Chapter 024: Innocent Criminal

Naive crime

Tiehu didn't have a trace of guilt in his heart for the housekeeper. Man dies for money, and birds die for food. Even if Yiyun's court doesn't kill the housekeeper, the housekeeper is destined to spend his life in a prison cell. Because Yiyun Country does not have a national policy of internal and external disturbance.

Rather than letting others see the decadent Wang Gouyu, it is better to spread titles such as "love and abuse people" and "great criminal philosopher" on the rivers and lakes of various countries.

There are also three people who dig up the treasure with Tiehu, and they are usually close, perhaps because they are from Huwan together. Although Steward Wang's criminal organization is a killer group, there are still many small gangs formed in it: some are divided by geography, some are based on blood relationship, some are divided by age, and some are divided by weapons...... The Iron Tiger Four are typically divided according to geography.

Normally, the four of them will also act together on missions. That's why they are called the Four Beasts of Huwan.

As the saying goes: rely on the mountains to eat the mountains and rely on the water to eat the water. Tiehu was born in a village deep in the mountains, and a distance of one or two miles is the sheep intestine path leading to the two counties. Originally, there was no such road between the two counties, and the traders who came and went to visit relatives and friends took the official road. However, not to mention the inspection fees at various checkpoints on the official road, and in order to take care of the four villages and eight falls between the two surrounding counties, there were several twists and turns. Some people who are in a hurry to work in order to save entanglements have made this small path between the woods and grass.

Gradually, more people walked this road, and later it became a wide road. In Lingzi Village, where Tiehu lives, only the successive patriarchs can read and write, and the rest of the clansmen are illiterate, and there are few who can write their own names. Being able to understand the dialects spoken by outsiders can be regarded as having learned and seen the world.

Lingzi Village is on the mountain, and the land is full of rocks. The ground was already thin, but when the wind and rain came, all the soil on the ground was taken away. Therefore, the people on the mountain mainly have four kinds of livelihoods: those who plant some melons, fruits, plums and dates are these fruit trees, and pick up the county seat to buy them when the melons and fruits are ripe and coincide with the market; or they work as a woodcutter in the mountains and specialize in collecting firewood to make a living, and basically do not make any money, because the surrounding villages live near the deep mountains, but whenever there is a shortage of firewood, take a machete and make a few strokes, and the fire material will be available for a few days. The woodcutter was the only one who was tired and carried firewood to the county seat every day to see which one wanted it, and the other was the hunters in the mountains. A man can reign in the mountains. There are all kinds of animals in the deep mountains and old forests, from small sparrows and mountain rats to big tigers and bears blind. As long as you are experienced and courageous, you can hunt enough animals in a day to live. If you're lucky, you'll be able to catch some rare things. For example, good things such as Jinse starling, nine-colored deer, and three-tailed fox. If you catch one, you can be rich for a lifetime, but this kind of good thing is only heard from people and no one has really seen it. The last way to make a living is to be a bandit. There is no capital for trading, and there is a business road where people come and go at the door, as long as you receive one or two money a day to buy the road, a few days of food and clothing are worry-free.

Then there are some bold bandits, who are not doing small fights and robbing the road, but kidnapping people. The thieves who stopped him sometimes saw the rich man dressed in fine clothes, fine skin and tender meat, and walked back to "invite" the rich man home. Eat and drink well and take care of it. Then he extorted a sum of money, saying that he was being blackmailed, but in fact, he was tied up with a meat ticket. The two sides can also bargain, he wants a hundred taels, as long as you are eloquent, it is possible to pay back to thirty taels. Sometimes the thieves see that you may indeed have no money, and if you are well dressed, you may just wear a meat ticket on your body to support the scene.

If the meat ticket is crying poor, the bandit is not a fool. The thieves will send spies down the mountain to do a field trip according to the address given by the meat ticket to estimate the value of the meat ticket. If it was too high at that time, the bandit would take the initiative to lower the money, and if it was less, he could only say that he had lost his eyes and would not increase the price further. After discussing with the meat ticket, he handed the paper and pen of the meat ticket, and asked the meat ticket to explain the matter and talk about the ransom.

The reason for this is to let the family of the meat ticket know that they are okay, and besides, the thieves are not literate or illiterate.

If the transaction is done, the person will be released; if it can't be done, the ticket will not be torn up, and the meat ticket will be directly beaten and used as the accommodation fee for the past few days. The meat ticket lay in bed for a month and didn't run. As long as you can endure the pain of the flesh, you can do it without giving money.

In this Lingzi village on the mountain, basically every household lives on these four occupations, and some families or individuals have done all four occupations. When the fruit is under the fruit tree, he is a fruit farmer, in the autumn he is a hunter, in the winter he is a woodcutter, and when the four seasons are free, he becomes a bandit. This is the atmosphere in this village, and there has been no chaos in more than 100 years. Because the government doesn't care if they haven't taken a life, not only does they not care, but they sometimes indulge them. For example, after the meat ticket was beaten and the meat ticket was redeemed, he was indignant, and he either found a thug to retaliate or went to the official. It costs money to find thugs, and second, you can't cut the grass and eradicate the roots, and if the thieves retaliate, what awaits them is a dead end.

It seems that there is only one way to report to the official. It is possible that the case handed in by the victim at the beginning of the year may not be dealt with by the county magistrate after three years. Because you don't leave the spacious official road, in order to save the money of three melons and two dates, you are tied up, who do you complain about!? In order to ensure the income on the official road, the county government ignored the "small friction" that occurred on the wild road.

This situation of allowing bandits to run rampant did not end until the county magistrate of Pingyang County, which was closest to Lingzi Village, took office. Because Lu Yan, the newly appointed county commander of Pingyang County, has not tied up a ticket with these bandits, and it is none other than Tiehu who kidnapped him.

At that time, Tiehu was only thirteen or fourteen years old, and his hair was not yet tied, and his black skin was the size of a steamed bun. Because the village mainly relied on robbing the family, Tiehu had to learn martial arts since he could walk. I only practice effective and scary styles, and I never learn to embroider my legs. At the age of thirteen or fourteen, he was already very good, and two or three strong men could no longer get close to him. His father was very happy to see his son so heroic. Because I feel that there is finally a successor to the performance art of robbery. In fact, the main reason is that Brother Potato and Brother Qingjiao, who went out to rob with him recently, have recently committed rheumatism due to the humidity in the mountains, and it is not very convenient to move. Tie Hu's father Tie Tomato robbed himself and felt panicked!

Tie Tomato then said to Tie Hu: "Son, you are not young, it is time to learn this craft handed down by your ancestors, tomorrow you get up early, Daddy will take you to practice your courage, earn a few money, let's go to the restaurant." ”

Tiehu was overjoyed when he heard his father say this. It's very boring to chop wood and catch rabbits in the mountains all day long, and the martial arts that have been practiced hard since childhood have nowhere to go.

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