Hu Youfu has a very ordinary name, but he has a very extraordinary nickname, called Fanjiang Ghost.
Generally, those who have nicknames are not good people.
Hu Youfu was not a good person. He came from the East China Sea and committed many crimes. He was also registered in Jingzhao Mansion and had more than a dozen lives on his hands.
This kind of "big thief" would be beheaded once caught, and there were portraits and notices in every state capital.
Half a year ago, Hu Youfu was caught when he fled to Xiao County. He was imprisoned in a cell, resigned to his fate, and waited for death.
Until one day, a man came to the cell and told him that his life could be saved, temporarily, but he had to go up the mountain, just go up the mountain, rather than go up the mountain and become a bandit.
Who would want to die if he could live? The prisoner Hu Youfu was dropped and released at night. Two officers from the county government sent him to the mountains and to a village.
Hu Youfu had seen this kind of stockade. It was the place where bandits and bandits gathered. It was easy to defend but difficult to attack. It could be attacked or defended.
But Xiao County is not far from the capital, and there are people who have built a stronghold here. Are they not afraid of encirclement and suppression by the army? Hu Youfu couldn't figure it out.
After going up the mountain and entering the stronghold, Hu Youfu realized that the people in the stronghold were not bandits, but most of them were "strong men" with shady identities. Most of them were thieves, and there were also some elderly soldiers. He has been in battle.
We don't go down the mountain, we don't rob our property, we just wait and have wine to drink and meat to eat. Some women will come up the mountain regularly to make everyone happy, but it's just a different woman every time they come, and Every time I leave, I don’t take the path up the mountain.
There are three villages in the village, all in the mountains. It is strictly forbidden to go down the mountain privately. If you run away and are caught, it depends on the mood of the leaders. If you are in a good mood, you will be beaten and hung up in the sun for three days. If you are in a bad mood, you will be stabbed to death as a warning to others. , but the boss rarely has a good mood.
Hu Youfu stayed in the village for half a year. During this period, there were always people going up and down the mountain. The people who went up were all like him. Their identities were not visible to the public. There were not many people going down. There were only two or three people going down every now and then. , some people came back, and some people were never seen again.
Hu Youfu roughly understood that the people around him should be dead soldiers raised by a big shot. The person who raised them should be doing something big. As for what big thing it was, many people had guessed it.
Until more than two months ago, many things happened in the mountains, three things happened.
The first thing was that Wu Daming ran away.
Hu Youfu and Wu Daming were acquainted with each other. This boy was a flower picker, but his tools were as thin as needles and his methods were despicable. Everyone looked down on him.
Wu Daming really ran away. Several heads of the family sent people to look for him but could not find him. The head of the house scolded him every day and even began to survey the terrain of the back mountain. He must be afraid that he would be exposed and prepare to take everyone away.
The second thing is that not long after Wu Daming ran away, many brothers disappeared on the mountain. Some went to catch game, and some disappeared inexplicably after going out to urinate. About ten people disappeared, but a few were found later. The corpse, judging from the appearance of the corpse, must have been eaten by wild animals.
Hu Youfu saw two corpses and felt a little worried.
No one knew that he had worked as a prisoner before, so he knew some autopsy methods and could tell at a glance that the two corpses must have been tortured before they died.
But Hu Youfu didn't mention it to anyone. Many people died because they talked too much.
The third thing was that someone came again. He was not sent here, but just walked into the village in a swaggering manner. He was very arrogant and domineering. He called himself Lao Jiu and carried a smelly baggage in his hand.
The baggage was untied, and inside was a human head, Wu Daming's head.
This man who calls himself Master Jiu is not very old, but he has a fiery and cruel temper. Just when a brother came up to ask, he has two big ears and half of his teeth are missing. His skills are not bad, but the good one is scary. He slapped him in the face. , grabbed the knife at the same time, and slashed it out with one blow, knocking the brother who was just asking to the ground, dear, he was almost cut in half.
After killing someone, Master Jiu asked several masters to roll in front of him.
Who has seen such majesty, it is terrifying.
The first, second, and third boss were drinking, and the three managers in the village all ran out.
The bookish Master Jiu slashed the eldest master in half with another blow, his head flying high. Before the brothers could speak, a belt card was still placed on the face of the third master, and he scolded everyone. The rice bucket said that Wu Daming was almost lost.
The waist badge is covered with gold and jade. Hu Youfu is well-informed and knows that the waist badge represents a noble person.
Master Jiu threw away his badge and asked the second master and third master to kneel down under the watchful eyes of hundreds of brothers. The second master hesitated for a moment, as if he was a little confused.
Hu Youfu swore to God and hesitated for just a moment, just in the blink of an eye.
