The Taoist priest suddenly realized that the situation was not good, and the other group of people was very likely to be those mountain bandits, and it would definitely be much better than those mountain bandits if they fell into the hands of the officials, so he instantly gave up the struggle and obediently followed the officials.

Seeing this, the mountain bandits who were secretly chasing after him were so angry that they punched the wall, and then went back to report to their boss.

How to deal with it depends on the boss's decision.

What they didn't expect was that they didn't have time to report to the boss about the Taoist priest's arrest after they went back, because they didn't see their boss at all, and the owner of Xilailou told them that their cottage was burned, and the boss was in a hurry to go back.

Everyone immediately panicked, and they didn't care about the people in Xilailou, so they hurried to the mountain, but naturally they couldn't go back smoothly, after all, the yamen had set up an ambush on their way back, and they all quietly captured the yamen.

The day after the auction, Xilai Building was closed, and the juniors were sent home on the grounds that the owner had something at home and would be closed for a while.

In fact, the proprietor of Xilailou went to the county office, and looked at the fragments of clothing of his wife and children collected by the officials from the mountains, and the whole person couldn't cry.

He shouldn't have believed the words of those mountain bandits, he thought that he would be able to rescue his wife and children smoothly by doing what they asked, but he didn't expect that those beasts never thought of returning his wife and children to him!

"Please be the master of my grass people!"

He couldn't kneel down in front of Lu Baichuan and the county commander, and the whole person almost collapsed.

Ping Xuan, who was kneeling next to him dressed as a beggar, had long known that his family was gone, and his reaction was that he was smaller than the owner of Xilailou, but his state was not very good, especially when the owner of Xilailou cried so sadly, his emotions were also infected, and the whole person looked very depressed.

"Before, the grass people were worried that those people would hurt their wives and children, so they didn't dare to report to the officials, so they hoped that their wives and children would come back safely, but who would have thought ...... Who would have thought! I'm the one who hurt them! ”

The owner of Xilai Building fell to the ground crying directly, if he reported to the official early, maybe he could save their lives!

Lu Baichuan looked at his self-blame and regretful appearance, sympathizing in his heart, but he didn't say much, no one was uncomfortable when this kind of thing happened, so he could only relieve himself.

When they gradually calmed down, Lu Baichuan spoke: "It's too late to say anything now, the only thing you can do is to tell everything you know, the government will send troops to exterminate the mountain bandits, and restore peace to the people." ”

Daoist Pingxuan sniffed and said coldly, "I'll talk about it first." ”

"More than two months ago, I was suddenly approached, they threatened my family's life, asked me to calculate where the legendary treasure was, I said that I was a charlatan, I was in the city to eat, I was beaten before I finished speaking, and forced me to call myself a master, to go out and publicize where the treasure is, and to find a way to spread the news."

"They gave me money to make me a very decent Taoist priest, and when I met people, they talked about the treasure, and those mountain bandits also spread the news in secret, and soon many people came to visit."

"Those bandits were afraid that I would leak my mouth, so they asked me to find a place to hide, I thought it was for me to hide, but I didn't expect that I was caught in the cottage that night, at first I was thinking that it was good to be reunited with my family, who knew that I didn't see my family at all, they said that they were guarded separately, so they locked me up for two months, or a few days ago I overheard those bandits talking, only to know that my family was long gone, I escaped when there was no one in the cottage."

Immediately afterwards, the owner of Xilaihug also talked about the situation, which was similar to that of the Taoist priest.

Lu Baichuan asked: "Do you know how these mountain bandits talked about the treasure news, and can there be someone behind them to guide them?" ”

The shopkeeper of Xilai Lou shook his head, when he knew, everyone in the city already knew about it.

The Taoist priest thought about it seriously and said, "The leader of the mountain bandits often communicates with a person, and it is estimated that the person gave them ideas behind his back. ”

Lu Baichuan became interested and continued to ask, "Who is it?" ”

"I don't know, it should be from the national capital, the mountain bandit leader calls the other party an adult, it should be that the other party has given a lot of benefits, and the bandit leader respects him very much.

This is interesting, it turned out to be a person from the DPRK and China.

I thought it was Dongting stirring, but I didn't expect it to be my own people making trouble in secret.

It's kind of ironic.

After that, Lu Baichuan personally interrogated several mountain bandits he caught, and the answers he got were similar to those given by Ping Xuan, and they didn't know who the person who communicated with the boss was.

Come to think of it, if there are too many people who know, they will expose that person.

After coming out of the cell, Lu Baichuan said: "Send a team of men and horses to me, and I will go to suppress the bandits." ”

Since he already knew that it was not the Dongting people who were doing it, then the matter was much simpler, just arrest the mountain bandits and put them in prison, and then let the emperor send someone to investigate, as for who to send and how the investigation went, it was none of his business.

I didn't go home for another day, but fortunately, he asked someone to send a message to Jiang Jiuniang, Jiang Jiuniang didn't panic at all, and walked around the village with Sister-in-law Zhang and met a lot of people.

A group of women gathered around the child to find a topic, chatting and chatting about Jiang Jiuniang's stomach.

"The little boy is quite well-behaved, and I haven't seen him make trouble in the past two days."

In this era, every family wants to have a son, and they think that Jiang Jiuniang is the same, so they say that the little son is happy with Jiang Jiuniang.

Jiang Jiuniang didn't want to care about these things, after all, their thoughts were deep-rooted, and one or two sentences couldn't change their opinions, but when she heard that everyone around her was talking about giving birth to a son, she really couldn't help it, and said: "I always hope that this baby can be a little girl." ”

Everyone didn't take it seriously, they just thought she was joking, after all, who would like to have a daughter.

Seeing their slightly disdainful looks, Jiang Jiuniang's attitude became a little more serious, and continued: "Who of you present is not a woman? Men and women are human beings, so why should they think that men are superior? Don't always look down on yourself and belittle the girl at home, the girl is a caring little padded jacket! ”

"Don't believe it, the queen has stood up to speak for our women, and in the national capital, women can also go to study and find a decent job in the city in the future. It is said that women know women best, and in the future, the daughters of the family will be promising, remembering the nurturing and educational grace of their parents, and they must know how to care for their parents more considerately than their sons. ”

"Don't always feel that the water spilled by the married daughter is still a piece of meat that fell from her body, just say that everyone has broken off the relationship with their mother's family now? Do you have to go home every New Year's holiday? Raising a girl well is more decent than anything else, to be realistic, that is, when you grow up in the future, the bride price can be much higher, isn't this the truth? ”

In the end, she talked about the bride price, which made many people's hearts begin to waver.