Chapter 90: Killing the Pig

The sun is shining, the blue sky is like washing, Guangzhou has just had a rain, ushered in a rare coolness. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 infoThe clouds of different shapes in the sky are like naughty children chasing and playing in the countryside. If it is in Guangzhou, such a good weather, the reader will meet to travel, first drink morning tea and then watch the scenery, write poems and sing together, and then go to the restaurant for lunch, in the afternoon you can consider finding a clear building for recreation, in short, such a good weather is not leisurely relaxation, it is simply a violent thing.

In the countryside, however, such weather only means less sweat during labor, and nothing else. Although the Hong family is the first household in the eighteen villages, as a resident of the Hongjia village, they are also inseparable from farming in the fields and fighting for their lives with the sky.

Recently, the Hong family has suffered some setbacks, and the post of grain chief has also been handed over to the Fan family, the old patriarch is said to have fallen ill in the city and cannot come back, people have a stroke, and they can't handle affairs. In the past few days, even these people have not come, and even if ordinary people do not know the specific situation, they instinctively have a premonition that the situation does not seem to be good.

Under the leadership of Fan Changwang, the Fan family came twice, the first time was to grab the land, because Hong Chengen had previously given the order to move the land, the Hong family did not dare to resist, and obediently handed over the disputed land to the Fan family. The second time I came, I brought all the women surnamed Fan who married into the Hong family home, and most of the excuses I found were absurd. Those husbands tried to oppose it, but the Fan family's attitude was extremely tough, and they even did not hesitate to use force to rob people.

In terms of numbers, the Hong family is actually far stronger than the Fan family, and they will not suffer a loss in a fight. However, the Fan family has now become the chief of grain, which is enough to prove that they are more powerful in the official government, and the children of the Hong family did not dare to carry it until they received a clear order, so they could only obediently let them take people away.

Subsequently, people with other surnames also came to take away the women who married into the Hong family, and some sent back the women married to the Hong family.

People with foreign surnames who originally lived in Hongjiazhai left one after another. Although they don't know what happened, they can have a premonition that the situation is not good, they are not surnamed Hong, and when the Hong family is majestic, they don't get any benefits, and the surname Hong will not have any help for people with foreign surnames who live in their villages, so there is no need to stay and suffer from thunder now. Just as some animals fled before the earthquake, these people moved out of the village, nervously watching the situation in Hongjiazhai change, not knowing what would happen next.

In the past, the Hong family pressed the other four surnames to fight, but now the feng shui is turning, and the other surnames take the initiative to make friends with the Fan family, and the mobilization of young people seems to be ready to take advantage of the weakness of the Hong family to grab some benefits.

There are groups of monkeys in Guangdong, and the habits of monkeys are not too unfamiliar. The Monkey King has absolute control over both food and females, and the other monkeys can only eat the leftovers of the Monkey King. But once the Monkey King is old and weak, there will be a young and strong monkey to challenge him, if the Monkey King is defeated, everything he has will be owned by the challenger, and even his life may be lost.

At present, the Hong family feels like the old monkey who is about to be taken away by the challenger, including property and life.

But as long as people are alive, there is hope, and they have to continue to work. Some of the old people in the clan are still stabilizing their emotions to inspire their younger generations, when their ancestors were bare-handed, they still broke into a huge family business, what can they not do with their descendants?

The most reliable is the land, as long as you use your strength, the land will give you back. What's more, there is also the relationship between the sea, and if there is more time in the sea, the clan will become rich. The Hong family, who had similar thoughts, braved the sun, bare arms, waved farm tools and began to sow hope, expecting to harvest happiness.

The sound of horses' hooves sounded at this time, and few people rode horses in the countryside of Guangzhou, so the sound of horses' hooves immediately attracted the attention of the peasants. On a snow-white horse bathed in the sun, the young scholar clutched the reins and moved slowly.

Obviously, he is not yet proficient in controlling horses, and he still needs a little exercise, but under the cover of the scholar's robe, this slowness has also become a kind of demeanor, and it does not seem ridiculous at all. When the scholar got closer, some of the Hong family rubbed their eyes and carefully identified them, and suddenly shouted, "Fan Jin? ”

"Folks, hello, I'm Fan Jin from Xiaofan Zhuang, the Hong family here, how are you?" Fan Jin, who was on the horse, waved his hand to the peasants working in the fields, and then grabbed the reins so that the horses would not step into the fields. "I know you've had a bad time lately, but it doesn't matter, you'll soon find out that it's nothing, because you're going to have a bad future. I have come today to tell you that this field and your house no longer belong to you. Hongjiazhai is no longer surnamed Hong! ”

Behind him, a large number of Ming soldiers in mandarin duck battle jackets, soap-clothed catchers and brocade-clothed warriors in bright yellow armor swarmed out, like a carpet of mixed colors quickly spread, and then flooded Hongjiazhai. Outside the gate of Hongjiazhai, the big dog guarding the door, watched countless strangers rushing to his home in puzzlement, barking wildly for a while and picking up his tail and trying to run away, but soon, a pair of official boots appeared in front of the big dog's sight, and then a cold blade lit up, and the world was dark.

