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There were seven or eight thugs armed with sticks standing outside the grain store, obviously to prevent anyone from making trouble and grabbing grain.

Although Liu Sheng had expected the sharp rise in food prices, he did not expect them to rise so quickly and so harshly.

He only brought two hundred taels of silver with him on this trip. Considering that he needed to buy other things, such as tools, bedding, clothes, salt, etc., he could only buy five shi of food at most this time.

"Shopkeeper, I bought a lot of food. Can your store help me deliver it?"

The middle-aged shopkeeper pinched his beard at the corner of his mouth and asked, "I wonder how much grain you want to buy and how far you want us to deliver it?"

"Can the five-stone brown rice be delivered to Dashui Ping Village?"

"That won't work," the shopkeeper shook his head. "The Mao family is more than twenty miles away from Dashui Pingzhai. Not to mention the dangers we may encounter on the way. It's not worth selling you just five stones of food."

"Then how far can you send Maojiaji?"

"At most three miles."

After some bargaining, the grain store finally agreed to help Liu Sheng deliver the goods five miles away from the market, but was not responsible for protecting the food and Liu Sheng's safety.

Five stones of brown rice is actually not much. One stone is about 180 kilograms in later generations, and the five stones add up to 900 kilograms.

At Liu Sheng's request, the grain store packed the grains into twenty small sacks and placed them on a flatbed truck. It was covered with a soft straw mat to barely provide a cover.

Liu Sheng took another five taels of silver to rent a mule-horse flatbed truck to pile up other supplies he purchased.

Two cars met the twenty families of refugees he had recruited outside the town, and they walked together toward Tianmu Mountain.

After walking five miles, a coachman and two boys sent by the grain store were about to return.

Liu Sheng did not make things difficult for them, but just asked them to help unload the grain into the car.

After the driver and the waiter left, Liu Sheng looked around at the twenty households of fifty refugees he had recruited, and he could clearly tell that they were all looking at the twenty small bags of food with eager eyes that also contained greed.

The driver of another flatbed truck rented by Liu Sheng for thirty taels of silver also noticed the expressions of these refugees. He was so frightened that he huddled on the side of the mule, with regret on his face.

If he had known that Mr. Liu would be leaving with a few stones of food and a bunch of refugees, he would not have accepted the business.

Liu Sheng was not surprised by the scene before him.

These refugees have been trapped by hunger for a long time. It is normal for them to become greedy after seeing a few stones of food in this wilderness.

He took out a folding crossbow from the flatbed truck, and then pulled out a machete, stood on the grain pile, and said loudly: "I know that some people may be tempted to grab grain. But first you have to think about whether you can I passed this test.

In addition, even if we grab food, how many meals can we eat? And once you grab food, I'm afraid you will start fighting with each other. How many of you will survive in the end?

On the contrary, as long as you come here honestly to carry food and follow me into Tianmu Mountain, I guarantee that none of you will starve to death. "

Liu Sheng's words were very plain, but they made those who were thinking of grabbing food regain their senses and even felt guilty.

A middle-aged man with a Chinese-style face came out and bowed to Liu Sheng: "Dong Liu's family owes us a favor to survive. If we robbed the food and left, wouldn't we be ungrateful and even worse than animals?"

After saying that, the middle-aged man came over and took a bag of grain from Liu Sheng's sword and stood next to it.

Liu Sheng said: "I remember your name is Peng Youyi, right? Then you will be the temporary corps leader, in charge of your family and four other families."

During the previous selection process, Liu Sheng had registered all twenty refugee families, so he probably remembered the names of the male owners of each family.

Peng Youyi was very happy after hearing this. He immediately put down his food bag and bowed, "Thank you, boss!"

Peng Youyi, who was the first to express his stance, instantly became the little boss, and men from other families also came forward to express their stance and carry food packages.

Liu Sheng selected three more temporary corps commanders and asked everyone to carry grain bags and go with him.

The coachman breathed a sigh of relief, gave Liu Sheng a thumbs up, and praised, "Master Liu is so awesome. He managed dozens of people in twenty households easily."

This coachman is quite knowledgeable, but he knows that not everyone can control dozens of people, not to mention that many of these dozens of people were trying to grab food.

