Back To The Beginning Of Ming To Do Charity

"Go over there!" The soldier flicked his whip, "Bring the things over here!"

"Didn't you eat?! Strength!"

The hard laborers wore only a few pieces of rags, their bodies were hunched over, their skin was dark and dirty, they were obviously not very old, but they looked like old people at this time, they were trembling to carry coal, and they dared not out.

"Someone fell down here!"

"I'm out of breath!"

The soldier rolled his eyes and said angrily, "Throw it into the pit outside."

The laborers didn't have too many expressions, they buried their heads in their own business, like livestock that don't need a brain.

The soldier took a whip, took a sip of the wine in the flagon he carried with him, and said to the people around him, "Take out your strength!"

The laborers did not speak, remained silent, and worked hard like old cows.

Li Congrong looked at the scene behind the hillside, spat, and cursed in a low voice: "They're all birds, they only dare to bully ordinary people, what kind of good guys, good people, let them torture you like pigs, dogs, cows, and horses at every turn." Beating and scolding is like a dog, so it has to be fed to be loyal.”

Zhu Chongba persuaded: "Brother Dao, don't worry, I will burn their granary when it gets dark. Then Brother Dao will mix into the crowd, and if you raise your arms and call out, someone will naturally respond."

Although Li Congrong has never read military books, he also knows an old saying that "soldiers and horses do not move food and grass first." They still know the importance of food and grass. This is just a small coal mountain. There are not many soldiers guarding it. Hundred households, that is, centurion commanders, have more than a hundred soldiers under their hands.

But the labor here is more than a hundred.

Most of these people are farmers and villagers nearby, who have been detained here to dig coal and transport coal. They have reached the point of collapse, and only they know how they feel when they see the soldiers having wine and food.

Li Congrong and Zhu Chongba changed into tattered clothes, ready to act as soon as it got dark.

"It's really cold." Li Congrong was so muscular that his teeth chattered in the cold.

Zhu Chongba is not much better, people are made of meat, they all feel cold and pain.

"Brother Dao, be patient." Zhu Chongba said.

It was getting dark, and seeing people finishing their work and going back to the shed, Li Congrong walked down the hillside and walked down the path. He stood outside the shed, hesitating which shed to enter.

Just when Li Congrong was in a dilemma, someone behind him suddenly pushed him.

There are only two words in Li Congrong's mind: "It's over".

However, when he turned around, what he saw was a skinny middle-aged man, his numb eyes seemed to be covered with a layer of fog, the man looked at Li Congrong's eyes, and asked indifferently: "New here? "

Li Congrong nodded stiffly.

The man pulled open the rag curtain at the door of the shed: "Come in."

Li Congrong went in with the man, there was nothing in the shed, a bunch of people were lying on the ground, seeing a stranger, they looked up at Li Congrong warily, but their eyes were full of sympathy.

The man who led Li Congrong in pointed to an open space: "Whoever is there for you."

So Li Congrong walked over and sat down on the wet ground. There was no hay mat here. Li Congrong asked the person lying next to him: "Don't you make some grass?"

The person next to him laughed mockingly: "Master, can I tell you to go hay hunting?"

Li Congrong didn't mind being ridiculed, so he asked again, "How long have you been here?"

No one answered him.

Li Congrong said to himself: "I used to be a porter in Wucheng. Although it wasn't a good life, I didn't have to worry about food and drink. Occasionally, if I was lucky, I could eat meat for a while."

Still no answer.

Li Congrong scratched his ears: "By the way, where are your children and mother-in-law?"

Speaking of this, someone replied in a muffled voice: "I don't know."

"I don't have any children, my mother-in-law may have run away with someone."

"My parents are still waiting for me to go back home."

"I don't know how the autumn harvest will be at home this year."

Li Congrong quickly said: "It's so chaotic outside now, many people sell themselves, you still have to go back and see, there is no man in the house, so you are not being bullied?"

"Do you think you can leave after you come?" Someone turned over, "There are no ones who go out here, only those who are thrown out after death."

Li Congrong turned his eyes: "I heard on the way here that some soldiers who served in the army killed the guards and fled."

It was very quiet in the shed.

Suddenly someone said: "Soldiers should have weapons."

Everyone stopped talking.

"Sleep, think about tomorrow's matter tomorrow."

Li Congrong was in a hurry: "Instead of living a life that is worse than a beast here, why don't you fight it? It's a dead word after all. If you spell it out, at least you have a chance to live!"

Someone scolded him angrily: "How can it be so simple! Do you think no one has done it? The troublemakers were skinned alive! Even if you give it a good time, it is better than skinning!"

Li Congrong was stunned on the spot, he didn't expect the person in charge here to be so insane, isn't he a human?Can the heart be so cruel?

