My sister's face was pale, she clenched the wooden stick in her hand, rushed forward two steps, looked at the spear that Li Zongliang raised at her, hurriedly paused her steps, and shouted in a trembling voice: "Let my brother go!" I'll just let you pass! ”

Li Xiaoqi was beaten by her words and laughed, Li Zonggui held the knife upside down, reached out to take the reins from Li Xiaoyi's hand, and motioned to Xiaoqi to go over and watch the excitement while laughing.

Li Xiaoqi stood behind Wei Shuisheng, who was smiling so much that his guns were shaking, and his probe looked lively, Li Erhuai grinned, turned his head to look at Li Zongliang and suggested: "Break his legs, don't let him harm others again!" ”

"Hmm." Li Zongliang agreed with a smile, his sister's eyes widened, the wooden stick slipped from her hand, and screamed and threw herself on the round-faced bandit: "Please let him go, beat me!" Broken legs! ”

Wei Shuisheng jumped over and pushed his sister away with the barrel of his spear, and the poor mountain bandits who were standing behind finally reacted, hurriedly threw the wooden stick in their hands, knelt on the ground in a mess, and shouted and begged for mercy in a mess:

"A few strong men spare Tiemu, and we can't do anything."

"You can't break your leg, you can't live if you break your leg!"

"If you don't starve to death, who wants to be this mountain bandit!"

"Let us go, don't dare to rob anymore, don't dare to starve to death!"

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The round-faced Tiemu desperately held his head high and shouted: "Sister! Don't beg him, if you're dead, you're dead! If I hadn't eaten enough, I wouldn't have been able to beat him! Sister, let's not ask for help! ”

My sister knelt on the ground, kept kowtowing to Li Zongliang, crying in grief and despair: "If I can't live•••••• I beg you, our Zhang family, this is the root, I beg you, I broke my leg••••••"

Li Xiaoqi was about to fall with her tears of sadness, so he hurriedly took a few steps back, raised his hand to cover his eyes, leaned over to Li Zonggui and muttered, "Look at her crying!" Let her cry, as if we are the mountain bandits who kill people and rob goods. Li Zonggui wanted to laugh, but he couldn't laugh sadly, the flesh on his face was pulling, he sighed heavily, and couldn't say a word.

Li Erhuai held a stick, turned his head to look at Li Zongliang in embarrassment, waiting for him to speak, Li Zongliang looked at Wei Shuisheng, Wei Shuisheng drooped his shoulders, and looked at Li Zongliang helplessly, the two sighed almost at the same time, Wei Shuisheng turned his head to look at his sister who was crying with snot and tears on her face, frowned and said: "Okay, don't cry, isn't this interrupted yet, tell me, where are you from, how did you come here, and start this kind of lifeless business?" ”

My sister wiped her snot and tears with her sleeves, and hurriedly replied: "We are from Xiaozhangzhai, and there are a few Sun Ji's, there have been wars before, Nanyue has also come in, Liang Guo has also come in, Beiping has also passed from our village, and then later, the government said that it would strengthen the wall and clear the wilderness, and a fire burned our village, as well as Sun Ji, more than half of the people in our village did not escape, and a lot of people died along the way out, they Sun Ji too, other villages too, not many escaped lives, we fled all the way, all the way away, Zheng Cheng didn't let us in, there was nowhere to go, we originally wanted to go to Taiping Mansion to ask for a way to live, but when we got here, we couldn't walk anymore, thinking that we would survive this winter first, and then go to Taiping Mansion. ”

The more Wei Shuisheng listened, the tighter his brows furrowed, and he turned his head to look at Li Zongliang, who was also frowning, and then asked, "Where is your village?" How far is it from Zhengcheng? ”

"In the north of Zhengcheng, more than 30 miles away from Zhengcheng, it is a two-day road to Nanyue, and it is also a two-day road to Liangguo, that is, to Beiping, you have to walk for three or four days." My sister replied in detail.

"You're all from the same village?"

"No, there are several villages, three, four, four or five villages, we have a lot of Xiaozhangzhai and Sun Ji, my brother is a righteous person, I know a lot of people, they are all descendants who have known each other at home in previous years, and there are three, those three, they are relatives from South Vietnam, and they can't go back." My sister turned around and pointed to the dejected and crooked mountain bandits behind her, and replied in a chaotic manner.

The more Li Zongliang listened, the more gloomy his face became, looking at the three Nanyue people, he raised his chin at Wei Shuisheng, Wei Shuisheng nodded slightly, took two steps forward, crossed his sister, swept everyone and asked, "Who is from Nanyue to visit relatives?" ”

The three people that my sister pointed out just now came out of the crowd timidly, one was a little older, around thirty years old, and the other two were extremely young, only sixteen or seventeen years old, Wei Shuisheng looked at the three of them, and asked in a calm voice: "You are from South Vietnam, why don't you let you go back?" ”

"Hmm." The elder suddenly raised his hand to cover his face and cried sadly: "The big tiger was shot dead by them, and he was killed by an arrow!" ”

"I heard that our South Vietnam side also cleared the wilderness, out of Zhengcheng, walked twenty or thirty miles, to the west to the north, a hundred and ten miles of places are not inhabited, the soldiers on horseback patrol, as long as they see someone, don't ask who it is, don't ask, it's just an arrow to death, his eldest son, while he wanted to run back in the dark, didn't run far, he was shot to death, and he didn't even dare to collect the corpse." The young man standing at the front clearly explained, the sister turned her head, looked at the older man, and sighed sadly, and the older man covered his face and squatted down, crying bitterly.

