Chapter 5: The "Not Me" Family
Chen Rubing is a martial arts family, Rubing's grandfather once served as the leader of the martial arts league in the south of the Yangtze River, and also assisted Emperor Wen of Sui in making contributions, but Emperor Wen of Sui was in the Ming and his grandfather was in the dark. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 infoAt that time, Emperor Wen of Sui mainly stabilized the people's hearts from the front, and Rubing's grandfather was responsible for the integration and stability of the people's armed forces. Therefore, from beginning to end, I only know that there is only one Emperor Wen of Sui who petitions for the people to save the people from fire and water, and I don't know a conscientious Chen League master; This is also the result of Emperor Wen of Sui's desires, and he does not want this person to exist; Needless to say, even Ye Shi never left a word about this Chen League Master.
Rubing's grandfather also knew the truth of the cunning rabbit's dead lackey, and quietly took the family to live in seclusion after the founding of Emperor Wen of Sui; From ancient times to the present, the merit is high, and there are countless people with different heads, and now they can retreat with their whole body, and the ending is very complete, but I don't know that Emperor Yang of Sui has been looking for it more than ten years later, but the subordinates of the past have long been ancient, sighing and lamenting, and want to reward Chen Rubing's father as an official, but Rubing's grandmother politely refused, and Emperor Wen saw that he had no choice but to reward countless gold and silver treasures and drove back to the palace.
This day was supposed to be a good balance in the world, that knew that Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty took over the throne, but he only knew that extravagance and waste and rampant expropriation stirred up a peaceful world and mourned everywhere, and the people were bored and starved. At the foot of the Great Wall, wild ghosts are seen, and white bones are present by the canal. Emperor Yang of Sui is on a par with Qin Shi Huang, which shows how hateful and helpless the world is for Emperor Yang of Sui!
Ruyan's father and Rubing's father have been friends since childhood and are brothers. Just when Rubing and Ruyan were in their mother's wombs, they agreed that both men and women should be brothers and sisters, otherwise they would be husband and wife. It's just that soon after they were born, the world was in turmoil, and the mountainous areas were plagued by banditry; The people are not able to make a living, and there are many soldiers who have returned home from serving in the army and have nothing to do with the backbone of these bandits, who have experienced the baptism of real war in the army, so they are ruthless; This is an era in which the strong survive and the weak are eliminated, and there is no humanity and natural reason.
Rampant banditry is a major characteristic of the mountainous areas; today, the Qing people are not clear, the turbid ones are even more turbid, the life and death of the common people are not in vain, the common people are like walking on thin ice as if they are on the edge of the abyss, and they cannot even maintain their basic livelihood, and they sell their children and daughters, and they die of starvation and freeze to death. Mercy doesn't seem to mean much, because it's not a village-by-village issue, it's a social one. Eating and cloning is a luxury for most families. The human labour of the whole society is spent not on crops, but on labor and military service, and in fact, where it can pass, the fields are barren and uninhabited.
Chen Rubing's father has long realized the truth of raising soldiers for self-protection, but after all, this is a village of hundreds of households, and the scale should not be too large, otherwise it will endanger the township, and such a team has limited strength in defense, which is also the Achilles heel of this team. There is also a weakness that is not prominent, that is, it has never been in actual combat.
The village was attacked by bandits more than once, and every time these villagers were attacked, part of the truth was unearthed by the other party; Over time, the weakness of this team will be stifled by them, and knowing themselves and knowing that they will not be defeated in a hundred battles, this is the purpose of the bandits' attack on them.
Chen Rubing undoubtedly knew from several raids that the backbone of the bandits was the guerrillas, who had experienced life and death on the battlefield, although most of them were some fearful ghosts who had picked up a life from the battlefield, but in these places where the villagers were armed, they were almost generals on the battlefield, and there were many heroes and belligerents; And being a warrior doesn't necessarily represent justice, so their attack this time is completely predatory, and they will never show any mercy to the villagers.
It is impossible for the family members who have not been baptized by blood to be very strong, there are many of them who are brave and not afraid of death, but they have no practical experience in protecting themselves, and they are also wise and brave, but under the blow of strong forces, they are undoubtedly hitting stones with eggs, and their wisdom will also be harvested by powerful armed forces; Weak forces must always restrain their strength, compromise and fight back when they are strong. If a weak force and a strong force go head-to-head, then the weak side will definitely lose a lot.
In fact, this powerful force has never wanted to give the weak forces a chance to breathe, they don't need to be captive, they don't need to live out.
Although everyone resisted stubbornly, the bandits' wave after wave of desperate attacks soon wiped out the family members of Rubing's family, so the entire village became a Shura field.
The devil is devouring the life of the whole village, the whole village has been ransacked, and they are repeating an ancient process: slaughtering the village; They didn't seem to need to be replenished with young soldiers, and all the young males were killed; But they need women, bandits are different from the retreating army, they need almost all young women, the young women who have a little appearance have been captured, and the other children and the old, weak, sick and children are a burden, so the others who are too late to leave and hidden have become dead bodies, their thinking is very simple, that is, except for those who have some value in life, they can take away, and the others that cannot be taken away can either be killed or burned, and there is no living person in the whole village to bury the dead; Rubing's family fought to the last moment, there was no old and weak, the young maid had already been dismissed, except for the resisting family, there were only six parents, brothers and sisters left, they were all very combative, they were all alive and well; Their father's sworn brothers and relatives have never forgotten, they have already sent a few family members to protect their family, due to the crazy attack of these bandits, at the last moment, all the families are in crisis, including Zheng Song's family, Zheng Song only has a wife and a girl, the girl is like ice's fingertips; But when Rubing's family arrived at the Zheng family, it was already a step too late, and the family members they sent did not stick to their posts and had already escaped, but the bandits rushed into the Zheng family, and when they saw the young and beautiful Zheng family's wife, they ....., don't say it, I can't bear it!
