Back in the kitchen, secretly rejoicing. Sure enough, this doghead is thoughtful, and it is really not easy to kill him. It's impossible to desperately take the head of a-stirring stick now. Not to mention that one move of the Heavenly King covers the top and can't beat him to death, let's just say that once the bandits in the village are alarmed, how can so many people fight, and he will not know any other kung fu except for a move of the Heavenly King covering the top with his right palm. Although it is a palm that can destroy the stele and crack the stone. After all, it's not as simple as swatting flies. It's impossible for people to stand still and let you shoot. Wang Shi sat on the stove and went to the stove to add firewood while thinking. There was a sound of footsteps outside the door: "Have you cooked yet, Lao Tzu is hungry." Wang Shi turned around and looked for prestige, only to see two little minions standing at the door and looking in.

"It's going to be fine right away, I was called by the king to ask about things just now and delayed for a while. Wang Shi explained

"What kind of, isn't it just that Laizi is dead. It's a day to be a bandit, and maybe one day it will be the turn of the countrymen. With that, the two minions went to the restaurant. The "Chinese people" in this sentence is the meaning of "oneself" in the Sichuan dialect.

After a while, another group of people came to the kitchen to ask, and after a while, another wave of people came to the kitchen to ask, and Wang Shi explained those few words. Look at the water boiling in the pot, and the smell of meat can be smelled everywhere in the village. The black dwarf dog baby strode in: "What kind of meat are you cooking so fragrant!" Wang Shi smiled and said, "Yellow beef!"

"Yellow beef, you liared the ghost!" the dog baby didn't believe it, and looked at Wang Shi with tortured eyes.

"What a yellow beef!"

"There is no cattle killed in the cottage, where does the yellow beef come from. So he reached for the lid of the pot, and a stream of hot steam came to his face, and he hurriedly tilted his head to the side and fanned the steam with his left hand.

"It's really yellow beef, it was Zhang Fat who put the meat in the pantry, I saw it, and I was afraid that it would spoil when the weather got hot if I didn't eat it. ”

"Is the meat ready, how long has it been cooking. The dog asked with her left hand, took a spoon from the side, scooped a piece of meat into the pot, and put it in her mouth. While chewing: "It's already good, but it's still a little hard." Forget it, I can't wait. The king is urging. ”

Wang Shi went to fetch a wooden bucket and scooped it on the stove, filled half of the bucket of porridge, and carried it behind the dog with a flat pole. Passing by the restaurant, I heard everyone inside shouting loudly, "It's already good, this is to deliver food to the king." ”

"Really, there are so many of us, don't let us eat first. ”

"It's like, let's do it ourselves. ”

A group of little minions saw Wang Shi delivering food, ran to the kitchen to pick up the bowl and went to the pot to get meat, you fight for me, and after a while, a large pot of meat was robbed, and many people complained that they were not full.

When Wang Shi came back, he saw that the kitchen was in a mess, and the meat in the pot had been robbed. On the stove, there were full of dishes and chopsticks that had been eaten, everyone dispersed after eating, Zhang Chengfu walked in from outside the door: "If you have no meat to eat, you have been robbed, I wanted to help you keep some just now, but there are too many people to keep it." I'm sorry. ”

Wang Shi smiled and said, "Thank you." ”

"Thank me for what. ”

"Thank you for helping me out, cousin!" the two looked at each other and smiled.

"Why are you helping me. Wang Shi asked suspiciously

"I knew you must have killed someone or stole something, and ran to the mountains to hide from the government. I'm guessing right!" Zhang Chengfu looked at Wang Shi with a mischievous expression

"Yes, yes, yes! I just ran up the mountain secretly to avoid the government, so I had no choice. Wang Shi took the opportunity to echo him.

"So, they are all fallen people at the end of the world, how can I not help you, I see that you are not a vicious person. It must have been forced to go to Liangshan like me. ”

Wang Shi asked, "Tell me your story." ”

"There's nothing to talk about, there will be opportunities in the future. By the way, what kind of meat did you cook tonight, how did I never taste this strange smell of meat? Zhang Chengfu looked at Wang Shi suspiciously.

