Zhongxin Village.

Zhao Si came back dejected. He had already handed the money to Wu Shun and asked if there was any way. Wu Shun told him that there was none at the moment.

The wealthy families in the county hired some guards to guard their yards to prevent the victims from entering and stealing things.

Moreover, those wealthy families also gave food to the county government, asking the county government to send more officials to patrol the doors of those wealthy families.

After hearing this news, Zhao Si also knew that his plan to rob a wealthy family had failed.

Although they are bandits, they were born in poverty and have never practiced any martial arts seriously, so they cannot be compared with those guards.

Moreover, there were police officers patrolling, so it was impossible to succeed.

It seems that we have to continue eating wild vegetables in the village.

To be honest, Zhao Si was tired of eating wild vegetables. There was no oil or water in his stomach. But there was nothing he could do. There was no other food in the mountain village except wild vegetables and grass roots.

After returning to the village and telling Pei Zhong about it, he went to the room of Zhugan and others.

When there is nothing to do, everyone either lies down in the house or in the yard. Staying still can save physical energy and minimize hunger.

When Zhao Si opened the door, he didn't see the five people from Zhupala. He wondered if they hadn't come back yet. He was about to leave when he felt something was wrong.

The room seemed somewhat empty.

He looked again and found that the clothes of several people were gone, and the rags on the bed were also gone. This surprised Zhao Si and he had a bad feeling.

He hurried out of the house and asked some bandits lying in the yard.

"Bamboo pole, they came back once, and then left with their packages."

“When we asked them, they said they went down the mountain to find something to eat.”

The people in the village didn't care much about the bandits going down the mountain. Many of them even hoped that some of them would leave so that they could eat more grass roots.

So the five people of Bamboo Pole left, and no one stopped them.

Zhao Si's face changed when he heard this. Go down the mountain to find food?

There was no point in finding food. It was not like they had never gone down the mountain before. The people living down the mountain lived a harder life than them. In this mountain village they could still eat grass roots and wild vegetables, but once they went down the mountain they could only eat tree bark and soil.

Even if you go down the mountain to find food, you don't need to take your clothes with you. This shows that you are going to leave the village and never come back.

Zhao Si was a little panicked. He only had seven confidants, and now all of them were gone.

He thought of Heipi and Chen Er. When he went to look for these two people before, they stayed in Yiyun Village and didn't come back, which he found strange.

What does it mean that these two people insist on staying in Yiyun Village? What is so attractive about Yiyun Village?

There was also the bearded man, who could have become Zhongye's confidant if he had completed the task and would have lived a happy life eating wild vegetables from then on, but he ended up defecting.

Today, I sent Zhugan and his five men to Yiyun Village to take action, and then these five men left together.

He guessed that these five people did not go down the mountain, but most likely went to Yiyun Village.

After thinking about it, Zhao Si decided to go and find out what was going on.

…

Inside Yiyun Village, Zhugan and his five men had already taken a shower, washed their hair, brushed their teeth, and changed their clothes.

The five people felt the long-lost happiness, especially after taking a shower and washing their hair, the itching on their bodies disappeared, and they felt the dignity of being alive, instead of waiting to die like before.

Although they could eat grass roots every day in Zhongxin Village, they all knew that they would not survive long if they continued like this.

The paste of grass roots and firewood could not provide the energy needed by the body. Their originally strong bodies had long since become skinny.

All five of them experienced blacking out and trembling when walking.

What’s more important is that it is already autumn and winter is not far away. In this era, cotton is not yet grown and there are no cotton-padded jackets.

Most people wore clothes made of hemp and kudzu.

These two crops are very rough and have little warmth-retaining properties, so they are very difficult to survive in the winter.

It would be difficult to survive without clothes to protect against the cold and with hunger in the stomach.

In the past, when there was food, people often froze to death, let alone now.

Zhugan and the others did have a few warm clothes, which were sheepskin coats they robbed from passing merchant caravans, but they had no food in their stomachs, and if they were too hungry, they would not be able to withstand the cold winter.

Now they have come to Yiyun Village. Although they can only eat one meal a day, the steamed buns and broth are enough to replenish the energy needed by the body.

"Boss, these silver coins are what we saved. There is no use for us to keep them, so we will give them to you."

Zhugan took out the change from several people and gave almost ten taels of silver to Pei Yun.

He knew that they could not compare with Baldy and the others, so in order not to be despised, he took out the silver, which could be considered as a way of showing off.

Pei Yun smiled and said, "These silver coins will be your food expenses."

He was not polite. The more people there were in the village, the more food there would be. With the more than ten taels of silver, the balance would be more than two thousand.

Seeing this, Baldy and the others thought that they should pay for the food for the two meals, so they also took out some silver, also more than ten taels, and Pei Yun also took it. The balance in the mall reached more than eight thousand.

"Okay, go wash your clothes."

"After you finish washing the clothes, follow Baldy and the others to learn pinyin..."

Pei Yun repeated the rules he had set, and the five people from Zhugan's group's eyelids twitched.

Is there anything wrong with the boss' brain? He taught these bandits to read and do math. Is he trying to train them into cultured people?

What's the use of this?

Robbery relies on fists, not culture.

Of course, even though he complained in his heart, he still strictly followed Pei Yun's words. If he didn't obey and was kicked out, he wouldn't even have time to cry.

The five people from Zhugan started to wash the dirty clothes. After using the laundry detergent, they were all shocked. They used to use wood ash, which had certain cleaning ability but was not very strong.

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