The Great Qin Empire---Qin Li

"We must not let them go!"

Upon hearing this, everyone's face suddenly changed, especially the families who bought the looted women, who turned around first and looked at Heifu with unfriendly eyes.

Seeing that the situation was not good, Heifu hurriedly shouted: "The prison guard is lying! The law says that as long as you surrender, the punishment can be reduced! If you can help me catch the prison guard and the people who bought the women, the crime can be reduced! You won't die!"

This is still a lie, but what Heifu has to do now is to hope that the people in Blind Mountain will start fighting because of the different punishments they have to receive.

But he still overestimated the degree of fear of Qin Law in this poor and remote area.

Some people hesitated, some hesitated, but no one listened to Heifu and took the first step. It takes more courage to take action against your own people and neighbors than to unite against strangers.

On the contrary, the gatekeeper Zhong Sheng climbed onto a tile roof nearby and raised his arms and shouted.

"This dog guard is trying to instigate us, don't be fooled! If we fight among ourselves and let them go, the whole clan will suffer. It's better to kill all these guards! Anyway, the blind mountain is remote and no one will know about it afterwards!"

Hei Fu laughed and said, "I have already informed the county magistrate of this matter. If I don't return soon, the government will investigate and send troops from the county and township to suppress it. What awaits you then will not be the crime of gang robbery, but the crime of treason that will exterminate the three clans! None of the more than 200 people in the village can escape!"

Zhong Sheng showed his fierce face: "So what? Even if I flee to Chu, it is better than waiting for death with the whole clan!"

He was also a bachelor, and had come up with the idea of killing people and fleeing with the whole clan.

Hei Fu's face suddenly changed. If the group of people outside really listened to him and ignored him, he would be in great danger this time...

He quickly raised his crossbow and aimed at the prison gate. He wanted to shoot the horse first before shooting the people, but he was blocked by countless raised hands!

Killing officials and running away, this idea, like a wildly growing vine, gradually grew in everyone's mind.

The faces in front of them began to distort and deform, shouting loudly to Hei Fu and the guards: "Kill them!"

At this moment, under the threat of genocide, these people didn't even care about the lives of the village officials and Tian Dian. Some of them were impatient and even raised their sharp plows and wooden hoes to attack Hei Fu!

Hei Fu quickly stepped back and formed a circle with everyone, protecting the women who had no fighting power in the middle.

They didn't cry, but just looked at the thugs around them indifferently. They seemed to have gotten used to it, but the despair in their eyes was getting deeper and deeper. Li Xian, Dongmen Bao, and Ji Ying had already gritted their teeth, holding their weapons tightly, ready for a life-and-death battle with a huge disparity in strength!

More than ten steps away, Zhong Sheng, the gatekeeper on the roof, laughed wildly: "This pavilion chief, the laws you mentioned are strict, but they are far away in the county. What can you do to me? What can you do to me?"

As soon as the voice was finished, a bowstring sounded outside the gate, and an arrow shot from the air, from behind, directly piercing the throat of the gatekeeper!

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Zhong Sheng, the gatekeeper who was still shouting and inciting the people to kill officials and flee for their lives, lowered his head in disbelief and looked at the arrow that pierced his throat.

The arrowhead was a bronze diamond with vermilion blood drops on it...

He opened his mouth, as if he wanted to say something, but what came out was not words, but blood, which kept coming out from the wound. At first it was blood foam, but slowly it turned into a gurgling stream.

Then, Zhong Sheng lost his balance and fell down with a bang. He flipped over several times from the roof of the tiled house where he was standing, rolled down, and fell to the ground, motionless...

More than 200 people in Blind Mountain watched in amazement as their inner prisoner was shot to death by an arrow that flew from the air. Everyone looked around in confusion, but could not find who shot the arrow and where.

The only clue was the sudden sound of a copper whistle...

Beep!

The whistle sounded outside the tightly closed inner door.

Beep!

Not long after, the whistle sounded again in the mulberry forest on the left!

Then, behind the tiled house and beside the small bridge, a sharp and piercing whistle would sound outside the wall every once in a while!

For a moment, the entire Blind Mountain seemed to be surrounded by the copper whistle!

The residents were very nervous, looking around, with fear on their faces.

