Jiangshan is hired [rebirth]

Chapter 28

At first Zhou Butou just prayed in his heart, but later he was too focused on praying and accidentally said it out loud.

"Brother Zhou, I think your idea is unrealistic. He is a robber and not a good person, and he can support a group of old, weak, sick and disabled?" A young catcher next to Zhou Butou said meanly.

Zhou Butou turned his head and kicked him: "It didn't hit you, isn't it?"

The little catcher skipped and jumped away, and another older catcher next to him patted Zhou catcher on the shoulder: "Old Zhou, don't worry, if anything happens, we will take care of your child." Take care!"

Zhou Butou: "..." I can thank you all.

Compared with his subordinates, the two from Renyun's family are quite reliable. Zhou Butou turned around, and saw that the bandit leader Sun Dahu had already swallowed his breath, his eyes were opened like copper bells, and his face was tilted to one side. His facial features were twisted strangely, as if he didn't want to believe that he would die at the hands of a prey he had imagined until he died.

Following Sun Dahu's gaze forward, Wen Taicang was explaining something to Huo Lan in a low voice not far away, Huo Lan listened carefully, nodding his head from time to time.

"...That's about all you need to pay attention to. They are all learned and practiced. Are you tired? Do you want to rest for a while before acting?"

Huo Lan untied the water bag and took a sip, then shook his head and said, "No need, it should be quite a while since these bandits came out, and the people in the village will become suspicious after a while."

She is not trying to be brave, after training for the past six months, her physical strength has improved a lot compared to before. Although her explosive power is not as good as that of a gangster like Sun Dahu for a while, she has good endurance.In addition, since last night, I have been rejuvenating and recharging my energy, and the consumption of the fierce battle just now has almost recovered.

"Then let's set off now." After Wen Taicang finished speaking, he called everyone to wait outside the mountain path, and only brought Zhou Butou and Huo Lan around to both sides of the mountain path.

In front, two bandits, one tall and one short, were sitting side by side in the middle of the road chatting.Wen Taicang lowered his voice and said to Zhou Butou behind him: "You just wait here. After we succeed in a while, you go and bring other people to the sides of the mountain road to ambush."

Zhou Butou nodded in response.Wen Taicang gestured to Huo Lan who was on the opposite hillside, and the two of them searched for the shelter and walked forward, walking fast but hardly making any sound.They were well hidden, and several times the two lookout bandits raised their heads without seeing them.

Even so, Catcher Zhou couldn't help sweating for them. It's useless nine times out of ten to hide in such a sneak attack. As long as they are exposed once, the two bandits can immediately call a large number of accomplices.

The two robbers in the middle of the road have not yet realized the danger is approaching.

Among them, the short one complained to the tall one: "Yesterday, I came to guard the post, and today I am here again. It was supposed to be Qian Laoliu's turn today, but he told me that he had a stomachache and wanted to change to me." Ben. I thought he was really uncomfortable, and agreed to do good things, but he was fine, and sneaked to the intersection to squat for a while, which really made him squat down, and later the boss would call me a good-for-nothing again!"

"He did it a little unkindly. If you want me to say that you are stupid, you are doing good things after you have fallen into a bandit. Do you think Qian Lao Liu has done good things? Has our boss done good things? What about us? In the same line, which one relies on doing good deeds to become famous? Doesn’t it all have to rely on fists to speak? The more vicious you are, the more you do all kinds of evil, the more afraid you will be afraid of you and dare not provoke you. You see Qian Lao Liu will not dare to come to you I'll give him the job..."

The short bandit looked angry: "Damn it! Boss wants to eat meat. Tomorrow I will go into the city and abduct three or five of his children and bring them back to Boss. Let's see how powerful Qian Lao Liu is."

"Who is Qian Laoliu? Do you compare yourself to him all the time? If it were me..." The tall bandit stopped in the middle of his sentence, and asked with a vigilant expression, "Did you hear anything?"

Zhou Butou, who was hiding behind the stone, had his heart in his throat.On the hillside next to the man, less than ten steps away from him, Huo Lan was hiding behind a tree.The tree wasn't too thick, but fortunately Huo Lan was thin enough to be covered by the trunk, but as long as the two gangsters walked back and forth and changed their angles, they could find someone hiding behind the tree.

