Unparalleled Double Harmony

Chapter 113 Passing through the Bandit Village

After arriving at the first town store, the first thing Sun Yixie did was to send a letter.

Who is this letter addressed to?Send it to the family of the traveling merchant Yu Qing.

For some reasons that everyone understands, Sun Yixie asked Huang Donglai to write the letter. The general content is: I regret to tell you, that is, the family members of Zhu Yuqing. drowned in the water; and "I", that is, the "nameless person" who wrote to you, found this guide in Yu Qing's luggage and learned his name and household registration. The only thing is to exchange all the goods he left behind into money, and send them to you together with this road guide and the letter of the funeral. Please feel sorry for him.

Of course, in fact, Sun Yixie did not take Yu Qing's goods, and Yu Qing's goods were not worth much, at least compared to the amount of banknotes that Sun Yixie stuffed into the envelope.

Furthermore, Yu Qing didn't stumble and drown...

But the so-called doing everything possible, like this kind of easy and reasonable lies, Sun Yixie just did it.

His understanding is: long-term pain is worse than short-term pain. It is better to tell Yu Qing's family members directly about Yu Qing's death, and give them some money so that they can live well in the future, than to let them wait at home without knowing anything.

However, Sun Yixie can only take care of this step, as for what will happen to the family in the future, he will not take it to heart.

This... is not bad.

Some people may think that since Sun Yixie is so rich, it is only natural for him to do such a good deed, and it is not worthy of praise.

But if you think about it, it's not like that...

There is a saying that "good fortune is hard to give up". No matter how rich you are, it is very difficult for you to use the money to do a good deed without asking for anything in return.

Many unkind people in this world also donate money and do charity. Some of them do too many bad things and want to buy themselves peace of mind in this way, and some of them buy reputation and gestures.

I really want to help others without asking for anything in return, neither leave a name nor tell the story, and after I finish it, I don’t care about it at all, and I don’t feel any sense of superiority... That’s called Pure "act of kindness".

And this kind of people, this kind of thing, will always be a very small number.

Because of the nature of this kind of thing itself, it also limits its wide spread.

Of course, Sun Yixie has not reached this level, but in this matter, he did a good job. In the end...even if he didn't pick up that Lu Yin back then, so what?

Therefore, even Huang Donglai couldn't help admiring afterwards: "Yes, Brother Sun, you are truly benevolent and righteous, with a bodhisattva's heart, righteousness beyond the sky, saving the suffering..."

Anyway, Lei Buji would believe such a description after hearing it.

Sun Yixie's reaction was the same as usual, but whenever Huang Donglai praised him, he would listen to it as a sarcasm: "Shut up, I! This is called sophistication."

The three of them didn't talk too much about it. After resting in the town for a day, they bought three horses and a few sets of clothes, and then they continued on their way.

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As mentioned earlier, after crossing the Shihe River and ending in Wuchang, there are not too many towns on the road.

The mountains here are high and the roads are dangerous, so there are bandits in every mountain, and there are bandits hiding in Yuling.

Shuangxie is not stupid, he knows that this road is not easy to walk, so the horses they bought this time are relatively inferior, and the clothes on their bodies are also changed into that kind of coarse cloth, which is very cheap.

In this way, the three of them will not look so eye-catching, at least not like that kind of "fat sheep".

In this way, at the beginning of the journey, everything went smoothly, and the three of them traveled more than ten miles in a blink of an eye.

After passing Longpo Mountain, when they reached the foot of Jigong Mountain, the sky was getting dark. They came to a village at the foot of the mountain and stayed there for the night.

This village is very small, so small that it doesn't even have a name, and the government probably doesn't know its existence. There are only a dozen families in the village, most of whom are woodcutters and hunters.

And there is only one family that can accommodate three people at the same time... that is the village chief's family.

