Your Majesty, Please Stop!

Chapter 21: Furious Group of Bounty Hunters

Menghu Fort was situated in a treacherous mountainous area, with three thousand caves of various sizes crisscrossing the mountains. It was not easy to launch a forceful attack and encircle the fort.

Therefore, Chen Jing was extremely distressed. If he could gain some insight from the letters exchanged between the two forts, he might be able to find their weaknesses...

Just at this moment, he felt a weight in his hand. He pulled it forcefully, only to find a lively and jumping white carp.

"Chen Head, what a pleasant surprise!"

At this moment, a graceful figure suddenly appeared, swiftly approaching. Her feet landed on a goose egg-sized pebble in the river, but not a ripple was seen on the water's surface. With her hands behind her back, her black bounty hunter uniform fluttering in the wind, she was a striking and heroic female bounty hunter.

With a slender figure and an oval face, her slightly narrowed eyes resembled a crescent moon. The corners of her mouth curved into an arc, seemingly smiling but filled with mockery.

"Yuan Head, you flatter me. Just passing the time," Chen Jing replied expressionlessly as he put the fish into a basket, not even sparing a glance at the female bounty hunter.

"Do you know that the leader of Fulong Fort is currently communicating with Sun Wutong on the mountain?" Yuan Mo'er coldly asked. She was the legitimate daughter of the Yuan family in Fufeng Prefecture. Her half-sister, Yuan Zhuzhu, had recently had three fingers and her scalp cut off by Xin Zhuo. According to family rules, a disabled person would be expelled from the government and married off to a merchant's son. This matter was not only a disaster for Yuan Zhuzhu, but also a shame for the Yuan family.

The family head ordered the swift eradication of Menghu Fort, to fulfill the magistrate's command, and then capture the bandits of Fulong Fort and dismantle their gang.

Chen Jing finally chuckled, "The person who delivered the message was tortured and has surrendered. More than a dozen letters are currently being copied."

"More than a dozen? Did the messenger bring all the drafts of the letters?" Yuan Mo'er was surprised. Such important letters, and the two bandit leaders just casually discarded them?

"That's right! The two bandit leaders read them and then threw them away. He actually picked them up. I find it puzzling too! Once the copying is done, the six of us will read them together!"

The letters from Fulong Fort and Menghu Fort that were secretly surrendered to the government by the skinny monkey were indeed picked up and delivered intact to the military camp at the foot of Beifeng Mountain.

The two of them fell silent and quietly observed their fishing lines.

After a while, a strong wind blew, and the other four bounty hunters arrived together. "How is it?"

"Just wait!"

"Everyone, the secret letters from Menghu Fort have been copied."

Just then, a bounty hunter with a strange expression came over, holding a tray with neatly arranged documents.

"Perfect timing!"

Chen Jing, Yuan Mo'er, and the other four bounty hunters received three or four letters each, carefully examining them, waiting for the subsequent contact and discussing countermeasures.

At first glance, they were confused and puzzled, then shocked and speechless, and finally, their temples throbbed with anger.

But they couldn't afford to miss a single word, fearing that they might miss the bandits' secrets. This was an important clue for completely wiping out the bandits.

So they continued reading from noon until the sun set.

When it was dark, the six bounty hunters, who were burdened with trivial matters, finally struggled to put down the letters.

For a moment, True Qi surged, stones flew, and heavy panting echoed in all directions.

"These uncultured bandits, damn it! What kind of shoddy letters are these? Completely messed up, a pair of useless..."

An impulsive bounty hunter went into a rage, swearing and smashing a apricot tree the size of a bowl with a single palm strike.

"How do you all see it? Is there really no useful information?" Chen Jing, whose mind was filled with trivial matters, finally managed to restrain the urge to recite the Three Character Classic.

"The little yellow dog of Fulong Fort turned red, there's a toad in the corner, don't know how it climbed up the mountain, the Emperor's toilet is leaking, and a pile of meat buns spilled out..."

Yuan Mo'er's face turned cold, her delicate chest rising and falling rapidly.

