December 2, 1914

Today, the training of the entire security regiment was suspended, except for those who patrolled and stood guard, and all the rest went down to the field to help harvest food.

In the paddy field, the rice trees bent over by the ears full of grains seem to symbolize the joy of a good harvest. Within half a month, the grains will be returned to the warehouse after harvesting and drying, filling the stomachs of farmers who have been hungry for decades.

However, not everyone is happy, some people have an old face longer than a donkey, their eyes are gone, and they still stare at them with a blowing beard.

"What a harvest!"

The infamous mayor of Huashi Town, Li Liupi, looked at the golden rice fields in front of him, his eyes flashed with greedy green light, but his brows were wrinkled, his mouth was tapping a cigarette bag, and he didn't know what he was thinking.

"Dad, this year's mud legs can also eat fragrant rice, damn it, even our family is reluctant to eat it every day, I'm bah!"

The mayor's eldest son took a sip.

The scheming Li Liupi, while smoking dry cigarettes, while thinking about the things that have become more and more strange in the past six months, first inexplicably came to a foreigner, and then set up a factory in Qinghe Village, at first a lot of the ocean to honor himself, his own money obsession actually helped him to build a security group, now people want people, guns and guns, and they can't help it, although there are a few guns in the town, but it is not enough for people to stuff their teeth.

Since his family did not work in his factory, he could not buy fertilizer, and the landlord did not receive seeds, so compared to the rice that had used fertilizer, his field looked like it had been eaten by pigs, and the yield was pitiful. The man surnamed Chen is not allowed to change his own rice rent. Just those generations of mud legs, when will they also deserve to eat white rice? I only eat once every three days on weekdays, but they are fine, and they can eat with an open stomach after half a month.

This acre of land, at least there is a harvest of five or six hundred catties.

On this day last year, where can those mud legs afford to buy seeds and fertilizers, they all picked up some rotten sweet potatoes and rotten potatoes from their granaries to make seeds, but in a blink of an eye, the mud legs actually lived better than themselves.

"Daddy...... Daddy......" The mayor's eldest son shouted twice before he woke up Li Liupi from his thoughts, "Dad, why don't we come this time and pull them out in the middle of the night." The first few times I opened the ridge to release water, I couldn't cure them, and this time I simply came to a ruthless one. If we let them have enough to eat, we won't be able to let go of our family's profits. ”

Don't look at his age, but this heart is a first-class black, and the little white face is matched, he is really called a wolf and a dog's heart is not a person.

"Profit? No, they must not be allowed to happily take back the rice! ”

Looking at the mountains in the distance, Wang Decai suddenly thought of a way, and went back almost trotting back with his own dog calf, and also lost his fifty-year-old boss and bones.

As soon as the night was dark, several black shadows went out from the Li Mansion in the dark, and they didn't know where to go on the sneaky night.

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"Big brother, this year's rice harvest is really good. As far as our family's few points of land are concerned, we have to beat hundreds of catties of rice. ”

Yu Liang looked at the rice in his field and said to Yu Xing beside him, Yu Xing nodded and returned: "Thanks to Boss Chen, this year's Chinese New Year, there will be big white noodles to roll dumplings and wonton skins!" "Big brother, if the militia recruits soldiers in the unknown year, I will go, and the old lady of the family will take care of it for you." Don't, I'll go, you're still young, or continue to go to work in the steel factory, and the young militia probably won't want you."" No, I'll go."" I'll go."

While the two brothers were arguing, several people hurried past them with their heads bowed. Hey, big brother, isn't that dwarf the housekeeper in Li Papi's house? When we came to collect rent last year, he was the one who asked someone to beat us." When those people walked a little farther, his younger brother Yu Liang hurriedly said to his brother Yu Xing. Yes, this gang of evil spirits is walking so fast, and they are still keeping their heads down, there will definitely be nothing good. Are you worried about the food in our fields?" Or else. Let's follow up and take a look, and if there is any situation, report to Boss Chen immediately."

The two brothers nodded to each other, and the cat followed, and when it was dark, the few people in front of them did not notice.

After following for a while, they came to the gate of the Li Mansion in the town, and the two brothers who followed behind saw where those people knocked on the door, and suddenly one of the stronger men raised his head and looked behind him, fortunately the two brothers hid quickly, and by the light at the door of the Li Mansion, the two brothers saw the man's face." Isn't that Wang Mazi? Why did Li Papi collude with him?" Yes, it's Wang Mazi, it seems that Li Papi has taken a fancy to our grain, Boss Chen didn't let him come to collect rent, and contacted the bandits to rob him."" Then let's quickly report to Boss Chen, Boss Chen is the head of the security team, and tell him to prepare in advance."

