Chapter 59: The Beginning of the Iron River

Among Li Erhu's group, the wives and children of small families, disabled and infirm, were pulled out, washed and changed, and after eating two full meals, Zhou Zifan came forward.

He used both hard and soft measures, let the forty rough men see the current treatment of his comrades who were unable to fight, and then talked about the fate that should have been sent to the government to deal with it.

Soon, Li Erhu and the others had already taken the initiative to express their stance that they would follow the orders of the martial arts hall.

However, the matter of robbing bandits is also exquisite.

The number of enemies, their combat strength, and how to find their hiding dens will take time to figure out.

After Su Hanshan arrested Li Erhu and them, on the third day, he took these forty people from his home and went to the next county.

First, he listened to the news, followed the robbed places, and tried to find out the strength and traces of the bandits who committed the crime.

Then they began to search in the mountains.

It took five or six days for Su Hanshan to rely on his own acumen to detect the strangeness in the mountains and forests, and gradually determined the hiding place of a group of bandits.

It was a cave, and the number of bandits in the cave should be around thirty.

When this group of people committed the crime, they were very sophisticated and ruthless, and they did it at noon, when it was the most lively.

They chose two large restaurants and pawnshops not far apart, hacked all the guests and the host's house to death, threw their bodies on the streets, caused riots, and after grabbing a large amount of food and goods, they used dry firewood and charcoal from the back kitchen, books, calligraphy and paintings in the pawnshop, and so on, and set two fires.

When the yamen was about to arrive, they were in a hurry to extinguish the fire, and only engaged the gang of bandits in a hurry for a moment, and they ran away.

Judging from the scale of the start and the whole process of doing it, although this group of people has enough experience, their strength is not very strong.

Su Hanshan was still cautious, waited until late at night, caught two lookouts, carefully investigated, and determined that among the bandits, only two leaders exceeded the level of Qi Hai Xiaocheng.

I asked again about the inside of this cave, and it turned out that there was a road leading to the other side of the mountain, which was the life gate left by the bandits.

Su Hanshan immediately divided his troops, took ten people by himself, and entered from the road on the other side of the mountain.

Let Li Erhu lead people to wait here, hear movement inside, and then kill from this side.

Li Erhu waited for about three moments, and when he heard the shouts of fighting inside, he immediately rushed in with people.

The cave had not been chosen by the bandits for a long time, and it had only been hastily cleaned, with few traces of manual excavation.

Only between the crevices of the rocks, at intervals, there are one or two torches inserted to illuminate the cave, but it does not look dim.

When Li Erhu rushed in with people, more than a dozen bandits were about to flee, and when they saw that there were many people outside, they actually knelt on the spot.

The weapons were thrown away indiscriminately by them, begging for mercy, making people's ears hurt and kowtowing constantly.

When Li Erhu inquired about the news in the county, he had heard about the ruthlessness of this gang of bandits, and now seeing that they were so frightened, he was a little suspicious in his heart, so he asked people to put a knife on their necks first and escort them inside.

The interior of the cave is very spacious, and you can see straw hides everywhere, as well as some sets of tables and chairs.

But now, the scraps of food were scattered on the ground, the wine jars and bowls were torn, the tables and chairs were reduced to piles of broken wood, the corpses of the bandits crushed against the wood, and the blood stained the hay red.

Some of the corpses had no heads, some of the corpses were cut in two, and some of the corpses had their chests translucent from front to back, and the wounds were all very smooth, apparently by the masters.

Li Erhu could even imagine that figure suddenly entered the cave, the sword light flashed like lightning, and others only heard the sound of the big knife flying and cutting off human bones, and in an instant, there were corpses everywhere.

No wonder the remaining dozen bandits were so frightened.

Perhaps, among the corpses that didn't seem to have been able to walk past a single face, there was the leader of this nest of bandits.

Li Erhu was suddenly a little lucky, fortunately, when Su Hanshan went to arrest them, he didn't have a knife in his hand, otherwise, I'm afraid he would ......

It's not right, with Su Hanshan's martial arts, with or without a knife, how can there be such a big difference.

What Li Erhu should really be glad about is that the style of their gang is very different from the deeds of the gang of bandits in the cave who were interrogated.

Su Hanshan stood in the depths of the cave with a big knife, grabbed a handful of hay casually, and wiped the blood on the knife.

Next to this large cave, there are two small caves, the passages are narrow, and there is no road out of the mountain in the small cave, but they are quite dry, and they are used by these bandits to store food and goods.

Li Wuniu, nicknamed "Buffalo", was coming out of one of the small caves at this time, excited, wearing his black fur hat on his head.

"These grains alone are enough for us to eat for more than 20 days, and they are the kind that can eat three full meals a day, and there are silver, bronze, lacquerware, and medicinal herbs that are very valuable at a glance."

