After arriving at the first store, the first thing Sun Yixie did was to send a letter.
To whom is this letter addressed? Send it to the family of Yu Qing, the foot trader.
For some reasons that everyone knows, Sun Yixie asked Huang Donglai to ghostwrite the letter. The general content is: I regret to tell you that Yu Qing, the family members of Yu Qing, fell due to the wind and rain on the Shan River. He fell into the water and drowned; and "I", the "Anonymous" who wrote to you, found this guide in Yu Qing's luggage and learned his name and household registration. What I can do is I can only exchange the goods he left behind for money and send them to you together with the directions and the funeral letter. Please express your condolences and accept the change.
Of course, Sun Yixie did not actually take Yu Qing's goods, and Yu Qing's goods were not worth much, at least far less than the amount of banknotes Sun Yixie stuffed into the envelope.
Furthermore, Yu Qing did not slip and drown...
But as the so-called doing his best, Sun Yixie just did such a simple and reasonable lie.
His understanding is that long-term pain is worse than short-term pain. It is better to tell his family directly about Yu Qing's death and give them some money to live a good life in the future than to let them wait at home without knowing anything.
However, Sun Yixie could only take care of this point. As for what would happen to the family in the future, he would not care.
This... is pretty good.
Some people may think that since Sun Yixie is so rich, doing such good deeds is natural and not worthy of praise.
But if you think about it carefully, it's not actually like this...
There is a saying that "good money is hard to part with." No matter how rich you are, it is difficult for you to use the money to do a good deed without expecting anything in return.
There are many unkind people in this world who donate money and do charity for the sake of wealth. Some of them do too many bad things and want to buy themselves peace of mind in this way, while others want to buy fame and make a gesture.
If you really want to help others without asking for anything in return, without leaving your name or telling everyone about it, and after you have done it, you won't take it to heart at all, and you won't feel any sense of superiority...that's called Pure "act of kindness".
And this kind of people, this kind of thing, are always very few.
Because of the nature of this kind of thing, it also limits its wide spread.
Of course, Sun Yixie has not reached this level, but he has done a good job in this matter. After all...even if he didn't pick up the guide in the first place, so what?
Therefore, even Huang Donglai couldn't help but admire afterward: "That's right, Brother Sun, he is so benevolent and righteous. He has a bodhisattva heart, and his righteousness is as high as the sky. He saves the suffering..."
Anyway, if you describe it like this, Lei Buji will believe it after hearing it.
Sun Yixie's reaction was the same as usual. Whenever Huang Donglai praised him, he took it as sarcasm: "Shut up! This is called worldliness."
The three of them didn't talk too much about this matter. After resting in the town for a day, they bought three horses and a few sets of clothes, and then they continued on their way.
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As mentioned earlier, after crossing the Shihe River and ending at Wuchang, there are no big towns on this stretch.
The mountains here are high and the roads are dangerous, so there are bandits in the mountains and thieves hidden in the mountains.
Shuang Xie is not stupid either. He knows that this road is not easy to walk on, so the horses they bought this time are of inferior quality, and the clothes they wear are all made of coarse cloth and are very cheap.
In this way, the three of them looked less conspicuous, at least they didn't look like "fat sheep".
In this way, at the beginning of the journey, everything went smoothly, and the three of them traveled more than ten miles in the blink of an eye.
After passing Longpo Mountain and reaching the foot of Jigong Mountain, it was getting dark. They arrived at a village at the foot of the mountain and stayed overnight.
This village is so small that it doesn't even have a name. The government may not even know it exists. There are only a dozen households in the village, most of them are woodcutter and hunters.
There is only one house that can accommodate three people at the same time... that is the village chief's house.
The village chief's surname was Wu, and he didn't have a serious name, so he was called Boss Wu. Because he was the strongest and most capable fighter in the village when he was young, he was selected to be the village chief. Now that he is older, he can no longer fight, but he still has two sons, whose fighting ability is as good as their father's back then.
