The village chief stood at the head of the village and looked anxiously in the direction of the county seat in the distance.
I hope the Yamen can send someone over soon.
"Stop standing here with me!"
"You don't want to work in the fields anymore?"
After listening to the village chief's reprimand, the surrounding villagers did not leave.
"Village chief, can you give us a reward when the people from the Yamen come?"
"I heard that the Yamen offered a reward for bandits. They said they would pay five taels of silver for catching or killing a bandit!"
The village chief's face suddenly turned livid.
"Were you the ones who killed the bandit? How dare you take the credit and claim the reward?!"
"Besides, you don't want to see what happens when you kill bandits!"
"That's a crossbow bolt, an ordnance prohibited by imperial order."
"I'm afraid you have your life and risk your merits to receive the reward, but you don't have the life flower!"
After hearing this, the villagers reluctantly left to work in the fields.
The village chief wiped the sweat from his forehead and rehearsed over and over in his mind how to explain to the Yamen that these bandits were shot.
Huang Shan, who was behind the crowd, glanced at the village chief at the head of the village, took a deep breath, turned and walked towards the blast furnace.
Today I will start to repair the hoe at the village chief's house, and at the same time secretly pour a few arrowheads to guard against Huang Pizi's sneak attack.
After all, the bandits attacked last night and he had already shot all the inventory.
While Huang Shan was indulging in hammering and forging iron, the village chief finally saw a group of policemen and government servants in official uniforms.
Seeing that the people from the yamen had finally arrived, the village chief breathed a sigh of relief and then stepped forward to greet them.
When the leader of the arrest, Zhao Tianxiong, saw the village chief coming to greet him, he dismounted from his horse and returned the greeting with clasped fists.
"I'm really looking forward to arresting you."
"Whatever the village chief said, this evil is all my fault."
"Quick, let's go to the old man's house for a sip of tea first!"
"Don't be in a hurry to drink tea. Please ask the village chief to show me the body of the bandit."
The village chief did not expect that Capt. Zhao would see the corpse first, so he led a group of police officers to the broken house where the bandits' corpses were piled.
And this dilapidated house with obvious signs of being burned is the big dog's home.
Here is the big dog lying next to the bandit's body.
"These are the bodies of bandits. This is a young man from our village. He was stabbed to death by bandits last night."
Capt. Zhao crossed over the big dog's body and quickly stepped forward to check on the bandit's body.
He first looked at the calluses on the hands of the corpses and confirmed that these corpses were indeed bandits.
"Hey, isn't this the second master of Qingfeng Mountain, Chen Er, the Mountain Splitting Sword?"
"Village Chief, your village has made great achievements now."
"This boy's head is worth a hundred taels of silver!"
Then he glanced at the wounds on Chen Er's body, and his face suddenly showed shock.
"How can this be?!"
"How can it be possible that both the forehead and the heart are shot with arrows!?"
Upon hearing this, the agents under Capt. Zhao also quickly stepped forward to check.
"Boss, what's the problem?"
Capt. Zhao pointed at the crossbow arrow on Chen Er's body.
"Look, there are two fatal wounds on Chen Er's body."
"Under normal circumstances, if Hua Tuo was shot through the brain by a crossbow arrow, there would be no way for him to recover even if he were alive."
"But this Chen Er was not only shot through the brain, but also shot in the heart."
"With the speed of a crossbow, it's impossible to do this at the same time. Only a bow can do it."
"But you also saw it, here is the crossbow arrow."
"Unless the person who shot Chen Er first shot him through the brain with a crossbow, and then walked to Chen Er's side to refill the crossbow."
"What the hell is this guy who shot Chen Er doing!?"
"Does he have a grudge against Chen Er? I need to ask him later."
The village chief was immediately stunned by Capt. Zhao's words.
Ask him?
Who to ask?
So the village chief stepped forward and grabbed Capt. Zhao and asked in a low voice: "Capt. Zhao, you said you were going to ask, who are you going to ask?"
When Capt. Zhao heard this, he looked at the village chief in astonishment.
"Village chief, weren't these bandits shot by Huang Shan in your village?"
The village chief was stunned on the spot, but saw Capt. Zhao leaving a few government servants to guard the body, and headed straight to Huang Shan's house with his detectives.
Liu Ruyan was doing needlework and chatting with village women at home, and they were startled by the sudden intrusion of the police.
"Where's the yellow cedar?"
"My husband went to work and was not at home."
Liu Ruyan mustered up the courage to answer Capt. Zhao's inquiry.
Capt. Zhao glanced at Liu Ruyan and others who were doing needlework, and then ordered his two men to stay and watch, but not to embarrass them.
Then he led a large group of people and went straight to the blast furnace in the north of the village.
When the village chief, who was belatedly arriving with the villagers, saw that Capt. Zhao had already taken people to the blast furnace in the north of the village, he immediately showed a look of regret.
Lao Zhoutou looked shocked and angry.
"Village Chief, is the Huangshan boy really our benefactor?"
"Captain Zhao brought the people here just to take him?"
The village chief nodded with regret on his face.
"I should have guessed wrongly that it was this boy Zishan. Apart from him who has this ability inherited from his family, who else in the village can make a crossbow."
"I shouldn't have..."
Upon seeing this, Lao Zhoutou turned to look at the villagers who were rescued by Huang Shan.
"Folks, if my benefactor hadn't taken action last night, my youngest sister would have been raped by bandits."
"My benefactor obviously did a great job in killing the bandits, but the Yamen wants to hold people accountable. We promise not to agree."
"No!"
The two detectives guarding the door of Huangshan's house looked at the villagers holding hoes and axes, and couldn't help but murmur in their hearts.
So they looked at the village chief for help.
The village chief looked at the excited villagers and then at the frightened police officers.
For a while, I was in a dilemma.
"Yellow fir!"
Capt. Zhao first called Huang Shan's name outside. When he saw Huang Shan looking up while he was forging iron, he immediately waved his hand to surround Huang Shan.
After reacting, Huang Shan understood that his crossbow making had been leaked, so he chuckled and put down the hammer in his hand.
"I'm in Huangshan, and I've met the Lord."
Zhao Captou quickly avoided Huang Shan's bowed hands and saluted, but instead cupped his fists and saluted Huang Shan.
"Brother, you are a good man."
"The bandits in Qingfeng Mountain are doing evil in the surrounding areas. The county magistrate has sent people to encircle and suppress them several times, but all failed."
"You can kill their second master, Chen Er, a machete, to get rid of harm for us, the people of Cao County."
"Please accept my respects from Old Zhao!"
"Brothers, put away your iron ruler and waist knife!"
"We invite Brother Huangshan to go to the county government office."
Upon hearing this, the detectives put away their weapons and raised their hands to Huang Shan.
Huang Shan pointed to the stove beside him, indicating whether he could put out the stove.
Capt. Zhao nodded, Huang Shan stepped forward to extinguish the stove, then took the repaired hoe and followed Capt. Zhao and others back to the village.
At this time, all the folks in the village were extremely horrified to learn that the unknown hero who defeated the bandits last night was Huang Shanhou.
Huangshan's status has changed so quickly in the past few days that the villagers can't react.
How come he was a prodigal gambler a few days ago and is now a hero who saves the whole village?
