"Uncle, can you sell this sheep to me? ”

The old man of the shepherd looked at Liu Xin, and then at the military tents not far away, his eyes were a little vigilant and suspicious, as if he could not understand his words, or he was simply deaf.

"Uncle, I want you to sell this sheep to me, can you hear me? ”

Liu Xin talked for a long time, and the old man understood his words, or guessed what he meant, he pointed at Liu Xin and said, "You, you want this sheep." ”

"Well, I want your sheep, you buy them all to me, how many crystals do you want, don't say much, a fixed price. ”

The old man kept looking at Liu Xin, as if he was thinking about something, and finally shook his head and said, "I don't sell it." ”

Liu Xin said anything more, but the old man simply ignored him, and just treated him as if he was talking to the wind, and when he said it, he was blown away.

"Well, have you bought the sheep? Liu Xin returned to the camp in disgrace, and Xu Dong asked him.

"No, this is a strange old man, I say he just won't sell me sheep, and he looks at me strangely. ”

"I still want to come here, you wait, I'll go and tell the old man. ”

Xu Dong asked Liu Xin to give him a few hundred spars from the money and grain officer in the army, and carried two bags of spars to the old man of the sheep.

"Uncle, let me ask you, why there are not many cattle and sheep grazing in such a large meadow, and I saw your old man herding sheep here alone, what is the reason for this? ”

The old man looked at Xu Dong, maybe it was the Taoist robe Xu Dong was wearing, and the kind expression on his face made him a little relieved, he let out a long sigh, "Alas, this meadow is good, but it's a pity that it's too close to the Beacon Peak." ”

Xu Dong heard what the old man was saying, so he asked, "What do you mean by that?" ”

"Dao Chief, don't you know that there are more than 1,000 bandits living in Bijia Peak, whether it is farming and collecting grain, herding cattle and sheep, or driving foot merchants, they have all been bullied by this live bandit to their homes, so no one dares to herd sheep here. ”

Xu Dong felt that the old man was talking funny one by one, "Then how dare you 'get' the sheep here today." ”

The old man pointed to the military tents, "No, I just saw so many mushrooms popping up on the ground before I dared to drive the sheep over, this is the sheep in our village, they are always fed in captivity in the stockade, and they are all fed thinly, I will let them make a tooth sacrifice today." ”

In fact, Xu Dong understood before this, the people in the village were afraid of bandits so they didn't dare to come to the meadow to herd sheep, and today I saw that there were troops stationed here, and I thought that those bandits would not dare to come and grab sheep casually, so I asked the old man to drive the sheep over.

The reason why the old man didn't care much about Liu Xin before was because Liu Xin's professional military temperament made him feel uneasy, and it was not much better for the warlord to forcibly buy these sheep without paying any money than to let the bandits snatch them.

Xu Dong grasped the old man's mentality, so when he came, he brought two bags of spars, so that the old man could hear the sound of the spars in the bag, and first removed a little guard, so that Xu Dong could further 'trade' with the old man.

"Abel, we have stationed our troops here to exterminate this gang of bandits in Beacon Peak. ”

"Really. The old man's wrinkled face was filled with old eyes, as if they had been filled with lamp oil in a lamp that was about to burn out, and they lit up in an instant.

"I'm real, how dare young people 'fool' you old man. Xu Dong simply told the old man directly, "We tried to sneak attack the bandits' camp last night, but the bandits smashed more than 100 soldiers to death with rolling logs and stones. ”

"Alas. The old man sighed again, "The king has also sent troops to suppress bandits before, but he was also scared by the rolling logs and rocks on the mountain, and he gave up after two rounds of suppression, and you are the third group of bandits to suppress the army." ”

"Oh, what country are you going to be here. ”

"Fu Dan Kingdom, why, you are not the army sent by King Fu Dan. ”

In addition to the large foreign countries such as the Ratuo Kingdom and the Longcheng Kingdom in the Wuliang Sea region, there are also many small and medium-sized countries with small territories, and most of the kings of these countries are mediocre, but the people are not living and bandits are rampant.

"Abel, how many sheep do you have? Xu Dong wanted to get to the point.

The old man replied earnestly, "Five hundred and seventy-six, four hundred and thirty-two males, and one hundred and forty-four ewes." ”

Xu Dong smiled, he shook the bag containing the spar in his hand, "Uncle, these sheep are gathered by a family in the village, can you make the decision to sell him to me, I can give you a good price." ”

The old man said, "How many of you have to eat so many sheep, but this sheep is really thin, and there are only some lamb ribs left." ”

Xu Dong didn't say his true intention to buy sheep, he was afraid that if the old man was a spying of the bandits, it would be better to be on guard in this unfamiliar place, "Our soldiers haven't eaten 'meat' for many days, and they want to fight tooth sacrifices like you sheep." ”

He wanted to get things done quickly, "I have eight hundred crystals in this bag, you take the crystals and leave these sheep for me." ”

"Eight hundred spars. The old man was frightened by this number, "No, no, no, if you don't have so much money, you are here to help us suppress the bandits, how can you be ruthless to earn your military expenses, just have this half." ”

Xu Dong forcibly stuffed the two bags of spars to the old man, "The king has no way, the people are living in dire straits, and we should also be more sympathetic to you people." ”

After buying the goats, Xu Dong and Liu Xin carefully arranged for tonight's night attack, and Liu Xin asked the soldiers to 'get' some pine seeds on the nearby mountains and tie them to the tails of the goats.

As darkness approached, hundreds of sergeants of the "Migrant Army" quietly began the night march with their flocks, and in the middle of the night, the troops arrived at the foot of Beacon Peak.

Liu Xin divided the hundreds of goats into three echelons, each echelon was arranged with a few head sheep, the soldiers set the pine light on the tail of the sheep, and the frightened sheep followed the head sheep to the mountain.

The bandits stationed in the bandit village halfway up the mountain were awakened in a dream, knowing that it was the army under the mountain attacking the village, and when they saw that the soldiers had rushed up the mountain, they hurriedly threw down the wood and stones.

After the two hundred sheep of the first echelon were stoned to death, Liu Xin asked the soldiers to drive the sheep of the second echelon up the mountain, and when all the sheep of the second echelon died, the rolling wood and stones coming down from the mountain had filled the valley.

The warriors continued to drive the third echelon of sheep up the hill, and at first some of the rolling logs and stones fell, and slowly became more and more sparse, indicating that the mountain had run out of rolling logs and stones.

Liu Xin ordered all the soldiers to charge up the mountain, because there was no risk of rolling logs and stones, the soldiers were extremely agile, and rushed to the mountainside with all their might, and fought the bandits in a white-knuckle battle desperately.