Chapter 46: Suppression of Bandits
Seeing that my expression was different, the village chief hurriedly got up and stepped aside, saying that the villain ...... The villain has no shelter, if he offends the young man, the young man should not be blamed.
I made up my mind, wiped the tea that had been spilled on my body, and said that it was none of your business, and you sat down and told me in detail about the shape of the sword.
Seeing that I was fine, the village chief walked over and put his butt on the corner of the stool, saying that I don't know the shape or anything, but it is a purple sword in the daytime, and when the light is dark, you can see the sword body emitting purple light, especially at night, the ancestors once laughed and said that if there is this sword, the oil lamp can also be saved. Shaoxia seems to care about this sword?
I said yes, as long as you have a way to tell me the whereabouts of the purple sword, I can agree to any request you make.
The village chief grabbed my wrist and said this seriously?
I said seriously.
The village chief said that your martial arts are very high, and yesterday four of your men cut off the right hands of fifteen bandits. I want to ask if there is a nest of such bandits, can you beat them?
I said how much is a litter?
The village chief said that there were nearly 1,000 people. Each of you can fight two hundred and fifty, and the bandits in the mountains will be able to wipe out the light.
I said, how is it possible, who in the world can fight two hundred and fifty at the same time?
The village chief said that a five-hundred-year-old hero can.
I said that he single-handedly wiped out 500 bandits for your ancestors? You have passed it on from generation to generation, will the numbers be exaggerated by your generation?
The village chief said that let's not talk about the truth or falsehood, do you have a way to deal with the nearly 1,000 bandits on the mountain?
I said, what's so difficult? I told my men to go out of the village and report to the officials immediately. They can't stop it.
The village chief said I believed they wouldn't be able to stop it. The bandits drank and had fun at night, and no one came to take revenge when more than a dozen people went back last night, thinking that the big and small leaders on the mountain were all drunk, and they were afraid that they would not wake up until noon. It was still early in the morning, most of the bandits were still sleeping, and there were only people patrolling by land and water, and the number was not large. It's just that where did the county government get these officials, they will definitely mobilize the troops stationed there, and when the formalities are completed, the army will be opened, and we will have already been killed by the bandits.
I suddenly thought that the token that King Yan gave me could mobilize the beggars, saying that I had a way. I have some connection to the Beggars......
The village chief said that there are beggars on the sea?
I don't want to explain, it's just a gang of beggars. They owe me a favor and have always wanted to pay it back, I can take this opportunity to transfer all the people from the beggar gang in Shangshui County, and there is no problem with a thousand people.
The village chief was overjoyed and said that it would be easy to do. All you have to do is send someone to break out now, and the whole village will hide in the cellar, and we will only need to suffer for half a day, and when the beggars come, we will be saved.
I said you should tell me Nan Wujian's whereabouts when the time comes, right?
The village chief said definitely. The cellar that has been secretly dug in recent years has finally come in handy.
I summoned Zhang Xuan, told him about the bandits on the mountain, and after speaking, I took out the Yanwang token from my arms and handed it to Zhang Xuan, and advised: You take this order to Shangshui County to find the helmsman of the Sea Beggar Gang, and ask him to quickly transfer all the beggar gang disciples in Shangshui to this village. It turned out that the brothers of the beggar gang on the land route went up the mountain from both sides of the mountain col at the entrance of the village, and the sea shark gang entered the village from the waterway behind the village and listened to my dispatch. When you can escape with light skills when you leave the village, you can escape, and if you are discovered by bandits, you must fight quickly. This matter cannot be delayed.
Zhang Xuan said that the little one understands.
As soon as Zhang Xuan went out, the village chief immediately said goodbye and prepared to inform the whole village to hide in the cellar. We made our way to the only hillside in the village. The hillside is located between the village of Changshadian and the north of Changshedian, and the village chief enthusiastically pointed to the top of the hillside and said, "Look, our three village ancestors are all buried there, and we have named it a funeral post."
I said, is the cellar just under the burial hill?
The village chief said no, we discussed two years ago that one day the officers and soldiers would encircle and suppress the bandits, they would definitely take us hostage, and maybe the dog would jump over the wall and kill everyone, so over the years, we have changed shifts day and night, and secretly dug a large cellar under the burial post, which is enough to accommodate the entire village.
The county lord was taken aback when he heard this, shook his head and said I won't go, it's too scary.
The village chief said, "This girl, I advise you to go in with us." You are afraid of the dead, but you do not know that these bandits are more terrible than the dead. If the girls fall into the hands of these bandits, it will really be a person who can't survive and can't die.
The county lord didn't dare to say anything, so he had to hold my hand tightly and follow.
I said, "Then you were going to give us three girls to them yesterday?" By the way, you haven't finished talking about it just now, why are you going to be in cahoots with the bandits?
The village chief said that he was embarrassed? You see--
The village chief suddenly stopped, pulled over an uncle next to him, and continued, Look at Uncle Wang's loyal and kind appearance.
A few of us took a closer look, and we had to admit that this person named Uncle Wang was an honest man no matter how he looked at it.
The village chief let go of his hand, and took another child by the hand, and said Look at the clear and bright eyes of the second dog.
We stared at Ergouzi, and our eyes were indeed clear and innocent.
The village chief let go of his hand, and then pulled a woman over casually, and said, Look at Widow Sun's chaste and strong character.
When we were looking at Widow Sun, Widow Sun pushed away the village chief's hand and said don't do anything, I'm not a casual person.
The village chief said to me, "You see, our village is full of these simple and disciplined people, how can it be said that they are in cahoots with bandits? I'll go and arrange for the personnel to enter the cellar first, and I'll talk about it when it's free.