Liu Sheng smiled and said: "It's just a few dozen people, it's nothing."

A grain bag weighed about 45 kilograms. Although the men had been hungry for many days, they had no problem carrying this weight on their way. If you are really tired, you can let your family take over for a while and take a break.

Therefore, the team did not move very slowly.

He walked more than three miles in an hour.

In order to take care of the team, Liu Sheng rode his mule and patrolled back and forth along the team to prevent fools from escaping with food on their backs.

When we reached a valley-like terrain, ten men suddenly rushed down from the hillside, four holding swords, four holding spears, and two archers.

The leading man stood carelessly on the dirt road, pointed his sword at this side and said: "We are robbers. If you want to survive, leave the carriages, horses and goods behind, and get out!"

Originally, the refugees wanted to run away when they saw these suspected bandits with weapons rushing down the mountain. Fortunately, they all had their families with them and had been restrained for a while before, so they didn't escape immediately.

But after listening to the bandit leader's words, two people couldn't help but threw away their food bags, took their family members and ran away.

Liu Sheng frowned, ignored the two men, drove his mule and ran for more than ten steps, then raised his hand and shot down an archer with a folding crossbow.

Another archer reacted and wanted to shoot Liu Sheng, but because the mule was moving, his arrow missed. In turn, he was shot to death by Liu Sheng's second crossbow arrow.

"Damn it!"

When the bandit leader saw that his side had killed two archers while breathing, he rushed towards Liu Sheng with a knife.

The other bandits also rushed over with weapons.

The refugees were immediately in chaos.

Someone threw a grain bag and wanted to help Liu Sheng.

There are also people who take care of their families immediately.

Some people also had the idea of ​​​​running away with food bags on their backs.

Seeing this, Liu Sheng knew that he had to scare everyone immediately, otherwise it would be difficult to find the refugees again if they dispersed.

The moment he jumped off the mule and horse, he first blocked the bandit leader's sword with his machete, and then kicked him away a foot away!

The other hand had already thrown away the folding crossbow, took out a revolver from his waist, raised his hand and fired it at an approaching spearman.

Bang!

In the crisp sound of gunfire, the gunman was shot in the chest and fell down on the spot.

The most important thing is that both the refugees and the gangsters were temporarily suppressed by the gunfire.

Liu Sheng immediately shouted: "Peng Youyi, you four corps commanders have taken good care of everyone. Whoever escapes will be killed! They are just a few bandits, and I was killed in the blink of an eye. What are you afraid of?!"

Before he finished speaking, he threw the machete in his hand and hit the bandit leader in the chest who had just gotten up.

At this time, the refugees and bandits were completely suppressed.

Liu Sheng was about to kill or capture the remaining bandits and clean up the mess, when he suddenly heard the sound of horse hooves. Turning around, he saw five riders rushing down from the hill where the vegetation was washed.

What surprised Liu Sheng the most was that the five riders were all wearing earth-red clothes and Fan Yangli. One of them even had a long vertical flag on his back with the words "Maodian Inspection Department" written on it!

Maodian is Maojiaji, but there is a courtyard with a sign of "Inspection Department" inside. However, it looks very shabby from the outside, and there are no soldiers guarding the door, so it is easy for people to ignore it.

'If it is really a soldier from the Maodian Inspection Department, it would be too coincidental. '

Just when Liu Sheng was thinking this, he saw the rider at the front coming straight towards him, the knife in his hand already raised!

Dry!

Liu Sheng cursed in his heart, raised his revolver and shot at the rider.

Bang!

The rider fell down less than five steps away from Liu Sheng. His face was full of confusion and resignation. He probably couldn't figure out how Liu Sheng's gun could be fired again since he had fired it once before. He clearly didn't have any more ammunition.

The four riders behind were also a little confused, and three of them even hesitated to rein in their horses.

The rider carrying the flag said angrily: "You dare to attack and kill officers and soldiers, you are seeking death!"

As he spoke, the horse kept charging towards Liu Sheng, raising his knife.

Obviously, this man didn't believe that Liu Sheng's firecracker could kill people.

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