Chapter 19: The First Meeting of the People of the Mountains

Huo Qisheng, the county commander of Huaqing County, was also riding a donkey next to him, and the mountain road was not easy to walk, and when he heard Su Lai talking to his people, he also said: "You are the same, you have made so much effort to overthrow us, what is happening now?" This is not empty yet, this county will give you a chance."

These unclean officials in Huaqing County shook their heads when they heard the words of the county order, they didn't dare to run, they would be arrested if they ran, and there was no one to find.

Not to mention that the assassin history of a state is going to clean up people, fortunately, there are no lives on him, and when he arrives at the place, he will admit his mistakes, maybe the assassin will be able to open the net.

They did regret it, who would have thought that the new assassin would be so tough? If you want money and money, you want people, and you don't have the slightest affection, that Shen Guifu They have also heard that there are capable people in Beijing, or what kind of emperor's son, such people can be cleaned up, what are they?

The two counties got the news that the two counties were cleaned up, or Zhang Zhong deliberately arranged for someone to spread it, and directly asked people to post notices in the two counties, which clearly wrote the matter, and the people of the two counties cheered for a while after they knew about it, but these people who were dyed with the Shen family mark were in trouble.

It was clearly written on the notice that the vacant positions in the two counties were all taken over by the people from the inner courtyards of the two inner courtyards of Zhang Wang, and the people from these inner courtyards had a little contact with each other, and the ship was specially trained when they came, although they were inexperienced, but it was no problem to hold up the field.

Huo Qisheng, the county commander of Huaqing County, and Su Lai, the county commander of Ninghai County, have nothing to do with the surname Shen, and the geographical location makes them not interfere in the salt farm, so there is no need to divide their money over there, if they want to share it, it will be more, and they only take out a little bit to win over the people below them.

The purpose is to hollow them out little by little, so that they will not get any money and have no way to interfere with the affairs of the salt works.

The two of them were looking forward to this day when they knew that a new assassin was coming, and finally let them look forward to it, just like the heavy rain that is falling now, the wind and clouds are coming, and they are coming so quickly.

The two of them got together and discussed, so they gathered their subordinates and asked them to come over and surrender themselves, saying that Lord Assassin Shi might see their active attitude and give them a light sentence, but in fact, he wanted to get these people to the state yamen, so that Lord Assassin Shi could clean up well, and they would be able to do things with peace of mind in the future.

The heavy rain was falling, and a group of more than thirty people walked against the rain, and they couldn't feel any cold and discomfort, and the two county orders and a few people who had not been bought felt happy in their hearts, and the others were still thinking about what to say when the time came, and how Lord Thorn Shi would deal with them.

In the heavy rain, the construction on the wharf also stopped, and the workers hid under the makeshift shed drinking hot soup, in order to hurry, they turned the four meals a day provided by Zhang Zhong into two, one in the morning and one in the evening, Zhang Zhong did not know about this, otherwise he would never allow it.

It was pouring rain outside, and the person in charge of cooking boiled some hot soup, put more ginger foam, and the people who worked ate different things, and those who were distributed to drink seafood soup, with less ginger foam and less oil.

The paid workers drank chicken broth, in addition to ginger foam, there were ginseng whiskers with a layer of oil on top, and some dry cakes for them to keep to soak in.

If this division is put in Sanshui County, it is naturally the first good, seafood soup, the second kind no one likes to drink, Sanshui County is not short of chicken, especially the Zhuangzi of Zhang Wang's two families, but it is different here, how did the seafood come from? The person who was assigned fished it on the shore himself.

Small crabs and conches, you can catch a lot of them casually, and the people who cook them don't even wash them, and they boil out a big pot of soup directly, and there is a salty taste, so you can save salt.

"It's good in this rain, I've washed some dirty things, Anon, eat quickly, the cake doesn't need to be put in the soup, just bite off a little bit, taste it slowly, and then drink the soup, that's good."

A man was there looking for the best way to eat food, looking at the people who were assigned not far away, and said loudly, deliberately letting them hear, they should usually have three meals a day, and everyone else had two, and they became one, and no one in the local area would think that this was wrong.

Now that they can drink some soup, who will give them bread? Those people also heard it, and they couldn't say what mood they were in before, how could they be so embarrassed? The food and drink are good, but unfortunately, I haven't enjoyed enough of it, and everything has turned into foam in the sea.

