Concerned that Xu Guangqi's face was not good-looking, Guo Zhiyuan slowed down and said: "Of course, what Mr. Xu said makes sense. There are many bandits, many enemies, and we are few. We can only be smart and cannot compete. As the saying goes, know yourself and your enemy, and you will never be defeated in a hundred battles. Zhang Cheng, let's introduce the bandit information you have collected..."

Zhang Cheng quickly stood up and bowed: "According to the information collected by the villain, there are more than ten bandit forces in Gutian, including three major ones, namely the mountain leopard, the poisonous king bee and the rattlesnake. The bandits gathered more than a thousand people, especially the mountain leopard, which is the most brutal. It not only plunders property, but also never leaves a living mouth. The public is extremely angry. It was him who attacked Yuping Town this time! The prefect's yamen also sent official troops to encircle him, but the mountain leopard was very cunning, coming and going like the wind, and after slaughtering the village, he immediately drilled into the mountains. No one knew where his nest was, and the army could do nothing to him..."

Guo Zhiyuan patted his forehead with some headache. Even though he had a great determination to suppress the bandits, he didn't even know where the bandits' nest was, so he could only catch them blindly. The others looked at each other for a few times, and they felt helpless, so they discussed it all night but did not discuss any good solutions.

At this time, Wang Demin was not idle, so he found people to spread rumors everywhere, saying that this time, Yuping Town was slaughtered by bandits. It was because Guo Zhiyuan was arrogant and overestimated his ability to suppress the bandits. As a result, he angered the people of Yuping Town and used the people of Yuping Town to vent their anger and establish their authority. It can be said that Guo Zhiyuan harmed the people of Yuping Town. If he was asked to continue as the county magistrate, the people of Gutian would suffer!

It has to be said that the rumors spread by Wang Demin is really too vicious, which turns people's fear of bandits into resentment towards Guo Zhiyuan. The people who had already accepted Guo Zhiyuan as the new county magistrate suddenly became hostile to Guo Zhiyuan. Guo Zhiyuan's recruitment announcement was torn by the people, and even impulsive people ran to the county government to scold and asked Guo Zhiyuan to get out of Gutian County!

Several other Justices of the Peace also came to Guo Zhiyuan together, and demanded that he disband the group training with a tough attitude, stop the bandit suppression operation to avoid further angering the bandits, and cause trouble to the people of Gutian County. Guo Zhiyuan could only analyze the interests of these Justices of the Peace with kind words, and finally had to make concessions and promise that if he was not sure, he would not start the war easily, so as not to anger the bandits, so that these Justices of the Peace were persuaded to leave.

Guo Zhiyuan felt powerless for the first time. He was clearly thinking about the people of Gutian, trying to wipe out the bandits and let them live and work in peace and contentment, but the people did not sell his accounts, but instead transferred their resentment to him, believing that he had harmed the people of Yuping Town. We cannot blame the people for being short-sighted. People are selfish. They should not care about the snow in front of their doors. The idea of ​​not caring about others' frost on the tiles has existed since ancient times. As long as the tragedy does not happen to them, people will selectively bury their heads into the sand as ostrichs, not aware of the potential danger at all, and they are willing to just live by them. If you are kind and want to help them relieve the potential danger, they will be regarded as enemies that destroy the current short-term security!

Now Guo Zhiyuan wants to suppress the bandits but cannot find the bandits' nest. He has no place to use his strength and has to bear the pressure from the people. This makes him both frustrated and helpless, and he has no intention of participating in the training of the local soldiers in the regiment training. He locked himself in the county government residence and thought about countermeasures.

At this time, Zhang Cheng came to report that the surviving people in Yuping Town came to participate in the troupe training. The surviving people in Yuping Town did not follow Guo Zhiyuan back to the county town before because they wanted to bury their relatives who died and handle some funerals. Now that they have finished handling the funeral, they have signed up for the troupe training as agreed with Guo Zhiyuan.

Guo Zhiyuan was also guilty of these surviving people in Yuping Town, so he quickly tried to get angry and went to greet them with a smile. But when he saw them, Guo Zhiyuan was stunned for a moment, because there was one more person among them. This was a thirteen or four-year-old boy, very thin. I don’t know what he had experienced. His clothes were rotten into strips of cloth, covered with scars all over his body, and barefoot. The wounds on it were even more shocking. There was almost no inch of good skin, but only his eyes were bright, as if flames were burning inside!

Without waiting for Guo Zhiyuan to inquire, the young man who had impulsively wanted to chop Guo Zhiyuan with a knife in Yuping Town pointed to the young man covered in scars and whispered to Guo Zhiyuan: "Sir, this is the grandson of our grandson. His parents were also killed by bandits this time and became orphans, so we brought him too..."

Hearing that this young man was Sun Liren's grandson, Guo Zhiyuan felt more and more guilty. It was hard to imagine how this young man could withstand this almost thunderous blow. Not only did he lose his grandfather but his parents, he became an orphan overnight. He also had the scars that made people feel distressed when they looked at it. The soft part in Guo Zhiyuan's heart was sore, and his eyes were a little wet. He quickly walked over and asked softly, "So it's Grandson of Old Sun! What's your name?"

"Sun Zhiyong!" the young man replied expressionlessly.

"Good name! Both wise and brave, Mr. Sun has successors! Don't worry, I will definitely avenge you and let the bandits who killed your relatives pay their blood debts!..." Guo Zhiyuan nodded and said.

"No need! I will cut off the head of the mountain leopard and put it in front of the grave of my grandfather and parents to pay tribute to them!" The young man said coldly with an expressionless face.

Guo Zhiyuan touched his nose awkwardly, but he was not displeased by Sun Zhiyong's rudeness. Instead, he admired his perseverance and ambition very much, and said with a thumbs up: "Okay! Ambition! But you are still young now, and you will talk about revenge when you grow up..." As he said that, he quickly turned his head to Zhang Cheng behind him and ordered: "Zhang Cheng, hurry up and take him to find Dr. Shen, apply some medicine to his wounds, bandage him for a while, and then change his clothes. First, let him recover from the wounds. If he recovers from the wounds, he will send him to the county school to study. Since he is the descendant of Sun, he can't treat him with ease..."

Sun Zhiyong refused to leave and said stubbornly: "I don't go anywhere. I want to participate in the army training to avenge my grandfather and parents!"

Guo Zhiyuan frowned. Although Sun Zhiyong is so determined, it is worthy of appreciation, but it is impossible to let him join the regiment training army. His regiment training army is an elite selected by thousands of people. How could he accept a young man who is only thirteen and fourteen years old? He comforted softly: "Sun Zhiyong, you are very aspiring, and I understand your mood, but participating in the regiment training army is not a joke. It is not suitable for your age. You should listen to my arrangements, recover your injuries first, and then go to the county school to study. Mr. Sun is the only descendant. If you have any accidents again, how can I explain to Mr. Sun's Spirit in Heaven!..."
Chapter completed!