The big man rounded his sword and struck at the monkey.
The monkey shouted: "My mother...run!" He had to turn around to escape, but it was obviously too late. The big man looked menacing. If the knife hit the monkey, it would
Even if the kid doesn't die, half of his life will have to be taken away.
As a last resort, Qin Xiaotian had no choice but to take action. He stretched out his dog-beating stick and picked it on the big man's ribs. This place was very fragile and sensitive. When the knife was tilted, the big man hit the ground with a slash.
The monkey was so frightened that he ran away, as if he had stepped on a spring, and screamed: "Mother..."
The big man slashed the air with his simple sword. He couldn't help but became furious and shouted: "Thief, I'll kill you first!"
Qin Xiaotian didn't panic. He had no problem dealing with a person. He whispered: "Let's leave quickly. If you don't leave... you won't be able to leave."
The big man didn't appreciate it, but he still raised his sword and struck at him: "Go to hell...ah!"
This time, Qin Xiaotian no longer showed mercy. No matter what the reason, he would not spare anyone who wanted his own life. The dog-beating stick in his hand was a little to the side of the simple knife, and he rushed forward, holding the waist-breaking knife in his other hand.
Crossed the big man's thigh.
It was very painful to cut the flesh with a blunt knife. The waist-breaking knife cut across the thigh. The big man screamed in pain. He waved the knife desperately, trying to kill the thin boy wandering around in front of him. Unexpectedly, the monkey secretly slashed behind him and stabbed it steadily.
Pricked on his butt.
The monkey is very slippery and will run away after being stabbed with a knife.
Under the severe pain, the big man finally woke up. If he continued to struggle, he might die here. He yelled and ran towards the forest, blood on his buttocks and the outside of his thighs splashing outward. I am afraid that even he himself could not have imagined that he could run.
So fast.
Qin Xiaotian said lightly: "You can't run far if you run like this."
Sure enough, the big man ran a hundred meters away, fell down, and passed out.
The monkey secretly admired him. He found that this little beggar was really powerful. He could not lag behind a big man. He whispered: "Quick, let's go in." He quickly ran into the circle of big cars. Except for bandits, there were dead people inside.
None of the prisoners resisted.
The bandits were busy searching for corpses and property. The monkey pulled Qin Xiaotian to the two dead bodies lying next to the cart and said, "Search quickly, search quickly." He hurriedly dug around the bodies.
Qin Xiaotian felt sick and said, "Forget it, it's all yours."
The monkey rolled his eyes and said, "Idiot! This is how we become bandits."
Bandits don't get paid, and their belongings are distributed according to proportions. The gangsters don't get much. Most of it goes into the pockets of the village owners and leaders, who want a little money. The only way is to search the corpses, which are dead people's wealth.
, whoever finds it counts.
Qin Xiaotian is not very interested in property, as long as he can eat enough. He is interested in various cultivation materials. So far, there are no immortal stones or spiritual herbs, which makes him very distressed.
The monkey quickly took out the money on the corpse, only about five or six hundred copper coins, and then began to take off his clothes.
Qin Xiaotian was dumbfounded. He had never seen bandits who didn't even let go of the clothes of dead people. When he looked up, he saw that almost all the bandits were stripping off their clothes. He couldn't help but shook his head and sighed. The Song Dynasty was not fun at all.
Qin Xiaotian asked: "Why don't you take the things from the cart?"
The monkey said nervously: "You are crazy. At that time, anyone who dared to touch the trophies in the village would have their head chopped off immediately!"
Someone shouted: "Children, play the victory drum, pack your things, we are going back to the village!"
The winning drums were beating in a mess, and a group of bandits were singing weird tunes. Qin Xiaotian couldn't understand a word and asked: "Monkey, what song are you singing?"
"Victory song!" The monkey dragged Qin Xiaotian to a team, found a man and said, "Master Huang, this brother has surrendered to the village."
Mr. Huang was a small leader who was in charge of more than a dozen minions. He glanced at Qin Xiaotian up and down and said, "Monkey, this kid... I think he looks like a beggar. Well, what's his name?"
The monkey smiled and said: "My name is Xiaotian, he is very good at fighting."
Mr. Huang said nonchalantly: "You protect him? Then take him with you, and he will stay with me from now on."
It's really novel to be a bandit and have someone to protect you. Qin Xiaotian stepped forward and said, "Thank you, Mr. Huang."
Huang Ye waved his hand and said: "That's all, when you go up the mountain, you have to put your loyalty first, do you understand? If you are eating everything in and doing your work without doing your best, the military law in the village is not vegetarian, do you understand? Don't commit any crime, you must do it."
Otherwise, three swords and six holes... do you understand? Okay, go push the cart." This series of "do you understand" made Qin Xiaotian faint.
The bandits who went to pursue them came back one after another, and headed towards the village with several large vehicles.
After living in the village for two days, Qin Xiaotian realized that the place was called Qingfengling. The village was originally a mountain temple, which was expanded from the mountain temple. The terrain was not dangerous, and the village walls were spliced together with logs according to the terrain.
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Qingfengling Village is the largest group of bandits in the green forest in this area, with more than 700 people. It is divided into left and right villages. The main village has more than 400 people. There is a small village on the side of Gutou Peak with about 200 people.
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There are four village owners in Qingfengling Village, and the gangsters call them the eldest master, the second master, the third master, and the fourth master. So far, Qin Xiaotian has not figured out what their last names are.
