In the twenty-second year of Dading, July 21, the "summer heat" in the twenty-four solar terms. The sun is scorching this scorched earth, and the wasteland and mountains and forests are not even able to see wild vegetables. Even some of the frail victims, as well as some elderly people and children, have collapsed on the side of the road and lost their lives.

The hungry victims who had no food could not bear it anymore, and all gathered at the gate of the county seat, and began to hit the city gate with farm tools, and even some people cut rough wood to hit the city gate, and the four city gates of the east, west, south and north came at the same time The sound of "knock, knock, knock" spread throughout the entire Xinchang county.

The county magistrate, who had just taken office, was so frightened that he shrank in the county government and called the people who were guarding the city back to guard the county office, and he didn't even dare to open the gate. All the shops in the county town have locked their doors and windows, and some large families even let their servants take wooden sticks to guard their mansions day and night. Women, children, and even the elderly were huddled in their homes and did not dare to go out, and for a moment the only sounds of wild cats and dogs could be heard on the streets.

The sound of "dong dong" sounded for more than an hour, and first the south gate was slammed open. The victims rushed in, rushed into the county government first, beat the county order, smashed the granary and began to grab grain. The officials and Minzhuang guarding the government drove the victims and guarded the granary at the same time, and some of the officials directly killed people with knives. But the hungry and red-eyed victims are already not afraid of death, rather than starving to death, it is better to grab food and distribute it to their families, even if they die, they must be full of ghosts.

It is often said that the soft are afraid of the hard, and the hard are afraid of the dead. The officials and errands are all on the emperor's grain, and where they are willing to work hard, they naturally can't stop the victims who are not afraid of death. The granary was lost in three or two clicks. Originally, the grain in the granary was less than half of the original when the warehouse was opened, and these disaster victims, carrying and dragging on their shoulders, were crazy to rob it, and after a while, the entire county government granary was looted.

When the city gates on the east and west sides were smashed open by the victims, there was already no food in the county office, and the hungry victims rushed into the grain shops, restaurants, and dim sum shops, and even some broke into several large households in the city to grab grain. For a while, the whole county was in a panic, the screams of women, the roars of men, the crying of children, smashing and looting became chaotic. By the time the victims from the north broke into the city, the city was almost completely ransacked, and there was not even a bag of food.

The two villages that served with Lijia Village before happened to live in the north of Xinchang County, and the victims who didn't grab anything were red-eyed, and they didn't know who shouted, "Go to Lijia Village to grab grain, damn it, we don't even stutter, but none of them from Lijia Village came, so there must be food in the village?" ”

"Yes, old and young masters, you want to follow us alive!" If it weren't for the fact that he built a shed for the official to give food to the official, and gave gifts to the county order during the New Year, he made them even take the guarantor, he wanted to make face so that the villagers of Lijia Village could go home for the festival, but they were so tired that they were tired and worried, and they didn't even have a good holiday.

Even the villagers who came back from service in their own villages, there were some who liked to make trouble, and they even scolded the village leaders of these two villages, and even during the Chinese New Year, some people threw stones into their yards, so scared that the children in the family did not dare to go out. This revenge can finally be avenged today. With anger, he led the irritable villagers to rush to Lijia Village.

Where would the villagers of Lijia Village know that they are about to face a catastrophe, the men are busy in the fields with farm tools, the older babies gather in a pile to follow their mothers and aunts into the mountains to dig wild vegetables, and the younger ones are chasing and fighting in the village, which is peaceful.

