Chapter 17 Celebration Banquet
Two flowers bloomed, each with a branch, and then Mujiazhai, everyone gathered at the entrance of the village, looking forward to the battle situation on the front line, although everyone did not close their eyes for two days and two nights, but there was no sleepiness.
The dog walked back and forth anxiously, anxious, and the night was so long and difficult for him.
As soon as the morning dawned, riding down from the top of the opposite mountain, Mu Xiaoqing shouted loudly on horseback: "Big victory, big victory!" Mujiazhai wins! Victory! ”
When everyone heard the news, they immediately boiled, and they all couldn't wait to run towards Mu Xiaoqing, wanting to inquire about a more specific situation. Jiugong, supported by several people, fell behind the crowd and walked briskly towards Mu Xiaoqing.
When Mu Xiaoqing's horse was about to arrive at the gate of the village, he jumped off the horse, didn't care about wiping the sweat from his forehead, and said breathlessly: "Big-victory, big-win victory!" Annihilate the enemy. ”
The crowd cheered. After the cheers, everyone began to care about the safety of their respective families, and chattered around Mu Xiaoqing, Mu Xiaoqing was so busy that he didn't know who to answer. At this time, Jiu Gong stepped forward with the support of several people, and everyone saw that it was Jiu Gong and made way for him, and everyone stopped chattering and listened respectfully to Jiu Gong's speech, and Jiu Gong asked tremblingly: "Won the battle?" Are there any casualties? ”
Mu Xiaoqing said loudly to Jiugong: "We won, no one is injured!" ”
Jiu Gong tilted his ears sideways, didn't hear clearly, and asked, "What, what are you talking about, 'every' casualties?" ”
Mu Xiaoqing raised his voice and said loudly: "Jiugong, I mean there are no casualties, and the people in our village are unharmed!" ”
This time everyone listened really and really, and suddenly the crowd erupted in cheers, Jiugong was also so happy that he couldn't close his mouth, there was no tooth in his shriveled mouth, Jiugong said: "Okay, Mujiazhai is a great news, set off firecrackers to celebrate!" The people around him conveyed Jiugong's words to everyone, and then everyone woke up like a dream, and Goudan turned around and ran home, and several young men followed Goudan and went home to get firecrackers.
The rest of the people surrounded Mu Xiaoqing to listen to the painting god to describe the process of outwitting the ancient family village, and everyone listened to it with relish as if listening to a commentary, and they all felt that the owner of the village was simply a god descending from heaven, brave and invincible, and the admiration for the owner of the village in their hearts was uncontrollable.
Some young girls also squeezed forward, Mu Xiaozhu is a famous beauty in the village, usually Mu Xiaoqing always finds a chance to talk to her, but she never gives him a good face, but she didn't expect that today she took the initiative to squeeze forward and asked: "Brother Xiaoqing, is the owner of the village injured?" ”
"Stinky girl, you don't want the owner of the village to order well, the owner of the village is wise and martial, how can he be injured?" The crowd blamed. Some young girls cast resentful glances at Mu Xiaozhu, they must have other plans for caring so much about the owner of the village!
Xiaozhu was counted down by everyone, and she felt very uncomfortable, and muttered in her mouth: "I care about the owner of the village!" ”
Mu Xiaoqing lost no time in currying favor with Mu Xiaozhu and said, "Sister Xiaozhu, don't worry, with me guarding the owner of the village, he will definitely not be injured!" ”
"Cut-!" The crowd looked at them with contempt, of course, everyone knew Mu Xiaoqing's intentions, and some people joked: "You better protect your sister Xiaozhu, it's enough for the owner of the village to have us to protect it!" ”
"Haaha-" The crowd erupted in laughter.
Xiaozhu is a girl after all, thin-skinned, she covered her face with her hands and ran towards the village shyly. Mu Xiaoqing hurriedly chased after him, everyone was listening to Mu Xiaoqing's introduction to outwitting Gujiazhai, where was he willing to let him go, pulling and not letting him go, Xiaoqing was so anxious that he stomped his feet.
At this moment, firecrackers rang out in the village, and the sound of firecrackers resounded through the cottage. The whole stockade was enveloped in cheers.
