Chapter 7: Rebellion will result in beheading!
Mati Village, Xichuan County, Nanyang Prefecture, has been raining since the beginning of spring.
The rain fell very quickly, but it lasted only a short time. It stopped raining and the sky cleared in half an hour.
Teng Wenhu stood in the field, looking at the water-filled field, but there was no trace of joy on his face.
The rain came a little late after all.
Those scorched seedlings showed no vitality except that they became a little moister.
The rain has filled the cracked earth, and by tomorrow at most, those cracks will be closed. However, this season's seedlings are still doomed after all.
"Master, go back, the corn is hopeless."
His wife saw that Teng Wenhu had been standing in the field for a long time, so she gave advice.
Teng Wenhu looked up at the big sun in the sky and spat: "What a goddamn god."
After saying that, he stepped on the mud to the field ridge, picked up the shovel and followed his wife Let's go home together.
When we got home, the eldest daughter had already cooked the porridge. When she served it to Teng Wenhu, Teng Wenhu frowned, pointed at the porridge bowl and yelled: "How old are you? "Making such thick porridge?"
Teng Wenhu's wife saw that her daughter was wronged, so she pushed Teng Wenhu and said: "My daughter saw that you have been working hard recently, so I specially fished for you, and you still scolded my daughter. Is your heart twisted?"
Teng Wenhu then realized that the porridge in the bowls of his wife, daughter, and youngest son was so thin that people could be seen, so he poured the porridge in several bowls back into the pot and stirred it up. I repackaged it in several bowls, soaked a few pieces of dried sweet potatoes in my own bowl, and started eating.
"It's better to say that our family is on the ground. You and your brothers are on the ground. I'm afraid it will be more difficult this year, right?"
Teng Wenhu put down his job and thought for a moment: "This is not possible. Of course, although the land on the plains is good, it is numbered, and the land on the plains is not good, but it is not counted. As long as they have the strength, they don't care how much they cultivate.
The rains were good last year, but they didn't care. The family may have more food than we do.
After dinner, you can take out the dried fruits from last year and pick some of our apricots, and I will go to the original farm to exchange for some food.”
"You can't go alone, can you? This year is a disaster year, and there is no peace on the road."
"You have to go if you don't have peace."
Teng Wenhu finished. If so, just continue to drink porridge with your head down.
Dried sweet potatoes are included in the porridge, but Teng Wenshun doesn’t like to drink sweet porridge. He would rather chew the dried sweet potatoes than make dried sweet potato porridge like other families.
He has never considered dried sweet potatoes to be food. If there is no rice in the porridge, he does not think it is porridge.
Two bowls of porridge and some dried sweet potatoes are not enough to fill the stomach of a strong man like him. Therefore, after eating these two bowls of porridge, he is still hungry, but his stomach is bulging. .
When my wife saw that her eldest daughter was washing the dishes, she whispered: "How about hiring my daughter out and collecting some gifts to make up for it?"
When Teng Wenhu heard his wife say this, he felt aroused. Unknown anger arose in his heart, and he kicked his wife sitting next to him over, pointed at her nose and said, "When I die, don't you ever talk about exchanging your daughter for food!"
My wife saw that Teng Wenhu was angry. Although she was kicked, she did not dare to fight back. She sat obediently on the bench and began to wipe her tears.
"The younger brother of the eldest son is a good matchmaker. Others can't ask for it, so when he comes to you, he becomes a daughter-in-law. Even if he is selling his daughter-in-law, you can still find a good family to sell his daughter-in-law." , if you go a few decades ago, you would have no place to sell your daughter.”
“Shut up, if you dare to say anything about selling your daughter again, I will kill you, what will happen to the younger brother of the eldest brother? "If you don't have a good wife, you won't have a good wife. You can't marry her even if you give her a lot of gifts."
My wife wiped away her tears and said, "I look pretty good, I'm fair and I can read."
Teng Wenhu sighed and said: "The bad thing is that he can read. If he can be admitted to the academy like his brother, it will be fine. After graduation, he can also get an official position. That will be true." A good family.
It’s a pity that he is useless. Halfway through his studies, he was expelled from the school for teasing a female classmate. His reputation has long been bad. He has never been on the ground. He can’t carry his shoulders or lift his hands. He had no strength and had to eat well all day long.
If his brother hadn't helped him, he would have died of hunger.
If his daughter had been married, she would have been given to him. As a cow and a horse, my daughter is my biological daughter. She has been raised since she was little. She is also an obedient and good girl. I will not marry such a bastard.
I tell you, this is not allowed. Besides, if the head of the house comes and asks, he will say that his daughter is weak and will be raised for two years.”
The wife mumbled, “She is already sixteen, and she will be ten if she is raised for another two years.” It’s eight, boss, you have to think about it.”
Teng Wenshun stood up and said, “I know it well.”
After that, he put on a bag and packed it with dried fruits and apricots. In two large baskets, they were firmly tied to the chicken bus, and they left the house while pushing the chicken bus.
MaTi Village is said to be a plain, but actually compared to Funiu Mountain in the west, most of the land here is hilly land. Due to the topography, there is very little irrigated land, and most of it is mountainous slope land.
Funiu Mountain has not been a safe place since ancient times. Ever since Liu Tong, a native of Xihua, Henan Province, led tens of thousands of refugees to rebel in Xichuan during the Chenghua period, there have been countless bandits here.
