Chapter 3: The House of the Sinners
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Yongpingfang is the real slum of Chang'an, and the thousands of people living in it are people who have experienced the war in those years, some of them are mentally disordered, crazy all day long, living like walking corpses, and more are broken arms and legs, without any self-reliance.
At the beginning, Sun Simiao pulled Zhao Chen to meet these people, but was finally rejected by Zhao Chen.
When Zhao Chen and his party of more than 200 people stepped into Yongpingfang, they saw those people standing in the snow with a sluggish expression, and some of them simply sat on the ground in the snow, with a thick layer of snow on their bodies, like snowmen.
Suddenly, seeing so many people from Zhao Chen and his entourage, there was a sudden commotion in the crowd. There was that insane person, when he saw the generals of the Qin Cheng family, he seemed to touch the shadow left by the war that year, and he shouted desperately for a while.
The rest of the people also looked at Zhao Chen and his party nervously at this time, and the people who were originally sitting on the ground also stood up nervously at this time, and Zhao Chen saw that some people's thighs were broken from their hips, leaving an empty trouser tube.
Some of the generals of the Qin Cheng family were people who had participated in the Battle of Chang'an back then, and at this time, seeing the tragic situation of these people who were lucky enough to survive back then, all of them showed a sad look on their faces.
"Dogs! You're my dog! An old woman with a disheveled hair suddenly rushed out of the crowd, Zhao Chen didn't have time to react, and suddenly came over and grabbed Zhao Chen's sleeve and cried hysterically.
This sudden change made everyone stunned, and then the generals of the Qin Cheng family showed a complicated look in their eyes. They know Zhao Chen's origin very well, it is said that his master picked it up from the war back then, and he didn't expect to find his family here.
It's just that when I heard Sun Simiao's words next, I realized that I was thinking too much.
It turned out that the old woman's son was fifteen or sixteen years old back then, and when the family escaped from the rebels, except for the old woman herself, all the family was killed by the rebels. These old women have been crazy, and everyone who sees them says it's her dog, and sometimes even Lao Dao is said to be her dog.
Zhao Chen listened to Sun Simiao's words, couldn't help sighing, looked down at the white-haired old woman in front of him, described as withered, and shouted as gently as possible: "Mother, I'm your dog!" The dog is here to build a house for you, and when the dog has built a house, let the mother live there, okay? ”
"Okay, the dog will build a house for my mother!" When the old woman heard Zhao Chen's gentle words, the person who had just been crying suddenly quieted down, raised her head to look at Zhao Chen, nodded vigorously and said.
Zhao Chen smiled at the old woman, turned his eyes to Su Fangzheng on the side, and said, "Take the old man to settle down!" ”
"No, don't go, don't leave the dog!" Unexpectedly, although the old woman was crazy and unconscious, she could hear what Zhao Chen said to Su Fangzheng, and immediately grabbed Zhao Chen's sleeve, for fear that Zhao Chen would leave, and cried again.
"Mother, you have to be good, if the dog doesn't build a house, then the dog will have no place to live that night, can you bear to let the dog sleep in the snow?" Zhao Chen's sleeves were tightly held by the old woman, and he couldn't bear to break free from the old woman's hand, so he had to be patient and slowly coax the old woman.
"Mother listen to the dog, the dog will build a house!" Maybe subconsciously, as soon as the old woman heard Zhao Chen's words, she let go of Zhao Chen's robe on the spot and said to Zhao Chen one after another.
"Okay, the dog is going to build a house, mother, you should follow Su Fang back!" Zhao Chen felt a little sad in his heart, and saw that the old woman was only wearing a thin dress, so he had to take off the cotton robe on her body, put it on the old woman, and said to the old woman like a child.
"Let's get started!" Seeing the old woman follow Su Fangzheng step by step, Zhao Chen raised his head and exhaled a long breath at the heavy snow, and then said loudly to the people behind him.
It is obviously extremely unrealistic to build a house in the same place again, and there is no time at all, a total of more than 200 houses, which must be built before the snow melts the ice, which means that they only have two days or one day, and everything depends on the weather.
The roof collapse is all cleaned out, if the four walls are intact, it is good to go directly to the top, the four walls have collapsed more troublesome, and the wall must be repaired before it can be topped.
More than 200 people were divided into groups of 10 people, each in charge of a house, and was first responsible for cleaning out the broken parts inside. At this time, everyone inevitably went into battle, and Zhao Chen was not spared.
The sky was still snowing heavily, and large clusters of snowflakes were falling from the nine heavens, and what had just been cleared out of it would turn into a snowdrift as soon as it turned around.
Zhao Chen was only wearing a thin shirt, and Lao Qin's guards also took off the cotton robe on his body and asked Zhao Chen to put it on, but Zhao Chen refused. But at this moment, everyone took off their cotton robes, and the heat was really unbearable.
