"King, King Wu—"

Fang Maoqi, who was kicked down by Zeng Yu, rushed over at this time, pointed at Zeng Yu and complained to Wu Ping: "Brother Wu, this surnamed Zeng dared to beat my old Fang, Brother Wu will definitely be the master of his brother" The name was changed to "Brother Wu" to show that the relationship with Wu Ping is extraordinary, he Fang Maoqi is an old subordinate who followed Zhang Lian and Wu Ping in the Fujian silver mine, and they were all called brothers before.

Zeng Yu stood sideways with cold eyes and did not defend himself.

Wu Ping deliberately enveloped Zeng Yu, glared at Fang Maoqi and said: "Zeng Xiu is the son of the Zeng family of Xingguo Sanliao, the ancestral feng shui technique, King Zhang Long knows his name, why do you say that he is a liar?" Who did he fool? ”

Fang Maoqi was speechless, so he had to say: "Then he shouldn't beat people, brother follows Brother Wu-"

"Okay" Wu Ping interrupted Fang Mao's words: "You go and rest, don't talk anymore, go quickly." Wu Ping has become more and more majestic recently, and he is used to hearing the title of "big king", and he is a little displeased to hear someone call him "big brother".

Fang Maoqi didn't dare to say more, he glared at Zeng Yu angrily, and retreated with hatred.

Zeng Yu arched his hand and said: "Thank you King Wu for your appreciation and understanding, and I am willing to share the labor for King Wu, so I will go and register those hostages so that I can collect the ransom tomorrow." ”

Wu Ping thought to himself: "If you want to show up, how can you clear yourself, hehe, there is no other way but to follow me into Fujian." He nodded and said, "Very good, then there is Lao Zeng Xiucai, let's go to the Guangsi Hall to have a look." ”

Guangsi Hall is in the West Courtyard of the Seven Stars View, the main god enshrined in the hall is Ming Su Zhenjun and Our Lady Yuanjun, the folk are commonly known as the descendants and the son of the Niangniang, this is the incense with the Buddhist temple nunnery to send the son Guanyin to compete for incense, the incense is quite prosperous in the past, now it is the place where the thieves detain hostages, and the Jade Emperor Hall and the Medicine King Hall of the West Courtyard are the elite of the thieves entrenched -

When Zeng Yu followed Wu Ping to the West Courtyard, he heard a woman's cry, in the hazy light shadow of the snow, a group of thieves dragged several women out of the Guangsi Palace, saw Wu Ping, this group of thieves quickly abandoned the dragged woman with a forked hand and called "King - King Wu", Zeng Yu saw that one of the thieves had black hair on his cheeks, and it was the bandit Hua Wuhan who beat the old man and wanted to use a knife against him at the bottom of the mountain.

Several women who fell on the side of the steps of the temple were crying and struggling to get up, and Hua Wuhan stretched out his feet and stepped on the woman's waist and threatened.

Wu Ping frowned and asked, "Hua Lao Wu, what are you doing?" ”

Hua Wuhan said with a smile: "My lord, these young women are the hostages taken from the estuary today, and the brothers are idle when they are idle, so let them go to accompany the wine and play tricks, and it will not harm their lives." ”

Zeng Yu whispered beside Wu Ping: "King Wu should also restrain these wanton and reckless people, and in the future, it is necessary to establish rules for the secession of Fujian, otherwise it will be difficult for people's hearts to return, and I hope the king will think twice." ”

The bandits are a rabble, except for a few extremely stupid ones, most of them know that they are committing the big crime of killing their heads, so they all carry their heads to vent their evil madness, burn and kill and plunder all the way, and do all kinds of evil, the bandit leader Wu Ping has always not restrained the actions of his subordinates, but today I heard Zeng Yu say that Zhang Lian has the number of days to be the king of Fujian, and he Wu Ping also has the fate of being a general, so he feels that being a thief still has a future, and he should make some plans for the long term, and nodded "um" at the moment, and then scolded Hua Laohan and let go of those young women-

