(9) The bandit's meeting gift

  Huang Shiyao stared tightly at Yang Shuoming, and after a while, he let out a heavy sigh and nodded. The security captain, on the other hand, looked at Yang Shuoming with a gaze as if looking at a monster, his mouth hanging with an eerie smile.

  "Huang Lao Ye Zi should stop pretending and think of a way to rescue the person, that's the right thing to do." Captain Xu said.

  "If it weren't for the chaotic times, the mountain bandits wouldn't have dared to be so rampant. Now many of the local officials and soldiers have been deployed to the front lines, even the provincial capital's defenses are very empty, which is why they gave the mountain bandits an opportunity to take advantage of the situation." Huang Shiyao sighed and said, "For now, there's no other way, we can only agree to their conditions and pay the ransom to rescue the people."

  After hearing Huang Shi-yao's words, the living room suddenly fell silent.

  "A talent worth 5,000 taels is not expensive." Captain Xu looked at these local gentry and smiled, saying, "It's enough to cover our security team's expenses for a year. If we had been given 5,000 taels earlier, we might have eliminated Hei Lu long ago."

  Captain Xu's words made some of the country gentlemen blush, and Yang Shuo Ming couldn't help but size up this refined man with a hint of amusement, and a bold idea once again popped into his mind.

  Although this idea is somewhat too adventurous.

  At this moment, Wu Guanshi rushed in again, and Yang Shouming noticed that he was holding a large wooden box in his hand, and a bad premonition rose vaguely in his heart.

  Captain Xu looked calmly at Wu Guan Shi, and Yang Shuo Ming noticed that his nose seemed to twitch slightly.

  "What's going on?" Huang Shiyao looked at Wu Guanshi in surprise.

  "The people from Liangshiyu have arrived," said Wu Guanshi, trying to calm down.

  Huang Shiyao carefully opened the lid of the wooden box, took a look inside, and was so frightened that he let out a loud cry and almost fell to the ground.

  Captain Xu saw what was inside the wooden box and his eyes immediately became sharp.

  Yang Shuo Ming also saw clearly that in the wooden box were three bloodstained and blurred human heads!

  The other villagers also saw what was inside the box, and the timid ones cried out in shock. Mrs. Long was so frightened that she fainted, causing a great commotion in the living room.

  Captain Xu stood up and walked to Wu's side, carefully looking at the person inside, his face also turned gloomy.

  At this time, Yang Shuo Ming also got up and came to Wu Guan Shi's side, strongly holding back the nausea brought by the bloody smell on his face, and carefully observed. At this time, his eyes were activated again, and various analysis data kept flowing from the bottom of his eyes.

  "My son..." Madam Long, who had been awakened by being rescued, burst into loud wailing.

  "Madam, don't be sad, this is definitely not a hostage," Yang Shuo Ming said in a low voice.

  Although his voice was not loud, the living room immediately fell silent again.

  "How did you know?" Huang Shiyao asked.

  "The skin on the foreheads of these three people is dark, obviously a result of long-term sun exposure. If they were students, their skin should be finer and whiter. Yang Shaoming said slowly based on the hint in his eyes, "It seems that these three victims should be the children of farming families."

  "Not bad." Captain Xu nodded, looking at Yang Shuo Ming with a hint of surprise in his eyes. "Moreover, their heads were cut off before they had been dead for a long time. It's possible that they were passing merchants."

  "Have the newcomer brought in and questioned." Huang Shiyao quickly calmed down and said to Wu Guan Shi.

  Wu Guanshi covered the head box again and handed it to a servant, turned around and left. Not long after, he brought in a man with a silk shirt and slightly bald hair, who looked like a bandit leader.

  Yang Shuo Ming smelled a strong smell of wine brought in by this person and couldn't help but sneer coldly in his heart.

  The bandit leader who came to offer his head was clearly drunk and had plucked up his courage after drinking.

  "I've seen you all." The bandit leader glanced around the living room, his eyes lingering on Mrs. Long for a few moments before saying, "I'm here to deliver a message from He Dawai of Liangshan Marsh."

  "For a long time, I have admired the heroes of Luanshi Mountain," Huang Shiyao said with a gloomy face. "I had no chance to meet you before, but today I finally get to see you, which is also a fate."

  "Congratulations to Old Man Huang, you've actually hired an expert to secretly rescue Miss Huang." The bandit leader laughed and said, "Actually, Old Man Huang didn't need to do this. Our Big Brother just wanted to help the brothers out since they're a bit short on cash lately, so he thought of getting everyone some spending money. We've been treating Miss Huang and all the young masters and misses well, with plenty of food and drink. But then Old Man Huang sent someone to secretly rescue his own daughter, injuring several of our brothers in the process. This is somewhat unkind. So Big Brother sent a little something over for Old Man Huang through me. I suppose Old Man Huang has already seen it?"

  "What does your master want to tell me?" Huang Shiyao asked, suppressing his anger.

