It is the tenth state city visited by Li Xiaotian.
As always, I asked passers-by about the taxes. When I heard about it, I doubled the amount. I immediately revealed my identity and went straight to the Prefectural Shepherd's Office.
This time, Li Xiaotian and his party were a little dumbfounded. The Jinzhou governor's thieves had a guilty conscience and fled in fear of crime. They evacuated the governor's mansion in advance and ran away with the whole family.
I heard from the Yamen Guard that he had been gone for more than a day.
It seems that Li Xiaotian stayed in Youzhou for too long, and the incident of patrolling and confiscating his house was widely known. After learning about Li Xiaotian's thunderous methods, he was frightened and fled with his family.
Although it was the first time for Li Xiaotian to encounter such a situation, he did not panic at all and had a countermeasure in mind.
I found a map of Chuzhou and with a quick glance, I roughly knew the direction in which the man was escaping.
As long as it is within the territory of the Qiu Kingdom, there is nothing to hide for a state's pastoralists and their families. The only option is to escape from the Qiu Kingdom and go to another country to find a new life. Jinzhou's control area is bordering the Warring States Period.
, there is no doubt that he can only escape to the Warring States Period, but there is no other way.
"I'm telling you, if you don't work as a second-grade state shepherd, you will have to raise taxes privately. This will make your whole family leave their hometown with you."
"You woman, now you are making sarcastic remarks. Look at the silk and gold ornaments on your body. If I don't increase taxes, how can I afford your salary with my little salary?"
On the carriage, the people speaking were none other than the fleeing Jinzhou Prefecture Mu Dai Brigade and his wife Liu Shi.
"Mom and Dad, where are we going and how long until we get there?"
In the carriage, a 178-year-old child asked.
"Xuan'er, be good, just take a nap and we'll be able to bid farewell to this fearful life at night." Dai Lu comforted his son as he touched his head.
Dai Brigade has been away from Jinzhou for more than two days, and there is still more than half a day to reach the border of the Warring States Period. In his opinion, it is basically safe now.
"I don't know how the consumption in the Warring States Period was. Will our six or seven hundred thousand gold coins be enough? If I had known this day, the tax would have been doubled several times." Liu sighed, feeling that these gold coins were really not enough to be safe in other countries.
Start a family.
Dai Lugang couldn't help but want to scold this wife who didn't eat minced meat, but he found that the carriage suddenly stopped. He opened the curtain and looked, and his face turned pale with fright. He saw a group of people in front of the carriage, riding big horses, waist and waist.
Wearing scimitars, each of them looked fierce, like an evil tiger looking at a fat lamb. It goes without saying that these people are horse bandits who have been hanging around the border between the two countries all year round.
"What happened? Why do you look like you have lost your soul?"
Mrs. Liu said that, she opened the curtain and just took a glance, her face turned pale and her lips trembled.
"Hurry up and hide Xuan'er under the dark panel of the seat. I'll go out and beg for mercy. It's really not possible. Give them all your money. If they ask for money, they won't harm anyone."
After Dai Lu finished his instructions, he got off the carriage and walked tremblingly to the bandit's horse.
Wow.
Before Dai Lu could speak, the leader of the horse bandits cut his throat with a knife without saying a word. Dai Lu fell to the ground, blood spurting out, and he died with his eyes open.
Dai Lu died tragically. When the accompanying servants saw this, they were horrified. They screamed and fled around. Little did they know that they were already trapped in a trap. They had already entered the encirclement of the horse bandits, and they could only hear the screams one after another.
Now, there were only two people left leaning against the carriage, looking desperate and shivering. In the carriage, Mrs. Liu was shaking and sweating, and the child was sleeping soundly under the dark board.
The three of them were choked by fear. Under the extreme despair and horror, they could not even say anything to beg for survival, especially the two servants outside. They were speechless as they watched the horse bandit approaching step by step on horseback.
He could only kneel down and kowtow violently to beg for mercy.
However, it didn't help. The horse bandit raised his knife and dropped his eyes. The two of them fell into a pool of blood without blinking.
Ms. Liu in the car was so frightened that she became incontinent and urine seeped from the floor of the car.
When the horse bandit saw this, he smiled evilly, took out the wine bag, poured the wine into the carriage, took out the firebrand, and threw it away. Suddenly the carriage burst into flames, and just like that, the mother and son were killed in the fire.
When the horse bandits opened the accompanying box, they were shocked to find that it was full of golden coins, much more than they had ever robbed. They could not help but wave their scimitars and shout in celebration.