Hua Wuhan didn't know each other, and said shyly: "King, the brothers are all looking for fun, and playing with these women is indispensable for them to have a few cold hairs, and they will still exchange for ransom money tomorrow, right, king?" ”

Wu Ping saw that Hua Wuhan didn't obey the order and had a hippie smile, and felt that he was losing his majesty, especially when Zeng Xiucai looked at him coldly, which made him even more angry, and strode forward to slap Hua Wuhan in the face, and shouted: "Get out"

Hua Wuhan was beaten and shook his body, touched his hot and painful cheeks, looked at Wu Ping, couldn't believe that Wu Ping would beat him, this is nothing at all, he was not less than before, it must have been this surnamed Zeng Xiucai who said bad things about him, and the kid surnamed Zeng muttered in Wu Ping's ear-

Hua Wuhan was furious, pulled out his waist knife sharply, pointed at Zeng Yu and said, "The kid dares to provoke and frame your Grandpa Hua, I have to kill you today." "Rushed up and slashed at Zeng Yu with a knife.

Wu Ping was furious and shouted: "Stop" and at the same time pulled out the sword on his waist.

Zeng Yu had already flashed from Wu Ping's right side to the left, but Hua Wuhan refused to stop, and said angrily: "Brother Wu, brother must kill this kid today" Relying on himself to be one of the few Haikou who followed Wu Ping, Hua Wuhan thought that he had killed Zeng Yu on the spot, and Wu Ping would not blame him deeply-

A bright sword light slashed, and Hua Wuhan fell headlong, and blood splattered on the muddy snow, as if splashing ink

Wu Ping slowly put the knife into the sheath, and said to the other thieves with an expressionless face: "Those who do not obey the order will die."

Zeng Yu was secretly frightened, this Wu Ping's martial arts are so good, and it is indeed not an ordinary person to be able to lead tens of thousands of thieves.

Peng Laowu, who was with Zeng Yu, was surprised and delighted, Hua Wuhan was Wu Ping's confidant, and he had always been a powerful man, but at this time, he was executed by Wu Ping because he offended Zeng Yu, which shows Zeng Yu's status in Wu Ping's mind.

When the rest of the thieves saw Wu Ping suddenly angrily kill the leader of his henchmen, Hua Wuhan, they were stunned one by one, and they stood still and did not dare to move.

What Wu Ping wants is this kind of deterrence, these domineering guys are becoming more and more difficult to control, Hua Wuhan dares to disobey his orders, and he still thinks that he is a brother and a brother when he was in a silver mine, and it is difficult to command the righteous army without standing upright, and said coldly: "Drag it out and bury it." ”

The two thieves hurriedly stepped forward and dragged Hua Wuhan's body to the outside of the courtyard, and Wu Ping ordered again: "Strengthen the sentry and don't patronize drinking and having fun." ”

A group of bandits agreed one after another, except for a team of bandits guarding the hostages, everyone else hurriedly left the Guangsi Palace, for fear of provoking a fire, King Wu was angry.

Zeng Yu looked frightened, and said, "Thank you King Wu for saving your life." ”

Wu Ping smiled: "Let Zeng Xiucai be frightened, go into the hall." ”

Wu Ping and Zeng Yu walked into the Guangsi Hall surrounded by thieves in charge of guarding, the Guangsi Hall is three zhang eight high, five rooms wide, and about five zhang deep, which is a relatively spacious hall, and it is not crowded with more than 200 hostages, of course, this is also the reason why those hostages are cold, hungry and frightened.

The wood carving statues of the grandchildren and the mother who sent the children were all removed by the thieves to burn the fire to keep warm, only an incense case remained, and there were two wine jars and some leftovers on the incense case, which were left over by the thieves who guarded the hostages.

