The leader of the horse thieves is a complete miser, a person who values money very seriously, and this cannot be blamed on him, after all, he has been a poor man who has not had enough to eat since he was a child, and it is really because he is afraid of poverty, so once he gets the wealth, he will hold on to it, unwilling to let go, even if his life is threatened, he will not give up the wealth he has obtained so hard.

This behavior is very similar to the crayfish in the country river, when the shrimp angler lifts the fishing rod, the crayfish are hanging in the air, but they are not willing to let go of their big pincers, and then it can only become the shrimp angler's plate meal.

Poor people have a mysterious desire for wealth, their desire for wealth is far greater than that of ordinary people, and in order to get it, they will do whatever it takes, even if it is a horse thief.

Of course, not everyone is like this, and there are some people who were once poor, after becoming rich, gradually become lavish and generous than anyone else.

This situation is also normal, maybe when you are poor, you see that the people around you treat every day, but you don't have the ability to entertain, and your heart has been very aggrieved, after you have developed, you have to find a way to make up for this sense of achievement, so you desperately go to the hospitality, in this way to satisfy your heart.

In short, although they are all from poor backgrounds, they are hurt in different places, which will cause different consequences, and will cause them to behave diametrically opposite after they are developed.

Since the leader of the horse thieves has decided to do this, the thin monkey and one-eyed have no choice but to agree, the thin monkey has gone all the way by himself, almost no impact, but one-eyed is sad, he could have taken the official road to drive fast, but at the moment he can only take the rugged mountain road, this road is indispensable to endure hardships.

The only thing to be thankful for is that most of the grain will be transported away through the official road, and if these large quantities of grain are also taken away, they will really be exhausted to death.

Since the matter has been decided, it is time to prepare next, according to the distance to the east of the river, they need to walk for about half a month to a month, and the grain and grass are two months, so at least half of it must be allocated to the rice shop shopkeeper in the city, let him be responsible for transportation, they only need half of it, but this is not a small amount, and in order to reduce the pressure on logistics, it is stipulated that all horse thieves must bring half a month's worth of dry food and some pickles and dried meat, so that the horse thieves who are specifically responsible for transporting materials can relieve some pressure a little.

After One-Eye left the big tent, he began to make arrangements, he asked these horse thieves under his command to quickly prepare half a month's worth of dry food and dried meat and pickles, and put them into the bags that had been prepared, so that when they set off, they could very conveniently send these prepared dry food to the hands of each horse thief, and at the same time, they also moved some non-perishable grain to the designated location, so that the rice shop shopkeeper in the city could better transport the grain away.

"Let's prepare so much dry food, it looks like we'll be able to get out of here right away."

A fat horse thief spoke.

The foal nodded and said: "That's right, it's definitely going to leave, the officers and soldiers here are too difficult, they should have left here a long time ago, I heard that they are going to Hutu Mountain in the east of the river, and I don't know what the scenery is there, whether there is oil and water." ”

"Who knows? However, you will find out when you get there. ”

The fat man spoke, paused, and then said: "Brother Xiaoma, I took a look just now, Brother Yan's mood doesn't seem to be very good, is there something troublesome!" If it's time for dinner, we'll ask. ”

The foal deflated, "Fatty, just ask for yourself." ”

"I don't dare to go alone, let's go together!"

The fat horse thief spoke.

The foal was overjoyed and nodded his head, "Okay! Then I'll go with you to say hello, when the time comes, let's bring a few more bottles of good wine, and ask Brother Yan what worries him while drinking, and I also have to worry about Brother Yan. ”

"That's right, there is no shortage of wine, it must not be missing, I'm going to get a few of the best bottles and hide them first."

The fat man happily ran to get the wine.

The movements of the dozens of horse thieves were very fast, and it didn't take long for three or four hundred portions of dry food and dried meat to be distributed and placed in a fixed place.

"Little Brother Ma, is Brother Yan alone in the tent? Let's bring the meat in! See how much I've done? ”

The fat horse thief gently lifted the corner of the food box and spoke.

