Chapter 196 197 Two Bandits Destroyed
Everyone was busy in the yard, but they didn't know that word had spread in Qingchuan City. Everyone was talking about the fact that Zou Zude and his wife were not doing good things, and the gods appeared, and the news about the retribution of the two parents-in-law spread throughout Qingchuan City.
Mr. Qian ran back from the Yamen and said to Li Yu: "Madam, the Zou family came to report the case, saying that Zou Zude and his parents-in-law were injured by someone last night and were paralyzed there. Someone from the Zou family came to ask about Li's mother and daughter. Are you willing to go back and take care of the two parents-in-law? If not, the Zou family's property will be given to the Zou clan, Zou Zude and his parents-in-law will be taken care of by the Zou clan, and the Li family and her daughter will be removed from the Zou clan and their household registration will be moved out of the Zou family."
Li Yu looked at Li and his daughter and said, "What do you think? Tell Mr. Qian and he will help you get it done!"
Mrs. Li took Zou Xia and knelt down and said, "Madam, I want to leave the Zou family and create a female household. Please help me!"
Li Yu nodded and said: "You get up first, don't kneel down every now and then! You can also set up a female household. I also hire people to feed pigs, chickens and ducks in Zhuangzi outside the city. If you are willing, you can also come to my place as a long-term worker." .”
Mother Li and her daughter shed tears of joy, "Thank you madam, I am willing to go."
When Mr. Qian saw that the Li family decided to leave the Zou family, he thought to himself: This is the wisest decision. The Zou family's real estate will definitely be extinct after Zou Zude has waited for a hundred years. When the time comes, the real estate will be taken away by the Zou family, and the Li family will Mother and daughter can't keep anything.
Mr. Qian helped Li's mother and daughter to move out of the clan. Finally, Tu Dianshi helped Li set up a female household. Li changed Zou Xia to Li Xia and lived in the Zhou family with peace of mind to help.
After Zhou Jia and Shen Wu led their troops down the mountain, they rushed towards Dalou Mountain non-stop. The leader of Hutou Village had already learned the news and sent people to guard the pass. After two days of stalemate,
Shen Wu had people tie linen cloth soaked in grease to the arrow shaft near the arrowhead, and asked the soldiers to light it and shoot it at the bandits behind the pass. The rocket shot into the pass and ignited the dead branches and weeds where the bandits were hiding in the pass. The fire caused the bandits to With nowhere to hide, he turned around and fled up the mountain in fear.
Shen Wu sent people to take the opportunity to rush into the stronghold. The people behind him started to put out the fire and entered the stronghold. Shen Wu directed everyone to continue attacking the stronghold with rockets. The stronghold was surrounded by rockets. The bandits escaped from the stronghold and everyone started fighting.
After half a day of fierce fighting, Hutou Village was also annihilated in one fell swoop. This time, hundreds of officers and soldiers were killed or injured. The property, land deeds, gold, silver, jewelry, and food seized were more abundant than those in Qinglong Village!
At this point, Hutou Village, which had been entrenched in Qingchuan for many years, was also wiped out!
As usual, some of the gold, silver and jewelry were taken out and distributed to the dead and wounded officers and soldiers and the fighting soldiers. Everyone loaded the food and gold, silver and jewelry into mule carts, hung them on horses, and pulled the loot and prisoners down the mountain.
When he entered the city, he was greeted by the people of Qingchuan, who were all celebrating the demise of the two bandits who had been causing trouble in Qingchuan for many years!
After entering the city, Shen Wu looked at the more than 20 boxes of treasures in the house and said to Zhou Jia: "Brother Zhou, do you think this is good? The property titles of the Qingchuan people robbed by the bandits will be returned to the people, and the food will be left to the county government. Now, leave ten boxes of these things to hand over to the court, leave two boxes for you to repair the city wall, and divide the rest into three parts, one for you and my brother, and one for me to take back, General!"
Zhou Jia patted Shen Wu on the shoulder and said, "Brother Shen, why do you and I need to talk so much? You can make arrangements!"
