The Little Lucky Girl

The mountain road was rugged and walking in the dense forest was particularly difficult. Shi Dalang panted and wiped the sweat from his forehead, but he did not dare to stop for a moment. However, his legs were already weak and he stumbled without paying attention.

Seeing that he was about to fall, the guards beside him immediately pulled him up, and the bailiffs also came over to help, thankfully saying: "It's a good thing he didn't fall, otherwise where would we find such delicious food."

The two jars of chili sauce in Shi Dalang's backpack have become everyone's favorite, and he himself has also been upgraded to a key focus. Everyone is determined not to let him fall even if they fall themselves.

Because of the hot sauce, Shi Dalang, the only commoner in the team, quickly developed a good relationship with the officers and became much bolder.

He applied another layer of the sac in his hand, handed it to the head of the guards, Feng Liang, and said with a smile: "To be honest, the people from Da Qi have not contacted us for many years. It will probably take a lot of effort to convince them. Captain Feng, please give us more time."

After finally sneaking to Da Qi, Feng Liang still had other tasks assigned by County Magistrate Tao. Hearing this, he smiled and said, "Five days is enough for you. Be careful not to let the news leak out."

Shi Dalang was very happy and kept saying that it was enough. He felt that three days would be enough to think about it and two days would be enough to pack up his belongings.

Facts proved that he had overthought it. When he finally sneaked into the village that his father had described countless times and met those cousins ​​he had never met before, he recognized them as relatives without any trouble.

The uncles and aunts helped to call other villagers who wanted to meet, and soon half of the village gathered together.

After knowing that Shi Dalang was coming to take them to Dayu, the villagers said that it would not take five days at all and they could go with him tomorrow.

Then these people dispersed and went home to pack up their belongings. Shi Dalang was stunned by what he saw and thought that this matter was going too smoothly. He had even worked hard to anticipate several situations in which people would not trust him, but in the end, none of them worked.

What Shi Dalang didn't know was that life in Da Qi was so hard that the villagers took the stories of his father's generation who had ventured into the mountains in their early years as a source of comfort, and would talk about them from time to time.

Even if Shi Dalang didn't come, after a while, they might try to go to Daqing Mountain on their own.

The next morning, before Shi Dalang even opened his eyes, he found a lot of people surrounding his bed, and he was so scared that he almost fell off.

Seeing that he had woken up, the leader, Old Man Shi, rubbed his hands a little embarrassedly and said, "Da Lang, uncle wants to discuss something with you. When we were packing up yesterday, we made a lot of noise, and other people in the village knew about it, so they wanted to go with us. These villagers have had a hard time, and they helped each other to get through today. If it's convenient for you, can you take them with you?"

There weren't many people in the village. Shi Dalang hesitated for a moment and nodded, "We are all related, so it shouldn't be a big problem."

Old Man Shi understood immediately, "Yes, we are all relatives. Old Man Wang's daughter wants to marry my grandson. Our two families are one family, haha."

The other old men wanted to laugh but didn't dare to. Old Man Wang's little girl was already thirteen years old, and Old Man Shi's grandson was still wearing open-crotch pants. It was really hard for him to come up with such an idea of ​​getting married.

Old Man Shi was very happy to have solved the problem that had been weighing on his mind all night. "Da Lang, your aunt made some porridge. Drink it while it's hot. We don't have anything special here, so we have to make do with this."

Shi Dalang knew how poor the villagers were now, and that they only had one meal a day. He didn't dare to eat up what might be a day's ration for his cousin's family so extravagantly in the morning. So he said, "Tell Auntie to stop working. I have to go to my uncle's house in the neighboring village. I have to go there early, so I won't eat."

Everyone was surprised, "Are you going to bring your uncle's family with you as well?"

"Yes, my father also asked me to go to a few familiar families in the next village to ask."

The old men looked at each other, but did not dare to say anything. They waited until Shi Dalang left the village before they gathered together to discuss, "What do you think, should we go and ask?"

Who doesn't have a few uncles? Their own, their sons', their grandsons'...

This is a large number of people, but if they really do nothing, they will feel guilty. They heard that the bandits have already robbed the county government office, and they are afraid that they will have no chance of survival if they stay here.

Old Man Shi is Shi Dalang's cousin and has the closest relationship with him, so everyone lets him make the decision.

The old man was silent for a long while, and finally gritted his teeth and said, "Then choose someone with good character to tell. You must not be soft-hearted at this time. If you bring that troublemaker here, once the news leaks out, it will bring disaster to our entire village."

The old men nodded excitedly, saying that they knew what they were doing and would not mess things up.

Old Man Shi said, "Bring them in quietly when it's dark and say they are from your family. I'm sure the officers won't take it too seriously and will just take them away if they're soft-hearted."

Each family listened carefully and acted cautiously. In the days after Shi Dalang came back, he walked around the village every day, but he didn't notice that there were more and more people in the village every day.

Five days later, when the yamen runners and Captain Jin came back to call everyone to gather, Shi Dalang discovered that the small village, which originally had a population of about a hundred people that could not even fill the open space at the entrance of the village, now had a huge crowd of people stretching from the entrance to the end of the village. There were probably more than four or five hundred people.

Shi Dalang broke out in a cold sweat. He looked at Feng Liang's gang of yamen runners nervously. Feng Liang gave him a soothing look and signaled him to go and ask Captain Jin for help. Whether it would work now depended on Captain Jin's opinion.

Captain Jin's face turned pale, and he felt vaguely that he had been cheated. But looking at those skinny villagers looking at them with pleading eyes, he couldn't bring himself to abandon them. After all, these were all Qi people, the people of the Great Qi that his family had once defended with their lives.

"Forget it, Feng Wenshu, you take your men and go ahead," Captain Jin waved his hand feebly, "My men will stay behind to clean up the mess."

Originally, they planned to have the people of this village pretend to be fleeing and hide in the Daqing Mountains, but now there are too many people and more than one village is involved. They are afraid that if someone pays close attention, they might find out something.

Magistrate Tao was far away, so no one would have thought he could be so bold. Even if he was caught, he would be able to deny it.

But he couldn't do that. The power that he and his family had worked so hard to build up in Da Qi must not be in danger of being exposed. He didn't dare to take the chance.

Finally, Captain Jin detained, ahem, retained the two masters from Dayu, and worked together to find the largest gang of bandits nearby. They first looted their village, and then drove the bandits through the city, pretending to come and rob.

Finally, they set fire to the entire village, and in order to make it more realistic, they had to leave some corpses behind, so they used the bandits as waste.