"Fat Zhang's meat!" Wang Shi hesitated for a few minutes before whispering

After hearing this, Zhang Chengfu pointed at Wang Shi with one hand, and then ran outside the door and vomited for a while. Wang Shi watched Zhang Chengfu vomit outside the door, and couldn't help but shake his head, "I didn't tell him if I knew he would vomit." ”

Zhang Chengfu vomited for a while and came in from outside the door, kept stroking his chest with one hand, wiped his tears with his sleeve, walked to Wang Shi and whispered: "Zhang Fatzi was also killed by you!"

"Yes. Wang Shi looked indifferent as if nothing had happened.

"You are not afraid that I will go to the king to sue you. ”

"You go and sue, I'm your cousin. Cousin, you're right. After Wang Shi finished speaking, he looked at Zhang Chengfu with a smile.

"Even if you're ruthless, I really don't see it. Why don't you tell me first, this is human flesh, and Lao Tzu has eaten so much. It's disgusting to think about. ”

"I didn't have a chance to tell you, I was called for questioning, and then I didn't see you when I came back. I'm going to deliver food again. Where is the time to report to you. It's not poisonous anyway. What are you afraid of? Wang Shi was rich and laughed while talking.

"I haven't eaten yet, and there is still some porridge left at noon, and you probably emptied your stomach just now. Come, I'll treat you to some porridge. As he spoke, Wang Shi picked up a bowl and handed it to Zhang Chengfu, and he also served a bowl himself. After eating porridge and chatting until midnight, Zhang Chengfu went back to sleep.

In the cottage, only a few of the leaders lived in a separate room, and the rest of the minions slept in a large room with quilts on both sides of the wooden planks. An aisle in the middle. Wang Shi didn't know where to sleep when he first came, and if he went to sleep in a big bed with the bandits, it would definitely arouse suspicion.

After Zhang Chengfu went out, Wang Shi closed the kitchen door, next to the water tank on the ground in the middle of the kitchen, spread it with dry grass underneath, covered it with some grass, took a piece of wood as a pillow, and slept until midnight and had nightmares. Seeing that Zhang Fat's face was covered with blood, his mouth kept shouting, "Give me back!" In a hurry, he was sweating profusely, so he woke up and sat up, looked at the oil lamp on the stove, and the yellow light illuminated the whole room in a miserable light, and his clothes were soaked with sweat.

"M's! It's really in response to the saying of the ancients, don't do bad things and don't be afraid of ghosts calling the door. Wang Shi said to himself, and couldn't help but look at the storage room, the black wooden door suddenly became dark and terrifying. I comforted myself. He continued to fall asleep, leaning sideways with his back to the water tank, looking in the direction of the storage room from time to time, as if Zhang Fat Man would suddenly come out of it to ask for his life. It was held until dawn.

I didn't sleep well all night, and I was a little sleepy during the day. After lunch, I fell asleep in the pyre. Sleeping fragrantly, the dog baby walked outside the door and slammed the door hard! "Open the door, Xiao Zhang! Xiao Zhang!"

Wang Shi heard the knock on the door and rubbed his eyes: "Who!"

"I, dog, hurry up and open the door and tell you something. ”

Wang Shi opened the door and the dog baby came in habitually, looking left and right: "Tonight, the king will lead his brothers to Quma Town to hunt pigweed." Hurry up and make food to eat, eat at the time of unitary, and set off at the time of the unitary. ”

"What kind of pigweed to shoot, and don't feed the pigs!"

"Oh, you're so stupid, to shoot pigweed is to rob. Stupider than me, hopeless!" The dog baby said, putting her hands behind her back and making an old-fashioned look. After finishing speaking, he left, turned around and dropped another sentence: "You cook right away, the time to delay the departure, the king can't spare you." ”

Look at the time of the day, the unitary time to eat, that is, more than five o'clock, there are still three hours. Wang Shi cheered up and went to the storage room to scoop rice and meat, and began to get busy.

This Quma Town is more than 40 miles away from the Lion Rock, and there is a loess ridge in the middle, which has never been, and it is also a densely populated place, the town and Zhangzhou City are only 20 miles apart, and it is a big road, which can be opened to cars and horses. In ordinary times, the-stirring stick is more cautious, worried that it will meet officers and soldiers. Today, the dog head suggested going to Quma Town, so that he could loot more money and food. Second, it can also explore the virtual and the real. If you encounter officers and soldiers, you will fight if you can, and you will withdraw if you cannot. The dog head made a detailed retreat plan. The-stirring stick thinks it's feasible. So plan to try it tonight.

