The population of Teng Jia Village was obviously not precisely two thousand. However, it was very close. The chieftain of the bandits also would not mind that.
“Open the gate,” Teng Yunlong shouted.
“Creak…” The main gate of Teng Jia Village was opened with a loud bang. Simultaneously, two men holding two large crates went directly to the gate, then threw out the crates and let them hit the snow.
“Please count, Third Leader. There are five hundred silver taels in each crate,” Teng Yunlong shouted.
“Go count,” The scarred man ordered his subordinates.
Two men jumped off their horses immediately and ran to open the boxes. Inside the boxes, there was only part of the money which was silver. The others were strings of copper coins. Each string was one hundred copper coins. The two bandits apparently did this often, as they were very skillful. After just a moment, they had finished numbering them. They then turned back to the scarred man and nodded.
“Old Teng, you can go back and have your dinner. Haha, let’s go, boys!”
Hundreds of bandits rode their horses and dashed away like the wind.
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On the training field in Teng Jia Village, every person dispersed one by one.
“Son, let’s go home and have dinner,” Teng Yongfan smiled and held Teng Qingshan with one hand, but Teng Qingshan was still pondering, “The bandits actually have thousands of horses even though the price of every horse is not low. To have the ability to purchase so many horses, it looks like they are also a very strong bandit group.”
Based on that scene just now, Teng Qingshan understood in his heart, “Pay annual tribute? Since it’s an annual tribute, it must be paid every year. This group is able to get Teng Jia Village to pay protection money every year, which means the dispatched hundreds of people are probably not the entire group.”
“So it was the White Horse Gang here to collect money. I thought it was other bandits,” At the side, the discussing voices of men from other families could be heard.
“If other bandits come to offend our Teng Jia Village, it’s no doubt that they are seeking death,” The men talking were full of hostile spirit.
But it was obvious that they couldn’t do anything to the White Horse Gang.
“How strong exactly is the White Horse Gang?” Teng Qingshan thought deeply.
However, since he was too young, his vocal cords hadn’t developed fully and so he couldn’t speak to ask. Even if he could speak, could he dare to ask his father——‘Father, how strong is the White Horse Gang?’ If he did, his father would probably be petrified, and the whole Teng Jia Village would probably be in an uproar.