Back To The Beginning Of Ming To Do Charity

The low roar of wild animals came from the woods, the evening wind blew, the leaves whirled, there was a "rustling" sound in my ears, the moonlight was not too bright, half covered by dark clouds, Yang Zian could only lead a person to light a fire on a flat ground , rest for one night and then go on the road.

When he left Zhuangzi, he took only two people with him, but when he returned, he brought nearly fifty people with him.

This has to start with finding Zhang Shicheng.

But his name is not Zhang Shicheng, but Zhang Jiusi, because the name is wrong, Yang Zian searched for a long time before finding it.

Zhang Jiusi also has three younger brothers, Zhang Jiuwu, Zhang Jiuliu, Zhang Jiuqi, and some other good brothers, all of them dragged their families with them, so Yang Zi'an wasted a lot of time.

They all lived by transporting salt by boat. Zhang Shicheng smuggled salt to sell in order to subsidize his family. In addition to this, there was also a salt supervisor named Qiu Yi in the salt field, who not only withheld the salaries of the salt people, but also asked them to pay him tribute every month.

Since ancient times, officials and senior officials have crushed people to death, not to mention Zhang Shicheng and the others are not officials, ordinary people can only hold back their anger and continue to live a hard life.

"Eat something, I've been driving for a day." Yang Zi'an asked someone to take the dry food from the ox cart.

Lin Yuan asked someone to prepare these dry foods for him. They were all dry biscuits and dried meat. Find a pot, add some water and salt to cook, and it can be regarded as a warm and satisfying meal nowadays.

People sitting on the ground took bowls and waited, and some couldn't wait, so they took dry biscuits and ate them directly.

Zhang Jiusi was a little ashamed. After all, he brought these people here. He also wanted to hunt these days, but they would not stay in one place for too long. Beside Zian, he hesitated and said in a low voice, "Your boss, did you really say that I had an affair with him?"

But he didn't remember Lin Yuan at all.

Yang Zi'an: "My fourth younger brother said that he met once many years ago. He is a very kind person. He doesn't see anyone suffering. Or he only met you a few times, or said a few words to you. You It’s normal not to remember.”

Zhang Jiusi rubbed the back of his head, he felt that Yang Zi'an had found the wrong person, after all he was looking for Zhang Shicheng at the beginning, Zhang Jiusi had heard of Yang Zian's name there, he was a big spender, and he was an outsider, He came all the way here just to find someone, and the person he was looking for was an ordinary Yanman, and he said he hadn't seen that person for many years. After discussing with his three younger brothers at home, Zhang Jiusi decided to try his luck.

For some reason, Yang Zian insisted that he was the one he was looking for as soon as he heard that he had three younger brothers whose family made a living by transporting salt by boat.

Zhang Jiusi originally just wanted to have a meal - after all, every time someone came to the door, Yang Zian would at least ask him to have a meal.

Many people impersonate for this meal, although they also know that their impersonation cannot be successful.

But Zhang Jiusi succeeded, not only did he succeed, but Yang Zian wanted to take him away.

According to Yang Zi'an's words, he could eat three meals a day. Zhang Jiusi was a little shaken by this alone.

He transports salt every day, but the wages he gets are pitifully small. The four brothers together are just enough to feed them, and sometimes they have to help friends. I don't even have the money to buy medicine, and I can go to a place where I can eat three meals a day, not be beaten or scolded, and provide a place to live. I dare not even think about it.

But when he thought that he had left with his younger brothers and that the brothers who had a good relationship were still suffering, Zhang Jiusi tentatively asked Yang Zi'an what he meant.

Yang Zian had been told by Lin Yuan before, and he nodded in agreement without asking any further questions.

Although Zhang Jiusi still had some doubts, Yang Zian's promise was so good that even if he wanted to refuse, he didn't know how to open his mouth.

Before giving him a chance to repent, Yang Zian had already taken them away from Xinghua.

