Chapter 379: Talking at night while holding candles 1
"Fuck your mother!" Ah Xiao slammed the table and interrupted an old man.
In the lobby at this time, there was a person with a solemn face. They could all hear clearly what the old man said just now, and he was talking about the major events that had happened in Hezhou recently.
"You continue." Thirteenth Niang sat on the main seat, her face showing neither happiness nor anger.
"That's all about Thirteen Niangs. The rest are about Mr. Zhou Mu's chaotic private life. There's nothing else." The old man shook his head, as if remembering something, and added: "My grandson went to the city to play.
I seem to have seen a lot of officers and soldiers maintaining order in the city, but I have never seen so many people at other times, asking questions everywhere."
"Yes, I understand." Thirteenth Niang nodded and said to Aunt Li: "Aunt Li, give Uncle Wang some soft drinks."
"Thank you Thirteenth Mother." After Uncle Wang thanked her, he followed Aunt Li to collect his reward.
Uncle Wang is an old man who once went up the mountain. Later, he came down for various reasons. He returned to his duties as an honest farmer at the foot of the east mountain of Black Tiger Mountain. He occasionally helped the village and listened to some things in exchange for reward. Those scattered things in Black Tiger Mountain
Most of the farmers at the foot of the mountain have some relationship with the mountain. With the destruction of those mountains, many farmers had to choose to leave.
"Thirteenth Niang, this is obviously spreading rumors." A Xiaoyi said angrily.
"Just make rumors. How can you go to the government and sue them for defamation? We are bandits." Thirteenth Niang said calmly: "But one thing is certain, Mr. Zhou Mu is indeed dead, and he was killed by us.
that."
As she said this, she looked up at Lu Yu, who was looking thoughtful. She was not questioning but wondering. She couldn't figure out such doubts. She wanted someone to give her an explanation. This person was Lu Yu, who was the smartest person in the mountain.
"That person is indeed He Ziming. I know him even if he turned into ashes. As for saying that he is Zhou Mu, I don't believe it. That position can't be obtained just by bribery. To the extent that I know him, he doesn't
That ability." Lu Yu was silent for a while and continued: "Black Tiger Mountain may be in big trouble."
"What's the trouble?" Ah Xiao asked nervously.
"If the imperial court determines that Hezhou Zhoumu died at the hands of the Black Tiger Mountain bandits, then we have to..."
"Just what?"
"You have to leave here as soon as possible." Lu Yu said decisively.
"leave??!"
Hearing this, everyone present began to talk, but most of them talked about resisting or hiding in the mountains, not believing that they would be able to find him, and these decisions had to be made by Thirteenth Niang.
"We don't have much time. They also need time to mobilize their manpower. If they really decide to clear Black Tiger Mountain, maybe we still have a month. Black Tiger Mountain is too big and they can't surround us without enough manpower.
After we investigate the situation clearly, we will decide whether to stay or leave." Lu Yu immediately made a rough plan.
Everyone was relieved to hear that they were not evacuating immediately. They also heard that there was still more than a month left, which was enough for them to do many things. Even if they wanted to leave, they would still have to clear out everything on the mountain.
"To be on the safe side, in the past two days, we will first take the children out of the mountain and stay with the old people, and then send more people out to find out more detailed information." Thirteenth Niang said calmly. "Everyone must have someone.
Be mentally prepared. Lu Yu, Lu Yi, and Cheng Yan will stay. The others will leave the meeting first and tell everyone the news."
"yes."
After everyone dispersed, there were only four people left in the lobby.
Lu Yi didn't listen to the meeting just now. One thing kept surrounding him: Could it be that all these things were done by that person? No, there was nothing wrong with anything. Lu Yu's decision to kill the dog official was originally planned.
The fact is that even without arrangements, these things will happen. The only thing you can control is when they happen.
"It's Thirteenth Niang, I'm thinking about something." Lu Yi said.
"explain."
"Could this be a trap set by the government?"
"Take such a big official as bait?" Thirteenth Niang couldn't believe it.
"No, no, no, listen to me. It's true that Brother Lu Yu did kill an official. Maybe this was a bait. Someone knew that this person named He Ziming had a grudge against Brother Lu Yu and sent him here deliberately.
Waiting for us to take action, and then use this as an excuse to take action against our Black Tiger Mountain."
"Since you want to take action against our Black Tiger Mountain, come directly. Why are you doing so many tricks?"
"Let me explain in detail." Lu Yu interjected, maybe what Lu Yi just said was a bit general. "If it is according to Lu Yi's statement, it means that there is someone who knows that I have a grudge against He Ziming, and this time someone is sent there.
Niangpi Town replaced this person to attract my attention, and then took action against him. In fact, we also took action and killed him, but what we killed was just a loser official, not a state pastor at all. I am sure of this.
