Chapter 40: Redress of grievances
Li Laotu's words made Fang Mu stop the order he was about to give, and everyone in the Wang family escaped because of this.
Fang Mu saw Li Laotu running from the gate of the Wang family's house, and shouted from afar: "Young master, there are a lot of people outside the house, begging us to avenge them!" ”
"Company Commander Li, what's going on?" Fang Mu looked at Li Laotu with an anxious face in front of him, and then asked.
"Young master, the sound of our cannon just now has alarmed the other residents of the town, they are now gathering in groups, rushing in the direction of the house, and they are still shouting for us to avenge them, look at it, there are more than 10,000 people!"
Fang Mu was also shocked when he heard Li Laotu say that there were more than 10,000 residents of Wang Town gathered outside the Wang family's house, if those 10,000 people rushed into the house, with the Fang family's less than 200 people, even if they had guns in their hands, they would be overwhelmed by this crowd, so he immediately ordered Li Laotu: "Company Commander Li, you first take the brothers to stop those people outside the house, don't let them in first, if they dare to break in, order the brothers to shoot indiscriminately, and pull the two small steel cannons to the outside of the house for me." The brothers couldn't resist it, so they gave the order to open fire! ”
At this moment, for the sake of his own safety, Fang Mu didn't care whether the residents of Wang Zhen were civilians or not, and gave Li Laotu an order to shoot indiscriminately, and even use artillery to attack.
"Master Liang, let's go out and have a look first!" After Fang Mu finished instructing Li Laotu, he turned his head and said to Liang Yingshi.
After all, the current situation is imminent, and it only takes less than half a pillar of incense to execute a group of people from the Wang family, but if they are rushed in by this group of Wang Zhen residents who don't know whether they are friends or enemies, then Fang Mu's life and death are unknown.
Liang Yingshi also nodded in agreement, thinking that it was important to solve the current matter first.
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In front of the Wang family's house.
"Heroes, please avenge the little old man, the little old man has a monstrous grievance!" In front of the door of the Wang family's house, an old man with skin on his face like the bark of a withered tree was kneeling in front of the door, pleading with the Fang family members who were guarding the door.
The old man, who was about seventy years old, was kneeling on the ground with his legs trembling, and his face like the bark of a dead tree was flowing with muddy tears, and he pleaded bitterly with the family guarding the door.
The family was also very embarrassed, the old man in front of him was so pitiful, and the pleading voice was so sad, which made the family want to help him up, but Fang Mu's order was to let them stay here, and these people were not allowed to enter the house, which made the family so powerless.
"What's going on?" Fang Mu had already arrived at the door at this time, and looking at the scene in front of him also made him very sad, and he couldn't help but ask the family guarding the door.
"Young master, this family member guarding the door saw Fang Mu coming here, and asked him about it, just wanted to answer his young master, but saw Fang Mu walking quickly in front of the old man.
Fang Mu in the twenty-first century, in addition to his parents, there is also a grandfather who loves him very much, who is about the same age as the old man in front of him, at this moment Fang Mu thought of his grandfather in the twenty-first century when he saw the old man in front of him, Fang Mu thought sourly in his heart:
"If grandpa knows the news of my death, how sad will grandpa's heart be!"
Fang Mu hurriedly picked up the old man who was kneeling on the ground, and asked gently, "Old man, is there anything wrong with you?" Why are you stuck here in the middle of the night with people? ”
Duan Laohan raised his head and glanced at Fang Mu in fear, looking at Fang Mu who covered his face with a black cloth and only showed a pair of eyes outside, he looked very scared, obviously, Duan Laohan also regarded Fang Mu as a bandit who went down the mountain to rob.
"This great master, please avenge us who are suffering for our lives!" Duan Laohan couldn't care about Shang Mu's identity at this time, and after finishing speaking, he cried at Fang Mu
"Dad! How did you get here! Fang Mu just wanted to ask the old man what grievances he had, but he saw that in the crowd blocking the door, a middle-aged man with a yellow face and thin muscles rushed towards the old man and pushed away Fang Mu, who was holding the old man.
