"Don't talk nonsense, I'm not seventy or eighty miles old!" Ma Jiutou walked quickly to the west gate without returning to the drawbridge tread, he was in a hurry to interrogate the prisoners, but the soldiers behind him chased him and sweated profusely.

Because there was only one boat left, He Dalang asked his subordinates to take the prisoners across the river first, and he broke off with another sentry, so he landed after another tea time, and it happened that Ma Jiu came out of the west gate to greet him.

"Fortunately, this kid slipped out of the village to touch things, and we caught him!" After the military salute, he proudly said to Ma Jiu:

"Uncle Nine, this kid still has two more skills, if the three of us don't pounce on him, we almost can't hold it down!"

"What's wrong with your arm?" Ma Jiu suddenly saw the cotton gauze bandage covered by his sleeve and the blood stains on his sleeve, and hurriedly asked.

"It's okay, this kid has a knife ...... hidden in his boots. I'm glad I found out, otherwise it would have been a great deal for him!"

"Don't take it seriously, go to the medic at once and ask him to re-bind you!"

"It's okay, it's slashed by the blade. Fortunately, I rolled up my sleeves and didn't ruin the garment...... He Dalang also wanted to distract the old man.

Ma Jiu shook his head: "What does the ordinance say? Field bandaging can only temporarily stop bleeding, but it cannot be sterilized. Hurry up and find the medics to wash the wound with alcohol and change the bandage into a new one! If you don't listen to all the inspections, you will find me to shut you up?"

He Dalang stuck out his tongue and saluted, "Then I'll go, I'll leave it to you here."

Ma Jiu waved his hand and asked his own soldiers to come over and take over the prisoners, and He Wei went back to rest with the reconnaissance sentry horses. Ma Jiu called to take the captives to the palace in the city gate for questioning.

When he went in and sat down, the soldiers had pushed the prisoner to his chair and knelt down, and removed his blindfold.

It was a bearded guy with a mouth stuffed with rags in his mouth, but his eyes kept rolling. When he saw Ma Jiu coming in, he stared at him deadly.

"Look at what? Don't you kowtow to adults?" The soldier slapped him on the back of the head as he spoke.

Ma Jiu sat down, took off the knife and stood in front of him, motioned to pull out the strip of cloth from his mouth, and then asked, "What's your name?"

"Lu Jiu." The man replied with a few mouthfuls of foam on the ground.

"Where are the people?"

"Ningzhou (i.e., repairing water)."

"Huh?" This answer was a surprise to everyone. "You're from Ningzhou, why did you come here to be a lake bandit?" Ningzhou is in the westernmost mountainous area of Nanchang Prefecture, hundreds of miles away from here, so Ma Jiu felt strange.

"I ......," the captive was suddenly a little embarrassed, "I eat too much, and my stomach is always full. Jing'an Jun said that he wanted to recruit a man, and I thought that this job was good, so I followed to sign up.

But the one thought I had eaten too much, so he drove me to feed the horses. I was not happy to always grab black beans with the horse to eat, so I ran away when I adjusted my defense. I didn't dare to go anywhere else, so I went to the lake to find a place to fall into the grass.

How could it be that a few robbers wanted my knife? I cut down three of them, and forced them to take me to their chief......."

"Well, why don't you say it?" Just as he heard half of Lu Jiu stop talking, the pro-soldier urged in confusion.

"Ahem, what else could there be? Even the chief of this family thought I had eaten too much, and then gave me to another king, who in turn gave me to another king. Anyway, I just messed around like this for a few years, and changed seven masters until I was caught by you."

Several people in the room were stunned, and then they "fluttered" out loud, and then laughed again, and all of them laughed so hard that they couldn't stand up straight.

After laughing for a long time, Ma Jiu wiped his tears and pointed with his hand, "Then, what about He Dalang? Okay, go out and tell me why I came back so soon, and if you dare to do so, find me a rice bucket!"

"Hey, you old immortal, which one is the rice bucket to scold?" Lu Jiu straightened up and glared and shouted, and immediately received another slap on the back of the head. "You're fighting again? If you have the ability to let go of Lao Tzu, you may not be the opponent of the master in this house!"

Before his words could land, the soldiers stretched out their hands and gave him another hand: "Blind your dog's eyes, you dare to scold the adult? Do you dare to be big?

I'll do it later

You eating guy poke at the pole and see if you're still hard-mouthed!

Our Ma-sama is a hero who fights the Japanese invaders, and he retired because of his injury, and he is a loyal and brave captain and a hereditary hundred households. Still don't bow your head?"

Lu Jiu was stunned at this time. Lieutenant Zhongyong is a martial knight, which is equivalent to the seventh rank, but it is not a hereditary title and has a title but no position.

Because it is the same level as the hundred households, it has been given a hereditary position of one hundred households, and the hereditary hundred households of this dynasty can be inherited for three generations, and the rank will be reduced after three generations.

This is equivalent to saying that this person has the title and position of the seventh grade, and can fill or act at any time for military positions at the same level and below.