Everyone got together to discuss, they all wanted to go to Gujiazhai in person, and they came to see what Gujiazhai looked like, listening to Mu Xiaoqing's description, Gujiazhai was very rich, and everyone wanted to open their eyes. Second, I wanted to help the owner of the village, but I heard that there were not enough people, and everyone was very anxious and wanted to stretch out.
Later, everyone discussed and reached a consensus, the old man and the child stayed, and a few young and strong people were selected by Jiugong to guard the village, and the rest went to Gujiazhai.
The dog was not selected by Jiugong to guard the village, and he jumped up and down with joy.
But the other left-behind young men were also extremely depressed, but they had to listen to Jiugong's words, even if there were thousands of reluctances, he had no choice.
A few children who had to follow the adults were beaten and cried and forcibly left in the village.
After everyone assembled, the team beat gongs and drums and sounded trumpets to go to Gujiazhai. And they are undoubtedly the propaganda team, and the people along the way soon learned the news of the destruction of Gujiazhai and applauded.
At this time, there was a beggar with clear eyebrows on the side of the road, heard that Gu Batian was destroyed, excited to shed tears, he hurriedly followed behind this group of teams, to Gujiazhai, a few days ago, he came to Dongshuanghe Town with his brother and sister-in-law's family to join his relatives, but he did not expect that his relatives had long been missing, his brother and sister-in-law were also missing, he was penniless, he had to make a living by eating wild vegetables, he had long heard that his brother and sister-in-law might be arrested by Gu Batian, but how dare he go to Gujiazhai to ask for people, so he had to beg and wander. Unexpectedly, Gu Batian was eliminated, so he joined the team and went to Gujiazhai to find his brother and sister-in-law.
Some of the people who were miserable by Gu Batian joined the team one after another, and slowly the team became longer and longer, there were as many as a thousand people, and they went towards Gujiazhai.
Putting down everyone and going to Gujiazhai for the time being, Yu Xiang went to the meeting hall, passed through a miscellaneous courtyard, and saw a few soldiers with big knives to maintain order, everyone in the courtyard was beaming, with an excited smile on their faces, this is the place where the imprisoned 'prisoners' have dinner. They can have a free big meal, pork and white rice! Many people here can't even eat the New Year's meal, so everyone is beaming, holding bowls, lining up, and receiving pork and white rice one by one.
Yu Xiang said to Ah Niu: "You lead everyone to the council hall first, and after everyone is settled, I will come back." Ah Niu took the order, and everyone followed him to the council hall. The red lady followed Yu Xiang and entered the courtyard.
Seeing that a few people were busy in the yard, the red lady took the initiative to step forward, picked up the spoon, and helped distribute the pork soup, she scooped a spoonful of pork, and poured it into the evening of the person in front of her, the man thanked him repeatedly, and hurriedly walked forward to get the rice, and the team behind moved a step forward.
Yu Xiang stood aside, looking at the busy red lady, his heart was full of warmth. An ancient heroine, who turned out to be so kind and virtuous, if it weren't for her own appearance, what kind of thing would she have caused to rise up and become a rebel? Thinking of this, Yu Xiang couldn't help but feel a thousand emotions in his heart.
Yu Xiang looked around, saw a person who looked like a book, sitting in the corner without saying a word, he didn't go to the queue to get the soup and rice, at this time a woman covered in patches called a bowl of broth rice and handed it to him, obviously, this woman is his wife, the two children behind the woman also called the broth rice, sat in front of the man, the man looked at the woman, and the woman turned around and lined up behind the long line. I went to get the soup and rice again. The man and the two children bowed their heads and devoured their meals.
Yu Xiang looked at the broth and rice in the basin, sighed in his heart, when this woman arrived, he was afraid that the broth and rice were gone, and he couldn't help but sympathize with this woman, as the saying goes, marry a man and marry a man to dress and eat, this old saying is really true, a woman marries her husband, if this person can't even protect her wife and children, and can't let them eat enough, then what's the use of reading more books, Yu Xiang thought of himself in modern society, he couldn't even give Yang Lili a safe and warm home, he was looked down upon, how similar to this man, Yu Xiang glanced at the man twice.
