Chapter 6: The Woman Riding a Wooden Donkey
The Qing soldier knelt on one knee and said a thousand times: "Master Qiyu, I just got the news that the Yangjiaji Inspection Department of Wujiang County came to report that we found two injured military horses. ”
"Is the information reliable?" It is not superfluous to question the general, because in this era because of the poor information traffic, so laborious and moving people to rush over, once the air is missed, the fighter plane will often be delayed.
The Qing soldier replied: "The people from the Inspection Department said that the two military horses are branded with the mark of our Wusong Town Standard Battalion, and it should not be wrong. ”
He left a few Qing soldiers to dispose of the corpses, and then took the rest of the people to Yangjiaji in Wujiang County.
Originally, Pan Afu was still a little worried about his injury, although he was not a person who was greedy for life and afraid of death, and was even regarded as a tough guy by Wu Qiang, but if there was any hope of survival, he would naturally not give up.
When Wu Qiang changed the dressing, Pan Afu found that his wounds showed no signs of suppuration and ulceration, and his heart finally let go, and he was full of praise for Wu Qiang's medical skills, and Wu Qiang was cheeky to occupy this credit.
After all, Pan Afu was too seriously injured and his body was relatively weak, and Wu Qiang was eager to know more about the outside world, so Pan Afu asked Ling Yuqiang to take Wu Qiang around while he went to rest.
Ling Yuqiang took Wu Qiang to climb to the top of the hillside, and Wu Qiang saw a large scene of water and sky connected in the distance, Ling Yuqiang said that it was Dianshan Lake, and pointed to a puddle at the foot of the mountain and said that it was Dadian Lake.
Wu Qiang immediately laughed, saying that such a large area of Dianshan Lake should be called Dadian Lake, and it is really unreasonable for such a small puddle to be called Dadian Lake. This question was obviously not something that Ling Yuqiang could answer, he could only scratch his head and say that the names of the lakes were all handed down from the past.
Jiangnan is known as a water town, where the river is like weaving, the water network is all over, especially in the Qing Dynasty has not been destroyed by industrialization, causing environmental pollution, so now the Jiangnan mountains and rivers are beautiful, the scenery is beautiful, it is definitely a good place to live.
In the Qing Dynasty, except for the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement in the late Qing Dynasty, Jiangnan has never been poisoned by war. Especially now in the Kangxi period, the prosperous Kangqian era advocated by countless Tartar fans in later generations, even the mighty rebellion of the three feudatories failed to affect the south of the Yangtze River.
Looking at the beautiful scenery of the south of the Yangtze River, Wu Qiang decided to ask Pan Afu to help him get a legal household registration status, and after a few days of adaptation, he would leave here and buy a big mansion to settle down.
It's too insecure to mingle with the people of the Heaven and Earth Society. No matter how noble and great the ideals of the Heaven and Earth Society are, even if a historical novice like Wu Qiang knows that the Heaven and Earth Society has not made many waves from beginning to end, but many notorious hey social groups have been derived later.
In the past, when Wu Qiang went to a certain area of Lingnan to engage in parkour, he was intimidated and blackmailed by a so-called triad club.
If you follow the heaven and the earth, you will have no future and hope, and you can only become cannon fodder in the end. Knowing that he couldn't do anything, he still went to fight the Manchus for the sake of the so-called national righteousness, Wu Qiang didn't think that his brain was in the water.
Wu Qiang only hopes to be a rich man, buy a big house, marry a beautiful wife, and live a peaceful and comfortable life. And he only had a few dozen taels of silver looted from the corpses of the Qing soldiers in his hands, which was far from enough.
Only by realizing the items brought from the afterlife can you realize your ideals, and as for how to realize them, you really need to think a lot.
Through Ling Yuqiang's introduction, Wu Qiang learned that this place is called Dianwan Village, which is about ten miles away from Qingpu County, and Wu Qiang decided to take time to go to Qingpu County to see the appearance of the county seat in the Qing Dynasty, feel the customs and customs, and look for opportunities to cash in by the way.
Early in the morning, before dawn, Wu Qiang heard the sound of someone practicing boxing in the courtyard, he hurriedly got up and got dressed and came to the courtyard, and saw Puguang practicing boxing with seven teenagers.
Puguang and the seven teenagers are all bare-chested, and it can be seen that Puguang still has some real kung fu, but I saw that his movements were strong and powerful, and his fists and feet were faintly windy. Although most of the seven teenagers are thin and weak, they are serious and focused and meticulous when they fight.
Seeing Wu Qiang come out, Puguang just smiled at Wu Qiang, and continued to lead the teenagers to practice boxing.
Wu Qiang practiced boxing routines when he was a child, and when he came into contact with extreme martial arts later, he basically gave up practicing in this area, because extreme martial arts focused on actual combat and removed some flashy content.
The injury he suffered during parkour in the past, but because of this crossing, he miraculously recovered, maybe this can be regarded as a benefit or compensation for the crossing, and Wu Qiang cherishes it very much. And he also has to train hard to adjust his level to the peak, after all, parkour is where he lives in this era.
