"Chu Jiao, then we're waiting for your good news."

"well."

Amidst the laughter, Chu Jiao sent Liu Heimu, Zhang Feng and Ma Hong out of the house. Seeing the three of them walking away, they probably went to the next place to persuade them.

"Did you persuade the villages to join the Heihu Village to join the Heihu Village in order to work together to resist the officers and soldiers? Hey, I really found a good excuse."

Shaking his head slightly, Chu Jiao returned to the house and heard his adopted son Chu Yan say indignantly: "It's outrageous! The adopted father cannot agree to this rude request!"

“Calm down.”

Chu Jiao blamed his adopted son and said, "He is so old, he is so irritable..."

He was talking about Chu Yan rushing into the house just now.

Just now, just as Liu Heimu, Zhang Feng and Ma Hong persuaded Chu Jiao to join Heihu Village in the house, he didn't know where Chu Yan heard the news and rushed into the house with anger. Fortunately, Chu Jiao stopped him in time and ordered Chu Yan not to speak. Otherwise, I believe that Liu Heimu, Zhang Feng and Ma Hong would never be able to leave with a smile on his face.

It can be seen that Chu Yan was indeed very respectful to his adoptive father Chu Jiao. After being scolded by his adoptive father, Chu Yan curled his lips in a bad mood. Although he was still unswerving, he did not dare to refute it. He just curled his lips and sulked with his lips as if he had a child who was dissatisfied after being scolded by his parents.

Seeing this, Chu Jiao shook his head slightly.

He had no wife or children and valued his adopted son Chu Yan very much. Chu Yan never disappointed him. He was both brave and scheming. The only disadvantage was that Chu Yan was too young and sometimes couldn't hold back his anger, just like he had just now.

Shaking his head slightly, Chu Jiao sat down at the table in the room, waved his fingers to the seat next to him: "Sit down."

Chu Yan sat down as he said, and seeing his foster father stroking his beard with a calm expression, he couldn't help but say, "Enjoyant father, you won't decide to join Yang Tong seriously, are you?"

"Isn't it good?" Chu Jiao smiled calmly and said, "This Black Tiger Village is rich, guarding the intersection of the two important roads of 'Rukun' and 'Xiangkun'. Just buying wealth from passing caravans is enough to support hundreds of people's food and food. Unlike ours, the mountain villages are poor, and the villages at the foot of the mountain are even poorer than us... I have never heard of bandits who lack food and go up the mountain to hunt."

Hearing this, Chu Yan couldn't help laughing.

Indeed, these bandits are relatively alternative among a group of bandits. The reason is that they were not bandits who did evil things at first.

At least when his adoptive father Chu Jiao was young, their Chujia Village was not a copycat, but a small mountain village, which should be called Chujia Village. There were only a dozen families in the village, and they mainly relied on hunting to make a living.

Chujia Village is not well located, not to mention its remote location, there are bandits nearby who make a living by robbing families. In order to protect themselves, Chu Jiao, who was still young at that time, led the villagers to take the initiative to resist the bandits in the nearby area.

Chu Jiao was also very brave when he was young, no less than his later adopted son Chu Yan. Therefore, in the nearby villages that were deeply affected by bandits, some families defected to him. Even the bandits on Yingshan also defected to Chu Jiao later to find out that many bandits on Yingshan mistakenly thought Chu Jiao was a fellow snatching territory.

Given that there were many honest villagers who defected to him, Chu Gu repelled the bandits who defected to him, which made Chujia Village slowly turn into Chujia Village, a village with a half-mountain village and a half-thief nest. There were both honest and honest villagers who still made a living by hunting, and the bandits who were trained by Chu Jiao.

Some bandits even became hunters, but some villagers were influenced by other bandits in the village and became bandits. In short, the internal structure of Chujia Village is very chaotic, but when fighting against foreign enemies, both villagers and bandits are very united. It is precisely because of this that Chujia Village can gain a foothold on Yingshan surrounded by bandits, so that they will not be killed or annexed by other bandits.

Since it is a half-mountain village and a half-thief nest, Chujiazhai has naturally done evil things, such as going down the mountain to loot. However, because of Chu Jiao, Chujiazhai has a principle, that is, not to steal the good people. In other words, they do not steal the good people who are honest and difficult to make a living in their own lives, and specifically rob the rich people of the country gentry and wealthy families, regardless of whether the other party is a human being.

For example, even if the Zhao family of Luyang, which is quite famous in Luyang, is located near Chujiazhai, Chu Jiao is likely to attack the Zhao family of Luyang. Who made the Zhao family of Luyang rich?

This has nothing to do with other reasons, but the area of ​​Chujiazhai is too remote and too poor. When hunting cannot support the villagers, looting nearby squire and rich men is the fastest and most effective way.

What? Find relief in Kunyang County?

Just a village like Chujiazhai, which is half-people and half-thief, would be strange if it could be rescued from the county town.

It is precisely because of their Chujiazhai’s own principles of dealing with people and life that even if they became bandits, Chu Yan did not think that they were the same as the other bandits on Yingshan.

Including Yang Tong from Heihu Village.

Therefore, when he learned that Liu Heimu, Zhang Feng and Ma Hong were planning to talk to Yang Tong about Xiang and hoped that his adoptive father Chu Jiao would lead the crowd to Heihu Village and join Yang Tong, Chu Yan was furious.

One side is the adoptive father he respects, and the other side is the Yang Tong who he actually looked down upon in his heart. Let the adoptive father he respects serve Yang Tong he looked down upon, what a joke!

For this reason, Chu Yan tried his best to persuade his adoptive father to dispel this idea.

