Baodugu belongs to a part of the low mountains and hills in central and southern Shandong. Most of these low mountains are limestone with an altitude of 500 to 600 meters. The mountains are not high, but they are cliffs, high in the clouds, and the rocks are abrupt and steep, magical, which is amazing. From Baodugu to Lincheng Cao Road is about 120 to 30 miles. For those bandits who robbed the mountains and forests all day long, it was like walking on flat ground. It took only one day and one night to hike to the side of the Lincheng Railway.

However, for the wealthy people in the city who were robbed, walking these hundred miles of mountain roads was like torture, not to mention that there were hundreds of weak women and children. Therefore, when they were forced by bandits, they always cried, screamed, and sighed all the way. Later, they were exhausted and exhausted, and they only had time to breathe, and they just moved forward step by step.

At this time, the orange moon gradually sinks, and the gray-blue sky above the desolate mountains is already shining. Finally, a bright red sun is coming from the large square hills that are getting closer and closer - the main peak of Baodugu, which is the 100-meter-high altitude of 100 meters, which is the terrifying peak of Baodugu, which is the 100-meter-high peak of the middle and southern Shandong. It rises slowly, breaking through the misty mist like a veil, and projecting its warm and gentle light on this embarrassed team.

"Woo—"

Suddenly, the dull and exciting conch sounded, and the bandits stopped. It turned out that Sun Meiyao saw that she had already thrown away the pursuers from afar, and the team in front of her was extremely tired, so she issued a rest order.

These more than a thousand "meat tickets" also imitated the bandits, and they all scattered lazily, choosing trees to shade and lie up in the rock gaps. Some of them had not been able to write a letter home before, took the opportunity to borrow paper and pen and write on their knees, carrying bags or big stones, and crying while writing. Some minions went to collect and inspect the letters one by one, and handed them over to the "Guo Dangjia" together.

After Xie Hongfen and Jie Hongying wrote a letter to Shanghai and Beijing, they got up and came to a mountain spring that was "gugu" and suddenly the fatigue disappeared. The two of them ran to the mountain spring happily, took a few sips first, then took out a towel from the small schoolbag she carried with them, washed their faces, and felt energetic.

Afterwards, they looked at the situation around them carefully and saw that although the bandits were lying all over the forest, there were still many swimming posts around them, which was difficult to get out. They returned to the "meat ticket" team in a bad mood. They saw that under a rock, several bandits were circling around Fang Jianlin, the reporter of Shenbao, and walked over. It turned out that the bandits took out some jewelry engraved with foreign words that they had stolen from the "foreign ticket" and asked Fang Jianlin to evaluate!

I saw a bandit lifting a red diamond about the size of a bird egg, and Fang Jianlin said disdainfully:

"It is stated on it, it is a fake. A piece of glass stone is only worth two triangular silver dollars."

The bandit was stunned for a moment, but couldn't come back to his senses for a long time. Another bandit took out a shiny gold ring and came to ask Fang Jianlin again:

"You are also fake, made of brass, with a layer of gold. Nowadays, fashionable foreigners are all dressed in fake ones, worth three to five cents!"

Fang Jianlin took it and glanced at the English above and said. The bandit also sighed. Another bandit took out a yellow chain pocket watch from his pocket and asked pitifully:

"Then...then, sir. Is this a gold watch?"

"Let me see!"

The Jie Hongfen and Jie Hongying looked at Fang Jianlin and deceived the bandits. They found it very interesting and rushed to see the gold watch.

"You know foreign languages ​​too?"

The bandit in his fifties looked at the two daughters in front of him suspiciously. These two daughters are not only beautiful, but also carved from the same mold. If it weren't for the boss to set the rules of losing his head, if it were the past, I'm afraid... these two daughters would have caused trouble for a long time...

"Why can't it be!"

Xie Hongying, who was in the girls' school run by the church, went to high school and then to university, said nothing. He snatched the gold watch from the bandits. Then he looked carefully at the words on the gold watch and whispered for a while. Then he said disappointedly:

"Fake gold watch, 24k gold plated, a large ocean of tube!"

Sister Xie Hongfen also echoed repeatedly, but when she echoed, she was smiling. Her sister was so bad that she was obviously a high-end gold watch in Switzerland, but she said it was gilded.

