While Su Di was entangled with Tang Tiande, Xu Wufu and others, Xu Huai hurried back to Xu Wujiang's house to get the long bow.
Liu Qiong'er also ran back to help, helping Xu Huai put on Xu Wuliang's old armor, and at the same time helped tie the quiver diagonally behind him; this was the fastest way to tie the arrows.
Liu Qiong'er was standing in the crowd just now, watching the reactions of Xu Wufu, Xu Heng and his son, worried that things would not end easily today, and asked worriedly: "If you stand alone, will you make them more unscrupulous?"
, are you asking Xu Wuliang to also stand up?"
"Uncle Wu Liang wants to stare into the darkness and cannot come forward now," Xu Huai said. "However, they are not prepared to risk their lives. I am enough to shock them!"
Liu Qiong'er didn't know where Xu Huai got his confidence, but she could only believe in him at this time.
Xu Huai put on his clothes, took out a horse, rode on it, and walked slowly towards the village gate.
"Clatter" horseshoes sounded from behind. The people gathered at the gate of the village turned around and saw Xu Huai wearing leather armor, carrying a long knife on his waist, carrying a quiver on his back, and holding a long bow in his hand, as if he was an unparalleled warrior standing across the lanes of the village.
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"You piece of shit, why are you here to join in the fun?"
Although Xu Zhongyu is the head of the household in Nanzhai, he usually follows Xu Wufu's lead. Just now, he was so stubborn that he refused to express his position, and he was very embarrassed when he was grabbed by a bunch of young people.
Seeing Xu Huai's appearance at this time, he thought that this idiot had come to cause trouble again. He was wearing armor and holding a bow as a general, so he jumped over and reached out to pull Xu Huai off the horse.
"You old dog, get out of here!" Xu Huai raised his foot and kicked Xu Zhongyu into a dog's shit. He was afraid of kicking him to death, so he didn't dare to use too much force.
"You dare to be rude to your fifth uncle, you are really rebelling! Xu Wukun, go and take down this piece of shit, and you will take care of it!" Xu Heng's thighs and crotch were still aching. Seeing Xu Huai's lawlessness, he jumped to his feet and shouted.
"Who dares to arrest someone?" Xu Huai stopped his horse, took out an arrow from his quiver, put it on the bowstring, and stared at everyone coldly.
"Xu Huai, put down your bow and arrows and quickly apologize to your fifth uncle." Xu Wukun thought Xu Huai was fooling around and pretended to be a scold.
"Whoosh!" The arrow came out of the string. The mud in front of Xu Wukun's feet was hard. He was hit by an arrow and splashed a little mud and sand.
Xu Huai knew that Xu Wukun had no intention of harming him, and was even worried that he would have no place in Lutai Village in the future before he stepped forward, but he could not let anyone get close to him at this time.
"Uncle Wu Kun! Don't force me to kill anyone."
"Xu Wukun, Xu Wufu, Xu Heng and Deng Gui colluded to frame my husband. You can't see it with your eyes, but you still want to help?" Su Di screamed without losing the opportunity.
Xu Wuqi stretched out his hand to stop Xu Wukun and said gloomily: "Let's see what trouble this bastard can do!"
Xu Wukun did not step forward again, but said bitterly to Su Di: "Don't try to harm Xu Huai."
Xu Heng shouted angrily from the side: "What does collusion and frame-up mean? Su Diniang, please explain clearly?"
"Deng Gui insulted my husband. You are the eldest son of our sect and an official in the state government. You don't want to redress my husband's grievances, but you allow officials to bully women and children. How come you are not colluding to harm each other? You are powerful and wealthy, I fight
But if you take my life, I have nothing to fear." Su Di pointed her finger at Xu Wufu and scolded.
Su Di was "reasoning" in front, while Xu Huai calmly took out another arrow from behind and put it on the string.
At this time, Xu Zhongyu groaned and wanted to get up, but he didn't want to put his hands on a piece of dog shit. He became so angry that his beard and hair were about to explode. He yelled: "You little bitch", and stood up to pounce on him again.
Xu Huai remained silent, swung his long bow sideways, pointed it at Xu Zhongyu's face, and looked at him coldly.
