Chapter 56 Bandit Two Tigers
The lonely moon is in the sky, the night is cold, and there seems to be a howl of wolves coming from the mountains and forests.
Senior Brother Tian led the way and brought everyone to the place where the goods had been robbed. Then Chen Yingjie and others searched for clues around them and gradually figured out the route that the bandits took to leave with the goods.
They were on a low cliff and saw the faint light of fire more than a hundred feet away.
“With so many fires in the middle of the night, it’s too easy to be exposed.”
Chen Yingjie wondered, "Do these bandits have no brains at all?"
Su Hanshan looked at it for a while and said: "Maybe there is a fraud in it. You stay here, I will get closer to see the situation first."< br>
As soon as he finished speaking, he jumped down from the short cliff, with his toes touching the cliff that was not too steep, buffering each step, and sinking into the forest below as if walking on flat ground.
Soon, he approached the area with fire, quietly hid in the canopy of a big tree, and looked over there.
The number of bandits was about sixty or seventy, and a dozen big fires were raised.
Beside each fire, there are earthen pots and iron pots with uneven gaps, hanging from wooden frames and iron wires, and soup is being cooked.
The bandits gathered around the fire to keep warm, staring at the gurgling hot soup. From time to time they stretched out their hands and rubbed them against the firelight.
They were wearing a lot of clothes, which looked a little bloated, but they should be very warm.
But Su Hanshan looked carefully for a while and found that every layer of clothes these people wore was in tatters.
I don’t know how much sweat and dust stained it before it turned into such a uniform gray-black color, which was so black that it shone under the firelight.
In winter, wearing this kind of clothes will be heavy and stiff, but it can't keep much heat.
If you don’t light a fire at night, someone may be unable to walk when you wake up.
"The soup is almost ready. Everyone, please listen to what I have to say."
One of the bandits stood up. He was wearing the same gray-black clothes, but wearing a gray-yellow hat. The dog-skin hat may have been washed and looks more decent than others.
“I know, everyone hasn’t smelled such salty meat for a long time, and I wish everyone could eat two or three big bowls of it. But for this batch of ham, when I came back from the robbery during the day, the skin had been burned directly with fire and scraped. After cutting and eating, less than half was left.”
This man should be a bandit leader. He has a beard on his face and his facial features cannot be seen clearly, but he is tall and has a loud voice.
“We have been hungry all the way, and we all should know what it feels like to be hungry. We don’t know if we will encounter such a good thing again, so we must save some of these hams.”
“Make soup at night, Everyone should eat three or four pieces of meat, two bowls of soup, and drink water until they are full. "
While the bandit leader was talking, he used a sharp branch to fork into the earthen pot one after another. He took out three pieces of meat and put them in his own broken bowl.
"I will only eat these three pieces tonight. You all are watching and I will never eat more than one piece!"
As soon as he finished speaking, someone among the bandits responded.
“Brother Erhu, don’t worry, we won’t rob!” “We all listen to Brother Erhu.”
“The meat during the day was actually hard and salty, so I drank a lot later. Cold water, the soup is good, the taste is in the soup, the soup is better than the meat."
"Fuck you, you are the one who eats the most during the day!"
Everyone started laughing. , the bandit leader also laughed.
"Okay, the soup is too hot, so be careful when drinking it!"
After the bandit leader sat down, everyone began to share the broth.
A few people approached the bandit leader and started talking.
When Su Hanshan saw them, he activated Rama's power, twitched his ears slightly, and focused on those people.
"...It's really only three yuan, which is too little. Erhu, you eat this from me!"
"No, if you say three yuan, it's three yuan. Don't give or take it. Otherwise, my sister-in-law and the others will give up one share of the food to the younger one."
The bandit leader sighed with emotion, "Sister-in-law and the others, It’s time to replenish it. Hey, this meat is so delicious!”
The person next to me said: “Then. Yes! I have cured hams at home before, and let me tell you, the hams I got today are all of the highest quality. Even before the famine, no one in Jing'erzhuang would be willing to buy them. "There was a man with a black leather hat who ate the fastest. He took a piece of meat in one bite and drank the soup in his stomach.
“In my opinion, we don’t need to save to this extent.”
While ladling soup into the earthen pot, he said, "I've been wandering around recently and asked about all the counties around here. There are rich households everywhere."
"This time Eat one batch, let's grab another batch, and we won't have to worry about running out of food."
The bandit leader just ate a piece of meat, and was sucking the oil star seeds on the soup, swallowing it quickly, and said: " You can’t think like that.”
“Those rich people hire bodyguards and guardians. Among the people who deliver hams during the day, there are not a few who are very skilled. The swelling has not subsided yet.”
“If we rob frequently and the food is obtained, the person dies, then...”
The bandit leader sighed and shook his head, "These are the only people left in our entire Jing'erzhuang. It's best not to kill any more people."
The man in the black leather hat said: "Then we won't rob those who have any Wouldn’t it be better to be a bodyguard or servant?”
The person next to me said: Stunned: "Buffalo, you want to rob the poor?"
"They are nothing but poor people. Every household has a surplus of food."
The black leather hat said anxiously, "Every household has a surplus of food." If you hang meat and fish in the yard, can you still be considered poor?”
Someone next to him hesitated: "We used to be good people. We escaped, and even though we became bandits, we didn't rob the poor."
Someone chuckled and said, "It seems like you can rob if you want." It seems that the poor people on the road even eat mud, what can we snatch from them, a body of mud? A body of bones that weighs less than four ounces."
He said this, Several people suddenly fell silent.
Even the black leather hat pursed his lips as he looked at the oily soup in the bowl.
It is not impossible to snatch human bones. Although they have never done so, they are really used to people being used to cook soup and eat meat along the way.
"Anyway."
The black leather hat held the remaining half bowl of soup away from his nose and said, "If we rob them, we don't have to fight with any nursing home, and we don't have to injure or kill anyone. Moreover, after robbing them, Leave some for them and they won’t starve to death.”< br>
“The old monk in Zhuangzi said before that the more living people, the better. If we do this, everyone is alive, which is a great thing!”
The bandit leader took a sip. Tang, who had been silent until now, nodded at this time.
Su Hanshan in the forest thought for a moment and quietly retreated.
He certainly couldn't stop more than sixty people by himself, so he had to inform Chen Yingjie and the others to come together to catch them all.
Although only about twenty people came to Songhe Martial Arts Hall, they already knew the level and origin of this group of bandits, and of course they were quite confident.
After sneaking closer, everyone was not in a hurry to launch an offensive. Instead, they dispersed first and made a circle in the forest.
At this time, the bandit leader, who was slowly chewing meat next to the fire, suddenly raised his head.
“Something’s wrong.”
He stood up and looked around.
How could there be a few birds flying out of the forest so late at night?
“There is someone in the woods!”
The bandit leader shouted, “Take a knife and stand up if you can fight...”
The wind suddenly sounded, howling from inside the forest. When he arrived, he interrupted the bandit leader's shout.
Several fires nearby made roaring sounds, and the bright red flames stretched like tongues of fire, blowing in the direction of the bandit leader.
Su Hanshan's figure had already passed over the fire and grabbed the bandit leader with one palm.
(End of this chapter)