He came over with a box, "Boss, this thing is placed on a stool alone, looking at the most precious, do you think this is the legendary thousand-year-old ginseng?" ”

Su Hanshan took a look: "How can thousand-year-old ginseng be so easy to find, but this kind of old ginseng can be regarded as the top grade." ”

Li Erhu walked over: "Boss, there are more than a dozen captives over there." ”

Su Hanshan looked at those people, they were all thirty or forty years old, and they were wearing good clothes.

Although it is not as good as the two leaders who were hacked to death by him, they are obviously the backbone of this gang of bandits.

"Kill it."

Su Hanshan commanded, and Li Erhu was ready to do it.

Li Wuniu's eyes rolled at this time, and he had an idea: "Boss, it's a pity that this group of people killed them." ”

Su Hanshan was surprised: "What? ”

Li Wuniu came to his side and said in a low voice: "Boss, you think, we have been looking for these days, and how much effort has it taken to find such a nest of bandits, if they are all killed, I don't know how long we will have to look for them after that." ”

Li Erhu said: "But we are to rob the bandits' things, and leave these bandits, don't we have to give them more rations?" ”

Li Wuniu smiled proudly: "Brother Erhu, you just don't know how to be flexible, the boss can accept us, and we can also accept these bandits." ”

"These people have experience in robbing things, let them continue to rob, and if they grab it and hand it over to us, we won't have to work so hard."

Li Erhu still wanted to speak, but was stopped by Su Hanshan raising his hand.

"Five cows."

Su Hanshan smiled, "Then how do you control these bandits to come back?" What if they rob something and run away? ”

Li Wuniu immediately said: "If they are really disobedient, they will at least have to grab another wave, and then they will have the capital to escape, we can follow, and when they escape, they will kill and collect the things they robbed, so that they can have another batch of harvest." ”

"But if I had to convince them, I would be sure they would be obedient."

Li Wuniu patted his chest, "Follow us, follow the boss, you are obviously more promising than their previous boss." ”

"You're so smart."

Su Hanshan praised it, his eyes narrowed, and with his now disguised face, he looked like a kind middle-aged man, "Then tell me, why don't I just take the servants to rob the house, and I have to try to track down these bandits first, so it's a lot of trouble?" ”

Li Wuniu glanced at the captives, and his voice was lowered again, showing a kind of closeness.

"The boss will definitely not let us be bandits for the rest of our lives, and we all have a better identity in the future."

"If we go to rob in person and take more action, others will inevitably be somewhat familiar with our face and body shape, and we will not be bandits in the future, and when we walk outside, there will be more risks of exposure."

He confidently analyzed, "Let these habitual bandits rob, and we harvest these habitual bandits behind our backs, the risk of exposure will be much lower, and if necessary, no matter how ruthless we are, we will be safer if we kill these people." ”

"Ha, that's what I thought, it sounds really interlocking."

Su Hanshan still smiled, "Then if I am ruthless and kill all of you afterwards, will I be safer?" And can you monopolize the harvest during this period? ”

Li Wuniu was stunned for a moment, his lips moved, and he smiled reluctantly: "We, we are different from these bandits......

"Yes."

Su Hanshan lost a smile on his face and looked at him coldly, "I can accept you because you bandits are not like bandits, but if you really become like those habitual bandits, what reason do I have to keep you?" ”

As he spoke, he kicked at his feet.

With a thud, a table leg flew out and pierced the chest of a bandit.

Li Wuniu trembled, and a layer of cold sweat broke out on his forehead.

The dozen or so bandits, seeing that begging for mercy was useless, rose up one after another and wanted to fight back.

However, their weapons had been lost, and they were guarded again, this trapped beast battle was useless at all, and they were soon killed by Li Erhu and others.

"Before, I was just sure that you would follow me to do things, and I have been running around with you for the past few days, and I haven't had a good chat with you."

Su Han said loudly in the pass, step by step, walked to the chair of the bandit leader, turned to look at everyone, and his thick voice seemed to produce a brief echo in the cave.

"Now it seems that I should emphasize something to you. First of all, let's be clear, we came out this time for two purposes. ”

He raised a finger first, "First, do a few forced buying and selling businesses." ”

"You must know that the goods in this cave are not made by bandits, but they stole them, and they are the things of the bitter master, we are not sages and heroes, and we will not bother to investigate and then return the goods to the relatives of the bitter lord who are still alive."

"But after taking the goods of the bitter master, even if you take this order, at least you have to help them kill the enemy, and the business can be regarded as neat, this is the bottom line."

"Second ......"

The tip of Su Hanshan's knife touched the ground, his hands were folded, pressed on the hilt, his eyes paused on Li Wuniu, and his voice seemed to be three points lower.

"I don't like to hear about a large group of bandits going around in my hometown, it makes me a little uneasy and uncomfortable."

"There are many bandits, and there must be masters in them, with us people, there is no way to eradicate all the bandits, and I don't want my family to cause more trouble."

"Therefore, we must cherish the time to use this black and black identity to carry out activities, and kill as many as we can!"

