Just after midnight, Luo Gong took Bingwei and Liancheng out of a village, and the three of them had just finished visiting the villagers in the village who were working for Wangjia Grange for a short time. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

There is no gain, and they all say that there is nothing else except normal labor and help.

If you want to say that the strange thing is that there are always a few people who fail to get out of the Wangjia Grange every time.

This sounded even stranger, and Liancheng asked a young man who said this.

The young man said that from the time they entered the Wangjia Grange to the time they came out after doing the short-term work, it was a full three days, and in these three days, none of them could go out of the Grange for half a step, and they were all watched, and once they found that anyone did not follow the rules, it was not half a copper coin.

This rule is so shocking that no one dares to violate it.

At first, some people did not come out of the grange, and those friends who had better friends would find out, and the people in the grange deduced that they had been kicked out for unruly work during the help period, which was very likely, so no one was suspicious at the time.

It wasn't until someone noticed that someone had been missing that someone slowly began to notice that something was wrong.

But at that time, looking back, it was already a long time later, and many of the young and middle-aged villagers who went in and out of Wang's Grange to do short-term jobs were gone.

After eight or ten trips, dozens of people have disappeared.

The villagers also thought about reporting the case, but just when the village chiefs of several villages reached a consensus and were about to go to the city to report the crime, the head of Wangjia Grange suddenly brought a handful of silver to every village where no one was seen.

In the end, the more the young man talked, the weaker he became, and he probably knew that it was the people's hearts that were at work.

If the villagers had not been deceived by the grange at first, let alone blinded by the glittering silver, then yesterday's two public outrages that struck at the same time in the suburbs of Zhusha County and the suburbs of Nanli Province would not have happened.

If it weren't for the fact that Li Xinshu's people had infiltrated various villages to secretly encourage them, and there were local gangsters in the villages, it is estimated that the villagers of several villages would not have realized the seriousness.

After all, the villagers who have not been disgraced are not in a hurry, and most of the villagers who have lost people have no homes, and no one will go to them.

Luo Gong walked out of the village and stood in the shade under a tree at the entrance of the village, sheltering from the sun:

"The situation is similar to what Li Xinshu said, those villagers who have not disappeared only say that they went to Wangjia Grange to help do some farm work, and nothing else, if it weren't for the fact that someone always disappeared from time to time, it is probably a very good thing for the villagers in several villages to help with such heavy remuneration."

Liancheng doesn't have a fan, and he and Luo Gong never bring that kind of thing, but Yu Shi occasionally plays with it.

It will be hot, so Liancheng fanned Luo Gong vigorously with his cuffs, and said:

"Isn't it! My lord, I can't dig anything out of the mouths of these villagers, even if there is, I probably let the head of the Grange be sealed or extinguished early, and there are still two villages left, which are from Zhusha County, Bing has no choice but to rush back and forth, and it will be dusk at the earliest! Shall we go back to the city first? ”

Luo Gong enjoyed Liancheng's waiting, squinting at Liancheng:

"That's how you waited for Yushi?"

Luo Gong suddenly said something to the horse, Liancheng was slightly stunned, but quickly came back to his senses, nodded heavily and replied:

"Yes! Adults don't like it? Then I won't fan ......."

"I like it." Before Liancheng put down the hand and cuffs that were vigorously fanning out the wind, Luo Gong cut off Liancheng's words with certainty.

Liancheng paused, continued to fan, and grinned:

"Lord Qianhu always likes to instruct the people under us to do this and that, not to mention me, even Hong Lie and Lin Chong have all developed the habit of waiting for Lord Qianhu properly at any time!"

For this reason, the jade general also specially found an opportunity to teach the three of them a lesson, saying that the jade pick was used to losing his temper by them!

As soon as Lian Cheng spoke, he sang and wrote well, and Lian Yu pretended to be subtle and beautiful when he spoke at that time.

Luo Gong listened to it interestingly and couldn't help laughing:

"It's good, and it will be the same in the future."

Liancheng was affirmed and approved by Luo Gong, and he was quite happy in his heart:

"Yes! Just listen to the adults! ”

Luo Gong glanced at Liancheng, who was smiling, and ordered:

"You go to find a family, you want to find a family that has been to Wangjia Grange to help, just say that we want to borrow a night, stay in the village for one night, it doesn't matter how much money you have, the most important thing is that people can agree to live with us."

When Lian Cheng heard this, even his hand that was fanning the wind stopped and asked in a daze:

"Why?"

