A room of women, hugging each other and shivering, nervously looked out through the window paper. The 10 men in the courtyard looked at each other in panic, and fear had filled the entire courtyard.

Father Zhao and his son San'er, one person with a whistle stick, 1 left and 1 right, stood behind Mao Yulong, who was sitting here with a serious expression.

Mao Yulong tilted his face, bit his lip tightly, and looked at the street sky in front of him.

Time is fading away little by little, and the atmosphere is getting more and more tense.

At this time, a man whispered: "Since Xiao Xiucai and Brother Zhao, something will definitely happen, I will hurry home and make our family small-"

As soon as he said this, he felt a fierce murderous aura coming to his face in the dark, and when he looked up, it was Father Zhao's knife-like eyes, staring at him tightly. Before he could speak, Father Zhao's cold voice sounded: "At this time, if anyone retreats, not to mention that you will die in the chaos, I will kill you first." ”

This is a kind of murderous aura that has long accumulated in the body of a soldier after he crawled back from the line of life and death. This invisible murderous aura has forced everyone to feel that it is difficult to breathe, and those who originally had the same idea also closed their mouths in shock.

Before Mao Yulong could speak, Father Zhao didn't twist his head, and instructed his son: "You go to these uncles and uncles immediately, inform their families, and give up everything to come here, do you know what to say?" ”

In the face of such a situation, San'er was not timid because of the upcoming battle, but had an overdose of adrenal glands, as if he had been beaten with chicken blood. This is the so-called newborn calf is not afraid of tigers. Hearing his father's order, he replied loudly: "I told them that there had been a mutiny in Hangzhou, and let them come and take refuge." Then a shudder rang out over his head.

"Are you going to scare people to death? You frightened my grandmother at the beginning, and I haven't settled accounts with you yet. San'er suddenly lost the pride of the general who was about to charge into battle, and covered his head and said aggrievedly: "What else should I say?" ”

"You just tell them that today is the Lantern Festival, and these uncles and brothers who help me take care of the food can't go home for a reunion, I, Mao Yulong, have a treat, please come over and have a reunion dinner together."

San'er agreed and ran away.

This arrangement made the 10 men who really wanted to go home to protect their wives and children finally relieved, in fact, they also knew that if the soldiers really mutinied, it would be a catastrophe. Even if you can run home, with the kung fu of the three-legged cat you just learned, you will definitely not protect the safety of your hometown, but it is better to take your own family over, and everyone will stay warm, especially this Zhao Daddy and his son, the force is super strong, and it is estimated that he can protect everyone's safety.

Everyone stood quietly in the dark courtyard, no one squeaked, but the heavy breathing still made everyone nervous and breathless.

After a while, the laughter of women and children sounded outside the courtyard gate, and then the family came in, but when the front foot just entered the courtyard gate, he immediately felt that the situation of the whole courtyard was wrong, and he was stunned by the door and the door.

The man of this family immediately ran out of the formation and pulled them directly to the bottom of the side room: "Don't make a noise, don't panic, hurry up to the upper room and stay with the sixth aunt's family." Then he hurried her into the house, and hurried back to his team.

In this way, one by one, they came over, but they didn't see the Lantern Festival they wanted to eat, they were all frightened by the tense atmosphere, they were stuffed into the house, and they didn't dare to come out. When she whispered about Mao Yulongniang, some women were so frightened that they cried, but when they saw Xiao Xiucai sitting with a plus-size sharp knife outside, the King Kong-like father and son Zhao, and the motionless voice of their own man, the original fear slowly lowered, and a sense of security permeated everyone's body.

Just when everyone was nervous and couldn't breathe, on the street in the distance, a fire suddenly ignited to the sky, and everyone's hearts immediately rose to their throats, did what Xiao Xiucai said really happen? Is that kind of disaster really going to befall Hangzhou? No, the soldiers of the Ninth Battalion are protecting our people, why do you say the opposite, it's the opposite, this is probably where the water is gone, it will be fine in a while.

Just when everyone was still lucky, one fire after another rose into the air from far and near, and then there was an earth-shattering shout at the entrance of the alley, "Mutiny, mutiny." Then there were countless panicked and fleeing voices from the alleys, children and wives screaming, and this area became a hell on earth in a blink of an eye.

"It's coming, and it's happened." Mao Yulong suddenly got up and immediately ordered Father Zhao: "Wait for a while, and then act according to the plan." ”

Father Zhao nodded, and shouted loudly at the 10 disciples: "All on guard, no matter what happens outside, you must not take half a step out of the courtyard door without my order." ”

When he said this, the original man who was slumped up made his family physically and mentally upright, majestic, and became a real general. The ten men were stunned, but invisibly, they gave their entire body and mind to this general.

As soon as the place was settled, there was a sound of gongs in the alley, and Li Zheng shouted hoarsely: "The thieves are coming to be caught, the bandits are coming to fight, the villagers, the women and children are quickly hiding in the house, and the men are immediately copying the guys and coming to the street, ready to block the rebels." ”

Mao Yulong couldn't help but smile, but he didn't expect that this Li Zheng reacted quickly.

But what's the use of a quick response? Jiangnan has been peaceful for a long time, and the Japanese rebellion more than ten years ago has long been subsided, and slowly people have forgotten about the war. Despite the sound of the gong ringing, few people responded to him, and all the men held their female parents in their arms and hid in the house shivering, hoping that such hiding would save their family's lives.

And at this time, in the area where the Mao family lived, I remembered the sound of a gong, and a loud clansman shouted hoarsely: "Good neighborliness of the same clan, common to the outside world, the women and children of the whole clan withdrew into the ancestral hall, and the men of the whole clan, without exception, picked up wooden sticks and farm tools, gathered in the ancestral hall, and protected the family property." ”

In this area, there are two ethnic groups, one is the Mao family of foreign households, and the other is the Hangzhou people who sit on the ground, and the patriarch is the leader of the Mao family, and Li Zheng represents the Hangzhou people who sit on the ground. It is such a thing that makes the distinction between outsiders and land-sitting households clear.

One asked to go to the street to rectify, everyone worked together to defend against the enemy, and the other asked to retreat to the ancestral hall in order to protect themselves, and the thin force was immediately divided into two shares, and what Mao Yulong didn't want to see happened like this.

The 10 people in the courtyard were actually divided into two factions, 6 of them were from the Mao family, and 4 of them were from the landlord household.

Mao Yulong also took out a gong from under his buttocks, which was used by Daddy Zhao to show off his skills. He said to the 10 people with a calm expression: "You are my hired laborer, you have to listen to my command and drink me for so long, and it is natural to eat and help whom." Then his pupils shrank suddenly: "Your family is all here with me, once you give up here and go back, your family will immediately fall into a desperate situation." ”

After a while, all of them stood firm.

After coercion and temptation, Mao Yulong held the gong in one hand and the gong hammer in the other, and struck it violently, so in this area, there was the sound of the third gong.