smart crying relatives, foolish laughter and grinning;

Bitter for teasing, sour and sweet into sweet.

Five generations of troubled times, ten countries competed for hegemony, and in just fifty-three years, eight surnames and thirteen emperors were changed. The fate of life is like summer rain and autumn clouds, changing rapidly. Today, an emperor above 10,000 people may be an abandoned corpse in the wilderness tomorrow; an arrogant official eunuch at this time, and a death row prisoner waiting to be executed at the execution ground a while; a broad-minded man who is still spending a lot of money in front of people today may soon become a flower begging on the streets.

Of course, today they are still slave courtiers who are covered in sweat, have cheap bones, and kowtow like pounding garlic, and as long as they are ruthless and vicious, they will be able to play tricks, and tomorrow they may be dressed in yellow robes and become a dragon species born with a strange fragrance and a gift from God; today they are still scoundrels in the market, eating, drinking, prostituting and gambling, bullying and dominating the market, fighting and brawling, and taking refuge in the law, and tomorrow they may become loyal ministers and good generals who are famous all over the world, boasting about officials on the streets; today they are penniless and penniless. Begging for food, as long as he can speculate and kill people and goods, he may become a rich man on the rich side.

It can really be said: wind and rain are unpredictable, and fortune and misfortune are unpredictable. The dragon that overturned the river and the sea, after an earthquake, fell into the quagmire and was played by shrimp; the golden phoenix with its wings spread out suddenly came to the wind and rain, and instantly became a chicken in the soup; the ugly caterpillar disappeared for a day, and turned into a flower butterfly that everyone loves.

The troubled times are absurd, and there are legends everywhere.

During the Tianfu period of the Later Jin Dynasty, a strange thing happened in Qiaoshan County, the capital of Yingzhou, which was ridiculous and stunned, thus achieving a legendary figure who shocked the past and the present.

There is a Dongjiazhuang in the east of Qiaoshan County, the owner of the village is surnamed Dong Mingchao Zi Jucai, and he claims to be the descendant of Dong Zhuo, the powerful minister of the Three Kingdoms Wei Town, the official to the Xiangguo, and the Taishi. Whether this is true or not, no one is exquisite, but the violent and cruel actions and insatiable greed do seem to have some blood relationship with Dong Taishi.

He openly handed over to the government, secretly formed a mafia, dominated people's real estate, seized people's houses, squeezed tenants, and detained slaves, of course, the more and more property was accumulated. There was so much silver that it was useless, so he followed the example of the ancestor Dong Taishi, and squandered extravagantly, not only imitating the Beijing-style construction of the house, but also always trying to imitate the style of the master when eating, drinking, and dressing.

He said that the urinal used by his master was inlaid with gold, so he also inlaid gold leaves on the urinal, and boasted to others for the master: "My master is not only superb in martial arts, but also very knowledgeable, and even proficient in medicine." He invented the urinal inlaid with gold for the benefit of people. The urinal is inlaid with gold to treat frequent urination, urgency, and unclean urination, and the sheep's tail is not lifted, and it is not firm, and it is hard but not lifted, which is a hundred tests and effects. "There are good people who check the history of the field, but there is no record, and there is no such prescription after reading medical books, but Dong Chao said that it is a family inheritance, and facts speak louder than words, he had two sons in less than fifty, and both have noses and eyes, there is nothing wrong, and people have to admit that this prescription is indeed effective. In particular, the dignitaries and nobles who are susceptible to this disease, when they heard about this recipe, came to learn from the scriptures, and imitated the master of the first dynasty, inlaid gold and jade for their urinals, which became a fashion for a while. But with the study of history by today's people, there are still not a few of those "urinal inlaid with gold" homes, and there are still not a few who are out of business, which shows that although Dong Zhuo's old lady is high and powerful, he is also like those Jianghu doctors who posted advertisements on telephone poles and toilet walls in later generations.

Dong Chao has a lot of silver, just for his own enjoyment, even if it is a urinal inlaid with gold, and a commode inlaid with jade, he does not hesitate to use it on pulling balls and eggs, but in addition to what he can use, he drops a penny on the ground and stains ash on all sides for ordinary people, especially instigating.

He has thousands of acres of fertile land, and he also runs a bad mill, an oil mill, a grain store, a cloth store, and a Beijing goods store, and he makes money every day, but when the tenants pay rent, he will take care of the high and low prices; he will pay the workers, and whether you drink water or not, he will deduct half a penny of tea expenses every day; he will not be paid for overtime, and he will not be paid for a day when he is late for work......

