I'm not really the protagonist? [Transmigration Book]

Su Jiabao and his party followed the bandits into a cave. The cave was quite large, with a large fire burning inside, and straw was spread all around at a certain distance.

Because of the geographical location, even though it is late February, the weather in Yanbei is still cold, but the wind and snow are much less than before.

Dozens of bandits rushed in together, and the huge space was suddenly crowded. Su Jiabao found that they no longer had the fierce appearance on the outside, but sat on the straw with a relaxed expression, cuddling each other and warming the fire.

Su Jiabao and his party consisted of eight people, Su Jiabao plus Wu Yan, Luo Qingyu's servant Da Bing plus another servant, Lu Dayou, and two plainclothes government servants.

The eight people were surrounded in the middle. Seeing the relaxed state of the bandits, the tension in their hearts disappeared a lot.

The thin man put a large iron pot on the fire, and asked someone to fetch some snow water from the mountains and put it into the fire.

For a while, only the sound of "crackling" firewood was heard in the cave.

Su Jiabao opened his mouth to break the silence, "What do you mean to ask for something?"

Hearing this, all the people warming up around turned their eyes on the thin man. The thin man gave a low cough, stood up and respectfully performed the etiquette of a scholar towards Su Jiabao and the others, and then slowly said: "We hope Mr. Su Master He Luo can help us find our family members."

Seeing Su Jiabao and the others looked puzzled, the thin man explained in detail.

It turned out that they were refugees from Yuanmu County who fled to the territory of Yanbei Prefecture, but the magistrate of Yuanmu County was a vicious official. Every day, some strong yamen servants come out to find excuses to beat those men who seem to have some strength.

If someone went up to stop them, no matter men, women or children, they would all be beaten up. For a while, many old people and children were killed or injured. Later, the victims couldn't bear it anymore. After planning for many days, they finally opened the city gate quietly and sneaked in.

They didn't intend to hurt people or cause turmoil in the city, they just wanted to open the door of the rice barn, carry a few bags of rice out, and save their families. Instead, it was a rice bin filled with bags of sand and dirt.

Some of them couldn't stand this kind of despair, they wailed loudly, and were discovered by the yamen servants, and they escaped with many casualties.

Nazhi County, because they knew about the lack of rice in the rice warehouse, framed them as not victims of disasters, but bandits on the nearby mountains. They had no choice but to flee to other places with their families overnight.

But Nazhi County was not reconciled, and let the government servants chase them in the middle of the night, and the sky was dark, so they dispersed with their families.

Fleeing all the way, they heard the victims talk about the looting of the granary in Yuanmu County by bandits. They were afraid that the dog officer in Yuanmu County would collude with other county officials to arrest them, so they stopped on this mountain together. bandits.

Later, there was news that the county magistrate of Qingzhou was Lord Qingtian, who helped countless victims. The wealthy businessmen in Qingzhou also donated money to relieve the disaster under the leadership of Master Lu. They were very excited, thinking that if their family members heard This news will also go to Qingzhou.

The thin man said with tears in his eyes: "We wanted to quit this immoral business of blocking roads and robbery, but when we were halfway, we saw a few people pointing at me and my elder brother and the others, calling them bandits. If you dare to go on to Qingzhou, you have returned to this mountain."

"Later, we asked people to inquire. It turned out that we had just been bandits and robbed some people. Those people immediately reported to the authorities when they returned to Yunzhou. The heads of me, my eldest brother and others were all drawn and posted as notices."

Seeing the helplessness and sadness in the thin man's eyes, Su Jiabao said in a deep voice: "No matter what, you still robbed them, did you hurt anyone?"

As soon as Su Jiabao said this, everyone around said, "No one was hurt, no one was hurt."

The scene became a little chaotic, and the leader of the Donggejie bandit sitting on the top shouted: "Don't talk, let the second brother talk."

The scene became quiet again, and the thin man nodded to the people around him and continued: "My lord, although we have been bandits for two months, we haven't hurt anyone, not even a serious robbery. "

It turned out that when they first started to stop and rob cars, those individuals didn't look like wealthy people, and they all knelt down and cried with snot and tears to let them bypass their lives. They were not hard-hearted. They lifted the carriage out of the pit, and even helped repair the crooked wheel. After letting them go, they didn't expect to get the reporter in exchange.

In the next few times, they told themselves over and over again to be bad and grab something to eat, but in the end they just took a few steamed buns and let him go.

They are all ordinary people who were born and bred, and they really can't do those things of murder and robbery. They can only go up the mountain every day and catch snakes and mice by peeling tree bark for a living.

The more Su Jiabao listened, he felt a little ashamed for them. This was probably the most aggrieved bandit he had ever seen.He glanced around, and these disaster victims smiled at him innocently, and lowered their heads in embarrassment.

"Then when we robbed our carriage today, how did you look so vicious?" Lu Dayou asked.

The thin man smiled awkwardly, and explained: "Today we planned to rob for the last time. We divided up some things, and then went our separate ways. This... this is also to let go of a lot of carriages, and finally see the young masters. It was only because the carriage was more luxurious that it was stopped."

"In order to be ruthless, our elder brother specially practiced swearing for a few days. In order to look more fierce, the elder brother slept at night, and even revealed his face, and specially froze his face with pimples."

