Early the next morning, Lu Zhiying took Wei Kui and nearly twenty other young men and women and set off towards Lu'er Village.
Wei Kui originally proposed to ride a horse to Luer Village to leave early and return early. Everyone agreed because they couldn't help but see the beautiful women in Luer Village. Unexpectedly, Lu Zhiying raised objections and said with a smile: "We in Luer Village It's not far from here. It only takes less than half an hour to ride a horse and just over an hour to walk. It's still early and the girls haven't woken up yet - I'm afraid it would be rude if we enter the village at this time. Besides tonight There is a banquet prepared in the village, and you don’t have a horse, so you can use this as an excuse to stay in our village and get close to the girls—"
When everyone heard what Lu Zhiying said, they felt that it was reasonable. They also heard that he had prepared a banquet in the evening so that they could drink and have fun with the girls, so they supported Lu Zhiying's words and started walking while the coolness of the morning was cool. Along the way, these young men who were not yet married were chattering and discussing, and they all looked very excited. Only Wei Kui showed no interest, and was still thinking about his guesses from last night in his mind.
This Lu Zhiying is really a bit too weird - he sells girls and gives thank-you gifts, just to get the young adults in Weijia Village to help repair their houses? The answer must be no. The reward is far out of proportion to the price. There must be some conspiracy.
After walking for more than an hour, we finally arrived at Luer Village. It was already three o'clock in the morning. A group of pretty girls at the entrance of the village greeted the people from Weijia Village as soon as they saw them arriving.
There are many men in Weijia Village. Where have you seen such a scene? I was mesmerized by the girls' beauty for a moment, and I was so excited that I didn't know where to put my hands.
Wei Kui ignored them and walked straight to the village - just as Lu Zhiying said, the houses were washed away by the heavy rain, but the number was far less than what he said. Only a few houses on lower ground in the west of the village were exposed. Look of ruin. While Wei Kui was standing here thinking, the villagers of Luer Village also led Wei Gong, Wei Cheng and others over.
Lu Zhiying came up and patted Wei Kui on the shoulder and said, "Thank you, brother Wei Kui. Brother, you are born with supernatural powers. With you here, I will get twice the result with half the effort." Wei Kui agreed perfunctorily, and rolled up his sleeves to help. Lu Zhiying Seeing that everyone was already starting to work in full swing, he quietly stepped aside and disappeared.
After some time, a little girl hurriedly ran towards him. Wei Kui was afraid that the people around him might accidentally hurt her when they were building a wall, so he pulled her aside.
Unexpectedly, this little girl asked Wei Kui anxiously: "Are you from Weijia Village?
Wei Kui nodded, wondering what happened to this little girl.
The little girl looked around and found that no one noticed her. Then she lowered her voice and said to Wei Kui: "You should go back to your Weijia Village as soon as possible! I just heard Lu Zhiying said to people that they can prepare to go to Weijia Village. Let’s do it!”
Attack Weijiacun? Wei Kui was shocked, and the doubts that had been lingering in his mind were finally solved - this Lu Zhiying was indeed up to no good! Half of the able-bodied men in the village have been lured away by Lu Zhiying. Now is the best time to attack the village!
But he also kept an eye on it and asked, "Who are you? Are you from Lu'er Village too? Why are you telling me this?"
Although the little girl was anxious, she spoke coherently: "I am Lu Ning from Lu'er Village, just call me A Ning. I tell you because Lu Zhiying is a bad guy with a heart of snakes and scorpions - he always fights with bandits He mixes with the girls in the village and sends his two adult sisters to the bandit's village every year. However, most of the people in the village are old, weak, women and children who only dare to be angry and dare not speak out, and he often puts aside his ruthlessness. They threatened us that if anyone dared to run out of the village privately or tell people in other villages about this, he would be sent to the village to be entertained by the bandits and then killed."
