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Simao has always had a question in his heart, it is said that the name of the child should be in the order of the eldest and youngest, but the parents only have one child, but they just called Simao.

"That's because, you still have two brothers and a sister above you, but it's a pity that they're gone, and your father and mother are left with you, the only seedling."

Zhang's tone when he said this sounded unwavering, but the more this was the case, the more Simao felt like a thunderbolt on a sunny day, and he was shocked beyond measure, in his memory, no one had ever mentioned this to him, let alone the rumors of his neighbors. The most secrets in this world are often the people in the market, the east family, the west family is short, people listen to it with relish, and people are happy to hear it. If it is said that in the Wandering Alley, such a major news of the Zhang family can be hidden, then how painstaking should the father and mother to keep this secret? The story that Zhang told next made Simao feel even more thunderous, which could be said to be unheard of and miserable.

It turned out that the ancestral home of the Zhang family was not from Lingnan, but from Lingnan. There is a remote county called Xinhui in Lingnan, Simao's grandfather, that is, Lao Zhang's father, is the county magistrate of Xinhui, and the ancestors of the Zhang family are also from official eunuchs for several generations.

Simao's grandfather's surname is Zhang Mingdingguo, the word Ya'an, born in the imperial examination, and only Lao Zhang has an only son, so he loves for ten minutes and disciplines him very strictly. Lao Zhang has been studying since he was a child, and he really lives up to his father's expectations, and at the age of seventeen, he won the show, and married his wife Zhang, that is, Simao's mother, who is the county lady of Xinhui. Since the Zhang family married into the Zhang family, they gave birth to four children in a row, both male and female, and the four hairs are the eldest. At that time, Lao Zhang was still immersed in the dregs of everything that was inferior, only the dregs of high reading, and he was determined to continue to seek fame, to be an official like his father, and to be a big official. But that all began to change dramatically in the early spring of more than a decade ago.

Xinhui is a lonely city surrounded by mountains, and the state and county mountains are far away, and the road is broken, very steep, typical three mountains, three rivers and three fields, coincides with this year God does not appreciate food, floods and torrential rains come one after another, this is the wheat is coming, the crops are damaged by natural disasters to no harvest, Zhang Dingguo successively to the state government for help, asking for disaster relief and tax reduction, what I did not expect is that the only post road was also washed away by the flood, the official who sent the letter has not yet been able to get out of the mountain, the spring famine has arrived, the people began to riot.

At first, Zhang Dingguo didn't care, thinking that if the imperial court saw that Xinhui had not paid the autumn tax and had different news, it would definitely send someone to investigate, and it would be easy to find that Xinhui had suffered a disaster and the traffic was cut off, so it would inevitably arrange someone to open up the post road, inspect the disaster, and provide disaster relief in time. If he sends the officials and officials in the yamen to clear the roads and pacify the people, the people should not cause a big mess, just wait for the relief food from the imperial court to arrive, and Xinhui will naturally be peaceful.

Unexpectedly, the heavy rain did not dry for months, there was no news from the imperial court, and the road was delayed, and the chaotic people first looted the rich households with grain near the city, and then like a snowball, more and more people gathered and swept around. Only then did Zhang Dingguo begin to realize the seriousness of the problem, what kind of hungry people were grabbing food, and it was clearly banditry and chaos. So the city had to open the city to accept more villagers who were hiding from the bandits to avoid trouble, and at the same time send people to find out the enemy situation of the bandits.

After the intelligence came back, Zhang Dingguo gasped, and sure enough, the group of people led by him was not a hungry person at all, they were bandits through and through, and they were the bandit leader "Black Nine" that he had been suppressing for a long time. This person is cruel and cunning, and has a bitter enmity with the government, and he hates himself even more, because the son of Heijiu died in the hands of Zhang Dingguo. In the past, this group of people gathered in the mountains and forests, and took the house robbery as their business, although there were not many people, but because they came and went without a trace, and occupied the convenience of the location, it was difficult to drive them out. It's not the same in a disaster year, they are equivalent to having an endless supply of troops to replenish the base.

In disaster years since ancient times, the government has been most afraid of the appearance of displaced people. The gathering of displaced people is easy to cause chaos and easy to be coerced and plundered and rebelled. It just so happened that these two were occupied by Hei Jiu, and he didn't know where he found a dog-headed military advisor who had read a book, and he also played the banner of opposing the Qing Dynasty and restoring the Ming Dynasty, saying that the prince and the prince will have no seeds, and sooner or later he will die, and he is not allowed to fuck his mother vigorously. As a result, Xinhui City experienced the worst turmoil in history.

Black Seven carried tens of thousands of refugees and surrounded Xinhui City, at this time the nature of the turmoil has changed, it is no longer a bandit, but a rebellion, Zhang Dingguo has no way to retreat except to defend Xinhui. According to the laws of the Qing Dynasty, it is the responsibility of the magistrates to guard the land, and if the land is lost, the officials of a county are capital crimes, and even the family cannot be spared. Zhang Dingguo, who was originally a scholar, showed his fierce side in the chaos.

There are only more than 100 officials and servants in the small Xinhui City, if Hei Qi enters the city, it will be a dead end, so Zhang Dingguo categorically ordered the city gate to be closed, and all the rations and edible things in the city were distributed by rationing, and then the people of the city were organized to repair the fortifications, and the soldiers were enlisted.

That Hei Qi also had some brains, and after the failure of the strong attack, he readjusted his deployment, one was to send people to guard some of the main roads out of the city to prevent the officers and soldiers from infiltrating and moving rescue troops, and the other was to encircle Xinhui City. He knew that Xinhui City was a small place, and the surplus food in the city was afraid that he would not be able to hold on for a week, so he made up his mind to kill Zhang Dingguo, and at the same time kept sending people outside the city to shout and persuade him to surrender, saying that he would have food if he surrendered out of the city. After the stubborn resistance to the end broke the city, there was no corpse.

