Xiuyan, known as Xiuyan in ancient times, eight years of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty, placed Xiuyan Fort, belongs to Gaizhou Wei ......

In the first year of tomorrow's enlightenment, in March of the sixth year of the Mandate of Heaven of the Later Jin, the Later Jin Fu surrendered to Xiuyan City, and in the following year, the Houjin Old Slave sent heavy troops to garrison Xiuyan, and the Xiuyan Grain Management Judgment was established, and the granaries of Jinzhou, Haicheng and Gaizhou were managed.

In the third year of the Apocalypse, the Han people in Xiuyan were instigated by the guerrilla Mao Wenlong in the Ming Kingdom, and rebelled against the rule of the Tar slaves, on the seventh day of the seventh month, the old slaves sent troops to suppress, except for the more than 6,000 prisoners, the rest of the Han people in Xiuyan were slaughtered,

In the sixth year of Chongzhen, Yue Tuo, who sat in Xiuyan, immediately fell into the danger of being attacked on three sides by the Ming State after Haoge retreated, and had to be ordered by Huang Taiji to retreat to the Gaizhou area, leaving only 3,000 soldiers and horses in Xiuyan City, coupled with the constant harassment of the Ming army sentry cavalry in Jinzhou, rumors spread, and the entire Xiuyan territory was panicked, and it was impossible to live all day.

Dongqingmoyu Huangjiabao, Yu Xuezhong, a person under the household, wore a tattered jacket, carried a hoe with a gap, and walked towards the master's land with a few people who were also rickety, in May in southern Liaoning, wheat has grown a green patch, at this time if you do not pay close attention to weeding and loosening the soil, it will affect this year's harvest.

There is a woman with small feet in the wrapper, she can't walk fast, Yu Xuezhong is too lazy to urge her, she takes care of herself and holds the rope and looks down to think about her own thoughts, occasionally looking back, several wrappers behind her are numb, the sun hits the top of everyone's heads, and the shadow under her body sometimes becomes longer, sometimes shortened......

As soon as the group walked to the fort gate, they heard a lot of noise, and many red-armored soldiers were running around with weapons, and Yu Xuezhong's heart tightened. Quickly stopped, he walked briskly to the horse stake on the side of the road and tied the rope to the stake. Said to a few coats: "I'll go and see, you guys are waiting for me here"

Yu Xuezhong still wanted to warn a few words, but he didn't expect those few coats to squat down immediately, hanging his head and looking at the lumps on the ground, Yu Xuezhong was relieved, he looked back and forth, and didn't see his acquaintances. Then he walked cautiously towards the castle gate.

From a distance, Yu Xuezhong saw his brother Yu Xueyong wearing leather armor and talking with a few red-armored soldiers at the fort gate. Yu Xuezhong suddenly relieved his heart and walked over.

"Brother, what's wrong?" Yu Xuezhong walked to his brother's side with courage, and nodded to a few red-armored soldiers for a while. He asked, taking a chance.

A few of them escaped during the night. You wait there first" Yu Xueyong turned around a little impatiently and said, then ignored him, Yu Xuezhong slowly walked back to the horse pile, those few coats were still looking at the lumps, and even the posture had not changed, Yu Xuezhong sat on the ground leaning on the horse pile, his eyes looking at the castle gate and thinking about his thoughts.

After a while, the coats of each family were carrying hoes and preparing to work. Seeing this, they all stopped, so Yu Xuezhong quickly squatted beside a group of people. At this moment, Yu Xuezhong suddenly felt a tightness in the back of his head, and Yu Xuezhong looked back to see a skinny monkey-like boy pulling his braids.

"Yu Xuezhong, what's wrong?" This thin monkey is the Nikan of Qili Ge Lilan's family, called Leper Ah Si, thanks to his mother's good service to Ge Lilan, Leper Ah Si only lived from six to eight years old, but Ge Lilan's family is very burdened, Leper Ah Si is also full and hungry, his thin body is like weeds, as soon as the wind blows, Yu Xuezhong is worried that he will be blown away, Yu Xuezhong has always liked him, so he shook his head and said: "Who knows? Quasi-insurance is not honest with these coatings again."

