Starting from the imperial palace guards, his clones spread all over the world.

Chapter 407: Blame me if things don’t work out?

The night was as dark as ink. Meng Wei's hand, carrying a fierce gust of wind, was about to grab Liang Jin's shoulder. The air seemed to be torn apart by this fierce force.

At this critical moment.

Yan Sanniang frowned and tried to stop him again, her voice urgent and firm:
"Meng Wei, don't hurt innocent people!"

But at this moment, Meng Wei was determined to give Liang Jin a warning, so how could he give up just because of Yan Sanniang's obstruction?

His face was gloomy, and a hint of fierceness flashed in his eyes. He moved nimbly and cleverly avoided Yan Sanniang's obstruction.

Yan Sanniang obviously didn't expect Meng Wei to dodge suddenly, and her block missed, and she almost stumbled forward a few steps due to inertia.

Meng Wei missed his first attack and was about to attack again. His hand, which was ready to strike, reached out towards Liang Jin again.

However, at this critical moment, a burst of rapid horse hooves suddenly rang out, breaking the tense atmosphere.

The rider galloped towards them with all his might, shouting anxiously:

"Yan Sanniang! Something bad has happened!"

"The team transporting the official silver is here!"

"They are only two miles to the east now. They will reach the village soon!"

This news was like a bombshell, exploding in the crowd in an instant. Everyone was stunned, with expressions of shock and surprise on their faces.

Even Meng Wei, who was about to take action, subconsciously stopped his hand that was reaching out to grab Liang Jin in mid-air, his eyes full of astonishment.

Yan Sanniang couldn't help but exclaimed:

"Why so fast?"

Obviously, the other party's arrival speed far exceeded her expectations, which left them with very little time to prepare, not even enough time to set up mechanisms and traps.

Yan Sanniang was indeed the backbone of the group. She quickly calmed down and decisively ordered:

"Send the people who helped us transport the goods to the hillside and hide them there."

"The rest of you who know martial arts, quickly follow me and make arrangements."

As she spoke, she straightened her back and spoke loudly to everyone:
"Everyone, remember this time, we're not doing this for ourselves, but for the countless people of Changzhou!"

"The imperial court had already distributed disaster relief funds, but those corrupt officials embezzled them, causing countless people in Changzhou to become homeless and some even die in the famine."

"We've received intelligence that those corrupt officials will be transporting this batch of disaster relief silver through here tonight, delivering it to their underground bank."

"And tonight, we are going to rob this batch of silver and distribute it to all the people affected by the disaster!"

"Brothers, if this is accomplished, I, Yan Sanniang, will be endlessly grateful to you all!"

After hearing Yan Sanniang's passionate words, the blood in their hearts was instantly ignited. They immediately raised their weapons and shouted in unison to express their full support for Yan Sanniang.

Following Yan Sanniang's order, everyone immediately took action.

For a moment, the entire deserted village was filled with noise, with footsteps and shouts intertwined into a chaotic mess.

Liang Jin and the other two stood quietly by the window of the house.

They could clearly see everything happening outside through the window.

Things had developed to this point, so naturally the three of them couldn't sleep peacefully. They could only watch this good show with great interest.

Unexpectedly, Liang Jin guessed right. The deserted village where they stayed overnight was actually the place where Yan Sanniang and her group planned to rob the government silver.

But, what they wanted to rob was actually the embezzled disaster relief funds?

The more Liang Jin listened, the more suspicious he felt about the matter.

"Brother, what are we going to do?"

Lei Zhen asked, his voice filled with a hint of anxiety and curiosity.

Liang Jin looked calm and answered calmly:

"Let them grab it first. If they can't get it, we will grab it later."

"If they snatch it, we'll take action based on the situation."

Although something was wrong, Liang Jin currently had too little information to make an effective judgment.

If this is really a trap, Liang Jin and others can handle it.

at this time.

Following a low cry from outside, Yan Sanniang and her group quickly hid themselves.

The entire deserted village seemed to be shrouded in an invisible net of silence, and instantly fell into darkness and silence.

It was as if nothing had ever happened here, with only the occasional sound of wind blowing gently, making people's heartbeats unconsciously quicken.

On the road in the distance, a group of people were seen slowly marching towards this side.

The team was huge, with at least three hundred people and more than ten carriages alone.

Each carriage was carrying a large wooden box. Under the cover of night, these wooden boxes seemed to hide endless secrets.

