Under the so-called reward, there must be a brave man. What's more, the Zhuang Ding in this Zhuangzi was originally a Japanese pirate who came together for money
The sound of horses' hooves broke the tranquility of the night, and under the shining of lanterns and torches was Zhuang Ding on horseback urging the horse to chase.
The owner is also an old man, and he has only judged the general situation by just looking at the situation of his own theft.
A total of four thousand taels of silver is missing, it is only two hundred and fifty catties in weight.
(Note: Nowadays, one catty is equal to 16 taels)
Therefore, there will not be many thieves who come to steal the silver tael, and at best, there are only five or six people.
Just imagine, after those thieves entered the manor, it was by no means that they killed eight Yingren and two dogs and stunned his uncle. They had to get the money out of the high walls of their manor!
The high wall is two feet high.
If a person has a hundred catties of strength in his arms, then it is impossible to pull up a hundred catties of silver on the high wall, and at most it will pull up to thirty or forty catties!
The reason for this is very simple, because when a person is pulling a heavy object at a height, it is necessary to slap his hand. At that time, it will be more difficult to pull the object than to lift it on the flat ground!
Don't ask how the owner knew it, just because he had done something like this to steal money from someone else's yard!
Regardless of those thieves who stole hundreds of catties of silver, it is impossible to carry them, they must have horses or carriages.
According to Xiao Maju, that is, the little apprentice of the back kitchen, the sound he heard should be the sound of two silver falling to the ground.
It’s not a long time since then, so it’s definitely too late to chase it now!
The Han area is too vast, there are too many Han people, and there are tens of thousands of smart people in the Han nationality.
It should be said that the judgment of the owner is completely reasonable.
And what he can judge, his subordinates can also judge.
The difference between a smart person and a second-class smart person is only the length of time to think.
Most of the chasing soldiers chased to the west, because the little apprentice behind the cook said that the noise was made at the west wall, and the Japanese pirates who were familiar with the roads here naturally knew that there were several main roads in the west.
But there was also such a chasing army of about thirty people, but they chased them northward.
There is only one road to the north, and that road is not easy to walk.
From the perspective of the manor manager who assigned the task of chasing the thief, he was undoubtedly correct in this assignment.
Although it is said that the sound must be made by the thieves, and that the sound is also from the west, who can guarantee that the thieves will run to the west
Then people can't tell the suspicion that the formation runs south, north, and east
But from the perspective of these people who are chasing north, they feel that it is unfair to be in charge of allocating work.
This time, under the anger of the owner, he promised a lot of silver rewards, and the silver rewards were still linked to the stolen silver!
That's 20% of the stolen silver!
Just imagine, if those thieves stole four thousand taels of silver, then the capture of the thieves would be rewarded with eight hundred taels of silver.
Although they, as the Chuang Ding, shouldn't have the idea that the thieves should steal more silver, so that their silver rewards will rise, but that is definitely a generous reward.
It's just that the leader of the chase sent to the west where the thieves are most likely to run is the butler's nephew.
This is really fertile water without leaving outsiders' fields!
But other people's supervisors are just like that, and they can stand up even if they don't say that they can.
Alas, it seems that those who are chasing north today are probably playing in vain!
It's just that even if these people think so in their hearts, they have to keep chasing them. After all, all their wealth and lives are staked on the owner.
The sound of horseshoes kept moving forward, and the fire light illuminates the trees on both sides of the road, and the rice fields pass through the trees.
The lighting tools nowadays are torches and lanterns, but no matter what they are, they don’t shine far away.
Fortunately, people like them are so familiar with the road that they don't want to rush into the rice fields.
Since then, the little apprentice in the back cook heard the abnormal noise on the west wall until now it has been half a stick of incense.
In Ban Zhuxiang's time, he wanted to come and the other party had already run more than ten miles.
Therefore, they need time to chase a stick of incense before setting up a card on the road, so that they can catch up or block each other.
As for those thieves who didn't run but hid in the searched area, it was impossible.
Just because dozens of miles around this manor are all within the sphere of influence of the manor.
There is a village a few miles away, and the people in that village are familiar with their relatives who are chasing soldiers. If those thieves dare to hide here, it will be a matter of being caught.
Therefore, if those thieves are not stupid, they will definitely run out until they run out of the manor's sphere of influence.
They committed such a big case in a heavily defended manor. It is impossible to say that people don't know where the manor's sphere of influence is!
Although the possibility of those thieves running north is very small, these chasing soldiers still urged the horses to run fast, and even they sent a dozen people to take shortcuts to rush forward. The purpose was naturally to get ahead and set up a card.
When the time for a stick of incense came, these chasing soldiers had already run a little tired.
To be honest, they are all people from coastal areas. What they are better at is life at sea, and the riding skills that let them ride horses are generally unaccustomed to them.
But it happened when they were running horses among the hills.
How far they can shine with torches and lanterns is only a few dozen steps.
But at this moment, a sharp arrow flew suddenly from the darkness ahead.
Some of them actually saw that sharp arrow, it was a cold light under the firelight in the dark night!
But from the time the arrow emerged in the darkness to hit their people, they couldn't react at all.
Their reaction was only to see such a life-threatening arrow, and then the leading Zhuang Ding with a torch yelled and fell off the horse!
These Zhuang Ding are not professional cavalry, that is to make them slow down.
So the huge and chaotic horse hooves stepped on the body of the first person to be shot off.
They knew that their companion was dead!
Even if you don't get shot to death by that arrow, you will be trampled to death by a horse!
At this moment, another arrow was shot from the darkness, and just as these Zhuang Ding finally reacted and began to rein in the horse, the little boss who had brought them was shot down.
This time, the little boss of Zhuang Ding was very lucky, and the people behind just after he fell off the horse finally held the reins.
And this little boss of Zhuang Ding was very unfortunate, because after he fell off the horse, he couldn't even make a shout.
And when Zhuang Ding, who was holding a torch, looked up at the ground, he saw that the back of his head was shining with a metallic luster.
The opponent's arrow actually shot through the body of their head!
"The thief's arrow is right!" the man holding the torch shouted hoarsely.
But he just yelled so, and then the third arrow arrived again, so he, the man with the torch, fell under the horse with the torch again.
People, another dead!