Wang Wu's mother is a girl from Houni Jiazhai in Liantang Village, and Mrs. Wang was a simple and virtuous Hakka girl when she was young. Nijiazhai also lives on a fertile field dam, and the people in the village belong to the Han people who have been sinicized, they obey the king, abide by the rules of etiquette, and their living habits are similar to those of the Han people. The local "Ni Jiangfeng" is a big family among the Hakka people, and the Ni family ranks first.

Wang Wu often went to his grandmother's house to play when he was a child, and he had Hakka blood flowing in his body, so he would be close to the Hakka people by nature in the future and liked to deal with the Hakka people. Many of them have a friendship when they get along, and they are more willing to worship Lao Geng.

After the two of them became Lao Geng, they usually corresponded with each other, valued love and righteousness, and treated each other as guests to entertain, without the slightest vulgar thoughts of stammering and exploiting, and they were purely righteous friends with each other.

In the early Sui and Tang dynasties, Han Chinese and Hakka people did not often intermarry. If you want to talk about intermarriage, usually only Hakka girls like to marry into Han families, but Han girls are unwilling to marry into Hakka.

By the middle of the Tang Dynasty, intermarriage between Han and Hakka gradually became commonplace. Not only are there many Hakka girls who are willing to marry into Han families, but Han girls are also willing to marry into Hakka. For this reason, in this land where Han and Hakka live together, there are many descendants of Han people, and the blood of Hakka people flows in their bodies; Similarly, the descendants of the Hakka also have the blood of the Han family: it presents a rare social situation in history in which Han and Hakka live in harmony and are like a family.

In the late Tang Dynasty, wars were continuous, bandits were rampant, and the valley area of the new river was often robbed by bandits. At that time, in Liantang Village, there were four men who went to Suzhou and Hangzhou to sell tung oil.

In order to prevent bandits from blocking the road and robbing them, each of them also carried a bow and arrow to guard their homes and villages.

It was okay to go the first day, but when they sold the tung oil until the next day, they picked up half of the oil basket and rushed back, and the four of them walked halfway to the road, and there was already a group of bandits ambushed in the tea mountain forest on the side of the road to intercept them. At that time, I could only hear a "whoosh", a row of arrows, and two men were knocked to the ground on the spot, and the remaining two men threw down the oil basket and fought back with bows and arrows while running desperately.

At that time, the bandits did not chase after them, and the two men ran through dozens of miles of mountain roads in one breath before they were lucky enough to pick up a life. Then the thieves took the two oil sellers who had been shot to death and the four copper coins and threw them into a nearby sinkhole. The two deceased families each left four or five children, and the wives of the family did not remarry, and they were widowed until they were seventy years old before they died.

Another year, just after planting rice seedlings in the field, most of the descendants of Liantang Village and several villages up and down went to Yangzhou to support the boat, leaving only a few descendants to guard their homes with the elderly, women and children.

At this time, there was a bandit leader on Yangchun's side, and hundreds of people came down the mountain to rob. In the middle of the bandit team, there are sixty-year-old men and teenage boys.

The purpose of these old men and boys following the bandits was, of course, to try to capture as much possessions as possible and to assist the bandits in carrying them back to the village.

The team of bandits of the first Tianshan mountain crossed the mountains all the way, rushed to the back of the Liantang village after dark, and first hid in those dense pine forests for the night. After the third watch, the bandits first shouted with torches before entering the village, and released a burst of arrows. When the people of the village heard the shouts and the sound of arrows, they fled in a hurry, and ran to the hills, bushes, caves, or some caves behind the village to take refuge.

The people in the village were almost empty, and when the thieves entered the house, they kept rummaging through the boxes and cabinets, and when they saw anything valuable, they snatched them all.

