Chapter 243: Continuous Sincerity

Li Banfeng squatted beside the mountain road for a whole day, and robbed several carts of food, livestock, cloth, daily necessities...

When he robbed a cart of miscellaneous goods, Li Banfeng also specially exchanged his experience with the farmer who was robbed:

"Look at this vanishing cream, the quality is obviously not good. I am an expert in this area, and the peddler is my junior brother!"

Xiao Yeci and Lu Chunying pushed the cart to move into the cave one by one, and the food and drink were piled up.

The children had full stomachs, and Xiao Yeci took out needles and thread and tape measures from the pile of groceries to make clothes for the children.

These children only had one set of clothes, which were covered with mud when they escaped. They had been hiding in the deep mountains and forests for more than a month, and there were holes in their clothes. They had no time to sew or wash them, and they looked really tattered.

This thing was done in a decent way. Li Banfeng robbed so much cloth to make clothes for the children.

After dinner, Li Banfeng asked about the origins of these children one by one.

A child named Xiaosuo met a candy seller while playing outside the yard. The seller said that business was good today, so he gave him candy for free to show his support.

After eating the candy, Xiaosuo fainted. The candy seller asked him to follow, so he followed all the way and got on the carriage.

After getting on the carriage, he wanted to go home, but he couldn't. If he dared to move, the candy seller would beat him to death.

There were several other children who had very similar experiences. Some met candy blowers, some met shadow puppets, and some met puppet shows.

These were the common methods used by Jiang Xiangbang to kidnap children. Li Banfeng had heard of similar things whether from other states or in the province.

The remaining children were sent to this place by their parents, which Li Banfeng could not understand.

Their parents were from other places and had no money to settle down in Jingde Village, so they put together all their savings and sent their children to Jingde Village, so that their children could receive the education of a saint and have the opportunity to succeed.

"Don't your parents come to visit you?"

The younger children were silent.

An older child shouted, "My dad came once, and I told him I wanted to go home. He slapped me twice, and I never saw him again."

Children who grew up here are used to being tortured.

The children who were abducted were forced to be tortured.

What about these children who were sent here by their parents?

Li Banfeng was in deep thought when he suddenly heard Lu Chunying shout, "Mom, those bastards are here to steal food again!"

As soon as Li Banfeng went out, he saw a dozen half-grown boys standing in the distance, confronting Lu Chunying.

A 13- or 14-year-old boy, holding a bamboo stick in his hand, shouted at Lu Chunying, "We don't have the time to argue with you, a runner. Tell your boss to come out and speak!"

Xiao Yeci walked out of the cave.

The young man clasped his fists towards Xiao Yeci and said, "When we travel the world, we are under the banner of our ancestors and rely on the loyalty that is as heavy as a mountain of gold.

Sister, you are a good person (good at making money), and you have eaten all kinds of delicacies from the mountains and the sea, so just give a bowl of soup to the junior brothers!"

The others followed behind and made a lot of noise. Xiao Yeci was angry and annoyed. Looking at these children, she didn't know how to reply for a while: "Oh, you little bastard, you came out to steal things, and you still talk so annoyingly!"

Li Banfeng walked out of the cave and responded very seriously: "Shoulder to shoulder on the box, which line are you sliding on?"

When they saw Li Banfeng, the group of half-grown boys were half a head shorter.

They didn't know what level Li Banfeng was, but seeing an adult man, they couldn't help but feel scared.

The leading child bravely replied: "We are disciples of the Seventh Master. If you haven't heard of the name of the Seventh Master, go to our house and ask!"

Seventh Master?

Li Banfeng was stunned for a moment, then thought about the child's accent and asked, "Are you from Haichiling?"

The child nodded and said, "Grandpa has good eyesight!"

Li Banfeng said, "Shake a vine!"

The child thought for a long time and replied, "Horn, horn, horn..."

Li Banfeng laughed.

He should have wanted to say horn vine.

"Your surname is Niu, do you know Laobing Village?" Almost every family in Laobing Village has the surname Niu.

The child nodded and said, "I am from Laobing Village, my name is Niu Guangda!"

"Do you know Niu Fuzhi?"

"The Niu family is a good man, blessed and ambitious. That's my uncle."

Li Banfeng laughed.

How did this kid come to this place?

"Were you kidnapped by a trafficker?"

Niu Guangda shook his head and said, "I was sent here by my father. He told me to learn real skills."

Li Banfeng looked at the other children: "Did these children come with you?"

"They are not from Laobing Village, but like me, they were sent to Jingxian Village by their parents."

Jingxian Village, these are children who escaped from another village.

Li Banfeng nodded: "Call all of you here, there is food to eat!"

Niu Guangda hesitated for a moment and asked, "Sir, I haven't asked for your name yet."

Xiao Yeci pulled Li Banfeng: "Benefactor, the world is dangerous, some things can't be easily told to others."

Easily tell others?

Do you know my name?

Xiao Yeci is actually the same as them, she doesn't know what Li Banfeng's name is.

Li Banfeng looked at Niu Guangda and said, "My surname is En, and I call you Benefactor."

His surname is En...

Niu Guangda turned around and looked at the children around him: "Who of you has learned the Hundred Family Surnames, is there a surname called En?"

...

That night, Niu Guangda took a dozen children and lived in the cave next door. Li Banfeng gave them a lot of food, but also explained the reason to them.

"Food and drink are not given for free. You have to work hard for me tomorrow."

Niu Guangda is a sensible young man. He straightened his back and said to Li Banfeng: "No merit, no reward. We all understand this principle. Without the benefactor giving us a bowl of rice, even if we can survive today, we will starve to death tomorrow.

