Not long after Qin Feng fell asleep, Ning Hu ran back in a hurry and shouted: "Brother Qin, the border guard refuses to send anyone! That guy was clearly instructed by someone to deliberately go against you."
Li Xiaolan frowned slightly, and quickly made a "shh" gesture to Ning Hu, reaching out and gently touching Qin Feng: "Feng'er has just fallen asleep, let him rest for a while."
Seeing Qin Feng sleeping soundly, Ning Hu quickly lowered his voice and said in a deep voice, "Then I'll come back later."
Li Xiaolan hesitated for a moment, then gently called Ning Hu: "Don't criticize the border guard too harshly. After all, the Qin family has countless political enemies, and it is extremely difficult for the border guard to deal with them. He did not send troops to maintain neutrality, so as not to Someone in the court interfered, and the disturbance turned into defense."
After hearing this, Ning Hu stopped and sighed: "They said it! Not to mention two hundred people, even twenty people are not enough. The border army is only responsible for border defense and not for suppressing bandits. He also said... Qin Feng can't even handle a small bandit village, he might as well go back to Kyoto to drink milk, I'm really pissed off."
Although Li Xiaolan looked a little unhappy, she was not entangled.
In order to let Qin Feng rest for a while, Li Xiaolan took the initiative to take over the burden and asked: "How is the government and soldiers doing?"
Normally, Ning Hu should not mention these things to Li Xiaolan.
Although she is Qin Feng's sister, she is a layman after all.
However, considering that Li Xiaolan had been living with the Qin Cheng family, she must have been influenced by her ears and eyes, and was extremely alert. Ning Hu hesitated again and again, but reported truthfully: "There are 270 registered yamen soldiers in Beixi County, but I went to the station to check There were only fifty people in the army, and they were all old, weak, sick and disabled. So Chen Li almost wiped out all the yamen soldiers in order to get paid."
If Qin Feng learns about this, he will definitely curse in anger.
But Li Xiaolan was not surprised, holding her chin in thought: "Obviously, the Yamen soldiers are no longer of use, and although the Baishi Guards in your hands are powerful, they may have to sacrifice to capture Yinggang Mountain. Not a small price to pay.”
"By the way, have you figured out the terrain of Yinggang Mountain?"
After hearing this, Ning Hu sighed again, with a depressed face: "Just in Dongshan, most of the area is covered by miasma, and the remaining area is occupied by several bandit gangs. The guard is worried about being exposed I dare not go deep into my whereabouts, and the situation in the west and back mountains is still unknown.”
Speaking of this, Ning Hu couldn't help but punch his fist and said angrily: "A mere few hundred bandits are so difficult to chew. It's really cowardly to say that!"
Li Xiaolan was open-minded. If the border troops or government soldiers were willing to come to suppress the bandits, it would be a matter of a snap to wipe out the Yinggang Mountains.
But therein lies the problem.
The frontier troops are not in their positions and do not seek their own government, while the government troops must be prepared for war and cannot be mobilized at will.
If you want to pull out the cancer of Yinggang Mountain, you can only rely on Beixi County's own strength. However, under Chen Li's years of painstaking "management", Beixi County's financial and military strength have been extremely empty, and it has too much time to take care of itself, so why not? Talk about suppressing bandits?
Li Xiaolan was thoughtful and asked after a moment: "If you can grasp the accurate topography of Yinggang Mountain and the distribution of forces, how confident are you that you can capture Yinggang Mountain?"
Ning Hu held his head high and his chest full of confidence: "100% sure!"
Li Xiaolan had witnessed the guards defeat the elite rangers of Beidi, so she naturally believed in the fighting power of the guards. She immediately stopped talking and gently put Qin Feng on the chair. She breathed a sigh of relief: "You stay with Feng'er, I'll go there." Come."
Ning Hu was stunned: "Miss Third, where are you going?"
Li Xiaolan didn't explain, just turned back to the backyard, took some things from the bag and stuffed them into her clothes. Just as she was about to leave, she heard Qin Cheng's voice from behind.
"You have been living in seclusion for many years, so there is no need to force it."
Li Xiaolan turned around and saw Qin Cheng sitting in the pavilion, holding the soles of her shoes. Qin Cheng had been keeping this habit for many years.
Li Xiaolan bit her thin lips lightly and said softly: "Feng'er rushed thousands of miles to save us. If I can contribute my little effort to him, it will be worth it."
Mrs. Qin Cheng still lowered her head and was busy with the matter at hand. She moved her lips slightly and said softly: "What will happen if your identity is exposed?"
Li Xiaolan took a deep breath and said without thinking, "That's worth it!"
Qin Cheng nodded: "Since you have made a decision in your heart, then go ahead. You just need to remember that the Qin family will always stand with you."
Li Xiaolan's eyes were full of emotion, but after spending seven years together day and night, mother and daughter no longer needed to say much. She immediately turned around and left the government office, heading towards Yinggang Mountain.
Li Xiaolan's feet are extremely fast.
The county seat is an hour away from Yinggang Mountain, but it only took Li Xiaolan half an hour to reach the foot of the mountain. Looking at the undulating mountains surrounded by smoke, Li Xiaolan straightened her mood. Her gentle, watery eyes revealed a completely different kind of perseverance. Climbing up the mountain without hesitation.
As a result, after taking a few steps, I heard a scolding coming from my ears.
"Who! How dare you trespass into Yinggang Mountain? Have you lived enough?"
Li Xiaolan paused slightly and looked sideways, only to see a middle-aged bandit with a sinister face walking out of the forest next to the winding mountain path.
Seeing Li Xiaolan's appearance clearly, the middle-aged bandit was stunned for a moment, and then he was shocked: "What a pretty girl, I have lived in Beixi County for half my life, but I have never seen you with such heavenly beauty. Why did you come to Yinggang Mountain?"
Looking at the oncoming bandit, Li Xiaolan's expression instantly changed 180 degrees, from strong and sharp to weak and delicate. She bowed slightly to the bandit and said resentfully: "This little girl is originally a woman from a cloth merchant in the county town." , just because I couldn't bear the trouble and humiliation of my stepmother, I had no choice but to escape from the house, and I don't know why I came to this mountain."
"May I ask, Sir, where is this?"
Young Master?
Hearing what Li Xiaolan called him, the bandit's head almost went up to the sky. He grinned and said with great excitement: "You have asked the right person, this is your bridal chamber with candles! Hahaha."
The middle-aged bandit glanced around and saw no one was around, so he rushed towards Li Xiaolan impatiently.
Li Xiaolan was so "scared" that her face turned pale and she froze in place, forgetting to even run for her life.
As a result, the next moment, the middle-aged bandit staggered as if he was drunk, and fell on his back with a thud. Immediately afterwards, bright red blood overflowed from under the bandit.
At the same time, Li Xiaolan took out a handkerchief from her sleeve, wiped off the blood on the dagger, put it back into her sleeve, and continued walking up the mountain as if nothing was wrong, not even bothering to deal with the body.
Anyway, Li Xiaolan had already seen the look in the bandit's eyes, and he must have been the only one who made the secret whistle in these four...
On the other side, Qin Feng was awakened by a burst of laughter.
Wiping the irritation at the corner of his mouth, he got up in a daze and found Ning Hu and Qi Meng chatting together.