At that time, Wang Wu was only ten years old, and his father went to Yangzhou to support the boat, and his mother went to his grandmother's house. This time, when he woke up from his sleep, he got up and leaned against the door to wipe his eyes, and before he could figure out what was going on, several bandits in plain clothes in black cloth came into the courtyard from the gate of his house. One of them shot an arrow at him, but fortunately the arrow missed and only hit the wall next to Wang Wu's right ear. On the spot, he was so frightened that he just cried.

Most of the bandits in this area of Yangchun are hungry and very greedy. When they saw anything useful in the house, they put it on the basket or the basket of the master's house, and the adults and children, men and women, picked and carried on their backs; Of course, if they encountered fat pigs, fat sheep and fat cattle who could not catch up, they would be stabbed to death with a pole on the spot, and they would be cut into bloody hairy legs on the spot and carried on their shoulders: they were all taken away. If you see children, girls, and young women from rich families, you should take them away as "fat sheep."

Wang Wu was taken captive and imprisoned in the cellar behind the thief's house, and covered the person with a large back basket, on which a large stone mill was pressed. The thieves only gave him a bowl of rice to eat every day, and then waited for his family to sell their houses and land, trying to prepare money to ransom people.

Usually the thieves are imprisoned for a certain period of time, if the family does not send someone to ransom people, then a boy as big as Wang Wu naturally no one dares to buy it if he wants to sell it, and if he wants to keep it at home, he is afraid that he will not be familiar with raising him, and he is afraid that he will eventually run away after he is raised as an adult, and then it is equal to raising him in vain, so it is better to kill him and throw him down the cave.

Wang Wu was imprisoned for ten days, without waiting for his family to ransom him, and one day, when he saw the bandit's family going to work in the fields, he slammed his shoulder against the basket. He crawled out of the basket, smashed the bowl, and slashed the wooden door of the cellar with the broken bowls.

After escaping from the bandits' village, he was afraid of being recognized by the locals, so he went to the paddy fields and smeared a lot of mud on his body and face, dressed up as a mud doll catching yellow eels, and then fled along the ridge path into the mountains.

At that time, Wang Wu couldn't find a way, only knew that he was running in the direction where the sun and moon set. Later, he went all the way over the mountains and mountains, and climbed over the Gangxian Mountain and some other mountains, and it was not until the evening of the next day that he found his grandmother's house in Ni Jiazhai. After arriving at his grandmother's house, several uncles put swords on their backs and escorted Wang Wu home.

There are times when bandits suffer. There was once a time when the bandits grabbed the lotus pond and were discovered by a fisherman in the village. The man threw down the fishing boat and ran home desperately, telling the villagers to prepare for the bandits. At that time, most of the men in the village had participated in the militia and served as village warriors, and their families had already purchased weapons such as broadswords, spears, bows and arrows.

They knew that when the bandits arrived, they would first be taken captive from the rich people's homes. The men guarding the village carried their broadswords, spears, bows and arrows to the attic directly opposite the gate of Wang Wuzu's old mansion. The men also prepared short and long weapons of all kinds, and ambushed them in the gaps between the walls on the upper floors, in the trees, and on both sides of the lanes, and sent people to inform the neighboring villages to prepare to attack the bandits.

The thieves rushed to Liantang Village, and a group of people with knives pushed open the gate and rushed into the deep alley of the old mansion of the Wang family. The men drew their bows and arrows, and like a rain of arrows on the spot, they poured a large number of the thieves who rushed in, and the rest withdrew from the gate, and kept exclaiming:

"Ahh Ahh The gale, the gale! ”

At this time, the neighboring villages also shouted loudly, the horns sounded in unison, and the shouts of killing reverberated in the valley.

This group of bandits was recruited temporarily, and they carried hoes to farm during the day, and they were farmers; When he comes around at night with a sword on his back, he becomes a thief. Relying on farming and robbery for a living, he has lived a life of no farmer or thief for a long time.

They are robbed by bandits, and they usually have no special training, so they can only be regarded as a group of rabble who can bully the common people.

