December 2, 1914

Today, the entire security team has suspended training. Except for those who are patrolling and standing guard, all the rest go to the ground to help harvest food.

In the paddy fields, rice bent down by the ears of rice filled with grains, which seemed to symbolize the joy of a bumper harvest. Within half a month, after harvesting and drying these millets, the grains were returned to the warehouse to fill the farmers' stomachs that had been hungry for decades.

However, not everyone is happy. Some people have long faces that are longer than donkeys, and they don’t even say that they run away, but they also have a beard and stare at them.

“What a great harvest!”

The infamous Huashi Town mayor Li Liupi looked at the golden rice fields connected in front of him, and his eyes were filled with greedy green light, but his brows were frowning into a wrinkle, and his mouth was clattering with cigarette bags, and he looked like a thief-eyed mouse-eyed look.

"Dad, this year, the mud legs can also eat delicious rice. Damn it, even our family can't bear to eat it every day, I'm sorry!"

The mayor's eldest son spat.

The scheming Li Liupi was smoking a dry cigarette while thinking about the increasingly strange things that had become more and more strange in the past six months. First, a foreigner came for no reason, and then he settled in Qinghe Village and set up a factory. At first, he used a lot of oceans to respect himself. He was obsessed with money and actually helped him set up a security team. Now people want people, and guns, but he can't do anything to them. Although there are a few guns in the town, it is not enough for them to stuff their teeth.

Because his family did not work in his factory, they could not buy fertilizers, and the landlords could not get seeds, compared with the rice that had used fertilizers, their fields seemed to have been gnawed by pigs, and the yield was pitifully small. The Chen surnamed is not allowed to change to collect rice for rent. For generations of mud legs, when should they eat white rice? They only eat it once every three days on weekdays, but they can eat it open in half a month.

This acre of land has a harvest of at least five or six hundred kilograms.

Today last year, those mud legs could afford any seed fertilizer. They took some rotten sweet potatoes from their own granaries and used them for seeding. But in a blink of an eye, the mud legs were actually doing better than themselves.

"Dad...Dad..." The mayor's eldest son shouted twice before he woke Li Liupi from his thoughts, "Dad, why don't we do something ruthless this time and clean it up for them in the middle of the night. The previous few times we opened the gap in the ridge of the field and released water, but they couldn't cure them. This time we could just do something ruthless. If we let them have enough food, our family's profits would not be able to be released."

Although he is not old, his heart is very good-looking. When he matches that little white face, he is really called a wolf, dog heart is not human.

"Profit? No, they must not be allowed to happily take back the rice!"

Looking at the mountains in the distance, Wang Decai suddenly thought of a solution and took his own calf back almost like a trot, which was also a blessing for his 50s-year-old man Yan.

As the night was dark, a few black shadows left the house in the dark, and they didn't know where to go at night.

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"Brother, this year's rice harvest is really good. Just the part of our family's fields, we have to make at least a few hundred kilograms of rice."

Yu Liang looked at the rice in his own field and said to Yu Xing beside him. Yu Xing nodded and returned: "Thanks to Boss Chen, this year, there will be big white noodles to roll dumpling wonton skins!"

"Brother, why don't the militia recruit soldiers next year, I'll go and my mother at home will take care of you."

"Don't, I'll go. You're still young, so I'd better continue to work in the steel factory. The militia group of young people probably won't want you."

"No, I'll go."

"I'll go"

Just as the two brothers were fighting, several people bowed their heads and hurried over them.

"Hey, brother, isn't that short guy the housekeeper in Li Papi's mansion? When he came to collect rent last year, he asked someone to beat us." When the people walked a little further, his younger brother Yu Liang hurriedly said to his older brother Yu Xing.

"Yes, these evil spirits are walking so fast and still lowering their heads, so there will definitely be no good things. Are they thinking about the food in our fields?"

"How about this. Let's follow and take a look, and report it to Boss Chen immediately if there is any situation."

The brothers nodded to each other and followed them with their bodies. In addition, it was getting dark, and the few people in front of them did not notice it.

After following for a while, they came to the gate of Li's mansion in the town. The two brothers who followed behind saw the people knocking on the door. Suddenly one of the stronger men raised their heads and looked back. Fortunately, the two brothers hid quickly, and with the light at the gate of Li's mansion, both brothers saw the man's face.

"Isn't that Wang Mazi? Why did Li Bapi collude with him?"