Although Lu Ning gradually showed fear and her voice became softer, she still mustered up the courage to say to Wei Kui: "Actually... Lu Zhiying wanted me to talk to you and leave you here until the bandits finish looting. Your village will come back to deal with you... But I think if he continues to let him do what he wants, sooner or later I will be sent to the village by him. Since Lu Zhiying specifically asked me, then you must be the most powerful - —You must have a way to stop him, right?"
After hearing this, Wei Kui couldn't help but thought in his heart that Lu Zhiying was really sinister and vicious. He asked Xiang Lu Ning: "Do you have any horses in your village? I'll borrow some from you so I can go back and stop them."
Lu Ning shook her head, "Where are there any horses in the village? The horses in several surrounding villages have been robbed by bandits - but I still have a donkey that works as a mill, I wonder if it can be put to use."
Wei Kui couldn't help but feel sore after hearing this. Lu Zhiying was also quite cautious. He must have tried every means to slow down our return by not letting us ride horses. This guy even took away the horses from his own village. "A donkey is fine, so let's just ride it. It's better than running back on two legs." After saying that, he immediately waved to the two brothers Wei Gong and Wei Cheng, and the two brothers came over reluctantly. Wei Kui explained the whole story to the two of them, and asked them to call on other brothers from Weijia Village to go back with him to rescue the village. However, they must not make it public in case there is Lu Zhiying's spy in Lu'er Village. He only needs to find an informant. Just make excuses to avoid today's affairs and slowly withdraw from them. The two men were also hesitant, but since the lives of the whole village's elders were at stake, they would rather believe it or not, so they returned to the crowd and whispered.
Wei Kui followed Lu Ning to her house. The lazy donkey was still unwilling to leave the stable. After being kicked and scolded by Lu Ning, he walked out of the stable leisurely. At the same time, Wei Kui conveniently touched a short ax for chopping firewood at the base of the wall of Lu Ning's house, held a pickaxe in his hand, and stepped on the black donkey.
He urged the donkey to walk towards the entrance of the village. Unexpectedly, the donkey was very lazy by nature and could not walk as fast as his own legs. Wei was heartbroken and hit the donkey hard on its butt with the back of an ax. The black donkey was in pain and whimpered. After making a sound, he spread his hooves and started running. Wei Kui turned around and said to Lu Ning: "You should hide quickly and don't get kidnapped by Lu Zhiying's men. Thank you, A Ning."
Just as Wei Kui set off from Luer Village back to the village, there were still men farming and weaving women performing their respective duties in the Wei family village. They knew nothing about Lu Zhiying's conspiracy, but the bandits who were ambushing not far outside the village were already waiting. A little impatient.
Just when the leader of the bandits couldn't wait any longer and was about to order an attack, there was a rapid sound of horse hooves, and Lu Zhiying arrived belatedly. He wiped the sweat from his forehead and said with a flattering smile: "The boss, you can give the order to attack." The bandit leader snorted coldly, raised the steel knife in his hand, and for a while, the 20 or 30 people in front of him rode on horseback. The knife-wielding bandits, followed by dozens of bandits on foot holding steel forks, hoes and other "weapons", rushed towards Weijiacun in a swarm.
This Lu Zhiying was originally a poor scholar in Luer Village. He failed to become a scholar in several exams and was idle in the village. He was different from Meng He. Meng He really had the literary talent and ability to pass the exam but was rejected by the examiner. He was so cowardly that he missed his career by pretending to be famous, but this Lu Zhiying really didn't have that ability - in other words, this was an old Sun Shan.
This old Sun Shan spent all his family's savings on the imperial examination, and because he was too weak to work in the fields, he could only compose a few limerick poems to ridicule the court's short-sightedness. He could be described as half a useless person, so he was looked down upon by the villagers. , although he was resentful about this, he had no ability to resist and had to endure it silently. Four years ago, when bandits robbed Lu'er Village, he worked as a young man. Relying on his ability to read and digit, he hooked up with these gangsters. From then on, he became the bandits' dog-headed strategist. It fulfilled his dream of dispatching troops and generals. He usually comes up with bad ideas and talks, but he is still respected by the bandits. The mountain village that was still half-dead actually became more decent and stronger under his advice - and his first bad idea, This was also his pledge - he first sold the girls in his village and then tricked the girls into going up to the mountains to be used as playthings for thieves.
