After hearing this, this group of people suddenly realized, and then they only said to Protector Zuo, "Don't worry, Protector Zuo! We will definitely find the clues!"
Protector Zuo only nodded when he heard this.
Then Protector Zuo parted ways with them.
I saw Protector Zuo heading towards the mountain, while they headed towards the village.
After arriving at the village, they immediately asked the head of Yunhu Village to gather all the people in the village who had just attended the funeral of the old Wu family.
Everyone felt strange. After all, they just went to attend a funeral. How could they be arranged to gather under the big banyan tree in the village in just a short time? At that moment, some of them couldn't help but said to the chief: "Li Commander, do you have any orders for gathering us all now?"
Hearing their questions, before the chief could answer, the group of men in black suddenly appeared in front of them. The men in black just looked around at everyone, and then when the crowd below saw these killing gods, , and immediately everyone fell silent.
They have not forgotten that yesterday, the youngest child of the old Wu family said something childish, and these murderous demons killed a child directly.
They have not forgotten the fact that when the old Wu family saw their child being injured, they wanted to take revenge. Five or six of them besieged one of them, but the man in black took his life easily and easily.
These people were originally docile lambs, and they would only think of fighting back when they were pushed into a hurry. But now under such huge oppression, who dares to speak nonsense at the moment.
And as they fell silent, the man in black said directly to the chief on the side, "Is everyone here now?"
The chief looked at the crowd and found that there was actually a girl who had not arrived. That girl was the third daughter of the old Wu family.
When he thought of the child, the head of the house only nodded tremblingly.
Seeing the chief nod, the man didn't pursue it too much. Then he just waved to the others, and then the group of men in black began to search the group of people. At the same time, while searching, they only asked Did they see anyone on the mountain? Did they take anything they shouldn't have?
At that moment, whenever someone looked wrong, he would slap the other person directly in the face, or even more severely, he would directly kill the other person with a knife.
Therefore, within a moment, the crowd began to cry for mercy and screams.
Seeing the villagers who lived with him day and night being treated like this, the chief couldn't bear to turn his back.
He hated himself for not doing anything, but he could only hate himself so much.
Who would have thought that their ancestors could no longer survive, so they sought shelter from the leader of Yunhu Village, who had established himself as a bandit on the mountain. They voluntarily joined their family on the mountain.
However, because the people at the foot of the mountain did not have the ability or consciousness to rob their homes, so even if the entire village was merged into Yunhu Village, they still only farmed in the village below.
They were willing to share one-third of their food to feed the bandits on the mountain, and were also willing to inquire about news at the bottom of the mountain for them. The head of the Yunhu Village was responsible for protecting them from being bullied by the government.
Originally, life like this was much better than outside.
At least the village owners on this mountain have been changing frequently, but they are still people who keep their word. They have always kept their promises. They have not taken three points today and five points tomorrow.
But who knew that this turning point would happen to the former village master. The former village master took in a man and a woman. Later, the man and the woman replaced the former village master through some means, and in the end they only killed the former village master. .
If that's all, then that's it. After all, this kind of copycat place is a place where the weak and the strong prey on each other. After so many years, when did such rules change?
Their ancestors have experienced this kind of thing for countless generations.
Fortunately, they have never been the targets of those people. Even because these new mountain owners of the copycat want to make people convinced of themselves, they have never targeted them.
The people under them have any thoughts, and sometimes they can even get benefits from the new village leader.
However, everything came to an abrupt end after the arrival of this man and woman.
For the first time, Yunhu Village had a female mountain leader. Unlike other new mountain leaders who came to power and promised benefits to others, as soon as she took the position, she launched a large-scale purge of dissidents. Anyone who disobeyed her, she even killed them and their entire family. They are all destroyed. If anyone does not obey his orders, she will arrange for the man to carry out a devastating blow to them.
In fact, that man was indeed very strong. At least in the village, although there were many gangsters, no one was a match for the deputy village leader.
After eliminating the dissidents, she just started to rectify the internal affairs. She only changed all the previous appointments.
Their good days began to come to an end as Chen Yanrong reorganized her house.
In the past, they only had to pay three-thirds of the rice grain. Later, when Chen Yanrong came to power, it was increased by 10% today and another 10% tomorrow. Now the grain they handed over was directly increased by 70%. It means that they worked for a year and got only 30% of the rice grain in the end, while the group of people on the mountain got 70% of the rice grain without having to work.