The horses could no longer be bought, and there was no one selling them in Xinghua, so Yang Zian bought a few donkey carts, where the elderly and children sat, while the young people walked on their own legs, and no one complained on the road.

Now Zhang Jiusi was starting to fear again, what if he was found out to be not the person they were looking for?

I haven't seen you for so many years, so I probably don't recognize him?

He struggled all the way, feeling that he shouldn't be so greedy for a while, and feeling lucky for a while, thinking that he shouldn't be able to find out that he was a fake.

Yang Zi'an was not afraid of them robbing him, mainly because except for dry food and these donkey carts, he basically spent all his money, and these people were not desperadoes, and they would not kill if they failed to rob.

After arriving under the city wall of Zhuangzi, Yang Zi'an finally breathed a sigh of relief. It has been nearly half a year since he left Zhuangzi, and he doesn't know what is going on in Zhuangzi now.

The time he spent in Xinghua was really too long, but the length of this time was not for him to allocate.

Zhang Jiusi and the others looked straight, they didn't expect that there was such a place in the wilderness, it was like a paradise.

The people on the observation deck couldn't see Yang Zian's face clearly, they only knew that these people were not from Zhuangzi, and was about to blow the horn, but Yang Zian shouted: "I am your second brother Yang, I brought someone back, go quickly Tell my fourth brother!"

The man was taken aback for a moment, and roared: "Then you wait first!"

Lin Yuan was teasing a baby at this time. He liked children very much. Now as long as he came to tease the baby when he was in a bad mood or was irritable, his whole mood would be much better. Babies have a pair of children that are stronger than adults. With black and white eyes, the eyes of adults are more cloudy, but the eyes of children are very clear.

At this time, Lin Yuan was being held by the little baby, who was smiling with his mouth open. The baby's mother was sitting on the side, and a woman laughed and said, "This kid knows how to please his master at such a young age. Definitely a sweetie too."

The child's mother also laughed: "Her eyes look like mine."

Lin Yuan looked at it carefully and felt that the child looked more like his mother, but he couldn't be sure at such a young age.

Some children are like mothers when they are young, and like fathers when they grow up.

But such an older child doesn't even have eyebrows, and has a fat and tender face, which looks good no matter what.

Now that there is no milk powder, I can only rely on my mother's breast milk for breastfeeding. When the breast milk is not enough, I will feed some rice soup, and I am still growing well.

It's just that the lanugo is a little yellow, which can't be helped.

Erliang ran in from outside the house, and said to Lin Yuan, "Master, Second Brother Yang is back, and brought a lot of people with him, and they are all waiting outside."

Lin Yuan stood up suddenly, probably because of the loud noise. The baby girl found that the fingers she was holding were missing, and she turned her mouth and began to cry.

Lin Yuan could only say to the baby girl's mother: "Coax her, I'll go first."

Her mother said with a smile: "Go to my master, I will take good care of her."

Yang Zian and the others basked in the sun for a while before seeing the door slowly open.

When Lin Yuan came out of the door, the first thing he did was to give Yang Zian a warm hug. Yang Zian was taken aback, then patted Lin Yuan on the back, and said with a smile, "I brought it back for you, money used up."

"You've been away for so long, I'm still worried that I don't have enough money." Lin Yuan smiled, "Go in first."

As Lin Yuan walked in with his arms around Yang Zi'an's shoulders, he asked, "Who is Zhang Shicheng?"

Yang Zian: "Can't you recognize it?"

Lin Yuan opened his eyes and said nonsense: "That happened several years ago, I can't remember clearly."

Yang Zian: "I didn't find Zhang Shicheng, but I found Zhang Jiusi, who also has three younger brothers. I thought it might be because you remembered wrongly, and they are all surnamed Zhang anyway."

Lin Yuan thought, yes, Zhang Shicheng used to be an ordinary saltman, a low-level people, how could he have a serious name.

He quickly followed Yang Zi'an's words and said, "It should be because I remembered wrongly."

Yang Zian: "But he brought back a lot of people."

