The journey of the only child of a peasant family to take the imperial examination

Upon hearing this, Doctor Fu sternly said, "You may surrender, but lay down your weapons!"

The remaining three bandits quickly dropped their knives, raised their hands and shouted, "It's lost!"

Doctor Fu's second son hesitated around for a while, picked up some hemp ropes, stepped forward and tied up the bandits, made them kneel down, and asked about the whereabouts of Brother Fu and his men.

"A few new people have been imprisoned in the water dungeon today. They should be the ones you are looking for. They are in the cave at the back. I can take you there," one of the bandits said flatteringly.

"Nephew, do you think these bandits are..." Doctor Fu turned his back to the bandits and signaled Zhang Pingan with his eyes to kill them. Now the Zhang family has a large number of people, and there are only two people on his side. He has to ask Zhang Pingan's opinion no matter what, otherwise he would have done it himself.

Zhang Ping'an was holding a bloody long knife, still gasping for breath, with the blood on his face already half dried. Hearing this, he looked around and saw that except for these three bandits, the rest had fallen to the ground, and some were seriously injured and were still groaning!

Looking at his own side, Grandpa Jinbao was dead. This old man who had been particularly kind to him since childhood died on unfamiliar soil. His second brother-in-law, Uncle Xu, and several cousins ​​were all seriously injured.

This time the casualties were the highest since the escape!

Zhang Ping'an hummed when he thought of this, and a tear slowly fell from the corner of his eye, then disappeared in an instant. Then he slowly walked towards the bandits, tightly gripping the long knife in his hand. In the horrified eyes of the bandits, he stabbed each of them in the neck with the knife, and his clothes were sprayed with blood again, but this time he was not panicked or afraid!

When Doctor Fu saw Zhang Ping'an's performance, a hint of appreciation flashed in his eyes, and then he called on his second son to stab each of the remaining bandits lying on the ground a few more times to make sure they were dead!

"Dad, are you okay?" After Zhang Ping'an dealt with these bandits, he saw his father following behind him with a worried look on his face, and asked quickly.

Zhang Laoer said anxiously, "I'm fine, just a minor injury. But you were stabbed on the arm and bled so much, didn't you feel anything?"

Only then did Zhang Ping'an notice that the sleeve of his left arm was soaked with blood. He didn't know when he was cut. He felt like he had just had a dream. Now that the dream was finally over, he also felt the pain!

"Hiss," Zhang Pingan covered his arm and hissed.

Zhang Laoer tore off a large piece of the hem of his inner garment and came over to bandage his son's arm. The bleeding finally stopped.

"Just wrap it like this for now. We have a lot of medicine in our bag. We can apply medicine and bandage it again when we get back," Zhang Laoer said worriedly.

Zhang Pingan nodded, then walked to Grandpa Jinbao and felt his neck again. There was no pulse, and there was no possibility of survival.

After the crisis was resolved, Jinbao threw himself on his grandfather and cried bitterly again, and Jinbao's father also had tears in his eyes.

Zhang Pingan patted his good brother's shoulder, giving him silent comfort, then stood up and counted the remaining people. The dead cannot be resurrected, but the remaining survivors must live. At this moment, Zhang Pingan understood the cruel reality more deeply!

After checking everyone's injuries, he found that only his eldest brother-in-law Liu Sanlang and Doctor Fu were fine. The remaining six people were seriously injured, and the others had varying degrees of minor injuries.

Guo Jia, who helped with the poisoning, and Brother Fu and cousin Dahe, who had gone to explore the way earlier, were nowhere to be seen. The bandits said that they might be imprisoned in a water dungeon.

Zhang Ping'an climbed up the watchtower and looked around. He found that there were several rows of houses behind the blue brick and tile houses. He didn't know what they were used for. There was a cave with a fence at the back, which should be the dungeon.

After climbing down the watchtower, Zhang Ping'an asked several seriously injured people to rest here for a while, and then he and Doctor Fu took the remaining people to the back.

If you don't remove the roots of the grass, it will grow again in the spring breeze. Since you have taken action, you must avoid future troubles!

To everyone's surprise, the house at the back was almost entirely filled with young women, all of whom were pretty good-looking. They were obviously frightened when they saw a group of men rushing in, but they didn't scream. They shrank back a bit and then lowered their heads and remained motionless.

Before Zhang Ping'an could ask any questions, Doctor Fu and his second son had already stabbed the man to death in the chest, with hatred flashing in their eyes!

No need to ask any more questions now!

The last row of houses should be the kitchen, where the bandits usually cook and eat. It is filled with common items such as oil, salt, grain, cloth, torches, etc., and most of the grain is fine grain, and the salt is also fine salt. Zhang Laoer, with a look of joy in his eyes, led everyone to carry a sack each, and also took some necessities such as oil and salt. Liu Sanlang carried the most because he was strong. Doctor Fu and his second son hesitated and followed suit, carrying a bag each.

The people in this county like to poison people. Zhang Ping'an doesn't plan to put it directly into his mouth. He will give it to the mule first to try it out. If there is no problem, he can eat it himself!

Now the only thing I haven’t been to is the water dungeon that the bandits talked about. I don’t know if people are really locked up in the water dungeon. I know it’s not a good place just by hearing it!

According to the location the bandit had just mentioned, everyone walked towards the cave behind the hill with torches.

This should be a natural cave, very cold and gloomy. Then the bandits dug deeper into it and paved it with stone slabs, forming the so-called water dungeon.

After walking only three or four feet inside, everyone smelled a strong fishy odor. The water dungeon was not big. When everyone opened the fence, they saw five people locked up in the dungeon, including Guo Jia and the other three.

His entire body was soaked in a pool of foul-smelling green water, with only his head exposed. He had obviously been tortured by the bandits and was unconscious.

Doctor Fu walked over and used the winch to raise the cages. Only then did he see that several people were still covered in leeches. Just the sight of them gave him goose bumps. He thought that after half a day, the bandits wouldn't have to do anything to suck the blood out of them. He gritted his teeth and cursed, "It's such an easy death for them!"

This creature was covered in stench and had leeches on it, so it was impossible to carry it. Zhang Laoer ran out, picked up a few branches and broke them off, trying to get the leeches out. Zhang Pingan saw that some leeches had burrowed deeper, so he remembered a method he had seen on the agricultural channel in his previous life. He quickly took out the fine salt he had just collected from the bandit's kitchen, poured handfuls of it on the leeches, and soon the leeches fell off by themselves.

Doctor Fu followed suit and quickly cleaned everything off Brother Fu's body.

At this moment, one of the two remaining strangers, who had been tortured beyond recognition, suddenly spoke up: "Zhang... Zhang... Ping'an!"

Zhang Ping'an stopped what he was doing and turned his head in surprise. He thought the two men were also unconscious.

He saw that the other person had disheveled hair, his body was swollen and red, and emitting a foul odor. His original appearance was no longer recognizable, and he really couldn't recognize who he was.

But it is obvious that this person is only breathing out but not breathing in, he is not going to survive!