The two of them walked in silence for a day and finally entered Luoyang City. It happened to be night when we entered the city, and the neon lights in Luoyang City were bright, which firmly calmed the two bumpkins.
After asking around with passers-by, I finally found the Hou Mansion. After handing over two marbles, the two of them were in a dilemma.
Go back now? Or stay one night in Luoyang?
The city of Luoyang is so prosperous that there are probably no inns that cost four coppers a night. Walk back? The two of them have been tired for a whole day and have to take a rest. Finally, Fu Xiaohu made the decision: Go back to Nantun Town now. The two of them have plenty of strength, and they can save what they can.
When they passed by Baihua Tower on their way out of the city, Tan Wushuang was dumbfounded by the coquettishly dressed girls waving handkerchiefs at them.
"What are you looking at?" Fu Xiaohu kicked Tan Wushuang.
"Xiaohu," Tan Wushuang stared at the girls and said blankly, "Let's take a look. You don't have to spend money just to see them."
Fu Xiaohu thought it made sense and looked in the direction of the girls. At this sight, he was also stunned. These girls are so beautiful, even more beautiful than Jade. There are not many young girls in Chaolan Valley, and Jade is the most beautiful. Of course, this conclusion was secretly drawn by these bad boys. Li Fenglan is too unfeminine, Amber is too stupid, and Jade basically has no shortcomings except being indifferent to others. Therefore, Jade is more popular than Li Fenglan in the valley.
In fact, the girls in Baihualou are not as beautiful as Jade, and even the famous courtesans are not as beautiful as Jade, but they can't stand up to the fact that they are well-dressed and well-groomed. These two silly boys have never seen anything in the market. Seeing those girls with just the right makeup and bold and unrestrained clothes really opened their eyes.
In the corridor on the second floor of Baihua Building facing the street, a woman in pink clothes with half-revealed shoulders threw a handkerchief to the passing crowd. The handkerchief fluttered down and landed right on Fu Xiaohu's face. He picked up the handkerchief and smelled it. It smelled so good.
Although they were reluctant to leave, the two of them left Luoyang City. The prosperity of Luoyang shocked the two of them. Until they left the city and walked in the deserted wilderness, Fu Xiaohu seemed to still be able to hear the noisy sounds in his ears. There were the cries of vendors and the laughter and curses of pedestrians. Of course, the noisiest thing was the warm and soft words of the girls from Baihualou soliciting customers.
Fu Xiaohu whispered: "I heard Zheng Beifeng say yesterday that the oiran of Baihualou can't use twenty taels of silver in one night."
Tan Wushuang said with yearning: "Twenty taels? Not expensive."
Still a little reluctant to leave, the two of them walked very slowly. Not far ahead, there was an ox cart driving slowly. It was obvious that there was a family of four on the ox cart, but I didn’t know what they were doing at such a late hour. It was late at night and the road was unsafe, so in order not to make others afraid, the two of them followed him from a distance.
Suddenly, a group of people jumped out of the bushes beside the road. What they had in their hands were clearly steel knives. The family on the bullock cart was so frightened that the female family members screamed again and again.
Fu Xiaohu pulled Tan Wushuang over and hid in the woods nearby.
"Xiaohu, this is... the Dao of Tribulation!"
"Shh," Fu Xiaohu said, "keep your voice down."
"No, don't we want to be heroes? Let's go and save that family quickly. The old man in the valley said that there are no masters in robbing families, so we don't have to be afraid."
Fu Xiaohu shook his head and said: "I think these robbers are experienced people. They should have done many things. They don't know how to kill people. If they wanted to kill people, they would have done it when they rushed out just now. Let's wait and wait for them. Once we succeed, let’s follow up and raid their hometown.”
"What if...they have a lot of people at home?"
"It's so close to Luoyang, there won't be any big bandits, and the number of them will definitely not be too many. Even if there are many, are you afraid? The four of them, Li Fenglan, dare to break into the Songshan sect, which has about a hundred people."
