"All the heroes outside Zhuangzi, I am Butler She who is with Mr. Zheng." Butler She leaned against the wall and shouted loudly, "Our master asked me to discuss the retreat with all the heroes."
Seeing that the people from Zhengjiazhuang were coming to negotiate, Liu Heng, who was standing in front of the three hundred refugees, raised the corner of his mouth slightly and shouted: "Give us the food and money and we will retreat. If not... look at the people behind me and in the forest. Are you ready? As soon as I give the order, they will immediately invade Zhengjiazhuang and kill every one of you, not even a single one of you."
Butler She, who was standing by the wall, took a careful look towards the forest. Under the light of a long torch, all the figures were faint shadows, and he immediately shrank in fear.
After a while, his head carefully emerged from behind the wall, and he shouted: "Don't be angry, good man, everything is negotiable. I wonder how much money the good man will need before he is willing to retreat?"
"Three thousand taels."
Hearing this number, Butler She took a breath of cold air.
The boss is only willing to pay two hundred taels of silver at most, not even a fraction.
Butler She shouted helplessly from behind the wall: "Good man, we really can't afford so much money. Can we use other things instead?"
Although Mr. Zheng from Zhengjiazhuang is from a wealthy family with a radius of more than ten miles, he is only a wealthy man after all. The amount of money stored in his family is only four to five thousand. This is accumulated by two generations over decades. Counting the land title deeds, it is only one tael at most. Thousands of properties.
"What do you want to replace it with?" Liu Heng asked back.
"Grain." Butler She said, "I really can't get the money out, can I convert it all into grain?"
Liu Heng hesitated for a moment and said, "Okay, let's pay it with food."
The main reason for his trip to Zhengjiazhuang was food, not money. Especially as he was a bandit, it was destined to be inconvenient to buy food even if he had money. Even if he could buy food, it would be at a high price, so it was better to get the food directly to save worry.
"Hero, wait a moment, I will arrange for someone to deliver the food outside the village." Butler She asked again worriedly, "Hero, are you going to retreat after we take out the food?"
"That's natural." Liu Heng agreed happily.
This time he came mainly for food. He brought only more than 400 people in total, and the 300 people behind him were all refugee recruits. They had only been trained for ten days, and they were all fake. He really wanted to attack Zhengjiazhuang. If you're not sure, it's better to take advantage of the situation when everyone in Zhengjiazhuang is frightened.
Butler She who was standing on the wall of the courtyard was helped down from the table at his feet. Xiao Hu beside him said, "Really give them food worth three thousand taels?"
"How can there be so much food for them in Zhuangzi?" Steward She said, "There are still a lot of sorghum and soybeans. When the time comes, these will be used as part of the grain, and the rest will be given to each household in Zhuangzi. Giving some food to the bandits to retreat is also to save their lives."
Xiao Hu said worriedly: "What if we give them food and the bandits break the agreement and refuse to retreat?"
Butler She sighed: "We can only hope that the rebels will retreat after getting the food. Otherwise, not only will the food belong to them, but our lives will also belong to others."
After saying that, Butler She turned around and left, taking the Zheng family's servants to start preparing food.
In the past half an hour or so, cartloads of grain were transported from Zhengjiazhuang.
Because there was so much grain, all carts were pulled by animals, with the driver sitting in front of him driving the cart, and the carts were filled with bags of grain.
Yang Yuan took a few people over to check it out. After confirming that it was all food, he nodded towards Liu Heng.
Liu Heng had an idea in his mind. After he estimated that the cart carrying grain had delivered more than a thousand stones of grain, he suddenly said: "Leave the cart and the animals behind, and all the cart drivers and grain transporters will return to Zhuangzi."
Accompanying the grain truck was Butler She's handyman, who was specifically responsible for this grain haul.
Seeing that Liu Heng asked the people from Zhengjiazhuang to leave the carts and livestock behind, he hurried over, nodded and bowed to Liu Heng and said with a smile: "This... general, the grain has not been transported yet, and the carts and animals have to go back to the village to transport grain. .”
Liu Heng raised his eyebrows, grabbed the handle of the knife with one hand, and said coldly: "Either go back to the village, or never go back again."
"Young man, go back, young man, go back now." The handyman did not understand what Liu Heng meant, and his life would be lost if he stayed here any longer. He immediately trotted away with the coachman and the grain transporter towards Zhuangzi.
When the last person entered Zhuangzi, Liu Heng turned around and said to the three hundred refugee recruits behind him: "Three teams will go to transport the grain, and the rest will guard the grain truck and return to the camp."
A team of several hundred people escorted the grain truck and moved slowly. When passing through the woods to the west, another team of people joined the grain transport team and finally disappeared from the sight of Zhengjiazhuang.
Butler She and Xiao Hu were both lying on the wall of the courtyard, watching the gangsters outside Zhuangzi leave, and they both breathed a sigh of relief.
After a while, Butler She suddenly frowned and said, "That's not right. Food worth three thousand taels. Why did this group of bandits retreat after taking away more than a thousand stones of food!"
Xiao Hu on the side said nonchalantly: "It's not a bad idea for the bandits to take less food. We brothers can also follow suit and share more."
"It's still wrong." Butler She raised his hand and pointed to the woods on the west side and said, "The gangsters outside Zhuangzi have retreated, but look at the woods over there, the torches are still on, and there seems to be people inside."
"It can't be that the bandits haven't evacuated yet!" At this point, Xiao Hu suddenly frowned, and immediately called someone over and ordered, "Sister, take a few people and go into the woods to the west in the dark. , see if there is anyone inside, and how many people are there?"
"But what if the bandits haven't yet..."
Before Leizi finished speaking, he heard Butler She say: "I will give you fifty taels of silver. There is only one requirement. You must make sure there is no one in the forest. You cannot see some moving shadows and come back to report. You must hear it." When someone talks or you see someone in the woods, remember, you can’t retreat when you see a shadow, you have to see the real person.”
The man named Leizi's eyes lit up, and he immediately said with a smile: "Butler, don't worry, I will go right away, but the money..."
While speaking, he did not forget to twist his fingers.
"Here are twenty taels. I will give you the remaining thirty taels when I come back." Butler She threw out two ingots of ten taels of silver to him.
Lezi took it carefully in his hand, put it into his sleeve, called two people to leave Zhuangzi with him.
In less than half an hour, the leper ran back panting and said with a heavy breath: "No, no, no one, they are all gone, only the torches are left in the forest." '
"It's broken, we were deceived." Butler She slapped his thigh and said immediately, "Xiao Zhuangtou, you lead people to chase him immediately, and we must intercept the food."
Xiao Hu shook his head and said: "If you can't chase, let's just think that this group of bandits has more than a thousand people. Don't forget, there is a group of two thousand bandits entrenched in our county. Who knows this group and those bandits?" Does it matter?"
Butler She, who was standing next to him, quickly reacted and nodded: "This group of bandits must be the group of rogues entrenched in the territory. There are more than 2,000 rogues who came to attack Zhengjiazhuang this time."
Xiao Hu turned around and said to the people around him: "You all remember, what the leper said before was rotten in my stomach, and everyone will have the benefit of ten taels of silver. Do you remember?"
"remember."
When they heard that they could get ten taels of silver for free, everyone shouted excitedly.
Butler She whispered to Xiao Hu: "You go and take people to keep an eye on the remaining grain. I will arrange for people to transport it out and sell it as soon as possible. If there is more, it's okay to give each person a few hundred taels."
Liu Heng naturally didn't know what happened in Zhengjiazhuang after he left, but on his way back to the rogue camp, another battle that took place in the rogue camp had also ended.