The-stirring stick was cleaned up, and the minions were all gearing up and in good spirits. The light of the knife with the knife reflects the sun, and the head of the gun with the gun shines with silver, everyone is like a tiger going down the mountain, and everyone wants to be the overlord of Chu.

The was the vanguard, followed by the-stirring stick, and was about to set off. Wang Shi ran out of the kitchen until he came to the-stirring stick: "Your lord, when you go down the mountain today, you will also bring the small ones with you to see the world." Wang Shi said, clenching his fists and bowing

This Wang Shi wanted to follow him to Quma Town and see the medicine shop in the town to get some poison. Good start. Always staying in the cottage, is it really impossible to stay here as a cook?

The-stirring stick laughed when he heard it, "You kid, okay, I'll take you." "Let the dog baby go to the back warehouse to find a Pu knife and hand it to Wang Shi.

Everyone galloped all the way, walked for more than half an hour, when it was almost dark, to the Loess Ridge, the stirring stick gave an order, let the brothers rest for a while, Wang Shi sat on a stone on the side of the road, looking at the Loess Ridge, layer by layer of rice fields, the seedlings were green, several villagers were walking home after finishing farm work, the black roof of the farmhouse, the chimney rose blue and white cooking smoke, which was dissipated in the sky by the breeze. It's quiet. One or two dog barks could be heard in the distance.

Every time the-stirring stick goes out to loot. There were rules on the road that no one was allowed to speak, so although the team of more than forty people sat on the road in the dark, there was no movement. Rested for a quarter of an hour. The-stirring stick waved his hand, and the who led the team in front stood up and set off with the people. The people behind also followed silently, rushing all the way forward.

After marching forward quickly for more than an hour, Wang Shi was already tired and out of breath, and the black cloth hexagram he was wearing was soaked with sweat, as if he had just been fished out of the water. The other bandits were all gasping for breath, the sky was already dark, the moon had not yet risen, and it was dark all around. There were many people walking on the road under their feet, and they seemed to be shiny and shiny, and they glowed a faint white in the dark night.

As they were tired, the team in front stopped, and a small minion ran quickly from the front to the-stirring stick and said, "The front is Quma Town, and we have reached the outside of the town." "The-stirring stick asked the big guy to rest first, pant evenly, arrange the knives and guns and prepare to enter the town, and start grabbing.

After resting for more than ten minutes, Wang Shi wiped the sweat from his forehead with his hands, and was looking at the town, Zhang Chengfu leaned over and whispered in his ear: "I'll be in the town for a while, don't run around, follow me." ”

"Well, I know. "There is a big road in the middle of Quma Town, with several rows of houses on both sides, and there are merchants living on the street, and there are some village households behind it. There were two or three hundred families living in the whole town. As soon as the bandits entered the town, they began to knock on the doors, holding bright knives and guns in their hands, and slashed to death with knives as long as anyone resisted the slightest. Snatch money, ** women. Do no evil. The whole town was in the air for a while, crying and scolding, noisy and shouting. All the bandits went to grab things, and Wang Shi looked around on the street looking for a medicine shop. As he walked to the door of a silk shop, he saw a man in his forties wearing a long-robe with red flowers in front of the door, lying barefoot in a pool of blood, and two women screamed heart-rending from the room, "Please let my daughter go." Then came the sound of a bandit laughing, and the cry of a young girl: "Mom save me, Mom save me!" Wang Shi didn't want to care about this, but when he heard the shout, he couldn't control it, and rushed in stride, and saw a black man holding a middle-aged woman in white pajamas to the ground, and a man next to him was tearing the girl's clothes. The two bandits saw Wang Shi coming in, "Brother Zhang, you also want to come in and have fun, line up, and let you be third." Hahaha" Wang Shi didn't say anything, stepped forward with an arrow, raised his right hand and slapped it on the head of the middle-aged woman bandit. Then there was a muffled thud, and the bandit, who was sitting on the middle-aged woman, fell to the ground. The bandit who pressed the girl on the bed didn't see it at all, he just made love to the girl's neck with his mouth, Wang Shi stepped forward quickly, pointed to the back of his head, and with all his strength, bang, the skull was shattered and dented. I saw that the bandit was bleeding from his mouth and nose and didn't move, and pushed the body away. The girl sat on the bed in horror and covered her chest with her hands, her face covered with tears, and her hair was messy.