On the surface, there is nothing special about this village, but in fact, it is just a bandit's den.
All the villagers here are half civilians and half bandits. When there are no passers-by, they are citizens and have normal means of livelihood. But when there are passers-by, it depends on the situation... If it is appropriate, they will do it. The activities of some bandits.
Village Chief Wu is both the village chief and the boss of this group of village bandits, and his two sons are his right-hand men.
Under normal circumstances, they don't kill people, they only rob money; they don't do sex acts either, because most villagers have wives and children at home, and the women in many families are more violent than the men in their families. They dare not mess around.
As for robbing wealth, it's not just about grabbing it with a knife, but there are other ways...
No, after a night's rest, Sun Huanglei and the others were just about to set off when they encountered the village's routine.
The three of them got on their horses and walked to the entrance of the village. Suddenly a child ran out of the roadside. He looked to be eleven or twelve years old. He was running so fast. In the blink of an eye, he passed the horse. When he regained consciousness, he was already on the ground. Lying down.
Immediately after hearing a "waiting" sound, a middle-aged shrew suddenly came out, blocked the road, picked up the child and started yelling.
The child was also very cooperative and started crying without even a drop of tears. His hands followed the feeling and found a place on his abdomen to cover it. From time to time he would say: "Mom! It hurts so much." It's me!"
As soon as these two people woke up, before the three people on the horse had time to dismount and check, dozens of people suddenly poured out from all directions...
Needless to say, all the men, women, and children in the village had been hiding there for a long time.
Under the leadership of the village chief, they surrounded the three young heroes in the open space at the entrance of the village and began to curse.
You can say anything, but the general meaning is that now you have injured someone, you cannot leave, and you have to pay for it, otherwise we will never be done with you. The people in our village are not easy to bully.
After seeing this, everyone should understand that, to put it bluntly, this is just a case of cheating.
However, these village bandits' pengci are a bit different from the pengci we are familiar with today. If they can't extort money, they won't go to the yamen to argue with you, but will actually mess with you.
Of course, they are not stupid. If they think you are a master in the world of martial arts or green forest, they will not take action easily, because they cannot afford to offend someone who has martial arts skills and is used to killing people...
But ordinary people would definitely lose some skin if they tried here.
It was a coincidence today, because Sun Yixie and the others were well disguised (Huang Donglai's sword was wrapped in cloth and hidden in his luggage, and Sun Yixie's trident was shrunk), so the villagers did not regard them as any figures in the world. , and then he took action.
"Ha... touch porcelain, right?" Huang Donglai laughed when he saw this, "Okay, let me see who dares to come up, just let me try my current skills..."
Just as he was about to say the word "strength", Sun Yixie slapped his hand on his shoulder and stopped him with a wink: "Hey, Brother Huang, don't be busy, let me come. Let's bow first and then fight."
"Oh?" Huang Donglai read something from Sun Yixie's eyes and words, and quickly smiled, "Heh... Okay, please, Brother Sun."
Looking at the expressions on the faces of these two guys, Lei Buji rolled his eyes, thinking that these villagers were going to be in trouble again.
A few seconds later, Sun Yixie got off his horse and walked up to the village chief with his head held high: "Village chief, what do you mean? Do you... think we are young? Or are you stupid? Are you trying to extort money? "
"Huh?" Upon hearing this, Village Chief Wu glared and replied fiercely, "I don't understand what you are talking about. Do you want to deny it after you bumped into someone?"
"Yes! You can't deny it if you want to!" The next second, the village chief's eldest son added this sentence almost out of habit to increase his momentum.
When he shouted, other villagers around him also started to cheer.
For a while, there was another chaotic chatter, but it stopped after Village Chief Wu himself waved his hand to silence them.
