Chapter Seventy-Three: The Bachelor
"Thank you, village chief, I see. Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info "Zhao Ming didn't embarrass the village chief anymore, he was going to inquire in the outer district to see if he could find out where the bandits gathered near here were.
But to Zhao Ming's disappointment, after leaving the village chief's residence, he walked all over the village but couldn't find out, and every time Zhao Ming mentioned something about the horse bandits here, those villagers wanted to hide from him like the plague.
Zhao Ming traveled all over the village, but he didn't hear the slightest news.
Zhao Ming walked to the entrance of the village and turned around to look at these villagers who hurried by, Zhao Ming didn't know what his heart was like, looking at the children behind the unkempt head and without clothes could not find a little hope in the corner, Zhao Ming felt that his heart was filled with something.
He understands that feeling, he has always been very confused in the orphanage, no child outside the orphanage has ever wanted to play with these orphans, and he has never felt the existence of family affection in his childhood.
"No, I can't let them spend a childhood without family affection like me, and I can't let more children become like them......" Thinking of this, Zhao Ming's eyes became more determined.
Zhao Ming didn't leave, he returned to the village, this time he didn't catch one stupidly and asked, after seeing that there was no one, Zhao Ming pulled a villager to find a corner and put him down.
The villager was so frightened that he almost peed his pants.
"Big... Master, no, hero, don't kill me, I'll give you whatever you want......" The villager didn't seem to have seen such a scene for the first time, and Zhao Ming could feel the fear from his heart.
Zhao Ming looked at the man's trembling body and frowned, Zhao Ming felt that this man's bloodiness had been worn out in the long-term oppression, but Zhao Ming didn't care about this, and he didn't expect these villagers to follow him to exterminate those bandits, at least, even if he couldn't beat them, he wouldn't be slaughtered like the village he saw before.
Zhao Ming didn't use the same good tone as before, he knew that the better his tone was, the slimmer the hope of asking.
"Tell me where the bandits around me are, otherwise you know what the consequences will be, hum......" Zhao Ming pretended to look at the man with a stern face.
This man seemed to have encountered such a thing before, and hurriedly begged for mercy: "Good man, good man spare your life, I will tell you what you want to know...... That... Those bandits... No... It is the settlement of those heroes who live due west of us, and also due north, but it is a little far from us, estimated to be more than a hundred miles away. β
"North, why didn't I meet it when I came over? Isn't that not far from the village chief just now?"
Zhao Ming thought of this and said sharply: "Impossible, when I came, it was due north, and I have never encountered any bandits." β
As soon as the man heard Zhao Ming's words, he immediately knelt on the ground, kowtowed and said: "Good man, the villain didn't lie to you, it's really in the north, the little one also went with everyone to pay tribute, and the little conviction is over there." He kept kowtowing as he spoke.
Zhao Ming listened to the man's trembling words, and when he saw the man's constant kowtowing, he couldn't help but sigh in his heart: "It's still non-violent and non-cooperative...... But Zhao Ming is not really a bandit, he hurriedly helped the man up, since he got what he wanted to know, of course he would not continue to intimidate him.
"Take it, take me on a trip, and the money will be yours. The man raised his head and saw a large ingot of silver in Zhao Ming's outstretched hand, which looked like twenty taels at least.
However, the man didn't answer, and when he saw Zhao Ming giving him money, his legs were weak and he knelt down.
"My lord, a good man, don't kill me, I don't know anything, I don't know anything......" Zhao Ming couldn't help but have black lines on his face when he saw this man being afraid of becoming like this.
"I'm not so scary, am I?" Zhao Ming touched his 'handsome' face.
In fact, it's not that Zhao Mingchang is vicious, the main thing is that this man used to hear that those green forest heroes always gave you money first, and then after you took it, they didn't hesitate to kill you behind your back, and then take your money back.
When this man saw that Zhao Ming gave him so much silver, he thought that Zhao Ming was preparing to kill people, so of course he was afraid.