These words stimulated Tan Wushuang. There was fire in his heart and light in his eyes, as if he could rush into the bandit's lair and destroy the bandits in the next moment.
After a while, the robbers succeeded, beat the men of the family, and returned to the woods carrying the grain and pulling the ox cart. At this time, Fu Xiaohu and Tan Wushuang rushed over to help.
Fu Xiaohu asked: "Are you okay?"
As we got closer, we could see clearly this family of four, a middle-aged man, a young man, a young woman, and a little girl. It seems that the couple took their daughter and father to Luoyang City to buy things. They came back late and were robbed by the gangsters.
The middle-aged man burst into tears: "Our family's winter goods are all on the bullock cart. How can we live like this?"
Fu Xiaohu took out the copper coins in his arms and handed them to the middle-aged man: "You take the money first, and we will help you get your things back. Where do you live?"
The middle-aged man looked at the coins blankly. These few coins were definitely not enough for the family to eat and drink. He said blankly: "Who are you two?"
Tan Wushuang said with a smile: "We are heroes. Uncle, please tell me where you live so we can catch up and send your things back to you, and the thieves will be gone in a while."
The middle-aged man was doubtful and gave his address.
Fu Xiaohu and Tan Wushuang stopped talking and chased the robbers in the direction they left.
It didn't take long before I caught up with the robbers. They were leading a bullock cart and couldn't walk very fast. The two followed the gang of robbers, jumping around the treetops. There were eight robbers in this group. They were barely practicing martial arts. Their martial arts skills were poor, and they didn't even notice the two big living people above them.
After following for more than an hour, we went up a hill, turned several turns on the top of the hill, and finally stopped in front of a village surrounded by mountains on three sides. The village is not large in scale, with more than fifty people living there at most, and it looks quite shabby.
Fu Xiaohu was very excited and his hands were shaking. Tan Wushuang was also about the same.
Those people opened the gate of the village and walked in one after another. When everyone went in, the village door was closed from the inside. They observed carefully and found that no one was standing guard and it was very dark in the village.
"Xiaohu, let's do it."
"good!"
The two jumped off the branch, rose and fell on the flat ground, and flew into the low wooden fence. Although their Qinggong skills were not as good as Li Fenglan's, they were still pretty good, and there was no sound when they landed. The robbers who were carving up the property paid no attention to them.
Fu Xiaohu shouted: "You thieves! How dare you block the road and rob someone in broad daylight! I will do justice to God."
The robbers were very puzzled, first, where did these two people come from? Second, what broad daylight? Where can I see the sun here?
There are more than 20 people in this bandit village who can hold knives. Did these two stupid young men eat something unclean? Two against twenty? What's more, the leader of the bandit village is a master. At noon, two martial arts people who did not know life or death came to seek death, but the leader beat them both and kidnapped them.
The robbers were not hesitant and attacked the two of them with their knives.
Fu Xiaohu and Tan Wushuang were good at martial arts, but they had never fought with anyone, and they had no weapons in their hands, so they were a little confused when they started fighting. This is slightly different from the imagination. However, the two of them didn't mess around for long. After they got used to it, the robbers began to retreat.
The two of them didn't use any fatal blows, just as long as they couldn't get up from the fight. After a short while, there were only three robbers left standing. The three people looked at Fu Xiaohu and the others, trembling.
At this moment, a deep voice came from inside the bandit village.
"Who broke into the stronghold?!"
When the three robbers saw their savior, they hurriedly shouted: "Master! There are two juniors who don't know how to live or die!"
As soon as he finished speaking, Fu Xiaohu saw a majestic black shadow like a man and a bear rushing toward them, and the two hurriedly fought. This burly man practiced horizontal kung fu and was quite accomplished. He was not at the same level as those stinky fish and shrimps just now. But that was it. With the joint efforts of Fu Xiaohu and Tan Wushuang, they were restrained in less than ten rounds.
