A few days later, long after the quarrel of the day and night, Muma and a few men were out gathering hay for the winter, far from the city, and might not be able to return at night. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

During the night, several people quietly found Muma.

"Did you hear that? The day before yesterday, someone was hanged again. ”

"What is the reason for this time?"

"Who knows."

After chatting for a while, someone whispered: "I can't stand such days, this is not Xia Cheng, Xia Cheng shouldn't be like this." ”

"So what can we do? Who can stand with us now? Slaves? They want us to die. New Chinese? They look at us like dogs see cats, and they don't trust us. What about Ji Xia? I don't know ...... life or death."

"It would be nice if Ji Xia was here, and she would always tell us what to do. We're all lost now. ”

After a long time, someone finally whispered, "Let's go." One day Ji Xia will come back, do you really believe that Ji Xia will die in Dongyi? Once he returns, these people will definitely let us be recruited, our women and children are all in the city, and it is difficult to say what those people will do if they don't go. If you go...... Fight against Ji Xia...... Do you think these people can win? What is the sin against the leader? ”

"Where are you going?"

"The fief on the wolf's skin side will go to the west to mow the grass in exactly five days, let's take the women and children and take the opportunity to escape."

"Will they blame us? After all, we violated Ji Xia's rules in the first place. ”

"No, someone over there told me. As long as we go, everything before will be punished lightly, and besides, we haven't made much of a mistake, have we? Stay one more day, sooner or later we'll have blood on our hands. ”

"Well, then it's decided, and in five days, we'll bring the cows, horses, and the whole family......"

Among all the people, Mu Ma was the only one who shook his head and said, "Go ahead, I can't go." My woman is sick, something happened a few nights ago, she got a cold, and now no one from the medical department is there, and it's very hot these days. The child is small, less than a year old, where can he travel far? ”

Several people glanced at Mu Ma strangely, and Mu Ma sighed, "I won't say anything." Go away, just because I didn't hear it. ”

A man patted Mu Ma's shoulder with trust and said nothing.

When she returned home, the woman was still sick, and Mu Ma stayed in front of the bed, talking about what had happened these days, and the woman sighed and said, "Why is it that you are sick at this time?" I don't want to be in Summer City anymore, I'm scared...... Ma, let's not be a slave anymore, isn't it good to live like before? People often die now, where is this still Summer City? ”

"Well, drink this water, and we'll leave when you're well."

A few days later, many people left Summer City, leaving behind slaves and everything, taking only themselves and their families with them. But there are still a lot of people who haven't left, and there are always various reasons.

The fifty households in the Lisi of Muma are basically from Lao Xia City, so they have not been demoted to slaves, but now there are three families who are standing with those people in the clan, and these three families worked very hard when they grabbed the land of the people of Xinxia City and cultivated cattle, and now they are already stronger than Mu Ma. Twelve families fled to the fiefdom to the west, and it is not known whether they have arrived now.

In the end, these people who were left were just alive, just like Casa. Some people who meet and flee do not trust, some are reluctant to plant the wheat they have just planted, and some are thinking about taking advantage of the autumn to repair the house, in short, there is always a reason not to leave, the simplest is to live.

But life is not peaceful, as the autumn leaves fall day by day, more and more news comes from afar, and the illness of the casista woman is good and bad, and after all, she is skinny. Fortunately, there is also a woman who is a mother next door, so that the child will not starve to death without milk.

After the news of Dongyi's defeat of Ji Xia's victory reached Xiacheng, the nobles of the city gathered together who remained in the city.

"Ji Xia is coming back soon, remember, Xia City is your own choice now, there are no innocents."

"Some of you may say, I didn't kill anyone, I didn't rob someone else's land. However, when we came back and shouted that the people of the old Xia City oppressed the people of the new Xia City as slaves, you did not object. If you're all against it, how can it be like this? ”

"We just spoke what was in our hearts for you, and did for you what you didn't dare to do. It's like I'm killing someone, and you're dragging that person's limbs so I can stick a knife in them. ”

"If Ji Xia doesn't come back, don't you like to live as a slave? No, you are as ugly as we are, as dirty as we are, and you are maggots. It's just that we do better and enjoy more than you, and you're too stupid to do what we do. ”

"Now that I have given you the salt mines, can you say that you don't want any money, and use your slaves to keep all the people of the city and country for salt? You say you can now, but only because you didn't get it! ”

"Now that Ji Xia may be coming back, you just want to get out, you just want to wash the blood off your body? No, you are already tied to the clan, if you want to live, you can live together, and if you want to die, you can only die together. You know Ji Xia's temperament, clan fighting, pit and kill the countrymen, and hang the countrymen...... At the very least, these sins are exiled from the city, right? ”

Ji Xia said that if you want something, you have to fight for it with both hands. Now that we want to be innocent, the best way is not to ask for Ji Xia's forgiveness, but to take up arms and fight against it. Everyone is standing together, will Ji Xia really kill our old Xia City people? ”

"We just need to force Ji Xia to swear to let us go, Xia Cheng uses Xia Cheng's system, Yucheng uses Yucheng's rules, we follow Ji Xia as the leader, he wants to go on the expedition, we will never waver with the army."

