Chapter 2: I Don't Want to Die
Time flies and flies, Zhou Cang and others hid in this deep mountain old tree for almost half a month, Zhou Cang had woken up 7 days ago, the injury he suffered 3 months ago had already stuttered, and he rested for another three months, and his body was almost recovered. If it hadn't been for the severe trauma to his head at the time, he would have woken up a long time ago.
In the past few days, Zhou Cang has been moving his body every day, and Pei Yuanshao and others have been waiting for Zhou Cang like an uncle.
Zhou Cang has learned in the past few days that the counterinsurgency army headed by Huangfu Song and Zhu Jun has led his troops back to Luoyang to accept the reward, and the local government will organize troops to continue to exterminate the rebellious party.
After more than half a year of wandering, Zhou Cang's original intention was to flee to Xuzhou to join the good man Tao Qian, although it may not be developed, but according to the historical trend, after Tao Qian let Xuzhou out, he can justifiably follow Liu Da'er to mix, and he can continue to carry a big knife with Guan Erye, maybe Guan Erye is happy to pass on a peerless sword technique to himself, then he may really be able to have the combat power of a first-class general.
However, in the mountains full of aimless escape, and there is no map and compass or anything like that, Zhou Cang's position at the moment is quite far away from Xuzhou, and the place where they are at the moment is under the rule of Leping County, that is, the place where Jizhou and Bingzhou meet, and this place already belongs to the sphere of influence of Ding Yuan of Bingzhou.
"Big brother, your injuries are just right, you need to rest, our brothers are still waiting for you to lead us out"
Pei Yuanshao has been by Zhou Cang's side for the past few days, for fear that Zhou Cang's body will not recover well.
"Lao Pei, do you think I don't seem to be recovering?" Saying that, Zhou Cang rolled up his sleeves and came to a tree as thick as a bowl, and a Lu Zhishen plucked the weeping willows.
Zhou Cang easily uprooted the tree.
"Leader Zhou, good job!"
"Brother Zhou is awesome!"
"Awesome, my brother!"
"Good, good, good!"
"The leader is good at !!"
With such a slight activity, dozens of Yellow Turban thieves around immediately cheered, and I don't know if the Yellow Turban Army was like this before, through a large number of people, to suppress people with power, or if this is the nature of the army.
Zhou Cang laughed.
"Lao Pei, gather all the brothers tonight, let's discuss what we should do next, we can't always be chased by the officials and soldiers and run around like dogs!"
"Big brother, it's a fart, anyway, you saved my Lao Pei's life, you said that I would never go west, and I would never touch a dog when you said that you stole chickens..."
Zhou Cang didn't wait for Pei Yuanshao to finish speaking, and slapped Pei Yuanshao on the back of the head.
"If you want to go, that's so much nonsense."
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As soon as the sun had set, the afterglow of the setting sun had been blocked by dense trees, and Zhou Cang and the others were sitting in front of a pile of firewood, roasting a few wild animals that had just been hunted, that is, their dinner today.
Zhou Cang counted carefully, there were a total of 87 people, and if he added his own words, there were 88 people, and the number was quite auspicious.
Look at these 87 people, all of them are as black as carbon, their clothes are tattered, many of them are barefoot and shirtless, fortunately, it is not winter, although the sun in early spring is not shining, but there is the heat emitted by the fire, which can still ensure that everyone is not frozen to death.
"Brothers of the Yellow Turban, I, Zhou Cang thank you for not discarding me, otherwise at this moment, the pile of meat on my old Zhou's body is estimated to have been eaten by the beast."
Zhou Cang stood up and clenched his fists heavily at everyone.
"Big brother, what are you talking about, if it weren't for you, our brothers would have been arrested by the officials and soldiers and cut off their heads." Pei Yuanshao said first.
"Yes! Leader, if you hadn't helped me Li Ergou block an arrow last year, where would I still be Li Ergou now..."
Another man with bare arms said.
"Leader, if you hadn't rushed out with more than 2,000 of our brothers, we would have died in Yangcheng a long time ago, He Yi and He Man's two brothers are too bad, seeing that the leader was seriously injured, he divided our brothers and ran away with more than 1,000 brothers, and later..."
"Ahem..."Pei Yuanshao glared at the yellow turban man who spoke just now.
"I'm sorry, leader, you know that my Wang Tie Niuzui can't speak, don't take it to heart..."The man realized that he had said the wrong thing, and quickly stood up and apologized to Zhou Cang.
Zhou Cang didn't speak, waved his hand, and motioned for the man to sit down.
"Brothers, let him go through the past, we all still want to live, don't we? Look forward to everything. ”
"Gather everyone together tonight, and I want to discuss with you about the next steps for us."
Everyone immediately came and quieted down, pricking up their ears, for fear that they would not listen to the whole thing, if they did not hear the command clearly in this era and ran around, then the end would be very tragic, it would be good to be a slave if they were captured, but if they were cut off their heads, it would be a big loss.
"After the defeat of General Zhidi, we have been fleeing in all directions for nearly a year or so, from the original more than 2,000 people to 88 people now, although some of the brothers left for some reasons, but there are not a few brothers who died in the encirclement and interception of the official army, if we have been running away passively, there are only two final endings, one is to flee to the mountains, living a savage life, and the other is to be cut off by the official army, this is not what everyone wants to live..."
Zhou Cang paused, and then said, "Why did we follow General Tiangong to revolt? ”
Without waiting for everyone to answer, Zhou Cang spoke again.
"Because we were forced by the local gentry to go without a road, without enough food, without warm clothing, working day and night every day, and finally watching our parents, wives and children, starve to death in front of us one by one, get sick, have no money to treat, and after death, we are wrapped in straw mats, even if we are buried, we don't even have a complete grave..."
"However, what about those officials and gentry, who carry cages and birds all day long, entertain and entertain, bully men and women, and do all kinds of evil, but they can eat meat in large pieces, drink wine in large bowls, kill people without paying their lives, and do not pay off debts..."
"Today's emperor is mediocre, arrogant and lascivious, building a large number of buildings, eunuchs are autocratic, buying and selling officials and lords privately, and there are many excessive taxes and miscellaneous taxes..."
"We are all descendants of Yan and Huang, why can they eat when they can, drink when they want, play with women if they want to play with women, and what awaits us is only death and disease..."
Zhou Cang's eyes turned red, and unconscious tears were flushed with silk polyester in his eyes.
"Watching the brothers around us fall one by one, we may already have this idea in our hearts: when will it be my turn..."
"I don't want to die !!"
"I don't want to die !!"
"I don't want to die !!"
These four words suddenly appeared in everyone's minds like an imprint, and everyone's eyes turned red. All eyes were staring straight at Zhou Cang, and that kind of gaze revealed the desire for life.