Li Xiaoqi went over and squatted beside Li Erhuai, raised his head and instructed Sun Qidi: "Bring the axe." ”

Brother Sun Qidi hurriedly took the axe and handed it over, Li Xiaoqi took it, gave it to Li Erhuai, and solemnly advised: "It's okay if the lock is broken, but you can't smash my box again!" ”

Li Erhuai said 'um', took the axe, and went down with a neat axe, the delicate brass lock opened in response, Li Erhuai pushed the box to Li Xiaoqi, and moved it back, and the mountain bandits in the yard, from Li Zongliang to Sister Zhang, stretched their necks together, poked their heads, and waited nervously for Li Xiaoqi to open the box to see the goods, and even the broken leg of the stone ridge jumped out with a crutch.

Li Xiaoqi secretly exhaled, stretched out his hand and opened the box, the courtyard was so quiet that even the sound of breathing stopped, and the boxwood box was neatly and densely filled with small gold nuggets.

Sister Zhang 'cooed', swallowed saliva loudly, her legs were weak, and she sat on the ground with her ass: "My mother!" Is this gold? What is the case with gold? Is this gold? ”

Zhang Tiemu took a long sip of saliva, and smirked, this giggle spread one by one, and in the blink of an eye, a haha giggle sounded in the courtyard.

Li Xiaoqi breathed a sigh of relief, his stiff body relaxed, he reached out and twisted a piece of gold nugget out, and checked it, about two taels, the fineness is excellent, this box, it seems that it should be five hundred taels, five hundred taels of gold, according to the market price at this time, it can be exchanged for five thousand taels of silver, well, it is enough for them to live a good life comfortably for a few days.

Li Xiaoqi lowered his head and thought motionlessly for a while, before he slowly stood up, took a few steps back, walked to Li Zongliang, who was looking around at everyone and his face gradually became solemn, gently pulled him, and said in a low voice: "Let me come." Li Zongliang looked at her hesitantly, then turned his head to look at Wei Shuisheng, Wei Shuisheng lowered his eyelids and nodded: "Xiao Yixing." ”

Li Zongliang gently patted Li Xiaoyi's shoulder, Li Xiaoqi pursed his lips and smiled, returned to the box and squatted down, struggling to pour all the gold bars in the box on the ground, pushed the pile of gold with his hand and looked at it roughly, stood up, raised his voice, and said with a cold face: "Have you laughed enough?" Listen to me when you've laughed enough. ”

The people in the courtyard hurriedly stopped laughing, looked at the gold nuggets spread all over the ground with golden eyes, and hurriedly turned their heads to look at Li Xiaoyi, and Li Zongliang and others standing behind Li Xiaoyi, waiting for Li Xiaoqi to speak, Li Xiaoqi hung his head, kicked the gold nuggets on the ground casually with his toes, beckoned Jiang Shuncai and Zhang Gouzi and ordered: "You two, check the number, put it in a pile of ten." ”

Jiang Shuncai and Zhang Gouzi simply agreed loudly, lying on the ground, soon ten piles, twenty-five piles, Li Xiaoqi raised his head and looked around at the people who were staring at the piles of gold with drooling, and said indifferently: "One piece is two taels, and there are a total of five hundred taels of gold in this box, which can be exchanged for five thousand taels of silver, which is a big infusion, right?" ”

The courtyard was silent, the mountain bandits looked at Li Xiaoqi in unison, Li Xiaoqi laughed a few times, and then said: "There are a total of twenty people in this courtyard, so let's do it, there are fifteen of you, one pile each, and my brothers and I will take two copies, shouldn't it be too much?" ”

Everyone was stunned for a while, came to their senses, dizzy and kept nodding, like a group of kowtow insects, nodded for a while, or hesitated or looked at Wei Shuisheng and others, Li Zongliang held his hands in front of his chest, stood with his eyes half-closed and a cold face, Wei Shuisheng looked at everyone with a smile, and he didn't say a word, Li Erhuai grinned, looking at Li Xiaoqi and everyone in the courtyard as if watching a play, Li Zonggui stabbed Li Erhuai, motioned him to look at Li Xiaoyi, and the two muttered a few times, Holding his hands and watching a play, he continued to look at the faces of the beings in the courtyard.

Li Xiaoqi pointed to the piles of gold on the ground with his fingers, and said with a smile: "Since everyone agrees, then that's it, you can see it, this pile of ten gold bars is twenty taels, twenty taels of gold, that is, two hundred taels of silver, two hundred taels of silver, the best land, you can also buy one hundred and eighty acres, in the future, you will be able to live and work in peace and contentment, just the same!" ”

Li Xiaoqi smiled away, and his voice became fierce in a blink of an eye: "The way this gold came from, everyone will rot in your stomach!" This is one, two, our brothers and sisters and you, from now on are strangers, our brothers and sisters don't know you, let alone know us! ”

The courtyard was silent, and then suddenly there was a burst of excited discussions, and the faces of more than a dozen Zhuanghu mountain bandits were flushed with excitement, and everyone only cared about talking loudly, but they didn't know what they were talking about, let alone hearing what others were saying.

Sister Zhang slowly squatted down, stared straight at the gold on the ground for a while, turned around and looked up at her brother who was bent over behind her, looking at the gold drooling, and then turned her head to look at Li Xiaoyi's side, her face full of embarrassment and entanglement.

