Chapter 47: Den of Thieves
Monsters like to appear in the dark.
In the middle of the night, the lights in the study of the Prime Minister's Mansion in the capital were still on.
The voices of the people in the room were as small as those of mosquitoes.
Prime Minister Wang held the document in his hand, but he didn't read it at all. "The second batch of people should be arriving in Tong County soon, right?"
Li Kui: "Don't worry, Prime Minister. We failed last time because we underestimated the enemy. This time we have double the manpower to ensure that nothing will go wrong."
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After Lin Qianqian and her companions left the city, they followed the bandits for two hours and finally arrived at the bandits' base camp.
This is a natural barrier, the kind that one man can block against ten thousand men. It is extremely dangerous. Two huge stones block the way, and the gap between the two stones can only accommodate one person.
Therefore, as long as there is only one person guarding inside, even a hundred people may not be able to break in.
After the dozen or so bandits entered through the natural moat one by one with the night pearls in their hands, Lin Qianqian blew the sleeping pills through a thin bamboo tube towards the people guarding the natural moat.
The guard didn't have time to react and immediately fell to the ground.
Zhao Xiaoliu lowered his voice and exclaimed: "This is the first time I have seen such a wonder. This natural chasm is truly magical."
Lin Qianqian was the first to cross the chasm.
She was very alert and immediately flew to a tree to hide herself as soon as she entered.
Lin Qianqian discovered a different world inside.
It is like a paradise, with stone houses, thatched houses, ancient wells, pavilions and everything else.
But she had previously made a rough observation of the Kansai Mountains, but had not found such a good place. Perhaps the scenery was blocked by huge rocks.
However, this was not a good time to enjoy the scenery, so Lin Qianqian jumped down from the tree and walked towards the stone house with the lights on.
Hiding in the tree at the door of the stone house, eavesdropping on the conversation inside.
In the huge stone house, the scar-faced second in command held a night-shining pearl in his hand, illuminating the huge stone house as bright as day.
"Boss, we lived up to your expectations and finally managed to snatch this priceless treasure."
Zhu Dali and other people who stayed behind in the base camp were all attracted by the night pearl and crowded around it.
They all looked like they had never seen the world before, staring at the night pearl without blinking.
Sun Sanniang took the Night Pearl in her hand and exclaimed: "This Night Pearl is really beautiful. The green light it emits is like countless fireflies gathered together, like a dream."
After a long while, Zhu Dali asked something, "Second brother, where are the other brothers you brought with you?" his voice was loud and clear.
After being asked this question, the second in command showed a sad look on his face, "Brothers, all brothers died, only a dozen brothers managed to escape back."
"Damn it——" Zhu Dali was very sad. He let out a shrill cry and then punched the wine jar beside him.
The wine jar shattered instantly and the wine spilled all over the floor.
"Damn it! For a night-shining pearl, more than eighty brothers were sacrificed at once."
Sun Sanniang was pretty, but she was a femme fatale. She was not sad at all for her dead brothers. Instead, she laughed and said, "The fewer people alive, the more wealth we can share. Isn't that a good thing?"
For some reason, Zhu Dali suddenly had a bad feeling.
He felt that County Magistrate Cheng Fa was as timid as a mouse. As soon as he took office, he offered tribute to him, a bandit, and he would definitely not dare to kill his men.
So, who has the ability to kill more than eighty brothers at once!
There haven't been any heroes emerging from the county government recently, but there's just a little girl showing off her wealth. Could it be that little girl did it?
It couldn't be possible. How could a 13 or 14-year-old girl have the courage to kill people? How could he have lost more than 80 of his men in a short time?
There has never been such a large number of casualties in all these years.
Zhu Dali suddenly felt powerless and felt that things were developing in an uncontrollable direction.
He was silent for a long time before he spoke again: "Robbing a priceless night-shining pearl is bound to attract attention. Let's have a farewell banquet tomorrow and divide up all the loot we have robbed over the years. From now on, we can go our separate ways and become leisurely and contented rich men and women."
The second in command was a little unhappy. You can retire by yourself, but you can't force all your brothers to do the same. There is no more profitable thing than being a bandit. How can you just give up?
Lin Qianqian felt that the people in the stone house were almost done talking.
She was afraid of being discovered and alerting the bandits, so she quickly left the stone house and moved to other places. She found that there were many natural caves in the bandits' base camp.
Three of the caves were very large, with so many people sleeping in them that it was impossible to count them. Some of them even held big swords in their hands while sleeping.
Now is not a good time to kill the bandits, so Lin Qianqian did not take action.
She found a small cave where things were stored. There were a lot of things here, especially white wine, with more than twenty jars. It seemed that the bandits liked to drink.
Since the bandits are having a farewell banquet tomorrow, they will definitely drink.
Lin Qianqian added ingredients into each wine jar.
In the thatched house next to the warehouse, straw was spread on the ground. More than twenty women were tied up and thrown on the straw, huddled together. I wonder if among them was Old Lady Niu's daughter-in-law.
In this entire bandit base, there is only one dry well that can hide people.
Lin Qianqian left after leaving Zhao Xiaoliu to hide in the dry well to monitor the bandits.
It was only the hour of Yin and it was still dark outside. There was still an hour and a half before dawn, and it would take a long time before the bandits' farewell banquet.
She wanted to take all the people and hide them near the bandits' base before dawn.
After the bandits fall down after drinking, Zhao Xiaoliu will send out a signal flare, and then everyone will attack together, and then they will take down the bandits' base in one fell swoop.
Less than a quarter of an hour after Lin Qianqian left, the fat man guarding the ditch woke up.
The fat man was a little scared.
He was guarding such an important place, but he accidentally fell asleep. If he was seen by the Third In Command, he would be beheaded on the spot.
The fat man pinched his thigh hard and cheered himself up.
Lin Qianqian returned to the county government office and was stopped by the magistrate Cheng Fa.
"Lin Xiaoqi, what were you doing out there in the middle of the night?"
"Oh, I heard that bandits robbed the county government office, so I ran away. Now I heard that the bandits ran away, so I came back. Lord Cheng, why are you still awake in the middle of the night?"
Cheng Fa was so angry that his mouth was crooked. When those bandits came over at night, they frightened him to death.
When he woke up, he ran to the office in front and found that all the more than 10,000 taels of silver notes he had embezzled for two years had been taken away.
This was definitely done by bandits, but the bandits were attracted by Lin Xiaoqi's show of wealth, so everything was because of Lin Xiaoqi.
"You borrowed all of them. You showed off everywhere that you had the Night Pearl and attracted the bandits here."
Lin Qianqian smiled: "Yes, it's all my fault, so my priceless night pearl was stolen."
Cheng Fa's face turned even paler with jealousy: How rich is Lin Xiaoqi? His priceless night pearl was robbed, but he can still laugh. Comparing yourself with others is really frustrating! Some people are born with a silver spoon in their mouths, while others struggle their whole lives but cannot even reach the starting point of others.
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