Outside the fort suddenly sounded the neighing of horses, as well as the dull sound of horses' hooves, Yu Xuezhong quickly stood up and held the horse stake to look outside, several armor soldiers at the fort gate gave way to get out, with a few loud whistles, a few horses galloped in, when the first person controlled the horse, almost rushed to Yu Xuezhong's front before pulling the reins and going around in a circle, the horse panted and almost sprayed on Yu Xuezhong's face, Yu Xuezhong was scared half to death, pedaled and stepped back more than a dozen steps in a row, and sat on the body of another coat......

The half-fleshy corpse was dragged by a rope, and it was so stumbling that Yu Xuezhong and others drew a bloody curve, the owner of the corpse Yu Xuezhong knew, but he didn't know the name, I heard that it was the armor of Murha's coat, last year many Han people on Shicheng Island went ashore to dig ginseng and collect medicine, and most of the coats in Huangjiabao were captured at that time, Yu Xuezhong looked at his gray braid and sighed, but seeing that he lost an eyeball and stared at himself in the black hole socket, Yu Xuezhong was so frightened that his heart and liver beat wildly, and he quickly lowered his head, Don't dare to look.

The number of horses circled in the fort, and then arrived at the door, these people jumped off their horses and talked with the red armor soldiers at the door for a while, and then they untied the rope on the horse's back with a smile, Yu Xuezhong saw that among the dozen or so bloody corpses, there were still a few that were shaking slightly, Yu Xuezhong shook his head, rubbed his eyes, and looked fixedly, and those corpses did not move again.

At this moment, the flag led Bahai to arrive on horseback, Yu Xuezhong saw him arrive, inexplicably relieved, Bahai did not wait for the mount to slow down, dismounted agilely, trotted a few steps and stopped near the fort gate.

Bahai and a few armor soldiers muttered for a while, then waved at him, Yu Xuezhong hurriedly trotted over, kneeling in front of Bahai and waiting for his command.

"Yu Xuezhong, you and Zhao Benshan took the coat and hung these Han dogs at the door to show the public, so that they could see what would happen if they escaped," Bahai said lightly

Yu Xuezhong nodded again and again, and just looked up, but saw his brother Yu Xueyong looking at him, and suddenly forgot what he wanted to say for a while.

Yu Xuezhong beckoned Bao Yi and dragged a few corpses to the gate of the fort, and he deliberately left the half of the corpse to Zhao Benshan, who had always been at odds with him, this Zhao Benshan relied on himself to be the subordinate of the lord of Bahai, and often said bad things about his two brothers in front of the lord, Yu Xuezhong saw Zhao Benshan's eyes that wanted to kill, and his heart was much happier.

Soon, the rope was put around the neck of the corpse, and with the shouts of the wrappers, the corpses were all hanged, but at this moment, Yu Xuezhong was shocked to find that these corpses suddenly came to life, and they were all kicking their feet frantically, and a corpse that was dragged to a bloody blur suddenly opened his eyes, his legs were kicked straight, but his eyes were desperately looking at Yu Xuezhong, who was closest to him.

Yu Xuezhong was so frightened that he spilled urine on the crotch of his pants, his legs were weak, and he sat on the ground, several red-armored soldiers around him laughed, even his brother was laughing, and the amplitude of several corpses gradually stopped, and it quieted down after a while. The corpse's eyes were not closed, and it remained in a strange posture of staring at him with a round eye......

Yu Xuezhong, who smelled of urine, held the rope dejectedly, carried the hoe and continued to hoe. Walking through the door, the blood of the half of the corpse fell drop by drop into the loess, and at this moment, the elder brother Yu Xueyong by the door suddenly leaned into his ear and whispered: "Go out to work, be careful of the sentry of the Ming army, in case of collision, don't resist"

Yu Xuezhong just wanted to look up. only to see that his brother had already gone away......

