Chapter 5: To Be Continued After Dizziness

  Li Shi Jing was very unlucky today, having just returned to the country for a few days, she was kidnapped by bandits while playing in the suburbs. Fortunately, this group of bandits seemed to be targeting her guards instead of women, and they let her guards go to inform her father to pay a ransom of 10,000 silver coins.

  Listening to the bandits outside, it seemed that they were approaching the bandit's lair. Suddenly, gunshots and explosions were heard from outside, and soon the bandits became chaotic. Li Shijin did not open the curtain of the sedan chair but was still affected by tear gas. Then she heard someone shouting outside, asking the bandits to surrender.

  After more than ten minutes, the sedan chair was lifted open, and a guy wearing a pig head mask appeared in front of her, giving her a fright.

  It's really shocking.

  But just a moment later, it turned into astonishment. The person took off his mask, and Li Shijin saw an outfit that felt both not very strange and yet very strange.

  Xia Jun wore a T-shirt on top and jeans on the bottom, with a military backpack on his back, holding an M1 Garand sniper rifle, a grenade launcher, and a handgun in one hand.

  For Li Shijin, who returned from studying abroad, such dressing is very ordinary. The clothes and pants look trendy, basically seen in foreign countries, but the Chinese people she has seen abroad are basically not dressed like this.

  What surprised her even more was that this man in front of her did not have a queue.

  "Miss, you're safe now." Xia Jun said loudly to her, as if he had come specifically to rescue her.

  "Oh! Alright, thank you." Li Shiying hastily expressed her gratitude and got down from the sedan chair with Xia Jun's support. As soon as she got down, she saw a group of bandits tied up like sugarcanes, looking around but only seeing Xia Jun alone.

  "My goodness!" Li Shijian was shocked, covering her mouth with her hand. At this time, Xia Jun saw that a few bandits on the other side were muttering something. Holding a gun, he walked over to the bandits and kicked Zhang Xiutai, the leader of the bandits, in the foot, shouting: "Don't play tricks, bullets don't recognize people."

  "Yes, yes, Grandfather, your mighty power is unmatched, how dare we lowly mice make any rash moves." Zhang Xiūcái flattered with his mouth, but kept rolling his eyes at Xia Jun, who ended up kicking him in the butt.

  "Ouch." Zhang Xiūcái clutched his buttocks and took a tumble.

  "You lead the way, to Tangkeng Village." Xia Jun said with his handgun pointed at him. Zhang Xiuzai turned around, looked at the road ahead, and after a while, he turned back and shouted weakly: "Brothers, let's go!"

  Xia Jun beckoned to the girl and Li Shijian saw it and hurriedly ran over.

  "Classmate, where are we going?" Li Shijin ran up and asked Xia Jun in a hurry, "Oh! Sorry, I don't even know your name yet, classmate."

  "My name is Xia Jun, and you?" Xia Jun asked, thinking to himself that a beautiful woman like this was a rare resource these days, and he should make the most of it.

  "My name is Li Shiying, are you also a returned overseas student?" Li Shiying asked Xia Jun, she could tell from his attire that he was probably a young man who had studied abroad.

  "Hmm! You too?" Xia Jun feigned surprise.

  "I just returned from America." Li Shijin said, Xia Jun heard and couldn't help but think that this fake encounter with the real one would easily be exposed.

  Li Shiying was very excited to meet a fellow international student in this remote area, and it was indeed not easy. She chattered on and asked about Xia Jun's situation.

  Xia Jun just talked about running a train with his mouth, saying that he had an uncle doing business abroad, and had been to various countries such as the UK and the US, but was not very familiar.

  Li Shi Jing quickly developed a strong interest in Xia Jun's attire and asked where he bought his clothes.

  "This is called a short shirt, this is called jeans, it's my own design." Xia Jun said shamelessly. At that time, there was no T-shirt, because the word "T-shirt" was not quite proper, as it contained letters.

  "Jeans were already available in America, but they didn't have zippers and this was a slimming style." Xia Jun continued.

  Li Shijin was taken aback, her mouth agape in surprise, and somewhat disbelieving. Xia Jun spoke incessantly, "I thought of this kind of clothing when I was abroad, so I made a set myself. Look at this."

  Xia Jun said, pointing to the cartoon sheep pattern on his T-shirt, "I also drew this, it's called Pleasant Goat."

  "How cute." Li Shijian exclaimed, Xia Jun's face involuntarily turned slightly red. This T-shirt was bought by his cousin, and since the pattern was a happy sheep, he basically didn't wear it. However, Xia Jun was usually quite sloppy, and his clothes were too lazy to wash. On the day of the crossing, he really had no clothes to wear, so he put on this T-shirt with the happy sheep printed on it.