Fortunately, those bandits did not kill Zheng Song on the spot, but just knocked him unconscious, and he lay on the ground unscathed, with blood on his forehead. Next to the kneeling young Zheng Ruyan, she was pushing her mother's arm with her small strength, she didn't understand why her mother refused to stand up and hug her, she was very sad, she actually didn't know what the red soup was, was gurgling out of her chest, her mother was lying on the bed weakly, a pair of godless eyes were staring at the sky outside, she only had her last breath, Mrs. Zheng saw the in-laws who flocked to her, Holding the hand of Rubing in the arms of Mrs. Chen who came in a hurry with one hand, and holding the hand of Ruyan who was wiping tears beside him with one hand, he was speechless, and slowly closed his eyes with satisfaction; Rubing's father rushed into Zheng's house, killed several bandits in the house who were trying to leave with a few knives, carried Zheng Song, who was still unconscious, and Mrs. Chen held the two children, and quickly escaped from the back of the house with her whole family, and finally escaped into a cave in the back mountain.
By the time they came out of the cave, it was already a few days later. As soon as you get off the mountain, you can smell the stench, and the wild dogs in the village are tearing at the rotting flesh, and there are wild dogs barking everywhere, and in fact it is impossible to tell that it is a wild dog or a wolf. After careful consideration by the adults, they decided not to enter the village to collect the corpse of Ruyan's mother, they knew how dangerous it was to enter the village, first of all, those wild dogs or wolves were desperate for fresh flesh, and the terrible corpse poison and plague were also permeating this rotten air.
The people in the village have either already escaped from the tiger's mouth, or not many people have escaped at all; Immediately afterwards, several surrounding villages were also bloodied, but in addition to robbing the finances and women, they still left some young and middle-aged people, those villagers who did not make any resistance, and their legs trembled; So they joined the exiles.
A few days later, on both sides of the avenue there were many people, most of them old, weak, sick and disabled, and many of them fell down while walking, and everyone turned a blind eye to them, because everyone knew very well that pity for others was contempt for the lives of their relatives, and when the adults like ice saw the pedestrians on the side of the road falling, they had to sigh deeply; Rubing's father walked in front with a sharp sword in his hand, and his right hand tightly grasped the bag on his shoulder, part of the contents of this bag were food that was hastily taken away from home, and part of it was the wealth, gold, silver and jewelry looted from the bandits killed by Rubing's father, Rubing's mother is also a child of a martial arts family, and only such a family can survive in such a big storm. They had put away their pity, and even in the face of a pair, a group of scrawny and hungry people who were about to die, their hearts were as hard as iron, and they kept hurrying forward.
After this accident, Rubing's parents planned to join their friends, but because the friend's house was far away and they had to carry a group of children, they moved slowly; Unexpectedly, one morning, when everyone was about to leave, they found that their youngest son was gone, that is, he disappeared without noticing, without a trace of precursor, without a trace, just like he never existed; My father searched all morning and couldn't find it, and given that there were wandering people everywhere, and there were dying people trying to live everywhere, their eyes were fiercely looking for the slightest hint of opportunity, though they were afraid of sharp swords; Even, they had seen smoking pits, hungry people gnawing on something they didn't know, and it seemed that every dying man could be smothered by another dying man, and then know nothing; and the wild dogs on the side of the road, staring at those round eyes, waiting to eat those who have fallen; Two or three wild dogs seem to be seen everywhere biting and fighting for their prey; Wild dogs were originally a source of food, but seeing wild dogs gnawing on those carrion corpses, this group of people no longer dared to have such thoughts; In the end, they wisely decided to give up the search.
A few days later, the group of men, who were struggling to drive forward in the middle of the road, were watched by a group of stragglers, who tried to rob their father of the ice of his parcel, but they miscalculated the strength of the couple, and after leaving behind several corpses, they were frightened and fled; But when the people were counted after this conflict, Zheng Song's father and daughter were scattered and disappeared; Thankfully, Rubing's father was on guard and tied some food to their father and daughter. In this way, although Zheng Song's father and daughter were separated from their in-laws, their father and daughter had plenty of food along the way, and Zheng Song's tall and energetic body formed a deterrent, and those hungry and powerless people had no choice but to rob them of their food, and a few days later, the father and daughter finally walked out of those desolate places and came to a relatively wealthy town; While begging in the town, he worked for others and did things, and finally arrived in Chang'an after half a year of begging. The final destination of the Rubing family is also Chang'an, but they did not agree on the place and way to meet each other at the beginning, there is no doubt that Zheng Song has been looking for Rubing's family, and in the blink of an eye, Zheng Song's family has spent nearly ten years in Chang'an, and Zheng Song's father and daughter finally have a place to live in the slums.
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