Chapter 4 Women of the World

Almost at the same time as the Assassins marched towards Pingzhou City, along with the Taiping Army's honor guard and escorting cavalry. In addition to the twenty-four strong sedan chair drivers taking turns to carry the sedan chair, there is also a team of musical instruments playing and singing around the front and back. Four other barefoot men with their faces painted in bright oil paint and dressed as dancing gods in fancy clothes threw yellow paper full of charms along the way. To say that the aesthetics of this "Thor" are really thunderous, it is really thunderous, because it looks like a big family funeral from a distance.

Constrained by the slow march of the guard of honor, the cavalry guards who followed could not raise their speed at all, and the horses all bowed their heads, and endured the long-lasting drum music in front of them with their ears drooping, like frosted eggplants.

The captain of the cavalry guard couldn't bear it anymore, so he ran forward with a sweaty head and a horse, and shouted at the top of his voice: "Holy Father, when will we be able to reach Pingzhou at such a speed?" ”。

Gao Jinbao is not deaf, and the captain of the guard is afraid that his voice will not be able to cover the noisy drum music.

Gao Jinbao stretched out his hand to lift the corner of the heavy sedan curtain, and reprimanded with a displeased face: "What is it called shouting? Aren't you afraid of scaring the Virgin in the sedan chair?! Don't panic, the deity has already calculated the time, the auspicious day will depart, and the auspicious day will arrive. ”

The captain of the guard saluted his horse with a look of trepidation, and bowed back.

Nie Yunniang was born in a wealthy family. Ancestral wine-making skills, decades of painstaking management, his family wealth is endless, and his father is called "Nie million" by the locals. However, the creation of people, Wanguan's family fortune could not prevent her father's untimely death. "Nie Million" reluctantly left west, leaving only his wife Lu and a pair of children.

Nie Yunniang's brother is five years older than her, although he has a lot of money and a good life, but he doesn't know which tendon he has drawn, refuses to make wine and engage in business, and has been yearning to embark on a career since he was a child. When he became an adult, he went to the local county government office and became a Cheng Lian. What's more unfortunate is that his top boss, Lord Heizhang, is a very difficult master to serve.

One year, on the orders of Lord Pingzhang, Nie Chenglian led a team to arrest the hungry people who dared to resist donations and taxes. People who are dying of starvation will not have food to pay taxes, Nie Chenglian relented for a while and let these people go.

Who knew that after returning to the county office, Lord Pingzhang was furious, and casually found a reason to cut off Nie Chenglian's head.

Nie Yunniang's mother, Lu Shi, was furious.

If it is an ordinary mother, her son was unjustly killed, and she has no backstage power, she can only swallow her anger and scold God a few times without opening her eyes. But Lu Mu is different, she is the legendary fierce man.

The reason why Nie Yunniang later became a fierce man was only because her old lady was a fierce man who was even more fierce than her!

The Lu family has no power, let alone the support of high-level officials, but she is rich, and her "family is rich and has millions of assets". Money can do a lot of things, including buying arms, killing enemies and taking revenge.

Lu used her wealth to buy swords and clothes (logistical preparations) and to continue the development of the brewing business (an invincible weapon to gain support).

At that time, the people's livelihood was withering, and the people had no money in hand. Adults don't have money to spend, let alone young people. But most of the young people drank two sips, and when they knew that the Lu family was making wine, they all ran to smell the wine to satisfy their cravings.

Lu Shi saw that the young people were so hungry for wine that their eyes were about to fall into the wine vat, so they let them drink openly, give a few if they have money, and give credit to those who don't have money. In short, if you want to drink, you can drink alcohol, drink it first, and then talk about it, and don't worry about anything else.

It stands to reason that the Lu family should not sell alcohol to minors, but unfortunately there was no such rule at that time, so more and more young people came to her house to drink, and the liquor debts owed were incalculable.

In the long run, the Lu family's wealth was almost exhausted (no one gave money when they came). But Lu Shi is really interesting, he sees that he is about to drink the northwest wind, so he will never mention the matter of wine debts.

Although the young people have no money, they are not unintentional. Since the Lu family was so generous to them, they always wanted to repay her old man one day. Among them, a few gangsters who fight every day teach Nie Yunniang to dance with guns and sticks, so Nie Yunniang never took a needle and thread, and learned to pick up a sword first.

In those days, human life was not as valuable as soju. Looking for an opportunity to sacrifice his life to repay the generous Lu family, this has almost become the consensus of this group of young people.

Finally, the opportunity to repay has come.

On this day, they went to Lu's house to drink as usual, but they saw that Lu's eyes were red and swollen, and they couldn't stop wiping their tears.

They asked, "What happened?" Don't cry, with us, the sky falls, you can withstand it! Even if the ground sinks, you can hold on! ”。

Lu Shi was deeply moved, and then expressed his heart to them: "I invite you to drink for nothing, not to take profit from you. Although my mother is now in debt and poor, I have ancestral secret recipes, and science and technology are the primary productive forces, so I am not short of money. But I couldn't breathe in my heart! At that time, my son was unjustly killed by Lord Pingzhang, the county government, and the revenge has not been avenged. I hope you aspiring young people can help me. ”

These young men were thinking of repaying the money, and when they heard this, they immediately became angry, claiming that they wanted to avenge the son of the Lu family.