Yu Xuezhong pressed his beating heart, and the few coats behind him were still numb, without any abnormal appearance. He stopped them, he left, they left, Yu Xuezhong put his mind at ease, and took the lead towards the master's field. There are also clothes around him carrying farm tools. But no one talked,

Yu Xuezhong has been thinking about his brother's words, so that he is absent-minded in his work, for fear that the Ming army sentry will suddenly appear in front of him, and he didn't even see that little foot wrapping and lazy clothes, Yu Xuezhong didn't understand why his brother, who had always hated Ming Guo, would say such a thing.

Sometimes Yu Xuezhong felt that Master Bahai was too good to speak, and Zhao Benshan just used his mouth to suck the pus from the carbuncle for Master Bahai a few times before he was promoted to the manager of the village. is in charge of nearly 30 coatings, isn't it supposed to suck pus for the master? Although Yu Xuezhong looked down on Zhao Benshan. I still envy him in my heart, the housekeeper is the fattest errand that Yu Xuezhong can expect, and the more than thirty coats are a little bit of a trick, at least you don't have to worry about being hungry when you don't pick up the green and yellow, right?

"I didn't catch up with the good days!" Yu Xuezhong sighed, threw away the hoe that was loose at every turn, sat down under a tree, and reached out to touch it in his arms,

brush, a few eyes immediately looked over......

Yu Xuezhong was furious, jumped up and scolded: "What do you see, you dog slaves, you will only be lazy and slippery when you work, and you will eat like livestock, and then watch Lao Tzu dig out your dog's eyes one by one, believe it or not?" ”

A few coats lowered their heads again, and continued to grind foreign workers there, Yu Xuezhong didn't pay attention to them, he tore a piece of the wild vegetable naan in his arms, and just wanted to open his mouth, but suddenly thought of the black hole in his eyes, Yu Xuezhong's stomach churned, and he was suddenly full.

"Take it" Yu Xuezhong handed the half of the naan to the small-footed woman who had been staring at him, this woman was a little bolder than the other clothes because she served him on weekdays.

The woman swooped over like a frightened mouse, took the wild vegetable naan and turned around and swallowed it, Yu Xuezhong stepped forward and touched the woman's shriveled buttocks, turned his head and shouted loudly to the others, only at this time, Yu Xuezhong felt that he had some humans, in addition to farming for his master, raising horses, herding sheep, and following his master in wartime, in addition to these, there were also some public laborers in the banner who also had to contribute, so he was extraordinarily indifferent to those coatings, Because Yu Xuezhong didn't know when these coats died suddenly, or like those people just now, they ran away and were caught and hanged.

But in the end, Yu Xuezhong still gave the remaining half of the naan to these coats, there are only a few coatings left at home, one less one starved to death, if he dies, these jobs will fall on himself and his brother and sister-in-law, Yu Xuezhong is not stupid.

More than 30 coats under the master of the Ulin Dynasty, hundreds of acres of fertile fields have become a memory, since the elder brother carried the master of the Ulin Dynasty back from the sea of blood in the corpse mountain, the days began to decay day by day, because the master's leg was lame, was crippled by the Lushun Ming military cannons!

Yu Xuezhong also asked his brother privately, he was a little curious, as a white swing tooth, the master's martial arts skills are among the best in the flag, even the master of Niu Lu Bahai is polite when he sees them, especially if he shoots a good bow, he will not miss shooting a bird in seventy steps on the back of a bumpy horse, how can he hurt the tattered fire gun of the Ming army? Unexpectedly, the brother who has always been kind turned his face and scolded him, Yu Xuezhong didn't dare to inquire about these things, the master asked his brother to rip out the lead embedded in the thighs that day, everyone thought it was okay, but he didn't expect that the master's wound had been festering after coming back, and finally almost spread to half of the buttocks. This time it was finally good, but one leg was lame.

If you are lame, you can't go on the expedition, and if you can't go on the expedition, there will be no looting, and the little things left in the flag are not enough for this big family to stuff their teeth. can survive on more than 100 acres of land, but the master has been like a different person since he came back, and he just relieves his worries every day. Recently, I have become obsessed with the high liquor sold in North Korea, called Golden Sun, Yu Xuezhong didn't know that this wine was the name given by the immoral person in North Korea, it was too appropriate, drinking this wine is to burn money, no, burn gold. Except for the two who starved to death last year, and the three who escaped and were hanged, the rest of the coats are here. In order to drink this golden sun, the master sold a lot of clothes and good land, which were all the industries that the master earned with a knife and a gun.

