This time, everyone was confused, but at the same time, they were also vigilant in their hearts, and they all clenched the swords they wore on their waists.

Gu Jinnian smiled mildly: "This brother, I'm afraid you have recognized the wrong person, we just moved our family, passing by here, we haven't seen any King of Chu." ”

The bald head smiled, with a look of understanding, and said: "Ming people don't say dark words, you have such a big battle, and there are so many people." Pointing at Xiao Junjue, "This is so heroic, at first glance, he is not an ordinary person, our brothers have been stationed in the village for many years, and no one has seen anyone." There is still this point of vision. ”

Xiao Junjue's face was cold, and he asked, "How do you know that I am the King of Chu?"

The bearded man said: "The Rong family in the capital was robbed from prison, and now it is wanted by the whole country." Although the King of Chu is not marked in the wanted notice, in fact, a secret edict has been issued, as long as he encounters the King of Chu, he will be killed. ”

Xiao Junjue said: "Then how did you know?"

The bearded man smiled innocently and said, "A few days ago, our brother went to the beam of the county official's house to be a gentleman on the beam, and I overheard it. ”

Bald head said: "We know that there are three roads from Changge City to Yizhou, and passing through Pingjing Pass is one of them. But now the pass is fortified, and if you want to pass the pass, you can only take our lonely cottage. We are also trying our luck, I don't want to really run into you, the king of Chu. King Chu, we've been waiting for you for a long time. ”

Xiao Junjue said vigilantly: "What do you mean by waiting for this king? Do you want to intercept us so that we can be rewarded for meritorious deeds?"

The beard stood up suddenly, his face sank instantly, with a little anger, "The King of Chu really underestimates our brothers, although we are bandits, but thieves also have a way, nothing else, there is a sense of righteousness, and we can't sell other people's lives to seek benefits." I originally thought that you King Chu was a hero and had a big heart, but I didn't expect you to be as narrow-minded as a layman. ”

The bald head is not angry, "I still wanted to lead my brothers to join you, but now it seems that we are blind." He spat on the ground and scolded: "It's really a dog's eyes that look down on people." ”

Songbei drew his sword and shouted angrily: "Presumptuous!"

The brothers of the cottage stood up, holding all kinds of things in their hands, including knives, axes, sticks and shovels, and there was a great posture of war.

Xiao Junjue dismounted, shook his head at Songbei, Songbei withdrew his sword, Xiao Junjue stepped forward and arched his hand at the beard and bald head, and said: "It is this king who lost his words and spent the belly of a gentleman with the heart of a villain." ”

After receiving a salute from the King of Chu, the beard and bald head were a little embarrassed, and they glanced at each other, and the beard arched towards Xiao Junjue, and said: "I don't dare to be the king of Chu, in fact, I didn't make it clear, and you should be more worried." ”

He raised his hand towards the village, "If the king of Chu doesn't dislike it, let's go into the village and talk." ”

Xiao Junjue thought about it in her heart, but she was also refreshed, nodded, and entered the village with him.

The brothers in the lonely cottage are all enthusiastic, and when they saw that the master and the prince entered the village, they beckoned the big guy to get off the carriage and go in to take a rest, and to help lead the horse and help to get things.

After talking with the bearded bald head, Xiao Junjue learned that this bearded man was called Li Han and the bald head was called Shao Biao, both of whom were originally villagers of a village under Guangcang County under the mountain, because the county official at that time forcibly occupied the land of their village, clashed with it, injured the county official and mistakenly killed a servant, and the county official arrested and put the whole village in a prison cell.

And a few leaders like Li Han and Shao Biao were sentenced to be executed after the autumn.

originally thought that they would die, but they met the original lonely cottage boss in prison, and talked happily with each other, and worshiped as brothers in prison.

At that time, the big boss of the lonely cottage fell into a trap because he went to the county official's house to rob the road, and was also sentenced to be executed after the autumn.

After discussing it, they felt that it was better to fight than to die here. In addition, the brothers in the lonely cottage are all righteous sons and daughters, and they will never ignore their big boss and come to rob the prison.

They broke through the cell and released everyone in the cell, causing unrest in the prison and taking the opportunity to escape from Guangcang County.

But he was homeless, and the big boss proposed that everyone follow him to the lonely cottage, and only then did he come here to take root for ten years.

But the two-year-old boss fell into the hands of the county magistrate again and was killed on the spot, and many brothers were also arrested and killed or seriously injured on that occasion. There were originally hundreds of brothers, but now there are not even a hundred.

They have always wanted to avenge the big boss and the dead brothers, but before his death, the big boss specially instructed that they should not have a head-on conflict with the government again, and they must save the lives of the remaining brothers, not to do reckless things, and not to avenge him. If his brothers died to avenge him, he would be troubled.

But they never gave up, and every once in a while they went to the county official's house to find out his whereabouts and see if there was any chance to kill him. But the county magistrate may have been really afraid of being sought revenge, and no matter where he went in and out, he was followed by at least two rows of guards, so that they had no idea where to start.

