Zhang Baitai was photographed on the ground.
He landed on his face and ate a mouthful of dirt. The back of his head seemed to be scratched and he felt a sharp pain.
No one dared to step forward to help him up.
"Everyone has seen that as long as these wolves are not provoked, they will not hurt anyone." Cheng Wanwan said, "Everyone, give way and let the wolves go back to the mountain."
The onlookers standing at the door immediately made way.
Under Xiao Hei's watch, the four female wolves swaggered out of Zhang's yard and walked towards the mountain.
Only when the wolves disappeared from sight did everyone dare to talk.
"These wolves must be too obedient to Dashan Niang's words."
"You don't listen to Dashan Niang, you listen to the little wolf cub. Dashan Niang rescued the little wolf cub. These wild wolves still know how to repay kindness."
"Dashan Niang is protected by Dashan Daddy, and now there is a wild wolf to repay her kindness. Who dares to offend their family again."
"Why are you messing with Dashan Niang when you have nothing to do? Are you just looking for trouble?"
"..."
Granny Zhang lost sixty coins and her body ached terribly. She got up from the ground and shouted angrily: "Dashan Madam, I think you are deliberately colluding with the beasts to bully us ordinary people. Today my home is threatened by wild wolves." If you pay sixty cents, tomorrow will be your home, and your home. We must deal with these wild wolves, otherwise Dahe Village will be in endless trouble!"
Zhang Laihai covered the back of his head and echoed: "The purpose of raising wild wolves is to deal with the people in our village. Li Zheng, we must not keep the little wolf cubs in Dashan Niang's house!"
Cheng Wanwan picked up Xiao Hei from the ground and held him in her arms. She sneered and said, "It's up to you whether Xiao Hei can stay or not."
"Then let the big guys speak!" Zhang Rascal looked at the people watching the excitement around him, "Big guys, don't worry, there is a little wolf cub living in our village. The wolf cub is fine when it is young. When it grows up, It’s a very unscrupulous thing. It bites people today and eats chicken tomorrow. We can’t resist, otherwise the she-wolf from the mountain will come down to eat people..."
Cheng Wanwan looked at the reactions of other people in the village indifferently.
If the villagers and Zhang Laiyi are on the same side, then she might as well be more selfish in the future. With these wild wolves around, she won't be afraid of getting into trouble.
"I'm talking about Rascal Zhang, what you said is wrong." Mrs. Zhu interrupted Rascal Zhang, "It was your mother-in-law who stole things, and the wild wolf came to the door. You did something wrong, how can you blame the beast?"
"That is to say, your mother-in-law took away the prey caught by the wild wolf. Can you not get angry in a hurry? If you hadn't resisted, the wild wolf wouldn't have hurt you. It was all your fault."
"Also, Dagang Niang, please stop doing sneaky things from now on. Even the beasts will look down on you. How will you see anyone in the future?"
Everyone said something to each other, Zhang Dagang and Mrs. Zhang were so embarrassed that Zhang Dagang also felt embarrassed and ran into the house.
Cheng Wanwan touched Xiao Hei's head and prepared to go home and continue sleeping.
At this time, Wang Yongcheng, the loach's father, hurried over. He was on patrol tonight and had been wandering around the mountain.
He was out of breath from running, bent over and gasped: "Uncle Li Zheng, I saw three or four suspicious people on the mountain. I followed them for a while, and then I heard them mention something about Wang Yuanwai, more than a month ago Wasn't the food of Wang Yuan's family in the town stolen by bandits? The county magistrate also posted a wanted notice. I took a closer look and saw that the portrait on the wanted notice was very similar to the suspicious person on the mountain just now!"
As soon as these words came out, the faces of those who had not dispersed showed signs of panic.
When things were bad a dozen years ago, you would encounter robbers on the way from one village to another.
Later, the imperial court sent people to suppress the bandits, and the world gradually became peaceful.
But after last year's locust plague wiped out the harvest, refugees fled in some places. Homeless refugees gathered on the hills and became bandits.
If we come to Dahe Village, all the food in the village will be taken away.
Li Zheng asked calmly: "Dad Ni Loach, have you seen clearly, are you sure there are only three or four bandits?"
Wang Yongcheng nodded: "They are four people. One of them is the person on the wanted order. He should be the bandit leader."
"If we let them go, they will definitely bring more bandits to steal our food!" Li Zheng made a decisive decision, "Wake up the young and strong men, catch up quickly, and arrest the four bandits."
The surrounding villagers showed timidity. Those bandits must have had human lives on their hands, and they did not dare to confront those who were licking blood from the knife edge.
Cheng Wanwan spoke quietly: "After the rice is harvested in a few days, it will be when the bandits visit Dahe Village. All the food in the granaries of every household will be snatched away by the bandits. We have experienced so much, digging ditches from the mountains to divert water to save lives. We have obtained rice and tried every means to deal with the locusts to preserve the food in the fields. Do we think that will make those bandits easier?"
"There are four to five hundred prime-age labor force in the village, but they can't deal with just four bandits?" She said every word, sonorously and forcefully, "They are just stepping on the spot now. If we let them go, they will let the tiger return to the mountain. When they come again, there may be forty, Four hundred bandits, when that happens, we will be just meat on the chopping board, ready to be slaughtered."
"Uncle Li Zheng, I will ask Dashan, Ergou, and Sanniu to chase the bandits with you!"
After the words fell, there was silence. The villagers looked at me and I looked at you, and they all saw the determination and courage to fight in each other's eyes.
Wang Yongcheng swallowed his saliva and said: "The four bandits have big knives in their hands."
Li Zheng said coldly: "They have big knives, and we have hoes and shovels. Bring them all and kill those idiots."
The men from each family went back to copy the guys and followed Wang Yongcheng up the mountain.
Afraid of alerting the bandits, they did not take the main road, but shuttled through the jungle. They were all natives here and ran to the mountains every day, so they were familiar with the trails.
Wang Yongcheng led the way, and a large group of people walked along the mountain path to the top, but no sign of the bandits was seen.
"It's over, it's over!" Li Zheng's face was pale. "The bandits must have gone back after they visited the area. They have figured out the situation in Dahe Village. Our village is really going to be over..."
at this time.
The howling of wolves resounded on the empty mountain.
Immediately afterwards, there were human screams, extremely shrill.
Li Zheng was frightened: "Who is it?"
"The sound is coming from over there, let's go and have a look!"
A large group of people walked in the direction of the screaming crowd.
The moon is very full tonight. Under the cold moonlight, in an open space without trees, four people were bitten on the thighs by four wolves. Their thighs were dripping with blood, which was particularly scary.
"Quick, save us!"
Seeing someone going up the mountain, the four people seemed to be grasping at straws and opened their mouths to ask for help.
Wang Yongcheng gave Li Zheng a look, and Li Zheng understood that these four people were the bandits that the county magistrate had drawn on the wanted notice. These four people were unlucky enough to meet a wild wolf and were bitten by it. They were bad guys. Sure enough, it will be harvested one day.
Seeing that a large group of villagers had no intention of coming to help, one of them reached out and grabbed the fallen sword and slashed at the wild wolf.
Zhao Sanniu's eyes flashed. This female wolf was Xiao Hei's mother, and she was half of the family.
He picked up the hoe in his hand, rushed over, and hit the man on the head with the hoe. The man fainted without even letting out a scream.
Li just woke up from his dream and said quickly: "Quick, go up and tie up the four of them, don't let the bandits escape!"
