Jiangbei female bandits

Chapter 40
why raise your eyebrows
The New Year of Yongning three years, the city is very lively.First, someone revealed that Yang Cheng was not killed by bandits, but was killed by Xue Shengying. Not long after that, the Zhang family in Jingyang found Yang Cheng's orphan, Yang Yi, and clamored for justice from the court.

The Xue brothers all cried out for injustice, saying that they led troops into Qingzhou because they couldn't bear to see the people of Qingzhou suffer from bandits.And it wasn't just his family who sent troops, Taixing also sent troops to the east to suppress the bandits, and even joined forces with Yang Cheng to fight against the bandits and helped them take back Yiping City.

The He family responded, "Yes, that's what happened! We worked so hard to help Yang Cheng regain Yiping, but we didn't want him to die, so we had to guard Yiping for the imperial court first."

This piece of public case not only involved several major military towns in Jiangbei, but also the imperial court in the prosperous capital began to be in turmoil. The kings surnamed Qi were dissatisfied with Prime Minister Xiao Zhun's arbitrariness of power.In March, the King of Yue suddenly led troops into the Prime Minister's Mansion, found dragon robes and other things from Xiao Zhun's study, and pointed out that the Prime Minister was plotting rebellion.

Empress Xiao was so anxious when she heard this, she knelt outside the emperor's gate and cried out for her grievances.The emperor was behind closed doors, but the concubine Feng Shi, who was pregnant with Liujia, kindly stepped forward to comfort the queen, but she didn't want to be pushed by the angry empress Xiao, which caused the fetus to be born prematurely. After two days and one night of torture, a baby was born. The weak prince died after only half a day's life.

The emperor was very angry and wanted to issue an edict to abolish it. The imperial concubine Feng Guifei on the delivery bed begged for mercy for the queen, saying that the queen's pushing her was unintentional, and it was all because of Xiao Zhun's incident that she lost her mind for a while.Seeing her begging for the empress like this, the emperor felt more pity for her, and even the ministers in the court praised Feng Guifei for being virtuous and honest.

Unexpectedly, Concubine Feng wanted to protect Empress Xiao, but King Yue did not allow it. He sued the empress and the prime minister for conspiring to cause chaos, and asked the emperor to abolish the empress.Under the coercion of the kings surnamed Qi, the emperor had no choice but to depose Empress Xiao as a commoner.In a few days, Xiao Zhun committed suicide in prison in fear of crime. Xiao Zhun's rebellion was confirmed, and more than a thousand people of the Xiao family and his cronies were executed.

The prosperous capital is in chaos, and the military towns in Jiangbei have no scruples.In April, the Jingyang Zhang family sent troops to the east and approached Qingzhou via Xinye and Wu'an.Xue Shengying gathers his troops and sticks to Qingzhou City.At the same time, Taixing's He family also secretly mobilized troops to prepare for the war, spying on Yuzhou.

The world is about to be in chaos, but life in the mountains is relatively peaceful.Chennian's arm is already healed, but Chaoyangzi has no intention of leaving.Not to mention that Wen Daya and the others were hoping that this genius doctor could join the group on the mountain, even Chen Nian felt that it was very convenient to have Chaoyangzi in the village, at least if everyone had a headache, they didn't have to go out to hire a doctor, which saved time and money.

Chen Nian took Wen Daya and others to try to persuade Chaoyangzi to stay several times, with a lot of good words, finally in exchange for Chaoyangzi reluctantly staying.

He neither left nor let the female devil go.According to Chaoyangzi, this person has too many feuds, and his martial arts is not good at the moment, once he goes out, he will be sought for revenge.When he said this, Chaoyangzi rolled his eyes habitually, and said arrogantly: "Master Dao, I finally rescued her from the evil way, how could I let her die like this at the hands of others, it's too bad No! No, no!"

For these words, Jing Yuxuan pointed at the tip of Chaoyangzi's nose and cursed for three days, but in the end he stayed, but vowed to re-practice the five aggregates magical skills, so that one day, sooner or later, Chaoyangzi would look good.Fortunately, everyone has long been accustomed to the way these two get along, so they are not surprised by it.

After breakfast that day, Chen Nian led Wen Daya and a group of people to squat under the wall, basking in the sun while discussing where to go for the next business trip.The money for selling the war horses had long been spent, and Chen Nian had already taken them to do business on the road a few times. Although there were no big gains, it went well.

It was also because of this that Xiao Hou'er became more courageous, yelling that instead of making small troubles here, it is better to go farther and go to Feilongxing to do big business.

"Go to Feilongxing? Is it a little far away?" Chen Nian hesitated. Feilongxing is two hundred miles away, and it is no longer within the sphere of influence of Niutoushan. It is not easy to watch the wind step on the plate or do business.

Listening to her words, Xiao Hou'er relaxed, and hurriedly said: "Not far, not far, I heard that the group of people from Hukouling had been there a few days ago, and happened to meet a group of merchants who went to Jizhou, and made a fortune!"

After hearing this, Wen Daya stretched out his hand to slap Xiao Hou'er on the back of the head, and scolded: "You are also jealous of those people in Hukouling, can you do what they do?"

Hukou Ridge is in the southwest of Niutou Mountain, and there are gangs of thugs entrenched on it.Generally, bandits rob roads, as long as you happily stay to buy road money, most of them will not hurt people, and they will let you go on the next trip.But the people in Hukouling are different, as long as you fall into their hands, no matter whether you give money or not, you will not be able to save your life.

When Qingfengzhai was the boss in the Taihang Mountains earlier, he paid attention to keeping everything on the front line, and he was not allowed to kill all passing merchants.The rest of the villages, big and small, were afraid of Zhang Kuisu's prestige, and their behavior was restrained, but since Qingfeng Village fell, these people no longer had any scruples, and they acted according to their personal preferences, with different styles.