Looking at the "gilded watch", the bandits didn't believe it and handed it to Fang Jianlin. Fang Jianlin also said it was fake, so the bandits had to admit that they were unlucky and even scolded the foreigners for being stingy.

Fang Jianlin and the others' funny was seen by two fat and thin British people who were only two or three feet away from here, and they were very happy. The bandit who had held the diamonds turned around and pointed at the fat British man and asked Fang Jianlin:

"I heard that this fat foreigner is the governor?"

Fang Jianlin was secretly funny when he heard this. Because China had a governor, the bandits thought that foreigners also had governors. So he decided to play with them again, and said with a stern face:

"You must be careful to serve those two people. The fat man is John, and he is indeed a governor. The thin man is Henry, and he is also a patrolman. He is in charge of thousands of troops! He accidentally annoyed the British government, beware of another Eight-Nation Alliance causing trouble in China!"

The bandits first looked solemn and respectful. When they heard the last sentence, they looked at each other, showing a timid look. One of them hurried to report the "Masters", "Five Heads" and "Guo Heads" who were discussing things not far away. They heard the "Five Heads" from afar:

"I'm afraid of it! There is a foreign general, and the inspector is at our hands. It would be strange if Yuan Shikai doesn't give us 10,000 taels of gold! Maybe he would tear these two foreign generals. The Eight-Nation Alliance wants to fight, first of all, Beijing City, far away from us!"

Although the fifth head of the family was still strong, when he set off again, he asked his minions to find two wooden chairs and a few bamboo and wood at the farmer's house in the mountains, tied them into a cool sedan chair like a "sliding rod" of Sichuan people, and asked the two foreign "generals" to sit on it. John and Henry did not refuse, and lie on them on the sky, letting the minions carry them tremblingly. The difference in this treatment only made the "meat tickets" envious.

After walking like this for a day, although the dark-browned calf was close at hand, it was always unable to enter. In the evening, a strong wind suddenly blew in the mountains and forests, and the sky was dark for a while; then hail as big as an egg fell from the sky, hitting pedestrians without mercy, making people unable to dodge. After a while, heavy rain poured down, and the whole world melted into the darkness and rain.

The long team of more than a thousand people couldn't help but squirmed faster and ran more than ten miles in one breath. After entering a village in Baodugu Mountains, the bandits knocked on the door and woke up the mountain people. Each household allocated a few to a dozen bandits and "meat tickets" to let the mountain people cook wine and fire, fry sorghum cakes, and cook mung bean soup. They were temporarily settled.

Song Zhiyu, Fang Jianlin and Jie Hongfen, and Jie Hongying's sisters were assigned to rest in a sturdy stone wall thatched house on the edge of the village entrance. The owner of the house was a young widow of 26 or 27 years old, with a petite figure and pretty appearance. The bandits called her to be Fang's wife. Fang's wife was only a little girl of five or six years old, and she was asleep on the kang in the inner room.

Mrs. Fang gently let the three of them into the house. Sitting in the outer room, seeing that they were all wet, she quickly went to the inner room to get them dry clothes for them. On this rainy night in the mountains in May, the temperature was very low, and the three of them were water from head to toe, and their cold clothes were tightly pressed against their bodies, trembling with coldness.

"This is the clothes of my dead man. I'm afraid I'm a little shorter, so I'll just wear them!"...

Soon, Mrs. Fang took out a lot of clothes, first handed it to Fang Jianlin, and then to Jie Hongfen. Jie Hongying and his two sisters put a set in their arms, saying:

"Come on to replace this wet clothes, I'll help you dry it." After saying that, he nodded and signaled the two sisters to go into the inner room to change. The two sisters held the clothes but pushed me and refused to go in together. I don't know if they were embarrassed or afraid of disturbing the children in the inner room; in the end, my sister went in first.

Fang Jianlin didn't care much about it, so he took off only a pair of blue shorts in front of Fang Sao and Jie Hongying, and hurriedly changed to the short-clad suit and bloomers that Fang Sao gave him. Fang Sao also quickly took the suit and white shirt that Fang Jianlin changed and went to bake in front of the stove.

