People have relatives and friends, and those who are in the army in troubled times have no noble or humble eyes.

There must be more than Lu Si and the others who know about Raf. At least Lao Ma must know that no matter how bad Ma Xingui is, he can't cheat his uncle.

The grain chief is not considered an official.

Jin Shengheng really wants to marry his husband, so Lao Ma, the grain chief, can't run away. If he can't do anything in the county's library, he will not be able to leave any of the gentlemen.

Even if you are an official, what if you are an official?

Mr. Wu, who had been the prefect of the next village, also called Liu Zeqing to help him. If he hadn't run fast, he would have been the dead soul of the Dashun Army long ago.

Of course, before the necessity is reached, these big and small leaders in the original "system" can continue to play a role.

Master, he can be a cannon fodder, a livestock, and can also wave flags and shout, and make a strong voice.

Isn’t this how Zuo Liangyu’s more than 200,000 troops entrenched in Wuchang?

But, if Lao Ma knew about Raf, why didn’t he disclose it to the villagers?

Is it because the clay Buddha crosses the river and cannot protect himself, or is it like Wang Si that Lao Ma ignores the lives and deaths of his fellow villagers?

Lu Si believes that it should be the former. After all, there are really not many people in this world who do not value homesickness.

But soon, he realized a problem, that is, maybe Wang Si’s approach was right - if he really spread the news, he would probably not be able to get rid of it.

This is not a simple consideration of human nature, but a decision of facts.

There is no secret in the world that can be kept. Although tens of thousands of migrant workers on the canal were recruited from different prefectures and counties, almost every area of ​​river workers is related to it. Therefore, if one person knows it, it means that everyone knows it.

In that case, panic will make everyone unable to calm down. After that, there will inevitably be chaos.

Afterwards, I am afraid that before the officers and soldiers were formally defeated, a group of migrant workers on the canal would have to die first.

Just as Lu Si knows now, his elder brother Wen Liang will also know immediately, should the Jiang Kui and Xia Dajun in the same shed tell you?

They all come from the same root. In Song Wu's words, no one can be left behind and can't go back and explain to their relatives.

So, Wang Si was a little cruel, but he was really smart.

Lu Si is not Wang Si, so he can't throw his neighbors away to die, so he can only seize the time and race against time to take the people away before this matter spreads on a large scale.

This requires money.

......

Wang Si's gambling shed was opened for six or seven days, and the cash and copper coins he earned were more than 100 taels. In addition, the debts outside were owed, which is the so-called profits. The amount of profits released was quite large, and Zhou Wang alone had more than 10 taels here.

If there was no official army, the official army, the death of Wang Si would have been relieved of a group of people. In Buddhist terms, Lu Si had great merits.

There were two Wang Si in the shed, but these two men were just helping each other like Lu Xiaohua, just helping to collect money and send money, pouring tea and scaring people. They were far inferior to the real thug Qiu Wu, the thug.

"The Third Master is here, hey, where is the Fourth Master?"

The two sleepy-like men saw Ma Xingui and Lu Xiaohua bringing three strangers in. Wang Si and Qiu Wu were not here again, and they couldn't help but feel a little strange.

"There is a big picture in the county. The Fourth Master went over to accompany him and asked us to come back first." Lu Xiaohua's remarks were discussed with Ma Xingui just now.

"Okay, you can't sleep if you don't have anything to do, you can't even stretch your eyelids."

Ma Xingui signaled the two to go to sleep in the shed where they lived. He usually called Wang Si brothers, so he was quite useful to speak.

It was common for Wang Si to accompany the people in the county to bet money, and he didn't even doubt it. He said "Oh" and went to bed.

“Inside,”

Ma Xingui winked at Lu Xiaohua, who walked to the inner room separated by cloth, snatched a small box among the grass for a while and took out a small box and carried it to the gambling table.

Ma Xingui opened the iron lock with the key he touched from Wang Si's body, poured the broken silver and copper inside on the table, and without counting it, he pulled it with his right hand a few times and then divided it into five piles.

This is also a calculation for Zhou Wang.

"I took it myself, if there were too many, it would be like this." Ma Xingui pulled the pile of scraps that were seen more into his wallet.

