"Dad, mom, we have no fields to plant now! Fortunately, there are some food stored in our family that will not make us hungry. This was given to the kings of Liangshan before the New Year. But what should we do if the food is finished?"

At this time, in a corner of the threshing farm, a young man held an empty bowl of mutton soup and said to his parents. Not every household in Xixi Village has children on Liangshan, and this family is one of them.

Before my parents could speak, the young man said again: "Dad, we have broken our legs these days, and we are just rushing around in this county, but we see where there is land rent? We have always had more people and fewer land here, and the wealthy family has no worries about tenants at all. We are rushing to beg others like this. Even if we get it, we will take the opportunity to rent more. How should we live with a family of six?"

The young man looked back and saw that his younger brothers and sisters standing behind him were chewing the tender lamb with satisfaction, and then said, "In my opinion, why not take advantage of the fact that Leader Wang is in our village today, so we will ask if he still accepts people in his village. If possible, our family would just go up the mountain, so it would be better to suffer here! Dad, what do you think?"

But an old man sighed and said, "We hesitated when the king recruited people last time. Will he want us this time? Besides, we are a family of six, except for you and your brother, the old and young, what can we do to go up the mountain? Can the king accept it?" After saying that, the man sighed again. In fact, he is only in his early forties, but from the appearance, the first feeling is like he is fifty or sixty years old. I think it is the hardships of life that drive the years old.

The young man saw his father's words loose, and he looked happy and said, "Ask, that king is easy-going, it doesn't matter if he asks!"

The old man obviously had no choice but to nod. He thought that his son was right, he would just treat him as a living person! Even if the king didn't want to accept his elders and young people, he would ask his son to go up the mountain alone. If he could send back some money like the young people who went out of the village today, he would not dare to think about it. But even if there was a five-pointer or ten-pointer, he could still make the whole family hope. Thinking of this, he sighed again. Now Chao Baozheng from the next village has forced himself to buy land, but he doesn't want to rent a piece of land to them, the original tenants, and he just told his six people to make a living.

"Three brothers! Where are you taking your eldest son?" At this time, the villagers who were familiar with each other saw that the faces of his father and son were different, so someone asked.

"Where can you go?" The middle-aged man who called the third brother pointed to the location of Mrs. Ma on one side of the venue and said, "Go and say hello to the Ma family! He knows the situation of my family. Can you tell me if you can ask him to help us tell the king!"

At this time, there were many tenants in the surrounding villagers who had the same idea as the third family. Now they usually had no land to plant. They wanted to go to the king on the mountain to talk, but they were hesitant and were waiting for others to stand up. Seeing that the third family could no longer help but start, everyone stopped watching and said, "Go together, go together!"

Seeing that hundreds of men were excited and came to this side together, Wang Lun's personal guards were immediately alert and formed a wall of people, separated from the leader and these people. If they hadn't seen the leader have a harmonious relationship with the people in the village, they would have almost drawn their swords. When they met the brothers Jiangong and Jianye, who were talking to Grandpa and Wang Lun, met, and wanted to help. They were children of the village and were in Liangshan at this time, and were familiar with the people on both sides, for fear of causing any misunderstandings.

Old Mrs. Ma looked back at the juniors in the village and sighed. Seeing the tenants who had former Baozheng gathered together, he knew it in his heart, and then listened to him: "King, these children are really promising with you. I feel relieved to see them like this! But King, there were more than 70 tenants in our village who rented the fields of the former Baozheng, but now they have been driven out by Chao Gai. The big guy has the leading food he had previously distributed in the past two months, so it's not a big deal, but they have no work in the future. What should the whole family do?"

Seeing that Wang Lun patted the old man's hand, he stood up and greeted the tenants who were surrounding him. Seeing that they stopped pushing forward, he said, "Dear fellow villagers, you have no fields to plant, but it has a lot to do with me! But I, Wang Lun, can't compensate you anything. If you don't abandon me, just follow me up the mountain!"