At this time, the girl's mother came over and knelt down, kowtowed, and Wang Shi quickly helped her up with both hands. The middle-aged woman wiped her tears: "Thank you for the hero's life-saving grace, if it weren't for the hero's rescue today, our mother and daughter would have lived in this world without face." After saying that, he began to sob. The girl also got out of bed and knelt down on her knees in thanks. Wang Shi hurriedly helped him up and said: "You guys hurry up and hide, if the bandits find out that the two of them are dead here, I am afraid that they will come to seek revenge." You pack up the money first, wait for me to set a fire, burn the corpses of the bandits, and I will send your mother and daughter to the city of Zhangzhou. ”

The mother and daughter got dressed and hurriedly packed up some soft silver and jewelry. Make a baggage. Wang Shi dragged the corpses of the two bandits together, threw up the oil lamp on the table, and then went to the counter to pick up a few bundles of silk and threw them on them. After a while, the fire broke out. Wang Shihu's mother and daughter walked out of the town from the trail all the way, and strode for more than an hour to the gate of Zhangzhou City.

"There is already the city gate ahead, and you mother and daughter will rest for a while, and wait for the city gate to open in the morning. Go into the city, and do not advance what is happening tonight. Wang Shi was about to leave after explaining.

The mother and daughter knelt down again and thanked: "Thanks to the hero's rescue today, even if you become a cow and a horse in the next life, you will not be able to repay the hero's great kindness." ”

Wang Shi hurriedly helped him up: "What you said is serious, how can there be a reason not to save when you see death." I had to rush back to avoid the suspicion of the bandits. ”

"Hero, take care all the way!" the mother and daughter watched the back of Wang Shi leave in a hurry and disappeared into the night. After a while, she couldn't see anymore, and the daughter took her mother's hand and said, "He can't see when he walks away." Let's go to my uncle's house first. ”

The girl's uncle lived in a small village outside the city gate of Zhangzhou, the mother and daughter walked along the path to the village, knocked on the door, the girl's uncle opened the door, asked the reason, settled the mother and daughter, and ran to the city gate, knocked on the city gate, and the city guards asked impatiently: "Who is not long-eyed." Knock you M in the middle of the night. Don't know the rules. ”

"Master, the bandits in Quma Town are here, you open the door quickly, I want to go to the county lord and ask him to send troops to suppress the bandits. At this time, a mouthful of spit was spit on his face, and he touched the smell of saliva with his hand. Then the soldiers on the tower shouted: "In TM quarrel, Lao Tzu will come down and kill you." Even if there are bandits coming, you have to wait until dawn to open the door for you, whether to send troops or not, that's the master's business, it's not your turn to worry. Get out of here now!"

The girl's uncle continued to argue below, trying to convince the soldiers above, but the more they listened, the more impatient they became: "You are making noise, arrest you as a bandit." He scolded all the time.

He sighed and went back alone.

When Wang Shi hurried back to Quma Town, it was already a sea of fire, and seven or eight houses on the west side of the street had been burned, and the streets were full of people. They are all busy putting out fires. The fire was gradually about to be extinguished, and a group of people who stirred up the stick didn't see it, and when they were looking around, suddenly Zhang Chengfu flashed out of the black field: "Let's go, the stirring stick and the are on the way back with a large group of people and the stolen things, I am looking for you everywhere, you are still looking around here." As he spoke, he took Wang Shi's hand and ran wildly towards the road back. Because the two of them were empty-handed, they ran forward for more than an hour, and when they arrived at Loess Ridge, they had already seen the rest of the bandits walking back shoulder to shoulder in front. The-stirring stick walked at the front of the team, and the was at the back of the group, carrying a simple knife on his shoulder, and turned around to see Wang Shi and Zhang Chengfu who had caught up: "Where did you two brothers go to scourge the girl, there is not enough! Also empty-handed. ”

Zhang Chengfu and Wang Shi were speechless, bowing their heads and walking together behind the team.