"I said to the village chief, if you really want to play this trick, it's not impossible. You are just making a living, but you are taking advantage of children. Isn't it a bit shameless?" Sun Yixie was not afraid at all. They spoke rudely, "This child has been led by you to do this since he was a child. Will he be able to behave like a man in the future? Don't you regret that your own two sons have been led like this by you? You Do you want your village to do this in the mountains for generations?”
What he said is quite heartbreaking from a modern perspective, but in this current situation... it doesn't work.
What is it that out of poverty comes unruly people? The people in this village are typical. From top to bottom, from old to young, they didn't feel anything at all after hearing this.
Because they really have no regrets...
They didn't think there was anything wrong with their children being raised like this. Their own pursuit in life was to live together in this village for the rest of their lives with "wife and children on the hot bed". They never thought about giving their children the opportunity to receive an education. Or a chance to leave this environment.
These people always have an extremely pathological selfishness and twisted collective consciousness; they are full of contradictions, sad, but not pitiful.
"What the hell did you fart? You little bastard, you don't even have a hair on your mouth, but you're trying to teach me a lesson, grandpa?" Village Chief Wu felt that Sun Yixie's words sounded like "a chicken talking to a duck." And seeing that the latter's attitude was not afraid of him at all, he became angry and said bluntly, "Today we are blackmailing you, so what!"
"That's it." Sun Yixie still looked confident, "Okay then, I'll give you money." As he said that, he stretched his hands into his arms.
"Eh?" At this moment, Village Chief Wu was stunned.
Why did the person who was so arrogant just now suddenly give me money again?
But then he thought about it again and thought: Oh~ I understand, it turns out that this guy was bluffing, and he gave up after being scolded and frightened by me.
Thinking of this, Village Chief Wu spoke again and added: "Boy, don't think that you can get rid of this matter by just taking out three melons and two dates. You must at least keep this number today." .”
When he said the last three words, Village Chief Wu raised his hand and made a "ten" gesture.
According to him, he wanted to extort ten taels of silver.
Seeing this, the surrounding villagers also changed their expressions. They said to themselves: The village chief is really angry today. In the past, he extorted five taels of silver, which was considered too much, but now he actually extorted ten taels.
These days, who would go out and carry ten taels of silver with them for travel expenses? Look at the tattered clothes on these three boys and the three old horses. They may not all be worth ten taels.
Of course, they also know that the price is too much or too little...that's all.
There are rules for robbing in this village. You won't rob people without leaving anything behind. You must leave at least something so that people can continue on their way. If you really rob someone else and leave them with nothing, the other party may stay here and not leave. Or fight with you.
"Village chief, take this banknote." After a few pulls, Sun Yixie took out a banknote.
The village chief took it and saw that the note from Baichuan Bank had a denomination of one thousand taels.
He was shocked at that time.
For a moment, he suspected that it was fake, but he looked over and over again and couldn't find any flaws.
"You..." Village Chief Wu's eyes changed when he looked at Sun Yixie, and he couldn't even form a complete sentence, "This..."
"What? Too little?" Sun Yi smiled and took out another identical thousand-tael banknote, "Then I'll add another one, two thousand taels, is that enough?"
When he took out the first banknote just now, the surrounding villagers were either too far away to see the denomination clearly, or they were illiterate and didn't recognize it clearly, so they didn't react much, but they felt that the village chief's reaction was a bit... strangeness.
But then Sun Yixie himself said "two thousand taels", an amount that seemed astronomical to the villagers, and everyone became confused.
This feeling is like a thief breaking into a house. He originally thought it would be good to steal a few thousand or even tens of thousands, but when he opened the door and found billions of cash piled in the house, do you think he should be so frightened that he should call the police on the spot? .
"Isn't that enough?" Seeing that the village chief didn't respond, Sun Yixie asked again, "Then three thousand?" As he said that, he wanted to pay again.
"No! Don't... don't take it out." Village Chief Wu finally came to his senses and quickly stopped Sun Yixie from taking out any further money.
"Oh, that's enough." Sun Yixie said in a very calm tone, "Okay, just keep the money and we're leaving."
