"The government once sent troops to encircle and suppress, but these bandits are extremely cunning, their cottage is hidden in this big mountain, when the officers and soldiers go to encircle and suppress, they hide in the mountain and refuse to come out, and the terrain of this big mountain is complex and dangerous, and it is obviously not easy to find the bandits in it!" Li Daniu said. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Roger wondered, since the cottage was hiding in the mountains, why were the villagers in this vicinity not disturbed by the cottage when they went into the mountains to hunt?

Li Daniu saw Roger's doubts and continued to explain: "There are two big mountains around our Mingcheng, one is Guanyun Mountain where we have been hunting these days, and the other is Xuanrui Mountain, that mountain is a forbidden area, and it is very dangerous inside, it is said that those who go in alone have a very small chance of living, and that mountain is where the base camp of Shuining Village is located, and ordinary people dare not go there!"

"When the government sent troops to encircle and suppress them, they hid in the mountains and refused to come out, playing hide and seek with the government, and the government had nothing to do with them!"

Roger seems to understand that it is not that there is no government to manage it, but that the government does not have the ability to manage it, so this Shuining Village is so arrogant, and even the nearby villages are talking about Shuining Village.

Almost all of the main sources of income come from nearby villages, and they come here every once in a while to collect the so-called high protection fee, because they think they have done a good job in protecting the people, so they should come to collect this protection fee.

The more Roger listened, the more frightened and angry he became, he had never seen such a person, under the pretext of collecting protection money, and preying on ordinary people.

Li Daniu showed a sad and indignant face, and said: "They are all strong in martial arts, and they are a group of outlaws, and the people in the nearby villages do not dare to resist them, a few years ago, when this group of cottages first came out, because the people of Wangjia Village refused to pay the so-called high protection fee, they slaughtered the entire village, and no life was left!"

Roger showed anger and said, "They are too inhumane, even ordinary people don't let go!"

Even the Tianhai Old Demon shook his head and said, "Although my Haitian Sect is a Demon Sect, I have never done anything to slaughter innocents!"

The sound of Roger and Li Daniu talking was heard by the others, and they all showed sad and angry expressions, and they were all full of resentment towards Shuining Village.

One of the young men said, "If it weren't for Shui Ning Village, my eldest brother wouldn't have died!"

His words aroused everyone's topic, and they changed from talking about how Li Daniu hunted a black bear just now, to scolding Shuiningzhai, it seemed that no matter how they scolded Shuiningzhai, they couldn't solve the resentment in their hearts.

From their words, Roger could also hear that a few years ago, when Shuiningzhai came to the village for the first time to collect protection money, Li Dingyun, the strongest man in the village at that time and the elder brother of the young man, led some villagers to resist and was poisoned by Shuiningzhai, so Lijia Village was forced to give in to them and pay protection money once a month.

Roger listened to the villagers' descriptions, and the more he listened, the more angry he became, full of anger towards this Shuining village. At the same time, he also has a little understanding of Shuining Village, which is a cottage that suddenly appeared in Xuanrui Mountain in recent years. When Shuining Village first appeared, burning, killing and plundering, all kinds of evil, at that time, the imperial court was furious, and sent officers and soldiers to encircle and suppress Shuining Village, but they did not expect that they actually hid in Xuanrui Mountain and refused to come out. Because the terrain of Xuanrui Mountain is dangerous and complicated, even the officers and soldiers will get lost in it when they enter it, let alone encircle and suppress Shuining Village, so the officers and soldiers are helpless against Shuining Village. But since that time, they have kept a lot of low profile, they will just come out to collect protection money, and they don't burn and loot anymore, but if they don't pay protection money, then wait to be killed.

The feast was late, and after eating a lot of bear meat, Roger patted his bulging belly, and was very satisfied, so he went to rest, leaving those who had not yet eaten enough to continue to eat and drink.

Finally, after midnight, they were all full of food and drink, and left Li Daniu's house, leaving a few tables that needed to be cleaned up. Roger didn't fall asleep, he came out and helped Li Daniu and his wife clean up the table, and Li Ming had already slept in the room.

"Uncle Li, why don't you move out?" Roger asked, he heard from their words just now, Shuining Village would only come to the nearby villages to collect protection money, and for Mingcheng, they wouldn't go there at all, because they were completely looking for death when they went there.

"Our ancestors have lived here for generations, born next to the mountains, and have relied on the mountains for our whole lives, and I am afraid that we are not used to moving away rashly!" Li Daniu said, "But this is not the most important thing, the most important thing is that if we can move away, who will not move? Where will we live after moving away, and where will we live? We are not capable of doing this!"