At that time, after suffering a loss, this group of bandits retreated from the village, and they were in chaos first, and then fled in the direction of Huangnipo like a swarm. Then all the men and villagers organized from the various villages in the local area, all armed with various weapons, bravely pursued and killed, and most of the bandits who were knocked down on the hill and on the side of the road were children and old men. One of the boys, who was only a teenager, was wearing a new pair of cloth shoes that had just been stolen and that the eldest girl had prepared for the dowry.

The boy was inexperienced as a thief for the first time, and he didn't know that it was inconvenient to walk when he put on new cloth shoes, and he was reluctant to take them off when he was in danger. Then there was a pair of half-worn soap boots hanging around his neck, and a new basket on his shoulder, which was filled with rice in a cloth bag, and a bed of rinsed-white linen mosquito nets and other clothes were put on the outside.

The boy was greedy and reluctant to throw down all his belongings to run for his life, and then he couldn't run away and was hit by an arrow in the leg, so he cried and crawled desperately on the ground. Soon a few villagers rushed over, saw that he was still a child, and wanted to let him go.

All the bandits were driven away, and when the villagers were cleaning up the mess, they saw the bandits throwing all kinds of looted food, clothes, bedding, livestock, and utensils all over the slope along the road.

And the girl recognized the boy who had fallen to the ground wounded, and that she had made new shoes for her fiancé, and that a man was about to take them off and give them back to their owners, and the kind girl, seeing that the boy was pitifully wounded, wiped her tears and said, "Don't take them off, let him wear them." ”

The people of the village gathered the wounded bandits together, and most of them had smeared their faces black with the ash of the stove beforehand. The purpose of the thieves is: on the one hand, it is convenient not to mistake each other for the people on the team and accidentally injure their own family; On the other hand, many bandits only know each other because they have dealt with people here, and the thieves come down to rob for fear of being recognized, and they are embarrassed to meet again in the future, so they deliberately smear their faces.

At that time, the local bandit gang wanted to go down the mountain to "make a fortune", and everyone made a uniform mark on their body. In addition to preferring to wear hats, wear black clothes, and smear their faces, they also used to tie straw knots around their waists as a symbol on the team.

Once, when Wang Wu heard that the bandits were coming to rob, the people in the village went to hide in the mountains and forests behind the village, and he stayed at home and hid under the bed.

The thieves knew that there were often people hidden under the bed, that is, poor children, stupid women, and ugly old women. When they heard that the bandits were coming and couldn't run in time, they used to burrow under the bed. The thieves do not want to disturb them and generally do not look under the bed.

Sometimes, even if they knew there was someone under the bed, the thieves would pretend not to see it. Because this kind of person is not easy to kill and set fire to the bandits, even if they are captured, and these people will not easily kill and set fire as long as they do not pose any threat to them.

Wang Wu saw the signs on the bandits under the bed, climbed out when the bandits were rummaging through the cabinets, and smashed the bandit to death with a hammer, and then just picked up the hat and put it on his head, and then took off the markers and tied them on his body, and hid the body of the bandit under the bed, and mixed into the bandits' team with a big knife and bow and arrows on his back.

The bandits were gathered from villages in all directions, and most of them did not know each other, they only recognized the signs but not the people.

Wang Wu followed the team for many miles, then chose a vantage point and suddenly fired his bow at the bandits. Shooting down several people on the spot, Wang Wu quickly retreated and burrowed into the bushes. Later, the people in the village spread the story of Wang Wu's heroism.

In the end, these people, who had been robbed by the bandits for a long time, threw all the corpses of the bandits who were killed on the yellow mud slope into the sinkhole on the slope. Those who were killed in the village were cut off on the spot by the villagers, and their heads were thrown into the whirlpool deep in the temple pond, let the river wash away, and their bodies were thrown into the bottomless sinkhole.

At that time, the purpose of the people in the village was to fear that the ghost of the bandit would not go away, and they would turn into a powerful ghost and continue to haunt the village. And cut off their heads so that their heads are in different places, so that they cannot be reincarnated as human beings in the next life, and they will be thieves who will harm people again.