Ye Shiyuan is a noble son, it doesn't mean that he hasn't suffered hardships.

A dozen lean peasants squatted on the ground eating bread, looked at the crowd, and walked into the tent on his own.

The tent that leaked on all sides could neither shelter the wind nor the rain, and it was empty and empty. Ye Shiyuan didn't dislike it at all, he found a clean straw mat and sat cross-legged, waiting for those people to come in after eating, he wanted to ask about the situation.

A small piece of bread can only be stuffed between the teeth of people who have been hungry for a few days, and everyone gobbled it up, and as soon as their eyes fell on the horses in the distance, Ye Shiyuan's cool voice came from the tent.

"The horse is mine."

Several people immediately retracted their gaze and didn't dare to look at it anymore, and one by one they walked into the tent with their waists bent and surrounded Ye Shiyuan.

"You, are you sent by the imperial court?"

Ye Shiyuan glanced at the middle-aged man who had the courage to speak, and the corners of his mouth hooked: "Is it important?" ”

As soon as these words came out, everyone looked at each other, and some even killed again.

Ye Shiyuan sat there unhurriedly, and everyone's demeanor changed into his eyes.

"The court doesn't care if we live or die, what does it mean to send you? Can you save so many of us? The old man gritted his teeth.

"Whether you can save it or not, it depends on what I can bring to you." Ye Shiyuan said, "Besides, I didn't seem to say where I came from, how can you be sure that I am from the imperial court?" Or have you ever seen a down-and-out court official like me? ”

Everyone was silent, and the middle-aged man was also dumbfounded.

"In fact, the most important thing for you now is to get food, medicine and a place to live, whether it is the imperial court or a civil organization, whoever can save your life, you will listen to whom."

He hadn't said a few words, when suddenly a big boy who looked to be eighteen or nineteen years old fell to his knees in the corner and burst into tears.

"Childe, please, save my father and sister......"

Ye Shiyuan narrowed his eyes and scolded in a low voice unmoved: "What are you crying about, talk well!" ”

The boy wiped his face and said in a hoarse voice: "Childe can come here and give us dry food to eat, he must be a big man with ability." My father and sister are in the city and can't get out, there is a plague in the city, they are not starving to death but they are dying of disease, please save them! You must have a way, please! ”

After the boy finished speaking, someone knelt down again, and one or two were crying about their fate and concern for their families. Ye Shiyuan listened silently, not knowing what it was like in his heart.

"My people are already trying to find a way to enter the city, the situation in the city is still unclear, and only one can be saved at the moment. I know that you are the ones who joined the rebel army, where is the main force of the army now, and what is the situation of food and grass? ”

The middle-aged man sighed and said, "The rebel army is actually a group of mountain bandits on Zhang Yuan Mountain. After the locust plague, we joined them, but we got very little food. At first, the boss led everyone to make trouble, forcing the government to release grain, and after laying down two granaries, they grabbed most of the grain up the mountain and hoarded it. ”

"And then? Although the mountain bandits are strong, there are many of you, and you can gather together to snatch the food back! Ye Shiyuan's expression was solemn, and he suddenly understood the reason why Fang Qiuyan had insisted on suppressing bandits internally in the past few years in power. Although these local forces cannot be brought to the fore, they are also a cancer for the local people.

"How can we little people beat the mountain bandits!" The old man was a little excited, and coughed again and again, "They pay protection money to the officials every year, and the government refuses to send troops to encircle and suppress them, what can we do." ”

"After the locust plague, the people are struggling to make a living, everyone is fleeing, our remaining group of people are really reluctant to leave their hometowns, the government refuses to release grain, and the mountain bandits are taking advantage of the chaos to recruit people. Originally, we insisted on not wanting to go up the mountain, thinking that the imperial court must know the situation here, and we could wait for disaster relief food after carrying the most difficult period, but we waited again and again, but what we waited for was the outbreak of the plague and the closure of the city. ”

