"What's this for? Aren't these brothers the ones sent out to find the python's nest?
He has done a great deed and brought back so many live centipedes for your master, why are you punishing him?"
Dong Jiu stepped over the threshold and walked in with a smile on his face. He looked nonchalant all day long, and everyone present had long been accustomed to him.
Lao Wu frowned, but the few people who had just been whipped didn't dare to look up.
"The organization has its own rules. The master is surrounded by enemies and is already in danger. Some of his subordinates have lost their rigor and forgotten the rules. They deserve to be punished."
"The boss is right, we should be punished!"
The ones who spoke were the men in black who had brought Chaoge and the others to Xilin County. Sometimes fate is like this, but no one knows it except the parties involved.
The black-clad man kneeling behind the first leader, even though he had just been whipped, kept his back straight as he knelt on one knee on the ground, without a trace of dissatisfaction on his face.
"Oh, that's all!
I wanted to plead for you, but if you like being whipped, just continue kneeling.
I'm going to make medicine!
Oh, by the way, your respected master has woken up early, so just take it as a credit to you brothers, and don’t let him kneel down again.”
After Dong Jiu finished speaking, he left happily.
Several people looked at each other, and even the fifth brother, who didn't like to smile, showed a hint of surprise on his face!
"Boss, I think that girl is really not an ordinary girl. With just two herbs, she can tell if someone is poisoned and needs an antidote.
It would be better to take it and use it for your own benefit. In times of chaos, the hands of ladies are scarce.
Even if the girl can't detoxify the master, she can still treat the master's millions of horses."
The man in black who sent Chaoge back was delighted and immediately put forward his ideas.
He had anticipated that he would be punished for sending Chaoge and the others back, but he didn't want to miss out on such a rare talent.
“Not everyone can enter the master’s presence, let alone the important military camp.
This person's identity is unknown and it is not easy to bring him to the master immediately.
Send someone to observe secretly first, and then we'll talk about it later.
If he is truly a rare talent, we must keep him at all costs.
If this woman is just showing off, then there is no need to care about it."
Lao Wu naturally knew that his subordinates' suggestions were all for the sake of their master.
After saying this, he looked at the five people kneeling on the ground and said, "As the secret guards beside the master, if it weren't for the emergency and the lack of manpower around us, we wouldn't let you go up the mountain this time.
You have meddled in other people's business without permission and delayed our return journey. Fortunately, the master is fine. If anything had happened to the master, even if you had ten heads, it would not be enough to apologize.
Don't make such a stupid mistake next time, take your brothers down and rest first."
After Lao Wu finished speaking, the five of them clasped their fists in salute, stood up and watched him leave.
"An Yi, I told you to stop interfering, but you didn't listen.
We had robbed the centipede in the wooden tube, and we could have compensated them by giving them some money. Yet you took the initiative to take them back to Xilin County.
Look, fortunately the boss only gave each of us five lashes as a warning. If we follow the old rules, we won’t be able to get up for ten days or half a month.”
An San endured the pain from the whip on his back and couldn't help but complain.
An Yi had a cold face and ignored her.
On the other hand, Zhou Dong and the villagers started their journey before dawn in the morning, and finally walked down the mountain at the end of the evening.
Although he finally got out, Zhou Dong was not in a good mood.
It was not because he had lost the opportunity to earn the one hundred taels of silver, but because his wife had been talking about it all day.
She said that they should not have let Xiaogezi and her siblings leave quietly, that Xiaogezi and her siblings were afraid that these refugees would covet her one hundred taels of silver, and that Xiaogezi was heartless and ungrateful, as she got the one hundred taels of silver and left quietly without even saying goodbye, for fear that they would take a penny from her.
They also said that Zhou Dong was useless as he didn't even pluck a single hair from the little pigeon, and that he had wasted so many days of taking care of them.
Zhou Dong was already angry, and with his wife nagging him all the way, it would be strange if he could be in a good mood.
"Mom, please stop talking, I'm tired of listening to you!"
Zhou Hehua has the same personality as Zhang Shufen, and she also thinks Chaoge is really heartless.
I got a hundred taels for nothing and left overnight. At least I could give them twenty or thirty taels!
But no one could stand Zhang Shufen's nagging, and finally she couldn't help it and spoke out to remind them.
"Hey, little girl, I am doing this for our whole family!
If I had some money with me when I fled from famine, I could live a good life in a new place. Do you still despise me for coming here?
If you want to dislike someone, then dislike your useless father!
The village chief..."
"Don't move!"
Finally we walked down the mountain, with many refugees following us.
After a day of desperate travel, everyone collapsed to the ground as soon as they got down the mountain, not wanting to move at all.
Moreover, this is at the foot of the mountain, so the danger is much less. Everyone plans to rest here for one night and continue on tomorrow.
Unexpectedly, Zhou Dong was packing up, and Zhou Daqiang went to pick up firewood and prepared to light the fire first.
But at this moment, a group of people with big knives suddenly rushed out from the darkness and threatened them directly!
The group of refugees were so frightened that they lost all their strength. Looking at the big knife shining brightly in the moonlight, how could they dare to move at all?
Like many women, Zhou Hehua screamed in fear and turned around to run up the hillside!
Someone in the crowd shouted, "The bandits are coming!"
Suddenly, there was the sound of a knife stabbing into the body, and the man fell to the ground, with blood splattering everywhere!
Zhou Dong, his villagers and the refugees who followed them down the mountain were all dumbfounded when they saw the man who was stabbed to death fall to the ground in the blink of an eye!
Each of them was like a quail, not daring to move, allowing the bandits to take away their things and dig out their property!
"Damn it, they are just a bunch of poor bastards, few of them have any money!
Kill the men and take the women and children away!"
Upon hearing the words of the leader of the bandits, these frightened refugees could no longer remain calm and started running away!
There was chaos at the scene, and soon there were many corpses lying there.
Those who were lucky enough to escape the disaster hid in the dark and trembled until the bandits had looted everything and disappeared from their sight, then they slowly walked out.
“Dad, Dad!”
Zhou Daqiang, Zhou Xiaoniu, Zhou Qiu and a dozen villagers who went to collect firewood were the lucky ones.
But when Zhou Daqiang returned to the place where they planned to camp, he saw Zhou Dong lying in a pool of blood. He was so scared that he knelt on the ground, grabbed Zhou Dong's body, and kept calling out.
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