"Okay, this is the only way." Shen Qingqing looked back at He and the others, "You guys wait here, I'll go out to find someone."
"I'll accompany you." Meng Yuan said, "If we really encounter any trouble, I'm afraid you won't be able to take care of four children by yourself."
Shen Qingqing agreed, "That's right, let's go together."
Lazy Ball pouted and muttered: "Let's make it clear first, I am willing to bring Meng Yuan along for your sake, but it is different from that scumbag cat."
Shen Qingqing praised Sanlian without any soul: "Yeah, I understand, you are the most dedicated, you are the most obedient, and you are the best."
Lazy Ball moved his ears and said nothing, but his tail waggled even more happily.
The two men and one beast groped for a long time in the forest, and finally found four cubs and two wretched-looking men in front of a thorn bush.
Meng Yuan narrowed his eyes and quickly pulled out the soft sword from his waist. Before he could step forward to beat someone, there were shouts in the crowd. It was not the man yelling at his kid, but his kid yelling at the man.
"Can you lead the way? Can people walk on this road?" This was Meng Qiyu's voice, which was quite fierce.
The bearded man answered in a submissive manner: "We have only occupied this hilltop for a few days, and we are not very familiar with this area... Please forgive me."
"I didn't even know the way, so I just took over a hilltop and became a bandit, and I didn't even look in the mirror to see if I was worthy." This was Meng Qiyun's voice.
Meng Qixue echoed: "Yes, yes!"
The bearded man was still submissive: "My family is poor and I can't afford a mirror. How about you give me one?"
Shen Qingqing sneered, where did you find this sand sculpture?
When the four cubs heard the laughter, they raised their heads at the same time and shouted in surprise: "Dad! Mother!"
Shen Qingqing jumped over the thorn bushes and scolded as he walked: "What's wrong with you? Are you so wild that you don't even want your parents?"
Meng Qiyu raised the big orange above his head and sold it without hesitation, "Its brakes suddenly failed, causing us to fall and get stuck on the mountain. If Mom is angry, just punish it."
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Daju: "Meow, meow, meow! Wow!"
Everyone plays together. If he gets into trouble, he will take all the blame. If he is bullied, he can't speak, right?
"Don't do this. Let's go down the mountain first. Let's talk about the division of responsibilities in detail after we get down the mountain. Don't even try to hide from the review that needs to be written."
"Okay." Meng Qiyu silently put the big orange down again. The other three boys also looked disheveled and did not dare to refute a word.
The bearded man slowly moved to Scarface and whispered to him in a gloating tone: "Hey, I found that there seems to be no difference between gods and us mortals. They are all scolded by their parents."
"And you..." Shen Qingqing suddenly turned her head, and her sharp eyes fell on them, "Who are you two? Bandits? Robbers?"
The beard trembled, and he hugged Scarface's arm tremblingly and asked: "Brother, what should we do now?"
"How do I know what to do?" Scarface spread his hands. He couldn't beat so many people. Moreover, the knife was broken, so scaring people would have no deterrent effect.
At the moment of being in a dilemma, countless firelights suddenly lit up in the mountains and forests, densely packed like broken stars scattered in the Milky Way, too numerous to count.
What's going on?
Shen Qingqing was equally puzzled and turned her head to talk to Meng Yuan: "Has someone from the palace come?"
"Probably not. No ordinary person would be able to figure out this route." Meng Yuan looked around, pulled out the dagger at his waist again and said, "I'm going to see what's going on."
After saying this, without waiting for Shen Qingqing to respond, he quickly stepped into the harmonious night.
Not long after, he turned back again, carrying a thin young man in his hand.
Meng Yuan threw the person to the ground and interrogated him with a cold face: "Tell me, what are you here for?"
The man didn’t have the will to die rather than give in, so he confessed directly: “Suppress the bandits, we are here to go up the mountain to suppress the bandits!”
"Suppressing bandits?" Meng Yuan was startled, then looked back at the bearded man and the scarred face with an unkind look in his eyes, "He's looking for you?"
The bearded man made a sad face and was about to cry, "How could we possibly attract such a huge battle!"
There are just two bandits on a mountain, and they don't even have any decent weapons in their hands. Couldn't it be solved by just a few random people? Is it necessary to send so many people?
Isn't this killing a chicken with a knife?
Meng Yuan also thought of this, tightened the sword in his hand a little, and shouted in a deep voice to the man: "Tell the truth!"
"This is the truth." The expression on the man's face was more bitter than his beard, "I think you are a very upright man and have great skills, so don't be a bandit in this mountain. Come fight with us and make contributions."
Isn’t it better than highway robbery?”
Meng Yuan captured the key information from his words, turned around and looked at Shen Qingqing, his eyes gleaming, "Are you from General Zhao?"
Seeing that things were turning around, the man hurriedly said: "That's right. We just finished fighting the barbarians in Yuzhou, and we have to help the people suppress the bandits halfway. It's not easy. Think about it, give up the resistance, we are all Daqi
The people..."
Before he finished talking, Meng Yuan suddenly put away his sword and stretched out his hand to pull him up, "Brother, I have offended you so much. Please go and invite General Zhao here. We have something to discuss with him."
The man was confused, "Do you know General Zhao?"
"Friend." Meng Yuan spoke concisely and to the point.
The man murmured in his heart, wondering why General Zhao couldn't think of making friends with a group of bandits, but he still took out the flare in his arms and let it go.
As soon as the signal bomb went out, the scattered firelights in the mountains quickly gathered together, gradually surrounding them like a flowing sea of fire.
Soon, Zhao Ying led thousands of soldiers to appear on the mountainside. The fire was bright, illuminating the faces that were either surprised, excited, or confused.
"Meng Yuan, Mrs. Shen, why are you here?" And there are a group of children with you, what kind of trouble are you going to make?
"We will explain our affairs later. Let's deal with these two people first." Meng Yuan pointed at the bearded man and the scarred face who were hugging each other and shivering.
The mother-in-law who was following Zhao Ying saw the two of them, and her blood pressure jumped up. "It was them. I went to the mountain to collect firewood that day, and they blocked my way and wanted to steal my dry food!"
The bearded man retorted weakly: "I didn't grab it, didn't I?" Not only did he not grab it, but his head was smashed, and now reinforcements have been brought in to raid his home. Why is he so unlucky?
"I don't care if you grabbed it or not, but you are a damned bandit, and you should be scolded by thousands of people and beaten by thousands of people!"
Zhao Ying saw something was wrong and asked the mother-in-law: "So, there are only two bandits in this mountain?"
The mother-in-law shook her head, "I don't know how many there are, but I only saw two."
Zhao Ying looked at the dark group of people behind him and fell silent. Today's soldiers were a bit hasty.