87_87379 Cao Baochu, an old boatman on the canal, said 'The wooden dragon is broken, the world is in chaos', which made the hot scene cold down, and the old man Sun, who was picking up donkey meat, spit out a bone with a crooked mouth, and squinted at Wang Tingxiang, he wanted to see how this old man answered Lao Cao's words.

"Humph! At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, there was a saying that "Mo Dao Shiren has one eye and provoked the Yellow River to rebel in the world", and the so-called "wooden dragon is broken, the world is chaotic" is just a cat and a tiger.

There is also the Boxer Rebellion that broke out in Shandong, what men are unscrupulous, women commit adultery, and ghosts and children are all the property of children and mothers; If you don't believe it, look carefully, the devil's eyes are blue; The immortal comes out of the hole, the god goes down the mountain, and the fist is passed on to the human body.

Who believes these words? People with yellow hair and blue eyes, there are records in the classics of the Tang Dynasty, and besides, this style, which people's style is not practiced by themselves?

These things are just some people's random arrangement, and if you believe it, you'll be finished! ”

Wang Tingxiang in the old man is a man who has read a book and can speak well, a few words made Lao Cao so suffocated that he couldn't eat, couldn't breathe, and after a long while, Lao Cao put the coarse porcelain bowl in his hand to his feet, wiped the oil on his mouth, and then looked back at the boatmen he brought, and pointed his thick fingers to that side, and opened his mouth.

"Mr. Wang, don't talk about my father's generation, let's just say that our generation of boatmen, before the first year, how many boats did you walk a day in the Shandong River section of Dezhou and Linqing?

I can't count it, from Jiangsu to Shandong, from Shandong to Zhili, the boats are connected into a line!

What now? The big merchants and big buyers in Dezhou and Linqing all went to the south, and the boats on the canal did not see a team for three or five days, and they were all privately traded, and the official Cao did not see a team for three or five months!

Cao Yun is not only the life of our boatmen, but also the life of the peddlers' pawns, five years ago, we could still eat meat at home every three or five months, and now we have to eat people if we want to eat meat!

You said that the Boxers are not serious errands, but we can manage enough to eat stewed meat or donkey meat under the hands of the senior brother!

I don't understand the truth, what I understand is that there is food in the stomach and I don't panic, Mr. Wang said that the sky is broken, can I say that I can say that I will come to food or can I say that I will come to stew?

Back to Shandong, it doesn't take much or a month, and we, the dozens of people, even hundreds of people in the family, old and young, will starve to death! Mr. Wang, you are well-informed, do you show us a way to live? ”

After Lao Cao finished speaking, the situation reversed, and with a fishy remark, Wang Tingxiang was directly choked, just like Lao Cao just now, he couldn't go up or down, and he didn't know what to say.

Ordinary people, but if they can fool their bellies, who will come out to escape the famine? People leave their hometowns, let alone flee from their hometowns, a large number of Shandong Boxers poured into Zhili, and the troubles are only secondary, what is really making trouble is the hungry 'wow wow' belly!

"Hey! Why are we talking about this? This fist is not a trouble, not on us people, but on the court, the hometown is constantly in famine, the people have no food to eat, and the court's taxes are not lacking!

We don't care about anything else when we come out, our belly can be full, it doesn't matter who dies or not, as long as we don't starve to death, the chaos in the world has nothing to do with us! ”

After eating and drinking, Li Dacheng pulled over the half bag of grain beside him, stretched his legs and leaned on his back, and said some nonsense.

This is nothing in the hearts of Lao Cao and the others, this is a serious word, the belly is the biggest! can be heard in the ears of Sun Shouye and Wang Tingxiang, it is like a thunderstorm, Li Dacheng said it clearly, now there is no need to harm the people if there is food and drink, and when there is no food or drink, who is not a scourge?

"Alas...... The way of this world ......"

Wang Tingxiang is speechless, the truth can't be realistic! Shandong boy's words, there is really nothing biased, who the hell cares about starving to death?

"Alas......"