Since the benefactor has ordered, we will hand over this life to the benefactor. Going up the mountain of swords and down the sea of ​​fire is all a matter of the benefactor's words."

Li Banfeng heard this and was silent for a moment and said: "There are two things I want to make clear to you.

The first thing is that your life is your own. Don't give it to anyone.

The second thing is, don't make promises like mountains of swords and seas of fire. Just do what you can. Don't despise the promise, and don't despise yourself. Do you understand?"

Niu Guangda didn't quite understand what he heard. Li Banfeng tried to be more straightforward: "Tomorrow I will go out to do some serious business. Have you ever done something like robbery?"

Niu Guangda didn't dare to boast.

A young man next to him, Fang Lianfu, looked at Li Banfeng with bright eyes and said, "Benefactor, we have thought about robbing before..."

Niu Guangda kicked Fang Lianfu, as if we only dared to think about it and didn't dare to do anything.

"Benefactor, we can do the real business. I'll take a few brave people to follow me. You just need to give us some advice."

Li Banfeng shook his head and said, "You don't know what kind of people should be robbed and what kind of people can be robbed. It's not your turn to really do it.

Find a few strong people who can push the cart and wait on the hillside. When I finish my business, I will bring the things back. If you can do this well, you will be considered as not letting me down."

The next day, Li Banfeng took everyone to rob on the mountain road again. They robbed for three consecutive days, and the news spread to dozens of villages around.

Most villagers did not dare to go up the mountain alone, but they could not stop paying attention to the saint.

If the intention is gone, the sincerity is gone. Without sincerity, how can there be hope for studying?

The villagers discussed it, and the six villages united together to send sixty strong men to escort the villagers to the mountain to deliver food.

The six villages were very imposing. The day before departure, the village prepared a banquet to encourage the sixty strong men.

On the day of departure, the six villages each raised a big flag and led the way in front of the team. The six flags were written with the names of the villages, "Jingde", "Jingxian", "Musheng", "Mingde", "Sixian", and "Huaien".

Standing behind the big flags were six middle-aged men, who were carefully selected from the village, had seen the world, had good eyesight (read things), and had experience in the underworld.

When they set off, the strong men shouted first: "Hewu!"

The people in the underworld call themselves Laohe, which means: "We are people in the underworld, and we should watch the distance on the other side!"

The sixty people formed two teams to protect the villagers who were transporting food in the middle.

Crossing the bridge in front, the middle-aged man standing in the front row shouted: "Hang Liangzi, Masa Zhe, He Wu!"

This sentence has two meanings. One is to let your people walk faster, there may be an ambush in this place.

The second is to warn the thieves who set up an ambush that we are all experts and have been prepared for it.

When we are about to go up the mountain, shout again: "Dangzi, Ba Hezhe, He Wu!"

The meaning is the same as before.

After crossing a hill, everything was safe and sound. The villagers who were transporting grain sighed: "To venture into the world, you must understand the rules of the people in the world. It is definitely not enough to just fight hard."

These strong men who have walked through the world are also a little proud in their hearts. The children of the saints usually look down on people like them. Now they can work hard for the saints, which is also a face for themselves.

There is another mountain in front. Everyone rested for a while and went up the mountain along the mountain road. The formation was not loose at all.

When they were halfway through the mountain road, dozens of young women suddenly came down from the mountain in front.

A strong man shouted loudly: "Hualiangzi is crowded, hold on, hold on!"

This sentence means that there are many people on the other side, be careful!

This is really the style of Jianghu people, not taking it lightly just because the people on the other side are women.

Several strong men told the villagers to make way and let the women pass first.

The women stopped in front of the crowd with a smile on their faces and did not move.

The villagers in these villages have been taught by saints, so they will naturally not fall for the beauty trap. The leading strong man stepped forward and clasped his fists and said: "The ancestor rewarded a bowl of rice, the sisters have eaten all over the world, and the brothers will eat a line. Sisters, please leave some food for the brothers."

The women did not leave, but they all took out their weapons.

The strong man frowned, it seems that the truth today cannot be explained clearly.

"Sisters, do we have to break the plate today? It's useless to say nice things, then let's open the whip, you are masters, and we are not rookies, the wheel is round, let's each grab a weapon..."

Bang!

A girl swung a stick and knocked the strong man down.

Dozens of girls behind him came forward and hit him on the head with sticks.

These girls were Li Banfeng's paper figures. They dared not say they could fight in front of the cultivators, and could only play a distraction role.

Seeing such a big battle on the opposite side today, Li Banfeng thought there should be a few cultivators here.

Who would have thought that these people were all white lambs.

The girls fought for more than a minute, and the sixty strong men, along with a group of villagers, were all driven away.

Li Banfeng took back all the paper figures, brought them back to his residence, and let them fall apart on their own.

Niu Guangda brought a few young boys and, as instructed by Li Banfeng, went to the mountain to collect dozens of carts of goods.

These villages spent a lot of money, but the goods still couldn't be delivered. Should they give up this time?

Three days later, more than 200 people came to escort the food expenses to the mountain.

This time, they were not strong men, but elderly people over 60 years old.

As the old people went up the mountain, they shouted: "Heroes of the Green Forest Road, we are all coffins. If you have the heart, just rob us."

Li Banfeng laughed angrily.

How much kindness does this saint have for you?

What does it mean to ask these old people to go up the mountain?

Li Banfeng looked at the old people and sighed: "Okay, considering your age, I will accept this filial piety on behalf of my son!"

PS: Banfeng is a real man.