It's night, the eastern mountain boundary of Xiaoshan.

Niu Tou and Wei Wei waited in an inn at the intersection of Dongshan Road, and the two first went back to the village in Dongshan and instructed a few henchmen to remind the minions to gather in the village and wait, and then returned to the inn next to the intersection to wait for He Nan.

A basin of cold well water poured down from head to toe, and the faint horse could no longer hold it, and he opened his eyes and looked at the fierce gods in the room, and he couldn't help but pile up a smiling face. It's just that this smile is not good-looking, no matter how you look at it, it looks like it is squeezed out.

"Gongzi He...... I know it's wrong!" Ma Mian's first reaction was to look for He Nan, and as soon as he looked at He Nan, he blurted out, it is estimated that he has been brewing on this road for a long time, "I was wrong before, I have no eyes and no knowledge of lifting to stand on the side of the blue-faced Yama, you have a lot of ...... Don't worry about petty ones!"

"Besides, I have long seen that this blue-faced Yama is difficult to achieve great things, do you think that the final result is still firmly in your hands?"

He Nanyan smiled contemptuously when he heard this, and said to the second master rather sarcastically: "You people in Yan Luo Village have all learned from you all these flamboyant skills?"

The second master is a ghostly person, of course he knows that he can't answer this stubble at all, so he pretended to be embarrassed and arched his hand towards He Nan, and shrank his body to the back of the crowd. If he still stood forward with a shy face, maybe He Nan would have to beat him again with words.

"Don't look at me......" He Nan turned his words at the horse kneeling on the ground again, "In all fairness, you really have nothing to be sorry for me, anyway, I didn't treat you as my own from the beginning, and today you fell into my hands because of your own poor ability." ”

"The person you are really sorry for is your sworn brother......" At this point, He Nan looked at the bull head. He Nan and Yu Ruyi sat in the center of the inn lobby, Wei Wei was leaning on the edge of the door frame, Niu Tou was sitting opposite He Nan, and the remaining minions were Niu Tou's henchmen, and these people stood behind their eldest brother and glared at the eldest brother's eldest brother - they also knew what was going on this afternoon.

The bull's head frowned, and the two thick eyebrows could be twisted into a black rope.

"Just after you and I agreed, I made a bet with your brother on whether you would betray me...... Or whether you will abandon him or not, and the stakes are your future. He lost the bet, so now it's mine. ”

"Although I am the boss now, the matter between your brothers still needs to be solved by yourself, and I will never interfere. He Nan stood up and stretched, pulled Yu Ruyi to sit elsewhere, and gave up the main seat to Niu Tou to sit on. "I'm just going to watch the show today. ”

As soon as he heard this, Ma Mian immediately turned his head to his sworn brother—he was the righteous brother of the bull head twenty years ago, but now he is no longer a human being. The younger brother became a guest, but the elder brother became a prisoner. "Brother, brother, I didn't mean it, it's just that the situation was forcing at the time, and I had to make this decision for my brother...... Presumably, as a brother......, you can also understand the way you are a brother, right?

The bull head took a deep breath and said, "You said let me understand you......"

"Then why did you still say that? Could it be that the brotherhood between you and me for more than ten years is worthless in your eyes?"

"Brother...... That's just an expedient measure...... "Ma Mian is not such a shameless person as the second master, and he does feel guilty about the bull head in his heart, so this explanation is not convincing, but even paler.

After all, he and the blue-faced Yama are still all the way, although they are bad enough, their minds are not smart enough, and their faces are not so thick, if it is He Nan who is kneeling here today - whether it is useful or not, anyway, he can say a humiliating and extraordinary word without blinking his eyes to beg for mercy without changing his face.

The inn lobby was so quiet that you could hear the heartbeat of the horse's face, and the bull's face was gloomy as if it could wring out water. He looked at this righteous brother who was smiling at him, and suddenly recalled many past events. Ma Mian doesn't miss the old love, but he still can't bear it.

After so many years, the two brothers have come through all the winds and waves, but now they have ended up in a fratricidal situation - is the world declining or the people's hearts are not ancient?

Niu Tou is an upright person, there are not so many twists and turns in his mind, and he himself does not want to think about those who have and don't.

"You are unkind, but I can't be unjust," after a while, Niu Tou still spoke, and he turned his head to look at He Nan as he spoke—although He Nan said that he only watched the play today, Niu Tou knew that he also had to satisfy He Nan and give him an explanation. "You have betrayed He Gongzi, although it has not caused a catastrophe, but there is no place for you in this Xiaoshan, and I can't keep you. ”

"We are two brothers, I have no intention of killing you, you better go, go far, never come back. "Niu Tou is still an honest man, if it was someone else, he would have let the horse's head fall to the ground.

"From today onwards, you and I have broken off our kindness, and we are no longer brothers. With that, the bull drew his waist knife and slashed at the horse's face.

