Lin Yuanqing slept extremely peacefully, and the next day he didn't wake up until almost noon, stretching his waist comfortably and walking out.

As soon as he opened the door, he was stunned by the scene in front of him.

It turned out that there was a group of villagers standing at the door of the house, and the village chief was at the front, and when everyone saw Lin Yuanqing coming out of the house, they all knelt down, kept kowtowing, and shouted words like heroes save us.

There was no shortage of white-haired old men kneeling down in front of him, so frightened that Lin Yuanqing's legs trembled, and he also knelt down, looking stunned, looking at the village chief tremblingly, and asked, "The village chief... This..."

The village chief lowered his head and said, "Hero, please save our village!"

"Hey, I have something to say, the kid can't stand the villagers like this, get up quickly. Lin Yuanqing reacted at this time, and hurriedly stepped forward to help the village chief up, but who knew that the village chief broke free of his hand, fell to the ground again, and said tremblingly: "Hero, please save our village!" The villagers behind him also shouted again.

"No, if you have difficulties, just say it, everyone get up first. Lin Yuanqing only felt that his face was red and his ears were red, and he couldn't speak well.

"Hero, if you don't agree to save us, the old man will die in front of you today!" The village chief kowtowed heavily to Lin Yuanqing, and when he knocked him, Lin Yuanqing's legs were weak again, and he hurriedly held on to the pillar next to him.

"Okay, I promise you, everyone get up first. Lin Yuanqing stepped forward to support the village chief, his brain was already blank at the moment, and he just wanted to let the villagers get up first.

"Great! Folks, our village is saved!" The village chief shook Lin Yuanqing's hand excitedly after being helped up by Lin Yuanqing, and shouted to the villagers behind him.

The villagers behind him cheered, and put the baskets in their hands in the yard, Lin Yuanqing saw that each basket was filled with melons, fruits and vegetables, etc., and asked the village chief suspiciously: "This is?"

"These are all thank-you gifts from the villagers, heroes, let's go into the house and say, folks, everyone go back, since the hero promised us, then it's no problem, the big guys are scattered." The village chief smiled and pulled Lin Yuanqing into the house.

Then the village chief told Lin Yuanqing why the villagers reacted so much just now, Liangxiu Village was originally a small village on the border of Hangzhou and Bozhou, originally surrounded by green mountains and green waters, it should be a paradise, but a few years ago, two pig essences appeared out of thin air, and when several nearby villages were having a headache for pig essence, a group of hunters came.

There are more than a dozen people in this group of hunters, and when they first appeared in the village, they said that they had come here by tracking two pig essences from a long distance, and they were originally going to hunt them, and they needed to recuperate, and the villagers were naturally happy when they heard it, so they offered delicious food and drink, and hoped that this group of people could solve the pig essence.

Just for a few days, this group of people went out hunting for the first time, and when they came back, they didn't see the corpse of the pig spirit, but brought back a large number of corpses of wild beasts in the nearby mountains, they said that the pig spirit was too cunning, ran away, and may have been hiding in the near future, but they also asked the villagers to rest assured, with them, naturally they would not let the pig spirit do anything wrong, and this trip up the mountain could not return empty-handed, so they came back with some prey in the mountains and wanted to sell it to the villagers.

As soon as everyone heard this explanation, they naturally didn't ask anything more, and bought their prey, hoping to encourage them to solve the pig essence next time.

Then the group settled in the village, and went up the mountain every once in a while to hunt, and each time they prevaricated on the grounds that the pig spirit was cunning, but the number of times the pig spirit came out to plague the village and the prey they brought back each time was only a lot more, and as long as they left the village, the pig spirit would definitely appear, and the prey that was brought back must also be bought by the people.

After a long time, the villagers could not bear it anymore and began to protest, at first the group would explain, but then they didn't even bother to explain, only knowing that they wandered back and forth in several nearby villages, relying on the villagers' offerings to survive.

Finally, once a nearby village couldn't stand it anymore, and had a big quarrel with them, and paid for the Orion to hunt pig essence outside, who knew that the Orion who invited him would not return as soon as he went, and the villagers did not give up, and invited them several times, all with the same result.

Once, two young men in this village secretly followed behind the invited Orion, but found that the previous group of Orion came out halfway and killed the Orion they had invited.

After the matter was revealed, this group of people completely tore off their masks, began to threaten with force, exploiting all the villages, some people rose up to resist, but the other party had force to fight, these farmers who had no quarrel with the world were not their opponents at all, this group killed a few villagers, and everyone dispelled the idea of resistance, and there were also villagers who wanted to secretly run out to report to the official, but they were arrested on the way back, and beat him to death in front of all the villagers, and since then fear has enveloped all the villages.

Lin Yuanqing couldn't help but ask when he heard this: "There are only a dozen people on the other side, isn't it okay for everyone to scatter and run out from different roads to report to the official?"

After hearing this, the village chief shook his head, sighed and said: "The hero doesn't know, we are a valley, surrounded by cliffs, and there is only one road to the outside of the valley. ”

"Then haven't you thought of any way out of the valley?"

"There are three or four people in each village watching, and if they are discovered, they will be punished, or they will be beaten to death, and there will be no chance to get together to discuss what to do. ”

"Ah?!" When Lin Yuanqing heard this, he remembered the performance of the villagers, and hurriedly asked, "Then hasn't this kind of momentum just now been discovered?" After saying that, he got up and rushed to the door, looking out nervously.

"Heroes, don't worry, every month we will hand them over the protection money, and after they collect it, they will leave the village and send it to the camp at the mouth of the valley, they just left yesterday, and they will come back tomorrow morning. ”

"Oh, what about the martial arts of this gang of thieves?" Lin Yuanqing already understood what the villagers were asking him for, although he was also apprehensive in his heart, but after all, he had already promised them, not to mention that he swore to be chivalrous and righteous, how could he ignore injustice.

"The old man doesn't know martial arts, he only knows that they can lift a strong man up with one hand and throw them away, and no matter how strong a man is, he can't hold them up. The village chief replied honestly.

After hearing this, Lin Yuanqing pondered for a long time and asked, "How far is it?"

...

The village chief compared him for a long time, and then Lin Yuanqing finally had a bottom in his heart, the other party was full of martial arts, and there were many people, so it seemed that he could only break them one by one.

After thinking about it for a long time, Lin Yuanqing began to observe in the village, and he remembered that Hong Er taught him that when fighting, in addition to the strength of martial arts, the terrain is also very important, and the reasonable use of the surrounding environment can also defeat the strong with the weak, although Hong Er emphasized at the end: "One force will reduce ten meetings." ”