Hearing the adopted son's persuasion, Chu Jiao chuckled: "Although this matter was led by Liu Heimu, I think there should be Yang Tong's promotion... This is an excellent opportunity. Even if I was Yang Tong, I would take advantage of this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to merge the staff of the other counterfeit villages. If I refuse, I may be hated by Yang Tong..."

Even though he said so, a little confusion flashed in his eyes.

As he said, Yang Tong took the opportunity to merge the staff of several other counterfeit villages, and this action was not beyond his expectations. After all, when he learned that Yang Tong called himself "Yingshanhu", he vaguely realized the man's ambition.

Later, Yang Tong designed to kill Xu He, Yu Rong and Yuan Xu who betrayed the alliance, annexed the three clerical villages, and then led ten villages to attack Cai Fu, who also betrayed the alliance between the villages. These are enough to prove that Yang Tong is not satisfied with the status quo.

Therefore, today, Yang Tong took advantage of the weak position of the Eight Villages and wanted to merge with the Eight Villages in one go, and Chu Jiao was not surprised.

He just felt a little strange, wondering why the current situation was so beneficial to Heihu Village.

It was clearly the situation where Magai, the Kunyang County Wei, led the crowd to attack Heihu Village, but now, the Heihu Village itself has almost no losses. On the contrary, the other seven families, except for Chen Zu and his gang, were more or less attacked by officers and soldiers, and ended up being about to be merged by Heihu Village... No matter how you look at this, it feels a little wrong!

"Did Yang Tong bribe Magai? The collusion between officials and thieves?"

A thought flashed through Chu Jiao's mind, but he immediately rejected it. After all, this argument seemed too ridiculous to him.

At this time, Chu Yan interrupted his thoughts without hesitation: "Of course Yang Tong? So what? I'm not afraid! If Yang Tong dares to do anything, I'll kill him for his adoptive father!"

Chu Jiao smiled and said, "Although my son is brave, Chen Mo, Wang Qing and Niu Heng in the Heihu Village are not inferior to my son."

When Chu Jiao mentioned Chen Mo, Wang Qing and Niu Heng, Chu Yan opened her mouth and was speechless.

Although he is arrogant, he must admit that no one of the three people's martial arts is worse than him.

Seeing this, Chu Jiao smiled slightly, stroked his beard and said to Chu Yan, "Look at Zhang Feng and Ma Hong, who were persuaded by Liu Heimu, and then followed Liu Heimu to persuade him. This was obviously to grab the credit. It can be seen that Yang Tong must have made all kinds of generous promises to them. Therefore, I think that Wu Sheng, Feng Xing and Liu Mao would probably be convinced by them and defected to Yang Tong. If you and I don't follow me, don't you think it's too conspicuous?"

"Isn't there still Chen Zu?" Chu Yan asked with a frown.

"Yes, there is also Chen Zu." Chu Jiao narrowed his eyes and murmured: "If all this was pushed by Yang Tong and his gang, then after regaining our seven villages, he would definitely attack Chen Zu... If Chen Zu did not follow at that time, he might have to follow Cai Shu's footsteps."

"What did the adoptive father say?" Chu Yan seemed to have not heard it clearly and asked in confusion: "What is Yang Tong and his gang pushing behind the scenes? Did adoptive father mean that Yang Tong asked Liu Heimu to come forward?"

Chu Jiao was silent for a moment, and suddenly changed the topic and said, "Anyway, let's not be the one who is not sociable... Since Yang Tong wants to conquer us, he will definitely treat us well. Now we have lost the village and are sheltered in the Heihu Village. If we make a grudge against Yang Tong again, how should the women and children in the village settle down? A Yan, everything must take into account the overall situation."

Chu Yan was silent for a moment, frowned and said, "After that being said, Yang Tong's past actions... I once heard that they slaughtered villagers and robbed women... I feel deeply ashamed of being with these people."

"But in the past year, Yang Tong and his men have also changed a lot, right? Instead of slaughtering villages like Fengcun, they gave them money to help them raise chickens and ducks in the village... This is really a wise move!"

Chu Jiao smiled, patted his adopted son's arms and comforted him: "What's more, the Heihu Village is not the only one with Yang Tong. According to legend, Chen Mo and Wang Qing are both restrained by the people under their opponents..."

"..." Chu Yan was speechless.

He must admit that Chen Mo and Wang Qing and his gang in Heihu Village are indeed relatively restrained bandits.

That night, Chu Jiao visited Liu Heimu in person and expressed his willingness to join Heihu Village to Liu Heimu, which made Liu Heimu very happy. He smiled and said to Chu Jiao: "Wu Sheng, Feng Xing and Liu Mao have agreed, and only the leader of Chu Village is left."

"really……"

Chu Jiao was slightly shocked and explained with his own ridicule: "Chu was not smart, and he thought about it for a long time, so he made Brother Liu laugh."

Perhaps Chu Jiao always looked honest in the past, or Liu Heimu was happy at the moment, so he didn't care and took Chu Jiao to see Yang Tong with a passionate look.

Just like Zhang Feng and Ma Hongshi, Yang Communication made many promises to Chu Jiao, and even Chu Jiao was quite satisfied.

After a while, when Chu Jiao came out of Yang Tong's house, he unconsciously glanced at the area where Chen Zu and his gang lived.

"Only Chen Zu is left... I don't know how Yang Tong will treat him."

He thought to himself.

At this point, the eight clans in the east of Shandong Province were annexed seven of them, leaving only Chen Zu.

Next, as long as Yang Tong can annex Chen Zu or defeat Chen Zu, he will unify the eastern mountains of Yingshan.

Based on this point, Chu Jiao concluded that Yang Tong would not let Chen Zu go.
Chapter completed!