Sun Shouye also sighed, Dacheng, this child, out of Gaozhai will stir up the wind and rain, today's more than 300 people are nothing, the most worrying thing is the boatman like Lao Cao, they are not refugees, once Dacheng this kid catches the boatman from Shandong, three or five thousand people can set off a monstrous wave!

The excitement is only temporary, the world is still the world, when it comes to worrying, everyone eats the things in the bowl, Lao Cao and others naturally want to sleep in the open, Wang Tingxiang and Sun Shouye went to live in Gaozhai together.

Without looking at the backs of Lao Wang and Lao Sun Xiaose, Li Dacheng gathered the big padded jacket on the right side of his new upper body, and sighed The owner of this padded jacket has a good physique, what can he do if he has a good physique, isn't the padded jacket still robbed by the real word door? If you want to live a stable life in this world, nothing else is useless, one is more money, the other is hard-handed, and you can't rely on your mouth and heart!

"Senior brother, the brothers have all arranged it, and the five poles of the True Word Gate have also been found, can you take a look?"

"Bring it! What kind of hanging thing, unload the medicine, just find a few people to carry it, the range of this thing is not as good as throwing stones! ”

After just one glance, Li Dacheng threw away the ** handed over, the earthen ringer, it is not blown up today, it is already considered Ma Wenxuan's luck, it depends on the will of God to beat others or his own people with this thing.

"Senior brother, let's go to Gaozhai to see something?"

Seeing that Uncle Da Han was bored, Uncle Dacheng was a little unhappy, Li Chengyou came up, there are a lot of things in the house of Gaozhai Zhenzimen, this should make Uncle Dacheng happy.

"Done! Call the brothers of Li Zhuang and go and see! ”

There is no feast in the world that will not be dispersed, and today's trouble is too dangerous, Li Dacheng feels that Li Zhuang's brothers should leave, and if they don't leave, there will be deaths and injuries.

A group of people carried knives and guns into Gaozhai, and the villagers in Gaozhai were not afraid, and even some people took the initiative to say hello.

Gaozhai is a town, but it is not much better than Liu Laozhuang, but there are a few shops on the main street, and some houses are not as good as Liu Laozhuang!

The courtyard of the real word door can be counted in Gaozhai, and the courtyard of the Sun family is almost a two-entry blue brick courtyard, the front yard is clean, and the backyard is full of burdens and boxes.

In the box room on one side, there are dozens of cold weapons such as knives and guns, and in the box room on the other side is a pile of coal, a few earthen crucibles, and melted gold and silver nuggets can be seen everywhere, and there are some gold and silver jewelry in the basket on one side that have not had time to melt.

"Uncle, there are half a box of gold nuggets, five boxes of silver nuggets, ingots, and three boxes of silver dollars left in this house, and there are more than 100 catties of messy jewelry and necklaces, shall we send them back?"

The tunnel of the Sun family's compound is a secret between Li Dacheng and Li Chengyou, and there are a lot of things from the real word door, and they can't take the flowers, so they should be sent back.

Opening the box containing scattered silver dollars and ingots, Li Dacheng smelled it, with a smell of earth, it seems that Ma Wenxuan, Master Ma and others have the same idea as Wang Tingxiang, and regard the rich people around Gaozhai as the target.

Hiding gold and silver, it seems to be safe but it is dangerous, the way of the rich man in the countryside, many people are familiar with it, the knife holder on the neck of the rich man may not be able to bluff out, but it can be on the neck of future generations? To give or not to give, with the ferocity of Ma Wenxuan and others, if you kill one or two people, you can cheat anything.

A rich landowner, as little as a few hundred or a few thousand taels, as much as tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, these gains are neither too much nor too little in Li Dacheng's view.

Unlike the rich landlord who only deals with the villagers, most of the merchants in the city are all over the place, and they have more money than the rich man but they are also powerful.

Ma Wenxuan is a smart person, but Li Dacheng doesn't want to follow his old path, these gold and silver are a lot for Li Dacheng today, but compared with his expected goal, it is too much worse!

