Fengcheng Township, Yu's Neizhuang once again opened secretly under the gloomy night when he couldn't see his fingers.

Then, in the small movements, many figures that described sneaky and tiptoed emerged; It's just that these scattered figures haven't had time to run far, and in an instant, they all turned into screams and cries of pain.

"Ah, my feet."

"There's a trap...

"I can't move, come and help."

"Help."

Then, in the glow of the fire and the flickering lights outside the Zhuangzi, the fugitives, who were groaning and wailing on the ground with their feet and legs covered, were soon taken captive under the threat of swords and crossbows.

There were also unbelievers who struggled to run again, and then, in the midst of a terrible scream, they were shot through their bodies and rushed to the mud and ridges. Yu Niancheng, who saw this scene, turned his head and went down the wall without saying a word, leaving only a bunch of cowering and frightened expressions behind him, as well as whispering discussions.

Because, this is the sixth day that Yujianeizhuang has been besieged. In these six days, it is enough to make many things happen inside and outside Zhuangzi, such as the private houses in Fengcheng Township except for Zhuangzi, which are being emptied one by one.

Although these thieves still did not take the initiative to attack or attack, they just happened to have the time to constantly build fortifications, pile up fences, and reject horses outside the Zhuangzi, which itself was constantly squeezing and pressing, and the hearts of the people in the Zhuangzi were constantly floating.

And from the third day of the siege, under the complaint of the ancestral hall in charge of grain distribution, Zhuangzi no longer killed pigs and sheep to provide meat and vegetables, but used old wind wax and salted fish stewed into soup to supply to the strong men guarding the wall;

By the fifth day, even a little of the meat in the soup was gone, leaving only a blackened aged pickled vegetable soup with barely enough bran flour cakes. As a result, even those in charge of Zhuang Ding complained a little.

Therefore, the patriarch decided to kill three more pigs, and after a full meal of meat and vegetables, he rested until the middle of the night, and then shouted and waited for the opportunity to rush out, to see if he could run out of some people to report and ask for help, who would have thought that these besiegers had already taken precautions.

So by the next day, it was as if nothing had happened, except for the faint traces of blood and footprints on the ground. But the pessimism and disappointment on the wall of the Zhuangzi courtyard have already permeated everyone's face with all kinds of rumors in the invisible corner.

And in the tent that was temporarily erected outside the Zhuangzi. Yu Eshui, who had been eating canned food with dry food for several days, was a little restrained again, and asked Chen Guanshui, the captain of the team who was looking at this lifeless Zhuangzi:

"Captain Chen, how long do we have to wait here? Didn't you say that you brought together people and horses, so you went directly to Zhuangzi and asked. ”

"It's because the situation has changed, and according to the preliminary situation we have now, the problem of this Zhuangzi is much more serious than expected. It was even involved in the rebellion. ”

Chen Guanshui turned his head and patiently explained for him.

"Therefore, it is necessary to act more carefully and prudently now, lest more irrelevant people be implicated, and even become a shield for the bewitchment of a few people who are guilty of the most evil crimes, or the end of being driven by deception."

"It is also to lure the snake out of its hole, so that those who collude with it or have anything to do with it; Take the initiative to jump out or show your way. Now the few people in the county who want to ventilate the news have been taken; The other people who colluded with him are under close surveillance. ”

"Besides, if you want to uproot the roots and reliance of the generations that have broken through the township, and not just punish a few people on the surface, then you need more patience and more preparation in time."

In fact, in the past few days, the Taiping Army's anti-rebellion special forces have successively captured many gangs that want to break through the blockade or secretly return to Zhuangzi, or unknown people who are snooping on the truth and reality, and I am afraid that there are not hundreds of people before and after.

Then, through interrogation and torture, these temporary captures were made, and many people were arrested; According to the map, Suoji has locked down and controlled more than a dozen important suspects who have been in contact with him for a long time and have close interests.

And what he didn't say was that after the matter was reported, it quickly got the attention of the Anti-Rebellion Association, so this time he planned to push the corresponding process and results as one of the typical and representative basic models adapted to local conditions, and to other places needed in the future.

While he was talking, he saw a signal soldier on horseback galloping over, handing over a wooden clip document, Chen Guanshui couldn't help but smile after looking at it.