  "Haha! Of course, I originally wanted to make an animated film, but unfortunately the technical conditions were not sufficient." Xia Jun's mouth ran wildly, thinking, 'First stun her and then talk.'

  All the way, summer Jun's shamelessness was fully demonstrated at this moment, without any hesitation, he claimed to be the inventor of T-shirts and jeans, and even talked about cartoons and movies, making Li Shijin stunned.

  Movies had already appeared in the West, but they were primitive, looking rather monotonous, not only black and white, but also silent.

  All the way to Tangkeng Village, Li Shijin was indeed stunned and couldn't distinguish between reality and fantasy for a while.

  A large crowd came to the village, Lin Debao was startled immediately, ran out and took a look, and was stunned instantly. Xia Jun, who had been missing for nearly a week, returned, and even brought back a large group of bandits.

  "Old, old brother, did you really capture them?" Lin Debao stared at the group of bandits strung up like sugarcanes, stuttering as he spoke.

  "It's taken so long to deal with this group of bandits, it's embarrassing in front of Lin," Xia Jun smiled and said, "Quickly have someone lock them up first, don't let them escape."

  "Alright, alright." Lin Debao hastily directed the villagers to tie up the 23 bandits in the cowshed. Rubbing his hands together, he said to Du Xiajun: "Brother, you're indeed a man of both literary and military prowess! How do you plan to deal with these bandits? Should we send them to the authorities?"

  "Let's just send the officials away, these bandits have some fat to be squeezed! Let's squeeze out their money first and then talk about it. The 3,000 taels of silver that Brother Lin lost must be recovered." Xia Jun said with a smile, but he had other plans for wanting to help Lin Debao recover his silver.

  "Then thank you, old Di. Ah, who is this?" Lin De Bao looked at Li Shi Jing and asked.

  "This is Miss Li. She was kidnapped by bandits while traveling and I happened to rescue her, so she will be staying in the village for a night." Xia Jun introduced.

  Lin Debao and Li Shijin chatted for a while, learned that Li Shijin was also an American overseas student, and sighed: "It turns out that both of you are returned overseas students from the United States, our Tangkeng Village really has noble guests."

  "Hehe, hehe!" Xia Jun just smiled and didn't respond, thinking to himself that if he dug deeper, he would be exposed. So Xia Jun continued on his own into the village, with Lin Debao hastily following behind.

  After entering the house, the three of them sat down. Xia Jun said to Lin Debao: "Older brother, I have something to discuss with you."

  "Whatever it is, I'll definitely help if I can," Lin Debao said with a pat on his chest. Xia Jun hesitated for a moment before speaking, "It's like this, my younger brother has just returned to the country not long ago, and my parents were killed by bandits. This time, although I want to avenge my hatred, I don't know who the murderer is, and I have no one to help me. Single-handedly taking down the bandits on Stone Ox Mountain was also very perilous."

  "Uh-huh, that's right, what do you mean, little brother?" Lin Debao nodded and asked softly, but his mind was racing with thoughts, wondering what Xia Jun wanted him to help with.

  "My younger brother, I want to establish a security team in Shiniu Mountain, specializing in eliminating bandits and pacifying the people. The only problem is that there are not enough men, and even if we recruit those local bandits, they can't be trusted. So, I plan to recruit some young and strong villagers to join us on the mountain for training." Xia Jun said, "For anyone who joins, we will provide six silver coins per month."

  "This..." Lin De Bao hesitated.

  "After our security team was established, Tangkeng Village is under our protection. We will absolutely not allow bandits to invade the village and harass us." Xia Jun said with a sudden smile: "Don't worry, brother, even if something really happens, it has nothing to do with the village at all."

  "Little brother said where words, big brother I help this busy is." Lin Debao hurriedly said, the words have been said to this extent, he really can't refuse.

  The two of them chatted and soon became like brothers, and when Lin Debao agreed to help, Xia Jun was overjoyed. With the help of this landlord who was equivalent to a village chief, recruiting people would be no problem.

  But the money hasn't arrived yet, first we have to extort it from those bandits.

  During the summer, Jun opened the exchange platform and saw that his points had increased to 5,500. He had captured twenty-three bandits, bringing him 5,000 points.

  At 200 points per ordinary bandit, that's a total of 4,400 points, and the other 600 points were contributed by Zhang Xiutai.

  It seems that Zhang Xiutai is not poor and evil enough. According to the information provided by the platform's assistant program, the more vicious and evil the bandit leader is, the more points he gets.