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Chapter 8 Encountering a thief

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Liu Jun was very moved by the little girl's sensible appearance. It is said that poor children were already in their homes, and the little girl was so hungry that her eyes were lit. However, she did not eat the snacks given by Liu Jun immediately, but she pretended to keep them and took them back for her family to eat.

"Are your family nearby?" Liu Jun asked.

The little girl nodded timidly. Maybe it was the first time she met such a kind-hearted person.

"You go and call your family and I'll treat your family to a snack."

The little girl was a little unbelievable, but the old man next to her said, "You have met a kind person, go and call your family here." The little girl finally nodded and ran away with the snack he had given him before.

"I heard that Zhang Xianzhong of Gucheng rebelled again, and the little girl's family probably fled there." Liu Jun said, "The lives of people in troubled times are like grass, no wonder the previous people said that they would rather be a peaceful dog than a troubled world."

"The sage said that if you are poor, you will be able to protect yourself; if you are strong, you will help the world. You are also a handsome man. In this chaotic era, should you serve the country and do things for the people?" The old man looked at Liu Jun.

"I am just a martial artist. Although I have a few pounds of brute force, I can read a few saints' books. But I really want to serve the country, and I have no way to do it."

"It's the provincial examination soon, why not participate? If you can win a juren, you can also be given a position of one or half. At that time, you can be a military officer, or fight against the Tartars outside the pass, or fight against the rebellion inside the pass, and calm the people and save the world, wouldn't that be good?"

"In fact, in the world, whether it is the Tartars outside the pass or the thief inside the pass, they are actually just superficial problems. The real troubles of the heart and heart are not here. If you cannot prescribe the right medicine for the heart and heart and heart problems, just treating the headache and feet pain, it will ultimately be a symptom but not the root cause." Yi Feng shook his head and sighed.

The old man was very surprised when he heard this. He didn't expect that he could hear such insightful words from a young martial artist on this country road today. He was also very impressed by the young man.

After a while, the little girl brought back a group of people. There were more than 30 men, women, young and old, and there were obviously more than one family. They were all dressed in rags and even had several patients. Thinking about it, they fled in panic with their families.

"My man, let's have a big pot of porridge first and then a pot of mutton soup!" Liu Jun estimated that the group of people would be hungry for a few meals, so he didn't dare to ask the guy to bring steamed buns directly, for fear that he would choke him by then.

After a while, the porridge and mutton soup were brought up. Seeing that Liu Jun and some of the great charitable people were so kind, they really gave them food. They rushed up and held bowls of porridge and soup, and then squatted and started eating.

Two large buckets of porridge and a bucket of mutton soup soon came to an end, and these people finally filled their stomachs. At this time, the little girl's parents took the little girl to Liu Jun and the old man and kowtowed.

"Thank you, Master, you are kind and grateful. You are willing to repay it in the next life."

"Come on, please, who has not had a meal in times of danger and difficulties?" Liu Jun pulled him up, "Where are you from?"

"Xiangyang Nanzhang, the Zhang thief who was recruited by the imperial court rebelled again, burned, killed and looted everywhere, and could not stay in the village, so he escaped."

The old man asked in confusion, "Zhang Zhe rebels in Gucheng. Gucheng is west of Xiangyang, and Nanzhang is south of Xiangyang. With Xiangyang City in Zhangjiang, Zhang Zhe should not kill to Zhangnan. Besides, even if you want to escape, you should escape to Xiangyang, Nanyang, Chengtian Prefecture and other places. Why did you escape all the way to Macheng, Huangzhou Prefecture?"

"As soon as Zhang thief rebelled, he robbed everywhere. It turned out that many thieves who were recruited by the imperial court in the past two years also responded everywhere, and the remaining thieves hiding in the mountains and forests in various places also made trouble everywhere.

Now Xiangyang, Yunmen, Nanyang, and Chengtian Prefecture are full of soldiers and chaos. Although Xiangyang, Nanyang and other big cities are fine, we can't get in. We have to come all the way east. We originally planned to go to Huainan to join our relatives, but yesterday we encountered a thief in Huang'an. We fled in panic and lost our luggage."

Liu Jun's expression changed, "Has the bandits arrived in Huang'an?" Huang'an was in the northwest of Macheng, originally part of Macheng. Later, during the Jiajing period, a part of Huang'an County was arranged from Macheng, Huanggang and Huangpi counties. If the bandits had already appeared in Huang'an, then even Macheng would not be spared.

"How many people are there?" The old man immediately became solemn.

"I guess there are a thousand people coming from the west, and now they have probably entered Macheng County."

The old man waved immediately, called a follower, and gave a few words to him. Then the Sui Chang nodded and left. Liu Jun probably had to report the message to the county.

He had not yet arrived to digest the news that the thieves had already invaded the country. Suddenly, a group of people fled in a panic on the road ahead, all riding horses and driving carriages. It seemed that they were a group of merchants and passengers.

"Waiter, water, come get water quickly." A man rode his horse to the tea shop and jumped out of the way, shouting in a hurry.

"Brother, what happened before?"

"The thief is here, run away." The man wiped his sweat and gasped.

"Bitch? How many, how far?"

"There are probably a hundred people, and there are pond horses. It's not far away. Maybe it's coming soon. I would like to advise you to run away quickly."

The young man took the water, and the man took a few big mouthfuls, then threw down a handful of money and ran away without returning it.

Liu Jun was just waiting and wanted to avoid it, but unexpectedly, a burst of smoke and dust came out, and a sound of horse hooves was heard from afar. It was probably too late to run. His big green mule, no matter how fast he ran, he would not be able to run away from the other party's horse.

It would probably be even worse if he did it. He didn't even bring a sword to show the scholars. He also looked at the tea shop, dozens of newly filled refugees, the old man, his companions and three subordinates. The refugees and the two old men had no combat power, and only he and the three followers could fight. I guess the few guys in the tea shop could barely count it. However, there were hundreds of people on the other side, and this was just a rock hit by eggs.

What to do, what to do?

Liu Jun looked at the bag he put on the table, and suddenly a solution flashed through his mind.

"Master, let's avoid it for now." The scholar was whispering to the old man. The old man was calm and was still looking at Liu Jun secretly. He found that Liu Jun had not shown any panic when he encountered this matter, and suddenly his eyebrows were unfolding, as if he had planned to be in mind.

He waved his hand at the moment, "Don't worry, let's see what this young man is going to say first."

Liu Jun was turning to the old man at this time, "Uncle Shi, if as expected, the uncle's entourage who had just left must have gone to inform the county town of the thief?"
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