This time, I happened to go to inquire again, and I heard that the king of Chu was likely to pass through here, and saw several officials, including the county commander of Guangcang County and the general army of Pingjingguan, when talking about the king of Chu, the frightened expression, only then did they know who the person who could really make them feel terrible.

"Do you want this king to help you take revenge?" Xiao Junjue listened to them, and roughly had a number in his heart, "But now this king is almost half a wanted criminal, how can I help you take revenge." ”

Li Han said: "A gentleman's revenge, ten years is not too late, as long as you follow the King of Chu, I believe that this revenge will be avenged sooner or later." ”

Shao Biao pointed to the brother behind him, sighed and said: "Actually, revenge is secondary, and the most important thing is that it is not a long-term thing for brothers to always be bandits here. Officers and men often come to suppress them, and we have been able to resist them once or twice, but we cannot resist their long-term encirclement and suppression. In the long run, the brothers have no way to live. Therefore, if we want to follow the king of Chu, at least there is a place to settle down. ”

Li Han said again: "The prestige of the King of Chu, everyone in the world knows, he is a real hero, we admire you very much, if I can follow you, it will be a blessing for our brothers." ”

Li Han and Shao Biao glanced at each other, knelt down together, and said, "Although we are bandits, we have never done anything that is sorry for our conscience, and we have never done anything to hurt the people. I dare not claim to be a hero who robs the rich and helps the poor, but he still has a body of justice. These brothers are all poor people, they are not forced to do their part, and they will not go up the mountain to be bandits. We hope that the king of Chu can take them in and at least give them a meal. As for the two of us, we are already in a bloody case, we don't care about life and death, and we don't expect the King of Chu to take us in. ”

Rong Zhao rubbed his fingers and said in a low voice: "It's very righteous." ”

She lowered her eyes, Xiao Junjue didn't notice the glint in her eyes.

Xiao Junjue looked at her and asked, "Zhaozhao, what do you mean?"

Rong Zhao looked at the bandit brother who was looking directly at her, and said, "If you are sincere, why not?"

The bandits were happy, looking at the smiling faces, Rong Zhao remembered what his father had said, the things in this world are uncertain, are officials good, bandits must be bad? A person with a good heart, whether a soldier or a bandit, is a beautiful person.

Xiao Junjue thought for a moment, if she took them in, not only would she be able to get through Pingjing Pass, but she would also be able to have them help her later, which would indeed kill two birds with one stone.

He simply said neatly: "Okay, since you can afford this king, let's go with this king." Glancing at Li Han and Shao Biao, "Including the two of you." ”

Everyone was overjoyed and threw their hands towards him, and the voices of more than a hundred or so people resounded like gongs and drums, "His Royal Highness King Xie Chu, from now on, my brothers and I will swear allegiance to the death, and we will never have two hearts." ”

There are lonely cottage brothers to open the way, Xiao Junjue and his party quickly passed through Pingjing Pass, after Pingjing Pass, the sky is already dark, this piece is full of woods, and the night road can not distinguish the direction, so they went to a flat land to camp and rest.

When the brothers in the lonely cottage left, they took everything they could take away from the village, including meat, grain, and vegetables. There are also people with pots and pans, all of which belong to poor families, but they are reluctant to throw away any belongings.

All of them were conscious, a few people went to the woods for firewood, a few people went to find water, came back and picked up the pot, the water boiled, the rice was put down, and the porridge was stewed.

The second wife, Lin, can cook, and the two daughters-in-law help wash the vegetables, pick the vegetables and cut the meat, Rong Zhao wanted to help, but they didn't let her, so she let her rest on the side.

In addition, a separate pot was set up to make some milk food, which was made for Rongchun's nurse. It is okay for adults to eat anything, but children need to feed, but they can't starve him. Naturally, all good things can be eaten by the nurse first, and the only fish that was caught was stewed for her.

Now that there were more people and more food and drink, the men gathered together the money they had left, and planned to buy some more dry food when they passed through that town tomorrow, and they would have to be able to cope with it for a few days.

In fact, there is not much money on his body, but thanks to Yin Hui taking a sum of money for Yin Rou when he left, this helped a lot. In the end, the feminine dowry will be used up.

Fortunately, Yin Rou is a generous person, and she doesn't mind at all, but Rong Yao doesn't want to go, and she says that she will make up for it twice in the future.

Rong Zhao didn't eat much for dinner, only drank a bowl of porridge, and put down the dishes and chopsticks. She's been like this all these days, either she says she's not hungry, she doesn't eat a bite, and even if she does, she eats very little. It's only been a few days, and it's as thin as if only a handful of bones remain.

Xiao Junjue saw that she went to the river, and she didn't eat a few bites, so she followed.

Putting a piece of clothing on Rong Zhao's body, Rong Zhao didn't look back, he knew that it was him, "Why did you eat so quickly, are you full?"

"Zhaozhao, people can't be resurrected after death, if you can't get along with yourself all the time, it's you who suffers. Xiao Junjue really felt sorry for her, since the accident, he never saw her smile sincerely, as if overnight, she had changed a person, God took the smile away from her, and even he felt strange when he looked at it.