Yun Zhao, Li Hongji, Zhang Bingzhong, First Line King, Touching Tian and other bandits once established their strongholds here. It was not until Yun Zhao unified the world that Funiu Mountain finally settled down.
In the fifteenth year of Chongzhen's reign, after Queen Feng Ying withdrew to Lantian County, she handed over the cultivated farmland here to the magistrate of Xichuan County to resettle the refugees.
Funiu Mountain also comes fromA den of robbers became a place of peace.
Teng Wenhu’s goal this time is Funiu Town. It is a very common thing in Xichuan County to exchange specialties from the plains for grains produced on the plains.
There has been a severe drought in Xichuan County this year, and food has been in short supply. It is not easy to exchange dried fruits for food. Therefore, Teng Wenhu is not very sure that he can exchange for food when he goes to Funiu Town this time.
Teng Wenhu was a swordsman when he was young. He had some brothers in Xichuan County. Since the peace of the world, he had no use for the swordsman, so he honestly returned home to farm. Field is the industry.
Teng Wenhu drank 20,000 yuan of porridge at noon and could not bear the delay, so Teng Wenhu walked very quickly on the road, and it took him only an hour and a half to walk thirty miles.
Funiu Town is the largest town in the original world. The reason why he came in a hurry was to catch up with the market tomorrow.
After arriving in Funiu Town, Teng Wenhu went straight to the home of his former brother Jiang Tiansheng, planning to rest at his house for one night and go to the market early tomorrow morning to exchange for food.
Jiang Tiansheng’s home is on the edge of Funiu Town. Since his mother-in-law died in childbirth, he has been living alone, and his home is in a mess.
Teng Wenhu was stunned when he entered Jiang Tiansheng's home. He saw Jiang Tiansheng lying on the kang of the hut, groaning.
As I took a closer look, I realized that this guy's buttocks had been beaten to a pulp. It could be seen from the wounds all on his buttocks that he had been punished by the government.
Only hitting the boards can cause such consequences.
"What happened?"
"The dog officer beat me."
"What did you do?"
"I can What are you doing? The drought was severe this year, so the court exempted me from taxes and gave me some spring seedling subsidies. When I went to receive the subsidy, the stubborn He Lichang not only refused to give it, but even scolded me in public. .
After I said a few words, he pushed me to the ground and beat me twenty times.
Brother, this bad breath is hard to get rid of. When I recover, I will. Go find him to settle the score."
Teng Wenhu frowned and said, "Everyone should have a share of the spring seedling subsidy issued by the imperial court. Why wouldn't he give it to you?"
Jiang Tiansheng moved his numb body and said: "The dog official said that people who farm in the spring can only receive spring seedling money because the spring seedlings died in the severe drought. He said that I didn't farm in the spring, so there is no spring. "Miao money."
Teng Wenhu frowned when Jiang Tiansheng said this. Why did he feel that the village chief seemed to be right? The people who were affected by the disaster in Chun Miao were subsidized by the court, but Chun Miao was not affected by the disaster. The subsidy is bullshit.
"You didn't farm this year, what did you do?"
Jiang Tiansheng stretched his neck and looked outside the door. When he saw no one around, he whispered: " Liu Chunba gathered a dozen people and prepared to enter Funiu Mountain."
When Teng Wenhu heard this, he was surprised and said: "You want to fall into the grass?"
Jiang Tiansheng shook his head and said. : "I won’t hide it from my brother anymore., isn’t it just looking for death if we drop grass these days? We entered Funiu Mountain with our sights on a road. "
Teng Wenhu said: "What way? "
Jiang Tiansheng said: "Liu Chunba accidentally discovered it while hunting in the mountains. Don't merchants have to pay taxes when they take the main road? There were some cunning merchants who were not prepared to take the main road and found a small road in the mountains. They passed through Funiu Mountain and entered Guanzhong.
There are also merchants coming back from Guanzhong. In order to avoid taxes, they will also take this path...
Brother, your martial arts are superb, much better than Liu Chunba. It's better to lead the brothers to do this work and let's rob these merchants together. We don't expect it to last long. As long as we complete a few transactions, it will be enough for us brothers to be rich and prosperous. "
"Shut up, this is a crime of decapitation. "
Jiang Tiansheng got up from the kang, moved his body into the yard, and looked at the wheelbarrow that Teng Wenhu had pushed: "Brother, are you going to exchange dried fruits and apricots for food? "
Teng Wenhu said: "Didn't the family get a donkey last year? They sold more grain. But this year there is a severe drought and there is not enough grain. "
Jiang Tiansheng grabbed a handful of apricots from the basket and said while eating: "In the years of severe drought, my brother's business is not easy to do. "
Teng Wenhu said: "If you can exchange for food, just exchange for food. If you can't exchange for food, just exchange for some potatoes. Sweet potatoes can satisfy your hunger when you go back. "
Jiang Tiansheng smiled and pointed to his hut and said: "My brother has no food at home. There is no need to change it. I will keep the apricots. If you want as much food as you want, just go and move it." ”
Teng Wenhu glanced at Jiang Tiansheng suspiciously, opened the door of the hut, and was surprised when he looked up. He saw that this small room was filled with sacks containing grain. , reached out and pinched the sack, and quickly untied the rope that tied the sack. The sack was full of yellow wheat...
Jiang Tiansheng said with a smile: "How is it? Brother, is this possible? ”