Chapter 20: The Men of Jing Nie
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Listening to the words of the thieves behind him, Jian Xue stopped, lowered his head on his sleeve, and wiped away his tears. Jian Xue looked around, and their position was deep in the dense forest.
Jian Xue reluctantly said something to support the scene at the moment: "Little thief, the scenery here is good!" ”
Li Chongjiu walked up to him from behind and said, "Yes, after nightfall here, there are many jackals infested, you don't have to worry, the corpses are in the wilderness." ”
After speaking, Li Chongjiu looked up to the sky and snorted haha.
When Jian Xue heard this, the whole person almost collapsed, and now it was just the last force supporting it, and he barely stood up: "Little thief, you do it quickly, I won't let you go if I am a ghost." ”
After speaking, Jian Xue closed her eyes, and her eyelashes trembled uncontrollably.
Li Chongjiu couldn't help but look at the other party's trembling body, and a smile appeared on his face at the moment, and he put the knife into the scabbard after waving it in the void.
Jian Xue only felt a cool breeze, and thought that he was unlucky, but when he opened his eyes, he found that the other party was uncovering the straw rope that bound him.
"You?"
"Whore!"
Li Chongjiu's hands were sick, and he dodged a head hammer from the other party, and he was angry and funny at the moment. And after Jian Xue saw that the straw rope in his hand had been untied, he immediately realized that he had misunderstood the meaning of the other party, and blushed at the moment.
Immediately, Jian Xue pricked her eyes again and asked, "Little thief, oh no, it's the young master, you want to let me go?" ”
"Hmm." Li Chongjiu nodded.
Jian Xue said: "So, do you believe my words and think that it was not the young lady who instructed the attack on the cottage?" ”
Li Chongjiu laughed, and said in his heart that he was a human being in two lives, and he had experienced a lot of deception in the shopping mall, if he was deceived by a fifteen-year-old girl, then he would not have to be a person in the future.
At that moment, Li Chongjiu said clearly: "The friendship of a gentleman is more precious than my heart, I don't believe in you, but in her." ”
"I believe in your young lady, and I believe in my own eyes!"
Jian Xue heard Li Chongjiu say this, her eyes showed a sparkling color, and she secretly said in her heart, I just thought, Miss said that this little thief has something extraordinary, so she wants to recruit it for the head of the family, and today it seems that Miss is really discerning!
Jian Xue looked carefully, this young man was about the same age as herself, and he was not as handsome as the son of the family, but this calmness and confidence beyond his age were really admirable. No wonder Miss said that among Yan Zhao, there are many Jing Nie people.
"Don't worry, today's matter, Miss will definitely double the compensation for your seven thousand villages."
Jian Xue said with certainty, "Our Li family will not treat anyone who takes refuge badly. ”
Li Chongjiu heard the word refuge, frowned slightly, and said: "After this incident, there is a lot of hatred towards the government from top to bottom of the cottage, and I am afraid that the matter of taking refuge in the Li family needs to be delayed." ”
"How can this be? Isn't it relieved to be less in charge? Jian Xue said anxiously.
"I'm relieved, it doesn't mean that my father is relieved, the cottage is relieved, I don't have the ability to convince them." Li Chongjiu replied.
"How's that good?" Jian Xue stood in place and frowned.
Li Chongjiu thought for a moment and said: "Okay, if your young lady feels that she owes us, let the county order of Shiai County remove the arrest of our 7,000 villages, and a few brothers who were caught by mistake can also be released." ”
"This is easy, it was originally a misunderstanding," Jian Xue said with a smile, as the maid of the Li family, she was still used to others, and she looked like she had something to ask for something to the Li family.
"What else?"
"Well, not for now." Li Chongjiu replied.
"No," Jian Xue's eyes widened, and she said, "The burning of Guishanzhai is a matter of tired of you seven thousand villages, and more than 20 brothers have died, no matter what, this matter is also caused by us." ”
"If you don't want to come to the Li family to serve as a subordinate, the young lady can also ask the master, at least to ensure that you are a government army. In the future, if the saint conquers Liaodong, if he makes military achievements, he can go one step further. ”
The tribe is a family soldier and private soldier raised by the family in the Northern and Southern Dynasties, and in the law, private property is allowed, but there is no household registration. The status is higher than that of slaves and maids, but lower than that of beloved commoners. In the host's home, the status is lower than that of the guests, similar to the status of a tenant.
Li Zhiwan originally recruited 7,000 village thieves and offered conditions, but Li Chongjiu, Li Hu, Su Su and other capable people became the Li family's subordinates. And their families can be granted Huang nationality to become civilians. This was not difficult, at that time, all families had the right to interpret the trilogy as a beloved, first the parents needed to give a handwritten letter, the eldest son and then the co-signing, and finally the report to the government.
