The First Auxiliary Road from the Imperial Examination

Chapter 599 Discovery
"Wh-clang!"

A blunt arrow was nailed to the door.

Just now, Sheng Yuan felt something was wrong after pushing open the door, and immediately closed the door, and then there was the sound of nailing the door.

The guards who followed were suddenly covered in cold sweat, and the leader in charge of the search turned pale with fright: "I, we have checked!"

Sheng Yuan glanced at the newly added guard, but said nothing to Cheng Dong, "Remove all the doors here!"

Cheng Dong looked at the man with trembling legs, nodded and said yes.

While they were talking, the annoyed An Yu had already arranged for someone to raid the warehouse.

At this time, a timid female voice sounded from inside the door: "People outside! Aren't you bandits from Yunshan Village?"

Hearing this, Lu Sheng hurriedly stopped An Yu, who was ignoring him, and looked at Sheng Yuan: "Sister Yuan, bring the bandit leader here first!"

Sheng Yuan was also curious as to why someone would suddenly pop up inside, so he naturally nodded in agreement.

After the robber leader and others came over, he heard the reason, and suddenly his mouth became bitter!
He didn't expect that the teacher he snatched from the mountain would dare to shoot an arrow!
"Mr. Teacher? You said there is a literati inside?" An Yu grabbed the shoulder of the robber leader and sneered, "I am not easy to deceive, you little master! You robbers are so cowardly, let you rob the teacher who went up the mountain Do you have the courage to shoot arrows at people?!"

"It's, it's true!" The robber leader didn't expect that the gentle and cowardly scholar would do such a thing, and his mind was in a mess.

Sheng Yuan narrowed his eyes as he looked at this not-so-intelligent robber leader.

"Brother Sheng, you can negotiate with the people inside, I will talk to him." Sheng Yuan smiled and patted the shoulder of the robber leader, "However, be careful yourself, beware of fraud!"

The leader of the robber felt the force on his shoulder, and he was miserable!
He just had the illusion that the other party was hitting him like a wooden stake!
Of course, neither Sheng Yuan nor Lu Sheng cared about the feelings of the robber leader.

"Sister Yuan, I'll follow you!" An Yu was afraid that he would shoot and kill the people inside, so he simply chased Sheng Yuan.

"Girl, girl, what do you want to ask?" The robber leader couldn't help trembling when he saw Sheng Yuan's gentle smile.

"You snatched this cottage, right?" Sheng Yuan looked at the other party clearly, and asked him firmly.

Hearing the words, the robber leader's eyes widened instantly, and he looked at Sheng Yuan in surprise: "You, do you know how to divination?"

"Just answer the questions you ask, why are there so many rhetorical questions!" An Yu kicked the ground impatiently.

Thinking of his situation, the leader of the robbers hurriedly nodded: "We are ready-made, but this is not stolen, we are... It is cooperation! It is cooperation!"

Sheng Yuan raised his eyebrows: "What about the collaborators?"

The robber's leader's Adam's apple moved: "I went to plant the land."

"Why didn't you say that before!" An Yu didn't expect that there were other people on this mountain, and wanted to hit them angrily.

"I just said that! Those people are all cultivating in the back mountain!" The robber leader hurriedly defended.

Sheng Yuan reminded him: "You were talking about farmers and women, not collaborators!"

"That is, the person who farms the land for you is called a tenant farmer, how can there be any cooperation!" An Yu echoed with Bian Ershang.

The leader of the robbers hurriedly said: "They were originally refugees from all over Dachu who gathered here, and they just wanted to live in peace, so when we occupied the mountain, they cooperated with us and handed over the cottage, and only let me promise that in the future, refugees will come." So, I'll just keep it in."

"You just agreed?" An Yu felt something was wrong.

The leader of the robbers thought it was normal: "Of course I agreed. Isn't there a saying that it is the best policy to win without fighting? Besides, they have enough manpower but no force to guard them. Labor is needed to cultivate the fields, so why not do this kind of cooperation? As for the promise... Who would think that the manpower in the cottage is too small! Of course, we will accept as many refugees as there are. Others may be afraid of them. How can bandits be afraid?!"

"Since you took over the mountain as king, how many refugees have you turned to?" Sheng Yuan looked at the chattering robber and continued to ask.

The leader of the robbers saw her curious. Although he thought it was unnecessary, he tried his best to recall: "The number of times is really not many. I remember that they took home refugees two or three times in more than ten years."

"Take it back?!" Sheng Yuan caught the word and asked him, "How can collaborators like you go down the mountain?"

An Yu also realized the problem, and shouted angrily: "Are you kidding a fool! You bandits, how can you trust those people?"

Hearing the words, the leader of the robbers yelled at the injustice: "It's hard to have trust between people! What's more, they didn't let them go down the mountain from the beginning! Besides, all the people who go down the mountain have family members, so I'm afraid They ran away?! Although we are bandits, we should have some eyeliner at the foot of the mountain!"

Sheng Yuan watched the robber's leader argue anxiously with a pale face.

The robber in front of him is a little clever, but not too many.

Seeing him like this really doesn't look like being perfunctory.

Thinking of this, she signaled An Yu to keep quiet for the time being, and then focused on asking the robber leader about the information about the people who went down the mountain and those who went up the mountain later.

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"Sister Yuan, are those people farming wrong?" Seeing that Sheng Yuan ordered the guards to find the inner guards and asked to search for and detain those people according to the list provided by the robber leader, An Yu couldn't help being curious.

"The origin sounds a bit suspicious, but... maybe I'm overthinking it." Sheng Yuan felt that there were a lot of doubts, but she was not a professional after all, and still needed an appraisal from the internal guards.

Well, it is appropriate to leave professional matters to professional people!

After silently praising herself, Sheng Yuan dragged An Yu to meet Lu Sheng.

They have obtained a lot of information from the robber leader, and Lu Sheng should have gained something from it.

"There is also a secret door in this warehouse. Behind the secret door is a space where you can temporarily live. Before the guards searched, those people were hiding in it, so they didn't find it."

After Lu Sheng finished speaking, Sheng Yuan nodded: "How many such secret doors are there? We need to check the statistics in detail, and we must not let one go, so as not to leave hidden dangers."

"I just asked Chengdong to help arrange it." Speaking of this, Lu Sheng paused, and then said, "As for the hidden people, there are about a dozen of them, most of them are girls, and most of them are cooks who were captured by robbers." , embroiderer, sir, craftsman, doctor, etc.”

"Hehe, these robbers are very thoughtful! This is a teacher, a cook, and a craftsman. They really want to set up camp here and build a town!" An Yu couldn't help but sneer, "Who can Thinking of a group of robbers is quite motivated!"

Lu Sheng wanted to laugh, but before he laughed out loud, he wanted to make a fool of himself: "Guess, who is the teacher who was captured by the robbers?!"

(End of this chapter)