Yang Youcai quickly understood what Cheng Xiaolian meant, the people who do business are for money, and if they are asked to divide the silk, they are afraid that it will be more uncomfortable than them losing a few catties of meat, so it is very likely that they will hide the silk.

At this moment, someone suddenly shouted in the distance: "Who are you?" ”

It was estimated that the dog in the yard of the family had been barking, so he came out to take a look, but he didn't expect to see more than a dozen faces holding torches, how he didn't look like a good person.

Cheng Xiaolian laughed: "We are from the government, we have something to find the patriarch in your village, I don't know where the patriarch is?" ”

The man snorted, "Where is the big night to find someone?" It's definitely not from the government, are you thieves coming to step on it? ”

Cheng Xiaolian smiled bitterly: "You hand over your patriarch, what are we here for, he will know, we are such a little people, if we step on the point, we would have run away a long time ago, isn't it asking for trouble to stay here?" ”

The man thought for a moment as if this was the case, and shouted, "Little donkey, come out." ”

After a cup of tea, the door of a nearby house opened, and a man came out with his clothes on: "What's the howl at night?" ”

"You keep an eye on them, if they make any changes, shout loudly, the people in our village will come out to help you, I will go to the patriarch and come back in a while."

Only then did the little donkey see these big men standing not far away, only to feel a little cold behind him, Cheng Xiaolian saw at a glance that his calves were already shaking involuntarily.

Cheng Xiaolian laughed: "This big brother, you don't have to worry, we are not strongmen, and we will definitely not harm you." ”

The little donkey drank with little confidence: "Don't be close, I warn you, don't go forward, if you go any further, I will call someone." ”

Cheng Xiaolian smiled bitterly, and had to take a few steps back: "I'll do it like this." ”

The little donkey turned around and came to the back of the door, Cheng Xiaolian and the others were wondering, and he came back after a while, still holding a shovel in his hand: "You are not allowed to come." ”

Cheng Xiaolian understood that such a group of people came to the village late at night, even the bolder ones had to be afraid of whether this group was strong, let alone this honest little donkey, so he stopped talking and waited with peace of mind.

After a while, an old man walked out surrounded by several young people around: "I don't know who is coming to our Hanjiazhuang?" ”

Cheng Xiaolian sneered: "Old patriarch, I have some things that I can only say to you alone." ”

The old patriarch was stunned for a moment: "Then you can come over by yourself." ”

Cheng Xiaolian walked forward, and Yang Youcai grabbed him one step at a time: "This is not good, I will go with you." ”

Yang Youcai had just taken two steps when a young man beside the old patriarch shouted: "Only one person can come over, and that one will go back." ”

Yang Youcai laughed: "I am the young master's entourage, you see that I am so fat, I definitely don't know any kung fu, besides, you people, are you afraid that the two of us will not succeed?" ”

The other side seemed to agree with his statement and no longer objected, and the people behind the old patriarch gathered more and more, and it seemed that they should all be called over.

Cheng Xiaolian stopped more than a dozen steps away from the old patriarch: "I said, this sentence can only be said to you alone." ”

The old patriarch was stunned for a moment, feeling that he was not a noble person, and he was not afraid that he would secretly poison him, so he walked over: "What do you want to say?" ”

Cheng Xiaolian walked up to the old patriarch and lowered his voice: "We are the Jinyi guards of the imperial court, and we are here for one thing, to investigate the case." ”

The old patriarch was expressionless: "Investigate the case? What case is being investigated? ”

"I'll tell you the truth, the day before yesterday, a team of people robbed His Royal Highness the Ming Emperor's Kambu, do you know what the crime of robbing Gongbu is?"

"What charges?"

"Treat it as a rebellion and wipe out the Nine Clans."

The corners of the old patriarch's eyes trembled involuntarily: "What are you telling me about this?" Our village is full of honest people, who will only farm in peace, and there has not been a single bandit for decades. ”

Cheng Xiaolian sneered: "I'm not afraid to tell you, there is a person in this caravan who is our undercover agent, he quietly followed the carriage here, but he saw some things, to be honest, we are just here to handle the case, we have no grievances with you, and we don't want to kill people, you hand over the things, how about we turn around immediately?" ”

The old patriarch pondered for a while: "I don't know what you're talking about, it's late at night, and if nothing else, I'm going back to sleep." ”

Cheng Xiaolian laughed: "Then you always sleep well, I'm afraid there are few good sleepers." ”

The old patriarch glared: "Are you threatening me?" ”

"The threat is not to be talked about, we are the brocade guards of the Ming Dynasty, you may not know much about us, if there are old people in the village, you can ask, we people can do errands, if we can't do it, go back and hit eighty with a cane, and at worst kill the head to apologize, you are playing with our lives, we naturally can't spare our lives, even if we kill a village, our worst result is only to pay for our lives."

The old patriarch's brows were raised: "You dare!" ”

"We're all going to die, what else dare were?"

The old patriarch snorted coldly: "You are not welcome in our village, you can leave." The old man lived to be sixty years old, and he was not afraid of anyone. ”

Cheng Xiaolian frowned involuntarily, then turned around and left, Yang Youcai followed behind, staring at the people in those villages, for fear that someone would hurt Cheng Xiaolian with a secret arrow.

When they withdrew from the village, Cheng Xiaolian coughed: "It's not right, if it's an employment relationship, this old man doesn't need to bite at all, there must be other reasons in it, Yang Youcai, you take someone to keep an eye on this old man to see what is greasy inside, so that a patriarch doesn't even want the life of the whole village, just to maintain the goods of a caravan." ”

Yang Youcai nodded, and sneaked back to the village with a few skilled brothers, the people of the village had not dispersed, only to hear the patriarch say: "From today onwards, the village arranges people on night duty, our village seems to be contaminated with some trouble, and I will go to the people of the government to settle things in two days, but there must be people on duty at night in these two days, so as not to poison the people in the village." ”

Yang Youcai waved his hand: "You go to the village and look around, I'll follow this old man and see what the hell he is doing." ”

The people of the village immediately arranged for seven or eight young men to start walking around the road in the village, they didn't know what was going on, but the patriarch must listen to his words.

Yang Youcai followed the patriarch to a remote hut, the patriarch knocked on the door a few times, and after a while, a voice came from inside: "Who." ”

"Sanniang, it's me, Xiao Jiu."

"Xiao Jiu, it's so late, what's the matter?"

"I'll ask the third master about something."

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