Yu Xiang turned his head to Ding Dafu, who was accompanying him, and said, "Today, everyone will have to eat broth and rice." He pointed to the ragged woman at the back of the line and said, "She hasn't eaten yet, don't let her go hungry." ”
Ding Dafu hurriedly said: "Listen to the instructions of the owner of the village, the villain must prepare a sufficient amount of soup and rice, so that everyone can eat meat soup and rice." So he ordered them to prepare more broth and rice.
Yu Xiang nodded in satisfaction.
At this time, Ah Niu came and said to Yu Xiang: "Master Yuzhai, the celebration banquet is ready, just wait for you and the red lady to go over and have a banquet!" ”
Yu Xiang nodded, asked the red lady to hand the soup spoon to the woman beside her, and took her to the main banquet hall together, under the guidance of Ah Niu, Yu Xiang sat down at the main table, and the red lady sat beside him.
After everyone was seated, Yu Xiang stood up and raised his glass. Yu Xiang looked around at everyone: "Today I want to drink four glasses of wine with everyone, this first cup of wine, to pay tribute to the eleven martyrs who died in the Budai Valley, they sacrificed their lives for the village, they are our heroes!" Then he respectfully sprinkled the wine on the ground.
Everyone stood up one after another, respectfully spilled wine on the ground, and expressed their reverence for the martyrs. Some of the martyrs' families were moved to tears, in this society that regards human life as a mustard, there are still people who value love and righteousness so much, they all feel that those who die for their confidants die a well-deserved death!
At this time, someone had already filled the cup of wine for Yu Xiang, Yu Xiang raised his glass and said: "The second cup of wine, I want to pay tribute to everyone here, only because of your bloody battles, we were able to defeat Gu Batian." Defend Mujiazhai! Yu Xiang looked at everyone and said in a firm tone: "Cheers to Mujiazhai's happy and healthy tomorrow!" ――”
Everyone in the hall raised their glasses and shouted in unison: "! Yu Xiang and everyone tilted their necks and drank the wine in the toast.
After drinking, everyone quieted down and waited for Yu Xiang to speak.
Yu Xiang continued to raise his glass and said: "This third glass of wine, we must respect Daxia, Li Daxia, Jia Daxia, Zhang Erhu and other new friends who have joined us, with your joining, we can capture Gujiazhai without blood, and you will also become the backbone of the construction of the new village, I will do it first!" After speaking, he tilted his neck and drank the wine in his glass.
Shengying and the others also stood up and toasted in one gulp.
Yu Xiang picked up his glass and continued: "Today, I announced that Gujiazhai has been renamed from today and is called Zhangjia New Village, why did it change so much? This place was originally called Zhangjia Village, after being occupied by Gu Batian, changed to Gujiazhai, we want to return him to the original name, in order to let us all remember: in this world, not only Gu Batian, there may also be Liu Batian, Li Batian, if we do not think of danger in times of peace, and strive to be strong, then sooner or later we will have to follow in the footsteps of Zhangjia Village to be destroyed, so everyone here must work together, unite as one, build a new village, build our homeland, and never repeat the footsteps of Zhangjia Village. ”
"This fourth glass of wine is a toast to our early construction of a new Zhangjia New Village! Dry!!! Yu Xiang said.
Everyone in the hall shouted in unison, "!! The crowd fell on their backs.
After drinking four glasses of wine, Yu Xiang ordered everyone to eat and drink openly, and suddenly the court was staggered and celebrated. Several people came forward to toast, and Yu Xiang only drank a little symbolically, after all, there were still many things to deal with, and he was drunk and delayed.
Everyone also understood the current mind of the village owner, and they didn't want him to get drunk, so everyone didn't force him to drink, so Yu Xiang was able to eat with peace of mind.
The red lady sitting beside her, eating her rice without saying a word, thinking about her thoughts, did not expect that in just two days, the timid and cowardly man in her eyes was like being reborn and becoming a calm and calm hero, which convinced the whole village, and this change surprised her.
Yu Xiang saw that the red lady was thinking about her thoughts and eating dry rice, so he put a spoonful of meat in her bowl, and said with concern: "Don't just eat dry rice, eat more vegetables!" Eat more meat so that the wound heals faster! ”
The red lady felt a warm heart, looked at Yu Xiang with beautiful eyes, and smiled happily!