I don't know how long I have to work here, some of them have been sentenced to ten years in prison, and I am worried that they will be allowed to work for ten years, and then they will be free, and it is estimated that they will be almost exhausted.

The man who was called Anon was a sixteen or seventeen-year-old young man, who was staring at a man over there, who had beaten him more than once, and who would have beaten him with any excuse, if it weren't for the whip marks on his body when this man came, he would have really wanted to go over and beat him up and return all the previous ones.

As a result, he didn't use his hands, and the man died of pain, and as soon as the marks on his body touched the seawater, the taste was really indescribable.

The stared man seemed to feel this gaze, turned his head and saw that it was Anon, sighed, turned around, and drank the soup slowly.

"Humph! Cheap him, since he was whipped, forget it, the last time I was beaten, I was in pain for half a month, and I had to work for fear of getting salt water, should. Anon took a hard bite of the cake and muttered.

There are also people from Kaifeng who eat with them, because of Zhang Zhong's relationship, the people in the two places look at each other a lot more pleasantly, get together to chat, and also hold hands with each other when working, which seems very harmonious.

The people who came to Kaifeng can drink any soup, in fact, they want to taste the seafood soup, but there is less ginger in it, so they can only choose chicken soup to drink, with a thick layer of oil on it, put the mouth on it and suck it, suck it into the mouth, the top is still thick, it seems that no matter how you suck it, you can't finish it.

Just when they were hiding under the shed and chatting, several figures appeared in the distance, they couldn't see clearly in the heavy rain, they were very blurry, and when the figures of the seven people approached, the local people immediately said to a woman from Kaifeng who was cooking: "Prepare seven bowls of soup quickly, and put more ginger, this is a person who came down from the mountain, all the way here, and it was drenched." ”

The woman immediately began to serve it, and put some green onions in addition to ginger, and placed them there waiting for the seven people to come closer.

One of the seven men was carried by someone, and walked with a limp, and when the seven men reached the nearest shed near them in the rain, they all lost their strength and sat down on the ground, and one of the men who was holding the wounded man began to whimper quietly.

The person who received it only grabbed his thigh with one hand, touched the person next to him, who was about fourteen or fifteen years old, and said a few words that others could not understand, and the eldest child finally stopped crying, and the injured person turned his head and said to the person who brought the soup:

"Thank you, from us to this side, it takes six days to walk, and I can't see if it can rain, but I see the place, and when the rain comes, I accidentally fall, and I have a big cut on my leg, and my foot is broken, and the fur and green feathers I brought are drenched, and I can't sell it for a few dollars.

Remember this soup money first, oh, and ginseng beards, well, after selling these things, I will give you the money, give me some of the burned wood ashes, I will stop the bleeding, they don't understand what you say, don't ask them, there is a dock to be repaired here? ”

The man's face was pale, and he spoke weakly, and he meant that he existed specifically for translation.

The other six men listened to this man in everything, and when he had said two words to them, he took the soup and drank it in large gulps, and the woman gave them bread and ate it, without saying a word.

Someone over there had already begun to make wood ash for this man, this was the most common method, and the wood ash was brought over, and the man pulled the leather pants vigorously, and a large hole about a foot long appeared on the outside of the leg, and it was still bubbling blood, and the place next to it was washed white by the rain.

Just as the man was about to plaster it, a man from the inner courtyard of the Zhang family who came from more than twenty sheds shouted: "Wait a minute, don't use that ash, I have something good here." ”

The injured person stopped moving, looked at the person and said, "I don't have so much money for you, you have rice seedlings on your clothes?" How do you embroider this? We are all thorns in our bodies, and we don't prick this weak rice seedling. ”

"Weak rice seedlings? This big brother, don't look at it as a rice seedling, how many people are scared when they see it, how many people will be at peace when they see him, come big brother, I'll show you the injury, don't want money, it's from the mountains, right? My lord, that is, Lord Thorn, has rules.

Anyone who comes from the mountains can send the goods to the yamen of the state capital, and the yamen will buy them at a high price, and also send a suit of clothes, two catties of salt, five catties of vegetable oil, twenty catties of corn and twenty catties of white flour. ”

As he spoke, the man had already put the medical cotton in the bottle containing alcohol, asked the person next to him to open the person's wound, took a deep breath and said to the person: "Big brother, it hurts, you bear with it." ”

As soon as the words fell, the cotton stained with alcohol was wiped up, and the injured man snorted, his teeth clenched, and his body trembled in pain, but he was still there, cold sweat oozed down his forehead and flowed down with the rain.