Li Xiaotian knew the direction in which Dai Lu was escaping, so he immediately led the imperial guards to pursue him. Even if Dai Lu had to travel for an extra day, he would definitely not be as fast as those in the army if he was dragging his family with him. Let alone a monk, he would intercept him before he left the country.
, more than enough.
When he was about to catch up with Dai Lu, he smelled the strong smell of blood and heard the deafening shouts in the forest. Li Xiaotian felt something bad and immediately ran straight towards the source of the sound.
"Is that human being?"
Looking at the corpses scattered everywhere, the blood flowing all over the ground, and the burning carriage, Lei Ming couldn't help but ask angrily.
"This is how humans are. Only humans can do such cruel things." Li Xiaotian replied.
Lei Ming was speechless and expressed his acquiescence.
"Brother, we are from the Scimitar Gang, which path are you from?"
The bandit leader in the middle asked, "It's not like he was afraid. There were only about ten people on the other side, and there were more than thirty on his side. They had a huge advantage in numbers. There was no way they could not do it. It was just that these guys were well-trained. First of all."
Ask where they came from, and if you don't have anyone to rely on, hey, if you don't do anything, you won't stop, and more than ten good horses will be taken away directly.
Li Xiaotian shouted: "Huang Quan Dao!"
The leader of the bandit narrowed his eyes, knowing that the person coming was evil, and shouted: "Brothers, kill one of them, and you will be rewarded with a hundred gold!"
Under heavy rewards, there must be brave men.
As a result, the bandit gangsters swarmed toward Li Xiaotian's pedestrians on horseback, like crucian carp crossing a river, waving their machetes and shouting to kill.
The ignorant are fearless.
From the moment the leader of the bandits saw Li Xiaotian and his group were still so arrogant, they knew that these guys were ordinary people, not monks. Let alone thirty people, even three hundred people would not be enough to stand in front of them.
"No mercy."
After Li Xiaotian finished speaking, nine Imperial Guards rushed out.
After only four or five rounds of the melee on horseback involving nearly forty people, the result was already obvious. Most of the gang of horse bandits had fallen. The remaining seven or eight people saw that the situation was not right. They immediately turned around and ran for their lives. It can be said that they came and went with great force.
It was only in a hurry that I realized that money is something that only one has a life to take and only one has a life to spend. In short, life is the most important thing.
However, when such a vicious person understands this truth, it is often at the end of his life when it is too late.
The horse bandits who escaped had not ridden very far before they were all chased by the Imperial Guards. They fell off their horses and died with swords raised and swords falling.
The bandit leader was very cunning. When he saw how brave he was against the enemy, he was already in decline. The situation was not right. He immediately retreated and quietly fled into the mountains and forests on horseback.
"Where did so many ruthless people come from? Fortunately, I ran fast. Otherwise, my life would have been hard to save. It's a pity that the boxes of gold and all the young men were attached to the Scimitar Gang that I have worked so hard to run for so long.
, it’s just gone, I can only find another place to make a comeback.”
The leader of the bandit ran wildly for a long distance on horseback. When he was sure that no one was chasing him, he breathed a sigh of relief and muttered to himself angrily.
"You'd better go to Huangquan Road to cause trouble!"
Li Xiaotian suddenly appeared on horseback from behind a big tree. He had expected this, so since the beginning of the battle, Li Xiaotian had been waiting here in advance.
The leader of the bandit had a look of astonishment on his face. Li Xiaotian jumped up from his horse, his fist belt pierced the air, and pointed directly at his big head. He closed his fist a foot away from his Tianmen, landed on the ground and clapped his hands. He only heard a thud.
With a sound, the bandit's head exploded and scattered like a watermelon dropped from a height. Apparently, Li Xiaotian used the fifth level of Hunyuan Fist to serve him specially.
Li Xiaotian returned to the place and looked at the corpses scattered everywhere. To be honest, he had been in the mountains for some time and had fought many life and death fights. This was the first time he saw nearly fifty corpses lying in front of him. He was still quite touched in his heart and couldn't help but sigh.
The fragility of life and the cruelty of human nature. For some reason, Li Xiaotian couldn't help but think of Lijiagou, which was three times more numerous than this, and they were all innocent and kind-hearted villagers. How frightened and desperate they must have been at that time, thinking of
Here, Li Xiaotian’s fists were clenched, making a sizzling sound, and his eyes were dark red.
"Are you OK?"
Lei Ming saw that something was wrong with Li Xiaotian's expression and asked.