Before confiscating the house and going into exile, he emptied the enemy's warehouses and fled.

Chapter 38: Make a fortune by stealing the bandit's nest

"Why did you come to the bandits' den?" he asked Xie Ning.

Xie Ning explained the whole story.

Xie Yanyan's face was still calm, and she didn't care about the interaction between Xie Ning and Zhou Shaoyu. She was thinking about the things halfway up the mountain.

Originally she thought of taking them all away, but now she thinks it would be better to leave them to Zhou Shaoyu.

But how to tell him that he found a large amount of supplies and weapons hidden in a cave halfway up the mountain?

Or how to guide Zhou Shaoyu to discover it as soon as possible?

"How many people did you bring?" she asked Zhou Shaoyu.

"What?" Zhou Shaoyu was stunned for a moment. Hearing the meaning behind these words, he came closer and asked, "What's wrong with you?"

"I just saw something through the telescope." She handed him a monocular.

Xie Ning watched Xie Yanyan hand the binoculars to Zhou Shaoyu and didn't say anything, but he was cursing in his heart.

[When did my sister and Zhou Shizi become so familiar?]

【What is a telescope】

"telescope?"

Zhou Shaoyu curiously took the metal cylinder and looked at it over and over.

This single-cylinder infinitely variable telescope is made of fine steel on the outside and a glass mirror on the inside. It can be retracted, with one end larger and the other smaller.

I can see the craters on the moon clearly, and I can see a small cave on the opposite side, which is child's play.

When Zhou Shaoyu heard about the telescope for the first time, he was curious and ecstatic.

Follow Xie Yanyan's instructions and look here and there. Seeing the distant scenery become very close and clear, I was shocked and excited, and my eyes seemed to be filled with broken moons and stars.

[Did she do it herself? 】

[It’s too precious. If used in combat, the enemy’s situation will be right before our eyes]

[Given to His Majesty, he will reward the third lady to restore her identity]

[No, if you take this kind of thing out, it may not be a blessing]

Xie Yanyan: Zhou Shaoyu always thinks of her. That’s good. She didn’t see the wrong person!

"It's really far, far away." Zhou Shaoyu said excitedly and glanced at the people behind him.

Those people immediately bowed their heads, and we didn’t know anything.

"Look in that direction." Xie Yanyan pointed to him somewhere diagonally across the mountainside.

The cave on the cliff cannot be seen clearly with the naked eye, and no one can climb up. They can only go up from the suspension bridge on the other side.

But now, when Zhou Shaoyu looked at the other side with this artifact, there was nowhere to hide.

Looking down from here, you can clearly see the tip of the iceberg, with silver boxes, grain bags, and weapons glowing with cold light.

And, the guard looking around at the entrance of the cave.

"Very good!" Zhou Shaoyu turned around and asked Xie Yanyan, "They didn't do anything to you, right?"

Xie Yanyan pointed to Fu Xing and said, "Just now a bandit gave the bandit leader a letter, and he said that I saw his face and he wanted to kill us all."

"letter?"

"In his armhole."

"Oh, what's so strange about his face?" Zhou Shaoyu looked at Fu Xing, who was tied up, and said to his men, "Search him, beat him up, and keep his face and escort him to Kyoto. Don't die."

His men quickly searched out the letter. Zhou Shaoyu said to his men: "Don't tell Shen Ziwen about this letter."

If the county guard Shen Ziwen knew that the bandits' den belonged to King Xi, he would probably be intimidated.

Zhou Shaoyu said to Xie Ning and Xie Yanyan: "You go down the mountain first. I have left some people below and will send you all safely to Nanyang City."

With Zhou Shaoyu's words, Xie Yanyan felt relieved. King Xi wanted to kill them? impossible.

Xie Yanyan originally wanted to raid this bandit's den, otherwise she would be too lazy to take the initiative to go up the mountain.

When Zhou Shaoyu came, she would stop interfering.