Hukouling quickly gained a reputation in the North Taihang with his scheming and scheming.

Chen Nian groaned silently, Xiao Hou'er refused to give up, and hurriedly said: "We are not like the Hukouling gang, we just go to ask for some money and try not to hurt people's lives."

Before the words fell, Jing Yuxuan suddenly heard loudly cursing in the room: "You guys are bandits, not heroes. It doesn't matter if he hurts people or not, getting money is the real thing. Ji Wai came up with a result, and I am ashamed to say that I am a gentleman!"

Everyone was speechless by her scolding, even Chen Nian lowered his head.Wen Daya glanced at her, and comforted her: "The boss is not a gentleman, what she said is only scolding us, not you."

Fortunately, Jing Yuxuan stopped after cursing a few words, and after a while, Chaoyangzi came out of the house, with a very embarrassed face, nodded to everyone, and said in a low voice: "I have tapped her Ya acupoint. ,never mind."

Everyone was shocked, and looked at Chaoyangzi with admiration and sympathy in their eyes.Now that he touched Jing Yuxuan's acupoints, he is afraid that if the acupoints are opened later, Jing Yuxuan will be able to scold him for another day.Chaoyangzi saw everyone's thoughts, and said calmly: "It's not in the way, I'm used to it."

Chen Nian smiled, then turned to look at Cui Xi, who had been silent all this time, and asked, "What do you think?"

Cui Xi thought for a while and replied: "You can go, the business is not difficult to do, the difficult thing is how to deal with the aftermath after the transaction is completed, we are in the east of Hukouling, if we rob their business, they may not be able to let it go. "

Chen Nian also thought of this, but she is not afraid of those people in Hukouling. Although there are not many people in her village, there may be many people, not to mention Lu Xiao, who is practicing swords behind the village, is Chaoyangzi. Taking it out, the people who beat Hukouling were just joking.However, I was afraid that Chaoyangzi would not be honest and obedient, so I had to find a way to coax him into being fooled and make him follow them willingly.

Chen Nian thought for a moment, looked up at Chaoyangzi, and said, "Master Dao, I still have to ask you to undo Senior Jing's acupoints, I still have something to ask her."

Hearing what she said, Chaoyangzi immediately squinted at her, and asked somewhat vigilantly, "What do you ask her for?"

Chen Nian said with a smile, "It's not that I want her to do something difficult."

She said, got up and went into Jing Yuxuan's room.Jing Yuxuan had already heard the conversation outside the room, and since Chen Nian entered the room, she has been staring at her with puzzlement in her eyes.

Chen Nian hurriedly turned around and urged Chao Yangzi to say, "Daoist, hurry up and untie Senior Jing's acupoints."

Jing Yuxuan turned to stare at Chaoyangzi again, Chaoyangzi had no choice but to step forward and undo Jing Yuxuan's acupuncture points.Jing Yuxuan first scolded him to vent his anger, then turned to look at Chen Nian, and asked, "Little girl, what do you want from me?"

Chen Nian made it clear what he came for, but he wanted Jing Yuxuan to teach the people in the village a few martial arts moves.

"There are too few people in our village, and all of them have low martial arts skills. When they go out, they can only be bullied by others. Moreover, these people in the village have passed the good time of practicing martial arts. Even if they practice hard from the beginning now, they will not die. A small role in the mainstream. Fortunately, God gave us another opportunity to meet senior. Senior is a martial arts prodigy. Just asking for your advice is better than learning from a teacher elsewhere and practicing hard for many years. "

After Jing Yuxuan listened, she nodded slowly, and said: "Little girl, it's better to tell the truth, I'm the most annoying person going around in circles to plot against me."

Chen Nian said with a smile: "Senior, please don't praise me. I'm not always telling the truth to everyone. Someone once told me before that you can use your mind to judge who you are. It's better to tell the truth than to make people laugh."

She flattered her very well. Instead of being flattering, she made people feel that she was honest.Jing Yuxuan felt even more at ease when he heard it, and couldn't help asking: "Who told you this?"

Chen Nian's smile faltered slightly, and he replied, "It's the master from the old village."

Jing Yuxuan praised: "He is a smart man."

Chen Nian thought in his heart: Jing Yuxuan's words are not wrong, Feng Junyang can be regarded as one of the few smart people in the world.

After Jing Yuxuan complied with Chen Nian's request, he began to teach martial arts to everyone in the village.Although she has no internal energy at the moment, her martial arts moves are still there, and since she can dominate the martial arts world, her martial arts attainments are naturally not shallow.She picked a fine day, gathered all the people in the village who had complete legs and feet, looked at them carefully, and decided to teach students in accordance with their aptitude, each of them would teach a set of saber techniques, or pass on a few sword techniques, and even more. As stupid as that, he actually taught him a set of hammering techniques.

The hammer could not be found in the village for a while, so Jing Yuxuan asked Shada to make a pair of stone hammers to replace it.Chen Nian watched Shada swing the small millstone-like stone vigorously, and felt his scalp go numb, and he even wanted to walk around him, for fear that the stone would fly out and fall on him.

Even so, Jing Yuxuan was still dissatisfied in various ways, only cursing that no one in the village had the talent to practice martial arts.It was also for this reason that when Chen Nian wanted to take everyone to Feilong Xing, Jing Yuxuan would go with her, saying that she had to see what this bunch of trash could do with her martial arts.

Since Jing Yuxuan went, Chaoyangzi had to follow.And Cui Xi was worried about handing over the girl to others, so he naturally wanted to take Mao'er with him.At the end of the discussion, only Old Wangtou was left in the village to look after the house.After purchasing for half a year, there are a lot of things in the stockade, Wen Daya is a little worried about the stockade, for fear that everyone will leave, and thieves will be recruited in the stockade again, wishing to bring everything he can bring with him.