Yes, how many people will be willing to leave the place where their ancestors have lived for generations, even Roger is reluctant, but in order to survive, leaving is also a helpless move. And Li Daniu and them don't even have the ability to leave.

"What a painful thing it is to be uprooted!" said Roger, feeling it deeply because he was the one who had left his homeland.

After they cleaned up the dinner table, they cleaned up the garbage and went back to sleep. Roger pretended to go back to sleep, but while Li Daniu and his wife were not paying attention, he slipped out of the courtyard, found a quiet place, and began to pit and cultivate.

At the beginning of cultivation, the act of exhaling consumes a lot of energy, so it is not suitable for long-term cultivation, but after entering the middle stage of foundation building, every time he cultivates, he will be able to make up for the consumption caused by meditation all the time, and even his strength will be improved, so meditation and cultivation are sometimes better than resting.

"The predecessors said that my cultivation, the aura I have obtained, will automatically be distributed to him, so it will be caused, I have obviously touched the threshold of the late stage of foundation building, but I have never been able to enter!" Roger said secretly in his heart.

"But it doesn't matter, Zhuji doesn't have any neck bottles, and if you accumulate enough, you will naturally break through, and now that I haven't broken through, it shows one thing, my accumulation is not enough. Because I am different from ordinary people, my accumulation is not only for me alone, so I have to accumulate more than ordinary people!"

Roger understands this truth, so he can also see that his breakthrough is more difficult than others, but it is not impossible to break through, as long as he puts in ten times more effort than others, he will also break through.

He retracted his mind and continued to breathe in his cultivation, and he didn't say anything all night, and in the blink of an eye, it was the next day.

The next morning, Roger did not go out hunting, but continued to practice, he was already almost proficient in archery, and the rest only needed to be proficient, so there was no need to be too anxious.

Moreover, Li Daniu was slightly injured yesterday, and now he has not fully recovered, and he has not gone out to hunt, and Li Ming was even more frightened yesterday, and he may not be able to raise his confidence in hunting in the near future.

If Roger wants to quickly cultivate to the late stage of foundation building, there are two ways, one is to use spirit stones to cultivate, and the other is to have an epiphany, however, these two possibilities are basically zero, so Roger didn't think about it. In addition to these two, Roger could only rely on slow cultivation to enter the late stage of foundation building.

After yesterday's incident, the villagers basically knew him, after all, he had been with Li Daniu all the time yesterday, even when he hunted black bears, he was also together, so it was difficult not to be known if he had such courage and strength at his age. And because he deliberately asked Li Daniu to conceal his strength, otherwise I don't know how many exclamations it would have caused.

As Roger meditated, he felt the sound of vibrations on the ground, and it was getting closer and closer to him. To ordinary people, they seemed to be unconscious of anything, but no matter how sharp Roger's senses were, this faint sound could not escape his ears.

Just as he was wondering, a sound of horror came from the village.

"The people from Shuiningzhai are here, the people from Shuiningzhai are here!"

Like a wolf entering the village, everyone was terrified, and came out of their houses and stood at the door. Roger quickly returned to Li Daniu's vicinity, and they were also standing at the door, angry and frightened.

After a while, a message came and told them to assemble in the square at the head of the village. At the head of Lijia Village, there is a square, which is the place where they celebrate the New Year and festivals. And every time the people of Shuining Village came, they asked them to go to the village to gather.

Roger went with them to the head of the village, and in the square, Roger saw more than twenty big men on horseback, all tall and fierce, among them, in front of him was a big fat man, he had a stout body, it seemed, one arm, was about to catch up with Roger's body. Although Roger is relatively lean, he can catch up with Roger's body with just one arm, which shows how terrible his obesity is.

In front of them, there were seventy or eighty people, men, women and children, most of whom Roger knew, and they were all villagers of Lijia Village. Roger They were not the last group to come, after them, there were several groups of people, all of whom also came, and when they saw that all the people had come, a dwarf man, riding forward, spoke:

"Blind dates, under the protection of our Shuining Village, you have also lived a peaceful life for a month, and now it is time for you to repay us!" he smiled and looked at everyone here, if he found that anyone was disobedient, he would look hideous and kill that person.

"Without your protection, we will live more peacefully!" Li Daniu whispered, without the oppression of Shuining Village, they would live more peacefully, this is not a lie, but he didn't dare to say it out loud, after all, there were more than 20 of them, all of them were holding bloodstained knives in their hands, and whoever dared to have an opinion, they would let him talk to the knife in his hand.

(To be continued)