On the left side of Zeng Yu and the three of them is the undulating mountain forest, but the sound of horses' hooves and footsteps is coming from between the two peaks a few miles away on the left, so there is no time to hide in the woods, and on the right side of the three of them, there is a large area of soothing tidal flats and valleys, which stretch unobstructed to the north bank of the Xinjiang River.

Zheng Shi, who was riding on the back of a donkey, looked at the snow-covered peak on the left, and said with luck: "It won't be so unlucky, you will meet a thief if you avoid a thief."

As soon as the words fell, he heard a faint voice from the direction of the Xinjiang River on the right, obviously not one or two people, but a large group of people, Zeng Yu was shocked and said: "Who are these people, aren't they the officers and soldiers of the Thousand Households of Lead Mountain who are suppressing thieves?" ”

At this time, it is not safer to meet officers and soldiers than to meet thieves, and it is not uncommon to kill good and take risks, the farther away from the place of right and wrong, the better, Zeng Yu straddled the horse, Zheng Shi rode a donkey, and the healthy servant Laifu spread his big feet, and the three of them galloped to the northeast-

Laifu picked up the suitcase and the book, ran and ran and slipped, the books in the bookcase were scattered on the snow, Laifu hurriedly got up to pick up the book, Zeng Yu turned around and said: "Get out of here first, if it's not a soldier, it's not too late to come back and pack it later." ”

Zheng Shi also shouted: "Laifu, run." ”

Laifu carried the suitcase on his shoulders and ran behind Zeng Yu and Zheng Shi's mounts.

The horsemen and walkers who rushed out of the mountain forest on the left came very quickly, and more than ten horses and the chaotic crowd running behind soon appeared on the snowy foothills, which was very eye-catching, and the three Zeng Yu were also very eye-catching, and they were soon discovered by these people, and immediately shouted after them-

Zeng Yu turned his head to look and saw that this group of people were wearing hats, their bodies were full of arms, holding spears and axes in their hands, and some were carrying copper hoes and iron rakes, shouting and shouting, and they were disorganized, which was clearly a thief composed of miners, farmers, and vagrants

Laifu walked, Zheng Shi's brown and black donkey didn't run fast, Zheng Shi panted and said: "Nine carp, you are fast, go first, if I have a good one, the old mother and wife will ask the virtuous brother when they are young." ”

Zeng Yu slowed down the horse and said: "Why is this the case, the younger brother should tide over the difficulties with the three idiot brothers, don't panic, talk less, and don't fight hard with the thief, the thief can be tempted to take advantage, we are wronged for a while, we will be able to get out, and everything will be dealt with by the younger brother." ”

While talking, Zeng Yu turned the horse's head, and in the face of the group of people chasing him, he didn't leave the horse, and he couldn't get away anyway.

Zheng Shi also stopped at the donkey, looking at the rogues who came all over the mountains, he couldn't help but be frightened, Xiucai couldn't explain when he met a soldier, Xiucai had to pay for his life when he met a thief, he Zheng Shizhi was old and young, and then looked at Zeng Yu, it seemed to be calm and composed, is it because he has martial arts, but Zeng Yu is not Lu Bu, Zhang Fei has the courage of ten thousand people, in the face of these many thieves, the enemy will definitely not work, does Zeng Yu have a clever plan?

But he saw Zeng Yu jump off the horse, took out two small silver ingots, looked left and right, threw the two small silver ingots under a bald tree beside the road, and crushed them with his feet, the two small silver ingots fell into the snow, and then stretched out his feet to pull the snow to cover up the traces, and said: "Even if you let passers-by pick them up, it is better than robbing them for thieves." ”

Zheng Shi also wanted to touch the silver to come out, Zeng Yu said: "There is no need to hide the broken silver, and the thieves don't believe it if there is no silver at all." Zeng Yuzhi said that Zheng Shi only brought a few taels of silver, and in addition to the ten taels of silver he had just hidden, he also had more than three taels of silver.