The two brothers took advantage of the night and hurried back to Qinghe Village.

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"Ge Laozi, the fields of a few villages can harvest at least thirty or forty thousand catties of rice!!" Wang Er Mazi, who had just inquired about the situation from Qinghe Village, sat in the hall of the Li Mansion and cursed. Originally, he didn't believe that there was so much food, and he had dealings with Li Liupi, so he came to take a look, and by the way, he explored.

Guangxi, Huashi County is deep in the mountains near Tiger Mountain. This is a well-known bandit den, and the largest of them is the pockmarked bandit in front of him, this person has a round head and a bald head, a scar hanging upside down to the root of his ear, and a brute face full of pockmarks, so that those who have seen his ferocity remember it vividly, this Tiger Mountain's Wang Er Mazi. There are seven or eight large and small bandits on the whole Tiger Mountain, and the scale of Wang Er Mazi is the largest, the big boss is Wang Er Mazi's own brother, two brothers from the robe brother in the early years, and it took decades of killing people to bring out a team of more than 1,000 people. And Tiger Mountain is the best place for them to escape from this kind of restless life, and the huge temptation of tens of thousands of catties of rice makes him unable to sit still anymore.

Li Liupi (Li Liupi translates to "You peel the skin" in the accent of Hokkien) leaned over and puffed, "Commander Wang doesn't know, this surnamed Chen doesn't know where it fell, he stayed in Qinghe Village with a dead face and didn't leave, but now he actually tossed out new rice from several villages." An acre of land has a yield of hundreds of catties, and a total of several villages is tens of thousands of catties of rice! ”

"Tens of thousands of catties ......" Wang Er Mazi subconsciously licked a small half of the knife and said: "Your mayor Li Da has such a good heart, I remember that there are more than 100 people in your town, how could you think of passing the news to me, are you uneasy and kind."

Li Liupi is such a cunning person, and immediately told the prepared and familiar lies, "Commander Wang knows, that Chen Shao has set up a security regiment, and there are two or three hundred guns, as well as earthen artillery. There are only about 100 people here, and I really am not an opponent, not to mention our many years of friendship, which should let you know. The earthen cannon he said was the 75mm mountain cannon of the security regiment, and Li Liupi had never seen it, but occasionally went to Qinghe Village a few times to hear the sound of the artillery training of the security regiment, thinking that it was an ordinary earthen cannon, even if he was told that it was a real Western cannon, he probably would not believe that a small security regiment could have such good equipment, so this was destined to be their tragedy.

"Earth cannon?" Wang Er Mazi can be the overlord of the Tiger Mountain area, and his mind is not simple." Yes, definitely earth artillery." Li Liupi was afraid that he would not believe it and quickly answered.

"It's also a loss to you, the old guy, who rushed to invite Lao Tzu overnight, I'm afraid I have been forced to live hard. Tell me, how many people and how many guns are there in the Raushzi security group? "Wang Er Mazi has a reason to be tempted, the end of the year is approaching, there is no food in the cottage, and it is not enough to grab points in a small area, let alone expand the team.

1,200 guns and dozens of horses are the belongings that the two brothers have saved in the past few years, and now the power of the bandits has stagnated for a long time, and the most important reason is that there is no money, no guns and no food.

"The security regiment is just a clay cannon, more than 200 guns, all of them are mud legs with hoes down, far less brave and good at fighting than the men of the big bosses." Li Liupi spat disdainfully. It's sad enough, when the security regiment was first established, there were more than 100 people, he knew this, according to his idea, it was only half a year, how many more people can there be, say more than 200 people, that is to look up to the security regiment, and the security regiment reserve patrols and stands guard outside There are only a few people every day, so Li Liupi feels that he will definitely not be wrong about this.

"Haha, if it's really as you said, I really want to get to know that head Chen. Brother Li, it's not a secret, my brother has also wanted to move recently, but there is no food and salary for one hardship, and no good things for the second hardship. ”

Wang Er Mazi laughed and walked to Li Liupi's side, patted him on the shoulder, almost didn't beat the old thing to the ground, turned around and shouted: "Come on, prepare the best banquet for Lao Tzu, today Lao Tzu wants to chat with Brother Li while drinking, and he will rest when he is drunk!" ”