I wanted to go to the town to find a drugstore to get some poison, but hey, I followed dejectedly. When they returned, the procession was very slow, because the camels had a lot of grain, cloth, gold and silver, etc., and there was not much gold and silver, but more grain, cattle and sheep. The-stirring stick said to the doghead: "Doghead, I usually see that you are quite clever, but you said that you have a bad idea to run so far." He traveled more than 80 miles back and forth, robbed, and asked the brothers to carry food. Isn't that a hard work? ”

"My lord, food is more useful than gold and silver, if you are trapped in a cottage, gold and silver, you can neither eat nor wear, then you have to rely on food to survive. After saying that, we are bandits, we will rob whatever we need, do we still need to use silver to buy things, hahahaha. ”

"You have spoken so lightly that you have made the brethren miserable. ”

It wasn't until dawn that they arrived at the cottage, and the dog baby instructed the minions to put the grain into the storeroom, put the stolen gold and silver into the warehouse, keep the accounts, record all kinds of materials clearly, and show the bills to the-stirring sticks. Ordered Wang Shi to hurry up and make food, everyone had a good rest, and the gathered everyone in the open space in front of the gate to check the number of people, and there were two fewer people. I asked and said I didn't know. Everyone said in a gossipy manner: "It must have robbed the gold and silver and ran away, who is willing to come back and suffer." ”

"Isn't it just to get rich when you become a bandit, the two of them must have rolled up the money and slipped away, who will come back to suffer from this bird's anger. ”

A thin man with a mustache said, "I saw the two of them enter the silk village and kill the shopkeeper, but then I didn't pay attention, and after a while, the silk village caught fire." I don't know where the two of them went. ”

The thought for a moment, then went in and told the-stirring stick and the doghead about it. The dog head called a monkey in.

The thin monkey's surname is Jiang, who was originally a habitual thief, and has been taking refuge in the-stirring stick for many years, and is clever and sleek and sophisticated. often go down the mountain to find out the news, the last time he attacked the Green Hall Dam and deceived Zhou Xiaomao into opening the watchtower, he was the leader. The dog head told the monkey to go down the mountain and go to Quma Town to find out about the two missing minions.

After lunch, the monkey wore a green cloth robe, a red tasseled hat on his head, and a pair of boats on his shoulders. Dressed as a villager rushing to the market. Calling to open the gate of the village, the minions guarding the door: "Yo, monkey, where are you going, wearing a person who looks like a dog." ”

"Hurry up and open the door, delay the matter, Lao Tzu told the king to knock you!" This "knocked you" is the meaning of castration in the Sichuan dialect. The monkey jokes with the little minions guarding the door.

"You kid go down the mountain and, be careful that you're really knocked, hahaha," the little minion pinched the monkey with his hand while opening the door of the village.

The fine monkey blocked it with his hand, went out of the village gate all the way down from the east side of the mountain, it was the weather in April of the lunar calendar, the sun rose, the temperature rose, he was tired of walking, sat down on a stone on the side of the road, untied the outer robe, took off a cotton coat, and then put on the outer robe, carried the cotton hexagram in his hand, and wiped the sweat on his face: "On this day, it was cold in the morning, and the sun was hot when it came out. Is. "Taking off a cotton hexagram, it feels much cooler, the breeze is blowing, and several farmers in the roadside rice fields are busy plowing the fields and planting seedlings. A few loquat trees on the edge of the rice field are yellow, orange and orange with fruits.

When I was thirsty, I went to the bottom of the tree and picked a few loquats, sat in the shade, peeled off the peel and sent them to my mouth. A sweet and sour soaking heart and spleen, and while he was eating, an old man came from the village, full of white hair, wearing a black torn short coat. Walking up to the front with his hands behind his back, he saw that the monkey was still eating, and he didn't look at him, as if he didn't exist, the old man was a little angry: "You don't ask the price for eating loquat." The thin monkey put his hand on his pants and said, "I'm sorry, uncle, I was thirsty when I walked just now, and I saw that your loquat really looks good." I ate a few, and I will give you money at the price. ”

When the old man heard the thin monkey speak, he stretched out his hand not to hit the smiling person, so he changed his tone: "What is the value of a few loquats, but you have to say hello before you eat other people's things." ”

"The old man was right, but he was really thirsty just now, and he didn't see anyone nearby, so he forgot to ask. The old man climbed down the branch with his hand and picked a few handfuls for the monkey. The monkey thanked the old man and continued on for a few miles. After passing through the Loess Ridge, I walked another twenty miles to Quma Town. Look at the sun is already in the west, it is the time of the unlicensed. The streets are sparsely populated at this time.

