"It's my bad luck to fall into the hands of you guys!"
Li Yuan stiffened his neck, spat at Zhao Zhengde, and said with disdain, "What time is it now? You're still pretending to be kind and righteous! It's just a matter of winners and losers! ... Now that I've been captured by you, you can kill me or chop me up, it's all up to you!"
Li Yuan spoke so confidently and his expression was even more resolute, but in fact he was secretly worried.
Although Li Yuan felt that even if he captured all of these country bumpkins, they would not have the courage to kill and bury the bodies. If they had the courage to deal with such a large group of people, they would not have been hiding in such a small village.
With such a powerful firearm in hand, plus the bird that could fly into the sky and throw bullets.
At least we should do the same as him and sweep all the other villages nearby.
…
However, things have not been finalized yet, and Li Yuan did not dare to directly provoke the other party, saying stupid things like "Kill me if you have the guts."
But as the leader, with so many brothers watching him, he could not weaken his momentum no matter what, and cried and begged for mercy in front of this group of guys in Wanxi Village.
Li Yuan is still thinking that after these guys let him go, he will go back to be the boss!
No one knew what Li Yuan was thinking at the moment, but the others were very angry at his unrepentant behavior, especially Zhao Zhengde, whose face was as dark as the bottom of a pot.
"You robbed a lot of people of their food and supplies in the county before. If you hadn't robbed everyone, Ningyong County wouldn't be in such a mess now! If it weren't for you, cannibalism wouldn't have happened in the county!"
Zheng Changdong couldn't hold back any longer. Thinking of what he, Zhao Dabao and the others had experienced in the county town, he angrily picked up a carrying pole and hit Li Yuan on the back. "I'm going to beat you to death and rid the people of this evil!"
The shoulder pole, as thick as an adult's wrist, hit Li Yuan hard with the sound of wind!
The muffled groan of the carrying pole hitting the flesh was so deafening.
However, after Li Yuan had taken up the pole, he shouted forcefully, "What do you know, kid? There's only so much food in Ningyong County. Even if we don't steal others' food, they won't be able to survive in the end. So why waste food? It's better to die early and be reborn!"
"Fuck! But just because others have nothing to eat and are truly starving to death due to the snowstorm doesn't give you a reason to steal their food! Stop talking nonsense to me with these twisted theories!" Zhao Zhengde shouted coldly, "According to what you're saying, people are going to die anyway, so why don't I find someone to bury you alive right now!"
"That's right! This guy is clearly a vicious person who wants to get something for nothing and steal other people's things! And he's even making excuses for himself!"
"You want to be a shrew and also want to be a saint! How can it be so good?!"
However, before Li Yuan could say anything with his neck stiffened?
A ball of wet yellow mud flew out from the crowd and hit Li Yuan on the forehead with a bang!
The yellow mud, with splashing yellow mud water, covered Li Yuan's face, like some toilet products, disgusting!
In an instant, everyone seemed to have found a way to vent their anger at the same time. They grabbed the yellow mud on the ground that had already been wet by the storm and threw it all at once on the robbers!
But both Li Yuan and the group of robbers behind him were tied together with hemp ropes and had no way to escape.
"I'm going to smash you damn guys to death! If it weren't for you guys, my chicken wouldn't have to die!"
"I will smash you, shameless, heartless villains, to death!"
Some people in the crowd disliked the slow speed of digging mud with their hands, so they used two hoes to dig out all the moist yellow mud on the ground so that they could use it more easily.
The smelly mud balls mixed with dead branches and rotten leaves were thrown at the other group of people by the angry villagers.
After just a few encounters, the robbers were beaten into a mess by the villagers. They were covered in dirt as if they had rolled in the mud.
Among them, Li Yuan was hit the most times and looked the most miserable!
The yellow mud stuck to his hair, face and body, as if he had fallen into a cesspool. It was so irritating to the eyes just by looking at it.
"Alright, alright! Everyone, stop smashing things for now. Let's take these guys back and lock them up first, and then we'll deal with them later! We worked hard all day last night, and everyone is tired. Let's go back and rest early." Zhao Xingguo frowned and waved his hand, asking everyone to stop what they were doing. "The most important thing for us is to find someone to go up the mountain and get the women and children down. It's not safe up there in this cold weather."
