Chapter 3
The Hu clan leader was very insightful. He knew that the bandit leader Du Xianzhi would not let him go.
Very early that day, around before six o'clock, a group of war horses entered Hujiayuan, led by Du Xianzhi.
Du Xianzhi is the son of Du Fenggao. Du Fenggao is an old bandit in Yuhua Mountain. He has been the king of the mountain since the Xuantong period of the Qing Dynasty. After the Xinhai Revolution, the Qing Dynasty fell, but Du Fenggao lived a comfortable life.
Du Fenggao was living a good life. But when he was fifty-seven years old, one day, the whole family gathered together for dinner. At first, everything was fine, and Du Fenggao even praised the delicious food.
But while he was eating, Du Fenggao suddenly slid to the ground. Everyone panicked and rushed to help him up, but when they checked his breath, he was gone. The whole family burst into tears.
Later, some people said that Du Fenggao had a myocardial infarction, while others said that he had a cerebral vascular explosion. No matter what it was, both acute illnesses could not move him. If he did not move, he could still be saved. If he moved, everything would be over!
After Du Fenggao died, Du Xianzhi inherited his father's mantle and became the king of the mountain.
When Du Fenggao was alive, he had a bad reputation. Bandits make a living by robbing. There are very few bandits who don't kill people, and there are almost no bandits who don't make enemies.
Think about it, who would be willing to take someone else's property as their own, to gain something without any effort, and if they don't obey, they will be beaten at the least and killed at the worst. Even if they obey on the surface, they still don't obey in their heart.
Du Xianzhi inherited his father's legacy, but he was even better than him. Everything else was a piece of cake. Just seeing that he dared to beat up outsiders and set off outsiders' sky lanterns, we knew that Du Xianzhi was a man who was not afraid of anything.
Du Xianzhi is here to call for punishment.
As soon as Du Xianzhi saw the head of the Hu clan, he shook his face like a thunder god and shouted in a stern voice: "Mr. Hu, where are those three children?"
The chief of the Hu tribe said, "Your Majesty, calm down! Those three little kids have been taken away by their relatives."
"What relative? How dare you block my path to wealth?" Du Xianzhi's bell-like eyes widened, becoming as big as cow eggs.
"Your Majesty, she said she was my cousin." said the chief of the Hu tribe.
"Cousin, what cousin? Were you sold to human traffickers?" Du Xianzhi persisted.
"My lord, how dare I? Even if you give me ten courages, I still wouldn't dare!" said the head of the Hu clan, "She is really the cousin of those three little boys. Feng Tianyu knows her. The woman said her name is Lin Xiner."
"What? What did you say? Her name is Yi Yi." Du Xianzhi asked anxiously after hearing it.
The Hu clan leader thought he had said something he shouldn't have said, and he said tremblingly, "My lord, she said her name is Lin Xin'er."
"Lin Xiner!" Du Xian's face changed drastically when he heard it, first from red to white, then from white to blue, and finally to a purple eggplant!
Du Xianzhi stopped talking and looked at the people. He twisted the reins, squeezed his legs against the horse's belly, and ran back. When the subordinates behind him saw that their master had left, they immediately whipped their whips to catch up.
The head of the Hu family was so frightened that he stood there motionless like a clay Buddha in a temple.
Why did Du Xianzhi have such an expression and such actions? Why did he "change color when he heard about Lin Xin'er"?
It turned out that Lin Xiner was the leader of the Wushan bandits.
Didn’t I introduce at the beginning that there are groups of bandits on each of the five mountains on both sides of Yuanshui River, Luoshan, Beishan, Jilongshan, Shenghuashan and Yuhuashan?
Luoshan is located in the east, is the highest and largest mountain, and its bandits are the most famous.
The king of this mountain is the famous Lin Xiner.
Lin Xin'er is also called Lin Xiu'er. Only those who know the difference know that the two names refer to the same person, while those who don't know the difference may think they are two different people.
Lin Xiner is twenty-two years old this year. She has been a bandit for twenty-two years, plus the ten months she spent in her mother’s womb.
In other words, like Du Xianzhi, she is a filial son and granddaughter of a bandit. She has inherited her father's legacy and is also a mountain king.
However, she is still different from the others as a mountain king. She is different in her approach!
First, her father had retired from robbery and never robbed again.
If you don't rob, you will grow up starving?
No! In Luoshan, all villages, big and small, perform their duties, hunting, logging, farming, growing medicinal herbs, quarrying, etc., all walks of life develop freely.
But no matter what kind of occupation they were in or what kind of work they did, the fruits of their labor would all be handed over to the mountain king.
The mountain king will divide the people into different levels according to their occupations and redistribute them according to the levels.
At first, it was physical objects, but physical objects were inconvenient for daily life. Later, it became daily necessities: oil, salt, rice, cloth, etc. Later, physical objects were turned into currency. Currency was used to buy daily necessities.
Lin Xiner's father died, and the young Lin Xiner took over his father's legacy and managed Luoshan to become more prosperous. Her power exceeded Luoshan itself and had radiated to the surrounding areas of Luoshan.
In this way, Luoshan was called the first of the five mountains, and Lin Xiner was called the king of the five mountains.
Second, she did not go against the government. This happened in recent years, that is, two or three years after her father's death.
This is not her new invention! She did this because her teacher taught her.
Her teacher said to her, "Xin'er, do you know why people hate bandits?"
Xin'er replied: "Of course, the bandits robbed the common people, and the common people suffered. Of course, people hated the bandits."
Her teacher said: "It's just a saying, and it's just a superficial saying."
"Or just on the surface?" Xin'er didn't understand.
"Xin'er, do you know why the government wants to suppress bandits?" her teacher asked again.
"Needless to say, the government protects the people!" Xin'er replied.
"No!" said her teacher.
"On the surface, it's to protect the people, but in reality it's to protect the interests of the government. Think about it, these things snatched from the bandits were originally meant to be handed over to the government by the people!"
"Yeah!" Xiner nodded.
"But the bandits robbed it, and the government asked the common people to pay it back. The common people couldn't pay it back, so the government had to arrest them and put them in jail. The common people in jail need to eat, right? Have you figured out the cost?"
"So, some people suggested that we should not put the cart before the horse and should eliminate the bandits first, and then the people will be willing to hand them over."
"So that's it!" Xiner said.
"What if the government can't defeat the bandits?" Xiner asked.
"Then we'll have to take turns to rule the country until we win."
"Oh, so you mean that if we don't want to be enemies with the government, we must first satisfy the government's interests." Xin'er asked.
"It depends on what the government does."
It should be said that Lin Xiner's teacher taught Lin Xiner some very simple truths, and these truths more or less had an effect on Lin Xiner's heart.
Third, Lin Xiner had received education. When she was four or five years old, Lin Xiner's father hired a tutor to teach her alone.
This teacher has some historical connection with the Lin family. Although the Lin family is a bandit family, it is impossible for them to be without friends, and some of them are very special friends.