Do you have the strength to force me to join the Liangshan bandits?

Chapter 658 Yue Fei: Where is my wife? Where is my father-in-law? [1st Update]

The groom's words, "A dog relying on its master's power," angered Li Chun. He was an honest official and could not tolerate such behavior.

I've never traveled far from home, just wander around my neighborhood. I never knew this coachman was such a bad person.

But to Li Chun's even greater surprise, Yue Fei's name had no effect in Cangzhou...

However, Li Chun didn't have time to dwell on that right now. He lifted the curtain and said matter-of-factly:
"I bought this horse with my own money; it's absolutely not something I could have stolen!"

"You must have mistaken the horse for someone else!"

The horse-faced man sneered, "You say it wasn't stolen? Do you dare confront my master face to face?"

Li Chun, upright and fearless, asked, "What is there to be afraid of?"

"most!"

The horse-faced man waved his hand and said, "In that case, please come with us!"

"go!"

Li Chun lowered the curtain. He refused to believe that anything could be unclear in broad daylight.
So their convoy followed that group of men.

Even at this point, Li Chun still didn't realize the seriousness of the situation, after all, he was an official, and his son-in-law was the General of Cangzhou!

This group of men doesn't seem unreasonable; at worst, we can just take him to see the authorities!
Why would he be afraid of seeing the authorities?

……

"Old man, this medicine is strong, please bear with it."

After killing all the bandits, Yue Fei and his men provided basic medical care to the surviving villagers.

Yue Fei personally treated the wounds of an old man with a white beard, and then took out the precious Tiger Penis Great Rejuvenating Pill and fed it to a young woman who was on the verge of death.

Of the more than one hundred villagers, half were killed by bandits, but Yue Fei and his men rescued the other half.

This weighed heavily on Yue Fei's mind, since Cangzhou was under his jurisdiction.

"Old man, have these bandits been here before?"

Yue Fei asked the old man with the white beard, and the old man shook his head:
"Since General Yue arrived, there haven't been any more bandits..."

Yue Fei frowned, sensing something amiss:

"Old man, have you heard of any bandits in the nearby mountains?"

The old man shook his head again: "There were some before, but General Yue wiped them all out."

Tang Huai chimed in from the side, "Brother, could these bandits be outlaws who have migrated from other prefectures?"

Yue Fei pondered for a moment: "It's not impossible..."

Zhang Xian reminded him, "Brother, we still need to pick up the newcomer..."

"Let's treat the injured first."

Yue Fei said without hesitation, "Send someone back to inform the strategist to search for and capture the bandits throughout the entire Cangzhou area!"

Zhang Xian then arranged for several cavalrymen to return to Cangzhou City and deliver Yue Fei's orders to Zhu Wu.

"Thank you so much, my benefactor!"

The old man knelt down before Yue Fei with tears in his eyes:

"If it weren't for our benefactor's righteous intervention, our entire village would have..."

"No need to thank me, sir!"

Yue Fei quickly helped the old man up with both hands, feeling extremely guilty.

"It is my duty to protect the land and ensure the safety of the people..."

"It's all my fault for neglecting my duties, which allowed this band of bandits to enter Cangzhou and kill many innocent people..."

At this point, Yue Fei was so heavy-hearted that he could not speak, and could only bow deeply to the people:

"This matter all rests on Yue Fei!"
"Yue Fei will definitely bring all the bandits who have entered Cangzhou to justice!"
"To comfort the spirits of those who died today!"

"Yue Fei?"

"Is he Yue Fei, the commander-in-chief of Cangzhou?"

"Yes, yes! I've long heard that Yue Fei was a young hero, known in the martial arts world as 'Jade-Faced Little Flying Dragon'..."

The villagers were abuzz with discussion, clearly never expecting that their benefactor who had saved them was actually the General of Cangzhou.

The old man immediately knelt down again: "General, you mustn't do this!"
"If the general hadn't arrived in time, our village would have been finished!"
"General, you are our savior. How can we possibly deserve such a great honor from you?"

Inspired by the old man, the villagers all knelt down in a flurry. The villagers harbored no hatred towards him, which only intensified Yue Fei's remorse; he left with a heavy heart.

Wang Gui, the muddle-headed man among the four, suddenly discovered the key point:

"Brother, what if the new recruits encounter bandits...?"

"Oh!"

Yue Fei slapped his forehead and hurriedly spurred his horse to head back the way he had come.

Tang Huai, Zhang Xian, and Wang Gui quickly followed, but Yue Fei then said to Tang Huai and Zhang Xian:

“My two brothers, take a hundred cavalrymen back to the village to prevent those bandits and their accomplices from returning to retaliate!”

Tang Huai and Zhang Xian thought about it and agreed, so they divided up a hundred cavalrymen and returned to that village.

Yue Fei and Wang Gui led a hundred cavalrymen and hurried back to the official road.

There were no pedestrians for miles along the official road, and Wang Gui breathed a sigh of relief:

"The new recruits probably haven't arrived yet!"

"wrong!"

Yue Fei looked up at the sky: "The time has passed, and the bride may have already passed away..."

"That's not right either!"

"If we missed the new talent, and he arrives in the capital, the strategist should send someone to inform us!"

"Brother, look!"

Wang Gui suddenly pointed forward, and Yue Fei looked up and saw a man staggering towards them:
"Son-in-law"

"Zhou Tianlu?"

Yue Fei recognized the man, his expression changed drastically, and he spurred his horse to gallop forward to meet him.
Why are you all alone?

"Where is my wife? Where is my father-in-law?"

Zhou Tianlu said with a mournful face, "Son-in-law, it's like this, blah blah blah..."

"My husband originally wanted to argue with them, but they insisted that he was the one who lost our horse..."

"My husband and young lady have been detained. They want me released so I can find a thousand taels of silver to ransom them..."

"Young master, that family is being unreasonable. If the money isn't delivered by nightfall, they'll beat you to death..."

"Isn't that reasonable?"

Upon hearing this, Wang Gui burst into curses: "Where did this bastard come from, trying to extort money from my brother?"

"Big brother, let's go ransom them! Bah! Let's save them!"

"Lead the way!"

Yue Fei was also enraged.

The deaths of so many civilians had weighed heavily on his mind, and his father-in-law's current predicament only fueled his rage.

So Zhou Tianlu led the way, and Yue Fei and Wang Gui followed him onto a side road.

When they entered the fork in the road, Yue Fei habitually hooked his Liquan Panlong Spear onto a tree trunk by the roadside.

After walking for about ten miles along this side road, we finally saw a large manor house in the distance.

Zhou Tianlu led Yue Fei and Wang Gui to the gate of the manor and bowed to the servants at the gate:

"Please inform them that my son-in-law has come to ransom the person!"

The servant glanced at Yue Fei and Wang Gui, then at the hundred cavalrymen they had brought, and curled his lip in disapproval.

"What? Does General Yue intend to bully us with his power?"

"Nonsense! Yue Fei always persuaded people with reason!"

Yue Fei waved to Wang Gui: "I'm going to fetch my father-in-law. You all stay here and don't move."

Wang Gui and his hundred cavalrymen waited at the gate. Yue Fei dismounted, picked up his spear, and went inside.

The servant led the way, taking Yue Fei to the backyard, and then disappeared around a corner.

[Friendly reminder: Use their strategy against them!]

(End of this chapter)