The village bell is another ancient existence of Wujing Village. Whenever something very serious happens in Wujing Village, it can be ringed. In the village, only the village elders are qualified to decide whether to ring the bell, because once the village bell is ringed, all the villagers who hear the bell a few miles away must put down all the affairs at hand and gather at the door of the village elder's house, which is the rule of Wujing Village and the rules that the villagers abide by.

I remember the last time the village bell rang was after the town officials came many years ago to inform the new emperor that he had ascended the throne and added a variety of taxes. The village elder rang the village bell and repeated what the officials had told the villagers gathered outside the village's home.

Ling Chen and Sun Dali naturally knew what it meant to ring the village bell, but for them, the more people knew about it, the better. So when Sun Dali walked to the side of the old house in the village, everyone watched with anticipation as he shook the rope under the village bell, and a melodious and ethereal bell spread out and spread to all corners of the village.

"Jingle bell, ding bell. ”

The big man who was bundling grain in the farmland listened, looked in the direction of the old village's residence, and put down the rice tied in his hand; Liu Laoshi, who was looking for the hunting trap everywhere, heard the bell and had to call the hunters who were helping to find it everywhere and walked towards the village's hometown; Ling's mother, who was sitting cross-legged in the room, had to take a deep breath when she heard the bell, and the colorful light and mist condensed around her immediately dissipated.

After a while, many villagers came to the door of the old house in the village, and the villagers gathered together, all speculating about what had happened, but when they saw the scarred man who was tied into a rice dumpling and stuffed with a green grass ball in his mouth, they all looked shocked.

Under the gaze of the villagers, the children lowered their heads one by one, and the reality was very different from what they had imagined in their minds. Several of the children even saw their parents hurrying and their legs trembled.

Liu Laoshi noticed the beast trap on the scarred man's leg, it was the one he had been looking for with others all morning, he probably guessed something, and asked first.

"Village Elder, what's going on?"

As soon as this sentence came out, the villagers who were talking about it instantly quieted down. The village elder had already stood up straight at this time, half leaning against the door, he pouted, and he didn't have a good airway.

"You, you ask these dolls. ”

All the villagers focused their eyes on the children again, so that several children looked down at each other, but no one dared to squeak, at this time Sun Dali couldn't help it, he puffed up his chest, and told the ins and outs of the matter, especially the part where the little guy lured the bandit was thrilling.

Ling's mother looked at the little guy in the middle of listening, and the little guy didn't dare to look at his mother's eyes, so he had to hang his little head and look innocent.

Sun Dali closed his eyes again after speaking, he was waiting for the villagers to applaud and praise warmly, but he thought too much. Dali only felt that his ears were twisted hard, and when he opened his eyes, he saw that his mother was angrily twisting his ears and pulling him to his father's side.

"Okay, you little bastard, you dare to catch a thief?

Sun Dali's father, Sun Youcai, who was on the side, also pursed his lips when he heard this, squinted at his mother, and glanced at Ling Chen, without words.

The villagers blew up at this time, and the parents of the other children also stepped forward to arrest their children back, there were violent ones, and there were also angry scolding, only Ling's mother walked in front of the little guy, looked at it carefully, and confirmed that the little guy was safe and uninjured, so she took Ling Chen's little hand and stood aside. And Liu Laoshi also leaned in secretly.

"Okay, okay, if you want to scold, go home and scold, now you have to talk about business!

The village elder looked at the chaotic scenes in front of him, some beat and scolded the children, and some children cried, and sighed. He saw that the villagers were gradually quieting down, and then he continued.

"Listen to what the child said, there is a group of bandits in the back mountain of ours, and the bandits who were caught are also their gang. He fled from Xunfeng City to us. Then we have to deal with this matter, otherwise it will be a disaster to destroy the village!"

The village elder's cloudy eyes moved, and the wooden stick in his hand struck the ground.

"Village elder, I don't think it's so serious, right?"

After listening to the words of the village elder, a strong man felt that it was too exaggerated, so he directly shouted out the thoughts in his heart.

"Hmph, Li Tieniu, you're just a dumbfounder. You don't know how ferocious the bandits are! The nearest village to us, Hejia Village, does you know?"

Hearing the village elder's question, the strong man Li Tieniu nodded with a sluggish expression.

"When I was young, I once wanted to enter the town, and when I passed through Hejia Village, I found that there were corpses all over the place, and many houses were either burned down or dilapidated, and this was done by the bandits! At that time, many villagers from Hejia Village ran to our village for refuge, and then moved back again, don't you remember?"

The strong man Li Tieniu heard the village elder asking himself again, his eyes were facing upwards and his mouth was slightly open for a moment, and then he looked at the village elder and shook his head innocently.

The village elder glared at Li Tieniu, but suddenly muttered in his heart, "Could it be that I am mistaken?"

At this moment, a sharp voice came, "I remember this, I remember this." ”

The speaker is the troublesome He mother in the village, she is indeed from Hejia Village, but when she was still young, she was sold to Wujing Village as a child daughter-in-law and did not return for many years. Whether she remembered it or not, no one knew but herself. And an old man who was standing next to Mama He, that is, Mama He's husband, glanced at his wife in surprise after hearing this, but just as he wanted to speak, he was stunned by a look from his wife.