The village chief's surname is Wu, and he doesn't have a proper name. He is called Boss Wu. Because he was the strongest and most capable of fighting in the village when he was young, he was elected as the village chief.Now that he is old, he can't fight anymore, but he has two sons, and his fighting power is not much better than their father's back then.

On the surface, there is nothing special about this village, but in fact, it is a den of bandits.

All the villagers here are half-citizen and half-bandit. When there are no pedestrians passing by, they are civilians and have normal means of earning a living. But when there are passers-by, it depends on the situation... If it is suitable, they will do it. The work of some bandits.

Village head Wu is not only the head of the village, but also the boss of this group of village bandits, and his two sons are his right-hand men.

Under normal circumstances, they don't kill people, they only rob money; they don't do sex robbery, because the villagers basically have wives and children in their families, and many women in their families are more violent than their men. They dare not mess around.

When it comes to robbing money, it's not about just drawing a knife, but there are other methods...

No, after a night's rest, Sun Huanglei and the other three were just about to set off when they encountered the routine in this village.

The three of them rode their horses and walked to the entrance of the village. Suddenly, a child ran out from the side of the road. He looked eleven or twelve years old, and he ran so fast. lie down.

Immediately after hearing the sound of "嗤咕", a middle-aged shrew suddenly rushed out, blocked the road, picked up the child and started yelling.

The child was also very cooperative, and started crying without a drop of tears. His two hands also followed the feeling, and he found a place on the abdomen to cover it, and said from time to time: "Mom! It hurts to death." It's me!"

As soon as these two called out, before the three of them got off their horses to check, dozens of people rushed out from all directions...

Needless to say, all men, women and children in the village have copied the guy and lay in ambush there for a long time.

Under the leadership of the village chief, they surrounded the three young heroes in the open space at the entrance of the village with ease, and began to curse at each other.

You can say anything, anyway, the general meaning is that you have injured someone now, you can't leave, you have to pay money, otherwise we will never end with you, people in our village are not easy to bully.

Everyone should understand when you see this. To put it bluntly, this is Pengci.

However, these village bandits Pengci are a little different from the Pengci we are familiar with today. If they can't get money, they won't go to the Yamen to argue with you, but they will really mess with you.

Of course, they are not stupid, if they think you are a master in the rivers and lakes or green forest roads, they will not take action easily, because the kind of people who have martial arts and are used to killing people, they can't afford to provoke...

But for ordinary people who have been here, they must lose their skin.

Today is also a coincidence, because Sun Yixie and the others disguised themselves very well (Huang Donglai's sword was wrapped in cloth and hidden in his luggage, and Sun Yixie's trident was shrunk), so these villagers did not regard them as some kind of quack figure , This is the hand.

"Heh... Pengcier, right?" Huang Donglai smiled when he saw this, "Okay, let me see who dares to come up, just let me try my current skills..."

Just as he was about to say the word "strength", Sun Yixie patted his shoulder and stopped him with a wink: "Hey, Brother Huang, don't worry, let me do it, let's do the courtesy first and then the soldiers."

"Oh?" Huang Donglai read something from Sun Yixie's eyes and words, and quickly smiled, "Oh... well then, Brother Sun, please."

Seeing the expressions on the faces of these two guys, Lei Buji rolled his eyes, thinking that the villagers were going to be in trouble again.

A few seconds later, Sun Yixie got off his horse and walked up to the village chief with his head held high: "Village chief, what do you mean? You... you think we are young children? Are you stupid? Are you trying to extort money? "

"Huh?" Village Chief Wu stared at the words, and replied fiercely, "I don't understand what you are talking about. Do you want to deny it when you hit someone?"

"Yes! You can't deny it if you want to!" The next second, the elder son of the village chief almost habitually answered this sentence to strengthen his momentum.

When he shouted, the other villagers around him also booed.

For a while, there was another chaotic chatter, and it was Village Chief Wu who waved his hand to silence them before stopping.

