Thief Emperor

Chapter 50 The bandits are determined!

After Li Yun shouted loudly, Li Zheng rushed into the smoke without saying a word, covering his nose.

He was very nimble and quickly ran to Li Yun in the smoke. After taking a look at Guo Dianshi lying on the ground, Li Zheng stepped forward and kicked him again. Then he looked up at Li Yun and gave him a thumbs up.

But when he opened his mouth to speak, he shouted fiercely: "What a traitor! How dare you kill an official of the imperial court!"

After shouting, he looked at Li Yun's arm again and asked in a low voice: "Second brother, are you okay?"

Li Yun shook his head slightly.

He was very sensible. It was just a flesh wound. With his physique, he would be fully recovered in a few days.

Soon, more yamen runners rushed in. After seeing Guo Dianshi lying on the ground, they quickly pulled him out of the smoke.

After the thick smoke cleared, everyone looked at Guo Dianshi lying in a pool of blood, and looked up at Li Yun and asked, "Boss, what should we do now?"

"Dianshi Guo is an upright official of the imperial court."

Li Yun wrapped a white cloth around his arm, hung up his "injured" left arm, and ordered: "You, lift up the body of Guo Dianshi and go with me to see Cao Sima!"

Guo Han was a bit fat to begin with, and he had already died, so it was even more difficult to lift him up. Two people simply couldn't lift him, so Li Dadu directly ordered six people to come and carry Guo Dianshi's body together.

There were only ten officials from Qingyang, including Li Dadu himself. Seven of them left at once, and a big hole immediately appeared in the "defense line" to the east of Hexi Village. At this moment, Meng Chong and others just rushed out of this gap. Dozens of people fled in all directions and disappeared into the night.

Li Yun brought Guo Dianshi's body to Cao Rong, then bowed and said, "Cao, Dianshi Guo was fighting with the bandit leader, the bandit was fierce, and he was unfortunately killed!"

Cao Rong first looked at Guo Han lying in front of him, then looked up at Li Yun and frowned, "Are you from... Qingyang County? Why do you have a strange accent?"

Li Dadutou looked calm and said, "Sima, although I am from Qingyang, I grew up in the north, so I have a northern accent."

Cao Rong didn't think much about it, and he never imagined that this seemingly innocent young captain was cursing him harshly with dirty words from another world.

He looked at Guo Han's body and said in a muffled voice: "How could a group of villagers kill the county magistrate first and then the registrar!"

"Why don't you protect Dianshi Guo!"

"Sima Cao."

Li Yun pointed at his arm and said, "In order to protect Dianshi Guo, I got my arm chopped off by those rebels. If it was a little worse, my arm would have been lost in Hexi Village! Let's talk about it later."

"We are officials from Qingyang, not officials from Shidai. If anyone wants to protect Guo Dianshi, it should be the officials from Shidai who should do it. It has nothing to do with us."

Cao Sima's face darkened and he shouted angrily, "How dare you talk to me like that!"

Li Yun's face was dark, and he was about to explode and kill the man in front of him with a knife, but for the sake of the overall situation, he forced himself to suppress his anger. After rolling his eyes, he forced a stiff smile on his face.

"I come from the underworld, so I spoke rashly. Please don't blame me, Sima Cao."

He looked at Cao Rong and continued, "I don't know where Sima Cao lives. I will bring some gifts to apologize to Sima Cao some other day."

Cao Rong was short-sighted and greedy. He glanced at Li Yun and didn't care about it. He said calmly, "You know the rules."

"If you are interested, you can find out where I live."

Li Yun raised his head and glanced at Cao Rong, thinking to himself.

Yes, I will definitely find out!
"All right."

Cao Sima frowned and said, "Take this unlucky and filthy thing out and hand it over to the Shidai County Government for processing."

"Then continue to guard Hexi Village. The soldiers from the state will arrive later, and then you will do whatever you need to do."