Xu Zhongyu's nephew hurriedly stepped forward and dragged him away, admonishing him: "Fifth uncle, why are you angry with this fool?"
"What's going on with this idiot who has a long bow in his hand and leather armor on his body?" Tang Tiande saw that Xu Wufu, Xu Heng and others were not tough. He thought he had a chance of victory and squinted at the long bow in Xu Huai's hand on the inside of the village gate.
Gong, stared at Xu Wufu and asked questions, urging him to hand over the favor quickly.
"There are three heavy crossbows and six sets of heavy armor in Lutai Village. Do you want Tang Dutou to ask what's going on?" Su Di asked coldly.
Tang Tiande had no choice but to swallow his words and said nothing.
Rural soldiers can be equipped with ordinary bows and arrows, leather armor, and divine arm crossbows during training. Heavy armor is prohibited, but heavy crossbows and heavy armor are really needed to attack and defeat enemies, which is very effective.
Not only does Lutai Village have private collections, but the Tang family doesn’t have some private collections of forbidden weapons?
"Xu Wukun, take this piece of shit down and take it to the ancestral hall to serve the family law!" Xu Heng was still unyielding to Xu Huai and urged Xu Wukun to arrest him.
"My eldest son, why bother asking outsiders to laugh?" Xu Wukun said with a bitter smile to Xu Heng.
If Xu Huai was not stubborn, Xu Wukun might have asked two people to detain Xu Huai first, hoping to wait for Xu Heng, Xu Zhongyu and others to get over their anger before finding someone to intercede.
But now that he saw Xu Huai's stubbornness, Xu Wukun was worried that forcibly detaining him would hurt someone, so he refused to do anything.
"You..." Xu Heng did not expect that Xu Wukun would not listen to his greeting and angrily urged others to come forward.
"Heng'er, please stop talking." Xu Wufu sternly stopped Xu Heng from giving any more random orders.
He knew very well:
Xu Wukun and others accompanied Xu Wuxuan when he became a bandit, and were incorporated into the Jingsheng Army together. If Xu Wuxuan had not died early, and Xu Huai was stupid and incompetent, Xu Wukun and others might not have been able to be used by him.
At this time, the tribesmen were all angry and indignant. How could they add fuel to the fire and force Xu Wukun to do something they didn't want to do?
Xu Wujiang and more than 20 military soldiers, their families are not all women and children, they also have brothers, cousins, and even many of their parents and uncles are still in their prime.
If there was no one to take the lead, Tang Tiande might really be able to arrest a few people from Yuhuangling today to "coordinate the investigation."
However, now Su Di was blocking the entrance to the village, looking for life and death, while Xu Huai was wearing armor and holding a bow, showing off a posture of killing whoever caught him, and the blood in everyone's body was ignited.
At this time, twenty or thirty people had gathered around with carrying poles, kitchen knives, iron hoes and other items from home. Su Laochang found a big guillotine from nowhere and was ready to give it a try.
Does Xu Wufu dare to order the banker to suppress all these people?
Isn't he afraid that the bankers will also make a fuss?
It is unrealistic to let Tang Tiande lead people in and forcibly arrest people. Will Xu Wukun and others sit back and watch Tang Tiande kill Nanzhai and bleed like a river?
Putting aside the friendship between Xu Wuxuan and the old soldiers of the Jingsheng Army, how many people in Lutai Village are not related to each other?
Thinking of this, Xu Wufu also knew that he had no other escape option today. He stared at Tang Tiande with a gloomy face and asked:
"Tang Dutou, you said you came here on the order of Deng Langjun, but do you have Deng Langjun's warrant? Furthermore, even if Xu Wujiang really surrendered to the bandits, Deng Langjun should have reported the matter to the county, and Cheng Zhixian would have dispatched the Yamen
I was sent here to ask why Deng Langjun inquired about this case privately?"
As an inspection envoy, Deng Gui led soldiers to prepare for banditry. At the same time, he also served as the town supervisor in Huaiyuan. He could organize troops to kill and round up bandits and plunderers, and he could also interrogate business travelers passing through the border to investigate tax evasion and smuggling.
Deng Gui could intervene in ordinary cases and ordinary disputes in the market.
However, there is no reason why the prefecture and county would continue to delegate power to Deng Gui to deal with such serious cases as the patrol inspector's soldiers surrendering to bandits.
