In a cruel world, survival is very difficult. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Wu Laohan was a woodcutter, an ordinary citizen of Yanzhou City, who took his youngest son up the mountain to chop wood before dawn.

If you want to chop a load of good firewood, you have to cross a small river from Yanzhou City to reach the hills where the groves are scattered.

The youngest son, who was only 11 years old, followed his buttocks with dry food and a water bag in a bamboo basket.

"Wu'er, follow closely as a father, there are big insects in the mountains and forests, don't walk around, big insects specialize in eating disobedient children." Wu Laohan adjusted the burden of carrying bundles of firewood on his shoulders, looked at his youngest son Wu Rui in the distance and reminded, his eyes were full of love.

"Father, the child knows." Wu Rui immediately came back to his senses when he heard this, and continued to follow his father's footsteps, but his little head was still a little shrugged.

"You kid." Wu Laohan understood the reason why Wu Rui's mood was not high, and he didn't blame him too much, because even he couldn't adapt to the recent changes.

Wu Laohan only hopes that his family will live in peace, Wu Rui is his fourth child, but he is the only son, and he is also a very dignified existence in front of his neighbors.

"Mr. said that you are smart, so I am willing to help you choose a name, you must go to the cottage in the afternoon, listen to Mr. teachings, learn the truth of life, understand?" Wu Laohan said as he walked along the winding mountain road.

When Wu Rui heard this, he paused, and said with some reluctance: "Father, the child is reluctant to go to the cottage. ”

Seeing that Wu Rui was not leaving, Wu Laohan said with a slightly stern look on his face: "Silly boy, if you don't go to the grass hall to learn to write with Mr., you will become a woodcutter like your father in the future, didn't you say that you want to be a big official in the future, can a person who can't write be a big official?" ”

"But, father, the child does not understand." Wu Rui looked at the stern Wu Laohan's eyes overflowing with tears, and continued with doubts: "Father, didn't you say that you want me to be a big official like Master Wen?" I really miss him, father, you said that Lord Wen is the Wenqu star in the sky, who came to save and educate us, so he will give us land and help us build a house, but now ,,, now,,。 ”

Looking at the tearful Wu Rui, Wu Laohan felt very uncomfortable, put down the firewood on his shoulder, turned around and walked into Wu Rui and slowly held him in his arms, wiping the tears on his face. "Father understands that you feel uncomfortable, in fact, the villagers are the same, but now that there is no land and a house, we must survive, listen to my father, go to the cottage in the afternoon, and listen to the teachings of Mr."

Wu Rui hugged Wu Laohan's waist, shook his head and said, "No, I won't go, I don't want to salute the wooden statue of that villain, and I don't want to say those words that I hate." ”

"Child, listen to me, your uncle and uncle died on the battlefield, and their children are more painful than you." Wu Laohan recalled the scene of the destruction of Yanzhou City, and said in a low tone: "But no matter how difficult the world is, we must live, some reluctant things, just regard it as an inevitable existence, my father hopes that you can grow up peacefully, and when you and your husband learn the skills, you can see farther than your father." ”

Wu Rui didn't speak again, just buried his head in Wu Laohan's body, sobbing softly.

After the city of Yanzhou was broken, and after Takagi Zhenyu dominated this place, he drove all the Chinese people in the city to the outside of the city, claiming that only by sacrificing a son and participating in the formation of his own patrol battalion could he move back to the city to live, otherwise he could only build a grass hut in the field to survive, not only that, but also ordered the surrendered Chinese literati to check their household registration, and deprived all the Chinese people who did not participate in the patrol camp of their family land, and redistributed them to the Dongying civilians who were transmitted by themselves.

Therefore, under the city wall around Yanzhou City, there are many people who are unwilling to sacrifice their sons, and every family only lives on grass huts, and goes into the mountains every day to hunt and chop firewood for a living, and has no other skills, so they can only become tenants of Dongying civilians, in order to earn rations to support their families, and become serf-like existence.

In order to maintain his rule for a long time, Takagi Masuke also ordered the carpenters who surrendered to carve a batch of wooden statues in their own image and placed them in front of the door of each school, so that every Chinese child who went to school must kowtow to the wooden statue before they could study, otherwise it would be disrespectful and a capital crime.

"Loyal to Dongying, loyal to Lord Takagi, Lord Takagi is an emperor through the ages, the king of kings who are true to the truth, the general trend of Dongying people ruling Yanzhou City, irreversible, if there is no rule of Dongying people, the Chinese people will also suffer from war, Dongying people are the benefactors of Yanzhou City, without them we can't eat, without them we will starve to death in Yanzhou City." This passage is used as a salutation to the wooden statue, and every student who enters the school is required to recite it under the supervision of the patrol battalion guards stationed in the school.

Even the thatched hall erected outside the wall, Takagi Shinsuke did not let it go, and all of them were arranged in the same way as the schools in the castle, and those who were not allowed to guard it would not be able to enroll.

Beheading the leader of the Resistance, hanging out the corpses of the Resistance, and then under the indoctrination of such a school, many people who originally chose to temporarily submit have also become numb, as long as they can live, it seems that there is nothing wrong with accepting the rule of the current Dongying people.

Wu Laohan stabilized the mood of his youngest son Wu Rui, and he still went down the mountain with some reluctance, at this time he went to Yanzhou City with firewood to sell, and he could also exchange some rations from the Dongying civilians in the city, and now only from the Dongying civilians can he exchange for a sufficient amount of rice and grain. As the victors, the Dongying people did not need to do anything to get the government's continuous distribution of rice and grain, and they could use the remaining rations in exchange for other things they wanted, and indirectly serve the Chinese people outside the city.

After going down the mountain, you have to walk on the bridge of the small river to return to Yanzhou City, Wu Laohan carried a firewood burden, close to the direction of the wooden bridge, but found a team of soldiers with flags staying near the wooden bridge.

"Soldiers of the patrol battalion? What's to be done? Wu Laohan had an ominous premonition when he saw this, and many people had already blocked the bridge and bowed down to them, not knowing what they were saying.

"It's all out of the way, it's all out of the way, the government is doing things, you actually dare to stop it, don't you want to live?" A general-like figure wearing chain mail raised his sword loudly, glaring at the people kneeling in front of him.

After Wu Laohan approached with his son, he finally heard what they were saying.

"Lord Lu Hongfan has an order, immediately dismantle the wooden bridge, and those who dare to block it will be punished together with the rebellious party." The armoured general continued to speak aloud, but the last sentence gave a message of despair to the people present.

"What can I do about this, without this bridge, how can I go hunting, go hunting in other forest areas, it will take a day."

"Okay, my family, I hope to go to the mountains and forests across the bridge to dig wild vegetables and chop firewood for a living, give us a way to live."

Many people complained and vomited bitterness, and Wu Laohan also felt a breath of anger in his heart, feeling very depressed. The river is not very wide, but the water is very deep, and it is very difficult to swim across the river with the goods of the day's harvest, and if you catch a cold and fall ill, you will almost definitely die.

"Get out of here, delay the military master's errands, and immediately ask you to look good, if you don't get up again, Lao Tzu will cut people." The general in chain mail waved the weapon in his hand, approached the kneeling people, and said with a look of teeth and claws.