Chapter Ninety-Nine: POV: Rose is at a loss
In the slow heat and soothing of the beginning, the first volume is about to enter the climax, and it will be followed by more killings and battles, Liu Xu, the eunuchs, and the White Lotus Sect each have their own strange plans, iron fire, life and death, and conspiracy are rampant, please help readers greatly to push the story to a new climax!
The trees on both sides of the road have lost their leaves, and the golden leaves have piled up at the roots of the trees, continuing to warm their original homes with their bodies. The bare branches of the Pen, Fun, and Pavilion www.biquge.info are exposed, revealing the bird's nest that was once hidden between the green and the luxuriant. But now the nest has no original occupants, and the young birds have grown sparse wings and can fly south with the adults to survive the colder winters.
Rose tightened her clothes, it was still late autumn, but the weather was getting colder. I don't know why, in recent years, the winter has come earlier and earlier every year, the climate has been worse every year, and the people's lives have become more and more painful. She rode on her big green mule and slowly looked up into the distance, and the road stretched flat forward until it reached the invisible horizon in the distance, and the trees on both sides followed suit, and the dead yellow trunks spread the smell of slaughter along with the road.
Wang Tao followed behind her, also riding a big green mule. They set up the king's hidden cellar, but the cellar had already been taken first, and there was no silver in it. Maybe the master of the Wang family couldn't stand the torture and told the secret of the cellar. Wang Tao looked a little disappointed, he seemed to want to repay Rose with this silver, but Rose didn't care much, she was not short of money at the moment, and she didn't need it very much. If she has no money, she will never be short of money if she has a dagger with her.
The peasant made a living from a hoe, the blacksmith made money with a hammer, and she lived off her "thorns".
Wang Tao had words in his mouth, they had been tracking the horse thief for several days, and their big green mule was not as long as the horse thief, so they could only follow the horse thief and inquire all the way. Wang Tao has collected a lot of information, this ten-year-old child seems extremely tenacious at the moment, even if the inner thigh is bleeding because of the long-term friction, even if he is almost regarded as an accomplice of the horse thief because of inquiring about the whereabouts of the horse thief, he cannot change his determination.
"It's not normal, it's not normal at all!" Wang Tao kept chattering, the voice was small and loud, rapid and slow, making Rose a little unbearable, she couldn't help asking: "You said it's not normal, what's not normal?" ”
"I say it's not normal, because horse thieves never do such a thing to destroy a family!" Wang Tao's voice gradually rose up: "There is a way to 'Shandong's ringing horses, Henan's thieves', Shandong's ringing horses have always been good men who rob the rich and help the poor, my Wang family has been kind to people for generations, and has never done anything to oppress the good, and it is well-known in ten miles and eight towns, even if there are horse thieves who come to the house to borrow grain, they have always been good-natured, how can this kind of thing be done!" The boy was a little restless because he couldn't understand this question: "There must be something wrong here, either my Wang family really did something angry, or this horse thief is not a real ringing horse, they must have another identity!" ”
Rose didn't know how to answer, she knew a thing or two about horse thieves, most of these horse thieves were ordinary farmers, who would want to be a thief if it weren't for the fact that life couldn't go on. The government wants to promote the "people's herding" of horses, and the order is implemented in Hebei, Henan, Shandong, Jiangsu, Anhui and other places, stipulating the number of foals that should be accepted, and if it is not enough, horse breeders must compensate. But this horse is a delicate animal, how can it always meet the requirements. In the event of horse plague or other disasters, the peasants could not hand over their horses, and they became "ringing horses". There is a horse breeder in her village, and this person used to be very kind to her, and never scolded her for being a ". son", but such a good man became a horse thief because the horse he raised had horse plague and couldn't hand over the horse.
She had not heard of the whereabouts of the horse farmer, who was said to have been exterminated by the official army, and the wife of the family had also run away with others, leaving one son, the owner begging for a little, and the west begging for some leftovers, and finally starved to death one late autumn morning.
Just like today, on a late autumn morning.
Rose sighed softly, this world is like this, if you don't have a knife, you don't have enough strength to protect yourself, you can only watch everything you hold dear to be destroyed. She had had enough of such a life, so she picked up the dagger and decided to kill anyone who stood in her way.