In fact, Zhao Ming was also depressed, the twenty taels on his body were the smallest, the wine he bought before was dozens of taels and dozens of taels, and there were no two broken silver on his body, and he couldn't get by with these twenty taels to this man, and he still wanted the man to lead the way.
"If you want to take it, why do you say so much? Get up and show me the way. As soon as Zhao Ming's voice became stern, the man got up, and Zhao Ming instantly became angry in his heart.
"It's just cheap... It's cheap to a certain extent, it's just that....... If the little tree is not cultivated, it won't slip away!" Zhao Ming really had nothing to say in his heart about this man's bullying and fear of hardness.
Zhao Ming said angrily: "Take it, take me to the bandit cottage you went to before." When the man heard this, his legs suddenly weakened and he was about to kneel down again, but Zhao Ming hurriedly pulled him down.
"What are you afraid of, and I won't let you go up, you just need to bring me there and come back, with this silver, you can go wherever you want in the future, and there is no need to stay in this village, right?"
The man heard that he didn't have to go in, and his heart was a little lowered, and when he heard Zhao Ming say that he didn't have to stay here anymore and suffer the scourge of those bandits, he was really scared of those bandits, he asked for a daughter-in-law a few years ago, but the child was robbed by those bandits when he was just two years old, and his child died a year ago because his family was often robbed and sick, and he died a year ago, and he was already afraid of this place, but this place was dozens of miles away from the next village, so he was estimated to die in the middle of the road when he walked over, even if he got to the next village, he had no money or land to liveγ
Now that he finally had a chance to leave this place, to be honest, he was really tempted.
Zhao Ming didn't urge this man, after all, he just wanted someone to lead the way, and he didn't have to ask for this man, and besides, he was not a bandit, he couldn't do that kind of thing that was difficult for a strong man, and there was really no way to intimidate this man before.
"Okay, I'll take you, but you'll have to give me the money first. The man seemed to be unable to stand this place, and finally his determination to leave here overcame his fear of those bandits, and he gritted his teeth and agreed, but he still asked Zhao Ming for the silver first, and planned to leave Zhao Ming alone as soon as he arrived at the place.
Zhao Ming didn't care about his careful thoughts anymore, and directly threw the silver to this man, this silver Zhao Ming originally planned to give it to him, and he didn't think that when the time came to cross the river and tear down the bridge, when to give it was the same thing, and now giving it to him can also make him feel at ease.
The man got the silver and happily placed it in his arms.
Zhao Ming was not in a hurry, and after he put it away, he said, "Now we can go!"
After the man made up his mind, he nodded and said: "Okay, we'll go now, but I'll only take you to the bandit village in the north, and I won't go to the one in the west. β
Zhao Ming's eyes lit up when he heard this, but he didn't embarrass this man, he still wanted to go to the village on the back to have a look, listening to this man say that the village should be very close to the village he had passed by before, Zhao Ming felt that the village was more likely to be slaughtered.
"Okay, you just have to take me to that stockade, and you don't have to worry about the other one. β
When the man heard this, he nodded again and again, and said flatteringly: "Then shall we go now or leave tomorrow morning?" The village is estimated to be hundreds of miles away from here, and when we went to pay tribute in the past, we walked for three or four days before we got there. β
Zhao Ming looked at the sky and saw that it was already late, thought for a while and said: "Tomorrow, let's get up early tomorrow morning and let's set off, stay here tonight, do you have an inn here? I didn't seem to see an inn or anything like that when I walked down." β
When the man heard Zhao Ming's words, he hurriedly said: "We are just a small village, where is the inn, if the hero has no place to live, he can live in my house first, my family is alone, there are a lot of places, but I usually don't clean up much, I'll go back and clean up." β
As soon as Zhao Ming heard that he lived in this man's house, and the guest room had not been cleaned up, this was the reason why Zhao Ming had always been reluctant to find someone to stay overnight, but Zhao Ming looked at the sky, it was still early before dark, and after thinking about it, he nodded and agreed.
As soon as the man saw Zhao Ming agree, he hurriedly took Zhao Ming in the direction of his house, this is a big customer, since he has agreed now, of course, he must be treated well, maybe he will be able to die by then.