Luo Gong only glanced at Liancheng: "Just do it." ”

Liancheng dared to disobey, and immediately walked out of the shade of the lush trees and returned to the village.

When he came back more than two quarters of an hour, Liancheng was sweating profusely and panting:

"My lord, the people in this village are not very hospitable, as soon as they heard that we were going to spend the night, they drove me out, and finally in a family at the end of the village, there were father and son at home, the father was seriously ill in bed, and the son was thin, and he didn't agree, but when he heard that I could give a hundred taels of silver, the son's eyes lit up and he agreed!"

However, the son also repeatedly emphasized that he would only let Luo Gong and Liancheng stay for one night, and he would have to leave in the morning.

When Liancheng said this, he led Luo Gong to the house at the end of the village, and the son told Luo Gong again, who had never been to his house before.

Luo Gong nodded in agreement, saying that he would leave tomorrow and would never break his promise.

The son saw that Luo Gong was a fairy-like character, not to mention the extravagance, and the momentum was also a little scary, just like when he went to the city to catch the market, he listened to the momentum of the big officials and big men in the drama.

He had never seen a big man bigger than the village chief, but he was subconsciously a little afraid of Luo Gong.

Comparatively speaking, Liancheng, who often smiles and smiles, is much more amiable.

The son's name is Li Tuwa, 16 years old, his father has been bedridden for many years, it is tuberculosis, he has seen the doctor take a lot of medicine, and they all say that his father's tuberculosis can be delayed for a year, and he will earn a year.

Later, his mother passed away, and the family's situation became worse and worse, and even asked about his daily livelihood, so his father refused to let him buy medicine anymore.

A few months ago, people suddenly came to Wangjia Grange, not far from the village, saying that they would hire some short-term laborers to work in the grange, and the work was tiring and many, but the victory was because the wages were high, and many people in the village wanted to go.

But Wang's Grange is not something that everyone wants to recruit, to make it clear, you need to be young and strong, and you don't want it as soon as you are over thirty!

Liancheng was a little surprised when he heard this:

"Don't you want to be over thirty? How many people in that village meet this criteria? ”

Li Tuwa's family was so poor that when they entered the small courtyard surrounded by a fence, there was only one room, and it was divided into two rooms, one for sleeping in the inner room, and the other for daily eating, sitting and talking.

Not to mention the furnishings in the outhouse, even decent furniture is no different, there is only one table, two stools, and a chaise longue that looks like it is about to fall apart.

Occasionally, when the weather was good in the courtyard outside the house, Li Tuwa would carry her father to the recliner and put it at the door of the house for her father to blow the wind and breathe some fresh air.

Liancheng felt that he heard it, and praised Li Tuwa for her filial piety.

Luo Gong listened, and his eyes looking at Li Tuwa softened a lot.

Hearing Liancheng's question, Li Tuwa squatted on the threshold of the room, with her back to the light, facing Luo Gong and Liancheng who were sitting on two stools at the table, and said:

"There are three villages near us, Datie Village, this is it, there are two villages in each direction more than ten miles away, Maodou Village and Linjia Village, there are no next to our three villages, there are many people, and there are really a lot of young adults before the age of thirty!"

Datie Village is the village where Li Tuwa is located, and most of the people in the village are surnamed Li.

Originally, it was a village that made a living from iron, but somehow, the craft of iron-making was not as good as the generation, and slowly lost the craft of iron-making, and changed to farming, becoming a real farmer.

Edamame Village listens to the name, at first everyone thought it was related to edamame, but in fact it was not, and I don't know who gave the name of this village in the first place.

As for Linjia Village, it lives up to its name, and the people in the entire village are surnamed Lin.

Li Tuwa didn't have much heart to entertain outsiders, if it weren't for the fact that he could take his father to the city to find a doctor for a hundred taels, and buy a few patches of medicine and some meat to eat, he would not have agreed to Liancheng's request to stay overnight.

Li Tuwa's father didn't agree either, but when he saw Li Tuwa's thin bones, he reluctantly agreed.

This will just have lunch, but Li Tuwa sat and ate for a long time, and his stomach was hungry again, he got up and said:

"I'll boil you some hot water to drink, and you can sit down!"

After speaking, Li Tuwa turned around in embarrassment and walked over the threshold and walked towards the simple stove in the courtyard.

Luo Gong sat at the table in the room, and at that angle, he could just see the figure of Li Tuwa in the courtyard first starting a fire in a small stove, then taking well water and pouring it into an iron kettle, and then putting it on the stove to burn.

Lian Cheng's body tilted towards Luo Gong's side, and he could see a little, and then glanced at the inner room.

