sbdcsierra Chapter 681 Where Are You From, Robber?
Chapter 681 Where Are You From, Robber?
"Who?!!" As soon as the door was closed, the person inside noticed it and shouted at me.
Zhou Guo suddenly pounced forward, pulled out the dagger from his boot, and put it against the man's neck. All this was done in the blink of an eye.
The main reason is that the room is too small. Apart from a bed and a table, there is no room for anything else.
Zhou Guo whispered, "Don't shout, or the dagger in my hand won't recognize anyone."
The cold and sharp blade could cut his throat and kill him in a moment. The man was shocked. After a moment, he calmed down and said, "Who are you? What are you doing in my village?"
Zhou Guo said, "Don't worry. I'll ask you a question first and you answer me first. How many people are there in your village? How long have you been here? Who are they? What do they usually do? Answer honestly, or I'll make you suffer."
After a long while, the man said, "There are nearly 500 people in my village. We are all soldiers who have retired from various battlefields. We can't survive anymore and can't go back. We are afraid of being beheaded, so we have to settle down here. However, we have never done anything bad. We just grow vegetables in the mountains and hunt. We have never robbed anyone."
It was too dark at night, and Zhou Guo couldn't notice whether his face was red or not. He just felt that this man was a remarkable person as he could still lie calmly under such circumstances, and he couldn't help but admire him.
But the dagger in his hand did not retreat at all, and moved a little closer, "Humph, do you think I'm easy to fool? Since I dare to find you, I must have checked you. How can there be more than 500 people in your village? At most more than 200 people. And you said you have never gone down the mountain to rob things? Why do I remember that some time ago, your second in command took people down the mountain to rob passing merchants?"
Threatening: "Behave yourself. If you keep playing tricks, I will really be rude to you!!"
The dagger came a little closer and cut some skin.
The man felt the pain of his skin being cut on his neck, and his body shuddered, and he immediately wanted to shout.
Zhou Guo immediately said, "You shout, who is faster, your men or mine."
The man shut up in despair, and said, "You've already found out everything, why are you asking me? What do you want to do? I haven't offended you in any way, have I?"
Zhou Guo laughed and said, "Who said you didn't offend me? Didn't I just say that your people went down the mountain to rob people a few days ago, and those people who were robbed were mine. You robbed my goods and beat my people, and you still say you didn't offend me?"
The man was dumbfounded. "That's not right. Didn't the second brother come back and say that he didn't grab anything, the car was empty, and no one was injured. Instead, it was my people who were beaten up. Not only were they injured, but they were also thrown into the woods and almost eaten by wild animals. When he came back, he was crying and snotting."
Zhou Guo: "...Anyway, my people and goods were robbed. Tell me, how are you going to compensate me?"
The man held his breath, "...I didn't even get it, and a lot of my own people were injured. You want me to mend this, what should I mend?"
Zhou Guo said: "Anything is fine, food, money, gold, silver, jewelry, people, I don't mind anything."
Although he couldn't see her expression clearly in the dark, the man still subconsciously looked for her face and said in disbelief: "...Aren't you robbing her openly? Are you a bandit or am I a bandit?"
Zhou Guo smiled and said, "Of course you are a bandit. I am here to suppress bandits and recruit you."
"Recruit?!"
Zhou Guo laughed and said, "Before entering your house, I went to your kitchen and searched it. Wow, after searching the kitchen from top to bottom, I only found a few steamed buns and some wild vegetables. There was not even a piece of meat in the whole village. Do you two hundred people live like this every day?"
The man said, "What can we do? It's good enough that so many people can have something to eat. Our village has only been built for two years and has a shallow foundation. The people we recruit are either the same as us or refugees, but not vicious criminals who are not capable of killing and robbing.
To be honest, the last time we asked them to go down the mountain, it was the first time our village went to work, and they were beaten up. They didn’t get anything, but the few coins they had were taken away, and even their pants were almost taken off. People nowadays are too cruel, they won’t let go of even a few coins.”
Zhou Guo curled his lips, who would want your trousers? He said, "I don't believe that others didn't get them. As the village leader, how can you not get them? Hurry up and hand over the valuables, otherwise this day next year will be your death anniversary."
The man hesitated, "Goodbye..."
Zhou Guo's dagger went in a little deeper, and the wound became bigger.
The man hurriedly said, "Okay, okay, I'll give it to you, I'll give it to you."
The treasure was hidden somewhere else, right next to the kang. He moved a wooden board and pried open two bricks. The man fumbled and took out a jar. He stood up with difficulty and said, "All my belongings are here."
Zhou Guo said: "Pour it out, let me see."
With a clang, half a jar of stuff fell onto the kang in a short while.
Zhou Guo turned on the light, looked through the things on the kang, frowned slightly, and said with disdain, "Is this all you have?"
Two silver notes of one hundred taels, five large silver ingots, a few small silver ingots, some change, most of the copper coins, and a box containing some gold and silver jewelry. There was nothing valuable, and all together it was less than five hundred taels.
The man didn't think so. Hearing Zhou Guo's tone, his self-esteem was hurt and he retorted: "What do you mean it's just this much? This is what I saved from the wars in previous years, and what I got from robbing other people over the years. This is the wealth of our entire village. We rely on this for food and clothing on a daily basis."
Zhou Guo pressed, "What else? Who would believe that there are only this many people in such a big village?"
The man cried out, "No more, no more. You can see that we can't even afford to eat a piece of meat on weekdays. You don't know how expensive food is now. We don't have any other way to make money. We can't rob others. If we don't save money, how are we going to live in the future? I'm still thinking about finding wives and having children for everyone..."
He even burst into tears when he talked about it. "It's not easy for me. Such a big village depends on me alone. In the past two years, there are fewer and fewer merchants passing by. We can't find anyone even if we want to rob. Do you think it's easy to be a mountain king? Let me tell you, it's not easy at all..."
Zhou Guo's mouth twitched. It's not easy, so what? Why are you crying? You're a grown man and you're not afraid of shame. You're the boss.
He said impatiently: "Okay, okay, don't be sad, I'll find you a job."
"Ah?" The man was stunned and wiped his tears. "What did you just say?"
Zhou Guo said: "I said I'll find a job for you, will you do it?"