"We will also promise that once we do it, the land will be distributed to everyone, the slaves will be distributed to everyone, and the salt and copper mines will be everyone's, isn't this a better life than before?"

"Clansmen, clansmen who shed the same blood as us, this is the only way you can go."

Someone in the crowd suddenly shouted: "But when you exchanged salt for so much of our land, when we couldn't afford to sell salt, why did you forget that we are people with the same blood?" ”

"Yes, don't lie to us anymore, it's just that Ji Xia is coming back. If Ji Xia dies in Dongyi, what will happen? You will not give us the land slaves. We've had enough! ”

"What kind of punishment we are willing to accept. You're not right, we're not like you. We may be filthy, but we will be punished, and we will not want us to fight for you! ”

"Those slaves still know who is right and who is wrong, we have been wrong once, and we will not be wrong a second time!"

The angry people clenched their fists and left one after another, returning to their homes.

By the middle of December, the nobles had begun to flee, and the city was becoming more and more unstable, with the revolt of the slaves and the revenge of the people of Xinxia every day, and blood was shed every day.

So, in the middle of December, when the situation in the grass river became clearer, Muma's house once again became the house where Ris was, and finally someone left the clan to look for him to discuss something.

They reminisced about what had happened during the year and thought about possible futures.

"The city is going to be in chaos, those maggots are running north, we won't go with them."

"Yes, the city is about to be in chaos. Yesterday, the people of the new country killed the whole family of those people in our clan, and they didn't even spare the children. ”

"Kid? When they buried more than 100 people alive, could they spare the twelve-year-old child? ”

"What shall we do?"

"Run away, at least until the city is settled."

"yes, run away, those people are like crazy, killing people everywhere. Besides, no one knows what Ji Xia will do to us, so if you want me to say let's hide in the woods, and when the city is stable, and Ji Xia has news from here, we will come back. ”

"If it's a minor sin, everyone comes back. If it's a capital offense, then hide in the woods for the rest of your life. ”

"If we weren't afraid of Ji Xia, those slaves would have killed us. Even though I'm usually nice to them, you know what? Yesterday I asked them to do things, they didn't do it, I wanted to hit them, and I actually held my whip......"

"It's horrible. If only I had known to flee to the wolf's fiefdom...... Those people seemed to be fine. ”

"Muma, come with us. Anyway, I won't go to the grassland with those maggots, Ji Xia has already said that running away from the grassland is a capital crime, an unforgivable capital crime. Do you remember when the miners rebelled and fled to the east? There's a big reed over there, so let's hide it there, and come back when the city is stable. ”

"And you have blood on your body, I heard that those people in the new country hate you very much, because when those people resisted, you led us to resist them, and blew the whistle to find the people of the clan, and took the lead in arresting a few people."

Mu Ma shook his head, his eyes were already a little dazed.

"My woman may not be able to do it, she is so sick that I can't go. Go away, I can't go. ”

After speaking, he stood up and said with a wry smile: "I am your boss, and it is said that it is a big crime for you to escape, but what can you do if it is already like this?" I don't want to raise dozens of slaves to do nothing, and I don't want to run away with them, I just want to live well with my women and children. Let's go...... Let's go. ”

After the final goodbye, Mu Ma closed the door, sat on the edge of the kang, looked at the woman who had fallen into a coma and the child who was crying next to him, didn't think about anything, just sat quietly.

The city became more and more chaotic, and there were shouts everywhere, but Mu Ma didn't seem to hear it, just stood by the side of the women and children.

By noon the next day, the woman had passed out in a thin coma, and there was a roar outside.

"Get out! Casa! ”

"You man-eating wolf!"

The child was so frightened that he was crying on the kang, Mu Ma drew his short sword, asked the child to boil some water for his mother to stop crying, and walked outside by himself.

The angry people of Xinxia City were just outside the house, they had been reduced to slavery before, and now they had smashed the shackles themselves.

