Chapter 34: The Bandits of Huifeng Village
"Brother Wei, did you really find the traces of the bandits?" Now everyone present dares to speak, it is estimated that only Zhou Yu is the only one.
"This ...... It's not ......" Lao Wei quietly glanced at the angry Chen Jin, and after making sure that he would not be punished for speaking, he pinched his throat and replied: "We inquired from the locals, and some of them have seen bandits fighting with the county government on the official road where Brother Lu Ming died, but then the county government didn't have an explanation. It is also strange to say that few of those who took that road went to the county government to report that their property had been robbed. ”
After hearing this, Zhou Yu held his chin in his hand and thought for a while, and then said to Lao Wei: "Wait for the heavy rain to stop, you take us to the official road to have a look, especially the place where Brother Lu Ming died!" ”
"Good ......" Lao Wei glanced at King Yu, whose face was gloomier than the dark clouds outside, and responded with some trembling.
For the people of Zhaozhou and other counties who have been scorched by the scorching sun for a long time, such a hearty heavy rain came at the right time, like a rescue soldier who suddenly appeared in the unbearable midsummer. And for Lao Wei and others, a little more waiting is a little more torment, because the depressive atmosphere brought about by King Yu's anger spread in this somewhat small space, perhaps under the stimulation of the cold ice, Lao Wei's head broke out in cold sweat over and over again, and I don't know how many times I wiped it with my hands to no avail.
"Okay, the autopsy is almost over, let's go sit outside, it's not a long-term solution to stay here." It was Zhou Yu who spoke. He was not a professional forensic doctor and could not carry out the autopsy in such detail, and he had already obtained the information he needed.
Hearing Zhou Yu's words, Lao Wei seemed to grasp the straw that saved his life, and immediately turned around and opened the door, leading Chen Jin out, and everyone sat in the lobby for a while.
On this day, the rain came quickly, and it fell heavily, so it was supposed to go fast, but the rain did not stop until after noon. Everyone had already had lunch, and seeing the gradually sunny sky outside, Chen Jin ordered to set off.
The group was dressed in civilian clothes, did not ride horses or cars, and walked along the official road to the west for almost an hour, except for the occasional tea shed on the side of the road, they did not see anything, and there was not even a shadow of bandits or the like.
"This is it!" Lao Wei pointed to the grass and trees on the side of the road and said, "That's where our people found Brother Lu Ming!" ”
Zhou Yu wanted to go over and check, but as soon as he stepped into the grass, he stepped on a foot of mud. He didn't care about it, he picked up the weeds with his hands, but there was no trace. The rain had even wiped out all the blood that might have remained, leaving him with nothing.
"It's lonely!" Zhou Yu returned to the official road and muttered.
"Now how do we check?" Chen Jin asked him.
"Brother Yang, you try to track along this bush, no matter what the result of the tracking is, you have to come back within half an hour! We're all waiting for you here," Zhou Yu turned his head to look at Yang Chuan and said.
Yang Chuan looked at Chen Jin next to him, as if he was asking for instructions. Chen Jin nodded, and Yang Chuan immediately rushed out, taking three steps and making two steps, and disappeared from Zhou Yu's field of vision in an instant.
These two times directly stunned Zhou Yu, good guy, is this the speed of a person who practices martial arts?
Half an hour later, Yang Chuan returned as promised, and Chen Jin stepped forward and asked, "Old Yang, how is it, what have you discovered?" ”
"There are traces of some people walking on the nearby mountains, but it can't be concluded that they are bandits, or maybe they are hunters in the mountains." Yang Chuan told the truth about his findings.
"Have you seen anyone who looks like bandits?" Chen Jin asked.
Yang Chuan didn't speak, and shook his head directly.
Zhou Yu looked at the new day after the rain in the sky, and said to Chen Jin: "It has just rained, and it is inconvenient for everyone to enter the mountain, so let's wait for tomorrow." ”
Chen Jin also thinks that what Zhou Yu said is reasonable, even Yang Chuan has not obtained any valuable information, how much can others do? Let's go back first.
