Zhu Nao

After getting into the donkey cart, Mr. Liu couldn't help but yawned.This Wangjiazhuang is located near Yilong. They came from Langzhou in a donkey cart for two days, and just now they walked a long way around the village.The old man is getting old and his body is too strong.

Zhu Nao handed over a mat, Mr. Liu hurriedly thanked his host, and fell asleep on the mat.

Jing Zhe moved to Zhu Nao's side and asked, "My lord, do you want to buy that farm?"

Zhu Nao didn't comment.

They have looked at many fields these days, but they have not found a satisfactory one.Most rich landlords are unwilling to sell their land, after all, the more land they own, the more rent they will receive.Those who are willing to sell have various problems.For example, the land is barren, the land is too little, and the rent cannot be collected, so it is better to sell it; another example is Wangjiazhuang, which is invaded by bandits and can only sell the land to escape.As for self-cultivating small farmers, more are willing to sell their land. After all, their lives are hard to get rid of, and they can only sell land for emergency, and they can't care about the future.But they only have a few acres of Susukida scattered fields, which is not what Junao needs.

Jing Zhe saw that Zhu Nao seemed to be interested in Wangjiazhuang, so she couldn't help saying: "But how do we deal with those bandits?"

Zhu Nao leaned against the car window and glanced at the mountains not far away.Under those emerald greens, hidden murderous intentions.He said helplessly: "A dozen nests of thieves are hard to deal with."

Jingzhe seemed a little upset seeing Zhu Nao, so she stopped asking.He comforted him clumsily: "Fortunately, although there are many bandits here, they are not very powerful. If more than a dozen cottages unite, it will be difficult to deal with."

Zhu Nao shook his head: "That's not right. It would be easy to handle if there is really a cottage here that dominates and annexes all the other villages."

Jing Zhe was taken aback: "Why? Isn't a single family stronghold more difficult to deal with than scattered thieves?"

Zhu Nao said: "Think about it, if there is only one cottage here, as long as they are smarter, they will not kill the common people. Let the common people offer food and money to them every year, and the two sides will live in harmony. If other cottages invade, They should have to take action to protect it. Otherwise, the people will be killed, and the money and food will be robbed, who will give them offerings? But there are more than a dozen cottages here, and it is true that they can guard against one or the other. The tricky part."

Jing Zhe was stunned.Originally, he only thought about how to resist the bandits, the stronger the opponent, the lower their chances of winning, but he didn't expect that Zhu Nao wanted to cooperate with the bandits.

Thinking about it this way, what Zhu Nao said actually makes sense.The bandits came to plunder the people, and the people wanted to protect their homes and homes. When the two sides fought, there would be casualties.If there is no need to rob, the people are willing to offer money and food, and the bandits are of course happy, and the people can live in peace.It's just that if there are too many thieves' villages, the people can't afford it, and even if they can afford it, it's hard to guarantee that some cottages will not be credited.And as long as one or two cottages break their promises and continue to rob, the rest of the cottages will never be honest.They are worried that the good things will be snatched by others, and they will scramble to kill them.Then the people really have no way out.

Jing Zhe wanted to understand this point, suddenly felt that what she just said was very childish.He scratched his hair and said in a muffled voice, "Young Master is smart."

Junao smiled, patted his head, and looked out of the window again.

Qingshan gradually went away.

……

In the mountains.

The sun at the end of the day is not as fierce as that at noon, and the yin in the mountains has dissipated and it is warm.A girl of thirteen or fourteen was lying under a tree and fell asleep.

A tall and strong man walked down the mountain quickly, with a dignified expression and frowned eyebrows.He walked by, saw the girl lying under the tree, and immediately walked over.

"Xiaochun."

The girl named Xiaochun was sleeping soundly, feeling someone slapped her arm a few times, she opened her eyes bewilderedly.She stared at the man for a while, her mind gradually became clear, and she jumped up from the ground: "Village, village master!"

Yu Changming said: "Where are the people guarding the hill? Where have they all gone?"

He went out to the mountain on business in the morning, and when he came back, he found that the hill was empty.He was looking for someone everywhere, when he saw Xiaochun resting here.

Xiaochun hesitated and couldn't speak.

Seeing her guilty expression, Yu Changming already understood in his heart.His complexion became darker, and he said coldly, "Did Yu Ping take them out? Where did they go?"

Xiaochun lowered her head and dared not speak.

Yu Changming said again: "Have you gone to find those disaster victims?"

Xiaochun bowed his head even lower, which was his acquiescence.

Yu Changming clenched his fists.

Xiaochun said timidly: "I, we persuaded, but we couldn't persuade..."

Yu Changming said: "Can't be persuaded? If you can't be persuaded, let him go alone! Why do those people follow him?!"