After a few days of understanding, Li Dacheng also knows the approximate use of gold and silver, although gold is good, but it is not easy to exchange huàn, the best thing to use is official silver, followed by silver dollars, and then copper coins, as for gold and jewelry, it is worth ten taels can only be exchanged for seven or eight taels, and sometimes it is not even half.

"Da Han, Cheng You, I decided to send the brothers of Li Zhuang back to Shandong!"

Roughly figured out the route, Li Dacheng opened his mouth, some things were reluctant, if Li Dahan and Li Chengyou also wanted to go back, he could barely make do with Qian Laoba.

"Brother Dacheng, what should you do when we leave? I'm not leaving! ”

"Uncle, what are you going to do? Starving? I'm not leaving! ”

"Done! Except for Dahe, Dafu, and Dagou, no one else will be left, and it is best to let the three of them go back and go back, otherwise the brothers will have no one to take care of them on the road, and you will have to say this, let them follow the boatmen of the Cao Gang tonight!

Dahan, go and fetch the brothers' grain bags, and find someone to call Lao Cao over. ”

Li Cheng has this side very quickly, and the brothers of Li Zhuang are all looking at Brother Dacheng! Brother Dacheng's words, no one dared not listen, the people who went back were decided, Li Dafu and Li Dahe thought about finding the people who were swept away by the big water, Li Dagou was stubborn and resolutely did not leave, in this way, the last worries in Li Dacheng's heart were gone, and the brothers who left Li Zhuang would really be able to pull their shoulders and play with their lives in the future.

Li Dacheng prepared two hundred taels of silver and ten taels of gold for each of Li Zhuang's brothers, plus a flat load of grain, the weight is not large, if it is easier to take a boat, more than a dozen people are close to four thousand taels of silver, even if the people in the village buy grain to eat, it is enough!

"Dafu, Dahe, after taking our brothers back, go to the mountains to find a Zhuangzi to live with, spend money together, and remember to practice brothers from time to time!

If you can't find it, don't look for it, everyone has their own blessings! Our brothers, none of them are allowed to come out and make trouble again, and there are those who don't listen to break their legs! ”

Big and small Li Zhuang is Li Dacheng's heart disease, if he doesn't do anything for them, Li Dacheng feels sorry for himself and them, these things are done, the heart disease is gone, he is the real Li Dacheng.

"Senior brother, Lao Cao is here!"

Seeing Cao Baochu coming, Li Dacheng stopped explaining to Li Dafu and others, and glanced at Cao Baochu deeply, Li Dacheng decided to try them as boatmen.

"Hmmm! Lao Cao, you let me believe you, this time I will let you hide the silver, don't be a dog eating conscience! ”

Li Dacheng pointed to the three boxes in the courtyard, and asked Lao Cao to take people to hide the silver.

"Senior brother, we can't do this, although I say it's the head, but people's hearts are separated from the belly, and if you hide it, you're afraid that something will happen!"

Lao Cao is not a fool, the three boxes in the courtyard are too big, he has transported official silver, such a box, at least two thousand taels, who is not tempted to escape the famine?

"How many people are left of you?"

"Thirty-six!"

"Just three groups, three boxes, the sixth one, you go to hail the mule cart, the second one wraps silver with clothes, points to the three boundaries, and lets Lao Cao take people to bury it tonight."

There is not much silver in the three boxes, it only adds up to three thousand taels, borrowing three thousand taels of silver to measure the thoughts of the shipwrights, it is also worth it, if nothing is serious, Li Dacheng has a more important task here.

"Senior brother, you have to be cautious if you have a lot of silver!"

Cao Baochu has traveled tens of thousands of miles in his life, and what kind of people have seen it, burying silver is not a good thing in his opinion.

"Believe it or not, just look at this experience, I want to stay, I don't want to be Ming'er and leave! You are the leader of the people, you should know how to control your subordinates! ”

The transportation and hiding of property must always have a group of people credible, scattered the brothers of Li Zhuang, the refugees can't be counted on, the Cao Gang is an organized and well-behaved place, Lao Cao's people have become Li Dacheng's first choice, and no one can choose if he doesn't choose