Chapter Thirty-Eight: Crazy Bangs

No matter what happened in the outside world, it was meaningless to the miners in the Li family's iron ore field, and their miserable lives continued.

Every day, they had to work hard to mine iron ore for that black-faced nest, endure hunger, endure whipping, and live tiringly.

They don't know what is the use of mining so much iron sand ore? They only know that Li Wenhua, the big man of the mine, bought their freedom, and they have to dedicate their labor and even their lives to him.

At the end of the day, the miners all returned to their huts, as uneventful as usual.

"Lord Liu, why did you get in?" asked a mining slave in surprise as he lay his bangs in the haystack next to him.

I saw the bangs now, and they are no longer what they used to be. The whole person has lost weight a few times, unkempt, and there are not a few hairs left.

"yes... How did I get in..."In the face of the miner's surprise, Liu Hai muttered to himself, his mind seemed to be a little confused.

"Alas... A good person, but he was tortured, and he lost his mind..."Another mine slave came over and sighed.

"What's going on?"

At this time, more miners gathered around, and everyone's faces were full of surprise.

"Don't you know?" the embarrassed miner looked at his bangs by the light of the fire outside the grass nest.

Speaking of these bangs, it is also unlucky enough. Since the last time he asked for his life for the people and begged for rain, he was deeply loved by the people of the city. In addition, as a grain non-commissioned officer in Guanping City, he often opened warehouses to release grain to help the poor who could not eat.

Therefore, countless poor people sang the praises of him as a good official and a Qing official.

But it is precisely because of this that he has laid a curse for him, and has been squeezed out by many people with the same officials, and even the city lord Li Tengfei often speaks coldly to him and does not treat Liu Hai very much.

Once, Liu Hai watched an official in the grain depot and secretly smuggled the grain from the grain depot out for sale. He sued the city lord, hoping that Li Tengfei would punish the corrupt officials. However, what Liu Hai didn't expect was that the official spent a lot of money, made some connections up and down, and gave Li Tengfei 20,000 taels of silver for filial piety, and settled the matter.

Later, he shipped food out, so he no longer had to sneak around.

Liu Hai saw that he couldn't help the other party, so he had no choice but to give up.

Later, when he went out of the city to inspect the crops, he found that due to a great drought, many fertile fields outside the city had not been harvested. Although he succeeded in praying for rain, some of the people's crops could not save the seedlings that had long since died.

So, he found Li Tengfei and reported what he saw one by one. He also gave Li Tengfei his advice, saying that due to natural and man-made disasters, it is best to reduce taxes, reduce the salaries of officials at all levels in the city, and reduce all expenses in the city. It is also necessary to rectify the high price of grain in the city, lower the price of grain, and severely punish unscrupulous traders. And opened a warehouse to release grain, and relieved the people outside the city who were confiscated, and everyone tide over the difficulties together.

I have to say that the idea of bangs is very good. For example, reducing unnecessary extravagance and waste is enough for many people to eat enough without starvation.

But although the idea was good, it was just his own wishful thinking, and the city lord Li Tengfei immediately prevaricated and rejected it for various reasons.

In desperation, Liu Hai opened a warehouse to release grain privately, took out a part of the grain from the grain depot, and took out some high-priced grain with silver, and pulled it out of the city together to relieve some poor people who had no harvest.

Unexpectedly, the official who resold grain from the grain depot sued Liu Hai about the private release of grain to the city lord Li Tengfei, which made Li Tengfei very annoyed. With the unanimous opinion of the officials of the city lord's mansion, Liu Hai was revoked from his official position and punished him to a grass citizen on the grounds of misappropriating grain from the grain depot without permission and perverting the law for bribes.

lost his official position and was demoted to a grass citizen, which was quite a huge blow to Liu Hai. He is an honest and honest official, and he has always been a model of clean air on both sleeves. In addition, he often used his meager income to help the poor, which always led to the lack of food in his own home. Therefore, it is amazing that he is nearly forty years old, has not yet married a wife and had children, and has been alone.

In any case, people have to go on with their lives.

In order to make a living, bangs are also looking for work everywhere like others. But he was a degraded official, and no one wanted to do anything for him, not even those he had helped.

In the past, the people remembered him well, loved him, and sang praises to him, because he had bangs, he was an official, and he was still a good official who could think about the people.

Once, the people could get some benefits from him.

But now, when he is nothing, the people can't get benefits, so they are naturally unwilling, and they help him in turn.

These are all human feelings, and no one can blame them.

