Sakura took Lady Wen's carriage into the bamboo forest and parked next to her mule cart.

Chun Niang was a little surprised to see her daughter riding a deer back, but when she saw Mrs. Wen's family, she swallowed back the words of reprimand.

"Mr. Wen, how is the village?" Chunniang asked.

Mrs. Wen: "Everyone has gone to Beishan with grain and softness, and we can't get on the carriage, so we have to come to you." ”

"What do you say?" Chunniang said: "Let's just take refuge together." Hey? And what about a gentleman? Why didn't the family come? ”

Mrs. Wen sighed: "They have to drive to the county seat, saying that the county seat is safer than here." Alas, I can't stop it. ”

I'm afraid that the road to the county seat has been blocked by the rogue, and it will be even more troublesome when I meet it head-on.

The two chatted for a while, Chunniang wanted to build a bamboo shed for them, and Mrs. Wen said that it would be fine in the carriage and not bother.

After another half an hour, Jiang Dalang and Jiang Erlang ran over.

"There are already rogue gangsters at the bottom of the mountain, and they seem to have burned down the houses in the village, so they will come here soon."

The southern slope is only three or four miles away from the village, and those people have scraped the village, and they will not be able to climb the southern slope.

"What about Saburo? Haven't come back yet? Jiang Liu asked.

Jiang Erlang: "Or I'll take a look again." So saying, he hurried out with his bow and arrow and arrow basket on his back. Jiang Dalang also followed.

Chun Niang was in a hurry, and wanted to go out to have a look, but was stopped by Jiang Liu: "Don't go to your woman's house to make trouble, those are outlaws, and women can't attract their eyes." ”

Sister-in-law Jiang also said: "Chunniang, you still have to stay well, or let's go to the depths of the bamboo forest to explore the way, in case the first-class bandits enter here, we also have a direction to escape." ”

"That's good." Chun Niang nodded, took a sickle and walked out of the bamboo shed.

"I'll go too." Jiang Laohan also took a machete and went into the bamboo forest, and Mrs. Wen's servant also followed when he saw this.

So, the three of them walked in one direction, Jiang Laohan and the Wen family servants walked in one direction, and when they encountered the bamboo thorns in the way, they cut them down and moved them aside.

Besides, Jiang Dalang and his second brother went out of the bamboo forest and stood on a high slope looking at the direction of the village.

Smoke rose from several places in the village, and there were vaguely many people running.

"Let's go down and have a look." Jiang Dalang was still not worried about the third brother, and decided to go to the vicinity of the village to see what was going on.

Jiang Erlang also had this intention, and the two brothers rushed down the mountain.

In the village, Jiang Saburo is leading dozens of young men to fight against a group of rogues.

They carried iron forks, shovels and other objects, and some even carried sharp scythes, and fought against the rogues who rushed up.

But the Liukou kept coming, all of them fierce and vicious, they had big swords and spears in their hands, and some were armed with bows and arrows, and they injured several villagers at once.

However, the bandits did not please him, and many of them were injured.

Most of these rogues are in tattered clothes, they look like peasants, and they have all kinds of things in their hands.

Seeing that the villagers of this village were resisting fiercely, the bandit leader cherished it and said loudly: "Brother! We just want to beg for food, and we don't want to hurt your life, so you are also a bloody person, so you might as well uncover it with us! This court is rotten, our people have long lost their way to live, follow a certain one, you can eat and drink spicy food, and it will be okay to pay homage to the marquis in the future! ”

Jiang Sanlang, where did they pay attention to his words, not to mention that he and the others had not yet reached that point, even if the mountains and rivers were exhausted, didn't they still have a kind of golden ear craftsmanship, how could they force themselves to be thieves, and the last family was divided by five horses.

"Since you have come to borrow food, and you have borrowed a lot, please leave our village."

Jiang Saburo said loudly: "We are all crop households, living from the fields, we can't leave our homeland if we have a family and a mouth, and we don't want to wander around." ”

The leader's eyes were gloomy, and he snorted, "You have a home and a mouth, are we homeless?" This brother, I respect you as a man, it is better to follow us, and when the time comes, the world will be unified and share peace, everywhere is uneven, no one is not full of warmth, isn't it beautiful. ”

"I can't agree." Jiang Saburo led everyone to retreat farther away, and motioned to a few people behind him to draw their bows and arrows to defend. "The big boss also please let the villagers go, our life is not easy, and the elderly and children at home still need to be fed."

