After returning home, Song Yuehua went to find Zhou Dafu.
Song Da and Song Er had to go to the county town every day to collect farm manure, so it was inevitable that they would be targeted by robbers.
Zhou Dafu said, "Every time they hauled manure, the two brothers would go together. And it was cold, and the roads were hard to walk on, so they would store it for a day and haul it all back the next day. It just so happened that they didn't go that day."
It is not necessarily that Song Da and Song Er just happened to avoid them. It is possible that the group of people thought that an old man would be easier to capture than two young men, so they did not target them at all.
The Chinese New Year is coming next month, and there will always be some people who will take risks and hope to have a prosperous year.
What the villagers didn’t expect was that just after the cow was stolen, the next day, Ma Yong drove a ox cart to the village entrance again.
He stood on the oxcart and said loudly, "The end of next month will be New Year's Eve, and the villagers have always traveled in my Ma family's oxcart. This year I will never let everyone walk to the county town."
"I have rented the ox from my boss. During this period, you can still ride the ox cart driven by my Ma family. This gangster robbed once, I don't believe he can rob a second time, so you can ride without worry!"
"Yongzi, are you not going to work in Dongshan anymore?" asked Liu Shanpao from the village.
Ma Yong looked at him and forced a smile, "My boss gave me two months' leave to take care of my family affairs. Don't worry, there will be no shortage of carriage trips. If those bastards have the guts, they can rob me again."
Ma Yong's action immediately triggered a series of speculations in the village.
"What do you think the Ma family means? Are they planning to buy another cow?"
"I think that's what he meant. I didn't expect that the old horse head's family is quite wealthy."
“Could it be that the price of cattle has dropped?”
"Bullshit, I've lived for more than 30 years, and the price of cattle has only gone up, never down."
"It seems that Old Matou still has some family background."
Ma Yong drove the car peacefully for six days until this morning, when he picked up another carload of women.
Auntie Fat said with some concern, "Yongzi, do you want to call people men again?"
"Don't worry, Auntie. I'm just a man," said Ma Yong.
Aunt Pang wanted to say something, but Ma Yong drove the ox cart away after he finished speaking.
The journey to the county town was very smooth. The villagers bought their things and on the way back, no one dared to say a word.
This has become the norm ever since Master Ma encountered bandits on the road.
This time, when Ma Yong was halfway through his journey, four masked and knife-wielding bandits suddenly jumped out, and the people on the ox cart were frightened and panicked.
Ma Yong shouted, "You guys again? You stole my cow before, and you dare to do it again? If you have the guts, try to steal another one!"
After saying that, Ma Yong pulled out a hatchet from under the ox cart and confronted the four men.
"Hahaha!" one of them laughed, "I thought he had some hidden card, but this is it?"
Suddenly, a man in black pulled a woman over and said to Ma Yong, "Put down the knife, or I'll chop this woman to pieces!"
"Yongzi, put it down!" Aunt Pang was so scared that her voice trembled.
Ma Yong glared at them and said, "You have already robbed my cow. Isn't one cow enough?"
"Since your family is so rich, what's the harm in giving us another cow?" another man in black said arrogantly.
"Okay, stop talking nonsense and take the cow away!" said the tall man standing in the middle.
The other three finally calmed down.
The man in black who held Aunt Fat hostage yelled, "Put down the hatchet and kneel down for me!"
Seeing Aunt Pang's neck being cut and bleeding, Ma Yong had no choice but to obey, took a step back and put the hatchet on the ground.
Ma Yong knelt in front of the men and said, "This is my employer's cow. If I don't take it back, I have to compensate him. I won't pursue the matter of the cow before. Can you please leave me a way out?"
"So what?" The tall and thin man snorted and laughed, "Do we look like good people?"
Hearing this, several people laughed.
Another short, hunchbacked man sneered, "Your father begged me in the same way back then. We are indeed biological children. Our kneeling positions are exactly the same!"
At this moment, a long arrow came from a distance and hit the hunchback's knee accurately.
"ah!"
The hunchbacked man fell to his knees with a thud and screamed in pain. The other three were so scared that they took up their knives and looked in the direction where the arrow came from.
The tall and thin man immediately shouted, "Take the cow and run!"
Ma Yong took the opportunity to pick up the hatchet and slashed the man who was holding Aunt Fat hostage on the arm, causing him to scream in pain.
Before they could react, a few arrows flew over from a distance and hit the knees of the three men from a distance.
The tall and thin man was the first to be hit by an arrow. He was just about to hide behind three people when the arrow seemed to have found him and aimed at him from the gap between two people.
"Girl, how can I help you like this?" Duan Yidao complained.
Song Yuehua said calmly, "Your actions were inappropriate. Anyway, making them cripple one leg will satisfy Master Ma's anger."
"Oh, all right!"
Two people appeared from behind the grass chops.
Several women shouted, "Master Duan, help!"
Song Yuehua, "..."
Ma Yong looked at the man in black who was injured by him, rolling on the ground holding his injured arm. He held the bloody hatchet tightly, stood aside with red eyes, watching coldly.
Until a hand tapped him on the shoulder.
Ma Yong came back to his senses when he saw Song Yuehua and Duan Yidao, "Daya, Master..."
Duan Yidao pulled the four people together and tore off their face masks.
One of the women said, "I recognize them. Aren't these Lai Fu and Liu Mazi from Hongye Village?"
"I recognize this guy too. They are Wang Daqiang and Li Laowu from Hongye Village."
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