Jiangshan is hired [rebirth]

Chapter 26

After leaving the county office, Yun Miaoqing was not in a hurry to go back. Huo Lan has learned very quickly in the past six months. He has already finished lectures on "Wen Dao" and "Zhi Wu Ya". Pretty much.

This time Yun Miaoqing simply bought a small box, part of which will be used to give lectures to Huo Lan, and the other part will be left for Huo Lan to study and study.

On the way back, Yun Miaoqing asked Huo Lan while flipping through the newly bought book while sitting in the car: "Are you nervous about going to suppress bandits in two days?"

Huo Lan wanted to say that he was not nervous.This kind of bandit den with thirty or so people gathered in one place can be found even in peacetime, and it is even more numerous when the world is in chaos. She had met Yun Miaoqing several times in her previous life, and she didn't have much power to fight back when facing the gangsters. Every time she relied on Yun Miaoqing's wisdom or the help of her companions, she managed to escape the catastrophe. The feeling of fear, aggrieved, and hatred was once deeply embedded in her soul.

Now she holds grudges against those thieves as usual, but now she is no longer the same as she was back then.Huo Lan is more excited than nervous about this bandit suppression - this is the first time she has tried martial arts since she practiced martial arts for so long, if she can win this time, at least it means that she will have to escape with Yun Miaoqing again in the future When she encounters these villains, she can have the strength to fight, instead of relying on others like in her previous life.

As soon as Huo Lan spoke, he suddenly remembered Yun Miaoqing's argument of "talking about pain". He changed his mind and brought out a pitiful tone: "A little bit..."

The tone seemed to be acting like a baby, Huo Lan lowered her eyes a little embarrassed, she and Yun Miaoqing have known each other for so long, and she has never tried to act like a baby to Yun Miaoqing, at least she thinks so, this is her The first time I took the initiative to act like a baby, I felt very delicate.

Rubbing her finger, she really started to get nervous, not because of the bandit suppression three days later, but because she was afraid that her performance would not get the expected response in her heart.

Only when people are willing to indulge you to have a good impression of you, your acting like a baby can be called acting like a baby, otherwise it can only be called making trouble for no reason and acting like heaven and earth.

Then would Yun Miaoqing indulge her?

Huo Lan thought it would, but when Yun Miaoqing's palm touched her head, at that moment Huo Lan still had the urge to jump up and hug the person in front of him to celebrate together.

On the night of New Year's Eve, she realized that she probably liked Yun Miaoqing. Although she didn't understand why girls fell in love with girls, liking meant liking.She originally thought that her feelings for Yun Miaoqing were already full, but Yun Miaoqing could always do something, which surprised her that this person could actually make her fall in love even more.

She absolutely dare not let Yun Miaoqing know about this feeling, it doesn't sound very secular, not to mention that there is a world of difference between her and Yun Miaoqing's status - at least, at least, until she has enough The condition is equal to Yun Miaoqing's before talking about this matter, so as not to make people feel that the reason why she said such absurd words is all because of ulterior motives.

In this short breath, Huo Lan had several thoughts in his mind, but he couldn't say it out. Finally, Huo Lan lowered his head to avoid Yun Miaoqing's eyes, and whispered: "Don't touch my head all the time. !"

She really likes Yun Miaoqing touching her head like this, it feels very intimate, but at the same time, she feels that in Yun Miaoqing's eyes, she must be a child who needs affection.

She still has to work hard to be equal to Yun Miaoqing, how can Yun Miaoqing treat her like a child all the time!

Huo Lan was very brave when she said not to touch her head, but she was timid after saying that, worried that Yun Miaoqing's kindness to comfort her would be rejected by her, she would find it boring, and she would not be bothered to waste her affection on her in the future.

If that's the case, just touch your head!To be a person is to be able to bend and stretch, and to be low and small for a while is to be able to... Cough in the future!

Huo Lan didn't dare to think about it and didn't know what to do in the future. She instilled a bunch of strange inspirational words in her heart, and secretly raised her eyelids to look at Yun Miaoqing.

Yun Miaoqing didn't look unhappy, she put her head on one hand and asked with a smile: "Then what do you want if you don't touch your head?"

