Chapter 22 Poor Bandits and Wild Mountains

"However, today you are lucky to meet your fifth master. This is your great blessing!" Li Xiaoyao smiled enough, tried to stretch his face, put his hands on his chest, and shook out from behind Wei Shuisheng. Looking at Zhang Tiemu and said seriously, Zhang Tiemu turned his head and looked around blankly: "Fifth Master, which fifth master? Where is it?"

"Me! That's me! Your fifth master is me!" Li Xiaoyao kicked Zhang Tiemu angrily, pointed to his nose and shouted, "I tell you, you met your fifth master, that's your great blessing!"

Zhang Tiemu looked up and down at the thin Li Xiaoyao and was about to 'b'. Sister Zhang quickly reached out and hold him, looked up at Li Xiaoyao and said, "As long as the fifth master can spare my brother, it is his great blessing and the great blessing of our Zhang family."

"It's easy for him. Let me tell you, Zhang Tiemu, your fifth master and I, that's the ancestor of this bandit! Well, it seems that you are still a little tough. It's such a piece of material. It's just right. I'm also idle, so I'll stay and teach you for a few days to teach you to go on the road, so that our robbers and bandits will not be lost by you!" Li Xiaoyao put his hands on his chest, raised his chin, shook his toes, and said with a condescending glance at Zhang Tiemu. Zhang Tiemu's eyes were round, half open his mouth, looked at Li Xiaoyao in astonishment, and slowly turned his head to look at Zhang, who was also stunned.

Wei Shuisheng's shoulders trembled with a smile. He turned his head and looked at Li Zongliang and others who had been surrounded. Li Zongliang looked at Li Xiaoyao, who was pretentious and ruffian, with a helpless face. Shuisheng was right. Since the daughter was cured of the serious illness, she seemed to have changed. In the past, her gentle and kind mother was always worried that she would be bullied. I never dared to let her go out alone, and I planned to recruit a son-in-law for her. Now, according to Erhuai's words, she is treacherous, slippery and ghostly. Only she has lied to others, and I haven't seen anyone cheated her.

Zhang Tiemu, a young mountain bandit novice, robbed him for the first time and lost two cotton-padded jackets. The second time he robbed his brother's leg. The third time he robbed and robbed five bosses for himself.

Li Xiaoyao stood in a dilapidated yard halfway up the mountain with her hands behind her back and turned around. The mountain bandits were so poor that she couldn't even sigh. Before she went up the mountain, she first pasted half a bag of steamed bread and went in. Now standing in front of this tall courtyard that was so good that Zhang Tiemu said that she couldn't even say anything. As I said, this yard is leaning against the cliff on both sides, facing the cliff on one side, and on the other side, facing the mountain road they came up, and even the wall was naturally saved.

Leaning against the cliff, there are five rows, which can be regarded as the main house. The big bluestone with one water is really tall and spectacular. Unfortunately, the roof is gone. The door is a big black hole at the end. The window is a few small black holes without the bottom. Next to each, there are two rows of lower bluestone houses, which also have no roof, only three doors with their back to the mountain road. The lapis lazuli house, which is as short as a house, barely has a roof with a pile of messy branches on it. It should be the habitat of Zhang Tiemu and his bandit brothers and bandits, with an extremely empty space in the middle.

Li Erhuai stared at the two older men unloading the mule cart for a moment and was relieved. At first glance, they were old-fashioned farmers who loved animals. Li Zonggui stood next to the car and looked at the things in the car quietly. Li Zongliang and Wei Shuisheng held guns and followed Zhang Tiemu around the yard carefully. After the inspection, Li Xiaoyao hurried over and followed Wei Shuisheng.

Zhang Tiemu waved his hand to the bluestone house full of courtyard, quite complacently: "Look at the big bluestone house with a water!"

Li Xiaoyao laughed and waved his hand like Zhang Tiemu: "That's all, there is no roof, and it's still called a house?" Zhang Tiemu stared angrily at Li Xiaoyao, as if to save some face. He pointed to the back of the five main houses and proudly introduced Li Zongliang, "This is not bad. The best thing is that there is a cave. There is a mountain spring in the cave. The water is so sweet. People can still live in the cave, and it can still lead to the back mountain!"

Li Zongliang's eyes lit up and looked at Wei Shuisheng. Wei Shuisheng reached out and took Li Xiaoyao, followed Zhang Tiemu, and turned around the five main rooms. Under the cover of a pile of dead vines on the mountain wall, there was a faint hole more than ten feet high and more than one person wide.

Three people followed Zhang Tiemu, pushed away the dead vine and drilled into the cave. The cave was extremely dark. After walking seven or eight steps, it was suddenly cheerful. It was a huge cave that could accommodate hundreds of people. The cave was extremely dry. One person on the right was more than high, revealing a hole. Although the light shining into the cave was slightly dim, it could also illuminate the hole. It was clearly visible everywhere. Zhang Tiemu pointed to the mouth of the cave: "The dog climbed up and looked at it. Outside the cave was a cliff. There was still a big stone on the hole, not afraid of wind and rain."

