Chapter 42: The Mysterious Master

What Su Qi'an told Fang Jingzhi to do was very beautiful, and not long after discovering these women who were wantonly ravaged by bandits, Fang Jingzhi immediately sent people down the mountain to find the old woman Su Qi'an said.

And, taking off their coats and draping them over the ragged women, the soldiers all turned in unison like a shield to protect them behind them.

Patiently waiting for the old woman to go up the mountain, and for about half an hour, more than a dozen old women appeared to appease these ravaged people down the mountain.

A team of soldiers escorted them until the women arrived safely in Lingbei County.

In Daliang, these humiliated women are indeed sympathetic, but they are backward feudal society after all.

Even if a county official like Fang Jingzhi is sympathetic, he can't wait patiently and escort him safely.

It's good to be able to rescue them, but as for what happens to them in the future, it doesn't matter much to him.

If it weren't for Su Qi'an, Fang Jingzhi would never have done this.

Fang Jingzhi was surprised by Su Qi'an's behavior at first, but after thinking about it, Su Qi'an had read the sage book for so many years after all.

There is still a minimum of morality in his heart, and he has not mixed in the officialdom, it is normal to have this kind of compassion, and when Su Qi'an enters the officialdom in the future, this kind of heart will become like iron and stone, this is the way to be an official.

Of course, while Su Qi'an still has this kind of compassion, Fang Jingzhi is also willing to sell a favor, this kind of good opportunity to make friends in the future, only a fool will give up.

After taking care of the matter, the three of them continued to walk inside, this time going forward, almost a mile, and there was no longer a cave, but came to the end.

At the end is a huge banquet hall, which is where the bandits usually gather to drink and have fun.

The banquet hall is not large, only more than a hundred squares, and in the middle is a long table, and the table runs across the banquet hall.

In the back, rows of chairs were placed, and a rough count showed that there were about seventy or eighty.

Most of the people who can appear here are the middle and high-rise levels of Dongzi Mountain, and at the end is a high platform, on which a tiger skin chair is placed.

Next to it, there are two auxiliary chairs at the same time, and the word "loyalty" is engraved on the wall.

The walls around were hung with the skulls of many wild beasts, and the torches released their temperature, filling the banquet hall with a warmth.

If you put it in normal times, you can imagine the excitement in this banquet hall, but this time, the bandits in Dongzi Mountain all suppressed the bandits, killed those who were killed, and were captured.

In the future, there will never be more bandits who will cause trouble to the two counties.

Su Qi'an just glanced at the banquet hall, and then stepped forward and directly onto the high platform.

Standing in front of the tiger skin seat, after a while, Su Qi'an crossed the seat and gently rested his palm on the armrest.

The fingers seemed to be groping for something, and suddenly, the fingers seemed to touch some kind of mechanism, and the fingertips pressed it.

Suddenly, the wall behind him depicting loyalty made a rumbling sound, and then a stone door opened.

Su Qi'an's eyes flashed, but this was also expected by him, generally speaking, bandits' gathering places must have their own treasures.

I just turned around a lot, and the caves that were found didn't have any silver at all.

If you want to say that Dongzishan doesn't have a tael of silver, don't say that Su Qi'an doesn't believe it, and if you let it go, it will be difficult for the outside world to convince.

The bandits of Dongzishan have plagued the two counties for more than 20 years, and if they have no savings, they can gather nearly 600 bandits, and most of them are outlaws.

If there is no money to attract, who will go up the mountain?

Su Qi'an has never been to the bandits' den, but in his previous life, he has watched so many bandit TV series, even if he has never eaten pork, hasn't he seen the pig run?

No, under his tentative exploration, he really discovered the wealth treasure spot of the bandits in Dongzi Mountain.

The dark door opened, Fang Jingzhi and Xie Cang stepped forward quickly, and the three of them glanced at each other.

The next moment, twenty soldiers armed with shields, longbows, and torches, led the way.

Twenty soldiers were swallowed up by the dark cavern in a flash, and after about a quarter of an hour, news finally came from inside.

There are no bandits left inside, everything is normal, and treasures found inside still need to be read by adults.

Fang Jingzhi was overjoyed when he heard this, and then entered the cave with Su Qi'an and Xie Cang.

Although the cave was dark, there were twenty soldiers exploring the way, and the walls on both sides were covered with torches.

All the way to the point, there was no accident, the three of them walked for about a mile, and finally saw a pile of gold and silver treasures on a high platform in front of them.

At a glance, even Xie Cang's heart jumped, the gold and silver in it, not to mention how much, roughly calculated, at least about 50,000 taels.

50,000 taels may not have any concept, you know, a county town, the tax paid a year is only about 20,000 taels.

And this group of bandits in Dongzi Mountain is worthy of being the strongest bandits in the two counties.

Unexpectedly, two years of tax revenue in Lingbei County, plus the iron ore they discovered, this would be a few years.

This group of bandits, ordinary soldiers can't help it, and when it comes, it's terrifying to think about it.

Fortunately, this time the suppression of bandits went well, if it is like last time, it will be fruitless, and the consequences will be really unimaginable.