"Yes, it's Wang Mazi. It seems that Li Bapi is interested in our food. Boss Chen doesn't let him collect rent. He contacts the bandits to come and rob."

"Then let's report to Boss Chen as soon as possible. Boss Chen is the head of the security team and ask him to prepare in advance."

The two brothers took advantage of the night and rushed back to Qinghe Village.

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"Ge Laozi, the fields in just a few villages can harvest at least 30,000 to 40,000 kilograms of rice!!" Wang Ermazi, who had just inquired about the situation from Qinghe Village, cursed in the hall of Li's mansion. He originally didn't believe there was so much food, and he and Li Liupi had sex, so he came to take a look and stumbled on the way.

Guangxi, Huashi County is close to the deep mountains of Laohu Mountain. This is a famous bandit nest, and the biggest one is the bandit in front of me with a stingy face. This man has a round head, a scar on his chin and hanging upside down to his ears. A savage face covered with pockmarks is still fresh in memory for those who have seen him. Wang Ermazi of Tiger Mountain. There are seven or eight bandits of all sizes on the entire Tiger Mountain, and Wang Ermazi is the largest. The boss is Wang Ermazi's biological brother. Two brothers from the early years of slaughtering brothers. Ruma has led a team of more than a thousand people after decades of killing people. Because he accidentally destroyed the whole family of a Gui army general, he was always thinking about him. And Tiger Mountain is the best place for them to escape from such a life of hardship. There is also the huge temptation of tens of thousands of kilograms of rice, which makes him unable to sit still.

Li Liupi (Li Liupi translated it in Minnan accent: You peel it) hunched over and sang, "Commander Wang doesn't know where this man surnamed Chen fell from. He stayed in Qinghe Village with a stern face and didn't leave, but now he has made new rice from several villages. A mu of land has at least hundreds of kilograms of yield. A total of several villages is just tens of thousands of kilograms of rice!"

"Ten thousand pounds..." Wang Ermazi subconsciously licked half of it and was cut off by a knife and said, "You mayor Li Da are so kind. I remember there are more than a hundred people in your town. How could you think of passing the news to me? Are you uneasy to be kind?"

Li Liupi is such a cunning person. He immediately told the prepared lie, "Commander Wang knows that Chen Shao has set up a security team, which also has 200 guns and local cannons. I have only one hundred people here, and I am really not an opponent. Besides, our friendship for many years should be made known to you." The local cannon he mentioned is the 75mm mountain cannon of the security team. Li Liupi has never seen it. He only occasionally went to Qinghe Village to hear the sound of artillery training of the security team artillery. He thought it was an ordinary local cannon. Even if he told him that it was a real Western cannon, he probably wouldn't believe that a small security team could have such good equipment, so this was destined to be their tragedy.

"Ground Cannon?" Wang Ermazi was not simple in his mind to become the overlord of the Tiger Mountain area.

"Yes, it's definitely a rustic cannon." Li Liupi was afraid that he would not believe it and answered quickly.

"It's also a blessing for you, the old guy, to come to invite me all night. I'm afraid you can't get through it. Let's talk about how many people and guns there are in the Laoshizi security team?" Wang Ermazi had the reason to be moved. It was almost the end of the year, and there was no food in the copycat. It was not enough to grab points in a small area, let alone expand the team.

1,200 guns and dozens of horses were the property that their brothers had saved in recent years. Now the power of the bandits has stagnated for a long time. The most important reason is that they have no money, no guns, no food.

"The security team was just a local cannon, with more than 200 guns, all of which were mud legs that put down their hoes. They were far from brave and good at fighting than the men of the boss." Li Liupi spitted disdainfully. It was sad enough. There were more than 100 people when the security team was established. He knew this. According to his idea, it only took half a year to say that more than 200 people were worthy of the security team. Moreover, there were only a few people on patrol and stand guard outside every day, so Li Liupi felt that he would never miss this.

"Haha, if it is true as you said, I really want to meet that Captain Chen. Brother Li, I am indebted to you. Brother Li has also wanted to move recently, but I have no food and salary for one or two, but I have no good fortune."

Wang Ermazi walked to Li Liupi with a smile, patted him on the shoulder, and almost beat the old guy up to the ground. He turned around and shouted, "Come on, prepare the best banquet for me. Today I want to drink and chat with Brother Li, and I will stop drunk!"
Chapter completed!