If these wooden boxes were filled with silver, there would probably be tens of millions of taels. Such a huge amount of wealth would make anyone excited.

The people escorting these carriages were all dressed as officers and soldiers. They marched in unison, and the weapons in their hands gleamed coldly in the moonlight.

A group of people came towards this side in a mighty manner. The sound of horse hooves and wheels rolling intertwined, breaking the tranquility of the night.

With the appearance of this group of officers and soldiers, a vague murderous intent began to spread in this deserted village, like the oppression before a storm.

When the troops approached, Liang Jin and the other two could see more details.

Lei Zhen, who was experienced in the martial arts world, spoke immediately, with a hint of caution in his voice:
"Brother, why do I feel something is wrong?"

Liang Jin also frowned slightly and pondered:
"I'm afraid Yan Sanniang and her group have been deceived."

"It's either a decoy or a conspiracy."

Liang Jin saw clearly that the ruts left by the carriage were very shallow, and it didn't look like there was any heavy object on the carriage at all.

The large wooden boxes carried on the carriage were probably all empty.

In addition, there are also problems with this group of officers and soldiers.

Among the officers and soldiers, the leading officer with the highest martial arts skills was only of the seventh rank.

Among the soldiers, there are few warriors, and most of them are just ordinary people.

How could such a team possibly undertake the task of transporting official silver?

As the soldiers approached the deserted village, the expressions on their faces became nervous and fearful, as if they already knew what was going to happen here. They took every step very carefully, for fear of triggering some mechanism.

As they entered the center of the deserted village.

"Kill!!!"

Following a cry of killing.

Yan Sanniang, Ji Yan and Meng Wei led a group of ambushing warriors and rushed out like a tiger descending from the mountain.

The scene suddenly became chaotic, with shouts and sounds of weapons clashing intertwined and deafening.

The group of officers and soldiers turned around and fled without hesitation. Their figures looked particularly embarrassed in the night.

This resulted in the battle to rob the government silver ending quickly before it even began.

The officers and soldiers fled in panic, disappearing without a trace.

The warriors' targets were the carriages and wooden boxes. After they defeated the officers and soldiers, they did not pursue them rashly.

Therefore, this operation of robbing official silver was extremely smooth, so smooth that it was hard to believe.

After everything was over, Yan Sanniang took stock of the battle situation and found that no one on her side had died, and only a few were injured.

Meng Wei couldn't help but sigh:

"This time the intelligence is really accurate! There really aren't any experts among these officers and soldiers."

"We easily seized this batch of official silver."

Meng Wei was elated and ready to call over the hired laborers to disperse and transport the official silver, his face brimming with triumphant joy. However, someone noticed something was amiss.

Ji Yan couldn't help but say:

"This time, it went too smoothly."

"It even went so smoothly... a little unusually."

Yan Sanniang also had the same feeling. Her brows furrowed slightly, and an ominous premonition surged in her heart.

She walked straight to the big wooden box on the carriage and opened it with both hands.

Everyone hurriedly gathered around and looked into the wooden box.

The next second, they were all stunned, and the smiles on their faces froze instantly.

The wooden box was empty. There was no so-called official silver at all. There was only the empty inner walls of the wooden box, as if silently mocking their naiveté.

Seeing this, Meng Wei couldn't help but exclaimed:

"Where is this... the government silver for disaster relief?"

"Quick! Someone come and open all the wooden boxes!"

"We must find all the government silver used for disaster relief!"

The other warriors woke up as if from a dream, and hurried forward to open all the wooden boxes on the carriage.

However, each wooden box was empty, and there was no so-called official silver at all.

At this moment, everyone was dumbfounded, with shock and confusion written all over their faces.

"What's going on... there's no money at all!"

"Have we fallen into a trap? This must be a government plot!"

"What should we do now? Should we run away?"

……

Everyone was panicked for a moment, like ants on a hot pan, at a loss, and their voices were filled with fear and despair.

Even Yan Sanniang was confused at this time, with confusion and helplessness in her eyes.

In the house, Liang Jin and the other two watched all this quietly.

Lei Zhen couldn't help but whispered:

"Is this convoy a decoy? To lure these warriors out and annihilate them in one fell swoop?"

"But...if the soldiers really knew the warriors were hiding in this deserted village, they could have just surrounded them. Would they have resorted to such a stunt?"

"Even if someone really set up an ambush to ensure this, shouldn't it be time to close the net by now?"

Lei Zhen was obviously also a little confused and puzzled.

Liang Jinze has been carefully sensing his surroundings.