The boy also took over and cried, "That's when my father and sister were locked up. I followed my uncle to look for food, but I was not locked up, and I had nowhere to go but to find bandits. ”

"That's right, who doesn't know that the mountain bandits do a lot of evil, and we can't help it." The old man patted his chest, and the old tears were in his eyes, "A large number of people have left here and fled, and the rest of the people don't want to starve to death, so they can only go to the mountain bandits." As you can see, we are just surviving there, and they continue to recruit displaced people under the banner of the rebel army, and there are more and more people, but the food is extremely limited, and everyone is getting less and less food. ”

"We haven't eaten for three days, and if it weren't for the dry food you gave, we don't know how many days we would have lasted."

Ye Shiyuan listened to everyone's gossip accusations and waved his hand: "I said, I can manage this meal but not the next meal, if you want to eat enough, you have to rely on yourself." ”

"By us? How can you rely on it? The old man became excited, "I have used all the methods I can think of, what else can I do?" ”

Ye Shiyuan lowered his head slightly, and calculated the time, "Ten days." ”

"What ten days?"

"On the way here, I saw the relief grain and grass sent by the imperial court, as long as we hold on for another ten days, they can deliver it."

These words exploded like a thunderbolt in the broken tent, and everyone's eyes burst into light, some crying, some laughing, and some kowtowing repeatedly.

Ye Shiyuan continued: "I will contact someone trustworthy outside to escort this batch of grain, and I will stay with you all the time during this period." If there is not enough food, go and rob it, whether he is an official or a mountain bandit, or some kind of bullshit rebel army, whoever hides food will die! ”

His words were not fierce, but they were loud in the ears of the people.

In the face of human life, what are the forces of all walks of life, he Ye Shiyuan has not been afraid of anyone since he was born!

With these dozen victims, Ye Shiyuan led the horse and continued to move in the direction where the main force of the rebel army was. The desolate scene along the way was chilling, not to mention living creatures, even the bark of grass roots and trees had been picked up by the hungry people. After encountering four more groups of people, Ye Shiyuan's team became larger and larger, and the number behind him gradually grew from a scattered dozen to sixty or seventy people.

Such a large number of people walking on the road were very eye-catching, and as soon as they arrived at the foot of the mountain, they were discovered by the mountain bandits stationed there.

"Stop! If you want to come to join our rebel army, you will honestly wait, and the boss will allow it to enter. ”

Ye Shiyuan walked in the front and looked at the seven or eight boys blocking the road, obviously they were all young, strong and energetic, not at all like the homeless people who had suffered from the famine.

"Okay, you go and tell me. said that these road guards were dying of hunger, and Mr. Ye led them back to eat. ”

"What is Mr. Ye?"

Ye Shiyuan rolled his eyes when he heard this, and scolded: "It's your ancestor!" Grind again, the master will give you a knife! ”

After saying that, the backhand is a knife!

No one saw how he made a move, but the sword flashed, and the bun on the boy's head was shaved off, revealing a bare scalp.

No shaving master can have this skill!

Ye Shiyuan was impatient, and when he saw several boys drawing their knives one after another, he suddenly became angry. The back of the knife shook, and the bald boy was hit hard in the wrist, and the machete fell to the ground.

"Still not going?"

"Don't, I'll go, I'll report." The bald boy was the leader of those few people, and he scolded his accomplices and quickly ran back.

Ye Shiyuan asked people to search the bodies of the remaining boys, and found some dry food to distribute to the later people.

Waving his hand to let everyone rest in place, Ye Shiyuan also found a big stone to sit down, his heart was anxious, and he still looked calm and calm on the surface. Some of the victims around him wanted to talk to him, but he prevaricated without saying a word.

"Help, boss!" The bald boy stumbled into the hall, where the bandit leader was sitting at the top and talking to a few people below.

"What are the ghosts roaring, the officers and soldiers are fighting?"

Several people in the hall were dressed differently, obviously not from the mountain bandits, and they all turned to look at the bald boy at this time.

