The desert is yellow sand, a slightly dilapidated town is in turmoil.
A group of people gathered beside a mottled wall at the entrance of the town, pointing fingers at a low-key picture posted on the wall.
A soldier recited loudly, "The bandits are rampant in the sun. A group of horse thieves plundered wealth in the hinterland of the yellow sand, slaughtered king merchants, killed people like hell and had a lot of blood debts. For peace and stability, a special bounty was recruited to recruit warriors. If the horse thieves were wiped out, a reward of five hundred gold coins would be rewarded!"
The crowd was in an uproar. It was obvious that the five hundred gold coins were very tempting. They were just talking about it, but no one went to reveal the list. The soldiers on the list seemed to be familiar with this and left listlessly while yawning.
"Or why don't we go and try it?"
A middle-aged man with a hatchet straddles obliquely in the crowd looked at the notice, swallowed his saliva and said to his companion carefully.
"You go, go." The companion immediately took a few steps back and said, "I have lost my life. What's the use of taking gold coins? The group of horse thieves have been here for more than a year. The government sent troops to encircle and suppress the enemy several times and were defeated. Then he had no choice but to post this notice. The notice has been posted for more than half a year. You don't know the consequences of the mercenaries in the first few waves of announcements. After entering the desert, none of them came out, and the bounty has increased from 100 to 500. Who have you seen to take one? If you want to go, don't pull me to die together. I have a wife and a child at home. It's not like you, a bachelor, a cheap life, and you will die if you die, and you will be free of worries."
The crowd around burst into laughter, and the man with a slanted hatchet scratched his head awkwardly, and laughed: "I'm just talking casually."
"I think you are not talking casually, but are blindfolded by the five hundred golden coins. Let's go, we are the one who lives to live with the honest firewood. If you don't sell the firewood today, your wife and children will be hungry. You can dream slowly here, I have to sell the firewood."
While talking, the man walked out of the crowd with Chaihe on his back, but was stopped by someone.
"Two brothers, what is the origin of the horse thief you mentioned just now? Is it so powerful?"
The firewood man saw that the other party was a young man in his twenties and looked a little disgusted, and said, "It seems that you are not a local person. You are young, I would like to advise you not to make the five hundred gold coins. If this money is so easy to make, it would have been earned. Compared with gold coins, life is more important."
After saying that, he yawned while bypassing the man and leaving.
"Brother, I have bought your firewood, but you have to tell me the origin of the horse thieves." The young man said with a smile.
"Really?" The woodcutter was full of heart. If that was the case, why not do it? It was just a skill of moving his mouth, but it might not be much better than squatting at the corner of the wall, blowing the wind and sun, and selling firewood might not be able to be sold.
The young man nodded and threw out a silver coin casually.
The woodcutter almost laughed when he said that this silver coin could make him catch firewood for more than ten days. He quickly greeted: "Haha, it's okay to say it. Please pick a tea shop and I'll tell you well. If you want to say it's this group of horse thieves, you're looking for the right person. A distant relative of me, I accompanied the army to encircle and suppress the group of horse thieves a few months ago. After one leg was broken, I was lucky enough to get a life back. I heard that he had said a few times, let's sit down and talk slowly..."
Money can make the devil push the mill, and a gold coin turns the honest woodcutter who is always accustomed to the conversation, and tells the whole story of this group of horse thieves clearly. Although there are many hearsays and add fuel to the fire, it also allows the young man to understand it.
The young man seemed very satisfied with the woodcutter's detailed description. Before leaving, he threw him a silver coin, which made the woodcutter's mouth almost laugh.
The young man who spent two silver coins to learn about this group of horse thieves was Xu Lei who had been traveling for several months.
Traveling is not about traveling around the mountains and rivers, the key is not about "traveling", but about "divide"
The mainland is vast and vast. Xu Lei walks alone, visits famous mountains and rivers, and goes deep into the tiger's den. He not only dabbles in the humanities and geography of all countries, but also involves gangs of all sizes. Among the many generals, there are also some talented people who meet by chance.
During this trip, Xu Lei specializes in picking mercenaries who are licking blood at the edge of the knife to deal with bandits and horse bandits. These people are all doing business on the tip of the knife. If they make a living, they will be a good player when they go to the battlefield. Therefore, when Xu Lei saw this notice today, he became interested in the group of horse bandits who failed to send troops to encircle and suppress the failed horse bandits.
Most of the bandits and horse bandits were born in poor families. They chose this business of licking blood when they were forced to go to a dead end. They still had good thoughts in their hearts. However, Xu Lei never held back some bandits and horse bandits who burned, killed, robbed and raped women and committed all kinds of evil. He defeated several local parish nests alone. However, for some horse bandits who had principles to rob the rich and helped the poor and did not bully ordinary people, Xu Lei just beat them up, threw down a superb pearl and accepted them. After traveling for several months, he also saved thousands of numbers in his hand, so that they could stay in the local area and no longer harm the people. They would wait for their return to take them back.
