Volume 2: A sudden change in the prison, a red-clothed man goes out to find a thief Chapter 197: Wada Mamoru's Decision
"Bandits?" Li Si swallowed the food in his mouth, glanced at Xiao Cao, picked up a piece of boiled meat and rolled it in the sauce, and asked in confusion.
"Why are they coming to Mingzhou City instead of Yangzhou City?"
Although the two places are not far apart, Yangzhou City, as a major commercial center, is definitely not as rich as a small city like Mingzhou City. It is true that Mingzhou City is close to the coast, but the maritime trade is not yet developed. Potential is potential, and reality is reality. For now, in the eyes of most people, Mingzhou City is just a remote and poor place.
Li Si thought that any smart thief would go further north and rob the wealthy merchants in Yangzhou City instead of the common people in Mingzhou City. After all, a casual comparison would reveal the difference between the two places. Stealing a team of carriages of a wealthy merchant would probably earn more than the money and goods he could get from robbing the roads in Mingzhou City for a year.
"That's why I say they are weird." Xiao Cao leaned over the table, looked around at everyone and said, "And I heard that not only do they do things weird, but also what they say, what they wear, and even what they steal are weird."
"What's so strange about this? Aren't bandits just robbing some valuables?" Hao Dayou said nonchalantly as he picked up a steamed bun and took a bite.
Zhang Susu sat at the table and tapped the edge of the bowl in front of her with her chopsticks anxiously.
"But since there are bandits, don't leave the city these days until the government has dealt with it. Xiao Si, you too, no matter how good your martial arts are, you should be careful. After all, two fists cannot beat four hands. When there are too many people, there will always be places you can't pay attention to."
"Okay, I'll listen to the shopkeeper." Li Si nodded without any hesitation and stuffed the meat slices dipped in sauce into his mouth. He never explained how many people he could beat.
Zhang Susu and the others are ordinary people and have little idea of what it means to be a man of the underworld. This is probably one of the reasons why they are willing to keep him.
"Yeah." Zhang Susu has always been very satisfied with Li Si's performance. If everyone in the store could be as obedient as him, she wouldn't have to work so hard.
The strange old man blinked his eyes and controlled the puppet to pick up food for him. He is a vegetarian and does not eat meat.
"No, please listen to me first." Seeing that everyone was about to skip this topic, Xiao Cao quickly spoke again.
"That group of bandits is really strange. They are dressed in strange clothes, speaking in a language no one can understand, and holding weapons in their hands that are hard to tell whether they are knives or swords. Just yesterday, Old Man Lu from the neighboring village was robbed when he entered the city. Do you know what he was robbed of?"
Xiao Cao always likes to gossip. It's a rare opportunity to have something to gossip about, so naturally he won't let it go easily.
Everyone knew her habit, so they could only sigh and cooperate with her in asking.
"What?"
Thinking that he had aroused everyone's interest, Xiao Cao smiled mysteriously, held up two fingers and said.
"Two dry biscuits."
There was silence at the table for a while, and then everyone went back to eating their own meals.
"Hey, don't worry. Aren't two dry biscuits just a thing?" Xiao Cao waved his hands on the table in frustration.
"And there were even stranger things before. Uncle Wang, who was selling candied haws in the West Village, had a whole candied haws stolen from him. Aunt Li in the South Village had a basket of freshly washed clothes stolen from her. And vegetables were always lost from the vegetable fields in the North Village for no reason."
"What a trivial matter." Hao Dayou picked up a piece of meat for Xiaohe and another piece for himself, wrapped them in the steamed bun, took one bite into his mouth, and said vaguely.
"You just don't have enough work to do, so you have time to inquire about these things. Shopkeeper, I'll apply to give her some more work to do."
"I think it's okay." Zhang Susu also nodded seriously.
"No." Xiao Cao looked around and felt that he was wronged: "After all, they were robbing with a knife. How can you say it's not a big deal?"
"Xiao Cao is right about that." Lao Luo looked at the book at this time and expressed his opinion lightly: " Don't do evil even if it's small, and don't refrain from doing good even if it's small."
"Look." Xiao Cao immediately pointed at Lao Luo and said, "Lao Luo is still fair."
Judging from his appearance, he obviously wants to get Lao Luo and himself into the same team.
Lao Luo glanced at her lightly and continued reading without saying anything.
The ancients said it well: A gentleman does not stand under a dangerous wall. He thought it would be better for him to remain silent for now.
"Boss!" Seeing that he had no chance of winning, Xiao Cao immediately lay down beside Zhang Susu and begged for mercy.
The table was in a mess, Xiao He wisely did not join in, and moved closer to Li Si, asking in a low voice : "Brother Si, I always feel warm under my stomach recently, is it time to cultivate inner energy?"
"Oh?" Li Si smiled and glanced at him, seeming a little surprised: "Then it will be almost there. When you have cultivated your inner breath, I will teach you the next formula."
"Really?" Xiao He clenched her fist excitedly, then grabbed her hair and looked at Li Si and said.
"Thank you, Brother Si."
"It's okay, just some basic martial arts."
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In Qianjialou, a dinner was lively. However, on the deck of a long ship at the seaside of Mingzhou City, the atmosphere was cold and quiet.
The sea breeze was whimpering, and He Tianshou was sitting alone on the bow, chewing on a small piece of dry biscuit, his face was pale. The waves were surging, and the sound of ups and downs was accompanied by the gentle rocking of the boat.
Yesterday, he couldn't do it again.
He and his brothers surrounded an old man driving an ox cart into the city. He wanted to kill the old man, steal the ox, and then steal the goods on the cart. He killed the ox to give his brothers a good meal, and took the goods to exchange for some silver.
But when he saw the old man kneeling on the ground begging for mercy, he softened his heart. After all, he was a samurai, and the teachings he had received since childhood did not allow him to do so. Moreover, this old man reminded him of Miss Caizi's father. So he took the two dry biscuits in the old man's arms and let the old man go.
Recently, the food on the boat was almost gone, so he would take his brothers to the nearby villages to steal vegetables from time to time.
He also heard some complaints from his brothers, basically saying that they came here from thousands of miles away not to do these things.
Of course, Wada-no-kami knew this. They abandoned their families and everything they had before and came here in order to earn enough money and then return to Wada.
"Huh." He let out a long breath, then Hetian Shou stuffed half of the biscuit into his mouth at once, chewed it with big mouthfuls of his mouth puffed out, and looked up to think.
This can't go on any longer, he has to do something big, and he's going to do it tomorrow.
He wanted to let his brothers see his determination and take them into the city to rob.