Su Jiabao couldn't bear it anymore, and burst out laughing with a "puchi". Seeing Su Jiabao's smile, the bandit leader immediately lifted his clothes to cover his face, and the rest of the people warming the fire also laughed sporadically when they saw this.

The cold cave seemed to be suddenly no longer cold, and it was filled with warmth.Su Jiabao took out a few steamed buns and pastries from the package, and handed them to the little guys hiding behind the crowd in the distance.

After getting the consent of their parents, they immediately ran over to pick them up. Seven or eight children shared the food and hid behind their parents to eat, with smiles on their faces. evil.

After a large pot of water was boiled, everyone drank some, Luo Qingyu and the rest of the people took out the steamed buns in the package, and Su Jiabao asked someone to bring over another pot of water and boil it , while asking the victims to tell their family members' names, ages, and ancestral homes in turn, Luo Qingyu took out a piece of paper and sat aside to record carefully.

In fact, this matter is very simple for them, Su Wei has the whereabouts records of all the disaster victims in Qingzhou, if some people cannot be found in Qingzhou, please ask the imperial envoy Lu Fei to check the disaster victims register elsewhere.

Halfway through the recording, the water boiled, Su Jiabao crumbled all the steamed buns and threw them in to cook, then took out a can of red stuff from the package, dug half of the bottle into it with a spoon, and stirred it a few times in the pot Suddenly, the tangy aroma spread. The victims hadn’t eaten a normal meal for a long time. They all looked at the pot with glowing eyes, and swallowed continuously. Even if they were so hungry, none of them grabbed the spoon. go.

Watching them push the children to the front, Su Jiabao and the others felt their noses were sour. Su Jiabao had never experienced any suffering in his previous life and this life, but he watched too many TV series, movies or novels Among them, there are many examples of abandoning wives and children, and even starving to the extreme to eat human flesh. Now seeing this group of people, he knows what is simple and kind, and what is love in the world.

After one pot was divided and another pot was cooked, Su Jiabao's bottle of red chili sauce was exhausted. A child looked at the bottle eagerly, then slowly moved it over and asked crisply: "Brother, what is this?" something?"

Su Jiabao handed her the bottle and said with a smile, "This is called 'Laoganma' and it's a kind of hot sauce."

Su Jiabao saw that other people were also looking at him, and he continued: "This hot sauce is made in secret. After this matter is over, everyone, if you have a chance, you can go to the Qingjiang Tower in Qingzhou City. I will give you two bottles. I also invite you to have a big meal."

Listening to the bright future that is close at hand, everyone shouted happily, thinking that they must go to Qingjiang Tower once in this life.

After everyone finished eating, the roster was almost registered, Luo Qingyu wrote again and told all the things here, Su Jiabao asked two guards to send the roster and letter back on horseback in the dark, and asked them to bring some The rice is back.

There are many people here, and there are still wanted faces. The most important thing is that this is not the border of Qingzhou but the border of Yunzhou. Su Wei and the magistrate of Yunzhou have always been at odds, so if you want to clear the victims of robbery , It is not enough to rely on Su Wei's words, but to find evidence.

Su Jiabao heard from his father that the magistrate of Yunzhou was not very good. He didn't believe that the magistrate of Yunzhou could believe the words of these victims and not pursue the report that they were bandits.

On the afternoon of the second day, two guards brought the good news that Su Wei was trying his best to find the people on the list and was solving the wanted ones.And also brought two carriages of rice grain.

All the victims hugged each other and wiped their tears happily. Su Jiabao and his team stayed here for another day, and then packed their bags and planned to leave the next day. Buy some dry food or clothes to take with you, and leave a guard here waiting for news, if the victims have any difficulties, they can report back to Qingzhou in time.

A few victims set up the carriage, and then all the people thanked them all the way to the foot of the mountain.

Su Jiabao and Luo Qingyu got into the carriage and waved away.

A few days later, the remaining guards brought back news of most of the families of the victims from Qingzhou.

Those who got the news wept with joy, packed their luggage immediately, and prepared to go down the mountain with everyone.Those who did not get the news comforted themselves over and over again, maybe their family members were not in Qingzhou, maybe they were resettled in Yunzhou or somewhere else.

They continued to wait for news, until a group of strangers entered the mountain one rainy night.

The leader of the victims with a frozen face was talking to the leader of the visitor with a fierce face. The thin man followed him, and at the critical moment, he grabbed his clothes to stop him from talking.

The thin man stepped forward and said, "Please give us some time to think about it."

The voice of the visitor was cold: "Within a day."

That night, the emaciated man used a trick to divert the tiger away from the mountain, and let the victims go down the mountain overnight. They didn't want to, but they were discovered. Suddenly, there were screams on the mountain, and blood mixed with rainwater stained half of the hillside.

The next day, the guard who stayed behind came back from Qingzhou with news and saw corpses all over the place. He didn't know what happened, so he could only bear the tears and carried all the corpses back to the cave, but found that two people were missing.

The thin but resourceful man and the strong but pimple-faced man were missing.

The guards continued to search, only to see the big knife that the head of the victim had been carrying on the grass on a steep slope.

There was still a trace of blood in the knife.

The author has something to say: the plot is gradually unfolding, please continue to look forward to it later.