He was very sure that there was no sign of large-scale human activity near the deserted village.

This made him sigh:
"What a familiar method."

At that time, Hei Zao Village and Liang Jin and his group robbed the new prefect's food.

Yet the new magistrate reported ten times the loss, and the reason is self-evident.

In the Western Desert, Liang Jin's clone also encountered this situation.

The silver in the Western Desert Treasury had long been embezzled, resulting in a serious deficit. In order to make up for the deficit, the officials deliberately let the Liu family army escort the silver back to Daqian. As a result, they discovered halfway that the so-called silver was all stones.

Those corrupt officials not only sold the marching intelligence of the Liu family army to the enemy, but also caused the enemy to besiege the Liu family army.

But who would have thought that the Liu family army, with their bravery, successfully broke through and returned to Daqian. However, after entering Daqian, they mutinied for unknown reasons and were subsequently regarded as rebels and wiped out by the Daqian army.

And the situation today is so similar.

When the government silver was stolen by bandits, the bandits became the scapegoats.

As for the whereabouts of this real official silver, it is likely that it has already flowed into the pockets of certain people.

Of course, all this is just Liang Jin's guess.

He was too lazy to delve into the specific truth.

Liang Jin couldn't help but feel a pang of bitterness and emotion in his heart, and sighed softly:
"In a year of great disaster, there will be great thieves."

In these difficult times when disasters were rampant, thieves could be roughly divided into two categories.

One type is the bandits who live in the mountains and forests and make a living by robbing and looting. They take advantage of the people's hardship and social unrest to plunder at will, bringing more suffering to the people who are already struggling to survive.

The other type is corrupt officials who are high up in the political arena, hold power but are extremely greedy and frantically amass wealth. They abuse their power for personal gain, pocketing the people's hard-earned money and life-saving money for their own benefit.

These two types of thieves, one secret and one open, one in the remote underworld and one in the high court, have both brought heavy disasters to the world.

Taken together, it is this heartbreaking man-made disaster.

"It's just a farce."

"Okay, let's rest early."

Liang Jin shook his head slightly and said to Lei Zhen and Xiao Liu.

He knew in his heart that if everything was as he guessed, he should be able to sleep well tonight.

After all, the masterminds behind the embezzlement of disaster relief funds would never take action against Yan Sanniang and her gang of warriors so quickly.

They would definitely report the robbery of the disaster relief funds to the imperial court first, and after obtaining a legitimate arrest warrant, they would openly surround and kill Yan Sanniang and others to cover up their crimes.

Once the culprit dies, this matter will be resolved.

The three of them then tidied up a bit in the house, preparing to have a good rest and dispel the fatigue of the journey.

However, they wanted to rest, but others were not going to let them go easily.

at this time.

Meng Wei outside turned his gaze and looked fiercely at the house where Liang Jin and his group lived.

With his eyes wide open, he strode to the door of the house with great momentum and roared at the top of his voice:
"You three bastards in there, get out of here!"

Meng Wei's sudden action made everyone confused. They looked at each other, not knowing what he was going to do.

Even Yan Sanniang couldn't help but step forward and ask:
"Meng Wei, what are you doing?"

Meng Wei's face was filled with anger, and he explained plausibly:
"The intelligence we received was correct, but the disaster relief money disappeared out of thin air. And these three guys just happened to show up here tonight. How could such a coincidence happen?"

"So the problem must be with these three guys!"

"I must find out their identities and force them to tell me the whereabouts of the disaster relief money!"

What Meng Wei said sounded far-fetched and illogical.

But now the disaster relief funds are indeed nowhere to be found. Everyone is anxious and uneasy, and they urgently need an outlet to vent their anger and find the most likely "culprit".

Immediately, many warriors stood beside Meng Wei under his instigation.

Some people even quickly surrounded the houses and were on high alert to prevent Liang Jin and the other two from escaping.

Yan Sanniang was just about to speak again to persuade Meng Wei to calm down.

Sudden.

But Liang Jin and the other two were already walking out of the house steadily.

As soon as Liang Jin appeared, he seemed to be surrounded by an invisible aura, which was like a huge rock dropped into a calm lake, causing everyone to subconsciously turn their heads and focus their eyes on him.

"Which bastard is yelling?"

Liang Jin's voice was low, as if wrapped in the frost of December, slowly dispersing in the air.

He narrowed his eyes slightly, his face as gloomy as water, and looked at Meng Wei.

(End of this chapter)