After a while, my sister changed her clothes and came out, looking like a typical peasant girl outfit; and the green cloth jacket was obviously a little thinner, and her chest was squeezed up. My sister teased her for a while and also carried her clothes in. After a while, she heard her sister screaming "Wow..." and escaped like a ghost. She was wearing a silk underwear on her upper body and her wet white underwear on her lower body, and her face was so scared that she was pale.

Seeing this, Fang Jianlin and Fang Sao hurried into the inner room. With the dim oil lamp, they saw a three or four-foot-long green snake winding up along the wall of the little girl's sleeping kang, and soon disappeared along the rafters of the house.

"It's okay, this snake is not poisonous and does not bite people. We are all used to it. It's no wonder that people in the city have never seen it!"

Mrs. Fang said with a smile while pushing Fang Jianlin out.

In the outer room, Jie Hongying was just stunned. When she saw Fang Jianlin coming out, she seemed to suddenly realize that she was only wearing underwear, and her face suddenly turned red. Fang Jianlin suddenly realized her disobedience and turned her face embarrassedly. When he turned his face, Song Zhiyu, who was entering the floor, pushed him out of the door and closed the door.

"Put it on quickly, don't let your body cool down!"

At this time, Mrs. Fang took out the clothes from the inner room and handed them to Jie Hongying, which broke the embarrassing scene. Xie Hongfen helped her sister wear the same farm women's clothing as hers.

After a while, Mrs. Fang baked a large pancake and cooked a large pot of mung bean soup. The three of them started to have sex with Mrs. Fang while eating. While talking, Fang Jianlin suddenly had an idea and asked Mrs. Fang:

"This is also the scope of that "master"?"

"You want to escape?"

Mrs. Fang seemed to see through his thoughts at first glance, and said while grinding her wet clothes in front of the stove:

"The 8 hills here, from the top of the mountain to the foot of the mountain, can be said to be bandit villages. However, we are still harmonious with each other, and therefore we have less harassment from the government and the soldiers. But we usually have to help them take care of some "meat tickets", and no one is missing. Moreover, bandits are stationed on all sides of the place, and they can't escape even if they want to run away. Even if there are those who run away, they will "tear the tickets" once they catch them, and there is no need to do anything!"

Mrs. Fang's advisory look forced Fang Jianlin to give up the idea of ​​running away.

But at this time, Song Zhiyu said.

"It's not necessary to escape. I think these bandits are considered to be rules, otherwise..."

When talking, Song Zhiyu looked at the twin sisters in front of him and said.

"Otherwise, you and I are probably already in trouble. Since the other party wants money, as long as he gives money, he will release him if he wants to come!"

As he spoke, his hands touched his fingers from time to time.

"No, the sir is right. The master is not a bad person. After entering the mountain, he kept talking about the rules. Later, the military advisor came and even talked about the rules of the Green Forest. Why can the master convince everyone over the years? It is these rules. As long as you stay here, you will be allowed to release them as soon as the money at home arrives."

Mrs. Fang said there, and when she was about to stop, she looked at the four of them and said...

"But don't be confused for a while. It's a big deal to lose your life!"

Fang Jianlin and the other two were moved after hearing this, and naturally gave up the idea of ​​taking the opportunity to escape. Just Fang said that, maybe the three of them didn't believe it, but Mr. Song was obviously a person who had seen the world. He said so, so he naturally had his own reason. At this moment, a "bang, bang" knock came from outside the door. Mrs. Fang hurriedly stopped talking and went to open the door. The one who entered the door was a stout man in his 40s, who seemed quite scheming, and a young man holding a book.

"Guo Dean Guo, check the number of people? Don't worry, there are a lot of people here." Fang Sao Fang pointed at Fang Jianlin and the others and said. As she spoke, a trace of coquettishness flashed in Fang Sao Fang's eyebrows and was seen by Fang Jianlin.

"Guo's head of the family?"

Fang Jianlin recalled in his heart, and suddenly he remembered that this was the "Guo Dean" who offered his advice to the boss in the chaos this morning. "Guo Dean" glanced in the room, then instructed the young man to draw a hook on the book, and then nodded politely to Fang Jianlin and the others, then connected his eyes with Fang's wife's eyes. The two seemed to be tender but were inconvenient to spit out. After a while, "Guo Dean" turned around and took his subordinates to patrol the other houses.