The three of them glanced at each other, but Fang Jingzhi spoke, "Xie Hou, Mr. Su, it is a happy event to set foot on the bandits in Dongzi Mountain, and it stands to reason that the treasures of the bandits will be distributed by the county officials." ”

"If it's another mountain, the top may not ask about it, but this is Dongzi Mountain after all, so this official has a proposal."

"Half of the treasures collected this time will be handed over to the county town, and the remaining half will be taken out again, and the official will ask all parties to take care of it, and we will divide the rest equally in the end."

As soon as these words came out, Xie Cang and Su Qi'an didn't speak, they were silent for a while, and the two of them nodded and said, "Then follow what Master Fang said." ”

Fang Jingzhi breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, to be honest, when he proposed the plan just now, he was still very nervous.

After all, these five taels of gold and silver are not a small amount, let alone him, even if it is Xie Hou, he doesn't have 50,000 yuan a year.

He was really worried that these two would attack him here because of the uneven distribution.

Here, there are only three of them and twenty of them, which can be said to be Xie Hou's henchmen and soldiers.

Xie Hou really wanted to do something, he really couldn't resist.

Fortunately, he was right, these two people are not villains who kill people for gold and silver.

In these years, people have power in their hands, and their desires must be great, either for wealth, color, and fame!

They have the right, and after the two of them come into contact, they don't care, they only have the last name that will make people famous for eternity.

It is also Fang Jingzhi who is more accurate in looking at people, if these two people really want to make money, he will not follow the two into the cave just now.

The twenty soldiers behind him were also carefully selected, and they knew better than anyone what they could and couldn't take.

Without Xie Cang opening his mouth, the soldier stepped forward expressionlessly and began to count the gold and silver.

And Su Qi'an just glanced at the gold and silver behind him, then turned around and walked out of the cave.

However, when he passed by Fang Jing, he said softly, "Hehe, Lord Fang was very nervous just now, I don't know if the two of us have passed Lord Fang's test?" ”

Fang Jing was stunned, showed an embarrassed smile, and hurriedly arched his hand and said to Xie Cang and Su Qi'an.

"I'm sorry, this matter is not considered by the official, and the official guarantees that there will be no next time."

"Well, Fang Jingzhi's worries are normal, but Ben Hou doesn't want to have a next time, how can I say that Lord Fang is also a person in the same boat as Ben Hou, Ben Hou will not do stupid things to scuttle the boat, I hope Lord Fang understands."

"The officer understands and is taught."

Fang Jingzhi nodded again and again, and then quickly followed Su Qi'an and Xie Cang to leave.

As soon as he walked out of the cave, after a while, among the soldiers lined up in front of him, Tong Zhan's figure came out again.

This time, he still carried a person in his hand and threw it away.

A small, thin, scarred man with a monkey's cheek collapsed to the ground.

This Tong Zhan didn't kill him, but he took a breath, this person is the third master of Dongzi Mountain, known as Scar Liu.

The shouting and command on the top of the mountain just now are his masterpieces, don't look at this person's thief eyebrows, there are more poisonous schemes in his heart than the other.

Su Qi'an glanced at the three masters who had already broken their hands and feet, and said coldly.

"You are the third master of Dongzi Mountain? Next, I ask you, what you answer, whether you can live, depends on whether your answer can satisfy me. ”

Scar Liu looked at Su Qi'an and nodded weakly, he could see that it was this weak literati who presided over the overall situation.

As for the troublesome eyes, it also depends on when, he can perceive that this seemingly easy-to-talk literati is not so mediocre.

If it was really mediocre, Dongzi Mountain would not be so easily breached, and his brothers who were outlaws would not die tragically easily.

The person in front of him is more ruthless than him.

"What about your real bosses?

"I don't know, all I know is that the second boss became a stand-in for the big boss three months ago, and we don't know where the big boss is going."

The answer given by Scar Liu was very happy, and he didn't go around the bend with Su Qi'an.

"What kind of person do you think you are?"

"The big boss is very smart, smarter than all of us, to put it mildly, if it weren't for the second boss who went down the mountain and overturned this time, he would have made great achievements in giving us Dongzishan a few years, but unfortunately, if it wasn't for the big boss who disappeared for three months, I don't think we would have lost so badly."

Scar Liu is very sorry, for the mysterious master, quite admired, that kind of admiration is from the heart, that kind of vision Su Qi'an has seen.

It's the same as the little fan brother I met in the county exam at that time.

can make Scar Liu comment like this, this so-called big boss, but it makes Su Qi'an quite curious.

Next, Su Qi'an asked a few questions about the big boss, and Scar Liu answered them all.

It's a pity that no matter how Su Qi'an asks, he can't seem to find the slightest impression of this so-called big boss.

To put it bluntly, this kind of impression is that as long as it is a person, it has seen it, and it will produce a first impression through verbal description.

But Su Qi'an's inquiry, what he got was that he had no impression, because this mysterious boss almost never showed up.

As for the face of the so-called big boss imitated by the second master, it is just a stand-in found at random.

The only thing that has a memory, that is repeatedly mentioned is cleverness, extremely terrible cleverness.

This only adds an inexplicable weirdness to this mysterious boss.