Xiaochun was about to cry: "The second village master said that if everyone doesn't go, he will go by himself. If something happens to him, it depends on everyone. We don't trust him, so we can only go out with him..."

Yu Changming closed his eyes and pressed his forehead with protruding veins.

The little girl sobbed, "Village Master, I'm sorry."

Yu Changming opened his eyes and looked at her, and sighed after a while: "Sorry, I shouldn't have hurt you."

Xiaochun shook his head again and again.

Without saying a word, Yu Changming went back to the house to get a long knife, and ran down the mountain again.As soon as he reached the foot of the mountain, he saw a group of people approaching from a distance.He saw who it was and immediately ran towards them.

Those people were walking unhurriedly, but when they saw Yu Changming, they all stopped.

"Village, village master?"

Walking in the front of the crowd was a young man, leading a group of donkeys with many loads on them.He was driving the donkey with a smile on his face, when he suddenly saw Yu Changming, the smile on his face froze: "Brother? You, you're back..."

Yu Changming looked at everyone coldly.These people were all carrying knives and sticks, and several of them had blood on their bodies, especially Yu Ping, as if they had been fished out of a pool of blood.

Seeing Yu Changming staring at him, Yu Ping also looked down at his clothes, and put on a smug smile: "Don't worry, I'm not hurt, it's all other people's blood. Those guys are too weak, I One knife at a time, they don't even have a chance to fight back."

The more he talked, the more ugly Yu Changming's face became.Someone behind him secretly pulled La Yuping's clothes, signaling him to stop talking.However, Yu Ping didn't care, and continued to add fuel to the flames: "Now that we have avenged Xiao Wu, and the news spread, let's see who dares to come to our territory to act wild in the future!"

Yu Changming clenched his teeth tightly and asked slowly, "Where are those people?"

Yu Ping curled his lips: "Kill them all, there are not many of them."

Yu Changming stared at him: "They still have old people and children."

Yu Ping quickly raised his hand: "When I went, their old man was already dead, and they were digging a hole to bury him. I only killed all the men, and let all the women and children go away." After he finished speaking, he pointed A group of brothers behind him, "They can all testify."

Everyone dared not speak.

Yu Changming looked at them coldly.I didn't speak for a long time.All the people swept by his gaze bowed their heads guiltyly.

Yu Ping was justified at first, but due to Yu Changming's momentum, his straight back gradually bent a little bit, and his eyes began to wander, but he still insisted: "They killed Xiao Wu first, what's wrong with me avenging Xiao Wu? We are bandits, bandits! Is it possible that we are bandits and let others bully us?!"

Yu Changming's dark eyes stared at him steadily, with chills in his eyes.

The words start from the year before last.

The year before last, there was a plague of insects in Yilong area, the grain harvest in the fields failed, and the people were poor.Instead of reducing taxes, the government added several new taxes, which made the people miserable.One day, the county magistrate's son passed by and took a fancy to the beautiful daughter of a farm family. He wanted to take the girl away forcibly on the grounds that the farm family could not pay the tax and had to use the daughter to pay off the debt.Yu Changming happened to be nearby, without saying a word, he stepped forward and snatched an official's saber, and stabbed the county magistrate's son to death with one blow.

After killing the county magistrate's son, Yu Changming was wanted by the government, and Yu Changming had to flee.He has always been generous and loyal, and he was quite prestigious in the past.What happened this time made the government even more angry. As soon as Yu Changming wanted to leave, more than a dozen families were willing to go with him.So everyone simply went into the mountains and felled the grass, set up a Changming village, and became bandits.

In the past two years, many people have come to defect one after another, and there are also other cottages willing to surrender.From dozens of people at the beginning, to now, there are hundreds of people in Changming Village, which is the most powerful village in Yilong area, and the government has nothing to do with them.

As for Yu Ping, he is Yu Changming's cousin.The two originally lived in neighboring counties, although they walked around, they were not very close.After Yu Changming murdered, the government couldn't catch him, so they wanted to start with his relatives.It was Yu Ping who escaped from the officials and went to Yilong to join Yu Changming.Yu Changming felt that he had troubled his relatives, so he took care of Yu Ping a lot in the past two years and made him the second head of the cottage.

However, although the two brothers came from the same family, their temperaments are very different.Yu Changming is more lenient, but Yu Ping is vindictive.

Although weeds fell in the mountains, the cottage would often send people down the mountain to buy some supplies in the village or city.Three days ago, Yu Changming sent a boy named Xiao Wu out of the mountain, but Xiao Wu didn't come back all day.Early the next morning, everyone in Changming Village went down the mountain to search, and found Xiao Wu's body at the foot of the mountain.He fell on a boulder with a hole in the back of his head and everything on his body was gone.

