Liu Wumei, the female bandit leader, is in her early thirties, and judging from her face, she can be called a little beautiful. And the jewels all over her body also appropriately concealed her true identity. If it weren't for the shell gun that was resting next to her seat at the moment, no one would have expected that the owner of this box would be a bandit leader who killed people without blinking.

In fact, Liu Wumei is not only the owner of this box, but also the real owner of this Baoyuan restaurant. Bai Baoyuan, the owner of the restaurant, is just the second master of her subordinates.

How could the bandits in the mountains run into the city and open a restaurant?

Liu Wumei's cottage nest is located in the black stone cliff deep in Guanmen Mountain, from the foot of Guanmen Mountain to Wencheng, only a few paths are passed, and the nearest one is about forty or fifty miles. Although there are one or two hundred bandits in Heishi Cliff, they are only robbing houses in the countryside around Guanmen Mountain, and they do not dare to directly attack Wencheng (including Fengdian), where the 12th Brigade of the Jin Army is stationed.

Three years ago, Bai Baoyuan, the small leader of Liu Wumei, accidentally rescued a middle-aged leather merchant who went into the mountains to hunt and fell into the valley in the Guanmen Mountain. In order to repay Bai Baoyuan for saving his life, before leaving, the leather merchant gave it to him in the shop operated in Wencheng.

Bai Baoyuan, who accepted the store, discussed with Liu Wumei, who was in charge, at first, and was ready to fold the shop into a modern market, but Liu Wumei had an idea and decided to use this store as a cover to set up a ventilated foothold in Wencheng. She invested money to change the leather shop into a donkey meat knife and noodle restaurant, and sent Bai Baoyuan to run it; Unexpectedly, this small leader of the bandits who fell into the grass was quite clever in terms of management, and the noodle restaurant business was booming, and it was soon changed to a fried and fried restaurant, and later it was sold left and right, and the chef in charge of the big place was invited, and it became the famous Baoyuan Restaurant in Wencheng.

Today, the restaurant has not only become a scene in the city where the three religions and nine streams gather and the news of all sizes is disseminated, but also brings a stable and considerable income to the Black Rock Cliff Cottage in terms of financial resources. Bai Baoyuan used his identity as the shopkeeper of the restaurant to make heavy contacts in the city, and even quietly started trading tobacco and arms, which made Liu Wumei rely on him more and more.

In the first half of every month, Liu Wumei would choose a day to bring a few of her subordinates to Wencheng, settle down at Baoyuan Restaurant, eat and drink, and then take away most of the profits from last month. In the chaotic times, this female bandit leader absolutely did not trust the silver money houses opened in the city, and insisted on taking the turnover of the restaurant back to the bandits' nest in a foreign way.

Liu Wumei had traveled to many places in Jinsui with her family in her early years, and her mind was quite insightful, and later she was robbed by the old bandit head of the Black Stone Cliff of Guanmen Mountain to go up the mountain, and lost her body to be the lady of the village. Many years ago, the old bandit was infected with typhoid fever and died, and Liu Wumei inherited his mantle and became the big boss of the Black Rock Cliff Cottage.

In the second half of last year, there was a war in Shanxi, and the Japanese and Yan Laoxi fought inextricably in the northern Jin Dynasty, and Liu Wumei paid more attention to the restaurant. In her opinion, the Tu Emperor of Shanxi, even with the help of the army of the Nationalist Government, was certainly no match for the Japanese; Sure enough, Datong, Xinkou, and Taiyuan were all lost last year, and sooner or later the Japanese would follow the Tongpu railway line and enter Jinnan. She asked Bai Baoyuan to collect more news and make more friends with people on the black and white road, in the war years, businesses such as tobacco and arms will undoubtedly be more profitable.

At the same time, she felt that if the Japanese really hit Wencheng, it would not necessarily be a bad thing for the survival of her cottage: she was the only bandit in the area of Guanmen Mountain, and in the past, the 12th Brigade of the Jin Army had entered the mountains to suppress bandits out of order to protect the territory and the people, although she could not find her lair, but it was also a potential threat. If the Jin army was busy dealing with the Japanese attack, it would obviously not have enough spare strength to suppress any bandits.

This trip into the city, in the east of the city, I heard the rumors about the Japanese arriving in Fengdian, Liu Wumei was suspicious, so she came to the restaurant and immediately asked the second master, but Bai Baoyuan was also hearsay in the past two days, and it was difficult to determine for a while. At this time, Tian Mingda and a few other officers wearing Jin army uniforms came to eat, and Liu Wumei instructed Bai Baoyuan to pay attention to it secretly.

In the box of Liu Wumei and several people, a table of dishes was soon served. She was followed by three men and a girl. Among the men, a little old man in his fifties is the master of the cottage, and the other two young strong men are bodyguards; The girl looked to be in her early twenties, and she was Liu Wumei's cousin. They began to eat and drink quietly, the master drank Fenjiu by himself, Liu Wumei accompanied her slightly with a wine cup, she had a lot of alcohol, but after entering the city this time, she felt that the wind was wrong, so she was extremely cautious. The two bodyguards, of course, were not allowed to drink, so they devoured and munched.

"Ju, eat vegetables." The female bandit leader took the chopsticks and gave the girl a dish, and her face showed a motherly look.

"Sister, you eat too." A good-looking cousin who looks very shy.

