After transmigrating into a stepmother, I transformed my whole family to work on farming

Chapter 112
Qin Yao borrowed a fast horse from the post station in the county, and asked the officers and soldiers for two signal flares—skycrackers, which could fly into the sky when lit, and emit red light and loud noise.

Let the county magistrate prepare manpower, take advantage of the last ray of sunset light in the evening, go to Yuhua Mountain where the horse bandits are now entrenched, and wait for her action signal.

It stands to reason that the people in the government office wouldn't 'rash' together like this, but before Qin Yao left, she lifted up the stone lion at the gate of the government office with one hand.

The scene was so shocking for a moment that all the officers and soldiers in the yamen were in a state of panic. They just wanted to follow her immediately, throw their heads and blood, and kill the horse bandits without leaving a trace!
Qin Yao rode a fast horse all the way out of the city. Instead of going to Yuhua Mountain, she returned home.

It takes only five hours to walk, and it only takes one and a half hours to ride a horse. Qin Yao is so envious that she secretly decides to buy a fast horse when she gets 100 taels of silver.

She suddenly came back and rode a horse through the village, attracting the attention of the villagers in Liujia Village.

Jin Bao, who was playing by the village well, immediately ran home, "Grandma, grandma! My third aunt is back on a horse!"

After the report, she turned around and went to the third uncle's house. As soon as she ran to the river, she saw Qin Yao riding out with her bow and arrow and a big knife.

Jin Bao only had time to call out to Third Aunt, and one person and one horse flew past him at lightning speed, leaving only billows of dust and smoke, which choked Jin Bao to cover his face.

"Grandma, grandma! Third aunt rode away again!"

The villain ran back home less than 5 minutes after going out, and reported to everyone in Liu's old house.

Mrs Zhang and Mrs He were about to go out to have a look, when they heard this, they were all stunned, thinking, what is his third aunt doing?

Qin Yao came in a hurry and left in a hurry. She came home, got her weapons, told the four brothers and sisters of Dalang in the water mill, hit the horse and left.

So much so that the four Dalang brothers and sisters thought they were hallucinating, imagining that the stepmother ran past them on horseback, and stood there blankly for a while.

It wasn't until Zhang's mother-in-law and Jin Bao came to inquire, that it suddenly dawned on her that the stepmother had really returned.

"Why did your mother come and go, but what happened in the city?" Mrs. Zhang asked with concern.

The old men went to get stones to make millstones, and they were the only women at home.

Thinking that Qin Yao sent Liu Ji to the academy in the city to enroll, she was worried that Liu Ji's enrollment would not go well, so she hurried over to inquire about the situation.

Sanlang and Siniang were still blindfolded, and said: "Aniang said that she will come back two days later because of something, let us go to the old house and follow grandma."

Erlang woke up a little bit, and heard one more sentence: "Aniang said that she has made a lot of money."

"What kind of big money?" Mr. He was worried. What kind of money can ordinary people make? It's not bad, right?
Mrs Zhang glared at Mrs He, don't open your mouth to talk nonsense.

He rubbed his nose embarrassingly, and asked Da Lang again: "Your mother, can you tell me what's going on? Where did the horse come from?"

Horses are much more expensive than cow essence, and ordinary people can't afford them, whether they are from the government or from the rich and noble family.

Da Lang shook his head, he just didn't know, he didn't know.

But he knew one thing clearly, that is, he took the weapon and went out. After thinking about it for a moment, he knew that the matter was not simple.

But Da Lang didn't say anything about it, and he winked at his siblings, not allowing them to talk about it.

However, the stepmother will be home a few days later, and they have to continue to trouble the old house.

Mrs. Zhang also thought of this, sighed, and told the four brothers and sisters to come to the house for dinner after collecting the cash box from the mill in the evening, and continue to arrange for the youngest son to go to Qin Yao's house to take care of the four children in the evening.

The incident happened suddenly, and Qin Yao didn't expect that she would have something big to do today, so she could only wait until she came back later to explain.

He took his weapon and went straight to Yuhua Mountain.

This place is in the south of Kaiyang County. It is a mountain top in a mountain range. There is only one normal entrance, and the back is a cliff, so it is impossible to climb.

Therefore, every time the officers and soldiers want to encircle and suppress, they will expose their whereabouts in advance.The horse bandits used the entire mountain range as a cover, and once they entered the depths of the mountain range, they couldn't find them at all.

Moreover, there is no need to worry about food and drinking water in the deep mountains, and it is impossible to trap them to death.

On the contrary, because the officers and soldiers were not familiar with the terrain and were not well prepared, they had to retreat after being besieged for at most three days.

This was a relatively good result. However, as luck would have it, the leader of the horse bandits suddenly became interested and led his troops around to harass the officers and soldiers. A bloody battle was inevitable.

Now that Qin Yao is alone, she doesn't have so many scruples.

In the evening, Qin Yao had dived to the back of Yuhua Mountain.

According to her plan, she quickly found the bandit leader and took action at dawn.

In this way, when it is dawn, the officers and soldiers can arrive at the cottage, unaffected by the night and the terrain, and exert their maximum combat effectiveness.

There are horse bandits on the mountain roads and valley entrances to Yuhua Mountain. They occupy a high position and can easily detect intruders.

But in the evening, when it was time to eat dinner, Qin Yao always slacked off a little bit, just like this, bypassing the horse bandits who were watching the wind, and entered the mountain from the side of Yuhua Mountain.

The location of the cottage is actually easy to judge, so many people always want to eat and drink, and they will not be too far from the water source.

Qin Yao looked for the water source, and after a while, she heard the sound of people.

The horse bandits have been entrenched here for more than three months, and the road on the mountain has been cleared long ago. Along this road, they successfully found the stronghold of the cottage.

They were crazy, and they didn't set any checkpoints along the way.

There is a natural cave here, and dozens of tree nests are built around the cave.

Do you think the life of the horse bandits will be easy?

In fact, this stronghold smells so bad that it looks like a primitive tribe of savages.

The smell of horse manure, human excrement and urine, and the stench of rotting food all mixed together to form a strong offensive smell. Qin Yao almost fainted when he stepped into it.

On the outskirts of the stronghold, according to the mountains on both sides, a two-meter-high fence was built with wooden piles.

Outside the fence, there is a tree shed on each side for the guards to shelter from the scorching sun.

When Qin Yao arrived, the guards were lighting a fire in the shed to boil water and cook rice. What they ate were two chickens that had been snatched. When the water was boiled, the two plucked hens were directly put in for cooking, and the internal organs were not processed at all.

Because the water here is not very convenient, if you want to clean your internal organs, you have to walk tens of meters into the mountains to get water.

They are all desperadoes, so how can they pay so much attention.

It was really boring to stay, so I asked the boss for a handful of silver, and went down the mountain to find a brothel for fun.

The several small teams that went down the mountain today have all returned now. The horses are limited, and for the sake of efficiency, they cannot go all out, so they come in the form of small teams.

Some people cannot come back after going down the mountain, but most can return with loot.

Among the teams going down the mountain on the same day, the team with the least gain will be punished.

Wearing a 'skin' covered with branches and leaves, Qin Yao stood on a towering tree on the side of the cave and watched the whole process of punishment with her own eyes.

Found the suspected target person - the leader of the horse bandit nicknamed King Xiang.

(End of this chapter)