Xie Ming

Chapter 71 Leaving the Town to Redeem Someone
After Xiao Lang left the clan leader's house, he led Qiu Zhizhong, Gu Changting and a group of three to the town entrance.

On the way, Xiao Jingchuan gave urgent instructions.

"Chang Ting, you don't have to follow us anymore. Go ahead and return to the camp immediately!"

"Order Sun Peizhong, Li Huchen, Qi Dayong, Ma Minglu, Liu Wenbing, Gong Yonggu, and Jin Xuan to lead a group of soldiers each. They should march quickly to the southwest of the town. They should form a semicircle with a radius of five miles from the ransom exchange point three miles outside the town entrance as the center, and form a siege. They should hide on the spot."

"I expected that if the bandits sent someone to take the money, there would be someone following behind to provide support!"

"After you have deployed all the troops to the designated location, come back and report!"

"Then I will fire three more shots as a signal to lure the bandits into the encirclement and take the money."

"I will take care of those who come to me on their own initiative, and the bandits who are responsible for the support from the outside must be captured as much as possible!"

"Remember, if we want to keep him alive, we have to find out the location of Ma Dabanzi's lair!" Xiao Lang ordered.

"Yes!"

Gu Changting took the order and ran away like a gust of wind!

After Chang Ting left, Xiao Jingchuan deliberately slowed down his pace to buy him some time.

Qiu Zhizhong, who was standing by, saw that the instructions had been given, so he started to make a joke.

"Hey, I'm talking to Lao Xiao!"

"You hid it well enough!"

"You have the nerve to take such a large sum of money and make us eat coarse food these days!"

"Tell me the truth, do you have anything in your pocket?"

Hearing this, Xiao Jingchuan pretended to look miserable.

"Hey, Mr. Qiu!"

"Please forgive me! This is my last burial money!"

"To lead the troops, I must have some money in my hand, right?!"

"In case the situation changes, we must have food and grass to protect us in times of crisis!"

"As the saying goes, a cannon shot is worth a ton of gold!"

"We are doing a life-threatening job that requires us to put our heads on the line!"

"My pocket money is nothing!"

"Four thousand taels, not even enough to pay the war pay for more than five hundred heads of the entire army!"

After saying this, Qiu Zhizhong also smiled bitterly.

He turned his head inadvertently and suddenly saw that there were more than ten people following them!
"Huh? Lao Xiao, it seems like someone is following us!" Qiu Zhizhong reminded in a low voice.

Hearing this, Xiao Jingchuan was slightly stunned, but then he grinned and snorted.

"Humph! It should be that Patriarch Xu who brought people here!"

"These mountain folks don't have the courage to pay the money, but if they want to join in the fun, they can still call on some people!"

"Oh? Watching the fun?" Qiu Zhizhong saw through it.

"You're not just here for fun, are you? Most likely, you're still worried about us, afraid that we'll take the banknotes and never come back!"

"Hahaha, that's true. You think I'm a swindler!" Xiao Lang shook his head helplessly and replied self-deprecatingly.

A quarter of an hour later, Xiao Jingchuan and Qiu Zhizhong barely arrived at the town entrance.

Another quarter of an hour later, the two arrived at the big willow tree two hundred steps to the right, three miles southwest of the town entrance!

This willow tree is as thick as three people can hug. It is just as Ms. Xu Wang from the Xu clan leader's family said, and it is very easy to identify.

The surroundings are bare, with mostly withered and yellow weeds within a hundred steps, and nothing else to block the view.

This iconic reference can be seen at a glance even from miles away.

"Hey, hey, I'm so tired, I finally caught up!"

Xu Jialu chased after the group of tribesmen led by the clan leader Xu Jialin from the town, and hurried over to watch the fun, walking backwards.

"Eh? What are you doing here?!" Jialin was still dissatisfied with his performance in the ancestral hall this morning.

"Speaking of which, why didn't you call me for such a big matter?!"

"My old legs were strained, but luckily I made it in time!" Xu Jialu said, then he took out the pipe from behind his waist and knocked it against his cloth-soled shoes a few times.

Right now, Xu Jialin, with at least twenty or thirty men from the tribe, was guarding the spacious mountain road leading out of the town entrance.

Men of all ages stared intently at what was happening under the willow tree two hundred steps away.

At this distance, if Xiao Lang really wanted to run away, these mountain people would not be able to catch up with him.

But Xu Jialin had no choice. If he took another step forward, no one would be willing to follow him!

They are all scared by the bandits, so they come out to watch the fun, that's fine!
You want these people to help you at risk? That's impossible!
Xu Jialu pretended to fill his pipe with tobacco, turned his head and glanced around at the group of people who followed him, and snorted in disdain.

Immediately, his mind changed and he turned to Jialin and teased him again.

"Hey! Patriarch Xu! What are you standing there for?!"

"You really dare to employ people!"

"Hey, this kid, who has no relationship with us, why is he so willing to risk his life for you?!"

"Jia Lin, we understand that you are eager to save Hong Wen!"

"But if you take this kid home, don't promise him anything secretly."

Jialin is anxious now and doesn't want to have a fight with Xu Jialu, but he can't help but pick a fight with him!

When he heard Jialu talking like this again, he got anxious and raised his hand to start a fight.

"Hey, hey, Jialin, what are you doing!"

"I'm also afraid that you'll be blackmailed!"

"You, look at this! That guy has been standing there for a long time, why isn't he moving?"

"Fire! Hey, Jialin, did you give me your gun?"

Jialu was in the wrong, so he quickly changed his stance and shifted the subject, directing the conversation and the attention of his clansmen to Xiao Jingchuan under the willow tree in the distance.

"Humph! I need you to remind me?!"

"I gave it to you. I gave it to you a long time ago!" Xu Jialin was in no mood to continue fighting with the old guy in front of him.

"That's not right! Since you have a weapon in your hand, why don't you fire it?!"

"You're such a coward! You can tell at a glance that you're a coward!" Xu Jialu continued to find ways to disgust people with his words.

"Coward, coward! You are the only one who is not cowardly!"

"Why don't you give me a hand? Go ahead!"

Xu Jialin retorted and took the opportunity to throw the blame on Jialu's face.

Xu Jialu shuddered and shook his head like a rattle.

"How about asking my nephew to help?" Jialin added.

"No, no, that won't work. He's my own son!" Xu Jialu was telling the truth.

"Humph! When I ask you to do something, you become so listless! Look at your behavior!"

"Also, the nephew from your wife's family comes to my house whenever he has something to do, and he can't even walk when he sees Jingyi!"

"Is he still at your house? He hasn't left yet. Why doesn't he even show up when something like this happened today?!"

"I'm telling you officially, Jialu, a young man like this is actually trying to covet our Jingyi? There's no hope for this, there's no way! Let him give up on that idea as soon as possible!" Xu Jialu got angry when he thought of the things that Jialin had said about his family.

"Hey, hey, don't, don't!"

"That guy is pretty good. He had a stomachache yesterday and has diarrhea now. He doesn't even have the strength to get out of bed. That's why we didn't meet!" Xu Jialin licked his face and made a pale excuse.

"Stop talking nonsense to me!"

No matter how you look at this side, it's a mess.

In response, under the big willow tree two hundred steps away, Xiao Jingchuan was also getting a little impatient.

He repeatedly pretended to pick up the broken three-barrel gun. If he continued to grind like this, the old-fashioned gun barrel would be broken!
At this moment, Qiu Zhizhong at the side suddenly spoke.

"Old Xiao, here we come, Chang Ting is finally back!"

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