Usually, it is not easy to see a patrol from the ninth grade, but today when he suddenly saw a seventh-grade lieutenant, Lu Jiu's throat turned for a while, and he suddenly felt that he was half shorter, and beads of sweat the size of beans appeared on his forehead.

"The old man spares his life, the villain didn't mean to offend. The mouth of the small, the villain...... Alas! It's bad in this life!" He regretted it, but his hands were tied again, so he had to kowtow on the ground.

"Well, I also know that the upper and lower are inferior and inferior, and there is still a royal law in my heart. That being the case, give you a chance, and get up, and raise your head and speak!"

Ma Jiu said unhurriedly, and motioned to his own soldiers to lift Lu Jiu up, telling him to kneel down and listen to the adult's questions and answer honestly.

"You're one of Katekako's men?" Ma Jiu asked him.

Lu Jiu shook his head: "The little and the villain are the subordinates of the Dushan Grand Leader Mao Taigong."

Mao Taigong, whose real name is no longer known, is already known to very few people. This man's name is Taigong, but he is actually a cover-up, and he is only forty years old. Because of the lack of whiteheads, his hair began to turn gray at a young age, so he got this nickname.

There are seven chieftains around Dushan, and there are thousands of people in large and small villages combined. Because of the power of the finless porpoise, these seven families made an alliance, so they were collectively called Dushan Qijiazhai by the outside world.

Because of his scheming and bravery, this Mao Taigong was elected as the "Great Leader".

This time, Tatehuazi sent a hero post Dushan also received, Mao Taigong felt that this was a great opportunity to climb the thick legs, and if he performed well, he could join hands with Tatehuazi to fight the finless porpoise in the future.

Dushan sent 800 men to participate in the attack on Yugan, and the leaders of the seven families all actively participated in the battle, leaving a good impression on Tatehanako. According to Lu Jiu's confession, opposite Lulu Harbor is the people of Dushan.

Originally, she reciprocated the favor, and Tatehuako meant to hand over the good deeds of attacking Leijiawan to the vanguard led by Dushan, with a number of 1,600 people.

But for some reason, I suddenly received an order from Tatehana yesterday to stop and wait for the big army to follow.

"Didn't Kako follow?" Ma Jiu asked

"Nope." Lu Jiu shook his head, "They are still in Wuni Town."

Ma Jiu thought about it, "Have you heard what the reason is?"

"I've heard a rumor, but I don't know if it's true or not." Lu Jiu replied: "It is said that before leaving, Tatehuazi sent Dong Qi to the north to show off under the city of Raozhou, wanting to confuse the officials and soldiers.

Who thought that the official army had made a bureau and released the news that due to the tight war, the government and Taiwan urgently ordered Leping County to transport all the autumn grain and taxes in the treasury to Poyang and hand them over.

Yitian (i.e., Dong Qi) was greedy for grain, grass and tax silver, so he led his team to attack Lutian overnight, but the official army set up an ambush at Tielan Pass and defeated him.

It was because of this matter that Tatehuazi had to respond to and cover Dong Qi's retreat, so we stopped too."

This was an important situation, and Ma Jiu immediately realized that the defeat in the first battle would adversely affect the morale of the Lake Bandits.

And the so-called one-time blow, Tatehanako hesitated and stopped like this, which would greatly jeopardize his prestige in front of the leaders of the family.

From Lu Jiu's confession for half an hour, Ma Jiu learned the general composition and basic situation of the lake bandit team, and had a relatively comprehensive impression in his heart.

He asked someone to loosen Lu Jiu's ties, then brought some porridge, steamed buns and pickles, and watched him gobble up eleven steamed buns and four bowls of porridge while chatting, and pointed to He Wei who rushed over after hearing the news with a wry smile:

"It's such a treasure, it has such a belly. Look at the good work you've done!"

He Wei grabbed his scalp and grinned: "Then, who would have thought that this was the net in the group of traitors

What kind of? Isn't this another Wang Yidou (Wang Xi's nickname)?"

"You don't talk to people," Ma Jiu said half-jokingly, "The people are a general, you can only bring us a horse breeder!"

"Who said I was just a horse breeder?" Lu Jiu's mouth was full of inarticulate words, and he made a gesture: "I used to raise horses, but now I don't raise them. There isn't even a horse in the seven villages!

They saw that my martial arts were okay and bold, so I made me a sentry detective. I came out this time to investigate the terrain around this Leijiawan, and Mao Taigong wants to know where the best place to attack is from."

"Nonsense, you weren't looking at the terrain when we caught you."

"So, isn't that because you're hungry? When I came out, I didn't call me full, but I only said that I would eat when I went back for half a meal! Hmph, in fact, I was only half-full inside and out, do you take me for a fool?" He said it funny, and everyone laughed.

In the laughter, Ma Jiu glanced at He Wei, and the latter asked everyone to go back and what to do.

Bombed everyone away, turned over and came back He Wei covered the door of the house, and when he turned around, he saw Ma Jiu putting his hand on Lu Jiu's shoulder, and said to him very seriously: "Follow ***, let you eat like this every day, okay?"

Lu Jiu burped and blinked his little eyes in surprise: "You mean...... How is it to let the villain eat like this every day? Captain, you—don't play villain!"

