Baifang Village was once relatively wealthy, and the people lived and worked in peace and contentment.
A fight between two large sects affected this area and it became a no-nonsense zone.
Soon, the bandits came.
A few times ago, the elders of Baifang Village bought safety with money and grain.
But a few days later, another group of bandits came again. For the sake of peace, the village could only offer food.
Finally, bandits from all walks of life came, as if they were mosquitoes smelling blood! Even over a batch of food, two groups of bandits got into a fight, and more than a dozen people died.
At first, the bandits were quite polite because they had food after all.
slowly……
There is not much food in the village, and there is not much money either.
The bandits began to rob openly.
Soon, when no food was available, the bandits started robbing people and extorting food.
This method is not bad, it can make the unscrupulous people who secretly hide food come forward proactively.
After all, the child's mother was taken away and the child had no one to support him.
By the time the village was set on fire, the hostages who had been taken away could no longer extort food.
In the end, the bandits killed people purely to vent their anger and vent their grievances for leaving the country in vain.
There are more than a dozen villages like Baifang Village.
Maybe there are hundreds or thousands of them in other unknown places...
Bandits all follow the same robberies, becoming more and more cruel...
The common people resisted in the same way, using blunt knives to cut their flesh, begging their grandfathers and grandmothers everywhere, and using the meager amount of food to buy a safe place, but often the attempt was in vain.
The village had also organized a sword club and put up fences, but what was the use? It was just to usher in more cruel treatment.
…
Wu Shengshi found a shabby room and lay down with his clothes on.
Qin Jinyang and Feng Duoying were wandering in the village.
There are charred ruins everywhere, and swaying skeletons everywhere, some of adults and some of children...
There are very few living people in the village, and Qin Jinyang doesn't have much dry food in his pocket, but as long as there are living people, he will give out a bite... In fact, the abdomens of the people here are all swollen, and they obviously eat too much, and most of them will not live long.
sky.
He thought of Grandma Liu in his mind. For ordinary people, if they could eat a white flour bun, their life would not be in vain.
"Young hero, have you seen my two sons?"
Suddenly, a scrawny old woman walked out of the roadside. Her hair was disheveled, one eye was covered with scars, she was blind, and the other eye was also very cloudy... The old woman's abdomen was also swollen, and there must be dirt in her belly.
"Young hero, my eldest son has a birthmark on his neck, and my younger son is missing half of his left ear... If you see them, tell them that the daughter-in-law I bought for them is starving to death, so let them come back and bury her.
Come on!"
After the old woman finished speaking, she shivered and knelt down to kowtow.
"I...if I see it, I will tell you!"
Qin Jinyang hurriedly stepped forward to help him up.
He opened the package and found that the dry food inside had been distributed.
At this time, Feng Duoying took out a piece of white cake.
His mentality is different from Qin Jinyang's. Maybe he has been accustomed to strange things since he was a child. He just can't bear it, but it is not as heavy as Qin Jinyang's.
"Take the cake and eat some!"
Qin Jinyang put the cake in the old woman's hand.
"Hey...this is white flour cake...I won't eat it. I want to keep it for my two sons...Thank you, young hero, for being such a good person!"
The old woman kept kowtowing, and at the same time she looked around vigilantly, as if she was afraid that others would see that she had cakes.
Before Qin Jinyang came to his senses, the old woman finished kowtowing, limped and ran to a dilapidated house nearby, where she wanted to hide the piece of cake.
"well……"
Feng Duoying sighed.
Many system prompts sounded in Qin Jinyang's mind, and his potential had increased a bit, but his heart was still heavy.
No wonder Wu Shengshi wanted to go around the village in advance, and Qin Jinyang wanted to kill someone right now...the kind that would cut his body into thousands of pieces.
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[Tip: The bandits are angry and resentful. Are you willing to wipe out the Blue Gun Gang and avenge the unjust deaths of the people in Baifang Village? 】
[Tip: The bandits are lawless. Are you willing to wipe out the Blue Gun Gang and bring peace to Baifang Village? 】
[Prompt: Are you willing to help your mother-in-law find her two sons? Just a few words? 】
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Qin Jinyang's mind rang with mission reminders.