Cousin Xiaoju is the daughter of an aunt in the countryside, after Liu Wumei fell into the grass, one year the aunt's house was fired, the aunt and uncle unfortunately both died, the cousin who was studying in the city became an orphan under the fence, Liu Wumei later went down the mountain to visit her aunt's house when she learned that she was about to take her cousin into the cottage. She originally planned to send her cousin to a school in Taiyuan or Pingjin to continue her studies, but since the year before last, the whole of North China has been covered with war clouds, and after the Lugou Bridge Incident in July last year, Beiping, Tianjin, and Taiyuan fell one after another, and Liu Wumei did not dare to risk letting her cousin leave her after all. The cousin became her follower, Liu Wumei asked her to help the cottage manage the accounts, and the cousin who went to high school was quite competent.

Xiao Ju is getting more and more smart, which also makes Liu Wumei extra protective of her, although she is a big copycat, but the bandits come up to mix up, especially after drinking, no one dares to guarantee what to do. thinks that back then, when the old bandit leader had just passed away and he first took over as the boss, there were a few cowardly guys in the cottage who were ready to move her; One even took advantage of the high moon to touch her bedroom, and almost stripped her naked while she was asleep, and finally the bandit was thrown into a deep stream by the execution of family law. Liu Wumei also relied on the ruling methods that were not inferior to the old bandit leader, and slowly subdued the minions and established prestige. But in the past half a year, she found that some people in the cottage began to revolve around Xiao Ju, who was getting taller and fuller, which aroused the vigilance of the female bandit leader. This trip down the mountain to Wencheng is no exception.

At this moment, looking at her cousin Si Siwen eating vegetables, Liu Wumei's heart couldn't help but feel sour again: It's all caused by the Japanese, if it weren't for the artillery fire, Xiaoju would at least be able to go to Taiyuan to study, and she wouldn't be a big girl with yellow flowers messing around in the bandits' den all day long!

When Liu Wumei's master almost drank a small pot of Fenjiu, Bai Baoyuan flashed into the box again, and as soon as the box door opened, the noise of eating and drinking outside poured in, this hour was the busiest time of the day when the restaurant business was busy.

"The owner has already taken it, the Japanese have just occupied Fengdian!" Sitting next to Liu Wumei, Bai Baoyuan said to Liu Wumei with a nervous expression.

The people at the wine table couldn't help but be taken aback.

"How do you know? Is the message reliable? Liu Wumei lowered her voice and asked urgently.

"Absolutely reliable," Bai Baoyuan glanced at the hidden box door: "The few Jin Army officers who came up to drink just now took the lead in the head of the 570th Regiment of the 12th Independent Brigade, surnamed Tian." I took advantage of the excuse of toasting and delivering food, and drank a few drinks with them, and the situation came out for me. ”

"570 regiment?" The thin master's eyes were shining: "Isn't the 570 regiment in Shoufeng store?" ”

"That's right, they withdrew from Fengdian, and they are now stationed on the outskirts of our Wencheng," Bai Baoyuan said with disdain: "This regiment leader surnamed Tian is heartless enough, he just lost Fengdian City, and he still has the heart to come to us to drink a lot of wine." ”

"Fengdian is separated from Wencheng by a mountain, will the Japanese follow and call?"

Liu Wumei's words made the atmosphere in the box more and more tense. Soon, they decided that they would stay only one night tonight, and that they would leave the city and return to Blackstone Cliff tomorrow morning: once the Japanese soldiers were in the city, it would not be so easy to leave.

The next morning, Liu Wumei and her entourage left Baoyuan Restaurant and walked towards the east gate of Wencheng.

Originally, when she entered the city this time, Liu Wumei mainly took her cousin Xiaoju to visit the market in the New Year City, but she didn't expect the Japanese to capture Fengdian so quickly, and Liu Wumei had no leisure at all. She had to hurry back to the Black Rock Cliff to set up, and restrain her minions not to go out of the mountain recently, so as not to touch the mold of the Japanese. I have long heard that the Japanese army is strong and strong, and the firepower is amazing, and with the more than 100 guns under his command, he will definitely not take any advantage.

Since the 12th Brigade is stationed here, all the gates of Wencheng are guarded by their soldiers, and those who enter and leave the city gates will also be checked; In order not to cause trouble, every time Liu Wumei enters the city, she doesn't want her subordinates to bring guns, before she arrives at the outskirts of the city, she always sends someone to the restaurant in advance to inform the second master, and Bai Baoyuan will send a carriage out of the city to pick them up and enter the city. The soldiers guarding the city saw that Liu Wumei was dressed richly and richly, and the entourage was all bright, so they naturally thought that they were from a big family, so most of them raised their hands and let them go without asking. When they went out of the city, Liu Wumei did the same, and Bai Baoyuan's carriage sent them straight to the suburbs, where there were minions from the Black Stone Cliff waiting with guns, picking up the big bosses, and then entering the mountain together.

But this morning, when Liu Wumei and her party were about to arrive at Dongguan, they encountered an accident. A group of unemployed people in the city were wandering the streets and alleys, and they encountered Liu Wumei and Xiaoju who wanted to see the market and got off the bus and walked. The guy who took the lead in the splashing skin, seeing that this pair of luxuriously dressed and good-looking women had no male entourage (in fact, the two bodyguards were following more than a dozen steps away), he immediately had evil thoughts, approached with a smile, and began to move his hands and feet while teasing.