The middle-aged man's face looked vicissitudes, the whole person was very thin, and there was no extra meat on his body, which was obviously the result of long-term nutritional deficiencies. Seeing that the middle-aged man was so rude to Fang Mu, the family on the side immediately pointed the gun on his body at the middle-aged man, but was stopped by Fang Mu waving his hand
"Son! This big boss is here to avenge the people of our Wang Town, how can you be so rude to the big boss. ”
The old man reprimanded the middle-aged man who was holding him, and then apologized to Fang Mu with a frightened face.
"Big boss, please forgive my son for being ignorant, I don't know that you are here to help us who are suffering people who were tortured by Wang Youtong, old man, I will apologize for my son." As soon as Old Man Duan finished speaking, he knelt down in front of Fang Mu again, but was stopped by the sharp-eyed Fang Mu.
"I'm fine, old man, what grievances do you have, you tell me, I will definitely try my best to help you if I can help you." Fang Mu didn't care about the middle-aged man's impolite behavior towards him, but looked at Old Man Duan with a gentle face.
The middle-aged man's name is Duan Quan, and he is the eldest son of the old man in front of him. Finding that Fang Mu was so peaceful, he also looked at Fang Mu with some suspicion.
Seeing that Fang Mu was so easy to speak, but he was also very helpless that he had found a bandit to avenge his grievances, he sighed, and told the grievances in his heart
It turned out that Duan Laohan's family had originally lived in Wang Town for generations, and when Wang Town was called Anju Town in the past, Duan Laohan's family still had more than ten acres of land, and he didn't have to worry about food and clothing, and his wife was also alive, and his three sons had already started a family, so he should have enjoyed the joy of family Duan. Who knows! In less than two years, Anju Town not only changed the name of Anju Town to Wang Town, but also seized their land, forced his family to become tenant farmers of the Wang family, and changed his surname to Wang, and his two younger sons ran to the Wang family's house to protest because they were not convinced, and as a result, among the hundreds of people who were sunburned alive at the entrance of the town, there were his two sons!!
Originally, after the death of his two sons, Duan Laohan was very heartbroken, but he didn't want to fight against the Wang family anymore, after all, the Wang family had a hundred foreign guns! Duan Laohan also wanted to leave the last bit of blood for his Duan family, that is, his youngest son.
However, Duan Laohan wanted to end the matter, but the people of the Wang family did not let him go, and after Duan Laohan's son died, the people of the Wang family were led by Wang Quan and broke into Duan Laohan's house with dozens of family members with weapons
That night, Duan Laohan's wife was also beaten to death for dissuading the Wang family, and his three daughters-in-law were ruined to death. Now, the Duan family is only left with Duan Laohan and his eldest son to survive.
Not only Duan Laohan's family has this experience, but everyone who has gone to the Wang family's house to protest is like this, either the family is ruined, there are only a few surviving people in the family, or the whole family has been killed by Wang Quan and others!!
After listening to Duan Laohan's narration, Fang Mu looked at the old man Duan in front of him with a muddy old tearful face, but Fang Mu's face was very calm, and his eyes slowly swept over the people gathered outside the Wang family's house, only to see that these residents of Wang Town, each of them were the same as the middle-aged man Duan Quan, all of them had yellow faces and thin muscles, and they had been malnourished for a long time.
Even, some people were handcuffed with bracelets and ankles on their hands and feet, and the skeleton-like body was covered by a few strips of rags.
Duan Laohan noticed Fang Mu's gaze, and hurriedly explained to Fang Mu: "This big boss, those people with bracelets and leg cuffs, are all because they can't stand the high-intensity labor of the Wang family, they have escaped in private a few times, and after being caught by the Wang family, they have been working in handcuffs and foot cuffs, and their labor volume is two or three times that of people who have not escaped, the big boss, you only see a small number of people, most of the people who work with hand chains and leg cuffs have died of exhaustion under the high-intensity labor of the Wang family!" ”