Stumbling along the way, hiding here and there, and enduring the severe pain caused by the disintegration of wounds on his body, he finally got a chance to escape and ascend to heaven. The steward finally lost sight of the shouts of the pursuers behind him and ran towards the top of the hill not far away.

"Stop, who are you?" In the dark night, a voice suddenly remembered.

Hearing this familiar voice, the steward's nose felt sore, and he suddenly felt the urge to cry. Wiping away the tears flowing from the corners of his eyes, the steward said: "It's me, Xu Chengzhang."

"Guanshi Xu?" In the darkness, several figures lifted off their disguises, climbed up from the snow, and ran quickly towards Xu Chengzhang.

When he saw his own person, Xu Chengzhang's heart that had been holding on to him was finally relieved. The pain all over his body filled his brain again. He couldn't bear it any longer and fell down softly. Fortunately, he was supported by the whistle that came over.

"Steward Xu, Steward Xu, what's wrong with you?" Several secret sentries were startled by Xu Chengzhang's appearance. Their faces were bruised and bruised, and their clothes all became tattered.

Yes, there were several obvious marks of being whipped. Dark red blood was constantly printed on the whip marks.

"First carry Manager Xu to the village. Even if you don't freeze to death here, you will freeze to death."

After hearing the leader's words, several secret sentries picked up the steward Xu and walked towards the village on the mountain.

Due to the bumpy mountain road and the pain all over his body, Steward Xu woke up before reaching the village, but he didn't say anything and allowed these people to carry him up the mountain.

This time I was really in trouble. The few hundred civilians were a trivial matter. If they were gone, I would just look for them. The key was the dozens of carts of iron. This was the iron that my boss had finally raised. If my boss knew that I had

The iron material was lost, and Xu Chengzhang felt shuddering as he thought of all the people who were tortured crazy by the family law.

In the village, Fan Shili, the manager of the village, also hurried over after receiving the news. Although he was also a manager, Fan Shili's status was still higher than that of Hu Chengzhang. After all, Fan Shili's surname was Fan and he was a branch of the Fan family, so his status was naturally higher than that of other "outsiders".

"Gao. It's just that Fan Shili and Xu Chengzhang have known each other for many years, and they have become close friends.

Hearing that his friend Xu Chengzhang was robbed by bandits and finally escaped, Fan Shili was naturally worried. When he saw Xu Chengzhang, he quickly ran to his side, held his hand, and said with concern: "Xu Chengzhang"

Old man, why did you become like this? Did you encounter a bandit?"

Hearing his friend's concerned tone, Xu Chengzhang suddenly threw all the little calculations he had just made behind him. He recalled the decades of friendship between the two of them. He could just bear his own mistakes by himself. Why let his friend go to this mess again?

Shui? Immediately he said urgently: "Brother Fan, please quickly ask the servants in the village to strengthen the defense. That bandit leader said that he will attack the village in the middle of the night?"

"What did you say?" Fan Shili frowned and said, "What kind of blind bandits dare to attack the village? Aren't they afraid of whether they will come or go back?"

Seeing that his friend did not believe him, Xu Chengzhang became anxious and said: "Brother Fan, what I said is true. Think about it, I was robbed by bandits while transporting goods, and I will definitely face punishment according to family law in the future.

, at this time, if I want to lie to you, I will definitely ask you to help me snatch that batch of iron materials back so that I can avoid punishment. Just because we have been friends for many years, I don’t want to

You are in danger, so I tell you the truth, there is no need for me to lie to you, those bandits are really coming to attack the village."

As he spoke, Xu Chengzhang told Fan Shili exactly how he was ambushed, how he was tortured, how the bandit leader forced him to take them up the mountain in the middle of the night, and how he finally escaped.

Finally, he said: "You know why I said that the bandits will come back in the middle of the night to attack the stronghold. Go quickly and deploy manpower to defend the stronghold. If it's too late, it will be over."

Fan Shili was a little moved when he heard what his friend said. He could have told himself that there was only a small group of bandits and asked him to send troops to kill the bandits for him and get the iron materials back, but he was worried that he would be ambushed by the bandits, so he would rather let him

Even if you are punished, you won't put yourself in danger. As the saying goes, a horse's power is revealed through a long journey, and a person's heart is revealed over time. This friend is really interesting.

Thinking of this, Fan Shili said emotionally: "Okay, old man Xu, please take good care of yourself. I will arrange manpower right away to ensure that as soon as the bandit comes, not even one of them will be able to come back alive." After that, he waved his hand.

Xu Chengzhang was carried to the doctor in the village and asked to be treated.

After Xu Chengzhang was carried away, Fan Shili fell into deep thought. He vaguely felt that something was wrong, but he couldn't figure out what was wrong. Since he couldn't think of it, he didn't think about it. Anyway, it would be right to defend the village first.

, so he ordered to wake up all the servants and return to their respective positions, ready to welcome the bandits' attack at any time.

The servants were all sleeping when they were woken up. They were naturally dissatisfied, but they didn't dare to show it. They could only curse in secret in their hearts. They came to the village wall listlessly one by one, looking at the dark night outside.

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Haha~ A servant yawned, wrapped himself in a cotton coat, and complained dissatisfied: "Who would choose to build a stronghold at this time of night? It's really unethical to wake us up at this time."

"Shh! Shut up. I heard that the bandits were robbed when Manager Xu was delivering iron materials to us. The bandits told him that they were coming to attack the stockade in the middle of the night, so Manager Fan asked everyone to urgently defend the stockade."

"The bandit leader told Steward Xu to attack the village in the middle of the night, and asked Steward Xu to inform us to prepare for defense?" The yawning servant looked at the man with disgust, "Do you think the bandits are stupid? Or are you stupid?

If the bandits are coming to beat you, will he send someone to notify you? That’s stupid.”

"You..." The man was choked and couldn't speak. Thinking about it, he seemed to be the same. If it were him, he would never tell others in advance that he was going to beat him. Just as he was about to say something, he saw a livid face.

Fan Shili came over and was so scared that he quickly shut up.

The winter night was extremely quiet. Fan Shili, who was on patrol, listened closely to the conversation between the two servants. He finally thought about what was wrong. How could the bandit leader tell Xu Chengzhang that he would let him go after he planned to attack the village?
Chapter completed!