"It's not! Not an officer and soldier, a young man! The bald boy was incoherent, pointed to his head and said hurriedly, "That young man called himself Mr. Ye, and pulled back all the people we sent out to guard the road, saying that he was leading them back for a meal." ”

"That man was so powerful, I didn't even see how he went under the knife, and his hair was almost shaved. Boss, this is definitely a powerful master, what should we do? ”

As soon as the bald boy finished speaking, several people below looked at each other with flashing eyes, as if confirming something.

The mountain bandit leader was obviously still wondering who "Mr. Ye" was, so he didn't pay attention to the change in the expressions of several people, and waved his hand to let the bald boy go down.

"You go and bring that Mr. Ye over, if it's a talent, let's take it, don't you just stew it and add food to the brothers."

The bald boy hurriedly ran out, and when he got to the door, he didn't forget to call a few brothers to go over with him.

Several people in the hall found their own places and stayed silent.

"Guys, who were you just asking about? It's up to me to say this 100 miles, as long as you have enough money, just ask if you want to inquire about any news. ”

An old man on crutches sat on a chair and snorted twice, disdainfully: "Don't bother with you, that person will appear when he should appear, and we are not in such a hurry." ”

The five of them didn't ask questions like they did when they first came in, they stayed in the hall calmly and waited, their eyes glancing at the door from time to time, as if they were waiting for someone.

The leader of the mountain bandits knew that he couldn't get the money, and he was suddenly depressed, vaguely feeling that these people seemed to be related to Mr. Ye outside, maybe he was the one who wanted to inquire. It seems that this Mr. Ye does have some background, and he has to find a way to get some benefits from this person.

When Ye Shiyuan came in, there was no one behind him, the sixty or seventy victims were waiting in the courtyard, and a group of mountain bandits surrounded them in the middle with machetes, and only Ye Shiyuan was allowed to enter the hall alone.

As soon as his figure appeared at the door, the five people in the room got up and walked over.

"Mr. Ye!"

The five of them clasped their fists and saluted, Ye Shiyuan was also a little surprised, and hurriedly surrendered his hand: "The five of them came really early, and I didn't get as fast as the previous ones, so I was a lot of slack, please understand." ”

"What did Mr. Ye say, a few of us are nearby, I received Qiu Gongzi's Jianghu post and immediately rushed here, I thought I had found the wrong place when I saw that you didn't arrive!" The one who spoke was a middle-aged woman in her forties, who was upright and looked like a righteous person.

"I'm relieved that you're here. Now there is an urgent need for manpower here, and Qiu Gongzi can't arrive in time because of something, so let me take full authority to deal with the matter here. We may have a hard time in the future, if you need anything when you do things, just tell me, I will do my best to solve it if it can be solved, and if it doesn't work, I can also inform Qiu Gongzi. ”

"In short, there is Qiu Gongzi behind everyone to just let it go, no matter where he comes from, the demons and monsters who dare to rob the people's food will be killed!"

The last word was spit out, and Ye Shiyuan's gaze fell on the mountain bandit leader above. is obviously a young man in his early twenties, but there is an undisguised murderous aura in his words, making it clear that he is here to smash the field.

"Mr. Ye, you are going to kill them all when you come up, but do you mean to shovel my mountain?" The bandit leader smiled disdainfully, "When I say this, I can't help but take me as the boss too seriously." ”

The five people followed behind Ye Shiyuan, and their eyes were full of mockery when they looked at the bandit leader. The mountain bandits in the small place just haven't seen it, and they haven't even heard of the name of Qiu Gongzi, if they don't catch up with the locust plague, I'm afraid they won't be able to gather so many thugs in this life.

The clown who jumped off the beam couldn't get into Mr. Ye's eyes at all.

However, in the next second, Ye Shiyuan's attitude suddenly changed, he laughed heartily, and said humbly: "The eldest brother is serious, the younger brother doesn't dare to speak wildly when he first arrives, and he has to ask the eldest brother to take care of him in the future." ”