Unfortunately, County Magistrate Zhou had already left the city yesterday with his guards and Dong Xishan. He might have learned about the bandits' massacre on the way.
It turned out that County Magistrate Zhou and Dong Xishan had already discussed how to encircle and suppress that gang of kidnappers, and had informed them the day before that they could pay the ransom.
County Magistrate Zhou himself had not expected that the kidnappers' message yesterday would actually tell them that the location for collecting the ransom was Lion Mountain behind Huanghualing Village. They really wanted to send the ransom to the jurisdiction of his own county government.
The time for paying the ransom was set two days later, so Dong Xishan and his team set off yesterday.
The second in command of Niubei Mountain felt relieved when he was sure that only seven people from the Dong Mansion were leaving for Lion Mountain and there was no other commotion in the city.
So on the night of Dong Xishan and his men's departure, all the Niubei Mountain bandits who were monitoring the Dong Mansion, including all the Niubei Mountain bandits in the city, evacuated and headed for Lion Mountain.
They also need to reunite with the Fifth Master who took the children away before the exchange, and take the children with them to the Lion Rock exchange.
Qian Chunhua, who was about to set off, was distressed when he learned that Tugang Village had been attacked by bandits.
"Manager Dong, what happened to Huanghualing?" Qian Chunhua was worried about her three children.
Dong Guanchen shook his head. "Probably not. I heard that only Tugang Village was robbed."
Qian Chunhua felt a little relieved, but for some reason, she was extremely nervous at the moment.
"Auntie, I'll leave right away." Qian Chunhua was anxious.
"Tai, be careful on the road." Madam Dong signaled Madam Wu to hand over the food she had prepared. This was dry food for Qian Chunhua and the others along the way.
"Chunhua, give me the key to the house. I will arrange for someone to clean it first, and you can stay here when you arrive." Mrs. Dong said.
Qian Chunhua was anxious and didn't bother to be polite with the old lady. He took out the key to the front door from his pocket and handed it to the old lady, "Thank you, auntie."
A group of people and two carriages quickly left Dong's mansion.
Two guards, each driving a carriage.
Qian Chunhua rode alone in a carriage, and in another carriage there was a maid from the same family, who was the daughter of Nanny Wu, named Wu Qiuhong.
Qian Chunhua was worried. The old lady wanted him to avoid suspicion. After all, the two guards were grown men. If he brought them back to the village like this, he would be drowned out by the rumors in the village.
Sitting in the carriage, Qian Chunhua was extremely anxious. She was worried about everything at home and didn't know where these bandits came from.
After thinking about it, Qian Chunhua took out the long whip that Wang Tai gave him when he left that day, and wrapped it around his waist in case of emergency.
On each wrist of his left hand, he wore a sleeve quiver, loaded with arrows.
One day later, the first and second in command of Niubei Mountain brought their men to the village on the west side of Lion Mountain, but were dumbfounded when they did not find the fifth in command.
"Did Laowu run away alone?" The boss thought that Laowu wanted to embezzle the ransom.
The second in command shook his head, thinking that this might not be the case. And he didn't know who to ask the fifth brother for the ransom, so how could he keep it all for himself?
"What should we do now?" asked the boss.
"If you ask me, there were only seven of them who hijacked the car, and we have more than twenty people." The fourth in command couldn't bear to watch the gold that was about to be in his hands fly away.
The second in command hesitated for a while and decided that this was the only way to deal with it now. He couldn't let his brothers' efforts go to waste.
But the second in command was more cautious. The fifth in command was nowhere to be seen and there was no news from him, which made him feel uneasy.
"The plan remains unchanged." The second in command said. "Big brother, you take the brothers to the agreed location in an hour to collect the ransom. I will take five brothers to stand guard at the foot of the mountain."
The second in command had one more thing to say. He was hiding at the foot of the mountain. If the situation was not right, he could escape in time.
The big boss nodded nonchalantly. Not to mention that there were more than twenty people on his side and only seven on the other side, he would not be afraid even if the other side had twenty people. They were all desperate criminals and were not comparable to the guards of the Dong Mansion.
After discussion, the second in command kept all his trusted followers behind, and he took them to guard the path on the west side of Lion Mountain, intending to escape in time if the situation turned out to be wrong.
Dong Qishan brought County Magistrate Zhou and five guards to the foot of Lion Rock at the agreed time.
County Magistrate Zhou pretended to be Dong Xishan's housekeeper and stayed by Dong Xishan's side.
Although County Magistrate Zhou already knew everything about the incident in Tugang Village, he did not rush back to the county government office. He did not know how many bandits were following them along the way, and he needed to deal with the bandits in Lion Mountain first.
Now, all Dong Shanshan can rely on are the five guards brought by County Magistrate Zhou. These are also the Zhou family's foundation. Let alone twenty or thirty mobs, even if there are twice as many, they have the confidence to stay.
At the same time, Qian Chunhua's carriage also returned to Huanghualing.
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