Although it is now winter, but after all, Jingnan is located in the south of the Yangtze River, the woods outside the city is still a luxuriant verdant, if not the woods are dotted with maple leaves dyed red in the sky, but also let people suddenly have a kind of illusion of being in the middle of summer.
Zhu Pingan along with the demoness Ruo Nan walked into the woods, not at all nervous and worried, but rather a face of pleasure and contentment to appreciate the early winter woods, eyes in the woods browse, but also from time to time issued one or two sentences of comment.
“Mountain mushrooms ……And bamboo shoots ……Hmm, not bad, when we go back we can pick some and bring them back. The mountain mushrooms can be stewed and drunk, and the bamboo shoots can be fried with bacon, so nostalgic for the flavours of my childhood ……”
Zhu Pingan was pleasantly surprised to find quite a few mushrooms and bamboo shoots in the woods, and couldn’t help but turn his head and say to Demoness Ruo Nan.
“Foodie ……”Demoness Ruonan rolled her eyes and gave a contemptuous rant.
“Don’t worry, Gongzi, leave the mushroom picking and bamboo shoot digging to us.”Liu Dazhou beat his chest banging in the back, they were hunters by birth, for picking mushrooms and digging bamboo shoots, catching fish and catching rabbits, they were more than familiar.
After entering the woods for about a few hundred metres, they arrived at the meeting place, where about eighty or so masked mountain thieves were poised.
One by one bare arms, holding a variety of things, what killing knife ah, lance, axe ah, about in order to show swarthy, ferocious to, and even a few mountain thieves holding a short blade on the lips, sticking out his tongue to lick a few times……
Zhu Pingan concluded from this scene that the blades in their hands were not hardened with poison, otherwise they would not dare to lick them ……
“Greetings to all the good men.”Zhu Pingan arched his hand and smiled, taking the lead in greeting them.
“Hmph, governor’s son, what do you want to see us for?!”Hu Laosan patted the grass clippings on his arse, arrogantly extending his finger to point at Zhu Pingan, and asked with an unctuous question inside his mouth.
“How dare you! Is the county reverend also something you can point at and choreograph? When you see County Honour, why don’t you kneel down?!”Liu Mu let out a loud shout.
Liu Mu has followed Zhu Pingan for a long time, killed Japanese pirates in the city, worked as a constable in the county government office, with dozens of magistrates under his command, and now he is a small flag officer, and not long ago, he went to the capital to deliver secret folders, and he has seen the world …….This loud shout, naturally there is a momentum in, Hu Laosan on the spot by Liu Mu was dumbfounded.
“No harm, no need to be polite.”Zhu Pingan smiled and waved his hand.
“Didn’t say I had to salute you either ……”Hu Laosan stalked his neck and muttered, trying to salvage the scene of being drunkenly confused by Liu Mu just now.
“Hu Laosan, is your skin itching?!”Demoness Ruo Nan glared hard at Hu Laosan.
“It’s true that the woman is not a good person, the young proprietor has only gone to the dog official’s place for how long ah, the elbow is turning outwards ……”Hu Laosan was taught a lesson by the demoness Ruo Nan, he couldn’t help but shrink his neck and muttered in a low voice, although he lowered his voice, almost everyone present heard it.
“Hu Laosan what are you muddy talking about? Any more nonsense, Auntie I’ll cut off your tongue and feed it to the dogs!”
Demoness Ruonan instantly reddened her pretty face and huffed, the fish dagger swiftly appeared in her hand, the tip of the blade aimed at Hu Laosan.
“I shut up, shut up ……”Hu Laosan instantly wilted like a frosted aubergine under the demoness Ruonan’s threat.
“Young proprietor?!”
Zhu Pingan captured this information from Hu Laosan’s words and couldn’t help but turn his gaze towards the demoness Ruo Nan, he didn’t expect that this demoness was the young master of the cottage, it was really surprising. No wonder the messaging was so efficient. No wonder that on the way here, she dared to use her life to ensure that my trip is not dangerous ah.
“What, no ah?”Demoness Ruo Nan tilted her head and didn’t deny the fact that she was the Young Master.
“How dare you, Young Master, out of respect out of respect ……”Zhu Pingan smiled and arched his hand at Demoness Ruo Nan.
Demoness Ruo Nan hummed, then twisted her willow waist and walked to a burly man, reached out and pointed at Zhu Pingan, introducing him to the burly man, “Father, here, he’s the Jingnan Magistrate Zhu Pingan that I told you about. Oh, he’s about to go to his appointment as the Commander of the Tidings and Pressure Division of the 5th grade.”
“So young to be a full fifth rank?!”The mountain bandits who heard Demoness Ruo Nan’s introduction were all shocked. They had thought that Zhu Pingan was just a seventh grade magistrate, but they hadn’t expected that he would be a fifth grade whatsoever Tidings Officer. Fifth grade ah, how big of an official must this be, and still so young!
Of course, Zhu Pingan was also shocked. Zhu Pingan looked at the burly man in front of Demoness Ruonan and couldn’t help but have the corners of his mouth twitch slightly, such a big, tiger-backed, scruffy-bearded, mediocre-looking brown man has given birth to such a delicate and unassuming daughter as Demoness Ruonan?
This contrast is a bit big ah, Demoness Ruo Nan quite long ah, perfect wrong his old man’s genetics. Demoness Ruo Nan’s mother should be very beautiful, right, with such a brown man, can also give birth to Demoness Ruo Nan this kind of posture daughter.
“Nerd, this is my father, and also our mountain stronghold’s big boss.”Demoness Ruonan took the burly man’s arm and introduced herself to Zhu Pingan.
“Greetings to the Grand Boss.”Zhu Pingan smiled and arched his hand.
“Hmm. I heard Ruo Nan say that you wanted to meet me and wanted to beckon our cottage? I’m meeting you today purely for the sake of my family’s Ruonan; as for recruiting, I’d advise you not to waste your efforts.”
The burly man coped by clasping his fists at Zhu Pingan and said in a very cold tone, with a rejectionist attitude.
“If the Big Boss is so straightforward, I won’t hide anything. It’s not bad, I did come on this trip to recruit your fortress. Since I’ve come all the way here, what’s the point of putting in a little effort, I always have to try, just in case I succeed.”Zhu Pingan smiled faintly at his words and said without the slightest bit of discouragement.
“What if it succeeds? Hehe, there are no what-ifs! We have been whistling in the mountains, we are used to being loose, we are not used to constraints; we have stood for a long time, and we can’t bend at the waist. We’d rather stand and eat chaff than kneel and eat meat and drink wine! I advise you, stop wasting everyone’s time and go back.”
The burly man grunted, looked up with an impatient face at Zhu Pingan and said in disgust.
“That’s right, grab and roll! We’ll let you off for the sake of the Young Master’s face! If you dare to be abrasive again, even if we give face to the Young Proprietor’s family, I’m afraid that the weaponry in our hands won’t oblige.”
“Roll back! The old proprietor is right, how nice for us to be mountain bandits, hooting and hollering in the mountains, free and easy, eating meat, drinking wine and distributing gold in big scales, the king of heaven can’t compare to us, why do we want to accept your recruiting to be the imperial court eagle dogs ah. This is not no crime to find a crime?!”
“Now go can still go, if you don’t go, you can’t go ……”
The burly man’s words lagged behind, a crowd of mountain thieves waved their hands and coaxed in a chorus of voices.
