Chapter 17: Granny Xin

The Wuyi Mountains are undulating from southwest to northeast, stretching for thousands of miles, during which the mountains are high and dangerous, and the trees are numerous. Strange rocks and green water surround. It is a rare plain mountain range in China.

Anxi Wangjiazhuang has suffered an unprecedented disaster in the past two days, and in the past two nights, people have shot letters at the door of the village, saying that Wangjiazhuang will take out 100,000 taels of silver and 10,000 loads of grain. The time limit is seven days, and if you don't hand it over within seven days, you will have to wash the Wangjiazhuang in blood.

At noon, Wang Hansan, the owner of the village, was in the main hall, wearing a staff suit, licking his big belly, and wearing ten rings on his hands. Sitting in the rocking chair, thinking about the letter that had been shot at the door in the past few days, he was upset and picked up the tea handed by the maid and took a sip. "Smack!" threw the tea bowl on the ground, slapped the maid standing next to him in the face and shouted: "Stupid thing, don't you know that the master wants to drink cold?" It's so hot, you're looking for death dogs! The maid didn't dare to say anything after being beaten, touched her face with one hand, and hurriedly squatted down to pick up the broken tea bowl, Wang Hansan saw that the maid was silent, and the anger went straight up, sitting there with his fat big feet, stepping on the maid's hand, and scolding: "Dog thing, is it not angry, is it not unhappy, MD eats the old man and lives in the old man's mine, scolds you dog things, is it unhappy." Scolding and scolding, he lifted the big foot that was still stepping on the maid's hand just now, and kicked the maid's head, and then Wang Hansan stood up panting, walked to the maid who had been kicked to the ground by him, and kicked the maid's head while scolding, and after a while, I saw the maid bleeding from her mouth and nose and falling there motionless.

Wang Hansan kicked and kicked, and when he saw that the maid didn't move, he scolded: "MD also pretended to be dead to the master." After scolding, he kicked and scolded, "Let you play dead!" Tell you to play dead! At this moment, a tall and thin middle-aged man wearing a cyan Confucian suit and a square scarf with a cunning face ran in outside the door.

The middle-aged man ran to the house to see that Wang Hansan was kicking the maid, who was already bleeding from her mouth and nose, and it was obvious that the maid was dead.

At this time, the middle-aged man shouted: "Master! Master! The rescuer you called the little one to ask for will be there soon. ”

After Wang Hansan heard the middle-aged man's words, the anger just now was immediately extinguished. looked at the middle-aged man and laughed: "Haha, this time I will see who dares to wash my Wangjiazhuang with blood." After a pause, Wang Hansan looked at the maid under his feet in disgust, and said to the middle-aged man: "Butler, look at this cheap bone, if it is dead, chop it up and feed it to my watchdog." ”

The housekeeper walked to the fallen maid, reached out and touched it, and there was no snort, and he was indeed dead. calmly reported to Wang Hansan: "Master, she is dead, and the little one will drag her down to feed the dogs." ”

Wang Hansan said "um", nodded and ordered: "Ask the maid to serve me another cup of tea." ”

The steward replied, "Yes!" Master. ”

The housekeeper withdrew, and after a while came two sturdy nurses, carrying the maid's body out.

Granny Xin in Xinjia Village is 60 years old, and she is the only one left in the family, who is usually taken care of by the village family.

Granny Xin looked at the little wild vegetables sent next door in front of her, and just sighed and thought that since the people in Wangjiazhuang the year before last, including the mountains and the land, they all belonged to Mr. Wang, and Mr. Wang used to be pitiful and didn't think about collecting rent.

The big guy can't figure out why the land reclaimed by his ancestors for generations belongs to his lord? So everyone didn't agree, and on the fourth day, a group of people came to the village with knives, knives, guns and guns, saying that they were collecting rent for Master Wang. The big guys ignored him, and no one paid the rent. The leader of those people became angry, and the people began to rob from house to house.

The big guy didn't eat idle food, picked up sticks and sticks and fought with them, and just when the two gangs were fighting, dozens of officials came, saying that the county lord heard that the villagers here resisted taxes and did not pay, and beat the tax collectors. The gang of officials who came indiscriminately helped the gang who came earlier to arrest and take away all the men in the village.

Three days later, someone was released, but when we saw it, the person who came back had his legs and hands broken, and was sent back by two merchants from other villages.

The man who came back lay on his bed and said to his daughter-in-law, "If the whole village does not hand over a thousand taels of silver, the same will be true of everyone who comes back in the future." The man was so badly wounded that night that he died.

The rest of the village was frightened, and the old people in the village discussed it, no matter how much they couldn't let people come back like this, everyone still had to make up the money.

But the whole village scraped together, only to make up three hundred taels of silver, far from a thousand taels, when the big guy was worried, a man came, this man took out a lot of paper, said to the big guy: "Don't worry, our lord knows that everyone is worried about the money." Our lord said that as long as everyone signs these papers, they can bring them back to their respective families. ”

There are only old and young ones left in the whole village, and everyone listened to what this person said very well, and believed the people who came, and they all pressed their handprints on the paper. On the third day, all the people in the village who were taken were released back. They were followed by the officials and the man who told everyone to press their handprints that day. The man took out the document that everyone had pressed their handprints that day, and said fiercely to the big guy: "This is the land sale document that everyone has pressed their handprints, and in the future, every piece of land and every mountain here will belong to our master Wang." Whoever dares to make trouble will break his hands and feet like someone who comes back for the first time! ”

The whole village was stupid this time, and finally knew that this person was not at ease, and they were scolding him in their hearts, but what could this be? The people in the village who were released back were all injured, and they were all scared.

From then on, most of the grain that everyone had worked hard to grow was collected every year, and only a little food was enough for the big guys to survive. In order to survive, the big guy went up the mountain to dig wild vegetables, hunted, and survived, and he could still get by. But last year there was a gang of bandits in the mountains, and this year we and several surrounding villages have been robbed.

The big guy doesn't even have food, and now he's so hungry that he's close to his back, and I'm still hurting everyone, hey, I'm still dead.

Just when Granny Xin was thinking about dying, she heard someone outside the house shouting: "1, 2, 1, 1, 2, 1..... Decide!!! , the whole team is on par with the left and right, and report the number! ”

“1”,“2”,“3”,“4”...........“30”,

"Report, the whole team is 30 people, but there are 30 people. Please ask the boss for instructions. ”

"Good, everybody's been doing well all the way. Today, we arrived in the Wuyi Mountains at the scheduled time, and we will put down roots here in the future. Today is also the first step for everyone to take root in order to take root, to ask the villagers here what difficulties they have, and we will help them. ”

"The whole team is upright, take a break, and disband."