The foal looks amazing! In this food box, there are not only several bottles of fine wine, but also four plates of cut meat and four plates of ingredients, all of which are hard dishes.

"Yes! It's all good food. ”

The foal spoke.

The fat man looked behind him and said, "This is only half, and there is a box in the back, which contains meat-filled steamed buns and egg soup." ”

"Yes! Let's go! We'll go in now. ”

The foal said as he picked up another food box and entered the tent with the fat man.

They are mainly responsible for logistics, usually cooking, raising horses, and going out to chop firewood, it seems to be more tiring, but also more hard, but doing logistics is also beneficial, that is, you can eat better, you can eat delicious food that ordinary people can't eat, even if everyone will be hungry, will not let the logistics people go hungry.

After entering the tent, I saw One-Eye sitting on a chair in a very bad mood, frowning tightly, as if he was very troubled.

"Brother Yan, it's getting dark, it's time to eat."

The fat man very attentively brought out all the delicacies in the food box and put them in front of One-eyed.

"Annoyed! Nothing tastes good, and I don't have much appetite. ”

One-Eye sighed.

"Brother Yan, come, let's have a glass of wine first, if you have any troubles, you might as well talk to your brothers, if you always hold it in your heart, it will be very uncomfortable."

The fat man said.

The foal also said: "Brother Eye, if we are still brothers, don't hold it alone, if you have any troubles, let your brother share a thing or two for you." ”

Seeing the two of them say this, One-Eye was naturally very happy, and said, "The two brothers are their own people, how could I deliberately hide it from you?" It's just that this matter has already been decided, and you know that it will only add to your troubles. ”

"Brother Yan is worried, how can my brother be relaxed alone, we also have to worry with Brother Yan."

The foal spoke.

One-eyed was really uncomfortable, seeing that his brother was so righteous, he sighed and said: "Don't hide it from the two brothers, this time we went to Hedong, we originally wanted to take the official road, but because the leader was reluctant to spend money to buy the road, we had to take the north path instead, so with so many things, it would be difficult to walk, and we might not be able to reach Hedong in a month!" Moreover, the road will also be very hard, and the brothers are afraid that they will suffer. ”

"It turns out that Brother Eye is worried about his brothers! This makes the brothers really don't know what to say, no matter how hard it is, as long as they can share their worries for Brother Yan, it is worth it for the brothers to die of exhaustion. ”

The foal spoke.

The fat man also said: "Brother Yan doesn't have to worry too much, isn't it just a mountain road?" The brothers all grew up in the mountains, and they have never seen any bird paths, and no matter how difficult the road is, the brothers are not afraid. ”

One-eyed shook his head lightly, and said: "You two are too optimistic, if it is one hundred and eighty miles, the road is more difficult to walk, but the road to Hedong is a thousand miles away, and you have to cross many big rivers, and bring too many useless things, which will seriously slow down the speed of travel, and it will be easier to be discovered by officers and soldiers." ”

"Brother Yan, I've been to Yinzhou and Suizhou in the northeast, and the road is okay, it's not very difficult to walk!"

The foal said nonsense.

One-eyed smiled and said: "Brother, you are taking the official road, the official road is maintained by the imperial court, and the road condition is naturally better, but we can't take the official road now, we can only go around the rugged path, and some of these paths are not much different from the road you usually use to chop wood. ”

"It's about the same as chopping wood, it's too hard to walk! Can't you sneak off the official road? ”

The foal asked.

One-eyed said: "Some official roads can also be walked, but as long as we encounter a checkpoint, we must bypass it from the path, because we have no road guide, and we can't pass the checkpoint at all." ”

This is very clear, they often take the official road, because no one checks the official road, but once they encounter the checkpoint, it will be troublesome, because the checkpoint is checked, these horse thieves have no proper procedures, and they can't pass the checkpoint, so they can only take the path to bypass the checkpoint.

