I feel so good after dressing up as a peasant girl

Chapter 186 Waiting for the Bandits

After Bai Jingzhou said this, those hostages understood the pros and cons of this matter.

Indeed, a treacherous villain like the peddler, who is greedy and forgetful of his principles when seeing profit, and who would even blackmail his savior, would definitely sell them all out for a few taels of silver after he comes down the mountain.

Since the safety of themselves, their families, and their friends was at stake, everyone no longer thought that Bai Jingshan was making a big fuss by suddenly going crazy.

Everyone looked at the peddler as if he were a dead person.

The peddler was scared when he remembered this, but it was too late. Even if Bai Jingzhou and Bai Jingshan wanted to let him go, the other hostages would not agree.

But even so, Bai Jingzhou was still kind enough to let the peddler know clearly that he had died. He told the peddler, "There is not even 20 taels of gold in this village. When you lie again in your next life, remember to consider the actual situation first."

The peddler, who was seeking his own death, cried and begged Bai Jingzhou and Bai Jingshan to let him go, but his admission of fault and repentance were not credible at all in the eyes of others.

So in the end, he was still killed by Bai Jingshan with a knife.

After listening to Bai Jingzhou's story, Gu Wenxuan felt that the peddler must be crazy about money. Which normal peddler would carry 20 taels of gold with him? Was he afraid that others would come to rob him because he had so much money?

She said, "Even if he said it was twenty taels of silver."

Bai Jingzhou nodded in agreement, "But he did see gold in the bandit camp. He said it was a small box, about 100 taels of gold."

Gu Wenxuan sighed, "It must have been taken away by the person behind the scenes."

Bai Jingzhou corrected her, "It wasn't taken away, it was sent away. I inquired about the frequency of their sale of stolen goods and transfer of property, as well as the time they took to go back and forth each time, and found that every three months, the first or second in command would personally escort a batch of gold and silver down the mountain."

Gu Wenxuan asked: "How long do they stay away each time?"

Bai Jingzhou replied: "Between twelve and fifteen days."

Gu Wenxuan breathed a sigh of relief. "It seems that their master is not keeping this group of bandits under his nose."

Bai Jingzhou nodded, "This is good news for us."

Gu Wenxuan agreed with this, but she still said, "Then we have to be extra careful."

After a brief discussion on the follow-up matters, Bai Jingzhou and Gu Wenxuan went back to their own business.

The group looted frantically, put all the stuff on the backs of animals or on wooden carts, then gathered together and started to deal with the bandits.

They started with the boss first. The older ones, Gu Yongming, Fang Dashan's four brothers, Fang Youfu and Fang Yougui, were responsible for sending the bandits on their way. Jia Guizhi and the younger ones, Gu Wenxuan, Bai Jingzhou and others, were responsible for keeping a close eye on the women, the elderly and children.

Those who showed hatred towards them were undoubtedly the relatives of these bandits. They were crying and laughing because of their great revenge, and they were shouting about their dead relatives. There was no doubt that they had grudges against these bandits.

As for a few who looked numb or trembling with their heads down, making it difficult to see their expressions, whether they should be killed or released would need to be judged based on the confessions of the victims.

After all this trouble, everyone dug a pit and buried the bodies of the bandits with the help of the victims who were willing to lend a hand.

It was not until the sun was setting that they gave money and dry food to the victims and let them go down the mountain and find other ways to make a living.

After finishing all these, Gu Wenxuan looked at the sky and thought that the third in command should have realized that he had been fooled, so he organized everyone to lead the cattle and horses and push the carts down the mountain.

The bandit camp had a total of three cows, six horses, and ten idle wooden carts of varying sizes.

Three oxen and six horses were used to pull the carts, and Fang Youfu and Gu Wenxuan pushed the smallest wooden cart together. Everyone lined up in a column and carefully set foot on the steep mountain road built by the bandits.

After properly placing the things they brought out on a flat wasteland at the foot of the mountain, Gu Wenxuan left Fang Dashan and Fang Dahe to look after their spoils, while she hurriedly took the others to make follow-up arrangements.

Just as she and Bai Jingzhou had expected, the third in command not only knew that the news about the new Hua Niang in the town was fake, but he also heard that their village had failed in the robbery today and more than a hundred of his brothers had been killed by the caravan.

The townspeople and merchants did not dare to openly express their gloating, for fear that they, their families and companions would become the targets of the remaining bandits' anger, but they still had the courage to state the facts objectively.

The news spread in the town like wildfire. The Third In Command, who was angry because the news that there was a new beauties in the town was fake, no longer cared about his lust after hearing the news and immediately ordered people to gather all the bandits who were looking for fun in the town.

Normally he wouldn't care how people played, after all, he himself was not an honest and obedient person. But now that their village has fallen into a big trouble, he can no longer let these guys go.

The third in command hurried to the mountain stronghold with the other bandits he had summoned back, and then he fell into the trap that Gu Wenxuan and others had dug in advance.

It is true that people with great strength are suitable for doing physical work. Gu Wenxuan and several brothers from the Fang family worked together and made a deep, wide and long trap in less than a quarter of an hour.

After inserting a sharpened wooden stick made by Gu Yongming and others using local materials into the trap, Gu Wenxuan and the Fang brothers climbed up to the ground by pulling the rope.

After they came up, Bai Jingzhou led his men to lay down branches and move the soil and grass in that place back to their original state.

The Third In Command and his companions were completely unprepared for this move. They screamed and wailed, and fell into the trap dug in advance by Gu Wenxuan and others at the foot of the Shuanmaling Mountain, which they were most familiar with, where they originally set up a tea stall to deceive passers-by.

Gu Wenxuan had seen scenes that were a hundred times bloodier than this, so she didn't find it scary at all to see people having their bodies pierced by the tips of wooden sticks. However, she was very careful to protect Jia Yuelan, Bai Jingshan and others who had never seen such a scene.

After the wailing sounds from inside the trap stopped, Gu Wenxuan and Bai Jingzhou walked to the edge of the pit.

The third in command, who was responsible for all kinds of evil, was unlucky. He had his carotid artery pierced directly by a tree branch. Most of the others were only injured in their arms, legs, soles of their feet and other parts that would not cause immediate death.

Gu Wenxuan reached out to Jia Yuelan who was hiding behind her and said, "Give me the bow and arrow."

Jia Yuelan hurriedly handed Gu Wenxuan's special bow and arrow to her. By the way, the little girl also took a quick look into the big pit.