Before leaving, Huo Ziheng went up the mountain alone and went to Qianzhai to ask for a meeting with the first master and the second master.
The three of them stayed in the hall for half an hour, and no one knew what they talked about.
After coming out, Huo Ziheng took A Xian directly down the mountain.
No one came to see him off.
There had been a heavy rain the day before yesterday, and the mountain road was muddy and slippery. The two figures supported each other and drifted away on the road without looking back.
On the small peak of Bandit Mountain, there are two other figures standing side by side, looking at the people who are staggering away on the winding path.
"You really don't want to show up and say goodbye in person? This is the last time in our life." The second master stamped his feet.
When I climbed up here with my boss, my shoes were covered with mud. When I lifted my feet, they were thick, sticky and very uncomfortable.
The headmaster's face never seems to clear up, and is gloomy all year round, "It would be better not to see her. In these years, she has only been allowed to do business with black market merchants, and she has not been involved in robbing families and homes, just because she wants her hands to be clean." Somewhat. If you go down the mountain and be an ordinary person, you won’t have nightmares when you sleep at night, and you can live a peaceful life."
"Don't you want to hear her call you daddy?"
"Having a father who is a bandit leader is not an honorable thing. If you want to pick it, pick it cleanly."
"Then your plan is long-term. Little A-Xian still thinks that she was lucky enough to meet a master who was willing to teach her the whipping technique when she was a child. She didn't know that you paid a lot of money to specially hire it for her."
The first master lowered his head, stamped the mud on his shoes, and walked back with his backhand on the second master's neck, "No one in this business will end well. If there was no other way, I would not let her grow up in the bandit village. The government They will take action soon, the second brother, two brothers for life, let's die together."
Second Master: I’m going to mess with you, my life is worthless after all.
"That's all, I'm open-minded. Anyway, I've been targeted for a long time. I can't escape no matter what. Sooner or later, I'll pay back if I come out to hang out." He laughed and couldn't stop talking, "That kid named Huo, do you think he is reliable? Can you rely on me? After A-Xian left the top of the mountain, she really had no one to rely on behind her. After coming down from the mountain, she was helpless and only a sick man with no strength to tie the chicken was left beside her. People's hearts are fickle and unpredictable. If someone named Huo loses Got her——"
"He dares. A-Xian will chop him into eight pieces with her own hands."
"...Hahahahaha! That's right! Even though that kid looks useless, he still has a little bit of courage and dares to come to our door to talk to us."
Thinking of the scene where Huo Xiaozi came to find him, the expression on the headmaster's face softened slightly.
He is a smart boy. When he arrived, he got straight to the point and revealed his relationship with A-Xian.
The boy said, "I took A-Xian away, and I will live up to her promise. Before I left, I said goodbye to her as A-Xian's husband. The boss is not a good person, but it is undeniable that he has far-reaching plans for his son." My good father, I pay my respects to you and thank you for your kindness. Many bandits in the mountain met a miserable end, so I hope you will cherish it."
Ah Xian has a good taste.
I should be able to find peace in this life.
The second master on the side started chattering again, "Your son-in-law said his name is Huo Ziheng, and his surname is Huo... Judging from his well-spoken and well-behaved manner, he seems to come from a wealthy family. Are there any families in the surrounding areas with the surname Huo?"
"I don't know."
"There are not eight villages in ten miles, but if we expand further, there will be ten cities and eight states?"
"Stop thinking about it, why bother bothering when death is imminent."
"Can't you fucking say something that makes people happy..."
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On the sixth day after Huo Ziheng and A Xian left the village, the bandit village on the seven-mile plank road outside Weicheng was surrounded and suppressed by the imperial court.
The first and second leaders of the village died in the encirclement and suppression, while the rest of the bandits were caught and fled.
When the people around heard the good news, they clapped their hands and cheered.
At that time, Huo Ziheng and A Xian had arrived at a small town on the edge of Weicheng and settled temporarily in a small inn in the town.
"Both the first and second masters are dead. I heard that most of the ones who escaped were women living in lower-class areas. If we hadn't been lucky enough to leave a few days earlier, we would have been in trouble now." A-Xian held a small box. Sitting at the guest room table, I tried to say something in a light tone, but failed, and my eyes were red.
She sniffed and turned to look at the man packing her luggage beside the bed, "Smelly man, did they drive me away on purpose?"
That day, the headmaster suddenly notified her to go to the village hall and used Ma Guanshi's matter to attack her again, saying that she and the brothers in the village were not of the same mind and would not be able to follow the same path in the future.
He scolded her not only for cheating her brothers, but also for being greedy for money. He revealed all the old debts she had received for running errands and ordered her to get off the mountain immediately.
She was so angry that she whipped her whip and had a fight with the boss, but she didn't win.
A-Xian sniffed again, put the small wooden box on the table and opened it.
The box contained two bundles of cloth, some hairpin jewelry, and a handful of broken silver.
It was a gift from the second master on the day she got married to the man.
After leaving the bandit's village, she discovered that there were silver notes hidden in the two bundles of cloth, amounting to 450 taels of silver, enough for an ordinary person to last a lifetime.
"There is no end to good, and there is no end to evil." Huo Ziheng said lightly, "Those women in the lower districts should have been dismissed in advance by the first and second masters."
"Then there must be severance pay for the women. They have led a whole village of people to be bandits for decades. They certainly didn't expect that all the wealth they accumulated would be used as severance pay."
"Um."
After the government wiped out the bandits, they also searched the bandits' stronghold. In the end, they found nothing but some clothes and weapons.
I took off the money bags from the bandits and consolidated them, but I couldn't find ten taels of silver.
"With all the money I've saved, I'm not old or young. Once I find a place to settle down, I'll be able to have enough food and clothing." A-Xian quickly calmed down her emotions, covered the small wooden box again and put it away, "Smelly man, think about it quickly. Where is the best place for us to settle down? Or find a quieter town to settle down? I definitely can’t farm, we can open a small shop and think about what to sell!"
Huo Ziheng packed up his luggage, turned around and shook his head at the woman, smiling, "I can't even open a shop."
"Why?"
"If you don't help the customers in the shady shop, well... the government will also come to look for trouble."
"..." You said I opened a black shop? Aren't you looking for a fight?
Just because you have a nice smile!
While the couple was joking, there was noise coming from under the window.
This room is located on the second floor facing the street. If the people downstairs speak slightly louder, they can be heard clearly in the room.
"Another person has been exiled. Look at this huge crowd. There are dozens of people there, right? Which high-ranking official family committed the crime?"
"Who knows? Anyway, if you commit a crime, you will no longer have the glory of your family. What about high-ranking officials and a wealthy family? Now they are just a group of exiles."
"After beating our town, we were exiled to Yongzhou... Tsk, tsk, that's really miserable! Fengyun City in Yongzhou's penal colony is like a dragon's pond and a tiger's den, full of evil people, and even the government doesn't dare to take care of that place. Go there. If you want to survive, you must have money or skills, otherwise——"
Huo Ziheng walked to the window and glanced down, closed the propped window, looked back at his wife who was still counting money, raised her lips and smiled, "A-Xian, let's go to Yongzhou's place of exile."
A-Xian fell off her chair with a thud, "..."
You stinky man, you're not only looking for a beating, you're also looking for death?