The sentence "killing like a numb" on the notice attracted Xu Lei's attention.
Xu Lei is not a troublesome person, not a gangster who can't rub half a grain of sand in his eyes, and he can't sleep well for three days and three nights without drawing his sword to save him. He has experienced a long and great ups and downs that are far beyond the reach of life and death that is understandable by people. He has long been no longer stuck in the sand. If he hadn't seen the extreme crime with his own eyes, his heart that was not as cold but hard as a rock.
"Killing people is like mahjong" is naturally regarded as a crime in the eyes of ordinary people. But when they are really facing it, they are obedient like a lamb. But in Xu Lei's eyes, they think of brave generals fighting on the battlefield. Killing people is like mahjong, which must be the highest honor on the battlefield!
"Oh, I don't have eyes!" One of the onlookers suddenly shouted and cursed at one person. Just now, he felt bored and was about to turn around and leave. He seemed to hit a hard stone wall, and his forehead hurt. When he saw him hitting the "stone wall", he grinned and smiled at him, he couldn't help but vent the pain.
"You hit me, what do you say about this?" The man covered his forehead and pulled the honest and silly man's clothes with one hand. The foolish man just looked at him and said in a muffled voice: "You bumped into him."
"Who asked you to stand behind me? Anyway, if you don't pay some money for this matter today, you will definitely not play!" As he said, his hand holding the other person's clothes tightened even more. Although he was shorter than the other person and was half a size not as big as the other person, the foolish man smiled and could not show the shocking momentum of his tall figure. He was raised and glared by the man who was obviously blackmailing.
"You bumped into it by yourself." The foolish man seemed to be able to say this, and he always smiled foolishly. Children would look like a fool who was easy to bully when they saw it.
"No, I will pay for it!" The man said and pushed hard, but found that the other party had not moved at all. He seemed to feel a little embarrassed. He increased the force and pushed it again, but his own force rebounded and sat on the ground.
There was a burst of laughter from the crowd watching.
"I'm going to report to the official, I'm going to hit someone and hit someone, I'm going to report to the official, Oh, my head is broken, I'm going to die!" The man who has experienced the great explosive power contained in the other party's body and gave up "martial conquest". In the past, he suddenly covered his forehead like a shrew cursing on the street and shouted and rolled around.
The crowd laughed and laughed, but the look at the silly and silly man was a little more gloating and a little pity.
As long as you are a discerning person, it is not difficult to see that this stupid man has encountered a scoundrel. He is usually very troubled by such a scoundrel government and cannot throw him into prison. However, if he does not solve the problem, he will be rebellious and cry at the government office. If he accidentally passes it on, it will become a "unfair case". The usual solution will make the unlucky person spend money to eliminate the disaster with a few copper coins.
The scoundrel rolled on the ground and sniffled and cried, and was as sad as if he had suffered a great grievance. It seemed that he had done this a lot on weekdays.
Soon, more than ten men, women, old and young generals gathered around the foolish man. The man pushed and shook the woman and cried. It seemed that this scoundrel was not fighting alone. Seeing this foolish man, he could only spend a little money to claim his bad luck.
But the silly man seemed really stupid, just kept grinning and looking completely ignorant. He knew that he saw two people dressed in yamen runners' outfits attracted by the movement, and his eyes showed a hint of brilliance.
"Mr. Guancha, Master Qingtian, you can make the decision for my husband. My husband is honest and honest all his life, but today I don't know what he has suffered. He was hit in the head and beaten up. My family has old men and young men, and they all point to my husband to work hard work alone. Now seeing my husband like this, how can we live in the future? If Master Guancha doesn't make decisions for my husband today, our family of more than a dozen people will die here. Anyway, I can't survive. I am such a miserable person..."
The woman who claimed to be the victim "insider" pulled the two officials, and recited her crying words with tears in her mouth while she was snotting and crying.
"Okay, okay, you let go first, I'll give you an explanation for this matter." A official frowned and disgusted, pulling the woman away with his hands, obviously getting bored by such things. He glanced at the foolish man sympathetically, and waved his hand helplessly and helplessly: "Forget it, you think you are unlucky, hand over two copper coins."
The woman immediately cried and said, "Two copper coins are not enough. My husband is so hurt. We are not unreasonable. There is really no way. No matter how many times you have to get three copper coins..."
"Don't go too far!" The official was extremely disgusted by such headaches. Seeing the woman being reluctant to give in, she shouted sternly: "Who can't see your little movements? There are two good things to stay there."
As he said that, he looked at the foolish man and sighed, "You think you are unlucky. Be careful in the future. Two copper coins will be considered a waste of money."
The foolish man glanced at the woman, then looked at the official officer again, and seemed to have never heard what the official officer said, pointing to the notice on the wall and saying, "The bounty written on it is serious?"
The official was stunned. Before he could speak, the foolish man grinned and took two steps forward to pull the notice off, shook it, and grinned and said, "I'll take this job."