Li Xuan'er and Leader Feng were talking, and from the direction of the city gate, seven or eight people wearing fast trapping clothes that were available all over the Great Song Dynasty came over.

The seven or eight catchers, led by the guards, walked quickly in front of everyone.

The leader of Feng greeted him, glanced at the crowd, and soon found a middle-aged catcher who should be the leader, so he said to him: "You guys are here, that group of bandits on Tietou Mountain is really rampant, in broad daylight, robbing us so close to the city, this is simply not in the eyes of our Bazhong City officials!"

The middle-aged catcher has a dark face, obviously often exposed to the wind and sun, but his face is not like the kind of woodenness that other middle-aged men have, but his eyes are shining with essence and his body is burly. He looked at the Feng leader and the guards, and finally noticed Li Xuan'er standing next to a tree looking at the green leaves. Nodding slightly, he then said to the Feng leader: "You tell the truth about Fang Cai as it is." ”

Half an hour later, the head of the fast catcher folded the paper in his hand, on which was everything that Fang Cai's subordinates had written down, and then said: "Brother Feng, don't worry, we will study the Iron Head Gang well when we go back, do you have anything else to add?"

The leader of Feng still wanted to complain a few words, but after thinking about it, it was useless to complain, so he arched his hand and said: "No, the hard work king is catching quickly." When I turned around, I asked Wang Yu to hurry up and his brothers to rub it. Not today, Wang Zhu, go back and rest. ”

After the catchers left, the Feng leader sneered: "The government in this Bazhong is too weak, and the little bandits can't control it, and it is so bold that they dare to loot so close to the city in broad daylight." You must know that even if you don't talk about Bianjing City, just talk about other places, there are no such rampant thieves! It can be seen that none of the officials in Shu are good officials who are masters for the people, and they are all wastes. ”

The bearded Ying Sheng and the bald Yu Hou walked over and apologized first: "Master, Leader Feng, we were wrong, we shouldn't show our money and let people target us, it's our fault." Master, we are willing to accept punishment. ”

Li Xuan'er waved her hand and said, "As long as you get a lesson, there is no need for punishment." You must know that if it weren't for the guards of the feudal leader today, you would probably die here today. Many mistakes, once made, may end this life. ”

The two knelt down and kowtowed, "Master Xie, what Master said is very true, we will never make the same mistake again." ”

And they returned to the city.

On the way, Li Xuan'er and Leader Feng talked about why the thieves of the Iron Head Gang were so bold.

Ying Sheng and Yu Hou interjected, because there are too many mountains in Bazhong City, and there are mountains everywhere. And the thieves are hiding in the mountains, even if the government sends a large army to clear them, it will not take long for a group of bandits to arise.

The bandits and thieves hiding in the mountains, the small group of fast catches and can't be effectively cleared, because they can't be found at all, even if there are powerful catchers who find the bandits, the bandits will run away as soon as they see the government coming.

Many thieves and bandits in the world like to hide in the mountains of Bashu. Drill into the mountains, sit back and relax for three or five years, earn some silver, and then change your face and go to a farther city to continue to live an ordinary life.

The Great Song Dynasty Chengping, most of the thieves did not have no life, but committed crimes, at first in order to avoid the pursuit of the government and fled, fled for a long time, and stayed in the mountains with other thieves for a long time, and they also started to be thieves.

And the days of thieves licking blood with knives can only be done by young people who are willing, and when they are older, they want to return to ordinary life.

Ying Sheng and Yu Hou live in Ankang City, which is not far from Bazhong City, so they still know more about Bazhong City than Li Xuan'er and his party. Just go and listen to the book

returned to the inn where everyone lived, and inquired about the Iron Head Gang of Tietou Mountain.

As the bearded and bald man said before, the Iron Head Gang often robs during the day, but rarely hurts people, so the people do not hate it to the core, and in the government, I am afraid that there are also people who collude with some gang to make profits, so this gang has been entrenched here for more than ten years and has not been exterminated.

Of course, it's not that he has been around for so long, just because he exists. Naturally, the people did not want to hang a knife to scrape the bones in front of their house, and every time they walked around the gate, they would have to scrape some money.

There's one detail that's worth playing. Some elderly people, when talking about the past, said that a few decades ago, Bazhong City was originally very chaotic, and all kinds of thieves were entrenched in the continuous mountains outside. And those bandits at that time didn't just want money to die, those messy thieves wanted all the money and women's lives.

The passer-by who was caught first took out the money, and then if it was a good-looking woman, she was taken directly to the house for the pleasure of her brothers, and as for the men, they were all killed, regardless of age.

Later, after the establishment of the Iron Head Gang, they gradually unified all the bandit forces in the vicinity of Bazhong City.

It only took three years for the Iron Heads to become the most powerful gang of thieves in the area.

Then the Iron Heads began to just want money, no women and no lives. As long as you give money obediently, nothing happens. As long as the attitude of giving money is refreshing, sometimes even if you are pitiful, they will pay you back.

Therefore, the older generation, and even a few people who have been robbed by different bandits, will be grateful to this iron gang from the bottom of their hearts. Because for them, the Iron Head Gang eliminated other bandits who wanted both money and money, and they saved their lives.

But young people don't think that way, and after a few decades, many children who didn't live through the former Iron Head era grow up, and they start to think, why should I give you money?

The Great Song Dynasty is so powerful, why are there still thieves in our place, and they can rob money so magnificently, is there still a royal law?

"Wang Fa, then you have to look at where you are, in our place, out of the city, Wang Fa is useless. The old shopkeeper of the inn said to Li Xuan'er.

Li Xuan'er said: "This is indeed the case, but the government has to do something, the thieves here are so domineering, if it is reported to the imperial court to know, it may not be a good thing for the political achievements of adults such as the county magistrate of Bazhong County, right?"

The old shopkeeper smiled again, looked at the woman in front of him who was about the same age as his granddaughter, and said: "Girl, you are from the capital, how can you know that this world is sinister, and the terrible thing about the collusion between officials and thieves... Alas.." As he spoke, the old shopkeeper suddenly stopped talking and saw if anyone was looking at him on the left and right.

Li Xuan'er took out ten taels of silver from her arms and handed it to the old shopkeeper.

The old shopkeeper quickly stuffed the money into his arms, his voice was very low, and said: "Some people in the official mansion, and the iron-headed gang, I'm afraid..."

After saying only these few words, the old shopkeeper shut up and said no more, and turned around and went to bus.