In the summer season, the atmosphere of unbearable heat soon arrived in the territory of Jiang Kingdom.

And in a place called Liang County in Nan County, there are many bandit villages nearby, the people are unbearable, Liang County is only a small place, even the yamen is very small, there are not a few officials, although the strong men in Liang County are often recruited to fight against the mountain bandits, but the price to pay is also extremely terrible.

Several bandit villages besieged Liang County, some of them could enter, but they didn't get out, and the strength gathered by Liang County should not be underestimated, or maybe those mountain bandits had no intention of directly slaughtering the people of Liang County, causing frequent friction between the two sides, but they were relatively not so embarrassing.

But there are fewer and fewer young men in Liang County, and gradually, there is no belief in resistance, most of the time, as long as the mountain bandits appear in Liang County, then whether it is food or silver, the people of Liang County must be obediently served, and the whole Liang County seems to be completely enslaved by the mountain bandits.

However, this situation is also difficult to maintain for too long, because it is impossible for the people to come up with food and silver that meets the appetite of the mountain bandits every time, and once they can't take it out, the butcher's knife in the hands of the mountain bandits will inevitably fall without hesitation.

Liang County is located in the mountains, the location is relatively remote, even if it is to ask for help from outside, it is very difficult, not to mention that the periphery is full of mountain bandits, just to get out of Liang County safely is a matter of luck.

In some places within the territory of Jiang Guo, there are indeed many difficult situations like Liang County, even if Jiang Guo is strong, it cannot be avoided, and people with evil thoughts always spring up like mushrooms after a rain.

When the hot season comes, the life of the people of Liang County is becoming more and more difficult, more because they are tired of this hot weather in their hearts, combined with the infestation of mountain bandits, it is difficult for their mood to be happy, and they will only become more and more irritable.

Fortunately, because of the scorching heat, even the mountain bandits have become lazy and no longer come to Liang County every once in a while, but they will occasionally send people to collect grain, especially things like fruits and food that can relieve the heat.

This also gave the people of Liang County a moment of respite and began to seek to get rid of the situation of enslavement by the mountain bandits.

The officials in the yamen have already died in the conflict with the mountain bandits in front, or they are also in order to survive, take out a lot of money, and pray to be able to stay away from Liang County, but the people in the yamen are hated the most, and it is naturally impossible for them to spend some money to leave, if reinforcements are transferred from other counties or even big cities, the miserable ones will become them, so the silver is still collected, but those officials who bow to the mountain bandits are also all killed.

Until this day, an outsider came to Liang County.

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Liang County is a remote town in a certain mountain in Jiangguo South County, many people in South County don't even know the existence of Liang County, and trade is naturally a little stretched, but this mountain in Liang County is also a treasure land, it is easy to grow wheat and rice and other kinds of food, and there will be a bumper harvest almost every year, so the people in Liang County are also very wealthy.

But all this has completely changed since the beginning of a mountain bandit building a village in the mountains.

There are very few young and middle-aged men in Liang County, mostly some old and weak women and children, or children who have not grown up, they have gradually given up the psychology of resistance, but there are always some people who try to do something.

The only remaining young men with thin bodies gathered to discuss how to fight the bandits, or whether they could have a chance to escape the mountain and ask for help from outsiders.

They were dressed in loose coarse linen clothes, some with open arms, some directly shirtless, and one by one under the plunder of the mountain bandits, thin skin and bones, and there was no one who looked slightly fat.

They gathered under a big tree and were discussing passionately, when suddenly a boy of about eight or nine years old ran in the distance, shouting in a slightly hoarse voice, "Brother Zhuangshi, Sister Yao'er is gone!"

The thinnest-looking man among the young people looked back at the boy who was trotting in, frowned, and said, "Yao'er, where did that girl go crazy again?"

"Brother Zhuang, Sister Yao'er, she ran out of town!"

The boy also looked a little malnourished, his face was slightly yellow, but at least he was much fatter than the young men, and at this moment he looked up at the very thin and strong brother with an eager face.

Jia Zhuangshi's face changed greatly, and he said with great annoyance: "That dead girl is always so disobedient, but don't run into mountain bandits, you all go out with me to find it!"

Yao'er's parents were killed when the mountain bandits appeared in Liang County, although Jia Zhuangshi was not Yao'er's own brother, but he regarded Yao'er as his own sister, and now Yao'er ran out of the town and faced the danger of encountering mountain bandits, he was also a little panicked, and he was very annoyed that he was not optimistic about Yao'er.

Yao'er is just a little girl, even if she knows a little more than her peers, but she is just a little girl, although she shouts every day to kill the mountain bandits, but where does she know the horror of the mountain bandits.