Just after noon, the little children in the village had just slipped out of the house and ran to the entrance of the village to play, when they saw a large group of people carrying farm tools and hurrying towards the village angrily. Frightened and crying, he ran home to report the news, and the village was the first to rush to the entrance of the village, "What are you doing?" What do you want to do? ”

A person came out of the troublesome villagers, and pointed to Li Wangfu, the village leader, "Don't be a damn pretend, we can't even eat, but you stay at home and enjoy your happiness." If you don't want to die, hand over all the food! ”

The village is afraid in his heart, there are no less than two or three hundred of these men, women and children, and there are only one or twenty villagers from Lijia Village who are rushing here at this time, if there is a fight, they will only be beaten, looking at the person who pointed at him with his finger, he knows this person, and he hurriedly greeted this person first, "I remember that you are the village leader of Tubazi Village, and our Lijia Village and your well water do not interfere with river water, what misunderstanding do you think?" ”

"What a misunderstanding! There is no misunderstanding, our village now does not even have grain, but you are shrinking at home to eat and drink, I look at the big barren mountain is still green, it seems that your village is having a good life, then help us who can't eat, less thinking about giving some gifts to the officials! ”

"What do you want to do, ah! Your village has no food, so you want to go to our village to rob it, why don't you go to the county government to rob it, and you are not afraid of death and want to bully us? ”

"What the hell are you talking about, we have already been there in the county, the granary has long been empty, and even the grain shop has no food, if you don't come to your Lijia Village, I will starve to death." Don't bother with them, old and young masters will follow me if they want to eat a full stomach! ”

The two sides were still scolding each other at the beginning, but at this moment, everyone in Lijia Village rushed over, but the old and young combined could not catch up with half of the others. Li Dalang led his younger brothers to the entrance of the village a long time ago, Situ Yan only came in a hurry to tell a few people not to be impulsive, not to take the initiative to act, to avoid if you can, to dodge, if you can't hide, you would rather hurt others than let yourself be hurt. And she stayed at home, and put all the food, food, household goods, and farm tools in the family into the ring, and left an empty room directly, not even a chopstick. The door was left unlocked, lest the victims go crazy and smash the door if they can't open the lock.

And let the snow wolf guard in the backyard, watch the livestock, with the snow wolf guarding, these victims will not easily succeed, she herself rushed to the entrance of the village with a bow and arrow, before the people arrived, I saw the disaster victims and the people in the village fighting together from a distance. The children's crying, the women's screams, and the men's shouting and shouting were all in one place, Situ Yan did not join the battle immediately, but first found a cloth towel to cover her face, she didn't want people to recognize it, she looked around again, found a firewood stack and climbed up, condescendingly looked at the people below, and then saw that Li Dalang was surrounded by a group of victims and beaten.

The four of them had been trained by Situ Yan on weekdays, and they didn't seem panicked at this time, the four of them were back to back, and they used their sticks to be vigorous, and they were not injured for a while. Situ Yan was relieved at this time, and glanced at the crowd with a bow, and saw that Murazheng was also surrounded and beaten by a group of people, and the little sheep protecting his father had been knocked to the ground. As soon as Situ Yan's right hand was released, a feather arrow went away, shooting directly at the victim who was holding a stick and smashing it at the little lamb, piercing the man's left leg. He put on another arrow, found the next target, captured the thief and captured the king first, these people must have someone to take the lead, otherwise how would these ordinary people dare to run to other villages to grab food.

The injured people screamed and fell to the ground, there were few people in Lijia Village, so naturally there were more injured, Situ Yan found that five of the victims were the most murderous, and directly shot five arrows, first shooting these five people to the ground, Situ Yan did not ask for the lives of these people, nor did she sympathize with these people, but she didn't want to cause trouble to the village, if there were dead people, the victims would be more desperate.

Situ Yan put cold arrows here, naturally some victims saw her, and the victims who saw it at the beginning didn't take a seven-eight-year-old baby seriously, even if they saw it, no one killed them, but seeing that such a small baby with a small body shot down their village and the strong men in the village, they beat them with a stick. Situ Yan jumped down directly from the firewood stack, and while running, she turned around to shoot arrows, and her archery skills were naturally a hundred shots.

The leader of the trouble was shot down by Situ Yan, and the villagers of Lijia Village were able to take a breath, although Li Dalang had a lot of kung fu, but he didn't really fight with people, and he was still very rusty at first, but the four of them defended back to back, and as they became more and more accustomed to their fists and feet, they seemed to have found a feeling, and their skills became flexible.

San Lang was fighting, while paying attention to the surroundings around him, when an arrow came over, he saw Xiaomei, "It's Xiao Wu, big brother chase, someone is chasing Xiao Wu!" Although Situ Yan covered her face, San Lang and the others were too familiar with her, and they could recognize her just by looking at her figure.

