The marriage between Ning Hongzhao and An Zhi had been decided. The two parties matched their birthdays and exchanged tokens. They only waited for Ning Hongzhao to come to marry him three years later.
Getting married after three years is enough for an ambitious, talented and capable young man to carve out a career of his own, and it can barely make an old father nod.
Jingtian did not directly explain the purpose of this trip to several close ministers. He only said that he wanted to go out incognito to inspect the current Jin Kingdom. Ning Hongzhao guessed it himself and followed him quietly. He also wanted to give a big gift to Thunder Village.
"Zelan..." Jingtian was about to speak when he saw Zelan nodding with a smile.
With Zeelan's consent, the bandit suppression team grew again.
Because it is close to the capital of the Jin Kingdom and is an official road leading directly to the Northern Tang Dynasty, the entire road has been repaired and cleaned very beautifully, and the scenery along the way is also very beautiful.
Jingtian was very excited. This was the first time for him to put aside his identity and come out. He was excited about everything and had endless things to say to Zelan.
Leng Mingyu followed the two of them with his sword in his arms, chatting with them for a word or two from time to time.
In comparison, Jingcai looks like a child.
Ning Hongzhao, conscious of not disturbing them, led Mu Mu at the end.
But what he didn't expect was that Mu Mu, who usually followed him wherever he went, had been hiding behind him since just now, shrinking his head and saying that his eyes hurt and he wanted to go home.
"What's wrong?"
Does it hurt to have those big eyes that are as wide as copper bells?
Ning Hongzhao didn't even believe his words.
As expected, Mu Mu pursed his lips and twisted, his eyes full of hesitation: "Sir, I told you not to be angry."
"Um."
"You gave me a day off that day, and I went to buy a lot of food. I happened to meet Princess Zeelan and her younger brother, Young Master Leng. I didn't know he was Young Master Leng at the time. I, I provoked him,
He even threatened the princess."
Mu Mu lowered his head and spoke softer and softer.
Ning Hongzhao was startled. He still remembered that day when Mu Tou came back with two black circles under his eyes. He said that he was practicing martial arts with Zhu Zhu and got smashed by Zhu Zhu. At that time, he was distracted by something important, so he didn't ask deeply. Who would have thought that he was
Go and offend someone.
He stretched out his hand and said, "Then what?"
"Then he beat me up hard. I accepted the bet and gave him the food, but he didn't ask for it.
But Young Master, you said that a man must keep his word, so I just gave it to him and ran away.
But I think he gave it to the little beggar and didn’t eat it himself.” The little wooden face twisted into a ball and his voice trembled, “What if he holds a grudge and files a complaint with our emperor?”
Ning Hongzhao stretched out his hand and gave him two more chestnuts: "You still know that you have offended others. Go up and apologize to them."
"I won't dare anymore," Mu Mu held his head, tears welling up in his eyes, "Then I'll go apologize to him and let him beat me again to relieve his anger."
With that said, Mu Mu rushed forward with the determination to face death.
Ning Hongzhao didn't know whether to laugh or cry. He was such a stupid boy. If he really held a grudge, he wouldn't have waited until now.
But it would be good for him to have a long memory by doing this, so that he can save some worry when he goes out in the future.
Just before, Zelan and Jingtian were chatting about Ning Hongzhao, so they stopped and called Ning Hongzhao to come forward.
"Xiao Ning, it's just time for you to tell me about Thunder Village."
"yes."
According to the information currently investigated, the owner of Thunder Village is called Liao Batian. He was originally from the capital city of Beimo and ran a bodyguard agency. Although he is short in stature, his martial arts skills are very strong.
Thirty years ago, he was hired by a wealthy gentry to escort the wealthy gentry's daughter's wedding party to a neighboring city. However, he took a liking to the wealthy gentry's daughter on the way, killed the entire wedding party, disguised himself as a bandit, robbed and kidnapped him.
The rich gentry's daughter was imprisoned, raped and killed.
After being sued by the rich gentry to the government, he made a big fuss in the government, fled in fear of the crime, went to Perak Mountain to occupy the mountain as a bandit, and took in many fugitives who fled here.
This group of people does all sorts of evil, which is outrageous.
After occupying the mountain, the surrounding villages were plundered. The men's tongues were pulled out and their eyes were gouged out as coolies, while the women were snatched and tortured as toys.
At the foot of Pili Mountain is the official road, and no pedestrian convoy passing by was spared. Even the convoy of the Northern Desert government was intercepted. In the end, a lot of ransom was paid to redeem the things.
The Northern Desert officials were also afraid. They sent out troops twelve times, but all failed. Later, they simply gave up treatment and paid high tolls each time to ensure safety.
"His surname is Liao, is that female bandit his daughter?"
Zelan asked, mainly because Liao Hongzhuang was so confident that it was impressive.
Ning Hongzhao responded: "Exactly."
Zelan nodded. Liao Hongzhuang and others had been beheaded by the fourth uncle in public. With this layer of hatred of killing women, "It seems that Liao Batian cannot stay."
"Didn't you originally plan to kill him?"
Ning Hongzhao was stunned for a moment and looked at Jingtian and Zelan.
"Yeah, but it's okay to kill the monkey to scare the chicken."
After all, I don't want to help people suppress bandits in vain, I just want to punish them.
She originally wanted to use a gentle policy, such as Jingtian first taking action to calm the other party down, and then she would send a warm influence to subdue him when the other party burst into tears of gratitude.
Now it seems that we need to kill Liao Batian first, and then change him to someone else.