Chapter 39: A robbery

After hearing the news, the soldiers of the sentry were all very happy and felt that they were celebrating the festival. Their impression of Lord Wu was getting better and better. Since Lord Wu came, not only could he get one more cent of silver every month, but he also paid for extra meals from time to time. He was really a good man who was never seen in a century.

Just as the sentry soldiers were in a warm mood, Chen Qun and Wang Yun, who were standing on the city tower and blew the evening breeze, suddenly saw a man outside the city staggering towards this side.

Chen Qun held the last double-happy cigarette in his mouth and squinted his eyes at the running person outside the city. Although the sun was setting and it was not yet dark, he saw clearly that the running person was wearing a suit.

"Fuck, a fake foreigner, hehe, you've missed the time to close the city gate. He was in trouble. It took at least two hours to walk across the river to enter the city." He took a nice sip of cigarettes and said with a smile as the onlooker watching the excitement.

"He deserves it. I hate fake foreigners the most. Look at our Lord Wu. Although we Lord Wu returned from studying abroad, we don't have a bit of foreign style and are serious. Looking at these dog slaves who have never even been out of the country, they think it's amazing to wear foreigners' outfits. I'm spit." Wang Yun snorted coldly, and really spitted under the city wall.

"Forget it, let's pretend that we didn't see it. Let's go down. Lord Wu invites us to eat meat again tonight. I have to wash the rice bowl first." Chen Qun said, extinguishing the cigarette. He carefully put away the remaining half of the cigarette that had not been smoked, turned around and walked under the city gate.

Wang Yun quickly followed and said with a smile: "Old Chen, let me smoke your half cigarette."

Chen Qun smiled and said, "You dream about you in the daytime, and I will only have the last half left. Go and you can draw your own water gun."

Wang Yun said aggrievedly: "Oxa is so expensive now that it is so expensive. I have quit Shuiyan long ago. Now I only dare to smoke some cigarettes."

Chen Qun shrugged and said, "Then you go and buy it yourself..."

Wang Yun said helplessly: "Didn't you just lost money last night?"

The two of them walked down the city tower one by one.

Wu Shaoting was washing his bowl by the well behind the barracks. He vaguely heard the dull sound of "dongdongdongdong", which was a bit like a drum. He impatiently shook the water stains in the bowls and shouted to the place where the sound came: "Stop, who is playing the drum? Is this drum or a table? There is only one table in the barracks. If anyone is fucked, we will have to squat and have dinner in the future."

At this time, a soldier ran over from the front of the barracks and said quickly: "Sir, we didn't slap the table, it seemed like someone was knocking on the city gate."

Wu Shaoting took a breath and immediately felt that something was wrong. After the city gate was closed, everyone who had not yet entered the city knew that the city gate would not open again. Now he dared to slap the city gate. There were only three possibilities: either a big man was going to enter the city, or a fool was doing it, or there was an emergency.

However, no matter which possibility is, the people guarding the city gate have to solve it. We can't keep shooting the city gate.

He stuffed his rice bowl to the soldier and walked quickly towards the city tower.

The soldiers who heard the sound of shooting the city gates near the barracks also followed curiously.

As soon as Wu Shaoting arrived at the stairs of the city tower, Wang Yun and Chen Qun walked down the city tower leisurely.

"Is someone knocking on the city gate?" Wu Shaoting asked.

"Oh, sir, don't pay attention to that person. He is a fake foreigner. He will leave when he is tired of filming himself." Chen Qun said with a smile.

"Yes, let him have a better memory, who made him miss the closing time?" Wang Yun nodded and said.

When Wu Shaoting heard this, he felt even more strange. He didn't say much and quickly climbed the city tower.

Wang Yun and Chen Qun had no choice but to turn back as well.

Wu Shaoting came to the battlement and leaned down to look down. He saw a young man in a suit slapping the gate in front of the city gate, but the other party seemed weak at this moment.

"What are you doing? Don't you know it's closed?" he shouted to the city.

The young man in suit took two steps back and looked up at the city tower. He seemed to have just experienced intense exercise and was constantly gasping for breath, but without any rest, he immediately shouted: "Mr. Wu...Mr. Wu, there are bandits, there are bandits..."

Wu Shaoting saw the other party's appearance clearly. It turned out to be Zhang Xiaoya's driver Acheng. He was shocked and wondered. He first glanced at the distance outside the city, and then asked, "Bandits? What the hell is going on? What bandits?"

Acheng calmed down his breath and said again: "Miss, let the bandits rob, Lord Wu, please open the city gate."

At this time, Wang Lifa ran up from the city and pulled Wu Shaoting and said, "Sir, if it is a bandit, then you can't open the city gate. It's not our responsibility to make trouble outside the city. If the bandits take the opportunity to kill into the city, then we will take the blame!"

Wu Shaoting cursed, "Damn it, see where there are bandits? If you are not at ease, let your brothers take the guys in your hands. Let the guys come in and talk about it."

All the soldiers looked a little worried. They had never encountered this thing in the past few years and had no experience at all.

