Chapter 49: Seeking Justice
Wang Erniu held a pig-killing knife tightly in his hand, and followed the people in front of him to climb the mountain. The rain was much lighter, but the embankment could not be saved after so many days of hard work. After several bursts of the embankment, he is now the only one left in his family.
Raising the big slap of the pu fan, he wiped the rain on his face indiscriminately, and then strangled his belt, Wang Erniu was so hungry that his belly was shriveled up, and his feet were swaying. But he still came, not for anything else, a man who stood up to the sky, to find a way to live for his family.
The dogs, the mothers, and the officials who raised them were greedy for the money, grain, and rice for disaster relief, and they were told to work hungry for the past few days. When the embankment collapses, can the hungry people run faster than the flood? Wang Erniu and the three brothers are all familiar with water, but in the end, he is the only one who lives.
He wiped his face again, this time with sour tears. He knew that what he was about to do was to kill his head and exterminate his clan. But what could he do? Desperate, you can only take risks.
Ten days ago, the prefect of Yuyan invited many officials and gentry to a banquet and pulled more than 100 people to work. The little boy of Wang Erniu's family needed silver to support his body, and he thought that he had a salary to take, so he went. Unexpectedly, not only did he not get the money, but he was also beaten by the people of the prefect's yamen.
And in the afternoon of the same day, the official who beat Wang Erniu came to the door of his house with four or five green-skinned bastards, and said that the knife was broken by him, and asked him to pay for the silver. Where can Wang Erniu be compensated, and he can't afford the people of the official family, and finally begged his grandfather to tell his grandmother to ask his relatives and neighbors to borrow half of it, but he was forced to borrow the usury of the big family in the village, so he sent those plague students away.
The famine of thirty taels of silver really killed Wang Erniu! At that time, if it weren't for the hard persuasion of the lady, he would have the urge to snatch the silver back while he was on the road in the dark. He has nothing else, but strength and courage!
Fortunately, there is no endless road to heaven, and this great flood is a catastrophe, but for Wang Erniu, it is a rain from heaven. He and the village villagers went to repair the embankment, and before they went, each family was paid a settlement fee of five taels of silver, which solved his urgent need. After he went, he not only provided food and shelter, but also paid a penny of silver every day. If you are willing to work in dangerous places, your salary will increase several times, and the most important thing is to settle the bill after working every day!
It is really the Guanyin Bodhisattva who saves the suffering and saves the suffering has manifested his spirit!
Wang Erniu heard that the government's disaster relief money had not yet been allocated, and it was the head of several famous temples and nunnery in Yuyan Mansion and Qinghe Prefecture, such as Ci'en Temple, Qingjing Liuli'an, Sanqingguan, etc., and turned his fate to the wealthy officials and gentry of Yuchuan County, and first invited the young men to repair the river embankment and build the acropolis to fight the flood.
When he heard this, Wang Erniu was skeptical, but he still went with a hope. At noon and evening that day, he ate thick rice porridge, which contained meat grains, and a black-flour steamed bun half the size of a palm was enough. He hadn't eaten enough for days, and he didn't care about anything else, so he could work hard to build it first.
After a day's work, before going to bed at night, a monk and a Taoist priest brought wages to the people living in the sheds. When the shiny silver was in his hand, Wang Erniu, a nine-foot-tall man, cried on the spot.
Without saying a word, Wang Erniu went directly to work on the embankment where almost half of the most likely dead people had collapsed, just for the three dollars of silver a day. Not only him, but also his elder brother and younger brother, in order to help him earn more money to pay off his debts, they also followed him to the most dangerous places.
Originally, he did a good job, and Wang Erniu even hoped that God's heavy rain would last as long as possible. But since three days ago, my wages have been gone, and my daily food has been gone. The people made a fuss, but they didn't see the monks and Taoist priests, but they waited for the leather whips of the officials of the Yuyan prefect.
That's all it takes, and I can't do the work for a few days anyway by looking at the rain. They worked tirelessly, but they earned some money, and the embankments they built were worthy of their wages. So the people secretly planned to go home. Especially Wang Erniu, he has suffered the losses of the prefect's yamen officials, and he has long muttered in his heart. At that time, he told his brothers that he would do this day's work and leave the next day.
Who would have thought that something would happen that night. A good sturdy embankment actually burst a little in the middle of the night. The flood rushed over with a bang, and many of the sheds where the people lived collapsed.
The officials immediately appeared, carrying leather whips and matching knives, punching and kicking the men out of the shed, and ordered them to repair the embankment overnight. Someone grinned a few words, and as a result, the knife fell from his hand, and the person's head fell to the ground.
This completely shocked the people, and they had to go hungry and rebuild the embankment. What a hell of a thing, the embankment built during the day will collapse at night. After three days, the people were so hungry that they almost lost the strength to walk, and they were rewarded with a black-faced steamed bun by the officials.
Wang Erniu wanted to escape, so he also touched the edge of the shed. But he found that the river beach where the people had settled had been surrounded by the officials with the green-skinned bastards. It was not difficult for him to escape alone, but his brother and younger brother were honest and timid, and when they heard that he was going to run, their legs were weak first.