These people were originally nervous and finally relied on everyone to join us to come forward. After all, when the king recruited people last time, hesitated for a while, but finally he didn't go. Now that his family is facing difficulties, the other people who went up the mountain brought back the benefits. If they mention going up the mountain again, they would be unconfident. However, they didn't expect that the king didn't say a bad word. Before they could speak, they took the responsibility on him, making the group of old and young men feel ashamed and speechless.

The old lady heard Wang Lun's words and said anxiously, "Did the domineering father and son Bao Zheng kill the wrong one? Don't say that this is the suffering of our farmers. It is said that even if the rain is wide, it will not moisten the rootless grass. If we don't have our own fields, we are like rootless grass. We will work hard to fill our stomachs all our lives and dare not neglect at all, but in the end, alas..."

Seeing that his words evoke the bitterness of the octogenarian, Wang Lun advised him, but heard the old lady sigh for a while and said, "Thank you, the king, for giving me a way out for a living! Alas, these people were all grown up, and now they are gone, only me left..." Before he finished speaking, Jiangong and Jianye hurried back to comfort his grandfather when he heard this. Everyone persuaded him for a long time before the old man was in a better mood.

At this time, Wang Lun called Zhang San and Li Si and asked them to count the number of people who were going to jump into the mountains. After a while, the two came to report: "There are 58 families in total, including 122 strong men, and the total number of families is close to 400!"

Wang Lun nodded, thinking that the clerk was the first to start, and people were hired everywhere. Although there were more than 200 families in these 400 people, these farmers and women were not necessarily worse than those of young people when they were young. Although they could not be assigned to war soldiers, they could at least relieve the logistics pressure. Song Wan only mentioned to him more than once that the kitchen had to prepare meals for five or six thousand people every day, and they were all busy, just looking for him to ask for people. But there was a carrot on the mountain and a pit. , Where can I get people out? Seeing that fish, lotus roots and aquatic products in the eight hundred miles of Dabo are all ignored, and there are countless peaches, apricots, plums, plums, loquats, jujubes, persimmons, chestnuts and other products in the woods in the south of the mountain that have no time to take care of the production. Isn’t it a pity to watch these things rot! As long as the people going up the mountain do not cheat and do their jobs well, so that the output is greater than the consumption, it will inevitably form a virtuous cycle, and the copycat will become more and more prosperous in the future.

Let’s talk about the people who counted the number of people and they had to go home to clean up their belongings. Wang Lun thought for a while, called them and instructed: “Everyone abandoned all the stupid guys, and left behind the unfinished food. It’s not convenient to bring such a long distance. It’s your intention to leave it to the villagers in the village. Don’t worry, you will definitely not be short of your food when you arrive on the mountain!”

Everyone heard the Lord of the Mountain say something, but there was no objection? In fact, everyone has no property, they are just some pots, pans, quilts, clothes, and the money given by Wang Lun last time. Seeing that the purpose was clear, these people were moving quickly. In less than half an hour, they were packed up. Everyone carried their hands on their shoulders and rushed to the gathering. Seeing this, Wang Lun said goodbye to the old man: "The old lady in the grain will help distribute it, and Xiao Ke will not waste the time, so he will go back to the mountain!"

The old man heard this and said, "I'm afraid there are not four or five hundred stones of food left by these fifty or sixty families? Let's help the king save it. The king will send someone down the mountain to pick it up tomorrow!"

Wang Lun smiled and said, "If there is a shortage of food on the mountain, are you afraid that there is no place to take it? Don't worry, so take the villagers to share the food!"

Seeing that Wang Lun was deeply in love, the old man had to respond, and then said to the villagers beside him: "This Chao Gai is not in the way of dealing with us kings, so we will just send the king onto the boat as if that night!"

The sound of thunder echoes sounded, and the villagers agreed in unison, thinking that the king treated him like a relative. Not only did he personally escort his children to send money back to the village, but he also left the food for himself to go up the mountain. In addition, each family had children on the mountain. They had long regarded Wang Lun as their own person. Without saying a word, they all went back to get hoes, wooden rakes and other farm tools, and hugged Wang Lun and others out of the village. This kind of support made him feel like a first time in his heart, and he felt full of pride in his heart, and he held his head up and opened the way in front.