Fang Jianlin looked back and turned around. He had the demeanor of a professional soldier. He asked Mrs. Fang again:

"This "Guo Dang Family" probably also came from the army?"

"Why isn't it? The head of Guo's family was the head of the slum in the Qing Dynasty!"

Mrs. Fang said this. She looked very sorry for the fate of the Guo family. However, Mrs. Fang, who is accustomed to nagging, no longer talks.

Seeing that the three of them were getting sleepy, Fang Sao went into the inner room to carry a pair of pillows and a half-new quilt, and told the two sisters to rest on the bed. She also sent Fang Jianlin, Song Zhiyu and the other two to a new blanket, asking them to lie down on a horse-stack outside. After settling down, she also went into the inner room to sleep on her own.

After Fang Sao left, Fang Jianlin and Song Zhiyu looked at the horse stand and the haystack and naturally gave in to him. Finally, Fang Jianlin asked him to get on the horse stand on the grounds that Song Zhiyu was older, and he slept on the haystack himself.

At this time, it was 4 a.m. on October 27. A strong wind blew again in the Baodugu Mountains, and then a dull thunder sounded. Then he heard the raindrops from sparse to dense, crackling against the rock walls and the door walls of the thatched hut. Fang Jianlin remembered what he saw and heard a day and night, and felt strange and had a lot of feelings, and it was difficult to fall asleep for a while. With the light of the stars and moons, he saw that Song Zhiyu, who was sleeping opposite, was also not asleep.

"Mr. Song, do you think this matter will cause any trouble?"

Fang Jianlin, who couldn't sleep, asked the knowledgeable Mr. Song. Although he was a reporter, he didn't dare to guess some things, nor could he guess them.

"Crazy?"

With a cold smile, Song Zhiyu sighed again.

"It would be a good thing if some trouble arises!"

"Mr. Song, what do you say?"

Fang Jianlin couldn't figure out what Song Zhiyu said.

"Didn't you see it?"

In the darkness, Song Zhiyu lay on the horse stand, his tone becoming a little intense.

"You didn't see the official troops who were just showing off their appearance and looked at them from a distance? Now there are no bandits in all provinces across the country? The people in that place are not affected by bandit disasters. Are they really the officials forcing the people to rebel? I am afraid that because the government is indulging them, the local area regards bandit suppression as a way to make money. The bandit suppression is superficial and privately entangled with bandits. How can this bandit suppression be unaffordable?"

When he said this, Fang Jianlin was speechless for a moment. He looked at the starry sky outside silently. Although he wanted to refute, he knew that what Mr. Song said was the truth. If it were not for the indulgence of the government and the entanglement of the bandits by the officers and soldiers, how could China have caused frequent bandit disasters in various provinces? This is the case in this place, the central government...

"Mr. Song, in fact, this is just a matter of the local government. The local government is afraid that the suppression of bandits will damage its strength, so it indulges the bandits. If the central government can send troops to suppress bandits, think about it, in less than a year, all the Chinese bandits will be eliminated. Look, Prime Minister Xiao Li is here now..."

A sneer came from Song Zhiyu's voice. He seemed to be smiling at Fang Jianlin's innocence, and also seemed to be laughing at him as a reporter but he was not familiar with current affairs.

"Reporter Fang, Premier Li has indeed made drastic reforms, promoted industry, and safeguarded state power. Don't forget that the State Council does not control the troops. Even if Premier Li is willing to eliminate bandits, he has no soldiers in his hands. How can he suppress it? This military power is on the Presidential Palace, if so..."

After a moment of silence, he listened to Song Zhiyu's words in the darkness.

"Only Jiangsu has no bandits in all countries. In this country, it still needs an army to suppress bandits. Whether it is the president or Shandong Province, I am afraid that the Jiangsu Army will enter their territory to suppress bandits!"

Listening to Song Zhiyu's words, Fang Jianlin then sighed in his heart, forced himself to close his eyes, and tried to listen to the increasingly powerful sound of wind and rain outdoors, so as to eliminate distractions and fall asleep as soon as possible...
Chapter completed!