noffsinger Chapter 185 Everyone is there
Chapter 185 Everyone is there
All those who could move freely in the bandit camp were tied up equally, including the maids and women who were responsible for doing miscellaneous tasks. Then Gu Wenxuan and Bai Jingzhou led their men to start the looting phase.
Gu Yongming and Jia Guizhi, who were in charge of interrogating the leaders of the mountain stronghold, had already obtained some information. They told Gu Wenxuan and others who were in charge of looting the spoils the location of the mountain stronghold's warehouse and the location of their personal belongings.
At the end, Gu Yongming emphasized, "The confessions of these people are definitely not complete, so you should be careful when searching."
Gu Wenxuan and the others nodded vigorously. They had done this job many times before and were very good at it.
She took the others and plowed the entire village as quickly as possible, trying to find out if there were any fish that had slipped through the net and any secret warehouses that the leaders had not revealed.
However, to her disappointment, they only found a few secret compartments in the houses of the masters. They were unable to find any large-capacity basements or secret warehouses.
Gu Wenxuan was feeling very unhappy when Bai Jingzhou came over quietly.
He told Gu Wenxuan, "The amount of property in this village is not correct. There is a big gap between our estimates."
They started to plunder the spoils from the public treasury of the bandit camp and the private treasuries of several leaders, but after searching all these places, they did not confiscate much property.
It's not surprising that the things they robbed were gone, as every bandit knows how to sell stolen goods. But even if the things were gone, they should have money. Unfortunately, the amount of money was seriously mismatched.
As a notorious bandit den, this amount of assets alone can be said to be extremely poor.
Bai Jingzhou motioned for Gu Wenxuan to look at his small account book, "Their current assets are totally disproportionate to the frequency and gains of their robberies."
Gu Wenxuan sighed, "There is another point that is very suspicious. The weapons they use are too good. They don't look like a group of bandits who came from the grass roots."
Although they easily took down this bandit's nest by means of drugging, it does not mean that these bandits are easy to deal with.
Gu Wenxuan had felt before that they were too well-equipped. Now that Bai Jingzhou said the accounts were wrong, she almost immediately thought that there might be someone behind this bandit nest.
Bai Jingzhou exchanged a glance with her and said, "Those things have most likely been secretly delivered to the people behind the scenes."
Gu Wenxuan nodded, "It seems that we can't take away all the seized weapons."
This thing is so recognizable that taking it away would be like giving others the best clue to track down their background.
Bai Jingzhou sighed, "Then find a place to bury it. We can't let the person behind it recycle it."
Gu Wenxuan nodded, "How are the injuries of those hostages in the dungeon?"
In addition to those who were able to move freely in the bandit's lair, Gu Wenxuan and his team also rescued about twenty hostages who were captured in the mountains in the dungeon. These people's families were very wealthy, and it was likely that someone would send a ransom if they wrote back.
After Gu Wenxuan and the others rescued the people, Bai Jingzhou, who was originally only responsible for accounting, took the initiative to take on the task of treating their injuries.
When Gu Wenxuan asked about it, Bai Jingzhou briefly told her about it, "The injuries are all under control, but they are unwilling to leave directly."
Gu Wenxuan raised her eyebrows.
Bai Jingzhou explained, "Some people want to thank you in person, some want to recruit us for their own use, and some are even more aggressive and are asking us for a large sum of money."
Gu Wenxuan was still very kind to these unfortunate people. The money and food she gave them was not much, but it was definitely not too little.
Even so, there are still people who are not satisfied and want to have a share of their spoils, but Gu Wenxuan will not let them get their wish.
She asked Bai Jingzhou, "What did you say?"
"I rejected everyone who wanted to thank me or recruit me."
His original words were, "No need to thank me, saving you was just a matter of convenience. We chose this village because these bastards killed our good brothers last year!"
All men are brothers, so all the poor people who died in the hands of these bandits were naturally their good brothers.
As for the peddler who was getting more and more greedy, Bai Jingzhou not only returned his shoulder pole to him, but also gave him an extra ten taels of silver because most of the goods in the pole had been taken away by the bandits.
As a result, when the other party saw that Bai Jingzhou was easy to talk to, he suddenly had evil thoughts and kept saying that he had hidden twenty taels of gold in his carrying pole, and now the gold was gone, so Bai Jingzhou and his men should compensate him.
Bai Jingzhou certainly wouldn't indulge such a person. He sneered, "Am I your father? Not only did I save your life, but I also have to give you twenty taels of gold for nothing?"
The peddler shrank his neck, but his greed made him try to act very confident, "How come you gave me twenty taels of gold for nothing? Those bandits robbed me, I just took back the gold that belongs to me."
Bai Jingshan, who was handling this matter with Bai Jingzhou, kicked him and asked, "Why didn't you tell those bandits?"
"I saved you, didn't ask you for money, and gave you ten taels of silver. Do you think I'm kind and easy to talk to, and a soft persimmon that you can bully at will?"
"You are a peddler walking around the streets. You put twenty taels of gold in a load that anyone can flip over? Did your head get stuck in the door?"
Even if he said that he hid it in his clothes, Bai Jingshan would not be so angry. But this bastard actually said that he hid it in the shoulder pole, which was simply an insult to their intelligence!
Seeing that the peddler was still looking unconvinced and indignant, Bai Jingshan stretched out his hand and pretended to break the bastard's neck.
"You are greedy, stupid, and conscienceless. If I save you, I will harm other honest people. Can't you just make random accusations? I will make sure you can never open your stinky mouth again!"
When the other hostages who had regained their freedom saw this, they hurriedly grabbed his arms to stop him.
"My benefactor, my benefactor, please calm down."
"Yes, benefactor, you don't have to be angry over such a bastard."
Even though everyone was hugging his arms, Bai Jingshan's feet were not idle. He kicked the greedy, stupid and evil bastard and snorted coldly at everyone, "Do you think I want to kill people because he pissed me off?"
Everyone looked at each other, and then looked at Bai Jingshan together, with their eyes saying, "Isn't it?"
Bai Jingzhou was quite helpless. He explained on behalf of Bai Jingshan, "We want to kill him because we are worried that this bastard will sell us and you for a few taels of silver after he comes down the mountain."
"We are all nobody. It would take a lot of effort for the people behind these bandits to find us. But what about you?"
"You were taken hostage and tied up on the mountain, so how could you be unknown people like us? What do you think will be waiting for you and your families and friends when the time comes?"