Chapter 162: The Disappearing Well
"How did the Zheng family's corpse be disposed of?" Judah asked.
In this catastrophe, the Zheng family should have been wiped out, it is said that this side of the house has the most corpses, and it should be the most foul smell by now, but it feels good to stand in front, and the smell is wafting from other places.
"Their family wears gold and silver, the Tartars pass first, and the others will not let go, the men and women are stripped naked, but everyone is more or less thinking about the benefits of the Zheng family, and they haven't done too many evils, and they gathered in a pile and burned them with fire, which is a good ending." Zhao Sheng replied.
When the chaos is over, the men are killed, the women and children are really cruel, the women of the Zheng family are better than the common people, they are beautiful, not to mention the encounters, and they may not be let go even after death, when the war is in chaos, there are no rules, and there is no humanity, think about how many evil deeds that Zheng Yong has done outside the Zheng family, but the reputation of the Zheng family in the Zheng family is good, but there are some relatively good results.
"Big families elsewhere usually don't accumulate virtue, but this time it's not peaceful to go down, but the Zheng family is different from the Qin family, and everyone is a little concerned." Zhao Sheng said.
Hearing this, Zhu Da had something in his heart and relaxed a little, when he and Zhou Qingyun took Qin Qin to Huairen County, they were in a hurry when they passed by Zhengjiaji, knowing that many of the servants and businesses of the Qin family had died unexpectedly, but they didn't have time to collect their bodies for burial.
Zhu Da had broken Zhao Sheng's attempt before, this thin man had always been frightened and flattering, seeing that Zhu Da and Zhou Qingyun were interested in the ruins of the Zheng family, he hurriedly answered: "Do you want the two masters to go in and have a look?" Such a big family, if you get close to it on weekdays, you will be scolded, but now you can go in and take a look. ”
It's all here, it doesn't matter whether you go in or not, Zhu Da and Zhou Qingyun looked at each other, they both turned over and dismounted, and led the horse towards the ruins of the Zheng family.
Compared with the Qin family mansion and the Dachuan firm, the regulations of the Zheng family's mansion are much larger, after all, this is a small Tuweizi, which is the last fortification of the Zheng family's armed forces, although it has been completely destroyed, but the general regulations in the mansion are still there, the road to and from is still walkable, and you can avoid all kinds of rubble and garbage if you are careful.
Think about the bustling and lively place in the past, and then look at the ruins in front of you, it is really a thing or a person, sighing and sighing, Zhu Da and Zhou Qingyun don't have so many feelings of wind and autumn moon, both of them have gloomy faces, gritting their teeth and slowly moving forward, making Zhao Sheng, who led the way, tremble.
The scene seen in the Qin family's mansion and the trading house had already made Zhu Da and Zhou Qingyun angry, but in such a chaotic place, they could still endure it, and when they saw the Zheng family scene again, although the Zheng family had no deep relationship with them, the emotional fluctuations caused here became the last straw that broke the camel's back, and the two of them hated it very much, hated the Mongolian horse team that destroyed all this, and hated the official cavalry that burned and looted.
All this in front of us was a rich and prosperous place more than half a month ago, but now it is like this, and before there were all kinds of people here that they had to fear, despise, beware of, and perfunctory, but now, everyone is dead, and everything is ruined.
"I want to ......" Zhou Qingyun said in a muffled voice, but was stopped by Zhu Da with his eyes, although Zhao Sheng hid a little more interestingly, but if he couldn't control his emotions, it was easy to be seen by others, although no one could endanger their safety at the moment, but it was better not to cause trouble.
Zhou Qingyun took a deep breath, the two of them had already arrived at the location of the Zheng family's courtyard, Zhu Da and Zhou Qingyun had come to the Zheng family many times, and they were more familiar with the rules of the Zheng family's mansion than many Zheng family servants, because they intended to find out and remember, Yuan Biao was very strict at that time, and almost regarded this as a part of teaching skills, Zhu Da and Zhou Qingyun didn't understand why at the time, but Yuan Biao understood it all when they asked them to kill Zheng Yong.
"There should be a well here, has it been filled?" Juda spoke.
Zhu Da and Zhou Qingyun both have impressions of the bluestone well base, as well as the pavilion built of bamboo and wood, the well fence with carving, and the copper parts used on the well wheel, these things are lost in the house, and if they are outside, they have been stolen by all kinds of people.
However, no matter how particular it was at that time, it would definitely be destroyed after the catastrophe, and those stone slabs, stones, and copper pieces with wheels and the like, even if the Mongolian horse team and the official army did not look down on them, the later waves of refugees and rioters would not let go.
But the well seat is higher than the ground, and the well is very deep, if it is really filled, it will definitely be a little lower than the ground, after all, in such a chaotic situation, no one will go out of their way to fill a well, it will also take a lot of work, and there is no profit, no one will do it.