The village elder knew who was talking when he heard this voice, and he didn't even have to look up to find it. After all, such an ugly sound is unique to He Ma in the whole village, but thinking that He Ma is indeed from He Jia Village, the village elder is not entangled in whether there is a mistake in his memory.

"So, we can't deal with this thief well, and we will make people unhappy, and we will come to the village to slaughter the village, what will we do then?"

The hoarse words of the village elder exploded among the villagers like spring thunder, and the men, women, and children looked at each other one by one, and became noisy again. And those children who wanted to be praised lowered their heads in annoyance at this time after listening to the words of the village elder, they no longer wanted to be praised, and it was already a luxury not to be beaten.

Liu Laoshi stood up at this time, he coughed loudly, and motioned for the villagers to be quiet.

"Village Elder, this beast hunting trap is mine, and I am also responsible for this matter, so I will bear it alone. ”

"A bandit, kill it, won't no one know?"

When Liu honestly said this, regardless of the angry scolding and shouting of the villagers, he had slowly walked towards the scar man who was unconscious. A hint of ruthlessness flashed in Liu Laoshi's eyes, after all, he made a living by hunting, and it was already commonplace for him to let living creatures die in front of him.

However, the scar man lying on the ground with his eyes closed stopped, he twisted his body with difficulty, but the pain in his right calf made him not twist too hard, he desperately wanted to make a sound, but the taste of the grass ball in his mouth was too astringent, and it was too big.

In fact, the scar man had already woken up when Sun Dali rang the village bell, and the reason why he pretended to be unconscious was just to find out how these people would deal with him.

In the early days, he heard that the village elder was so jealous of the bandits, and he thought that his life was saved, until he listened to Liu Laoshi's words and saw a trace of murderous intent flashing on Liu Laoshi's honest face, he felt that he couldn't pretend to sleep. He is a thief, who lives by licking blood from the knife all year round, and he can't do anything else, and he is best at judging the safety of the moment. If he didn't wake up, he knew his life was in danger.

"Mmmm ”

The scar man couldn't move, so he had to raise his head and stare at Liu Laoshi who was standing beside him with big eyes. Liu Laoshi bent down, took out the grass ball stuffed in the scar man's mouth, and took out a sharp dagger from his arms with the other hand and pointed it at the scar man.

"If you dare to talk nonsense, I'll stab you to death. ”

The scar man nodded his head desperately like a chicken pecking rice, he just glanced at the dagger in Liu Laoshi's hand, and at first glance, it was often used, and the knife surface would be so sharp.

"Everyone, don't worry, I, we just fled here, temporarily resting in the woods in the back mountains, if we wanted to rob your village, we would have done it a long time ago, and we won't wait until today, you can rest assured, let me go, I promise to leave here with my companions." ”

The scar man raised his head and said to the villagers with difficulty, with a sincere face, but with the scar on his face, he was more like a beast about to eat people and said kindly to the food: "It doesn't hurt, it will be fine soon." ”

There were a few timid girls among the villagers who were directly frightened and cried by the face of the scar man, and the little guy suddenly stood up and yelled.

"You are talking nonsense, I listened in detail in the back mountains before, and you told another accomplice that you were going to come and rob our village in the next few days. The reason why you didn't do it before was because we were afraid that we would report to the city guards of Xunfeng City. Find a good place and be a good man, do you remember?"

The scar man was already embarrassed to see that he had scared a few little girls into crying, and when he heard the words that the little guy yelled at this time, he was even more in a cold sweat. He saw the villagers glaring at him one by one, and subconsciously licked his dry lips.

"It's you bastard again, ahem, cutie. Misunderstanding, misunderstanding. Fellow villagers, don't worry, let me go, I promise not to harass your village. ”

"Why should we believe you? ”

"Yes, yes. ”

Liu Laoshi squinted at the scar man, and casually said, and the villagers echoed it. The scar man rolled his eyes and thought for a moment.

"Big brothers and sisters, listen to me, I was guarding our head outside the woods in the back mountain, seeing this little gangster, cough, the little cutie is alone in the back mountain, afraid that he is dangerous, I wanted to drive him back, but I didn't expect that the good people were not rewarded, and the plan stepped on the clip, and was knocked out of the head and carried here, if I don't go back for a long time, our head will definitely bring my partner to find me, and then you will be in trouble, right, there are twenty or thirty people in our group, and each of them is a martial artist, so it is all a misunderstanding, a misunderstanding. You let me go, I return safely to my brother, everyone is safe, and I promise not to set foot in the village again. ”

"You're threatening us?"

Liu Laoshi's face was ruthless, and the dagger in his hand moved from the chest of the scar man to the Adam's apple, just next to each other, a slender red line appeared outside the rolling Adam's apple.

"Don't don't big brother, I'm not a threat, I'm thinking about you. Our boss is a dead brain, and if he can't find me, he will really find me in the village, and everyone will be in trouble then, right? ”

The scar man wanted to swallow, but the chill from the Adam's apple made him dispel the thought, and he didn't dare to speak too loudly.

"I don't believe that you are so important in your boss's heart, and I don't hesitate to risk being discovered by the city guards in order to find you. I'll send you to Hades right now!"