The bandit leader stood in the crowd with his hands in his hands and smiled coldly: "Since you are obsessed, then don't blame someone for being ruthless." ”

With a wave of his hand, he said, "Kill them and burn down this village." ”

The bandits immediately rushed over with a scream.

Jiang Saburo saw that there were many of them, there were one or two hundred, and there were only a few dozen of them on his side, and he was outnumbered at all, so he hurriedly led people to retreat.

Naturally, he couldn't lure the bandits to the southern slope, and neither could he go to the northern mountain, where there were many villagers hiding, and a group of people could only run east.

Some of the bandits pursued them, and some went from house to house.

But the villagers have taken all the food and belongings from their homes, leaving only bulky things that cannot be moved.

There are also some families who still have a little food left, but the amount is very small.

The bandit leaders were accustomed to it, and they robbed all the way, and they didn't encounter many fat sheep, unless they went to the market town or the county seat.

In villages like this, most of them are poor people, not to mention the dilapidated houses, and there are only a few who can find dozens of catties of grain in a household.

But the families of the blue brick houses in the village are different, they must be local wealthy families.

The leader of the bandits broke into Patriarch Chen's house with more than 20 brothers and rummaged through, and sure enough, he found a lot of good things, and there were hundreds of catties of food.

So he stopped here and asked his brothers to scoop up rice and cook, and go to the vegetable garden to pull vegetables and cook them with the meat they had stolen.

Jiang Saburo and the others ran all the way east, trying to get rid of the bandits behind them.

But these bandits were determined to kill them, chased them all the way, and from time to time they released cold arrows.

Two more villagers were hit by arrows, and Jiang Saburo hurriedly asked them to run and let others cover them, but this slowed down.

"Hahaha! Look where you can go! The leading bandit laughed wildly and commanded his men to fire the arrow again.

Suddenly, an arrow shot from a nearby tree hit the man in the face.

The arrow was so powerful that it pierced the temples of the bandits.

The bandits were stunned, turned their heads to look at the big elm tree not far away, and rushed over with a scream.

Another arrow came from a tree farther away, striking the front bandit in the chest, and the bandit fell to the ground.

This was followed by another arrow, and in an instant another person was shot down.

The bandits were all shocked, and many of them turned around and fled in fright.

The man in the elm tree jumped down and immediately ran into the distance.

Some bandits tried to rush over and arrest them, but were forced back by arrows flying from the trees.

Jiang Saburo also noticed that there was something strange here, and after taking a look at the person who shot the arrow, he hurriedly turned back to support.

At this moment, the situation began to be one-sided, and Jiang Saburo led people to shoot arrows at the bandits while throwing iron forks and stones, and actually injured several bandits at once.

These bandits were a rabble, and when they saw that the situation was not good, they left the injured bandits and fled as if they were flying.

"Big brother and second brother, why are you here?" Jiang Saburo was afraid for a while.

If this is not careful, his two brothers will be finished.

"Find a safe place before talking." Jiang Dalang went to collect the big knives and spears left by the dead and wounded bandits.

Several villagers also ran over, picked up their iron forks, poked the wounded bandits, and sent them to Hades, where they retrieved the arrows and weapons.

In the fierce battle just now, a villager was seriously injured, so Jiang Saburo fed him two pills of medicine that his daughter gave him and gave him to eat.

The villagers carried their injured companions on their backs and did not know where to go for a while.

"Let's go to Beishan." Jiang Saburo was worried about his wife, children, and old father and mother at home, so naturally he couldn't escape with them, so he could only walk separately now.

"That's good." Some of the villagers are still willing to go to Beishan because their families are there.

But there are still a few people who said they want to be with Jiang Saburo.

Jiang Saburo shook his head: "You still go to Beishan together, follow me, what should your family do?" ”

A few people lowered their heads, and finally left with the villagers.

After the villagers left, Jiang Saburo and his two elder brothers made a detour to the southern slope, carefully watching their backs along the way to prevent bandits from following them.

Fortunately, it was getting late and it was raining, and the rogues had retreated into the villagers' homes and refused to come out.

When they returned to their home in Nanpo, the three brothers did not dare to rest, and they could not leave their food, cotton, bedding and other things at home.

Even if you find a place to bury it and burn it, you can't leave it to the bandits.

Jiang Saburo wanted to go home and have a look, but the courtyard door was locked.

After thinking about it, I still climbed over the wall to enter, and looked into the house through the window, and couldn't help but be surprised.

The house was empty, not only were the cages gone, not only the furniture was gone, not to mention the grain, and the big haul of rice was gone.

