Chapter 157: The Civil Road
At the beginning of the year, these babies were a little scared, sitting on the side holding dry cakes and nibbling lightly, and they didn't even dare to come out of the atmosphere, after all, Lin Xiu and the others were in armor, and the air conditioning was pressing, but they really had to look closely, Lin Xiu and Liu Pan These armorers were only in their twenties, forty or five, and they laughed like uncles in the village, but they were not so terrible.
Unconsciously, the dry cakes were in their stomachs, and the babies were a little choked, Lin Xiu smiled and motioned to Liu Pan to bring hot soup, these babies snorted a few bites, and after the hot soup warmed their stomachs, the babies let go of their courage and laughed.
Look at this, Liu Pan and a few other pro-soldiers are even more childlike, playing with the babies, for a while, the bustle around the bonfire is like a market, provoking the distant villagers to glance at it.
When this group of slugging babies said to Lin Xiu and the others, a round-faced man hurriedly ran from the crowd of villagers, three steps away, and knelt down directly: "Master Guan, the baby is not sensible, I am disturbing you..."
This situation made Lin Xiu and the others very embarrassed, and followed the round-faced man to scold the little guy with pigtails in the pile of babies, and the babbling baby was suddenly scared and cried by the man.
"You old man, we are soldiers of the Northland, and we are not bullies and bandits, why do we need this?" Liu Pan was swept away by the round-faced man, got up and reprimanded, how did he know that he shouted, the round-faced man immediately sat down on the ground, and the pigtailed baby threw himself into the man's arms, staring at a pair of cute eyes, looking at Liu Pan very scared.
Seeing this, Lin Xiu got up, and Liu Pan retreated and whispered: "General, this old guy is too shocked, we are not thieves, but give the babies some soup cakes, does he use it like this?" ”
"Lord, we... We..."
Looking at the round-faced man's helpless appearance, Lin Xiu stepped forward and pulled him up: "Uncle, this general Lin Xiu is a native of Linshui Village... I'm so urgent, abrupt, you take care of it..."
Hearing this, the round-faced man eased slightly, as if he didn't believe that the official's family would be so polite? But when he opened his eyes again, Lin Xiu still hadn't changed, and at the end he whispered: "Little old man, thank you official... Thank you, sir..."
At this moment, Zhao Yuan, Li Hu, Lin Sheng, Lin Huaiping, Huang Qi and others also set up their respective camp tents and gathered around.
Look at this round-faced man who was nervous again, Rao is Lin Xiu repeatedly stabilized his nerves, and the round-faced man relaxed a little: "Official, it's not that the little old man is afraid, it's really the officials in the past who are too powerful, a few days ago... The official family inspected the boundary here and implemented the barley spring planting system, and a man and an old lady in my village accidentally spared their driving, and was beaten to death by the official with a cane! ”
"Is that so?" Lin Xiu was shocked when he heard this, and behind him, Zhao Yuan leaned forward with a bowl of hot soup, and said in a deep voice: "Uncle, killing people with a rod for no reason is not a trivial matter, don't talk nonsense!" ”
The round-faced man poured a mouthful of hot soup and whispered: "Official, how dare I talk nonsense, if you don't believe it, you ask them!" ”
Looking up by the way, Lin Xiu found a group of people surrounded in the open space at the entrance of the village not far from the camp gate, looking at their thin-skinned appearance, Lin Xiu said, "Give them some food!" ”
When the hot soup of dry cakes was sent into the hands of the villagers of Niujia Village by the soldiers, the look of awe in the eyes of these villagers was obviously much less, and for a while, many of its villagers gathered in front of the small camp gate, as for Li Hu, this big fat man like a mountain sat in the crowd, letting the two babies climb and play on their bodies.
Seeing this, the corners of the round-faced man's eyes became moist and hot: "Official, to be honest, we can't tell the difference between you officials now, if you are bad, but now you are still giving us a share of food, if you are okay, those high-headed officials a few days ago simply didn't take us seriously..."
"Uncle, people are not sages, who can do nothing, besides, the current situation in northern Xinjiang is not good, and it is normal for some officials and family members to have tempers!" Lin Xiu subconsciously didn't want the people to go against the officials, so there was a slight explanation in his words.
"Official, don't you know, after the order to return to Lincheng came down, before we left Lincheng, each person was only given three catties of dry food and one catty of rough grain flour to satisfy hunger. If it's not enough, it's not enough, we are cheap, it's good to get through, but now what kind of barley tax system and animal husbandry tax system are going to be implemented, to put it mildly, our village now doesn't even have a horse or a cow, and the grain in the whole village is not enough for three buckets, if this is a tormenting day at all, how can we still comply with the official order? … On that day, the old lady didn't ask too much, and was reprimanded by the leading official, and then the official's relatives scared her with a stick and hit the old lady on the shoulder, and the old lady choked at that time..."
When the words fell, there was a dull sound a few steps away, Lin Xiu turned his head to look, Zhao Yuantie's face was blue, and he forced the scabbard into the ground, and his strength was so great that the villagers were silent.
"Official, we can't speak, if I make you unhappy, I will kowtow to you and admit my mistakes..."
The round-faced man thought that it was his own reason that provoked Zhao Yuan to be angry, but he didn't know that Zhao Yuan shouldn't be his words at all, and on the side, Lin Sheng shook his head: "This stubborn donkey... It's the wrong thing again! ”
Hearing this, Lin Xiu stabilized the round-faced Han child, and scolded Lin Sheng to shut up, then got up and followed Zhao Yuan to a secluded place.
In the dark night, the cool breeze was blowing, and the howl of the wind condensed on the valley in the distance, which made people shudder.
Zhao Yuan breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Ah Xiu, you heard the old man's words..."
Lin Xiu nodded, and then the introduction was dark: "Brother Yuan, you have to eat the rice one bite at a time, and the road has to be taken step by step, although the official tyrant is rampant at the moment, this fact is not a day's cold!" ”
"I know, I'm just angry!" Speaking of this, Zhao Yuan suddenly turned around, his arms exerted force, and pressed tightly on Lin Xiu's shoulders, and Lin Xiu, who was staring at him with black eyes, felt cold in his heart.
"Ah Xiu, I can't read or write, I haven't studied in school, but I know that there is justice in the world, those officials in Lincheng, they are not fair, now, let's come back, there is you, the Bei'an general... You must be fair, just like His Majesty said to you, Qin Yi gave you expectations, Bei'an General, Anbeijiang, as long as you follow this road, if the sword is in front of the sea of fire, I will give up my life to fight..."
"Brother Yuan, what's wrong with you?"
Zhao Yuan's sudden change made Lin Xiu puzzled, and he realized that he was out of shape, Zhao Yuan waved his hand and slapped himself: "I just... It's just a momentary confusion... The helplessness that the man said was pathetic... Reminds me of my own past... Thinking of my hard-working mother, and my dead father..."
Although this word is light, it is like a hammer smashing into Lin Xiu's heart, a short silence, a surge of soul, Lin Xiu's fist on Zhao Yuan's shoulder: "Brother Yuan, believe me, everything will be fine, Beijiang, one day, it will be up to me Bei'an to say... Prior to this, Uncle Zhao's feud... It'll be available soon! ”