Chen Nian was speechless, and asked him, "Are we going to do business or move?"

After half a year of getting along, Wen Daya and Chen Nian had already spoken very casually, when he heard the words, he pointed at the old and young men and women in the team, and asked her back: "Just us, do you look like they are in business?"

As soon as the words fell, that Xiao Hou'er somehow made Mao'er cry, causing Jing Yuxuan to curse loudly, and Cui Xi even yelled with a sullen face: "You idiot, beat him up!"

Shada moved after hearing the sound, and went after Xiao Houer with two stone hammers, but that Xiao Monkey was as flexible as a monkey, running from left to right in the crowd, so silly that he didn't even touch the corner of his clothes. Instead, it knocked over a few others.For a while, the children in the team cried and the adults scolded, and there was a mess.

Chen Nian's eyebrows twitched when he saw it, he flew up to the side wall, threw his arms, nailed the long knife in his hand to Xiao Hou'er's feet, and shouted angrily, "Don't make trouble with me, damn it!"

Everyone was silent, even Mao'er was so frightened by Chen Nian that he stopped crying for a moment.Jing Yuxuan glanced at her, but praised: "This trick of chasing the moon with meteors is very good, the most rare thing is this ingenuity of adapting to the situation."

Chen Nian was speechless, but Lu Xiao took two steps forward and asked Jing Yuxuan: "It's good to adapt to the situation, but throwing the knife as a hidden weapon like this, and you don't have a weapon in your hand, what should you do next?"

Jing Yuxuan replied seriously: "People can use swords, but they can't believe in swords. No matter what kind of weapon, it is just an extension of your arm. The most powerful weapon of a person is your body. As long as you are skilled enough, you can swing your palm to become a sharp sword. Lifting your fingers is a sharp sword." She said, she put her palms together and slashed towards Lu Xiao seemingly carelessly.Her internal energy had already been exhausted, but when the knife was coming towards her, Lu Xiao seemed to really feel the sharpness of the blade, and subconsciously leaned back to avoid her knife.

Jing Yuxuan withdrew his palm and smiled triumphantly: "Boy, don't look at you practicing saber skills all day long, just because you hold the scimitar and don't let go, you are already inferior."

Lu Xiao thought about it seriously, and it was Xie Jingyuxuan who said, "Thank you for your guidance, senior."

Seeing the two of them discussing martial arts here, the rest of them became more active.Xiao Hou'er sneaked a look at Chen Nian, but he didn't want to be caught by Chen Nian. Chen Nian was so angry that he had no place to vent his anger, so he pointed at his nose and said, "Look what! When did you have the skills of the two of them?" , I don’t care even if you go to Fang Jiewa!”

Xiao Hou'er looked at her like this, quickly shrank his neck and didn't dare to speak anymore, but said in his heart: This big boss has such a temper, really blinded her good looks, thanks to him before, he thought she was gentle and kind, so she just Because we were not familiar with each other at that time.

Seeing this, Wen Daya stepped forward to smooth things over, saying: "Master, we should go, if we delay, we will lose time."

Chen Nian squatted down on the top of the wall, looked at everyone with a sullen face for a moment, and then said: "Don't hurry, you have to talk about everything first."

Everyone saw that she was really angry this time, and they were a little scared, so they all stood still and waited to hear her lesson.Over there, Jing Yuxuan ignored Chen Nian, and was still instructing Lu Xiao on sword techniques, and somehow mentioned Chen Nian, saying to Lu Xiao: "Although you are hardworking, if you want to talk about your understanding of martial arts, your understanding It's really not as good as that girl, but it's a pity that girl doesn't care about learning anything."

Chao Yangzi had been standing by the side to listen, and he couldn't help but hum when he heard this, and responded, "That girl has too many eyes, so it's inevitable that she doesn't know how to do things."

"Thank you, Daoist, for your compliment." Chen Nian interrupted their conversation with a fake smile, stretched out his hand to the side, and said, "However, I still have to ask you to move over and talk over there. There have to be rules for them here."

When Chaoyangzi heard what Chen Nian said, he immediately turned his face and shouted: "Little girl, why are you talking to your elders?"

Chen Nian had a smile on his face, but he spoke unceremoniously, and replied: "That's all, please stand aside, lest I accidentally pick you up when I teach my subordinates."

Chaoyangzi stared and wanted to quarrel with Chen Nian again, but Jing Yuxuan said impatiently: "Don't talk nonsense, old man Hei, just move a few steps, and get angry with a little girl, it's really promising!"

After Jing Yuxuan said that, he walked aside with Lu Xiao first.Chaoyangzi gave Chen Nian an annoyed look before following him.

Although Chen Nian's face was still tense, there was a secret smile in his stomach.She has already figured out that Jing Yuxuan's weird temper, she loves to wrestle with Chaoyangzi in everything, if you want to tell her to go east, even if you say all the good things, you may not be able to coax her to make a move, you might as well provoke her If Chaoyangzi goes west, Jing Yuxuan will definitely fight against him.

The three of them have left, and the rest are the people from Niutoushan.With a cold face, Chen Nian looked them all over one by one, until he saw that they all lowered their heads, and then asked indifferently: "Let's not rush to leave today, there are some things that need to be clarified. Back then, I took the position of the head of the family." It was forced by the situation, and everyone probably didn't think about it at the time. Now, it seems that some people will feel dissatisfied if you are asked to listen to a little girl like me. I can understand this. .”

Wen Daya didn't want Chen Nian to say such a thing, so he was in a hurry, and hurriedly shouted: "Where is the master talking?"

"Shut up!" Chen Nian shouted suddenly, looked at Wen Daya calmly, and asked him slowly, "If you really respect me as a master in your heart, would you dare to interrupt me like this?"