A few thieves on horseback took the lead in chasing after them, seeing the outfits of Zeng Yu and Zheng Shi clearly, and the thief who rode a red horse and brandished a short knife laughed wildly: "Good luck, good luck, the two Xiucai have sent money, this is the Xiucai who rushed to the exam, there are horses and donkeys, hahaha, this horse looks good, it belongs to me." ”

Another thief shouted, "The horse belongs to the two kings, the donkey belongs to me, and the donkey belongs to me." ”

Several other thieves ordered Zheng Shi to dismount and dismount from the donkey, ready to search and plunder.

Zeng Yu said loudly: "The rich are swept away, the rich don't panic, the poor come to help." ”

Several thieves were stunned for a moment, looking at each other, they plundered all the way from Fujian to Jiangxi, soldiers, farmers, workers, merchants and even military households were robbed, and those who were robbed were either so frightened that they didn't dare to make a sound or knelt on the ground and kowtowed and begged for mercy or something, this young man was bold and shouted the slogan of their righteous army, it is difficult to shout such a few words to spare you

The leader of the thieves did not get off the horse, and rode his horse to Zeng Yu with his head held high, and sneered condescendingly: "Xiucai, then you are rich or poor, you are not a poor person." ”

Zeng Yu said: "Dare to ask how to distinguish between rich and poor? ”

Seeing that Zeng Yu did not flinch, this thief dared to ask him back, which made him very unhappy, and shouted: "You show that you are exempt from forced labor, eat grain, and the burden of taxes is all on the heads of poor people such as me, so you should be killed." ”

Zeng Yu shouted: "But I am a rich man." ”

The thief sneered: "You are wearing a big cocoon silk robe and riding a tall horse, this is a rich man?" ”

Zeng Yu said: "The horse is borrowed, barely enough to feed and wear, and he is not a rich man." ”

The thief said angrily: "Who is impatient to talk to you, Lao Tzu said that you are a rich man, you are a rich man" ordered Zeng Yu to pick off his clothes and hats.

Zeng Yu raised his hand and said: "Wait, I am a descendant of the Zeng family in Sanliao Village, Xingguo, Ganzhou, I have a relationship with King Zhang Long, aren't you all subordinates of King Zhang Longwang?" ”

The Zeng family of Sanliao Village is a feng shui family, and it has a lot of prestige among the people, and several thieves who came forward to pick up Zeng Yu's clothes saw Zeng Yu say solemnly, and they didn't dare to act rashly for a while, and turned their heads to ask the bandit leader riding a jujube red horse: "Second king, who is King Zhang Long?" ”

The bandit leader with a short knife in his hand stared at Zeng Yu and said, "Do you know our Han Feilong King?" ”

Zeng Yu's face did not change and said: "Xie Maoqin, the leader of the world-famous Seven Sons Poetry Society, has a very good relationship with the deputy envoy of Fujian Tixue, Master Zong, and has traveled from Xie Lao poet in the next, so he has a relationship with Zhang Longwang, of course, Zhang Longwang was still a county official at that time, and he was not as famous as he is today. ”

Zhang Lian, who called himself the "Hanfei Dragon King", was once a small official in a county in Fujian, which Zeng Yu heard from Chen Menglei of Anrenzhi County, and then pulled it out to bluff these thieves-

When the bandit leader heard Zeng Yu say that the leader of the Poetry Society and the deputy envoy of the school had something to do, he said suspiciously: "Didn't you say that you are a child of the Zeng family in Sanliao, Xingguo, how can you be here in Guangxin Mansion?" ”

Zeng Yu said: "My ancestors moved from Ganzhou to Guangxin Mansion, and settled here, if a few heroes don't believe it, you can see that there is a letter in my bookbox, which is the letter to be sent to the King of Hanfei Dragon." As he spoke, he took out a piece of paper from the horse's back and handed it to the thief who was about to pick up his clothes—

The thief was illiterate, he was dazed when he received the letter, turned around and handed it to the bandit leader on horseback, the bandit leader who was called the second king looked closely, only recognized the four words "Han Feilong King" at the beginning, and the other dense and curved words were written all over a piece of paper, he didn't know, he was illiterate or inferior, the second king "hummed", looked in the direction of the Xinjiang River, stuffed the paper into his arms, and instructed his subordinates: "Look at the custody first, and then ask questions later, we will go to meet King Wu first." ”

A thief looked at the big velvet cocoon silk robe that Zeng Yu was wearing, and asked, "Second king, do you want to pick up the robes of these two talents?" ”

The second king said: "Don't touch them for the time being, we'll talk about it later." "With their legs on the belly of the horse, they roared away with a group of bandits, dozens of people on horseback, mules, and donkeys, and hundreds of people on foot, trampling the snow on the ground into a piece of dirty mud.

