Chapter 59: The Thief Outpost
Sima Longqi said: "This kind of thing, how could the thief let Brother Wang know?"
Wang Zhong's eyes turned red and said: "The surname Xue is to insult me-" Wang Zhong obviously thought of the humiliation suffered by his wife again, and paused abruptly when he said this, and then gritted his teeth fiercely, forced back the tears that were about to be shed again, and said hatefully: "He will definitely die for me, and he will no longer shy away from explaining things to his accomplices." In fact, if the young heroes hadn't arrived in time, the thieves would have tortured me to death after eating. They've always enjoyed it. ”
"Big brother!" Chai Shaoning couldn't bear to hear it, and said to Sima Long: "In that case, let's rush to Black Tiger Village overnight." After the thieves on Yueya Mountain escape, they will definitely go to Xue Touling to report the news, if Luo Huaping is on guard, it will be difficult to deal with!"
"Hero, slow down!" Wang Zhong said: "It still takes more than half a day for the Black Tiger Village to go east from here, and even if the three young heroes leave now, it is close to noon to rush over, and they will never be able to hide the thieves' sentry in broad daylight." In my opinion, the young heroes might as well have a good rest, and when they recuperate their spirits tomorrow, I will go with you to recover the blood debt of the past from those thieves who should be killed!"
"I'll go too!"
"I'll go too!"
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For a while, the crowd was boiling, and many people rushed forward.
Sima Long was more cautious and asked Xiao Ting: "The second brother has lived in Hebei for a long time, do you know anything about the Taihang Mountain bandits?"
Xiao Ting was born in a famous family, rarely dealing with underworld figures, every time he passed by Taihang Mountain, he relied on the name of his father and uncle Lu Yushan, no one dared to make things difficult, and it was the first time he heard of Luo Huaping's name, so he shook his head and had no choice but to spread his hands.
Wang Zhong and other people in the mountains only knew that Luo Huaping was the largest bandit leader on Taihang Mountain, and they couldn't say anything else.
Seeing this situation, Sima Long discussed it with his two righteous brothers, and decided to listen to Wang Zhong's words and act cautiously, and at the same time asked the mountain people to go to the county seat under the mountain, ask to see the county commander, and invite the officers and soldiers to come to help.
Wang Zhong's wife is newly mourned, and her heart is sad, and it is not suitable to leave. A middle-aged man came over and said: "The county seat is half a day's journey from here at the earliest, and it will take a lot of effort for those officials to get the news and mobilize people, so I will go down the mountain overnight, and I can enter the city early tomorrow morning, so as not to delay things." ”
Wang Zhong nodded and said, "There is Uncle Lao Zheng!"
The man surnamed Zheng patted Wang Zhong on the shoulder, called a companion, and the two went down the mountain overnight.
The three brothers of Chai Shaoning were not in a hurry to rest, and asked people in detail about the distance to Heihu Village, only to know that it was the only way to enter Hebei from Jin, located at the junction of the two provinces, and deep in the mountains, so the officials of the two provinces of Shanxi and Hebei were unable to take care of it, and countless business travelers were killed by the gang of thieves, making the exchanges between the two places almost extinct.
It was the first time Xiao Ting heard this kind of news, and said angrily: "Lu Yushan is the leader of the alliance in vain, the rivers and lakes are long to eliminate demons, and the bandits in the mountains are infested, which thing is solved by him Lu Yushan?"
Chai Shaoning knew that Xiao Ting had been aroused by the thief's incident to arouse his hatred for Lu Yushan because of his father's death, and went over to pat his second brother on the shoulder to show comfort.
Sima Long thought of Ouyang Qian's daughters again, once they entered the mountain, they would definitely become the target of thieves. Although there are masters like Sun Shaoyang, Zheng Dapeng, and Gao Fenglan, there are many bandits in the mountains, and they are caught off guard.
In order to be in order, Sima Long once again found Wang Zhong and the other mountain people, and asked them to stop the convoy that came after the three of them left, and tell the truth what happened here. With the skills of the women and the rich experience of Sun Shaoyang and other three seniors in fighting the enemy, as long as they are prepared, they are not afraid of the sneak attack of thieves.
Everything was arranged, and the three of them remembered that they had not eaten since noon, and they were hungry, so they asked the mountain people for some dry food to wrap their stomachs, and then seized the time to rest and prepare for tomorrow's operation.
When they woke up the next morning, the three of them once again told the mountain people not to take risks, and to wait for the arrival of the officers and soldiers before taking action, and at the same time persuaded Wang Zhong to stay.
Wang Zhong knew that his martial arts were low, and if he started to do it, not only would he not be able to help, but he would also become a burden, and besides, his wife's body had not yet been buried in the ground, so he no longer insisted.
The three brothers said goodbye to the villagers and traveled eastward for most of the day to see the sun set on the western mountain, and suddenly there was an endless stream of people on the deserted mountain road.
The three of them saw that these were thieves in disguise. The Taihang group of thieves gathered in the Black Tiger Village, and a large number of sentry agents would naturally be released under the Black Tiger Peak.
The three brothers ignored it and walked straight ahead. When it was dark, there was a canyon between the two mountains in front of him, and the vision passed through a deep ditch like a line of sky, and a huge ridge was seen in the distance, and the bare stone wall was like a natural giant wall as high as a hundred zhang, and the ravines everywhere were like a piece of trap, filled with thorny thorns, and from a distance, it was like the sores on the giant's body, emitting a mysterious and terrible dark blue. In addition, there are layers of huge trees, any ravine, can hide tens of thousands of horses, and it is difficult to detect, it is indeed a dangerous area that is easy to defend and difficult to attack, no wonder it will be selected by Luo Huaping as a nest.