"Just don't get caught by them, how can it be better?" Suddenly someone whispered, "When I left, the mother-in-law was still pregnant. I want to see my baby."

After a while, someone went on to say: "My parents are getting old, and I'm the only son..."

"My son was only three years old when I left."

A group of people who were already numb were crying while talking at this moment.

"What are you talking about!" A soldier shouted outside, "Sleep fast! You will have a good time tomorrow if you delay things!"

The man's voice was so loud that everyone in the surrounding sheds could hear it.

But everyone has gotten used to it, and they all keep silent, lest they will be beaten severely.

After all, even if he was beaten severely, he still had to go to work.

When they got to work, they were beaten for poor performance. Many people were beaten to death in this way.

Just when everyone closed their eyes and was about to fall asleep, Li Congrong yelled: "Grandpa is afraid of you, a birdman?! If you have the guts, just fight with Grandpa!"

When this word came out, everyone was shocked.

Especially the soldiers on night watch, he was stunned for a moment before he realized: "Who was talking just now! Get out!"

Li Congrong: "Grandpa is calling you, grandson!"

The young soldier rolled up his sleeves and drew out his whip: "You wait, I'll skin you alive!"

Many soldiers were attracted by the shouts.

The people in the same shed as Li Congrong were trembling with fear.

Just as the footsteps approached, a loud shout came from outside: "The granary is on fire! Come and put out the fire! Quick!"

The sound of approaching footsteps was far away.

Li Congrong turned his head to look at the person who had already sat up, his face was indifferent: "Anyone who has the courage to rush out with me, and fight his brother to the death! If you stay here, you will either die today or tomorrow, fight hard, There is still a chance of life."

"Masters, you have been reduced to beasts, and you don't want to resist."

"A manly man, a seven-foot man, bloody!"

"Think of your mother-in-law! Son! Parents!"

Li Congrong lifted the curtain: "The masters above won't give us a way to survive, we will earn one ourselves!"

Li Congrong looked back, only to find that everyone who was sitting had stood up.

They stood behind Li Congrong without saying a word, Li Congrong finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Everyone walked out of the shed and picked up the wood or stones around them. Li Congrong rushed to the front with his bare hands and shouted: "Fight with them!"

A group of men who looked like skeletons followed behind him, their eyes were red, and they shouted: "Fight!"

Probably because there was too much movement on their side, people from other sheds also came out in fear.

There are also soldiers who have not gone to fight the fire. When they saw Li Congrong and his party coming out, they hurried over and said, "What are you doing! Go back! Otherwise, I will make you look good!"

But Li Congrong rushed forward at this moment. He grabbed the opponent's whip with one hand, sat on the opponent's body, and tightly strangled the man's neck with the whip. He stopped shaking, and made a "uh ah" sound from his mouth.

"What are you doing? Are you going against it?!" Someone came over again, but this time those who followed Li Congrong stood up.

They swarmed up, and the other party obviously didn't expect that people who are usually obedient as pigs and dogs would resist. In a moment of carelessness, they were pushed to the ground by these people, their heads were smashed by a stone, and they lost their breath in an instant.

"Kill them!"

"Kill them!"

Li Congrong held up his whip: "I want to live! I want to go back to see my family! Come out with me!"

The soldiers assigned a group of people to fight the fire, and the other group had weapons, but they couldn't fight against the large number of laborers. These soldiers have never been on the battlefield, and they have been military households for generations. The people of Fuyurou, if they really encountered a desperate posture, they would retreat first.

However, at the moment of life and death, once you retreat, it is a word of death.

There is no way for these laborers to return. If they quit at this time and are liquidated afterwards, none of them can escape, and their family members will be affected.

At this point, they don't have to fight.

What's more, emotions can be contagious, people around will rush to it, and even those who don't rush will rush.

In the dark night, people can't see bloodstains, can't see the blood-stained ground, only hatred and the enemy on the other side in their eyes, the weapons of the laborers are things picked up at random, including stones, branches, and dead people. The knives and guns picked up in the hands of the soldiers, they are all ordinary civilians, without fighting skills, but they have a desperate momentum.

Like a pack of hungry wolves.

Soldiers are their food.

At this time, the blood was boiling, and everyone seemed to have forgotten the fear of death. They rushed over desperately, and the people in front of them seemed to be invisible even if they fell down.

The moon above his head was covered by dark clouds. Li Congrong looked up and felt that the moon was also red.

He will never forget that night, never forget the first man he killed.

Amidst the fear, he had another feeling.

An indescribable sense of excitement.

He finally understood what Lin Yuan said.

"If you don't rebel, you will have no way to survive. If you rebel, you can survive."

Li Congrong shouted: "Kill!"