"Where?" As soon as Li Dalang heard that someone was chasing Xiaomei, he was so anxious that his hands moved even more, and Erlang even beat people directly to death, but there were too many victims around a few people, and he couldn't rush out of the crowd at once, so he could only watch and be anxious.

Situ Yan didn't forget to put a few arrows while running, and the people chasing her increased from a few at the beginning to a dozen later, although Situ Yan covered her face, she didn't want to show her kung fu in front of the villagers, and she was afraid of being recognized. So he led the people all the way to the village and avoided the scuffle at the entrance of the village. Seeing that it was far away from the entrance of the village, and there was no one here, she stopped, turned around and shouted to the victims who were chasing her, "Don't regret chasing me!" ”

A few people thought that Situ Yan was afraid and couldn't run, so they stopped, where could they hear Situ Yan's warning, and rushed up with a stick, Situ Yan put the bow and arrow on his back, and took out a dagger from his waist, hand-to-hand combat, the dagger is better than the bow and arrow.

Seeing the person swinging the stick and smashing it, first a sideways, then a sweeping leg, first knocked the first person down, and did not give this person a chance to get up, holding a dagger to shine on the leg of the person who came is a knife, the action was done in one go, and before a few people could react, they pounced on the second person, but in a quarter of an hour, more than a dozen people were all lying on the ground, covering their wounds and screaming.

"I warned you a long time ago, if you dare to chase me, don't regret it!" Situ Yan saw that a few people couldn't get up, so she ran to the entrance of the village to find Li Dalang and a few, casually put the bow and arrow on his back into the ring, and ripped off the cloth towel covering his face.

At this time, Li Dalang and a few people had already rushed out of the crowd, Shiro's left hand was also slashed and was dripping with blood, Dalang and San Lang's kung fu were better, but they were beaten a few times on their bodies, only Erlang was rampage, but there were no injuries on his body, but at this time, how could the four of them take care of themselves, thinking that more than a dozen people were chasing Xiaomei and running, they were all going crazy.

As soon as he rushed out of the crowd, he saw Xiaomei running back, "Little Wu, are you hurt?" ”

"Nope. Fourth brother, what's wrong? Don't move! When Situ Yan saw the four of them, she first checked them from head to toe, but Shiro had an injury on his arm, so she pulled a few people aside and let the other three watch and bandage Shiro herself.

"Fourth brother, don't move, if this wound is not treated well, if you get tetanus, it will be troublesome!"

"Xiao Wu, I'm fine, are you hurt?"

"Nope." Situ Yan was angry and anxious at this time, angry that she shouldn't have left just now, and she didn't know if there was rust on the knife that cut Shiro, if she really got tetanus and ancient medicine, she might not be cured.

Situ Yan was bandaging Shiro when she heard Muramasa in the crowd shouting, "Okay!" Stop it. Don't think that you want to grab food because you have a lot of people, I tell you, even if you kill all of us, you don't want to get a grain of food! ”

At this time, the few people who took the lead in making trouble were seriously injured, and they couldn't even stand up, although most of the people in Lijia Village were also injured, but they were much lighter than them. In fact, a few people still can't figure out how they were shot and injured, and the troublemakers also found Li Dalang, these small babies, there seems to be kung fu on their bodies, it can be seen that this Lijia Village is a hidden dragon and a crouching tiger, and after killing for so long, they couldn't even break into Lijia Village.

"Li Cunzheng, you don't have to scare me, if we don't eat, sooner or later we will die, if we don't get food today, we won't leave!"

"Yes, either give food, or we will fight with you, anyway, it's a death, and I don't want to live!"

The children were bold enough to help fight, and the timid ones were hiding behind their mouths and wailing. The women of the village, with their hair scattered, stood behind their men, and they would rather fight with these people than take out their own food. Moreover, as soon as I heard what these people meant, the county town had already been looted, and if the food at home could no longer be kept, they would not only starve, but might even be starved to death like the drought three years ago.