"Wait a minute!" When Village Chief Wu saw that the other party was about to leave, he quickly stepped forward to stop him, "Master, this money... we don't want it anymore." Not only did he not dare to accept Sun Yixie's money anymore, he also took the two coins in his hand. The thousand taels of silver notes were also handed over.
"Young Master?" Sun Yixie glanced at him and sneered, "Isn't he a 'little bastard'?" He refused to accept the banknote and shook his hand away, "I think you'd better keep it."
"Ouch!" Village Chief Wu was anxious now. He hurriedly ran forward and knelt down in front of Sun Yixie, "Little old man, I can't see Taishan. Don't blame me, sir!" He said "Puff!" Poof, he started to kowtow his head, shouting back and forth, "Young master, you don't care about the faults of villains, just spare us!"
His two sons were also dumbfounded and couldn't think straight for a while. The two of them quickly stepped forward to support their father.
The second son also said: "Dad, what are you doing? Why are you being so polite to him..."
Snapped--
Before he could finish his words, Village Chief Wu slapped him with a big mouth: "You're so stupid! You still say that! Why don't you kneel down!"
The second son was stunned by him and stood there at a loss.
Dozens of villagers were similar to the two brothers and still didn't understand what was going on.
"Heh... ok." Sun Yixie saw that it was almost done, so he stopped embarrassing them. He took back the money and put it in his arms again, "Village chief, explain to them slowly, let's go first. ”
Just like that, the three of them remounted their horses and walked out of the village without anyone daring to stop them.
After they were far away, the village chief stood up and breathed a sigh of relief.
At this moment, his eldest son asked again: "Dad, what is going on?"
Several villagers standing close were also confused: "Yes, village chief, why did you return so much money to others? Even if you leave 20%, it will be enough for our village to live happily for several years." .”
"Hey!" Village Chief Wu was really angry, "Are you all stupid? If you can easily take out a few thousand taels, how can you be an ordinary person? That's money you won't be able to earn in ten lifetimes!" He smashed it He pouted and spat, "I'm confused too. Yesterday I saw that these guys didn't look like they were from a poor family. They were dressed in such rags and they were just pretending. In my opinion... these guys must be He has a great background, and it's possible for the emperor and his countrymen... If we take their money today and offend them, will they let us go in the future? Don't you think about it... They hired a charlatan to kill our village. How much does it cost to slaughter it? Do you need three thousand taels?"
How about saying that this man is old and treacherous, his horse is slippery, and his old rabbit is hard to catch as an eagle. This village chief is too old to fight, but his brain is still good.
After he made such a point, the villagers were also scared. They were all glad that they had only cursed a few words before making a move. If they did, it would be another matter to be beaten. If they were retaliated afterwards, All the people in their village must die; even if they kill people here today, it will be useless, because if the big shot disappears, someone will come to trace him, but if the people in their village disappear, no one may care.
The world is like this. Without strength, you can only find poor people like you to do evil things.
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After leaving the village, Huang Donglai spoke to Sun Yixie and said, "Brother Sun, what if someone really takes your money?"
"Impossible." Sun Yixie replied leisurely, "They don't have the courage."
"What if?" Huang Donglai argued.
Sun Yixie smiled: "Then when the time comes, you can beat them down and get the money back... it won't be too late." He shrugged, "Of course, judging from the results, it's not like they were beaten without a fight. Has the matter been resolved?"
"Brother Sun." Lei Buji seemed to have learned another skill, and immediately smiled and said, "Gao, I learned it."
"What have you learned?" Sun Yixie asked.
"When you have an absolute advantage, you can be polite first and then attack." Lei Buji said.
"Hey, you are very enlightened." Sun Yixie said, "Then let me ask you, what about when there is balance of power or disadvantage?"
Lei Buji didn't have the ability to draw inferences about this kind of thing, so after thinking about it, he replied with a universal answer that Sun Yixie couldn't easily refute: "Change?"
