Chapter 151 150. The Goddess of Marriage will protect your marriage
Lei Li and Zhou Yi encountered bandits.
On the way back to the village, the carriage was slowly moving halfway when suddenly a dozen big men rushed down the hillside, some holding shovels and some holding grass knives. They surrounded the carriage aggressively and stopped Lei Li and the other man.
The middle-aged man in the lead was taller and fatter than the others, with a fierce and ferocious face. He pointed a machete that was polished to a shine at Lei Li, who was driving.
"Hand over all your money!"
"Leave behind all your valuables, clothes, horse, and carriage! Don't try any tricks, the knife in my hand is not vegetarian!"
"Naturally, naturally."
Lei Li stopped the carriage as soon as he saw people blocking the road. Seeing that there were many people and several knives, he smiled weakly and jumped off the carriage.
He said, "Let's talk it over nicely. Don't use knives to hurt the relationship. We will hand over the silver, carriage, and everything else. Husband, please take out our purses."
"Um."
Zhou Yigang also got off the carriage and took out the purse from his pocket and threw it over.
"You guys know what's good for you."
The middle-aged fat man snorted coldly and raised his hand to take it. Seeing that the purse was small and light, he thought it contained silver bills, but when he opened it, he found only a string of copper coins.
He immediately felt a little angry, feeling fooled. "He's wearing such fine clothes and riding a tall horse, but he only has a few copper coins in his bag. Are you sending away a beggar?"
The other bandits also glared at him.
“…”
Zhou Yi was silent for a second, then said coldly, "That's all the private money I have."
This was the amount he had saved up a few cents at a time for several months, so more than a hundred cents was not a small amount.
"You're trying to trick a fool with a bunch of copper coins of your own money?!"
The middle-aged fat man felt that his IQ was insulted. Before he could lose his temper and say anything harsh, he saw Lei Li throwing a purse over.
As soon as I entered, I felt the weight of the silver and heard the clatter of silver. I knew how much was inside without even opening it. At the same time, I heard the pretty boy in the brocade robe and jade crown say with an apologetic smile,
"My husband didn't lie. I have all his money. Now I give it all to you, big brother."
"You call him husband?"
The middle-aged fat man didn't pay attention, and only then realized the strangeness of the address. He looked at Lei Li's handsome but overly tall appearance and laughed evilly.
"Are you my brother? No wonder you only gave him a few copper coins as pocket money. Are you afraid he'll go out and have an affair? Haha..."
The other bandits also laughed evilly.
The middle-aged fat man continued, "Since you know what's good for you, we brothers won't make things difficult for you. If you have any valuables in the carriage, hand them over honestly and I'll spare your lives!"
"Thank you, brothers."
Lei Li smiled, nodded, and bowed, then continued, "We're just running a small business. Last year, due to the severe drought, the market was bad and we couldn't make much money..."
"fart!"
The middle-aged fat man didn't believe it, "With this big horse and this carriage, you say you don't have money?"
"My younger brother is pregnant, and his in-laws are a snob. That's why I borrowed a carriage from someone and picked up these two most respectable clothes. I'm going back to support my younger brother in front of his husband and parents-in-law."
Lei Li quickly lifted the carriage curtain to show the bandits what was inside. "My younger brother is pregnant for the first time in several years since his marriage, so I gritted my teeth and bought these candies, meats, and silk fabrics. My husband married into our family a few years ago when he fell on hard times. Our family business is entirely supported by me, his brother..."
There is a mixture of truth and falsehood in these words.
He said half of it and kept the other half, and with Lei Li's half-embarrassed and half-concealed expression, the middle-aged fat man and the other bandits actually believed it.
Moreover, the carriage was indeed a bit old, and the clothes worn by Lei Li and Zhou Yi were also half-new. According to Lei Li, these should be their most decent and best outfits.
The middle-aged fat man looked carefully. There were many things in the carriage, including several pieces of silk, two jars of wine, two bags of sugar, and the silver in the purse, which amounted to more than a hundred taels. Even if he worked in the fields for ten years, he could not earn that much.
He gave a wink, and a bandit with a shovel came forward, got on the carriage and pulled the reins. Several other bandits also jumped on the carriage and touched the carriage, silk, cloth, sugar and wine with curious expressions.
The bandit circle slowly closed in.
Lei Li and Zhou Yi were forced to retreat to the edge of the road to make room for the carriage to move on.
The middle-aged fat man was about to get on the carriage and run away, leaving the others to keep an eye on Lei Li and the other two, when he suddenly heard a short man holding an iron spoon say,
"Brother! I remember who they are! They are liars! They are from the county town..."
Before he could finish his words, his eyes blurred and the person who was more than a meter away from him on the side of the road suddenly stood next to him, and his companion who was holding a grass knife next to him let out a wail.
My companion's hand was twisted off.
His grass knife also changed hands.
The tall, dark-faced man glanced at him, his face expressionless, calm and sharp, as if he would chop off his head with a knife in the next second. The little man was so scared that he peed his pants and couldn't hold the iron spoon anymore, so it fell to the ground.
Zhou Yi didn't wait for the bandits to react.
After snatching the knife, he kicked the two bandits away and snatched their shovels. He held a shovel in each hand, and gave the shiny grass knife to Lei Li.
"Now I have a knife too."
