Chapter 49: The Spirit of the Troubled World
Zhang Feng led most of the cavalry to leave, and a long stream of smoke and dust spread out.
The two left behind to take the horse back to the village to look at each other. One of them was young and in his early twenties. He looked at another middle-aged man in his forties and said, "Uncle Li, let's go back now!"
The bandit called Uncle Li waved his hand and said, "You're not going to reincarnate, why are you so anxious? After chasing for most of the day, I didn't get half of the hair, and I was so tired like a dead donkey. Let's take a break first." After that, he sat on the ground, leaned against the tree stump, pulled out his cigarette pouch from his waist and started smoking.
The young bandit seemed a little anxious and hurriedly said, "Uncle Li, Zhang Feng asked us to transport these horses back to the village immediately!"
"Zhang Feng? He is a birdie? Isn't he just a postman for several years? You really want to be a Bodhisattva! Uncle Yang was killed by the bandits this time, and he was a personal guard and he didn't even catch a thief. I think how he explained to the Fourth Master?"
The young bandit bandit's cheeks flushed slightly, and he leaned forward and said, "Uncle Li, am I worried that Zhang Feng will really catch up with those bandits? He will go back then, but we haven't returned yet, so it will inevitably cause him to blame."
The bandits surnamed Li sneered and said, "I ran nearly ten miles from the village to Sanchakou, and I chased me here for six or seven miles. They had already run away at this time, so what a fool! Boy, I will teach you a trick now, given that you are still filial to me."
The bandits surnamed Li turned to the young bandits and asked in a deep voice: "Do you know why I took the initiative to apply to stay?"
The young bandit chuckled and said, "I see you are always tired and I really don't want to chase you."
"Stupid, so stupid, I won't learn from it any more."
The bandit surnamed Li knocked on his head with a cigarette pot and continued, "Zhang Feng took the lead in chasing people, and if he catches up, it is his credit; if he can't catch up, everyone will have to be punished with him. If we stay here, we will avoid the risk of being punished. And we will definitely return to the camp earlier than them, and then we will present these three horses to the Fourth Master in advance, and then the credit for the horse will be the two of us. If Zhang Feng is lucky enough to catch up with those people to avenge Yang Da, what do you think of the Fourth Master?"
The young bandit slapped his forehead and said, "Uncle Li, you are right! At that time, we will not only not be punished, but we may not be rewarded by the Fourth Master. And Zhang Feng will take the blame for the murder of Uncle Yang."
The bandit named Li chuckled and said, "You kid finally got it done. Zhang Feng is cruel and ruthless. He killed dozens of ordinary people, so he should be punished."
"What a plan, but what if you can't get back to the camp?" A cold voice sounded, and a thin black shadow jumped down from a tree less than a hundred steps away from them, slowly approaching step by step.
The two bandits changed their faces, drew their swords and shouted loudly, "Who are you?"
Lin Bao stopped about ten steps away from them, wrapped his hands and chests, and said proudly in his tone: "Aren't you chasing me all the time? Why, now you stand in front of you, but you can't recognize me?"
Lin Bao ignored the horror in the eyes of the two of them and continued to say lightly: "I have killed enough people tonight, so I am willing to give you a chance. Leave your horse and those three horses for me, and in exchange, you can leave alive."
The bandit surnamed Li pondered for a while, withdrew his knife and bowed to Lin Bao, saying, "Thank you for not killing the hero, but can you tell the villain your honorable name? I can repay you one or two in the future."
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The bandits surnamed Li changed their faces and suddenly shivered. They didn't dare to say a word, and hurriedly pulled the young bandits with dissatisfaction and ran towards the distance.
The young bandit bandit was running while looking at the bandit bandit Li with confusion and said, "Uncle Li, what's wrong with you? You're just an old boy. What are we afraid of him for?"
The bandit Li immediately gave him a thunderous thunder and said angrily: "Are you so stupid? You can kill Yang Da with one knife and hide in the tree for so long that you haven't been discovered. Do you really treat him as an ordinary old man? If we hadn't run fast, we would have had two corpses now."
The young bandit touched his head with a little pain and asked in a low voice: "Uncle Li, what should we do now? Not only did we not bring back the three horses, but we also lost two. Even if we rushed back immediately, the Fourth Master would definitely not spare us."
The bandit surnamed Li said angrily: "What are you going back? If you don't watch this person playing with us like a fool, you will be a veteran on the battlefield. I wanted to ask him clearly about his origin and tell Yang Si that he could still get his life. Now I don't know what to do if he doesn't kill us when he goes back?"
The young bandit bandit said with a puzzled face: "Uncle Li, if we don't go back, are we going to escape?"
"Of course we have to escape, and the farther we run, the better. Fortunately, I have saved some money in the past six months as a bandit. We don't have much blood to both of us. In the future, we will buy some land or do some small business in other places, and then we will be good people. I will do enough of killing people or being killed."
"Uncle Li, but in this way, if the Fourth Master is found in the future, our lives will be lost!"
The bandit bandit surnamed Li laughed and said, "Don't worry about this. What Yang Si is doing now is to avenge Yang Da, and he doesn't care about us for the time being. Moreover, Yang Si's food has been burned out now, and with these strong men, he will not be free for long. Escape is the best time now. People in troubled times are as cheap as dogs. It's not a big deal to follow Yang Si to be a bandit bandit. It may not be lost one day, so it's better to be a good citizen."
The young bandit received too much information at once and didn't turn around for a while, so he simply stopped thinking. He turned to the bandit Li and said, "Uncle Li, I'll just listen to you. What do you say, let's do what we do?"
The bandit bandit surnamed Li smiled faintly and said, "You kid can survive with me. If you didn't look like my son, you would have thrown you aside. From now on, I will follow me and marry you a little wife, so that we can live a good life."
The young bandit giggled and said, "Thank you, Uncle Li, you can just be my godfather in the future!"
The bandit Li's surnamed bandit twitched for a while and said nothing for a long time. And under the moonlight, there was a clear stream passing by the corners of his eyes, but he quickly wiped it away.
Lin Bao watched the two left without any change in his expression. He turned around and walked into the woods again, and cut two hard cross-border trees about two feet long with a knife. He returned to the place where the horse was tied, removed the reins, and placed one cross-border in front of the horse's back. He then put the other one under the neck of the horse, and was firmly fixed with a rope.
Chapter completed!