Huo Lan looked into Yun Miaoqing's eyes, lightly licked the inside of her lower lip, and wanted to say "I want to hug".But this sounded very strange, Huo Lan thought for a while, imitating Yun Miaoqing's tone when she spoke to her once: "I don't know, you think it yourself, if you don't think of it, you owe it first."

Imitating Yun Miaoqing's words made Huo Lan feel a different sense of fun in her heart. She pursed her lips and looked out of the carriage window, trying not to let herself laugh out loud.

"You've learned a lot, you brat!" Yun Miaoqing cursed with a smile.

Huo Lan took this sentence as a compliment, if she had a little tail behind her, it would be wagging happily right now.

Three days passed in a flash, and in the early morning of the third day, Wen Taicang took Huo Lan and set off before dawn, met Zhou Butou and his group at the county government office, and set off for Nanhe Village together.

The benefits that Yun Miaoqing gave these policemen these days came into play at this moment. Facing Wen Taicang and Huo Lan, the two people who came by air, Zhou Butou not only didn't get bored, but also kept with him everywhere. people to discuss.Especially when he heard that Wen Taicang was actually related to that old general Wen, he was willing to follow Wen Taicang's command in everything.

Wen Taicang asked Zhou Tutou for a map of Songluan County. On the map, Nanhe Village was located in the northwest corner of Songluan Town, surrounded by mountains, and there was only a narrow path in the southeast.

"What do you think we should do this time?" Wen Taicang intends to train Huo Lan, he doesn't talk about the plan, but asks Huo Lan's opinion first.

"The terrain of Nanhe Village is easy to defend and difficult to attack. Can we consider taking a detour and descending from the mountain behind in the dark to catch them off guard?"

Huo Lan and Wen Taicang have not been idle for the past three days since they came back from the county government office. They have stepped on a spot near Nanhe Village. Although the mountain behind Nanhe Village is a bit steep, it has not yet reached the point where it is completely impossible to walk. .The only slightly embarrassing thing is that the mountain is bare at this time, and the leaves and weeds have not yet grown. If someone is on the mountain during the day, it is easy to be seen by the people below.

This problem might be remedied if they raided at night.

Wen Taicang pointed to the path in and out: "If we come down from the mountain, but they run away from here?"

Huo Lan was stunned, realizing that her idea just now had a fatal flaw.A few of the policemen who were listening at the side hadn't thought of it yet, and said, "Then let's divide up the guards here and it will be over. In this way, won't we become the side that is easy to defend and difficult to attack?"

After the man finished speaking, many people nodded and thought it made sense.

"How many of you have been to Nanhe Village, I mean, have you been in the village?" Wen Taicang asked this question instead of commenting on the discussion just now.

All the arresters were confused by the question, only catcher Zhou and two or three old arresters raised their hands, none of the dozen or so young ones and the servants Zhang Yuanbai picked from his house had ever been there.

"Although this road is narrow, it has not yet reached the level where one man guards the gate and ten thousand men cannot open it. The so-called easy defense and difficult attack is based on the fact that we have an equal number of people on both sides. If we divide our troops into two groups, how many people should we divide?" To attack, how many people are here to defend?"

This question directly stunned everyone, only to hear Tai Cang continue to say: "There are fewer people attacking, and if they are no match for the bandits, there is no need for them to escape from here at all. It is almost as good as escaping from the mountain after killing people." The same; but there are more people attacking, and a few people guarding here are not the opponents of so many of them. And we have almost never been to Nanhe Village. We don't know what is going on in Nanhe Village now, even if all There may not necessarily be an advantage in facing them head-on in the village."

Because he wanted to teach Huo Lan, Wen Taicang intentionally excluded the factor of personal force when making these calculations. Assuming that the strength of both sides is equal or even the other party may be stronger, then they are faced with a difficult problem.

"In addition, there is the most important point. Our mission is to suppress the bandits, but it should actually be called to rescue the villagers. Don't forget that all the women and children in Nanhe Village are still being held by these bandits. If they are forced to jump over the wall and kill them All the villagers, even if we catch them all in the end, we won’t be considered a winner.”

As soon as Wen Taicang said this, everyone suddenly woke up.But if you can't do it if you can't attack from the front, what should you do with these bandits?

