I want to embrace the moon for nine days

Chapter 56 Bandits and Two Tigers
There was a lonely moon in the sky, the night was cold, and there seemed to be wolves howling in the mountains and forests.

Brother Tian led the way and brought everyone to the place where the goods had been robbed. Then Chen Yingjie and others searched for clues around them and gradually figured out the route that the bandits took to leave with the goods.

They were on a low cliff and saw the faint light of fire more than a hundred feet away.

"With so many fires in the middle of the night, it's too easy to be exposed."

Chen Yingjie wondered, "Don't these bandits have any brains at all?"

Su Hanshan looked at it for a while and then said: "Maybe there is a fraud in it. You stay here while I get closer to see the situation."

As soon as he finished speaking, he jumped down from the short cliff, with his toes touching the cliff that was not too steep, buffering step by step, and sinking into the forest below as if walking on flat ground.

Soon, he approached the area with fire, quietly hid in the canopy of a big tree, and looked over there.

The number of bandits was about six or seventy, and more than a dozen large fires were set up.

Beside each fire, there are earthen pots and iron pots with uneven gaps, hanging from wooden frames and iron wires, and soup is being cooked.

The bandits gathered around the fire to keep warm, staring at the gurgling hot soup. From time to time they stretched out their hands and rubbed them against the firelight.

They were wearing a lot of clothes, which looked a little bloated, but they should be very warm.

But Su Hanshan took a closer look and found that every layer of clothes these people wore was in tatters.

I don't know how much sweat and dust stained it before it turned into such a uniform gray-black color, which was so black that it shone under the firelight.

In winter, wearing this kind of clothes will be heavy and stiff, but it can't keep much heat.

If there is no fire at night, someone may be unable to walk when they wake up.

"The soup is almost ready. Everyone, please listen to me."

Among the bandits, a man stood up. He was wearing the same gray-black clothes, but he was wearing a gray-yellow dog-skin hat. He might have washed it, and he looked more respectable than the others.

"I know, everyone hasn't smelled such salty meat for a long time, and I wish everyone could eat two or three big bowls of it. But when the ham came back during the day, the skin had been burned directly on the fire, scraped, cut, and eaten. After one meal, less than half is left.”

This man should be a bandit leader. He has a beard on his face and his facial features cannot be seen clearly, but he is tall and has a loud voice.

"We have been hungry all the way. We all should know what it feels like to be hungry. We don't know if we will encounter such a good thing again in the future, so we must eat these hams sparingly."

"To make soup in the evening, everyone should eat three or four pieces of meat, two bowls of soup, and drink enough water. Don't rush to get the meat."

While the bandit leader was talking, he used a sharp branch to fork out three pieces of meat from the earthen pot one after another and placed them in his own broken bowl.

"I'm only going to eat these three pieces tonight. You guys are all watching and I won't eat more than one piece!"

As soon as he finished speaking, someone among the bandits responded.

"Brother Erhu, don't worry, we won't rob you!" "We all listen to Brother Erhu."

"The meat was actually hard and salty during the day, so I poured a lot of cold water later. The soup is great, the taste is all in the soup, and the soup is better than the meat."

"Fuck you uncle, you are the only one who eats the most during the day!"

Everyone started laughing, and the bandit leader also laughed.

"Okay, the soup is too hot, so be careful when drinking it!"

After the bandit leader sat down, everyone began to share the broth.

Several people approached the bandit leader and started talking.

When Su Hanshan saw it, he activated Rama's power, twitched his ears slightly, and focused on those people.

"...It's really only three yuan, which is too little. Erhu, you take this from me!"

"No, if you say three yuan, it's three yuan. Don't give in. Otherwise, my sister-in-law and the others will have to give up one portion of the food to the little one."

The bandit leader sighed with emotion, "Sister-in-law and the others should also take a good supplement. Hey, this stewed meat is so delicious!"

The person next to me said: "That's right! I have cured hams at home before. Let me tell you, the hams I got today are all top quality. Even when there was no famine before, no one in Jing'erzhuang had any. I'm willing to buy it and try it." There was a man wearing a black leather hat who ate the fastest, taking each piece of meat in one bite and gulping down the soup.

"In my opinion, we don't need to go to this extent."

While ladling soup into the earthen pot, he said, "I've been wandering around recently and asked about all the counties around here. There are rich households everywhere."

"After this batch is eaten, let's grab another batch, so we don't have to worry about running out of food."

The bandit leader had just eaten a piece of meat and was sucking the oil star seeds on the soup. He quickly swallowed it and said, "You can't think like that."

"Those rich people hire bodyguards and nursing homes. Among the people who deliver hams during the day, there are several who are very skilled. I see that Sixth Uncle, Lao Ba and the others were swollen from the beating, and it hasn't subsided yet. .”

"If we rob frequently, food is obtained, but people die, then..."

The bandit leader sighed and shook his head, "These are the only people we have left in Jing'erzhuang. It's best not to kill any more people."

The man in the black leather hat said: "Then it would be better if we didn't rob those with bodyguards and servants?"

The person next to me was stunned: "Buffalo, you want to rob the poor?"

"They are really poor people. Every household has a surplus of food."

The black leather hat asked anxiously, "Every household has meat and fish hanging in the yard. Can they still be considered poor?"

Someone next to him hesitated: "We used to be good people. We escaped from the disaster. Even though we became bandits, we didn't rob the poor."

Someone chuckled and said, "It sounds like you can grab it if you want. Those poor people on the road even eat mud. What can we grab from them? A whole body of mud? A whole body that weighs less than four ounces on the scale." bone?"

When he said this, several people suddenly fell silent.

Even the black leather hat pursed his lips as he looked at the oily soup in the bowl.

It's not like they can't steal human bones. Although they have never done so, they are really used to people being used to make soup and eat meat along the way.

"Anyway."

The black leather hat held the remaining half bowl of soup away from his nose and said, "If we rob them, we don't have to fight with some nursing home or get injured or die. Moreover, after robbing them, we can leave some for them, so they won't be killed." starve."

"The old monk in Zhuangzi said before that the more living people, the better. If we do this, everyone will be alive, which is a great thing!"

The bandit leader sipped the soup and remained silent, but now he nodded.

Su Hanshan in the forest thought for a moment and quietly retreated.

He certainly couldn't stop more than 60 people by himself, so he had to inform Chen Yingjie and the others to come together to catch them all.

Although only about twenty people came to the Songhe Martial Arts Hall, they already knew the level and origin of this group of bandits, and of course they were quite confident.

After sneaking closer, everyone was not in a hurry to launch an offensive. Instead, they spread out and formed a circle in the forest.

At this time, the bandit leader, who was slowly chewing meat next to the fire, suddenly raised his head.

"Not right."

He stood up and looked around.

It was so late at night, how could there be a few birds flying out of the forest?

"There are people in the woods!"

The bandit leader shouted, "Take a knife and stand with those who can fight..."

The wind suddenly sounded, roaring from inside the forest, interrupting the bandit leader's cry.

Several fires nearby made roaring sounds, and the bright red flames stretched like tongues of fire, blowing in the direction of the bandit leader.

Su Hanshan's figure had already passed over the firelight, and he grabbed the bandit leader with one palm.

(End of this chapter)