"However, today you have gone to shit luck and met your fifth master, this is your great fortune!" Li Xiaoqi laughed enough, tried to keep his face tight, hugged his hands in front of his chest, shook out from behind Wei Shuisheng, looked at Zhang Tiemu and said seriously, Zhang Tiemu turned his head blankly and looked around: "Fifth master, which fifth master?" Where is it? ”

"Me! That's me! Your fifth master is me! Li Xiaoqi kicked Zhang Tiemu angrily, pointed to his nose and shouted: "I tell you, when you meet your fifth master and me, it is your great blessing!" ”

Zhang Tiemu looked the thin and thin Li Xiaoqi up and down with disdain, and was about to take a 'bah', when Sister Zhang hurriedly stretched out her hand to grab him, looked up at Li Xiaoqi and said: "As long as the fifth master can spare my brother, it will be his great blessing, and it will be the great blessing of our Zhang family." ”

"It's easy to spare him, let me tell you, Zhang Tiemu, your fifth master and me, that is the ancestor of this mountain bandit and robber! In this way, see that you are still a little hard, it is such a piece of material, just right, your fifth master and I are idle, so I will stay and adjust/teach you for a few days, and teach you to go on the road, lest the face of our robbers and bandits be thrown into the sky by you! Li Xiaoqi clasped his hands in front of his chest, raised his chin, shook his toes, glanced at Zhang Tiemu condescendingly and said, Zhang Tiemu's eyes were round, his mouth was half open, he looked at Li Xiaoqi in amazement, and slowly turned his head to look at Sister Zhang, who was also stunned.

Wei Shuisheng smiled and shook his shoulders, turned his head to look at Li Zongliang and the others who had come around, Li Zongliang looked at Li Xiaoyi, who was pretentious and full of ruffianism, with a helpless face, Shui Sheng was right, my sister has been like a different person since she got better from that serious illness, the former supple and kind mother was always worried that she would be bullied, and never dared to let her go out alone, and planned to recruit a son-in-law for her, now, according to Erhuai's words, treacherous, slippery and ghostly, only she deceived others, and no one has ever deceived her.

Zhang Tiemu, a young novice mountain bandit, robbed for the first time and lost two cotton jackets for the first time, lost one of his brother's legs for the second robbery, and robbed five bosses for himself for the third time.

Li Xiaoqi put her hands behind her back, standing in a dilapidated courtyard halfway up the mountain, turned around and looked around, this group of mountain bandits was so poor that she couldn't even sigh, before she went up the mountain, she first pasted half a bag of steamed buns into it, and now stood in front of this high-rise compound that was said to be so good that Zhang Tiemu said that it couldn't be better, she was speechless and didn't even want to speak, this courtyard, the back two sides are against the cliff, one side is facing the cliff, and the other side, facing the mountain road they came up, naturally even the fence has been saved.

Leaning against the mountain cliff, a row of five, it is considered a main house, a large blue-striped stone in the water, it is indeed tall and magnificent, but unfortunately the roof is gone, the door is a big black hole in the end, the window is a few small black holes that are not in the end, there are two rows of lower bluestone houses next to it, there are also no roofs, only the three gatehouses with their backs to the mountain road are as short as the blue-striped stone houses, barely have a roof, a bunch of messy branches on it, it should be the shelter of Zhang Tiemu and his bandit brothers, and the middle is an extremely empty open space.

Li Erhuai stared at the two older men who were unloading the mule cart for a while, and then put his mind at ease, at first glance, it was an old style, they were all croppers who cherished livestock, Li Zonggui stood next to the car, looking at the things in the car quietly, Li Zongliang and Wei Shuisheng carried guns, followed Zhang Tiemu, and carefully patrolled around the yard, Li Xiaoqi hurriedly ran over and followed behind Wei Shuisheng.

Zhang Tiemu waved his hand and motioned to the green striped stone houses in the courtyard, quite complacent: "Look at the big green striped stone houses in Yishui!" ”

Li Xiaoqi laughed out loud, and learned to wave his hand at Zhang Tiemu: "That's it, there is not even a roof, and it is still called a house?" Zhang Tiemu stared at Li Xiaoqi angrily, as if to save some face, pointed to the back of the five main houses, and said proudly to Li Zongliang: "This is not counted, the best thing is that there is a cave there, there is a mountain spring in the cave, the water is sweet, there are still people living in the cave, and it can go all the way to the back mountain!" ”

Li Zongliang's eyes lit up, and he glanced at Wei Shuisheng, Wei Shuisheng stretched out his hand to lead Li Xiaoyi, followed behind Zhang Tiemu, turned the five main houses, and under the cover of a bunch of dead vines on the mountain wall, there was a faint hole more than one zhang high and one person wide.