Jia Zhuangshi immediately separated from those young people, equipped with kitchen knives and axes, and began to search for Yao'er's traces in a carpet manner.

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Although Liang County is a very remote and small place in Nan County, in fact, the population of the common people exceeds those ordinary towns, but because of the appearance of mountain bandits, the young and middle-aged men have almost died when they resist, resulting in many vacant houses in Liang County, and no one lives in them anymore.

Those mothers, sons or mothers and daughters who have lost the breadwinners of their families, although they will be rescued by others, but after all, some people will not be able to survive, and tragic things will inevitably happen.

In the deep mountains near the early morning, the hazy mist wets the woods, and it is definitely the coolest time of the hot season, a little girl in a rag flower dress sits on a stone and sobs softly.

There was a faint sound of wolves howling in the mountains.

There were also some noisy voices getting closer.

The little girl in the rag flower skirt sobbed softly, and when the wolf howl and the noise of the mountain came, her body trembled subconsciously, and her little face became very pale, as if she had suddenly mustered up the courage to wipe the tears from the corners of her eyes, and ran in the opposite direction from which the sound came.

But in the opposite direction there were voices of people talking, and to the ears of the little girl they were strange and familiar and extremely disgusting.

There are many mountain bandits active in the deep mountains outside Liang County, and large and small villages are also hostile to each other, and they all want to make Liang County their own, perhaps it is precisely because of the mutual checks and balances between these mountain bandit villages that Liang County can still exist.

Although Liang County is also a treasure land, there is never a shortage of food, but the mountain bandits are unwilling to plant their own situation, the people of Liang County are very important existence, they do not dare to kill all the people of Liang County, Liang County is a remote area, there will be passers-by after all, once they detect the abnormality in Liang County, it will be a lot of trouble.

They are unwilling to deal with the outside government, which is a kind of luck and misfortune for the people of Liang County.

Although there will also be cultivators in the mountain bandit villages, such as the group of people in the Wild Skull Mountain, not all the mountain bandit villages can be hooked with the cultivators, and no one is willing to let go of the treasure land of Liang County when the rivers and lakes are not mixed.

Therefore, fights between mountain bandits often occur.

In a short period of time, those small villages have been wiped out, and now there are not many villages left around the small town of Liang County, but they are undoubtedly the strongest ones.

In the middle of this mountain, there are two stockades engaged in a scuffle.

If you can take the lead in annexing a village and breaking the balance of strength, then it will be very simple to take down the entire Liang County.

But in the case of wolves in front and tigers in the back, no one dares to make the first move.

At this time, for some reason, the two most powerful stockades finally began to clash head-on.

A group of bandits who tried to sneak around the rear spotted the little girl who had crashed in.

Although the little girl in the rag flower skirt was running in the opposite direction, she directly ran into another group of bandits, and her eyes that were still hanging teardrops looked at the bandits who were holding machetes and were also looking at her blankly.

"Where's the little girl?"

Because the mountain bandit village completely besieged Liang County, although many people resisted at the beginning, and even tried to escape, but after being brutally killed by the mountain bandits, the remaining old and weak women and children in Liang County did not dare to go out of Liang County anymore, and at this time, a little girl suddenly appeared in the mountains, for these mountain bandits, it is indeed a very rare thing.

But thinking that he was at war with another village, he didn't have much heart to pay attention to a little girl, so the mountain bandit led by him said casually: "Tie her up first, wait for the group of rabbit cubs to be slaughtered, and then escort her back to the village." ”

The mountain bandits, who drank blood almost every day, naturally didn't care whether the other party was an adult or a little girl, and some of the mountain bandits even looked at the little girl with a dirty color in their eyes.

When even a mountain bandit stepped forward and wanted to catch the little girl.

However, the little girl who had the courage to run out of Liang County was obviously not a child who didn't know anything and could only cry, the reason why she sat on the stone and sobbed was only because her arm was cut by a branch, and then she heard the sound of a wolf howling, so she was faintly afraid.

At this moment, in the face of these ferocious mountain bandits, although the little girl's face became a little pale, there was a strong hatred in her shining eyes that seemed to be able to speak.

Before the bandit could reach out and reach the little girl, the little girl had already kicked a kick, hitting the vital point and counterattacking with the greatest damage.

The mountain bandit hissed, shrunk tiredly, and knelt directly on the ground.

Who would have thought that a little girl who looked only eleven or twelve years old would have such courage.

The mountain bandit was also caught off guard, and was hit by a blow, and couldn't help but howl miserably.

The face of the mountain bandit led by him became ugly, and he held a machete and directly slashed the head of the howling mountain bandit with the back of the knife, and reprimanded in a low voice: "Shut up Lao Tzu!"