But don’t do that. If nothing happens on their side but something happens on the mountain, that would be terrible.
There are no jackals, tigers, or leopards on their mountain, but there are still wild boars and other animals. Because the situation was urgent before, they naturally couldn't worry about so many things. Now that they are safe, they naturally thought of this matter.
"Village chief, you are right. We can't waste time here... We have to find someone to go up the mountain to pick them all up. The mountain road is not easy to walk on. It will be worrying if we encounter any danger." A middle-aged man holding a hoe thought of his old mother with his son, and immediately nodded in response.
His mother and his son, one is over sixty years old and the other is only twelve years old. The old is old and the young is young, which is really worrying.
Being brought back to rationality by reality, everyone can clearly distinguish what is important and what is not.
No one dared to waste any more time, and hurriedly withdrew their hands, wiped the dirt on their injuries on the bushes and trees nearby, and then hurried up the mountain to look for people.
"Village head, secretary, I think we don't need to wait any longer. Let's send people up the mountain now. Once we find the children and the woman at the military base, we can have them rest there for the night and come down the mountain tomorrow." Considering everyone had traveled such a long distance and spent the entire night without rest, both adults and children needed some rest, otherwise they would surely be seriously ill when they returned. So the person who spoke suggested this.
After receiving responses from others, everyone nodded and said that this was a good idea. They also thought it was a good idea.
It doesn’t matter if I have to endure a little hardship or fatigue, as long as I can keep their families safe and healthy, no matter how hard it is, it doesn’t matter.
With this worry in mind, everyone felt that a night of rest would not be a big deal. Even Zhao Xingguo thought that everyone should rest for a night and set off again tomorrow morning, but he could not stop everyone's eagerness.
There was no other way, so Zhao Xingguo had to organize the strong men and women in the village who often went up the mountain to pick up the people.
Everyone was very worried about their families in the mountains, so many people went up the mountain this time, a total of 38 people. If it weren't for the fact that everyone was still worried about the escaped robbers who might come back to attack their village, and if they hadn't left some people to watch over the captured robbers, those residents who had family in the mountains would have wanted the whole family to go up the mountain to pick them up.
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When Meng Changlong and his group finally knocked on the gate of Wanxi Village, inquired about the situation, and followed the villagers to the mountain west of Wanxi Village, they saw such a shocking scene.
A group of villagers were escorting fifty or sixty robbers who were dirty and looked very embarrassed, talking and laughing as they walked towards the village. Seeing the excited and happy expressions of the villagers, and their appearance that was even cleaner than theirs, Meng Changlong was really shocked.
"Village Chief Zhao...what's going on with you? The fellow villager who was guarding the door for us at the village entrance just now said that you have been attacked by robbers since last night, and the situation is critical...but now..." It doesn't look like what the fellow villager told them before.
Not only Meng Changlong, but even the other soldiers following behind Meng Changlong were equally surprised.
I just heard that this group of robbers numbered between one hundred and two hundred strong men. How could the villagers armed with farm tools defeat and capture them under such circumstances? This is truly incredible!
They all knew that there were definitely no more than half of the people in Wanxi Village who were truly capable of fighting, and there were even fewer adult men among them.
These robbers were all in their prime, full of youth and strength!
"Commander Meng! You're finally back! In the blink of an eye, more than two months have passed. I've been so worried since you haven't come back yet."
When Zhao Xingguo saw Meng Changlong, his eyes lit up immediately. He shook Meng Changlong's hands warmly and said excitedly, "Captain Meng, how have you been these days? Is it very hard? What's the situation outside? Can you tell us?"
"Village Chief, you're too polite... Just call me Xiao Meng. We all serve the people, how can that be considered hard work? But these robbers..."
"Oh, robbers! There were about one or two hundred of them here before, and we ambushed them in the mountains. Most of them took advantage of the chaos and escaped. People from our village caught the rest!" Zhao Xingguo pointed at the robbers tied together like a string of candied haws and said, "Many of them were burned, so they escaped very slowly. That's why people from our village caught them."
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