The winding forest road curves all the way to the end.
Raising his eyes, Xu Mu finally saw the outline of Changjia Town, and couldn't help but feel relieved.
"My boss, is that Mr. Chang?"
Under the slightly darkening sky, a figure dressed in luxurious clothes was sitting lazily in front of the town entrance.
A desk, a wicker chair, and a pot of tea.
It was as if he knew Xu Mu was coming.
"My dear boss, you're a little slow." Chang Shiro raised his head and his tone was a little funny.
"Master Chang, are you waiting for me?"
"I knew you were here and had nothing to do, so I just came out and waited."
After getting off the carriage, Xu Mu frowned, wondering how Shiro got the news that he was coming. He came to Changjia Town just to say that if something happened to Chen Sheng and others in the future, there would be a place to announce it.
"I told you, I have people everywhere." Changshiro picked up the tea cup and took a leisurely sip.
The next words made Xu Mu stunned on the spot.
"Not only do I know you are coming, I also know that behind you, about ten miles away, there are more than twenty officers and soldiers chasing you."
"Officers and soldiers." Xu Mu gritted his teeth.
"Mr. Chang is very resourceful."
Si Hu, Zhou Zun, Zhou Luo, and three other young men who were nearby took out their weapons one after another, their expressions gloomy.
"Mr. Chang is blocking the entrance to the town. Does he not want me to go in?"
"You can say that, or you don't." Changshiro's expression remained unchanged, "The skinny man plays the horn in the mountain city, and the soldiers are ready for use in the precarious China. The officers and soldiers are coming for you, it must be a matter of strong men."
"My little boss, do you believe it or not? Even if those officers and soldiers rushed in front of me, I would curse a few times, or even kill people, they would not dare to fart."
"What does Mr. Chang want to say?"
Changshiro stood up, the loose robe belt on his body swaying in the wind.
"Call me young master, and I will take you in personally."
Xu Mu laughed and said, "Mr. Chang is recruiting me."
"It's a bit of taking advantage of others, but that's how the world is. If we're not relatives, why should I help you even if I sell you a hundred carts of food every month?"
Xu Mu didn't speak, raised his head, and looked at the lush green mountains behind Changjia Town, which were gradually blackened by the inky sky.
"I used to be a kind-hearted person." Toshiro scratched his nose and continued interestingly, "I would give half a bag to any house that was out of rice."
"But later I discovered that this was of no use. How many tens of thousands of Daji people could I save?"
"so what?"
"So, I want to find another way to save him."
As for the solution, Xu Mu didn't want to ask. He only guessed that it was definitely not a good thing. He had long felt that Chang Shiro would be a very extraordinary person.
"More than ten years ago, I dug nine river channels along the entire Jijiang River, equipped with columbians and drainage trucks, and gathered the refugees as tenants. There were grain farms all over the land."
"The weather is favorable and the harvest is plentiful."
Changshiro paused, with a funny look on his face again.
"But even so, many people will starve to death every year."
Xu Mu's face was gloomy, and he became more and more confused about what Chang Silang meant. If Chang Silang refused to help, he could only find a way to avoid them with Si Hu and others.
"Because, the entire Daji Dynasty's grain was taken away!" Chang Shiro laughed loudly, "Do you think I always keep track of the grain store, so I should have a lot of grain stored? But let me tell you, at least seven All the harvested grain has disappeared into the world for no reason. Who collected it? Who hid it? How much was hidden? How many people hid it?"
"Storing food in troubled times can make you rich and powerful!" Chang Shiro shouted loudly.
Buzz.
Xu Mu's mind was shaking, and his chest felt inexplicably tight. He thought of the tragic scene of cannibalism outside Wangzhou City.
Thinking of Xi Niang’s two children, they were so hungry that they were only skin and bones.
Thinking of the refugees, he knelt before him and begged to be taken in.
I remembered the little maid's wife under the oil lamp, eating half a bowl of mush, but eating extremely happily.
"Little boss, how about coming with me?"
"Where should I go with you?" Xu Mu rubbed his head and forced himself to calm down.
"Save the world."
"I'm not going." Xu Mu said coldly, his face darkening.
"What can you accomplish by being a small boss? You lead dozens of villagers and want to survive? Can you survive in this gloomy world! Can you be saved!"
"You have to live even if you can't live!" Xu Mu gritted his teeth and spoke angrily.
"I and the villagers just want to live! Whoever forces me, I will kill!"
Changshiro's face gradually calmed down, he laughed dumbly, and spread his hands helplessly.
"In this case, let's just do business. Of course, I hope that one day, you can climb a little higher and come to talk to me again."
"But, this round of hell, you have to go through it first."
Changshiro stopped speaking, sat down leisurely again, looked at Xu Mu with a smile, and pointed behind him.
Xu Mu turned his head in shock.
Under the dark sky, more than twenty figures on horseback rushed towards Changjia Town. The leader was a captain with a desolate look on his face. He was wearing heavy robes and armor. On his horse's saddle was not only an iron bow, but also a large ringed sword.
"Mr. Chang, be polite."
"Dog in the army, don't get too close." Chang Shiro yawned, his tone neither salty nor light.
However, the captain's expression changed, and with a gesture, he slowly withdrew a large distance along with the more than twenty mounted officers and soldiers behind him.
"Little boss, don't go to Changjia Town today. I'll give you a stick of incense for a visit."
Upon hearing this, Xu Mu silently clasped his fists, and then quickly jumped onto the carriage.
Si Hu angrily picked up the reins, and with the two cavalry figures, he hurried towards the dark night ahead.
Xue Tong didn't dare to move.
When Changshiro said a stick of incense, it was a stick of incense.
"Do you have a noble surname?"
"Xue's surname is single-character Tong." Xue Tong frowned slightly.
"Business?"
"Just passing by."
Chang Shiro smiled and said, "I've heard of you, the infantry instructor of the National Protectorate Battalion. My little boss will have to suffer a lot this time."
After saying that, Tsuneshiro got up and walked to the town out of boredom. He walked at a leisurely pace, as if nothing happened.
"Xue Tou? That little boss is going to run away." An officer and soldier approached and spoke in a solemn voice.
"Didn't you hear clearly? Wait for a stick of incense!"
Xue Tong's face turned red. He didn't want the three thousand taels of silver!
But he didn't dare.
"There are hidden dragons and crouching tigers in the inner city, and the Chang family's gun and stick little champion cannot be offended."
After a long time, the evening breeze cooled my body.
"Xue Tou, a stick of incense!"
"Hurry up and mount!"
Xue Tong roared, quickly got on his horse, and with more than twenty officers and soldiers on horseback, he drew out his sword and rushed away following the darkness in front.
…
The forest is dense and the grass is deep, the mountain road is getting narrower and narrower, and the frightened forest birds circle around the head and scream hastily.
"My boss, there is a mountain road ahead. Without the lantern, you can't see clearly!"
Zhou Zun and Zhou Luo walked back around the horse, each holding a knife in one hand and holding the reins in the other.
In the compartment behind the carriage, three young men also carried longbows and held on to their long sticks.
"Hang the lantern!"
Xu Mu gritted his teeth and already guessed that this must be a last-minute attack from the four major households in Tangjiang City.
"Si Hu, urge the horse!"
More than twenty cavalry officers! Even if you wipe out a group of hundreds of old bandits, you won't get this kind of treatment!
