"Okay, no need to be so polite!" Lu Xiaoyue smiled and waved: "Since City Lord Meng has finished his work, it's time to go up the mountain, right?"
"Yes...it's time to go up the mountain. I'll get ready right now!" Meng Yuanhai left in a hurry after saying that.
Seeing this scene, everyone laughed again.
Not long after, all the guards were ready and headed towards the mountain together.
At this time, it was pitch dark inside the robber's den on the top of the mountain. No one could be seen outside. No one was walking around outside. Everything was quiet. It looked like an empty village.
On the highest roof of the village, Yun Chu sat there quietly, with a faint halo on his body, looking at the foot of the mountain boredly.
As a guardian, she is actually used to being bored.
Back on Qingxia Mountain, it was far more boring and dangerous than it is now, but she still guarded it for fifteen years.
As he watched, there was a sudden movement at the foot of the mountain, and a smile suddenly appeared on Yun Chu's face.
At the foot of the mountain, Lu Xiaoyue and his group of eight people were tightly surrounded in the middle. There were guards from the city lord's palace on all sides. According to Meng Yuanhai, these guards were here to protect their safety.
Naturally, no one would believe this poor excuse, but they were too lazy to argue.
The mountain road is easy to walk. Except for a slight steepness along the way, the road is very smooth and everyone walks very fast.
In just ten minutes, the group had reached the top of the mountain and saw the legendary bandit's village.
The sun had already set at this time, but it was already dark inside the village. Looking in from the outside, nothing could be seen at all.
Shopkeeper Liao wanted to get out of the guards and take a look outside, but unexpectedly he was blocked by the guards.
So Li Muhong stood up again: "Call nephew Meng Yuanhai over!"
He said something loudly, and the guards around him immediately looked at each other, one by one, and no one dared to go.
After waiting for a while, Li Muhong became impatient and shouted loudly: "If you don't want to go, just get out of my way and we can go find it ourselves!"
As soon as he finished speaking, the surrounding guards silently moved out of the way.
Everyone immediately walked out of the siege and came to the outside of the crowd.
Without the obstruction of the guards, everyone finally got a clear view of the entire village.
The village is very large, at least as big as a military camp from the outside, and can accommodate two to three thousand people. The construction of the village is very high-quality, with horses and barbs everywhere, making it look easy to defend but difficult to attack.
"Is this a stronghold built by bandits?" Shopkeeper Liao stared in disbelief and asked.
"Is there any problem?" Lu Xiaoyue frowned.
"The problem is huge! Even the elite troops of Hanling Kingdom may not have this level of construction in this kind of village! A bandit's den is more powerful than the official army. I don't need to say more about what's wrong with this.
?" Shopkeeper Liao said sarcastically.
As one of the shopkeepers of Baixiao Tower, he holds many secrets, so it is normal for him to know the true level of Hanling Kingdom's troops.
However, it is true as he said, if a bandit's stronghold is stronger than the regular army, then there will be a big problem.
Li Muhong also stood up and whispered: "Our camp is not of this level... However, a stronghold alone is of no use. If the people inside are not powerful enough, no matter how good the stronghold is, it cannot stop the elite troops!"
"That's right...talent is the key!" Lu Xiaoyue agreed and nodded.
At this moment, Meng Yu ran over with a cry, shouting: "Oh no, all the bandits in the village have escaped! Our trip was in vain!"
"What?" Although they were prepared, Shopkeeper Liao and others were still shocked.
Lu Xiaoyue couldn't help but rolled her eyes and thought to herself: Can't you guys just take some snacks? You didn't even go in to take a look, but you actually said that the robbers were gone. Isn't this too perfunctory?
Just after they reached the mountain, Lu Xiaoyue had already received a message from Yun Chu, saying that the bandits were in the village and had been starving for a day. Now most of them probably had no fighting power and they could be easily caught as long as they entered.
As a result, Meng Yutiao actually came to tell them that all the bandits in the village had escaped.
This is a joke!
Seeing the stunned look of Shopkeeper Liao and others, Meng Yutiao secretly smiled and said: "We are late. I don't know who secretly reported the message to the robbers, but they have already run away. Grandpa knows
I was very angry after this incident, and we are currently investigating who secretly reported it!"
As soon as these words came out, everyone was dumbfounded. You looked at me and I looked at you, and they were all speechless.
It's obvious that you guys were delayed for several hours and made trouble for so long before they had time to escape. Why are you trying to catch the spies now?
When it comes to spies, Meng Yuanhai is the biggest one!
Jian Zhen and Lu Xiaoyue wanted to laugh even more. This Meng Yuanhai is not ashamed at all. Before catching the spy, can you please go to the village and have a look?
Seeing that he had frightened people, Meng Yu smiled, turned around and left.
Everyone looked at each other and quickly followed.
Except for Lu Xiaoyue and Jian Zhen, who knew the inside story, everyone else felt that the bandits in the village had indeed run away, but they thought it was Meng Yuanhai's problem, so they went to him to get an explanation.
Everyone quickly arrived in front of the gate of the village. There was a very wide open space here. Meng Yuanhai was standing here, saying something loudly.
Everyone walked in and finally heard his voice clearly.
"This is a cottage. There used to be a dozen little thieves living here, but now they have all been driven away. Let's get rid of another harm to Huayin City! However, due to the special nature of Huayin City, I hope you will stop talking when you go back.
If you don’t mention this, just treat it as if you are out for training today, and when you return, everyone will receive half a month’s salary!”
As soon as Meng Yuanhai finished speaking, the five hundred guards in front of him suddenly became excited and cheered loudly.
"good!"
"The city lord is wise!"
"This matter must not be spread, we will keep it secret!"
"That's right! There can't be robbers in Huayin City, and we will definitely keep it a secret."
Various sounds came, and everyone wanted to laugh, but they didn't want to show it too obviously.
It is true that there cannot be robbers in Huayin City, but you didn't wipe them out quietly...
Especially to Lu Xiaoyue, Meng Yuanhai was talking nonsense and not a single word of truth!
There were not just a dozen thieves in the cottage, but more than a hundred... They didn't escape, they just hid inside and couldn't be seen.
This harm has not been eliminated at all!
The guards were not allowed to discuss the matter just to cover up the fact that he let the robbers go with his own hands. If this matter got out, his position as city lord would be in jeopardy.