After a while, the cellar arrived.
The entrance to the cellar was a very narrow passage, and it took half an hour for everyone to walk in one after another, and it was nearly noon. I called the other three guards and maids to help the princess in and stand at the entrance of the cave.
The village chief said you come in, I'm going to close the door.
I said I have to pick up the beggars here, you go in, and if I'm still alive by then, you can tell me the story of your village.
The village chief said, as well as the whereabouts of Nan Wujian.
I said yes. The village chief looked at me and closed the stone door of the cellar after a while.
I jumped lightly to the top of the funeral hill and looked at the top of the mountain on three sides, but there was no movement on the mountain. Looking at the mountain pass again, a group of people and horses faintly walked towards the village. I crouched down, flashed behind a stone monument, showed half of my face, and secretly counted the number of people, about two hundred.
The bandits entered the village and went straight to our lodgings last night, kicked open the door and rushed in. After a while, they ran out and divided into several teams, searched door to door, and after searching for half an hour, they gathered together and walked to the funeral post.
I suddenly felt very excited, saving thousands of people, this is a great good deed. I believe that the Buddha will add to this merit in my book of virtues.
When I thought of the Buddha, I was secretly a little ashamed. After coming down the mountain, it seems that not only did he not worship, but he also did not read the scriptures, which was really ashamed of the abbot.
Thinking of the abbot, I am even more ashamed, I think of him very few days these days, and the more than the month of saying goodbye to Sakura Ling, except for the fact that Master Zhengyan misses him a lot when he mentions him, these days I almost forget what he looks like.
When I think of Sakura Ling, my heart warms. I guess she's thinking about me at this point, too.
When the bandits arrived at the bottom of the burial post, some people at the front said Boss, look, there is a passage here, and there is a stone gate inside, and these villagers must be hiding inside.
I dodged out from behind the tombstone, jumped in front of the bandits, and asked what you were looking for the villagers.
The bandits were shocked when they saw me suddenly appear.
A bandit with a bandage around his neck and a hammer wrapped in a bandage on his right hand said to the people next to him, "This is him!" Yesterday he ordered someone to cut off our hands!
The man next to him was tall, with a full beard, two giant axes in his hands, a thick cotton jacket, and a belly like a ball, with red and green tattoos on his belly. He squinted at me and said, let him die without a body, on.
With a swing of the axe, a group of people grabbed their weapons and surrounded them.
By the time the beggars arrived, I was really tired.
However, when I was extremely tired, I saw that the leader of the beggar gang was still in good spirits, and that person was Wang Erdan, and Sakura Ling had lent him two taels of silver.
Wang Erdan obviously remembered me, seeing that I was fighting bloodily guarding the stone gate, beating the dog stick with my left hand and harpoon with my right hand, and led hundreds of people to disperse the bandits and surrender them in one go.
Wang Erdan pulled me to the side, held my hand, and said, Brother Zhao, why are you here? You are not injured, are you?
I said it's okay, Miss Niu Qi is not here, she is very good. You're now the helmsman of the Sea Beggars?
Before Wang Erdan could reply, the county lord of Yong'an happened to come out of the stone gate, and she saw me suddenly throw herself into my arms, and looked up and said I was worried about death inside, afraid that you would be out of the way. You...... You okay?
I laughed and said that it was okay, but I was a little tired, and the village chief was talking nonsense about beating 500 people, and more than 200 almost exhausted me.
Wang Erdan looked at Yongan and looked stupid. Zhang Xuan pushed Wang Erdan and whispered that he should not be rude, this is the county lord.
Wang Erdan came back to his senses, knelt down and kowtowed and said that the county lord atoned, and the subordinate beggars helped the helmsman of Shangshui County, Wang Erdan, to rescue him too late.
Only then did the county lord realize that he was still snuggled in my arms, and he took two steps away and calmed down with a red face, saying that you had made a meritorious contribution to saving the county lord, and his father would reward him one day. Get up.
We were led to a pagoda by the village chief, who said that the name of the tower was "Tokisha Shouseiji Tower", and that the secret of Nan Muken was in this tower.
I'm excited, say on which floor?
The village chief said the seventh floor. Before he could finish speaking, I jumped up with a "whoosh".
There is a painting on one of the walls of the seventh floor tower, and there are many words written next to it.
I saw that the painting was described by the village chief, wearing a hat on his head, a black cloak, and a sword hanging from his waist. It was written next to it: Four years after the day, my Tang Zhaozong was killed by the Zhu thief, and the Zhu thief was called the emperor. In the second year of Qianhua, the third son, Youqi, killed his father, and the thief finally got his revenge. The remnants of the Zhu thief fell to the top of the mountain, occupied the mountain as the king, and brutalized the people. I decreed that I would bring Nan Wujian to exterminate the Liukou, and I have been in and out of the rivers and lakes for more than ten years. Today, the road meets Changshedian Village, there are 500 Zhu soldiers in the mountain, trapped people in the village, robbing grain and poultry, killing people and adulterers, and committing evil deeds, which are difficult to write. I was angry and took my sword, slaughtered all the bandits, and saved more than a thousand people. This is a good, so the word is written, and he turns around... , I hope to...
I was stunned, and the words "turn" and "wish" were all gone.
The village chief, the county lord and others climbed to the seventh floor.
The village chief pointed to the words and said, I saw it, I didn't lie, that hero killed five hundred people alone.
I'm anxious to say let's not talk about this for now, do you remember what are the four words missing here?
The village chief said, "Hey, these words were still there a few years ago, but they must have been erased by these bastard bandits." As I get older, I still remember what these four words were written.