After noticing this, Zhu Da and Zhou Qingyun both walked towards this side, Zhao Sheng quickly followed, but he was stopped by Zhu Da with his eyes as soon as he moved a few steps.
The ground is very flat, and there is no trace of a well, which is even more wrong, the rubble is everywhere in the ruins, and the rubble abounds, and broken bricks abound, and this is no exception, but the similarity here and everywhere else is the most wrong, it is really all kinds of waste stuffed into the well, or it will be concave, or it will be full, and this kind of situation that seems to be on flat ground is the most undesirable.
The three-year experience also had an effect at this time, although Zhu Da and Zhou Qingyun noticed that something was wrong, but the two of them seemed to be hanging out, but when they walked over there, they stepped on it with their feet, the ground was solid, and it didn't look wrong, Zhu Da rubbed his feet on the ground that was originally a well, but this foot rubbed out a lot of sand, the upper layer, and the lower part seemed to be something else.
"Something is wrong, bring someone in at night to see." Zhu Da said in a muffled voice, and he and Zhou Qingyun continued to walk forward as if nothing happened.
Originally, they were just going to take a look, but after that little episode, Zhu Da and Zhou Qingyun tacitly walked through the Zheng family's house, but they only saw the place that was not quite right.
It was also common in the eyes of others that the former well was already flat, the Zheng family had died, how would people later know that this was a well, if it weren't for Zhu Da and Zhou Qingyun's familiarity with the rules of the Zheng family, and they were clear about many doorways on the rivers and lakes, I am afraid they would not have found out that this was wrong.
They walked from front to back, and occasionally saw a few people looking around, these people often looked bad after seeing Zhu Da and them, Zhu Da and Zhou Qingyun also unceremoniously showed their weapons, and the two sides were still safe.
"Bring someone in now?"
"Wait until after dark, if you dig up anything at this time, not only the teams inside and outside the enclosure, but even the caravans in the courtyard will have to participate, and the news will spread everywhere."
The two had a brief conversation and decided on the charter, and when Zhu Da and Zhou Qingyun walked out, they didn't let Zhao Sheng continue to lead the way, Zhao Sheng was so happy that he hurriedly ran away, turned the corner and disappeared, not knowing where to hide. Zhu Da and Zhou Qingyun immediately accelerated to catch up after getting on their horses, they were unhurried and heavy when they came, but when they left, they drove their mounts to run fast.
After returning to the yard, the hired workers and the handlebar type are very relaxed, there are no other caravans in the yard, empty and quiet, everyone also knows that this business is done, and then it is time to go back to the city, although no one knows what will happen in the future, but this time out of the bloody experience, frightened a lot, on the other hand, they are all harvested, each of the hired workers has to have more than three taels of silver in their hands, and they are all real silver and copper coins, the handlebar type is more, relying on this harvest, everyone maintains food and clothing for more than a year.
The handlebar people are more knowledgeable, but the employees are experiencing this kind of life for the first time, they are of course frightened and afraid, but now, everyone is still a little excited and frightened, the excitement is that they have experienced so much and no longer calm, and the panic is because everyone feels that they will never want to farm and work in the future, if they want, everyone will have a new future, what will happen to this future, there are very few people who can think clearly, but everyone is very afraid of this future, because this is a life that they have never experienced, or even thought about.
"Dinner before the sun goes down, now everyone pack up their weapons, each of them should bring four throwing wooden guns, and feed the cattle in a handlebar style, we have something to do tonight." Zhu Da said loudly.
I thought that Zhu Da would give the order to leave for the return when he returned, but he didn't think about it, but he gave such an order, but the hired workers and a few handlebars did not question it, but immediately carried it out, and the yard quickly became busy and lively.
"You and Ji Xiaodong went to other yards to buy pickaxes and shovels, tools that can dig the soil, and when others asked what they wanted to do, they said that I wanted to take you to dig treasures in the dirt fence." Zhu Da called Li He and Ji Xiaodong over and told them to go out and do their work.
The three words "digging treasures" made Li He and Ji Xiaodong wide-eyed, Zhu Da is a steady and resourceful person, although he is a teenager, he is as mature as a thirty or forty-year-old person, and it is really shocking to say "digging treasure" in his mouth.
Seeing the other party's stunned expression, Zhu Da couldn't cry or laugh, but it wasn't the time to explain, he just signaled the other party to go quickly, he and Zhou Qingyun went to the fence after lunch, tossing back and forth, and the time was not so easy.
When I started to prepare, I found that I needed a lot of things, such as lanterns and torches for night lighting, but this kind of livelihood is not lacking in other caravans, and self-control is also very simple, but after such a toss, the caravan in the field knew that the young boy from Huairen County was going to dig treasure in the fence.
Everyone thought it was funny after being surprised, but after laughing, they took it for granted, it was normal for Zhu Da to do this, he was skilled in doing business at his age, and he talked smoothly, only this somewhat naïve behavior was in line with his age, if he had been so old, it would seem weird.