The wilderness is not as many obstacles as there are in the city, providing parkour with traversal, climbing, and jumping, but the early morning air in the wilderness is exceptionally fresh. Wu Qiang ran wildly among the trees and grass, letting the branches and leaves wet his clothes, breathing in the fresh air, and having a feeling of flying.
Last time, Wu Qiang mentioned that he wanted to improve the food for everyone, and Pan Afu agreed, but he was injured and it was inconvenient to go out, so he handed over this task to Puguang. Wu Qiang also wanted to go out to see it, so he asked to go with him, and got Puguang's consent.
According to the original plan, a horse was to be sold and purchased with the silver in exchange, so Puguang and Wu Qiang took two horses to Qingpu County, accompanied by Ling Yuqiang.
Puguang doesn't talk much, his personality is relatively wooden, and he doesn't mean to snub Wu Qiang. Along the way, Ling Yuqiang and Wu Qiang chatted more speculatively, while Puguang listened quietly on the side.
The city wall in Qingpu County is less than three zhang high, and because it has fallen into disrepair, there are many peeling bricks and stones on the city wall, and there are even loopholes and gaps. Even if Wu Qiang is a military novice, he does not dare to compliment such a city defense.
Ling Yuqiang said that in the south of the Yangtze River, only the city wall of the state capital is very tall and thick. The general small county town is basically the same as Qingpu County.
At this time, the Manchu Qing Dynasty had not won the world for many years, plus Shunzhi and Kangxi were relatively promising, and the officials were relatively honest, unlike after the middle and late periods, when corrupt officials levied and extorted tyranny, and the soldiers and ruffians knocked out the bones and sucked the marrow.
Therefore, when the three of them entered the city, they only paid four cents, one penny per person, and two horses counted as one penny, and they were not extorted by the guards of the city, and they only searched their bodies briefly, and let the three of them enter the city.
As for the guards guarding the city, when they noticed Wu Qiang's money rattail pigtail, Wu Qiang's heart was pinched, but fortunately, the guards just glanced at it. After entering the city, Wu Qiang felt that his back was a little wet.
In later generations, Wu Qiang heard that Jiangnan was a wealthy land and was regarded as a money bag by the Manchu Qing Dynasty.
Walking in Qingpu County, but there is no trace of prosperity, Wu Qiang does not know what the prosperous era of Kangqian will be like in the future, he said that it is a prosperous era now, and Wu Qiang will definitely spit on his face.
There are hardly a few gorgeously dressed people on the streets, but civilians in cloth clothes can be seen everywhere, and even many people are in rags. There was hardly a smile on people's faces, or even a look of insensitivity on their faces.
There seems to be a depressing atmosphere, people dare not make loud noises, many people are flies and dogs, trembling, Wu Qiang even has a feeling of being in a post-apocalyptic movie, and the people on the street are like a group of thoughtless walking corpses.
Wu Qiang didn't dare to imagine that this was still the early stage of the so-called prosperous Kangqian era, and the mosquito prison had not yet been really implemented, and once Qianlong Lao'er finished editing the "Siku Quanshu", the thinking of the Han people was completely banned at that time.
As a result, the gap between China and the Western world has also widened, which has also caused an important reason why the Manchu Qing Dynasty was later beaten by foreign powers. It can be said that the Manchu Qing Dynasty is the culprit of the century-old nightmare of China's modern history, and it has an unshirkable responsibility.
Wu Qiang understands the truth, and those histories have long been engraved in textbooks, making countless descendants sigh, but Wu Qiang has a deep sense of powerlessness, he can only be a spectator of history, and he even hates his mediocrity, cowardice and incompetence.
"Boom, boom, boom......" A gong sound interrupted Wu Qiang's emotion.
The pedestrians on the street scattered in both directions, and a procession was coming this way.
There were about 20 people in this column, and they were composed of guards and guards who were guarding the city. In the middle of the procession, a wooden shelf was carried by several people, on which sat a woman with a sashimi.
The woman is about thirty years old, because she is too plump, the flesh on her body has sagged, and her chest has become two meat bags, because the cloak is scattered, Wu Qiang can't see her appearance clearly, but with the vague outline, you can see that at least it is not too ugly.
At this moment, the woman was tied with her arms tied by the reverse scissors, and under the bumps of the wooden frame, she wailed from time to time, and blood dripped from the wooden frame, and the scene was very miserable.
Wu Qiang couldn't help but ask Ling Yuqiang, "What's the situation?" ”
Ling Yuqiang replied: "This is a wooden donkey parade organized by the government. ”
Although Wu Qiang is a novice in history, he still has heard of the wooden donkey, the so-called wooden donkey is a wooden shelf, and there is a thick and strong wooden stick protrusion in the horizontal place, shaped like a man's object, and the criminal woman sits on it and is carried through the street.
Don't think that it will be cool for a woman to sit on it, because the wooden stick model is too huge, and it is definitely a great pain for a woman, and you can't say too much, and it is easy to be drunk blood. The wooden donkey was designed by the ancient government to deal with women as an extremely cruel punishment.
Wu Qiang was a little puzzled: "What crime has this woman committed?" ”
"Maybe this woman murdered her husband."
Wu Qiang said with some reluctance in his heart: "Then there is no need to be so humiliated and tortured, this is too cruel?" ”
"If this is the case, this woman will be ripped off."