Chapter 173 174 Such Bandits

After walking forward for a while, the convoy came to a rocky forest. From the rocky forest, about twenty people with shabby clothes and sallow complexions, ranging in age, held hoes, machetes, and... Men armed with axes and sticks stopped Li Yu's convoy.

A tall man with a square face raised a machete and shouted loudly: "We only want the things in the car, put down your things, and we will let you go."

Li Yu put down the crossbow in his hand, frowned and said to Zhou Jia: "These people don't look like bandits, they look like a group of hungry people."

Zhou Jia nodded and said to Xu Chun: "Show them our identity and scare them away."

Xu Chun shouted loudly: "We are officials sent by the imperial court to Qingchuan, please retreat quickly."

The two tall bandits with square faces who were rushing in front were stunned for a moment after hearing this. They clenched the machetes in their hands, and one of them shouted nervously: "It's you dog officers who are being robbed. Big guy, come on." .”

Several men waved their machetes and rushed towards Li Yu's carriage. Xu Chun, Xu Dong and Ruyi jumped out of the car with machetes and rushed towards the bandits. Halfway through, the bandit in front of them He seemed to be tripped by something, and fell to the ground with a "plop". The machete in his hand flew away and fell on the heel of the bandit in front. The bandit rushing behind him couldn't stop and fell to the ground. On him, this time, the bandits running behind were stunned when they saw the two people who fell to the ground.

Li Yu looked at these bandits and sighed; What a masterful operation!

Yang Wei looked at the two people who were throwing themselves on the ground and was fussing. He burst out laughing and smiled at Mr. Qian: "Hehe, you are so stupid and you dare to rob me."

"Alas! It's the common people who are suffering all the hardships!" Mr. Qian shook his head and sighed.

Among the men who rushed in front, one of them had the machete taken away from his hand by Xu Chun and was kicked to the ground. Two others were swept to the ground by Ruyi Feifei. The bandits running behind saw that the situation was not good. Turn around and run away.

The man who had the machete taken away by Xu Chun lay on the ground and looked at the machete that was slashing at him. He was so frightened that he held his head and shouted: "I won't rob him anymore. You can leave! We won't rob him anymore."

Li Yu couldn't laugh or cry as he watched in the car, and shouted to Xu Chun and Ruyi: "Master Xu, Ruyi, don't hurt their lives, just teach them a lesson."

"Yes, madam." After a few people agreed, they said to the bandits lying on the ground: "Madam said I can just teach you a lesson. Do you think it's a broken leg or a broken hand?"

The square-faced man shrank his hands and feet and shouted, "Sir, please spare my life! If you break my hands and feet, I won't be able to work and support my family. The elderly and children in my family will starve to death."

Several other men also kept begging for mercy. Xu Chun looked at Zhou Jia who was standing in front of the car and said, "Sir, what should I do?"

Zhou Jia said to several people: "You are already determined to rob money and harm others. If I don't teach you a lesson, you will rob other pedestrians."

Several people lay on the ground, kowtowed and begged for mercy: "Sir, we are the victims of the disaster in Qingzhou. When we were fleeing the famine and passing through Qingfengling, our luggage was robbed by bandits on the mountain. Later we fled to Qixian, where we made a living and earned money. It was just enough to make ends meet. A few days ago, during the household registration census in Qixian County, we were driven out of the city as refugees. We really had no way of living, so we did this. Sir, please spare us! We don’t dare to do it anymore. We have seniors above us. If you are young, if your limbs are broken, you will have no way of living."

Zhou Jia looked at the pitiful looks of several people with red eyes and tears, and sighed: "Since you are the first offenders, I will spare you this time. You will immediately set off back to your place of origin in Qingzhou and go to the government to apply for a new household registration. If the Qingzhou government does not grant a replacement, For household registration, you can go to Qingchuan to find me and settle down in Qingchuan, but you must not stay here anymore."

Several people got up and kept saying, "Thank you, sir, we'll leave now." Several people turned around and ran towards the forest.

Zhou Jia looked at the victims who disappeared in the woods and said to Ruyi and the others: "Fortunately, there is no danger, let's go!"

After Zhou Jia got in the car, he said to Li Yu: "Yu'er, the nearby Qixian County has begun to clean up the refugees. It's still more than a month away from Qingchuan. I don't know how many victims will return home!"

Li Yu smiled and said, "How many disaster victims can return to Qingchuan depends on whether they live well in the place where they fled and whether they can be accepted there. For example, those who settled in Fengming Village, do you think they are willing to return to their place of origin?"

Zhou Jia agreed: "Yes! I'm afraid none of the folks in Fengming Village are willing to go back to Xishan Village."

The men ran back to the forest in one breath, ignored them and fled back to hide behind the pile of rocks. They looked at the dozen men outside and ran straight behind a big rock. Behind the big rock, there were dozens of men, women, old and children. personal.

The round-faced man gasped and sat down on the ground leaning against the big stone. He complained to the waiting villagers: "Ouch! I almost couldn't come back. Erzhu and the others are so useless. They turned around when they saw us being caught." We just ran away, but fortunately we were lucky enough to be let go."

The tall and thin man complained to the dejected man next to him: "It's all your fault, Aqiang. Why did you fall to the ground and trip me too? The kid in the car laughed at us for being so stupid."

Aqiang held his head and squatted on the ground and said, "I, I was so scared that I tripped on a stone on the ground and fell down."

The gray-haired old man sighed: "I said I couldn't go. We, the people of Majiagou, have been innocent for generations. Besides, we are just a bunch of people digging for food in the dirt. How can we do that kind of murderous thing and call people out?" Get up and go back to your hometown!"

The mother-in-law sitting nearby patted her legs and cried: "We have to pass by Qingfengling again when we go back. Will those bandits let us go? Our household registration and land deeds are gone. How can we make a living back home?"

The square-faced man suddenly remembered what the man who looked like an official said, and said to the old man: "Uncle, the village chief, that official said that we should go back to Qingzhou to apply for a new household registration. If we can't get it done, we can go to Qingchuan to find him to settle down. He Are you trying to trick us?"

After hearing this, the village chief's eyes lit up, he grabbed the man and asked, "Agui, did he really say that?"

The round-faced man, who was sitting against the stone, rubbed his head and said, "I remember the driver said that they were officials sent by the imperial court to Qingchuan and asked us to move away. Your brother also said that you were the one who was robbed. official."

The old man panicked after hearing this. He packed up the salutes on the ground and urged: "Quick, hurry up, everyone, hurry up and follow them with the salutes on your back. Since they are officials, they will not be afraid of the bandits in Qingfengling. We will follow them." If they stay behind, everyone will be safe."

Everyone hurriedly picked up their luggage and looked at the old man worriedly: "Uncle Village Chief, can we catch up? They are all carriages!"

The old man waved his hand and said: "Hurry up! We are going through the forest. If we are late, we will really miss it."

A group of people dragged their families and chased Li Yu and the others.