Speaking of this, the four brothers and sisters were a little embarrassed, and the middle-aged man raised his hand and patted the woman's hand lightly and said, "Alas, although the three of us squat in this barren mountain where birds don't all year round, and live a life of adding blood to the head of the knife, I am most worried about you." ”

The woman's eyes were already full of tears, and she choked softly, "Big brother, why don't you three go down the mountain together and disband all the brothers, anyway, now we have saved a lot of money, and the four of us brothers and sisters can't spend it in a few lifetimes, let's leave Liangzhou and live at home in another place, okay?" ”

"I also want to, I don't want to do this kind of thing for a long time, but it's easy to go up the mountain and difficult to go down, you know, when we pulled dozens of people from the surrounding villages who were bullied by Khitan bandits and bandits up the mountain, at that time, everyone had only one thought, that is, to find a way to survive, a fire burned the village, and went up the mountain without hesitation.

"But the situation is not at all the same now as it was then, there are already several mountains in this team, many people just want to be powerful, if we are not the bandits now, we will soon be in a rags, there are many people who have been dissatisfied with the rules we have formulated not to rob the poor people, the last time we captured Guangwu County, a few leaders who thought they were old in their qualifications actually hijacked other people's daughters from large households, even your second brother can't hold it down, fortunately, I used thunderous means to deal with it immediately, Afterwards, he sent the girls down. ”

"If we ignore these guys who already have dissidents, and the three of us leave with the few old brothers who are left, then these people will immediately become demons who are the ones who are in trouble, and turn the area around Hongchi Ridge into a hell on earth, and then our brothers will become the real culprits."

"Therefore, it is not easy to say that it is not easy to leave now, we can only continue like this, keep this last trace of conscience in our hearts, as long as the three of us brothers are still there, we can maintain that the sky will not change on this Hongchi Ridge."

"Big brother, when I went up the mountain, my brother and I were already older, and we knew what was going on, but I remembered some things before, and some things I couldn't remember at all, especially when my father and mother died, I was still vague, you never told us before, and now my brother and I are already this age, you can tell us!"

The middle-aged man listened to the woman's words, and his weather-beaten face immediately showed a look of gnashing teeth, even after many years, he was angry when he thought about it now, and the two younger brothers and a younger sister had seen his expression many times, and they all reached out and gently held the eldest brother's hand together.

After a while, the middle-aged man's mood calmed down, and he whispered to the three of them, "Daddy's eldest brother may still know a little bit about it, you two must not remember it, since you mentioned it again today, then I won't hide it, it's time to tell you about it, we are doing a job that has no tomorrow today, once there are three long and two short, you also know how your father and mother died, what kind of person your father and mother are." ”

"Big brother, don't let you talk nonsense like this, after so many years, the four of us brothers and sisters haven't come over well, and the four of us know that you have never killed a good person indiscriminately, and you have taken the money and food of those big families who are powerful and prosperous, I think God knows these things, and will not bring disaster to us."

"Then everything can be as you wish, since we went up the mountain, there are still few innocent people who have to die at our hands, just last month, when we captured Guangwu County, we shot and killed none of the officers and soldiers who were raised by our fathers and mothers."

At this time, the little brother who had not intervened said, "Big brother, there is no way to do this, if you don't make up your mind at that time, you won't be able to capture Guangwu County." ”

"I know, alas, that there is a cause and an effect, and that we can only do our best to control the killing of inaction. Let's not talk about that, let's tell you about my father's mother. ”

“…… Since I can remember, Daqi basically has to fight with the Khitan Kingdom in the north every one or two years, I remember that the government's taxes are getting heavier and heavier year by year, but that's it, Dad gets up early every day and goes into the mountains to hunt some mountain goods can barely maintain the family's livelihood, but you ...... when you were four years old"

"I can never forget in my life, in the early autumn of that year, the village suddenly epidemic a highly contagious disease, as long as it was infected, basically there was no help, more than a month, the whole village died a small half of the people, and the family was lucky, only the eldest brother was infected with this disease, in order to avoid the rest of the family, my father wrapped the eldest brother in a quilt and sent him to a cave in the mountains, every day by me and my father with a cloth to cover the mouth and nose to take turns to deliver food, Dad did not know from where to hear the home remedies, Squeeze out the juice of the herb and feed it to the eldest brother to drink. ”

"It was the second day after the Mid-Autumn Festival, the day before my mother wrapped a few zongzi with the only little glutinous sorghum rice at home, and you only ate one of the two that you distributed, and the other was reluctant to eat, but the next day I insisted that I take the zongzi to the eldest brother in the mountain, I remember that when I went up the mountain, my mother touched your head and said with tears, "The poor girl was born without eating a good bite, and now she is yellow and thin, and she is reluctant to eat, but she is still thinking about the sick brother......"

"I remember that the eldest brother who was basically in a coma since the onset of the disease woke up miraculously that day, and struggled to eat all the zongzi, and saw that the eldest brother's condition improved, I was very happy, and ran down the mountain all the way, wanting to tell the news to my father and mother as soon as possible, but before I entered the village, I heard the sound of killing inside, my heart tightened, is it the Khitan robbers who entered the village again?"

"That year, the Khitan army broke through Ganzhou City, and many places in the northwest fell under the iron hooves of the Khitans.

"When I entered the village, I realized that the shouts of killing came from my yard. I haven't run to the gate of the yard, but I was firmly hugged by a person who rushed over from the oblique thorn, and blocked my mouth with my hand, I saw that it was Uncle Guizi next door, I was anxious, my face was full of tears, and I glanced at the courtyard from the open gate to see that the yard was not Khitan soldiers at all, it turned out to be a lot of defeated local guards of Daqi, my father and a few villagers had fallen in a pool of blood, at that time I was still young, I couldn't break free from Uncle Guizi's hands at all, I could only watch a group of defeated soldiers do whatever they wanted and then walked away. ”

"As the saying goes, 'thieves are like combs, and soldiers are like grates', and the defeated defeated soldiers not only take advantage of the chaos to rob, but also kill people and set fires to do everything, and even the bandits sigh to themselves."

"Wait for a group of defeated soldiers to go away, the two of us rushed into the courtyard, the tragic situation inside is outrageous, Dad and a few villagers may have killed their brothers in the resistance, and they were all killed by the other party in the courtyard, this is not counting, after death, the other party cut off the head, and finally Uncle Gui and I were found in the dung pit, and the mother was stripped of her clothes, obviously ruined by a group of animals in turn, and the death was even more miserable, it turned out to be ...... I was stabbed in the lower body with a knife. ”

Although more than 20 years have passed, but at this time from the mouth of the eldest brother heard the situation at that time, the three of them were also trembling by the raging anger, several people were tears in their eyes, roaring in their mouths, the eldest brother couldn't control his anger and kicked the pile of dry wood next to him all over the house, the thick coarse cloth door curtain was gently lifted a corner, a bandit stretched out his head to look at the situation inside, and immediately covered the door curtain tightly.

After the mood of a few people finally calmed down, the little brother sitting at the bottom immediately asked, "Big brother, can you still find those animals that killed your father's mother, even if you give up this life, we also have to avenge your father and mother and comfort my father's spirit in the sky." ”

The middle-aged man gently pressed his hand, signaled his younger brother Shao'an not to be impatient, and continued, "I was crying at that time, and at the same time desperately pulled Uncle Gui and a few villagers who rushed over to prevent them from carrying out and burying my father's body, Uncle Gui had no choice but to turn around and put his arm around my shoulders and said, Leizi, you are the boss, you are sixteen years old, not young, my brother and sister will need you to take care of them in the future, what is the use of you crying like this!" ”