There are five thieves left to guard Zeng Yu and the three, the first thief is named Peng Laoqiu, with five or six arms wrapped around his waist, and the heavy ones are obviously all stolen gold, silver and jewelry, Peng Laoqiu holds a sharp axe, snatches the reins of the horse in Zeng Yu's hand, and shouts: "Go, go to the Seven Stars Temple." ”

The other four thieves looked towards the riverside, and someone said: "Peng Laoqiu, don't rush back to the Taoist temple first, see how much gold and silver the king has robbed and then go back together." ”

Peng Laoqiu also led the horse and stood on the side of the road to watch, Zeng Yu told Laifu to take back the scattered book, Laifu agreed, put down the suitcase and left, but was stopped by two thieves with an iron rake and said: "Stay honest, be careful to rake you to death." ”

Zeng Yu pointed to the books scattered on the snow half a mile away and said, "There is a letter written by King Zhang Long to Zai Xia back then, if it is lost, can you afford it?" ”

A few thieves just saw that the two kings said not to pick up the clothes of this young Xiucai for the time being, obviously quite polite to this young Xiucai, you must know that the scholars that Lu Dao met before, the two kings have to be humiliated in every way, in order to show that reading the sage book is useless, Peng Laoqiu, these thieves are all homeless people in Longnan County, Ganzhou, and followed Wu Ping all the way to burn and loot, but they don't know who Zhang Lian, the king of Hanfei Dragon, is, but looking at the attitude of the two kings, this young Xiucai should be a little bit of a background-

Peng Laoqiu asked the two thieves to escort Laifu to pick up the book, and at this time, only Peng Laoqiu and a bandit with black spots on his face were left to guard Zeng Yu and Zheng Shi, and the black-faced bandit was holding a firewood knife in his hand.

Zeng Yu looked around, the Mongolian horse black bean led by Peng Laoqiu had a jujube stick on his back, if he suddenly drew a stick to attack Peng Laoqiu's two thieves, the odds of victory were very great, but the team of thieves was not far from here, and it was not easy for him and Zheng Shi to escape, so it was better to be patient.

Laifu quickly came back with the bookcase, and the flat shoulder was also picked up by a bandit, Zeng Yu asked Laifu: "Has Zhang Longwang's letter been recovered?" ”

Rifle opened his mouth wide and shook his head.

At this time, there was a thunderous cheer in the southeast, it seemed that the two bandits had met and were going to return soon, Peng Laoqiu smacked his mouth and said: "This time it will be a lot of money, and it is said that the estuary is rich." ”

Another thief said: "It's hard to say, the rich are afraid of being swept away, so they will flee first." ”

Zheng Shi took advantage of the bandits' argument and whispered to Zeng Yu: "What's the matter with the letter?" ”

Zeng Yu said in a low voice: "When I wrote a letter to Zhang Zhenren in the morning, I had a flash of inspiration, and I took out a thousand-character text in the seal style that I had copied before, and added the four characters in italics, I didn't expect it to come in handy, it's really unfortunate." ”

Zheng Shi wanted to laugh but couldn't laugh, these thieves killed people without blinking, and now they are in the hands of thieves, it is extremely dangerous, I would not have gone to Shangrao to take the exam if I knew this, and the fate of life is really unpredictable.

The brigade of thieves came, making a commotion and chaos, there were both unbridled laughter and crying for mercy, Zeng Yu looked closely, only to see that the bandits were divided into two teams, but in the middle was a long line of people who were tied with their hands behind their backs and beaten with blood on their faces, about two or three hundred people, who were escorted by the bandits and stumbled over—

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