Shen Wu looked at Zhou Jia with some pity, "It's a pity that Brother Zhou is a civil servant. He should join the military and we brothers can fight side by side."
Zhou Jia shook his head and said with a smile: "Wouldn't it be better for us brothers, one civilized and one martial, to serve Dayong!"
"Yes!" The two looked at each other and laughed.
After Shen Wu left the gold and silver for repairing the city wall and rebuilding the county government, he reported the gold and silver treasures to the court, suppressed the captured bandits, and returned to Qingzhou with the remaining officers and soldiers and steward Ouyang.
Zhou Jia sent Shen Wu out of the city gate, went home and took Li Yu to the warehouse where the loot was stored. Pointing to several boxes of gold and silver jewelry, he said to Li Yu: "Yu'er, look, these are the treasures captured by the two villages. Brother Shen took what was handed over to the court and what was left to General Shen, these are ours! Also, the money for repairing the city wall and building the county government has been set aside in advance!"
Li Yu looked at the dazzling gold and silver jewels in the room and was shocked. He thought to himself: No wonder those soldiers in ancient times liked to fight and attack cities. Just these two mountain bandit dens, the gold and silver jewels that they got. , and enough luxury to spend until old age!
"Are we and Shen Wu the only ones who have a share?"
Zhou Jia hugged Li Yu and said with a smile: "All officers and soldiers who participated in the suppression of bandits, soldiers who were injured or killed, as well as Ruyi and Xu Chun, will all get a share. This is an unwritten rule, so just accept it with peace of mind!"
Li Yu looked up at Zhou Jia and said softly: "Well! Then I'll be relieved!"
Zhou Jia smiled happily and said: "The bandits have been wiped out, and the county government has money. We can rebuild the county government with peace of mind, repair the streets in the city, return the people's fields that the bandits have seized, and restore the ownerless fields." Sell," Zhou Jia happily kissed Li Yu on the face and smiled confidently, "Yu'er, I'm busy!"
"Go ahead! I want to go to the wasteland too!" Li Yu sent Zhou Jia to the door, turned around and entered the house, stored the treasure in the space, and went out to the wasteland.
Xiaoyu was also shocked by the gold and silver jewelry Ruyi handed her. She grabbed Ruyi's clothes and said, "Is it really ours?"
Ruyi smiled and nodded: "The young master and his wife said that this is what I deserve. Let me leave it to you to keep. Xiaoyu, remember to pick up the unmarked ones and use them. The marked ones will be melted and beaten again later. It can only be used later.”
Xiaoyu picked up a beautiful hairpin and looked at it, shook her head and said, "I'm not used to using these things. You see, Madam never brings these pearls and jade, and her hair is always tied with a jade hairpin!"
Ruyi smiled with satisfaction and said: "Okay, do whatever you think is good."
Zhou Jia asked the government officials to go to various villages to spread the word, and asked the villagers whose fields and houses were robbed by the bandits, as well as people in the county, to come to the county government with their household registration and certificates from the village chief and neighbors to retrieve the fields and properties that were robbed by the bandits. .
For several days in a row, villagers came to collect their fields and houses that had been seized by bandits with certificates and household registrations. After the villagers took back their fields, they knelt in front of the government office and shouted: "Master Qingtian, we Qingchuan people finally welcome us. Come, honest and good officials!"
Zhou Jia, Tu Dianshi and Mr. Qian felt sour and sweet in their hearts when they saw the villagers happy and grateful! Zhou Jia stepped forward to help the people who were kowtowing to express their thanks, and said: "Everyone, please get up quickly. These are what officials should do, and they should not be treated as such a big gift!"
Everyone stood up and saluted Zhou Jia: "Master Zhou, you are a good and upright official. We, the people of Qingchuan, are blessed!"
In late September, Xu Dong returned to Qingchuan and reported the news about Qingzhou to Zhou Jia. The two brothers stayed in Qingchuan to help with peace of mind.