He was not polite at all.

Seeing this, Lu Xiaohua also pulled away a bunch of them. Zhou Wang hesitated and took away the one that belonged to him.

But Guangyuan put the remaining two piles together, then found a piece of rag in the shed and stuffed it into Lu Si's hand, and said, "Master, you take the money, I'm afraid of losing it."

Lu Si nodded and asked Ma Xingui: "When will you leave?"

"I will leave later. If I don't leave, I feel uneasy. To be honest, my eyes will keep pounding after I hit Wang Si."

After saying that, Ma Xingui patted Lu Xiaohua and asked him: "Are you going with me or with your family?"

"this..."

Lu Xiaohua was a little hesitant.

"Second brother, you go with him, let's go find Brother Wenliang." Lu Si said.

"Master, will the public let us go?" Guangyuan was a little worried about this problem.

Ma Xingui was a little funny when he heard this and said to Guangyuan: "What is your master holding?"

"Money." Guangyuan didn't think about it.

"What can money do?"

"ah?"

Guangyuan really didn't understand what it meant. Lu Si knew that Ma Xingui asked him to buy the road with money, and this was the reason why he wanted money.

The matter of officers and soldiers, Laf, must be limited to a few people. There are probably not many people who know about Huai'an Prefecture and County. In addition, the dredging project has not yet been completed, so Jin Shengheng's people cannot pull people away now.

After all, the canal transportation is of great significance to the Beijing court, Jin Shengheng and others' defeated soldiers.

As long as Beijing does not fall for a day, the grain from Jiangnan will be transported through the canal in the north. In this way, Jin Shengheng and others will be able to hold on for a while at will. In addition, they will always give face to the new governor Huaiyang, and after the project is completed, they can at least have an explanation.

Therefore, theoretically, Lu Si and the others can now spend money to go home early, so just make up some reasons, such as being sick or the elderly at home who died.

"Let's go, your brother is a smart man and knows how to do it."

Ma Xingui called Lu Xiaohua, and the latter nodded and said to Lu Si a little worriedly: "You should be quick, don't be reluctant to leave the places where you should spend money. I have another one when I get home."

Lu Si nodded. This second brother, who is not related to blood, is unambiguous in major events.

After Ma Xingui left with Lu Xiaohua, Lu Si asked Guangyuan and Zhou Wang to go back with him. On the way, Lu Si asked Guangyuan how he got out.

"I heard Mr. Hua's voice and also heard you go out. I was afraid that something would happen to you, so I followed you."

The cold wind was so cold that Guangyuan put his hands on the sleeve of the cotton jacket. This child was not afraid of the murder just now.

Lu Si asked him: "Don't you know?"

"have no idea."

Guangyuan shook his head.

Zhou Wang, who was in front, suddenly stopped and handed the cloth bag he had filled with money to Lu Si: "You have all this money... We have to go back together."

"You can take it first, if it's not enough."

Lu Si didn't ask Zhou Wang to stop it first. What he was now troubled by is how to get seventeen people back at the same time at one time.

He thought of Song Wu. It might be better if he had to do this, but Song Wu would not know where it was, so the most urgent thing was to go back and explain the matter thoroughly to the people in the shed, so that everyone could be mentally prepared, and to stop them from telling the matter to others.

Otherwise, everyone would know that the ending would be a mess.

After walking for more than two miles, Lu Si and the other two arrived at the wooden shed where they lived, but saw his elder brother Lu Wenliang, Jiang Kui, and Xia Dajun and the other three standing outside.

"Where are you going in the middle of the night?"

Lu Wenliang, who had found many places to see his younger brother and son, was so anxious that he was sweating profusely, and the cold wind blew, his head was frozen.

It seems that Jiang Kui and Xia Dajun have been looking for Lu Wenliang for a long time, and they are standing in the cold wind and their necks are shrunk.

"Brother, we..."

Lu Si was about to speak, but a scream came from a distance.

"Run quickly, the officers and soldiers have killed people, the officers and soldiers have killed people!"

The sudden scream broke through the silence on both sides of the canal and scared Lu Wenliang and the others.
Chapter completed!