Lu Jiu was full of food and drink and was put back, he hummed a little song and walked by the pond, carrying a branch on his shoulder, and at the other end of the branch hung a small bag of blue dyeing, and the aroma of flax cakes came from it.

The boy's belly bulged like a full fish, and his exposed chest hair was covered with beads of sweat. He was the same when he came, and he had no weapon except for the wrist knife hidden in the leggings (which was returned to him, and it was in the leggings again).

He relied on brute force and the fist and foot martial arts he learned in the official army, and felt that it was enough to meet one or two opponents with this knife, but he didn't expect that people were five against one, and three pressed him.

But now that he wants to open it, it won't be bad to be caught once, maybe it's a blessing in disguise!

For a man like him who just wants to be fed, just like the cat begging for food, it doesn't matter who is the owner, what matters is who can give the food to eat.

The lame old lieutenant didn't seem to be a bad man, not only did he cut off his head, but invited him to dinner, brought him these flax cakes, and said that as long as he helped to lure that Mao Taigong over, he would accept himself as a personal soldier, and eat as much as he wanted.

Lu Jiu has followed so many leaders and kings, but no one has made such a promise to him so far, it is like a lump of gold falling from the sky, and it happened to fall in front of him!

As for Mrs. Mao, what happened to them, and what does love to die have to do with him Lu Jiu?

Captain Ma said it well, you are a straggler and a lost officer, unfortunately fell into the hands of thieves and was coerced, and now it is an act of antijustice, what is the crime?

This seems to be not a great fault, but rather a meritorious one. Lu Jiu can't recite poetry, but he also knows that life is wonderful, so wonderful that he can't imagine it!

There is a bamboo raft parked on the bank of the mending river, and a bow is sitting on it to collect the pole and start the line. He grabbed the fish that had just been caught, and when he turned his head, he saw Lu Jiu proudly appearing on the shore, raising the fish in his hand: "Brother Jiu, stew fish for you tonight!"

"Good! Fish stew, baked cakes, just make a pair! Ah Bing, come on, there are flax cakes here, eat a piece of cushion belly first!" Lu Jiu split his big mouth, touched the beard on his upper lip and said loudly.

"Huh, flax cake?" The black and thin young man was overjoyed, and was about to throw the fish into the river, but thinking that it was wrong, he quickly found a fish basket to fill it, and then washed his hands, took three steps and ran up to meet him.

"In the end, Brother Jiu is amazing, and he will find delicious food when he goes out. Oh, it smells so good!" He rubbed his hands against his body, took the burden and opened it, and exclaimed happily.

The two of them squatted side by side on the bamboo raft like this, Ah Bing bit the cake sweetly, and listened to Lu Jiu's nonsense about a little widow's outrageous lie, nodding in disbelief, his eyes full of admiration and admiration.

This child's background is not clear to him or others. In short, it is a baby left by a miserable woman, who is fed by the east family and the west family on Dushan.

Lu Jiu often took care of him as a gangster, and later worked as a scout (that is, a sentry)

, I asked this child to be a partner, and the two covered each other together, and they didn't feel lonely. When he was full, the two of them slowly returned to the other side of the river.

Now that the harbor was empty, the people had long since dispersed to other places, avoiding the routes that the lake bandits might use to advance.

After Mao Taigong led the team to station, he lived in the town office, and Lu Jiu saw him in the council hall of the office. "Lu Jiu is back? Damn, I thought he would grind until tomorrow morning."

Mao Taigong was a little surprised. He was so angry that he waved his hand to tell the others to exit first, and then asked the captain of the soldiers with some confusion, "This kid has always been grinding, why is he so quick this time?"

The captain of the pro-soldier had just received five pieces of bread from others, and he was embarrassed to speak ill of himself, so he smiled and said, "It seems that I met a little widow who knows and is interested, and has received a lot of news from her."

"Hah! How can this rammed goods still have such an affair? Call me and listen carefully." Mao Taigong was very happy, anyway, there was not much fun in the camp, and he didn't receive the order to enter the army, so it was not bad to have fun.

The reason why he sent someone out to inquire was purely to deal with the matter, so if Tatehanako suddenly remembered to ask for the enemy's information, he would have said it.

didn't want to send a foodie fool to go on this trip, but he actually walked out of the story, and Mrs. Mao was suddenly interested.

So the scene that had been practiced on the other side of the river was staged again, and Mao Taigong and his personal army captain listened happily to Lu Jiu for a long time.

Hearing that the two of them were full of spring breeze and relish, Mrs. Mao remembered that he should ask a few official words, so he asked him matter-of-factly: "So, you have already touched the fortress of Leijiawan?" What kind of village is it? Is it easy to fight?"

"The big boss said, 'It's easy to fight, it depends on what you say.'"

"Blame!" Mao Taigong glared and said, "You have also done things in the official army, don't you know if you can fight or not?" What do you mean by 'see how to say?'

"Great Leader Rongyu, if you lead an army to attack, I'm afraid it will be difficult, and only by using a strategy will it work."

"Oh?" Mao Taigong sat up straight in surprise: "A small fortress, can it be so powerful?"