"Hiss~ahh~"

Wang Zezhi distilled the rice wine bought by Xiao Liuzi repeatedly to get some high-concentration rice wine.

He distributed the high-concentration rice wine and let the people who had been slightly injured apply it and disinfect it.

As for those who were seriously injured, Wang Zezhi did not dare to treat them at will, for fear of aggravating their injuries.

"Little Liuzi."

"Yes."

"Take ten brothers to Yuci to buy grain and mutton.

Invite a Lang Zhong to come over, and you don't care how much money you pay.

Buy a hundred sets of clothes and shoes, the brothers don't even have a set of clothes to wear, it's time to change.

Buy some pen, ink, paper, inkstone, I use, especially paper.

See if you can buy some blank tooth tags and come back, and if you can, buy two hundred back.

Swap some loose silver back for later.

Go ahead. ”

"Yes."

"Li Xiaoqi."

"Yes."

Wang Zezhi came to the map he had drawn before, pointed to the county seat of Shouyang, and said.

"From Yuci to the east and Yuxian to the west, there are many homeless people on these two roads, taking horse meat and rice wine to recruit some young people, and those who drag their families will recruit their whole families, and recruit as many as they can.

When you go, you bypass Shouyang County, take a small road, and don't lead the recruited people to the village, but take them to the deserted village next to the official road. ”

"Yes."

Li Xiaoqi wanted to speak and stopped, and did not leave immediately after receiving the order.

"Do you have a problem?" Wang Zezhi asked.

"The one-eyed dragon has taken refuge in the government, if he betrays us, will the officers and soldiers come to encircle and suppress the village."

"No, don't worry, the officers and soldiers don't have the guts, go ahead."

Wang Zezhi is very sure of this, in the late Ming Dynasty, the government deducted food and salary, and it was very common to eat empty salaries.

Wang Zezhi's judgment was right, the officers and soldiers really didn't have the courage, and when the one-eyed dragon presented the head of the Mixed Heavenly King, he immediately suggested going into the mountains to suppress the bandits, and he was willing to be a pawn on the horse.

However, the magistrate told him to wait patiently on the grounds that he could not attack at will when he went into the mountains to suppress the bandits, and the people and money were injured, and he was to wait for him to report to the Shangguan of Taiyuan Prefecture, and the Shangguan sent troops to help.

Then the magistrate gave the one-eyed dragon a reward of one hundred taels of silver and sent him away.

The one-eyed dragon took a hundred taels of silver, and at first he was a little restless, but when he went to the casino and won a few handfuls, and then went to the Qinglou to find a woman, he forgot about it.

Wang Zezhi methodically arranged for the people in the village to be busy.

It was almost noon, and Li Xiaoqi came back.

"Strategist, I have a responsibility, please punish the strategist."

Li Xiaoqi knelt on one knee, lowered his head, and said in frustration.

"The meal made by Tuomu today is good, eat first, and I'll talk about this later."

When eating, there was no bustle in the earthen cave, and everyone was depressed and didn't move the dishes and chopsticks.

"You don't want revenge?"

Wang Zezhi took a sip of broth, put down the bowl, stood up and said.

"You keep talking about revenge, and now you don't eat, where do you have the strength to take revenge?

The revenge has not been avenged, and it is a joke to starve himself to death first, and it is a joke to spread it.

Fucking feed Lao Tzu. ”

After Wang Zezhi finished speaking, he sat down and continued to eat.

The people in the cave began to eat one after another, but no one spoke, only the sound of dishes and chopsticks and eating.

After eating, Wang Zezhi called Li Xiaoqi aside.

"Tell me."

"There weren't so many homeless people on these two roads, and very few came out of the county, so I went to distribute horse meat and let them be bandits, but they threw food and ran away.

The subordinates did not do well, and only sixty-eight people were recruited. ”

"Sixty-eight, quite a few."

"Among them, there are only 30 young and strong people, please punish the military advisor." Li Xiaoqi knelt down again after speaking.