On the way, Chen Jin looked at Zhou Yu, who had never said a word, and couldn't help asking, "Is there a way?" ”
"Tomorrow everyone will change into Orion's clothes, and the thirty guards of the palace will be divided into three squads, each team of ten people, and each team will be divided into three groups, each group of three or four people. Each group member is armed with a sword, and each group carries a bow with five arrows. The three teams entered the mountain at the same time to search, and when they encountered an abnormal situation, they immediately fired arrows, and the rest of the people immediately went to support after hearing the arrows. Zhou Yu quickly made a strategic deployment.
"I can't see it, you really know a little bit about the doorway! How do you, a scholar, know such a thing as a ringing arrow? That's only when you march and fight. Chen Jin asked curiously.
"Read more." Zhou Yu gave this answer again.
Chen Jin: "......"
Seeing that he couldn't ask anything valuable, Chen Jin stopped the topic, and everyone returned to their residences to rest.
Early the next morning, everyone set off before dawn and went straight to the mountains and forests.
Before several teams separated, Chen Jin told everyone: "Brothers, everyone understands the truth of running a dead horse in Wangshan, try not to go too far, otherwise it will be too late to support each other!" ”
"Understood!" Everyone responded, and then dispersed to search according to the plan.
Chen Jin and Zhou Yu both stayed by Yang Chuan's side, and there were two guards following, which was the most crowded group. A few people walked along the mountain road for a while, and Zhou Yu found some traces of tree branches that had been cut down, Yang Chuan was right, there were indeed people moving here.
The further up the road, the more traces there were, and Zhou Yu could almost conclude that the people living here were by no means one or two households.
An hour passed quickly, the mountains were still calm, from time to time some pheasants and hares or something, if there was not something serious to do, Zhou Yu really wanted people to fight two, anyway, there was no rule in the law that people were not allowed to hunt pheasants and hares.
Another half an hour passed, and Zhou Yu, who had walked all the way, was a little tired, this mountain road was winding and steep, which was really grinding. As soon as Zhou Yu wanted to sit down and rest for a while, the sound of arrows piercing through the clouds came.
"Over there!" Yang Chuan pointed in a certain direction and said.
"Take a shortcut!" Zhou Yu made a quick decision.
The men ran forward for a while, and found a ravine more than two zhang wide, and if they crossed this ravine directly, the distance would be much shorter. But with such a wide distance, how could an ordinary person like Zhou Yu cross the past? Zhou Yu looked at the puddles of gravel below, but still retreated.
Fortunately, Yang Chuan and the two guards were not ordinary people, and Yang Chuan ran and easily jumped over the ravine.
", light work?" Zhou Yu exclaimed.
Yang Chuan didn't explain anything to him, just nodded at the remaining two guards. The two guards immediately understood, each pulled out a bundle of rope from their waists, and then one of them hugged Chen Jin and jumped, and the two appeared above the ravine in an instant. The man "threw" Chen Jin over, and Yang Chuan, who was waiting on the other side, caught him steadily. Seeing that the guard was about to fall into the ravine, he threw out the rope in his hand, and the rope was wrapped around a thick branch. The momentum of the guard's fall immediately stopped, and with a slight swing, his legs clicked twice on the opposite mountain and then turned ashore.
Zhou Yu was stunned by this scene, and before he could react, another guard also began to act. In the next second, Zhou Yu's body floated in the air.
"Your sister! I'm not ready yet! Zhou Yu shouted.
Before he could say the next word, the whole person was thrown out, and then he was caught by a pair of big hands.
"It's exciting!" Zhou Yu patted his chest and said. On the other hand, Chen Jin looked like he was fine, and it seemed that he should have been thrown like this many times......
The guard who had sent him over immediately turned over, and before they could rest, the sound of a second arrow was heard.
"Let's go!" Chen Jin immediately took the lead in running.
"Hey! Wait for me! Zhou Yu, who had palpitations, had no choice but to follow.
When they arrived, they found a group of palace guards confronting another group of people. Most of them were half naked, their clothes were very disheveled, and each of them still had weapons in their hands, and they seemed to be bandits in the mountains.
