Chapter 66: Careful Thinking
Li Li explained clearly in the room that Ji Wuxian had been killed, and after concealing the means he used, he asked the nearby yamen at the end to send him a list of bandits who were still wandering on the road and cottages recorded along the way, and finally Li Li attached the simple route he was traveling, just a few place names.
I want to go to Xi'an Mansion to report on work, visit the Big Wild Goose Pagoda by the way, change the waterway, take the Wei River to save time, and finally return to my home in Hanzhong.
Li Li has already calculated, and if he is fast, he will only need one and a half months to go back and forth, which is very time.
After calling the post guard to hand him the letter, Li Li began to prepare to go to Xi'an Mansion after resting for the night.
There are many mountains in Shaanxi, especially the Qinling Mountains that cross the territory, which leads to the gathering of many people in the green forest in the province, and these are also one of the ways for Li Li to make a fortune and obtain merits.
The next morning, as soon as the sky was dawning, those post guards didn't rest all night and didn't have much time to rest, so they were busy repairing the ground that had been trampled by Li Li and replacing the floor tiles.
When Li Li came together, a post guard brought over with a bowl of porridge and a plate of pickles, and told Li Li that he had already fed his horse.
Li Li waved him back and began to wait for the messenger who had gone to deliver the letter to come back.
When the sun was up, the messenger came to Li Li with a tired face.
He bent down and saluted, "My lord, live up to your trust." That's it for you if you want a list of copycats along the way. ”
The postman respectfully handed over a large stack of papers, most of which were wanted notices, and below the wanted notices were carefully written where the latest appearance was, but this was the latest to draw quotation marks.
In ancient times, the transmission of information was very slow, and by the time it arrived, it was already outdated, just like the wanted criminal on this wanted notice, someone saw him appear here, and as soon as the information was transmitted, the person would have already appeared elsewhere.
Li Li wrote down the portraits on these wanted notices in his mind one by one, thinking that if he could meet it, he would solve it, and if he couldn't meet it, forget it.
Continue to look at these cottages with names and surnames in the government, as for those who are not famous, they don't know how many people are big or small, and some two or three people dare to stand on the mountain.
And those famous cottages all have to send troops to encircle and suppress, but the grain and grass needed by Guan to send troops will have to be pulled for a while, and then who will take the credit and so on, which makes these bandits live so nourishing.
Coincidentally, there is a cottage three hundred miles away from this Xieyang Post Station, and the number of bandits in it is only thirty or forty.
This should be stuffed in by the people of the county yamen, who want to report this matter with their own hands, and they don't expect to eradicate this cottage.
Li Li can still guess this little bit of caution about this county.
And the post guard was also waiting aside, still maintaining a state of bending down and saluting, and he should have been instructed by the magistrate. Otherwise, people would have left during the time they were looking at it.
Li Li saw that the stack of wanted notices and papers containing information was thrown on the table, and he took out two drawings with simple routes, one of which was a map of Xiaoyang Mountain not far from here, and the other was some of the main official roads and some key towns along the way that Li Li had drawn after explaining the names of places, so as to point out the direction.
This is another request from Li Li.
If he didn't have a map, Li Li didn't know where he would go, mainly because he hadn't heard of or been to some of those place names, otherwise he wouldn't have gotten lost when he ran away from home before.
After the preparations, Li Li picked up his knife and mounted his horse, and followed the direction of the post man's guidance.
Walking along a sheep's intestine path, the sides of the path and the middle of the road are already overgrown with weeds, but you can still vaguely recognize the traces of people walking on this path.
At the end of the twists and turns of the trail is a small hill one or two hundred meters high, it is not a joke to run to the mountain, although the mountain of this Xiaoyang Mountain is not high, but Li Li also patted the horse and ran for nearly half an hour before coming to the foot of the mountain under a slope.
There are no main roads up the mountain, only a few trails formed by frequent walking, and the mountains are thickly shrubbed and wooded.
After Li Li glanced at it a few times, he gave up the option of driving the horse up the mountain.
Roll over and dismount, and start into the mountain.
