Xiao Ju saw the group of people holding torches and shouted for a long time, and after seeing that the Hu family's compound was still silent, she began to let people carry a big log and bang on the door. Seeing the posture of hitting the door, Xiao Ju realized that these people were also prepared for tonight's food grab.

The bolt of the gate looked sturdy, and it didn't open for a while. It is also possible that the people who hit the door have been starving for a long time and have little strength. However, because of the knock on the door, the Hu family's compound began to move. I saw that the courtyard suddenly became brightly lit, and at the same time, a head popped out of the wall next to the gate and shouted: "Folks, what are the requirements!" Don't do it yet! ”

"Don't do it! Phew! Xiao Ju saw the middle-aged man shouting on the high platform of the wheat field with a gloomy face, spat at the head that popped up on the wall, and replied.

"It's Hu Qiang's Hu Yanzi! My lord watched you grow up, you persuade the villagers, don't knock on the door first, and discuss something! The head that popped out of the wall of the Hu family courtyard looked at the middle-aged man who took the lead in grabbing food, and his tone was pleading.

"Steward Hu, it's not that I don't want to persuade you, but the villagers are dying of hunger! I really had no choice, so I came to ask Hu Dongjia for a way to live! The middle-aged man called Hu Yanzi said slowly.

"But my lord is not here, why don't you go back first, and I'll send someone to the county seat tomorrow to tell my lord about this matter, how about it?" Steward Hu said pleadingly.

"But we're so hungry that we can't wait!" Hu Yanzi said coldly. At the same time, I was even more disgusted with the rich Hu Fuhu and his dog-legged Hu Butler! Who are you coaxing? You must know that this Hu housekeeper usually uses the power of Hu Fuhu to do a lot of things in Hu Zhuang to snatch people's wives and daughters! For the matter of land rent, he also forced people to die, and many people in the village have long been eager to eat his flesh and drink his blood!

If he really listened to this ruthless housekeeper Hu and retreated the person, it was not only Hu Fuhu who would be sent to the county seat tomorrow to inform him, but also the puppet army in the county, and then everyone would have no way to live.

"Hu Yanzi, if you don't listen to good things to you, then don't blame me for not looking at the faces of the villagers, and we are not easy to mess with!" Seeing that the soft words had no effect, Steward Hu immediately changed his face and threatened.

"Oh? Anyway, we have a rotten life, and if we don't come to Hu Dongjia to borrow food, we will starve to death sooner or later! Steward Hu, if you really have the face of the villagers, open the door and lend us the grain! When we get through this famine, we will return the grain to the owner! Hu Yanzi shot back coldly.

"Hmph, the master has already explained, even if you destroy the grain, you can't be cheap, you mud legs! What's more, we still have more than a dozen guns here, and people who are not afraid of eating guns will go to the door! After Steward Hu said this, he retracted his head back into the wall.

The people standing in front of the Hu family's compound heard Steward Hu's words, and they were all enthusiastic, but when they heard that the other party had a gun, they were a little scared and fearful, and they also had a feeling of retreat.

The people who were far away from the gate didn't hear Steward Hu's words, but when they saw the people in front of them starting to retreat, they naturally asked the reason, and soon, the guards in the Hu family's compound had guns and soon spread among the crowd who came to rob the grain tonight. The fear of the officers and soldiers in the hearts of the peasants, who had been accumulating for a long time, suddenly came out again, and before they knew it, everyone began to retreat backwards, and even those who had slammed on the door stopped.