Jiang Saburo frowned, and went to the stove room to take a look, the cupboard and iron pot were gone, and even the water tank was gone, only the two empty stoves remained.

Not to mention the golden fungus in the fungus shed, even the wooden shelves are gone, and there is not a single chicken left in the chicken shed.

Jiang Saburo suddenly thought of his little girl, could it be that Bao'er did it? But how is that possible?

silently climbed out of the wall, and saw the eldest brother and the second brother each coming over with a large square table.

"What are you doing here?" Jiang Saburo was puzzled.

Jiang Dalang: "Isn't it raining, there is no shelter in the bamboo forest, we can't rain overnight, this big table can keep out the rain." ”

Jiang Saburo: ......

Well, what the eldest brother said makes a lot of sense.

When the three brothers entered the bamboo forest, it was already completely dark.

Walking into the depths of the bamboo forest, I saw a little light faintly shining in a bamboo shed.

Putting down the square table, Jiang Dalang got into the bamboo shed.

There are only Jiang Laohan and his wife Jiang Liu in the bamboo shed, as well as Jiang Cheng and Jiang Quan.

The two boys were already asleep curled up in the bamboo plaque, Jiang Laohan and his wife did not sleep, lighting a dim butter lamp and waiting for their son to come back.

"I'm back!" Jiang Liu shouted in surprise when he saw his eldest son, and stretched out his head to look out: "What about Erlang Sanlang?" ”

"It's coming, too." Jiang Dalang was very tired and sat down on the thin bamboo branch.

Jiang Liu handed him a steamed bun, "Hurry up and eat some cushions." ”

Jiang Dalang took a bite of the steamed bun, and then took the water hyacinth handed by the old lady, and drank it in one go.

Not to mention, home-grown gourds really come in handy, and the benefits will be shown at this time.

"How's it going out there?" Jiang Laohan asked.

Jiang Dalang: "There are a lot of bandits in the village, they occupy the village, and they won't leave for a while." ”

"Oh, how is this good?" Jiang Liu frowned.

Jiang Dalang: "The government always has to send people over to suppress bandits, we just need to get through this time." ”

At this time, Jiang Saburo also got in.

"I heard from the townsfolk that there is not only this place, there are other teams that have gone to the county seat, and it is estimated that the people of the government will not be able to take care of us here for the time being."

Jiang Laohan was surprised: "Why are there so many bandits?" ”

Jiang Sanlang: "There seems to be a big incident in Zhouhe County and Donglin County, there are riots in many places, I listen to the accents of those bandits, most of them are people over there, and their leaders are not simple, they want to expose the uprising and provoke the villagers to rebel with him." ”

"Rebellion?" Jiang Laohan touched his beard, a little incredible.

If it weren't for the fact that life couldn't go on, who would want to rebel? That's a big sin for the Nine Clans.

"Alas, what a sin." Jiang Liu sighed.

Jiang Saburo ate something with the eldest brother and second brother, and rested for a while, still feeling uneasy.

The three of them made several traps in the bamboo forest overnight and sharpened a lot of bamboo arrows.

A few people took a nap, and the sky was bright, and Jiang Saburo got up and went out to check the situation.

The rain was still falling, and the weather was getting colder.

Soon Jiang Saburo ran back and hurriedly said, "Get up!" There are bandits who have come up the mountain. ”

Sakura Bao and his younger brother were squeezing into a bamboo plaque and were sleeping soundly, and were directly lifted up by their father. "Hurry up and eat something, in case the first-class Kou finds us in the bamboo forest, we will run into the depths."

Sakura hurriedly put on her shoes and urged her two younger brothers to dress and put on their shoes.

Jiang Jie and Jiang Wu were also obedient, and without making a sound, he obediently put on his clothes and shoes.

Under the leadership of the second cousin, the two boys went out of Gong, washed their hands and faces with the water in the big gourd, and then took the steamed buns handed by A-Niang and gnawed them.

As soon as he saw the water hyacinth, Jiang Quan looked at his little cousin with a resentful face, and asked in a low voice, "What about the two gourd kings?" Why don't you bring it? ”

Ying Bao said angrily: "How can you bring such a big gourd?" ”

"Then you can't leave it home." Jiang Quan's heart hurts to death.

Before I sold the gourd king, this kind of thing happened, alas.

"If you don't lose your home, who will carry it." Sakura scolds him unceremoniously.

When is this time, I am still thinking about the gourd king. In case these two cousins ran over the wall of their house on a whim, wouldn't they discover their big secret.

Jiang Quan lowered his head and sighed.

