What an idiot!
Chen Sanshi cursed inwardly, turned around and saw a man and a deer approaching from a distance, and whispered hurriedly, "Here they come!"
He pushed Chen Luzi and said, "Hurry up and pick up your stuff! Let's knock Jiang Sanlang out first, and then take the deer away."
Butcher Xiong clung to the bamboo and peeked out, "Where's that kid? Was he knocked unconscious too?"
He was worried that if he hit the kid with the stick, his head would be smashed.
Chen Sanshi rolled his eyes at him and said, "Why are you knocking on her? She's just a kid. If you stuff her mouth shut with something and sell her in the county town, she should be worth a few taels of silver."
It's just a bastard, even if it's gone, the Jiang family won't care much.
As for why he didn't just kill Jiang Sanlang and put an end to it, Chen Sanshi had his own considerations.
Killing someone is not the same as stealing a deer.
Killing someone would result in the death penalty, but stealing a deer would not be a big deal as long as you and your friends were not discovered.
Chen Sanshi wanted money, but he didn't want to pay for someone's life.
Tu Xiong nodded and quickly wrapped his head and face with the thick cloth he had prepared, leaving only his eyes exposed.
Turning around, I saw that Chen Sanshi and Chen Lu'er had also covered their heads and faces, holding wooden sticks in their hands and crouching as they walked out.
Tu Xiong was a little excited and felt that doing this kind of thing was very exciting. At this moment, he felt like hunting in the mountains, waiting for the opportunity to strike his prey. The blood in his chest was boiling and full of excitement.
Outside the bamboo forest, Jiang Sanlang paused and whispered to his daughter, "Bao'er, don't leave yet. Let's turn around and go back to town."
As long as he goes back to town, he can find a few acquaintances to take him and his daughter back to the village.
Yingbao saw her father's alert face and immediately understood what was going to happen.
Looking towards the bamboo forest, I saw three sneaky figures coming towards this side.
Yingbao pulled the reins and asked Youyou to turn around.
Yoyo seemed to have a telepathic connection with his little master. He immediately turned around and ran back the way he came.
Jiang Sanlang followed, looking back as he walked to determine the location of the three figures.
Chen Sanshi saw that the duck in his mouth was about to fly away, and hurriedly called out to Tu Xiong and Chen Lu'er, "They are trying to escape, hurry up, go and stop them! If you miss this opportunity, you will miss it forever."
After saying that, he rushed out first and chased after Jiang Sanlang and Yingbao.
Jiang Sanlang quickly said to his daughter, "Bao'er, hurry up! Go to the doctor's house in town! Or go to Rongji Pharmacy to find Doctor Li! Dad will stop them from behind, hurry up!"
As he said this, he slapped Yoyo hard on the butt, urging it to run faster.
Yoyo started running at a very fast speed, and in a blink of an eye he ran a long way. Yingbao turned his head to look at his father and shouted anxiously: "Dad, follow me! Dad~"
Jiang Sanlang had already turned around, axe in hand, staring at the person coming.
The three men were in front of him and started hitting him with sticks without saying a word.
The hatchet in Jiang Sanlang's hand was short, so he had to get close to the opponent to hurt him, but the sticks of the three men hit him on the head and body at once.
He dodged repeatedly but still couldn't avoid it. His head was smashed and blood was gushing out.
Jiang Sanlang was furious. He rushed towards the man who was attacking the most fiercely, grabbed the long stick in his hand and chopped him with a knife.
The man quickly retreated to avoid the blade, but the long stick in his hand had already slipped out of his hand.
"Kill him! Damn it!" Chen Sanshi cursed, "Smash him to death! I'm not afraid that the brat won't come back later!"
Tu Xiong and Chen Lu'er pressed forward, raised their sticks high, and smashed them hard on Jiang Sanlang's head.
"father!"
A shrill scream came from behind the two of them, accompanied by a sharp cold light.
With a hiss, blood splattered, and a long cut was made on Tu Xiong's back. His body stiffened and he fell down.
Another flash of cold light chopped Chen Luzi's arm, leaving a deep cut on the bone. He screamed in pain and fell to the ground with the sickle.
Chen Sanshi was stunned. Before he could see what was happening to his two companions, Jiang Sanlang slashed him on the arm.