After entering the village, he learned that the monkey Zhang Hou was the stove worker in the village's kitchen. His daily task was to chop wood and light the fire. He took Qin Xiaotian up the mountain just to find a helper. This time he went down the mountain to attack the caravan, and almost all the people in the village were mobilized.
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The kitchen stove is built on the back hillside. It is a large wooden house with three large stoves and two small stoves. The monkey is responsible for the firewood for the big stove.
There were a total of sixteen people in the kitchen, and the leader was Mr. Huang. On the first day when Qin Xiaotian went up the mountain, he and Monkey went to cut firewood.
Rather than cutting firewood, it is better to collect firewood. There are dry branches everywhere on the barren mountains in autumn. I have to carry two large bundles of firewood back every day. The monkeys basically do the lighting.
The bandits did not eat well, but there was no problem with being full, especially those who worked in the kitchen. Every night, Qin Xiaotian found a secluded place to practice. He did not want to sleep in a thatched shack with eight people per room.
, the smell inside is really unbearable.
The caravan's carts were filled with cloth, silk, wine, flour, rice, bacon, and a small amount of sea salt and iron blocks. One cart was filled with copper coins, about eight hundred taels of silver, and several more.
Ten pairs of oxen pulling the cart.
This was the biggest harvest in the village in recent years. The village owner was so happy that he gave each of the gangsters a piece of cloth, money, bacon and coarse salt and sent them all to the kitchen.
Because Qin Xiaotian was new here, he didn't get anything, but he didn't care. After the monkey stripped off the two sets of dead people's clothes, he washed them clean when he came back. He asked Mrs. Wei, who was working in the kitchen, to sew them, and specially changed one set and gave it as a gift.
To Qin Xiaotian.
The bandits never drilled. Once they formed a team, they would take turns to go out and lay off the roads. Those who stayed in the village would gather for gambling almost every day, and fights and troubles would continue. As long as no one was killed, the village owner would not care. The village was in a foul atmosphere all day long.
The kitchen is also a small world. There are more than a dozen people in total, but they are divided into several factions. The most impressive ones are Uncle Huang and the chef Fatty Wei.
Mr. Huang is the brother-in-law of the village owner, and Fatty Wei and Sister Wei are a couple. He was originally the chef of Fushenglou in Daming Mansion. On his way back to his hometown in Mizhou with his wife, he was kidnapped and taken up the mountain while passing by Qingfengling because he was good at cooking.
Dishes are specially cooked for the four village owners.
Qin Xiaotian usually doesn't talk much, and he never refuses the tasks assigned to him. He goes to practice as soon as it gets dark.
Recently, he found that his body was gradually getting stronger, and he felt like he was reborn, which led to a large increase in his food intake. When collecting firewood, he often shot a few pheasants and rabbits, and secretly barbecued with the monkeys in the wild.
There were very few things going on in the village. That day, Fatty Wei ordered: "Monkey, Xiaotian, go to the back mountain to get some pheasants and hares. I'll let others pick the firewood." Since Qin Xiaotian brought back a few pheasants and hares that he couldn't eat, Wei
Fatty and Mr. Huang both fell in love with it and asked them to go hunting in the back mountains every few days.
Once, after the leader of the village ate a braised pheasant, the two of them became full-time hunters. Mr. Huang specially transferred two minions to take over their original jobs.
Qin Xiaotian doesn't use bows and arrows when hunting, nor does he set traps. He just uses stones to hit him. The accuracy is so high that the monkeys can't believe it.
Monkey Zhang Hou likes to wander around the most. He asked with a smile: "Chef Wei, how many pheasants do you want?"
Fatty Wei waved his fat hand and patted the monkey on the shoulder, almost knocking him down. He said with a smile: "The more the merrier. If you can't eat it, I'll make a chicken with wind."
Qin Xiaotian turned around and came out. He was still thinking about cultivation in his heart.
He had a lot of free time here, which allowed him to think about various cultivation methods, recall the Jade Eye Slips he had come into contact with, as well as the alchemy methods for cultivation, and the medicinal materials needed for various spiritual elixirs.
Now, he does not need rare treasures, but the refining of low-level medicinal materials, which is something that must be learned when starting to practice cultivation.
He realized that no matter where he was, he had to have a skill in order to gain his status. Even if it was alchemy that he was least interested in, mastering this skill would be of great benefit to his future practice.
Monkey Zhang Hou was very excited. Since Qin Xiaotian went up the mountain, his luck seemed to have changed. He didn't have to cut and collect firewood every day, so he decided that Qin Xiaotian was his friend. This friend was very mysterious. Although he was small, he had a kind of saying "No"
The demeanor he showed made people feel very convinced.
The back mountain is quite large, with lush forests and no human habitation for dozens of miles. There are many wild animals here, not only pheasants and rabbits, but also wild animals such as wolves and foxes, and wild ducks and geese can also be seen from time to time.
Qin Xiaotian's eyesight is getting better and better. Often, while the monkey is still looking around, the stone in his hand will fly out. He soon catches five pheasants and three hares. He said: "Monkey, you send the prey back, I'm in the mountains."
Come on, leave me some dinner, and you can go gamble."
Almost everyone in the village does not gamble, and Monkey is no exception. He used to have no free time during the day, but now that Qin Xiaotian has his prey, he can finally join the gambling army.
He said: "Okay, I'll let Fatty Wei cook a pot of pheasant soup and leave a few big cakes. Brother, be careful." He carried the pheasant and hare and went back happily. (To be continued)