For woodcutters, any level can be bypassed, after all, both sides of the level can not be thousands of cliffs, there is always a place to bypass, even if it is the Great Wall, only need a rope with an iron hook, can easily climb over.

It's just that for a large team with a large number of people and a lot of supplies, it is very difficult to bypass a level, and these huge materials will become a heavy burden on a team, and even drag the team to death.

At that time, there was an army, in order to be able to insert into the core of the Central Plains on time, did not hesitate to blow up all the small number of heavy weapons it carried, this is because the road that can take large weapons was blocked by the enemy, and it is completely impossible to enter the Central Plains through this place, so it can only choose to take the path that the enemy can't think of to break through the encirclement and insert it into the Central Plains in one fell swoop, but in this way, the large heavy weapons carried by the team have no way to pass, and finally the commander in order to complete the task, he did not hesitate to blow up these heavy weapons.

In order to accomplish one's goal, give up everything that can be discarded, this is the real great wisdom, and it is also necessary for success, and the leader of the horse thieves is obviously an out-and-out fool, who does not forget to take away his treasure when he escapes, he is really a master who does not want to die for money.

"Brother Eye, then we have to bypass a few levels along the way!"

The foal asked.

"Hey, there are more than a dozen?"

One-eyed spoke, took out the map in his arms, and continued: "Look at it! These are the three roads we took to Hedong this time, we were originally going to take this red line, but now we are going to take the green line with the leader, the thin monkey remains unchanged or takes the purple line, let's see! It's not a good road. ”

The fat man just glanced at it and was not interested, while the foal looked at the map very carefully, and he wanted to make a copy for the foal to take home, so that he could make a meritorious service.

"Do you understand? Also look. ”

One-Eye didn't doubt it, but he put it away angrily, but the foal could already see it clearly, and he had drawn the map, so he naturally remembered it all after a few glances.

"Fatty, do you understand?"

The foal asked, pretending.

The fat man shook his head and said, "It's messy, I can't understand it." ”

"Well, I don't understand it either, but I guess those zigzag lines like earthworms are roads."

The foal said deliberately.

"Don't talk about that, brothers, let's drink, drink."

One-Eye's mood is a little better, and he doesn't want to do anything now, he just wants to drink.

"Come on, come on, let's drink, drink, we're about to leave here, there must not be such good conditions for eating and drinking on the road, now we can drink more."

The foal spoke.

"Drink, drink, drink......"

The fat man drinks a lot of alcohol and likes to drink very much.

When he had eaten and drunk, the fat man went to his tent and fell asleep, while the foal went to draw the map as quickly as he could, and after checking it a few times, he hid it.

At night, he can't leave the camp casually, this is the rule of the horse thief's lair, and no one can break it, otherwise, he will be regarded as a spy.

A day ago, there was a horse thief who wanted to leave in the middle of the night, but was directly killed by random arrows, this person may be the person arranged by Lao Guo in the early days, because he has not been able to find the opportunity to send the letter, so, it has been in a latent state, at this moment, it has reached the most critical moment, so he wants to take a risk, send the news out, and lose his life, seeing this situation, the little foal will not dare to act rashly.

Fortunately, he didn't have to take such a risk to get the message out smoothly, he often had to lead a group of horse thieves out to chop wood, this was a great opportunity to pass on the situation, he had already passed it once, and this time he had to pass the message this way.

On the second day, the foal and the fat man still led the ten horse thieves out to chop wood, and this was the last time they went out to chop wood, because after this time they were going to leave the nest and go to the east of the river to develop.

"Fatty, if I encounter pheasants today, I'll try to fight two, and we'll share one chicken leg each, okay?"

The foal spoke.

"Good! The roast chicken is fragrant, hehe. ”

The fat man said.

"Coo-goo, goo-goo......"

As soon as the foal finished speaking, he heard the sound of pheasants in the distance.

"Oh, the pheasant is really here, I'll accompany you! Learn from the experience, too, and see how you catch pheasants. ”

The fat man spoke.