Chapter 293: Boss, are you thinking the opposite?
"Yes, yes. They contributed a lot just now."
"The men of the Xie family are really good at martial arts. I was so scared that I was jumping up and down in fear. They beat them to death and sent them flying with one stick each. Wow, they are really amazing."
"Don't you see what they eat all day long? What do we eat?" Someone curled his lips. "Besides, the Xie family is a military family. It's normal for them to have martial arts skills! If they have such skills, they should do more. Why do they let us go outside? Aren't we just going to die? The Xie family is not very kind."
After he finished speaking, everyone fell silent.
What he said makes sense. They don't have that ability and they are all scared to death.
Having the officials and the men from the Xie family is enough.
Pang Jiming watched them talking coldly, his heart calm. He lowered his head and touched the child who was sleeping on his legs.
"It's better to save a dog than to save you."
Suddenly, the man who was previously taciturn but said a few good words for the Xie family uttered these words in a deep voice.
The atmosphere in the thatched hut suddenly became tense.
The person being scolded angrily cursed: "Bah! You got two days of benefits from the Xie family, and now you are pretending to be a dog!"
The dark-faced man jumped up upon hearing this. His tall and burly figure frightened the other person so much that he jumped up violently. He took two steps back and then shouted, "Is the dog food the Xie family gave you delicious? Eat too much and you'll be reborn as an inhuman in your next life!"
"Hey! How can you talk like that?"
This statement had a very broad impact. Among the fugitives in the house, there were several who were just like that man. They had helped the Xie family with some work in the past two days and had gained some benefits.
Regardless of whether he felt unhappy or not, he had never been exposed in front of others like this! He offended several people with just one sentence, and the people in the room suddenly split into two groups, each trying to stop the fight.
"Alas, we are all pitiful people, why hurt each other? What he said is inappropriate, don't take it seriously, why are you angry with him!"
"That's right, you too, you're not very careful with your words. They didn't get the benefits from the Xie family for nothing. They earned it by working for them. How can you be sour grapes when you can't have the chance?"
"I can't eat grapes, so I say they're sour? Ugh! Who the hell are the Xie family? I don't even care if they ask me to help them!"
"Oh, okay, okay, okay! You are so honorable." He tried to persuade the peace but was scolded instead, which made him angry.
The man looked fierce, but he didn't have a bad temper. Seeing that everyone was trying to make peace, he didn't want to argue with anyone. After calming down, he sat down to rest.
The room was so noisy that it finally woke up Tie Niu who was sleeping soundly.
He had been sleeping on one side for a long time, and suddenly turned over and changed the direction. He was not paying attention for a moment, and a bunch of things hidden in his mouth fell to the ground. There were long and short pieces, and even some dried blood stains, and they appeared in front of everyone without any preparation.
"Ahhhhhhh! Snake! Snake! He he he!"
A sharp scream suddenly came from the mouth of a woman opposite Pang Jiming!
Pang’s wife was startled by the scream. Pang Jiming took a quick look and quickly covered the eyes of the two children!
Almost as soon as they realized what fell out of Tie Niu's arms, everyone stood up from the ground in shock.
The "culprit" Comrade Tie Niu was inevitably awakened by the scream.
He looked at everyone blankly, and saw that everyone was staring at the people around him. He looked down and understood what was wrong.
He sat up and stuffed the "reserve food" he had picked up back into his arms. He didn't smile at everyone until he was relieved that no one could see him.
"I'm sorry to scare you all."
After saying that, he turned to look at Pang Jiming. He saw him covering the eyes of the two children. His eyes rolled around, as if he just realized that what he might have done was inappropriate.
Touching his head, he said with a slightly embarrassed look: "Brother Pang, sister-in-law, I hope you didn't scare the child."
Mrs. Pang's face turned pale. When she thought of the snakes hidden in Brother Tie Niu's arms, her hair stood on end.
Pang Jiming beside him said, "Give Brother Tieniu a piece of linen so he can wrap it up and carry it on his back."
Pang Jiming's gaze fell on his arms, and just for a moment, he seemed to guess why Tie Niu was like that.
Tie Niu was very grateful for the piece of linen he got from the Pang family. Afraid of scaring others, he turned his back to them, took out the things in his arms, wrapped them up, tied a knot and put them beside him.
The others kept staring at him until he finished his work. Finally, everyone came to their senses and looked at each other. Without anyone explaining it, everyone immediately understood Tie Niu's idea of picking up snake meat as food.
After a moment of silence, someone made a sound of annoyance.
"Why didn't I think of that?"
I don’t know who got up first and went out to collect food. The others sat in their original places for a while, but still couldn’t help but get up and go out.
The outside had almost been cleaned, and going out at this time might not bring good luck. The embarrassed and scared person sat in the thatched hut, staring at the area around Tie Niu with envy.
No matter what, it's still a mouthful of meat...
In fact, there were many people who had the same idea as Tie Niu. There were always one or two people in every thatched hut. However, some of them were not as calm as Pang Jiming and Tie Niu. Some of the people who were resting in a group even fought for this, and they were scolded and beaten by the police before they could settle down.
Some people also took this opportunity to save up a lot of good things.
Fan Wu and a group of people picked up a large bag of snake meat, gave some bribes to the police, and were leading a few of their men to build a fire and roast snake meat for a feast.
A group of ruffians who roamed the streets loved this delicacy the most. Some people understood it, so they threw away the poisonous ones and roasted the non-toxic ones. Soon, a group of people were waiting for dawn with a satisfied feast.
"Which Bodhisattva in the mountains gave us such good things? That's really nice."
"I heard it was released by the people from Qinglong Village on the mountain."
"Where did you hear that?"
"I heard what the yamen runners were muttering just now."
A brother beside him was enjoying the delicious food. He turned his head and said longingly, "The bandits here are really powerful. They scared our Lord Bear so much that he didn't dare to move for several days. I don't know where they came from."
Upon hearing this, Fan Wu's black eyes rolled around.
"It's really arrogant. I like it."
When several of his men suddenly heard this, they couldn't help but look up at him, and then at each other, not quite understanding what the boss meant.
Could it be that the boss also longs to become a bandit?
That would make you a wanted man by the government and have your head chopped off...
Fan Wu glanced at them coldly and cursed them with disdain, "Look at what you've accomplished. You're just exiles moving rocks to the border to repair ditches. You can't even make it to the destination alive in the middle of winter. And you're still dreaming of being good citizens? Stop dreaming!"
"We are criminals now, fugitives caught between life and death. Are we still afraid of being wanted?"
As soon as Fan Wu said this, one of his younger brothers was so scared that he quickly got up and went to the door, looking around stealthily.
Thanks to their arrogance and cruelty in the prisoner group, other honest prisoners would rather sleep outside in the cold than live with them.
"Everyone in this room is our own, why are you so nervous?" Fan Wu snorted coldly.
One of the younger brothers beside him listened to his words, lowered his head and thought silently for a while, then raised his head.
"Boss, how about we rebel and go up the mountain? Being a well-fed and well-drinking bandit is much more carefree than being a fugitive!"
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