It is reasonable to wipe out the Blue Gun Gang.
But my mother-in-law's two sons actually also have missions.
The system will not randomly prompt for no reason. If there are no accidents, the two sons should be nearby.
'The purchased wife.'
'starving.'
'Come back and be buried.'
'Two sons.'
'Mother-in-law and daughter-in-law.'
In just one sentence, it is the tragedy experienced by two women and the tragedy that runs through their lives.
My mother-in-law worked hard all her life to buy a poor daughter-in-law.
The scary thing is that the mother-in-law herself may have been bought by her mother-in-law.
Qin Jinyang walked around again and gave out a few pieces of cake. He also found out that his mother-in-law's eldest son was called Lu Dashan and the younger son was called Lu Xiaoshan.
Before I knew it, it was dawn.
Wu Shengshi stood up and greeted the two people to embark on the journey.
…
The sky is getting dark.
Qin Jinyang and the others passed through the mountains and mountains and finally arrived at the outskirts of the Blue Spear Gang.
In fact, it is not that the government has never suppressed bandits. Unfortunately, this kind of thing is thankless.
Gangsters are inextricably linked to government officials. Even though Mr. Qingtian is determined to suppress the gangsters, the people below him deliberately lead the bandit suppression team in a wrong direction. In the end, they waste people and money and work in vain.
However, the mountain bandit's hiding place is so remote and strange that it is impossible to do so without local people to guide him.
In fact, the government most hopes that the imperial court will suppress the bandits.
As long as the bandits are suppressed, there will be reward money, and the money of the imperial court is better than that of the common people.
At this time, all the government officials were red-eyed...the opportunity to make a fortune has come!
This is a good deal that takes both sides.
As long as the imperial court's reward for silver increases a little, the lower-level government officials will come out in force to capture bandits overnight, and the death row will be filled.
As for those bandits, they were just pitying the people. Who would provoke the real bandits?
That's a fool!
They only want heads, money, and merit, but justice is the most ridiculous thing.
There is an even more outrageous thing. If the bandits are lazy and don't come to plunder, then the government officials will be busy.
They arrest people during the day and change their clothes to become bandits at night... The court must take the matter of banditry seriously. If you don't take it seriously, I will help you take it seriously.
…
Lanterns were hung up in the cottage, and the noise could be heard from afar.
There was smoke from the kitchen, and the captured cook was probably cooking meat in preparation for a birthday banquet.
Qin Jinyang observed the village and saw many people flying in the wind on the fence outside the wall...or rather, skins.
The corpses had no flesh and were stuffed with straw under the skin.
Some of these skins have resisted the copycats, and some have been blackmailed and cannot get any money... Hanging them up is also a deterrent.
"Hey, those people...were they just arrested?"
Feng Duoying suddenly exclaimed.
Hearing this, Qin Jinyang turned around and looked.
Sure enough, there was a secret passage, with more than a dozen bandits driving away four tied-up women with playful smiles.
The whip struck the woman from time to time, making the bandits laugh even louder.
Qin Jinyang heard someone say that if a woman was caught in the village, her life would be worse than death. Judging from their clothes, these women should be maids or young ladies from wealthy households nearby.
They will not die, but will be held hostage for ransom.
As for the rest...except not dying, everything you can think of will come true for women.
Bandits are bandits.
Ten thousand sentences or a million sentences about "hero in the forest" cannot wash away its cruel essence.
"Both of them?"
As the bandit team approached, Qin Jinyang's pupils shrank and his throat hurt.
He saw clearly the faces of the two bandits.
One has a birthmark on his neck.
The other one had half of his ear missing.
The two of them were torturing a young woman, and Lu Xiaoshan was pouring kerosene on the woman's head. It was obvious what he was going to do...
Lu Dashan didn't even put on his trousers.
Those two faces have obviously not completely lost their simplicity, but at this moment, they are cruel and tyrannical that cannot be described in ten thousand words.
"Junior Brother Qin, those two people?"
Feng Duoying also remembered her mother-in-law and whispered beside Qin Jinyang.
"The victim becomes the perpetrator, perhaps a hundred times, ten thousand times more cruel than the perpetrator..."