Chapter Twenty-Five: Angel's Heart
The nun wanted to say no, but when she thought that Father Henry and several other monks and nuns had died, and that there were still many corpses and blood on the floor in the church, she couldn't help but tremble in her calves, and immediately took back the rejection that came to her lips.
At this time, it was only half an hour before Zhao Dongyun led the army to disperse the mob, and under the lower part of Zhao Dongyun's hundreds of cavalry, those mobs were quickly dispersed, and of course, the corpses of the mob were also left all over the ground in the process of expulsion.
Although nine times out of ten, these mobs were bewitched by the gods, and there were few who rebelled, most of them had the idea of following the crowd, and even many of them came purely to see the excitement, but they became corpses on the ground, which is quite pitiful.
But Zhao Dongyun has always believed that poor people must have something hateful, you are ignorant and deceived by others and do wrong things, you can't say that it is not your fault, this is like someone else asking you to kill someone, and you don't know that murder is illegal, so you stupidly go to kill someone, and those who defend themselves after being arrested are not guilty!
, you didn't negotiate to shoot you!
Zhao Dongyun just used powerful means to carry out armed expulsion, after killing and injuring dozens of people, the remaining mobs all fled in a swarm, and in the face of those fleeing mobs Zhao Dongyun was too lazy to look for them overnight, to deal with this kind of mass mob rebellion, the first is to kill the first culprit, the second is to kill more accomplices in ruthless things, and if you kill too many of the remaining people, they will naturally go home obediently and be good citizens, there is no need to kill them all as rebels or the like.
If you really want to kill them all, you will have to kill at least 50,000 people in Shunde Mansion, and then you can't really shed a river of blood!
Although Zhao Dongyun boasted that he was ruthless, he did not massacre ordinary people in the whole village and county.
After the hundreds of mobs besieging the Pingxiang Church were killed and wounded dozens of people, the rest all ran away, and Zhao Dongyun did not plan to chase and suppress it overnight, so after hurriedly cleaning the small battlefield of the Pingxiang Church, he was ready to withdraw the army.
Due to his own injuries were very small, only two soldiers were slightly injured, and for those mobs, the seriously wounded who could not be saved were given a bayonet, and the minor injuries were tied up and taken away, as for those corpses, they could only wait for the follow-up local officials to deal with them, anyway, Zhao Dongyun was not in the mood to let his soldiers dig for other people's corpses.
So after leaving a corpse and taking more than 20 wounded prisoners, Zhao Dongyun led his troops to leave the Pingxiang Church, which was actually nearly nine o'clock in the evening, and he didn't plan to rush overnight, so he stayed in nearby Pingxiang for one night, and returned to the county seat tomorrow.
Pingxiang is also a small village, there are only 100 households, and there are many people in the village who participated in the Boxer Rebellion, Lianzhuang Society or something, and many people were directly involved in the siege of the church, so when Zhao Dongyun led the army into Pingxiang, nearly half of the young and middle-aged people in the village were short, most of them fled for fear of being caught, and a few were killed or simply caught.
In order to prevent accidents, he did not let all his troops into the village, but camped in the open space on the edge of the village, and he did not live in the best house in the area as usual, but only found a farmhouse on the outskirts of the village to live.
"Don't worry, I'll just stay overnight and leave early tomorrow morning!" Looking at the white-haired old man who was trembling with fright, Zhao Dongyun couldn't bear to frighten him, and immediately said a few good words, and at the same time gave the guards around him a color: "Give the old man money!" ”
After receiving the ten eagles handed over by the guards, the old man seemed to be a little afraid to directly subordinate him, but he didn't dare to refuse, and he was stunned and stood there holding the silver dollar, Zhao Dongyun looked at it and felt depressed, can't you let me be a good person?
Immediately, his eyebrows furrowed: "Get out of here if you take the silver!" ”
The old man ran out of the yard as if he had been pardoned!
"Can't you be kind to them?" The little nun beside her said, "They are God's people, too!" ”
Zhao Dong smiled when he heard this: "Do you think I treated them badly just now?" ”
The nun nodded, still looking at him with purity.
Zhao Dongyun didn't want to explain too much to her: "That's because you don't know what it's bad to call it yet!" ”
Zhao Dongyun asked himself, he was already a good person if he didn't slaughter this village where half of the men were mobs, so after a pause, he said: "At least one-third of the mob that besieged your church just now are villagers of this village!" ”
Zhao Dongyun felt the need to remind her: "Father Henry and several other monks and nuns in your church died at their hands!" ”
The nun looked puzzled when she heard this, but after a while, she looked up at Zhao Dongyun again as if she had made up her mind: "Father Henry, they have been called by the Lord, and too many people have died tonight, so we should forgive those who are still alive!" ”
Zhao Dongyun was speechless when he heard this, what kind of truth is this!