The mountain road is tortuous and sloping, and from time to time, where Li Li passes, a few birds and several insects that Li Li can't name will start.
While there was a wild goose knife slashing out of front to make it more comfortable for him to walk, he kept raising his attention and listening to the movements around him.
I don't know how long I walked in the mountains, because the trees were so thick that I couldn't see the position of the sun.
Suddenly, Li Li heard a few voices in front of him, and said in his heart that he had found it.
Carefully avoid dead branches on the ground and half-human-tall bushes, and feel for the general direction in which the sound is coming from.
After a while, I saw a tall and thin man with a knife on his back, which was already covered with rust.
Li Li did not rush forward, but looked at this person first.
Seeing that he was unwilling to pick berries in the bushes, and looked impatient, there was a faint flash of fierce light between his eyebrows.
Li Li knew at a glance that this person was a thief in this Xiaoyang Mountain.
Li Li didn't know how many of such thieves he had killed before, and no one knew the characteristics of thieves better than Li Li.
After making a judgment in his heart, Li Li dodged to the back of the thief and pressed down on his back with one hand.
'Bang'.
The thief was caught off guard and was pressed to the ground by Li Li, and his body was scarred by the shrubs on the side and the dead branches and weeds on the ground.
Li Li stepped on the thief's head and asked, "Where is your cottage?" ”
The bandits who were trampled on also reacted, although they didn't see Li Li's face, but they also knew in their hearts that this barren mountain range, the nearby villagers had already moved away, and only the officers and soldiers who could come to the mountains were officers.
Thinking of this, the bandit hurriedly begged for mercy: "Uncle, spare your life." I'm just being dragged up the mountain, I don't know anything! Uncle spare your life, spare your life! ”
Li Li indifferently stepped on one of the bandit's palms, stepped on his head again, and said coldly: "You just need to say what I asked!" Others, one more word, hum~"
The trampled thief just wanted to exhale in pain, but was taken aback by Li Li's words, and hurriedly forcibly held back, and snorted in a low voice before he said hoarsely: "The cottage is not far ahead." I beg my uncle to spare my life, I am willing..."
After hearing what he wanted to hear, Li Li moved his feet and stomped heavily on the neck of the thief who begged for mercy, in order to prevent the thief from dying, and regardless of the already loose neck, he kicked it over, and used the technique of condensing the air to break a big hole in the heart.
Regardless of whether what this thief said is true or not, you can find it by walking around the neighborhood a few times, these bandits can't afford not to eat!
Li Li continued to walk forward, and slowly began to hear some movements.
Li Li walked over with a grin, without any idea of hiding his tracks, and had already wasted a lot of time in this mountain.
Li Ligang showed up.
These four thieves couldn't imagine that a little white-faced boy would pop out of this barren mountain range.
Guan is looking at the robe on Li Li's body and knows that this is a rich master, looking at the white and tender skin, and he is not of the same class as himself, so he has made up his mind that this is a rich boy who has lost his way on a study tour.
And the other knives on his waist can't attract the sense of threat of himself and others, and the thin and weak sons have a fart with a knife.
When these four thieves were looking at Li Li, Li Li was also observing them, and when he saw that they were yellow and thin, he was disdainful in his heart, and he really embarrassed those thieves in film and television dramas.
The four thieves glanced at each other, and the meaning was obvious, this neighborhood was almost overwhelmed by their gang, and it hadn't been opened for several months, and this happened to be sent to the door.
A more clever bandit spoke: "We are the hunters in this mountain, and I don't know what is the matter with the son coming to our mountain." ”
Seeing that Li Li didn't answer, the clever thief gave the other three a look, and said, "It's going to be dark soon, and I can't get out of this mountain even if I think the son."
Moreover, there are many poisoning insects in the mountains, and I also invited my son to spend the night in our village. ”
After Li Li listened to the thief's words in silence, he also understood in his heart that they were treating themselves as fat sheep.
"Okay!" After speaking, Li Li began to laugh.
The bandits on the other side and those who had already faintly seen Li Li surrounding him also began to laugh.