In the middle of the cave and behind, there were seven or eight stalactites hanging upside down. A thin stream of water fell straight down the largest stalactite in the middle and into the pool below. The pool was obviously repaired artificially, and the area was full of clear spring water. Zhang Tiemu squatted to the edge of the pool, took a few sips of water, and grinned and motiond. Li Zongliang and Wei Shuisheng: "This water is so sweet. Try it!"

Li Zongliang nodded with a smile and didn't taste the sweet spring water. He and Wei Shuisheng carefully checked all parts of the cave, and walked along the crack of the mountain that could lead to the bottom of the mountain and only one person could pass through. He withdrew to breathe a sigh of relief. Li Xiaoyao pulled Li Zongliang and said with a smile, "Here, this is the only place. Treasure land, the former group of bandits must have taken a fancy to this cave before they camped here.

Four people withdrew. Outside, Sister Zhang was busy with excitement. A large pot of porridge was rolling on the fire. Li Erhuai squatted in front of the pot and burning the fire. The group of undressed mountain bandits squatted around with drooling, sniffing and staring at the seductive and fragrant cauldron. I can't remember the smell of this rice for a long time.

Li Xiaoyao followed Li Zongliang and Wei Shuisheng back to the car. Li Zonggui quickly jumped out of the car and asked, "Have you checked it?"

The three nodded. Li Zongliang and Wei Shuisheng swept more than a dozen bitter ha ha ha scattered around the cauldron with solemn faces, but Li Xiaoyao raised his eyebrows and stared at Li Erhuai, who squatted in front of the cauldron and happily burned the pot for Sister Zhang. After a long time, Li Zongliang sighed and looked at Wei Shuisheng with a bitter smile: "There are 14 strong men in total, these 14 mouths•••••"

"Fifteen, and there is still a broken leg lying in that room." Li Zonggui pouted at the room covered with branches. Wei Shuisheng turned around and raised the car curtain, looked at it, looked back at Li Zongliang, with a wry smile, "We can't eat food for two days. Let's go to Zhengcheng tomorrow morning. Let's go and leave Guizi and Erhuai here to guard Xiaoxiao, take the two wolf skins and change Come back with some coarse grain and leave it to them later."

Li Zongliang nodded and agreed. The porridge over there was ready. Sister Zhang took a big thick bowl from a rattan basket, fished a bowl of thick porridge first, and called a thin little boy squatting behind him and ordered, "Dog! I'll bring it to you, Brother Kan."

"Hey!" The dog agreed in a crisp voice, jumped over with a bowl in his hands and ran into the room. Li Zongliang nodded with a smile, looked at Wei Shuisheng and sighed in a low voice: "They are all honest farmers, which make this troubled times..."

While talking, Sister Zhang picked up a few more bowls of thick porridge and brought them in person. Li Zongliang quickly waved his hand and was about to speak. Li Xiaoyao reached out to take a bowl of porridge and handed it to Li Zongliang with a smile: "Brother, eat first. Since you have gone up the mountain, this rule can't be wrong."

Wei Shuisheng took another bowl from Sister Zhang's hand with a smile. Sister Zhang turned around and brought the other two bowls. Li Zonggui and Li Xiaoyao took it. Li Erhuai had already brought a bowl by herself, came to talk to several people, slowly drank porridge, and watched Sister Zhang with the remaining two or three bowls of porridge, and more than ten people were beaten. One person took a steamed bun from the bag piled beside the pot, squatted into a semicircle around the pot, passed the bowl, drank hot rice porridge for a sip, and bit the dried steamed buns with a smile, and there was strong satisfaction and joy flowing in the yard.

Li Xiaoyao drank half a bowl of porridge and handed the rest to Li Erhuai. He silently looked at the happy mountain bandits in the yard as if they were the New Year, and his heart was almost breathless.

At night, Zhang Tiemu brought several people with more than a pile of firewood. Li Erhuai raised a bonfire in the yard. Li Zongliang still took turns to watch the night. Li Xiaoyao slept in the car, and the rest fell asleep wrapped in quilts on the hot ground.

The next day, before dawn, Li Zongliang and Wei Shuisheng rushed to Zhengcheng with their coats and two wolf skins on their backs. In the evening, as soon as the sun set, Sister Zhang sent Zhang Tiemu and several people, took Li Zongliang and Wei Shuisheng's long guns, and went down the mountain to pick them up. Zhang Tiemu led people straight out more than 20 miles away, and received Li Zongliang and Wei Shuisheng, took the food on their shoulders, and went back to the mountain excitedly.

A group of bandits ate two meals in a row, and their strength was useless. They were so excited that they didn't know what to do. Li Xiaoyao commanded them, cut down dozens of fir trees from the mountain, rowed out the roof of the two bluestone compartments with fir trees one by one, and then spread them with branches and dead leaves. They were busy all day. The two houses have roofs, and they finally look like something.

Li Zongliang and Wei Shuisheng had a meal and simply planted the fire in two fir-roofed houses. Li Zonggui sat on the round wooden sill at the door and listened to Li Zongliang and Wei Shuisheng while listening to the outside.