"Bandit?" Li Si swallowed the dish in his mouth, glanced at Xiao Cao, picked up another piece of boiled meat and rolled it in the sauce, and asked puzzledly.

"They don't go to Yangzhou City, what are they doing in Mingzhou City?"

Although the two places are not far apart, Yangzhou City, as the main trade center, is definitely not comparable to a small city like Mingzhou City. It is true that Mingzhou City is close to the coast, but now the trade on the sea is not developed, the potential is the potential, and the reality is the reality. For now, in the eyes of most people, Mingzhou City is just a poor country.

is also a thief, Li Si thinks that any thief who is smarter will go north a little further and go directly to rob those wealthy merchants in Yangzhou City, instead of robbing these ordinary people in Mingzhou City. After all, you only need to compare casually to see the gap between the two places, and robbing a team of wealthy businessmen's carriages and horses is estimated to be more than the wealth obtained by robbing the road in Mingzhou City for a year.

"That's why they are strange. Xiao Cao leaned down, lay on the edge of the table, looked around the crowd and said, "And I heard that not only do things strangely, but also the words they say, the clothes they wear, and even the things they rob are also very strange. ”

"What's so strange about this, aren't the thieves just robbing some goods?" Hao Dayou said indifferently, picking up a steamed bun and nibbling on it.

Zhang Susu sat at the table and knocked the edge of the bowl in front of him with the chopsticks in his hand uneasily.

"But since there are bandits, don't go out of the city these days, and wait until the government has dealt with it. Xiao Si, you too, even if your martial arts are high, pay attention, after all, two fists are hard to beat four hands, and there will always be places you can't pay attention to when there are too many people. ”

"Cheng, that's all up to the shopkeeper. Li Sizi nodded unmindingly, and stuffed the slices of meat dipped in the sauce into his mouth. On the question of how many people he can hit, he never explains much.

Zhang Susu and they are all ordinary people, and they lack a concept of Jianghu people, which is probably one of the reasons why they are willing to keep him.

"Hmm. Zhang Susu has always been very satisfied with Li Si's performance, if the people in the store could be as obedient as him, she wouldn't have to be so tired.

The strange old man blinked his eyes and manipulated the puppet to hold vegetables for himself, he was a vegetarian and did not eat meat.

"Oh no, listen to me first. Seeing that everyone was about to skip this topic, Xiao Cao hurriedly said again.

"That gang of bandits is really strange, dressed in strange costumes, no one can understand what is in their mouths, and they have weapons in their hands that cannot tell whether they are knives or swords. Just yesterday, Lu Laohan from a neighboring village was robbed when he entered the city, do you know what he was robbed?"

Xiao Cao has always liked to talk about gossip, and it is rare to have a gossip to talk about, so he will naturally not let it go easily.

Everyone knew about her habit, and they could only sigh and ask in cooperation with her.

"What?"

Thinking that he had aroused everyone's interest, Xiao Cao smiled mysteriously, stretched out two fingers and said.

"Two dry biscuits. ”

There was silence at the table for a while, and then everyone went about to eat their own meals.

"Hey, don't mind, aren't two dry cakes a thing?" Xiao Cao put his hand on the table and waved it depressedly.

"And there was something even stranger before, Uncle Wang, who sold sugar gourds in the West Village, was robbed of a whole sugar gourd, Aunt Li in the South Village was robbed of a basket of freshly washed clothes, and the vegetable field in the North Village always lost vegetables for no reason. ”

"It's all trivial. Hao Dayou sandwiched a piece of meat for Xiaohe, and then sandwiched another piece for himself, wrapped it in a steamed bun, ate it in his mouth, and said vaguely.

"It's just that you usually do too little work to have time to inquire about these things. Shopkeeper, I'm asking for something to do for her. ”

"I think so. Zhang Susu also nodded thoughtfully.

"Oh no. Xiao Cao looked left and right, and only felt that he was wronged: "No matter how you say that they are also robbing with knives, how can you say that it is not a problem." ”

Xiao Cao is right. Lao Luo looked at the book at this time and lightly expressed his opinion: "Don't take evil as small, don't take good as small." ”

"Look. Xiao Cao immediately pointed his finger at Lao Luo: "It's still Lao Luo who speaks fairly." ”

Looking at that look, it was obvious that he wanted to pull Lao Luo and himself into a team.

Lao Luo glanced at her lightly, continued to look at the book, and did not speak.

The ancients said well, a gentleman does not stand under a dangerous wall. He felt that it would be better for him to remain silent for now.

"Shopkeeper!" Seeing that he had no chance of winning, Xiao Cao immediately lay down beside Zhang Susu and begged him for mercy.

There was a mess at the table, and Xiao He didn't get involved, so he got to Li Si's side and asked in a low voice: "Brother Si, I've always felt warm under my stomach lately, are you going to cultivate your inner breath?"

"Oh?" Li Si glanced at him with a smile, as if he was a little surprised: "Then it's already fast, when you have cultivated the inner breath, I will teach you the next mantra." ”

"Really. Xiaohe clenched his fist excitedly, and then grabbed his hair and looked at Li Si and said.

"Thank you, brother. ”

"It's okay, it's just some superficial martial arts. ”

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In the Qianjialou, a dinner was lively. On the deck of a longship on a seaside in Mingzhou City, the atmosphere was deserted.

The sea breeze was whining, and Wada Mamoru sat alone on the bow of the boat, nibbling on a small half of a dry cake in his mouth, his face was yellow. The waves were tumbling and swaying gently with the sound of ups and downs.

Yesterday, he couldn't do it again.

He and his brothers surrounded an old man who was driving an ox cart into the city, and he wanted to kill the old man, rob the ox, and then rob the cart of goods. He slaughtered the oxen and gave them a good meal to the brothers, and took the goods in exchange for some money.

But when he saw the old man kneeling on the ground and begging for mercy, he relented, he had been a warrior after all, and the admonition he had received since childhood did not allow him to do so. And this old man reminded him of Miss Nanako's father. So, he took the two dry cakes from the old man's arms and let the old man go.

Recently, the food on the ship was almost exhausted, and he would take his brothers to steal vegetables from a nearby village from time to time.

He also heard some complaints from his brothers, roughly because they had come all the way to do these things.

Of course, Mamoru Wada knows this. They left their families and everything they had before to come here in order to earn enough money and return to Waben.

"Whew. With a long mouthful of stuffy breath in his chest, Wada Mamoru stuffed half of the dry cake into his mouth at once, chewed it with his mouth puffed out, and raised his head in thought.

He can't go on like this, he's going to do a big vote, and he'll go tomorrow.

He wanted his brothers to see his determination, and he took them into the city to plunder.