After watching the shopkeeper's promise to let Xiaobei go and fly by himself, everyone cheered and celebrated.

Xiao Liu was very happy to see everyone cheering, but he didn't have time to immerse himself in it. He still remembered what he did when he came to Tongfu Inn. He quietly pulled his mouth with two bricks on his face.

"Brother Big Mouth, can you go and make a dinner for us?"

Hearing this, Dazui immediately threw away the two bricks in his hand. "Oh my god, I'm almost starving to death. OK! This matter will be covered by me."

Dazui and the others have never been safe since they were forced to be followers by the shopkeeper in the afternoon, and now they can finally take a breath.

Xiao Guo, Lao Bai and others gathered here after hearing this, and they had not had dinner yet.

In this way, Xiao Liu and Lao Xing accidentally got a dinner at Tongfu Inn.

During the meal, Zhanggui Tong and others were curiously asking Lao Xing what he had been doing today?

However, Old Xing kept his mouth shut, eating and drinking as much as he could, but he didn't talk much about official business.

Zhanggui Tong and others were just curious. Seeing that Old Xing refused to say anything, they knew Old Xing's temper and didn't ask more questions.

After drinking and eating, the master and apprentice did not go back to the county government office directly. Instead, they went back to the county government office after patrolling the streets again. After all, it was an extraordinary period now.

However, they had just returned to the county yard and were informed by the guard yamen runners. County Magistrate Lou asked them to come back and see him immediately.

In this way, the master and apprentice went to see County Magistrate Lou again and reported everything about today to County Magistrate Lou.

Then, along with the master, the four of them started a detailed discussion again, including the responses to the surrounding county governments.

Magistrate Chen of Zuojiazhuang and Magistrate Lin of Shibalipu have all agreed to join forces to deal with these bandits.

However, as for how to join forces, the specific matter will be held in two days, including Captain Han of Shibalipu and Captain Chen of Zuojiazhuang, who will come to Qixia Town in person to negotiate with Lao Xing.

Given that the three counties are about to join forces, County Magistrate Lou believes that at this time, you must first enrich your strength so that you can have more say in the negotiations in two days.

So the magistrate Lou planned to ask Lao Xing and Xiao Liu and others to recruit people from tomorrow.

And the burden of recruiting people naturally fell on Lao Xing.

After all, Old Xing has been a servant in this Seven Hero Town for many years, and he has a wide face and knows who can use it, and who can't.

As for Xiao Liu, he continued to stay in the town to be responsible for inspection and maintain public order.

Although Xiao Liu cared about Lao Xing's health, he wanted to share some of his burden.

However, he also knew that Old Xing was indeed more suitable for this matter than himself. He was not familiar with the place, so recruiting was definitely not as good as Old Xing.

After some discussion, everyone returned to the house to rest after the third update of the moon.

Old Xing, who returned to his room, felt that his back was sore, and he lay on the bed all of a sudden. Then he heard the familiar sound of the door opening and closing.

Old Xing shook his head, ignored it, and fell asleep directly.

At night, the moonlight was like water. In the martial arts training ground of the Seven Heroes Town County Government, a dark figure waved a steel knife under the clear light of the moon. The silver-white sword light shone brightly, like a white snake flying in the sky, cold and tall.

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Early the next morning, Lao Xing started recruiting people early.

Xiao Liu thought that Old Xing would be very hard to recruit people, but unexpectedly, he just asked the yamen runners to take a table and chairs at the gate of the county yamen, and sat there, and then asked the yamen runners to paste the recruitment notice written by the master on the bulletin boards of each street.

Looking at Old Xing's leisurely appearance, Xiao Liu smiled slightly. It seemed that County Magistrate Lou also cared about Old Xing's health, so he arranged for him such a task that was not very laborious but could bring out his own value.

As for Xiao Liu, of course, the young people share the burden more. The public security of Qixia Town has been handed over to him in the past few days.

Xiao Liu was patrolling the streets in a calm mood, and there were still people coming and going on the streets.

Although the townsmen learned from the government that there were bandits in Cuiwei Mountain, this still did not change their daily lives.

First, the bandit is too far away from them. Although they know that the bandits are cruel, they have never really seen the bandits' cruelty.

Second, they have trust in the public security of Qixia Town, Lao Xing, and County Magistrate Lou, and this trust comes from years of stable life.

The third is the pressure of real life, which is sometimes far heavier than this bandit I have never seen before.

This also led to the extremely smooth recruitment progress of Lao Xing. In less than a morning, dozens of people came to apply for the job.

The enthusiastic enthusiasm shocked Lao Xing, who had been ready to sit for a day, to be frightened.

Seeing a group of people coming, Old Xing thought it was a bandit who came to attack the city at first.

Sure enough, people die for money and birds die for food. Sometimes it is not that no one dares to be a constable, but that you don’t give enough.

Seeing this large number of people flocking to him, Old Xing had a headache this time because he didn't have enough places.

Magistrate Lou said that he could recruit more than 90 people, but in fact, after careful discussion among everyone, he found that there were not so many weapons and clothing in the treasury.

And if he really recruits more than 90 people, even if he tries to combat this bandit, County Magistrate Lou will be removed from office and investigated. After all, there are too many people who have this trick.

Although he said he wanted to be Hai Qingtian, who wanted to do something good, but he was dismissed from his post and investigated?

Therefore, after the final discussion among the crowd, the number of people recruited this time was finally set at fifty people.

Fifty people plus the original ten people in the county government office, that would be a total of sixty people!

Sixty people, not too much or too little, if they add the staff from the two surrounding counties, it will be enough to shock these bandits.

However, although there were fifty places, Lao Xing did not expect that the recruitment work would go so smoothly.

Yesterday, he not only persuaded all the younger brothers from the ten villages and eight shops to come in, but also asked them to help him persuade some powerful figures in the village to join, so that he would only have more than twenty places left.

Considering what Xiao Liu said, the hunters and fishermen in the Ten Villages and Eight Shops would be more powerful in combat, he would have to reserve more than ten places for the hunters in the Heifengling and Beikou Village.

In this way, the number of places he can use now is actually less than a dozen.

Lao Xing looked at the more than 30 people surrounded by the table, and for the first time he felt that sometimes things were going too smoothly was also a headache.

The people in front of him have been screened by him, and they are all people who know the truth. The gangsters like Hou San have long been eliminated by him.

Looking at these acquaintances, Lao Xing looked left and right, and then sifted through either one is not suitable.

It happened that Xiao Liu, who had been patrolling around, looked at Lao Xing's troublesome look and quickly gave him an idea that was not an idea.

That is to let these people run, and whoever has good physical fitness will be selected.

Lao Xing, who had no better way, also accepted it. Don’t worry about anything else, the body is the most basic capital, and how can you do it if you are not up to the level of physical strength?

In this way, the first endurance long-distance running competition in Qixia Town was opened in a sloppy manner.

It has neither professional referees nor strict supervisors, nor even a finishing point. All the contestants just kept running around the county government, and in the end the ten people who had lasted the longest could be successfully stayed.
Chapter completed!