Chapter 2 Night Raid
Xunzhou.
Baiyun County, Heifei Mountain, Liangmin Village.
Be a soldier or a bandit in troubled times, and be a good citizen in prosperous times.
Now is the sixth year of Dayu's Zhaoqing reign.
The bandits on the mountain became good citizens under the leadership of their boss Hao Ren six years ago.
Su Zhizhi is six years old this year. He was born at the wrong time and unfortunately missed the golden age of bandits.
A bandit's courage can only be used to rob evil people.
As long as Su Zhizhi comes out, if nothing unexpected happens, something unexpected will definitely happen!
This time, I ran into a human trafficker. Before, I also encountered a fugitive from the government, a bandit, a flower thief...
The villagers were also very decisive. They caught one for every one that came, and a pair for every two that came.
Liangmin Village ranks first in Baiyun County for its achievements in punishing evil and eliminating evil.
It's chilly in the early spring nights.
In the small house on the top of the mountain, the flickering candlelight outlined shadows on the wall.
The big bunk bed was covered with thick bedding. Several children gathered together. Su Zhizhi sat in the middle, talking excitedly:
"There are a lot of bad guys out there, I can pick them up anywhere I go."
"...The last time, the fugitive had a beard so long, a waist thicker than the tree stump at the village entrance, and a fist bigger than two steamed buns!"
The children around gasped when they heard this:
"Then you dare to stop him? Aren't you afraid?"
"I'm scared! But who told him to step on my grasshopper and kill it? I asked him to compensate me with a grasshopper, but he said, 'Compensate me with nothing.'"
Su Zhizhi gestured with her hands, her round eyes wide as black grapes:
"I said, 'I don't want your head as compensation. Your head is not as good-looking as my cricket.'"
"Hahahaha..." The children around them all laughed.
Even the little girl who had been crying all day curled her eyes and temporarily put aside her uneasy emotions.
The children are still young and there are not many empty rooms in the village, so we will all sleep together tonight so that it will be easier to take care of them if anything happens.
We are at the age when we love to make noise and talk, and we can't stop chatting.
The only one who wasn't laughing was the boy lying at the end of the bed.
He looked to be no more than five or six years old, with cute features but a sickly pale complexion.
"It's your turn. What's your name and where is your home?" Su Zhizhi suddenly came over and asked.
"Xue Che," the boy paused, his long eyelashes rising and falling, "my home is in Chang'an."
The chattering children were quiet for a moment.
When they introduced themselves to each other just now, they were all wealthy families from the nearby Baiyun County and Qiancao County.
Chang'an City is thousands of miles away from here and they have never been there.
The next moment someone exclaimed, "How amazing! He was actually carried this far! Farther than us."
Xue Che: ...
Xue Che's palm-sized face had a seriousness that was unbecoming of his age, and he was immersed in his own thoughts.
He was the first to be arrested. He had accidentally learned on the road that Wu Laosan was working for the people of Qingshe Village.
Xue Che had heard Wu Lao San and others mention that the Green Snake Village was ruthless and would not leave anyone alive for money or profit.
Now that the villagers have captured Wu Laosan, it is very likely that they will retaliate from the Green Snake Village.
When he woke up in the afternoon, he told the incident to Dr. Yu from the village who had taken his pulse.
Doctor Yu nodded calmly: "It will take more than a day or two to recover from your illness."
Xue Che: ???
Seeing that Doctor Yu didn't take it seriously, Xue Che repeated it when he met other villagers.
"Oh, it's nothing." The villagers just patted his head and said, "This little kid is so cute."
Xue Che: ...That’s not the point.
He felt that these villagers did not realize the seriousness of the matter at all. If the Green Snake Village came, they might all be buried in a sea of blood!
Crunch——
The wooden door was pushed open, and a woman with wheat-colored skin walked in.
She was tall, with a small mole at the corner of her mouth and a well-proportioned and slender figure. She was not as charming as an ordinary woman, but had a kind of unpolished beauty.
"Mom!" Su Zhizhi called sweetly.
Wu Yingniang gently stroked Zhizhi's face, then closed the window tightly to keep out the damp and cold outside.
She pretended to be angry and urged the children to go to bed:
"What time is it? Why don't you go to bed? Be careful or you won't grow taller."
Su Zhizhi wanted to say that she was already very tall, but then she heard Wu Yingniang say:
"Anyone who wakes up late tomorrow morning won't have any breakfast."
"Let's go to sleep now!" Su Zhizhi was the first to roll into the quilt and wrapped herself like a cocoon.
When the other children saw Su Zhizhi fall asleep, they also got into bed.
Wu Yingniang was about to blow out the candle when Xue Che, who had been quietly sitting at the end of the bed, sat up with difficulty.
"Madam." Xue Che knelt and addressed her politely.
He had just heard Su Zhizhi mention that Wu Yingniang was the wife of the village chief Hao Ren. The village chief had been away for the past two days, and Wu Yingniang was in charge of village affairs.
Wu Yingniang's gaze fell on Xue Che's frail face: "What's wrong?"
Xue Che made one last effort to awaken the villagers' sense of crisis:
"On my way here, I accidentally heard that Wu Lao San had a connection with the Green Snake Village. The Green Snake Village is likely to come for revenge."
Su Zhizhi half poked out from under the quilt:
"What is Green Snake Village? Do they raise snakes? Are the snakes big? Are they big enough to stir-fry?"
The little kids nearby also became curious:
"Can you eat snake meat? Will it be fishy?"
Su Zhizhi got excited again: "Snake meat is edible, last time..."
"Okay, no more snake talk."
Wu Yingniang pushed the children back into the quilt one by one, turned around and blew out the candle.
Xue Che opened his mouth, and Wu Yingniang pinched his mouth shut with her palm.
"Don't worry, it's okay. Just go to sleep. If you don't want to sleep, go sleep in the sheepfold."
Starlight shone through the window, and Xue Che closed his eyes in despair.
Never mind, he tried his best.
At the foot of the black bandit mountain.
A group of men in black appeared like ghosts and moved swiftly into the forest. The swords at their waists shone coldly in the moonlight.
One of the men in black lowered his voice:
"Second Master, this is it. I saw with my own eyes this afternoon that Wu Lao San and those little brats were taken up the mountain together."
He flexed his wrist.
On the inside of the wrist, there is a tattoo of a green snake with its mouth wide open and its red tongue spitting out.
Not only him, every man in black has the same tattoo on his hand.
"There is also a beautiful little girl on this mountain. She is very pretty and can be sold for a high price if we catch her." The man in black licked his lips and showed interest in his eyes.
The man in black leading the group was Liu Yinhuan, the second in command of the Green Snake Village.
Liu Yinhuan looked at the gradually extinguishing lights of the villagers on the mountaintop and narrowed her eyes:
"No men will be left alive, and all the women will be left for the brothers to taste. Let them know that they should never ruin Green Snake Village again in their next life!"
Liu Yinhuan pulled open his collar, and a thick golden ring snake slithered down from his neck, its scales reflecting a cold light.
"Golden Knife, go."
The other dozens of people also held their breath, and snakes emerged from their sleeves, disappeared into the grass like ghosts, and headed straight for the village.
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