Chapter 11: The Village's Crisis
Early in the morning, Li Yu followed his second son back to the village. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
The second son's surname is Zu, and the big name is called Zu Er, and the people in the village are used to calling him the second son. It is said that the grandfather's generation has been the head of the ancestral family since the beginning, and naturally he has to follow the surname of the main family, and it doesn't matter what the original name is. According to the rules of this era, the descendants of domestic slaves are also domestic slaves, and the second son is naturally also the domestic slave of the ancestral family, and the formal title is called domestic son.
It's no wonder that he can become Zu Heng's henchman, after all, three generations of slaves exist, and his loyalty is almost off the charts. As for the one who was killed earlier, he is said to have been in the village for more than a decade, and he is very low-key and friendly to everyone. He was not afraid of death in several battles, otherwise Zu Heng would not trust him so much, who knew that it was actually a dead room, which can be seen to be hidden.
It's just that this makes Li Yu a little puzzled, how many million people are in the land of Wuyue, who would be so bored to send out the dead among the mountain people? And it's a dead room that has been lurking for more than ten years!
Naturally, the government will not be idle to play this method, after all, more than ten years ago it was still the second year of Jianning. The officials around Lingyang have changed at least once or twice. Passing on the dead from generation to generation? Isn't that the equivalent of giving credit to someone else? Unless it's some official who is brain-dead, who would do such a thankless thing?!
Since it's not a government, who would do such a thing...... It must have a direct stake in the village and belong to the existence of the Han forces......
"How many years ago did you start trading with Shopkeeper Zhang?" Li Yu immediately thought of a possibility.
"Twelve years ago, right?" The second son recalled and said that at that time, he was the first time as an adult to follow the ancestor Heng, so he remembered it deeply.
"Sure enough, it's the dead room that the Zhang family placed in the village!" Li Yu was almost convinced.
"Why, why did they do that?" The second son couldn't understand why the Zhang family made a move against the village.
"Interests and control! The Zhang family wants us to be their supplier forever, I mean stolen goods. But they don't want us to be bigger, so they can't lower the price. And if we get bigger, they are afraid that they will also feel pressure, after all, in addition to the relationship between us that is known, their Zhang family will not have a good time in Wuyue. Li Yu immediately explained.
"I don't understand!" His son doesn't read much, and Li Yu doesn't understand Li Yu's long speech.
"The Zhang family raised us as dogs, and watched the dog grow up and was worried that it would become a wolf biting itself, so they slaughtered the dog first!" Li Yu organized the language and explained it metaphorically.
"Why?" The second son understands it now.
"Just because he is the Zhang family of Wu County, we are just mountain people who are not sorry to die!" Li Yu replied angrily.
When the second son heard this, he was immediately silent, and his fear of the family class made him not know how to evaluate these words. Even if you want to say something, in the end, you can only sigh with emotion "life is not good"!
Since I was in a hurry this time, it was naturally not as comfortable as when I came. The two of them kept moving forward, avoiding the large beasts as much as possible. In this regard, the second son is a capable person, but he didn't see a large beast all the way around.
Li Yu is not stupid enough to trust the second son unconditionally, and he is also positioning Zulang and them. When he was sure that he was indeed moving towards them, he believed in the character of the second son a little.
On the positioning system, not far from them, there are also a few points of light moving towards the target.
At present, there are still relatively few believers in Li Yu, except for those students, if it is not the second son, then it must be Zuheng them. Their movements were fast, but very rhythmic, and they didn't look like they were being chased.
Li Yu didn't plan to go over to meet Zu Heng, one couldn't explain why he knew that Zu Heng was over there, and the other was that it was not necessary, everyone was moving in the direction of the village, since the goal was the same, so why care about whether it converged or not.
No, it would be more beneficial for everyone to act separately!
At this moment, in the village, the young men who stayed behind were sounding the alarm, and just an hour ago, a group of about 500 officers and soldiers set off from Lingyang and began to enter the mountains and forests. Coincidentally, they actually rushed directly in the direction of the village.
Regardless of whether the target is a village or not, they must react quickly, otherwise it will be too late by the time the officers and soldiers arrive!
The villagers couldn't figure out how the officers and soldiers knew about the location of the village being so hidden. Not everyone is as smart as Zu Heng, especially in this case, panic often leads to a decrease in thinking ability.
In order to cooperate with Li Yu, the second son can only choose the safest road to move forward, which means that he will make a detour. After all, there are only two people here, and Li Yu can't form combat power, if he encounters a fierce beast, the two of them may have to finish playing.
On the other hand, Zuheng and them almost moved forward all the way, and occasionally stagnated for a long time. It is estimated that even if they encounter wild beasts, they have no interest in slowly staying and skinning and cutting meat, so they will continue to move forward after killing them.
Therefore, when Li Yu and the others approached the village, the people in the village had already moved to other places. Li Yu naturally knew where it was, but it seemed that Zu Heng and they also knew, and after returning to the original place of the village, they moved quickly.
"Looks like we've gone to the place of refuge, sir, let's go too!" The second son looked at the village from a distance and found that the officers and soldiers of the brigade had entered the village, but they did not see any traces of battle, so he said to Li Yu.
Li Yu nodded, and followed the second son towards the so-called refuge point.
When he met Zu Heng and them, the situation was not very easy at the moment. Just over the shelter, Zu Heng was facing a dead room with a knife on his son's neck. This dead room is none other than his brother!
"Zu Cheng, what do you mean by this?" Zu Heng yelled angrily.
"Brother, don't blame me, who made you willing to fall! I went down to my ancestral family, and I ended up in such a situation because of you! Earlier, I was told that if this success was possible, my son would be sent back to his ancestral home in Xiapi and that he would be able to return to his ancestors.
Our generation, the end is over, and being able to make the next generation become the children of the family is the right way, and there is no future for being a mountain people! Zu Cheng's hands trembled a little, in fact, he didn't intend to betray his eldest brother, but the temptation to return to the family. It's too confusing.
"Are you stupid or something? You also believe the words of those guys, I can't say that your two rabbit cubs have been killed and sent to the government! Zu Heng only felt a headache, why his younger brother was mentally retarded.
Isn't it more convenient to kill people directly than to send people all the way to Xiapi, and also guarantee that the other party will recognize their ancestors and return to their ancestors?
"But big brother, do you think I have a way back?" Zu Cheng didn't think about this possibility, but he had no way out now. It's just a gamble, good luck is naturally the best, and bad luck doesn't matter.
Anyway, when the mountain people have no interest at all, the government will continue to encircle and suppress them in the future, and they will have to live a frightened life all day long. He had enough of these days!
Originally, the envoy of the Zhang family came to tell him earlier that Zu Heng had been assassinated and that he could take the opportunity to take over the village. Who knew that Zu Heng's sudden appearance disrupted his plan, and now doing this kind of thing is just a last resort.