Sun Simiao is sixty or seventy years old, and he actually followed Zhao Chen and others to move things, a large bundle of thatch was picked up from the ground as soon as he gritted his teeth, and his legs were a little swinging, but no matter how Zhao Chen persuaded him, Lao Dao couldn't listen, he stubbornly thought that Zhao Chen and others were working for him, so how could he be watching.
Su Fangzheng also joined in with a few fangdings, as if he was deliberately showing something, in front of Zhao Chen, he picked up a large bundle of thatch and walked to the side, his face was bruised.
Cheng Chumo and others also came back, with several carts of materials, Zhao Chen noticed that there were a few drops of blood on the hem of Cheng Chumo's robe, and when he asked, he learned that sure enough, as Zhao Chen said before, there were black-hearted businessmen in the West Market who took the opportunity to raise the price, and let Hu Lu's good words go away, those businessmen would never return the favor.
Cheng Chumo was angry, so he made a move and broke the leg of one of the black-hearted businessmen who secretly took the lead on the spot, and the blood stains on the hem of his robe were splashed like this.
"Xiao Chen, you don't have to worry about this!" Cheng Chumo was afraid that Zhao Chen would be worried, so he patted Zhao Chen's shoulder indifferently and comforted.
"Come on, even if you kill that bastard, no one will investigate this matter, at this time, you still want to get rich, this kind of person should be chopped up and fed to the dog!" Zhao Chen's body was covered with muddy water at this time, and when he spoke, his mouth opened and closed, revealing his white teeth, and he looked a little embarrassed.
Hearing Cheng Chumo's words, he suddenly pouted, and he said indifferently than Cheng Chumo.
Since the materials were pulled back, they couldn't be left idle, and Zhao Chen then allocated half of the people from the clean-up team to start repairing the houses that had been cleared out before.
The sinners joined in, first one or two, and then many more, who had broken legs and arms, and who could not be helped, but who were able to do what they could.
On this day, when many squares in Wannian County were crying out for the sky and making a pot of porridge because of the collapse of the house, only Yongpingfang was in full swing, and the collapsed houses were repaired one after another, and the sinners who were still standing in the snow in the morning and ignored began to move in one after another.
When it was almost evening, nearly 200 houses had been repaired, and only a few houses remained.
So, he rode on a ruined wall and shouted to everyone: "Everyone work hard, and later get the remaining houses out, and I invite everyone to eat mutton steamed buns!" ”
"Okay!" As soon as the generals of the two families of Qin Cheng heard Zhao Chen's words, they suddenly burst into cheers, the food made by Zhao Chen has long been coveted by them, but because of their identity, they have not been able to get what they want, and now Zhao Chen, who is listening to it, promises that there is still something unhappy there.
"Su just has two sheep at home, and Su will send someone back to bring them later!" Hearing that Zhao Chen was going to make mutton steamed buns, Su Fangzheng below immediately took Zhao Chen's words and said loudly.
In the past, there was an accident in Yongpingfang, and it was Baba who went to the county government to cry poor, and now this heavy snow has crushed not only the houses of Yongpingfang, but also other houses, but now with the intervention of Zhao Chen and others, Yongpingfang, which is always one step behind others, is the first to solve the matter of the house.
Su Fangzheng was full of pride, this time he finally didn't have to go to the eyes of Zhixian County, not to mention how happy he was, so he contributed the two sheep in the family with one mouth.
"We have received Su Fangzheng's wishes, but this sheep should be kept!" Zhao Chen smiled and rode on the remnant wall, and said to Su Fangzheng below with a smile while building the wall.
Su Fangzheng is just a small Fangzheng, and the family is a little more prosperous than ordinary people's families, these two sheep are probably the only property of the old Su family, they were eaten by them, and the old Su family can only drink the northwest wind in the future.
"How can it be done, the little grandfather took so many brothers to solve the house of Yongpingfang, how can Su, as the fang of Yongpingfang, not even give up a sheep!" Lao Su stretched his neck, his face flushed, and fought against Zhao Chen, who was working on the remnant wall.
"Okay, Lao Su!" Zhao Chen stood up from the wall and said to Su Fangzheng below with a smile: "Let's just do this day's work, you and Sun Daochang have been guarding for almost seven or eight years, right?" Speaking of which, what is it for our brothers to do this little work! ”
However, what he didn't expect was that Zhao Chen's simple words, listening to Su Fangzheng's ears, suddenly made Su Fangzheng's eyes red, and in front of so many people, he couldn't hold back his grievances and cry at once.
Seeing this, Zhao Chen couldn't help but shake his head and smile bitterly, there are many squares in Wannian County, but only Yongpingfang is the poorest, Lao Su, as the Fangzheng of Yongpingfang, must have suffered a lot of grievances over the years, not to mention, but also to run to the county from time to time to cry poor, it is estimated that when colleagues see him, they are all walking around!