Zhu Nao

In a small hill near Longcheng Mountain, Zhou Dashu and his younger brothers were roasting grasshoppers.

Due to the limited food available in the mountains, in order to survive, they ate everything, and grasshoppers became a delicacy.But the weather has turned cooler recently, and there are fewer grasshoppers in the mountains.They caught them from yesterday to today, and they barely managed to catch dozens of them.

Zhou Dashu took all the grasshoppers on bamboo sticks and skewered them, sprinkled some salt ground from the rocks, and roasted them on the fire.After a while, the grasshopper was roasted and blackened.He took back the bamboo branches and took them down one by one with a wooden stick to distribute to the bandits.

The number of grasshoppers is limited, and each person is only allocated two or three.After working hard for two days, the little bandits ate it all in one bite, and then stared at Zhou Dashu eagerly.

"..." Zhou Dashu spread his hands: "It's gone, that's all."

"Gululu!" Someone's stomach roared.

"Boss, I'm hungry..." A little thief pouted pitifully.

"Brother Dashu, I'm hungry too."

"I also……"

Zhou Dashu could only stare blankly.He was hungry himself, but he had nothing more to eat.

People were downcast, and a gloom enveloped the mountain.

I don't know who whispered first: "Why is our life not as good as before after we became bandits..."

This is a big deal.People were already in a bad mood, but as soon as they were stimulated by this sentence, the mountain seemed to be shrouded in black clouds, lifeless.

These young people escaped together from a certain village.The reason why they fled was that life was too hard and they could not find anything to look forward to; secondly, they heard that the state government paid a lot of money to recruit bandits. The team came out.

At first they planned to go to Changming Village, but what they didn't expect was that when they arrived at Changming Village, the disciple guarding the mountain gate asked them why they came here.These young people don't have any scheming, just honestly say that the government gives the bandits money and returns them fame.They felt that bandits had a future, so they wanted to find a big village to take refuge in.The people in Changming Village were very polite, and they said, "This village does not accept the government's recruitment, please find another job." They were invited down the mountain directly.

Taking refuge in Changming Village failed, Zhou Dashu and others had no choice but to seek refuge in a small cottage nearby.But the thieves in that small cottage were very repulsive to newcomers, letting them do all kinds of dirty work, and beat and scolded them frequently.After staying for a few days, they couldn't bear the anger and left again.

After leaving the cottage, everyone really didn't know where to go, so they found a small mountain bun and nested in it, and the nest has been nested until today.

Now that the topic was brought up, a little bandit couldn't help but continued: "Brother Dashu, didn't the state government send someone to send a letter of surrender a few days ago? Why don't we go back and forget it, anyway, it's just farming, After a few years of planting, the land can still belong to us!"

Zhou Dashu shook his head: "No way!"

It would be a lie to say that he was completely unmoved by the surrender letter.If you work as a field slave for the state capital for five years, you can get land. I have never heard of such a good thing.This has to be put aside, anyone is happy to change it!But no matter what, they all ran out to be bandits once, and they ran back to be field slaves if they didn't do something that would impress others.

The little bandits looked at Zhou Dashu eagerly.They were also a little bit unwilling, but their stomachs were growling with hunger, and their integrity was gone.

"Brother Dashu," one person persuaded, "the state government said that if we go to surrender within three months, it will give us a chance to redeem our sins. If we don't go for three months, this chance will be gone."

"Yes," another person said, "What if the officers and soldiers come to suppress us?"

There are only about 20 people in their group. If the state government wants to punish them, they have no room to resist.

Zhou Dashu waved his hand: "That's not the case. There are bandits everywhere now, how can the state government have the ability to suppress them? If they can be suppressed, they will be suppressed long ago! The three-month time limit is just to scare us."

After a pause, he said again: "Do you still remember that the state government recruited security last year? After recruiting for a long time, Renchangming Village and Tulang Village ignored them, and they kept increasing the conditions, and finally gave it to the butcher wolf. How much money is the village? This time, as long as we ignore them, they will definitely offer better terms, so there is no rush."

After hearing these words, the little thieves also felt that it made sense, so they endured the hunger and temporarily gave up this idea.

At this moment, a bandit who was patrolling down the mountain ran back panting.

"Brother Da Shu, something happened, something happened!"