Could it be that religion is so powerful that it can brainwash people into such a thing?
After looking at this nun in detail, Zhao Dongyun muttered in his heart: "It's beautiful, but her brain is a little abnormal!" ”
Of course, he didn't say this, and immediately said, "You go wash first, then eat and go to sleep!" ”
This was not only said to her, but also to him, who had been on the road for hours since the afternoon, and then had been dealing with bloody corpses for half a day on the side of the church, and his body was not covered with dust, but stained with the smell of blood, and he had to wash it!
Although the courtyard of this rented farmhouse is simple, it is not small, there are several large houses on the front and back, and after entering the house, the soldiers have prepared hot water, which is slightly clear and clean, and then they put on a civilian dress and are ready to go to bed after eating, but after looking at the candlelight in the nun's room outside, they have changed into a military uniform.
At this time, the soldiers outside also came in and said, "Dinner is ready!" ”
Zhao Dongyun nodded: "Please invite that young lady to come over for dinner!" ”
After saying that, Zhao Dongyun took advantage of this spare time to go out to the outside room, and a group of officers under him in the outside room had already gathered for dinner, Zhao Dongyun nodded secretly in his heart after sweeping his eyes, these officers were quite well-behaved and did not drink!
Seeing Zhao Dongyun come out, Wu Changlan and the others hurriedly got up, but Zhao Dongyun stretched out his hand first and pressed it: "You're welcome, sit, all of you have worked hard today, and it's inconvenient for us to drink alcohol when we go out today, so I also toast you with tea instead of wine!" ”
Wu Changlan said: "Your Excellency is polite, this is all our business!" ”
Zhao Dongyun didn't have too much politeness with them, and immediately said: "But in addition to resting at night, you must also arrange a night guard, don't let the mob take advantage of the chaos!" ”
Wu Changlan said: "The ministry knows! ”
Zhao Dongyun nodded again and then retreated, as the chief officer, it was naturally not good for him to continue to stay for too long, otherwise if he was there, those officers would be able to eat and drink.
As a new-style officer, many of the officers in the army came out of the Tianjin Martial Arts Academy, and a few returned to China after studying abroad, and most of their teachers were foreigners. In addition, when Yuan Shikai ran the new army, he placed great emphasis on imitating Western law, so these officers not only wore Western-style officers, but also some other habits also had the shadow of Western-style officers.
However, many deep-rooted things cannot be changed, such as respect and humility between superiors and subordinates.
Whenever Zhao Dongyun eats with those subordinates, he always needs to take care of too much, which makes Zhao Dongyun, who has the soul of later generations, very unaccustomed, and then simply stopped eating with his subordinates on weekdays.
In this way, he can eat comfortably, and his subordinates can no longer be inhibited!
When she returned to her room, she saw that the nun was already sitting there, and now she had just taken a shower, her hair was still wet, and she was wearing a nun's robe, of course, it was not the one that had been broken just now, but another one.
Zhao Dongyun didn't know that the nuns' dogma allowed nuns to eat alone with men, in fact, he didn't care, he just felt that as a man, he had the obligation to invite single women to eat together, of course, there were more selfish desires here.
It's just that he was a little surprised that the nun came over without any excuse!
He naturally didn't know that his lust for this nun was not hidden from his subordinates, and as a superior person, there were naturally too many people under his hands who consciously shared his worries.
So when preparing dinner, the people below only prepared another table for Zhao Dongyun's side after preparing a table for the officers outside, but they did not prepare a separate table for the nun, so that the nun would either go outside to eat with Zhao Dongyun's subordinates if she wanted not to be hungry, or eat with Zhao Dongyun.
Compared with eating with five or six men, it is more appropriate to eat alone with Zhao Dongyun.
Zhao Dongyun didn't know this, he sat opposite the nun and said, "I don't know what your name is!" ”
The nun on the opposite side seemed to be a little uncomfortable with Zhao Dongyun's opening of the sentence, and after frowning slightly, she said, "My name is Fang Ruolian."
Zhao Dongyun listened to it: "The name is good!" Then he took a big bite of the dish and said, "My name is Zhao Dongyun!" ”
"I know!" Fang Ruolian is very unaccustomed to Zhao Dongyun's casual way of talking, according to the common concept, believers must be respectful when they see priests, nuns and the like, even ordinary people who are not religious will not talk nonsense to maintain a certain respect.
But this Zhao Dongyun in front of him seems to regard her as an ordinary beautiful woman!
Not to mention, it's really like this, Zhao Dongyun, like most of the people who grew up under the red flag in later generations, is an outright atheist, so he really can't have any respect for priests, nuns, etc.
On the contrary, he was even more curious about why such a beautiful woman would become a nun, and he was also curious about how dazzling the figure of the nun in front of him would be if she took off her nun's robe.