The next day, Lu Yao left Xue Tong's words behind. How much business to do, where is the time to speculate about the boss's intentions all day long? The group hurried forward and hurried to Wei County.

The route they chose was from Jinyang, through Yangyi, Wuxiang, and Xiangyuan, all the way south, to Huguan into the Taihang Mountains, and then to the east, through Shigu Mountain, Fukou and Cheng, into the Hebei Plain. It was the turn of spring and summer, and it was the most beautiful time in the Taihang Mountains. Thousands of peaks along the way, ten thousand ravines are amazing, the forest sea, strange stones, clear springs, waterfalls can be seen everywhere, there are more remnant snow on the distant peaks, the silver light flashes, as if the heavenly palace. Although everyone has their own thoughts, they can't help but admire.

This area is surrounded by thousands of mountains and ravines, and the terrain is complex and changeable; It is also located at the junction of the three prefectures of Merger, Division and Hebei, and the borders of Shangdang, Jijun, Wei and Guangping counties are intertwined and difficult to govern, so there have always been thieves and thieves. For hundreds of years, the poor people who fled to the mountains have built many cottages and dock forts in this area. Dozens or even hundreds of them gathered in groups to protect themselves, and refused to accept the kingship of the imperial court. If the leader is kind to others, he shall only plough the land to support his parents, wives and children, and make laws to bind his people. During the Three Kingdoms, Tian Chou lived in seclusion in Xu Wushan, probably like this. If the leader is fierce, he will crisscross the mountains and plunder and kill and wound in all directions. Like Hu Liuniang's barberry village, it has become the villain between the leader of the green forest and the Ji and Jin dynasties.

For many years, business travelers passing through this area have suffered from banditry. They had to form large groups in groups to dare to walk through here. Wen Qiao introduced Hu Liuniang to Lu Yao, and also saved the intention of borrowing Hu Liuniang's power to pass through this place safely.

However, Lu Yao and the others traveled all the way, and they were extremely stable and did not harass at all. This makes the people who are secretly on guard a little strange. asked Hu Liuniang, Hu Liuniang's answer was simple: the people on the plains are dead, what do the mountain people live on? They're going to eat too, aren't they?

If you think about it, it is. Limited to the geographical environment of the mountainous area, no cottage can truly achieve self-sufficiency, they must carry out commercial exchanges with villages and towns outside the mountains, and exchange all kinds of mountain goods and specialties, or looting income in exchange for necessary food, tools, salt and other materials.

However, due to the wars of these years, the plains under the Taihang Mountains have long been uninhabited. Who has the ability to provide material exchange, and who has the ability to maintain trade routes? In fact, as early as a few months ago, when Lu Yao and the county lord of Jingling and others were in Taihang Mountain, except for the big cottage like Funiu Village, which guards the main traffic routes, it could barely support it, and the rest of the mountain people had already dispersed in a hurry. It is a bit ridiculous that the plague of mountain bandits, which has been plagued for decades, has been swept away.

Although the group traveled lightly, the road was in disrepair and difficult to walk. In many areas, the originally wide and flat official roads have been overgrown with thorns. There are also many winding mountain roads that have completely collapsed, and if you want to pass through them, you have to take dangerous mountain paths, and the journey has increased several times. Rao is Hu Liuniang knows everything well, and it took Lu Yao and others half a month before and after this journey. By the time it finally came out, it was already late May.

This place has entered the boundary of Wei County, Sizhou, not far from Anyang. Further east, you only need to ride lightly for a day to reach Yecheng, where the county of Wei County is located. When they arrived here, everyone was relaxed, and Ding Miao took the lead in proposing to find a place to rest for two days to relieve the fatigue of crossing mountains and mountains.

There is a natural stone cave called Black Dragon Cave under the cliff cliff in the southern part of Fukou. The cave is tortuous and dark, there is the groundwater called Black Dragon Spring gushing out from the rock crevice, the stone cave, the spring source is boiling, rolling like soup, its water is warm in winter and cool in summer. This is a well-known scenic spot in Wei County, not far from here, there is a manor belonging to the local wealthy family Ran in Wei County. At the end of last year, the displaced people of Bingzhou followed Sima Teng to Yecheng in the east, and there was a lot of nuisance to the local area on the way, and most of the local Ran clan was coerced into the ranks of the displaced people, and the manor was abandoned.

Lu Yao and the others arrived at this manor at dusk and decided to camp here.