After thinking about these bangs, I was disheartened, and I felt the coldness of life, but I was also helpless. But he is him, and he still can't harden his heart, and he can't bear to see miserable people, suffering and starving.

Until, on one occasion, when he was begging on the street, he saw an eight-year-old child begging along the street, dying, lying on the crowded street, apparently dying of starvation.

This may have reminded him of his childhood, and he couldn't bear it and wanted to save the child's life.

But he himself was hungry for two days and penniless. In desperation, Liu Hai stole a steamed bun from a steamed bun shop on the street and gave it to the eight-year-old child so that he would not starve to death.

stole the steamed buns, and the owner of the steamed bun shop, unrelentingly, called the guards who patrolled the streets, and caught Bang Hai in the dungeon.

After the city lord Li Tengfei heard about it, he did not go to save him, but asked his officials to deal with the matter strictly.

So, Liu Hai was sent to Li Wenhua's iron sand ore field and became a mining slave.

It is ironic that the owner of the steamed bun shop, when he was desperate in the past, Liu Hai gave him twenty taels of silver to buy a family business of a steamed bun shop, so that he could settle down in Guanping City.

It's really impermanent, and the past is unbearable.

The bangs of a mining slave, in the all-day labor, not only have to endure physical torture, but also have to endure uninterrupted psychological torture. Eventually, I was overwhelmed and I started to go a little crazy......

After listening to the story of the mine slave, all the mine slaves looked sad and angry, and scolded those dog officials who were unkind to the rich.

"Alas... We are all about the same, I didn't expect that Lord Liu, such a good Qing official, has now fallen into such a miserable situation, those dog officials who have lost their conscience really deserve to be struck by lightning..."

"Hmph...... They live in the courtyard of the deep house, and there are servants and maids waiting for them, how can Lei Gong get them......"

"We suffer here, and if we want to escape, we can't help it!"

"You escaped, you don't have to be caught... I've been here for the rest of my life..."

"Alas... Now the black noodle wowotou, you can only eat one a day, I think everyone should go to bed early and do more work tomorrow, otherwise the black wowo wotou will not be able to eat..."

"Sleep... Save some effort and live well tomorrow..."

In the dark grass nest, all the mine slaves slept in a sigh.

"Why did I get here?" and when all the miners had slept, bangs were still muttering to themselves.

After a while, the snoring sound was like thunder, Liu Hai muttered to himself, and he climbed out of the grass hut, looking in a trance, and went straight to the big water tank in front of the grass hut.

Looking at the water in the tank through the flickering torches on the earthen wall in the distance, he saw his own reflection.

Looking at himself like a stranger in the water, Liu Hai finally couldn't help it, and shed two lines of muddy tears, looking like he was loveless.

In the water, he seemed to return to his childhood home and saw his parents, who had been dead for many years.

He still remembers the scene at that time and the expectations of his parents.

He had a miserable childhood, his parents were both farmers outside the city, renting the fields of the big families in the village. At that time, his family had a very bad life, but his parents did not give up their good education for him in addition to farming, not only taught him to read and write, but also taught him a lot of principles of life.

It was the good education of his parents that contributed to his later becoming an ordinary petty official in Guanping City. And with his unremitting efforts, he slowly won the appreciation of the city lord of the year, that is, the father of the former city lord Li Tengfei, so that he rose all the way, got the important task of managing the grain depot in Guanping City, and sat in the position of grain non-commissioned officer.

However, all the efforts and the glory he got back did not bring him wealth, but only allowed him to help a lot of poor people.

In retrospect, when those fleeting past events echoed in his mind, Bangs was completely disappointed.

He was not only disappointed in the city lord Li Tengfei, but also in the people he had helped, and even he was extremely disappointed in himself.

Once upon a time, how he wished that everyone could understand him and give him some help to realize the unattainable and easily realized dream in his heart.

But the reality is cruel, and no one is willing to lend a helping hand to help him achieve his dream. Although through his past actions and various indications, his dream is not for himself, but for those poor families to live a better life without hunger, he has forgotten the complexity of the human heart and people's ability to understand life.

Until now, after a series of ups and downs, and after suffering this catastrophe, Liu Hai finally understood and completely woke up.

He looked at the water surface of the water tank, looked at his own reflection inside, and in a trance, he conjured up the phantoms of other people, and he called softly: "Dad, mother...... I'm coming for you......"

It was as if at this moment, he was inside, seeing his parents.

Finally, at the sound of that call, he threw himself forward, his whole body, and plunged headlong into the water tank.