After Jiang Zhenyuan and his party left the first line of gorges, they found some dead branches to cremate Bai Yan, and took the ashes and rushed to the town twenty miles away.

Besides, Shi Wunian, the bandit didn't dare to play any tricks, and honestly came to the cottage with Shi Wunian. Shi Wunian landed on a hill not far from the cottage, and he spoke: "I'll give you a chance to live, but I don't know if you can grasp it." ”

The bandit hurriedly said: "Although the hero has something to order, the small one must obey, I only hope that the hero can leave a small life." ”

Shi Wunian asked: "First of all, tell me how these people went up to the mountain to become bandits?"

The bandit reassured, "Actually, most of the brothers on this mountain are people from the neighborhood, because they can't live anymore, so they go up to the mountain to beg for food, otherwise they will definitely starve to death." A small number of them are fugitives wanted by the government, and these people basically have lives on their hands. These are the people who usually go down the mountain to work, because the owner of the village thinks that only these people can be relied on. And those who go up the mountain to make a living may take the opportunity to turn back on the water or give people a tip-off. Because this kind of thing has happened before, after that, the owner of the village will never let them go down the mountain to work, usually just let them be responsible for the construction of the cottage, when there is work, they are only responsible for responding, and do not know what the specific task is. ”

"Then you mean that except for Liu Yishou, all of these cottages are good people. Shi Wunian asked coldly.

The bandit hurriedly explained: "No, no, most of those who often go down the mountain are not good people, they have killed people. ”

Shi Wunian asked: "Then if you kill them all, how many people do you think will be unjustly killed?"

"This, this ......" the bandit hesitated and did not know how to answer.

Shi Wunian looked at the bandit's embarrassed look, and he changed the question: "Tell me your story, how you fell into the grass." ”

The bandit hesitated for a long time and finally spoke: "The little one's name is Zhou Da, and his family lives in Xintian Town, fifty miles away. Originally, there was a fifty-year-old mother, and there was a lady who had just married into the door. But when I went out once, my poor lady was forcibly ruined by Wang Laosi, who lived next door, and my seventy-year-old mother found out and wanted to stop her, but she was actually punched to death by the animal. When I got home, I saw my mother lying on the ground, and she was cold. And my lady curled up in the corner of the room shivering, I comforted her a little to calm down a little, but at this time, a long-tongued woman came to my house to borrow something, found out about the situation in my house and went out and shouted, "Dead, Zhou Da's daughter-in-law has been ruined." After hearing this, my lady who had just quieted down suddenly went crazy, she said loudly to me, "It's Wang Laosi" and slammed her head against the corner of the table, I didn't have time to stop it, and my lady was gone......"

Speaking of this, Zhou Da stopped and took a long breath and continued: "At that time, I was thinking about revenge, I not only wanted to kill Wang Laosi's animal, but also killed the long-tongued woman, if it wasn't for her, my lady wouldn't have died, so I immediately chased after her with a knife, but at that time, the people nearby had already driven out, and they surrounded me and said that everyone was a neighbor, although the long-tongued woman did something wrong, but if I killed her, I would have to suffer a lawsuit, so I should deal with the aftermath of the two first." In addition, the man with the long tongue knelt on the ground and begged me to spare his mother-in-law once, and he would teach his mother-in-law a good lesson when he came home......"

So I stopped the idea of killing for a while, and carried the bodies of my mother and my lady to the ancestral cemetery overnight and buried them hastily, but when I went to the long-tongued woman's house again, the family of three fled. A child who lived next door to her house said that the man with the long tongue had indeed taught her a lesson for half an hour, and that the woman had been crying all the time and must have been beaten badly. The child's old man and I have a good relationship, he said that the child doesn't understand, don't talk nonsense, he let the child go home and tell me that the man with the long tongue is the most afraid of the long tongue woman, where dare to teach her, it is clear that the two of them quietly fled after a burst of "turning clouds and rain". I was going mad, so I chased the long-tongued woman to her mother's house, and sure enough, I found the two of them. In a fit of rage, I cut off the tongue of the long-tongued woman, beat the man again, and left. ”

Zhou Da said a lot in one breath, and seemed to be a little thirsty, he licked his lips and continued: "As for the fourth king, I finally found him after thirty years, I first cut off his thing, and forced him to eat it, and then he went crazy, I saw that there was no point in torturing him again, so I slaughtered him." Then I was wanted, so I had to flee to the mountains and become a bandit. ”

Shi Wunian had been secretly paying attention to Zhou Da's expression and breathing changes, and made sure that he didn't seem to be lying, so he asked, "Now that your great revenge has been avenged, why are you so afraid of death now?"

Zhou Dayu hesitated and said: "Although there is no one in my family, but my mother is still alive with his parents, and now only the two elders are left to rely on each other, and the life is too hard, although I can't honor the two elders in a bright and bright way, but I have been quietly helping them, this is what I owe them, I have to pay it back, I am afraid that if I die one day, his two elders will not be able to live." Besides, the young man's methods are too strong, so Liu can't even hold two moves in the hands of the young man, so I'm naturally afraid of death. ”

Shi Wunian said: "If you want to find the damned people in the cottage, how many can you find out?"

