Wearing the stars and wearing the moon, the horse galloped wildly all night, and finally became sleepy at dawn, so he found a place by the woods by the pond to get off the horse and rest, and suddenly heard a loud shout in a daze, Chang Yu turned over, subconsciously pulled out the green finch on his waist, looked left and right, and suddenly, and the camp was surrounded by nearly 100 people.

These people were ragged, fierce-looking, with all kinds of weapons in their hands, and even some of them carried dung forks.

"Bandits!" Li Muxian beside him snorted and frowned: "I'm careless today."

The guards were indeed careless, they were too sleepy after running all night, and when they rested, it was already bright and they were next to the official road, and only a few people on duty dozed off from time to time, because no one could have imagined that there would be bandits in this vicinity, let alone that the bandits would be so bold as to try to rob them.

"Help me, I'm Daqing...... Ah" Azig didn't know if his brain was cramping or what, he suddenly shouted loudly, but he was fainted to death by Wu Zhong's backhand slap next to him.

"We don't kill people, we only rob money, leave your horses and weapons and leave safely" A burly man walked out of the crowd of thieves, and there were two archers around him who aimed at Wu Zhong with arrows, because this thing looked too much like a person.

"Yes" Wu Zhong laughed loudly with a single knife: "I am just the opposite of you, I only kill people and don't rob money, but look at your down-and-out appearance and have no money...... If you don't retreat within a moment, you won't leave a piece of armor! ”

"Phew, the lord is scared" The thief head rolled his eyes: "Dog officer, you are only forty or fifty, our brothers are one hundred and two, and the three of you win a lot, you are limited to get out of the way within a moment, otherwise we will take it ourselves, and the knives and guns will not be long-sighted at that time."

Wu Zhong smiled, Li Muxian also smiled, and then dozens of pro-guards laughed.

"Laugh...... What are you laughing at" The thief was a little panicked, Chang Yu took a step forward and said coldly: "People rob day and night, you are doing the opposite, going out early in the morning."

"Early, the early bird has worms to eat" The thief also imitated his appearance, but the momentum was insufficient: "Lao Tzu likes to go down the mountain in the morning."

And, Chang Yu rolled his eyes: "The problem is that you are not a bird, you are a worm, have you ever heard of early insects being eaten by birds" As he said, he raised his hand and pointed to the mountains in the north: "If the expectation is good, your thief's den is over there, it should be at dawn when he sees me waiting here to rest, and he moves his mind."

"Where the hell did you come from so much nonsense, let me ask you again, did the weapon and the horse take the initiative to hand over or wait for Lao Tzu to take it himself?" The thief said impatiently.

"Come on" Chang Yu exhaled: "I wanted you to live longer, but you were very anxious" said and snapped his fingers, the thief was stunned and didn't understand what was going on, so he was pierced through the brain by an arrow, and the two archers next to him screamed, and before they could react, they immediately lay down on the spot, and the rest of the thieves were shocked.

"Don't you wait to get out of here, do you really want Lao Tzu to kill" Wu Zhong roared, and the thieves scattered and fled.

"The rabble...... Wu Zhong didn't finish his words with a disdainful face, and then saw a young and strong man waving a knife and rushing towards him: "You killed my eldest brother, I will fight ......" Wu Zhong carried a knife forward, shouted loudly and raised his knife to slash, and the man raised his knife to block it in a hurry.

With a click, the knife broke the head and fell to the ground, and the red tassel did not stain blood.

"Good knife technique" Chang Yu praised, and Li Muxian's expression changed: "Good knife!" ”

In addition, he shot the thief head with an arrow, and the remaining thieves fled without a leader, and they didn't even have the courage to fight, and the power of Wu Zhong's sword made those thieves even more frightened, and they only hated themselves for not having two more legs.

This is too weak, Wu Zhong looked at the thieves who fled in all directions with a disdainful face: "It's too far worse than the bandits outside the gate."

"Look at them all with yellow faces and thin muscles, it is estimated that most of them are refugees who have just fallen into the grass" Li Muxian said softly, Chang Yu nodded slightly, but he couldn't help but take a sip when he was disturbed by his good dreams, and let the four corpses be buried and the soldiers continued to repair.

But Chang Yu couldn't sleep anymore, leaning on the trunk of the tree and staring at the pond in a daze, sometimes looking at the mountains due north, his face was solemn.