Because he was harsh to his subordinates and did not pull out a dime, he also had to squeeze out four taels of oil from the millet, and he opened an oil mill, so the people who hated him gave him a nickname and secretly called him "Dong Squeezing Oil".

There are many joys and sorrows in silver. In the era of war, the rebels and thieves were like fleas and lice on the begging flowers, crawling everywhere, and "Dong Zhuyou" couldn't sleep every night, dreaming that the rebels and thieves came to rob him of his money. In order to keep the wealth, he carefully studied the advanced achievements of the ancestor Dong Taishi in civil and military affairs to make a fortune and keep the wealth, and proclaimed in a high-profile manner that he would inherit the will of the ancestors, and sent his two sons Dong Da and Dong to the famous "Yellow Maniac Martial Arts Hall" in Zhongyue Mountain to learn martial arts.

Five years later, when the two sons returned from school, they punched and punched the sandbags, kicked and scared the chickens and ducks, made the knife split the bonsai tree, and the dance stick could fly the flowers, and the two feet could "crackle" twice, and the whirlwind legs could spin around and the golden rooster could be independent. "Dong Pressed Oil" was overjoyed, so he planned to show off in front of everyone to demonstrate the style, so as to warn the rivers and lakes that the Dong family is not what it used to be, and the legacy of the master is prosperous, so he will move around less.

In order to create momentum, "Dong Zhuyou" specially spent a lot of money to hire the county magistrate to come forward, and set up a ring on the school field outside the county government to select the warriors of the enemy to protect the country, and wrote a big-character couplet. The left alliance is: punching the heroes of the north and the south, and the right union is: kicking the tiger and dragon in the east and west. The banner reads: Defeat the champion, reward 100 taels of gold.

The ring was set up for five days, and there were many small businesses to watch, but there was not a single fight.

The county decree had a gold and silver relationship with "Dong Pressed Oil", and knowing the intention of "Dong Pressing Oil", it strictly forbade the county government and public officials in the army to participate, which stopped half of the people with martial arts.

The folk warriors were afraid of the Dong family's forces, and knew that there would be no good if they won or lost, and no one was uncomfortable. Most of the famous people on the rivers and lakes don't know, and those who know are disdainful of the tricks played by the little people in this small county town and the one hundred and two small prizes, and no one comes to beat a nameless rat to depreciate himself.

If no one comes to the stage to fight, how can you show your majesty and raise your reputation?

"Dong squeezed oil" pondered hard and came up with an idea to find a "support".

The business trust is to pretend to be a customer to buy inferior goods, the medical trust is to pretend to be a patient to tout quacks, and the "support trust" is naturally to pretend to be a "hero" to come to the stage and be beaten to show the master's superb martial arts.

There are at least two conditions for this "support": the first must be tall and mighty, and finding a weak boy like a soybean sprout will not set off the tall heroic image of the champion; second, it must be voluntarily beaten, and it will not add trouble to death. "Dong Squeezed Oil" was selected according to this basic condition, and only then did he find a stupid boy who worked in his oil mill.

That stupid boy's name is Zheng En, the word is clear, and he is the son of a tenant of the "Dong Oil" family.

Five years ago, when the harvest was out of harvest due to a drought, Zheng En's father had no grain to pay rent, so he sold his twelve-year-old son Zheng En to the Dong family as a slave at the price of five buckets of grain. Zheng Ensheng was born in a poor family, and since he was a child, he would follow his father and mother with a gourd scoop to order seeds; at the age of four or five, he began to cut crops and hoe grass with a sickle and a small hoe; although he was not yet 12 years old, he was already a plow, hoe and rake, sowing seeds and carrying cloth bags in the field, and was proficient in all kinds of farm work. Although the children of poor families have been filling their stomachs with bran and vegetables from a young age, they have grown up. Zheng En was less than twelve years old, and he was already round-shouldered, like a half-year-old man of fourteen or fifteen.

"Dong Squeezing Oil" has a lot of money, and he is making money every day, but he is a stingy master who is reluctant to get in, and he is famous for being mean to his subordinates.

Zheng En came to Dong's house, and "Dong Oil" saw that although he was young, his strength was not small, so he used him as a stick and let him work in the oil mill.

Oil mill oil mill, live to see the king of Hades. In ancient times, the oil mill was a place where people were tired to death.

The oil mill of "Dong Squeezing Oil" is large, and the peanuts and sesame seeds are piled up like a hill, and every day it is unloaded, stacked, roasted, pushed, and oiled, and there is no light work.

