There were about sixty or seventy of these bandits, all of them unclothed, with yellow faces and thin muscles, and most of them did not even hold blades in their hands, but only iron tools commonly used by the peasants, and some of them did not even have iron tools, and even took a flat pole to make up the number. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

The brother who shouted just now was holding a rusty steel knife in his hand, wearing a piece of incomplete leather armor, and he didn't know which dynasty or generation was an antique left over, and he was already extremely well-equipped.

Although the group of bandits tried their best to make all kinds of fierce expressions, several old men at the back of the team were already dizzy from hunger, staggering, almost about to fall, and barely supported themselves with the farm tools in their hands.

Bai Cheng smiled slightly bitterly, turned around and looked at the Feng Nuo Dao Leader behind him, only to see Feng Nuo Dao Chief's eyes lowered and his face as usual, so he knew that this matter was to be handed over to him to deal with.

"I planted this tree, I opened this road, I want to pass through here, and leave food to eat!" one of the robbers couldn't help but shout and urge.

Bai Cheng slandered in his heart, although these words were said neatly, he was only going to eat, it seemed that he was hungry, and the bandits did their part, it was really better to go home and farm.

As the man shouted, several of the younger bandits were already gearing up and ready to move.

Bai Cheng shook his head slightly, ignored the group of bandits, and walked straight towards a locust tree on the side of the road.

This locust tree is about two people hugging each other, born in the wilderness, after the wind and rain, lush, the tree has deep roots, but I am afraid that the age of the tree is more than 100 years.

Coming to the front of the locust tree, Bai Cheng suddenly turned his head and made a grimace at the bandits, and then smacked lightly, put his five fingers together, stood his palm as a sword, turned his body, and gently slashed towards the waist of the tree with one palm.

This slash is light and elegant, chic and free, between the rotation of the body, without the slightest smell of fireworks, the palm edge is cut on the tree, and there is a soft sound of "poof", and then there is no sound.

With a palm slash, the locust tree did not change in any way, but Bai Cheng seemed to be extremely satisfied, chuckled, and turned around.

The group of bandits on the other side didn't understand Bai Cheng's movements, and some of the older adults were still watching to see what changes had happened in the locust tree, and a few young men had long been impatient.

There is a tall man named Wang Dajiang in it, who is very impatient in his usual temperament, and he has been hungry and panicked in the mountains these days, and he is even more irritable, he gasped a few breaths, picked up the spear in his hand, rushed to Bai Cheng, and shouted: "You kid doesn't know anything! We don't want your money, as long as you have food on your body, you..."

Before he finished speaking, he suddenly froze, his eyes staring directly behind Bai Cheng, and his face gradually showed a look of fear.

A gust of wind blew, and the sound of the wind blowing the leaves, the two of them hugged the thick locust tree, but it was silent, and gradually fell to the side.

After a while, the big tree couldn't hold it anymore, and the huge canopy of the tree smashed into the ground like a green cloud, making an earth-shattering loud noise!

Wang Dajiang was stunned and froze in place, until the spear in his hand slipped off and happened to hit his foot, then he came to his senses, shouted, knelt on the ground, and shouted: "Grandpa Water God spare his life! Grandpa Water God spare his life! I don't dare to disrespect the gods anymore!"

As Wang Dajiang knelt down, dozens of people behind him cheered, and all of them fell to the ground, shouting loudly for the water god to spare his life!

Bai Cheng glanced at it, and saw that there were many elderly people among them, and he felt a little unbearable in his heart, and said loudly: "Don't panic! Bai is not a water god, just a guest passing by from now on, you all get up!"

When he said the last few words, Bai Cheng had secretly used a bit of real power, and the sound was like thunder, covering the four fields, suppressing everyone's shouting.

Although this group of people was suppressed by Bai Cheng's voice and did not dare to shout loudly, they still did not dare to get up, and still lay on the ground and begged for mercy.

Bai Cheng frowned, pulled Wang Dajiang up, his face turned cold, and said in a cold voice: "You get up and talk back!"

Wang Dajiang shuddered, nodded his head in agreement, and did not dare to resist in the slightest.

Bai Cheng asked in a deep voice: "I don't think you look like a habitual bandit, why do you want to block the road here and rob?"

Wang Dajiang's voice trembled, and he said: "The villain is not a bandit, we are all farmers under Yuliang Mountain, but because we missed the agricultural time, we couldn't pay the taxes, so we fled to the mountains for refuge." ”

Bai Cheng's face sank, and he said: "Nonsense! Even if you can't pay the taxes of the government, at most you will be converted to forced labor, why do you want to flee to the mountains for refuge?"

According to Chen's statutes, ordinary people had to pay taxes to the government every year. If the time comes, when the time comes, the households in the city pay the money, and the rural farmers pay the grain, so they have to change to forced labor and work for the government in vain.

Wang Dajiang's face was frightened, and he said: "I'd rather starve to death on the mountain than dare to serve in the conscription." ”

Bai Cheng was stunned for a moment and asked, "Why is this? Is it better to be conscripted than to die?"

Wang Dajiang closed his mouth and didn't speak again.

Bai Cheng swept away, and the others were silent, not daring to confide half a word.

In the blink of an eye, the ancient road in the forest was quiet, and no one made a sound, and the word "conscription" seemed to be more powerful than the palm he had just had.

Bai Cheng rolled his eyes, took out an oiled paper bag from his baggage, and calmly opened the paper bag.

Suddenly, the aroma was overflowing, and it turned out that the oil paper package was a large piece of cooked beef, or half a fat chicken.

Bai Cheng shook in the wind and said, "Whoever wants to answer my words, this bag of food belongs to whom." ”

When everyone saw the beef and fat chicken, there was a sound of swallowing, but no one dared to step forward to answer.

Bai Cheng chuckled lightly and said, "It's a pity that no one wants to eat the best beef." ”

As he spoke, he tore off a piece of beef and put it in his mouth and munched on it.

A thin black boy couldn't help but be hungry, stood up suddenly, rushed to Bai Cheng in three steps and two steps, and said, "You give me the beef, and I'll say anything!"

Someone behind him shouted, "Say no! Say no! Grandpa the water god wants to condemn him!"

This is the teenager just ignored, looking at the beef in his eyes, his eyes are motionless.

Bai Cheng smiled, tore off a piece of beef and gave it to him, and said, "Little brother, what's your name?"

The young man took the beef, swallowed it in his mouth, and said, "My name is Wang Xiaohei!"

Bai Cheng nodded, tore off another piece of beef, handed it to Wang Xiaohei and said, "Why would you rather starve to death than serve in conscription?"

Wang Xiaohei swallowed the beef vigorously and said, "That's not easy, because serving conscription also kills, and it's much worse than starving to death!"

Bai Cheng's face changed, and he handed him all the whole piece of beef, and asked, "What kind of servitude? Why did people die?"

Wang Xiaohei took a big bite of beef and said: "There is a white cow valley fifty miles west of Fucheng, and two years ago, someone found a piece of refined iron ore somewhere, and the prince asked those of us who owe taxes to the government to go to the valley to mine. ”

Bai Cheng frowned and said, "Although mining is hard, it won't kill people, right?"

Wang Xiaohei took a few bites of beef and said, "What do you know, although mining is not dead, but it will kill people if you collide with Grandpa the Water God!" )