At the back door of Yangjiazhuang, there is a small river, and the banks of the river are covered with weeping willows.

Because it is now in late autumn, the weeping willows, which were originally green and clear, have already withered and yellowed their branches and leaves, and drifted down with the wind, and the clear river water is no longer as rushing and jubilant as before, and the river channel has gradually dried up and narrowed.

As far as the eye can see, the entire river bank is cold and depressed.

Tao Yunlong accompanied Yang Yunhui to walk on the dry riverbank, a gust of wind blew, and the dead leaves in the sky flew and swirled beside the two.

From childhood to adulthood, this small river carries too many joyful memories of their childhood.

He clearly remembered that when he was a child, Yang Meng often took the two of them with his little heels and sneaked out of the backyard of Yangjiazhuang, and then the three of them ran into the clear and cold river water to play and play, until the adults came to chase after them with bamboo sticks, and they were willing to go ashore.

Along the way, Tao Yunlong's interest was quite high, and he said many interesting things about his childhood, but unfortunately, Yang Yunhui seemed to be in a bad mood, and he had been sullen and responded without a word.

Finally, Tao Yunlong couldn't help but stop, stared at Yang Yunhui's bright eyes, and sighed softly: "Xiaohui, what's wrong with you today?" Got something on your mind? ”

Yang Yunhui lowered her head and was silent, which made Tao Yunlong very uncomfortable after watching it.

After being silent for a long time, Yang Yunhui said slowly: "The third brother was caught by the thieves in the Black Tiger Village, and in the past few days, the eldest brother and the second brother and others have been worried about this matter, and I can't help anything. ”

Tao Yunlong was stunned for a moment, "The third brother was caught?" Why didn't you say it earlier? What is the situation now, is the third brother still safe in the hands of thieves? ”

Yang Yunhui nodded, "It's safe for the time being, but those thieves left a message, asking the eldest brother to take out the ransom and go to Songfeng Valley to meet his acquaintances within ten days, otherwise the third brother's life is in danger, and at present, our Yangjiazhuang can't get so much ransom." ”

Hearing this, Tao Yunlong suddenly realized, "Look at you have been frowning all the time today, it turned out that it was for this matter, isn't it just the ransom, Yangjiazhuang doesn't have it, isn't there our Tao family, by the way, what is the ransom demanded by the thieves in Black Tiger Village?" ”

"Thirty thousand taels of silver!" Yang Yunhui sighed softly.

"What? Three...... Thirty thousand taels? Tao Yunlong's face froze, and he was speechless on the spot.

Although the Tao family is a large family in Guiyang Town, due to the large population in the family and the huge expenses, they usually do not have much silver.

If they were asked to take out three or five thousand taels, the Tao family would be able to barely get it, but tens of thousands of taels of silver, even if the Tao family was turned upside down, it would not be able to make up so much.

Thinking of this, Tao Yunlong pondered for a moment and said, "Is there no other way than the ransom?" ”

Yang Yunhui shook her head, "Big brother said that we don't have to worry about it, he has his own way, as for what way, I don't know, maybe big brother has been busy borrowing money recently." ”

Speaking of this, she paused, then looked at Tao Yunlong's eyes with a solemn expression, and said, "Yunlong, you can't rush back to Guiyang this time, you must stay in Yangjiazhuang, and wait until the eldest brother and they rescue the third brother before going back." ”

"That's nature!" Tao Yunlong replied without thinking.

Seeing that he answered so simply, Yang Yunhui nodded with satisfaction, "Regardless of whether the eldest brother can collect the ransom or not, you will have to accompany the eldest brother to Songfeng Valley at that time, and with your martial arts, you can at least ensure the thoughtfulness of the eldest brother." ”

"Don't worry, as long as I'm here, I promise not to let those thieves hurt half of my eldest brother's hair!"

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Time flies, and in the blink of an eye, nine days have passed.

In the past nine days, Yang Zheng would enter the Infinite Armory every night, after all, he couldn't waste two minutes of weapon handling time every day.

During this time, Yang Zheng carried hundreds of crossbows and arrows from the infinite arsenal back and forth, and as for other cold weapons such as swords and daggers, Yang Zheng also took out hundreds of them.

With so many weapons, with Yangjiazhuang's current manpower, it should be enough.

In addition to carrying weapons and equipment at fixed points every night, Yang Zheng went to Dalonggou every day to watch the training results of everyone.

I have to say that under the supervision and leadership of the two captains Yang Xiu and Yang Shiyuan, the children of the Yang family clan trained very hard.

Basically, every day before dawn, fifty children of the Yang family braved the cold of late autumn and went straight to the Dalonggou training place.

After nine days of crossbow training, these Yang family disciples made rapid progress.

Although a lot of crossbow arrows have been damaged these days, the results of everyone's training have made Yang Zheng extremely satisfied.

Nowadays, the 50 strong men who participated in the training, basically everyone, can use a hand crossbow to shoot at the target from a distance of 30 meters, and the hit rate is not known how many times higher than the first few days of training.

What surprised Yang Zheng even more was that among the fifty family strongmen, two guys with particularly outstanding performances were found.

One of those two guys is called Yang Dapeng and the other is called Yang Mazi.

From the very beginning of their training, the two showed an extremely amazing talent for shooting.

The others trained for two whole days, barely within ten arrows, and half of them were able to hit the target, while the two of them were able to hit the bull's-eye with arrows, and their performance was extremely eye-catching.

Seven days later, the two guys were even more terrible.

In addition to being able to shoot at a stationary target, they are also able to shoot at a moving target tens of meters away.

Such an anti-heaven shooting talent and understanding made Yang Zheng overjoyed.

He has already begun to have a plan in his heart, if he can take out arms and weapons from the infinite arsenal in the future, he must carefully cultivate these two people and train them to become snipers.

With the abilities of Yang Dapeng and Yang Mazi, Yang Zheng will definitely not be disappointed.

Because today is the ninth day, according to the agreement, tomorrow is the deadline stipulated by the Black Tiger Village, and Yangjiazhuang must personally send fifty carts of grain and grass and 30,000 taels of silver to Songfeng Valley to redeem people before sunset tomorrow.

Seeing that everyone's crossbow shooting has been almost trained, whether it is a mule or a horse, we will see tomorrow.

In order to reward everyone for their hard work in training these days, this afternoon, Yang Zheng let fifty family children return to Yangjiazhuang early, and prepared a large amount of wine and meat, so that everyone could drink happily and relax.

After the lively dinner, Yang Zheng was full of wine and returned to his courtyard with the support of the servant Yang An.

Seeing that Yang Qian's face was full of concern, Yang Zheng said to Yang An, who was waiting on the side: "You step back first, I have something to say to the second master." ”

"Yes, owner!" Yang An bowed and bowed, and then retreated with interest.

Yang Qian saw that his eldest brother's face was flushed and full of alcohol, so he gave him a cup of hot tea on the spot, and said with concern: "The eldest brother has not drunk well, so you have to drink less in the future." ”

Yang Zheng waved his hand and said with a smile: "A few glasses of water and wine, it's not in the way." ”

After that, Yang Zheng raised his head and drank the hot tea, glanced at Yang Qian, and said lightly: "Today, I see that the second brother has been depressed, is he worried about tomorrow?" ”

Yang Qian lowered his head and was silent for a moment, and said, "Big brother, I always feel that this is inappropriate. ”