Walking past a few storefronts, a white flag was picked out in front of me, with the word "wine" written on it, presumably a tavern. As soon as I walked to the door of the store, the second shopkeeper came forward: "The guest officer is a shoulder or a hotel, and the room in this store is clean and tidy." ”

Skinny Monkey walked into the store and sat down at a table at the door: "Bring me something to eat first." Fill your stomach and say!"

The shopkeeper asked, "What do you want to eat?"

"Something that's both full and cheap. The monkey took the bag off his shoulder and put it on the table, and wiped the sweat from his face with the gown in his hand.

The shopkeeper glanced at it with disdain, and then went into the back kitchen and brought out a plate of steamed buns and put them in front of the fine monkey, and was about to turn around and walk away, when the thin monkey said, "You are bringing me a bowl of porridge, and then a plate of kimchi." ”

The shopkeeper didn't speak, went in for a while, brought a bowl of porridge and a small plate of kimchi, and put it in front of the thin monkey. I went to the counter and sat down. Why does the monkey eat so simply, this is his cleverness, he has to pretend to be a farmer, if he eats heartily, he will attract the attention of others. After eating, leaning against the wall and squinting for a while, I saw that in the afternoon, when the sun had gradually set on the top of the mountain, the evening breeze blew on the street, and the fine monkey shivered, and wore the cotton hexagram inside. After tidying up his clothes, he left the tavern with the clothes on his shoulders, and walked all the way to the east end of the street, and after walking a few shops, he saw the ruined walls that had been burned by the fire. The messy bricks and tiles were scattered all around, presumably because they were silk shops, and several shops next to the silk shops were also burned down, and workers were renovating them, and a few masons were building roofs. Opposite the silk village is a leather shop, which is full of all kinds of leather gowns and mattresses. Leather boots, etc., the shopkeeper was a middle-aged man, sitting on a long chair behind the counter napping, and the monkey knew that if he asked him about things, he would definitely not be able to ask for any clues. Wake up a sleeping merchant, and you won't buy anything to annoy him.

Walked around the street, walked to the easternmost end of the street and saw a tea shop, the tea shop is not big, the shopkeeper himself was serving tea and water, and saw the fine monkey coming in, and came forward to greet and sit down. I asked for a plate of peanuts and a pot of eagle tea.

There is an old gentleman in the teahouse, who is commenting on books in the store, which is talking about "Romance of the Sui and Tang Dynasties", which just happened to talk about Cheng biting gold and selling smuggled salt, and slapped out the big molars of the salt patrol, which made everyone laugh. There were a few gray-haired old people sitting on a table next to him, and when they were listening, the thin monkey immediately got up and brought the peanuts over, "The old man is here to eat peanuts." As he spoke, several old men gladly accepted the monkey when they saw it so attentive.

After a few small talks, it led to the topic: "I want to come to the market today to buy a piece of silk and make a few new clothes for our host's mother's birthday." Why did I go to the silk shop just now, and it has been burned to the ground. ”

Several old men focused their eyes on him, and one of them said, "You don't know yet! Last night, the bandit leader of Lion Rock stirred and brought a large group of people to the town to burn, kill, and loot, and made a fuss for most of the night, and even set fire to the silk shop when he left. ”

The monkey pretended to be surprised and frightened: "Oh, how can these damn bandits come so far to grab something." ”

"Who's to say it's not, they've never been here before, and these bandits are getting bolder. The old men shook their heads.

"Then you know where the family of this satin shop has gone. ”

"This morning, Bao Zheng took a few soldiers to clean up and found three charred corpses in the fire. When he came to see it, he buried him in a mass grave by the river. ”

"It's so pitiful, the whole family burned to death. Hey!" the monkey shook his head in feigned sadness.

Another old man said, "I don't think so!"

The fine monkey felt that there was something in this, and hurriedly asked, "Isn't it the corpse of the shopkeeper's family?"

"The shopkeeper Liang Xing, and his wife have a daughter, a family of three is true, but when the corpse came out in the morning, I watched from the side, although the three corpses were burned into black carbon, but the height will not change, the three corpses except for one is very similar to the shopkeeper Liang Xing, the other two corpses are eight feet long, big man figure, how can it be the daughter-in-law and daughter of the boss Liang. ”

The rest of the old men all objected to this point of view and argued: "You better go back and light the fire for your daughter-in-law, you know what, it's all nonsense." Several old men were joking, and the thin monkey interjected: "Uncle, where is this Boss Liang's daughter-in-law from?" ”

A fat old man next to him answered: "Boss Liang's daughter-in-law is Lijia Village outside Zhangzhou City, Li Bijing's sister, or my cheap matchmaker." ”

"Don't you make any noise, Lao Tzu can't hear the silence clearly when he listens to a commentary. A fat man at the next table was very agitated, fanning his fan.

