Chapter 9 Confirmation
No one wanted to face a few bones that had been gnawed off half of their bodies, and the old man's expression was gloomy, so several people had no intention of staying, and they all hurriedly walked away. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
Out of the reeds, the man carried the old man again, and there was nothing to do along the way, and when he returned home, several people settled the old man, and they were exhausted, so they simply got some food and rested.
At this time, the two had the opportunity to get to know each other, the big man's surname was Wu, the single name was Yong, Wu Yong, Xu Zhengze also introduced himself with a smile, and said that he was on the run, the origin was vague, and the man didn't care, of course, he didn't care what people thought in their hearts.
The two chatted, and Xu Zhengze also knew that the man was fleeing from the famine with his mother behind his back, and the crop households couldn't eat enough for a year, plus military disasters, corrupt officials, and bullies, his situation was not bad. A large family fell in love with his family's ancestral land, and colluded with the government to charge him with gangsters, so he had to run away.
"Hehe......" Xu Zhengze smiled unnaturally, his eyes wandered for a long time, and then he said what he wanted to ask, he wanted to know which dynasty and which generation, which emperor, to see if he had heard of it, so as to judge his situation and decide where to go next.
The man is very strange, Xu Zhengze's face is fair, his physique is magnificent, he knows at a glance that he is a pampered master, such a person is no better than the common people, all his life facing the loess with his back to the sky, he has seen only a hundred miles away, they have a perfect education, a much wider range of knowledge, and they act differently, fools and well-educated people, the temperament can be distinguished at a glance.
Although there are many speculations, this person should not be a wicked person, even if he is a wicked person, he is also kind to his mother and son, Wu Yong is decisive, as for the rest, what does it matter to him?
Xu Zhengze knew the information he wanted to know, Wu Yong also had a relatively good family background, otherwise he would not have practiced martial arts, let alone know much about national affairs.
The speculation that lasted for more than a month was finally confirmed, and he only felt ridiculous, without any warning, just slept and inexplicably, he crossed the distance of time and space.
At this time, it is the fourth day of the third month of the fourth year of Chongzhen in the Ming Dynasty, and this place is under the rule of the western province of Daming Mountain, Pingyang Mansion, Puzhou, Linjin County, no wonder.
Seeing Xu Zhengze's angry look of a dead old man, Wu Yong was also wondering, but everyone had their own private affairs, everyone was not familiar with them, and it was not easy to ask, so they could only comfort a few words, Xu Zhengze nodded, returned to his room and fell asleep.
In the dream, he didn't know that he was a guest, Xu Zhengze was dazed and remembered the days when he used to work, a colleague in the company, everyone played and went out to eat together. There are also friends and classmates in his hometown, if he hadn't had an accident, after more than a month, it would have been the end of the year, and it would have been time to go home and visit the door. There are also parents at home, who used to quarrel with them all the time, but now they can't see each other anymore, and they can't find anyone if they want to vomit.
In fact, I have thought of this possibility for a long time, but I have always held a little hope, and now I finally gave up the illusion.
Before he knew it, tears were wet on his shoulders, and now, he was alone.
This sleep was almost dark when Xu Zhengze got up and walked out with an ugly face. Wu Yong and the others got food and were eating, when they saw Xu Zhengze coming out, Wu Yong beckoned him to hurry up and eat. Today's food is much better than before, the spring vegetation is revived, fresh wild vegetables are picked, and several people eat refreshingly, not to mention some rabbit meat, it seems that they only caught it this afternoon.
Seeing that Xu Zhengze was depressed, he picked a few chopsticks but didn't talk much, which made the atmosphere very dull for a while, Wu Yong couldn't stand it anymore, he said loudly: "Brother Xu, the elder brother is a rough person, and I don't know what troubles you have, but if you have something, say it, let's all think of a way together, it's better than you holding it in your heart." ”
The two brothers and sisters also looked at him with concern, Xu Zhengze's dejected appearance, everyone could see that he was in trouble, but he was sleeping all afternoon, and the two brothers and sisters didn't dare to disturb him.
"I've crossed over, how can I tell you about this?" Xu Zhengze forced a smile, said that it was okay, picked up his share of rice and began to snort and chew.
After eating, Xu Zhengze remembered something, he grabbed Wu Yong and asked him about the peasant uprising in Shanxi. Grief is useless, he can only be willful for an afternoon, not to mention that he has long been mentally prepared for this. Since he had already come, and he could not go, and the days to come would go on, he could only persist in living—it was better to live better.
When is it now, according to Wu Yong, it is the fourth year of Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty, if he remembers correctly, Li Zicheng has been laid off, the peasant uprising at the end of the Ming Dynasty has broken out, and he does not know what exactly happened to Shanxi - he knows that Chongzhen is the king of the Ming Dynasty, who was tossed by the Manchus and Li Zicheng in turn, and finally had to hang himself.