The third sword was swung down, and the head of the second master, who was the most skilled in martial arts, fell to the ground.
The third master, who was still showing off his power every day, was so frightened that he knelt on the ground on the spot.
Master Jiu kicked the second head of the family's head away, looking at everyone with his scary eyes, saying that he, Master Jiu, would have the final say on the mountain from now on. Li Mu, the magistrate of Xiao County, was indecisive and unreliable. He was the counselor of King Wu. On behalf of the King of Wu, he will be in charge of affairs from now on. If people from Xiao County go to the mountain again, they must inform him.
Hu Youfu doesn't know what happened after that. He only knows that in the next few days, Master Jiu became the first master, and the third master, yes, the third master became the second master, and the second master obeyed Master Jiu's orders.
After a few days of peace and quiet, everyone went down the mountain.
It was night, and more than a thousand people came down the mountain, led by Master Jiu.
Master Jiu said, tonight, he will take them to fight for their future, to win a city, and to win a city together, Dachang Dynasty, the capital!
Master Jiu is an open-minded person, unlike the former head of the family, Zangzangyeye, who told everyone that they were going to pretend to be officers and soldiers, and when the time came, Neiying opened the city gate, and the King of Wu had bribed the courtiers and several generals in the capital camp.
Everything was ready to seize the country. The thousand of them were just a small force, and they were going to the Jing camp on the outskirts to meet up with General Yunhui, who had secretly taken refuge with the King of Wu.
Everyone was excited and a little scared, but they were more excited than scared. Master Jiu seemed to be a reliable person at first sight. He was very temperamental, treated everyone equally, and spoke openly. He went down the mountain and walked in front, carrying a knife. You could tell by his posture. He was also a gang leader.
Under the moonlight, we were almost at the camp. Jiu Ye said that he would go first and inform General Yunhui when he entered the camp. After a while, General Yunhui would take the soldiers to change their clothes and give them better weapons.
Yes, Master Jiu didn't let them bring weapons, saying there were better ones in the military camp.
Hu Youfu was very excited. He had never been to the capital before he had such a long life. Master Jiu said that he would go in and give everyone an hour to do whatever they wanted, rob as much as they could, and burn as much as they could.
Everyone was very excited and yelled with excitement.
Master Jiu went there for a long time, about one stick of incense, and after a while, he whistled.
Lord Jiu was trustworthy, so everyone entered the military camp in a swaggering manner. The soldiers from the Beijing camp stood on the outside.
It's just that the expressions of the soldiers were a little weird. Looking at them, it was like looking at a group of...how to put it, it was like seeing a group of people who didn't know how to hide in the house during a thunderstorm.
Then... what happened next, Hu Youfu didn't remember very clearly.
Before he was shot through the chest by a sharp arrow, he only remembered the soldiers with strange expressions who suddenly pulled out the longbows from behind, and then a rain of arrows like locusts struck.
Most of the brothers around him fell down, and then there was the sound of a long sword being unsheathed. The soldiers, with red eyes, rushed over and slashed them.
Hu Youfu lay in a pool of blood, the energy in his eyes gradually dissipating.
He saw a horse, an expressionless man in black clothes riding a horse, rushing into the military camp with forty or fifty people, and then there was the sound of quarreling.
A guy who calls himself a general is cursing and saying why the hell didn’t he say hello in advance.
It was Master Jiu's voice. Master Jiu said that he went into the mountain alone and had no one to help him.
The man who had just arrived on horseback kept smiling bitterly, and said that he had just come here and wanted to inform General Tan to garrison in Xiao County.
Hu Youfu didn't know what happened after that. He only knew that he was breathing hard, and then he saw a pair of eyes. It wasn't Master Jiu, or a soldier, but a man in black robes, unsmiling, serious, and very... Carefully, he took out his waist knife and stabbed it into his chest very slowly.
Before he died, Hu Youfu saw that the person who stabbed him turned around and asked calmly, "Will you catch Li Mu?"
Master Jiu said, catch him. If you catch him, hurry back to Beijing. He wants to go back and brag to Chu Qing. He is very excited.
Hu Youfu died, and his death was very painful, just like when he strangled his fellow countrymen to death with his own hands.
Before Hu Youfu died, he thought of his fellow villagers. He and his fellow villagers went to the city to work together and slept in the open beside the official road.
The six hundred coins in the fellow villager's bag was actually not much, but Hu Youfu felt that the six hundred coins should be his.
That was his first murder.
Hu Youfu was envious of his fellow villagers. At least, his fellow villagers knew why they died, but because of six hundred articles, he himself was very confused and died in confusion.
Aren't you going to do big things? Master Jiu...won't you lead them to do big things?
