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The monkey automatically filtered out the girl's big belly: "I've thought about it. [oM] But the injury was really serious at the time. It took me half a year to heal the injury, thanks to the care of the villagers. Later, when the grain in the fields was ripe, I saw it with my own eyes. It's indeed a bit outrageous to have bandits and soldiers plunder. The soldiers here are no different from bandits. They will basically come to rob the food every time it is ripe."
Niu Youdao could understand his mood and knew that Monkey was a member of the special forces and had some kind of complex. And if I hadn't unintentionally helped Monkey's widowed old woman to take care of her and see her for medical treatment before she died, I'm afraid Monkey wouldn't have defected to someone like him. After all, he was a person from a different path. Monkey and him were purely unfilial and owed money to his mother. things, and then gradually formed a brotherhood.
"Later, I thought that I might not be able to find you outside. I guessed that sooner or later you would have to come back to the village to have a look. Just like you said you wanted to come back to repay the favor, I decided to wait for you here. And I also want to return the favor to the village. In order to prevent them from being robbed repeatedly, I left the villagers to organize training. Also, my physical condition is not very good, so I have taken advantage of these years to exercise my body. Otherwise, the world is so chaotic and I would not be safe if I ran out. If something happens to you, you don’t even know how you died.”
Niu Youdao nodded. They both understood each other. It seemed inevitable that they would meet again.
"What about you?" Monkey looked at Shang Chaozong and others, "What's going on? He came with you, but he doesn't seem to be very friendly to you."
"Ha!" Niu Youdao looked back, then thought of leaving those people alone and patted the monkey on the back, "Here, let me introduce them to you."
Taking the monkey over, Niu Youdao introduced Shang Chaozong and others, and then introduced the monkey, "This is my good brother, his name is..." He scratched his head and turned around to ask the monkey, "What is your name?" I forgot to ask him what his name is now.
Lan Ruoting and others' jaws almost dropped. Hello brother, you don't know what your name is? Your friendship is obviously extraordinary. Is there anyone who would tell lies like this? This person sent by the Shangqing Sect is a bit unreasonable!
The monkey glanced at everyone calmly, "Yuan Gang!"
"Oh! Yes, Yuan Gang, I have been away from the village for so long that I have forgotten your name." Niu Youdao turned around and smiled awkwardly at everyone: "My memory is not very good."
Whether everyone believes this is another matter, but they are all looking at Yuan Gang carefully. Their eyes subconsciously noticed that Yuan Gang was tied to the dagger on his forearm and thigh. He was dressed like a villager in a mountain den, but his temperament was obviously different. It was obvious in his eyes that he didn't take them seriously.
It would be strange if ordinary villagers in the mountains wouldn't tremble with fear when seeing their lineup. How could they be so calm? Your Majesty! Don’t you know what a prince is? Shang Chaozong and others looked at each other and couldn't help but wonder, are all the people from this village such a virtuous people
Thinking of this, they became a little curious and really wanted to see what kind of village this was.
"Tell your people not to move around, otherwise don't blame me for being rude!" Yuan Gang stared at Shang Chaozong and warned coldly.
The guard next to Shang Chaozong suddenly looked angry and was about to burst into anger, but Shang Chaozong stretched out his hand to stop him.
Yuan Gang gave the guard a contemptuous look, turned around, dug two fingers into his mouth, and whistled loudly, "Shh!"
There was immediate movement in the forest nearby, and five or six young men ran out one after another. They approached the place with a vigilant look on their faces, obviously afraid of the officers and soldiers.
Lan Ruoting and others looked at each other again and felt that this reaction was like that of villagers.
"Brother Gangzi, what is this?" a young man in the lead tried to ask.
Yuan Gang pointed at Niu Youdao and said: "Da Bang, go back and tell the village that Niu Youdao is back. I won't go back. I will go with him. In the future, you will follow my instructions and look after the house. There should be no problems." What's the problem?" Without asking for Niu Youdao's opinion, he directly made the decision for Niu Youdao and did not return to the village!
Niu Youdao nodded slightly and smiled at a few people. He understood what Yuan Gang meant. He didn't want outsiders to run into the village to explore the inside of the village. As for following him, that was the right thing to do.
"Niu Youdao?" Da Bang was stunned for a moment, staring at Niu Youdao and looking up and down, then suddenly said with surprise on his face: "Ah! Brother Dao, it's really you. You have become rich. Brother Gangzi doesn't mention it. I can’t even recognize you. Brother Dao, I’m a big stick, the big stick that I used to play with behind your back!”
"And me, I am fierce!"
"Brother Dao, my little dog..."
"My dear, Brother Dao, where have you been all these years? You disappeared at that time, and people were looking for you everywhere in the village. Later, some people came to the village to inquire about you, and some people saw you in the city..."
Several young men gathered around, shouting and shouting, looking extremely happy.
Someone came to the village to inquire? Has anyone in the village seen me in the city? Niu Youdao was stunned for a moment, and then he probably guessed something. He laughed loudly, stretched out his hand and pointed at all the young people who came close to him, "Big Stick, Mengzi, Couple..." Anyway, he introduced them by their names. He ordered them all over and said, "I remember, I almost drowned when I went fishing in the river with Da Wan..." Anyway, he didn't know any of them, so he just talked about things that a boy from a mountain village might do.