Changming Village has taken root here for two years, and they have a lot of influence. Within two hours, they found the culprit—that was a group of victims who had just arrived here.They were seven men, one old man, five women and three children.

The culprit who killed Xiao Wu was a 12-year-old child.When he saw the people in Changming Village, he immediately trembled with fright and cried bitterly.He said that he was really hungry, and when he came out to look for food, he happened to meet Xiaowu who was about to go up the mountain after shopping.He didn't think about killing people, he just wanted to grab some valuables in exchange for food to satisfy his hunger. When the two were fighting for it, he pushed Xiao Wu to the ground, who knew that Xiao Wu bumped his head against a boulder and died immediately.He was so frightened that he immediately ran back and told his relatives, so the refugees came out. Anyway, Xiao Wu was already dead, so they took all the things on Xiao Wu's body.

Originally, the murderer should be killed, but after all, the murderer was a child, and he did not intend to.Yu Changming finally opened the door and asked which hand the child used to push Xiao Wu down, and then he broke the child's arm, so he gave up and took the person back.Unexpectedly, he went out on business this morning, and Yu Ping took advantage of his absence to take someone to revenge again.

Yu Changming looked at those who followed Yu Ping.This time Yu Ping took more than [-] people out, and most of these people were people who had a good relationship with Xiao Wu in the past.

A trace of complicated emotions flashed in Yu Changming's eyes. After a long stalemate between the two sides, he finally said slowly: "...This is the last time. Everyone fasts for two days and is not allowed to leave the mountain for seven days."

Knowing that this was Yu Changming's forgiveness for their unauthorized actions, everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

Yu Changming took one last look at Yu Ping, put away his long knife, and turned back to the mountain.

Seeing that the situation subsided, Yu Ping straightened his back immediately.He complained dissatisfiedly: "My brother is just too soft-hearted. What is there to be pitiful about those victims? We didn't push down the river embankment, and we didn't release the flood. We didn't rob them, which is already very kind-hearted. We are bandits! Have you ever heard of a bandit who doesn't go out to rob, but cultivates wasteland in the mountains by himself?"

Although Changming Village is powerful now, it is somewhat different from many other cottages.There are not only men in their village, but also many old people, women and children.At the beginning, everyone followed Yu Changming to fall into the grass, and they all came out with families.Life is hard for everyone, and it is impossible for men to abandon their families.

Yu Changming didn't lead everyone to burn, kill and loot everywhere. Changming Village relied on two roads for a living.When they built villages in the mountains, they could cut off several mountain roads. Therefore, if business travelers wanted to pass through the mountain roads, as long as they paid money and food, they would not rob them, but would escort them out of the mountains to protect them from other bandits.Second, Yu Changming led people to open up several wastelands in the mountains to grow their own food.Although there is little food in the mountains, at least there is no need to pay rent to the landlord and the government, so it can make do.

Some people agree with Yu Ping's complaint, while others disagree.

"What's wrong with farming? It's better than fighting, right?" a man whispered.

Yu Ping glared at him and sneered: "Promise. What kind of world do you think this is? If you don't kill people, you will be killed."

He complained a few more words that Yu Changming was too kind, but no one answered.Yu Changming's prestige in Changming Village is irreplaceable, no matter whether others agree with his actions or not, at least no one dares to object.

Yu Ping took everyone's reactions into his eyes, and secretly made a note of which people's expressions agreed with him when he spoke just now.After that, he will go to win over one by one.

He has been dissatisfied with Yu Changming for a long time, but right now he can't openly turn against him, so he can only do things that challenge his authority like today.But he knows Yu Changming very well, he knows where Yu Changming's bottom line is, and he won't do anything that touches his bottom line, that's why he let go of those women and children today.

He also remembered that a few months ago, a caravan passed by their mountain.The caravan had handed over money to them, and they should have sent the caravan safely away, but he got the news in advance and knew that all the caravan transported was food.

This year, many newcomers came to Changming Village. There was not much food in the mountains, and he didn't have enough to eat for several meals.He really couldn't let people go just like this, so he falsely passed on Yu Changming's order, took a team out and robbed the caravan, and came back with ten carts full of grain.

He felt that he had made a lot of contributions and could feed the brothers in the village a few times, but Yu Changming was furious and put him under house arrest for several days.He argued with Yu Changming and said, "We can't even eat ourselves, what nonsense rules are you talking about?"

At that time, Yu Changming stared at him coldly, and said word by word: "It is precisely because there are no rules that so many people can't eat, and the world is in today's troubles."

Yu Ping was simply baffled.What does it have to do with him if others can't eat?How is the world, and what does it have to do with him?

He only cares about himself and has to eat every meal.

The author has something to say: The bandits are the rebel army, the capital to make a fortune~~