Take your own vegetable shop and travel to the desert road

Zheng Xiang was a little surprised by what Old Mrs. Huang said. It was really surprising that an old lady from a mountain village could have such an opinion.

"Oh, Aunt Huang, please tell me carefully. I heard people in the village say that Master Zhong is a very good person. Auntie, have you misunderstood Master Zhong as a person?"

Zheng Xiang said this on purpose, so that he could learn about Mrs. Zhong’s past from Mrs. Huang’s mouth.

"You are right, or I may be wrong. Master Zhong has been in the village for seven or eight years, and nothing unusual has happened in the village.

It's probably because I, an old woman, am overly concerned. "

Seeing Mrs. Huang leaving with the fruit, Zheng Xiang was a little disappointed. He originally thought she would know something.

"Brothers from the Zheng family, see if these five potatoes can be exchanged for five fruits."

Ergouzi handed the basket to Zheng Xiang. Inside the basket were five potatoes, which looked good in size, at least bigger than what Mrs. Huang gave them.

"Just wait a minute and I'll go get you some fruit."

Zheng Xiang's words made Ergouzi smile with joy. His mother-in-law was pregnant with a child and insisted on eating the fruit.

Ergouzi looked at the fruit in the basket, took out a square cloth and covered the fruit, then looked around and saw that no one was there, then he looked at Zheng Xiang.

"Brother Zheng, I have something to tell you. It's not convenient here."

Have something to say to him? Zheng Xiang was a little confused. This was the second time he met this person. What could he say to him? Ergouzi looked like he was talking about something that couldn't be heard by others.

Zheng Xiang turned sideways to let Er Gouzi enter the yard.

After seeing the courtyard door closed, Ergouzi came to Zheng Xiang mysteriously and whispered in Zheng Xiang's ear.

"Master Zhong is in the same group as the bandits. I saw it with my own eyes three years ago in the mountains. He was discussing things with the bandits."

After all the twists and turns, I didn't expect that Mrs. Huang failed to find out anything about Master Zhong, but Er Gouzi actually knew about it.

"Brother Ergou, you can't say this nonsense. If this is a misunderstanding, Master Zhong should behave like this. You can't say this."

Zheng Xiang's words sounded in Ergouzi's ears because this man didn't believe what he said. Ergouzi looked impatient, but he was telling the truth. He had said this to his mother-in-law.

"What I said is all true. I told my mother-in-law about this. She didn't believe it just like you, Brother Zheng, and asked me not to say it in the village.

Everything I tell is the truth. If you don’t believe it, I can swear that if I tell lies, I will have no son in this life. "

Once this oath is made, everyone will believe Er Gouzi's words, who would curse his family to have no offspring.

"Brother Ergou, please don't get excited. It's not that I don't believe you. It's just that this is unbelievable. People in the village say Master Zhong is a good person.

You are the only one who says he is a bad person. I am not afraid of any misunderstandings. Why don't you, Brother Ergou, think about whether there is anything strange about Mr. Zhong? "

The strange place, Ergouzi didn't think of the strange place even after thinking about it. Nothing bad happened in the village. Master Zhong did his duty in teaching the children to read.

Ergouzi shook his head. He only saw it once, and that time it scared him so much that he almost peed his pants. He hid in the grass and didn't dare to make a sound.

"No, there is nothing strange about Mr. Zhong. I only saw him talking to bandits once."

Also, how could someone who could disguise himself in the village for seven or eight years let people notice his strangeness? Thinking of this, Zheng Xiang had some doubts about how Ergouzi was sure that the person talking to Master Zhong was a bandit.

"Brother Ergou, you said you saw Master Zhong discussing things with a bandit. How did you know that person was a bandit?"

Ergouzi screamed inwardly, how could he forget this, how could he explain to the Zheng brothers how he knew about the bandits.

Ergouzi felt guilty and flustered, and his eyes kept evading, which made Zheng Xiang guess that the bandit was someone he knew, otherwise he would be panicking.

"I, I, I"

Ergouzi couldn't even say a complete sentence because he was holding back his face. Zheng Xiang didn't rush him. He already knew that Master Zhong was a bandit. As long as Master Zhong was dealt with before the people sent by the lord arrived, it would not affect the next step. plan of.

As for why Ergouzi recognized the bandit, it's not that important.

Er Gouzi was so anxious that sweat started to form on his forehead. He didn't know whether to tell the truth or a lie. In the end, Er Gouzi decided to tell the truth.

"I know that man, he is my childhood playmate Xiao Niba. He volunteered to be a bandit in our village. Everyone in our village knows it.

It is also because of this that our village has never been robbed by bandits. Brother Zheng, please don’t tell others, this is the secret of our village.

There are more or less people in the nearby villages who are bandits. They just want to protect their villages from being attacked by bandits. They are not bad people. "

This secret made Zheng Xiang very emotional. Who would be willing to become a bandit if there was a way out? Just like Ergouzi said, most people go to the mountains to become bandits just to protect their villages from the plunder of bandits.

"Brother Ergou, I will pretend that I have never heard what you said. Don't say anything outside the world in the future. Today you will come to my house to exchange for fruit. You haven't said anything else."

"Yes, yes, yes, I didn't say anything, I just came to exchange for fruit."

After Er Gouzi left, Chen Yu and others came out of the kitchen. They heard intermittently and only heard a few scattered words.

"Uncle Xiang, what did he say?"

The person who asked the question was Wei Zehan. He heard more clearly than Chen Yu. If he heard correctly, Uncle Xiang was talking to Er Gouzi about Master Zhong.

Zheng Xiang had no intention of hiding Master Zhong's affairs, so he took them into the kitchen and told them that Master Zhong was part of a gang of bandits.

After hearing this, Chen Yu's first reaction was: What is he trying to do? Isn't it bad to be a master? If you are respected by others and can gain fame, why should you become a bandit?

This is what Chen Yu thought and asked. Zheng Xiang raised his head and glanced at Chen Yu, who had not figured it out, and explained

"Who knows that he is a bandit? Who can prove it? He is a master and a scholar, so he can naturally gain fame. Perhaps it is because he is a bandit that he has the reputation of being a scholar."

What does this mean? What does it mean to be a bandit and have the reputation of being a scholar? Chen Yu was so shocked that he got goosebumps all over his body.

If fame can be traded, how can a scholar who studies hard in a humble window get ahead, and how can bandits decide who will be a scholar?

The more Chen Yu thought about it, the more frightened he became. Could it be that the government and bandits were colluding? No way, how should the people live in this way?

"I see. No wonder after Uncle Nian killed those three people that day, Master Zhong came to visit. Now it seems that he may have come to find the whereabouts of those three people.

Uncle Xiang, do you think he will doubt us? "

Wei Zehan's face was solemn, thinking about whether he had exposed any information to the other party.