The monkey listened to the book, and saw that it was already dark, and the storytellers in the teahouse had stopped, and everyone dispersed. The shopkeeper began to clean up the table, and the monkey came out of the teahouse and went all the way to the cottage. When I returned to the cottage, it was already a child, and several leaders and-stirring sticks and others had already rested, so it was inconvenient to disturb them, so I went to sleep in the back room.

In the morning, when the monkey went to the restaurant for breakfast, it was already past dinner. Then he went to the kitchen to find something to eat, when the monkey went out yesterday, Wang Shi was cleaning up the table in the restaurant, and when he saw the monkey going out, he was puzzled, and he didn't know where he went. This will see him come to the kitchen to find something to eat, go to the cupboard and take out a plate of mutton: "Brother Monkey, there is still some mutton left" said and put the plate on the stove, the thin monkey grabbed a piece with his hand and ate it, Wang Shi handed over a pair of chopsticks, he took the chopsticks and said while eating: "Is there any wine!"

"Yes, how can I have no alcohol here, Brother Monkey will come at any time if he wants to drink in the future. So he went to the vat in the pantry and poured a jug of wine. The thin monkey took a sip of the wine jug to his mouth: "Brother, you are so good, you are more righteous than the fat man before." "Left hand thumbs up.

"Brother Monkey, you went out to do something yesterday. I see you dressed like a peasant, hahaha. ”

"The dog head sent me to inquire about the two missing brothers. The monkey ate and drank.

"Did you hear anything? ”

"Anyway, this matter has something to do with the silk shop, and I'll see what the dog head says, I found out that the maiden home of the proprietress of the silk shop is in Lijia Village. I guess she probably fled to Lijia Village. The two bodies burned in the fire are said to be most likely our brothers. ”

Wang Shi pretended to be calm and remained silent when he heard this, wanting to beat the monkey to death, afraid that he would take someone to Lijia Village to find the fleeing silk shop proprietress and daughter. But if he is killed, the corpse is not easy to deal with, and if the-stirring stick is checked in the stockade, he is a newcomer, and the suspicion will be great. Just as he didn't know what to do, the little monkey finished eating the mutton and burped twice, "Brother, give the rest of the wine to my brother." He looked at Wang Shi with a smile.

"My brother just took it, and he came to me for a drink. ”

"You're so interesting!" he carried the flask to the back of the dormitory shed.

The little monkey put the wine jug next to the bed and went to the Juyi Hall, and a few minions at the door reported it in, and the dog head called in the fine monkey to inquire carefully, and according to the description of the fine monkey, he had already guessed seven or eight points, who killed the two brothers. But I couldn't guess. The-stirring stick said: "What are you doing, it's nothing to kill a few people." There's no need to track it down. He was killed twice, and he could only blame himself for his kung fu. I can't blame others. ”

The dog head waved his hand and said, "The king, the boss of the silk village, Liang Xing was killed by the two of them at the door. This was seen by the brethren. The two of them went into the house to rob, there were only Liang Xing's wife and daughter in the house, how could they kill the two of them. Why did it suddenly catch fire later? Don't you think it's weird. ”

"What do you want? ”

"Send a few brothers to arrest Liangxing's wife and daughter up the mountain, ask them clearly, and everything will be understood. Then you can also be the lady of the village for the king. The dog head laughed when he finished speaking.

"You can do it. I'll go around the stockade. With that, he got up and went out.

"Monkey, you'll have to go for it. ”

"Dog head, you asked me to go to Lijia Village alone to tie up people, but once I was found, I was dead. ”

"Doghead, are you barking!" Doghead dislikes being called doghead the most.

"Advisor, I'm wrong. The monkey smiled at him.

