Not long after Zhou Mengyuan left home and went to Beijing, one dark night, around the ugly hour, there was a group of dog bites in Zhoujia Village, and then, a torch from far to near, there was an elite cavalry team of about 30 near the entrance of the village.

The man in black who was hiding on the roof of the hall straightened up and looked into the distance, and said to himself, "What a sin!"

The men on horseback covered their faces and covered their faces, holding torches, carrying blades on their shoulders, ignoring the bite of the dogs, and rushed straight to Zhou Mengyuan's house.

The situation is chaotic, robbers and robbers "patronize" the village from time to time, the poor are worry-free, and the rich are worried every night.

Hearing the sound of dog bites, the Zhou family, from the master to the servants and the long-term workers, all seventeen people became alert, the windows of each room were lit, and everyone was ready to deal with the robbers.

First, Zhou Mengyuan's father came out and ran to the gate to reinforce the gate with heavier wood.

Immediately afterward, thugs arrived with large knives.

Looking at the bright sky outside the courtyard and listening to the sound of horses' hooves, the two of them were terrified.

The barking dog had broken its rope and came to the door, neighing at the crack in the door.

The sound of horses' hooves was heard clearly from far and near, and they stopped one after another outside the gate of their house.

Mr. Zhou clearly felt that the catastrophe was coming, so many horses' hooves, such a huge team invaded, either the wealth was empty, or the people died.

His legs trembled, his whole body was cold and crisp, and he was hungry and cold, and he whispered to the thug, "What should I do? ”

"Mmmmmmmm ”

"Good. As long as you escape this fate, I will pay for you to build a house and marry a daughter-in-law. ”

Turning around to leave, I suddenly heard a shout "Where to escape".

Looking up, two men in black were already standing on the wall next to the gate, and then two torches flew in.

Mr. Zhou didn't run a few steps, his legs were weak and weak, and he fell to the ground heavily, unable to stand up despite his strength.

The little family dog pounced on the man jumping over the wall with agility, and his sharp canine teeth tore the leg of one of the robbers, and the man screamed in pain and slashed it down.

The poor family dog, man's most loyal companion, died a heroic death without even a scream.

Outside the walls, there was a cacophony of people.

There was chaos in the courtyard.

The sleeping Thursday couple was also awakened, and hurriedly dressed and told his wife, "It may have robbed Mengyuan's house." Lingzhi is there, I have to go and see. ”

Hooked his shoes, went from the backyard to the back door of Zhou Mengyuan's house, and stumbled against the wall.

The door was slammed.

Sometimes there is a long neighing of horses.

The thugs wielded broadswords and fought hard against the robbers.

Although the robber also had martial arts, he was not as strong as the Zhou family's thugs, only had the power to dodge, and had no ability to fight back.

The thugs of the Zhou family became more and more courageous, and they wanted to kill them with a knife, and then clean up the one that was bitten by the domestic dog.

Someone else jumped off the fence and quickly opened the gate.

Robbers armed with torches swarmed in.

Although the Zhou family thugs were strong in martial arts, they were finally difficult to defeat the group of murderers, and they were cut to the ground, and their flesh and blood were blurred... Still fighting to the last breath of life.

Worthy of trust!

Lingzhi, the maid who served Mr. and Mrs. Zhou, stood outside the dormitory, while tidying up the buttons of her clothes while looking at the door for Mrs. Zhou, and from time to time she turned back to remind Mrs. Zhou, who was quickly sorting out all kinds of jewelry and valuables in the house, "Madame, hurry up!"

"Hurry up, hurry up, which one of these can't be exchanged for money? If you want to escape, you run first!"

Mrs. Zhou muttered in her mouth, she has the courage to love money like her life and be fearless in danger.

Seeing that the gate was opened, and the bandits swarmed in the light of the fire, Lingzhi raised his feet and ran towards the back door.

The maid doesn't often open and close the courtyard door herself, but she doesn't know that the door of this rich family has an anti-theft mechanism. Lingzhi desperately tried to open the back door, but could not do anything.

In the haze, Thursday only saw a backlit black shadow, and he didn't know that this black shadow was his niece Lingzhi, but he just poked his head to look at it, and didn't dare to make a sound.

"Go, hold the back door, don't let anyone escape. ”

Lingzhi looked back, and sure enough, someone was holding a torch and going straight to the backyard.

In a hurry, I want to hide in the corner of the wall. Unexpectedly, he stepped on the rotten wood that had been closed in the dry well for many years, poofed the ground, and fell down before he could react.

The robbers quickly evacuated and cordoned off every corner of the yard.

The Zhou family and son fought with several robbers in the room, and were knocked to the ground on the spot and dragged out.

"You bandits, one by one, you can't die well!"

Although the fat wife was powerless to fight back, her mouth skills were good and she scolded endlessly.

A robber used to be a mouth: "Acquaintance, be careful that Lao Tzu kills your husband and rapes you again." ”

Where did the daughter-in-law of the Zhou family suffer such an insult, wiped the blood from the corner of her mouth, and the shrew got up: "With your kid's body, the old lady has to go to the roof with a sneeze." ”

The leader is a big man, masked, and he can't see clearly. With the shape of the big waist alone, even if it is a single robbery, people will give it up. How did you think that the father-in-law of the court, with more yin and less masculine bird calls, the sound is very different from the body shape. He kicked Mr. Zhou and put the torch close to his face.

"It's the master, right? ”

Under the old jujube tree that had been tethered to the dog, the firelight surrounded it, and the hot air mixed with the smell of pine and cedar oil was spreading.

