"Old learning, be quiet. Bandits plucking geese are hateful, but I don't want to. If we fight hard with them, even if we win against them today, we don't know what will happen tomorrow. Yu Qian wiped the sweat on his face with a towel, "If you walk two miles further, it will be a cottage of bandits, don't get along with them." ”

"I planted this tree, I opened this road, and I want to pass by from here, leaving the money to buy the road...... Bah, when did they manage the trees and roads in the mountains? Gong Changyu took the flat burden horizontally and sat on the salt burden.

"Little brother, the bandits in this maple world are all from some poor families, because there is no land to cultivate, they are forced to fall into the grass. The bandits in this mountain only take one percent of the 'salt tax', which is much more righteous than the robbers and the government......" Yu Qian took a sip of wine and handed the gourd to Gong Changyu, "You can also take a sip." ”

"I don't drink, thank you, brother." Gong Changyu waved his hand, "The bandits are all lazy and lazy, and they don't work for nothing, why do you still speak for them?" ”

"No one wants to be a bandit in the mountains, they have their own families." Yu Qian rolled a roll of dry tobacco with paper and lit it.

"You don't need a reason to be a bandit, a bandit has a reason, and a hundred bandits have a hundred reasons." Gong Changyu disagreed.

"Alright, let's not talk about it, let's move on!" Yu Qian carried a burden of more than 100 catties of salt and walked away.

Soon, the smuggling salt team entered the area infested by bandits, and three or four bandits came out with knives and shouted: "Our big boss said that we have to change the rules today, and leave your salt burden!" ”

Each porter put down his burden with fear, and with a flat burden in his hand, he whispered and expressed his displeasure.

"The salt burden is left, and we go back empty-handed, how can this be?" Yu Qian was the first to stand up and say.

"Brother, just these few people, don't be afraid. If you don't give them some color, you think we're afraid of them. Gong Changyu tightened his belt and lifted his shoulder, "If you are willing to fight bandits with me, please stand on the left." ”

One by one, the porters hesitated, and after a long while, no one came forward, for fear of the knife in the hands of the bandits. Gong Chang shook his head helplessly when he saw them so bold: "I really can't do anything about you, we have twenty or so of us, and we have become meat on the chopping board!" ”

"You'd better be obedient and hurry up, or we're welcome." One of the bandits said in a rough voice with a bald head carrying a ghost-headed knife.

"All the goods are left, did you get kicked in the head by a donkey?" Gong Changyu did not move at all, and he went toe-to-toe with the bald head. Gong Changyu recognized the bald head, and he came out to shout the first few times, thinking that he could suppress the porter by being five big and three rough.

The bald head didn't expect that a porter would dare to argue with him, so he couldn't help but be stunned, his eyes widened, he stretched out two fingers, and said to Gong Changyu: "Boy, dare to scold us as the master, Lao Tzu will see that you are not pleasing to the eye, you come out for me!" ”

"Come out, come out, your head will fall off, the bowl will have a big scar, who is afraid of whom!" Gong Changyu took off his coat, carried his flat shoulder, and boldly took a few steps forward, "You bandits, are you going to fight alone, or are you four in one?" ”

"Boy, are you a vegetarian when you are Lao Tzu?" The bald ghost head knife was raised, and he rushed towards Gong Changyu.

"I'll go, a bandit has a lot of breath." Gong Changyu stopped his steps, stood still, waited for the bald head to approach, and then gave him a hard blow.

The bald head stopped four or five steps away from Gong Changyu: "Boy, if you know each other, hurry up and beg for mercy!" ”

"If you want me to beg for mercy, you want to be beautiful! If you can beat me, all my salt will be yours. Gong Changyu looked at his bald head contemptuously.

"Report your name, Lao Tzu never fights alone with unknown people!" The bald head was staring, and the tip of the knife pointed at Gong Changyu's nose, not taking him in his eyes at all.

"I don't change my name in my life, I don't change my surname, Gong Changyu. You bandits, poor people who bully honest people, what kind of heroes are you! Gong Chang Yubao poked one end of the flat burden into the dry and hard soil, and immediately the flat burden fell into the soil two feet.

The bald head of the "hero" couldn't help but be shocked when he saw that the other party's internal force was so deep, and then took a closer look at Gong Changyu, who was covered with muscles all over his body, and thought: I have met a strong hand today, I have to be careful, he has a slippery flat pole in his hand, I have a ghost head knife, what are I afraid of him, I can't beat dozens of hundreds of brothers in the cottage!

"Gong Changyu, you don't go to inquire about who my third brother is the mountain tiger." Another skinny bandit in a green coat followed, standing on the bald side, holding a meteor hammer, giving a thumbs up and laughing.

"I don't care what kind of mountain tiger you are, the mountain tiger, the mountain tiger, the one who blocks our way, is the hungry tiger. I'm a tiger fighter, and if you dare to steal our salt today, I'll turn you into dead tigers!" Gong Changyu deliberately said loudly to provoke the bandits.

"Take your life, look at the move-" The bandit in Tsing Yi turned his head, and the meteor hammer in his hand struck with a "swoop", and smashed it viciously at Gong Changyu's head as he spun around.