Lin Yuan looked back, Zhang Jiusi and the others walked behind very restrainedly, but kept looking left and right.

"Not too many." Lin Yuan briefly talked about the previous incident, "We happen to be short of people."

Some time ago, Jiang Guang came here according to his words, and brought the three horses that he had agreed to before. The people who brought it here were afraid that the five hundred would be too much, and Lin Yuan couldn't manage it.

Lin Yuan told him to just send it off, and they can naturally take care of it.

Yang Zian said: "Not enough dormitories?"

Lin Yuan nodded, feeling that Yang Zi'an was just a roundworm in his stomach: "Sure enough, you understand me, second brother. I think the new dormitory must be built. Fortunately, although the craftsman who built the house left last time, some Many people built it together, they have experience and know how to do it, this time there is no need to go outside to get people, and the bricks will probably require you to find someone to burn them again."

Yang Zian: "It's not a troublesome thing, we should build three floors, and build a few more."

Lin Yuan nodded: "But it won't be long, we have to move out at the end of next year."

Yang Zian was taken aback: "Where are you going to move?"

Lin Yuan just smiled: "I'll know when the time comes."

It is too early to speak now, wait until next year when the Red Scarf Army revolts, when the general trend of the world, it will be normal for them to go ahead and attack Xinghua.

Yang Zian saw that he couldn't ask, so he stopped asking.

Zhang Jiusi and the others looked at the fertile fields and the crops on them, they were a little overwhelmed, Li Liu said next to Zhang Jiusi, "You really have a man named Zhang Shicheng?"

Zhang Jiusi also whispered, "Maybe it's not me."

Li Liu was startled: "Isn't this a lie?"

Zhang Jiusi: "Talk down!"

Lin Yuan walked up to Zhang Jiusi at this moment. He was different from the people around him. Anyone with eyes would know that this was the boss. Lin Yuan now looked like a son-in-law, and he didn't work in the fields. Not exposed to the wind and the sun, and his facial features are not bad, he looks like a white-faced boy.

But this is just a comparison with other people in Zhuangzi.

"Zhang Jiusi." Lin Yuan called Zhang Jiusi's name.

Zhang Jiusi stood up from the crowd, and Lin Yuan looked him up and down. He remembered that Zhang Shicheng was recorded in the records as a person who "had little physical strength, and was a hero".

In fact, in essence, there are many similarities with the original owner, but he lost his way after he succeeded.

Zhang Jiusi looked at Lin Yuan.

Lin Yuan said, "Come with me."

Zhang Jiusi looked back at his brothers again, and finally walked out with Lin Yuan.

Lin Yuan took Zhang Jiusi to a relatively secluded place. He knew that the reason why Zhang Jiusi was willing to come here with Yang Zian was because Zhang Jiusi had been cornered at this time, and he was still in the dilemma of whether to resist or not. Marginal, but Zhang Jiusi is not a person who has no fear of imperial power in his bones, otherwise he would not be forced to rebel until the 13th year.

That's why Yang Zi'an released a rope that symbolized his way of life, and he would grab it when he knew there were many doubts.

"You are not the person I am looking for." Lin Yuan said.

Zhang Jiusi was taken aback, he was a little flustered, after all he doesn't often tell lies.

Lin Yuan said again: "But since you're all here, just stay at ease. Although I haven't found my friend, but you're all here, naturally I won't ask you to go back."

Zhang Jiusi looked at Lin Yuan with a good look, thinking what kind of living Bodhisattva descended to earth?

"It's just your brothers." Lin Yuan said, "You can't cause trouble for me."

Zhang Jiusi patted his chest and assured: "That's natural."

Zhang Jiusi and the others were assigned to dormitories, but they couldn't live in the same room as a family, they had to live separately, and they had to go to the kitchen when eating.

Zhang Jiusi and his four brothers plus one Li Liu were assigned to a dormitory that already lived in three people. From the Hua side, these people became more enthusiastic.

"How's it going outside now?"

"You guys have salt, you must be rich."