"Is it the wind? Or it's a bird! Don't be suspicious, we've been here for so long, there are only stones on the mountain, and there are a few thin, bald birds, not even a rabbit. It's boring. !"

"Hush—" The tall bandit was more thoughtful than the short one, and said in a low voice, "It's not quite right, boss, how long have they been there, a young master with a few servants, why hasn't it been done for a long time?"

"That's right..." The short man was taken aback, thought for a while, and then said, "Maybe the boss saw that the young master looked right, so he chopped him up and ate him right away? With our boss's hand, huh! The cattail fan Like, are you still worried about him?"

The tall bandit ignored his companion who kept nagging in his ear. He focused on looking at the hillside on his left, and said after a while: "I think there are real people on the hill over there. You are waiting here for me to see." look."

He walked two steps, did not hear the reply from his companion behind him, but heard a slight "click".The tall bandit turned his head suspiciously, only to see that behind him, the companion who was chatting with him just now was twisting his neck at an extremely weird angle, his protruding eyeballs were bloodshot, as if trying to break free from their sockets.

A strange man with a horrific scar on his face was holding his companion's chin with one hand and the back of his companion's head with the other. His companion was dead, and the strange man was looking at him coldly with a look that didn't seem to be alive. Stare at him.

The tall man was so frightened that he took two steps back in a hurry. He opened his mouth and was about to shout when he suddenly felt a cold hand touch his chin. Then his neck hurt and he didn't know anything.

"Huh——you two really scared me to death!" Zhou Butou poked his head out from behind the stone, thinking that it was very dangerous just now, if either Wen Taicang or Huo Lan took a step slower, the three of them would not be able to do it today The confession is here!

"I'm sorry..." Huo Lan lowered his head to admit his mistake to Wen Taicang.Just now she stepped on a piece of gravel while sneaking, and as she exerted force on her toes, the stone rolled down the mountain.Originally, there was not much noise, but it happened to startle a bird that stopped on the ground looking for food. The bird fluttered and flew up, attracting the attention of the tall robber.

"Be careful next time." Wentai replied indifferently. He has taught Huo Lan for so long, and he knows that Huo Lan is a person with strong learning ability and good at summarizing and introspecting, so there is no need for him to teach nonsense.

After a while, Zhou Butou brought over a group of police officers who were guarding outside the mountain. Wen Taicang arranged for them to ambush, followed Zhou Butou and Huo Lan to the mountain behind Nanhe Village, and prepared to sneak into the village.

This is the first time Huo Lan proposed the method. The difference is that the bandit leader here has been killed by them, and the number of bandits is much smaller.

"What's that big house over there?" Wen Taicang and the others lay down on the mountain and looked into the village. They found a big house at the east end of the village. A group of bandits playing dice were guarding the main entrance. There are a total of ten people wandering around, and more than half of the gangsters in the village are here.

"Ancestral hall?" Huo Lan was not sure.Liuhe village is full of people with mixed surnames. There is no such thing, but there are some other villages like Songzhuang. Many people in the village have the same surname, and they are all relatives, and some have ancestral halls.

However, the big house in Nanhe Village looked different from the ancestral halls she had seen, so Huo Lan couldn't tell.

The only one who went in was Zhou Butou. He nodded and said with certainty: "It's the ancestral hall. The villagers in Nanhe Village are not from Suzhou, so you can see that their ancestral halls and houses are built differently from ours. .”

"It seems that most of the villagers are locked here. Is there any other entrance to this ancestral hall?" Wen Taicang asked.From their current positions, they can only see the main entrance of the ancestral hall and the outer wall on the left, but they cannot see the situation behind them.

"No, this is the only gate to enter and exit." Zhou Butou replied.

There are so many people at the main gate, let's not say whether they can beat them three times, even if they can beat them, if some bandits hold the villagers hostage and threaten them, they will have to fight.