Jiang Shuncai blinked quickly, looked at the gold, and then looked at Li Xiaoyi, stepped forward and asked timidly: "Fifth Master, didn't you say that since you followed you, you followed you with all your heart?" I don't want this gold, will I still follow you? ”

Wei Shuisheng lowered his head, a smile appeared at the corner of his mouth, Li Xiaoqi tilted his head and stared at Jiang Shuncai for a while, and was about to speak, Zhang Gouzi pushed everyone away and squeezed over, bowed down, and smiled: "Fifth master, and me, I don't want it, I also follow the fifth master." ”

"You have to think clearly, follow me, this gold is mine, not this time, not next time! Not back! Li Xiaoqi looked at the two of them and said coldly, Jiang Shuncai grinned, no longer looked at the gold on the ground, and said simply: "I will follow the fifth master!" Zhang Gouzi reluctantly looked at the gold on the ground again, swallowed his saliva, gritted his teeth and said: "I also followed the fifth master, and divided the gold, that is, a one-time transaction, or follow the fifth master for a long time, I will follow the fifth master!" ”

"That's good! Go, and get the gold of the masters into the box, a total of twelve piles! Li Xiaoqi raised his chin and commanded with a smile, Jiang Shuncai and Zhang Gouzi agreed crisply, squatted down, collected twelve piles of gold very neatly and put them in the box, carried the box to Li Xiaoyi's feet, and stood behind Li Erhuai and Li Zonggui with their heads held high.

The excited chatter in the courtyard gradually stopped, and the remaining thirteen Zhuanghu mountain bandits looked at the gold, looked at Li Xiaoqi, and then looked at Jiang Shuncai and Zhang Gouzi, and finally woke up from the excitement, and found that there seemed to be a little way to take the gold.

"Fifth master, if I take this gold, can I still stay on this mountain?" The older Seventh Brother Sun asked timidly.

"Can't!" Li Xiaoqi replied simply, Sun Qidi's face turned into a ball, he stayed for a moment, and slowly squatted on the ground holding his head with his hands, distressed.

Fifth Brother Zhao from Nanyue pulled his younger brother Zhao Liushun and said in a low voice: "We can't ask for gold, we have to follow the fifth master." "Hmm." Zhao Liushun looked at Jiang Shuncai, who was standing behind Li Erhuai with his head held high, nodded, Fifth Brother Zhao bent down and picked up two piles of gold from the ground, walked in front of Li Xiaoyi, carefully put the gold nuggets into the box, and pulled his younger brother Zhao Liushun to stand behind Jiang Shuncai.

Zhao Erqing, a South Vietnamese man, followed closely behind Zhao Wuge's brothers, and also picked up a pile of gold from the ground, inhaled and put it in the box at Li Xiaoyi's feet, and stood next to Zhao Wuge, a total of three South Vietnamese people, he couldn't leave a single place.

Zhang Shikan hurriedly jumped to Zhang Gouzi's side with a cane and stabbed him: "Dog, I can't squat, you hurry up and help me, where, put my pile in the box, I will follow a few masters in life and death!" Zhang Gouzi grinned, took two steps over, and picked up Zhang Shikan's gold nuggets into the box. Li Xiaoqi turned his head to look at Zhang Shikan and ordered: "By the way, help Shikan to sit on the stool over there, your legs can't stand longer." Jiang Shuncai agreed, and together with Fifth Brother Zhao, he set up Zhang Shikan on the stool next to him and sat down.

Zhang Xingwang and Zhang Dazhuang hung their heads, bent down almost at the same time to pick up their pile of gold nuggets, and put them in the box, Li Xiaoqi seemed to not want to pay attention to the remaining six or seven people, kicked the box with his foot, turned his head and ordered Zhang Gouzi: "Go and boil the pot and boil the water, uncle, they are still dressed in bloody clothes, you have to wash them quickly." Without waiting for Zhang Gouzi to respond, Sister Zhang waved her hand again and again and agreed: "I'll go, I'll go!" I'm also following the five masters, Tiemu, quick! ”

Zhang Tiemu breathed a sigh of relief, hurriedly bent down and took two piles of gold, accompanied him to the box with a smile, and flattered Li Xiaoqi with a dog's face: "Fifth master, I respect you the most!" ”

That is, half a cup of tea, the gold placed on the ground returned to Li Xiaoyi's box, Li Xiaoqi stepped on the box with his foot, raised his eyebrows proudly and ordered: "By the way, move this box to my house, the dog will help the eldest sister boil water and cook, the half deer, all burned, everyone have a good rest today, from tomorrow, there are a lot of things to be busy!" ”

After lunch, Li Xiaoqi called Jiang Shuncai, instructed him carefully, gave him thirty big money, and sent him to Zhengcheng to listen to the news.

Li Xiaoqi sent Jiang Shuncai and Zhang Gouzi to Zhengcheng in turn to listen to the news for three or four days, and he and Wei Shuisheng and Li Zonggui entered the city, but I didn't expect this business to be done without anyone knowing, the whole Zhengcheng, there was no movement at all, and no one had heard of the fact that there were more Woshan bandits on the west mountain of the pen frame, and no one had heard of it. She also asked people to buy live pigs and sheep and come back to worship the land of the mountain god, and she made a wish.

A few days before the Spring Festival, Li Zongliang and Wei Shuisheng discussed, almost every day sent people to Zhengcheng in turn to buy food and clothing and other items, and bought two cows, a half-used Taiping car, busy and happy on the mountain, ready for the New Year.