"Lijia Village, can I ask you to go alone? You will bring a few brothers who are quick with your hands and feet, and you can pick them yourself, and say that I arranged it. Go and come back quickly!" the monkey promised to come out and go to a hall in front of him, where these bandits were pushing pai gow, playing cards, and shaking dice when they were fine. Gambling. The thin monkey called the two brothers who were usually good, packed up and prepared to go out, and as soon as he walked to the gate of the village, Wang Shi ran up from a few steps behind: "Brother Monkey, you are going to go there." ”

"Take a trip to Lijia Village. ”

"Then you take me with you. I want to learn more from you. ”

At this time, the-stirring stick was walking around the village, and he saw the four of them standing and talking at the gate of the village, and came over to ask what was going on. The fine monkey said that he wanted to go to Lijia Village, and Wang Shi also wanted to go for a walk. The-stirring stick said: "Xiao Zhang, you can't go, who are you going to cook." ”

Zhang Chengfu was guarding the gatehouse, and when he heard the words below, he came down from the door and stairs: "Brother Monkey take me, and I'll go with you." The-stirring stick said, "It's okay, one more person is safer." Before going out, Zhang Chengfu turned around and winked at Wang Shi and made a grimace.

Wang Shi's heart was worried, and his heart hung in the air. God went back to the kitchen.

Zhang Chengfu and the four of them had lunch at Quma at noon and did not arrive at Lijia Village until dusk, and the three of them waited at the entrance of the village, and they went into the village alone to inquire about the address of Li Lujing's house. The village is not big, and there are twenty or thirty families living in it, all of whom make a living from farming, and usually pick some vegetables they grow and sell them in Zhangzhou City. The monkey walked into the village and saw a family eating, a half-old child with a bowl of noodles eating at the door, the monkey stepped forward to inquire where Li Lujing's house was, and the child pointed to a three-room house on the right hand. "That's Li Tujing's house. ”

The monkey walked to the door and looked in, and saw five people in the kitchen, a girl of seventeen or eighteen years old, playing with a little boy of five or six years old, and a middle-aged woman in her forties sitting next to her, talking to a woman who was lighting a fire in front of the stove. At the table sat an old woman with gray hair, looking in, and a man's voice behind him asked, "What are you looking at here?"

When the monkey turned around, he saw a man in his forties, carrying a hoe on his shoulder, with a yellow and black complexion, a wrinkled forehead, a white gown on his upper body, bare feet below, and his trousers rolled up. There was still some mud on the instep. The thin monkey looked at the visitor: "Are you Li Tujing?"

"Yes, what are you looking for me? Li Lujing looked at the monkey suspiciously.

"That's right, Liang Xing is your brother-in-law."

"your M! He's my brother-in-law. ”

"Haha, I'm sorry I just said the opposite. That is true. I used to buy some silk in his shop, and the last time, I didn't have enough money, so I still owed a tael of silver, and said that I would give it to him in a few days, but I didn't expect something to happen to his family. I want to give you the same money. After speaking, the thin monkey made a very regretful look.

"Oh, I see, please sit in the house, my sister is at my house, you better give her the silver," said the monkey enthusiastically into the house. After listening to the monkey's words, Li said, "But why haven't I seen you before?" ”

The monkey explained: "I sometimes only come once in half a year, which is not common, and as I said, every time I come, my sister-in-law is not at the counter. Presumably in the inner room. ”

"Perhaps, no wonder I said you're raw. ”

"I heard that your family was bandits, how did you escape, sister-in-law? The monkey asked, pretending to be sympathetic.

"Speaking of which, it's also lucky, two eight-foot men came in that day, as soon as they entered the door, they went to grab money, and my husband went to stop him, one of the bandits slashed him to death with a knife, and then he came up and wanted to insult me, at this time a man came in from outside the door, six feet tall, long and delicate, there was an inch-long black scar on the right side of his face, as soon as he entered the door, these two bandits called him brothers. When I looked at it, I thought it was over, and another bandit came, but I didn't expect that at this time, a man with a scar on his face came over and slapped one of the two bandits on the head, and beat them both to death. Then I set a fire and burned down all my silk shop. It was also this bandit who sent us to the gate of Zhangzhou City with kindness. I think they're bandits anyway. Maybe it's some kind of enmity between their bandits. ”

"I see. The thin monkey took out a tael of silver from the bag on his shoulder, put it on the table, exchanged a few words, and went out to the entrance of the village. met with Zhang Chengfu and the three of them, and the fine monkey said: "I have inquired about Li Bijing's home."