The salted fish couple is fleeing famine

Chapter 16 Booty

After the battle, the village chief and elders came out one after another. There were nearly 100 bandits, and the few who were able to breathe were seriously injured, and the rest were all dead.

The downstream village suffered a lot of losses. They were caught off guard by the horse bandits who rushed in at the beginning. It was also the first time that the patrol team did it with real swords and guns. The detachment of women who followed us cried together.

"Head of the family, wake up, if you are not here, how will we orphans and widows live?"

"My son, you are going to hurt your mother to death, but you haven't even given me a queen, your unworthy daughter-in-law, she even laid eggs!"

A group of women were crying and making noise, and the villagers persuaded them for a full hour, and they stopped crying when they were tired, and everyone was dumbfounded.

The village head sent a few young men to report to the officials overnight, and looked at the bandits lying on the ground in a daze.

"Cough, cough, don't you all search the bandits' purses?" Cuihua reminded everyone.correct!The bandits must be richer than us, and a group of people got excited and almost stripped the bandits naked.

Especially those wives who died in the family were so vicious, the village head saw that they were in a mess, and he didn't know what to do.
Cuihua finds No.1 who died under her own gun. From this look, this guy looks like a small boss, tsk tsk!There was still some goods in the purse, and when she rolled her eyes, Cuihua smuggled a handful of pearls that opened last night into it, making it easy to fish in muddy waters.

Finally, eight large mule carts were found in the grove at the entrance of the village. Among them, four mule carts were filled with rice grains and a lot of cooked food. They should have been snatched from nearby villages. It is reserved for the downstream villages, and it is all summarized here.

In the middle of the night, a small team of ten officials came to the yamen, and brought back the few bandits who were still dead and the twenty-odd horses, and the rest of the dead would be transported away the next day.

The mule cart was left to the lower reaches of the village, thinking that the villagers who wiped out more than a hundred bandits in Qing County must be rewarded by the county government.

The county magistrate of Qing County is surnamed Jia. This guy is a typical wall-scratcher, and he listens to anyone who insists.The King of Shu has been fighting wars for the past few years, and he doesn't have too high requirements for local officials other than being obedient and not chaotic.

He was able to live a good life for a few days. Qingxian County suffered severe disasters this year, but this year's autumn grain was paid in full, so far there has been no major trouble.

Received a report from the villagers overnight that bandits had entered the village, and he was so angry that he was half dead.

"These damned refugees, what good is there to get in Qingxian County! We are all in the bottom of the Jiazhou Prefecture, so we can rely on the seclusion of the mountains and rivers, please be safe in troubled times!" County magistrate Jia and his wife There was a fire in the room.

You make life difficult for Master Ben, and Master Ben will not let you rascals go!The interrogation was arranged overnight, and the seriously injured bandits belched before they could get over it. They didn't get any news, and the county magistrate Jia jumped in anger.

award?Uh!The master offers advice: exempt the village from paying taxes next year?You can have this, mud legs, this county magistrate is really generous to you.

When the village chief brought back the generous reward from the county grandpa, the villagers all curled their lips. Fortunately, everyone was clever and scraped a layer of fat from the bandits. Didn't the villagers who died of my father's son not make a fuss?

The upstream village heard the movement here, and even ran to the downstream village to ask for the spoils. The reason was that the bandits robbed them of their food. They had such a big face. He left with a grumpy face.

The village chief presided over the distribution of eight large mule carts, and the rest of the food was given to the casualties in the village. One mule cart was allocated to Cuihua's family. This is the guardian god of the village, so it must be sacrificed!

When the spoils were displayed at home, the old Yuan's family was stunned by the seven colorful pearls that Cuihua poured out of her purse.

"My darling! How much is this worth?" Yuan Laosan, who had proudly sacrificed a purse of broken silver he had looted, was really convinced now. The sister-in-law is the sister-in-law. Her eyes are too sharp, and she guessed that all the bandits The sum of her purses is not worth as much as my sister-in-law.

"The bandits who killed the gods these days are so rich, they actually come to rob poor people like us!" Mrs. Ma was indignant.

Cuihua rubbed her nose, uh, the bandits will definitely carry this blame.

The old man Yuan and the second son Yuan took out some broken silver and copper plates. The third master added up to about ten taels, which was already more than the whole family of old Yuan Tou.

Since Cuihua came to the Great Xia Dynasty, she has never lived with old Yuantou. All the money earned by old Yuantou's carpentry was given to Mrs. Ma. Yan usually relies on Ma's eggs, and the last time he went to the county, he sold wolf skins for his expenses, and Lao Yuantou didn't ask for the money after selling the wolf skins.

In the past, he relied on his own handicrafts to support the family, but now the eldest daughter-in-law is the main earner. Old Yuan asked Mrs. Ma to take all the money boxes from the family, and pushed them to Cuihua along with the purse seized this time.

"Big head girl, you are the main force in the family right now, and you will be the head of the family in the future, and you will take care of the arrangements for the family's money."

This startled Cuihua, but Mrs. Ma did not object. Seeing that she had muttered for a long time without saying anything, after thinking about it, Cuihua agreed, and picked out the broken silver, one of which was 15 taels. Look, and a pile of copper plates, poured into Ma Shi's money box, and handed it to her.

"I'll keep this for my mother to buy odds and ends!" Mrs. Ma immediately cheered up, nodding hurriedly while holding the money box.

"Then what about us?" Yuan Laosan refused to accept, Cuihua pinched a piece of about one tael from the broken silver and gave it to him, and then gave Yuan Laoer a piece of about the same weight.

"Don't mess around!" Everyone was happy.The whole family ate the belated New Year's Eve dinner on the first day of the new year. While eating, they listened to Yuan Laosan tell the two younger ones how he fought the enemy bravely, and the laughter finally had a little New Year's atmosphere.

That night, Cuihua, who had killed someone, had a nightmare all night. In her dream, she was constantly being chased and killed by bandits.Waking up in the morning, she found that both of her cubs had been kicked out of bed by her. It was so pitiful. Fortunately, they were still wrapped in rabbit fur blankets, otherwise they would both have caught a cold.

Regarding these 7 colorful pearls, Cuihua discussed with everyone and planned to go to Jiazhou to exchange them. What price can the small county sell?

Hu Yiniu came to the old Yuan's house on the first day of the new year. The news of the bandits entering the village has been spread by everyone. After hearing what happened from his sister, Hu Yiniu was stunned. His sister was not so brave in her natal family before. yes.

Right now, because many people died in the village, it is unclear whether the bandits have any accomplices. Everyone canceled the custom of returning to their natal homes on the second day of the new year, and asked Hu Yiniu to take a message to Hu Lao, and accompanied him to Jia on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month. Hu Yiniu returned to the mountain with his sister's bacon in return.

(End of this chapter)