In less than a week, the grain stock in Xinhui City was exhausted, and Zhang Dingguo first sent officials to store edible things from door to door, until even the bark, cowhide, and livestock feed were eaten, and the tragedy began to unfold.

On this day, the soldiers caught a family of three who took advantage of the night to put down the rope from the city and prepare to flee, Zhang Dingguo unexpectedly made a decision, executed the three people on the spot, and then divided the corpses and cut the flesh, let the defenders of the city eat first, and at the same time let out the words, and then catch the defector, so as to deal with it.

What Zhang Dingguo didn't expect was that the bottom line of human nature was untentative and untouchable, and once the devil was released, he would never be controlled by man again. At first, starting with the officials who guarded the city, they secretly killed people and cooked human flesh in the city, and finally it evolved into an open sale of human flesh. There are also some outlaws among the officials who defend the city, they are worried that they will be held accountable afterwards, so they started evil thoughts, a group of people under the leadership of a soap squad named Yun Mazi entered Zhang's mansion at night, forcing Zhang Dingguo to eat human flesh, they decided that in this way, even if the court investigated it in the future, there was a county order that the governor of this place would be the main culprit to top the cylinder, and the sky would fall down and he would go to the top.

Zhang Dingguo refused to eat, but in front of him, this group of people killed Zhang Dingguo's three grandsons and granddaughters one after another, that is, Simao's brothers and sisters. Since then, the head of this county has become a state of semi-madness.

By the time the imperial court finally opened the road blocked by the natural disaster and sent troops to arrive, Xinhui had become a hell on earth, and there were less than 300 people left in the county town of thousands of people, and all the victims of the old, weak, women and children had become the unjust souls in the belly of the man-eating demon.

When the officials of the state government learned of the situation, they did not punish these cannibals, but instead played the court on the grounds that the people in the city rose up to resist the rebellion, suffered all casualties, and the local officials had meritorious service in defending the land, and should be praised. These state officials know very well that if under their rule, it is the prosperous era of Qianlong, and there is a tyranny incident of cannibalism, this is a big scandal, they are not only officials, but also will inevitably be blamed by the imperial court, so a new dress of the emperor appeared on the stage, and the deaths of the people in the city were all carried by the bandit leader Hei Jiu, which was regarded as a crime created by the anti-thieves who killed innocents indiscriminately. Since then, Xinhui has gradually become a deserted city, and people who travel dare not enter it, and they all say that the crying in Xinhui City after night is shocking, and even countless wandering spirits can be seen, and they are all skeletons one by one.

After the official army quelled the rebellion, Yun Mazi, who took the lead in eating people, was promoted to a military position because of his merits, and jumped onto the dragon gate, Zhang Dingguo still had a little shame in the end, and refused to accept the reward of the imperial court. Zhang Dingguo said: "My three grandsons are in your belly, and I can't find a grave for them now, so I can only come to worship your belly." ”

After finishing speaking, Zhang Dingguo drifted away, and committed suicide by hanging himself from a beam in the county yamen that night. After Zhang Dingguo's death, some of the remaining people in the county learned the news, so they rushed into the county yamen and chopped Zhang Dingguo's body into minced meat, which shows that the hatred for him in his heart is really extreme.

Mrs. Zhang Dingguo died early, Lao Zhang and Zhang were only in their thirties at that time, Simao was still in infancy, and the husband and wife fled all the way with their young son, they knew very well in their hearts that if they stayed in Xinhui City again, sooner or later they would be divided by the people. In this way, he wandered all the way to Chukou, found an abandoned shack in the homeless alley, and settled down. Lao Zhang's temperament has changed greatly since then, and he no longer touches poetry and books, saying that it is useless to study and become an official, and people should live two and a half days a day in this life.

Speaking of this, Zhang was immersed in infinite desolation: "If it weren't for you, your father and I probably wouldn't be able to survive today, and it's lucky that we're not crazy." Your father eats, drinks and has fun every day, but in fact, his suffering has been buried in his heart all his life, and it is impossible to get out. Although my mother scolded him fiercely, but my mother always thought about your father, it was not easy for him to worship your grandfather as a god, the way of Confucius and Mencius as the supreme reason, and the way of studying and seeking fame as the avenue, but all of this was ruined by your grandfather, and he is actually just a walking corpse when he is alive now. Don't blame your dad, it's not easy for him. ”

After hearing all this, Simao remained motionless, and after hearing Zhang's deep sigh, he got up and quietly retreated, and the room returned to silence, and the moonlight shone in so coldly, as if nothing had happened, as usual. He slowly stretched out his hand and touched the wooden box that his mother left on the bedside table, the box was not locked, and there was no mechanism, so he lifted the lid, and under the moonlight, a stack of yellowed booklets was revealed, and the title page of the top booklet was printed with a few large characters "Lingnan Zhang Clan Genealogy".

Simao sat up from the bed, took out this set of Zhang's genealogy, turned back page by page, until the last page, a few big characters "Zhang Ruoxu ..........", it is a few lines of fly-headed small Kai that recorded his father's name and life, but further down, but there was no word, Simao was speechless for a long time, suddenly barefoot on the ground, picked up a brush from the table, absorbed the ink in the inkstone, under Zhang Ruoxu, brushed a few strokes, and continued Zhang Damao, Zhang Ermao, Zhang Sanmao, Zhang Simao, After writing, I took the family tree, looked left and right for a long time, then put it in the wooden box, quietly put it back on the desk, lay down on the bed again, and fell asleep soundly.