"Ah!" Chen Sanshi screamed, hugged his arms and shouted: "Ah! Murder!" He turned around and ran.
Jiang Sanlang rushed forward and hit Chen Sanshi on the head with the handle of the knife. Chen Sanshi immediately fell to the ground and fainted.
"Baby..." Jiang Sanlang endured the dizziness, struggled to stand up, and quickly ran towards his daughter.
Yingbao, who fell off the deer, was trembling all over, with tears on her face, and the sickle in her hand was still deeply embedded in Chen Luzi's arm.
She held out her hands to her father, "Dad, Bao'er is scared."
Jiang Sanlang hugged his daughter tightly in his arms. After checking that she was not injured, he breathed a sigh of relief and whispered to comfort her: "Don't be afraid, Baoer, Daddy is here."
At this time, a donkey cart came over, and Chen Cunzheng's second son Chen Yin jumped off the shaft and hurried over.
"Sanlang, what happened? Why are you injured like this?"
He saw people fighting from afar, and there was a big deer and a little baby next to them. He knew who they were, so he drove over quickly.
Jiang Sanlang wiped the blood off his face and said, "These three men were robbing people on the road, but I beat them down."
"Robbery?" Chen Yin looked down at the three men.
All three of them had their faces covered with cloth.
Two of them huddled on the ground wailing, while the other was lying straight, his life or death unknown, with blood still flowing from his arm.
"They are robbers indeed. Let's send them to the town and let the headman try them."
Chen Yin reached out and lifted their face masks. When he saw who they were, he sneered. "What a fool."
Come to think of it, this Chen Lu'er is related to his family, but he actually did such a thing as robbery, and the people he robbed were villagers from the same village. He is simply worse than pigs and dogs.
Jiang Sanlang hugged his little girl tightly, bent down to pull the sickle off Chen Lu'er's arm, put it in his backpack, and whispered: "Be good, Bao'er, don't talk nonsense when you see others, Daddy will take care of everything."
Yingbao nodded and stuffed a handful of Wudingzhi to her father, "Dad, eat quickly."
Jiang Sanlang didn't understand why, but he still ate what his daughter put in front of him.
Yingbao applied a handful of Wudingzhi liquid on the wound on her father's head, and she felt relieved.
Just now, she had managed to drive Yoyo back with great difficulty. When she saw these people smashing sticks at her father's head, her mind went blank. She somehow rushed forward, took out a sickle from the cave and chopped them down directly.
Fortunately, Daddy was fine, otherwise, she would never let these three people go.
An hour later, the three thugs were tied up and taken to the doorstep of Sun Lizheng's house.
Sun Lizheng's face turned pale and he ordered the villagers to remove the veils from the three men.
As soon as the veil was pulled off, the onlookers were shocked.
It turned out that one of the robbers was Tu Xiong, the youngest son of the butcher Tu Da, another was Chen Sanshi, a well-known scoundrel in the town, and the other was Chen Lu'er, the only son of Chen Ergou from Xichen Village.
These three people are notorious in the town, especially Chen Sanshi and Chen Lu'er, who are always stealing and molesting the young widow, and are hated by everyone.
Sun Lizheng's white beard trembled with anger.
He didn't expect that there would be masked robbers in the area under his jurisdiction, and the robbers were local villagers. This was absolutely intolerable.
If others don’t know the truth, wouldn’t they think that your village is a den of bandits
It's okay for these bastards to steal things occasionally, after all, they are just trivial matters. As long as the people don't pursue them, he doesn't bother to pay attention.
But he would never tolerate highway robbery and the loss of life.
"Go and call the Muramasa of their village!"
Sun Lizheng shouted angrily: "Tell the village chief to bring the heads of these three households, as well as the villagers who have pledged their guaranty, all of them!"
In the village, if one person breaks the law, ten neighbors will be implicated. Today, he, the village head, will make an example of someone else.
"Yes!" Several villagers ran over to call for help.
Within an hour, a large group of people were brought over.
Tu Da's wife cried and threw herself on her son, her hands were covered in blood and she started screaming.
Sun Li looked annoyed and ordered the village guards to drag her away. He asked the three village chiefs, "These three people are from your village, right? Now they are robbing people on the road and injuring innocent people. We have witnesses and evidence. How do you decide to deal with them?"