"That's you! Casa! My brother was knocked over by you with a stick and sent to the maggots, and he was buried alive! ”

"When you fought in the mill, you were the hardest to do it!"

"Dog-like people, I didn't expect you to be where you are today, right?"

Mu Ma stood up straight and shouted, "What's wrong with me? At the beginning, the workshop couldn't go on, and they wanted to eat, so should I give them food? My family, my women and children still want to eat, they want to rob me of food, we fight, who knows they will be buried alive? ”

The brother of the man who was buried alive cried, "Is it our fault? My brother has land and cattle, but because it is not for you people, the land, grain, and cattle have been robbed, otherwise my brother would have asked you for food? And my brother, who was only twelve, was buried in the sand and suffocated! At that time, you led people to block their back road, you took six people with your head, and you got a lot of salt. You traded their lives for salt and food and land! They're all dead! ”

"I didn't eat that salt! I didn't eat any of the food! I didn't touch the money, and I didn't touch it when my house was in the worst time! ”

"What a kind person, should we cry and tell you that we were wrong? Did you take that brother of mine to the council? He had already run to the river! ”

Mu Ma's hands trembled a little, and he nodded, "It's me, but I didn't know they would be buried alive." ”

"I know, you want to say that someone supported your resistance and was even sent to the gallows, but I'm not him, I'm just an ordinary person, I don't want to bully you, but I won't go to the gallows for you, I'm just for my women and children...... My woman is so sick that she may not survive tonight......"

When the man heard the words of the woman and the child, he cried, "Do you have a woman or a child?" My brother's children were starved to death, and women were taken and tortured to death as slaves, and when they died, they were thrown out naked...... When those people shouted that the people of Old Xia City should take us as slaves, you patted your chest and said that you were not tempted? Have you objected? My family is all dead, and I'm the only one left...... If you had let my brother swim across the Grass River, I would have at least had a younger brother. ”

Mu Ma was heartbroken and shouted, "Why should I object? I did! It has nothing to do with me what the city has become, I just want my women and children to live better. I will not object to the arrest of you as slaves, but I will not arrest you, and I will not go to your land and cattle to be robbed! I do it my own way, so why do I have to support and oppose it? ”

He drew his short sword suddenly, and the people outside were not afraid, and also drew their own weapons.

At that moment, a faint woman's voice came from the room, accompanied by the cry of a child.

"Hemp...... What's wrong? ”

Mu Ma looked at everyone in despair, the family was the only one left trembling, clenched his fists and tears fell down, and finally did not shout again, but held back his cry and deceited: "It's nothing...... Ji Xia is back, I'll tell Mu Ma ......"

Mu Ma put the bronze sword on the ground, trying to squeeze out a grateful smile, but couldn't squeeze it out, and finally walked into the room, looking at the woman's bright, returning eyes, the huge man whimpered and cried.

"Is Ji Xia back?"

"Hmm."

"That's good...... I'm going to die...... The child is still young, Ji Xia is back, Xia Cheng is back, we are Chinese, there will always be someone to help you take care of the child. You just say I'm asleep, don't let the child be scared......"

After saying this, she seemed to have exhausted her strength, her eyes turned weakly, Mu Ma hurriedly picked up the woman's head and let her look at the child, and the woman suddenly burst out with her last strength, hugged her youngest, less than a year old daughter, and wanted to reach her chest, which was already shriveled up, but at the last moment she lowered her arms.

Mu Ma picked up the child and stood stupidly in the house, looking at a painting on birch bark that was treasured on the wall, which was given to him by Chen Jian many years ago, that existed before the house was built, that made him want a home, and gave him the courage to take the lead in leaving the clan.

The simple lines outlined by charcoal on it are in the background, and the walls of the summer city are drawn like a child, and there is a sun with a line of light on it, and there is a smiling face on the sun.

Under the sun, there are houses, simple thatched huts, with a fence behind and a yard in front.

In the yard, there are birds pecking at the wheat grains on the ground, geese and geese singing with their heads up, and a few clothes seem to be drawn on a clothesline, and under the clothes are a few children with pigtails, pushing small windmills that seem to be running.

There were no women, no men, but this simple charcoal drawing still stunned Mu Ma and the others at the time.

Without a woman, how can there be children? Many years ago, they thought, "Maybe women are mending clothes in the house." At that time, it was a simple dream, to have a home of your own, to have your own family.

A year ago, everything on the painting became a reality, including the men and women who did not appear in the painting but were convinced to exist.

And now, it's going to be the same as this painting......