Since then, he has taken several adult girls from the village up the mountain every year. At first, the villagers in Luer Village didn't know what happened, but as time went by, rumors would come out. Lu Zhiying became angry and warned them not to go there. The outsiders said that otherwise they would lead the bandits to kill all the chickens and dogs in Luer Village, so everyone dared to be angry but dare not speak out.
The mountain village is getting stronger and stronger, and the surrounding villages have already been squeezed by them to make ends meet and can't squeeze out anything, so the bandits start to attack Weijia Village. Lu Zhiying had long heard that the villagers of the Wei family were tough, and there was even a child who was as strong as a tiger cub and kept the bandits away from the village. He thought that the Wei family village had never been robbed in recent years, and he must be able to do something about it. Those with big votes took advantage of the heavy rains in the past few days that destroyed countless houses in villages, and came up with this trick to "lead the tiger away from the mountain".
That tough boy was quite powerful, so these rabble-rousers must be no match for him, so they transferred him out of the village and set up a beauty trap in Luer Village, so that he wouldn't fall for the bait. Lu Zhiying and a few bandits wanted to disguise themselves and sneak into Weijia Village to survey the terrain. Although those few were suspected by Wei Kui, fortunately, they got in and found out the details of Wei Kui. Today, he used these young people to Lu'er Village used his lust as a bait to lure them to walk to Lu'er Village, but he had already taken the horses from Lu'er Village and presented them to the bandits - even if there was anyone in Lu'er Village who dared to tell the truth, relying on It would take an hour to walk at the fastest possible time, and by then the bandits would have returned with their full load, leaving an empty village behind.
Lu Zhiying followed the bandits into the village on horseback. The villagers in Weijia Village reacted quickly. Women, girls and children immediately got into the house, while the men gathered with farm tools to resist the bandits. Almost all the unmarried young men and women in the village were lured away by Lu Zhiying. After half of the adult men were gone, their combat effectiveness was naturally far less than usual. The villagers of Weijia Village protected the old, young, women and children and retreated into the village, fighting and fleeing, while Shan The thieves were not in a hurry to catch up - naturally they rushed into these empty houses to grab some valuable things first. As for killing people - a group of little lambs who were squeezed to the edge of the sheepfold would not be too late to kill them later. By the way, they Grab some young and beautiful girls and go back to the mountains to have fun.
On the way to retreat, someone recognized Lu Zhiying, who was arrogant and domineering among the bandits. Grandpa Wei was so angry that he was shaking all over and couldn't even hold his crutches: "Cough, cough, cough... Lu Zhiying, you are such a wolf-hearted person." You are a bastard who is worse than a pig or a dog... We are kind to you, but you lead the bandits to us... I will fight with you!" Grandpa Wei San was so angry that he just wanted to turn around and fight Lu Zhiying. , but a breath caught in his throat and he fainted. The crowd hurriedly snatched him back and carried him to the main army.
Lu Zhiying's smile was quite proud at this time. In his mind, this plan was a foolproof strategy, so what did he have to worry about? The only variable was Wei Kui - luckily he asked the most beautiful little girl in the village, fifteen-year-old Lu Ning, to hold him back.
The bandits' encirclement was slowly tightening. Just as the bandits at the front were fighting the men from Weijia Village, they saw chaos in the rear. A god of war wielding an iron pickaxe and riding a black donkey entered the formation. The bandits were so disturbed that they fell on their backs.
I saw that the God of War had a fierce look in his eyes, his mouth was like a giant basin, his eyes were spitting fire, and his voice was like thunder. He wielded an ax in his left hand and a hoe in his right hand. The armor at the top of his hand was like a gushing spring of blood. Wei Kui said angrily: "Lu Zhiying, get out of here, Grandpa Wei, and die!"
