Chapter 54: Cottages
The group walked to the valley, but when they saw this valley, it was east-west. The mouth of the valley is more than ten meters wide, it is very large, there is more than a dozen acres of space, at the foot of the mountain, there are more than a dozen grass houses, although it is dilapidated, but it is very clean, there are chickens and ducks, vegetables are grown, and there are a few dogs.
While walking, Wang Jianying also introduced: "We came at this time last year, the original dilapidated house was corrected, and we lived like this, there are 27 people who can go out to hunt here, and there are more than a dozen children, four old people, four women, there were many when they came out, but they starved to death, and several old people also fell ill and died last winter." ”
When I got to the house, Wang Jianying arranged for someone to bring me breakfast. I was tired all night, and I was indeed hungry, although the rice was also ordinary steamed buns and pickles, but it was very sweet.
After breakfast, I told Wang Jianying that I wanted to say goodbye, at this time, Wang Jianying knelt down and said: "Two masters, I want to ask you two to be our leaders here, my kung fu is low, and I can't protect my clansmen." ”
I and *** saw Wang Jianying kneeling, and hurriedly reached out to pull him up, who knows, Wang Jianying just can't get up, I said helplessly: "It's not that we don't want to be here, this is that we still have important things to go to the capital, besides, so many people here are not up to you." ”
Wang Jianying stood up and came to the door of the bar, and pushed the door open, only to see dozens of people kneeling outside the door, in front of a few old people, and children, and behind were the people we had seen, they saw the door open, and shouted together: "Please stay with the two masters." ”
I looked at each other, and I looked at each other, so I went out and helped a few old people up and said, "Everyone get up, I'll discuss it with my eldest brother, and I'll reply to you later, and the dozens of younger people shouted: "If you don't agree, we won't get up." "I can't cry or laugh either, isn't that embarrassing?
"Everyone, wait a minute, I'll talk to my eldest brother and I'll answer you right away." I came to the house and asked Wang Jianying to go out and calm people down.
said to ***: "Brother Li, you see how this matter is handled, or Brother Li, how about you stay." ”
"Brother Lei, I don't have any experience in leading people, and besides, there are so many clansmen in my village to take care of."
I thought to myself, if there is a cottage here, it may help in the future, but I don't know what will happen when I go to the capital. If you can't say anything, you have to persuade *** to stay here, this is a ready-made help, if not, you will become brothers.
"Brother Li, I have an idea, you listen to me and say whether to stay or not. First, it's not difficult to be a leader, now it's the first in force, and I guess there is no one who can beat you. Second, they asked us to stay, and after a while we said that we would absolutely obey your commands. Third, I will teach you how to do it, and I will find a way to help you when I go to the capital. Fourth, I don't think it's useful for your people to stay there, so it's better to build a few houses in the nearby mountains and move them all here. As for the money needed, I'll figure out a way, you can lead them here with peace of mind, practice martial arts without anything, and then build up the valley mouths on both sides with stones, so that you can attack and retreat, you can see how it goes. ”
After pondering for a moment, he said, "Okay, since Brother Lei said so, I'll stay here, but I have a request. ”
I saw that *** agreed, so I said, "Brother Li will say anything about it, as long as I can do it." ”
"It's that you know more than I do, you are the boss, I am the second, you don't have to live here, you can come and see every once in a while, how about it."
As soon as I heard such a condition, it was exactly what I wanted. "Brother Li can do this, but I also have a request, that is, we will worship as brothers of the opposite sex, call Wang Jianying, what do you think."
It's also a very simple person, and I didn't think much about it and readily agreed.
I went out and called a few old people and Wang Jianying in, and told us what we had just discussed, and everyone had no objections, so I asked Wang Jianying to go out again, and told everyone, and everyone agreed.
For a while, the small cottage was lively. The ancients were superstitious, and they had to worship ghosts and gods in every event, so we also had to go through a procedure, put the incense case in a while, and a few old people as witnesses, I*** Wang Jianying and the three of them worshiped as brothers of the opposite sex, *** This year I am 35 years old as the eldest brother, I am 24 years old as the second brother, and Wang Jianying is 23 years old.
The worship here has just ended, and a few old people over there have also set up incense cases in the courtyard, and also placed three Taishi chairs, I don't know where they got them, two of them have broken legs, and they are supported by ropes tied to sticks, and the middle one is good, and it is estimated that it is for me to sit on.
The three of us sat on their respective chairs under the arrangement of several old people, and everyone here lined up according to their age, knelt down together and swore an oath: "Today, we swear here, respect Lei Yunzi as the big leader of the cottage, *** as the second leader of the cottage, Wang Jianying as the third leader of the cottage, regardless of the old and young in the cottage, everyone respects the leader's orders, and will never regret it. "After the oath was over, everyone stood up, and I also stood up and delivered my inaugural speech.
"A few uncles and uncles, brothers, thanks to the wrong love, everyone let me Lei Yunzi be the leader of the cottage, then I will lead everyone to live a good life, from now on, you are my relatives of Lei Yunzi, I can't be hungry for a bite to eat, everyone has also seen, our cottage is a bit simple, the next step, we have to build our cottage, to be indestructible, we don't want to rob them but also to prevent others from robbing us, our cottage is near the capital, it is inevitable that it will be the government's idea after a long time, In the future, we will try to keep a low profile, but we will not be obscure, we want to have a loud name, I want to call it Leiyun Village, what do you think. ”
I just heard the following shouting together, "Okay, it's called Leiyun Village." ”
At the end of the inaugural speech, everyone dispersed temporarily, I called a few old people to stop, and came to the house with Wang Jianying***, I told them about the future plan, "At present, the cottage is mainly to build up the walls on both sides and prepare for defense." A lookout post is built on the top of the mountain, and it is good to find out in advance what is going on, and the martial arts of young and middle-aged people must also be improved, and the children must also study, so they cannot be abandoned. Now there are still not many people, and if we can find a way to increase our strength, we can't do it with just a few dozen of us. There are also horses in the cottage, not even a donkey, so if there is something, it will delay the time to go out to ensure the news, and the house will be repaired more. ”
Before I finished speaking, Wang Jianying stood up and said: "Big brother, the manpower problem is easy to solve, many relatives and friends in our hometown want to leave, I want to send someone back to pick them up, and the livestock can be solved, we have a lot of cattle and horses there, you can bring them by the way, but, after we came here, we didn't rob much money, usually everyone eats and drinks half-hungry, I think it's better to grab a few big families first, get some money." We have started to repair the wall of the cottage in the past few days, and by the way, we have also repaired the house. ”
"I want to find a way to deal with the problem of money, I still have dozens of taels of silver on me, everyone spend it first, buy some tools, and food and drink, and go to the people outside the customs to send it early, and it is better to go to two to take care of it." For the time being, let's not go out to rob for the time being, our personnel are too poor, and now the big families have caretakers, and there will be casualties if we don't get it. ”
"Second brother and third brother, don't worry about the money, when the master left, he left me a thousand taels of silver, and now there are more than eight hundred taels, which is enough for us to spend for a while."
After speaking, everyone had a smile on their faces, after all, only with money can they do things, and I was relieved to discuss this matter.