So, the Lu family gave them sword clothes (which had been prepared for a long time). Fearing that they would not be strong enough, they went to sea again and became pirates for a while.

The reason why I want to be a pirate is because I want to expand the team, and many warriors die at sea, and they are just in time to use their lives; The second reason is that rebellion requires more silver, and piracy has been a lucrative profession since ancient times.

After three years of preparation, the Lu family gathered thousands of warriors and strong men who dared to die.

Seeing that the time was ripe, the Lu family ordered people to build a high platform, and after taking the stage to worship the sky, he proclaimed himself a "general" and led the crowd to kill the county seat.

Lord Heizhang was really frightened, he never expected that one of his small actions would cause such serious consequences. Lying on the battlements like chaff, looking at the black and crushing human heads and the bright knives and guns under the city, he desperately closed his eyes and muttered to himself: "Wake up, wake up, this is a nightmare!" ”。 Suddenly opened his eyes, he was disappointed and even desperate, and none of the heads, swords and guns below had disappeared!

In desperation, Lord Pingzhang prepared to fight back. At this time, he finally understood a truth, that is, the character is too poor, and no one is willing to help you at the critical moment! With the shouts of the anti-thieves, half of the guards did not hesitate to throw down their weapons and turned to flee. The remaining half, which was blind, soon flowed into rivers of blood and was slaughtered.

The Lu clan led only a few thousand people to miraculously conquer the county seat and capture Lord Pingzhang alive.

The next day, in the center of the city's most lively street, Lu ordered people to build a wide wooden platform. Lord Pingzhang, who was tied up with five flowers, was pushed up with a dead face and knelt at the feet of the Lu family.

"I'm going to behead you in public now, what do you have to say?"

At the moment when her wish was granted, she had no anger and anxiety from the past, only the calm of a lake.

Lord Heizhang was silent, his mind blank, trying to remember what the young man he had killed a long time ago looked like.

Suddenly, there was a commotion in the crowd of onlookers, and several white-bearded squires trembled onto the wooden platform, followed by several shopkeepers of the trading houses that the Lu family knew when they were doing business.

These people stood in a row in front of the Lu family, knelt on the ground in unison, and begged for the old man with a white beard at the head: "What does Lord Pingzhang say is also a parent official of a county, and he has also done some good things for his neighbors, please show mercy and spare his life." ”

Lu Shi sneered: "If my son is guilty, it is also some small fault, and the crime will not lead to death. But this parent officer in your mouth killed him! I'm a woman with little education, but I know that murderers pay for their lives! Why do you intercede for him? ”。

With that, he turned away and ignored the lobbyists who were on their knees.

These squires look at me, I look at you, and I don't know whether to stand up and walk away or continue to kneel.

"Slash!" With a soft cry from the Lu clan, the executioner raised the ghost head knife and swung it down, a stream of blood splashed in the sky, and the heads of the adults of Pingzhang fell to the ground. The white-bearded old man who interceded fainted on the spot.

The next day, it was drizzling. In the cemetery on the outskirts, Nie Yunniang carried a burden and placed it in front of her brother's grave, untied the burden, and inside was the head of Lord Pingzhang, the county government.

Lu Shi behind him burst into tears and muttered: "Child, my mother has avenged you, you can go with peace of mind!" ”。

The wind is sad, the rain is whimpering, and everything is silent. People are gone, the soul is empty, and the past is like smoke.

After getting the news that Lord Pingzhang of the county government was beheaded in public, and that he was beheaded by a woman who sold alcohol with a group of thugs, the local county government was shocked and immediately sent out of the government to encircle and suppress it with all his might. The rebel army led by the Lu clan was finally outnumbered, and fled the county seat while fighting.

On the way to command the retreat of the troops, Lu Shi fell seriously ill and could not afford to fall ill. Before dying, Lu Shi took Nie Yunniang's hand, smiled hard and said, "Child, my mother's wish has been fulfilled, and I have no regrets when I die." In the future, this team will be handed over to you, and you can't disperse anywhere. Also, your cousin Shilong is still young, so you should treat him like your own brother. ”

Nie Yunniang fell to her knees, trembling and tearfully kowtowing. At the sound of her crying, Lu closed his eyes peacefully.

Later, Nie Yunniang led the team to meet the Black Flag Army led by Yang Mingyi, and led his troops into it, and Yang Mingyi respected Nie Yunniang as the deputy leader.

Lu, as a female streamer, as a businessman, is a failure; To be a mother, is great; As a warrior, be brave. As the so-called:

Thousands of family fortunes are thrown to the ground,

Only for the mother and son.

Dare to laugh at the pseudo-husband of the world,

Who said that women are inferior to men!