The children of the Hong family are not ignorant of the contradictions between the Hong family and Fan Jin, and they also know that they do not deal with each other. Even Hong Chengen fell ill and the Fan family gained power, which is likely to be related to this contradiction. They also thought that Fan Jin might come back to take revenge, and they also thought about the way. For example, he brought the people from the village to the Hong's house to find fault, find someone to fight, or take the public to the countryside to extort tyranny, but what he didn't expect was that he was actually pressed down by Mount Tai and swept everything.

The screams of women, the wails of men, and the screams of livestock soon resounded in Hongjiazhai. The official who led the team loudly announced the disposition of the governor of Guangdong to the Hong family, and then the officers and soldiers, the catcher, and the people from different institutions began their own actions, everyone needed military merit, and the military merit came from the Hong family.

In the courtyard of Xiaofanzhuang, the faces of the people of Fanzhuang and Xiaofanzhuang showed happiness, longing and envy, looking at the young scholar on the soil platform.

Fan Changwang, who has been promoted to grain chief, is almost an emperor-like existence in the countryside, but in front of the scholars who are juniors, he does not dare to take it. It is true that under the patriarchal system, the younger generation cannot disobey the will of the elders, but this scholar has a brocade robe with a bright yellow flying fish suit and a bright armor by his side, so he can't help but not bow his head to the patriarch.

In the crowd below, Sister Hu stared closely at the scholars on the stage, her hands clenched unconsciously, and there was only one thought coiling in her heart: This is my brother...... We've done everything, he's my father-in-law, and I'll be glorious if he has face.

Hu Butcher was very reluctant to smoke a cigarette pouch, muttering, "I should find a chance to talk to him again, what I said last time seems to be a little less ......" But looking at those military guards, they were a little unconfident.

In the eyes of most of the villagers in Xiaofanzhuang, Fan Jin gave them the impression that they were honest and a little bit of a bag, and it was not a big climate. It wasn't until the last time I explained the laws of the Ming Dynasty to you that I let the people know that this scholar has some talents, but it is also limited to the field of intellectuals, until today, when the people look at this villager again, their eyes are unconsciously a little more afraid.

The once majestic Hong family has now become a noun, and the entire family has been uprooted. The boss A, who was rampant in the township and no one could control him, not only suffered a stroke, but he was also thrown into prison.

Due to the seriousness of the case, it is said that he was not allowed to visit under a special flail, and only two sons and nephews were serving decoction with him, and most of them even defecated on his body. Thinking that he is so domineering, but now the end is so desolate, people can't help but feel a little emotional, life is indeed impermanent.

Compared with everything that happened in Hongjiazhai, the Hong family in the city may feel lucky. The officers and soldiers began to kill because they found some knives and guns and two guns in Hongjiazhai. The sound of execution and screams frightened all the people of Jinsha who had planned to take advantage of the fire to rob and share a fortune. Even the one who had the deepest hatred with the Hong family, after seeing that scene, was muttering in a low voice, "This is really miserable......"

More than 200 people were killed, and this is not counting the women who really couldn't stand the devastation of the officers and soldiers and committed suicide. This is still Zhongcheng's reluctance to build a big prison, otherwise the Hong family will not be killed this time, but a matter of how many are left. Even the women in the family were almost sentenced to official sales.

Fortunately, in the end, I still considered that I would make fewer wrongs and did not pursue the woman's crimes, but even if the women of the Hong family have not been slept with by the officers and soldiers, how to survive in the future is also a huge problem. The land on which they depended for their subsistence, as well as their male relatives, were gone.

Jin Yiwei's methods of torturing confessions are extremely clever, and under their criminal law, few people can survive. Although Hong Da'an escaped and didn't know where to go, and the rest of the Hong family insisted that they didn't know anything, but after several sets of torture tools, someone finally couldn't stand it and confessed the relationship between the Hong family and Lin Feng.

Jinsha Eighteen Villages basically have people rushing to the sea, the Hong family rushing to the sea people and Lin Feng's contact, earlier than Fan Tong, the two are Fujian Datong Township, take care of each other, Lin Feng's sister took a fancy to Hong Da'an, a scholar, and volunteered to commit herself. The two knots are close relatives, and the Hong family can get rich quickly in the countryside, and it is not unhelpful to take care of Lin Feng.

From Hong Chengen's point of view, he may not want to marry such a fateful in-law, but many things are not transferred by his will, Lin Feng wants to get married, and he can't resist. After all, whether it is sea trade or from the perspective of family security, it is not a wise move to offend such a sea king. delaying the marriage for a long time, and urging his grandson to take the imperial examination, are also the means of self-preservation that he thinks.

It's a pity that at the government level, his distress cannot be understood, Lin Feng is condemned to death for the crime of rebellion, and the Hong family can't escape the charge of being a thief. The advantage of a clan is that they can help each other and share blessings, but when a catastrophe comes, it will be difficult for the people in the clan to escape.