"Well, now the bull dock has been captured. I also caught the leader of the water thieves who died.,Now I'm escorting it over.。。 ”

The patriarch Yu Nianzong in the wall led a group of people to the ancestral hall, and prayed and prayed sincerely and quietly in front of the tablet of the god on the wall that was burned into a mottled night under the forest of lights, candles and cigarettes.

For this reason, he also secretly made a grand wish, as long as the ancestors of the past generations can bless the family through this calamity, he will work with the elders to rebuild and expand the ancestral hall, and advocate the great sacrifice for ten days to comfort and reward it.

Of course, although he was thinking of the blessing of his ancestors, he actually knew it very well; At present, the hope and reliance of the Zhuangwai to break the situation may fall on the son-in-law of Niutouwu;

The so-called foreign son-in-law is that the Yu clan will regularly send a woman from the clan, so that the head of the water thieves who are entrenched in the bull head dock will be robbed along with the materials as a dowry halfway, thinking that it is a temporary confinement and selfish desire.

Of course, the lives of these poor women who fall into the den of thieves will not last long. However, compared to the situation that the family can support itself and even expand the family business in this turbulent world, it is an indispensable price and sacrifice.

Anyway, the corresponding candidate, he always has a way not to let the big house and its close support take on it. And in these years, there is always no shortage of broken doors of orphans and widows among the people; It happened that these patriarchs and clan elders adopted them as adopted daughters and then used them to fill the number, and no one dared to say anything.

It's just that if you want to invite this person to do whatever it takes to lead the crowd to fight, and even to do the old tricks of encircling Zhao to save Wei and plundering the county town, as long as the price that the clan has to pay afterwards is also extremely painful.

and so on and With his cold and numb legs and feet to pill in the woman's chest, Yu Nianzong closed his eyes easily and had a dream; I dreamed that Da Lang and a few other children who went out were all successful and famous, so they led the soldiers back to kill them;

I saw that they were like wolves and tigers and killed these thieves besieging Zhuangzi on the spot. Then he cut off all the captives, disemboweled, and released them outside the Zhuangzi to be pecked by the crows and birds to show those things that do not have long eyes.

And Yu Donglou and Yu Eshui, who were eating inside and out, were also arrested, escorted to their own front, and after breaking their hands and feet, they wrapped their whole bodies in silk cloth, poured lamp oil and hung them on the wall to make a fire.

And looking at this scene, those clansmen who were full of awe and worship, as well as the officers and soldiers brought back by several disciples, were loudly praising and praising their own teachings, and vowing to ask for a scattered grace for themselves. Then he began to think about how to concoct the little sister in the East Building, and whether to send it to Niutouwu.

However, the cheers and praises suddenly became a little harsh, as if they were cries and wails. Patriarch Yu Nianze was suddenly awakened, and found that there were panicked shouts and clanging gongs outside, as well as the sound of running around and knocking over and tripping objects.

And the women who were supposed to be waiting by their side were gone.

"Zhuangzi is broken,"

"The thieves have come in."

"Come on...

With these terrible shouts, the villagers who hurriedly ran out and gathered together shirtless, just wanted to find the location of the intruder, but in the sound of Huohuo, they were shot by their own arrows from the wall, and fell to the ground in a pool of blood screaming.

In the adobe wall of the original courtyard, there have been several huge gaps. And there are many bright swords and armor, reflecting the swaying reflection of the torches, rushing towards the village to kill; The resistance and counterattack encountered along the way were drowned in fleeting fights and shouts.

"The Taiping army was ordered to arrest lawless outlaws and rebels."

"Good people shall not seek death by mistake if they remain at home."

And in the midst of these approaching slogans. Located in the most splendid and exquisite building in the heart of the village, the elders of the various houses who were once high and dignified were like rats in their nests flooded, rushing out of their own rags, and shouting loudly to each other and relatives to hide in the ancestral hall.

However, the brick walls of the ancestral hall, which looked tall and sturdy, did not deter the armed invasion. The poisonous smoke balls smashed into the broken windows one by one made their plans to defend themselves come to naught.

So these white-haired patriarchs were pulled out one by one in the fierce coughing and crying; He dragged him to the ground without dignity and pulled him until he reached the largest threshing field next to Zhuangzi, and then he was tied up and knelt on the ground with his hands in his hands.

At the same time, the large pond outside the village was gradually drained in the white sky, revealing a number of soaked white bones, some of them with rotting wooden flails and shackles, hidden among the silt and aquatic plants, and the bouncing and struggling fish.

