Mori comforted Mr. Long and brought Gu Yezhou to Ma Mazi's house.

The situation of the Ma Mazi family seemed to be better, because the first one was Mori and Old Master Long's house. When they started to steal the Ma Mazi family, under the instigation of Gu Yezhou, the villagers started to make trouble, and finally the bandits had to escape from the village. Therefore, the Ma Mazi family was only robbed of a small amount of food, and even their wives, concubines and daughters were not taken away. Because they were hiding in the toilet and cesspool, the bandits had no time to search and snatched two maids before leaving. Therefore, it seems that Ma Mazi is much more energetic than Old Master Long.

Seeing that Mori was coming, Ma Mazi came up and said, "How is it? Have your house been robbed?"

"I robbed it, and most of the food was robbed! Alas!"

"I'm fine, but fortunately, the villagers in the village fucked the guys and fought with them. The bandits were afraid, so they ran away. Otherwise, I'm afraid the whole family wouldn't be able to escape."

Morri said, "I have arranged for the villagers to guard the entrance of the village. I believe the thieves will not come again. At least this is the case tonight, but it is unknown whether the thieves will come again in the future. Therefore, we have to prepare early. You take care of your family first, and come to me tomorrow morning. Let's discuss it." Morrie turned around and looked at Gu Yezhou and said, "Sir, come too. Let's discuss it together."

"Okay!" Gu Yezhou and Ma Mazi both nodded and agreed.

Mori and Ning Sanmei returned to Mori Zheng's house, and a villager came over and said, "Uncle Mo, we found five living thieves who were knocked unconscious on the side of the bluestone road. They have been caught and tied to the tree in the yard."

An undetectable smile appeared on the corner of Gu Yezhou's mouth. These five people were obviously knocked out by themselves. The reason why they did not kill them at that time was to ask them to help them shout "The officers and soldiers are here" and "The scouts have fought with them". When the villagers in the village fought back and the bandits escaped, he decided not to kill these people because he needed a living resident to understand the situation of the bandits, but he was not easy to ask, so he knocked out and threw them on the side of the road, so that the villagers would find out sooner or later. Sure enough, they sooner or later found out.

After hearing this, Mori was overjoyed and hurried into the yard and came to several bandits. These bandits had been beaten to the point of bruises and swollen faces by the villagers. If they had not tried to interrogate and find the bandits' holes, they would have beaten to death.

Mori was taking a burning firewood from the bonfire, reaching it to one of the bandits, and said viciously: "Say! Where are you bandits from? Who is the leader? Where is your bandit's nest?"

The bandit gasped and didn't say anything.

Morri was poking the torch hard on the bandit's face. The bandit screamed in a long and miserable voice, making people's scalp numb. The villagers watching all burst into laughter and felt relieved when they looked.

Morrie said viciously again: "I'll ask you again, do you say you will say or not? If you don't say anything, I'll burn you to death!"

The bandit finally spoke: "I said..., give up my life, I have no choice but to take this road. - We came from Juzhou. A few days ago, the officers and soldiers surrounded us and killed many of our brothers. Only we broke out under the leadership of the leader and escaped here. We were just passing by and didn't plan to go into the village to rob, but I didn't know what the leader was doing, so I decided to rob your village. Before leaving, I told me not to kill the villagers unless I encountered resistance. I just knew this..., give up my life..."

"What's your leader's name?"

"The chief leader is the mountain god. This time the leader is the second leader, whose surname is Long and named Longtou. In addition, the son of the mountain god is also here."

"Where do you hide our food and people?"

"I don't know... We often change places, and we pass by here, so we don't plan to be here for a long time. So we don't have a real place to stay..., let's go..."

Morrison interrogated several others and had the same answers, so he ordered the accountant to record their confessions. He also wrote a handwritten letter to the county magistrate to call the police, and sent two villagers to go down the mountain with his confessions to the county town overnight to report.

A villager said to Mori: "What should I do if these bandits?"

Morrie said sinisterly: "The rules of our ancestors: catch the bandits and burn them to death! Let them know the consequences of being bandits!"

The villagers onlookers all started to make a fuss, carrying firewood to the side of the five bandits. The five bandits were so scared that they wet their pants and shouted: "We are just seeking money and not killing people casually. Last night we did not kill the non-resisting people in the village. You can't treat us like this, it's unkind and righteous..."

However, no one paid attention to him.

The firewood was piled up quickly. Mori was taking a torch. Just as he was about to go over, Gu Yezhou stopped him and whispered: "Don't do this, let's escort them to the county yamen for punishment."

"No, everyone can kill the bandits by the ancestors! They will burn them to death so that others will no longer dare to be bandits!"

Gu Yezhou looked around and his voice became even lower: "If you kill them, you may anger those bandits..."