Roasted food is a big pot, and the shovel is a big shovel, which must be stirred constantly, a little slower, and the bottom will be boiled.

The oil trough is made of very old and large solid wood, and the trunk is hollowed out into a trough first, and a small hole is dug below to leak oil, which is the main equipment for oil extraction.

To extract oil, you must first fry the peanut kernels and sesame seeds, and then use bamboo strips to round the cakes as big as a basin and put them into the trough to arrange them one by one; then, use the oil wedges made of hardwood to wedge tightly, and hit the wedges with a sledgehammer to make the flatbread squeeze tighter and tighter, and seep out the oil; keep beating, and the oil will drip into the wooden barrel at the bottom of the trough through the small holes.

Such equipment depends on hard work.

As the "limerick poem" sings:

The oil mill is like the palace of the king of Hades, and he enters the door to work and pass four levels.

The upper stack is like walking on the bridge, and the legs shake to the west sky;

The roasted shovel weighs thousands of pounds, and the smoke burns the two arms;

Pushing and grinding is like pushing a rooted stone, and the iron beating man is also tired;

I am most afraid of hitting a sledgehammer, and I will be squeezed dry with blood and sweat.

Zheng Enren is very powerful, loading and unloading trucks and picking sledgehammers all day long, and one person does the work of a group of people. Physically energetic, work a lot, eat a lot.

The Dong family thought that he had a large amount of food, so they treated him in a crooked way, beat him with an extra plate of oil, gave him a bowl of rice, unloaded an extra truckload of goods and gave him an extra bun. In order to fill his stomach, Zheng En had to work hard.

In order to speed up the oil production, he replaced the 10 catties of oil hammer with 50 catties, first with both hands left and right, and then out of effort, in order to rest his arms, he smashed with one hand; sometimes in order to play an extra plate, he was in a hurry to get up and put a 50 catties sledgehammer in one hand, and danced with both hands. Unloading and loading, in order to grab time, he grabbed a 200-pound sack in one hand, and grabbed it with him.

The more you work, the faster you get hungry, the more you eat, and the more you have to work hard in order to be full, so for five years, Zheng En is a head taller than when he first came, his body is thicker, he stands in the dark, like a half-cut iron tower, plus a black face, a pair of big eyes, people who don't know him have to be startled when they see it, thinking that he is the rebirth of the overlord of Chu, Tang Jingde is reborn, and his martial arts are superb.

In fact, in addition to working hard, he was as honest as a sick cow and weak as a camel. Don't say that the masters of the Dong family bully him, even the hired workers who are a little single see him honest and honest, and often make fun of him. If you don't want to do the work, let Zheng En help do it, and if something goes wrong there, press Zheng En on it, this is commonplace. Even ordinary workers who are angry with the head of the workshop or the family are also looking for compensation in Zheng En. He kicked his ass and reprimanded him for standing in the wrong place, and slapped him on the head and yelled at him for doing the wrong job.

Zheng En's heart is honest, he never cares, let him do more, he smiles, and doesn't ask anyone's work; when he says he's wrong, he laughs and doesn't argue; even when someone scolds him and beats him, as long as he doesn't obviously deliberately provoke and insult, he laughs and never fights back.

The jungle world is fashionable and treacherous, and honesty is synonymous with silliness. When the people saw that he was honest, they treated him as a teaser and teased him, gave him a nickname, and called him "Funzi". "Funny" is a fool who amuses people, and "Lezi" is a fool who can amuse everyone; there is a difference between ancient and modern elegance and vulgarity, and the meaning is the same.

Zheng En is five big and three thick, and his appearance is mighty; he has been working in the oil mill for a long time and is unknown to outsiders; he is a slave of the Dong family, and his father and mother have died of cold and starvation three years ago, and killing him is like stepping on an ant, and absolutely no one cares; he lacks a heart and eyes, so he is so coaxed; all of this is in line with the "support" conditions that "Dong squeezes oil" is looking for, and the heavy responsibility of "support" naturally falls on Zheng En.

In order to expand his influence, he asked the county magistrate to testify, and promulgated a life and death contract that "each in the ring will show its ability, and the dead and injured will not be investigated", and announced it to the four townships and neighboring counties.

For a while, there was a lot of uproar, and the temple fair in front of the ring was as lively.

The news that the young master of the Dong family was in the county town had already spread all over the county, but the discipline of the oil mill was strict, and he could not be discharged from the hospital without the approval of the head of the oil mill.

If you want to know what happened, please see the next episode: Paste and Blindness.