"Maybe we can try to lure them out." After the previous proposal was rejected, Huo Lan was not discouraged, and after more thorough consideration, he proposed a second proposal.

"How to lead?" A policeman asked.

"Nanhe Village has a total of more than [-] households. This group of bandits plus the dozen or so people arrested before has more than [-] people..."

When Zhang Yuanbai and Yun Miaoqing talked about the situation in Nanhe Village that day, Huo Lan was listening behind Yun Miaoqing, and had a general understanding of it, "These people have been in Nanhe Village for more than a month, more than twenty It is not easy for a family to feed the extra [-] people, and it is not a good harvest season, so the bandits must have looted all the food in Nanhe Village, so they took the risk of targeting the Yun family. "

And it's not just the Yun family, Huo Lan has stepped on the spot with Wen Taicang in the past two days, and has encountered sporadic bandits wandering around Nanhe Village in twos and threes a few times. They are probably looking for new robbery targets. Catch, they still haven't made any big gains.

"So we can pretend to be passers-by and lure them to take the initiative!" Zhou Catcher touched his chin and continued.

As a result, a new problem arises—who should pretend to be the "fat sheep"?

A group of people looked at each other. These people could be selected as policemen or servants to participate in this operation. They were either thick-backed or thick-skinned at first glance. Only Huo Lan looked white and clean, with a figure It's not too meaty, staying among these rough old men is like the only one in a bunch of wild scorched ink dry brushstrokes that is upright and delicate, and it's completely different from the others. It seems that the label of "fat sheep to be slaughtered" has been pasted on the forehead.

Huo Lan: "..."

Seeing this posture, she has no other choice at all, besides, she came up with the idea herself, and she can't blame anyone else.

Wen Taicang went to the tailor shop to buy Huo Lan clothes that were full of nouveau riche temperament.The clothes that Yun Miaoqing has always made for Huo Lan are of good material, but they belong to the relatively low-key style, and you won’t notice it unless you get close to them. However, the shiny one Wen Taicang bought is just short of the ingot pattern. Print on fabric!

When Huo Lan took over the task of suppressing bandits three days ago, she thought she was just selling out her military power, but she didn't expect to sacrifice her own aesthetics in the end. Wearing such clothes on her body, she felt awkward all over her body.

But she was the only one who felt awkward. As a bystander, everyone was very satisfied with her attire.

"It looks a bit like a 'fat sheep'!"

"Okay, that's fine."

……

After changing the clothes, Wen Taicang asked the policemen to find two large boxes, and put some bricks and stones in them, so that the ruts on the ground would be deeper after loading, and experienced robbers would use the wheel marks to To speculate whether there is a large amount of supplies in the box.In addition, he also asked people to go to the grain store to buy two large bags of rice and boxes and put them on the cart.

While doing this, Wen Taicang did not forget to explain to Huo Lan, and gathered everyone together before departure.

"There are more than [-] of them in total, and some of them have to be set aside to watch over the villagers. There won't be too many people who can actually come out to rob." Wen Taicang ordered six people from his family to come out: "You guys will follow Huo for a while. Together, Lan, let's try to attract more than a dozen people, and we must capture all the people who come out, otherwise, if one of them goes back to report the news, the villagers will be in danger."

Everything was properly arranged, and two groups of people set off in batches. Wen Taicang and others went directly to squat in a ravine near Nanhe Village, while Huo Lan and the six servants set off from the north gate of the county town and made a detour all the way. Go north through the northernmost section of Chidao in Songluan County, then turn southwest, and "pass by" outside Hegui Mountain, which surrounds Nanhe Village.

The last time Huo Lan and Wen Taicang saw bandits patrolling the mountains in this area, I don't know if that group of people will come here today to sit around and wait for rabbits.

Qian Laoliu is a robber, and the word "robber" may be derogatory to others, but Qian Laoliu doesn't think that this identity makes him feel very comfortable, and even a little complacent.

In the past, when he was not a robber, he was a butcher in Xinpei County, Minzhou. To be precise, his father was a butcher, and he was just his father's helper.Because of this little business in the family, Qian Laoliu had been living comfortably for the first half of his life, until his father died, and he got used to idleness again, and the family shop couldn't keep running for a long time.