"All such evil bandits who don't treat the common people as human beings, and we can beat them, then we will never allow them to see the sun the next day!"

At the end of his words, the words became heavier and heavier, and the pools of blood on the ground next to the corpses of those bandits seemed to be shaken into ripples.

Li Wuniu only felt that these words sounded like a drum, and the words were knocking on his heart, and before he knew it, he was already sweating.

The others also felt awe-inspiring in their hearts, and hurriedly nodded in response.

Su Hanshan turned his head, glanced at everyone, and his voice slowed down a little: "You also have to think about it, those wives and daughters who fled with you all the way, lived and died, and had a deep affection, are small, and now they can be regarded as having their own residence in Xueling County, and they are considered to be residents here." ”

"When we get enough property to help you settle down, you will have more relatives and friends living here in the future."

"Those who have not married will have wives, those who have married will have children, and those who do not marry themselves will have nephews and nieces, and you will all have your own home, a new home, a good home, right here, like all the local people, for a stable and comfortable life."

"If there are several groups of strange bandits who kill people and commit violence and robbery every day in the vicinity where they live, can you still relax......

His voice was full of emotion and his tone was tactful, so that everyone thought of that scene in their minds.

Their own family and loved ones were talking, picking vegetables, and doing laundry, and in the woods, bandits with steel knives and grinning fangs were approaching.

Just thinking about it made everyone clench their fists and clench the knives in their hands.

"After thinking of this, let me ask you again, do you want those beasts to die as soon as possible, or, in order to take advantage of them, let them live again, give them a chance, with their own knives and the hearts of the people who are accustomed to killing Pingtou, close to your own family?"

Everyone was silent for a while, but their hearts fluctuated.

Li Erhu raised his knife just right and shouted: "Of course you killed them!" ”

"That's right, kill them!" "Kill them!" "Kill all these people!"

The crowd raised their steel swords and shouted one after another.

Li Wuniu couldn't help but shout a few times, then lowered his head and said ashamedly: "I was wrong." ”

Su Hanshan caught this voice from everyone's shouts, and his gaze stopped on Li Wuniu again.

He doesn't have the divine power to see through people's hearts, and he doesn't know if this Li Wuniu can really be corrected from a dangerous direction.

However, he is willing to wait and see.

Besides, after today's experience, there will inevitably be people who will discipline this old brother more attentively.

Su Hanshan's gaze suddenly turned.

Li Erhu seemed to be shouting, but in fact, he was looking at Su Hanshan and Li Wuniu a little nervously, and he didn't have time to retract his gaze, and was caught by Su Hanshan.

He was shocked in his heart, and then heard Su Hanshan say: "Think about it, there are no rules, Erhu, you can extract a few rules from what I just said, and remind the brothers from time to time, so as not to be taken advantage of by some crooked thoughts." ”

Li Erhu understood his intentions, so he put his mind at ease and hurriedly surrendered his hand: "Understand, I will definitely handle this matter as soon as possible and show it to the boss." ”

'Our new boss seems to be a bit kind. ’

Li Erhu was a little indescribably happy, and thought viciously, "The buffalo, the rabbit cub, should also be taken care of!" ’

Su Hanshan looked at everyone's expressions that were a little firm, and sighed secretly in his heart.

No one doesn't want to be a good person, well, the definition of the word itself is something that will make people feel comfortable and make people yearn for it.

Some people may think that it is very simple for a person to become bad, but it will get worse and worse when he does bad things, but it is difficult to do good deeds.

But you don't see it, even if there are many evil thoughts in the hearts of some people, once they have done good deeds, they are recognized by the public, but they cherish their feathers, know how to suppress their own malice, and gradually get better.

Su Hanshan really wants to be a good person who is completely upright and bright, even if he wants to kill the bandits, he can unite with his colleagues and act calmly with his true face, so that the suffering of the people can be redressed and compensated, instead of the current form of black eating black.

But he couldn't yet.

People are always close to each other, distant and near, the Songhe Martial Arts Pavilion was cheered up at the beginning, and it was still surrounded by wolves, all relying on the determination of the second uncle to gamble with others, in order to temporarily get a peaceful status quo, which made him unexpectedly think of such a means now.

His brothers and sisters have all been seriously injured, both physically and psychologically, whether they have been able to get better or not.

He hoped that his relatives would not fall into such hardships and torments in the future.

Therefore, he must do everything possible to make his family strong as soon as possible, to have more people in the martial arts hall, to have a deeper background, to kill the enemies who have not been killed as soon as possible, and to eliminate the murderers nearby.

For this reason, he will even take the initiative to propose those practices that he does not like, and also laugh at his relatives, as if he is complacent about the methods he has used, and has no resentment.

However, there are at least certain bottom lines that are absolute, absolute, and cannot be broken!

If even the bottom line is destroyed, maybe one day, it will be these people who have earned his own income to hurt his relatives.