In the blink of an eye, it was two months, and during the Chinese New Year, the government sent some rations, and Wang Jincai was more sophisticated. Quietly asked everyone to evenly distribute some fine grain to the little official in the yamen, and the little official also accepted it with a smile. When they came back, everyone complained that the old man Wang had wasted the grain, and the ration was not enough to eat, and the grain in the field would take four months to harvest!

Old man Wang said: "You guys, I have already inquired, our southern county is too close to the Yamen of Baoding Mansion, and it is a necessary section of the road to Chengdu to pass through the army, if you don't take care of it, when the soldiers will pull you to be a master, how to die outside will be known."

Zhu Dashan also suddenly realized and said: "So that's the case, it seems that this world is still not peaceful."

Chen Dequn was originally a peasant in the countryside, and he didn't understand at this time and asked: "Just give this bit of food, so that we don't have to be arrested?" Even those officials can't be the masters! ”

Old man Wang said: "They can't be the master, but when they really want to arrest the master, help us cover up a word, and we can live." It's really not good, give us a letter in advance when you pass the army, and we can survive if we hide in the mountains."

Along the way, I chattered back to the town, and the next four months were fine, and the wheat in the field was about to be harvested.

On this day, Old Man Wang and Gou Xingwang went to the county to borrow farm tools and prepare to harvest crops. Due to the war and the resettlement of displaced people, many farm tools were borrowed from the county and returned when they were used up. The main thing is that there is too little iron to build farm tools.

Just after noon, Zhu Dashan was weaving some daily bamboo utensils at home, when he saw Gou Xingwang running in sweating profusely, and he didn't see him talking, just kept panting, feeling like he was about to lose his breath. Zhu Dashan ignored him and just did the work in his hands. Gou Xingwang went into the house again and poured a scoop of water before shouting, "Brother Dashan, run." The county yamen said that you were a spy of the Ming soldiers and a thief. I want to arrest you and kill your head," after speaking, he pulled Zhu Dashan and ran out

Before Zhu Dashan could understand, he was dragged by Gou Xingwang to the riverside, and pushed Zhu Dashan onto the boat without saying a word. Let Zhu Dashan quickly cross the river and flee for his life. At this moment, three more people came to the town, but they were two messengers and one catcher. Seeing this, Zhu Dashan hurriedly rowed to the other side of the river and fled into the mountains.

Seeing Zhu Dashan enter the mountain, the three of them wanted to arrest people in the mountains, but it was not easy, so they returned to the town.

Zhu Dashan waited in the mountains until it was dark before coming out, and then returned to the town in the dark. At this time, there was no one in the yamen, so he secretly went to the old man's house. When Old Man Wang saw Zhu Dashan, he hurriedly whispered: "Why are you back again, and you don't run for your life?"

Zhu Dashan saw that there was half a bowl of soup on the table, and he didn't care whether Old Man Wang had eaten it or not, so he drank it when he picked it up. Then he said: "Gou Xingwang didn't explain it during the day, how did I become a spy when I planted crops well?"

Old man Wang sighed and said, "I don't know, go to the county in the morning." Listening to what the yamen said, it was just over the New Year, why did they suddenly have to go to Chengdu again, and what kind of death order did they get, they had to do it well. At this moment, the messenger who brought us to the town last time said next to him, and the Zhu Dashan who was assigned to Panlong Town was a Diao Min. And then I came out. After a while, the yellow officials in the torture room came and said, the county wants to arrest you, I will call Xingwang to tell you"

Zhu Dashan: "Why did you arrest me?" Just a word for the officer?"

Old man Wang: "I don't know this"

At this time, Gou Xingwang heard movement in the house and came over, saying, "I think it may be for the twelve acres of land of the Dashan brothers."

Zhu Dashan relied on his strength and opened a few more acres of land. In the original world, I listened to all kinds of farming skills, and the dealers in this field looked better than those in other people's fields, and the ears of wheat also looked fuller than those in other people's fields. Hearing what Wang Xingwang said, he turned his head and thought: "Everyone has land, why do you want to arrest me?" ”

Gou Xingwang said: "In the afternoon, Yao Zhu almost saw you running away. When he came back, he whipped me, and said that if he couldn't catch you, he would arrest me and kill the number of people on his head, and even his piece of land would be taken away. But why I don't know" The three of them didn't come up with any reason, and they were tired from the day, and finally fell asleep in a daze.