Looking at the cowering hostages in the first hall, Wu Ping raised his voice and said: "This Zeng Xiucai has something to ask you and others, and you and others confess truthfully, whoever dares to hide and lie will be dragged out and killed." ”

Wu Ping felt that the word "you" was very condescending, and he often used the word "you" when giving orders to bandits.

The Guangsi Hall was silent, and more than 200 hostages did not dare to come out.

Zeng Yu said: "I forgot to take the pen and paper, I have it in the book, I will take it myself." ”

Wu Ping immediately ordered Peng Laowu and the other two thieves to go to the Daizong Hall with Zeng Yu to get pen, ink, paper, and inkstone.

Zeng Yu returned to the Daizong Palace, the oil lamp was dim, Zheng Shi and the sister-in-law sat opposite each other under the statue of Emperor Dongyue, and were talking about something, seeing Zeng Yu coming back, Zheng Shi hurriedly got up and said, "Nine carp, how is it?" ”

Peng Lao Wu and the other two thieves followed behind, and Zeng Yu couldn't say anything, but said: "The hostages must be registered one by one, and Miss Li and Miss Ji will go back to the Guangsi Hall with me." ”

The sister-in-law surnamed Ji was originally sitting upright, but when she heard Zeng Yu's words, she quickly hid in her sister-in-law's arms, and the Li family also panicked, and begged: "The two ministers save me two-"

Zeng Yu smiled: "It's to go to the Guangsi Palace, to be with the hostages, there will be no danger for the time being, if Li Niangzi and Miss Ji stay here for the night, I am afraid that their reputation will be damaged." ”

Zheng Shi understood what Zeng Yu was referring to, and with a "hey" sound, he rolled his eyes and shook his head.

The girl surnamed Ji didn't understand what Zeng Yu meant, so she straightened up from her sister-in-law's arms, looked at her sister-in-law Li with wide eyes, asked with permission, and peeked at Zeng Yu-

Li is a married woman, not as simple as her sister-in-law, understand what Zeng Yu meant, she just talked to this Zheng Xiucai, knew the origin of these two Xiucai, and knew that these two Xiucai sincerely helped them, her husband's family is a big paper merchant in Lead Mountain, she and her sister-in-law have a total of five hundred taels of ransom silver, and she can redeem it tomorrow, so it is very important to preserve her reputation, and there must be no rumors that she and her two have been defiled by thieves, at that moment Li stood up, pulled her sister-in-law up, and said: " The two talented men are for the good of the two of us, and my sister-in-law and sister-in-law will ask Zeng Xianggong and Zheng Xianggong to take care of them. ”

The girl surnamed Ji still looked very scared, clasped her hands on her chest, and refused to move, feeling that this Dai Zong Hall was safer.

Zheng Shi persuaded: "Miss Ji, let's go, it'll be fine, I'll go with you." ”

Zheng Shi and the sister-in-law got along for a while, and they were already a little familiar, and the girl surnamed Ji took the hand of her sister-in-law Li and followed Zeng Yu to the Guangsi Palace, and Laifu led a horse and a donkey to follow, and Peng Lao Wu also helped carry the burden

Wu Ping saw that Zeng Yu had brought these two women back, and said with a smile: "Does Zeng Xiucai think that these two women are village girls who are unbearable to serve?" ”

Zeng Yu said: "Hua Lao Wu is a lesson from the past, how dare I disobey King Wu's order - a hostage is a hostage, as long as the ransom is paid tomorrow, he will be released." ”

Li and the sister-in-law returned to the crowd and sat down, an old woman next to them asked them in a low voice, Li said that it was thanks to Zeng Xiucai who saved the two of them, the old woman didn't believe it, and said: "This Zeng Xiucai is clearly a gang of thieves, that is, he raised the ransom to two hundred and fifty taels, and he is not a good person."

"Zeng Xianggong is a good person."

A sixty-year-old man beside Miss Ji who looked like a rich man said in a hoarse voice: "I was at the bottom of the mountain before, if Zeng Xiucai hadn't rescued me, the old man would have died. ”

Sorry, sorry.