"I'll lure the person who opened the main gate in a while, Huo Lan, you and Zhou Butou go into the ancestral hall to save people." Wen Taicang touched down the mountain first after speaking, followed by Huo Lan and Zhou Butou.

The three of them sneaked into the village and gradually approached the ancestral hall under the cover of the house.

A bandit passed by the wall where they were hiding. Wen Taicang's movements were as swift and light as a cheetah. Wen Taicang wrung the man's neck as soon as he exposed half of his body.

Wen Taicang gestured to Huo Lan and Zhou Butou to stay here, went around to the main entrance of the ancestral hall, picked up a stone on the ground and threw it at a bandit in the middle of the crowd.The stone hit the man's temple, and the man fell down dead on the spot.

"Grandpa, who is it!" The gangsters around picked up the guys at hand one after another, and another stone hit, piercing the head of one of them again.

At the same time, Wen Taicang's position was also exposed.

"He's over there, you guys go over there to stop him! Grandma, I think some of the short-sighted people are getting impatient!"

At first, the gangsters in front of the ancestral hall saw that one of them would die as soon as the man made a move, and they were quite jealous. Later, when they found that the other party was alone, they suddenly became bolder, and shouted to the rest of the accomplices in the village, and a group of people began to fight. Wen Taicang's siege and interception.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Huo Lan and Zhou Tunting touched the corner of the front of the ancestral hall with their heads against the wall. Almost everyone went after Wen Taicang, and there were only two guards left at the gate of the ancestral hall.

Now they don't have to worry about making noises to attract people, Wen Taicang's yelling, shouting, and some weapon collisions are messy, and the gangsters can't hear here at all.

Huo Lan and Zhou Butou easily dealt with the two gatekeepers one by one, and pushed open the half-closed door of the ancestral hall, but the situation inside was beyond their expectations.

"Why is there no one here, are we thinking wrong?" Zhou Butou wondered.

"Impossible." Huo Lan said.She clearly saw a bandit dragging a woman out from here earlier, and there were people coming in and out one after another. If there is nothing in this ancestral hall, what are those people doing when they come in?

She listened attentively, and faintly heard a whimpering sound coming from somewhere. The sound was too small and disappeared after a few sounds. Huo Lan couldn't find the source of the sound for a while.

"Is there some secret way here?" Huo Lan knelt down and tapped the floor tiles under his feet, which didn't sound hollow.

When she fled with Yun Miaoqing in the past, she hid in a nunnery, and the main hall of the nunnery had a secret road leading to the outside of the mountain.There are no connected rooms around the ancestral hall. She suspects that somewhere in the ancestral hall there is a secret passage similar to that of the nunnery. Otherwise, where did the sound just come from?

"When you said that, I remembered!" Zhou Catcher recalled, "When I came back last time, I seemed to be hearing that their ancestors moved here to escape the war, and there is a place for everyone to hide in the village... ..."

Huo Lan's pupils shrank: "Do you still remember where?"

Catcher Zhou spread his hands: "It's not whether I remember or not, he didn't tell me at all!"

"It should be right here, let's look for it separately, hurry up!" Huo Lan said, changing a floor tile and continuing to knock.

The whimpering sound disappeared after a few moments. She suspected that there were bandits hiding here, and they had to find the secret passage quickly.

Huo Lan knocked on most of the floor tiles in the ancestral hall, but Zhou Butou touched here and there to see where he touched. After a harsh "creak", a hole was opened under the altar table in the ancestral hall.

Zhou Butou was surprised: "That's okay, I just touched the fish eyes on this fruit plate casually!"

Huo Lan: "..." Looking at her luck, and seeing that the gravel she slid out by herself can hit the bird just right, what else is there to say?

Now is not the time to talk nonsense, Huo Lan threw a torch down, and after confirming that there was no one at the entrance of the cave, he slumped in.

Behind the hole is a long staircase that goes all the way down.Huo Lan's spear was left at the group of headhunters outside the village before, now he will draw out the dagger to protect his body, and walk carefully step by step to prevent sneak attacks in the dark.