Zhou Dashu hurriedly asked: "What's wrong?"

"Changming Village...Changming Village...come...come..." The little bandit was out of breath when he ran up the mountain, and couldn't say a word for a long time.

Zhou Dashu was so anxious that he wished he could say for him: "What happened to Changming Village?!"

"Changming Village is coming to attack us!"

"what???"

Everyone was frightened. Some jumped up and ran towards the dense bushes, while others pushed through the weeds to get into the trap for catching wild rabbits.

Zhou Dashu hurriedly said: "Everyone, don't panic. What's going on, why did they come to beat us? Tell us clearly."

The little thief's breath finally calmed down a bit: "I was patrolling down the mountain just now, and I felt the ground shaking from a distance, and then I saw a group of people appearing in the distance, playing chess pieces from Changming Village. There are many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many." People! There is no end in sight!"

Zhou Dashu was a little flustered when he heard the first half, but calmed down when he heard the latter part: "There are really so many people?"

The little bandit nodded desperately: "Really! If you don't believe me, go and see for yourself."

Zhou Dashu thought for a while, then greeted everyone: "Let's go, let's go and have a look together."

The little bandits panicked: "What if we don't have time to run?"

"What are you running for?" Zhou Dashu patted the man on the head, "You guys are stupid, how many people are there? Changming Village dispatched so many people, how could they be targeting us?"

Just because there were no other villages nearby, they thought that Changming Village must be aimed at them.Thinking about it, there are twenty or so of them, and they haven't provoked others, so how can they make a mistake?

So everyone followed Zhou Dashu and ran to the other side of the mountain.

Switching to the other side of the mountain, all of them could see it clearly immediately: just as the sentry bandit said, a large group of people at the foot of the mountain were marching forward, and what they were holding was the flag of Changming Village.The team was so long that there was no end in sight at a glance.The other party obviously didn't come for them, but just borrowed from the mountain.

One exclaimed, "Mother, there are so many people. Where are they going?"

Although the little bandits don't know how many people there are in Changming Village, but judging by their posture, they are afraid that all the troops from the mountain have come out.A group of people held swords and farm tools, and they were full of murderous intent. It was like gods blocking and killing gods, and Buddhas blocking and killing Buddhas.

"Which cottage are you going to attack?"

"With so many people dispatched, there must be some big village to attack. Could it be the Wolf Slaughter Village?!"

"Longcheng Mountain is not in this direction, it should not be Tulang Village..."

"Who else could it be?"

"I want to know too."

Changming Village was walking all the way to the east, Zhou Dashu carefully thought about what other big cottages were in the east, but he really couldn't think of it for a while.All the way to the east, there are no big mountains, only some small hills.There are only small cottages like them in the small mountain bag.

The bandit who was patrolling just now scratched his head and asked in confusion: "They dispatched such a large group of people, what if they are discovered by the government?"

Zhou Dashu: "..."

Zhou Dashu: "!!!"

He jumped up from the grass suddenly, startling the bandits who were lying on their stomachs watching.

"Brother Dashu, what are you doing?"

Zhou Dashu pointed at the team at the bottom of the mountain, his fingers trembling: "They...they are going to attack the state capital!! They are going to rebel!!!"

Everyone: "!!!"

……

After half a column of incense.

A few sneaky men slowly approached the large army in Changming Village.At first, he followed from a distance at the end of the team, then slowly climbed to the flanks, and finally mixed into the team inadvertently.

Zhou Dashu stepped into the crowd and saw several people staring at him. He quickly pulled his crotch, pretending that he had just relieved himself: "Ah, I've held it all the way, and it's much more comfortable after I let it go."

The people around smiled at him and continued on their way.

Zhou Dashu secretly rejoiced: It was a success!

After a while, a young man squeezed to him from behind the line: "Brother Da Shu."

Zhou Dashu glanced at him, and said in a low voice, "It's not arousing suspicion, is it?"

The young man shook his head: "No. I saw Lao Wu and Lao Qiye sneaking in."

Just now, Zhou Dashu asked everyone to disperse and join the team of Changming Village.After all, there are hundreds of people in Changming Village, and they may not all know each other, and they may not be suspicious when they see strange faces.Things went smoother than Zhou Dashu thought, all of them got mixed into the brigade.

