Ma Sanye looked at the dark iron rod in front of him, but he couldn't muster up the will to resist. When dozens of brothers around him were stabbed to death by sudden stone stabs, this horse thief who had been in the world for many years realized,
I completely fell into a trap tonight and fell onto a large iron plate.
"What do you call the leader?" Lu Huahua asked coldly.
The man did not dare to hesitate any more and replied in a trembling voice: "Little Ma San."
"It turns out it's Mr. Ma, I'm disrespectful. Then I'll ask the question again, and you can think about it before answering." The iron rod in the girl's hand has been lying across the opponent's eyes from just now, until now at such a close distance,
Ma San didn't notice any shaking at all.
"What mission has Ji Rentu arranged for you?" Lu Huahua asked softly. Although her voice was very soft, it was full of murderous intent.
Ma Dabangzi immediately said: "Master Ji asked my brothers and I to submit to the imperial court. Let us always pay attention to anyone coming from the direction of Yinren Village or Tiexin Village. If there is anything strange, report it immediately."
Lu Huahua frowned and continued to ask: "How do you judge whether the people who come here are strange?"
The man swallowed and said in a trembling voice: "There are more than seventy people in our group. Anyone who enters the country will be attacked by me or Xiao Liuzi. We will judge whether there is a problem based on the strength of the other party's resistance."
At this time, Yi Xifeng, who was standing aside, suddenly interjected: "So, the previous attack made you think that there is something wrong with us?"
Mr. Ma Sanye smiled bitterly and said: "Xiao Liuzi has not seen the depth of all of you heroes. We..."
Having said this, the man was a little hesitant. When Xiao Liuzi saw it, he immediately became anxious. He was afraid that another arm would be torn off, so he shouted: "It's our boss who has taken a liking to you two little ladies! So I came here to rob him."
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Ma Dabangzi immediately knelt on the ground and begged for mercy: "It's not that the little one has eaten the heart of a bear or the courage of a leopard. It's because Ji Rentu was ordered to do it before. Everyone who passes by must be checked for any abnormality. If there is any situation, report it to the police."
If there is no situation, you can loot as much as you want, and Ji Rentu will take care of you!"
After hearing what the man said, everyone also understood Ji Rentu's intention, which was to bribe this horse thief and monitor Yinren's movements in the border area.
The reason Ji Rentu chose to do this was because it was impossible for him to review all the passing caravans, so he made such a damaging move.
On the one hand, this group of horse thieves can be used to effectively test whether spies from Yinren Village have sneaked into Luoye City. On the other hand, such rampant robbery and no official post to fund travel will make more and more caravans avoid it.
Take the trade route of Yinren Village.
As for this group of horse thieves, since they can get benefits and have someone to take over, they are naturally willing to do this. As for the horse thieves who were killed by the hidden armed forces of Yinren Village, the horse thieves naturally don't care.
In this world, there are many high-ranking officials and nobles, but there are even more poor and abject people. They already live a life of licking blood from the edge of a knife. In the eyes of this group of people, human life is not as practical as gold and silver.
At this time, Zhao Long came back from the side. It turned out that just after Zhang Yanshi took action, the boy with two swords disappeared into the night and went somewhere unknown. At this time, Ma Sanye was captured, and all the horse thieves he brought with him were also killed or injured.
Finally, the boy wearing a bamboo hat returned to the team.
However, there was a hint of blood on his body at this time.
"How is it?" Zhang Yanshi asked calmly.
"There are about thirty people in total, lying in ambush around them. They don't have any extra magic-breaking crossbows. They should only have these dozen or so on hand." Zhao Long said calmly.
But when these words reached Ma Da Bangzi's ears, they were like a death knell.
In fact, the reason why the man was afraid before was mainly because Zhang Yanshi ripped off one of Xiao Liuzi's arms without warning.
He was worried about this group of lawless people, and in desperation, he killed himself. But when the other party was stabilized by his intelligence, Ma Sanye's mind became more active.
Yes, this attack was carried out by Ma San and Xiao Liuzi, mainly because they wanted to see with their own eyes the two stunning beauties who were rumored by Liuzi. But they still left half of their people on the outside to support them.
This is the rule set by Ji Rentu for them. Every time they attack, they must leave enough peripheral personnel, not to respond, but to report the news.
However, let's call this guard who uses double swords a guard, because Ma Sanye also realized that the true identity of this group of people is definitely not as simple as it seems. It is this person who actually killed him in just a short cup of tea.
All the members he arranged outside.
"How many people did you leave outside this time?" the heroic young man with a mustache asked the young man with a broken arm in front of him in a low voice.
At this time, Xiao Liuzi had already recovered from the pain of breaking his arm just now, but his face and lips were bloodless.
He glanced at the young man behind him fearfully and said in a trembling voice: "Thirty-three people!"
Before Zhang Yanshi could raise his head to confirm with Zhao Long, a flash of sword light flashed through, and the one-armed young man's remaining arm was cut off.
But Xiao Liuzi's eyes were blank, and then he fell to the ground and fainted from the pain.
"He lied. I killed thirty-four!" Zhao Long didn't see how to put the knife away. He coldly said a word and walked towards the fire.
Ma Sanye looked at Xiao Liuzi who was lying in a pool of blood. He knew that the other party could not survive the night. There was still hope with a broken arm. With both arms broken, just bleeding could kill him.
"He didn't lie. He only knew that there were thirty-three people, because there was one more person who I secretly hid at the back of the team and asked him to follow us in case something unexpected happened..." Ma Da Bangzi said with some despair.
But he may never have imagined that someone could have such powerful insight in the dark night!
Until now, Mr. Ma has not noticed the ray of blue light in Zhao Long's eyes.
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"Master Madam, let me ask you a question. Two months ago, a caravan passed through here. Have you had any contact with it?"
Yi Xifeng walked up to him, looked at him and asked.
At this time, Lu Huahua had put down the dark iron rod in her hand, and the scene in front of the man returned to normal.
When Ma San saw a young boy walking up to him and asking, he was wearing a fresh school boy's clothes, which made him feel that it was a bit inconsistent with what he had experienced.
But after all, a man has experienced the world for many years and knows very well that monks, Taoists, children, and women are the four taboos in the world!
"Young hero, I can't remember which one you are talking about?" Ma Da Bangzi said with a sad face.
Yi Xifeng and Zhang Shishi looked at each other and said calmly: "There is a young man with white eyebrows in the team!"
"Ah!" Ma Da Bangzi exclaimed. He instantly remembered that more than two months ago, Xiao Liuzi was almost killed and escaped back. Then they reported each other's situation to Ji Rentu.
At that time, Xiao Liuzi said with lingering fear that there was a white-browed swordsman in the caravan who was so strong that dozens of people surrounded him and were killed one by one by each other with one sword.
However, after this incident, Ji Rentu rewarded them with several hundred taels of silver, and they forgot about it.