There is a large mansion in the middle of the manor, you can vaguely see the eaves of the bucket arch made by Seiko in those years, which is very magnificent, and there is even an artificial waterway to introduce the water source of Black Dragon Spring into the courtyard, which is really rare. But Lu Yao and Ding Miao glanced at it from a distance, and they both felt that in case of an enemy, this kind of big house would be difficult to defend. So the group went around to the west corner of the manor, where there was a hill, and in the woods behind the hill was a courtyard with two entrances inside and outside.

The courtyard is just the right size. Lu Yao and Ding Miao each occupied two rooms, Hu Liuniang went to a small courtyard in the East Wing, and the rest of the people were allocated rooms according to Shiwu's establishment. Although he has escaped from the most dangerous mountainous area, Lu Yao still requires the soldiers to be undressed and have weapons at hand. In addition, sentry posts were set up at the entrance of the courtyard and at the top of the roof, and people were arranged to keep vigil in shifts.

Seeing that it was getting late, everyone hastily ate some dry food, chatted a few words, and then went back to the house to sleep.

In the middle of the night, a sudden noise came from the direction of the mansion.

Lu Yao got up, and the soldiers who served as sentry officers had come to report.

"General, half a moment ago, a group of men and horses came with pine torches and went straight to the mansion. It is estimated that there were about fifty or sixty knights, and dozens of women, girls and children were tied up with ropes. It looks like a thief. ”

"Bandits? In such a close place to Yecheng, there will be a large number of robbers? Ding Miao pushed the door from next door and asked suspiciously.

Yecheng is one of the five capitals of Cao Wei and is Xiongzhen of Hebei. For many years, the imperial court has been known as the important position of "the military governor of Yecheng", and it is stationed with male soldiers. With Yecheng as the center, from Xiangguo in the north to Chaoge in the south, there are military villages in a radius of hundreds of miles, not to mention dozens of bandits, even the thieves of chickens and dogs have to weigh and weigh before starting. During the Yongxing period, Sima Ying therefore combined the Gongshi Liang with the Qing River Horse Thief Jisang to raise troops in Hebei, and the imperial court came to it with the soldiers of Yecheng, and there were Puyang Taishou Gou Xi, Guangping Taishou Ding Shao to help, and the thief army was broken on the tenth day, and the head of the beheading domain was passed on to the counties to deter.

According to the sergeant, there were dozens of thieves who were rampant in Wei County, and they also openly abducted women...... Aren't these thieves mad?

"Tell the brethren to be careful and prepare their guns, knives, bows, and arrows. Also, remember not to show your face. Lu Yao ordered to go down, and said to Ding Miao: "Brother Wen Hao, let's go and see?" ”

"Okay."

When the two men had finished, they hid themselves in the mansion.

Both of them were masters of the arts and bold, and they moved forward quickly under the cover of the night, and they were not afraid of being discovered. After a little deliberation on the way, they divided the front and back roads. After Ding Miao took it and Lu Yao took it forward, they each sneaked in. Lu Yao walked quickly, and in an instant, he walked around to the front of the mansion, supported the wall with one hand, rubbed his body up, and quietly turned over and jumped into the courtyard.

After walking a short distance, the noise poured into my ears became louder and louder, and I arrived at the main hall.

Lu Yao leaned behind the wall, peeked in, and saw many pine torches lit above the main hall, and bursts of shouting came from the house. The soldier on duty at night was right, and there was indeed a large group of robbers.

These thieves were dressed in all shapes and colors, and some crude weapons were thrown around. Judging by his speech and demeanor, he is very vulgar, and he doesn't seem to have any leader to speak of. Perhaps they had just been plundered from a certain place, and they were all in high spirits, drinking and reveling. Many of the women they had taken captive, their clothes torn and their skin exposed, and they wept and waited. At the bottom of the hall, a child fell to the ground, the back of his head was smashed by a mace and other weapons and made a terrible wound, blood and brains gurgling out, apparently dead. A younger child was pounced on the former, his mouth open but he couldn't cry, only tears streaming down his face. Other children curled up in fear, as if they had fainted with fright.

And if I listened carefully, there was a faint sound of laughter and crying in the back hall, and it was self-evident what had happened.

Lu Yao couldn't help frowning slightly. There are many people who are forced to fall into the grass for the court, such as Hu Liuniang, who are said to be thieves, but in fact, they may not do anything to hurt the heavens and reason, but they are just gathering people to protect themselves. And these scum in front of him actually inflicted violence on defenseless children and wantonly molested women, which really exceeded the limit of Lu Yao's tolerance.

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