Thinking of this, Wang Erniu blew his nose fiercely. If he had known that his brother and brother would have been swept away by the flood, even if he had kicked and kicked them, he would have taken those two cowards away.
The officials surrounded the people, naturally with bad intentions. Of these thousands of people, each of them worked for at least ten days, and according to the least, one person had one or two taels of silver, and the total added up was thousands of taels of silver. Seeing that the rain is about to stop, the water is getting lighter and lighter day by day, and the people will soon return home.
Therefore, the embankment kept being repaired and then collapsing. If you want to eat, okay, black flour steamed buns are a penny and silver. Don't eat? Hungry! There is that clever one, thinking of finding the official who has dealt with him before, and spending some silver to buy a way home. But no, this time the officials have unified their ideas, and they won't open this opening.
On the night of the fourth day, gossip spread throughout the shed, and the people knew that the servants were beating themselves for money. I don't know who led the leader, anyway, when Wang Erniu reacted, he had already broken up the encirclement of the officials with the big guys, and followed Yuyan Mountain, holding a pig-killing knife tightly in his hand.
Looking at the front and back, there are few people who know each other, where have those migrant workers gone? Wang Erniu is not stupid, he feels a little bad, but he does not regret it, if those officials blatantly ask for his salary, he will definitely be unable to help but hurt people this time.
Their group took advantage of the night to climb Yuyan Mountain, and the target was not the monks and Taoists who had done good deeds, but the wealthy officials and gentry who took refuge in the temples and Taoist temples.
The people are all poor people, they come to repair the embankment, and the family wants to avoid the mountain flood, so they can only go to Yuyan Mountain, which is naturally a meal and dew, and there is a possibility of distress. But these rich gentry live in a good house, their bellies can be fed, and the most important thing is that their lives will not be in danger.
Why?! Why?! On what basis?! With the same blue sky on his head, he lives such a different life! There is no justice in this world at all, justice can only be sought by ourselves!
Wang Erniu felt that what the strange young descendant said was very reasonable, and said some words that he had hidden in his heart for a long, long time. They are going to seek justice this time, and the first person to be pursued is Zhu Dayou, the prefect of Yuyan.
If it weren't for the unfortunate prefect who wanted to feast the guests, he wouldn't have gone to work, and he wouldn't have been blackmailed by the officials. If he hadn't been robbed of thirty taels of snowflakes and silver by the officials, he wouldn't have owed so much famine, and he wouldn't have thought about repairing the embankment, and his brother and brother would not have been swept away by the flood.
Wang Erniu's life has undergone a complete change since that day. The person he hates the most in the world is not the official who slandered him, but the Zhu Governor of Yuyan Mansion. His eyes were full of hatred, and it was raining, but he still spat on the blade of the pig-killing knife, and then wiped the blade with his fingers.
The silent rebellious people finally stopped, and they stood in front of a magnificent Taoist temple. This is the Dragon and Tiger View located in the back mountain of Yuyan Mountain, the scale is second only to the Sanqing Temple, and it is specially used for the Qing cultivation of the Zhu Prefect's Mansion. With a master like Yuyan Junwang who loves Sanqing, how can Zhu Dayou, who is a dog, not keep up?
Zhu Zhifu and his family settled here, in order to show their identity, the Dragon and Tiger Temple did not receive others, but accommodated some of the Taoist priests of the rest of the small Taoist temples that had been ravaged by the mountain floods. At this time, the night had sunk, and there were only three or two faint lights swaying in the rain in the Dragon and Tiger Temple, and the entire huge building complex was engulfed in darkness.
Wang Erniu swallowed, a little nervous. He didn't know how many people came to seek justice, so he turned his face and looked around, and the dark shadows were longing, and there were people everywhere. Occasionally, a blinding light flickered, a weapon polished like a pig-killing knife in his hand, reflecting the cold light.
They stopped at the corner gate of Yuyan Mountain behind the Dragon and Tiger Temple, and after a while, the crowd moved again. Wang Erniu was pushed and walked forward, covered his head, he entered the wide open corner gate, and broke into this quiet Taoist temple.
As soon as he entered, Wang Erniu was blinded. He didn't know where to go, for the people who had been holding him around him threw him down and scattered. In the dead silence of the night, there was only the rustling of footsteps as people walked quickly.
Wang Erniu's heart sank, and his brain, which was confused by something, began to squeak and turn. He felt that something was wrong, and he still didn't see a few familiar villagers. In a panic, someone grabbed him and asked, "Wang Erniu, what are you doing standing here?" ”
This man is in his early twenties, and he is a handsome young offspring. He looked at Wang Erniu with dark eyes, with a faint smile on his lips, and whispered, "Why don't you go to seek justice?" Without waiting for a reply, he grabbed Wang Erniu with his backhand and ran with him.
This descendant seems to be overly familiar with the Dragon and Tiger Temple, and he went around from the backyard of the Taoist Temple to the place where the pilgrims stayed. He let go of Wang Erniu's arm, pushed open a vermilion wooden door, and stepped in. Wang Erniu stood outside the door, and just wanted to follow up to see what was going on, when he heard a few "poof" sounds, and a pungent fishy smell came out.
Wang Erniu froze, he had smelled this fishy smell during the day, it was the smell of blood flowing from people.
Killed!