Ma Mian was already frightened stupid—why did he say "he had no intention of killing me" in the previous sentence, and he was going to cut off my head now? At this moment, he was so frightened that he didn't dare to move. The bull's knife did not run for the life of the horse, but cut off a lock of hair on the horse, and then he cut off a corner of his clothes.

The horse-faced hair is cut to take the lead, the bull head cuts the robe and breaks the righteousness, and the two are no longer righteous brothers.

The horse face kneeling on the ground trembled and kowtowed to his former righteous brother to thank him, but the bull head didn't look at him and walked straight to He Nan.

"He Gongzi, there is only one reluctant request below - I hope you can read the righteousness of the two of us and let him live-I know what I said doesn't count, so please raise your noble hand. The head of the cow also knelt on the ground to congratulate him, "From now on, Peng Niusheng should be a cow and a horse for you, and he will be sent by you, without saying a word." He no longer called himself a bull head, but resumed his real name, apparently trying to get rid of this past.

He Nan clapped his hands and praised: "Okay, I really didn't misunderstand you, you are a man." Since you are the new owner of the Yama Village that I have appointed, then this matter is up to you. ”

Peng Niusheng bowed a few times to He Nan in a dignified manner, and then walked back to the horse...... No, it was Ma Baocai's side who kicked him, "Why don't you go quickly?"

In fact, Ma Baocai is also very unhappy...... He was thinking that if he hadn't betrayed He Nan, would he be the new owner of the village now? In fact, He Nan had already told him that the two of them could be the new owners of the village after the matter was completed, and Ma Mian at that time still chose to stand on the side of the green-faced Yama because of fear, and now it was too late to regret it. In fact, he was also very aggrieved in his heart - standing on the side of the green-faced Yama, He Nan won and he would be liquidated, and standing on He Nan's side, he had to be skinned off by the green-faced Yama on the spot, and he spent so much effort to turn out to be a deal that was not pleasing to both sides, and Peng Niusheng became the master of the cottage directly after being a hostage for 20 days? The reason why Ma Baocai felt indignant actually came from here.

But-this is not a pie in the sky that fell into Peng Niusheng's mouth, but Peng Niusheng relied on his instinctive actions to win the favor of He Nan, you must know that Wei Wei can also kill people at that moment. And if the person sent back to be a spy is replaced by Peng Niusheng, then he will not betray Ma Baocai even if he dies - this is the difference between the two.

Villains are often like this, they will be jealous and hold grudges when they see others harvesting, but they often don't remember that they didn't care at all when they sowed seeds, they only saw the results but ignored the cause and process, and they thought about the harvest all day long but were unwilling to pay physical strength and sweat for it...... Peng Niusheng is not a gentleman, but at least in his friendship with Ma Baocai, he has a clear conscience.

Everything has a cause and effect, and those who only want to get benefits but are unwilling to pay the price for it can only be empty after all.

However, these ethereal truths are not important now, Ma Baocai kowtowed to thank He Nan and Peng Niusheng, and then left Xiaoshan with a rolling belt and disappeared into the smoke and rain.

In fact, He Nan originally wanted to promise Peng Niusheng first, and then secretly send Wei Wei to secretly kill Ma Baocai and bury him on the spot, so that he could not only take care of Peng Niusheng's face and understand his long-cherished wishes, but also cut down the grass and eradicate the root cause and never suffer in the future...... But at Yu Ruyi's suggestion, he still gave up.

"Ma Mian is also a poor man, if you can spare his life, let him live, why bother to add so many killings?" These words were Yu Ruyi's original words, even this female killing god said so, He Nan didn't have any reason to put people to death, so he listened to her words.

And He Nan let go of Ma Mian's hand, but he also did himself a great favor after a long time, which can be regarded as a kind of cause and effect.

In this way, the three of them lived in the east cottage, and spent more than half a month integrating the five cottages in the southeast, northwest, and northwest. Now that the blue-faced Yama Luo was given the head, the ghosts also died and fled, leaving only Peng Niusheng, so he naturally took over the position of the owner of the village.

The second master is still the second master - the second master is surnamed Yu, and his nickname is Old Taro. He Nan was thinking about using him for a period of time before killing him, but looking at the old taro's complaint with a handful of snot and tears, he was also a little helpless, so he temporarily kept the old taro's life and observed the performance later.

Peng Niusheng took over the position of the owner of the village so unexplained, naturally there are many people who are dissatisfied, these people are all direct subordinates and loyal supporters of the green-faced Yama, even if there is an old taro who speaks for Peng Niusheng, they can't dispel their suspicions, Peng Niusheng also showed his own thunderous means - he promoted some of the old departments of the green-faced Yama who were interested in submitting to him, and picked out some thorns who were not easy to manage and wanted to avenge the Lord, and soon those voices who expressed dissatisfaction gradually became much smaller- After all, all that comes out to ask for money is a fortune, and whoever follows is not a mix.

