The Happy Life of Small Officials in Northern Song Dynasty

The bandits surrounded Su Jin and the three of them and walked up the path. All kinds of faces appeared from the mountain ridges and arrow towers on both sides.

Bandit A said: "Hey, this little official is full of water and spirit. Nose is nose and mouth is mouth. He doesn't seem to be very old."

Bandit B agreed: "Well, it looks like he is only sixteen or seventeen years old. You see, there is not a single hair on his mouth."

Bandit Bing C said: "Cut, you two idiots are ignorant. Does it mean that you are young if you don't have hair on your mouth? Maybe there is a lot of hair in some places."

Bandit Bingjia retorted: "Have you seen him below?"

Bandit Bing said: "I really want to see, such a juicy rabbit master can be an official, is it because of his real skills?"

Bandit B said: "You mean... he relied on selling his ass?"

All the bandits and soldiers laughed wildly with their mouths open, very proud.

Su Jin frowned, stopped, stretched out his hand to pick up a lump of dirt on the ground, threw it in front of him, kicked it out when the lump was about to hit the ground, and Bandit B was laughing wildly with his mouth open , suddenly felt something whizzing flying towards, unable to dodge in time, there was a click, and the frozen clods rushed straight into the entrance, immediately smashed two front teeth, the mouth full of mud rushed straight into the throat, the laughter became It became screams and whimpers, blood mixed with mud and saliva flowing out.

His big mouth was regarded by Su Jin as a coquettish eye for Cuju. Su Jin swayed his legs and said to himself: "One to zero, fortunately, Cuju skills have not regressed."

The bandits were shocked, and they quickly covered their mouths while laughing. There was a loud noise, swords and swords came out, and they all jumped down from the mountain ridge, shouting and cursing: "This guy hurts people, don't you want to die?"

"Damn it, hurry up and act wild in our Bagong Mountain. Come on, brothers, strip him naked and hang him up to let the wind blow, and see if he is still violent."

Chao Mahan roared and protected Su Jin one after the other. Su Jin hooked a piece of soil on the ground into the air with his foot, grabbed it with his hand, and said with a sneer: "Speaking foul language in front of the envoy, knocking out the front teeth is regarded as light."

A bandit soldier yelled: "You son of a bitch, don't even look at where this is. I will strip you naked and stab you today, and tell you to... oh, my god!"

This person hadn't finished speaking when a clod of hard soil flew in front of him. Finally, he managed to hide in time and shrank his neck. The clod was running towards his mouth, but now it hit his nose, and immediately his nose bleed profusely, making him sore Tears, snot, and nosebleeds gurgled down, it was miserable.

Su Jin shook his head and said, "Damn, I haven't played cuju for a few days, so the accuracy is really bad."

Wang Chao said angrily: "My lord, it's not bad. Although I didn't fall into the romantic eye, it's considered a score, right?"

Su Jin clapped his hands and said: "If you don't enter, you don't enter. I don't want to flatter you."

"Brothers! Come on, this kid doesn't take us seriously, chop him up!" The bandits rushed forward, and the bandits behind them also drew their swords.

Su Jin smiled wryly and said: "You two brothers, it seems that the teacher is not good."

Chao Mahan lifted the corner of his robe and tucked it around his waist, clenched his fists and said, "The outcome is unknown, these bastards are not enough to watch."

At this moment, a loud voice shouted from the mountain ridge: "Everyone stop, step aside, who told you to do it?"

A small leader hurriedly said: "Second master, this thief came to us and acted wildly, wounding our two brothers. We plan to teach them a lesson. Doesn't it mean that we will not release our Bagongshan heroes at all?" Do you see it?"

Qiu Dabao shouted angrily: "Fart! How can they hurt our brothers with bare hands?"

The little boss said: "This... this kid is tricky, he smashed it with a ball of mud."

"Bah, the two mud balls can't be avoided, so I'm ashamed to speak up, two pustules, get out of the way, you won't lose the face of our Bagong Mountain."

The little leader ate his nose, and seeing a group of guys staring at him, he became angry and cursed: "Whatever you look at, it's all scattered, pustules, I'm going to be scolded."

The gangsters had no choice but to put their knives into their sheaths one after another, and reluctantly parted ways. Qiu Dabao walked slowly towards Su Jin, cupped his fists from a distance and said, "Mr. Su, it's been a long time."

Su Jin clasped his fists and said with a smile: "Is this the second in charge? He really is a hero."

