Chapter 1096: Does koi bring blessing or disaster (48)
Boss Tu's order was very effective. After the order was passed, the bandits were arguing about how inconvenient it was at night and whether they could clean it up tomorrow, but they didn't act perfunctory and started cleaning up.
The village became noisier.
Boss Tu ordered not to disturb him, and all his men retreated outside the courtyard gate. He went out through another small door in the courtyard and left the village through the back mountain.
Zihua didn't follow him first because someone watched Boss Tu enter the back mountain.
This man is the third leader of the bandits, named Wan San.
The eldest brother is called Tu Laoda, the sixth is called Liu Zi, and the third is called Wan San. The aliases of bandits are also very informal.
After Wan San watched Boss Tu leave, he also entered the back mountain.
Zihua followed because she saw Wan San carrying a kestrel in his arms.
According to the memory of the fifth master, Wan San was fond of raising birds. He trained five or six birds of different species and kept them in his house like babies, eating and sleeping with them.
This kestrel is unusual.
Wan San and Tu Boss walked in different directions, and after walking for less than a quarter of an hour, Wan San looked around and let go of the kestrel in his arms.
Wan San watched the kestrel disappear and turned back to the village.
He would not know that the kestrel had fallen into Yuhua's hands.
Zihua took off the bamboo tube tied to Kestrel's leg and took out a piece of paper from it. There were only a few simple sentences on it, saying that more than a hundred people in the village who came down from the mountain to have a tooth ceremony were all killed. It was not the work of the garrison, maybe.
There is another force.
After Zhou Hua read it, she folded the note and put it in, and then placed the kestrel again.
The direction of the kestrel's flight is outside the mountain.
This is interesting. Boss Tu went deep into the mountains, and Wan San went to deliver a secret message outside the mountains.
Obviously, the two of them are not from the same force.
Zihua marked Tu Boss and quickly followed him.
Boss Tu looked tall and thick, but he was very agile and could walk quickly on mountain roads at night. He also had a certain awareness of precautions. Sometimes he would suddenly turn back while walking and take a closer look before continuing on his way.
After walking for an hour, Mr. Tu walked into a winding and narrow mountain crevice.
Boss Tu stopped in the middle of the mountain crevice for a while to make sure no one was following him, and then he left the mountain crevice.
There are people guarding the other side of the mountain gap.
The destination has been reached, and there is no need for Yuhua to follow Boss Tu.
Zihua climbed over the top of the mountain from above the crack in the mountain.
Below is a valley surrounded by mountains.
The valley is very open and flat, with a small lake inside. One side of the small lake is green and shaded, and the scenery is good. On the other side, there are piles of rocks and gravel pits everywhere. A large area of the mountain next to it has been dug up, and the rocks inside are exposed.
The valley is not empty. It is dotted with lights and lined with rows of wooden houses and simple sheds, housing at least several thousand people.
Zihua recognized the blast furnace built next to the pile of rocks, which was used to refine iron ore.
There is also a workshop for making ironware next to it.
Obviously, these people are digging iron ore privately.
Private mining of iron ore is not allowed, and it is illegal to confiscate the property and exterminate the clan. No wonder these people are so mysterious.
This valley is truly a geomantic treasure. Not only does it contain iron ore, but it also contains coal, which allows them to mine the iron ore and then refine and shape it into iron tools on the spot.
It is not easy to transport iron ore from the mountains, but it is much easier to refine it into iron tools.
Not all of the thousands of people living here are here to mine, most of them are well-trained sergeants.
The purpose of these people is obvious, they want to rebel.
Zihua sneaked outside the house where Boss Tu was and listened to the conversation. It was Boss Tu who was reporting the affairs in the village to a man he called the Little Prince.
She let go of her mental energy to find the information she wanted to know, and left.
She returned directly to Weishan Village and did not attack the bandits in Longfeng Village.
As long as there are people in the valley, she will kill all the bandits in Longfeng Village, and a new group of bandits will appear soon.
And it is very likely to attract revenge from the people in the valley to the people in Weishan Village.
In order not to attract the attention of the government, they may switch from overt killing to covert killing. People in Weishan Village must leave the village.
Unless she kills everyone in the valley.
If we say that the people in the valley are the praying mantises, there is at least one force secretly acting as the oriole.
She didn't want to act rashly and make someone's wedding dress in vain.
Judging from the information she found, the young prince turned out to be the son of Prince Huai.
It is said that after King Huai failed to launch a rebellion, he set fire to the palace of King Huai, not wanting to be caught, and the whole house was burned to death.
Now it seems that King Huai set the fire and used the cicada's trick to escape.
King Huai's successful escape was related to the instability of the court at that time.
Two days after the death of King Huai, the late emperor passed away and appointed King Jing as emperor before his death.
This was beyond the expectations of many ministers, because not many people were optimistic about King Jing.
The late emperor gave King Jing the word "Jing", which can already show that King Jing did not like the late emperor.
Many ministers placed their bets on the other princes who were more popular with the late emperor. King Chen, who was the eldest son, King Su, who held military power, and King Liang, who had the style of the late emperor.
However, before the death of the late emperor, he appointed King Jing in front of several important ministers, and the edict could not be changed.
The ministers were dissatisfied, and the other princes were even more dissatisfied. Although there was no more King Huai to force the palace, the court was still in turmoil for a while.
Therefore, the death of King Huai was ignored and no one bothered to investigate further.
Not only did King Huai survive, but several of his sons survived.
King Huai was unwilling to fail and started to rebel again.
He discovered this iron mine and built a secret base here that integrated mining and sergeant training.
There is a small lake in this valley, and many animals come to drink water every day. In the past, hunters often came here to hunt prey.
Boss Tu was originally a mountain bandit. He was recruited by King Huai and made him the king of the mountains in this area. The purpose was to prevent people from entering the mountains and avoid exposing the secrets of the valley.
People who go deep into the mountains are basically people from the surrounding villages, so bandits go down to the mountains every year to rob the surrounding mountain villages to scare the villagers so that they don't dare to go deep into the mountains near the iron mines.
Weihua didn't want to get involved, as long as the bandits didn't come to provoke Weishan Village.
Listen to the young prince and ask Boss Tu not to retaliate against Weishan Village, so as not to attract the emperor's attention.
The young prince found out that the new guard was not in the camp. The people who entered the stronghold last time might be the new guard, so he asked Boss Tu to evacuate to another stronghold.
Boss Tu also thinks the same way.
Revenge for your dead brother? Boss Tu didn't even mention this word. How much sense of loyalty can you expect from a group of bandits who make a living by killing and looting? If Weishan Village wasn't a tough opponent, they might go and kill another bandit.
By the way, I wanted to avenge my dead brother.
In this case, Zihua will not take action against the bandits for the time being.