Zhou Dadao: "There are only seven people I know, they are all *** female mongrels, in fact, I have long wanted to kill them, but there is really no chance in this village." As for the other people who have their lives in their hands, most of them are forced by the gentry to kill because they can't stand it. Of course, there are people like me. ”

Shi Wunian said: "As long as you can kill those seven people, I will let you go, how about it?"

Zhou Dadao: "Is this true?"

Shi Wunian said: "Seriously." ”

Zhou Dadao: "Okay, I'll take the young man into the village." ”

Zhou Da took Shi Wunian to the door of the cottage on foot, and there was a plaque hanging above the simple wooden door, on which were written four big characters - Xiaoyao Cottage. Shi Wunian asked, "Who wrote this plaque?"

Zhou Dadao: "The plaque was already there when I came to this village, I just heard that Liu Yishou found a book of imperial maiden art out of nowhere, which can make women addicted to it, and Liu Yishou often goes down the mountain to find beautiful women, and soon after taking it captive, he can make the woman obey his words and be willing to be his plaything." So Liu Yishou got this plaque and called himself a free immortal. ”

Zhou Da kicked the wooden door twice and said loudly: "Are your eyes blind?

The bandit who was standing on the sentry stand and dozing off woke up with a smile: "Why did Brother Zhou come back so early, I will open the door for you, you wait, wait a minute." ”

After the gatekeeper opened the door, the bandit asked: "Why didn't they come back with you?" The second master came back and said that the news was wrong this time, so the owner of the village took his brothers to the town to have a good time, and the second master did not want to go, so he came back first. ”

Zhou Da snorted coldly and said: "Hmph! Who said we are going to be happy? This time, the owner of the village asked me to come back to find a helper." Well, watch your door, but don't let the idlers and others get in. ”

Zhou Da took Shi Wunian to enter the cottage in the sound of the gatekeeper bandits, the scale of the cottage was very large, the two of them walked quickly to the depths of the cottage, and then Zhou Da took Shi Wunian to kill the seven people he said one by one, including the little boss who escaped from the first line of the gorge before, from beginning to end Shi Wunian did not intervene, I don't want this Zhou Da to seem timid, but there is real kung fu under his hands.

Zhou Da asked after killing the last person, "What does the young man plan to do with the cottage?"

Shi Wunian said: "If you were asked to decide, what would you do? Directly say what you think in your heart, you don't have to hide anything, you can be my non-existent." ”

Zhou Da hesitated slightly and then plucked up the courage to say: "If it were me, I would take out some money from Liu Yishou's treasury and distribute it to everyone, let them go home and do a small business to support their families, and then put back the women that Liu Yishou had captured, of course, I want to give them more money." Then a fire burned the stockade. ”

Shi Wunian asked: "What about you, are you planning to go back to serve your father-in-law's family?"

Zhou Da said bitterly: "I can't go back, I plan to give them all my savings, and then stay away from this place, and leave it to fate wherever I can go." ”

Shi Wunian thought for a while and said, "If you can change your identity again and no longer be wanted by the officials, so what?"

Zhou Da said excitedly: "Is this true?"

Shi Wunian said: "Just say what you plan to do"

"If I can really change my identity, then I will definitely go back to my father-in-law and mother-in-law to provide for the elderly, and then ...... , and then I don't know either. Zhou Da was excited at first, and then said with a little weakness.

Shi Wunian thought for a while and said, "In this case, you can go to Mountain Shade City in the west, and say that you are from a small place deep in the forest, and then you can record a new identity in Mountain Shade City." If things don't go well, you go to the city lord of Mountain Shade Castle again, and say that a person named Shi Wunian asked you to ask him for help, and he should help you. ”

Zhou Da said excitedly: "Thank you Shaoxia, thank you to Engong, thank you ......" kneeling down and kowtowing to Shi Wunian as he spoke.

Shi Wunian pulled Zhou Da up and said, "Hurry up, just be a good person in the future." ”

Zhou Da asked everyone in the cottage to gather on a flat land, and when everyone arrived. Zhou Da stood in the middle of the flat ground and said loudly: "Brothers, the owner of the village has been killed in the first-line canyon. What are you going to do? Do you want to stay in the cottage, or do you want to get some money to go home and live?"

Zhou Da did not stop it, and after the scene was quiet, Zhou Da spoke again: "Have you thought clearly? Do you want to stay or leave, if you want to leave, everyone can get ten taels of silver." When you get home, you can do some small business, not to mention, your parents are still alive and you can do your filial piety. ”

Someone asked loudly: "Zhou Da, even if the owner of the village dies, it will not be your turn to call the shots in this cottage! When did you, a bad seed who even had a daughter-in-law who was ruined, become so bold?"