"If this continues, will the master sell me?" Yu Xuezhong thought of this. I couldn't help but shudder......

Until the sun turns westward. Yu Xuezhong supervised the wrappers to hoe the weeds in the field, the loose soil was only half loosened, but there were a few bundles of firewood, Yu Xuezhong thought that he could also pay the errand when he went back, so he took the rope and walked towards Huangjiabao with the five coats behind him.

Entering the fort, Yu Xuezhong calmed down, and he looked left and right. Several bodies were still hanging there, and my brother didn't see them as usual. There were some cries around, Yu Xuezhong didn't hear it, he went home with his back on his back, and drove these coats back to the wooden house on the edge of the firewood house, the smell inside was very strong, and after the coatings went in, Yu Xuezhong carefully locked the door and pulled it, and then walked towards the main house with satisfaction, Yu Xuezhong had lived here for a few years, and he didn't want to go in and smell that smell again.

The dinner of the coats had to wait for the master to eat and see how much could be left, just when Xuezhong was thinking about giving an errand to the master, a woman ran over: "Yu Xuezhong, the master wants to see you." ”

Yu Xuezhong hurriedly trotted to the main house, the woman was serving the master, but she did not give birth to a son and a half daughter for the master, the master often vented with her when he was drunk, and he did not necessarily do less work at home on weekdays, and his life was more bitter than that of Yu Xuezhong's brothers.

"Finished cleaning up the ground?" Wu Lindai saw Yu Xuezhong enter the house and knelt down to say hello, and asked

"It's over" Yu Xuezhong lied, but secretly complained in his heart, the master didn't drink today, but it was the first time to see it these days.

Ulindai ignored him, turned his head to Xueyong and said: "You don't have to work too hard to go to the west, besides, if you want to fight hard, it won't be your turn, what are you afraid of, those Ming troops in the west are not as good as Lushun......"

Ulindai seemed to remember something, and his face was a little hideous.

Yu Xuezhong's heart trembled, and he almost knocked over the bowl handed to his mouth, he looked at his brother, but he kept thinking in his heart: "Are you going to rob the west?" ”

Yu Xueyong said with a smile: "I can save this, I will follow Grayland and cut off people's heads behind them." ”

Ulindai scolded: "Is it useful to cut people's heads? Grab more money is the right thing"

Seeing that Yu Xueyong was silent, Ulindai changed his smile and said: "Since the death of Derge, the Zhenglan Banner has been cleaned a lot, and even Bahai has stepped aside to be assigned here, and we have more than ten places in Niulu, and it is still difficult to ask for it, Xuezhong, you will send that little foot Nikan to Bahai in a while......"

Yu Xuezhong was like being struck by lightning, and he was in a trance for a moment before he stood up and said, "Yes, master"

Although the woman is thin, she has always been very careful in serving him, and she can still recognize a few words, Yu Xuezhong has always hoped to marry her, so that his son can also recognize a few words, although he is reluctant in his heart, but he does not dare to speak more at this time.

“…… This year, the price of grain has risen by five dollars, the grain has risen, everything has risen, if you can't harvest much grain this year, the winter will be difficult, we have so many people in our family, always sit and eat empty instead of a way, and when you come back, I will beg Bahai, raise the flag of Xuezhong, and then marry him a mother-in-law, you are a brother, and you can be regarded as doing your best, isn't it? ”

Seeing Yu Xueyong nodding, Ulindai said again: "You followed me to learn some horseback archery, and when you blow the trumpet, take my armor, bow and arrows."

Coming out of the main house, Yu Xuezhong led the small-footed woman to Bahai's house in the west of the fort, the flag Ding is divided into Nikan according to his status, and there are three kinds of armor people and flag people, Nikan is mostly Han and Korean, and the armor man is a descendant, and the status is higher than Nikan, and the flag Ding is the highest point of the eight banners, since the elder brother carried the master back from Lushun, the master begged Bahai to carry the flag to his brother, which can be regarded as a real flag man, and now the master is going to carry the flag for himself, Yu Xuezhong is grateful, but he thought that his brother was going to fight with the Ming army, also wanted to give the little foot Nikan to Bahai, and Yu Xuezhong was a little reluctant.