Wen Daya was terrified by her words, he was taken aback for a moment, then immediately knelt down for Chen Nian, bowed his head and said: "This subordinate dare not."

Chen Nian didn't ask him to get up, but continued to say to everyone: "Follow up what you said just now. Now, the crisis in the village is over, and you can still get along without me, the big master, standing in front of you. Since In this way, let's tell each other the truth from the bottom of our hearts, okay?"

But no one dared to answer.

Chen Nian smiled lightly, and said again: "Since you are unwilling to say it, then I will say it. I want to ask, how many of you people sincerely want me to be the head of the family, and how many of you have no other choice?" I have to bow down to this little girl like me. Everyone speak out, don't worry, although I, Xie Chennian, have no skills, I won't insist on being here by force, as long as there is anyone who doesn't want me to be the head of the family, I will leave immediately."

When she asked such a question, no one dared to answer. There was a moment of silence, but it was the idiot who spoke first: "I really want to serve the master."

As soon as he opened his mouth, everyone responded one after another, Wen Daya was still kneeling there, his face turned red and then turned pale, and when everyone stopped, he kowtowed to Chen Nian and said: "The head of the family is a subordinate who has lost his mind for a while. , and please be punished by the head of the family."

Chen Nian saw that everyone was like this, and thought to himself that it would be enough to do things like this, so he slowed down his voice and called Wen Daya to get up, and then he said to everyone: "Everyone, don't blame me for making a fuss today, in this Niutoushan, you It doesn't matter whether you respect me or not, and whether you listen to my orders or not, but since we are going to Feilongxing to do business, we have to follow the rules. As the saying goes, "There is no rule without rules". It’s just to tell others to read the joke, but if you want to tell the big picture, it’s a sign of death.”

Having said this, Chen Nian's voice turned serious, and he said again: "I thank Chen Nian for staying in Niutoushan, and I am the head of the family, not a shield in your hands or a spear in your hands! Since everyone wants me to be the head of the house, I'm about to set a few rules. First, those who disobey orders and act recklessly can be killed; second, those who betray the stockade and betray their brothers can be killed; , who bullies his companions, or who rapes a woman, can be killed..."

Most of these are the reward and punishment rules of Qingfengzhai. Although Chen Nian has not done a few business transactions, he has memorized these rules very well. He immediately listed all the "killing rules" and "rewarding rules". Got everyone's unanimous consent.In the distance, Lu Xiao and the others didn't want to be bandits and had to abide by so many rules. They were a little dumbfounded, and Chaoyangzi couldn't help sighing: "This one, this is not a bandit, it's nothing more than a decent family. .”

After Chen Nian clarified the rules with everyone, he jumped off the wall and ordered Wen Da Ya to put down all the useless things first, and only bring enough dry food.No matter how reluctant Wen Daya was in his heart, he did not dare to disobey Chen Nian, he hurriedly directed Shada and others to put the useless things back into the house.

Only then did Chen Nian walk towards Chao Yangzi and the others, and said with a smile, "I'm making you laugh."

Chaoyangzi rolled his eyes and didn't speak, but Jing Yuxuan looked at Chen Nian carefully, and said: "You can only be good to people, and you have to make them afraid of you, and they will respect you when they are afraid! Little girl has two tricks, I didn't Misread you."

Chen Nian smiled and thanked, "Thank you for your guidance, senior."

Due to the delay in this matter, it was already two days after everyone arrived at Feilong Xing, Chen Nian found a hidden place for everyone to stay, and ordered Xiao Hou'er and another villager to go to Feilong Xing to step on the plates.

In just an hour, Xiao Hou'er came back happily and said: "Master, this time we have caught up with a good opportunity, there are quite a lot of people in Xing, we only stayed there for a quarter of an hour, and it has been several years." Among the dialers, there are not only customers who look like merchants, but also their accompanying family members, who are using cars, and the wheel marks are full of loads."

Chen Nian couldn't help frowning slightly when he heard the words, although Feilongxing is an important traffic road connecting Qinghai and Hebei, it is not so busy.If it is true what Xiao Houer said, there may be other reasons.She asked Xiao Hou'er again, "Are those people going towards Qingzhou or Jizhou?"

"Jizhou, both groups of people are heading east." Xiao Hou'er replied, "If we chase eastward, we will definitely catch up with one or two groups."

Chen Nian was thinking about other things.A few days ago, they just heard some rumors that there was going to be a war in the west, and now many people dragged their families from Qingzhou to Jizhou, which showed that there was going to be a war in Qingzhou.So the Zhang family in Jingyang is coming to beat Xue Shengying?

She unconsciously turned her head to look at Cui Xi.Lu Xiao, Chaoyangzi and others were not involved in the affairs of the village, so Chen Nian mostly discussed with Cui Xi. Although he was young, he had a lot of scheming. It must be possible to think of it.He is Yang Cheng's orphan, and he hid in Niutoushan to avoid Xue Shengying's pursuit. Now that the Zhang family came to attack Qingzhou, he can go to the Zhang family to restore his identity.

Seeing Chen Nian looking at him, Cui Xi was silent for a moment, and said: "You can go after those merchants, but I'm afraid there will be officers and soldiers patrolling in Xing, so you need to be careful."

Hearing the words, Chen Nian couldn't help but look at Cui Xi more, seeing that there was no strange expression on his face, then nodded and said: "Then be careful."

Since she made the decision to do this business, Xiao Hou'er and the others were naturally happy.The people got together to discuss and made a detailed plan. Xiao Hou'er and Cui Xi led Mao'er to catch up from behind, pretending to be pedestrians and sneaking into the group of merchants, while the rest went to the mountains On the trail, he quietly went around to the front, and got Xiao Hou'er's signal before making a move.