Everyone hugged the Liangshan team just one mile away from the entrance of the village. Suddenly, there was a group of people standing across the road ahead, and they were afraid that there were seven or eight hundred people. These people were dressed up in a strong body, all with strong young men, holding long swords and short blades in their hands. A man like an iron tower stood first. He saw three literati dressed as a literati standing on his left, and a big man with a grown man standing on his right, but wasn’t it the one with Chao Gai in Dongxi Village? Seeing this, Wang Lun waved his hand, stopped the team, stepped forward, and smiled and said, “Mr. Jialiang, now bring people out to see the world again?”

But when Wu Yong laughed, he bowed and said, "Call Wang and leader laughed!"

At this time, Han Bolong spoke, "It turns out that he is a soldier who is never tired of deceiving. Leader Wang is good at using a good method. He caught ants and gathered troops, just taking the villagers to make up the numbers! You hid it that night. Now, in broad daylight, Leader Wang has nowhere to hide!" Han Bolong's experience that night a few months ago made Han Bolong feel hated. He originally thought that Zhu Gui had deceived him, but the truth was revealed later, which only made Han Bolong feel frustrated for several days.

Wang Lun didn't look at this person at all. He looked at the two sad-faced geniuses beside Wu Yong and said, "Mr. Jialiang, these two people around you are a little bit disgusting, but I don't know who is the master?"

Wu Yong smiled, and it was not for Wang Lun to speak too much. He replied gracefully: "These two are my acquaintance. In addition to their literary skills, they can use guns and sticks, dance swords and swing swords. They are the famous Xiao Rang and Jin Dajian in Jeju City!"

When Wang Lun saw that he stared at the two of them, he saw that they looked sad, and he guessed the whole story in his heart. Although these two martial arts are not specialized, they are better than ordinary Zhuanghan, and they also have other abilities. It is no problem to get a fake certificate and carve a seal. Chao Gai, a smuggler, can do it in the future. Thinking that Zhiduoxing used some method, they forced the two to go into the water. Then he smiled and said, "I have heard of the names of the Saint-Hand Scholar and the Jade Armcraftsman. However, although I have the desire to get to know each other, Xiao Ke also knew that the two of them were avoiding the king of the mountain, and they did not dare to disturb me! I didn't expect that the two of them have now joined Chao Baozheng's house. OK, okay!"

These two people were originally law-abiding citizens in Jeju City. I don’t know how comfortable it was. But they asked their old friends to pull them to the village of the number one private business owner in Jeju. How could they be willing? At this time, when they heard Wang Lun’s words, they both looked at Chao Gai’s back like an iron tower, but they dared not say more.

Seeing the reaction between the two of them, Wang Lun felt even more certain. He felt that if he mistakenly made a bad friend like Wu Yong in his life, it would be endless troubles. Although Xiao Rang and Jin Dajian had no hope of career, the key lies in their professional career. With their skills, they have no worries about their well-off status in Jeju City. They didn't want to be honest for a few days, but they were missed by the best bad friend. Now they have to wade through this muddy water.

Wu Yongyi saw the relationship between the two, but he didn't care. He saw that Wang Lun had a lot of provocation in his words, so he no longer showed off his demeanor and said straight to the point: "Captain Wang, some private matters we have not yet settled today, so we don't have to involve the villagers in!"

"That's right!" Wang Lun replied: "Friends, please go back first. When I settle my private affairs with King Chao, if I still have a breath, I will come back to pick you up the mountain!"

The elders of Xixi Village were all sad when they heard this. Someone heard it shouted: "The leader treats us so well. Why do we want to ask the leader to be harmed by a traitor? We will not leave. Just look at what kind of virtue he is of the King of Tota!"

Chao Gai, who had not spoken at this time, spoke, "We use righteous people to kill bandits. If the people do not retreat, they will follow the thief. Don't blame me for not thinking about the affection between the villagers!"