Zhu Dashan suddenly woke up with a "bang" sound in his sleep, and as soon as he stood up, he saw a group of catchers rushing in from outside the door, Zhu Dashan turned around and ran, and was held down and tied up before he ran out of the back door. Zhu Dashan was escorted back to the house, and saw that Old Man Wang and Gou Xingwang were also tied up and knelt on the ground.

Yao Degui, who came to arrest Zhu Dashan at noon, saw that Zhu Dashan was escorted over, stepped forward, picked up the sheathed knife, and hit Zhu Dashan's leg left and right twice. He also shouted: "You run! You try again."

Zhu Dashan suddenly felt that his legs were numb, and he fell to the ground howling. Zhu Dashan said: "Why do you arrest me, why do you arrest me." Seeing this, Yao Degui took a whip from other people's hands and kept pumping it on Zhu Dashan's body, muttering while snorting: "Lao Tzu will arrest you if he wants to, and I want to know why, come and I'll tell you why, come, I'll tell you." After a while, he felt tired and walked to the side and gasped: "Don't talk about arresting you, that is, you are a thief, and you can only bear it for Lao Tzu." ”

At this moment, he came in again to catch a quick catch, glanced at Zhu Dashan, who was covered in blood on the ground, and said: "I said Brother Yao, don't kill him, if you really want to kill it now, it's hard to explain." Yao Degui found a rag and wiped the blood on the whip and said: "Liu Bantou, don't worry, I know these in my heart" and pointed to Old Man Wang and Gou Xingwang "These two people also took it back, and their land was also taken away, so they said that they were Zhu Dashan's comrades. ”

Old man Wang and Gou Xingwang didn't dare to make a sound when they knelt on the ground, but now when they heard that they were going to be arrested, they had to take their land. Hurriedly begged: "Poor master, we are not in the same party!" We are not the same party, please hold up your noble hand and do not arrest us. The others, who were close to Old Man Wang and Gou Xingwang, were squatting aside to rest, and when they heard the crying of the two, they walked over and gave the two of them a few whips, saying, "If you howl again, I will cut you now." The frightened two didn't dare to make a sound anymore, so they only knelt there and worried.

As soon as dawn came, the hunters gathered the people in the town and announced that Zhu Dashan and the other three were former Korean soldiers and bandits, and now they were found and arrested, and they were to be taken back to prison, and the fields and official mansions reclaimed by the three would also be confiscated. Then escorted the three of them back to the county seat, and Zhu Dashan and the other three were thrown directly into the county jail as soon as they were brought back to the county office. After half a month, no one came to interrogate, and no one cared. In the past ten days, Zhu Dashan's injuries have also healed. It's just that people have been locked in the county jail every day for more than ten days, but no one has been interrogated.

On this day, after Zhu Dashan got better, he inquired with the people around him and found that most of the people who were arrested were homeless people who had settled in Nanfang County together years ago. There are also locals, but most of them are bachelors. A local man saw Zhu Dashan asking around in the past few days and said, "Ask what you are doing with these, you won't live for a few days." Let yourself be relieved, and you won't be so sad to leave", Zhu Dashan was shocked when he heard it: "How do you know that you won't live for a few days." ”

The man who answered, Zhu Dashan, knew that his name was Lin Zhuang, and he was originally a hunter in the mountains, and when he saw that there were few people outside the mountain, he ran out and opened a few acres of land. Lin Zhuang said: "Since the Qing soldiers came, they have to come once a year, and it's been almost ten years." Zhu Dashan said: "Why come back once a year?" Framed for grabbing land and grain like this, does the government have no royal law? Why didn't we hear about it when we came? ”

At this time, an old man in the cell next to him turned over and said, "What is the noise?" Still not let you sleep? Wang Fa? Hum! The knife in someone's hand is the king's law. Besides, if I let you know earlier, would you still come to Sichuan? Zhu Dashan also ignored the old man's sarcastic tone and said: "When we go to Sichuan, we can open up the wasteland and farm the land, why do you arrest us, just now this old brother said that he won't live for a few days, what's going on?" But the old man did not answer, but he only slept. Lin Zhuang said: "I don't know what's going on. Anyway, I have to come here every year, and the people who came in never saw me go out. The corpse has not been seen. As he spoke, he sat aside in a daze.

Hearing what these two people said, Zhu Dashan understood that Sichuan was not stable, and the people who came to Sichuan were deceived. Now the people who are arrested will die if there is no accident, and I don't know how they died, including him Zhu Dashan, of course. After thinking about these things clearly, Zhu Dashan felt anxious for the first time since he crossed over.