Seeing this, Zhou Yu immediately stepped forward: "A few days ago, a few hunters in our village never came back after going up the mountain, I don't know if you have seen it?" ”
The leading bandit looked at him and couldn't help laughing: "Yo, now this little white face with thin skin and tender flesh can also be a hunter?" ”
As soon as these words came out, the bandits behind him all laughed at Zhou Yu.
"I'm asking you." Zhou Yu ignored their ridicule and continued.
"Little white face, your tone is quite big! To tell you the truth, those people are not ordinary hunters, they are mining iron ore, then I can't let them go! The lead bandit smiled evilly.
Hearing the word "iron ore", Zhou Yu and Chen Jin were shocked in their hearts, and they were really here!
"Brother Yang, spare his life, there are still some things that have to be asked from his mouth." Zhou Yu retreated behind the guards.
"Boy......" Before the bandit finished speaking, he was kicked out by Yang Chuan.
The remaining guards swarmed up, and more than half of the two dozen bandits were killed or wounded in less than a stick of incense. The strength of the palace guards is not comparable to the family sent out before, it is a genuine royal guard, if you can't even beat a few bandits, you can simply go home and pick up the child.
It was the first time for Zhou Yu to witness such a bloody scene, and there was a feeling of discomfort in his stomach. But the real warrior dared to face the dripping blood, he swallowed his saliva, and looked at everything in front of him with a cold face.
The few remaining living mouths were gathered by the guards, and Chen Jin personally stepped forward and asked, "Where are you bandits?" ”
"Heroes spare their lives! This mountain is called Huifeng Mountain, and we are the people of this Fengzhai village! "The bandit leader has completely lost the arrogance he had just had.
"Who are you?"
"If you go back to the hero, the little one's name is Wang San, and he is a small leader of Huifeng Village, who came to patrol the mountain on the order of the owner of the village!" Wang San explained everything like a bamboo tube pouring beans.
"How many people are there on the mountain?" Zhou Yu stood up and asked.
"There are fifty or sixty more!" Wang San said without concealment.
"Did you kill those people who went up the mountain the day before yesterday?" Chen Jin asked with a gloomy face.
"Good man! Those heroes were all killed by the second master, and because one of them ran away, the little ones were whipped! Wang San kowtowed in fright.
"Lead the way!" Chen Jin did not wait to call for support from the officials and soldiers, and was ready to rely on these guards to destroy this Huifeng Village. After all, there are only fifty or sixty bandits, and these elite guards plus Yang Chuan are more than enough to deal with.
The living bandits were escorted to the front and walked all the way to the door of Huifeng Village.
"Wang San, what's going on, who are these people?" The bandit standing guard asked, looking at these unfamiliar faces.
I saw a figure fly out of the crowd, and the two bandits didn't even have time to lift their wooden guns, and their heads rolled down. Yang Chuan landed on his feet and put away the bloody knife.
Seeing this scene, Zhou Yu couldn't hold back any longer, and threw up on the side of the road.
Chen Jin patted him on the back, and then with a wave of his hand, Wang San and the others were also killed. Chen Jin said that he would break these people's corpses into thousands of pieces, and in comparison, such a way of death was already grace.
Leaving four people to protect Chen Jin and Zhou Yu, Yang Chuan rushed into Huifeng Village with other guards, and the screams shook the sky for a while......
Luozhou City, Zhangyuan Foreign Mansion.
"Master Wang, Miss Shui Ling's singing is really good, the old lady is very happy!" Zhang Yuanwai said to the Wang class master with a smile.
"As long as the old lady is satisfied, our trip is worth it!" The head of the Wang class catered to him and said.
"Master Wang, that's the case, the old lady likes Miss Shui Ling very much, and wants to take her as a righteous daughter and stay in the house, so that it will be convenient to listen to the drama in the future!" Zhang Yuanwai was still smiling, but the head of the Wang class who heard this was shocked.
"The staff laughed, this Shui Ling is the protagonist of our drama troupe, if she leaves, won't we break up?" Wang Ban Master forced a smile from between his teeth.
"Eh, the old lady said, as long as Shui Ling is willing to stay, the price will be set by you!" Zhang Yuanwai patted the shoulder of the Wang class leader.
At this point, no matter how stupid a person is, he can see Zhang Yuanwai's intentions......