Xue Ling quietly watched Shang Jiuge in front of him counting on his fingers.
Then he nodded: "Well, you are right."
"But how did the Seventeen Bandits of the Yellow River provoke you?"
"It's not a provocation." Shang Jiuge checked it again with his fingers: "Someone invited me to take a boat, and they came to collect the passage fee for my boat."
"Originally, I only paid the fare, but those people made me unhappy, so I came out to help the passengers pay the fare."
Shang Jiuge looked at Xue Ling, his dark eyes not wandering at all, just looking at him calmly: "But the boat passengers also make me unhappy. Obviously this is the so-called chivalry, but it is also meaningless."
"So I asked the boat passengers to pay me the ferry fare."
Xue Ling was shocked when she heard this: "So are you going to become a robber yourself next time?"
"There's no point in being a robber." Shang Jiuge shook his head: "I just asked them to collect enough money for me."
"They raised enough money for me, and I reluctantly became the river god, so that the Yellow River would be safe from now on."
Xue Ling understood now.
"Let me repeat it. Do you think I am right?"
"You took a boat, and the Seventeen Yellow River Bandits came to rob them. You fought them off, and then continued to collect the boat fare. At the same time, you used the boat fee as payment to deal with the Seventeen Yellow River Bandits, right?"
Xue Ling feels that her ability to grasp key points is much stronger now.
So Shang Jiuge thought about it and felt that Xue Ling was right, so he nodded.
Xue Ling looked at the girl's thin clothes and extremely simple luggage: "What about the money?"
"Throw it into the river." Shang Jiuge replied without hesitation: "After all, offering sacrifices to the river god must be like offering sacrifices to the river god. While saying sacrifice to the river god, he put the money into his pocket. He didn't even think about it. happy."
Xue Ling nodded, feeling like she had met a strange person for the first time.
The girl has been in the Jianghu for so long, and has seen all kinds of people in the Jianghu, but most of them have their own pursuits and desires. All living beings suffer. Even a once-first-class strong man like Liu Pingye is still trapped by love, so much so that he does There was a rebellion against the sect, and they even teamed up with the demon sect to try to kill the eminent monk Kong Wu.
But only with this guy in front of her, what she calls walking in the world can almost really be called walking in the world.
Do whatever you want, feel free, of course, mainly because this guy's martial arts skills are so amazing.
"Okay." Xue Ling said helplessly: "Well, I happened to have some issues with the Seventeen Bandits of the Yellow River. Since there are nine left, let's deal with these nine together."
Saying this, Xue Ling looked around and saw that there was not even a single figure in the camp of the Seventeen Bandits of the Yellow River.
Only the earthy yellow flag fluttered.
Although Shang Jiuge kicked open the door with lightning speed and went directly to the towers of the surrounding camps to deal with the gangsters who were sentry and shooting arrows, but as Shang Jiuge said, she has only knocked down nine Yellow River ten people in total so far. Seven thieves, so there must be at least five, six, seven or eight more in this camp. The girl's "Is there anyone there" when she entered the house before? As the unparalleled starting move, she has announced her arrival to everyone.
However, no one came to challenge this, which really made Xue Ling a little strange.
But Shang Jiuge didn't care about this at all. When she saw that no one came to practice with her anymore, she continued to move forward. As I said before, from the outside, this camp looked strict and well-structured. When I came in and took a look, it seemed that even though the sparrow was small, it had all the internal organs.
Maybe it's because there are really only 18 members of the Seventeen Bandits of the Yellow River, so this camp is not too big, but in addition to the high and fluttering flagpole, there are martial arts arena, livestock shed, gathering hall, and The small buildings, barns, kitchens and the like are all equipped with everything. It can be seen that the Seventeen Yellow River Bandits are not completely a mob. Judging from the fact that they no longer rob homes but choose to collect tolls from the merchants and ships along the way. They choose to fish in a long stream without draining the lake, and their leader is even more clever.
But even so, it cannot change the nature of them being a group of thugs and bandits. The so-called copycat gathering is still a tactic of taking advantage of the common people by force, so that even Jianghu organizations like the Beehive have never taken it seriously. Here, all it takes is a small Xuanzihao official mission to catch them all, take away all the property they have accumulated over the years, and even gain a good reputation for doing justice for heaven.
Thinking about it this way, it feels a little sad.
However, Xue Ling followed Shang Jiuge to investigate, but Shang Jiuge himself went directly to the tallest and most conspicuous building in the center of the camp, which was the Juyi Hall in the camp.
The door was ajar and unlocked.
"Be careful of fraud." Xue Ling warned from behind Shang Jiuge.
Shang Jiuge smiled and pushed the door open, but she did not expect that what she saw after pushing the door open made her stunned.
There were nine big men in three rows and three columns, all kneeling on the ground with wattle sticks tied on their backs. They all looked at Shang Jiuge and shouted: "Begging the female hero to spare her life."
Xue Ling followed Shang Jiuge and immediately saw such a scene, and her whole body instantly became messy in the wind.
This style of painting is wrong.
Especially his two weak women and so on.
"What are you doing?" Shang Jiuge raised his eyebrows. Shang Jiuge was Shang Jiuge after all. After a brief surprise, he calmed down and said, "Surrender?"
"The two heroines don't know something." The leading man knelt on the ground, crying with snot and tears: "We fell into the enemy's trap because we really had no choice. You have all heard the story of being forced to go to the mountain. If it weren't for If we are really desperate, who would be willing to do this worthless business?"
"So?" Shang Jiuge asked calmly: "Then the four heads on the flagpole outside the door were also forced to come?"
"Is this the passing money each merchant pays because they have no choice but to do so?"
"Every word that comes out of your mouth is out of necessity."
"But the so-called "love of necessity" means that you have to hurt others to do it."
"Then really if an apology is going to help, what do we need a gallows for?"
The head of the big man at the head banged on the ground with a "bang bang bang" sound.
"We know how sinful we are."
"Even if you die, you will never be able to forgive your sin."
"But those four people came to the village to provoke us, so we had no choice but to kill them. On the water of the Yellow River, we expelled the other gangsters who were seeking wealth and death, so that the merchants who came and went could get away as long as they paid enough shipping fees. We can let them leave safely without risking their lives."
“The lesser of two evils.”
"Please let the two heroines show their opinions!"
Shang Jiuge looked at them calmly, without any expression on his face.
But Xue Ling was a little confused by these words.