Li Zongliang and Wei Shuisheng's faces sank like water, and they looked at each other silently for a moment, Li Zongliang took half a step back, beckoned Li Zonggui and ordered: "You and Erhuai look at them." Li Zonggui agreed, jumped to Li Erhuai's side, raised his knife and looked at everyone, Li Erhuai's feet loosened slightly, so that the round-faced iron wood could breathe more comfortably.

Li Xiaoqi followed Li Zongliang and Wei Shuisheng to retreat to the car, Li Zongliang exhaled heavily, and said in a low voice: "Look at it like this, after Zhengcheng is a place with strong walls and clear fields, these hundred and ten miles, it is difficult to pass." ”

"Well, I have to investigate clearly before leaving, at this time, inside and outside Zhengcheng, I'm afraid that there are officers and soldiers everywhere." Wei Shuisheng wrinkled his brows, sighed and said, Li Xiaoqi listened to the words of the two of them intently, his mind turned quickly, pulled Li Zongliang, and suggested in a low voice: "They have designated a place to stay on the mountain, I think, we might as well go to them first, and then hurry when we inquire clearly, they are here, the home of these stupid bandits, is the safest place." ”

Wei Shuisheng looked at Li Xiaoqi with wide eyes, stayed for a moment, a smile slowly oozed from his eyes, turned his head to look at Li Zongliang, who was more stunned than him, and said in a low voice: "Xiaoyi's words are not •••••• also a little reasonable. ”

Li Xiaoqi rubbed Wei Shuisheng's side, grabbed Wei Shuisheng's arm, looked at Li Zongliang, whose face was so gloomy that he seemed to be able to wring out the water, and defended in a low voice: "Aren't there still grand thieves, you still told me, let's just borrow it for a while, besides, they are not bad people, look at it like this, they haven't broken yet." ”

"Alas!" Li Zongliang's shoulders drooped down, sighed heavily, stretched out his hand to stroke Li Xiaoyi's head, looked at Wei Shuisheng, and his voice was full of countless sadness: "We have been in the lead since we left Lijia Village, and it is okay to be the first •••••• along the way, but now, we are going to fall into the grass." ”

"It's just to borrow it for a few days, how can it be considered a fallen grass." Wei Shuisheng corrected with a smile.

"Yes, yes, yes, it's borrowing and living, not falling grass!" Li Xiaoqi bent his eyes and laughed, jumped over on his tiptoes, and stretched out his hand to hold Li Zongliang's arm: "Besides, what if it's Kou?" This Kou is also divided into good and bad, we are Kou, that is also a good Kou, what emperor and what prince and prince of the previous dynasty, didn't they also start from Caokou? It's nothing! Brother Shuisheng, you said yes, right? ”

"Yes, but no, the winner is the king and the loser is the loser." Wei Shuisheng responded to Li Xiaoyi's words with a smile, and looked up at Li Zongliang: "Let's live first, Master often says that as long as there is a human heart, everything you do is a human being, and this is not a big deal." ”

Li Zongliang showed a wry smile on his face, nodded sadly, Wei Shuisheng turned around with a spear, Li Xiaoqi hurriedly let go of Li Zongliang, ran a few steps to keep up with Wei Shuisheng, pulled Wei Shuisheng's sleeve, and walked over together. Wei Shuisheng motioned to Li Erhuai to let go of the round face Tie Mu, and said in a low voice: "I look, you two go over, and the eldest brother has something to say." ”

Li Erhuai and Li Zonggui hurriedly turned around and jumped to Li Zongliang's side in two steps, Wei Shuisheng looked back at Li Zongliang with a depressed face, pulled Li Xiaoqi behind him to protect him, and stabbed Tiemu, who had already gotten up and sat on the ground, with a gun, and asked, "What's your surname?" What about her? ”

"Zhang Tiemu! She is my eldest sister, eldest sister Zhang! Zhang Tiemu replied,

"How do you want to get up to the grass here?"

"There used to be a nest of mountain bandits living on this mountain, but later I thought this place was desolate, so I moved to the west mountain of Bijia, and there were houses and yards on the mountain, so we lived."

"How do you know this? There was a mountain bandit here, how did you know? ”

"My grandmother is married to this Dongshan! What don't you know! Li Tiemu glared at Wei Shuisheng angrily and shouted, Wei Shuisheng blinked his eyes and continued to ask, "How many times have you done business?" How much silver was robbed? ”

Li Tiemu's face was full of embarrassment, he turned his head, and replied vaguely: "Three times, plus this time, three times, the first time, a group of refugees, nothing was grabbed, and I and my sister's two padded jackets went in, the second time, there was a dart master, Brother Kan broke a leg, this is the third time." ”

Li Xiaoqi bent his eyes and smiled so much that his face turned red, Wei Shuisheng raised his eyebrows, and stabbed Zhang Tiemu with a gun with a smile: "It's really the first time I've encountered a useless mountain bandit like you!" ”