"Be careful, old learner!" Yu Qian shouted.

"Got it." Gong Changyu was not in a hurry, pulled out the flat pole in the soil, his body flashed, and the meteor hammer of the Tsing Yi bandit swooped into the air, bypassing a tree behind Gong Changyu, and the end of the hammer flew back and hit his face.

"I'll rub it, just like that, the three-legged cat kung fu, and come out to mix!" Gong Changyu kicked the bandits, quickly picked up the meteor hammer, and prepared to fight the remaining bandits.

The bald head saw Gong Changyu's agility and escaped a catastrophe, while his accomplice was too embarrassed, he was so angry that he vomited blood, and scolded: "Useless guy!" Look at me! ”

He jumped left and right, shouting violently: "One knife to cut off the right hand, two to cut off the left hand, three to cut the head!" The bald head thinks that his arm strength is outstanding, and he can scare Gong Chang when he meets them.

The flower shelf has an egg! Gong Changyu has been practicing martial arts since he was a child, and he is not scared, he threw the meteor hammer with his backhand, entangled the opponent's ghost head knife, grabbed the chain of the meteor hammer with his bald head, and wanted to drag it hard, but found that Gong Changyu stood firmly and couldn't pull him half a step at all. With a bald body, he simply wrapped the chain around his waist, exerting all his strength, wanting to compete with Gong Changyu.

"I'm better than you with the strength of a bird!" Gong Changyu loosened the meteor hammer, the bandit was defenseless and couldn't control himself, he suddenly took six or seven steps back, and even the person with a knife touched a stone, and the back of his head was hit violently, he covered the back of his head, kept shaking his head, and couldn't see the object in front of him clearly, while shouting: "You...... Make the trick ......"

Gong Changyu picked up the flat shoulder, jumped up, and slashed at the bald Tianling Gai, and a blood stain flowed down from between his eyebrows, and the bald head touched his cheeks, his hands were full of blood, and he said weakly: "I drip that mother, blood-" and then shrank staggeringly, unconscious.

The remaining two bandits saw that the situation was not good, and they trembled up and down, dropped the Pu knife in their hands, and ran to the cottage. The porters who carried the salt were so happy that they hurried down the mountain with the salt......

After Gong Chang met the palace, he knew that more than 20 loads of salt were intact, and he had not caught any oil or water, and the bandits would not give up, and maybe they would retaliate. Yu Qian said to Gong Changyu in surprise: "Old learner, I see you silent on weekdays, how dare you make a move on the bandits today?" ”

"Brother, I've endured this group of bandits for a long time. Most of the thieves are afraid of the soft, when we are few, they think that we are soft persimmons easy to hold, again and again, again and again to reach out to us for money! The yamen doesn't want to care, we have to give the cottage a dismount! Gong Changyu smiled, "In fact, no matter how many bandits there are, they are all strong outsiders and middle-class cadres, and they will be killed with one blow!" ”

"Old learner, thanks to you this time, otherwise we would all have run in vain. The profit of a load of salt is enough for the expenses of the family for two or three months, but you injured their three masters, and we will pass through the maple world in the future, I'm afraid it won't be so easy......" Yu Qian frowned.

"There is great strength in numbers, so next month I will go to Yuexi County to pick salt, and each person will bring a musket to uproot their bandit den, so that they have nowhere to stay." Gong Changyu responded.

"Muskets are expensive, one for each person, how easy is it to say?"

"Those two of them, there should be no problem."

"If you have a musket, you won't use it, and if you bring it, it's a burden."

"Brother, I know that you are breadwinners, and it is a bit difficult to buy a musket. Well, then, I'll go back and consult with my uncle and give each of you a musket. ”

"It's not good, the private salt team is not Lao Zhu's family."

"A musket costs about ten taels of silver, which is just a drop in the bucket for the "Mao Shengxiang" money bank. ”

"Old learner, I have an immature suggestion, I don't know if I should say it or not?" Zhu Shuiqiang, a porter in his 20s, picked up the conversation.

"Little brother, if you have something to say, just say it." Gong Changyu said with a smile.

"There are more than 20 people in our private salt team, not big or small, why do you form your own salt gang?" Zhu Shuiqiang said as he walked.

"The Salt Gang? That's a great idea, but who's going to be the leader? Gong Changyu asked.

"The young owner of the Zhu family's compound." Yu Qian smiled.

"My uncle is very busy, and he doesn't have time to take care of the salt gang." Gong Changyu hurriedly stopped.

"It's just a name. The Zhujia Compound is very famous in the three counties of western Guangdong, eastern Guangdong, and Jingnan, and it is very important for us to play their banner. Yu Qian said.

"It's better for the old brother to be the leader of the Salt Gang." Zhu Shuiqiang proposed.

"No, I don't know a few big characters, so I can't be the leader of this helper." Gong Changyu said that he didn't agree with anything, "The gang leader has to be both civil and military." ”

"After June 6, we will sell the salt and discuss it in detail." Yu Qian is not embarrassed, Gong Changyu is encountered.