"Boss!"

Li Erhu looked through the corpses of those bandits and found something, "Look at this, I know some words, and I feel that this book is a bit like the kind of green forest treasure book mentioned by the older generation." ”

Deer Spirit Treasure Book, martial arts?

Su Hanshan took it and flipped it over.

What kind of treasure book is this, but in fact, it doesn't even have a title, it's more like a booklet used for bookkeeping, in addition to words, there are some strange symbols.

Su Hanshan looked at it for a while, and his eyes lit up.

This is not martial arts, but it is indeed a treasure book, which records many common tricks and methods of secret communication by bandits on the green forest road in Shanyang County.

And in the second half of this booklet, there are also the iconic secret notes of dozens of veteran bandits.

The bandits burned, killed, looted, trampled on human lives, and did not treat ordinary people as human beings, which would inevitably lead to a very different mentality from ordinary people.

Then, in order to restrain a group of people with psychological problems, and even let these people with problems have a sense of identity and centripetal force with each other, it is necessary to artificially shape some common ground for them, so that they have a mentality that everyone is the same kind.

I can't let them kill innocents indiscriminately outside, usually at home, and because of a sentence or two, I hacked my accomplices to death because of a knife or two.

Then this bandit's den won't last for a few days.

Many of the so-called green forest rules are derived from this demand.

Like Shanyang County, because there are especially many bandits, there are especially many rules, especially heavy.

For example, they will worship the same god, and the steps of worshipping the god are exactly the same, or there must be a brother and sister relationship between the gods they worship.

For example, they agreed that on several special days every year, everyone would not go out to rob, otherwise it would be unlucky.

For example, if ordinary people want to become bandits, in addition to the necessary ruthlessness, they also have to go through a series of cumbersome rituals.

They have little empathy for ordinary people, but they treat those who have undergone these rituals as if they had been reincarnated from "ordinary people" into a "bandit" race, and will initially treat them as if they were their own kind.

In the Great Chu Dynasty that year, there was a Qingliu celebrity who preached that Shanyang County was a real place of etiquette, and even bandits talked about etiquette, which is why they preached etiquette.

It's just that the Qingliu celebrity didn't say why the place of etiquette and religion that he touted was known as the place where the upper and lower officials best served the country and were honest for the people.

The number of bandits can be so large that they need to talk about "etiquette" to each other.

It is precisely in order to shape the sense of group identity that the bandits in Shanyang County rarely engage in large-scale killings with each other.

Even if there are contradictions, they are often resolved through competition within the rules, and they should try to avoid contradictions in their daily actions.

So the unique secret mark of the old bandits also appeared.

When they leave a special mark of their house somewhere, it means to tell other bandits that they are moving in this area recently, and they are on a first-come, first-served basis, and others should not come and fight.

Sometimes, when they want to gather their peers to do something, they use these signs to get the message across.

When I was in Shanyang County, this kind of old bandits who could make a name for themselves had been operating their nests for many years, and many guards, misleading, and traps were often arranged on the periphery, making it difficult for outsiders to touch their dens with just a secret booklet, otherwise, as long as a green forest treasure book fell into the hands of the big enemy, the bandits would not be able to sleep well.

But as long as you know how to identify secret records, you can at least determine the scope of the corresponding bandits' recent activities.

Although they have changed places and are far away from their nests, they can be called collective migrations, and the conformism among these bandits has become a deep-rooted habit that cannot be easily changed.

After reading the treasure book, Su Hanshan closed his eyes and recalled, and found that this group of cave bandits had also left marks on behalf of themselves in the city and in the forest.

It's just that he didn't understand it at all, and only thought that it was some stones and branches that had been touched by animals, and occasionally saw some orderly scratches in the chaos, and they were disguised like animal claw marks.

If he had been able to identify the secret mark at that time, with his acumen, I am afraid that he would have been able to delineate the location of this gang of bandits two or three days earlier.

"Looks like we're going to have to go into town."

When the sky was bright, Su Hanshan closed the treasure book in his hand and determined the next course of action.

All the counties in Xueling County are vast and sparsely populated, with many mountains and few cities, and it is very troublesome to find bandits directly in the mountains.

Su Hanshan had inquired about the news in the city before, and he had made every effort to improve his five senses, and he did not let go of the slightest clue, and there was also a lot of luck to find this cave bandit's nest.

And now that I understand these treasure books and the rules of the green forest, I can go to the city again, and I can not only inquire about some specious, scattered and difficult to distinguish news about crimes.

Su Hanshan and the others could have searched for bandit-related marks by themselves.

Based on what I have heard in recent months, the frequency of bandits from all walks of life committing crimes, as long as they pretend to be beggars and wander into the city, there is a high probability that they will find the secret marks left by the bandits before they looted in the past, and they may even meet people who are making secret notes.

Wouldn't it be wonderful to follow the vine and touch the melon when the time comes?

"You get something to eat, and when you're done, we'll sleep here, recuperate, and then we'll leave."

Su Hanshan saw that everyone had been busy all night, cleaning up the corpses and sorting out the goods, and they were all tired, so he simply asked them to borrow this cave to avoid the cold morning air in the mountains.

And he himself rummaged through the goods, found a few white clothes, pinched a piece of charcoal, and prepared to transcribe the things in the Green Forest Treasure Book about all kinds of secret notes.

When he walked around the city later, he was going to hide his identity and quietly send these things to those county offices.

If the local county government has mastered these things, as long as they have a sense of responsibility, even if they are skeptical, they should be on guard.

Not to mention whether they have the ability to suppress bandits, at least, if there are bandits who enter the city and leave secret notes, they can also prevent them as soon as possible and reduce casualties and losses.

In the past few months, there have been too many cases of bandits in the nearby counties, and it is always good to be able to prevent and control them a little in the next period of time.

It's a pity that as long as the bandits are still active, sooner or later they will adapt measures to local conditions and evolve new ways of doing things, and the matter of code can only be regarded as a short-term symptom.

After Su Hanshan copied a few secret notes, he ate breakfast, which was a paste made by breaking steamed buns and putting them in hot water, accompanied by a few pieces of barbecue, but the taste was also good, and he felt very full.

Then he slept for two hours, recuperated his spirits, and called ten people to accompany him, ready to go out of the mountain and into the city.

It had been five or six days since they entered the mountain, and during this time they had been walking around the mountain with twists and turns, and they didn't know which mountain they were on now.

However, since Su Hanshan left home, he would look at every high place, keep in mind the nearby terrain, and calculate the overall route and the length of the distance in his heart.

Therefore, he can still clearly distinguish how he wants to return to the Songhe Martial Arts Hall, and he can also determine which direction he will go from here to the nearest county seat.

For those who have achieved something in martial arts, as long as the general direction is correct, the ordinary desperate road barrier in the mountains is not a problem at all.

For example, as long as they go straight west from here, they will inevitably enter the confines of Shihao County.

However, it is precisely because they have not come to the road they have chosen now that they have not been here before, so after climbing three mountains, as they walked, Su Han Mountain made a new discovery.

"This mark ......"

Su Hanshan stopped in the pine forest, touched the messy traces on a pine tree, pondered and circled for half a circle, and looked at it from a different angle.

"Bronze Sword Madness Lion, Tan Ying?"