The money is gone, but hard life will definitely not come. Relying on the fact that his brother-in-law is the county magistrate of Xinpei County, Qian Laoliu started his days of rampaging and domineering to rob the neighbors.But the good times didn't last long, and his brother-in-law was impeached and lost his official position not long after, and the impeachment had something to do with Qian Laoliu.

The two quarreled after drinking, and Qian Laoliu hacked his brother-in-law to death in a rage.This caused a catastrophe, Qian Laoliu packed his bags and ran away overnight, defecting to a group of robbers and bandits nearby.

At first, Qian Laoliu was a little apprehensive in the bandits' den, but later he found that life here was no different from what he used to be. He would go out to rob when he had no money, and spend a lot of money and eat good wine and meat when he had enough.In the past, there were older sisters and old mothers nagging him in his ears. Since he went up the mountain, no one will take care of him anymore. Don't be too happy!

In this way, Qian Laoliu followed this gang of bandits for another period of happy life. As a result, the newly appointed county magistrate did not know what kind of medicine he had taken wrongly, and suddenly made up his mind to wipe out these scourges in his jurisdiction. The counties joined forces to prevent bandits from wandering around in the counties of Minzhou during the arrest process.

The governor was probably full, so he agreed.There are many mountains and bandits in Minzhou.Qian Laoliu and his group really couldn't escape, so they finally abandoned the mountain and fled to Songluan County, Suzhou, which is adjacent to Minzhou, and found the hidden Nanhe Village in the northwest corner of Songluan County.

The location of this village is quite good, but it is too small, and the villagers themselves are living a miserable life, and they cannot afford to support their uncles at all.Some time ago, someone said that they met a child outside. They said they knew a wealthy family who lived in a remote place. The person in charge of the house was a woman in her twenties, and the only person who was in trouble was a man with a scarred face.

Isn't it just a scar face?None of these old men have any scars on their bodies.Qian Laoliu didn't care about the kid's words, he wanted to bring seven or eight brothers to do the job, but the second leader insisted on taking people there himself, it turned out that it was a good thing, people who went at the age of thirty, Haven't come back yet!

Some people say that the Erdangjia was so insisting on taking people there in person at the beginning, maybe he took the money and ran away?It was also speculated that he might have lost his hand and was caught.

No matter what kind of Qian Lao Liu didn't care, the head of the family said that even if the second child was arrested, the county magistrate would have to deliver official documents to the state capital if he wanted to send troops.Don't those officials and lords on New Year's Eve take a break? They don't care about your shit!When the official documents are approved, at least one month has passed. During this month, they seized the time to sweep up more goods, and they can withdraw as soon as there is a word.

Therefore, the most urgent task is to rob more property, but they have limited manpower, and they are not familiar with the place, so it is easy to cause accidents if they rush into the city, so Qian Laoliu found an intersection outside Nanhe Village, and squatted on the nearby mountain to guard.There are not too many pedestrians here, and there are only a few people every day, maybe just wait for someone with a lot of oil and water?

Qian Laoliu waited for three days in a row, and the clothes of the passers-by were patched and patched, and they looked poor to death.Yesterday, I managed to wait for a caravan, and it turned out that there were more than a dozen of them alone, and they also hired twenty or thirty bodyguards. If they were all able to attack the caravan, they were taken away by the second leader More than ten people could only watch the caravan pass by.

Pooh!unlucky!Qian Laoliu spat on the ground, sat down on the hillside, and made up his mind that no matter who passed by today, even if they were poor enough to have only a pair of pants, they had to take off their pants and keep them!

He stayed like this for half a day, God seemed to be against him on purpose, he could see these poor people from time to time when he was too lazy to snatch them, but now he wanted to snatch them but there was no one left.

Qian Laoliu got up and patted his butt impatiently, ready to try his luck elsewhere, but he had just gone two steps when he suddenly heard the sound of wheels rolling from the road behind.

If you can drive a car, there are rich people sitting in the car or dragging things. If you can’t, it’s not bad to grab the horses or cows that are pulled, kill them and eat them!

Qian Laoliu was overjoyed, and quickly squatted back to hide.Not long after, two bullock carts appeared in Qian Laoliu's field of vision dangling one after the other.