Xianghe Town has always been safe and safe, and there is no bandit disaster. But that day, two big men came to town. They were riding horses, carrying big knives, and dressed like people from rivers and lakes.
The two swordsmen arrived at the Jishi Pharmacy in the town without stopping and went straight to the store. When the people in the store saw that the person was carrying a big knife, they were all shocked and ducked.
The shopkeeper Ma of Jishi Pharmacy was a rich man with a lot of money and a lot of good land. When he saw that the knife man come, the governor was not well, so he was uneasy and hurriedly greeted him with a smile: "Two heroes, what do you want to buy?"
A saberman took out a list from his body and waved it in front of the shopkeeper Ma: "Choose according to the above!"
Shopkeeper Ma took the list and saw that there was quite a lot of medicine on it. He did not dare to neglect it, and hurriedly handed the list to the buddies on the side, asking them to hurry up and get the medicine. Then he invited two swordsmen to take a seat and treated them with good tea.
After a while, the guys grabbed the medicine for the sabersman and put it in two large cloth bags. Shopkeeper Ma crackled his abacus and quickly calculated the price of the medicine. He smiled and said, "Two heroes, a total of two hundred taels of silver."
"Two hundred taels?" The sabersman sneered, grabbed the cloth bag, and was about to leave.
Ma the shopkeeper saw that the situation was not good and hurriedly shouted: "What do you want to do? Grab medicine?"
A few of the guys immediately blocked the door, and the two swordsmen glared at the guys and shouted, "If you want to live, get out!" When the guys heard it, they were stunned and did not dare to move forward.
Ma the shopkeeper shouted anxiously, "Give it to me, if you kill me, you will be rewarded!" As soon as these words came out, the guys swarmed up. The two swordsmen jumped forward with one arrow, swung their arms, and waved their palms. In the blink of an eye, several guys were slapped on the face, screaming in pain, and could only watch the two swordsmen run away with cloth bags.
The shopkeeper Ma's pharmacy was robbed, and everyone in the town gloated, saying that the knife man only grabbed medicine, which was cheap for him. In the past, there were several pharmacies in the town, but they all let Shopkeeper Ma run away, and even the neighboring villages could not open them. Now there is only one pharmacy in Xianghe Town, and Shopkeeper Ma is the exclusive operator, which has raised the price of medicine to a high level. If people want to buy medicine, they have to find him, and no matter how high the price, they have to buy it. The people in the town hate Shopkeeper Ma, and they are eager for the knife man to rob all his pharmacies.
Sure enough, half a month later, the two sabermen rode to Xianghe Town again. The townspeople were secretly happy, but this time, the sabermen did not go to Jishi Pharmacy, but to Changlong Rice Shop. When the shopkeeper of the rice shop saw the two sabermen rushing aggressively towards here, his expression changed immediately, and he quietly slipped away after giving a few instructions to a guy. The guy saw that the shopkeeper had run away, and he was so frightened that he fell to the ground.
When the other guys saw this scene, they panicked and scurried around. The two swordsmen broke into the rice shop and laughed out loud when they saw that the rice shop was in a mess. Without saying a word, they picked up the rice bag and put it on the horses.
The swordsman grabbed eight bags of rice, led the horse, and swaggered away from Xianghe Town.
Shopkeeper Chen was so angry that he gnashed his teeth, but there was nothing he could do.
For many days after that, the people of Xianghe Town were talking about the two swordsmen, and they all said that they did not know which store they would enter the next time they came. Several shopkeepers in the town who opened pharmacies, rice shops, banks, and cloth houses were all frightened. Shopkeeper Ma thought that it was not a way to be on guard all day, so he called all the shopkeepers to discuss countermeasures.
Shopkeeper Chen offered a plan: "Xianghe Town was originally peaceful and there were no swordsmen, but now there are constant disasters. Why don't we hire some experts in the rivers and lakes to be our bodyguards?"
"Please hire bodyguards? Yes!" Everyone agreed again and again.
Shopkeeper Ma pondered: "This plan is good, but the cost of bodyguards is a lot!"
Shopkeeper Chen said anxiously: "At this juncture, do you still care about the silver?"
Several other shopkeepers also said one after another that it was more important to get rid of the swordsman and save his life.
Ma the shopkeeper thought about it and agreed, "I'll do it according to everyone's wishes. I happen to know a few Jianghu Knights, so I can invite them over. As for the money… I need everyone to come out together!"
Everyone agreed unanimously.
But a few days later, the shopkeepers did not see the new bodyguards, so they came to Shopkeeper Ma to inquire about the news. Shopkeeper Chen came first, and he asked Shopkeeper Ma, "Have you invited the bodyguards?"
Shopkeeper Ma stepped forward and said, "Please come, it's at my house!"
