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"Those wealthy families whose doors were broken into have long been robbed." Zhou Liang said helplessly, "The families whose doors were not broken into cannot get in either."
"If it doesn't work, just find a few small households. A little bit will add up to a lot. We can't go empty-handed." Zheng Huan gritted his teeth and said.
The bandits broke into the county town and the order in the city was in chaos.
But for these gang thugs, it was a feast.
The desires that are usually hidden deep in my heart are completely released.
They committed everything from burning to killing to looting.
"What's the use of those small families?" Zhou Liang rolled his eyes and smiled: "Have you forgotten Chen Mu?"
Zheng Huan's eyes lit up: "Twenty taels for a painting, that's a fat sheep!"
"It's a pity that Old Man Yan disappeared and his property was divided up long ago. Otherwise..." Zhou Liang said regretfully.
"Come on, let's take this guy down first!" Zheng Huan urged, "That guy only knows how to eat meat after making money, and never spends it. He must have saved up hundreds of taels of silver!"
"Then let's teach him how to spend it!"
The two men, with daggers on their waists, walked into the alley with excitement on their faces.
During the two days of chaos, they had killed and looted more than once. Their eyes were bloodshot and greed had completely taken over their brains.
……
Ping'anfang, in front of Chen's house.
The two of them looked inside through the crack in the door.
"The door is still locked."
"It's useless to hold the door. Don't even think about getting away with this hundreds of taels of silver!"
"Step on my shoulder and climb over the wall!"
Zheng Huan squatted and stood firm, and Zhou Liang stepped on his shoulders and climbed over the wall.
Riding on the wall, Zhou Liang looked towards the yard excitedly and saw a figure standing upside down on a stone pier in the yard.
The other man was shirtless, his full muscles swelling with blood.
Put your left hand behind your back, and spread your right index finger and thumb in an "eight" shape to support the stone pier.
The other party actually stood upside down in the air with just two fingers!
Zhou Liang's heart skipped a beat and he couldn't help but look at the upside-down face.
This is... this is the skinny scholar? !
He suddenly felt his scalp tingling.
How can such a well-defined body of muscles be associated with being skinny? !
Chen Mu looked at the figure that jumped onto the wall in surprise.
Zhou Liang?
He immediately flipped over in the air and stood firmly on his knees on the stone pier.
Staring at the astonished face on the wall, he couldn't help but grin, revealing a mouthful of white teeth: "You found me..."
Whoosh!
Without waiting for Zhou Liang's reaction.
Chen Mu suddenly disappeared from the spot.
The next moment he suddenly appeared on the top of the wall.
His right hand gripped Zhou Liang's neck like a pair of pliers.
The enormous force did not allow the opponent to resist at all. He grabbed the opponent's neck and jumped off the wall like a chicken, and slammed it against the opposite wall with a bang.
Zheng Huan, who was squatting under the wall, only felt a flash before his eyes, and Zhou Liang above his head disappeared.
Turning around subconsciously.
Then he saw a strong man with bare upper body lifting Zhou Liang in the air with just one hand.
Looking at Zhou Liang, whose face turned red and whose feet were kicking in the air, Zheng Huan turned around and ran.
Phew!
A splash of blood exploded in the pit of the knee.
Before the scream could even escape his throat, a large hand grabbed his neck.
Whoosh!
The short call was fleeting.
The alley was empty and quiet once again.
……
Under the cover of night, Chen Mu was jumping and running on the roofs, carrying two straw mats.
The twice-transformed physique provided him with powerful motivation.
He used the Red Falcon's leaping form to its fullest extent.
He was carrying two people and moving around silently.
It was still the same deserted house. Chen Mu was familiar with digging holes, burying people and filling the holes with soil.
Then they quickly cleaned up the traces at the scene, and disappeared after a few takeoffs and landings.
……
Ping'anfang, Chen family, in the No. 1 house on the eastern side.
There was an oil lamp lit on the square table.
Under dim light.
A pile of miscellaneous things was placed on the table.
Copper coins, broken silver, dagger, lime powder, knockout drug, Jinyang pills...
These are the items looted from Zhou Liang and Zheng Huan.
Chen Mu touched his chest and felt his heart still pounding. He said in annoyance, "I have no choice but to kill him again."
"It's all because of this damn world!"
"Wouldn't it be nice to be a good person like me?"
Chen Mu sighed and counted the coins and silver on the table one by one.
Copper coins are copper coins, silver is silver, but the knockout drug and lime powder should be thrown away as their quality is too poor.
Jinyang Pills? What the hell? Throw it away!
Finally, he picked up the two daggers on the table.
Brown wooden hilt and scabbard, brass oval tsuba, elbow to fingertip length.
The sword was unsheathed, and there were traces of blood on the bright silver sword.
"These two people really deserve to die."
During the two days of chaos, countless innocent souls died at the hands of these two swords.
He found a piece of cloth and wiped the dagger clean: "From now on, I can only use you more to eliminate evil. I hope I can atone for your sins."
Chen Mu was thinking about going to the ghost market after the chaos was over to buy a sword-fighting secret book to practice.
We can't waste these two daggers.
Chapter 27 Calm down
After what happened between Zhou Liang and Zheng Huan, Chen Mu didn't want to go out even more.
Stay at home and brush up your proficiency behind closed doors.
Three days later, Chen Mu was having lunch when he heard the faint sound of a gong outside.
After that, some people continued to shout.
Chen Mu listened attentively.
The authorities finally stepped in to restore order.
Even so, he still stayed at home for two more days before going out.
……
On the streets of East City.
The prosperity of the past is no longer there.
There were few people around, and the doors and windows of the shops on both sides of the road were broken and had been badly damaged.
Walking on the street, you can occasionally hear crying and wailing coming from the alleys.
Not long after he walked, he encountered two funeral processions.
This is still a funeral with money.
No one knows how many bodies wrapped in tattered straw mats are buried in the mass grave outside the city.
I originally wanted to find Zheng the butcher to buy some fresh meat.
But I knew there was no hope when I saw the other party’s closed shop from a distance.
So he turned and went to Bafanglou in Anlefang.
Many of the doors, windows, tables and chairs are new and were probably looted and destroyed during the chaos.
There were quite a few people drinking tea and chatting in the lobby.
It wasn't just Chen Mu who came here to collect information.
As usual, I bought a pot of tea and a plate of melon seeds, sat in the corner, and listened to the storyteller telling the causes and consequences of the banditry a few days ago.