Qiu Dabao laughed and said: "The hero is Su Xiaoguan. I haven't seen him for a few months, and his skills are very different. To be able to hit my brother with two mud pellets. What a skill."

Su Jin said: "I'm offended, if it wasn't for their foul language, I wouldn't have taken action. The second boss said that he was very affectionate. Forgive me for my stupidity. I don't think I've seen you before."

Qiu Dabao said with a mysterious smile: "Su Xiaoguan is a noble person, how do you know us and other reckless people, but I know you. I have personally experienced the festival between Su Ji and the Chamber of Commerce, but I am just a small person running errands."

Su Jin suddenly remembered something, pointed at Qiu Dabao and shouted, "You...you are the Diamond Mountain Leopard?"

Qiu Dabao said with a chuckle: "The nickname given by friends in the Jianghu, that's an understatement, it's my name."

Su Jin suddenly realized that in Yingtian Mansion that day, when Rou Niang came to see her, she once said that a gangster who would drill a mountain leopard had gone to her and asked her to send a letter to him, saying that there was something about Hei Qi and others and The mystery of the death of master Qin Dalang and others in his clothing store, I originally planned to come to meet this mountain leopard during Yingtian Mansion's winter vacation, but I didn't want to go to Beijing and forget about it in a hurry. As soon as ri mentioned it, all of them came to mind.

Su Jin was overjoyed, hehe laughed and said: "This is really a long-awaited name, my servant once gave me a message..."

With a wink, Qiu Dabao stretched out his hand to stop Su Jin from continuing, and said loudly: "Mr. Su Xiaoguan is now the special envoy of the imperial court. Congratulations. Come, come, let me introduce you to the master of our cottage." See you, please come with me."

Seeing his strange expression, Su Jin thought about it for a long time, but didn't think much about it, and stretched out his hand, "Please lead the way."

The two of them walked up the mountain ridge along the path, when the terrain suddenly became steeper, and a gongshi piled up with straw bales appeared in front of them.

Everyone walked to the bottom of the fortification and climbed up the steep stone steps. When they were still fifty steps away from the fortification, they only heard the sound of bowstrings. He shouted: "Who is coming? Password!"

Su Jin laughed secretly, the bandits also made up passwords, it seems that the village owner is quite a character, and he is quite formal, no wonder the power has developed so fast.

Then Qiu Dabao said loudly: "Iron Horse don't talk!"

The other party replied: "Steel knife gouging out gallbladder will not change!"

Qiu Dabao shouted: "Chen Lao Si, open the gate. I am the Drilling Mountain Leopard, and I will bring the people from the mountain to meet the head."

"It turns out to be the second master. Hurry up and open the gate. The first master has just entered the second door and said where he is waiting for you." A middle-aged bandit leader came up to him, cupped his hands and said with a smile.

Qiu Dabao smiled and said: "Understood, Mr. Chen has worked so hard to send some jars of wine to your pass tomorrow. My mouth has been very hungry lately."

Chen Lao Si laughed and said: "That's right, the second leader still loves our brothers, but I dare not drink wine. I still remember the whipping that the first leader gave last time."

Qiu Dabao laughed and said: "Alright, there is still a thigh left from the boar that was beaten a few days ago, why don't you give it to you to roast and eat during the night watch, so as to get rid of the hunger and cold."

"Hey, that's really thankful to the Second Master. The Second Master treats my brothers like this. I didn't say anything. If there is anything I need to help in the future, just ask. If I, Chen Laosi, want to say a word, I will be a bastard."

While speaking, several people had already climbed the mountain ridge, passed through the passage in the middle, and sat or stood at the top of the fortifications on both sides. There were forty or fifty bandits.

Su Jin turned his head and looked down, only to find that the hillside below the fortifications was steep. The bandits really had a good eye, and they chose the location of the checkpoint with originality.

After passing this checkpoint, unexpectedly, there is a large open space behind the checkpoint. On the left side of the cliff, a half-person-high wall is built with stones, and the rows of stone houses on the right side of the hillside are obviously the bandits. place of residence.

There was the sound of chiseling stones not far away. Su Jin turned his head and saw about two or three hundred people in ragged clothes were digging rocks hard under the supervision of dozens of bandits. Or round, each as big as a bucket.

Su Jin understood that the round ones are used for rolling stones and defending against attacks, while the square ones can be used for building houses and fortifications, and for digging mountains and rocks to open up sites, killing three birds with one stone.

Seeing this, Su Jin no longer dared to show the slightest contempt for the Bagongshan bandits.