While speaking, the sun had already passed overhead, and everyone simply ate some dry food and then went to two places.Needless to say, Xiao Hou'er and the others went on their way, Chen Nian took the rest of the people across the mountains and mountains, fortunately they had good legs and feet, so they managed to get ahead of those people before dark.

The business went very smoothly, among those people were five or six merchants and a family member of Qingzhou gentry, although four or five guards were invited, but all of them were mediocre in martial arts.Silly and manly, he smashed half of the car with a stone hammer, and everyone stopped resisting in fright.Chen Nian, dressed in men's clothes, covered his face with a black scarf, stood on a rock by the side of the road, held a steel knife and shouted loudly: "We are asking for money, not for life, as long as you stay and buy road money happily, it will be fine." I let you go."

Everyone was suspicious and frightened, and no one dared to stand out.After a while, a middle-aged businessman who was optimistic came forward, took out the money bag from his arms, untied it, put it in front of Chen Nian's feet, and begged carefully: "I beg the hero to leave some money back."

Wen Daya wanted to go forward to search the man, but was stopped by Chen Nian, who told him to only pour out half of the money in the silver bag, and throw the rest back to the merchant, and said with a smile: "This old man He is a clever man, and he will inevitably make a fortune in the future."

The merchant smiled wryly and shook his head: "I would like to thank you."

Chennian asked someone to let the merchant go first.Seeing that these bandits were really just begging for some money and not hurting people's lives, everyone felt relieved. Although they were heartbroken, they didn't dare to gamble with their lives, and they all took out their money.Most of the Chennian only took half of it, and when they met those who looked poor, they didn't take any money.

These merchants and pedestrians didn't want this bandit to act like this. Although they were robbed of money, they left with gratitude in the end.After these people left, Chen Nian hurriedly told Wen Daya and the others loudly: "Clean up quickly and leave quickly, don't encounter officers and soldiers again."

Everyone hurriedly packed up all the money and belongings they got, left the road and hid in the mountains, looking for a hidden and safe place to spend the night.Wen Daya counted the money he got, and it was more than 200 taels of silver. He felt very happy, and couldn't help asking Chen Nian: "Master, the merchant before looked honest, but in fact he was slippery. There must be a bank note hidden next to him, why don't you allow me to search him?"

Chen Nian smiled and said: "Don't go too far in everything. Since he is willing to be the first to give us money, he should make an impression on the people behind. Besides, he has already given out a lot of money. It’s enough to buy him alone, and we shouldn’t be too greedy. This is the best, since we get some benefits from him, he also feels that he has taken advantage of us, and the two sides are satisfied, the best is the best.”

Everyone laughed when they heard this, and Xiao Hou'er laughed even more: "It's still the head of the family who will calculate, obviously we robbed them, and they still think they have taken advantage of it."

Jing Yuxuan sat on a high place all the time, snorted coldly when he heard the words, and said: "With so many people, there is no one with blood. It's okay to be frightened by more than a dozen of you. You robbed the money for nothing, and you actually returned it. I want to thank you a thousand times, just because you didn't rob all the money, what's the point? Isn't robbing half of it called robbing?"

Everyone was happy when they got the money, they all fell silent when they heard her suddenly say this, they looked at each other for a while, no one knew how to respond.On the contrary, Chaoyangzi used to practice medicine outside, and he had seen many such situations, so he couldn't help answering: "Ordinary people are like this, they are soft-tempered like sheep and can be bullied. They know how to resist. They just resist, but when they get a little benefit, they are immediately satisfied, completely forgetting that the benefit should belong to them."

Jing Yuxuan was even more indignant when he heard this: "It's because everyone has this kind of virtue that people are insulted at will. If they all pick up knives and fight desperately, how can they end up like this!"

Wen Daya heard that the two of them were getting further and further apart, so he interrupted their words, saying: "Although we are in this business, we also pay attention to harmony and prosperity, and it is best if we don't see blood. "After he finished speaking, he looked at Chen Nian again, and asked with a smile, "Big Master, do you think so?"

Chen Nian only smiled lightly, but did not answer.

In the middle of the night, Chen Nian was sitting alone on the rock in a daze, Lu Xiao came over and sat down beside her, looked at her sideways, and asked softly, "What's wrong?"

Chen Nian replied: "I was thinking about what happened today. It was clear that my things were taken away by you, just because you gave me back some. Instead of resenting you, I am grateful to you. What is this?" Reason? Why is this so?"

Lu Xiao thought for a moment, then replied, "Because you can't beat me."

Chen Nian couldn't help laughing: "That's right, to put it bluntly, it's because I can't beat you and I'm afraid of power, so I have to do this."

She suddenly felt enlightened. She wanted to abide by the word "morality" before, but she always felt powerless, so that she began to waver and doubt whether her "morality" was correct.Now I realize that it's not that "morality" is wrong, but that she is not strong enough, not strong enough to protect this "morality"!
Chen Nian stood up from the rock, turned around and looked down at Lu Xiao, and said with a smile: "Now that I think about it, talking about the word 'morality' is like a joke, if you have morality in your heart, you need to have skills to maintain your morality! "

Although Lu Xiao didn't understand why her eyes suddenly became brighter, seeing how radiant she was, he was happy for her from the bottom of his heart, and wanted to protect the bright smile on her face.For some reason, he suddenly felt a little hot and heartbeating, and he didn't dare to look at her. He turned his head as if to cover up, and looked at the ups and downs of the mountains in the night.

Seeing him like this, Chen Nian sat down next to him and asked him: "Do you think what I said is wrong?"

Unexpectedly, Lu Xiao was just silent, not answering, and refused to even look at her.

Chen Nian frowned unconsciously, and said again: "Lu Xiao, talk."

