Today, the county government received a report from a scholar who had come from other remote villages and towns to participate in this year's scientific examination.

I was afraid that I would be delayed on the way, so I set off early.

But he never thought that he would encounter mountain bandits in Lingyun Mountain!

This scholar has no family background, and those mountain bandits don't look down on him at all, and they are not satisfied after snatching the money and silver, so they simply kidnap his wife directly.

When the scholar ran to the county government office, he was embarrassed, full of grief and indignation, and even more tearful, such an appearance is really embarrassing.

Peng County Ling was furious, and immediately sent people to Lingyun Mountain to suppress the bandits, and Shen Yan was one of the bandits.

He saw the scholar's embarrassed appearance with his own eyes, and even saw the pain and despair in his eyes, and the anger in Shen Yan's heart burned uncontrollably.

If someone dares to touch a single hair of Sangsang, he is afraid that he will even chop off the other party's heart.

Compared with Shen Yan's anger, the reaction of other catchers was much calmer and calmer, as if they didn't have much hope for this trip.

Soon Shen Yan knew why this was the case, although the group of mountain bandits was a rabble, but they had been entrenched in Lingyun Mountain for a long time, and it had become a certain climate, and their cottage was also selected in a place that was very easy to defend and difficult to attack.

In the end, the group returned with a few wounds.

Everyone didn't show too much frustration about this result, but they knew it would be so clear.

When the scholar learned about it, the despair on his face was even worse, his eyes were gray, and a stream of tears could not help but gush out of his red and swollen eyes.

He kept muttering, "It's all my fault, it's me who hurt Huiniang, it's all my ......"

When Shen Yan saw his appearance, he couldn't help but feel a deep haze in his heart, and his heart was like pressing a boulder, heavy and a little breathless.

Shen Yan looked through the files of the county government and found that this group of mountain bandits had been entrenched here for five or six years, and most of them used to rob merchants who came and went, mainly to rob money, and did not hurt people's lives.

Acts of robbery like this have happened before, but not many.

Those businessmen who had been robbed of their wealth came to report to the officials, and finally the county government would send people to suppress the bandits, but without exception, every time the bandits were suppressed like today, they ended in failure.

In the end, the merchants thought they were unlucky, and the matter was over.

The government knew about their existence, but it couldn't really be ruthless to them and carry out a crackdown.

Perhaps because those bandits did not cause murders, the government maintained a strange balance with them, and no one could do anything to anyone.

"Are they just left to do whatever they want?"

Seeing Shen Yan's gloomy face, Xi Junwei raised his hand and patted him on the shoulder, with a serious tone.

"You just came, and you were too ambitious, and you will know in the future, our government is not omnipotent, and we are powerless in this matter. This matter can only be regarded as the scholar's bad luck. ”

When Shen Yan heard these words, he only felt that he seemed to have accumulated a cloud of depression in his heart, and he couldn't relieve it.

He asked himself if he was a kind person, but when he heard such a thing, he still couldn't help but feel angry.

He knew that he couldn't eradicate this cancer on his own, but no matter what, he wanted to do something, and he couldn't just do nothing because there was little hope and let it go.

If you continue to let it go, the other party will only get bigger and bigger.

Although the other party did not kill people in the past, the other party's act of abducting women from good families is also unforgivable.

What's more, who can guarantee that the other party really hasn't killed anyone?

If they rob a certain target, they encounter a hard stubble who asks for money and does not want to die, and they directly kill all the other party, then no one will come to report to the official.

Even if they really didn't kill anyone, that doesn't justify their immunity.

The strength of the county government is limited, and their level is like this, to put it bluntly, they alone can't get rid of the bandits in Lingyun Mountain, if they can let Jiangding Fucheng also send troops to jointly encircle and suppress, they will definitely be able to eradicate the bandits.

But he is just a small arrester, and the county order does not come forward, he has no rights, and he does not have the face to ask the prefect to send troops.

couldn't ask the government for help, so Shen Yan hit Gu Yunzhi with his idea.

"You're going to borrow someone from me?"

Shen Yan nodded, his expression solemn.

Gu Yunzhi looked at him vigilantly, "What are you borrowing someone for?" ”

Shen Yan looked at him as if he was going to do something unseemly, and he was speechless for a while.

If he wants to borrow someone from Gu Yunzhi, he naturally has to explain his words clearly.

He told the matter of the bandits in Lingyun Mountain, and when Gu Yunzhi heard it, the anger in his heart was instantly ignited.

"How unreasonable! These bandits are so inhumane! ”

Shen Yan took advantage of the situation and said, "That's why I want to borrow someone from you." ”

Although Gu Yunzhi was angry, he had not completely lost his mind.

"I do have people, but I don't have many people, so I can't just lose them, I brought them here to be responsible for their lives."

Shen Yan understood his concerns, and he seriously promised, "I won't joke with their lives, I borrowed someone from you, and I didn't want to do it rashly, I was going to go up the mountain to explore the situation first, and if someone cooperated with me, it would be smoother for me to act."

After I find out the situation in the mountains, I will issue another county order and apply for another deployment of manpower to encircle and suppress. ”

He is indeed anxious about this matter, but he is not the kind of reckless man who has no success, he knows the severity, and he will not fight an unprepared battle and ask people to die in vain.

Gu Yunzhi listened to his plan, and only then did he loosen up a little.

Shen Yan assured again, "I absolutely promise to let them come back with all their tails, and I won't let you lose a single person." ”

Gu Yunzhi hesitated, but agreed.

He could see that Shen Yan had made up his mind to do this this time.

Even if he doesn't lend someone to him, he will act, and if he goes up the mountain alone, it will be very dangerous, and if something happens to him, he can't explain it to the master, and he will not be able to go away.

Gu Yunyi's face was fierce, "You promised me that no one should be missing, and you have to come back with all my beards and tails!" ”

When Shen Yan heard this, he knew that he was concerned about himself, so he nodded firmly, "Naturally." ”

Even if he wants to take the opportunity to make meritorious contributions, he will not joke with his life in vain, and he is now sparing his life.

After taking care of the borrowing matter, Shen Yan did not forget to instruct, "The old rule, keep it secret for me, don't disclose it to Sang Sang." ”

He had already agreed to borrow people, and now he could only promise to help conceal them, in a sense, they had become grasshoppers on a rope.

Naturally, it was impossible to explore the path only once, and Shen Yan went several times one after another, and finally got a rough idea of the terrain near the bandit's village.

This bandit village is indeed easy to defend and difficult to attack, but it is not without flaws.

When he made a discovery, he planned to investigate further, and then explained the situation to Peng County, but he didn't expect that before he could take action, an accident happened first.