle.

"Miss, I found a cave full of them..."A soldier rushed forward, and the torches met with light and darkness, looking surprised.

"What's in there?" Li Minglou asked.

The soldier replied, "Weapons." ”