Xie Xiangxiang said that he would die in Jin. I wonder if it was the conspiracy of King Xi or the conspiracy of the old emperor? No matter who it is, these things in the bandits' den are enough to bring down King Xi. No emperor or prince can tolerate someone coveting the throne while he is alive.

When a few people went down the mountain, Zhou Shaoyu caught up with him, handed Xie Ning two clothes, and said, "You and Tang Zhan go to the pool to wash up. When you get down the mountain, don't tell anyone that you participated in the suppression of bandits."

Xie Yanyan understood immediately, and Zhou Shaoyu protected them from King Xi's revenge.

Xie Ning looked grateful and clasped his fists: "Thank you, Your Majesty, for your thoughtful consideration."

The road down the mountain was full of officers and soldiers. Xie Ning and Tang Zhan jumped into the pool to wash away the blood. Xie Yanyan and Su Moqing slowly went down the mountain.

Scanning the entire mountain again, the mountains are undulating and easy to defend but difficult to attack.

Standing on the hillside, she found smoke curling up from the hills and a village hidden among the trees.

The village didn't look big, with just a few houses. There were women and children, and there were men chopping wood for the fire.

There are some cultivated fields in front of the mountain village, growing various crops and vegetables.

There is such a intact mountain village right under the nose of the bandits!

She scanned the mountain village and was a little surprised. There is also a cave in the mountain village. There is an orchard outside the cave entrance, guarded by a few strong men.

The cave is a sunken type, formed naturally, and with the addition of manual excavation, it is at least thousands of square meters inside.

The cave was filled with rice bags and grain hoards. The huge hoards contained at least two to three hundred tons of grain.

Food is very diverse, including rice, wheat, corn, soybeans, barley, etc., as well as crops such as millet.

There must be something wrong with this village. She was almost sure that this was part of a bandit den.

Sure enough, it is a cunning rabbit with three caves.

However, it was enough for Zhou Shaoyu to leave the grain weapons above. She collected the grain in this granary.

When we came down from the mountain, it was already dark, and the road was filled with officers and soldiers holding torches.

The large rocks blocking the road have been moved away, and the caravan's grain truck has been rescued and has left.

Xie Anfeng's injuries were treated and bandaged. He was relieved to see his children back safely.

A young man drove dozens of carriages and donkey carts from a distance. He approached and asked Li Rong, "But Mr. Li from Kyoto?"

"I, Li Rong, am the escort officer of the Lingnan prisoners in Kyoto."

"I am Zhou Huo, the bodyguard of Crown Prince Zhou. The Crown Prince said that everyone was frightened and asked me to find a car to take you to the Nanyang City Inn."

"Thank you, Mr. Zhou," Li Rong said. "Thank you, Qingmu's wife and daughter have not been found."

Only then did Xie Yanyan remember that Fang and Xie Tingting had been kidnapped.

They didn't see Fang and Xie Tingting in the village just now. They didn't know where they were kidnapped by the bandits.

Because Zhou Shaoyu warned them, Xie Ning and Xie Yanyan kept silent.

Su Moqing said: "Master Li, we did not enter the mountain stronghold. We met officers and soldiers and a group of unknown masters halfway. When they were fighting the bandits, we were hiding behind the rocks."

"Didn't you see Fang's mother and daughter?"

"Wherever we can see them, it's too late for us to escape."

Xie Yanyan got on her carriage, and Song Linngling held her hand and wiped her tears: "Sister, are you okay? Have all the bandits been arrested?"

She had always been worried about the revenge of those bandits, and she also saw that those bandits were not ordinary rabble.

"They were all caught by officers and soldiers."

Jiang Shuang came over and asked, "Did you really not see Fang and Tingting?"

Xie Yanyan looked at her coldly: "If you are worried, you can go find it yourself."

"I'm just asking, why didn't you save them easily?" Jiang Shuang said nonchalantly, "After all, we are two women, what good can we do if we go to the bandit's den?"

"Why don't you ask me if I was beaten and suffered?"

"Didn't you come back well?"

"When you come back alive, do you deserve to be questioned by you for not saving others?"

(End of this chapter)