Wang Zezhi helped him up and said.

"You didn't do anything bad, that's to be expected.

Take ten brothers, bring them some food, and cut some wood to repair the deserted village so that they can live there.

Go ahead. ”

Wang Zezhi patted him on the shoulder, Li Xiaoqi felt better, and took ten people to take some food and went to the deserted village next to the official road.

Wang Zezhi sighed after watching Li Xiaoqi go out.

If the common people can't survive, who wants to rebel?

In fact, in the final analysis, the common people are still good, as long as there is a bite to eat, no one wants to cause trouble, let alone rebel, they just want to live in peace.

As for the later outcasts who became thieves, they were more coerced.

Just imagine that the rice and grain at home were robbed and the houses were burned, where else could they go if they didn't follow the thieves?

In the deserted village, sixty-eight homeless people sat together, lit a bonfire, and ate the horse meat and rice wine that Li Xiaoqi gave them.

"Mother, mother, eat slowly."

One of them, five big and three thick, tore the horse meat little by little and fed it to an old lady.

He also burned some rice wine and fed her some, afraid that she would choke.

And he himself swallowed his saliva and didn't eat a bite.

This man looked at the five big and three thick, but in fact, there was not much meat on his body, more bones, and his ribs could be clearly seen from his tattered clothes.

"Brother, I... I want to eat it too. ”

"Yes, yes, come, come."

As he spoke, the man tore a large piece and gave it to a cowardly little girl next to him, who was also skinny.

However, it can be seen from her tattered but neat clothes that this man still takes good care of his sister.

As soon as the little girl got the meat, she swallowed it whole in her mouth, and ate it all in a few clicks.

After eating the horse meat in a few strokes, the girl's eyes changed, and she became extremely longing.

"Meat... Meat... Brother, I still want to eat. ”

The girl was in tears, and she was a little lost, as if she had lost her soul.

The man watched his sister clutch his arm, he looked at his sister's appearance, felt the pain in his arm, and his heart hurt even more.

Just as he handed the rest of the meat to his sister, the old lady breathed a sigh of relief and slapped her sister's hand away.

"Your brother hasn't eaten yet, it's not big or small."

The younger sister pouted aggrievedly, and the man tore a small piece and ate it himself.

Then he tore the rest of the meat into two pieces, one for the old lady and one for his sister.

The old lady took the horse meat and frowned, as if thinking about something.

The girl devoured it again.

"Ah Niu, where did this meat come from? Who would be willing to give us something so delicious? ”

The man named Ah Niu squatted on the ground and bowed his head and was silent.

Next to the bonfire, more than a dozen angry young people finished eating the horse meat in their hands, drank the rice wine in the bowl, and burped.

"Old lady, you don't know yet? People like us, who can eat meat and drink wine in these years, are of course bandits, hahaha..."

"Hahaha..."

One of them laughed unscrupulously when the dozen or so young people finished speaking, and the other homeless or single homeless people subconsciously stayed away from them.

When the old lady heard this, her face changed.

She threw the horse meat on the ground with a snap, and then slapped her son with a snap.

"How can you be a thief? Your father is the most powerful catcher in our county, he has caught thieves all his life, and he has been killed by thieves, how can you be a thief?

Now that you are a thief, your father's spirit in the sky is difficult to look at. ”

While she was reprimanding Ah Niu, the other children in the family were staring at the meat she threw on the ground.

Ah Niu's sister stared at the piece of meat, and her face gradually became hideous.

She stared at the children viciously, and before everyone could react, several children collided together.

Ah Niu's sister was a girl, and her strength was greater than that of the boys, and she knocked down the boys with three strikes and five by two, and swallowed the lump of flesh wrapped in dirt in one gulp.

As she ate, she bared her teeth like a wolf protecting her food.

The old lady looked at this scene and suddenly burst into tears.

She touched Ah Niu's face and asked, "Does it hurt?" ”

"It doesn't hurt."

"It is better to be a thief than to starve to death."