Seeing that the situation was not good, Hu Yanzi hurriedly raised his voice and shouted: "Folks, everyone came to Hu Dong's house today to borrow grain, and they were also forced to do so!" If you can't borrow food today, everyone will wait to die when they go back! Either they were forced to death by Japanese soldiers and puppet soldiers, or they starved to death! Let's think about it, anyway, the left and right are waiting for death, it is better to borrow food desperately today, maybe everyone still has a way to live! ”

"Hu Yanzi, it's not that we don't want to, but Steward Hu just said that they have guns in their hands! How can we ever fight a gun? Someone in the crowd replied,

"Yes! Hu Yanzi, those guards have guns! ”

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Suddenly, there was a buzz in the crowd, as if it was repeated to prove it, a gunshot rang out in the Hu family's compound at the right time, and this gunshot, naturally Steward Hu quietly popped his head out of the wall again, seeing that he said threatening words had a certain effect, and ordered someone to shoot a gun, so as to prove that his words were true, so that the mud poles outside were afraid, so that they could leave automatically.

"You didn't hear it, it's just over a dozen guns! And there are so many of us, what are we afraid of? Everyone put out the torches in their hands, the black light is blind, they can't see, look how he shoots! Hu Yanzi yelled at the crowd that was retreating in fear.

Hu Yanzi's roar successfully stopped everyone's steps back, when the person standing next to Hu Yanzi extinguished the torch in his hand, it happened that the moon was hiding in the clouds again, except for the bright hall in the Hu family's compound, it immediately fell into darkness outside the courtyard.

At such times, people are most likely to feel safe in the dark. Everyone's hearts began to have courage again, and soon, the gate of the Hu family was banged again, and the crowd began to pour towards the courtyard where the elephants were eating.

Steward Hu heard the door that was slammed, and he was also anxious. What's more, the deadbolt on the gate looked like it wouldn't last long before it would be broken by those hateful mud legs, and he yelled at the guards standing under the courtyard wall with guns in a bit of a rage: "Quick, quick, you guys climb up to the wall for me, and shoot at those who are leading the trouble!" ”

The guards of the Hu family hurriedly listened to Steward Hu's orders and climbed the courtyard wall, but the black lights were blind, and they could only vaguely see a piece of people's heads outside the courtyard wall. But when they heard the crack of the courtyard door being smashed, they were all panicked, so they didn't care about 3721, and opened their guns into the crowd.

Suddenly the crowd roared angrily: "The puppies have killed people!" We fought with them! The crowd that was afraid of the other party's guns was aroused by the anger buried in the depths of their hearts by these gunshots at this time, and the anger against the Japanese soldiers and puppet soldiers who came to the village from time to time to sweep up, at this moment, all of them were released and added to the people who fired the guns in the Hu family's compound.

At this time, the door bolt of the compound was also broken, and the gate was violently slammed open with a 'bang', and the crowd outside the door rushed in.

Xiao Ju, who had been standing far away, quietly watched the development of the situation, looking at the dense crowd that poured into the Hu family's compound, she instinctively felt a kind of danger.

Although Xiao Juniang couldn't see what was happening in front of her at this time, she could hear the gunshots and the screams of people, and her feet couldn't help but be a little weak. She looked at her daughter's small body, and finally gritted her teeth and said, "Ju'er, let's go back!" Let's not grab that food! Too dangerous! ”

"Mother, wait a minute!" Xiao Ju closed her eyes as she spoke, and began to sink into meditation, replacing her eyes with meditation. Sure enough, the Qiē of the Hu family's compound was clearly displayed in her eyes.

I saw that the compound was in chaos everywhere, and the guards in the courtyard who were climbing on the ladder and shooting outside the courtyard had long been pulled down by the influx of angry crowds and stoned to death with hoes, shovels, and wooden sticks. And the other people left behind in the courtyard were not spared, and it was useless to kneel down and beg for mercy! Looking at these Zhuang people, who are usually very loyal and honest, but at this time they fell into a crazy excitement because of killing, Xiao Ju's heart was very sad.

She slowly opened her eyes and said in a depressed mood: "Mother, let's go back!" Don't join in the fun! Xiao Juniang had already heard the screams coming from the Hu family's compound, so she didn't have any idea of grabbing food. At this time, when I heard Xiaoju say 'go back', I didn't hesitate for a moment, took her hand and ran all the way home.