In the darkness, Li Congrong no longer knew how many he had killed, and he had injuries on his body, but he didn't feel any pain, and his spirit was extremely excited.

However, the situation is getting worse and worse.

After all, the opponent is a soldier, even if he has never been on the battlefield, he is still a soldier. They have weapons that the laborers do not have. When they gather together, the laborers are not opponents at all.

Just when Li Congrong and the others were getting more and more disadvantaged, roars suddenly came from the mountain, echoing in the mountains, giving people the illusion of a large number of people, and the group of people rushed down from the mountain, shouting and killing deafeningly.

coming!

Li Congrong took the machete he had snatched, and slashed at a soldier in front of him. These soldiers were wearing civilian clothes and had no armor on them. When the knife went down, the man turned his head, trying to see who killed him.

Li Congrong also saw the face of this soldier through the moonlight when the dark clouds dispersed, an immature face with surprise.

Li Congrong gritted his teeth, and instead of looking at this person, he shouted: "The people who help us are here! Don't panic! They are the people who help us!"

Probably because Li Congrong rushed to the forefront at the very beginning, the laborers listened to him very much and believed it without thinking. The arrival of the reinforcements greatly improved morale, although these reinforcements were only 40 people who had been waiting on the mountain from the beginning. people.

Li Congrong heaved a sigh of relief, it seemed that Zhu Chongba was not caught.

After all, they agreed that after Zhu Chongba went to burn the granary, he went up the mountain and rushed down with people.

The shouts of killing caused the soldiers to lose their positions. Hundreds of households Burigude shouted: "They are bluffing! Don't retreat! Whoever retreats is dealt with by military law! The opposite is just a group of mobs!"

Brigud held a knife in his hand: "Follow me!"

Li Congrong also shouted: "Follow me!"

Zhu Chongba and the others had already arrived at the battlefield, they all had hoes in their hands, and compared to the laborers, their bodies were stronger and their arms were stronger.

Zhu Chongba said to them: "Just chop pigs and goats, don't treat them as human beings! They don't die, we are the ones who die!"

The men yelled, "Got it!"

In the bloody storm, Zhu Chongba searched for Burigude in the dark. After all, Burigode is a hundred households, even if he rushed to the front, he was surrounded by many people to protect him.

Zhu Chongba carefully approached the knife that Li Congrong gave him in his hand. He could hear his own heartbeat and even feel the flow of blood. He had never been so frightened or excited.

Burigude cut off a man's head, and said between gasps: "Kill them all!"

Then he said to the people around him: "Don't worry about me, I'm a Dayuan warrior, these mobs can't get close to me."

Hearing the words, the soldiers beside him dispersed as expected.

The Brigude family has been a military family for generations, and he made his fortune from the heads of the enemy. He is the only one among these people who has been on the battlefield.

In his opinion, these people are not opponents at all.

"Hundred households." Someone called him.

Brigude turned his head, and he saw a young man, probably because the young man looked strong and strong, and he didn't look like a labor force, so he naturally thought it was a soldier in his hand: "What are you doing? Don't go kill the enemy?"

The young man looked frightened: "I...my knife is gone..."

Brigude snorted coldly: "Things that are not enough to accomplish things."

Then, he threw his knife to the other party: "Take mine."

He has more than one knife himself.

The young man came closer and said, "Baihu, I'm afraid..."

Brigude scolded impatiently: "Things without eggs! I'm afraid of a bird! Hurry up!"

"Baihu." The young man looked at him earnestly, and took a few steps closer, "I will protect you."

Brigude snorted coldly: "I am..."

Before he finished speaking, he saw a cold light flash in front of his eyes, and he couldn't speak anymore.

Brigud covered his neck, blood kept gushing out, and his mouth was also full of blood. When he opened his mouth, blood gushed out from his mouth.

Because he couldn't make a sound, he couldn't even call out the names of his soldiers.

Brigud fell to the ground, he watched the other person approaching, and then - he lost consciousness.

Zhu Chongba chopped off Burigude's head with a single knife. He climbed to a relatively low hillside and shouted: "Your hundred households are dead! Disarm and kneel down without killing! Your hundred households are dead ! Disarm and kneel down without killing!"

To capture the thief first, capture the king. Zhu Chongba has never read a few military books, but he understands this truth without a teacher.

The soldiers were thrown into disarray in an instant, and when they lost their minds, the butcher's knife of death had already fallen.

When the people around him fell down one after another, only the soldiers dropped their weapons and knelt down.

The sky was getting brighter, and the battle had been fought for a whole night. When the sun rose from the east, everyone saw the corpses all over the place. There were soldiers, laborers, and bloodstains everywhere. Finally, someone sent out the first There was a cry.

Slowly, the crying became louder and louder.