"At your house, why don't you bring it out?"
Shopkeeper Ma whispered, "This matter must not be made public. These bodyguards are here to deal with the two sabermen. If you want to take their lives, you must not reveal the slightest bit of news. When they come back to Xianghe Town, we will take a surprise and keep them safe so that they never come back!"
Shopkeeper Ma took Shopkeeper Chen to a room where there were six big men. Shopkeeper Ma said, "These six people are the famous 'Lion Mountain Six Tigers' on the road, and they are all strong in martial arts. The leader is called Zheng Hu, nicknamed 'Flying Tiger ', who is very skilled at climbing the eaves."
Shopkeeper Chen laughed when he heard it: "It turned out to be the famous 'Lion Mountain Six Tigers', now we don't have to be afraid of those two robbers anymore."
A month later, two sabermen appeared in Xianghe Town again. Hearing that the sabermen had arrived, the six bodyguards immediately chased after them and surrounded the two sabermen.
When the two sabersmen saw the six people with murderous intent, they were startled at first, and then took out the big knife from their backs and slashed the heads of the six bodyguards. The six bodyguards swarmed up while the two sabermen drew their knives. Hearing a "clang" sound, the big knife in one saberman's hand fell to the ground, his body fell from the horse, and he lay on the street, bleeding. The other was struck several times, his flesh and blood flying, and died on the spot.
The six bodyguards were very puzzled. Although their martial arts were very strong, these two swordsmen were too useless, and they were easily solved.
The bodyguards killed the knife man and immediately went to Shopkeeper Ma to report. Ma, the shopkeeper, was overjoyed when he heard this and quickly brought them good wine and food to celebrate their achievements.
Although the swordsmen had been removed, Shopkeeper Ma still felt resentful when he thought of the suffering he had suffered these days. He said to Zheng Hu, the head of the bodyguard, "Tomorrow, take a few brothers and hang the bodies of the two swordsmen in the center of the town for the people in the town to see."
The next day, in the center of Xianghe Town, two wooden poles were erected with the two swordsmen hanging from them. Everyone in town came and watched from a distance, feeling very uncomfortable.
Shopkeeper Ma looked at the corpse, then looked at the people in the town, squinted and smiled, "Let's see who dares to go against us now!"
At that moment, a large group of people suddenly swarmed into the town. They came under the wooden pole and knelt down in unison before kowtowing and weeping.
For a moment, everyone in town was dumbfounded. The leader kneeling on the ground was an old man, who cried, "Dabao, Xiaobao, you have died so miserably!" After saying this, the people who followed also cried.
Zheng Hu didn't know the reason, so he stepped forward and asked, "Old man, what are you doing?"
The old man said with tears eyes: "They are my sons, they are not swordsmen."
Zheng Hu was stunned: "Not a swordsman?"
The old man told Zheng Hu that they were from a neighboring village. Recently, there was a serious illness in the village. The villagers couldn't afford medicine or rice. Dabao and Xiaobao dressed up as swordsmen and came to Xianghe Town to grab medicine and food for the villagers.
When Zheng Hu heard this, he was shocked and immediately understood why he could easily kill these two sabermen. It turned out that they were just ordinary villagers. Zheng Hu was extremely guilty. He had never killed a good person in his life, but now he had made that big mistake.
Shopkeeper Ma ignored Zheng Hu and said to the old man with a natural look, "What are they doing badly? They insist on pretending to be swordsmen. They deserve it!"
"Isn't all this forced on you by people of conscience?" The old man said , wiping away tears.
Ma the shopkeeper listened, rolled his eyes, and swaggered away.
Because of killing the villagers by mistake, Zheng Hu felt that he had lost all his face, so he went to say goodbye to Shopkeeper Ma and others. Seeing that the robbers had been eliminated and they no longer needed to support them, the shopkeepers readily agreed.
That day, Zheng Hu distributed the money given by several shopkeepers to the people in the town, and then left Xianghe Town quickly.
Unexpectedly, on the second day after Zheng Hu and the others left Xianghe Town, four masked swordsmen suddenly appeared in the town. They rode horses and held large knives, and robbed the pharmacy, rice shop, cloth shop and money house.
At that time, the shopkeeper in the store watched helplessly as they robbed something, but was helpless. They were all so frightened that they fell to the ground and pretended to be dead.
That night, several shopkeepers got together again, and they decided to invite the Lion Mountain Six Tigers back. However, they asked people to inquire around, but there was no news of Zheng Hu and others. Instead, the four sabermen rode horses to the store every once in a while to snatch it up.
Those shopkeepers lived in fear again, and they would never have imagined that when the four sabermen came to the town to snatch things, there were two other sabermen outside the town to meet them. These six sabermen were the Lion Mountain Six Tigers.