In fact, the so-called wind of Jiangnan scholars was not able to sweep the entire Suzhou and Hangzhou Prefectures, because after passing through Suzhou to Hangzhou, it was not far from Youzhou as a border.

Especially after walking half the way through Hangzhou, the charm of books disappeared all of a sudden, and turned into a green forest mountain road rampant with bandits, and every year, there are no longer a few readers who are killed by the so-called mountain king.

And on the border of the two states of Youhang, there is a most notorious bandit - the Thirteen Bandits of the Soul Ridge.

Listening to this name, it is not as simple as saying that there are only thirteen people in this group of mountain bandits, but that there are a total of thirteen leaders in this village, and there are seven or eight hundred people under their hands.

In fact, when it comes to the martial arts of these thirteen people, they are not high-level, most of them are five-grade strength, and only the big master and the third master are four-grade strength.

This lack of strength is also one of the reasons why they dare not enter Youzhou, there are many border troops in Youzhou, so no one can gain a firm foothold in Youzhou except for those few powerful mountain bandits, not to mention that there is also an idealistic sect called a famous sect in Youzhou!

As for why there is no second master in the strength of the four grades, but a third master is mixed in, it is because the second master does not know martial arts at all, and acts as a military advisor in the cottage!

But this military advisor, you must not despise him because he doesn't know martial arts, being able to climb to the position of the second leader without relying on force is enough to prove his means.

It is said that before the second master fell into the grass, he was just a scholar who was abducted up the mountain, and I don't know how he used to impress the big boss in the cottage at that time, and directly let him sit on the second place in the Soul Ridge, and the most surprising thing was that no one from the several masters present stood up to oppose it.

Speaking of the thirteen bandits of the Wandering Soul Ridge, I really can't think of any good adjectives, and even the fellow Taoists who eat together on the green forest road can't get used to them, and they have been trying to find trouble with them, but they have not succeeded.

In the eyes of the people in the green forest, all they want is some yellow and white things. Whether it is robbing a house or kidnapping for ransom, it is to ask for money, if the other party pays the money, they will obediently release the person, and if there are enough people, they will send someone to send him home!

But in the eyes of the thirteen bandits of Soul Wandering Ridge, there is no such thing as honesty at all, they tear up tickets after receiving the ransom is just commonplace, and they take their minions down the mountain to burn and loot, as long as they don't get to Linhua, the state capital of Hangzhou, no one will care about them.

This is not to say that the imperial court and local officials in Hangzhou just let this group of people go unchecked, but they really have no way to deal with this group of mountain bandits.

Since the Soul Swinging Ridge was named with the Soul Swinging Soul, it was already shocking enough in itself, plus behind the Soul Swinging Ridge was the vast 100,000 mountains, they could escape at any time.

If the imperial court dared to send only a few hundred or thousands of people to encircle and suppress them, then they would dare to rely on the terrain to fight a contact battle with the officers and soldiers, and in the end, the officers and soldiers would leave dozens or hundreds of entities in the same place.

If the court dares to send troops to attack on a large scale, then they can turn around and plunge into the mountains to hide, and they will not come out until the storm passes.

The combination of these various factors is the reason why the imperial court has no way to deal with them

"Hey, hey, big brother, look at the work there!"

The seventh-headed of the thirteen heads of the family said to their eldest brother.

His words revived the interest of the minions who had begun to become listless.

In the mountains and forests below the Soul Ridge, an old man and a young man were passing through the forest, their footsteps rustling on the snow, and they didn't seem to notice anything strange in the forest.

Looking at the dress of the young man in the old and the young, it seems that he is a scholar who travels to study, and the old man should be a slave by his side.

"Young master, we shouldn't have lived from here! The notoriety of the Thirteen Bandits of the Soul Wandering Ridge is not a joke, we will really throw our lives here!"

"Uncle An, I really don't know what you're afraid of, although my strength is not too good, but it's also a real five-grade strength, plus Uncle An, your four-grade, I don't believe that we can still disturb them when we cross the road. ”

The young scholar who came out to travel the rivers and lakes for the first time obviously didn't take Uncle An's words to heart, and always felt that he was invincible in the world!

"Alas!"

Uncle An didn't refute his young master's words, but he was obviously helpless, since he had stepped into the forest at this time, there was no way out, he only hoped to pass through this forest earlier.

I originally thought that after the heavy snowfall, my large and small businesses on Youzhou Green Forest Road would be affected, but I didn't expect the two of you to be so face-saving, and you couldn't wait to send money as soon as the snow stopped. ”

But probably because Uncle An's silent recitation in his heart had not yet been finished, twelve figures appeared on the mountain in the distance in time, holding all kinds of weapons in their hands.

After Uncle An saw these people, he protected the young descendant behind him.

"Everyone, the two of us just happened to pass by here, and we don't have any other thoughts, I don't know if you can give us a convenient trip and give us a way to live!"

As he spoke, Uncle An untied the money bag around his waist.

"This mountain king, the two of us have spent a lot of money all the way, so now there is only this silver left, not too much but not too much, a total of one hundred and forty-two taels of silver. ”

The Mountain King took the money bag and weighed it.

"Hey, hey, even if you have some sincerity, but my Soul Swinging Ridge has the rules of my Soul Swinging Ridge, and today, one of the two of you will collect the body of the other!"

Uncle An still asked the young scholar to hide the book in front of him like a chicken, which made the young man who had been a little restless since he came out of the mountain bandits.

"This boss, look at what you said, all you ask for when you go out is a word for money! Who will have trouble with money? I have an idea here, or you see how it goes, on the basis of the one hundred and forty-two taels, we will add another three hundred taels, as long as you can let me go, I will immediately arrange for someone to send you the money!"

In the face of Uncle An's proposal, the big boss was obviously a little moved in his heart, this killing was just a temporary pleasure, how could he be comfortable making money! Not to mention that he had an extra three hundred taels of silver at once.

"Yes!"

In fact, when it comes to this, he still doesn't plan to let them go, just wait for three hundred taels of silver to arrive, he will leave a person's life here no matter what!