Ding Heli then remembered that Hu Wenhua hadn't shown up or made a sound when they were kidnapping people or running errands to the prefectural city.
He used to be the most proactive one in these kinds of situations, but it turns out he was injured too!
"Okay, why didn't you say anything? Go sit down over there!"
The other uninjured men weren't idle either. After collecting and counting the bandits' broadswords, they gathered together and discussed: "There are fourteen of them. Although they're not as good as ours, they're still knives."
"A knife is worth a lot of money."
"With these distributed, plus what Sister Shuiqing gave us before, apart from those two families, the rest of the households will have at least two large knives."
The difference between having a knife and not having a knife is huge.
If they hadn't had knives, or hadn't had so many knives, they would have been the ones lying on the ground in that fight! And the more knives there were in the village, the safer people were.
Wang Laoba gritted his teeth, looked up at Li Wen, and said, "We should keep these fourteen knives to replenish our own village."
Li Wen also had this thought, but asked, "How can I stay?"
The constables will be here soon. We can use the silver to buy medicine for the injured, but we have no reason to leave these knives behind.
Hong Mancang had an idea. He looked at the group of men and asked hesitantly, "How about I give it a try?"
Li Wen and the others had a very good impression of the people Fan Jin brought, especially since they didn't back down at all during the fight and their teamwork was excellent!
Moreover, Feng Da was injured.
They were comrades-in-arms, having fought side-by-side in battle, and were definitely on the same side. He immediately trusted them and said, "Okay, you go and try!"
Upon hearing this, Hong Mancang walked up to the bandits' leader and pulled the burlap sack from one of their mouths. He squatted down and asked, "We have almost fifty people, and you only have thirty-odd. How dare you plot against us?"
The short, thin man, who had been kicked several times before, dared not refuse to answer: "We heard that you have rabbit meat and lots of silver in your car. We figured we had knives, more than a dozen in total, so we weren't afraid of you being unarmed."
They never expected that this group of people would have broadswords!
Not only are they more numerous, but they're also longer!
There was even lime, which was very uncomfortable if it got into your eyes. You couldn't even open your eyes, so how could you fight?
"I heard that?"
“I don’t know that person. He came with his head and face covered, and his accent doesn’t sound like yours, but it sounds like the man over there.”
Hong Mancang kept these things in mind, planning to bring them up when he returned to the village. Then, he pretended to be angry and scolded, "You're doing all this because you have knives in your hands!"
"Fine, let's throw these knives into the river and wash them away, then let's see what you can rely on!"
After saying that, he picked up more than a dozen knives in one go and walked towards the river.
Wang Laoba's eyes lit up, and he exclaimed, "Brilliant! Brilliant!"
Fan Erzhu, who was far away, felt another pang of heartache.
Fourteen knives, how much silver would they cost? It would be so much better to secretly bring them back to the village, but Hong Mancang actually wants to throw them all into the river and wash them away!
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