Li Yuyan always had a long face. He pulled Lin Xiao aside and asked in a low voice:
"Do you know this bandit leader?"
"Well, we know each other."
"What does it mean to know each other? Tell me the truth, do you really want them to participate in making and selling salt?"
Speaking of this, Li Yuyan's face became more serious.
Lin Xiao frowned slightly and asked:
"Why not? They were all good farmers. As long as they are willing to turn back, I think there is nothing wrong with giving them a chance."
"Besides, they must have gained some skills from being bandits over the years. When the time comes, they can also act as half bodyguards when they go out to deliver goods and so on. How safe they will be!"
After hearing what Lin Xiao said, Li Yuyan's expression relaxed a little:
"I hope they can really change their ways!"
"Don't worry, no one will have trouble with Yinzi! If they taste the sweetness of normal life, who will continue to be bandits?"
"But my side..."
When Li Yuyan came back this time, his original plan was to ask Lin Xiao to teach him the core techniques of making salt, but unexpectedly Lin Xiao did not do so.
He could only retreat and let his people join the salt-making workshop that Lin Xiao was about to open.
In this way, he can rely on Lin Xiao's power to hoard a large amount of funds for his next plan.
Originally the plan would proceed smoothly, but unexpectedly Cheng Yaojin showed up halfway, which made Li Yuyan quite depressed.
How could the clever Lin Xiao not know Li Yuyan's thoughts?
She held Li Yuyan's rough hand and said solemnly:
"Don't worry, as long as you can sell the salt, I will only charge you the cost price and I will never treat you badly!"
With Lin Xiao's words, Li Yuyan finally let go of the stone in his heart and showed a relaxed expression on his face.
On the other side, Linjia Village has already fallen out.
Aunt Wu wanted to get the village chief to send someone up the mountain to find Lin Xiaowu.
But the village chief is not an idiot. When he heard Yu Xilin say that Lin Xiao went up the mountain with Li Yuyan to pay the ransom, he knew that he could not send anyone to interfere with this matter.
What if because of his recklessness, the bandits had evil intentions and killed Lin Xiao and others, wouldn't they lose both their wives and their troops?
So, the village chief ordered the whole village not to go up the mountain or to search.
How dare the villagers disobey his orders?
Everyone has calmed down.
Even without the village chief's order, the villagers would not dare to rush up the mountain!
After all, those are bandits, not a good person!
When Aunt Wu saw that the village chief refused to save her, she was so angry that she wiped away her tears and greeted all the eighteen generations of Lin Xiao, the village chief and others at home.
"Xiao Linzi, you son of a bitch, if it weren't for you, would my little Wuzi have been captured by the bandits?"
"And you are an old fool. You always bully us because of your status as village chief. Now, okay, the bandits are here. It's fine if you don't help to find us. But you still want to stop us. Damn it."
ah!"
"I curse you to die a good death!"
"Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu My poor little Wuzi, my little Wuzi, how did you meet these bandits? Wuuuuu."
"Mom, crying will hurt your health, you..."
Mrs. Lin Xiaowu quickly persuaded her.
But before she finished speaking, Aunt Wu rushed over again and slapped Mrs. Lin Xiaowu hard several times.
"You stinking bitch, what do you know? Let me tell you, if Xiao Wuzi has any shortcomings, I will fight you to the death!"
"No, it's none of my business, it's not me..."
Mrs. Lin Xiaowu covered the beaten half of her face and cried in grievance.
"Why is it none of your business? If you stop my little Wuzi, will my little Wuzi encounter bandits? You bitch, if something happens to my little Wuzi, I will throw you into the river and feed him
fish!"
"No, it wasn't me. I really don't know."
…
From time to time, insults were heard in the yard of Aunt Wu's house, and sometimes a woman's cries of grievance were heard, making the noise clear to the surrounding neighbors.
The widowed aunt was sitting in the yard picking vegetables. When she heard the noise coming from Aunt Wu's house, she curled her lips in disdain:
"Bah! You still have the nerve to call me a black-hearted mother-in-law. If something happens to your son, why don't you put all the blame on your daughter-in-law? A shrew is a shrew, nothing else!"
At this time, Lin Da walked in from outside with cheerful steps.
"Where did you die, you unlucky guy? Did you know that you have to go to Zhoujia Village to see a girl tomorrow?"
The widowed aunt complained.
Ever since Lin Da woke up from a coma after being flooded, he seemed like a different person. He didn't go to work in the fields, he didn't make coarse salt and sell it to Mazi, and he didn't go to Lin Xiao to sell the salt on credit.
In short, he is like a bastard, doing nothing all day long and running out whenever he has nothing to do.
Lin Da chuckled twice and said:
"Listen to your mother!"
When the widowed aunt heard this, she suddenly showed a look of surprise:
"Son, you, do you agree?"
No wonder the widowed aunt was surprised.
After Lin Da fell into the well and woke up, he learned that Han Xi'er not only divorced him, but also became Mazi's concubine.
Lin Da didn't cry or make any fuss, but he was extremely disgusted with his widowed aunt arranging marriage arrangements for him.
Today, Lin Da seems like a normal man and agrees to go see this girl.
"Well, mother, let's go see this girl. Is everything ready? Don't lose your etiquette! We are not short of money!"
"Don't worry, mother has arranged all the arrangements for you! Although Xiao Linzi gave us five taels of silver when we divorced, plus the one tael of wages he gave us in advance, he didn't ask for it back. The total was six taels of silver, which is enough.
I’m here to tell you a wife!”
As the widowed aunt spoke, her eyes narrowed to a slit, as if her plot had succeeded.
He didn't notice a sly smile flashing across Lin Da's lips.
Sixty taels of silver is nothing!
If nothing else happens, after tonight, he will become a nouveau riche with fifty taels of silver!
That's right, the person who secretly tipped off Gao Jin's bandits was none other than Lin Da!
He clearly remembered who kicked him into the well.
I also remember who got involved in his and Han Xi'er's life just because they were rich, and forced them to separate with tempting conditions.
He will definitely avenge this!
…
Lin Xiao and others led Gao Jin and more than 20 bandits down the mountain in great force.
Along the way, through the descriptions of Gao Jin and several bandits, everyone was basically able to confirm that the informer was Lin Da!
"Damn it, it's him, the bastard, I have to skin him this time!"
Lin Xiaowu said bitterly.
Li Yuyan said nothing, but in his heart he had already sentenced Lin Da to death.
Lin Xiao had a solemn look on his face, constantly reflecting on whether he had really done something wrong.
As soon as the group came down the mountain, they met several villagers who were about to return to the village.
When they saw Lin Xiao and the bandit leader pointing at Linjia Village, they couldn't help but feel numb and hurriedly sneaked back to the village from the alley.
When they arrived at the village entrance, they finally dared to shout loudly: