It was getting late, but in front of Baihu Mansion, the crowd had no intention of dissipating. Everyone saw the convoy brought back by Gao Jin. The sharp-eyed people even recognized the blood-stained carts inside, as if they were taken away by the horse thieves who had blood-stained Baihu Mansion last night.

The people were talking too much, and Gao Jin came back too quickly, and someone could not help but think about it. He thought that Gao Jin had colluded with a horse thief and washed the Baihu Mansion bloodily. However, when the words were heard by Qin Zhong, he was worried that he could not express it in front of Gao Jin, so he quickly shouted loudly.

"Everyone, we were with Mr. Gao since we came out of seclusion yesterday. When we came back this morning, we met a group of horse thieves. Mr. Gao brought people to fight and killed the horse thieves so hard that they robbed their team. I didn't expect it to be from Baihu Mansion."

Qin Zhong's words made the crowd turmoil. Everyone saw the power of the group of horse thieves last night. They surrounded Baihu Mansion openly. After hearing Ni Da's words, Lu Xiaoqi only showed his face and asked the leader of the Tartar to shoot him to death.

Although Gao Jin and his party looked majestic, they didn’t even have twenty cavalry. How could they defeat so many thieves?

"Yes, we can all testify."

The soldiers who followed Qin Zhong also started to shout that Baihu Mansion was killed and no one was fool. They knew that the Hekou Fort would most likely be Gao's surname in the future. As for whether another Baihu would be sent to serve in Shenmu Fort, everyone had never thought about this.

Although the military officers followed Gao Jin for only one day, Gao Jin's courage and generosity were obvious to all, so they were naturally happy to make noise for Gao Jin.

Ma Chao was originally trying to speak to Gao Jin, but Qin Zhong took the lead. So he naturally arrived at the big cart containing the heads of the horse thieves and pulled off the tart cloth. Then a hill made of bloody heads suddenly appeared in front of everyone. Among the horse thieves, there were Mongols, and the braided head was placed on the top, which was very eye-catching.

Next to the front of the crowd, a timid man saw this hill of manhead and was so scared that he sat down on the ground. The rest of the people also took a breath. The people in the fortress were all military households, and although most of them became farmers, they were close to the wall and knew a little about the side.

There were more than a dozen heads there. Everyone understood that Qin Zhong did not tell any lies. Gao Jin really brought more than a dozen companions and killed the thieves of seventy or eighty people into a defeat. If he were placed in the army, he would be a powerful general who could rush to the formation!

For a moment, many people in the crowd looked at Gao Jin and the others and their expressions changed. Many people originally thought that Gao Jin was too young and might not be as powerful as him, Gao Jin. Now it seems that this young man is probably not worse than Gao Dazhe, and maybe even more powerful.

"Okay, cover the tart cloth and don't scare the villagers."

Gao Jin spoke, and then Ma Chao covered the tart cloth again, then looked at Qin Zhong proudly and thought, "Just like you are a soft-legged shrimp, what you say is useless!"

"It's too late today, so everyone is going home to rest. I will send someone to report to Shenmubao about the matter of Baihu Mansion."

Gao Jin directly issued orders, and everyone took it for granted. Although the most important official in the fortress is Qin Zhong, the general flag, no one took him seriously.

"You will send these silver coins to everyone, and you will also ask everyone for me, if you are willing to stay at night to patrol the fort."

Gao Jin threw a packet of broken silver to Qin Zhong, and said loudly that although Qin Zhong was cowardly and afraid of trouble, he was better than obedient. He was not as contempt as Chen Sheng and others, and was willing to give Qin Zhong a bit of decency.

After taking the bag of broken silver, Qin Zhong felt warm in his heart. Someone still looked back at him, and it was a hero like Gao Jin.

"Thank you, Mr. Grandpa!"

Qin Zhong said loudly, and the other soldiers below were quite envious of the fact that they paid money. With the generous manner, I am afraid that the guy Qin Zhong would be able to make a lot more.

"I wish to serve the great master."

Before Qin Zhong came down to distribute the money, the clever men from the army, Ma Chao shouted, "This is a night guard camp. Although it is a hard work that requires staying up late in patrol in the fort, it is definitely not a loss to be able to show your face in front of Gao Jin."

"That's all you have to do."

Gao Jin would definitely be thrusting the officials in Hekou Fort in the future, so he naturally welcomed the military officers like Ma Chao who were seeking progress. Only when his words were said, others were upset.

When the people in the fortress saw Gao Jin giving money to the military officers, they assigned the military officers to guard the village at night and patrolling the fortress, they felt at ease, thinking that if this young master could take charge of Hekou Fort in the future, maybe everyone would have a good life.

When everyone dispersed, Gao Jinfang took Chen Sheng and others to his mansion. He heard Chen Sheng say that after Zhang Gui returned to the fortress that day, he sealed his mansion, seized all his land, and moved everything to Baihu Mansion.

The torches lit by his friends illuminated the open space in front of Gao's mansion. Looking at the old locust tree, Gao Jin came down from his horse and pushed open the door. The memories of the past surged into his heart like a tide. The house was earned by his grandfather when he was alive. Later, he renovated and expanded it at his father's hands to reach its current scale.

The courtyard of Gao Mansion is very large, with bluestone slabs on the ground. Gao Jin remembers that when he was a child, he practiced martial arts here. His father taught him gun skills, Uncle Chen taught him bows and arrows, Uncle Wei taught him to use swords, and he and King Chen Sheng and Yang Dayan would also compare with each other here, but he kept beating them.

"Ada, we're going home."

Gao Jin murmured to himself, holding the urn in his arms. After killing Zhang Gui in the river valley that day, he took out the fragments of the buried ashes of his father and uncles. Now he finally took them home.

In the huge hall, with the lit candles, Chen Sheng and Wang Dou and the others put the incense table. Gao Jincai carefully placed the urn on it, took out the carved spirit cards from his arms and placed them in front of the urn. Then the friends behind him took out the spirit cards of his uncles one by one and put them on.

Next, Gao Jin also set up a mourning hall with his friends and changed into white clothes. Everyone looked solemn. They stopped until the entire Gao Mansion was white and returned to the main hall, waiting for Gao Jin to speak.

"A Sheng, I will work hard to take a few brothers to the village below to tell the brothers in the family that they will come here to pay their respects tomorrow, and remember that those who come here need to be calm."

The Gao family caravan, including Wang Dou's father Wang Shi, has 28 veterans, but only seventeen children in the family have grown up, and most of the eleven children are only thirteen or fourteen years old. Gao Jin is several years apart from them. Although he knows him, he is not as deep as Chen Sheng and Wang Dou.

If Gao Jin wants to do big things, he must have trustworthy staff. In this era, there is no more reliable than the children of these uncles and uncles.

"Yes, second brother."

Chen Sheng nodded. The seventeen people present were not the only one Wang Dou left in the whole family. Everyone else knew that they followed Gao Jin. The other eleven might have some speculations, but they did not want those brothers to follow them to take risks.

This night is destined to be a sleepless night. Everyone in the fortress knows that the fortress will change the next time. Zhang Gui, a hundred households, are now unclear about their lives and deaths, and they are afraid that there will be a lot of danger.

"A Da, Gao Jin is just a false kindness and righteousness. Who doesn't know that their Gao family and brother-in-law have always had grudges..."

In a family not far from Baihu Mansion, Zhai Bao said angrily that his sister was a concubine for Zhang Gui. The Zhai family used to rely on Baihu Mansion and lived a glorious life, but now Baihu Mansion has been destroyed, and his own Adalian dared not collect the body of his sister, so why don’t he make him feel depressed?

"Brother-in-law, do you treat others as brother-in-law? Do they treat us as relatives?"

Zhai Da looked at his stupid son, and his old face was full of disappointment. His daughter was a concubine for Zhang Gui, but he would not regard them as his in-laws. At present, these family businesses were not earned by him.

Now that Baihu Mansion has been blood-slaughtered by thieves, the Zhang family is completely finished. Zhai Dasai thought with his toes, and he also knew that there were many people in the fortress who were looking forward to Gao Jin coming to deal with them, who had been involved in the Zhang family, so as to take the opportunity to take advantage of them.

At this critical moment, it is too late to separate the relationship with the Zhang family, so how can I make it better?

"Ada, we can't let Ah sister..."

Seeing that his incompetent son was still urging there, Zhai was furious and picked up the dry tobacco pot and knocked it on his son's head, "You are a slutty donkey, a married daughter, and a splashed water. Do you dare to mention what brother-in-law is not a brother-in-law outside? I won't beat you to death, so you can save you from harming the whole family."

Zhai Bao was beaten wrongly and muttered there, "If I were a donkey, wouldn't you be that donkey?"

"You bastard, I have to teach you a lesson today." Zhai Daben was already holding his body in his stomach. The stupid son couldn't carry it clearly and dared to curse him there, so the dry tobacco pot in his hand was even more fierce.

Just as Zhai Da was teaching his son a lesson, a servant suddenly came to report that it was Qin Zhong, the general bannerman, who came to send someone to Baihu Mansion to collect the body.

Upon hearing this news, Zhai Da didn't care about teaching his son a lesson, threw away the dry tobacco and hurried to the front room. The Zhai family drove an oil mill and was considered a wealthy family in Hekou Fort, and built a three-entry house.

"Master Qin Qi, the servants are not well received, don't you be surprised?"

When he walked into the main room, he saw Qin Zhong sitting there. His servant did not serve tea, but just stood stupidly beside him. Zhai Da quickly smiled and then scolded him, "If you don't have the eyesight, why don't you get out of here and let..."

"Master Zhai, there is no need for tea. I came here just to pass on a message to Master Gao, and I left after I finished speaking."

Qin Zhong felt the feeling of being proud for the first time. Zhai Da relied on selling women to seek honor, and the oil mill business was quite a big deal, but he had never seen him in front of him.

"What does Mr. Qin say? The servant is ignorant, I apologize to you!"

"I'm fine, I still have a few families to run away, and I can't afford to delay." Qin Zhong put on airs and was satisfied until Zhai Da bent down and bowed to apologize. "Grandmaster said, please don't think too much. If a person dies, he should be buried in peace. Let's talk about the future."

After Qin Zhong finished speaking, he was about to say goodbye and leave. Zhai Da was stunned for a moment, then came to his senses and quickly called Qin Zhong, "Master Qin Qi, I have a little intention, please accept it with a smile." As he spoke, Zhai Da had already stuffed two pieces of silver into Qin Zhong's hands.

Qin Zhong was a little surprised. Although his family was not short of money, the feeling of being stuffed with money was really good. So he accepted it and said, "Master Zhai, you are a smart person. You might as well walk around with your grandfather."

"Thank you, General Qin, for your advice."
Chapter completed!