"I said, village chief, if you really want to play this game, it's not impossible. You're just making a fool of yourself, but you're using all the kids, isn't it a bit shameless?" Sun Yixie was not afraid at all. Therefore, they are not polite when they speak, "This child has been brought up by you since he was a child, will he be able to look like a human being in the future? Don't you regret that your two sons were brought up like this by you? You Just hope that your village will do this in the mountains for generations?"

His words, from the perspective of modern people, are quite heartbreaking, but in the current situation... it doesn't work.

What is a troublemaker out of a poor land?The people in this village are typical, from top to bottom, from old to young, they didn't feel the slightest thing after hearing this.

Because they really don't regret it...

They didn't think there was anything wrong with their children being taught to be like this. Their own pursuit in life was to be able to spend their entire lives in this village where "the wives and children are hot on the kang", and they never thought of giving their children the opportunity to receive education. Or an opportunity to leave this environment.

These people always have an extremely pathological selfishness and distorted collective consciousness; full of contradictions, sad, but not pitiful.

"What the hell are you farting? You little bastard, you don't even have a hair on your mouth, so you're teaching grandpa me a lesson?" Village head Wu felt that Sun Yixie's words sounded like "chicken talking to duck", And seeing the latter's attitude, he was not afraid of himself at all, so he was also angry, and said bluntly, "Today we will blackmail you, so what!"

"That's it." Sun Yixie still looked confident, "Okay then, I'll give you the money." As he said that, he stretched his hands into his arms.

"Huh?" At this moment, Village Chief Wu was stunned.

Why did the person who was so arrogant just now obediently give money again?

But he thought about it again, and felt again: Oh~ I understand, so this kid was bluffing, and when I scolded and frightened him, he became cowardly.

Thinking of this, Village Chief Wu spoke again and added: "Boy, don't think that you can get rid of this matter with just three melons and two dates. You have to keep at least this number today." .”

When he said the last three words, Village Chief Wu raised his hand and made a "ten" sign.

According to his meaning, this is to extort ten taels of silver.

When the surrounding villagers saw this move, their expressions changed one after another. They thought to themselves: The village chief is really angry today. In the past, it was a big deal to extort five taels of silver, but now he actually extorted ten taels.

These days, who goes out with ten taels of silver for travel expenses?Look at the tattered clothes on these three boys, and those three old horses, all of them may not be worth ten taels.

Of course, they also know that the price is more or less... that's all.

There are rules for robbery in this village. You won’t rob people to nothing. At least you have to leave something so that people can continue on the road. If you really rob others with nothing, the other party may just hang around here. Or fight with you.

"Village Chief, you take this bank note." With a few strokes, Sun Yixie took out a bank note.

The village head took a look at the banknotes of Baichuan Bank, the denomination - 1000 taels.

He was startled.

For a moment, he suspected it was fake, but he looked carefully and carefully, and couldn't find any flaws.

"You..." Village Chief Wu looked at Sun Yixie in a different way, and couldn't even say a whole sentence, "This..."

"Why? Too little?" Sun Yi smiled, and took out another identical thousand tael bank note, "Then I'll add another one, 2000 tael, is it enough?"

When he took out the first bank note just now, the surrounding villagers were either too far away to see the denomination clearly, or they were illiterate and couldn't recognize it even if they saw it clearly, so they didn't have much reaction, but felt that the village chief's reaction was a little bit strangeness.

But at this moment, Sun Yixie himself said "2000 taels", which sounds like an astronomical amount to the villagers, and everyone was confused.

This feeling is like a thief burglarizing a house. He thought it would be good to steal a few thousand or even tens of thousands, but when he opened the door and found billions of cash piled up in the house, do you think he was so scared that he called the police on the spot? .

"Not enough?" Seeing that the village chief didn't respond, Sun Yixie said again, "Then three thousand?" As he spoke, he wanted to pay again.

"No! Don't...don't take it out." Village head Wu came back to his senses at this moment, and hurriedly stopped Sun Yixie from taking out any further money.