Only then did Lu Xiao glance at her sideways, and suddenly asked, "Xie Chennian, do you still like Feng Junyang?"

Chen Nian didn't expect him to ask this out of the blue, and was slightly taken aback.

Lu Xiao couldn't wait for her answer, he seemed a little impatient, and said again: "Xie Chennian, answer."

Chen Nian thought for a while, and then replied: "I don't know." After she finished answering, she felt depressed, and couldn't help but glared at Lu Xiao, "Can you stop which pot and which pot to pick up? Okay. , Ask him what he is doing? I have just been able to stop thinking about him these few days, but you come here to annoy me again. "

Hearing what she said, Lu Xiao grinned at her and said, "Whenever you feel that you don't like him anymore, remember to tell me."

Chen Nian felt that Lu Xiao was really weird, and asked strangely, "What are you telling me?"

Lu Xiao didn't answer, just shook his head with a smile.Chen Nian only thought that he was trying to show off on purpose, so he didn't ask any more questions.The two sat side by side in the darkness for a while, Lu Xiao suddenly touched Chen Nian lightly with his shoulder, and said softly, "Someone is coming to look for you from behind."

Chen Nian turned his head and saw Cui Xi was slowly walking this way, so he stood up to meet him and asked, "What's the matter?"

Cui Xi replied: "I heard the news from those merchants today that the Zhang family has already found Yang Yi." Seeing Chen Nian stunned, the young man's face showed a little self-mockery, "The Zhang family only needs one Yang Yi." In hand, I don't care if that Yang Yi is real or not, maybe the fake one is more to their liking, at least they will be very obedient."

What about some blood relationship?The Zhang family sent troops to Qingzhou not because of his Yang family to fight injustice, but also because they wanted to fight for this Qingzhou.

Chen Nian understood after a little thought, looked at Cui Xi, and asked him, "How do you plan?"

Cui Ximo was silent for a while, and replied: "In the past, I really wanted to go to Zhang's family in order to avenge my family. Now it seems that Xun Gou will not be killed as a fake, but also become a puppet in their hands. Besides And Maoer, who fell into their hands, I don't know where it will be used in the end."

Chen Nian didn't speak, just stood there quietly waiting for Cui Xi's choice.

I don't know how long it took before Cui Xi raised his eyes to look at Chen Nian, and said with a firm face, "Master, I want to stay in the village. Since there was a Qingfeng Village 300 years ago, a Niutou Village can be built now. Tang If you can lead troops out of Taihang, so can I, Yang Yi."

Chennian looked at him for a while after hearing the words, finally smiled, and said: "There are two things to change, one, you are Cui Xi, not Yang Yi. Second, the name of Niutou Village needs to be changed, it is too much to call out in the future." Falling."

Cui Xi was taken aback for a moment, but he also smiled, and replied: "Cui Xi will go find everyone to discuss and change our village to a mighty and majestic name."

They are not very old, so they are inevitably a little impulsive, so they immediately go to wake up the villagers to change the name of the village.Except for the two sentry guards, the rest of the people in the village were already sound asleep. When they were woken up by Cui Xi, they thought it was an enemy attack, but they didn't want to give the village a name.Stupid Dami scratched his head in bewilderment, and asked puzzledly: "Okay, what name should we change to? We are on Niutou Mountain, so this is called Niutou Village. Could it be changed to Matou Village?"

Wen Daya immediately slapped him on the head when he heard the words, and cursed in a low voice: "Shut up!" After he finished cursing, he felt something was wrong again, and went to see Chen Nian.

Chen Nian didn't want to, but he didn't care, he just said: "I wanted to lead everyone out of that Niutou Mountain, so I decided to change my name, so that I can make a name in the Jianghu in the future."

When everyone heard this, they immediately cheered up and made suggestions one after another. One said that since the bull's head is not majestic enough, it should be changed to "tiger", and the other said that the people from Hukouling have already taken up the word "tiger". Make "Fuhu".Some people say that subduing the tiger is not as majestic as subduing the dragon, so it is better to call it "subduing the dragon village".Everyone came from reckless backgrounds. After hearing the name, they all clamored and applauded, and said, "That's a good name!"

Chen Nian didn't have much ink in his stomach, so he read the name twice and said with a smile: "This name is loud enough!"

But Cui Xi said: "The character for dragon should not be used indiscriminately. In my opinion, it is better to change it to Xinglong's 'Long'. It not only takes the sound of Fulong, but also means Xinglong."

Chen Nian clapped his hands and laughed, "Okay, Fulong Village is just right."

Wen Daya and the others couldn't read big characters, and couldn't tell the difference between the two words, so when they saw that Chen Nian had agreed, they all followed suit.Everyone was talking happily, when they suddenly heard Chaoyangzi yelling: "You idiot, come here."

Silly heard him call himself, ran over with a "hey", and asked, "Taoist, are you looking for me?"

Sitting cross-legged on a high rock, Chaoyangzi asked Sha Dao: "Si Dao, let me ask you, which cottage are you from?"

"Niu——" Sha Dagang was about to answer Niutou Village, but when he opened his mouth, he suddenly remembered that the name of the village had just been changed, so he quickly changed his mouth and said, "Fulong Village!" He straightened his chest and repeated, "Fulongzhai, we are from Fulongzhai!"

"What a majestic name!" Chaoyangzi praised, and then asked again, "Then let me ask you again, where is your Fulong village located?"

"Niutoushan, Taoist priest, you know about it." Silly replied.

Chaoyangzi sneered, "Niutoushan? Since it is in Niutoushan, why is it called Fulong Village? Do you have any explanations? Did you do something important that other villages admire, or did something serious happen in the village? big shot?"