Lei Li smiled, his eyes frivolous and indifferent. The straw knife flashed a bright white light in the sunlight, flashing across his face, making him look more like a bandit than those bandits.
"Before intercepting him, why didn't you ask first? The only person in this village who has killed someone—"
"That's me."
"Stop lying!"
The middle-aged fat man was stunned by his sudden change for a moment. He was half-believing and half-doubting in his heart, but he looked tough and winked at the other bandits while speaking.
"Kill someone and pay with your life! If you really killed someone, how could you still live a peaceful life and earn money in the county town?"
“How do you know I make clean money?”
Lei Li was grinning, waving the straw knife in his hand. The reflected white light made the bandits next to him dizzy, and they were frightened by his words.
"How do you think I killed someone and still wander around? I'm the County Magistrate Xu Xingzhe. This is Qingmi County, not your Nanjiang. The County Magistrate has absolute power. If you don't believe me—"
"You'll know if I kill someone."
"Pooh!"
The middle-aged fat man spat and said with a strong appearance, "I am not afraid of being scared!"
Seeing that the little man was so frightened that he couldn't ask anything, he cursed him inwardly for being unreliable. At the same time, he thought, it's not surprising to hear his Nanjiang accent, but if this person really has a relationship with the local county magistrate, it must be an improper relationship.
Just go all out!
Anyway, he has earned enough money to go back to Nanjiang. After killing these two people, he will immediately run away with his brothers and children. I don’t think Xu Xingzhe will be able to catch up with them!
The middle-aged fat man's heart raced, and he made up his mind. But before he could signal the others to rush forward, a powerful force suddenly struck his face.
A sharp pain!
The teeth and body flew out at the same time!
"bump!"
Lei Li kicked the fat man away, and when he saw the man with a wooden stick rushing towards him, he cut his chest with the straw knife in his hand, and blood splattered in a bright red.
Lei Li wiped the blood off his face, shook it off casually, and smiled at the others.
"Who's next?"
When the other bandits saw their boss flying away and this man's smile was so creepy and perverted, they instantly panicked and their legs went weak, and some even fainted from fright.
They were originally farmers from Nanjiang. The biggest scene they had ever seen was the slaughter of pigs. It was not they who killed the pigs, but others who did. They only killed chickens and ducks. They had never seen such a grand scene of killing people without blinking an eye.
Zhou Yi took advantage of their distraction and shoveled down twice with a "bang" sound, knocking two people unconscious. The tip of the shovel was pointing at the neck of one of them.
A red mark oozed out.
Except for the middle-aged fat man who was yelling and cursing on the ground, the other bandits didn't dare to make a sound.
"run!"
“Run!”
The little man suddenly yelled, dropped the iron spoon and ran away in panic. The other bandits also woke up from their dreams and fled in panic.
Lei Li and Zhou Yi did not chase after him.
They were meant to scare them off, not kill them.
But the middle-aged fat man did not run away. He was kicked hard and two teeth were knocked out. He immediately felt resentful. Seeing that the machete was not far away, he took advantage of the other bandits running around and suddenly rushed towards Lei Li with a knife.
“Go to hell!”
"careful!"
Zhou Yi was shocked when he saw it out of the corner of his eye.
Lei Li did not let down his guard. He kept paying attention to the movements of the middle-aged fat man. When he saw him rushing towards him, he subconsciously threw the grass knife out.
"call out--"
The sound of breaking wind.
The shiny grass knife pierced straight into the middle-aged fat man's face, and bright red blood splattered out and surged. The tall and strong fat man fell to the ground with a ferocious look full of disbelief.
Lei Li looked at the pool of blood coldly.
Expressionless.
His thoughts flew back to when he was seventeen years old. It was at about the same place on this road that he killed the gangster from the next village with a straw knife.
Blood is also this red.
shocking.
Zhou Yi noticed Lei Li's daze and sighed inwardly. He went forward to touch his hair to comfort him, but a warning suddenly arose in his mind.
Without time to react, he subconsciously pushed Lei Li away, looked sideways, and saw a flash of white light and a knife stabbing into his heart.
My heart aches.
But it didn't seem as painful as I had imagined.
Zhou Yi didn't have time to think, and subconsciously knocked the man in front of him away with a punch, and then chopped him across with a shovel. He heard a shrill wail, and only then did he have time to see the face of the person who fell to the ground and attacked him.
It's a teenage boy.
He looks thin and small, and looks somewhat similar to the middle-aged fat man. He should be the fat man's relative, younger brother or son.
really--
"You killed my father! You killed my father! Life for life! You will be punished!"
No one ignored him.
Lei Li saw the white light rushing towards Zhou Yi. Although he seemed calm, his eyes were red. He hurriedly pulled Zhou Yi over and ripped off his clothes, but he did not see that his chest was intact, without any injuries or a drop of blood.
"fortunately……"
Lei Li breathed a sigh of relief.
Zhou Yi suddenly had an idea. He shook his ripped shirt and a large copper coin with a red string fell out. It was the one he had bought at the Temple of the Goddess of Marriage.
I saw a dent on the big copper coin, exactly where the knife blade had stabbed.
"Was that old man really right? He only cheated me out of a few real copper coins with this fake copper coin made of iron. I still made a profit."
Lei Li muttered a few words.
He looked up and met Zhou Yi's eyes, and they both suddenly laughed. They didn't know what was so funny, but they laughed foolishly for a long time.
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