Chapter Thirty-Four: A Letter to the Ruffian

On the opposite side of the Guanping River in the east of Guanping City, there is a small village called Zhangjia Village.

Although there are not many people in the village, because of the mountains and rivers, life is good. The houses of every family are neatly and clean, the people are prosperous, and the villagers work every day at sunrise and rest at sunset, and do not close their houses at night. Neighbors often help each other, and life is harmonious and peaceful.

However, this peaceful life in the past has now become a rare luxury.

It turned out that the former village tyrant opened up and came back.

As far as he was angry, he left Heifengzhuang and returned to his birthplace, Zhangjia Village, with a group of loyal brothers. After returning, he occupied the house of the rich man in the village, used it as a base for himself and his brothers, continued to return to his old business, and became a bandit and robber in the township.

Due to his return, some idle lazy people in Sili and Eight Towns responded to his call and came to join the gang.

Now, there are all kinds of people in the open team, and he has nothing to do with those idle wandering children all day long. For more than a month, he has also been contaminated with the habits of a lot of prodigals, such as drunkenness, gambling, trickery, ridicule, and omnipotence, and there is nothing he doesn't play.

In their gang, everyone is this virtue, no one looks down on anyone, and they are all bad people who are not afraid of the sky. If you are cautious and honest, you will be ridiculed by others. On the other hand, for those meek and simple villagers, people like them are very annoying. Whoever saw them walked far away, for fear that these people would find trouble for themselves.

Speaking of which, it is such a temperament that has caused a lot of trouble for Zhang Kai, and the people in the village regard them as bandits and guard against them all the time. Let him worry every day about whether he should find a mountain and stay away from the village, so as not to offend the people in the village, and in the future, he will be scolded and dig up the ancestral grave, and the gain will outweigh the loss.

Not far from Zhangjia Village, there is a Dongyang Mountain, according to the legend of the villagers, there is an old man who is nearly seventy years old on the mountain, named Zhang Dongyang. The old people in the village often say that it was not until this old man came that this nameless mountain had a name.

When Zhang Kai was a child, he followed his cousin Zhang Beidou, not to mention naughty mischief everywhere, and also learned to climb other people's walls and do some petty theft. Once, when I was hungry, I climbed over the courtyard wall of Zhang Dongyang's house, and just caught a glimpse of this old man, sitting cross-legged in the room, breathing and breathing, sitting quietly and meditating, looking at the situation extremely strange.

When they grew up, they realized that the old man on Dongyang Mountain was a cultivator. This Dongyang is also very in line with the legendary fairy wind bone, which is very old. He also looks like a crane with a childish face, a tough body, and between his actions, there is no dragon bell. Perhaps, it was all the result of long-term cultivation.

This Dongyang has no quarrel with the world, and his life is very simple. It is said that even the house where he lives, the courtyard behind the house, or the pond where koi fish are kept, were built by his old man's family. In terms of living space, he also did his best to create a quiet environment for himself.

The house is surrounded by large locust trees and all kinds of strange medicinal herbs. The days are long, the roots of the tree are large, the branches and leaves are dense, and the sky and the sun are covered. The locust trees and laurel trees planted by him have reached ten circumferences thickly, although they are not as magnificent as towering ancient trees, but they can be regarded as beautiful forest worms.

Every morning, when the doors and windows are opened, the sunlight enters, the birds chirp, and the fragrance of medicinal incense and osmanthus fills the nose. Far away from the chaos and hustle and bustle of the world, the birds are singing and the flowers are fragrant, quiet and elegant, and people can't help but forget the bitterness of the world.

Zhang Dongyang has lived in the countryside for a long time, does not ask about the world, and has a strange nature, and generally does not allow the villagers in the township to disturb him. No one knows where he came from, and no one knows when he began to live in seclusion on this mountain. Everything is like a mystery, and it has been bothering the surrounding villagers for a long time.

On this day, when Zhang Kai was drinking and gambling with his brothers, he heard his subordinates talk about this Zhang Dongyang and had a heart.

"You said that on Dongyang Mountain, the terrain is dangerous and broad, which is very suitable for us to build a gang?"

"Yes, big brother, you see that there are so many brothers here at once, and the original landlord's house is no longer able to live. Moreover, it is not convenient to run errands in the village. His cousin Niu Xisheng, who had been following him, took over the conversation and gave him an analysis of the current embarrassment they were facing.

"Brother Niu, that's what I said, it's also annoying, we came back and drove away the rich dog rich man, but the villagers didn't want to see us, seeing us was like seeing robbers and bandits..."

Li Yiyi, who was gnawing on a pig's trotter on the side, listened to Zhang Sanwan's words and said with some mockery: "Brother Zhang! Aren't we robbers and bandits? In this poor and remote place, there is nothing to rob, so it is better to go into the city one day ...... it."

"Hmph... You kid understands Mao... Lao Tzu used to be in Heifeng Village, and he was also a good man, only robbing the rich and unkind, and the rich dog who kept money like his life, was happy to take revenge, robbed the rich and helped the poor. When, like now, attack the poor..."Zhang Sanwan glared at Li Feng and poured another sip of wine.

"Thirty thousand! At this time and that time, Brother Li is not wrong, but he is also from a big family in the city, and his knowledge is definitely different from ours. "Zhang Kai originally took the position of the owner of Heifeng Village because of Wang Qiang, and he has not been happy in his heart. Now although the No. 100 brothers have also been gathered, the gang of people under them have always been unconvinced by each other, and they have just drunk a lot of wine, for fear that they will hurt the harmony if they make trouble, so they have to open their mouths to persuade them.