A senior constable gritted his teeth and cursed, "The old sow in Menghu Village, Honghong, gave birth to seven piglets. The eldest is called Mao Er, the second is called Mao Da. Why is the second one called Mao Da? A bandit named Er Lv lost a tooth and threw it into the pit, splashing a small bubble of feces..."

The atmosphere fell silent.

After a long while, the anger in the hearts of the constables slowly subsided.

A young constable asked in confusion, "Could it be a secret code?"

Yuan Mo'er angrily retorted, "Secret codes are exclusive to the notorious thieves and disciples of the martial arts sects. It takes years of compilation and specialized instruction to master. What are Menghu Village and Fulong Village bandits? Sun Wu and Master Wang Calabash in Menghu Village only attended a private school for a year and can barely recognize a few characters. Xin Aotian, the grandson of the infamous thief, taught himself, but it's all superficial. Moreover, the two villages have never had any dealings with each other. Where would they get a secret code? What kind of secret code would require tens of thousands of words back and forth?"

"Then... what does this mean?" The young constable's face turned pale and then green.

"These bandits have gone mad!"

Even someone as patient as Chen Jing couldn't bear it any longer. "We'll take action tomorrow!"

...

The first ray of sunlight fell on Fulong Village in the early morning. Bai Jianxi, covered in frost and dew, hurriedly returned from the foot of the mountain.

Xin Zhuo, who was rubbing his sore arms during morning exercises, greeted him, "How did it go?"

After talking nonsense with Sun Wu for tens of thousands of words, Xin Zhuo felt bored and decided not to play with him anymore. In the end, he sent Bai Jianxi to secretly slip down the mountain and visit Menghu Village.

Bai Jianxi was thin and weak, with fast footsteps and agile like a monkey. Ordinary people couldn't catch him.

"I arrived at the foot of Menghu Village at three in the morning," Bai Jianxi's face looked grim. "There were constables everywhere at the foot of the mountain, but luckily I had a small target and took a detour through the back mountain. It took a lot of effort, but I finally made it to the mountaintop and met Sun Wu."

"This damn guy's idea is simple. He wants to form an alliance. The government is attacking them over there, so he wants us to rob everywhere and share the pressure with him! But he wants to be the leader! I agreed to him."

"Don't just say being the leader, he wants to become the emperor, and I support him."

Xin Zhuo smiled. His goal was to find out Sun Wu's true thoughts.

This idea was naive but practical.

Sun Wu needed help to put out the fire, and he needed time. As long as there was time, with the ability of the Lunar Serenity Well, advancing to the next realm was not a problem. He could even find a way to develop other spirits.

What's there to fear when the realm is achieved?

"Boss, are we really going to rob down the mountain?" Huang Dagui and Han Jiulang, with their heads full of excitement and desire, rushed out. Their eyes were filled with passion.

Xin Zhuo also yearned for it. After being here for so long, as a bandit, he had never robbed anyone. It was a bit neglectful. However, the timing was not yet ripe. "Let's wait and see. If the constables have left any tricks behind, it won't be safe for us to go down."

...

Things in the world always come unexpectedly, catching people off guard.

Just after noon, a bloody bandit from Menghu Village stumbled into the mountain stronghold, fell to his knees with a thud, and burst into tears, "King Xin, please save us!"

Xin Zhuo and Cui Ying'er immediately surrounded the bandit, "Don't cry in a hurry. What happened over there?"

The bandit was in a panic, "Before noon today, the government launched a massive attack on our Menghu Village. Elite constables from five counties and one prefecture came, totaling over a thousand people. The monkeys who delivered the message and a few of our brothers surrendered to the government and led them here. Our village is in chaos. Our brothers have all fled into the caves. Fortunately, the caves are interconnected, and the constables are clueless. But the leader is injured and sent me to inform King Xin. We need to cause some chaos quickly, or it will be too late."

"Understood, you can go back now."

Xin Zhuo dismissed the bandit from Menghu Village and looked at his five subordinates.

Robbing down the mountain or observing from the sidelines was an important matter.

(End of this chapter)