Li Yun did not say anything, but clasped his fists, turned and left, and had Guo Han carried out.

He did not take any action against him but just put him aside, and then called the only surviving official of Shidai County Government, County Magistrate Liu He.

Apart from him, the county magistrate, chief clerk and registrar of Shidai County had all died in the turmoil. However, if one were to look closely, two of the three county-level officials who died in the battle of Shidai County were killed by Li Yun.

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When Li Yun and his subordinates returned to the east of Hexi Village, Cao Rong and Governor Tian had already discovered that some Hexi villagers had fled. So, these two big men in the state hurriedly ordered the soldiers who had just arrived to hunt down these escaped Hexi rebels.

Li Yun and others were still guarding near Hexi Village. Li Dutou sat on a big rock, looked at his subordinates around him, and said, "Brothers, the villagers of Hexi Village must have practiced martial arts, and their skills are very strong. I have been injured by them."

"We still have to stay here for another night. We are brothers, so I will be honest with you."

Li Yun whispered, "This mission is for Shidai, not Qingyang, but our lives are our own. Just pretend to handle the mission. Tomorrow morning, our brothers' affairs will be settled. When we return to Qingyang, I will take you out for a drink!"

These words played exactly what the yamen runners wanted.

But they know how powerful Li Yun is!

Our captain led his men to wipe out two mountain strongholds, and he himself was unharmed!
But now, he was injured at the hands of these rebels, which shows how powerful they are. Naturally, they dare not go up and risk their lives against such a powerful figure.

So, everyone agreed with a smile.

Li Yun waved his hand and asked them to go back to work. Li Zheng stayed beside Li Yun and whispered, "Why do you want to hurt yourself, second brother? If it doesn't work, let's kill a few useless officials and go back to the village to be our own mountain kings!"

Li Yun shook his head and motioned Li Zheng to sit down.

After the latter sat down, Li said slowly: "You saw that the Shidai County Government Office was breached by a group of villagers from Hexi Village. You looked down on the government office, didn't you?"

Seeing that Li Zheng was silent, Li Dutou said slowly: "You also saw those soldiers who came from the state just now. Let alone the other troops of the court, if these two hundred soldiers alone climbed up Cangshan Mountain, our entire camp would be wiped out immediately."

"It's hard to say whether you and I can survive. Even if we survive, we will have to live on the run for the rest of our lives."

"Officials, if we beat the small ones, the big ones will come. If we clear out these soldiers in the state, there will be tens of thousands of soldiers coming to cause trouble for us."

"So, don't be impatient."

Mr. Li looked at the wound on his arm and said slowly, "It's just a minor flesh wound. It can dispel the suspicion of the government, so it's a very cost-effective deal."

"Skinny monkey."

Li Yun shouted.

Li Zheng, who was thinking, quickly responded and said, "Second brother, you say."

"Tomorrow, we will set off back to Qingyang. I will go to the county town first. You go back to the village and tell Liu Bo to start buying land in my name."

"Buying land?"

Li Zheng scratched his head: "Second brother, we are bandits, why do we buy land? Do we have to farm the land ourselves?"

Mr. Li narrowed his eyes and said, "You don't understand. Since ancient times, people with a lot of land never farmed the land themselves."

"We have to do this in our village, but if we want to expand the village, we need to have some visible business."

"The Zheng family in Qingyang owns tens of thousands of acres of land. They also built a farm and raised hundreds of farmhands."

"In the future, we can also build a manor and have some public identity."

Li Zheng looked around and asked in a low voice: "Second brother, do you... not want to be a bandit anymore?"

“Originally, I was thinking about this question as well.”

Li Dazhaizhu clenched his fist and said, "But after what I have seen and heard in Shidai these days, I have to kill this bandit!"

He sneered, "Without some bandit tactics, we will be bullied like Hexi Village, and I'm afraid we may not even be able to buy the land!"

(End of this chapter)