Yuan Gang twitched the corner of his mouth and realized that the Taoist was still the same Taoist!
Dawan nodded cheerfully and said: "Yes, yes!" But in his heart, he was wondering, did he touch the fish and almost drown it
"Brother Dao, why don't you go check out the village when you come back? Brother Gangzi said you were leaving, where are you going?" Dabang asked curiously, not realizing at all what Yuan Gang meant by leaving. In my mind, people in this village can’t go very far.
Yuan Gang: "Go and see the outside world, don't ask so many questions."
It can be seen that Yuan Gang is quite prestigious among a group of young people. When he said this, everyone stopped asking.
Da Bang scratched his head and said, "Brother Gangzi, take us out together to have a look."
"It's chaos outside. Staying in the village and living a good life is better than anything else. We'll talk about the rest later depending on the situation." Yuan Gang said something and turned back to Niu Youdao: "Do you have money?"
Niu Youdao raised his chin towards his horse, "Baoli, I'm about to send it to the village."
Yuan Gang walked over, reached into the package, pulled out a money bag, shook it in his hands, and made a clattering sound. When I walked back and opened the money bag, I saw a pile of money, silver coins, and copper coins. The gold and silver all looked like cast copper coins. Most of them were money, and they were dazzling.
"Wow!" Several boys had never seen so much money before. They gathered around and wanted to touch it. It was like seeing money.
Yuan Gang pulled the rope at the mouth of the money bag, tied it tightly, threw it to the big stick, and reminded: "Give this money to a few old people in the village for collective safekeeping, and tell them that although there is a lot of money, don't use it to buy random things." , there is war and chaos outside, and exposing wealth can easily bring trouble to the village. Only things that are urgently needed or must be bought can be used, remember?"
Hearing this, Lan Ruoting and the other three looked at each other again, looking at Yuan Gang with even more interest.
Niu Youdao also nodded and said: "Well, if you spend it arbitrarily, don't blame me for asking the village to pay you back later. My money is also hard-earned. It is to solve problems, not to spend it arbitrarily."
Several young men nodded repeatedly, patted their chests with a big stick and said: "Brother Dao, don't worry, we know it's not easy to make money. You are willing to give so much money to the village out of kindness. You can't spend it arbitrarily. We will make it clear when we go back." "
Niu Youdao chuckled: "That's good."
Yuan Gang waved his hand and said: "Okay, let's all go back."
His words were quite effective. The young men followed his words and walked back, waving their hands, "Brother Gangzi, Brother Dao, we are going back first. You should go back early!"
Niu Youdao smiled and waved, while Yuan Gang stood still and watched.
When the person disappeared, Yuan Gang turned to Niu Youdao and said, "Let's go!"
Lan Ruoting, who was sitting on horseback, smiled and said, "Brother Yuan, can you ride a horse?"
Niu Youdao turned around and said cheerfully: "Not to mention riding a horse, he can also drive airplanes and tanks."
"Plane? Tank?"
Lan Ruoting, Shang Chaozong, and Shang Shuqing said in unison, and were dumbfounded together. They looked at each other and looked at each other. The three of them looked at me and I looked at you. They thought they had heard wrong. Only when they looked at the confused looks of the others did they know they had heard right. .
"What are airplanes and tanks?" Shang Shuqing asked.
Yuan Gang looked cold and showed no reaction.
Niu Youdao also realized that he had let something slip. He chuckled and said, "You don't like things from the countryside, so it's okay not to say anything."
"It's true that we are ignorant." Shang Shuqing said regretfully. Seeing that others didn't want to mention it more, she didn't ask any more questions.
Lan Ruoting sent his chin towards the end of the mountain road, "Since Master has returned to his hometown, why don't you go back and have a look?"
Yuan Gang, who didn't want to talk to them, said coldly, "Every time the officers and soldiers come, they have to enter the village and loot it. Countryside people don't want to see such a big scene."
Several people heard the meaning of his words. Lan Ruoting and Shang Chaozong looked a little solemn, not because they were angry at these words, but because they could fully understand this sentence. Not to mention the past, only this time, along the way, I have seen many miserable situations like what Yuan Gang mentioned.
But the guards around Shang Chaozong were angry. They pointed their whips at Yuan Gang and shouted: "How bold! How could the prince..."
Yuan Gang squinted his eyes coldly, and Shang Chaozong hummed, signaling the man to shut up.
Seeing that the commotion was a bit embarrassing, Niu Youdao hurriedly smoothed things over and said: "The main reason is that I don't want to delay the prince's schedule because of some personal matters. It doesn't matter if I don't go, it doesn't matter."
Shang Chaozong turned around and said, "Give brother Yuan a horse!" It was obvious that in his first impression, he had a more favorable impression of Yuan Gang than Niu Youdao. The reason is very simple. He saw the temperament of Yingyang Wei and Wu Liewei from Yuan Gang at a glance, and he looked close to them both. However, this Niu Youdao did not say a word of truth and did not look like a good person.
Someone soon untied a mount from behind. Yuan Gang took the reins and climbed onto the horse with a clean and neat movement.
Lan Ruoting and others obviously paid attention and saw that Yuan Gang was not like ordinary villagers in the mountains and had considerable experience in driving horses.
Shang Chaozong made a gesture, and a group of people stopped and continued to move forward. The rear team changed to the front team and returned. ,.