After another five days, Zhu Dashan still didn't come up with a good solution. Zhu Dashan was sitting by the wall in a daze, and heard a commotion in the prison. I saw that the county officials took whips to drive the people in prison out, and Zhu Dashan was also taken to the abandoned school field in the county with the crowd. In the crowd, Zhu Dashan also saw Cheng Dequn and Cheng Deyi, two brothers, who came to Panlong Town. Cheng Dequn also saw Zhu Dashan when they were crowded together, and Cheng Dequn quietly told Zhu Dashan that the six people who were placed together in Panlong Town at that time had all been confiscated by the government last year, and the grain had also been robbed. Li Heiwa was hacked to death by a catcher surnamed Yao in order to protect food. It turned out that the four families in the town did not harvest all their land, but they also paid a lot of extra grain.

The two were muttering quietly, and an official came to the stage in front of him, but it was Qiu Longzu, the magistrate of this county, who looked at the crowd squatting on the school ground. Turning his head to the warden Zhang Yongquan, he said: "This number is one hundred and fifty people, and this county will definitely take the lead this year." Zhang Yongquan said with a smile: "What the county respecter said is that the crops of these more than 100 households have been harvested a lot!" Qiu Longzu said: "When this group of people is sent away, they will quickly put the grain into the warehouse, and the Baoding Mansion has issued a death order." As he spoke, he turned around and said to the crowd squatting in the school field: "You Diao people, the Qing Dynasty has already settled in the world, why do you still rebel against the imperial court." The former Ming Dynasty was brutal, offering thieves and killing indiscriminately, such as today's Zi Shengming, to be a good obedient citizen, in order to survive, it is only right to live a stable life. Now that you have committed this heinous crime, the king of the government has been gracious and asked for a grace for you, so that you can serve in front of the army and live for meritorious service. ”

Qiu Longzu was talking in a passionate voice, when suddenly a voice interrupted his speech. "We are not thieves, we originally wanted to live in peace, but you robbed us of our land and food." Qiu Longzu looked up and saw a young man slowly standing up in the crowd. This person is Zhu Dashan.

Yao Degui, who was holding a whip next to him, saw that it was Zhu Dashan who stood up, and walked over and waved the whip in his hand. He whipped two whips and said: "You are a Diao Min, if you want to find death, Lao Tzu will whip you to death now." ”

Zhu Dashan was an honest peasant in his previous life, and going to the city to work was also a duty to do some hard work. In this life, the family has also been farming for generations, and when he was just born, the world became more and more difficult, and soon he began to make trouble. In the past 19 years of life, there has not been a single day of peace, either hiding from the homeless people or hiding from the officers and soldiers. His parents are also honest farmers, and what they taught Zhu Dashan the most was forbearance. The biggest wish is that Zhu Dashan can grow up peacefully and find a daughter-in-law to continue the incense.

The combination of these two, Zhu Dashan, who crossed through, is also a temperament that is easy to meet, and what he says is good is too much to beg, and what is difficult is called cowardice. Originally, more than a dozen acres of land were opened in Panlong Town, and Zhu Dashan thought that he had lived his life so quietly in this life. I forgot that I had traveled over in the 21st century, and I really thought that I was a farmer living at the bottom of society for 16 years of Shunzhi in the Qing Dynasty.

But the land that had been cultivated by himself was confiscated, and the grain was robbed. All the people who originally came to open up the wasteland and were resettled were arrested again, and Zhu Dashan wanted to tell the grievances in his heart, but no one cared. In prison, I heard that a group of such people were taken away every year, but none of them returned. made Zhu Dashan a little anxious. was pulled out today and was framed as a thief.

Although Zhu Dashan is only a migrant worker, he knows that in feudal society, he is said to be a thief, which is a big crime to exterminate the nine clans. Even if there is only one person in Zhu Dashan now, things are definitely not as simple as Qiu Longzu said, going to serve in front of the army. I'm afraid it's a dead end if I go.

Now that he was whipped and scolded by Yao Degui, the anger in his heart rushed to the heavenly spirit, the whip on his body did not hurt, and the two whip marks on his face also lost his sense. Zhu Dashan grabbed Yao Degui's whip and roared angrily: "Why do you frame me as Diao Min and say that we are thieves." We came all the way to Sichuan just to reclaim a piece of our own land, and then live a peaceful life. You have taken away our land and our food, and you have slandered us as thieves and sent us to death. Can't we just want to live? ”