In addition to the Ganoderma lucidum that was lost in the well and did not know whether it was alive or dead, everyone in the courtyard of the Zhou family was arrested and stood in two rows, and even a few children and Zhou Mengyuan's blind grandmother in her seventies were also arrested and stood in the crowd.

"Mother, I'm afraid, they can't be the ghosts in your story, right?"

"Smack!" the child slapped, and cried.

"Pull out your tongue with more mouths!"

"Playing against a child, or not as a person?"

The old woman gave up her old life, and said in her mouth, "Our Zhou family has been a businessman for generations, and we are loyal and kind... If you want to kill, you want to come at me" There was a flurry of heads, and he was stopped by several robbers.

"Mother, calm your anger and take care of your body. Mr. Zhou said, "The sky is falling, and there is a son on top of it." ”

"Sir!"

Mrs. Zhou cried and tried to stand with Mr. Zhou, but was grabbed by the hair by a robber and fell to the ground.

Mr. Zhou was twisted by two people, and he stood facing his family, servants, and long-term workers.

The man in black on the roof and the Thursday screen on the backyard wall breathe intently.

The robbers brought a large black pot and a jar of clear oil from the kitchen, poured the oil into the pot, and set the pot up and burned it with a torch.

All the victims were frightened, and some of them were already crying in fright.

The robbers all stared at each other, just waiting for the leader's order to make a big move.

Say. Where's the baby ticket? Are you going to get it yourself, or are you going to do it?"

The bandit leader paced and swayed in front of Mr. Zhou for a while, and finally spoke.

"Good man, to tell you the truth, drought year after year, I don't have much land, the government raises donations, exacting taxes and miscellaneous taxes have increased sharply, and on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, I put food in Famen Temple Square, or borrowed rice and noodles, and the only valuable things in the family are women's jewelry and some daily necessities. ”

Mrs. Zhou glared at Mr. fiercely, hum! I was blind.

There was green smoke in the pot, and the oil was already boiling.

The bandit leader turned his face to look, turned back to Mr. Zhou and said, "Time is pressing." Let me ask, 'Where is the treasure?'

"Really, really not. Don't believe it, search for yourselves. ”

"Strip him of his clothes and burn them!" the bandit leader raised his voice.

Several robbers quickly stripped Mr. Zhou of his clothes, tied his hands, and hung him from the pole of the jujube tree.

Next to the oil pot, someone had already prepared a bamboo broom, and after receiving the order of the bandit, he immediately stretched the broom into the pot, dipped it in boiling oil, and poked Mr. Zhou's body.

Mr. Zhou screamed in pain.

The Zhou family rebelled.

The eldest son was hacked to death on the spot.

The other son was stabbed several times and fell in a pool of blood.

The old woman was also knocked to the ground and fainted.

The grandchildren are still young and can only cry in fear.

The hired people were wise enough to protect themselves, and one by one they lowered their heads and couldn't bear to see it.

Mrs. Zhou was anxious, and cried loudly: "My lord's men are merciful! I am willing to take out all my jewelry, clothes and private money, as long as you let the master go." Woohoo..."

"How many do you have?

Mrs. Zhou cried and shook her head.

The bandit leader leaned in front of Mr. Zhou.

"I'm going to poke a hornet's nest. ”

With a wave of his hand, the guy with the broom immediately lit the broom on the fire, and a cluster of bamboo thorns with fire poked at Mr. Zhou's body.

The bloody fire reflected the entire courtyard of the Zhou family.

Mars is flying.

Mr. Zhou's body was burned to a creak...

The man in black on the roof of the hall wanted to come down to rescue him several times, but finally left quietly for fear of revealing his identity.

Thursday was so frightened that he had forgotten all about his niece, fell off the wall, and crawled home.

The robbers searched all over the house, leaving no one alive, rushed into all the houses, went upstairs and climbed the ladder to rummage over the boxes and cabinets to loot the Zhou family, and before dawn, they collected their troops and returned to the camp.

Everything is calm again.

After a long time, the old grandmother woke up, old tears, pain, crawling around, trembling hands caressing everyone in a pool of blood, trying to find a little sign of life.

As soon as the day dawned, he came to search for his niece's body on Thursday to no avail, and later found him in a dry well, becoming the only survivor of the knife except for the old grandmother.

On Thursday, he rushed all the way to the Famen security office to report the case.

After filing the case, the security captain thought that the case was serious, and quickly rode a horse to report it to the county government.

After investigating the scene, the government led people to dig a big pit outside the desert and buried the dead together.

The case is still being solved.

All the property of the Zhou family was confiscated in accordance with the law, and after that, it was "sold" to Qi Hengxing, who lived at the southern foot of Qiaoshan Mountain, twenty miles north of Famen Temple.

Part of the property income was confiscated, and part of the yamen adults expanded their own purse.

Qi rampant is worthy of the name, ruthless, domineering, a body of magic and martial arts, one person can defeat thousands of soldiers and thousands of generals, is a radius of hundreds of miles of famous bandit leaders, and many places have dealings with lawbreakers; more than a dozen wives, a large group of children; dozens of shops, a hundred land, many mansions, horses, mules, cattle, donkeys, goats, countless dairy sheep, many beautiful women around them, more than a thousand soldiers, excellent blades, use force, the local yamen soldiers are not a problem...

According to people's private opinions, this guy has colluded with the government.

"Since it was a robbery, there was no need to kill so many people. I think there must be some deception. ”

Thursday touched the stubble on his chin and speculated deeply.

After listening to Thursday's statement, Zhou Mengyuan was so sad and grief-stricken that he vowed to find the murderer, avenge the lives of the people, hate the Zhou family, and return home.

He was very angry, and suddenly had a desire to kill people and hatred of officials.

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