Wang Tao was still chattering and reasoning: "Since these people are not ordinary ringing horses, then they must have something else to ask for, because my father didn't agree to them before he killed the killer - then the question is, what is there in my family that is worthy of their pursuit?" My family is just a small rich family, and the biggest wealth is only thousands of acres of watered land, even if they rob my family, it is impossible to snatch the land, why are they! ”
Rose stretched and asked casually, "Since your family still has more than a thousand acres of watered land, why do you want to take revenge?" Why don't you hurry up and go to the government to inherit your family's watering land? ”
Wang Tao glanced at Rose and sneered: "I am a child, both parents died, and I still use more than 1,000 acres of water to water the land. ”
Rose silently, she has seen too many things about this kind of competition for land between relatives in the countryside, although this kind of thing rarely makes trouble to the point of death, but a thousand acres of watered land is too much of a fortune, and the relatives who can't help but be red-eyed are not moved. Thinking of this, she couldn't help asking, "Are you really willing to give up the land your parents left you?" This more than 1,000 acres of land is a lot of wealth! "Rose is not good at arithmetic, and she can't calculate how much wealth more than 1,000 acres of watered land is, but she also knows that it must be a foundation that ordinary people can't save after ten lifetimes of work. Although she didn't really care about the amount of wealth, she admired a child who could give up his inheritance so decisively.
Wang Tao sighed and said leisurely: "I don't want to do this either, but there is no way, I don't have such a big bowl now, so I have to eat less, if I have something to achieve in the future, I can't help those people not return the land to me!" He said this in a resolute tone and a firm look in his eyes, clearly with determination.
Rose didn't speak again, just nodded slightly, and a confused emotion suddenly surged in her heart - Wang Tao's goal in life is to avenge his parents and regain his ancestral family business, but what is he running around in this Qilu land for?
Her mother is dead, she no longer lives in the village, and no one knows that she used to be a ". Son's daughter;
Her father is also dead, and almost everyone who knows about it has died in her own home, and if she keeps quiet, no one will know that she is Xu Hongru's daughter;
She has no enemies, and helping Wang Tao to avenge her is only in a trace of pity and inexplicable hatred, but after doing this, if she doesn't die, what should she do?
She looked up at the sky, a line of geese slowly flew by, these beautiful big birds used the power of the wind to slowly lift themselves up, with the flow of the wind and leisurely flapped their wings, their purpose is to fly to the south for the winter, and wait until the spring flowers bloom and then return to the north to survive, year after year, cycle after cycle, and themselves, what is the point of living in this world?
She couldn't figure it out.
"Big brother, be careful!" Just when Rose was secretly sad, she suddenly heard Wang Tao shouting in a low voice, Rose woke up suddenly, but found that there was a small dot in front of her moving rapidly towards her side, she immediately shouted: "Hide quickly, this must be a horse thief!" ”
They urged the mules and tried to drive the two disobedient beasts into the deciduous bushes. Rose's one had already been fed, so he could barely get him to obey orders, but Wang Tao couldn't let his mule move half a step to the left despite all his might.
Wang Tao's face was a little anxious, if he was seen by the horse thieves, he might attract a large group of horse thieves, which was a fatal thing. He tugged at the reins of the mule, but the mule was stubborn and stubborn, and the sturdy animal was spewing white water vapor from its nose, struggling desperately, and making a clattering sound, which seemed to be on the bar with Wang Tao. Wang Tao kicked on the mule's back in a hurry, but he was still young, his development was not complete, and he didn't have the strength to boil up before, so he didn't hurt the mule at all.
"This damn brute, leading and not leaving, going backwards!" Wang Tao looked at Rose: "What should I do?" ”
"Leave him here, let's hide, and if the thief stops to check, we'll ambush him!" Seeing that the black dots were getting closer and closer, Rose grabbed Wang Tao and pulled him closer to the bushes, even throwing her package on the ground.
This is the main road between the two Qufu and Linqing, so the trees on both sides of the road are not allowed to be cut down at will, and layers of leaves fell on the ground. Afraid that he would be struggling, Rose whispered, "If you want to avenge your parents, be honest with me," and then lowered herself and waited for the horse thief to arrive, holding the dagger tightly in her hand.
The sound of the horses' hooves was getting closer and closer, and it must have been a good horse, and the four hooves of the horses made a loud noise as they beat the earth, like the rumbling thunder of the rain that reminded Rose of the gongs and drums of the village's god fair. The sound was getting louder and louder, at first it was just a drum from a distance, but now it was a drum in the ear.
"Here we are." Rose clenched the dagger in her hand, ready to strike her own thunderous blow if her enemies dared to stop and investigate.