dognovel Chapter 335: Bandit Suppression 2
Chapter 335: Bandit Suppression 2
Constable Liu wiped the cold sweat from his forehead and quickly explained, "Young man, you don't know that the Turks have been provoking the Zhenbei Army recently. We never know when a fight might break out.
According to the custom in the northern border, whenever a war is about to break out, the serious criminals from Suzhou and Liangzhou will be escorted to the border front.
When the battle breaks out, these people will be deployed at the front, and whether they live or die depends on their luck."
After hearing this, Lin Shuyue understood. It turned out that these people were being sent to the battlefield as cannon fodder.
Okay, spare their lives for now.
Perhaps because they had cried, the women in the house looked better when they came out. However, when they saw the corpses of the bandits lying all over the ground and the bandits who had survived by chance, there was still some fear on their faces.
There were one or two brave ones who, upon seeing the bandits still alive, snatched a knife from the yamen runner and stabbed several tied bandits several times. The bandits screamed a few times and then died.
Constable Liu and his fellow yamen runners turned a blind eye to this. After all, so many bandits had died, so one more wouldn't make a difference.
It was already noon. After discussing with Lin Shuyue, Constable Liu decided to assign half of his men to escort the dozens of surviving bandits and the property seized from the stronghold back to the county government office.
The others followed Lin Shuyue to Tianlang Village to help clean up the mess.
That’s right, that’s what Constable Liu thought. By the time they catch up, all the bandits in the village will probably be eliminated.
As for the whereabouts of the women who had just been rescued, after asking, it was found that only two unmarried girls wanted to go home.
The other five people looked sad. They were all married women. After what happened, they would definitely be divorced if they returned to their husbands' homes.
As for returning to their parents' home, they were afraid of bringing shame to their sisters' reputations, and were even more afraid that after finally escaping from the bandits' lair, they would be given a white silk scar by their family members.
For a moment, the five people were filled with grief, and their faces were full of despair.
The world is so big, but they have no place to live.
At this time, Constable Liu gave them a suggestion: "Yaojiang County and Yi'an County both have orphanages. If you have nowhere to go for the time being, you might as well go to the orphanage and ask if they need someone to take care of the children.
Although the work is tiring and hard, at least I have a place to stay and can fill my stomach."
When several women heard this, they immediately expressed their willingness to give the orphanage a try. As for whether it was hard or not, being able to escape from the bandit's lair alive and having a place to stay was already a great fortune, so what else was there to be picky about?
After arranging the destination for these women, Constable Liu ordered his men to take these women, the bandits and the seized property down the mountain.
Speaking of these valuables, the yamen runners searched the entire stronghold, but they only found some worthless jewelry and less than one hundred taels of silver.
After capturing a bandit and interrogating him, we found out that every time they robbed a group of bandits, except for the rewards reserved for their brothers, the rest would be transferred away by the boss and the second in command.
The boss explained to his men that it was not safe to keep the money in the mountain stronghold, so he went down the mountain to buy shops and farms so that he could make money from the money.
As soon as Constable Liu heard this, he knew that the boss was lying. This was because according to the laws of the Great Zhou Dynasty, people without household registration were not allowed to acquire property. How could this bandit leader purchase shops or farms when he didn't even have a household registration?
This kind of rhetoric is just to fool these bandits who only know how to burn, kill and loot.
Lin Shuyue listened from the side and felt a little regretful. She regretted that she had dealt with the boss and the second in command so quickly and efficiently.
I don’t know where all this money went?
In addition, when fighting with the two men just now, the eldest leader was unable to show his skills because he died too quickly. But the second leader, her sword moves, body skills and demeanor were definitely not what a bandit should have. She looked more like a man of the world.
Unfortunately, everyone is dead and there is no way to find out.
After dealing with the bandits in Tiefengzhai, the group simply ate some dry food in Tiefengzhai and continued into the mountains.
As usual, Lin Shuyue went ahead this time, while Qinghe and Qingzhi followed Constable Liu and others.
However, before setting off, Lin Shuyue specifically instructed Constable Liu to let them wait for her outside the misty forest and not to enter the forest without permission.
Lin Shuyue flew as light as a swallow into the depths of the forest.
It should be the middle of the day when the sun is at its hottest, but as we go deeper, the surroundings become increasingly cold and dark.
About half an hour later, she stopped in front of a foggy forest.
Before entering the forest, she carefully used her spiritual sense to explore the forest.
As expected, the forest was much larger than she had imagined, and it was filled with fog, and one could easily get lost in it if one was not careful.
There were many wild animals in the forest, and she saw several wolf packs, but the most numerous were poisonous snakes hiding in the trees or lurking in the grass, hissing.
It’s no wonder that Lord Luo, Constable Liu and others stopped here in such a dangerous forest.
I just don't know how the people from Tianlangzhai come in and out.
Suppressing the doubts in her heart, Lin Shuyue stepped into the misty forest. But after taking just two steps into the forest, she immediately noticed that there was something wrong with the smell in the forest.
To be safe, she immediately took a universal detoxification pill.
After carefully feeling her body and making sure there was nothing abnormal, she continued to move forward.
The further she went in, the thicker the fog became, with visibility limited to only one meter. Fortunately, she had her spiritual sense, so the thick fog did not affect her speed.
After dealing with the attacks of two groups of wolves, Lin Shuyue immediately released the pressure of a cultivator, intimidating the many wild beasts approaching her.
After walking for half an incense stick of time, she finally came out of the forest and came to a canyon.
Look at the cliffs on both sides that are towering into the clouds, and a narrow path in the middle that extends inward. The further you go in, the narrower the path becomes.
When we were almost at the end, the view suddenly opened up. We had arrived at the entrance of a valley, and not far ahead was the gate of Tianlang Village.
In the mountain stronghold, the bandits on the watchtower spotted Lin Shuyue as she entered the valley. Seeing that she was alone, they became alert and immediately shouted to the brothers patrolling below the tower: "Someone has broken into the valley."
Soon, the gate of the stronghold was opened, and more than a dozen aggressive bandits armed with spears ran out.
When they saw Lin Shuyue walking towards the gate of the stronghold, the bandits immediately rushed forward and surrounded her.
"Who are you? Why are you entering our valley?"
The leading man had a face full of flesh and questioned Lin Shuyue ferociously.
Before she could speak, the man's nose twitched, his expression suddenly changed, and his voice suddenly rose: "You actually passed through the misty forest?"
"Impossible, Hanzi, are you mistaken? Without the Huixin Grass in our valley, how could he have passed through the Misty Forest? I'm afraid he would have died in the Misty Forest long ago." Another bandit questioned.