"I'm afraid of a ball!" Mori was tragically killed by his beloved concubine and most of his family's wealth was robbed. He was already on the verge of madness. He said with a grim smile, "You scholars are afraid of jackals and tigers in front of you, and you can't do big things!" After that, he reached out and lit the fire!

The bandits knew that it was useless to beg for the moment when they died. They gritted their teeth and said, "Wait, our king will definitely avenge us and wash away your village bloodied! Ah—!"

The flames quickly rose and burned their bodies. After a long scream, everything returned to peace. Five bandits were burned into five charcoal!

The villagers cheered, looking at the cruel side in front of them, their eyes full of strange excitement.

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It's finally dawn.

Morris's family has been cleaned up and the bodies have been buried. When Gu Yezhou came to Morris's house, Old Master Long and Ma Mazi were already there, sitting silently without saying a word.

Mori was greeting Gu Yezhou to sit down. After a thrilling night yesterday, Mori looked very haggard. After pondering for a moment, he said, "I had already written a letter to the county magistrate yesterday to make an emergency, but I guess the county magistrate would not send troops, because there were not many troops in the county town. I heard that there were bandits, so I had to rely on ourselves to take care of their county town first. What are the opinions of the three?"

Old Master Long and Ma Mazi both lowered their heads and refused to speak.

Gu Yezhou said: "From the situation of the bandits yesterday, they probably have about 100 people. There are nearly 200 young and middle-aged workers in our village. I really want to fight. I believe I can beat the bandits, but what I am afraid of is that everyone is not united. Just like last night, when I heard the bandits coming, they only think about their own homes and want to escape. Of course, most of the people in our village are poor peasants and hired peasants. Many of them can be said to be barren. When the bandits come, they just run up the mountain. Anyway, there is nothing valuable at home. On the contrary, the three are rich. If the bandits really come, they will suffer the greatest losses. Therefore, you have to take out money and food, gather people, defend the village, and fight against the bandits together!"

Morri said righteously: "Sir, do we mean to form a group training ourselves?"

"Yes." Gu Yezhou said: "Waring against the enemy requires well-trained soldiers. Just letting villagers spontaneously use hoes to deal with strong thieves is difficult to win. There must be organization. So-called unity is strength."

Ma Mazi muttered: "This is the reason. However, the group training requires everyone to contribute, so we cannot allow the three families to contribute. Each family must contribute, and they have money to contribute money and work hard. Anyway, it is to protect the entire village, and I will not be able to pay for our family."

Old Master Long sat there as if he was stunned and didn't speak.

Mori was looking at Gu Yezhou. Gu Yezhou said lightly: "Mr. Ma, I have already explained it very clearly before. You are also very clear about the situation in our village. Most villagers have eaten their meals and have no meals. If the bandits come, they are more willing to run away and will not fight with the bandits. If you ask everyone to pay for money, can they afford it? In fact, the main purpose is to protect the family wealth and health of your three families. Therefore, you should pay for money and grain, and the villagers work hard to form a group training to protect your safety."

Ma Mazi looked at Gu Yezhou with his eyes slanted: "How many suitable do we do?"

"Each person who participates in the group training has a dou of rice every month. I think it's almost the same."

"What? A bucket? I have to give it every month? Do you know how much rice it takes?"

Gu Yezhou smiled faintly: "I only know that if the villagers hadn't gotten up last night to resist and scared away the bandits, your rice wouldn't have been left with a grain of rice!"

"I don't care!" Ma Mazi waved his fat hand, "Anyway, I will never spend so much rice to form a group training."

"The officers and soldiers recruit soldiers and eat food, and there is more than one bucket of rice every month!"

"Then they go to join the army! No one stops them!"

Gu Yezhou said: "Mr. Ma, you said that, the villagers are defending against bandits at the entrance of the village, are they asking for trouble?"

"I didn't say that..."

"Okay!" Mori was interrupting, interrupting Ma Mazi's words and looking at Old Master Long: "Brother Long, what do you think?"

Old Master Long finally spoke: "It is a good thing to form a group training. Some people provide people, and there is food to produce grain. As the teacher said, in fact, the most beneficial thing to form a group training is the three of us. So, we should pay for the food. Alas! But if I had used this grain in the past, but now, my family has been robbed by bandits, and the granary is 80 to 100 times. It would be nice to support our family. Where can I use the grain to support our group training?"

Gu Yezhou was very disappointed and said, "If the group training is not organized, the bandits will come back sooner or later! Some of them are in our hands now, and people are dead again, I am afraid they will wash away our village!"

"That's nothing to do. It's great if I can take care of my own children.

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PS: I have a cold and cough. But I insist on typing and will not get off the fire when I get minor injuries, hehe.
Chapter completed!