Author: Mu Jili

Captain Li Zhengqing was a little unsure, but replied: "Thank you, Tax Collector Han, but you must be careful along the way."

Not far after Han Haitao walked out, he heard several screams coming from the village.

The distance was so far that Han Haitao stopped, not knowing how to deal with it.

At the entrance of the village, Li Zhengqing ran out quickly and soon arrived in front of Han Haitao.

He said anxiously: "Go to the town quickly and tell the mayor the news. There are bandits in the village."

"Captain Li, be careful!" Han Haitao warned and hurried towards the town.

In the afternoon of the next day, Lu Zhixin and others received the news that Zhangjia Village had been attacked by bandits and a village Taoist was injured. Fortunately, no vital injuries were sustained.

The thieves wounded someone, but when they saw the militiamen quickly surrounding them under the leadership of Taoist priests, they did not dare to steal anything and ran away.

Everyone frowned when they found Zhangjiacun on the map.

Zhangjiacun is not far from Lin'an, and banditry has always been rare. In Wu Youping's estimation, this is a low-risk area for banditry.

Lu Zhixin couldn't help but ask: "Where did these mountain bandits come in?"

Wu Youping stared at the map. Although he did not answer, his expression was calm.

Lu Zhixin thought for a moment and asked someone to get the field allocation records.

After turning to the Zhangjiacun copy and looking at it for a while, he handed the information to Lu Zhixin and began to discuss with Wu Youping the possibility of a long-distance attack by mountain bandits from out of town.

Lu Zhixin looked at it for a while, suddenly realized it, and asked unhappily: "Is it possible that Zhang Debiao's people are deliberately retaliating?"

Other Taoists have gathered around to read the information. Zhang Debiao, the richest man in Zhangjia Village, had a blood debt and the Zhang family was uprooted.

The reason why the Zhang family dared to do this in the local area was because someone in his family was an official.

When they learned that Zhang Debiao's family had been arrested, the Zhang family's branch in the government office next door sent someone to mediate a while ago.

Even though the gift they brought was ten boxes of silver, Zhang Yuqing did not confiscate the gift. Instead, he told the other party frankly that Zhang Debiao and other evil leaders owed blood debts, which must be repaid with blood, and only those unrelated members of the Zhang family could be released.

However, the purpose of the other party's trip was to get Zhang Yuqing to release Zhang Debiao and others. When he saw that Zhang Yuqing was not accommodating, and after all kinds of arguments were ineffective, he left in anger.

Huangzhou jumped up and slapped the case, and said angrily: "They say that officials and bandits belong to the same family. In addition to fighting mountain bandits and bandits, we also have to fight against officials and bandits together!"

Lu Zhixin raised his head and said clearly: "Everyone sit down!"

In Lin'an, Zhang Yuqing was the head Taoist disciple, and the second highest disciple at present was Lu Zhixin, the eldest disciple of Lu Liang. After receiving such an order from Lu Zhixin, although Huangzhou was very angry, he finally sat down.

Lu Zhixin then said: "Bandits are bandits. Whether they commit crimes spontaneously or are hired by others, bandits will always act according to the pattern of bandits. If we continue to act according to the pattern of fighting bandits, we will always completely eliminate them.

day."

After saying that, Lu Zhixin looked at Huangzhou: "Silang, are we here for revenge or to suppress bandits?"

Huang Zhou nodded sullenly, "I understand that now everything will give top priority to suppressing bandits, and we must obey and launch operations to suppress bandits."

Seeing that Huangzhou was so understanding, Lu Zhixin felt relieved and turned to everyone: "The headmaster Daozi said yesterday that we should mobilize the people.

Looking back on this land distribution, we got rid of the local tyrants and evil gentry and won over the people.

Then the enemy has begun to do the opposite and attack our Taoist priests. This is a struggle for dominance. In this case, we will mobilize the people in the villages and towns where the five local tyrants and evil gentry are located. I believe that everyone hopes that their lives will be better.

Lived peacefully.”

Two days later, Zheng Qing dressed up as a salesman and appeared outside Lijia Village pushing a cart.

When the little boss next to him saw the woman's figure in the distance, he couldn't help but crane his neck to take a look. He looked so impatient that he almost stood on tiptoes to look.

Zheng Qing shouted in a low voice: "Don't be such a loser. Mr. Zhang's family said that as long as we kill a Taoist resident of the Immortality Sect, we will be given twenty guan of copper coins. Twenty guan of copper coins can be enough to sleep with many women in brothels."

Hearing this, the little boss nodded repeatedly and finally returned to his normal appearance.

Zheng Qing first stopped at the entrance of the village, played his tambourine, and shouted in the tone of a traveling businessman: "Look, look, there are floral cloths, needlework, whatever you want!"

Not long after, someone stopped in front of Zheng Qing's car and started asking about the price.

Zheng Qing first observed the villagers in the village. He left the responsibility to the small leader for selling things.

Although the little boss is lecherous, he is also a person who cares about every detail. He has to spend every penny with the villagers who are buying things, and in the end he made a few business deals.

When there were fewer people, Zheng Qing asked a middle-aged man next to him: "Brother, I heard that the village has divided the fields. Where does the village chief live?"

