() Everyone followed the villagers of Straw Hat Village to the village, and saw the situation inside, there are still a lot of houses here, but many of them are dark, it can be seen that no one lives, and there are some elderly people with limited mobility sitting at the door of several rooms, and they all showed surprised expressions when they saw these mercenaries. (Fengwu Literature Network http://www.qiuwu.net.)

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There are some tall trees on the periphery of the village to surround the village, and there are some simple lookouts and archery houses on the trees, and there are simple wooden walls between the trees to block foreign invasions.

Everyone followed the old man to a house in the village, and then the old man invited Lu Shan and Ye Fei to sit inside, and then told them what had happened.

It turns out that the village here is called Straw Hat Village, and the village chief is the old man who talks to Ye Fei and them, called Mo Mushi, and there are not very few villagers here before, about five or six hundred people, and the previous life can be regarded as satisfying food and clothing, and there is a surplus, so everyone will not worry about life, as long as it is done every day at sunrise and sunset, and sometimes they will go to the forest to hunt some prey and come back.

But it was half a year ago, I don't know where a group of bandits came, and when they started to come here, they saw that there were a lot of men in the village, and it was difficult to do it, so they disguised themselves as wandering mercenaries and blended into the Straw Hat Village, and the kind Straw Hat Village villagers did not defend themselves, so they let the bandits in.

After arriving here, the villagers enthusiastically entertained the bandits, but when they had eaten and drunk enough, they put aside their cruel disguises, managed to drug the water in the village, and then sent a signal to the bandits who had been ambushed outside the village in advance.

When the bandits entered the village, they took all the men and the young women, and all the disobedient were killed, so that there were no men in the village now, only some old people and some young children.

Hearing this, Lu Shan and Ye Fei were all full of anger, this group of bandits was really hateful, not only did they take everyone away, but they also killed so many innocent villagers, it was really an unforgivable crime.

Then Lu Shan held back his anger and said hatefully: "Village Chief Mo, what happened later?"

Mo Mushi sighed and continued: "We thought they would leave like this, but we didn't expect that not long after, the bandits sent someone to spread the word that they must hand over ten gold coins every month in the future, and if they don't have it, they can also take a physical mortgage, otherwise they will kill all of us." ”

Xiaohu couldn't help but ask: "Then don't you want to resist? ”

"Why didn't we want to resist, but did it work? In the beginning we resisted a few times, but there was nothing else to achieve except that they killed a few people each time, so how dare we resist. Mo Mushi spoke out about his grievances, and tears of sadness welled up in his eyes when he said that several villagers had been killed because of this.

Ye Fei thought for a moment, and then said to the old man: "Village Chief Mo, don't you want to go to the town to report to the officials? You can tell the above about your situation, I think they will definitely help you eradicate this group of bandits." Everyone also thought that Ye Fei's idea was good, and they all looked at Mo Mushi.

And Mo Mushi also shook his head and said: "Thank you, little brother, but we have already tried this method of yours, but those bandits have already mastered all the areas of our ten miles and eight villages here, if anyone dares to go out to report the news, they will be brutally killed, and the body will be dragged back to the village." ”

Xiao Yun had just gotten out of the carriage at this time and came to them, and just heard Mo Mushi talk about the cruel things about the villagers being killed, and immediately exclaimed: "Why are they so cruel, the villagers here are so good, how can they do it." ”

When everyone heard this, they also scolded the group of hateful bandits, Ye Fei thought of a question at this time, so he asked Mo Mushi again: "You said that they have already controlled the surrounding ten miles and eight villages, right, then why didn't anything happen when we came here?" Everyone was also full of doubts when they heard Ye Fei say this.

Mo Mushi shook his head and said: "I don't know much about this, I guess they see that there are more of you, so it's not easy to start, but it's different now, I guess they will definitely do it." ”

Everyone began to hear him say this, thinking that there was nothing wrong, but when they heard his later words, they were puzzled again, and Lu Shan said everyone's questions: "What do you mean by this? Why are you definitely looking for us now?"

Mo Mushi pointed to Xiao Yun, who was standing in the middle of everyone, with his hand and said: "The reason I say this is because of her, the group of thieves may not dare to do it when they start to see that there are many of you, but your young lady is so beautiful, they will definitely come over to rob it, and they are all ** people, and there will definitely be no good results in their hands." ”

When Xiaoyun heard the old man say this, he remembered the appearance of those who were killed by the bandits, and remembered the consequences if he was caught by the bandits, and his face turned pale.

Ye Fei saw that Xiao Yun's face was wrong, and immediately walked to Xiao Yun's side, hugged her shoulders and said comfortingly: "It's okay, don't worry, with my brother here, my brother won't let anyone hurt you." ”

Xiaohu also pulled out his long sword, and said firmly and loudly: "Yes, don't worry, with me, I won't let them hurt you, let them come, I'll kill one of them, and I'll kill one of two." ”

Although the others did not speak, they all nodded firmly, standing in front of Xiaoyun, Xiaoyun was surrounded by everyone's atmosphere, and his heart was full of emotion.

Lu Shan hugged his fists and apologized to Mo Mushi: "Village Chief Mo, I'm very sorry, because our arrival has brought disaster to your village, I hope you will forgive us, and we will leave now." As he spoke, he was about to lead the mercenaries away together.

Mo Mushi also waved his hand at Lu Shan and said: "Commander Lu is polite, I don't blame you for this matter, even if there is no arrival from you, they will not let us go of Straw Hat Village, the disaster has already arrived, we are not afraid of anything, anyway, we can't afford to pay the ten gold coins next month, and we old bones are also going to fight with them." ”

Lu Shan saw Mo Mushi's sad feelings, and he was already ready to make desperate plans, and then he looked at Ye Fei and them, only to see Ye Fei nodding at him, and the others did the same.

So Lu Shan said firmly to Mo Mushi: "Village Chief Mo, don't be sad, since this matter has caught up with our wolf mercenary group, we can't ignore it, don't worry, we will help you clean up this group of bandits." ”

When Mo Mushi heard this, his dim eyes exuded excitement, and when Mo Mushi wanted to fight hard with this group of bandits, he was also determined to die, but now if the wolf mercenary group joins, the outcome of victory or defeat may be uncertain, but Mo Mushi is still worried about them and said: "You better go, we will take care of this matter ourselves." ”

Lu Shan said firmly: "Village Chief Mo, don't be polite, besides, it's not your own business now, and didn't you say that they are still ready to trouble us? ”

Mo Mushi wanted to say something, but was stopped by Ye Fei, and then Ye Fei said: "Village Chief Mo, with us, maybe we can rescue the captured villagers by then, now let's discuss how to deal with them first, you tell us first, when will they come over again?"

Mo Mushi bowed to everyone very gratefully, and then thanked them repeatedly, until he was finally persuaded by Ye Fei and them, and then thought for a while and said: "It's only a few days before the next time I come to collect money," and then glanced at Xiaoyun again and said: "Moreover, if they know that this girl is there, it is estimated that the time will come faster." ”