In the past few days, apart from rectifying the rebel army and fighting with Yuan's army, Xu Yue spent the rest of the time sitting in the vegetable market, personally supervising and beheading the rangers who had committed crimes.
She wants to control the wrongful kill rate to less than 0.01, restore the Xu family's prestige, and appease the people in the city.
The residents of Hejian County had never heard of such a hands-on leader, so out of curiosity, they boldly walked around Caishikou to catch a glimpse of the female leader of the Xu Family Army.
Xu Yue sat at Caishikou for several days, and now almost all the people in the city didn't recognize her.
"The one wearing a short shirt, showing her arms, combing her hair in a ponytail, and holding a big sword in her hand is the female leader of the Xu family army." Residents who have met Xu Yue described this to neighbors who dare not go out.
The neighbor asked in surprise: "Isn't it a three-headed, six-armed man with a black face and a loud mouth?"
Residents who had met Xu Yue retorted angrily: "What nonsense are you talking about? Their leader is a decent-looking girl. If I hadn't seen her kill people without blinking an eye, I would have felt that she is no different from my daughter."
The neighbor sneered: "There are a bunch of bandits on the left and right. I don't care whether she has a loud mouth or a straight face. I just hope that if they don't talk nicely, they will come back to ask for ransom money and murder heads."
The resident waved his hands and said with certainty: "No, the leader said that there was a group of rangers who mingled with the Xu family army and caused trouble. Now the ranger leaders have been killed. I saw it in person at Caishikou the day before yesterday."
"It was Boss Mo who came to your house to search and kicked and injured your father. His hands and hamstrings were severed. The leader took a knife and committed suicide himself."
Speaking of this, the resident clicked his tongue, looked very strange, and said with admiration and a hint of disgust:
"The female leader of the Xu family army is much more ruthless than Boss Mo. She really kills people without batting an eye. With a swing of the knife, Boss Mo's head fell to the ground. Not a drop of blood was stained on her body. She turned around and still spoke in a gentle voice.
What you say is scary."
"It looks real to me. Didn't you come here to distribute food to us these days? I heard that all the redemption deeds will be written in these days. Those who can't pay the money will have to work for Xu Jiajun in exchange for money to redeem themselves. No.
Killed."
The main thing is that the gentry from the aristocratic families in this city have already run away, and those who were killed have been killed, and there is no longer any chance to kill them.
When the neighbors heard these words, they were doubtful and asked, "Then you really don't kill people randomly?"
"No more killing!"
"Hey, how are you going to live in the future?"
"I heard from my father-in-law in Youzhou that if you follow the Xu family army, your life will definitely be better than before."
"But the ransom money..."
"You're stupid, it's okay if you don't redeem yourself!"
"Then working for Xu Jiajun will really earn you food?"
Of course there is!
Xu Yue and others brought back the twenty-five thousand stones of grain that had fallen into the river. Together with the grain and grass she asked Boss Wu and others to buy, it was completely enough to sustain the next needs of Hejian County.
The remnants of Yuan's army surrounding Hejian County are now being chased by Xu Dalang's men, and Hejian County is now under the control of Xu's army.
And Gongsun's army is probably about to meet the Xu family's army heading south at this moment, right?
Xu Yue stared at the execution platform, her thoughts already drifting away, waiting for the next news from Aunt Wang Pingping.
Just as he was thinking about it, Liuzi came over and bowed with his fists clasped.
Xu Yue came back to her senses and turned to look at him.
"Chief, the people in the cell want to see you because it's about Yuan Song." Liuzi said and handed over Yuan Song's white jade pendant.
At the same time, he looked around and saw no trace of his ancestor, so he breathed a sigh of relief.
He must have been busy processing redemption deeds for the residents in the city.
Xu Yue took the jade pendant and took a look. It was a white jade flawless with Yuan Song written on it. It was a good jade pendant and should be worth a lot of money.
"Confiscate it." Xu Yue handed it to the third junior brother behind him, a man in his early thirties, nicknamed Wu Jing.
Hejian County is the base camp of the Huokang Gang. All of Xu Da's direct disciples are here, with more than a hundred descendants. It took Xu Yue many days to recognize half of them.
These Huokang Clan disciples are loyal to their ancestor, and they are also obedient to her, a young senior sister. Apart from their generally low cultural level and being a bit dull, they are quite reliable in their work.
Now the eldest disciple, Sun Ashan, is still recovering from his illness, and the second disciple, Zhu Bajie, is busy writing a redemption deed in the city with Xu Da, the founder.
The third disciple, Wu Jing, was responsible for following Xu Yue to help manage the entrance and exit of the treasury and work part-time as an accountant.
Among Xu Da's direct disciples, only three of them have a relatively high level of education, and most of the remaining disciples can only recognize a few words.
Liu Zi was the young apprentice of Yu Tiezhu, a disciple of Sun Ashan. They both studied in Youzhou Literacy Class, so Xu Yue asked him to help with running errands and so on.
As for Yu Tiezhu, because he had combat experience, he was taken out by Xu Dalang to pursue the defeated Yuan's army.
Wen Qing and Boss Wu came back to deliver food and weapons, and Boss Wu is now leading the mission again.
Wen Qing led the members of the drama troupe to organize the original academy in the city, find people to build a paper mill, and prepare for Xu Jiajun's propaganda work.
Xu Yue also collected the books and classics collected by the academy, planning to wait until Jizhou was completely captured and copy them before exchanging energy fruits with the technology tree.
Wu Jing took the white jade pendant handed over by Xu Yue, took out the small account book he carried with him, registered it, and nodded to Xu Yue, "It has been recorded in the book."
Xu Yue hummed and asked Wu Jing, who had come to pay her accounts, to go ahead and then look down at the supervisor's stage.
The disciples from the Huokang Gang who came from the cell stood there uneasily. When they saw her looking over, they hurriedly raised their hands and bowed slightly.
"You keep an eye on it for me." Xu Yue stood up, asked Liu Zi to help him check the kill list, and walked off the stage.
"Chief!" The disciple in the cell called excitedly.
"The smell of blood here is too strong, let's go to the side and talk." Seeing that the prison disciple was not wearing a mask, Xu Yue led her to the empty alley next to Caishikou and asked doubtfully:
"What did Yuan Song say? How is his condition?"
He had been hungry for three days and was only given some water. The Jizhou herdsman, who was used to living well, might not be able to endure it.
The disciples in the cell looked at Xu Yue with admiration and told everything about Yuan Song's situation in the cell.
"He wants to see me?" Xu Yue raised her eyebrows, "It's only been three days and he can't hold on any longer. Then let him dry out for another two days and give him some gruel first so as not to starve him to death."
The prison disciple nodded, turned around and returned to the cell.
When Yuan Song saw the cell door open, the disciple who had received his jade pendant came in. He was lying on the straw mat and was drowsy and got up with a start.
"Does the leader want to see me?" Yuan Song asked excitedly.
Unexpectedly, the disciple just put down a bowl of white porridge for him, got up and left without saying a word.
The cell door was closed, and darkness came as expected. Yuan Song was extremely disappointed and cursed angrily: "Shu Zi!"
