Zhao Ying raised his hand and directed his men, "Catch them both and send them to the nearest government office."
"No!" The bearded man took a long stride and rushed to him, kneeling down. "We didn't mean to be bandits. We...we were really helpless!"
"I have heard of driving ducks to the shelves and forcing good girls into prostitution. I have never heard of forcing people to go up the mountain to become bandits. Why, someone put a knife to your neck and drove you here?"
"That's not true..." The bearded man shrank his neck in fear, "But the common people do have compelling reasons."
Zhao Ying glared with a fierce look, "Say! If you are really justified, I will make the decision to spare you. If you dare to make up nonsense to get out of crime, you will spend the rest of your life in prison!"
The bearded man shrank his neck again, and told his tragic deeds in an aggrieved manner: "The grassroots are from Dahuang Village in the north of Liangshan. When I was a child, I had no parents and no mother. I grew up eating the food of hundreds of families. When I grew up, I opened up wasteland and planted two acres.
For rice, the land flooded and there was no harvest."
"Later, I raised a group of chickens. The chickens were no bigger than the size of a hand, but they all died due to chicken plague. My neighbor's aunt felt sorry for me and gave me an egg-laying hen. However, the egg-laying hens stopped laying eggs when they arrived at my house."
The bearded man thumped his chest, his eyes welling up with tears, "I've been raised to death, and planted to withered, but in the end I was forced to have no choice but to go up the mountain and become a bandit, and I was hungry after all.
Immortal."
"You don't seem to be that good at being a bandit. You're so stupid." Meng Qiyun stabbed him in the heart again.
The bearded man finally couldn't hold himself tight anymore and cried loudly, "General, I swear! In the five days I went into the mountains to be a bandit, I only robbed this mother-in-law of her dry food, and that's not all. I spent the rest of the time eating wild vegetables.
Look, my face is turning green."
Zhao Ying frowned and was speechless for a long time. After listening for a long time, he managed to say: "Is there really such an unlucky person?" Why didn't he believe it?
"It's true." The speaker this time was the old woman who had been robbed of her food. She pinched her sleeves and cried until her eyes turned red. "I've heard of this kid. He is a famous unlucky guy in eight villages across the country. He is nicknamed "Miscellaneous San Wu" by others.
, a rotten bastard who has no father, no mother, and no home..."
"Auntie, please stop talking, otherwise I'm going to hit a tree." Bearded man clasped his hands together and begged her in tears.
"You are you too!" My mother-in-law glared at him while wiping away her tears. "Just tell me when you are hungry. No matter how hard it is, I will make you stutter. As for robbing you with a knife?"
The bearded man argued in a low voice with tears in his eyes: "Don't I just want to earn a living with my own hands?"
Zhao Ying couldn't stand listening anymore and shouted loudly: "Others rely on their own craftsmanship to make a living, what does that mean to you?"
"He uses his life to make fun of himself." Meng Qiyu silently helped him complete the second half of the sentence.
The bearded man raised his head and wanted to say something else, but was rudely interrupted by Zhao Ying before he could open his mouth, "Stop saying anything, pack your things and go down the mountain immediately, and never do this kind of thing again! And you..."
He turned his head and glared at Scarface who was hiding aside, "What's going on with you? Are you an unlucky guy like him?"
Scarface quickly shook his head, "No, I'm not unlucky. I came with him. I've never done anything bad."
Zhao Ying glanced at the ferocious scar on his face and snorted coldly: "With the scar on his face, he doesn't look like a good person, take him away!"
"No, no, no, I'm lying!" Scarface hugged the tree with one hand and wiped his face frantically with the other. The brown-black scar turned into a paste after rubbing, "Look, I painted it deliberately to scare people."
Fake scar!"
Now it was Beard's turn to be dumbfounded, "Didn't you say that the scar on your face was left when you killed the Wolf King?"
Scarface covered his face and did not dare to look at him, "I made it up to trick you into thinking you are my little brother."
"You, you, you...liar, I will fight with you!" Bearded Beard was furious and rushed forward to fight with Scarface.
Zhao Ying looked at the two people in front of him. You punched me and I slapped you. He frowned and frowned again, and both eyebrows were twisted into twists. What happened every day.
He was obviously here to suppress bandits, but instead he ended up watching two heartless older children fighting each other, leaving him speechless.
"If you two continue to fight, I will have someone take you to the Yamen."
The two of them stopped at the same time, not daring to move.
"If you don't want to fight, pack your things and go down the mountain!" Zhao Ying glanced at the two of them fiercely, softened his expression and said to Meng Yuan and Shen Qingqing: "Let's go down too. If we have anything to say, go down the mountain."
Someone was clearing the way in front, so the way down the mountain became much smoother. Within the time of a stick of incense, everyone gathered at the foot of the mountain.
Zhao Ying asked his deputy He Wei to lead the thousands of subordinates who came to suppress the bandits to leave early, while he stayed at the foot of the mountain to discuss matters with Meng Yuan.
The old woman also followed the large army, but the bearded man and the scarred face refused to leave. They followed Meng Qiyu with a broken package on their backs, but stopped talking.
After twisting back and forth a few times, Meng Qiyu got tired, turned around, put her hands on her hips, and asked fiercely: "Why are you following me?"
The bearded man arched his waist with a flattering smile, "Little Fairy Boy, didn't we agree that I will take you down the mountain and you can help us realize a wish?"
"Did you take us down the mountain?" Meng Qiyu asked.
The bearded man muttered: "Is it okay to take half of it?"
Meng Qiyu originally wanted to reject it outright, but the look in his eyes was too pitiful and she couldn't bear it, so she changed her words and said: "Tell me your wish first."
The bearded man smiled brightly, "I want endless money and endless food!"
Meng Qiyu: "..."
He shouldn't be so soft-hearted.
"You'd better find a shabby thatched hut and lie down to die."
"No!" The bearded man quickly grabbed him, "Then let me change my wish... I want to be your little brother. The requirements are not high, as long as you eat meat and give me soup to drink."
"Me too!" Scarface was not to be outdone, "My requirements are lower than Li Si's. You eat meat and give me the bones."
Meng Qiyu raised his eyebrows with a look of disgust on his face, "You two should just go begging for food on the streets. This is the most suitable career I can think of for you."
As he spoke, he put his little hand into his sleeve pocket and touched it.
The bearded man saw him touching his pocket, and waved his hands in a pretentious manner, saying, "Oh, I'm so embarrassed. I'm such an old man, and I still have to charge you for the money of a child..."
But he honestly stretched out his hand in front of Meng Qiyu. Before he finished speaking, two pieces of dried fruit fell into the palm of his hand.
Meng Qiyu waved his hand to him generously, "That's all, save some. Goodbye."
The bearded man was dumbfounded. Where was his money? Where was his heavy, vain money?
"You don't want to eat, right? If you don't want to eat, I will." Scarface reached out to grab his dried fruit, which frightened him so much that he quickly put it into his mouth and chewed it.
"Wow, this thing is so fragrant, sweet, and delicious!" Beard slapped his thigh and said loudly: "I have decided, I will follow the little fairy boy from now on!"