Seeing that the owner of the village was dead, the bandits suddenly lost their fighting spirit, and in the shouting of the militia group, in addition to those who died in battle, about 300 people left to lay down their arms and surrender. Xu Hui ordered the weapons to be confiscated, and the bandits were tied up and guarded, and continued to search for the fish that had slipped through the net, and took Dai Qin and Liu Er to the lobby.

The cottage lobby is very spacious, and the first one is a large chair with a tiger skin on top. As soon as Xu Hui sat down in the first seat, a militia soldier came in to report and said, "Captain Liu led someone to catch a strange old man. "Bring it on."

After a while, I saw Liu Can pressing an old man with white hair into the lobby, it was Qing Xuan. Xu Hui raised his eyes and looked, only to see that this old way came into the door, without the slightest panic, he saluted Xu Hui, put his hands together and said: "Amitayus Buddha, recently the poor road has traveled here, seeing that this bandit is cruel to the people, I wanted to attract the thunder of heaven to destroy all of them, but I am afraid that it will violate the way of heaven. It is better to continue to travel to the poor road to overcome the suffering of all people. ”

Xu Hui knew that this was an old god stick when he heard it, and he couldn't help but want to tease him, so he said respectfully: "The Taoist is really compassionate, Xu admires, I just heard that the Taoist can attract heavenly thunder, presumably the Taoist Dao Law has already peeked into the path of the immortals." ”

Qing Xuan thought that this Xu Hui was blinded by his own foolishness, and he couldn't help but be happy in his heart, and said: "Amitayus Buddha, where is it, the general has praised it falsely, and the poor Dao Dao is only the beginning of the way, but this little heavenly thunder is still not a problem." ”

"Ah, really? Xu is not talented, I don't know if I can be blessed to appreciate the Taoist Chief's thunder spell? Xu Hui said with a look of surprise.

"This, Amitayus Buddha, this thunder has caused fear of hurting the general and all the soldiers, but it is not beautiful." Qing Xuan's face was embarrassed.

"The Taoist chief doesn't give Xu face at this time?" Xu Hui's face suddenly turned cold.

"Immeasurable ......"

"Immeasurable fart." Xu Hui pulled out the sword at his waist and swooped it in front of Lao Dao, and then saw that Lao Dao was already bloodless, his legs trembled, and after a while, a hot stream dripped down between his legs, and Qingxuan Lao Dao actually peed his pants.

Xu Huile laughed, Qing Xuan relieved himself and said with a red face: "This, Lao Dao also needs an iron bucket and some self-made powder for Lao Dao to cast spells. ”

When Xu Hui heard this, he still understood what was going on, so he said angrily: "You old way is still waiting to frame me, but you just put the gunpowder in the iron bucket and ignite it, forming a sound like thunder. ”

Seeing that his craftsmanship was recognized, Lao Dao couldn't help but be anxious, and hurriedly said: "The general is angry, the general is angry, Lao Dao knows where Liu Guangxiao hides treasures, and he is willing to lead the way for the general." “

"Oh? It seems that you still have some use, hurry up and lead the way. ”

Under the leadership of Qing Xuan, Xu Hui and the others followed Liu Guangxiao to an abandoned kitchen in Houzhai, and the old road stepped forward to take down a cauldron, revealing a secret passage below. Everyone followed the old road down the dark road, and came to a room underground, this room was very spacious, and there were several large wooden boxes piled up in between, and when they opened the boxes, everyone was surprised, and there were six boxes of silver in these boxes, a box of gold and a box of jewelry, and it was roughly estimated that there were 60,000 taels of silver, 10,000 taels of gold, and countless jewels. "This guy is really rich." Xu Hui said secretly in his heart, he couldn't help but look at the box of jewelry, there was a jade pendant and a silver token pressing a letter on the top of the middle, the jade pendant Xu Hui looked a little familiar, isn't this the jade pendant of Feng Hong and Feng Yongcai? It seems that Liu Guangxiao's attack on the Xu family must have been the work of this person.