It's okay if you don't persuade this, but after persuasion, how do you know that this 30,000 is originally a violent temper, and the anger is up, where is willing to listen to persuasion. pointed at Li Yiyi's nose on the spot and scolded: "You kid... Isn't it just that your father's little wife slept with her, and ran away after the incident... With this little ability, I'm embarrassed to come to join the family... I'm afraid that I want to use us and go into the city to help you snatch that little woman back for you......"

"You ......" Li Yiyi was obviously poked in the heart of the hidden disease, and he was so angry that he trembled, and his eyes were about to burst into flames.

"Okay, 30,000, you don't have to say a word, between your own brothers, you have to be harmonious, don't hurt your feelings........." We are all rough people, unlike you who were born as a rich young master. ”

Li Yiyi saw that he opened his mouth to toast himself, and it was not good to say anything, so he tilted his neck and poured a large bowl of wine to pour out the anger in his heart.

"For many years, I haven't come back, and I don't know what happened to Dongyang Mountain?" Niu Xisheng shook his head when he was so troubled by them.

Seven or eight years have passed since I left this Zhangjia Village. Although it was not far away, Zhang Kai did not want to come back to take a look.

Because Zhang Kai's life when he was a child, it was very miserable, not long after he was born, his father and mother starved to death, and it was his five-year-old cousin Zhang Beidou who pulled him to adulthood. The brothers depend on each other for their lives, and have been living in the village and countryside, begging for a living, or herding cattle and horses for the rich man's family, in exchange for life's food. Here, they only have memories of suffering, so they have been reluctant to return.

This time, if it weren't for the innocent death of the eldest brother Zhang Beidou, thinking that people are dead, they would always have to fall back to their roots. Zhang Kai came back with his cousin's body and buried it in the ancestral grave, which can be regarded as comforting Zhang Beidou's spirit in the sky. Although he wanted to take revenge, he knew that his current strength was not good, so he had to slowly recruit people and look for opportunities to enter the city to take revenge.

If the current development wants to grow, it is necessary to find a mountain and settle down. This Dongyang Mountain, open his heart, knows that it is indeed a good place, but the experience when he was a child, and the rumors and legends between the villagers in the countryside, made him hesitate.

After thinking about it, Zhang Kai said to everyone present: "The current development is imminent, then Dongyang Mountain is really good, but Zhang Dongyang's old man on the mountain is a little weird, which of you has a good way to take away his house?"

As soon as these words came out, there was an uproar among the subordinates. There is everything to say, Zhang Sanwan advocates taking the best by force, he thinks that Zhang Dongyang has only lived for a long time after all, Yanran is a bad old man, there is nothing to worry about.

But Niu Xisheng thinks it's better to outwit it, and now he doesn't know what the situation is on the mountain, so it's best to send someone up to take a look. If that Zhang Dongyang is already old and dead, it will be the best. If he's still around, we'll cut off the idea that he's staying and not leaving.

Everyone discussed and discussed, and there was no good attention. It's no wonder that there are so many of them, although there are quite a few of them, most of them are scoundrels and lazy people who are idle on weekdays, and there are only a few who can get on the stage. In the end, it was agreed that the method of cattle trainees was the most secure and feasible.

Moreover, Li Yiyi volunteered again and offered to let him play the front and go to the bottom first. He also patted his chest and vouched for everyone, saying that he promised to do this beautifully and will live up to expectations. Presumably he has always been looked down upon, and he wants to do something to come out, so that everyone can look at him differently!

Now that the board has been made, as soon as it dawns the next day, Li Yiyi took two servants who had been following him, and it took half a day of hard work to climb Dongyang Mountain.

He belonged to an outsider, and he didn't know much about the legend of Dongyang Mountain, and he didn't believe it very much. Along the way, there is nothing surprising, and I can't help but laugh at some ignorant and ignorant rednecks in my heart, and it is really ridiculous that this Dongyang Mountain is passed on to the gods.

"What's that?" Li Si, the servant on the side, seemed to have discovered something.

Li Yiyi looked in the direction he pointed and saw that in the depths of the woods, there was a gray-black ancient house, and because of the large trees, only some eaves and corners could be seen. From a distance, the forest was gray and foggy, and when I saw it in broad daylight, it made people feel a little frightened.

It seems that the legend is true, Li Yiyi was also surprised in his heart, and beckoned Li Si and the two servants, quickened his pace, and strode towards the ancient mansion.

"Woo..."

Before they reached the ancient mansion, a child's cry rang out for no reason.

"Childe, why is there a little girl crying?" Li Si looked surprised.

"Let's take a look..."Li Yiyi also felt strange.

Looking for the cry, I searched around, and finally found a little girl of three or four years old under an old locust tree.

Li Yiyi looked at the little girl in front of him, sighed in his heart, and was stunned on the spot.

I saw the little girl, with a pink little face, two twisted pigtails on her head, and a pink and white little body, wearing only a bright red embroidered belly pocket. He wears a silver ring on his neck, and he also wears a silver bell ring on the wrists of his hands and feet. What a pink carved female doll, it is really like a beautiful ceramic doll, delicate and cute.

At this time, the little girl was holding her little mouth, with tears in her eyes, and she looked pitiful, crying made people both heartbreaking and distressed.