  "Since Old Man Huang has rescued his daughter, we can't do anything about him wanting money. Let's just admit defeat, but this ransom must be made up for by the other young masters and misses. Calculating it out, that's 8,000 big yuan per person." The bandit leader's words carried a hint of unspoken arrogance. "Old Man Huang secretly rescuing Miss Huang is one thing, but he shouldn't have ruined the lives of our Third Brother and several other brothers. Our Great King says we can forget about Miss Huang's ransom, but the murderer must be handed over before tomorrow sundown. We'll bring him to the mountain, where our Great King will dig out his heart to make wine, to offer sacrifices to our Third Brother."

  "What if I refuse?" Huang Shiyao sneered and asked.

  "Old Huang may not agree, but that's okay." The bandit leader chuckled and said, "When the time comes, our He Dawang will come to Double Dragon Town with the other eight mountain masters to demand people. It'll be quite lively then! By the way, I heard Li Xiaohu lost a battle at Lake Mouth? Haha."

  The bandit leader finished speaking and burst out laughing wildly, his eyes scanning the crowd one by one. But when his gaze fell on Yang Shuoming, his laughter suddenly stopped, and a look of terror flashed in his eyes.

  Because in front of him, Yang Shuo Ming was staring at him with a pale red pupil.

  And from these eyes, a fierce and sinister killing intent has already permeated his bones, the cold breath seeming to freeze the air in the living room.

  The leader of the bandits felt an unprecedented panic, he didn't dare to take another look at the handsome young man in front of him, but instead turned around and hastily escaped out of the gate, fleeing swiftly.

  "Damn bandits!" Watching the bandit leader flee in defeat, Huang Shiyao cursed loudly, then turned to look at Yang Shaoming, a hint of bitter smile on his face. "Mr. Yang, you've already heard...".

  "Huh?" Yang Shuo Mingxiang had just come back to his senses, and it was only then that Huang Shi Yao discovered that the red color in his eyes had vanished.

  "It's okay, I'll just go and it's no big deal." Yang Shuoming said calmly.

  As soon as Yang Shuo Ming's words came out, the people in the living room were shocked and lost their color. A rural squire even dropped his tea bowl to the ground. Even Captain Xu stared wide-eyed at him with an incredulous gaze.

  Yang Shuo Ming glanced at the people in the living room who were as still as wooden carvings or clay sculptures, smiled slightly, and didn't say anything else.

  At this time, he has fully immersed himself in the details of the "task plan" formulated with the help of the "Super Computer Eye".

  In the evening, Huang Shiyao paced back and forth in a room with a troubled mind. Madame Huang sat at the table, looking at her restless husband with worried eyes, just as she was about to say some comforting words, Wu Guan Shi pushed open the door curtain and walked in.

  "Where did he go? Old Wu?" Huang Shiyao asked as soon as he saw Wu Guanshi come in.

  "Wu the manager replied: 'I just went to the warehouse and picked up a gun, now I'm trying it out in the yard.'"

  Just as Wu finished speaking, a series of "Bang! Bang! Bang!" gunshots echoed from afar, startling Madame Huang.

  "What kind of gun is he choosing? A long one or a short one?" Huang Shiyao heard the gunshot and didn't feel afraid, but instead raised an eyebrow.

  "It's a short one, made in Germany, 'self-arrived'," replied Wu the manager. "This kid knows his stuff and seems to be familiar with guns."

  "Old Wu, what do you think this person's background is?" Huang Shiyao pulled out a white handkerchief and wiped the sweat from his forehead. "Could he be a spy from the north?"

  "At first, I thought so too, but looking at him, he doesn't seem to have been a soldier." said Wu the housekeeper, "On the contrary, he really looks like an overseas student. Master, you may not have noticed his hands, those are hands that hold pen holders, absolutely not gun handles."

  Wu Guanshi's words had just fallen when gunfire rang out again, seemingly accompanied by the sound of people cheering.

  "But where did he learn such skills?" Huang Shiyao shook his head and said, "He was able to kill six bandits and even rescue Yunzhi from the bandit's lair?"

  "Isn't he just a lone bandit?" Madame Huang asked worriedly.

  "It doesn't look like it," said Wu Guanshi. "Captain Xu also said it wasn't."

  Huang Shiyao thought for a moment and said, "Let's go, Old Wu, come with me to take another look at him."

  Wu Guanshi responded with a sound, bringing Huang Shiyao to the courtyard. As soon as they entered the courtyard, the smell of gunpowder rushed into their noses. Huang Shiyao waved his hand to disperse the blue smoke floating in front of him and saw the scattered tiles on the ground in the distance.

  In the distance, two guards moved a wooden frame to an even farther location, arranged ten clay pots on it, and then ran away. Huang Shiyao saw Yang Shaoming raise his Mauser "box cannon" pistol to aim, and found that he was actually shooting at such a far distance, after which Huang Shiyao couldn't help but feel secretly shocked.

  "Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!" With the faint flames spitting out of the gun muzzle and ten crisp gunshots, the ten clay pots were instantly shattered into pieces.

  "Good!" The nurses shouted "good" in unison again.

  Yang Shuo Ming seemed to have not noticed Huang Shi Yao and Wu Guan Shi looking at him, he thoughtfully looked at the Mauser "Box Cannon" pistol in his hand, quickly starting to load it with extremely skilled movements.