They were not afraid of Hei Fu and his men standing in front of them, but they were more afraid of the hidden arrows from unknown places and how many people there were.

Only Hei Fu understood after hearing the whistle.

"Xiao Tao, that kid, didn't leave!"

The arrows that appeared out of nowhere and the clever copper whistle were all the work of the stuttering young man.

One person acted like ten people. This kid was not only good at shooting arrows, but also smart.

Hei Fu didn't expect that their last resort was no longer Qin Lu's majesty, but a backhand he left before entering the door.

This dramatic reversal made him burst into laughter, and then he shouted to the panicked and leaderless villagers:

"Just now I was just trying to see if you were willing to confess your guilt. To tell you the truth, I have already ambushed a whole group of archers outside!"

"A whole group of archers!"

The villagers were shocked. There were fifty people, and they were all hiding outside? Now that the only smart person was dead, they had no way to tell the truth from the false.

While the villagers were in chaos, Hei Fu pointed at the corpse of the prison guard and shouted with wide eyes:

"Those who resist stubbornly, this is the end!"

"If you think you are innocent, then quickly help this pavilion chief to arrest those who bought and sold women. You only have one chance to surrender and save your life. If you don't seize it, it will be gone!"

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The next morning, when Shu Wu, the patrol officer of Yushui Township, brought Ling Lile from the county, as well as thirty or forty pavilion chiefs, thieves, and pavilion guards from various pavilions in Anlu County, panting to Blind Mountain, he saw a bizarre scene that he would never forget in his life...

On the pillars and stumps inside the wall of Blind Mountain, 180 people were densely tied with vines, hemp ropes, and belts. Except for a dozen young children and the women who were bought and sold outside the gate, all the adults in Blind Mountain surrendered!

Heifu, the chief of Huyang Pavilion, who was set up by Shuwu and took on this difficult case, was sitting on the eaves of the inner wall at this time. He was playing with the crossbow in his hand, and together with Xiaotao, who was drawing the bow and arrow, he was monitoring the more than 100 men and women in the inner gate, so that they dared not move at all.

"How... how did they do it?"

Although he had heard the outline of the matter from Ji Ying who went to ask for help, Shuwu still couldn't believe the scene in front of him.

There were more than 200 people, at least dozens of young men, and Heifu only brought five or six people. Could they really fight ten against one and take down the entire tribe in Blind Mountain?

"It's just that I'm afraid of the majesty of Qin Law, so I tied my hands." Heifu just smiled lightly, as if it was nothing.

In fact, yesterday, after being shot dead by Xiaotao at the inner gate, Heifu bluffed and threatened the "one group of archers" ambushed outside the wall to deceive the people in Blind Mountain to fight internally.

Those families who thought they were innocent and those who bought the girls fought with each other, and finally tied up all of them.

Then, Heifu changed his face again, unloaded the farm tools of the people, and used the crossbow to force them to tie themselves up, which led to the scene in front of us.

The history of China for two thousand years has proved countless times that when the courage is gone and there is no determination to die, it is common for hundreds of people to surrender to a dozen people.

But the county officials and pavilion chiefs brought by Shuwu had never seen such a scene, and they were also stunned by the situation in front of them.

Starting from Ling Lile, to the pavilion chiefs and Qiudao, regardless of Shuwu's jealous and livid face, they began to praise Heifu for his skills, and at the same time apologized: "We are a step late."

Heifu didn't sleep all night, and his eyes were a little red.

He looked at the criminal mobs who were tied up inside the wall. They were like eggplants hit by frost, without the prestige they had when they abused women in the past. What awaited them would be the ruthless but fair judgment of the Qin Law.

He looked at the abducted women outside the wall. In the morning sunshine, Yuanyuan returned to her little girl's appearance, lying in her father's arms and talking in her sleep, but her brows were slightly wrinkled, and tears condensed on her cheeks, as if she remembered something unpleasant.

And the tortured mad woman Yun was also put on her head with a flower crown by someone, covering the terrible scars left by the beating. She stared blankly at the morning light in the sky, and gradually smiled...

"Yes."

In the eyes of the crowd, who were either afraid, grateful, or admiring, Hei Fu murmured to himself:

"Justice may be late..."

"But it will never be absent!"

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