Suddenly, Wang Lun laughed loudly, and Chao Gaiyi and others were puzzled. He laughed for a while, then stopped and said, "King Chao Tianwang, don't tell lies in front of the real person. Anyone can say that I, Wang Lun, are a bandit, but you can't tell me!"

Chao Gai's old face turned red and was about to defend, but a black man behind him shouted: "Chao Baozheng, my brother asked me to protect you from being bullied by Wang Lun. Now it's not someone who bullies you, but you are bullying others, I don't care!"

When Chao Gai heard this, his anger surged in his heart. The black guy didn't stop. At this moment, he turned against him and defeated his morale. He was about to get angry, but Han Bolong got the chance and cursed: "Li Kui, you black guy, if you want to kill him, you should say it earlier!"

When Li Kui heard that he could not help but be angry, he went forward to grab him. Han Bolong had eaten him and beat him. He was still scared and wanted to avoid him, but Li Kui asked him to grab his clothes and clench his fists and hit him. Chao Gai was angry and shouted: "Stop!" Li Kui was not afraid of him, and he was only concerned about hitting him. Seeing this, Wu Yong hurried forward and separated the two of them and shouted: "Even if you don't look at my face, you need to look at the face of Dai Zong!"

When Li Kui heard this, he snorted coldly, turned around and walked away. After walking more than ten steps away, he suddenly saw the rash man thinking, "I saw that scholar was Wang Lun. If I asked him to harm Chao Gai, I would still feel unbearable!" Then he saw him walking under a big tree, leaning on the knife, and sitting down against the tree.

Seeing him like this, Wu Yong ignored him and went forward and said, "Teacher Wang, I heard that you love the people more than you do. Now when you see them, it is hard to convince people. Could it be that they only drag the people to die with you?"

Wang Lun took his eyes off Li Kui and smiled and said, "Mr. Jialiang, don't provoke me, so I will persuade the people to come back. What if you have a good relationship with you?"

Wu Yong smiled and said, "When things come to an end, I am calm. I am worthy of being the lord of a mountain! The young student just advised the leader not to delay. I know that your ambush is in the moor. If you dream of waiting for them to come and save them, it will harm these people!"

When Wang Lun saw this, he just looked at Wu Yong with a expressionless face and said, "Aren't you afraid that my brothers on the mountain will come to take revenge?"

"I'm afraid they won't come!? My King Chao Tian has sent someone to inform the magistrate, Zhu Tong and Lei Heng, both of whom are on the way to come. There are also help from the Jeju official army, and it happened to be the only one who is the remnant!" Han Bolong said loudly.

"Where do I get the wild dog barking when I talk to the dog owner!" Wang Lun replied coldly.

Han Bolong was so embarrassed that he could not argue with this, and then he said in anger: "Baozheng, this guy must be delaying time. We should not talk nonsense to him, so he will suffer from it to eliminate future troubles!"

Chao Gai nodded when he heard this and said to Wang Lun: "If you cherish your life, you will surrender!"

At this time, the sir was already full of anger and wanted to carry the axe to fight for his life, but Wang Lun stopped him, but he heard him say to Chao Gai: "Baozheng, it seems that we are going to make a decision today?"

Chao Gai shook his head and said, "Why can you let others sleep soundly on the side of the bed? Leader Wang has been making a big move recently, and it is so hard that many people around the water can't sleep at night!" The implication is quite resolute. Seeing that Wang Lun was just looking at him without turning his eyes, he sighed and said, "If you and I change the position, can Leader Wang tolerate Chao Gai?"

Wang Lun stared at Chao Gai for a while and spit out a word: "Yes!"

Chao Gai was very distorted. Could this man beg for mercy now? But the situation was not like that. He lowered his head and thought for a long time but couldn't figure it out. However, he heard Wu Yong smile at this time and said, "I would like to thank the leader Wang for his kindness! Your people have not retreated!"

Wang Lun sighed and turned around and whispered to the old lady for a while. The old man just shook his head. Wang Lun just said something in his ear. He was still extremely reluctant. He turned around and said, "The king told us to go back. Are you willing to leave the king and tell him to be alone here?"
Chapter completed!