"It's all quiet. Now let's talk about the arrangements for leaving the mountain."

Outside the main hall of the sect, a group of disciples of the outer sect stood in line, quietly waiting for today's task arrangement.

Gu Yuan, Yi Wen and Yi Wu are also among them.

"Now I start to read my name. I'll get out of the line and wait for instructions..."

As the inner disciples in charge of the sect mission read out the list in their hands, a total of 30 outer disciples, including Gu Yuan, stood in the queue of outer disciples.

For these selected external disciples, the internal disciples who issued the task did not pay much attention.

Just after counting the correct number of people, the task was directly handed over to the thirty people to understand, and then left in a hurry.

It turned out that near the villages and towns at the foot of the mountains outside the mountains, a group of ferocious bandits recently came.

They have looted nearby villages and towns for many times, causing many deaths and a large number of people injured.

Although bandits only rage in villages and towns outside the mountain, they dare not step into the mountain outside the zongmen.

However, zongmen has many exchanges with the people in villages and towns outside the mountain, and the goods purchased on weekdays are also provided by the people outside the mountain.

The behavior of the bandits directly angered the sect elders in charge of foreign affairs.

That's why today we have the task of selecting thirty disciples from outside the mountain to patrol and eliminate bandits for nearby villages and towns.

According to the requirements of the task, thirty disciples of the outer gate freely formed two equal patrol teams to patrol and guard more than a dozen villages and towns near the mountains outside the mountain.

"Yang Shuo, let's go with you..."

Yang Shuo is also an outstanding talent among the external disciples. He is one of the most likely to be selected as an internal disciple, and there is no shortage of people around him.

In less than a moment, fourteen outside disciples took the initiative to join in, forming a 15 member patrol team.

The rest of the outside disciples look at me and I look at you, but no one is willing to take the lead and form another patrol.

Finally, by public recommendation, Ruan Xiuwen, who is popular and good-natured on weekdays, was selected as the captain of another patrol team. Gu Yuan also naturally became a member of Ruan Xiuwen because he didn't hold Yang Shuo's smelly feet.

After arranging the team members, the two patrol teams composed of external disciples set off together.

Leaving the mountains beyond the mountains, the first two teams arrived was a small village called Baixi village.

There are about 100 households and hundreds of people in the village.

Most of them make a living by collecting medicine, cutting firewood and hunting. Only a few families have a small number of fields for farming.

When Chen Bo, the village head, learned that the patrol team of zongmen appeared, he was particularly excited. He took Yang Shuo and Ruan Xiuwen as his captains and kept talking.

The village also prepared rich meals for the two patrol teams, and thanked the patrol team for coming down the mountain to remove the culprits for them.

Ruan Xiuwen was honest and dumb, not good at words, and his performance on the wine table seemed a little passive.

However, Yang Shuo, with a good background and a pretentious temperament, responded to the villagers' request to exterminate the bandits at the wine table by patting his chest and winning the favor of the villagers.

"Hey, fortunately, we reacted quickly and followed the capable captain Yang Shuo."

"It's not like you. Follow Ruan Xiuwen, a submissive guy."

"I don't know if the bandit came. Would he be directly stunned..."

At Gu Yuan's table, the people of the two teams mixed together for dinner. During this period, Li Changping, a member of Yang Shuo's team, compared the performance of the two captains in front of the village head, boasted about Yang Shuo and laughed at Gu Yuan and others who followed Ruan Xiuwen's team.

Guyuanmo kept silent and kept eating quietly, looking at these people in Yang Shuo's team as demons.

In fact, the contradiction between the disciples of the outside sect has intensified in recent days.

Yang Shuo and Ruan Xiuwen, both of whom have good backgrounds, belong to the kind of rich and powerful among the disciples of other sects.

Because of their family background, the external disciples were divided into two groups by themselves.

But although Ruan Xiuwen has a good family, he is too honest and dull. He doesn't know how to package and boast about himself like Yang Shuo, and he doesn't know how to win over people.

So slowly, the people who followed Ruan Xiuwen also left him. Even if he did not take refuge in Yang Shuo, he also chose neutrality.

When Ruan Xiuwen lost power, Yang Shuo still didn't let go of his belittlement and ridicule of Ruan Xiuwen.

In order to please Yang Shuo, many external disciples who followed Yang Shuo often embarrassed Ruan Xiuwen.

Like this evening, holding Yang Shuo to the sky and trampling Ruan Xiuwen on the ground are the usual tactics of Yang Shuo's followers.

"Don't go too far."

Liu Tao, an external disciple who temporarily joined Ruan Xiuwen's patrol team, couldn't bear the sarcasm of Yang Shuo's team members and couldn't help shouting.

Who knows, the other side looked disdainful and laughed.

"I advise you to take care of yourself first!"

"The news I received is that this bandit team that harassed the nearby villages and towns is not simple."

"The members inside have many masters, all of whom are murderous."

"If you follow a captain like Ruan Xiuwen, you should pray more that your team will not encounter the bandit team in the next patrol."

"If you are destroyed by these bandits, it will disgrace our sect."

"You..." Liu Tao was angry, but it was a pity that the villagers in the village were all around. As disciples of the sect outside, even if they were disciples of the sect outside, private fighting and infighting were also forbidden when they were performing tasks outside.

Li Changping obviously knew the restriction of this door rule on Liu Tao, and knew that the other party didn't dare to fight in front of the villagers, which made him so confident.

As for telling the village, Li Changping is even more afraid of Liu Tao's revenge.

How many people in Ruan Xiuwen's team can be Yang Shuo's opponents?

The two captains who were accompanying me to have dinner should also have noticed the situation at the next table.

The two said to the village head. Later, they got up and came to Gu Yuan's table.

"What are you doing?

Don't you know the rules of prohibiting internal strife when working outside? "

Yang Shuo glanced at the people present drunk and blamed them with some unhappiness.

Li Changping, who was just boasting about Yang Shuo, immediately showed a flattering smile and stood up from his seat with a glass of wine.

"Elder martial brother Yang, don't share common sense with these people."

"Yes, elder martial brother Yang, they just can't see the excellence of our team..."

Li Changping's words attracted Yang Shuo to nod frequently.

Originally, when he was not drinking, Yang Shuo was quite dissatisfied with Ruan Xiuwen and the team led by Ruan Xiuwen.

Now after drinking a few glasses of wine, he shows his true colors.

Directly and viciously threatened Ruan Xiuwen and others present:

"You should recognize the facts and don't make things here.

If one day your patrol team meets that gang of bandits, I'll somehow let my team run faster and go to support you... "

With that, Yang Shuo turned his head and poked his finger in front of Ruan Xiuwen with the strength of wine.