Chapter 157: Black Eats Black
After Xiao Kun secretly reported the news to Qin Heng, Qin Heng quickly arranged for people to send all the government officials down the mountain.
Qin Zhaoze arranged for someone to follow Xiao Kun to the small cave. When he saw the valuable things neatly arranged, he was speechless.
He arranged for people to take away the boxes and cages. After coming out, he looked up at the sky again and thought to himself that he didn't want to say anything about envy or jealousy anymore.
He wanted to ask, "God, do you need a son? Look at me and see how I am doing."
When Lu Songli and Xue Xu arrived at the mountain stronghold, Xue Xu said he wanted to go back to his room to get something. Lu Songli asked two brothers to accompany him, while she went directly to the main hall.
At that moment, Qin Zhao had just had all the valuables stacked up. There were also several boxes of books she had specifically requested earlier. These books were looted from Qinglong Village, but since they were deemed useless, they were piled in a corner of the warehouse.
Lu Songli looked over the property they had seized and couldn't help but sigh, "Sure enough, the fastest way to make money is to rob other people."
Qin Sheng accidentally heard this sigh. He looked at the confiscated supplies and fell into deep thought.
At this point, Qin Sheng had discovered a new world, a way to get rich quickly. Later, whenever his wife ran out of money to expand her business, he would lead his troops out, slaughter one or two strongholds, and plunder their warehouses and take them back.
It can be said that from then on, Qin Sheng was unstoppable in the world of gangster-on-gangster warfare. The name Qin Sheng, known as General Qin, also made all the bandit strongholds tremble in fear.
At this time, the little old man Xue Xu came over leisurely and said, "I didn't expect you to really wipe out Qinglong Village. The leader of Qinglong Village, Qiu Hai, has a private warehouse with a lot of valuables in it..."
"Mr. Xue, are these what you are talking about?" Qin Zhao moved aside and took two steps to the side so that he could see the neatly arranged boxes clearly.
Xue Xu looked at the familiar appearance of the box and his voice stopped abruptly. After a while, he found his voice, "How did you find that place?" He remembered that Qiu Hai's private vault was very secretive.
After he learned that the secret warehouse was discovered by Qin Sheng accidentally, he couldn't help but walk around Qin Sheng, muttering in his heart, this kid, his luck is really unmatched.
He had originally wanted to use this secret to buy his freedom and get some money for his journey. But now, it seemed impossible. He might as well just follow them all the way to Pingzhou! He, Xue Xu, never owed anyone anything!
Anyway, if he went out, he would just find a place to stay. Might as well follow them! Lu Desheng's daughter said to destroy the bandits, so she destroyed them. He wanted to see how far they could go. And he was too curious about their next development.
The sky suddenly brightened, the clouds dissipated and the snow cleared. The heavy snow that had been falling for two whole days finally stopped.
Qinglongzhai was wiped out by government officials, and Zhang Xian started interrogating the prisoners today. The news spread to several villages early in the morning.
All the villagers from Qingxi Village and its surrounding areas who were able to go today flocked to the county town, just to witness with their own eyes the punishment of the bandits who had been oppressing them for all these years!
Lu Songli and his group were ready to set off. Early in the morning before departure, Lu Songli asked Lu Mingzhi to write a letter and send it to the county government office to be handed over to Zhang Xian.
Lu Songli has not forgotten her promise to introduce the other party to their father. With this family letter as a support, the two should be able to connect smoothly.
What Lu Songli didn't know was that two days after Zhang Xian received the letter she sent, he wrote a letter to Changli.
Changli was the place where he was once exiled, and it was also the place where he managed for several years.
Dali was divided into four counties: Liaoxi, Liaodong, Xuantu, and Lelang, and Pingzhou was formed. Its seat was in Xiangping, and these exiles actually made their transfer in Xiangping. Changli was located in Liaoxi County, very close to Xiangping.
When Lu Songli and others set off, starting from Qingxi Village, countless villagers came out of their homes with things in their hands to see them off.
They'd already tried it out, and the new kang in Village Chief Chen's home really helped them through the winter. A large kang could sleep many people, and as long as the fire was kept burning, even a small family, wrapped in a light blanket, could sleep warmly through the night. They no longer had to wake up from the cold as often as before.
Therefore, under the guidance of Village Chief Chen, Qingxi Village had already prepared a kang bed for every household. As the saying goes, "When drinking water, one should remember the well-digger." They had not forgotten that the kang-building technique was taught by Lü Songli. Therefore, those families with a little extra food gave something to the deceased as a farewell gift.
In addition, Old Lady Chen speculated that the destruction of Qinglong Village was probably closely related to them. However, she kept it to herself and only mentioned it to the sisters in the village much later.
Lü Songli and his companions knew that Qingxi Village had always been poor due to the existence of Qinglong Village. However, the villagers' hospitality was too good to refuse. They kept refusing, saying they had no shortage of food and asking them to take the food home to eat. However, the villagers refused to listen. When they refused to accept the food, they placed it directly on the carriage shaft or hung it on the carriage shaft.
They had no choice but to accept all the gifts from the villagers. Then, Lu Songli asked someone to take two sacks of grain from the carriage and give them to Village Chief Chen, asking him to distribute them to the villagers who came to see them off.
In this era, food is always hard currency, second only to gold.
They'd consumed quite a bit of food during the 1,000-mile journey. Luckily, they'd recovered a lot of their strength after taking Qinglong Village, so now their entire team had plenty of food. Two sacks of food, and some water.
Lu Songli and his group took a horse-drawn carriage and left Qingxi Village and Tonghua County.
It can be said that this group of people really left a deep impression on the people of Qingxi Village.
Later, when Lu Desheng and his group passed by Qingxi Village, they learned that they were Lu Songli's parents, and they were well taken care of and treated well.
This year, no one died in the winter in Qingxi Village. Both the elderly and children spent the winter peacefully with kangs built in their homes.
After the villagers realized this, they suddenly remembered what Old Lady Chen had told them, about Lu Songli once saying that the common people would be able to live in a place without banditry in the future. Perhaps, one day, the world would really be like what she said?
A seed of hope was suddenly planted in the hearts of the people in this area.
In fact, Lu Songli’s original words were not like this at all, but that’s how it is in the countryside. The words changed completely as they were passed on.
Later, when Qin Sheng led his troops to attack Yanzhou, he received a lot of secret help from the people, and the front line advanced much faster than expected.
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