Jiang Saburo glanced at the little girl, turned around and walked out of the bamboo forest.

He also has to go outside to find out how many bandits have come up.

Mrs. Wen and her daughter also didn't sleep well this night, and they were always awakened by the sound of the wind blowing in the bamboo forest.

At this time, I also got up early, got off the carriage with my daughter to move my legs and feet, and went by the way to make it convenient.

Sakurabao, who was wearing a small hat, happened to come out of the bamboo forest and quietly asked, "Master, don't you have any robes?" ”

After a night of drizzle in the bamboo forest, a few large drops of water will always fall from time to time, and people will get wet in the forest after a while.

If you get wet in this weather, you will definitely get sick.

Mrs. Wen really didn't bring a hat and a robe, and said in a low voice: "It's all my fault, I forgot it for a while." ”

Even if she didn't forget, she and her daughter didn't have a straw coat, which was only worn by the servants of the house.

Sakura: "Then I'll go back and get you two hats." ”

Then he ran and climbed into the mule cart, pulled out two hats from it, and handed them to Mrs. Wen and Sister Wen.

These two hats have been a little damaged, but they do not affect their use, and they are actually objects that Sakura Bao has collected in the cave.

She took it out of the cave under the guise of a mule cart.

"Thank you, Sakura." Mrs. Wen and her daughter put on hats, and sure enough, those raindrops couldn't hit their bodies.

…

There were more than 200 bandits who touched the southern slope in the morning, and they smashed open the gate of Jiang's house and rummaged through, but they didn't find anything.

The leader was not annoyed, but circled the house.

"It's a great place with excellent feng shui."

The leader of the bandits sighed, "If it weren't for the wrong time, I really want to stay here." ”

After a while, a subordinate reported: "General, we found a lot of grain in the vegetable field, and a lot of cotton wool." ”

"Oh?" The leader was interested, and followed his men to see.

I saw my subordinates lift the straw pile, revealing a shack, and his men dragged out hemp bags full of grain and cotton wool from the shed.

The leader smiled: "There is so much food, it seems that the people on this slope are very rich." ”

Turning around, he commanded, "Look around again, maybe there is something to hide." ”

"Yes!"

A group of bandits began to search everywhere, and soon found the bamboo forest.

But the bamboo forest was so deep that they couldn't see the situation inside, and the bandits didn't dare to go inside.

But there was a path that seemed to lead inside, with twists and turns and rut marks.

Some of the bandits hurried back to report to the chief, while the rest of the bandits watched from outside.

Jiang Sanlang, who came to investigate, had already retreated to the depths of the bamboo forest, and ordered everyone to hurry into the forest, "The bandits are coming in, you pack up some things and go inside." ”

Chun Niang hurriedly said: "What about the mule cart?" ”

"Leave the mule cart behind, and the mule will be taken away." Jiang Saburo picked up two sacks of grain and put them on the back of the mule, urging: "Hurry up, they will be here soon." ”

Everyone in the Jiang family immediately packed up their things, carried them and went to the forest.

Mrs. Wen also asked the servants to lead the horse, carrying food, bedding and other things on the horse's back, and she and her grandmother and daughter also held the items in their hands, abandoned the carriage and followed the Jiang family inside.

Chun Niang looked back at the mule cart as she walked, there was still a lot of food on it, so she lost it, and she only felt heartache.

Sakura Bao also felt sorry for the food on the mule cart, and when everyone didn't react, he suddenly ran back, quickly ran to the mule cart and climbed up, and took away all the food in it in a moment, and then ran back before A-Niang found it.

"What are you doing back here, kid?" Jiang Erlang, the queen of the palace, reprimanded.

Sakura: "I'll go back and get something." She showed the bag in her hand to the second uncle.

Jiang Erlang picked up his niece and quickly followed the team: "Don't run around!" He was caught by the bandits and boiled as a lamb. ”

"Oh." Sakura Bao obediently responded.

At this time, Jiang Sanlang retreated from the front, took the girl and handed it to his wife, and said to the second brother: "After the two of us, the eldest brother and father and Dacheng are in front of them. ”

Jiang Erlang nodded, vigilantly watching the situation behind him as he walked.

At this time, the bandits had already entered the bamboo forest, and they quickly found the place where the Jiang family was stationed.

"General, do you want to chase inside?" The bandit asked.

