There was a muffled thud.

Someone screamed out on the heel.

Hundreds of men looked at the man lying on the ground, one of his legs had been broken, but the executioner did not seem to intend to let him go, but raised the stick high again, ready to smash it down again.

Finally, someone spoke cautiously and said with pleading: "Miss, please spare Tan Nineteen." He has already broken a leg, and if he breaks another one, he will be ruined. ”

"Is there a difference between one leg and two legs? Who gave him the audacity to resist my commands? Third Uncle Tan, you don't seem to be willing to listen to me......"

"No, no, no, Miss, it's not that we want to resist the order, it's mainly that we can't figure it out. Our Tan family is born in the green forest, and has been divided into the Ming and dark tribes for decades, the Ming people are whitewashed, live in the county seat, and the dark people are bandits and hide in the mountains. Whenever the era is prosperous, the Ming clan uses the family's income to support the dark clan, and when it comes to the festival of troubled times, it is the dark clan that ensures the continuation of the family through plunder. But no matter whether it is prosperous or troubled, the Tan family will always have only one family head, and the rules handed down by this ancestor are the foundation for the family to stand tall, so the big guy will never dare to disobey your orders. ”

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The mountain breeze was blowing, her clothes were swaying, and the female apprentice Tan Xiao stood at the mouth of the mountain with a calm face, quietly listening to the old man at home telling her.

In the open space not far away, hundreds of men stood with their heads held high, their postures neatly aligned, like the military posture of later generations, not allowed to move, not allowed to move, just standing there honestly, letting the poisonous sun of the autumn tiger sweat Cen Cen.

The man on the ground who had his broken leg didn't dare to wail, only dared to endure the pain and let out a muffled snort or two, but his eyes were fixed on Tan Xiao, as if he wanted to understand why he was beaten.

It's a pity that Tan Xiao didn't look at him at all, but looked at the sky in the distance leisurely, and said lightly to Uncle Tan, who was talking just now: "You go on, I'll listen......"

Third Uncle Tan is a burly middle-aged man, but he doesn't dare to be too rebellious when facing Tan Xiao.

I saw that he first glanced at the man on the ground, and then sighed and said: "Xiao'er, everyone really can't figure it out, the hilly area within the range of thirty miles is the wealth that our Tan family has worked so hard to build, and the ancestors have died at least two or three hundred people in the past few decades in order to occupy the territory of these thirty miles, and it is not easy to drive away the other green forests and become an area for our Tan family to enjoy alone." ”

He paused as he spoke, and then said: "Although we are bandits, we are also farming, the dark clan has been living here, taking the family to throw food in the soil, decades of hard work, only to reclaim the thin field, this is the industry of the whole family, is the foundation of the family, and when there are troubled times, this place is the guarantee that the Tan family can survive." But you, with a word, will make everyone give up here. ”

Tan Xiao's face was still calm, and he asked lightly, "Has the third uncle finished speaking?" Is this why Tan Nineteen refused to obey the order? ”

"No, it's not!"

Tan Shijiu, who was lying on the ground, suddenly spoke, and said with a sad and angry face: "I'm not disobeying the order of the head of the family, I just can't figure out why you have become so strange." first asked everyone to give up this foundation, and then let everyone go to the bitter cold land of the grassland to be horse bandits. We don't care when we are bandits, because the Dark Clan are used to suffering and sinning, but I don't understand, what is the use of you letting us train these postures? Every day, he just stood under the sun, and was not allowed to speak, move, or speak. What's the use of abusing people as animals? ”

Tan Xiao finally glanced at him and said lightly: "This is my master's method of training." It's something I get by smiling and flattering at him every day. ”

"It's a fart way to train soldiers."

Tan Shijiu was even more sad and angry, almost like he roared, and said: "We have heard for a long time that Gu Tianya is from a muddy leg, he has a fart ability, he is just a princess." ”

Tan Xiao looked straight at him, and suddenly said coldly to the executioner: "Fifth Uncle Tan has accepted the punishment, Tan Nineteen is no longer worthy of being beaten, and from today on, he is no longer a member of the Tan family." ”

This is what it means to be evicted from the house.

Tan Shijiu on the ground froze for a while, and even forgot the severe pain of breaking his leg for a while, but when he saw that this man was pale, he seemed to have heard the most tragic thing in the world.

His eyes flashed with fear, and he didn't dare to roar and roar in his mouth, but trembled all over, and said again and again: "I want to accept the punishment, you can't stop my punishment." I'm going to be beaten, I'm going to be beaten......"

In the shouting, he found that Tan Xiao was unmoved, he hurriedly looked at the executioner, tears poured out, and said with a frightened face: "Fifth uncle, fifth uncle, you beat me, please beat me quickly." Break my other leg as well, and let me be punished by the eldest lady. ”

However, the executioner slowly put down the stick, not daring to disobey the order Tan Xiao had just given.

Tan Shijiu suddenly became desperate, and his whole person was as powerless as mud.

When he was beaten just now, even if his leg was broken by a stick, his will did not fall at all, and he was really a man.

However, just because of Tan Xiao's order, he instantly felt like someone had broken his backbone.

Once a person's heart is gone, it is almost no different from mud.

He was expelled from the family.