"Oh, that's enough." Sun Yixie said in a very calm tone, "That's all right, keep the money and let's go."

"Wait a minute!" Seeing that the other party was about to leave, Village Chief Wu quickly stepped forward to stop him, "Master, this money...we don't want it anymore." The two bank notes were also returned.

"Young master?" Sun Yixie glanced at him, and sneered, "Isn't it 'little bastard'?" He didn't accept the bank note, and even shook his hand to win the other party away, "I think you should take it."

"Ouch!" Now Village Chief Wu was in a hurry, he hurried forward again, and he knelt down in front of Sun Yixie, "Little old man, I can't see Mount Tai, sir, don't blame me!" He was Pupu He began to kowtow and yelled, "Young master, you don't count the faults of villains, so please spare us!"

His two sons were also dumbfounded, they couldn't turn their minds around for a while, they hurried forward to support their father.

The second son also said: "Father, what are you doing? Why are you being so polite to him..."

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He didn't finish talking, so Village Chief Wu just smacked his mouth: "You are so stupid! You still say it! Don't kneel down to me!"

The two sons were stupefied by him, standing there dumbfounded.

Dozens of villagers are similar to those two brothers, but they still don't understand what's going on.

"Oh... okay." Sun Yixie saw that it was almost done, so he didn't make things difficult for them anymore. He took back the money and put it in his arms again, "Village chief, please explain to them slowly, let's go first gone."

Just like that, the three got on their horses again and left the village swaggeringly, no one dared to stop them again.

When they were far away, the village chief stood up and let out a long sigh of relief.

At this moment, his eldest son asked again: "Father, what's going on?"

A few villagers who stood close were also puzzled: "Yes, village chief, why did you return so much money to others? Even if you keep [-]%, it is enough for our village to live comfortably for several years. .”

"Hey!" Village Chief Wu was really angry, "Are you all stupid? People who can easily spend thousands of taels, can they be ordinary people? That's money you can't earn in ten lifetimes!" He smashed it He pursed his mouth and spat, "I'm also confused. Yesterday I saw that these boys looked like they were born in poverty, and they were pretending because they were dressed so shabby; in my opinion...these people must be It has a lot of background, the royal relatives may be... If we take their money today and offend them, will they let us go in the future? Don't think about it... They hired a quack killer to kill our village How much money can I spend after slaughtering? Is it worth 3000 taels?"

How about saying that this person is old and treacherous, the horse is old and slippery, the rabbit is old and the eagle is hard to catch, the village chief is too old to fight, and his brain is not bad.

After he broke it a little bit, the villagers were also afraid, and they were glad that they just scolded a few words and didn't make a move. If they did, it would be another thing to beat them well. If they were retaliated afterwards, All the people in their village will die; even if they kill people here today, it is useless, because if the important person disappears, someone will come to track him down, and if the people in their village disappear, no one may care.

This is the way of the world, without strength, you can only find poor people like you to do evil.

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After leaving the village, Huang Donglai said to Sun Yixie, "Brother Sun, what if someone really takes your money?"

"Impossible." Sun Yixie replied leisurely, "They don't have the guts."

"What if?" Huang Donglai raised the bar.

Sun Yixie smiled: "Then it's not too late for you to beat them to the ground and get the money back..." He shrugged, "Of course, judging from the results, it's not like they didn't beat them. Has the matter been resolved?"

"Brother Sun." Lei Buji seemed to have learned something again, and immediately smiled beside him, "Gao, I have learned."

"What have you learned?" Sun Yixie asked.

"When you have an absolute advantage, you can give courtesy first and then fight," Lei Buji said.

"Hey, you have a lot of comprehension." Sun Yixie said, "Then let me ask you, what about when you are in a position of balance or inferiority?"

Lei Buji didn't have the ability to draw inferences about this kind of thing, so after thinking about it for a while, he replied with a universal answer that Sun Yixie didn't like to refute: "Change house?"

(End of this chapter)