I don't know if I'm crying for the dead, or I'm crying for the rest of my life after the catastrophe.

Li Congrong had scars on his shoulders and back, but luckily the wounds were not deep. He was sitting on a rock, gasping for breath from exhaustion.

Zhu Chongba ordered the soldiers to be tied up, and then he said to the laborers around: "We have our place to go, if you want to go home, you can go now, if you have nowhere to go, you can also go with us .”

Most of the surviving people chose to return to their hometowns. They still have relatives and ties.

Only a few people chose to leave with them.

Li Congrong sat paralyzed on the ground and asked Zhu Chongba, "What should we do now?"

Zhu Chongba said calmly: "Take your weapons and move as far as the coal can go, and drive back."

It's going to be deep winter soon, and what they have now is not enough to survive the harsh winter, so they have to go back to the village, and the food they brought out is about to be exhausted, so they have to go back as soon as possible.

"Understood." Li Congrong said, "I'll lie here for a while."

Zhu Chongba also sat down, Li Congrong looked at Zhu Chongba's expression and asked, "Are you not afraid at all?"

How could he be so courageous when he went to burn food and grass alone?

He also killed hundreds of households, which Li Congrong felt he could not do.

Zhu Chongba smiled at Li Congrong: "I don't know either."

In the sound of fighting, he gained strength instead, and his hatred for the court burst out completely, which made him extremely excited.

Those who wanted to go home had already left. Before everyone left, Zhu Chongba gave them some beans, which was enough for them to fill their stomachs. When they left, they knelt down and kowtowed to Li Congrong and Zhu Chongba , and then hunched over and left this blood-stained land.

They don't know what their future holds, so they can only follow the path in front of them.

"Although I didn't find iron, it would be nice to have coal." Only now did Li Congrong remember the purpose of their trip. "As long as there is coal, we can turn the iron pans and kitchen knives we found into weapons. These machetes are good."

There are still some good things about these soldiers.

After staying for half a month, they began to rush on their way.

In addition to the original 40 people brought out, more than ten people were added, and these were all willing to follow them.

These people also quickly became one with the original 40 people.

When the fire was lit at night, they listened to these 40 people talking about things in Zhuangzi.

"I can eat enough." This is the biggest temptation.

"My boss doesn't beat people."

"I can sleep in bed at night, and there are quilts to cover."

When Zhu Chongba brought these people clothes, these people yearned for Zhuangzi even more than ever. Although these clothes were not made of cotton, they were stuffed with hay, but they were also grass fleece, which was much warmer than ordinary coarse kudzu clothes. , not to mention that they are here, but they can't even wear coarse kudzu clothes.

Many people froze to death last winter. They survived last winter, and they also know that this winter will be very bad for them.

But now, they see the hope of life.

Everyone wants to live as long as there is a chance to live.

White snow was flying, covering the ground with a thin layer. Lin Yuan was standing in front of the window. This was the first time he saw snow in the south. Compared with the north, it was much smaller, and it didn’t happen every year. See luck.

Everyone in Zhuangzi exclaimed.

"It's snowing! It's snowing this year!"

Erliang and Gouzi wanted to push a snowball out with such a little snow, and they were squatting on the ground outside to play.

After all, he is a teenager, so he still has a playful heart.

Lin Yuan looked at the snow and hoped that tomorrow's harvest would be better.

Now the granary is full, and there are two sheds dedicated to raising bamboo rats, ducks, and chickens. If all goes well, by this time next year, Zhuangzi will be completely self-sufficient.

If Li Congrong and Zhu Chongba can return safely and complete the task, this Zhuangzi can cultivate his own armed forces.

During the uprising in the four places, take a share from the tyrants.

For the future, Lin Yuan only has a general idea in mind, and he needs time to think about it, and also needs time to implement it.

"Master."

"Boss! He's back!"

"Brother Dao is back safely!"

Cheers came from outside.

Lin Yuan rushed out of the room. He ran so fast that he couldn't even breathe.

They came back safely!

When he was about to run in front of Li Congrong, Lin Yuan stopped.

He looked at Brother Dao and Zhu Chongba who were intact, and couldn't help panting.

In the end, Brother Dao stepped forward and hugged Lin Yuan.

"We have lived up to expectations this time, right?" Brother Dao smiled proudly.

Then he asked Lin Yuan in a low voice: "Did I say the word live up to expectations?"

Lin Yuan also laughed: "That's right! That's right!"

Lin Yuan said to the women behind him: "Go catch chickens and ducks, and taste the meat tonight!"

"There is meat to eat!"

"My boss said we will eat meat tonight!"

Lin Yuan felt that he had never been so happy as now, even if he didn't do anything, the smirk on his face couldn't stop.

It was noon, and the sun set, melting the few remaining snow on the ground.