This is a stupid question but I can't answer it, so I have to look back at Chen Nian.Chen Nian had recalled it, she was silent for a moment, and also felt that she was overwhelmed, so she got up and walked over, gave a deep bow to Chaoyang Zi, and thanked: "Chen Nian, thank you for your teaching."

Chaoyangzi sneered lightly, and said, "I haven't learned how to walk yet, but I want to run first, so I'm not afraid of falling over!"

Chen Nian didn't show annoyance at all, instead he saluted Chao Yangzi again, and said: "The Taoist priest is right, Chen is young and crazy."

Seeing how respectful she is, Chaoyangzi was a little satisfied, pointing to Cui Xi and Wen Daya and other villagers behind Chennian, he said to her: "Xie Chennian, I didn't mean you, just look at your own men. Can this group of people be considered Wencheng or Wujiu? It’s just that they just robbed some unarmed people today, and they are so arrogant that they don’t know what their surnames are, and they want to change the name of the village immediately. How many of you are there to return to Fulong? face screaming!"

All the people in the village were blushed by Chaoyangzi's words, stunned and speechless.They are so rampant, but they rely on Lu Xiao and Chaoyangzi in the village, but they are not considered to be in the village. If they are not there, let alone others, even the people from Hukouling, they can't afford to provoke them .

Seeing that Chaoyangzi seemed to be training again, Chen Nian immediately said: "Master Dao, don't say any more, let's change it back and still call it Niutou Village."

Wen Daya and others also hurriedly said: "Yes, it is still called Niutou Village, Niutou Village."

Chaoyangzi snorted again, before giving up.

Chen Nian was both ashamed and ashamed, thinking that since he wants to be a strong man to protect his own morality, he can't always rely on others, even with Lu Xiao by his side, he can't point to him in everything, and he needs to be able to support himself. It's good to get up.She has always been free and easy, now that she has figured it out, instead of being annoyed with Chaoyangzi, she feels that the black old man is more amiable than before, so she can't help but smile sweetly at him, saying: "Thank you, Daoist."

Her appearance was already unparalleled, and this smile came from the heart, without any hypocrisy, even Chaoyangzi was taken aback by her smile, although his face was still calm, his expression was not as mean and cold as before hard.

This time, Jing Yuxuan did not choke on Chaoyang Zi rarely, she looked at Chen Nian for a moment, and the more she looked at her, the more she found this girl to be pleasing, and she suddenly asked: "Little girl, would you like to be my disciple?"

Chen Nian was taken aback when he heard the words, but then he was overjoyed.Although this Jing Yuxuan has the title of devil in the Jianghu, but after getting along these days, Chennian finds that she is just short-tempered and erratic, and she is really not a villain. If she can teach martial arts , is a very good thing.

She hurriedly went over to kowtow to Jing Yuxuan as a teacher, but Jing Yuxuan raised his hand to stop her, and said: "I am the most obnoxious person, if you want to be my disciple, you don't need to do any ceremony. Just call me master. If one day I don’t like you, I can expel you from the teacher at any time.”

Although Chen Nian was a little surprised, but thought that Jing Yuxuan should act like this, so he smiled and replied loudly: "Yes, Master."

Jing Yuxuan also smiled unconsciously, and said, "I just like your vivaciousness."

Since the two of them became masters and apprentices, everyone came to congratulate them one after another.Seeing that Jing Yuxuan was happy, Xiao Hou'er also asked with a playful smile: "Senior, do you still accept disciples? I think my energy is not much worse than that of the big boss."

He was joking, but unexpectedly Jing Yuxuan thought about it, but replied: "Then I'll take you one more."

Xiao Hou'er was just joking when he heard it at first, until Wen Daya who was next to him gave him a strong push, then he came to his senses, stuttered with excitement, and asked Jing Yuxuan: "You, you, are you serious about what you are talking about? "

Jing Yuxuan said displeased: "Do you want to apprentice?"

"Bai, bai!" Xiao Hou'er hurriedly said, knelt down on the ground with a plop, kowtowed to Jing Yuxuan, and shouted, "Master, please accept my bow."

When Shada and the others saw that Xiao Hou'er had actually worshiped the master, they wanted to do so too, but Jing Yuxuan refused to accept it, frowning and said: "No, no, two apprentices are enough." , it’s useless to have more.”

In this way, everyone felt envious and jealous of Xiao Hou'er, but Xiao Hou'er didn't realize it, and ran around happily, and suddenly jumped in front of Chen Nian, and said in surprise: "The master, the master is also happy!" After accepting me as an apprentice, you will be my senior sister from now on, should I call you senior sister or master, or call you senior sister master?"

Chen Nian smiled and said nothing, but Wen Daya and others next to him couldn't stand it any longer, they rushed up to Xiao Hou'er, they lifted him up, and laughed and said: "It's better to throw this thin monkey away. Well, then Senior Jing can accept us as apprentices."

Xiao Hou'er hurriedly yelled: "Don't you dare, my master and senior sister will not spare you."

When he said this, those who held him were even more reluctant, they all turned their heads to look at Chen Nian, and asked, "What's the matter, Master?"

Chen Nian smiled and replied, "Let's throw it away!"

Everyone roared with laughter, and as expected, they carried Xiao Hou'er and walked towards the hillside, as if to throw him down.Xiao Hou'er didn't know that everyone was joking with him, but he screamed loudly in cooperation, and shouted to Jing Yuxuan: "Master, master, senior sister is going to ask someone to throw me away, you old man, save me."

He worked so hard to play tricks, he really made Jing Yuxuan laugh, even Chaoyangzi couldn't help laughing and said: "It's okay, tell them to throw it away, as long as you have a breath, I can save you back, Master Dao."

Everyone laughed in unison again, making such a commotion until midnight that they all went to sleep.