In addition, the front of the silver token is engraved with a word, the word bright back, Xu Hui looked at it for a while and had no clue, so he opened the letter, and couldn't help but gasp for a while, it turned out that this letter was a handwritten letter written by a Manichaean saint to Liu Guangxiao, and the letter was to the effect that Liu Guangxiao was named the leader of the blazing flag, and assisted his brother Wang Zairen to wait for the opportunity to revolt, attack Zhending Mansion, and specially subsidize 500 stones of grain and grass, 5,000 taels of gold, 50,000 taels of silver and a box of jewelry, which was used to recruit troops and buy horses.

Xu Hui put away the jade pendant, letters, and tokens, and called the soldiers to transport the gold and silver.

Coming out of this abandoned kitchen, some soldiers reported that they found that the place where the bandits stored grain was about 500 stones, "Haha, now the food shortage of the Xu family has been completely solved." So on the one hand, he ordered someone to go to Xu's house to mobilize the carriage traffic, and on the other hand, he wrote a letter and sent it to Zhending Mansion to report the war situation, but only 50,000 taels were reported when he reported the seizure, as for the Manichaean matter, Xu Hui did not plan to poke it out, there was no need to cause unnecessary trouble for himself, especially from the rivers and lakes, and since the Fangla uprising, he has not heard of any great achievements of Manichaeism in the Northern Song Dynasty.

Before leaving, Liu Er proposed to burn the cottage on fire, but Xu Hui did not agree, he had another use for this cottage, leaving twenty auxiliaries to guard it, and rushed back to Xujiabao with the rest of the people.

Returning to Xujiabao and arranging things properly, Xu Hui and Xu Chong talked about the idea of expanding the militia group, and Xu Chong agreed, so he returned to the room, after all, he was too tired after a busy day's work.

Early the next morning, a servant came to call, saying that an official from the Zhending Prefecture had come to deliver the letter.

Xu Hui finished freshening up and came to the main hall, where a middle-aged man dressed as a messenger came forward and saluted: "Lord Xu, Envoy Li Zhizhi would like to ask you to come over to the house and tell me in detail about the battle." ”

"Gorou, I'm about to take up my post too, so it's okay for you to go and give me a dozen front stations." Xu Zhong said.

"Yes, Daddy, the child leaves today." Xu Hui bowed and retired.

With Liu Er and Dai Qin, he came to Zhending Mansion and went straight to the prefect's yamen, although Li Miao was promoted to the deputy envoy of Hebei Road, but because he was also on the errand of the prefect of Zhending Mansion, he was still working in the prefect's yamen for the time being.

After being reported by the messenger, Xu Hui followed him to the back office. At this time, Li Miao was wearing an official uniform to try official business, and he heard a shout outside the door: "My lord, Lord Xu has arrived." He put down the official document in his hand and said, "Come in." "Stand up and greet him.

Since ancient times, officialdom has had the rules of officialdom, and it is a very high courtesy to set up a deputy envoy to get up to greet a small military attaché.

Xu Hui entered the door and saw this scene, and hurriedly said: "How can the lower official be virtuous, how can Li Zhizhi get up to greet him, and the lower official is panicked." ”

Li Miao waved his hand to let the errand officer go down, and said to Xu Hui with a smile: "Wen Qian, there are no outsiders here, you and I are still commensurate with uncles and nephews." ”

"Yes, Uncle Lee."

"Wen Qian, yesterday I heard that you broke the Fenglongshan bandits, killed the bandits, and seized a lot, I am very relieved, I asked you to come here to ask about yesterday's scene, and these two are to ask you about the future plans of the militia." Li Miao stroked his beard and said.

So Xu Hui explained in detail what happened yesterday, and then carefully explained the plan for the expansion of the militia group that he discussed with Xu Zhong yesterday.

"Wen Qian, the combat power shown by the militia no longer belongs to the Xiang Army, your plan to expand to 3,000 people is even more in line with me, the soldiers are not expensive, but after all, the Zhending Mansion Treasury is not abundant, and you need to contribute more in terms of money and food, and natural weapons and armor are indispensable to you, so they will be distributed to you according to the customization of the Xiang Army." Li Miao continued, "It's just that because the militia has not yet been customized, it is difficult for your position to be readjusted. ”

"Thank you, Uncle Li."