However, under Wu Shaoting's order, everyone quickly ran back to the barracks to get the weapons. Eleven rifles went up to the city tower to occupy a favorable position, and other people holding cold weapons guarded both sides of the city gate. After everything was ready, Wu Shaoting, Wang Yun, Zhou Xiaohu and others came forward to open the city gate in person.

Ah Cheng's black suit was covered with dust, with swollen injuries on his face, and blood on the corner of his mouth, as if he was punched. He rolled and crawled into the city, and then sat on the ground, his whole body was shaking and his face was pale as paper.

After closing the city gate again, Wu Shaoting quickly ordered: "Xiaohu, go and pour the water?"

Zhou Xiaohu hurried to the shed outside the city gate, poured a bowl of cold water and brought it over.

Wu Shaoting was not in a hurry to ask. He asked Ah Cheng to drink the water first so that the other party could recover, so that he would not be confused when he was explaining later, and instead delay the situation even more.

After Ah Cheng finished drinking the water, his trembling body finally improved a little.

Wu Shaoting immediately asked, "Acheng, start from scratch, what happened."

Acheng cried and said, "At three o'clock in the afternoon, Ms. Zhang sent someone in the farmhouse in Gaozhuang, saying that the farmhouse farmers scolded Miss Zhang for ruining fruits and were gathering people to make trouble. Ms. Zhang was very angry and rushed to go out of the city to see what was going on. How could he know that we had just driven past the path outside Huma Village, and suddenly a big piece of wood fell from the sky and almost hit the car. Then, many masked people rushed out of both sides of the road, and they... they pointed guns at me..."

Speaking of this, he became scared again and couldn't continue to say anything for a moment.

Wu Shaoting asked, "What kind of gun is it?"

Acheng calmed down and said, "There are box cannons and long spears. I...I also saw earth guns, which are...the kind of bird shooting."

Wu Shaoting asked again: "Do you see clearly how many of them are?"

Acheng shook his head and said with a depressed look on his face: "In that case, how dare I watch bandits? Anyway... many of them have seven or eight people around the car, and some are hiding in the bushes by the roadside, and there are those on the trunks everywhere."

Wu Shaoting continued, "What are the characteristics of their clothes? Are they all covered in face?"

A Cheng thought about it carefully and replied: "I feel that they are all wearing black clothes, and they should all be masked. At least... the people around the car are masked. I also saw two of them wearing belts, which are belts that load guns and bullets..."

"Armed belt?" Chen Qun, who was standing beside him, interrupted and reminded.

"I don't know what it is, anyway, it's like the New Army and the Patrolman, who slapped off the shoulders and connected them to the belt." Acheng described it and gestured with his hands.

"That's right, it's really an armed leader." Chen Qun nodded and said with certainty.

"What after they surrounded your car?" Wu Shaoting asked again.

Ah Cheng wiped his mouth, his eyes full of panic. He said, "I was dragged out of the car by them, and then someone punched me and knocked me to the ground. I lay on the ground and didn't dare to move, so I heard the lady's screams. The lady kept screaming and scolding the bandits. Later, I don't know what happened, but the lady's voice disappeared, and I don't know if it was... if it was knocked out. Then, I heard the footsteps of their retreat. I didn't dare to get up because a gun was pressed on the back of my head..."

"Why did they let you go?" Wu Shaoting asked.

"Later, the bandit who was pushing me with a gun and twisted me up. He said to me, "I'll go back and bring a word to our master. I'll prepare 500,000...500,000 yuan before noon tomorrow..." A Cheng said tremblingly. The feeling of the gun pressing against his head was so scared, and he was still scared.

Wang Li took a breath and sighed: "Five hundred thousand silver dollars are not small numbers. This is the style of bandits. They often do such business, and they see that wealthy families kidnap and extort."

Wu Shaoting looked at Wang Li and asked, "Bandits? Are there any bandits who are not wild?"

Wang Lifa hurriedly explained: "You don't know that bandits are divided into many kinds, roughly four types. One type is the gangsters, which means they have been bandits for generations; the other type is fake bandits, which are usually people from nearby villages, and occasionally gather to rob people from other provinces and make small fuss. The third type is the bandits, which are the revolutionary parties that are now very fierce; the last type is the wild bandits, which are some of their wanted criminals, thieves, who often commit crimes across provinces, which is very cruel."

Wu Shaoting asked seriously: "Are you sure?"

Wang Lifa slapped his thigh, nodded very seriously, and said, "It must be the wild bandits. There are very few fake bandits who hold guns, just a group of barbaric troublemakers, which is not a problem! The bandits are going to make trouble now, just armed uprisings, so naturally they won't be them anymore. Not to mention the bandits, let alone the bandits. We are all familiar with them. Sometimes their bosses go to the city and drink with us. They only buy money for roads and kidnap Mr. Zhang's daughter. "

Speaking of this, he sighed and said worriedly: "The fucking bandits are the most troublesome. They are all desperate people, and the government has no way to deal with them."

Wu Shaoting sighed in his heart, it seems that the family of officials and bandits is not general.
Chapter completed!