If that was all, then they discovered gunpowder minerals, which only added another corvee.
After they finished working on the farm in the village, they were often drafted into corvee labor to dig mines and build houses.
When mining started, there were countless families involved in mining disasters, and the labor force in the village was not enough. But now there is such a group of people in the village, and their methods are even more cruel than Chen Yanrong.
Chen Yanrong just tried her best to squeeze their surplus value, but this group of people directly wanted their lives, and the village's labor force was already tense.
Now that they have arrived, seven or eight strong laborers have died at their hands from yesterday to today.
They had taken refuge in Yunhu Village in the first place, just to get protection and not have to be overwhelmed by the heavy taxes and taxes.
However, the current situation is clearly more severe than the exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes in the past.
The people who gathered did not know when the search was completed. Some of the people on the scene were killed, some were so frightened that they sat on the ground, and some were begging for mercy.
And they searched for a long time, but found nothing.
"How's it going? Did you find anything?" the leader asked the man in black who was searching below.
After hearing the leader's question, the people in black shook their heads regretfully.
As soon as he heard that no clues had been found, the leader's eyes suddenly flashed fiercely.
He suddenly threatened everyone in the audience coldly, "Since you are unwilling to recruit anything! Then I can only get rid of you all! I don't think anyone dares not to recruit you!"
His words indeed had some effect, but they did not get anything, so people looked at them with more and more fear.
But when Li Chang, who had been patient and patient, heard that these people actually wanted to deal with his people directly, he no longer gave in. He took the initiative to stand up and said, "My lord, please show mercy. We There aren’t many strong laborers left in the mountains. If you get rid of them, I’m afraid no one will be able to help us harvest the crops for our autumn harvest soon. If we can’t harvest the crops, everything in this year’s autumn harvest will be wasted. Already."
The director's tone was quite gentle, and his plea was reasonable.
However, the man in black said to Li Chang, "Are you threatening me?"
The chief immediately lowered his head and said, "Sir, please calm down. How dare I threaten you? I'm just telling the truth."
However, as soon as he said these words, the man slashed the head with a knife, and then saw blood suddenly spurting out of the head's left ear.
At the same time, the long left ear was cut off by the man. Seeing this, everyone in the audience was frightened and turned pale. The captain also screamed in pain, frowning, and then he quickly covered his left ear.
"Do you have anything else to say?" the man in black asked.
It is obvious that he is killing the chicken to show the monkey.
Li Chang was obviously very painful from being poked, but he was not scared off by the other party.
He immediately knelt in front of the man in black.
"I beg you to let them go. Even if you want to kill me, please let them go. They are all innocent!"
As soon as he saw that the commander was not frightened, the man in black's eyes flashed with a hint of fierceness.
It seems that these people do not need to show mercy at all. qδ
At the same time, the man in black wanted to kill the leader directly.
Seeing that the long sword was about to stab there, unexpectedly, at this moment, a loud "Stop!" suddenly sounded from behind the crowd!
As the other party stopped, the man in black couldn't help but turn his attention to the source of the sound.
Then they met an unexpected person.
I saw that the deputy village leader, who was said to not be returning to the village in the near future, actually appeared in front of everyone.
The people in black all knew Yingxun, so after seeing Yingxun coming, he immediately stopped. At the same time, his eyes only fell in front of Yingxun.
However, this Yingxun is not really Yingxun. He is actually the little foreman who has been pretending to be Yingxun.
Although Chen Yanrong was afraid that the identity of the young foreman would be discovered by the people in the Netherworld, she did not allow him to continue to wander around with Yingxun's face.
But when the little foreman saw that this group of people actually massacred the people in Yunhu Village, he could no longer sit still.
He couldn't let the villagers be slaughtered by these people, so he couldn't help but stand up again.
"Young Master Yingxun, didn't you go out on a mission? Why are you back now?" The man in black couldn't help but call the little foreman first.
The little foreman knew the danger, but he still said to the man, "I just came back. I wonder if you can spare the people in this village. After all, without them, many things in our village would not be possible."
Obviously what the little foreman said was exactly the same as what the chief expressed, but this group of people were still willing to sell it to the little foreman to save face.