Urban Sims

Chapter 22 The Thief Jero
Since participating in the "Elk War", Zhou Ming has become an "old fritter" in several battles around the territory in the following two years.

This kind of war, in the final analysis, is still a war between noble knights, and has nothing to do with farmers like him.

Moreover, these lords and knights who are training in the castle all day long have long been idle, so they might as well fight a few fights with the surrounding lords to exercise their muscles and bones.

As for the farmers who played, one function was to increase the lively atmosphere of the battlefield, and the other was to smear their heads on the battlefield. It would not hurt a dozen or so farmers to die.

The ones that are really dangerous to farmers are indeed, as Uncle O'Neill said, those thieves who have been active in the mountains and forests for a long time and are proficient in various traps and poisons.

Zhou Ming followed the thieves once, a group of only eight or nine thieves, Baron Connor led thousands of people to siege for more than ten days, and after paying the price of more than 20 casualties, he drove out this group of thieves Territory, and only killed three of them.

And during that siege, Zhou Ming almost stepped on the ground and fell into a trap covered with sharpened sticks.

However, Zhou Ming was not without gains in this siege.

Among these cunning thieves, there was a wretched fellow, who had an arrow thrown in his thigh by Edward, and was deserted by his fellows, because he could not run very fast.

Following the faint traces of blood, in an inconspicuous valley, Zhou Ming found the unlucky ghost hiding in the bushes.

"Come out, don't hide."

The spear in Zhou Ming's hand pointed at the bush.

"Chirp~!"

A dagger glowing blue came straight to Zhou Ming's front door!

Zhou Ming, who had been alert for a long time, tilted his head, and the dagger flew over against his face and stuck in the dirt slope behind him.

"I'll count to three, and if I don't come out, I'll stab it down! One, two..."

Before counting to three, a self-deprecating voice came from the bushes: "I didn't expect that my thief, Jero, would die in the hands of an unknown boy today. Lucky boy, hand me over to Earl William of the Earl of Mason." Well, you can get a bounty of 500 gold coins from him."

Zhou Ming sneered: "When I get the reward of 500 gold coins, it must be the time when my death is imminent and the gold coins are taken away?"

This cunning thief is still playing this game when he is about to die.

The thief Jie Luo was taken aback for a moment, then smiled and said, "You are very smart, it seems that you want to kill me directly?"

Zhou Ming put away the spear and said, "Do I need so much nonsense to kill you? I've already stabbed the spear in just now."

The thief Jie Luo was even more surprised: "You don't intend to kill me? My head can be exchanged for a lot of rewards from your lord."

"I don't like that little reward, it will be more useful to me to keep you!"

Zhou Ming threw the spear aside, squatted down, and carried the thief in his thirties, with yellow hair, brown eyes, and a thin build, who looked like a barbarian from the west, to a safe place and dealt with him. Cut the wound and feed him some jerky and cheese.

"Hey, little guy, why did you save me?"

More than ten days later, the robber Jie Luo, whose wound was almost healed, finally couldn't help but ask, full of doubts.

Let him travel far and wide to meet all kinds of people, but he has never seen a boy who is only 16 years old, but has so many things hidden in his heart, and has done so many things that are difficult for him to understand.

"I saved your life because I want to leave a way for my future."

When changing the dressing for his wound, Zhou Ming raised his head and spoke bluntly.

"Back road, what back road, do you want to be a thief like me? Little guy, I admit that you are a good seed, but being a thief is not a fun thing. When you are wanted, your head is worth five hundred When you have more than gold coins, you have to be careful of your companions who may attack you at any time... This job is not easy."

The thief Jie Luo shook his head, the thief is chic, but behind the chic, who can know the risks behind it?

Zhou Ming explained: "You misunderstood what I mean. The way I mean is not necessarily to join you as a thief, but to hope that when I encounter problems in the future, I can find a helper who can help me. I saved your life, you owe me a favor, so I want you to help me."

"Little guy, it's good that you saved my life, but I didn't promise to do anything for you, especially when this favor might cost my life, don't wishful thinking!"

The thief Jie Luo shook his head and said, among the people he knew, there were those who drew their swords on their teammates for a hundred gold coins, and some stabbed their brothers twice because of a good-looking chick. After one life, he took his own life to pay back.

"Don't worry, I have a sense of proportion, and I won't take your life into it. Besides, you have your own brains. Even if someone forces you to do dangerous things, you won't do them yourself..."

Zhou Ming threw out another bait and said, "Besides, you thieves don't know how to use your brains before killing people, setting fires, and robbing houses? When you come to a territory where you don't understand anything, you rush up when you see valuables. Robbing, jumping up when seeing a beautiful woman, and not sending any eyes and ears to find out, to see who has the most money hidden, whose woman is beautiful, and whose defense is more lax to snatch... Is it the so-called Thieves, are all of you like this?"

"Cough cough! Shut up, brat! We've done our research before we do it. The dozen or so territories around here are the richest in Granland. Otherwise, why would we come here?"

The thief Jie Luo coughed violently twice, and his old face turned red. This kid seemed to be speaking clearly and logically. Could it be that he, who has been in the rivers and lakes for more than ten years, understands better?

In fact, this has something to do with Zhou Ming. In the past ten years, because of the habit of intensively treating manure and frequent application of manure, the crop yield of Grandland has increased, and the number of plague outbreaks has decreased. Some people were lost in the war, but compared to many surrounding territories, Gran Territory has the largest population and the most abundant products.

"There is money in the king's treasury, why don't you grab it... Let me tell you, you still pay too little attention to intelligence work, otherwise you won't miss the money, but you will suffer heavy losses in personnel."

Being said so by a kid who was almost a generation younger, Ren Jieluo, the big thief, understood that what the kid said had some truth, but he was still very unconvinced and said: "You little devil can only talk, sir, I have been in the rivers and lakes for ten years." It’s been a few years, what kind of treasure hasn’t been snatched from a woman? This time it’s just a little accident, you’re not a thief, what do you know?”

"I really don't have the qualifications to say you... How about this, after you recover from your injuries, you call all your remaining companions over, and I will explore the way for you, and go to Qiangwei Town to rob again, if you succeed Now, all the treasure belongs to you, if you fail, I will let you dispose of it, and by the way, I will also write off all the favors you owe me, how about this?"

Zhou Ming felt that if he didn't show some actual results, the thief Jie Luo might not be so easy to obey him.

"Little devil, is this what you said?"

The big thief Jie Luo was moved. Although this brat was a little loud, the plan he proposed was indeed very attractive. Moreover, as the brat said, they paid too little attention to intelligence. They only knew that there was money here, and then Just come and grab it, who knows that the Cavaliers here are so powerful...

If you rely on this kid, find out the route and the target of the action, and leave with a grab, the risk will definitely be much smaller than last time.

Just try what the kid said!
(End of this chapter)