He didn't have any personal experience, but he also knew that the civil wars until the liberation were very easy to cause a large number of unnatural deaths among civilians. In ancient wars, words such as thousands of miles of red land and cannibalism most often appeared, and there were only a few words, but Xu Zhengze shuddered.
In fact, for the situation of the rebel army, not to mention that the Ming court at this time was not clear, even the rebel army itself could not figure it out, let alone Wu Yong and the civilians. But in short, the boundaries of Shanxi are not very peaceful, and there are more flags of small strands than cattle hairs, and as for thousands of large bandits, there are absolutely no more. Wu Yong said that there are thousands of poles in Zhongtiao Mountain, and he has heard a lot about the thieves' capture of prefectures and counties.
"It's not peaceful." After listening to Wu Yong's words, Xu Zhengze was speechless by default, and sighed leisurely for a while.
When it comes to this world, Wu Yong is also sad, since this kind of war has caused the most harm to the people - like this kind of large-scale peasant uprising that swept half of China, usually the population of the whole country has a cliff-like decline, such as the great uprising at the end of the Ming Dynasty that Xu Zhengze happened to know, later generations estimated that China's population at this time was between 100 million and 200 million, and when the Qing Dynasty was at its peak, the population dropped to about 30 million. Anyway, they can't die in just twenty or thirty years.
In a bad mood, Xu Zhengze didn't want to talk more, Wu Yong settled the guy in a brick house next to them, and when he left with his wife on his back, Xu Zhengze stood in the courtyard for a long time, not knowing what he could do in this turbulent world, and what he should do. After thinking about it for a long time, he still thought of two words: life.
Survival, Xu Zhengze began to exercise, simple push-ups, sit-ups, frog jumps, and horizontal bars, of course, the conditions are insufficient, because of the ugliness, but he has never exercised like this in the past two months, today is even more exciting, he no longer dares to delay, superb martial arts dare not think, but at least there must be a stronger body.
After the exercise, I went to the stream outside the village to take a cold shower and went to bed early.
He goes to bed early and gets up early, without TV, computer, mobile phone and other things for entertainment, he always gets up early in the morning. In the past, when he woke up, he either couldn't get up on the kang, or he was in the mood to go out for a few walks, this morning, he still did push-ups and the like, until his hands and feet were sore, and he didn't know what to do for a while, so he simply took a bamboo gun and went around the outside of the village.
When I went out, I met Wu Yong next door, and I thought he was also getting up early to work hard.
The two looked at each other and smiled, and Wu Yong asked; "Are you alright?"
Xu Zhengze nodded with a smile and said, "It's okay." ”
Then Wu Yong smiled and patted him on the shoulder and said, "That's it, good man, if there is anything that can't be passed, just look at it." The two of them laughed together and walked out of the village.
The sky was bright, I met a lot of refugees who escaped along the way, got up early to do things, and everyone who knew each other said hello from afar, but also enthusiastic, Xu Zhengze remembered yesterday's incident, and looked at Wu Yong and his mother at that time, and the situation was not very good, so he asked.
Wu Yong laughed and said that it was okay, it turned out that his mother's body was quite tough, yesterday the two of them went to the lake to find food together, but they didn't expect to meet a hungry wolf, which scared the old man, and he slept well today.
At this point, Wu Yong mentioned to Xu Zhengze the meaning of everyone's partner, his mother is old, in fact, it is not very convenient, he went out alone to leave his mother in the house, and he was surrounded by people he didn't know, he was not at ease. Going out with the old lady, I am afraid that the old man will be tired, and I am not at ease, but it happened that the two parties got a lot closer to each other because of the hardships together, so I had this idea.
Xu Zhengze also readily agreed, Wu Yong has high martial arts skills and great skills, and partnering with him has saved everyone a lot of trouble. The two of them went out to work hard, and the two and a half children at home guarded the old man, and they were quite safe. When everyone gathers firewood and the flame is high, when they are chaotic, people can live better in a group.
The two sides negotiated the matter of partnering in a few words, and the relationship became closer, Xu Zhengze asked about Wu Yong's martial arts, he was most envious of the heroes with strong martial arts, not to mention that martial arts in troubled times can increase the cost of saving his life, seeing Wu Yong's amazing art industry, of course he wanted to ask, if only he could learn a few hands.
Wu Yong didn't hide his selfishness, and promised to teach him a few hands when he was free, but unconsciously, they walked to the reeds of yesterday, and several bones were still there, and the two of them had no intention of speaking for a while.
Holding back the nausea and fear, Xu Zhengze turned his head and tried not to look at the terrifying bones, but whispered to Wu Yong: "These things have to be burned quickly, the weather is getting warmer, if there is an epidemic, it will be bad." ”