In these days, if the people want to live, they can only fall into the grass?

Wars, natural disasters, people are struggling to make a living, the grass is ruined, and officers and soldiers suppress bandits...... The cycle is stuck in an endless loop.

Chang Yu knew the crux of the matter, but he was helpless, the battle still had to be fought, and the natural disaster was not his own care.

Hundreds of miles away in the city of Beijing, Liu Zeqing and the three of them went out of the city and returned to the camp with drunken eyes and blue faces, drank wine all night, and finally borrowed food after a night of chattering, but they were not happy at all.

It's a good thing that pie falls from the sky, and nine times out of ten it's a pit!

Outside the imperial city, Zhou Huang and Li casually talked about borrowing grain, Huang Degong patted his chest uncharacteristically and said that it was a piece of cake, and set up a banquet to say that he wanted to have a good chat.

Zhou Yuji said that I will go back to Taiyuan in a few days, and I will not borrow the limited food on hand, Li Yan spoke more tactfully, and finally explained after 800 circles, I am not cooked, I can drink alcohol, and I don't need to talk about borrowing grain.

At this time, Huang Degong's boldness was highlighted: "The ministers of the same hall are about to fight side by side, and they must help out, I borrowed this grain" Liu Zeqing and the three of them were overjoyed, and they were about to thank them, but Huang Degong's words changed: "You have to pay interest!" ”

"Take advantage of the fire to rob, Uncle Jingnan, you don't pay attention to this," Liu Zeqing blew his beard and glared.

"Exquisite?" Huang Degong pouted: "Three months ago, when Lao Tzu went north to Texas, he had to gnaw on the grass roots, and he begged his grandfather to tell his grandmother to borrow some grain, did you lend me one, and now I still have the face to talk to Lao Tzu?" ”

Liu Zeqing's old face flushed: "Hey, why do you mention that little sesame thing in the past."

"Okay, then let's talk about the current matter, you lack food, Lao Tzu is not stingy, he will definitely borrow, the interest is not high, borrow one and repay three ......" Before he finished speaking, Gao Jie slapped the table: "Why don't you go and grab it?" ”

"Lao Tzu doesn't have the ability to rob the people like you, and he doesn't have the shame to rob them"! Huang Degong roared, Gao Jie was about to lift the table, Zhou Yuji, Liu Zeqing and others quickly got up to extinguish the fire, so that they could persuade the two to be peaceful.

"If it's too expensive, go find someone else to borrow it, see who borrows you, you can also go to the court to ask for it, of course, if you don't come, you can also refuse to send troops" Huang Degong said hehehe: "It's just a big crime to resist the decree...... Sin on top of sin, tsk, tsk, kind of fun."

Liu Zeqing's faces immediately darkened, and at this time, they finally saw that the court or the little eunuch had already calculated that they were going to borrow grain, so they dug a pit for them, and they didn't borrow it themselves, let Huang Degong borrow it.

If the court borrows it, what can you do if you don't give it to you, but if you borrow a private one, it's Huang Degong, who doesn't deal with them, don't try it! This is actually Chang Yu's backup, if Gao Jie can't handle Er Liu, then Huang Degong will have to deal with them.

Gao Jie and the others were not afraid of Huang Degong, but they were afraid of what he said: Resisting the order and violating the order, the crime will be added to the crime.

Recently, the three of them wiped their shit and couldn't wash it clean, and if they disobeyed the order again, they wouldn't send troops...... I guess I really can't get out of Beijing.

"Oh, what a big deal, the three general soldiers don't have more than 10,000 people on hand now, and when they get to Jinan Liu, there will be supplies, and then go south for hundreds of miles at most, your main force has also arrived, so you don't need to borrow much, not to mention that Huang Zongbing's triple profit is ten times that and where can you go......" Zhou Yuji and Li Yan were not afraid of big things when they saw the excitement, and they were bewitched by the side.

Knowing that these two goods didn't have any good intentions, but Gao Jie and the three of them thought about it, there were supplies for nearly 10,000 people and horses in Jinan, and they didn't need much, although the interest rate was high, there was no other way, if it was in the past, it could consume the imperial court, but now how dare it.

So he agreed to Huang Degong's conditions, but he also held back his anger.