The three of them followed behind Zhang Tiemu, pushed away the withered vines, and drilled into the hole, the hole was extremely dark, walked seven or eight steps, suddenly opened up, a huge cave, can accommodate hundreds of people, the hole is extremely dry, more than one person on the right, revealing a hole, although the light shining into the hole is slightly dim, but it can also illuminate the hole everywhere clearly visible, Zhang Tiemu pointed to the hole: "The dog climbed up and looked, outside the cave is the cliff, the hole is on the top, there is a big stone, not afraid of wind and rain." ”

In the middle of the stone cave at the back, there are seven or eight stalactites hanging upside down, a thin stream of water falls straight down the largest stalactite in the middle, flows into the pool below, the pool has obviously been artificially trimmed, and it is full of clear spring water, Zhang Tiemu squatted to the edge of the pool, held the water and drank a few sips, grinning and signaling Li Zongliang and Wei Shuisheng: "This water is sweet, you taste it!" ”

Li Zongliang nodded with a smile, didn't taste the sweet spring water, and Wei Shuisheng carefully inspected all parts of the cave, and walked along the crack in the mountain that Zhang Tiemu said could lead to the bottom of the mountain and only allow one person to pass through, and withdrew to breathe a sigh of relief, Li Xiaoqi pulled Li Zongliang and said with a smile: "Here, this place is a treasure land, and the gang of mountain bandits must have taken a fancy to this cave in the past, so they set up camp here." ”

The four of them withdrew, outside, Sister Zhang was busy excitedly, a big pot of gruel was rolling on the fire, Li Erhuai squatted in front of the pot and lit the fire, and the group of unclothed mountain bandits had cold sleeves and hands, squatting around with drooling, snorting, and looking at the cauldron with an attractive fragrance, the fragrance of rice, I can't remember how long I haven't smelled it.

Li Xiaoqi followed Li Zongliang and Wei Shuisheng back to the car, and Li Zonggui hurriedly jumped down from the car and asked, "Checked?" ”

The three of them nodded, Li Zongliang and Wei Shuisheng swept the dozen bitter haha scattered around the cauldron with solemn faces, but Li Xiaoqi raised his eyebrows and stared at Li Erhuai, who was squatting in front of the cauldron and burning the pot for Sister Zhang. After a while, Li Zongliang sighed, looked at Wei Shuisheng and smiled bitterly: "There are a total of fourteen strong men, these fourteen mouths ••••••"

"It's fifteen, and there's a broken leg lying in that room." Li Zonggui snorted at the house covered with branches, Wei Shuisheng turned around and lifted the curtain of the car, looked at it, looked back at Li Zongliang, and smiled bitterly: "Our grain can't be eaten for two days, let's go to Zhengcheng early tomorrow morning, let's go, leave Guizi and Erhuai here to guard Xiaoyi, bring those two wolf skins, exchange some coarse grain back, and leave it to them." ”

Li Zongliang nodded and agreed, the porridge over there was already ready, Sister Zhang took a big thick bowl out of a rattan basket, scooped up a bowl of thick porridge first, and called a thin boy squatting behind and ordered: "Dog!" Give it to you Gango. ”

"Hey!" The dog agreed crisply, jumped over and held the bowl in both hands, and ran into the house, Li Zongliang nodded with a smile, looked at Wei Shuisheng and sighed in a low voice: "They are all honest and responsible villagers, let this troubled world force ••••••"

As she was talking, Sister Zhang scooped up a few more bowls of thick porridge, and brought it over in person, Li Zongliang hurriedly waved his hand and was about to speak, Li Xiaoqi reached out and took a bowl of porridge, and handed it to Li Zongliang with a smile: "Big brother eats first, since he has gone up the mountain, this rule cannot be wrong." ”

Wei Shuisheng smiled and took another bowl from Sister Zhang's hand, Sister Zhang turned around and brought the other two bowls, Li Zonggui and Li Xiaoqi took it, Li Erhuai had already served a bowl by himself, came over and talked with a few people, slowly drank the porridge, watched Sister Zhang use the remaining two or three bowls to hold the porridge, more than a dozen people took a steamed bun from the bag piled up next to the pot one by one, squatted around the pot into a semicircle, passed the bowl, drank the hot rice porridge one by one, and bit the dry steamed bun with a smile. There was a lot of satisfaction and joy flowing in the courtyard.

Li Xiaoqi drank a small half bowl of porridge, handed the rest to Li Erhuai, and silently looked at the mountain bandits who were full of joy as if they were celebrating the New Year, and his heart was almost breathless.

At night, Zhang Tiemu brought a few people to bring a pile of firewood more than one person high, Li Erhuai lit a bonfire in the yard, Li Zongliang and the four of them still took turns to keep watch for the night, Li Xiaoqi slept in the car, and the rest of the people fell asleep wrapped in quilts on the hot ground.

The next day, before dawn, Li Zongliang and Wei Shuisheng rushed to Zhengcheng with blankets and two wolf skins on their backs. In the evening, as soon as the sun set, Sister Zhang sent Zhang Tiemu and Gouzi a few people, took Li Zongliang and Wei Shuisheng's spears, and went down the mountain to pick up the two.

A group of mountain bandits ate two full meals in a row, and their strength was so much that they were useless, and they didn't know what to do with high spirits, Li Xiaoqi commanded them, cut dozens of fir trees from the mountain and dragged them down, and the two bluestone side houses were lined up with fir trees one by one.

Li Zongliang and Wei Shuisheng had dinner, and simply built the fire in two cedar-roofed rooms, and Li Zonggui sat on the log at the door, listening to Li Zongliang and Wei Shuisheng talking while paying attention to the outside.