The mountain path that everyone was walking was passing through the canyon. At the mouth of the valley, there is an inn built on the mountain, the peaks on both sides of the mountain are raised, and the Black Tiger Peak echoes in the back, no need to ask, it must be the front post set up by the thieves under the mountain.
With the pride of picking up Yueya Mountain at night, the three brothers were brave, and their stomachs happened to be hungry, so they went directly into the store to pat the table, asked for wine and food, opened the room, and asked Xiao Er to come out and wait.
"It's coming!" someone shouted in a long voice, and a thin black and thin young man dressed as a junior ran out of the back hall, and said with a smile on his face: "The small shop is deserted, the wine is self-brewed, the meat is mountain delicacies, and the house is simple, but the price is cheap, and where you are slow, you can also ask the guest officer to bear with it." ”
The three of them are interesting to hear. Since the other party pretended to be stupid, they were not in a hurry to do it, they wanted a good room, let Xiao Er send the food into the house, just wait until they were full of food and drink, and cultivate their strength, and then take the thieves in the store to open the knife, forcing them to tell the path up the mountain, saving them the wrong way.
When the food was served, Chai Shaoning glanced at the two brothers, and suddenly jumped up at the moment when Xiao Er went out, squeezing out of the door like a phantom against each other's backs.
Sima Long and Xiao Ting were dumbfounded. This kind of unpredictable body made them sigh to themselves, and at the same time, they were even more envious of Chai Shaoning's chance. You must know that when he rescued Ouyang Qian in the inn, Chai Shaoning's skills were far inferior to Sima Long.
In fact, what Sima Long and Xiao Ting didn't know was that Chai Shaoning's skills did not only come from Chiyang Zhu. In the past month, Chai Shaoning, driven by a strong desire for revenge, has risen up to practice swords, and his strength has increased by leaps and bounds, especially his light body kung fu, which has reached the point where the two brothers are also stunned!
Seeing Chai Shaoning coming out of the house, Sima Long woke up first, got up and slammed the door the moment Xiao Er turned around, so as not to be noticed by him that there was one less person in the house.
Xiao Er didn't know that there was a person standing within a few steps behind him, and he was so angry by Sima Long's rude behavior that his eyes flashed, and then he snorted coldly and turned around and went downstairs.
However, as soon as he walked to the corner of the stairs, the little second turned around, and the whole person became as light as a tanuki, and crept back to the window of the room where Chai Shaoning and the three of them were.
I listened to the window for a long time, and the people inside were just eating and drinking, not chatting a word, and Xiao Er wanted to stretch out his fingers and dip his saliva into the window paper several times, but finally gave up and slowly retreated downstairs.
Chai Shaoning sneered behind him. If Xiao Er dared to peep at the number of people in the house, Chai Shaoning would immediately arrest him and torture him to extract a confession, and ask him about the distribution of thieves in the store and the route to the Black Tiger Village.
But since Xiao Er gave up the action, Chai Shaoning didn't make a move, and followed him downstairs silently.
Although it is located deep in the mountains infested with thieves, this inn is also small. The square courtyard, a small two-story building with more than a dozen rooms, passes through the guest hall downstairs, and in the corner of the small courtyard there is a kitchen, a firewood room, and the residence of the guys in the shop.
Xiao Er went downstairs and out the back door of the hall, and slipped into an inconspicuous man's room.
There were already three people sitting in the room, one was a fat man dressed as an outsider, dressed as a shopkeeper, and the other two were dressed as chefs and were not tall, but their eyes obviously revealed a ruthless look. Looking at the age of the three people, they are all middle-aged people in their forties.
"Xiao Hei!" The fat man dressed outside the staff saw Xiao Er enter the room and asked, "Did you hear what they said?"
Xiao Hei said: "These people don't just eat, they are guarding against us, it is estimated that they already know our identity in their hearts." ”
One of the middle-aged men dressed as a chef smiled: "Knowing what kind of restaurant this is, they dare to eat it! ”
Another chef dressed as a human: "I really don't understand why the owner of the village didn't let us do it." ”
The first middle-aged man dressed as a chef said: "The owner of the village probably wants to salute first and then soldier, right?"
"What's the rudeness with a few hairy boys?" another middle-aged man dressed as a chef said in an angry tone, "The person who escaped from Yueya Mountain described it like a ghost. In my opinion, these three boys are young and vigorous. The more we tolerate it, the more they think that we dare not deal with them, and maybe they have already made up the idea of eating and drinking enough and then doing it. ”
"It's indeed a bit of a nobody!" said the fat man dressed as an outsider with anger in his eyes: "Since they are so conceited, let's give them a long memory, cheap meals are not so delicious." ”
Another middle-aged man dressed as a chef immediately agreed: "The people who are feared by the owner of the village are none other than Sun Shaoyang, Zheng Dapeng and Gao Fenglan. If we can capture these three boys as hostages, the owner of the village will be very happy. ”
The fat man dressed outside the staff was obviously the leader of the thieves in the inn, nodded and ordered: "Xiao Hei, you send some more wine in, don't put too much drug, so as not to be detected by them." After a pause, he said, "Don't leave in a hurry, it's best to make sure that they have drunk medicinal wine." ”
"Isn't Xiao Hei's light boss still worried?" the middle-aged man dressed as the first chef smiled: "Besides, our fairy is colorless and tasteless, and even after eating it at the beginning, he didn't feel sleepy, but as long as he borrows wine, as long as he dips it a little, he won't wake up even if it thunders within ten hours." ”
Another middle-aged man dressed as a chef said nonchalantly, "It doesn't matter if they drink it or not." Now everyone knows each other, it's a big deal to do it openly!"