The middle-aged man asked: "What are you asking the village chief for?"

"You have become the village chief, so you must be rich. I want to go outside the village chief's door and shout a few words to see what the village chief's family has to buy."

Hearing this, the middle-aged man looked Zheng Qing up and down, "Are you from outside?"

"Yes, I came from the west."

The middle-aged man looked at Zheng Qing a few more times, said "I don't know", got up and left.

Zheng Qing was stunned, wondering what was going on with this middle-aged man.

After that, I asked a few more people, and they all gave the same answer, "I don't know."

Zheng Qing felt something was wrong, but was unwilling to accept it. When he saw a young man approaching, he stepped forward and asked the village chief where he lived with a smile.

The young man was enthusiastic. After listening to Zheng Qing's explanation, he took Zheng Qing to the door of a family in the village. He pointed to the door and said, "The village chief lives here."

Zheng Qing quickly thanked him and started selling.

Not long after, the door opened, and a man came out and cursed at Zheng Qing angrily: "Do you know whose house this is? This is the village chief's house. Why are you shouting at noon! Are you sleeping?"

Hearing this shouting, Zheng Qing was sure that he was right.

He quickly pretended to be obedient and pushed the cart out of the village. After walking for five or six miles and seeing no one around him, Zheng Qing led the little leader up the path and arrived at a small temple.

After a few whistles, several people came out of the small temple. They were all Zheng Qing's brothers. Zheng Qing said to the brothers: "I have already made the mark. I will go there in the evening!"

Hearing this, the thieves and bandits were all happy.

There is a reward for this robbery. After killing someone, the reward will be given. Even if you don't grab anything, you have already earned it.

The bandits and bandits set up secret sentries, and everyone else began to take a rest. It was just after noon, and the bandits didn't eat either. When the autumn wind blew, they all retreated into the small ruined temple to take a nap.

I don’t know how long it took before the shouts of killing suddenly started.

Zheng Qing got up in a hurry and saw that although the temple door was blocked by a broken door, the officers and soldiers came directly from outside the wall. After landing, they quickly raised their swords and pointed them at everyone in the temple.

Where Zheng Qing dared to move, his men obediently raised their hands.

Zheng Qing and his group of seven mountain bandits were all captured without spending a single soldier.

At the intersection leading to Xiuzhou, Fourth Master Li looked at the two remaining masters behind him and couldn't help but feel sad.

Three days ago, Lin'an officers and soldiers suddenly launched an attack on Mr. Li Si's mountain stronghold.

Different from the previous pattern of officers and soldiers lining up to attack in large groups, this unit actually divided into several small groups, quietly approached, and suddenly launched an attack.

Fourth Master Li thought he was being cautious and had people stationed at every intersection, but two teams suddenly appeared next to the village and beat away the gatekeepers.

Forced as a last resort, Fourth Master Li could only lead his men to escape, while the officers and soldiers pursued them. In the blink of an eye, the chase reached the third day, and all the forty men were killed.

He, the second boss, and the third boss all relied on horses to barely escape.

Fourth Master Li regretted it extremely. At that time, he knew that the new head coach Daozi was a powerful person, so he should have left immediately with his brothers.

However, after listening to the brothers who were sent to Lin'an City tell about Lin'an's recent prosperity, Fourth Master Li still became greedy. He thought there might be a chance to make a fortune.

Now, instead of stealing the chicken, the enemy loses the rice, and the entire team is destroyed.

But Mr. Li is also a veteran gangster with many years of experience.

He suddenly became worried and said to his two subordinates: "Master Zhou from Xiuzhou is a good man. Let's go to him."

When he heard that he was going to Xiuzhou, the second master really didn't want to go to Xiuzhou, so he asked tentatively: "Brother, do you want to go to Fourth Master Liu's place to have a look?"

Fourth Master Li's face darkened, "We suffered from greed before, and now we have lost all our brothers. We can't stay in Lin'an any longer. We have offended many people in Lin'an, and now there are only a few of us left. Let's stay.

I don’t know when I was harmed!”

After saying that, looking at the second master's expression, he still hesitated. Fourth Master Li asked coldly: "Why, second master, you don't want to leave?"

When the second master heard this, he quickly replied: "How come? Wherever the eldest brother takes me, I will follow."

Fourth Master Li didn't say much. He glanced back in the direction of his village, then urged his tired horses to head north.

In Lin'an, good news came one after another.

Although Fourth Master Li escaped, all his men were killed, and the other group of bandits were completely wiped out, with no one slipping through the net.

There were many current issues written on the paper in front of Lu Zhixin.

At the top of the list is the issue of attacks on rural Taoist priests. Recently, a rural Taoist priest in a village was attacked and killed. Fortunately, in order to ensure his own safety, the attacker this time just fired his arrow from a distance, missed his target, and was hit.

No one was hurt when making the green fodder pile.

Even so, the villages and towns that knew about this incident were greatly shocked.

Lu Zhixin has determined that the attack on the villagers was by no means a spontaneous act by the bandits.

Even the main messenger behind it has been identified.

There is no love without reason, and there is no hate without reason.
To be continued...