"Why, Xu Langjun wants to deal with Tang Mou today? You must have thought clearly about what crimes Xu Wujiang is involved in!"
Tang Tiande was usually afraid of Xu Wufu and told him "rules", but he was convinced that Xu Wujiang had surrendered to the bandits, especially since the bandits in Hutou Village continued to commit major crimes.
This won't be tolerated.
At this time, he wished he could involve the entire Xu clan. How could he be afraid that Xu Wufu would use "rules" to suppress him?
Although there are many cattle-raising families in Tongbai Mountain and the conditions are not too restrictive, if you want to raise good horses, the Yuhuangling grassland has natural advantages that other places do not have.
Lutai Village produces only a few dozen good horses every year, but the rich and powerful compete for them, so the price of good horses is high.
There are few places on the entire South Beijing Road that can produce good horses. Every year, dozens of good horses are used as signs, making the mule and horse market run by Xu's company famous.
This is the key to the Xu family's financial strength in Tongbai Mountain being comparable to that of the Tang family.
Tang Tiande couldn't help but think that if the case could involve all the Xu family, the Tang family might not be able to capture Yuhuangling, but as long as they fight over the mule and horse markets in Huaiyuan, Biyang and other places, it wouldn't be hundreds of taels a year.
A small profit of money.
Xu Wufu had no way out today, so he could only toughen up and said in a cold voice: "No matter what the charge is, it's not your turn to point fingers at Tang Dutou!"
"Does Tang insist on arresting people today?" Tang Tiande asked.
No matter how Xu Wujiang's incident is dealt with in the future, the Tongbaishan clan has been fighting openly and secretly for many years. How could Xu Wufu ask Tang Tiande to climb on his head to shit and pee? He said coldly: "Tang Dutou can give it a try, don't blame him."
You’re welcome, Xu.”
"Capture Xu Wujiang's parents and his wife, the Su family, to help investigate the case. Who dares to stand in the way, in order to liaise with the bandits..." Before Tang Tiande could finish the order, he heard a "swish" sound coming through the air.
Tang Tiande has been somewhat neglected in recent years, but his vigilance as a warrior has not been lost. At that moment, his face was forced back a few inches, and an iron clustered arrow flew past the tip of his nose like a meteor. The arrow cluster brought out the wind.
The shave made his face numb.
Tang Tiande was frightened and broke out in a cold sweat. He turned around and saw that Xu Huai had already held three more feather arrows in his hands at the same time. The bow strings were ringing continuously, and the three feather arrows were shooting towards his door like meteors.
"ah!"
Tang Tiande didn't dare to show off. He didn't care about the embarrassment and rolled off the horse. However, his movements were a little too slow. An arrow pierced his scalp and the scarf was torn off along with a strand of hair.
Tang Tiande touched his head with blood on his hands. He panicked and grabbed a shield from the soldiers behind him before he dared to stand up.
Tang Tiande knew that he couldn't reason with Xu Huai, so he yelled at Xu Wufu: "Xu Wufu, you piece of shit, we are here on behalf of the Inspection Department, if you have the guts today, surround us and kill us here.
Let’s see if Mr. Deng Lang will punish you and the nine Xu clans after he goes to Zhouzhou County!”
"Xu Huai, you idiot, stop it!" Xu Wufu shouted angrily.
If Tang Tiande is really going to die here, regardless of how the lawsuit between the state and county is fought, how many casualties will there be if the Xutang clan engages in a large-scale armed fight in Tongbai Mountain?
"Master, you are not polite!" Xu Huaiweng said in a loud voice.
Xu Wufu is going to make this idiot crazy, I'm fucking bluffing, you stupid ass, do you take it seriously?
Oh my god, he was afraid of irritating Xu Huai, so he didn't dare to ask someone to take the long bow from Xu Huai's hand for the time being.
Xu Wukun stared at the long bow in Xu Huai's hand in a daze for a while, and then looked at Xu Wuqi beside him with some uncertainty: Xu Huai just opened his bow and shot three arrows in a row, was it because he was dazzled?
Xu Wuqi's falcon-like eyes suddenly narrowed at this moment, staring intently at the long bow in Xu Huai's hand.