In addition to killing the head and raiding the family, the land that originally belonged to the Hong family was also ordered to be deprived by the government. Ling Yunyi ordered the relocation of the remaining children of the flood control family, some of the old and weak women stayed in place, and the young and strong men either joined the army to serve as masters on the front line, or moved to the Luopan Mountain area, and some moved to remote villages and towns.

Having lost the protection of the clan and the land on which they lived, everything can only start from scratch, it is conceivable that the Hong family who have not been sanctioned by the official law will not be much better off in the future. As for the present, all the land that the Hong family has opened up over the past hundred years has been taken over by the government, and it will break the bones of the entire Hong family.

Including the people with foreign surnames who live in Hongjiazhai, they also do not have their own fields, and all of them lease the fields of the Hong family, and if the Hong family subleases the fields. Now that the fields are back in the hands of the government, their tenant relationship must also be redetermined.

The government has limited significance in asking for these fields, and in the end it has to be rented out, and Fan Jin, as a great hero, has the right of priority to lease the interests for his family. Farmers don't have too much land to cultivate themselves, and they can also sublease it. Even if these lands are just fields, they are still a great wealth to the people. Including the female dependents left by the Hong family, those tenants with foreign surnames are also part of the property.

According to Fan Jin's previous arrangement, these benefits can be shared by the four surnames of Jinsha, and all those who have been bullied by the Hong family can be regarded as recovering their losses with interest this time. Of course, there is a difference between intimacy and intimacy, and the biggest beneficiary is naturally Daxia Fanzhuang.

What was convened in the courtyard today was the field division meeting belonging to the large and small Fan Zhuang. In addition to the fields, there are also livestock. Big animals like horses and mules are naturally in the hands of the army, but considering that Fan Jin is doing things in the governor's curtain, he always has to worry about the governor's face. How can the dough of the dignified Zhongcheng be worth a few ploughing cattle and donkeys, and even the pigs, dogs, ducks and geese raised by the Hong family still left some for the Fan family, and they didn't all become food in the belly of the soldiers.

These things, especially the ploughing cattle and even the agricultural tools, are extremely precious treasures for the croppers. The children surnamed Fan were all standing at the front, with their faces raised and their faces full of smugness. The humiliation suffered for several years, once raised his eyebrows, he was full of spirit, and his face was unconscious, and there was always some arrogant taste exposed, as if they were all possessed by Hong Chengen.

Fan Changwang coughed a few times, took out a thin piece from his body, and Fang Yaonian turned back to discuss something with Fan Jin. As the most outstanding descendant of the Fan family, coupled with the fact that his seniority is indeed not low, Fan Jin is now qualified to discuss the disposal of property on the stage as a clan elder.

Hu Butcher whispered: "The old patriarch only knows a few words, and the things on this thin sheet are not all written by Jinzai?" He's just a mouthpiece, and it's useless to even be a messenger. Eldest sister, what he said yesterday was to give me all the big pigs of the Hong family, right? If it is given to a few heads surnamed Fan, see if I agree! ”

"Daddy...... Please, don't say it. Sister Hu whispered to her father, thinking that Fan Jin revealed the details of the distribution of property to her yesterday. Those details were insignificant, anyway, everything would be clear until today, but my father would still force himself to ask, because he thought that his relationship with Fan Jin was not ordinary, and he deserved to enjoy the power that others could not enjoy. This includes the right to priority to know.

Sister Hu gave herself that day, originally out of love, but her father's several requests made her feel more and more that her contribution that day had become a skin and meat transaction. Brother Jin just bought his body with a large sum of money, which is no different from those shameless women.

Although Fan Jin herself did not have this idea, when she knocked on the door of Fan's house and saw Fan Jin talking and laughing with Sa Shizhong and the General Chen, she realized that she had come at the wrong time. The eyes of those officers and soldiers and Jinyi guards looked at her like a whip in the heart, making the heart bleed all the time.

Even if she hasn't read a book, Sister Hu can see the information in her eyes. The eyes of these people were full of disdain and doubt, and they felt that they were not qualified to pester the governor's staff.

If Fan Jin said a word, they would not hesitate to drive themselves away with a whip, just like they would drive those animals. Of course, in the end, Fan Jin still pulled her to talk for a while, making those soldiers realize that they were very important to him, which made the eldest sister very happy, but the more this was the case, the more she didn't want this innocence to be contaminated with the slightest bit of worldly filth.

Fan Changwang coughed twice, and finally opened his mouth to call someone, and the priority to shout was naturally the surname Fan. Among the Fan surnames, Xiao Fan Zhuang is the priority. However, Fan Jin's distribution plan also takes into account the principle of fairness, and in general, Xiao Fan Zhuang benefits, but not so big that it is difficult for Da Fan Zhuang to tolerate. People with foreign surnames get less than Fan, but it is enough to satisfy them. As soon as this huge pig is killed, everyone can see meat in their bowls.