Phi-Fic Chapter 307: Coin Rain
Chapter 307: Coin Rain
Lin Chuyi had no intention of listening to Li Weimin's explanation of his difficulties. He simply recorded his guilt in a concise manner, pulled his hand to press the ink, and then signed on the paper. In this way, Li Weimin's confession was complete.
Lin Chuyi put the freshly-written confession together with the evidence of other officials' crimes collected previously, and then began to deal with the scene.
After everything was ready, Lin Chuyi left Li Weimin's house, met up with Ping An who was watching outside the door, and left the county government together.
On the morning of the third day, Lin Chuyi and Ping'an had breakfast on the first floor of the inn, then went to the inn manager to check out. After paying the room fee, the two rubbed their bloated stomachs and left the inn. After leaving the county town, they used their Qinggong skills and headed straight for Fufeng Village.
As soon as he arrived near Fufeng Village, Lin Chuyi spotted two yawning bandits patrolling at the foot of the mountain with swords in hand.
Lin Chuyi and Ping'an looked at each other, and the next second they both appeared in front of the two bandits. The bandits were frightened by the sudden appearance of the people and their pupils constricted. Just as they were about to shout for help, they were knocked unconscious by a palm from Lin Chuyi and Ping'an respectively.
Lin Chuyi handed the person she had knocked unconscious to Ping'an. Ping'an took the person without saying a word, held them under his armpits in each hand, used his Qinggong skills, followed Lin Chuyi, and quickly approached Fufeng Village.
On the way forward, Lin Chuyi discovered many hidden traps. These traps might cause some obstacles to ordinary officers and soldiers, but they were useless to the two of them.
Lin Chuyi and his men could have easily jumped over the traps directly, but in order to shorten the time it took for the officers and soldiers to climb the mountain, Lin Chuyi still destroyed the traps.
The two of them successfully arrived near Fufeng Village and hid about 20 meters away from it.
Lin Chuyi activated the "Throwing Stones to Test the Waters" skill, and with the help of the skill's characteristics, he was able to see the entire picture of Fufeng Village.
"Huh..." Lin Chuyi suddenly looked puzzled.
"What's wrong?" Ping An asked curiously, not knowing what was going on.
Lin Chuyi did not hide anything and told the truth about what she saw: "There are not only many bandits in the mountain village, but also a group of chained... slaves?"
Lin Chuyi himself became a little uncertain at the end.
Ping An frowned and asked, "Slaves? Why would bandits raise slaves?"
"That being said, they were chained and forced to do the work by the bandits. They looked like slaves. Wait! Something seems a little off."
Lin Chuyi looked carefully and soon found out what was wrong.
"Some of those chained people were in rags, while others were wearing dirty clothes that were of the same style. So... these people were probably not slaves, but captives captured by bandits."
Lin Chuyi suddenly remembered Wang Fugui's caravan and continued, "Hey, you said that the reason why Wang Fugui couldn't wait for the other members of the caravan was not because they were all dead, but because they were captured by bandits in the mountain village as prisoners?"
"It is indeed possible."
"This is a pleasant surprise. According to a rough estimate, there are more than 200 bandits in the mountain stronghold. There are more than 100 people locked in cages with iron chains and those forced to work. If we break in directly, it will be easy for some to slip through the net," Lin Chuyi analyzed.
"What are you going to do?"
"Use this." As Lin Chuyi spoke, a cloth bag appeared out of thin air in her hand. The cloth bag was bulging with scattered copper coins.
Ping An knew what was in the bag just by the sound of it shaking. He opened his eyes wide, looked at the bag, then turned to look at Lin Chuyi, not understanding what Lin Chuyi was going to do.
Lin Chuyi showed Ping An a confident smile, leaned close to Ping An and whispered her plan: "I will... first, and then you will..."
Ping An listened carefully and nodded frequently.
A quarter of an hour later, at the big square of Fufeng Village.
"What do you want to eat this morning?" Bandit A asked Bandit B, who had just come out of the cafeteria and met him face to face.
The bandit B who was asked chuckled and said, "What else can it be? Multi-grain porridge with dry wo wo."
"Oh, eating these things every day will make my mouth taste dry." Bandit A curled his lips and said dissatisfiedly when he heard this.
"Who said it wasn't? We robbed so many good things from the mountain, but now we have to eat these things every day. Who can bear it?" Bandit C, who was traveling with Bandit A, said closely behind him.
"Alright, alright, keep quiet. If those people above hear you, you'll be in trouble."
Bandit B was so frightened after hearing the complaints of the two men that he quickly spoke out to stop their dangerous remarks in order to prevent them from being heard by others and getting himself implicated.
Just as Bandit A was about to mock Bandit B for being useless, he was hit on the head by something.
"Who hit me?" Bandit A had just finished speaking when he was hit again. Although it didn't hurt, he couldn't control his temper after being hit repeatedly. He yelled loudly and then looked around, trying to find the culprit.
After searching for a while without finding anyone, Bandit C, who was traveling with him, noticed something unusual on the ground. He pointed at Bandit A's feet and said, "Lao Liu, your money has fallen."
Bandit A was stunned for a moment, and instinctively asked, "Where is the money?"
Looking in the direction of Bandit C's finger, Bandit A immediately saw the copper coin falling on his feet. He opened his eyes wide in surprise. There were really copper coins, but he didn't bring any copper coins when he went out today.
The doubt in his mind only appeared for a moment before he threw it behind his mind. He squatted down with a smile on his face, intending to pick up the coin that had fallen on the ground. No matter who dropped the coin, now that it was at his feet, it was his money!
Just as his fingers touched the coin, another coin fell about a foot away from the previous coin, followed by the second and third coin.
Bandit A was stunned by this sudden change. After he came to his senses, he didn't bother to pick up the copper coins on the ground. He stood up and looked up. He was surprised to find that copper coins were raining from the sky!
"Money is falling from the sky, hurry up and grab it!" Someone shouted, and the bandits who were confused by the rain of copper coins in the square were brought back to their senses by this shout, and began to join the team of picking up copper coins.
The news of coins falling from the sky spread quickly. People who wanted to pick up the coins or come out to watch the fun came out of their rooms one after another, and more and more people gathered in the square.
Lin Chuyi had been using the method of throwing stones to test the waters and observing the situation in the square. Seeing this, he immediately increased the amount of copper coins he threw in.