This era is too difficult, if you want to live, you have to huddle together for warmth, if he is expelled from the family, he has to take his wife and children out, and since then he has become a lonely wanderer, and the whole family has lived a miserable life.

Tan Xiao suddenly walked up to him, stared at Tan Nineteen, whose face became numb, with a pair of wonderful eyes, and said, "If I don't say the reason, maybe you will be unconvinced for the rest of your life, then, I'll let you listen to it clearly......"

Tan Shijiu seemed to be demented, lying on the ground looking at her with dull eyes.

However, Tan Xiao's heart was very hard, and there was no trace of waves on his face, so he just said slowly: "First of all, it is the problem of this region. You all think that this is the foundation occupied by the Tan family, and it is something that the ancestors sacrificed two or three hundred lives to lay down. There is nothing wrong with this idea, but the fault is that you do not recognize reality. ”

The girl paused here when she said this, and then said: "In the troubled years, we can occupy this place as we want, whether it is to reclaim wasteland, or to grow food, even if one acre of land can only produce ten catties of grain, but ten catties of grain are all the wealth of our Tan family." There is no need to pay taxes, and no one dares to rob it, so everyone will regard this place as a foundation. But, that was before. ”

Tan Xiao paused again, her tone became slightly softer, she looked at everyone present, and said faintly: "The chaos at the end of the Sui Dynasty has passed, and the foundation of the Tang Dynasty is constantly consolidating. Although Hebei Province is still very chaotic, it will eventually become peaceful one day. At this time, if you occupy another thirty miles of territory, it will become the disaster of the entire Tan family. Because, in the prosperous era since ancient times, no bandits are allowed. Once our Tan family provokes the court to suppress bandits, how many troops can the thousand or so people of the Dark Clan resist? ”

Tan Shijiu seemed to reply to some of his heart, and couldn't help but argue: "The Tan family practices martial arts, and one person can fight three. In the past, when the Great Sui Dynasty was prosperous, there were also large armies that came to suppress bandits, but our ancestors worked hard with them and forced all the bandit armies to withdraw. ”

"Really?"

Tan Xiao smiled coldly, looked at him and said: "But you only know one thing, you don't know the other at all, let me, the head of the family, tell you, that the bandits in the Great Sui Dynasty were not because the ancestors of the Tan family dared to work hard, but because there was an uncle in the Tan family who was a domestic slave of a big man in the court." If it weren't for the protection of that big man, the Tan family would have been gone long ago in the Sui Dynasty's suppression of bandits. ”

Tan Shijiu was lying on the ground, his eyes glazed.

Not far away, hundreds of men standing in military postures were stunned in their eyes, and it was obvious that everyone had heard this secret for the first time.

This secrecy is like a resounding slap in the face.

It was pumped on the faces of countless people in the Tan family.

It turns out that Wu Yong, who everyone has always been proud of, is so ridiculous and worthless. It turned out that the reason why the Tan family was able to survive until now was only because an uncle had become a big man back then.

The so-called Green Forest Tycoon's house was actually bought by the ancestors who sold themselves as slaves.

At this time, I suddenly heard the sound of footsteps, and a burly middle-aged man walked out of the mountain pass, everyone present was shocked, even Tan Xiao couldn't help but shout softly, stepped forward and saluted: "Father, why did you come out?" ”

The middle-aged man directly waved his hand to interrupt her, and said in a deep voice: "You are now the head of the Tan family, you can't salute me." ”

After finishing speaking, he walked past Tan Xiao to everyone, first glanced at Tan Nineteen on the ground, and then slowly glanced at everyone present, and said, "The wisdom of the family master is higher than that of all of us, and any decision she makes is for the sake of the Tan family." Brothers, sons and nephews, I know that you are not happy in your hearts, because the decision of the head of the family makes me very unhappy, but I have to listen to me if I am not happy, because I am not as far as the head ......of the family thinks."

He obviously had a very high prestige, and he made everyone bow their heads in a few words, and only then did he look at Tan Xiao again and said softly: "Family master, you continue to talk to everyone." ”

Tan Xiao nodded and slowly took two steps forward.

This time, her face was softer, and her voice also revealed some family affection, and she sighed faintly: "These decisions I have made, maybe no matter how you explain them, you will not understand, then, let me explain to you with an old saying." ”

The middle-aged man obviously wanted to cooperate with her, and deliberately asked, "Which old saying?" ”

Tan Xiao looked at everyone and said slowly: "The poor don't fight with the rich, and the rich don't fight with the officials." ”

Everyone present was stunned.

The middle-aged man nodded solemnly, as if he had a feeling, and said: "Yes, the poor don't fight the rich, for example, in our Wuyang County, which poor person dares to go against the Tan family?" Once you mess with the Tan family, you can let their whole family die casually. In the same way, our Tan family is a rich family, but if we deal with the Shangguan Mansion, we only need to suppress the bandits once and we will be wiped out. What is an official, an official is power, holding a knife to kill, he can kill people with dignity. ”

He stopped slightly, suddenly raised his hand and pointed at Tan Xiao, and said in a deep voice: "And the master of our family master is the kind of person who holds a murderous knife." ”

Speaking of this, he paused again, and then made a final addition, and said with a solemn face: "And it is the sharpest knife." ”

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