Early the next morning, Chen Nian woke up very early, and discussed with Cui Xi and others: "Qingzhou is about to go to war, and it is necessary to ask for military pay and food from Jizhou. At that time, there will be many officers and soldiers in Xing. The business here is not good. Done."

Although Xiao Hou'er is thin and small, he is the most courageous. When he heard that Xingnei was going to take away the army's pay and food, his eyes lit up, and he said: "If only I could rob the officers and soldiers' pay, it will definitely make a lot of money!"

When Chen Nian heard the words, he gave him a sideways glance, and said coldly: "We can't swallow a fat man in one mouthful, and we are the only ones who can only get the word 'death' if we provoke officers and soldiers now."

Since Xiao Hou'er recognized Chen Nian as her senior sister last night, she felt that being scolded by her was a matter of course, so he just smiled and said: "Since you can't rob officers and soldiers, let's rob merchants and rich households first, that's also considered robbing the rich and helping the poor .”

Cui Xi nodded and said: "Taking advantage of the future of the officers and soldiers, let's do two more transactions in Xing in the past two days, and then go back to Niutoushan, quietly listen to the movement outside before making plans. And," he said He stopped here, looked at Chen Nian, and said, "The people in Hukou Ridge are not greedy enough, they will probably start a fight with the officers and soldiers, and we can benefit from it then."

As soon as Chen Nian heard this, he understood what he meant. If he wanted to make the cottage bigger and stronger, he would not be able to do it just by doing some ordinary business. to deter other bandits.

Hukou Ridge is not far to the southwest of Niutou Mountain. The village is built with bluestones according to the mountain situation, which is very strong.There are more than [-] people in the village, the head of the family is surnamed Liu, known as "Liu Yanwang".

Although they are all black and eat black, but what kind of black to eat and how to eat, the knowledge in this has also grown.Chen Nian looked at the dozen or so brothers under him, and said, "It's hard to swallow Hukouling now. Even if we can kill that 'Liu Yan Wang' and his subordinate 'Black and White Impermanence', the three hundred People, we can't hold back with just a few of us."

Wen Daya also hurriedly said: "When doing business, you still need to be kind and make money. No matter what kind of food you have, you have to eat it in one bite."

Cui Xi ignored him, but looked at Chen Nian and said: "As long as you wait for the opportunity, it may not be impossible. It is easy to say, as long as there is a war in the west, there will inevitably be refugees who will flood into the mountains. At that time, pay attention and watch the brave For the big ones, just take part of it.”

Chen Nian shook his head slowly after hearing this, and said: "You think too simply, this is either conscription in the imperial court, or refugees, as long as they are not forced to have no way out, no one wants to fall into the grass. And those rascals, If you take it casually, not only will it be useless for you, but it may even ruin your business."

Cui Xi showed a little disappointment on his face. Chen Nian looked at him and said in a deep voice: "Brother Wen is right in saying that no matter what you eat, you have to eat it in one bite. We don't want to swallow it right now. Hukouling, but don’t be afraid of him. He has been rampant in the North Taihang for a few days, and he must have offended many colleagues. It’s just that no one dares to stand out, so everyone has to endure it. In this case, let’s do it This is someone in his early years. As long as we can make a name for ourselves, people will naturally come to join us, and when the village grows stronger, it will not be too late to plan to swallow King Liu Yan."

Wen Daya and the others all nodded when they heard it, and said: "What the Master said is absolutely true."

Cui Xi asked again: "Where are the officers and soldiers?"

Chen Nian pondered and said: "Let's avoid it first, as you said, the people in Hukouling are greedy and have to fight with the officers and soldiers. Let's avoid it first, sit on the mountain and watch the tigers fight."

After they decided on a strategy, they found a place that was easy to defend and difficult to attack as a temporary stronghold, and made several transactions in Feilong Xing, which soon attracted the attention of King Liu Yan of Hukouling.

Baili Feilongxing is naturally a good place to do business. It used to be the site of Qingfengzhai. Later, Qingfengzhai was defeated by the army towns of Qing and Jizhou. That's why Liu Yan Wang relied on a nine-section steel whip Got the chance to stand out, defeated several copycats in a row, and dominated the main road of Feilongxing.He originally thought that as long as Qingfeng Village didn't go north, Feilong Xing would be his world, but unexpectedly, a small Niutou Village suddenly appeared, and only a dozen people dared to take food from him.

Within two days, news came from his subordinates, saying that the leader of the Niutou village was called Xie Siye, a young man under twenty, with a black scarf covering his face all the time in front of people, with some skills on his body, but his voice sounded like a woman's.Liu Yanwang was amused when he heard it, and asked, "Hey! You're still a little girl."

The people below all laughed along, and some even teased and said: "Such a little girl is exciting, but I don't know what she looks like. If she is beautiful, why don't you just snatch her and give it to the head of the family to be the wife of the village? She is also considered her." creation."

When he said this, then Liu Yan Wang was really moved.There is no shortage of women in his village, and he also snatched a few beautiful young women during the robbery, but these women were either looking for death or living, or crying all day long, which made him very upset.If you can subdue a beautiful and pungent woman, it would be great to be a husband and wife.

Liu Yanwang's eyes showed lust, and he ordered his subordinates: "Look closely, let's go meet this Xie Siniang for a while."

Hearing that he called the wrong name, the subordinates couldn't help correcting him: "It's Xie Siye."

"Damn you!" Liu Yanwang raised his leg and kicked that hand, scolding with a smile, "She dares to be called a lord in front of us men?"

A big man in black beside him also laughed and said, "When she comes to our head's house, she has to be called Xie Siniang!"

Unknowingly, everyone burst into laughter again, and no one paid attention to Fourth Master Xie who appeared suddenly.However, they don't know the origin of Fourth Master Xie, but that doesn't mean others don't know either.

(End of this chapter)