I didn't meet anyone all the way, and when I stepped down the last step, I saw a corridor just wide enough for two people. At the end of the corridor, there was a secret room. A candle was burning on the wall, illuminating a bandit in the middle of the secret room. Surrounding the gangsters, there were more than [-] women whose hands and feet were bound.

"Don't come here! If you come again, I'll kill them all!" Xu Shi saw the policeman's clothes on Zhou Butou, and the gangster was very excited. He grabbed a woman's hair and put a small knife on the ground. on the woman's neck.

The woman caught by him was naked, and one could imagine what torture she was suffering before Huo Lan and the others came in.

The only good thing is that the gangster was planning to come in to have fun, and the long knife was left outside, and only the small knife was in his hand. There was no way to quickly end the many people here, so he could only take one as a hostage.

Catcher Zhou was in a bit of a dilemma. The gangster had nowhere to escape, and he was relying on the woman caught by him to delay time. Once he killed the woman, he would lose the amulet. He and Huo Lan are definitely not good It will give him another chance to take a second person as a hostage.

This gangster is easy to catch, but it is really difficult to save the woman in his hands.

The woman opened her eyes wide and whimpered, and she could see that although she had suffered a great insult, she still wanted to live.

Zhou Catcher was having a headache when he saw Huo Lan put his dagger on the ground and took a step forward.

"Don't come here!" the gangster yelled.

"How about letting me replace her?" Instead of stopping, Huo Lan took another step forward.

"No need, don't move, I'll kill her if you move again!" The gangster dragged the woman back a step, and the knife pressed tightly on the side of the woman's neck.

"I'm not from the government. Look at my body shape. I'm not from the same way as the head catcher behind me, right?" Huo Lan walked very slowly, but never stopped. "I'm from around here. The villagers who were brought by them to lead the way had a dagger on their body, which had already been put down."

Huo Lan didn't even bat an eye when he told a lie, Zhou Butou looked at her back with complicated emotions.

It was clear that he was the one who was forced to lead the way!But I have to say that Huo Lan's appearance is really deceptive. At least he knows that if it was him, the gangster might not be able to bear the pain if he walked to the position where Huo Lan was standing now.

"Look at the eldest sister you caught, she is also stronger than me, isn't she? Isn't it easier for you to control me than her?" Huo Lan continued to walk forward.

The gangster hesitated for a moment, and seemed to think that what Huo Lan said made sense: "Then you come here! And you, don't move!"

Zhou Butou honestly followed what the gangster said, and stood still. It seemed that he would not need to make a move anyway.

Huo Lan approached the gangster and said to the gangster, "Let her go."

The gangster grinned: "Damn, I think I'm stupid! Who knows what conspiracy you guys have, I won't let any one go, I'll kill you all—"

He pointed at Huo Lan with a knife. Before he finished speaking, he suddenly felt a sharp pain in his fingers. Then his neck felt cold, and a blood mist exploded in front of his eyes. He staggered and leaned against the wall behind, unable to think clearly. It's very good, I have seen through that kid's tricks, why is it still...

Or how he couldn't think of it anymore, the rapid blood loss made his consciousness blurred quickly, and he tilted his head in a moment and completely lost his breath.

Zhou Butou thought that Huo Lan would make a move, but he didn't expect the reversal to be so fast. In just a split second, the person who was just showing off his might turned into a corpse.

Look, this is what happens if you mistake a wolf for a sheep!

Huo Lan learned the lesson this time, and when he struck against the gangster's back, he didn't get sprayed with blood all over his body.She first found the clothes scattered aside and put them on the woman, and then used the knife she snatched from the gangster just now to cut the ropes of others.

"Are you alone here? Where are the rest of the village?" Huo Lan asked in a low voice.

"They were all killed by those goddamn bandits!"

"They were afraid that Dazhu and the others would rebel, so they killed all the young and strong ones like him, and killed the old and young ones who said they were wasting rations, so they killed them too!"

“他们都死了……没剩几个活着的！呜呜呜呜呜……”

Everyone cried and told what happened to them during this time.

Huo Lan and Zhou Butou looked at each other, and told the group of women to hide here first, and then come to pick them up after they go out to take care of the rest of the gangsters.

