Jiang Huaixu, who was sitting on the roof of the carriage, said, "Leave one person for me."
Everyone looked up at her.
Jiang Huaixu jumped off the carriage and pointed his finger at Qi Dafu.
Qi Dafu, who was muttering to himself with his head down, suddenly felt the surroundings become quiet. When he looked up, everyone's eyes were fixed on him.
Qi Dafu, who believed he could not escape the disaster, shrank his neck, wiped his tears, and asked in a sobbing voice: "Can I see my parents before I die?"
Jiang Zhengmao was stunned and said angrily, "Are you blackmailing me? Look for yourself and see which of these people you arrested can be your mother?"
"My mother was imprisoned in the mountains..." Qi Dafu said with a sob, "If it weren't for this, how could I have become a bandit?"
"Are your parents still alive?"
"The boss said to be alive."
"Have you seen it yourself?"
Qi Dafu shook his head.
Jiang Zhengmao had never seen such a fool. "How can you be sure that your parents are in the mountain if you haven't even seen them?"
"My boss said that if I perform great deeds, he will let me see my parents."
Jiang Zhengmao felt that this man was too stupid to be the kind of person who would have the guts to kill someone, so he continued to ask, "What did your boss ask you to do?"
"Let me watch the door."
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After asking Qi Dafu many questions indirectly, Jiang Zhengmao finally confirmed that Qi Dafu had just joined the gang not long ago. He had been working as a gatekeeper before, and only in the past few days did he get the job of a spy. The first group he targeted was their group.
I don’t know whether it’s lucky or unlucky.
So he said to the leader of the guards, "Let's spare this man's life for now. His hands are not stained with blood, and his brain is not active. He is not a threat."
The leader of the guards didn't notice anything unusual, so he didn't stop them.
When other bandits saw this scene, they rushed to prove their innocence and said that they had never killed anyone.
Jiang Zhengmao couldn't interrogate them one by one, so he directly pulled Qiao Da over and asked him what evil things those people had done. As long as he told everything he knew, Qiao Da could be given a lighter punishment.
After checking them all, Qi Dafu was the only one who stood out.
Afterwards, the villagers went ahead, followed by the Lian family cavalry, leaving a few Lian family guards behind to deal with those people.
The other villagers didn't know that Jiang Huaixu watched helplessly as the guards slit the throats of people one by one and buried them in random pits dug on the spot.
In Yangwei Village, the boss treated his scraped hands while telling the second in command how hateful the refugees at the foot of the mountain were.
"Second brother, you don't know, these people carry bows and arrows, but we only have melee weapons. How are we going to fight them?"
"The two men who climbed onto the roof of the carriage in the refugee group had really good aim. I almost lost my life there."
The second in command listened in a disjointed manner. He was not interested in these trivial matters at all.
"Brother, you should let me go meet them!"
The eldest boss's breathing became heavier, his face drooping. "Can you fight a hundred people alone? You'll still die! That idiot Qi Dafu didn't even investigate the details of that group of people. He suddenly took out so many bamboo bows and arrows. Anyone would lose! Damn it! If I see him again, I'll skin him alive!"
At this point, his tiger eyes narrowed, "Do you think it's my fault that so many brothers died?!"
"Why would you think that?" The Second in Command said sullenly, "They're just a bunch of refugees. How can it be so mysterious? Let's call everyone over. It's just bows, right? We have them all. Let's just shoot at them! They have bamboo arrows, we have iron arrows. Let's see who can outshoot the other!"
“You… ahhh——”
The eldest boss suddenly screamed, and the second in command was so scared that he quickly raised his head to look at him. He saw that the eldest brother, who had been normal before, was holding his head with both hands, his face twisted into a ball, looking painful and hideous.
"Brother...Brother! What's wrong with you?! Someone, come quickly!"
When Yangwei Village fell into chaos, Jiang Huaixu was trying to get Qi Dafu to speak.
The reason why I noticed Qi Dafu was that he was crying so miserably, crying for his mother. Others who cried were also crying because they were scared that they would die. Qi Dafu was obviously crying for his mother sincerely.
"I'm asking you, is there a village nearby?"
Qi Dafu was still tied up, but he was no longer crying.
"The villagers have all been abducted by bandits. How can there be any village at all?"
"So what did you do before you became a bandit?"
"I am the abducted mountain villager." Qi Dafu muttered and looked at Jiang Huaixu strangely.
He felt that Jiang Huaixu's questions were all useless. What was the point of a little brat asking so many questions?
"Are you familiar with the nearby hills?"
"Of course I'm familiar with it. I grew up in this area. Every time the bandits from the nearby hills tried to kidnap people from our village, we would run into the mountains so they couldn't find us. If my mother hadn't been sick and my father and I hadn't been a little slow carrying her, we wouldn't have been caught up by the bandits from Yangwei Village..."
After asking a few more questions, Jiang Huaixu stopped asking because he would start crying again if he asked more.
Since Qi Dafu grew up here, he must know what would happen if his parents were kidnapped by bandits. He was just deceiving himself.
"You, lead the way and take us to the main nest of Yangwei Village."
"What?" Qi Dafu thought he had misheard. He had never seen refugees rushing to find bandits.
Jiang Huaixu repeated it again very patiently.
Qi Dafu's jaw dropped in shock. "Are you, are you crazy?"
"Do you want to go find your parents?"
Qi Dafu immediately fell silent.
He gritted his teeth and said, "Okay, I'll take you there!"
Jiang Huaixu did not let the villagers join in the fun. She took Jiang Erlang, Yun Qi and Fu Tuan and followed Qi Dafu up the mountain quietly.
This time she went up the mountain only to scout the area. There were still quite a few bandits, and it was unrealistic to bring a group of villagers into someone else's village.
After walking along the narrow mountain road for a while, a village that looked somewhat simple appeared in front of the four people.
The four people used the terrain to hide their bodies and listened to Qi Dafu describe the layout of the village.
"...The lobby is where the first and second in command hang out most often. There's a room behind the lobby. They're probably discussing things in that room right now. It's what they do every time they rob something."
Yun Qi watched from afar as people kept coming in and out of the lobby, wondering, "Why are there so many people?"
"Ah? The boss isn't going to beat you up, is he?"
"Hey, hey, hey." Jiang Huaixu was dissatisfied. "Why do you sound so excited? Are you happy to beat us?"
Qi Dafu immediately restrained his expression and shook his head so that his facial features could not be seen. "No, no, I didn't."
"Where are your parents imprisoned?" Jiang Huaixu asked.
Qi Dafu's mood suddenly fell, "I was locked up in the back mountain."
[There are quite a few people in the back mountain, but they're not imprisoned, they're all guards.] Fu Tuan said.
What are you guarding?
【Food, weapons, etc.】
Just as Jiang Huaixu was communicating with Fu Tuan, he suddenly heard a loud shout——
“Who is it?”
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