The leader checked the frame of the carriage and mule cart, and said with a slight smile: "Of course you have to chase, it's such a big fat sheep, wouldn't it be a pity to let them run away." ”

"Yes!" The bandits got the order and immediately called a dozen accomplices to chase after them, but they didn't go far when they suddenly stepped on a few ropes, the ropes suddenly loosened, and the bamboo held by the ropes suddenly bounced up, and several bamboo arrows swished and shot at once, hitting the two thieves at once.

The bandits screamed and fell to the ground curled up in pain.

"There's a trap!" One of them shouted, "Go find a long bamboo pole and make a path ahead." ”

The bandits were frightened and did not dare to enter, trembling and waiting for others to bring bamboo poles to open the way in front, and then they followed.

This makes it a lot slower.

Along the way, they encountered several traps one after another, and the bandits were more careful.

The leader was even more interested, and insisted on letting his men pursue.

He wanted to see who was in front of him, so smart and knew how to use traps.

The leader didn't know, in fact, this was a means of hunting often, and a small means of using the toughness of bamboo could only hurt people by surprise, and once it was recognized, this trap was easy to avoid.

In fact, the bandits quickly caught up with Jiang Saburo and them.

Jiang Sanlang and the second brother took turns shooting arrows, retreating while shooting, forcing the bandits not to dare to step forward.

Later, the ferocity of the bandits was aroused, and they rushed up regardless of it, Jiang Saburo took out the machete he had confiscated and chopped it, and Jiang Erlang assisted him.

Because the bamboo road was narrow, it was only enough for one or two people to walk, and the bandits were repelled by the two brothers again and again, and they were so angry that they screamed.

Sakura heard the sound of fierce fighting behind her, and her heart was burning.

Seeing that the situation was not right, Mrs. Wen's servants also joined Jiang Saburo and them with weapons, wielding machetes and slashing the bandits.

This servant is obviously a practitioner, much better than Jiang Saburo's brothers, and he is simply a husband and wife.

But as the bandits suffered more and more casualties, Jiang Sanlang and the others were also injured, and their strength weakened significantly.

At this time, Jiang Laohan and the others in front suddenly encountered a steep slope in front of them.

There is also some bamboo growing on the steep slope, but there are quite a few trees.

Jiang Laohan was overjoyed and hurriedly urged his family to climb up the steep slope.

As long as you climb a steep slope, you can attack the pursuing bandits from a high position.

But the slope is so steep that one can climb it with bamboo and shrubs, but it is difficult to hold something in one's hands, and mules and horses cannot climb such a steep slope.

"Women and children hurry up, and if they can't get their things, they will be lost." Jiang Laohan advised.

Dani Erni and Yanru reluctantly dropped the basket in their hands, but the basket on their backs was not lost, and several women struggled to climb the steep slope.

Sakura Bao suddenly stuffed a bundle of rope to A-Niang, "Mother, you quickly take your younger brothers up, and then tie the rope to the tree." ”

Chun Niang understood the meaning of her daughter in seconds, and she didn't care about where her rope came from, so she immediately took the two children to climb up.

Jiang Jie and Jiang Wu have been trained by his sister countless times to climb trees and climb over walls, which comes in handy at this time, and he can climb faster than his little cousin ingots.

Wei Zhan didn't let it go, and climbed up the steep slope after him.

But Wen Shu and Mrs. Wen can't do it, because it is a rainy day, the steep slope is very slippery, the mother and daughter climbed several times and slipped down, fell into muddy water, if it weren't for the shoes they wore with straps tightly fastened, it is estimated that the shoes have fallen off.

It happened that Chunniang had already climbed uphill, tied one end of the rope given by her daughter to the tree at the top of the slope, and threw the other end down the steep slope.

"Master, Sister Wen, hurry up and hold on to the rope, and we'll pull you up." Sakurabo, who had already climbed the steep slope, shouted.

Wen Shu was already about to cry, and was pushed forward by A-Niang, and the grandmother persuaded Wen Shu while wrapping a rope around her waist: "Don't be afraid, big lady, don't let go of the rope." ”

"Hmm." Wen Shu knew that he couldn't hold back, Ah Niang and Grandma didn't go up, so he must go up quickly, so that he could pull the two of them.

On the other side, another rope hung down, and it turned out that Sakura Bao turned out a bundle of rope out of nowhere, and asked Ah Niang to tie it to another tree, and threw one head down, "Master! Come on! ”

Time is short, and they cannot afford to hesitate in the slightest, otherwise their lives will be lost.

Mrs. Wen naturally didn't dare to delay, and hurriedly grabbed the rope and climbed up.

At this time, Jiang Sanlang's side was almost unable to hold on.

Today, three chapters were sent together.