Zhang Jiusi and the others looked at the bed that had been made, and their hearts were relaxed for four or five minutes. There were still five or six minutes hanging in the air. His eyes were full of surprise, he had never seen such a bed in his life.

"This is what our boss came up with." The aborigine in the same dormitory laughed, "The boss said that there are too many people, and the place can't take care of it. With this bunk bed, people can sleep more and write more without having to squeeze each other. A bed, comfortable."

Zhang Jiusi asked him, "What kind of person is your boss?"

The man said: "Speaking of our boss, come on, sit down, and listen to me tell you in detail."

The other two said with a smile: "Brother Zhao talks a lot, just listen, he won't ask you to leave unless he has something to say."

The person known as Brother Zhao said: "I was originally a refugee, and they both couldn't stay in their hometown anymore, so they walked here with others. It was snowing at that time! The gentlemen in the city Regardless of us, I don’t know how many people died of freezing and starvation, and it happened that the owner wanted to hire people to build a house, which is where we live, and I built it with my own hands.”

"Originally, after the house was built, the craftsmen left, and we had nowhere to go, so we begged the owner to let us stay."

Brother Zhao patted his thigh: "The boss didn't even blink, so he told us to stay."

Zhang Jiusi hurriedly asked: "Then what do you do on weekdays?"

Brother Zhao: "It depends on which group you are in. I am in Jiang Guanshi's group. I have to train in the morning and do farm work in the afternoon. In other groups, I have training in the morning for fishing in the afternoon, and training in the afternoon for hunting. Let's make a distinction."

This is similar to their saltworks, each has a division of labor, but they don't need to train.

"Training what?" Zhang Jiusi asked.

Brother Zhao said again: "There are many, such as push-ups and leapfrog, there are so many tricks, my boss said, this is to exercise our physical strength, and sometimes my boss will train with me."

Zhang Jiusi asked again: "Why do you need to train?"

Brother Zhao: "Do you think it's peaceful here? What if there are bandits coming? Don't we have to go there?"

Zhang Jiusi swallowed.

Brother Zhao said with a smile: "It's no big deal, I've never been afraid, man, I'm afraid of an egg!"

The roommate exposed him mercilessly: "The last time someone came, you almost peed your pants in fright. If we hadn't supported you, maybe you would have become a deserter."

Brother Zhao: "Bah! Did I pee my pants?! Then I just sweat a lot!"

Zhang Jiusi glanced at his three younger brothers.

Zhang Jiuwu said: "Brother, I'm here anyway, what do you want to do so much, as long as you don't go hungry."

"Yes, what do you eat in the cafeteria?" Zhang Jiuqi was the youngest, looking at Brother Zhao intently and asked.

Brother Zhao: "On weekdays, we eat miscellaneous grains, steamed buns, stir-fried vegetables, and enough oil and water. Our Zhuangzi can squeeze oil by itself, and we can eat meat once every seven days. If someone from outside comes to beat us, or we go to beat someone In the bandit village, you can eat all you can eat fine grains, and you can also eat all you can eat meat."

Zhang Jiuqi's saliva was about to flow down, but when he thought that he would have to work hard if he wanted to eat enough meat, he was a little scared while excited.

He asked, "Then what time do you eat today?"

Brother Zhao said, "We won't have dinner until two hours later, and then I will tell you the rules of eating."

Zhang Jiuqi was taken aback: "There are also rules when eating?"

Brother Zhao nodded: "That's natural. Here in our place, there are rules for shitting."

This shocked the four brothers and Li Liu, how strange is this place?Are there rules for eating and shitting?

Brother Zhao took them to the corridor and told them to look at the toilet next to the dormitory: "That's Gong's place, you usually have to go there when you need to defecate and pee, and you have to wash your hands at the door when you come out."

"My boss said that it's easy to get sick if you don't wash your hands!" Brother Zhao raised his head with a proud expression that he knew a lot. "Everything my boss said makes sense! Our boss has been educated!"

Zhang Jiusi looked like a house, and his expression was a little psychedelic.

