Zhao Siliu is an ordinary Jiangyin person, like other farmers, on weekdays in the loess back to the sky in the field to eat, at night home family meal, if it is a peaceful and prosperous world, such a day is also leisurely, but unfortunately Zhao Siliu was born in a troubled era, he doesn't care about the righteousness of the family and country, what does the Qing army have to do with him? It's just a change of rent-collector

So when Zhao Siliu watched the old friends in the neighboring village flee south with their wives and children, he scolded his wife, and he still clearly remembers that when he returned home after planting, his wife had just put his three-month-old son to sleep, and gently came over to Zhao Siliu and said

"Yan Er from the neighboring village has taken the whole family to Wuxi, let's go too, I heard that the Tartars are very ......"

"Lao Tzu doesn't leave, this is the land left by the ancestors, and if he leaves, he is not filial!"

"Then you stay here by yourself, I will go to my mother's house Wuxi with the child first, and there will be a way out when the Tartar comes."

"Hehe, why do you want to go to Wuxi so much? Want to go to Yan Er so much? If you want to roll, roll with this wild seed! Zhao Siliu roared at his wife, waking up the child who had just fallen asleep, and the child's cry resounded throughout the small courtyard

A few days later, more and more people fled, and the villagers said that Ying Tianfu was lost, and the Tartars were coming soon, and the neighbors advised Zhao Siliu to leave quickly, but Zhao Siliu was unmoved

Zhao Siliu couldn't read and write, but he knew that every time the new dynasty opened, whoever planted grain first in the borderless land would have that land, because that's how their family's land was obtained

Just when Zhao Siliu held back his strength and planned to throw off his arms and work hard to get a few more acres of land for his son in a few years, Zhao Siliu found that something was wrong

Because he saw that the refugees from the north had a pig's tail on their heads, which was extremely funny, but he still didn't leave, because the people in the whole village were almost gone, he knew what the concept was, which meant that as long as he had enough strength, after a few years, the entire village would be his, Zhao Siliu happily dug up a small jar of wine that he had buried before from his own field

Just as he was hugging the jar of wine and was about to go home and tell his wife to be happy, he saw the biggest nightmare of his life, on this day, he saw a dozen people with the same hair ornaments as the previous day, holding knives and kicking the door of his yard

Because he was the only one in the whole village, the soldiers kicked the door open, and he didn't go over, he was stunned, and his brain gave him the order to hide

He faithfully carried out the orders of his brain, and hid in the yard of the neighbor's house, which had been searched by the soldiers, and should not be coming, he comforted himself in his heart, who was trembling all over

After a while, he heard the sound of smashing from his house, the cry of the child, and the swearing of his wife, the sound of smashing became smaller and smaller, and the wife's swearing turned into a scream, and the child's cry became louder and louder, until later, when the child's crying stopped instantly, the wife also let out the last and loudest scream

The sky gradually darkened, several soldiers left the village on horseback, Zhao Siliu got up, regardless of his already numb legs, climbed into the yard of his own house with difficulty, and saw a scene that he will never forget

The wife was stripped naked, and there was still blood on her body, and on her back, there was a bloody hole that hugged her son before she died, and the son was thrown into a big hole in his head, apparently to death

Zhao Siliu cried, he didn't even dare to cry loudly, he was afraid that he would recruit back the soldiers who had already left

He spent the night throwing a pit in his yard with his hands and burying his wife and son simply

This time, he finally planned to escape, after simply bandaging his hand that had dug up the soil and had exposed a small piece of bones, he took a boat to the south in Songjiang after running around, and then after several tosses, he arrived in Jingyuan Like most people, he opened up the wasteland in Jingyuan, farmed, and planted for more than a year, and the grain was harvested continuously, looking at the grain piled up into a hill in his home, he wanted to let his wife and son come together to see, and then the whole family, kill a chicken, and eat a good meal, but unfortunately it was impossible

Just when Zhao Siliu was going to find a matchmaker to talk about a family matter, he heard a news - they are here again, and the Tartars are here!

Yes, the Tartars are coming, these four words seem to evoke Zhao Siliu's nightmares, the resentment revealed by his wife's dead eyes will appear in his dreams every night, in this village, are almost all people who are separated from his wife, a few days ago more than a dozen people hugged their heads and cried, and received weapons from the people sent by the chief soldier, Zhao Siliu was afraid of being laughed at, although he was reluctant, but he did not enter the city, but he was praying in his heart, the Tartars may not come to his own village, the court is so powerful, Definitely hit the Tartars!

Zhao Siliu's prayer did not work, the Tartar came again, listening to the sound of the neighbors and the Tartar desperately, Zhao Siliu made the same decision as a year ago, buried the weapon under the bed, hid in his own home, and prayed that the Tartar would not find himself

It backfired, Zhao Siliu's prayers never worked, after the Qing army killed all the neighbors, searched, found, and finally found him in Zhao Siliu's house, Zhao Siliu knelt humbly in front of the Tartars, begging them to spare his life, and gave all the food in the family to these "chiefs"

These commanders seemed to be very useful to Zhao Siliu's plea for mercy, and did not kill him, but took him to the Tartars' camp in the back mountain of Jingyuan

Zhao Siliu didn't want to come here, because seeing so many tartars with pig tails made Zhao Siliu close his eyes and see the picture of his wife dying

But fortunately, Zhao Siliu didn't stay here for long, only one day, and then he and a group of farmers like him, some of them still had injuries, through a cave, into Jingyuan, on the mountain, Zhao Siliu saw Jingyuan, just like the previous few months, it was still so prosperous, but there were two more teams of sabre-rattling soldiers

Walking in the mountain road, Zhao Siliu looked at the surrounding trees, Zhao Siliu remembered the scene where his wife used to work in the field with him, and thought of his son who happily ran to his parents' grave when he was born, kowtowing and saying, he is a handle

Until Zhao Siliu was getting closer and closer to the Ming army, Zhao Siliu recognized that the majestic chief soldier was looking at him anxiously, and there was a person wearing bright yellow clothes who was talking to him about something, it should be the emperor!

Suddenly, at this time, a baby cry came