At this time, the robbers were dumbfounded. The boss is a master, but he can't even beat him?
The leader of the bandit village was also surprised. Are these two young men a bit too good at martial arts? He couldn't be the proud son of some famous and upright family, could he?
Fu Xiaohu looked at the bandits lying on the ground and was about to say something. Suddenly, a group of women and children rushed out from various cabins in the bandits' village and stood in front of the bandits. But it was too dark, so Fu Xiaohu couldn't see their expressions clearly.
Unexpectedly, the bandits lying on the ground became angry.
"You're from a girl's house! Who asked you to come out! Go back to me!"
"Go back to the house and lie down! You're a prodigal!"
Fu Xiaohu and Tan Wushuang were confused. Where was this song coming from? They have read many Jianghu picture books, but none of them mentioned that there are female relatives in the village? These women...are the family members of these bandits?
The women didn't leave. One of the leaders, a middle-aged woman, suddenly knelt down on the ground. She cried and said, "Two heroes! Please do your best! Don't kill us!"
The bandit leader stood up angrily, pulled the middle-aged woman behind him, and roared: "Why are you joining in the fun?! Get back here!"
The middle-aged woman grabbed the bandit leader's hand hard and begged: "Master, please don't be so stubborn. Let's admit our mistakes to the two young heroes! Our lives are at stake!"
"What do you know, bitch?! Get out of here! I will be a man even to death! I will never give in!"
"Hmph," Fu Xiaohu sneered, "Man? What kind of man do you think you are if you are robbing families and homes?"
"Hmph," the leader of the bandit village sneered, "The world is difficult, and we are just asking for food. If you want to kill or cut into pieces, please feel free to do so, no need to say more!"
Fu Xiaohu found a stone pier and sat down. He spoke slowly: "The family that you robbed just now had their winter goods on the oxcart. Without these things, their family of four will starve to death."
The leader of the bandit village said: "Without these things, all of us in the village will starve to death."
"You have hands and feet. As long as you are willing to work, you will not starve to death. Why do you benefit yourself at the expense of others?"
"If you are not forced to do anything, who will become a bandit? If you have a good livelihood, who will go up the mountain to become a bandit? You are good at martial arts, poor in culture and military, maybe you are a young master from a noble family, do you understand us low-level Jianghu people? Among us, some of our families were wiped out by our enemies, and some of us were forced to have no choice but to say why, each of us has a reason."
Fu Xiaohu pointed at the dirty clothes on his body and asked with a smile: "Do you think I look like a young man from an aristocratic family?"
The leader of the bandit village said: "If he is not a rich man, he is also a disciple of some sect."
Fu Xiaohu was silent. It was not that he had nothing to say. When he was a child, he was forced to read by the elders in the valley, and he understood a lot of the principles in the books. But is it useful? God is unfair and the world is dark. He was deceived twice just two days after entering the world, and each time he gained a new understanding of the world.
There is one thing that he is sure is right no matter what time it comes, and that is: this world is not black and white.
Fu Xiaohu thought for a long time and asked, "Are you the boss?"
"Yes." He answered firmly.
"Then from today on, you are the third in charge."
The bandits were dumbfounded. What does this mean?
Fu Xiaohu pointed at himself and said, "I will be the first boss from now on." Then he pointed at Tan Wushuang and said, "He is the second boss and you are the third boss."
The bandit leader was a little crazy: "What do you mean?"
Fu Xiaohu stood up: "I want to show you how to behave like a human being."
"Why should we recognize you as the master?"
"Do you have any choice?"
Yes, are there any options? Two people can defeat your village. All the bandits stopped talking. The situation was stronger than the people.
Fu Xiaohu said: "You guys, those who robbed just now, send your things back."
A bandit asked solemnly: "Where to send him?"
Fu Xiaohu told him the address and added: "Of course, you can also abandon them and run away, whatever you want. It's getting late and it's cold at night. Don't freeze the children. Go back to sleep." "
No one moved.