Brother Zhao: "If you go to Gong's house at night, remember to light the torches outside, so as not to fall in. Last time, an unlucky guy fell in. Who told him to be so thin, he managed to climb up."

Everyone: "..."

That unlucky guy is really unlucky.

They can all imagine how he crawled out of the latrine.

Brother Zhao: "That's about it, what else do you want to ask?"

Brother Zhao added: "By the way, there are rewards for working hard. The two people in each group who do the best work every day can eat a reward meal. A cup of stewed vegetables can eat two meals if you save a little. It's full of big chunks of meat and a bowl of white rice."

These more than 50 people have arranged their rooms. After all, they have just arrived in the new environment, and most of them are still a little uneasy. Fortunately, the people in the dormitory are very enthusiastic, and they are not as nervous as they were at the beginning.

Is it possible to be unenthusiastic?During this period of time, Lin Yuan has been giving them repeated orders. Zhuangzi will definitely come to many people in the future. If they are looking for trouble, they should be kicked out and go outside to dominate the newcomers. Those who report can also get a piece of meat and a bag of rice, as well as a bamboo rat and a fat chicken.

Therefore, even if they are not very enthusiastic about treating newcomers, they will not find fault with them. No one in this world wants to be kicked out.

Getting kicked out is basically a dead word.

Even if he doesn't die, he won't be able to live such a good life in Zhuangzi. Although it's hard every day, he doesn't have to worry about food, clothing and housing.

Each person also has two new sets of clothes every season. Although they are almost the same size and color, poor people can't wear a few new clothes in their entire life. How can anyone choose this?

At dinner that night, Zhang Jiusi and his brothers were assigned to a fishing group, and there were a few fellow villagers with them. They were newcomers, and they met the group leader at dinner.

The leader of the fishing team was surnamed Zheng, originally named Zheng Liuer, and later went to Lin Yuan to give him a new name, Zheng Zhizhong. After he got his name, he forbade others to call him Zheng Liuer during working hours. Second, you must be called by your name.

"The boss said before that the daily catch is enough, and the more fish will be our own." Zheng Liuer told Zhang Jiusi and the others, "If there is a lot of fish caught, we will divide the fish ourselves, without cooking. Guys can borrow from the kitchen, which is convenient."

Zhang Jiusi asked: "Then what if you don't fight enough?"

Zheng Liuer smiled and said, "Where is there not enough fish? That river has a lot of fish, and there are quite a few in winter. The quantity set by the owner is not high, and usually it can be finished in one or two hours."

Some of the fish caught are taken directly to the kitchen, and some are made into salted fish and hung up to be eaten in winter.

Early the next morning, Zhang Jiusi and the others heard a loud noise outside, and Gu Du was so frightened that he almost jumped up and regained his composure when his head touched the ceiling and the bed.

Brother Zhao and the others slowly got up from the quilt, rubbed their eyes and said, "This is calling us to get up."

Zhang Jiusi and the others breathed a sigh of relief.

"We are too lazy to fetch water, so we can wash by the stream, are you with us?" Brother Zhao asked.

Zhang Jiusi smiled: "Naturally go with Brother Zhao."

Brother Zhao led them to wash their faces, had breakfast together, and then went to the square for training.

In the first hour, they practiced obedience. Wherever Lin Yuan pointed, they rushed there, and then they held knives, and when Lin Yuan gave an order, they went to chop the wooden stakes that were covered with bruises.

An hour later, the daily training begins, running, push-ups, leapfrogging, throwing stones and so on.

When the bell for the lunch break rang, they yelled and rushed to the cafeteria briskly.

Zhang Jiusi discovered that no one was lazy, and no one supervised the work. During the training, a group of ten people supervised each other.

He is rather strange.

Brother Zhao said: "You are lazy, if you are reported by the same group, you can only eat one meal tomorrow, but he can eat meat!"

Only then did Zhang Jiusi suddenly realize.

This Zhuangzi is even more hidden than he thought.