The two came out of the secret passage, Zhou Butou took out the arrow from his arms and prepared to call the brothers outside to come in for support, but as soon as he stepped out of the gate of the ancestral hall, he saw a group of people lying in the dam outside.

Wen Taicang stood alone among the group of people, and he didn't even look hurt.

Zhou Butou: "..."

Today, this pair of master and apprentice has had such an impact on him that he can't feel too much emotion when he sees this scene.He silently put the ringing arrow back into his bosom, and went back to the secret passage to call those women out.

In this operation, they killed [-] gangsters in total and captured [-]. The gangsters in nine villages saw that the situation was wrong and tried to escape, but were caught by the policemen guarding the hillside at the entrance of the village.

Afterwards, the bodies were counted. In Nanhe Village, there were 34 or [-] people from more than [-] households in Nanhe Village. [-] people died after this disaster. There are still a few whose whereabouts are unknown. There is a high probability that they are also dead, but the bodies have not been found yet.

At the entrance of the village, a woman who had just been rescued suddenly screamed like crazy, threw herself on the corpse of a gangster, swung a shovel she picked up from nowhere, and smashed the man's head to pieces. .

Although he couldn't see his face anymore, Huo Lan could still recognize from the man's tower-like figure that it was the bandit leader Sun Dahu who was killed by her before.

Another woman cried and rushed forward, and cut Sun Dahu's stomach with a kitchen knife in her hand. Sun Dahu's internal organs flowed out along the woman's incision.

Those should be the mothers of the children eaten by Sun Dahu, Huo Lan couldn't bear to continue watching, and turned back silently.

The arresters quickly escorted the captured criminals back to the county government office. As many of them went back as many of them returned, and none of them died.

Zhang Yuanbai, the county magistrate, was overjoyed and credited everyone, and also rewarded Wen Taicang and Huo Lan.

"You two really helped a lot this time! This is the bounty for this bandit suppression, and you two deserve it!"

Wen Taicang waved his hands and refused.The county government of the prefecture will occasionally issue some reward announcements. It is reasonable for Zhang Yuanbai to give them rewards for helping the county government suppress the bandits this time. Tai Cang has a special status and doesn't want to be troublesome.

Seeing that Wen Taicang refused to accept it, Zhang Yuanbai turned his eyes to Huo Lan and said, "Since Brother Wen refuses to accept it, how about I give the money to Brother Huo on behalf of Brother Wen?"

He had just listened to Zhou Catcher's brief report on the process of suppressing the bandits today, and he looked at Huo Lan with admiration.

Anyway, it was all about repaying the Yun family's favor, Yun Miaoqing valued Huo Lan so much, it wouldn't be wrong to give him all the bounty!

Huo Lan wanted to follow Wen Taicang's example and said no, but Wen Taicang nodded to her to indicate that she could accept it, so Huo Lan suddenly got a lot of money for no reason.

It was already dark when the two returned to the house, and Huo Lan went to take a shower when he entered the house, washed himself up and down several times before he changed into clean clothes and went to see Yun Miaoqing.

On the second floor of the small building, warm yellow lights radiated from Yun Miaoqing's room. Huo Lan stood in front of Yun Miaoqing's door, through the gauze curtain on the door, he could vaguely see the three people sitting inside.

Ginkgo is always the one who talks the most, chattering non-stop, Yun Miaoqing occasionally catches up with her, while Wen Taicang is silent most of the time.

Huo Lan caressed the wooden door and gently pressed his forehead against the door.

After rescuing those women today, the mournful and howling faces of those women made her involuntarily recall what happened to Yun Miaoqing in her previous life. Several times, such a tragedy almost happened to them!

Huo Lan bit her lower lip, and quietly clenched her fists—fortunately, she was no longer afraid of these robbers, but this was not enough, she had to work harder and become stronger!

The author has something to say: I finally finished writing about bandit suppression _(:з」∠)_, after a few more chapters of daily life, our Huo Xiaolan will end his peaceful life in the country!

Thanks to the little angel of irrigation nutrient solution: Lingyun 2 bottles;

Thank you very much for your support, I will continue to work hard!