Then, I guess that person was Zhou Mu who was still alive. He pretended to be dead and hid in the dark, letting that person pretend to be dead. In this way, Heihushan made a very big mistake and killed a Zhou Mu.
Master Mu, this is also a very serious matter."
"Even if I go out now and say that the person I killed was not a state herdsman at all, no one will believe it, not just because of our status as bandits."
"Then why do we do this? It's because our Black Tiger Mountain is not only big, but we are too difficult to deal with. Haven't the government ever thought about suppressing bandits before? Yes, they have implemented it, but it has no effect. Black Tiger Mountain's
The bandits are still there, and the root cause is that there are too few manpower, the court is reluctant to pay, and many other reasons.
"But it's different now. The death of a fifth-rank state shepherd in the imperial court is a big deal. This is a slap in the face of the imperial court in front of many people of the Chu State. Is this a capable person in the imperial court? Definitely not. What will be the plan then?"
With more people, we can have more troops and wipe out all the bandits in Black Tiger Mountain in one fell swoop."
Lu Yu's analysis was very thorough.
"Since the person who made the layout is Zhou Mu, he has gained a lot of benefits from us. It can be said that we are the cash cow. Why should we cut off our own financial path?" Thirteenth Niang was a little angry.
"That's just my guess. It may be another person who gave Zhou Mu greater benefits and made him give up our cash cow, or it may be him himself who wants to get rid of us for the sake of a bigger official.
, in exchange for his promotion achievements, if this happens we will be in danger, we have so many shameful things with him, he will definitely kill them all."
"Hmph, every good official has to use dead people to promote his official position." Cheng Yan patted the table.
"No matter what, we must prepare for the worst. It is time to leave Black Tiger Mountain, and we must be prepared not to come back."
They were talking, and Lu Yi thought that the person Lu Yu analyzed was probably the masked man who had secretly met him. That man had the strength to rival Thirteen Niangs. If his guess was good, then he would still
People in the imperial court, it can be said that Black Tiger Mountain is in a dead end, do you want to...
Thinking of this, Lu Yi immediately denied it. He originally wanted to tell Thirteenth Niang something, but he shuddered when he thought that he had people in this village. If he said it rashly, Thirteenth Mother might not be ready to retreat.
Mom and the people here die faster.
After staying here for so long, he realized that not all bandits deserved to die, at least many people in this village did not have to die. He agreed to that person, but also thought that as few people would die here as possible, so as to get the best of both worlds.
But is there such a thing as the best of both worlds?
Several people discussed it for a long time, and when they dispersed, it was late at night, but the candlelight in many houses in the village was on.
Cheng Yan and Lu Yi walked towards the back mountain, both of them thinking about other things.
"Cheng Yan, no matter what happens, don't stay too far away from me." Lu Yi said solemnly.
Hearing what he said, Cheng Yan squinted her eyes and looked at Lu Yi: "Do you know something, or does it have something to do with you?"
"I swear, this matter has absolutely nothing to do with me. I'm in a mess right now. There are some things that I haven't sorted out yet, so it's not convenient for me to tell you. But one thing is, although I betrayed the team and Stubborn Niu and the others, I absolutely
I didn’t betray Thirteenth Niang." Lu Yi said firmly.
"Oh~ Really?" Cheng Yan didn't believe this person here who betrayed him one after another.
Lu Yi grabbed her hand and said solemnly: "If I were that kind of person, I wouldn't tell you these things. Believe me, you are my woman, and everything I said in that room that day is true."
, I won’t let anything happen to you, and I will also try my best not to let anything happen to the Thirteenth Niang and her village who are avenging you.”
Cheng Yan broke away from his hand, said nothing, and walked back to her house alone.
On Chen Mo's side, Xiao Yanyu was already asleep on Chen Mo's bed, and Thirteenth Niang told him everything.
"Chen Mo, if you leave now, that's fine. I won't kill you anymore. Our agreement can be completed in advance."
"If you have something to say, just say it. There will definitely be something more to it."
"Haha, you still understand me." Thirteenth Niang smiled and continued, "You can leave with Yan Yu tomorrow, but then you can help me take those children out of the village first."
"What about you?"
"There are so many things in the village, we still need to take them away. Otherwise, how can we live outside? We must have some wealth. Moreover, there are so many things and so many people. It is impossible to leave at once. The movement is too big. Those
People will pay attention. Lu Yu said that we still have some time. We should leave slowly in batches. It is best not to be discovered by them and leave an empty village for them. This is the best result."
"The worst."
"The worst, who knows, let's just leave it to fate." Thirteenth Niang is still a little sad. She encountered such a thing just after integrating Black Tiger Mountain. A few days ago, she and Lu Yu and Chen Mo were talking about the future. It seemed that they were all