After clearing up the internal contradictions of the cottage, a new problem came to He Nan - you can't let these people be thieves all the time, right?

Originally, the three of He Nan were quite disgusted by the thieves' bad behavior of bullying men and women, so they couldn't let Peng Niusheng become the next green-faced Yama, but he also suffered from the fact that there was no way to make these bandits transform - after all, those who could come out to be bandits were either those reckless men with no body and only one body of strength, or some idlers.

It was a coincidence that one day he went down the mountain and passed by the village of Yama who had besieged the green face, and wanted to visit the villagers to see if they needed more silver taels to repair the houses and equipment that had been affected by the fighting between the people of the rivers and lakes.

Unexpectedly, after arriving in the village, He Nan knew that his two hundred taels of silver did not fall into the hands of the villagers at all, and each family only received less than five taels of silver, and the remaining sixty percent was all filled by the village chief - no wonder the village chief lived in the only brick house in this village, it seems that he also swallowed a lot of the money that the imperial court used to help the people, and it was not the first time he had done this goose plucking.

He Nan thought of this, and his heart was naturally on fire, and he immediately gathered Wei Wei, Peng Niusheng, Lao Taro and others with a vote of strong men to block the door of the village chief's house, and the village chief immediately kowtowed and begged for mercy, not only returned the privately embezzled silver to the families as it was, but also took out additional private money from his own pocket to repair the houses and buy furniture for the villagers - this sum of money is also a lot of money, it seems that this old thing has really done a lot of such things.

Unexpectedly, in addition to dealing with the bandits in the mountains, these villagers also had to deal with the bandits in their own villages, but this also gave He Nan some inspiration - since there are always these injustices in the world, then he has to take care of them.

He can't reach other places now, but the surroundings of Xiaoshan are always within reach. He Nan told Peng Niusheng and Lao Taro and other current high-level officials of Yan Luozhai about his thoughts - from now on, they will not only be bandits, but also a second official government, so that these people will have a place to redress their grievances and solve problems - of course, they also have to pay money to redress their grievances, but it is much better than some places that just collect money and do nothing.

First of all, the name must be changed, and it can no longer be called "Yan Luo Village" and can be renamed "Righteous and Brave Soldiers"; in terms of personnel, those who are idle, who do not eat and do not do anything, and who have bad conduct will be streamlined, and some young and middle-aged men with acceptable moral character will be selected to join them, and they will be called "Righteous and Brave Soldiers"; The Volunteer Warriors will collect "protection fees" in the surrounding villages, townships, and counties according to the time and quarter, and every household that pays the money and grain will be recorded in the register, and whenever they encounter something that cannot be solved by themselves, such as disputes between villagers and neighbors, When they needed labor to help with complicated matters such as farming or building houses, and thieves attacking, they would help the "volunteers", and the volunteers naturally had to establish a good relationship with the local government, and "donated" some silver taels to the government from time to time—even if they could not get official certification, at least the well water should not interfere with the river water.

Of course, for a while, these bandits may not adapt to this change, and it is not realistic to abolish the matter of blocking the road and robbing the road, but it is also necessary to set up rules and strict restrictions - a certain amount of "tolls" can be charged to tourists passing through Xiaoshan, and after collecting the tolls, they will be escorted by the volunteers to prevent customers from being attacked by other thieves and beasts; If there is such a thing as wanton burning and killing, which is obviously contrary to human ethics and the law, it is necessary to say goodbye to them in a categorical manner, and if there is any random murder and arson, and forcibly robbing the property of the people's daughters, they will be killed according to the rules and there will be no forgiveness.

Originally, He Nan thought that Peng Niusheng, Lao Taro and others would oppose it, but unexpectedly, most of these people agreed - if you think about it, there is really nothing to oppose.

Although the idea was only in the rudimentary form, and the money collected was much smaller than the previous looting, and it was not as unscrupulous as the bandit life - but at least it was safe. The blue-faced Yama is strong and ruthless enough, right? Originally, he was worshiped like a god by the bandits, and he was not beaten like the third grandson by the knights of the Shocking Flood Faction, not to mention the group of stragglers in the cottage now. And the fate of the blue-faced Yama and the ghosts also made Peng Niusheng and Lao Taro realize that there are people outside the world, and the righteous way and the government are not unable to control them, but they are too lazy to take care of them - the life of the bandits is not so good, and if they can't keep it, they will have to lose their heads one day, so they will be whitewashed into local volunteers, at least their lives are guaranteed-or that sentence, if you can honestly eat with your mouth, how many people are really willing to be bandits with their heads?

He Nan is busier than Peng Niusheng and Lao Taro these days, and it has lasted nearly half a month, and a preliminary reform of the bandit gang has finally been officially implemented.