The little bandit was nervous and a little excited: "Brother Da Shu, what are we going to do in a while?"

Zhou Dashu said: "We will do what they do. From now on, we will regard ourselves as people from Changming Village."

Regardless of whether Changming Village is going to attack other cottages or rebel this time, Zhou Dashu believes that something big will happen soon!At the beginning, these brothers ran out to fall into the grass, just wanting to make a career, but now the opportunity is in front of them, how can they miss it?

Thinking of this, Zhou Dashu himself was so nervous that his hands were sweating, and he kept rubbing his clothes with his hands.

The brigade of Changming Village moved forward unhurriedly, passing one hill after another.They didn't attack any of the small hills, but Zhou Dashu, who was keen, discovered that many people ran out of several small hills one after another. Like them, they mixed into the brigade of Changming Village.The line seemed to be getting longer and longer.

Zhou Dashu's heart was up and down.He didn't dare to ask the team where they were going, for fear of revealing their secrets, so he could only try to find out.

He chuckled and said, "I hope our operation will go smoothly."

The person next to him shrugged: "What else can go wrong?"

Zhou Dashu: "!"

As expected of the Changming Village, the number one village in central Sichuan, listen to this confident tone, this is completely ignoring the opponent!

As the team moved forward, one suspicious target after another was ruled out.Further on, almost really only the state capital remains.

Zhou Dashu plucked up his courage and made a further test: "Go further, and the state capital will arrive."

The person on the side said: "Well, I hope I can arrive before dark."

Zhou Dashu gasped.Sure enough, he was heading for the state capital! !

His palms began to sweat again, and he said with a dry smile, "We are really brave, haha."

The person next to him looked at him inexplicably: "Why do you say that?"

Zhou Dashu: "..."

What is why?Isn't it courageous to rebel? !The people in Changming Village are simply extremely arrogant!

The further he walked, the more flustered Zhou Dashu became.The younger brother who mingled beside him was also visibly nervous, clutching his arm with his fingers, trembling non-stop.

"Brother Da, Da Shu, are we really, really going?"

Zhou Dashu kept wiping away his sweat, unable to speak.When he fantasized before, he was ambitious, but at this moment, he realized that he was much more cowardly than he imagined.

What can I do now...

……

As the sun sets, the atmosphere in the state capital is relaxed and peaceful.The busy day is coming to an end, and people can rest immediately, and people have already begun to think about today's dinner.

A sudden scream broke the silence.

"Not good! Not good!"

The alarmed officials in the second hall looked unhappy: "What's the matter? Why are you bluffing like this."

The official who reported the letter turned pale and said in a trembling voice: "Thousands of people from Chang-Changming Village have already arrived at the gate of the city!"

"What?! Really?!"

"It's absolutely true!!"

A few people jumped up and ran, and they looked around for something to defend themselves.There were also a few officials who had experienced the chaos last time, rolled their eyes in fright, and passed away directly.

The state capital quickly fell into chaos.

……

The brigade of Changming Village has arrived under the city gate.Yu Changming, who was walking in the front, raised his hand, and the brigade stopped immediately.

The officers and soldiers guarding the city wall looked terrified and asked tremblingly, "Come, come, who is coming?"

Most of the thieves in Changming Village looked very calm, but there were also a few people who were trembling with fear like the officer and soldier.

Zhou Dashu's clothes were completely wet with sweat, and now it was too late to run, so he could only stare at the people around him, and follow the troops closely for a while, so as to at least reduce the danger.

Just listening to the front of the team, Yu Changming said loudly: "I have heard that Zhuzhou Mu is benevolent and righteous, and loves the people like a son. Today Yu Changming led the entire Changming Village to surrender, and boldly begged Zhuzhou Mu to forgive his previous crimes. In the future, Changming Village is willing to work for the Zhou Mu. !"

Ping pong pong, everyone threw the weapons and farm tools in their hands to the ground, and all fell to their knees.

Zhou Dashu was so nervous that he didn't hear what Yu Changming said, he just stared at the movements of the people around him.Everyone knelt down in unison, he didn't even think about it, he just knelt down along with him.

Zhou Dashu: "..."

Zhou Dashu: "..."

Zhou Dashu: "???"