There was a door in the inner room and the outer room, but there was no door panel, only a black-brown curtain hung down to block it, and the coughing sound in the inner room had not stopped since he and Luo Gong entered the room and sat down.

Lian Cheng glanced at Li Tuwa, who was guarding the stove and fanning the wind, and said very sympathetically:

"It seems that his father's illness is really serious, and I'm afraid I'm terminally ill when I hear this voice!"

Luo Gong said: "This Li Tuwa is a filial son, if it weren't for that, he wouldn't have taken us in for the night...... He's a little scared of me, and you'll ask him later why this iron village refuses to take in outsiders for the night. ”

Lian Cheng nodded, he also wanted to know the answer to this question.

Li Tuwa came back after boiling water, carried the iron kettle aside, went to get two blue-green porcelain cups to wash, took another bowl, poured a cup for Luo Gong and Liancheng and brought it into the house, and then went out of the house to hold the bowl of hot water in his hand and came back.

Luo Gong and Lian Cheng didn't touch the hot water in the porcelain cup on the table, the cup was still steaming, and it was very hot when it was just boiled.

But Li Tuwa didn't seem to feel hot, the whole bowl of hot water was handed to her mouth, and she drank one-third of the water in the bowl.

It was already hot, and it was even hotter for him, and the sweat on his forehead ran down his neck into his coarse cloth shirt.

Luo Gong didn't speak, he knew that Li Tuwa was hungry, and he filled her hunger with water.

Lian Cheng was also a little anxious, and said two or three times to tell Li Tuwa to drink slowly or drink it later when it cooled.

Li Tuwa didn't respond, and only after drinking enough did she raise her head and smile at Liancheng:

"It's okay! No hot mouth! If it weren't for my father always saying that I didn't drink well water, I was afraid that my stomach would be cold, so I wouldn't have boiled water to drink at all, and I would have drunk it just by bringing it to the well! ”

Lian Cheng listened and looked at the well outside the courtyard, and remembered Luo Gong's instructions, so he spoke out the doubts in the hearts of the two.

Li Tuwa was silent after hearing this, and she didn't say anything for a long time.

After being asked a few times by Lian Chenglian, he was a little anxious, so he simply got up and walked out of the house, squatting in the yard, fiddling with something that he didn't know if it was a wild vegetable or a wild grass.

Luo Gong got up and followed, and Lian Cheng was stunned and hurried out of the back room.

Standing in front of Li Tuwa, Luo Gong looked at the small handful of green things that Li Tuwa had picked up in his hand, and asked:

"Is this your dinner with your father?"

When Li Tuwa heard Luo Gong's voice at first glance, she thought it was really good, but she stood up in shock, and she was still holding the things that Luo Gong asked tightly:

"Hmm...... This is a wild vegetable, I don't know what it's called, I showed it to my father, and my father said that it could be eaten, so I often went to the mountains to pick it and eat it, it didn't taste good, but it could fill my stomach, and it saved my life and my father several times. ”

Liancheng was sad when he heard this: "Don't you have any crops at home?" ”

If there is a field to plant, there will be no major natural disasters in these years, and it stands to reason that as long as there is a field to plant, it will not fall to the point of almost starving to death.

Liancheng's meaning, Li Tuwa understood, he was a little anxious and a little hateful and said:

"There used to be one, but it was later collected, saying that it was not allowed to plant crops at the foot of the mountain, and several acres of land were exchanged for one or two pieces of silver, but that one or two pieces of silver were not enough for my father to buy medicine several times......"

"Who took the land? Why? Luo Gong asked.

"It's the village chief, as for why, the village chief didn't say, it would be begged by me to cry anxiously, so the village chief's aunt pulled me to the corner and whispered to me that it was the rich and noble people in the city who came to collect the land, and the one or two silver was the money they used to buy the land." Li Tuwa recalled that the village chief's aunt told him at the time that he cried and didn't want to sell the land, but the village chief's aunt cried with him and said that he was stupid.

"Forced buy?" Liancheng was a little moved, he looked at Luo Gong: "Master, this is a forced purchase!" Completely disregarding the life and death of the common people! ”

Luo Gong hummed lightly and asked Li Tuwa again:

"Do you know who bought your land? Besides yours, whose land has been forcibly bought in this way? ”

Li Tuwa said: "In addition to my family, there are more than a dozen households in the village whose fields are at the foot of the mountain, all of which have been bought for one or two taels of silver, and the land deed is taken away by the village chief himself to our homes. (To be continued.) )