The people who heard the news voluntarily or involuntarily drove over from the nearby four miles and eight towns gradually filled the fields outside the Zhuangzi after the sun rose three poles. Then, a well-prepared drama is about to kick off.

However, at this time, Chen Guanshui, who was examining all kinds of confiscated evidence and tortured confessions overnight, received unexpected news.

"What, the patriarch is gone?。。 Searched every corner and couldn't find it? ”

Immediately, he found Yu Eshui and said.

"Brother Eshui, do you know that there are rumors of secret passages or cellars in this Zhuangzi?"

"Well, I know there's one."

Yu Eshui pondered for a moment before saying.

It is said that the cellar is actually a rather large private prison, and then it is divided into a very large water prison and a few dry and filthy dry rooms with wooden fences according to the height of the ground.

Although the dry room was empty, the walls were heavily stained with blackened; It's still revealing what happened in the past. In the sewage of the water prison, three corpses, two large and one small, were picked out with a bamboo fork; But beyond that, nothing has been found.

Later, in the complex eyes of the Yu clan people who were detained, all kinds of awe, resentment, prayer and envy, Yu Eshui came to a woman who looked like a walking corpse and said:

"I know you've been taken over by that old thing, and now he's done with the ball, but people don't know where to hide; If you want to have a chance to get revenge, maybe you should tell me something. ”

“。。。 Do you know, Jiurou is still okay? ”

The woman didn't answer, but suddenly asked in a hoarse voice.

"Of course, Jiurou is doing well now, and he still has a great future. The old thing sent someone to murder him, but he was captured. ”

Yu Eshui did not hesitate.

"Then the slave can rest assured."

The woman lowered her eyes and whispered.

Then, in the rotten and foul-smelling private prison, as the relay sergeants continued to wash down a large bucket of water, layer by layer on the ground and the filthy water splashed, and finally as the ground gathered at a place by the wall, there was a bubbling sound.

Then a strong man with a sledgehammer and a chisel stepped forward and struck them one by one along the walls and the ground; They had already chiseled through a clearing before they had knocked it a few times, and then more chisels had been hammered up, and a large piece of plywood had been knocked down on the portal of hard earth.

So several armored soldiers with half-body cards, nailhead sticks, and fire halts in their hands hid in it one after another, and then erupted into a short and abnormal shout and roar; Finally there was an intermittent scream and wail.

When they reappeared in the dungeon, they each dragged a smashed fleshy human body on their hands; And the last old man who was dragged out with a cower, only a loose undershirt that couldn't cover his craggy ribs and brown spots, was the patriarch Yu Nianzong.

"Master Jun, slow down, I'm afraid this is a big misunderstanding."

It's just that he is still smiling and chattering.

"I am close friends with Song Yimu and Zhang Neiban in the county. There is also the leader of the righteous army Liu who has protected me. ”

"There must be traitors in it who are making trouble and provoking it, of course, my family has a big business, and there are unscrupulous people in the south who are colluding with it. It's a great negligence."

"I still have some gold silk in my room, and you soldiers can take it for your own use. I'll see your general later, and I'll be rewarded even more. ”

However, when he was escorted out of the dungeon and saw the woman standing outside, he could no longer maintain his clever words and grovel, and his face changed greatly and he said in a fierce voice:

"It's you!! , In vain, I sheltered you by your side, and I repaid you like this... ”

Then, suddenly, a heavy earhook beside him made him suddenly turn his head, and he could no longer speak. At this time, Chen Guanshui, who was watching coldly

Only then did he speak to her:

"The little lady said that most of the locations where things might be hidden have been found. It is that there are still human feelings outside the law. ”

"I will also make an agreement to hand over this old man to you for a period of time after the public trial is gathered. As long as he still lives to accept the canonical punishment. ”

At this moment, half of his face also swollen at a speed that was visible to the naked eye, and the patriarch Yu Nianzong, who was full of blood and broken teeth, couldn't help but struggle and roared and made a muffled voice, and fell into the deepest panic, despair, and fear.

The book friend in the previous chapter 160527193633836 right, Lin'an County in the Tang Dynasty was indeed inland, that is, near the southern foot of the current Tianmu Mountain. However, Tangshan County was also precipitated separately.

(End of chapter)