The small-footed woman behind her walked very slowly, and Yu Xuezhong didn't urge her, this woman was too thin, and the master had long wanted to resell her, thanks to Yu Xuezhong who kept it, but this time he really had no choice, Bahai Master had more than ten Nikan women, sleeping in turns every night, and he couldn't look down on this woman, this small-footed woman was sold countless times, and I didn't know if she could live.

When I arrived at Bahai's house, the small-footed woman knelt at the door, there was no attachment just now in her eyes, and her face was indifferent, Yu Xuezhong stepped forward and buckled the copper ring, and after a while, Zhao Benshan stretched out his head with a face full of obscenity and looked at it.

Zhao Banshan knew that there was such a thing, and after coming out, he frowned and touched the woman's body for a while, then grabbed her chin and looked at her teeth and said, "I can't do heavy work, I'm too thin."

Yu Xuezhong looked at the lump under his feet and didn't make a sound, Zhao Benshan waved his hand to Xuezhong and said, "Go back, let's accept it for the master." ”

Walking to the intersection, Yu Xuezhong looked back and saw that the woman was still kneeling alone at the door, his eyes couldn't help but redden, and he finally couldn't help crying......

That night, Yu Xuezhong, who was sleeping in a daze, heard a knock on the door frame, and a black shadow spewing alcohol flashed in, turned over and slammed the wooden door shut, Yu Xuezhong moved towards the bed, and emptied the head of the bed.

Yu Xueyong flicked the Ula grass on the bed board and sat down, and the two brothers were silent in the dark......

"Recently, the flag in the flag has been much more polite to Bao Yi" Yu Xuezhong didn't know how to speak, so he said casually.

"It's not much better, there's no difference between a thousand cuts and hanging, it's all a dead word, don't you drink some wine? I specially left it for you" In the dark, Yu Xueyong snorted and handed over a wine bag

Yu Xuezhong thought of a few corpses at the gate of Tunpu, and lay back a little depressed: "The fire is burning, I really don't know why the master likes it so much......"

"Brother, are you really going to rob the west? What should I do if you leave your sister-in-law? Yu Xuezhong couldn't help but sit up and asked

"Have you heard about Qingyang Castle?" Yu Xueyong didn't answer, but asked rhetorically.

In the dark, Yu Xuezhong shook his head blankly, and Yu Xueyong said again: "Last month, Tunbao was broken by the Ming army, and more than 100 bannermen were killed, and everything that could not be taken away was burned in a fire, and I heard that those clothes were taken to Lushun."

Yu Xuezhong muttered: "I don't know what is crazy, Xingwanggou, Shimiaozi, Dagou, Shifo, Dingziyu, Lanjiagou, Huangjiabaozi, Asbestos, there are clothes everywhere to escape, as long as God opens his eyes, he will not worry about eating and drinking with his master, I really don't know what they think." ”

After a while, Yu Xueyong leaned into Yu Xuezhong's ear and whispered: "I heard that Lushun can divide a hundred acres of land, and there is no need to pay taxes, and if you don't have money for cultivating cattle seeds, you can owe it first and pay it back slowly."

Yu Xuezhong was taken aback and asked, "Is there such a thing?" ”

Yu Xueyong shook his head: "It's also a rumor, do you know it, the day before yesterday, a few coated partners in Lanjiagou killed their masters at home, fled to Lushun, and were caught halfway through, skinned and hung in the castle to show the public, if it weren't for the rumors, these people would run over there regardless of life or death?" ”

Yu Xuezhong was a little confused, he didn't know what his brother was doing to tell him about Lushun tonight, and he didn't know how to speak, so he listened with his ears pricked up.

"You have a number in your heart"

Yu Xueyong leaned into his ear and whispered: "I'll inquire again, if it is true, you can also run over there if you have the opportunity" (to be continued............