Becoming a trilogy seems to have a low status, but for the Seven Thousand Village bandits, it is the only way. It is because if you want to be good, you must first have a household registration, if you don't have a household registration, you don't want to go anywhere except to shrink in the deep mountains and old forests, and if you are caught by the officials, you will be sentenced to at least two years in prison.
But now it is different, Li Chongjiu shook his head, Baoju became the team, although it was a step higher than going to the Li family to start the future, but the Li family was branded on his body, and he would be driven by it from now on.
What's more, Emperor Yang of Sui conquered Goryeo next year, and history records that he went to 300,000 troops and returned less than two or three thousand. Li Chongjiu categorically would not put himself to death.
Li Chongjiu hugged his fists and said: "The third lady has a heart, let's talk about this matter after a while, don't worry, if he needs it in the future, I will definitely come to the door to chatter." ”
Seeing that the other party's intentions were very strong, Jian Xue had no choice but to say: "Then follow the meaning of the young master." ”
Li Chongjiu smiled slightly and said, "Wait a while, you will go down the mountain." Heading east, you should run into your people. ”
After that, Li Chongjiu didn't want to say anything, and turned away.
"Less in charge!"
Jian Xue chased a few steps forward, but saw that Li Chongjiu had disappeared into the jungle. Jian Xue stopped and said silently: "I haven't thanked you yet, for the grace of private release." ”
Jian Xue thought about it again, this thief actually didn't take this matter and asked the young lady more, but walked away, he was really a chivalrous man. No, if I miss this person, Miss will blame him, and I need to tell him immediately.
Jian Xue secretly made up her mind.
However, it is said that more than 400 people from 7,000 villages went down the mountain and went south, and the boundary to the south was Leping County (Note 1).
Leping County also belongs to Taiyuan County, which is the practice of the green forest, and it is generally surrounded and suppressed by the officers and soldiers of the county, and it is necessary to flee to other counties and counties to settle down. There is no better place than the three-way border.
Further south of Leping County, it is out of Taiyuan County and arrives in Luzhou, which has been renamed Shangdang County after the opening of the Emperor (Note 2).
Now that the nest is lost, the cottage is full of lost dogs. However, everyone looked at Li Hu with a look of being in his chest, and they were all determined from the bottom of their hearts. But who knows that Li Hu has no plans in his heart.
Now the situation of 7,000 villages is due to the burning of the cottage, so the grain is lost, there is no grain and rice for the winter, and although the money brought out is a lot, but it can not sit and eat empty, so the situation is quite tense.
At present, Li Hu is also taking one step at a time, and first took four hundred people to the junction of Taiyuan County and Shangdang County.
Shangdang County is a gathering place for the green forest on the North Road, and it is common to temporarily defect to a green forest and borrow it for a few days. The days when the family was not surrounded and suppressed by officers and soldiers, and at the same time the rivers and lakes were in trouble, and those who could help the same way could not be postponed, this is the righteousness in the green forest.
This was Li Hu's current plan, but at this moment, Wang Jun suddenly led more than 20 brothers back.
It turned out that he heard that the cottage was attacked by officers and soldiers, so he hurriedly turned around and rushed to respond, but unfortunately he came one step late. Wang Junkuo was a little annoyed, of course, Li Hu and the others were very happy, and felt that Wang Junkuo was righteous.
Wang Junkuo saw that he didn't help, and saw that Li Hu and they had nowhere to go, so he immediately invited Li Hu and them to go to Shangdang, and went to Erxianzhuang together, begging the red-haired spirit official Shan Xiongxin to take them in.
Hearing Wang Junkuo say this, Li Hu hesitated a little and asked the opinions of everyone at the moment. Everyone thinks that although Shan Xiongxin is famous in the green forest, he is tantamount to sending people under the fence. As the saying goes, it is better to be a chicken head than a phoenix tail, Li Hu listened, and he also had his little Jiujiu in his heart, and he didn't want to be swallowed up.
Wang Junkuo heard everyone say this, and hurriedly said that Shan Xiongxin was the leader of the five roads in the green forest in the north. If you don't go to Luzhou, you can ask him to come forward and say something to help.
At the moment, Li Hu still couldn't make up his mind when he saw this, but Li Chongjiu agreed at this time. So Li Hu made a decision, Wang Junkuo, and Li Hu led a group of brothers from 7,000 villages to go to Luzhou Erxian Village to meet Shan Xiongxin.
Li Chongjiu was on the way, and when he heard that he could see this famous figure in the biography of the Sui and Tang Dynasty heroes, he was also full of expectations.
The earth is extremely high, and the sky is the party, so it is called the party. The origin of the name of the party,
In the Spring and Autumn Period, the powerful Jin State took the Shangdang as an important place for soldiers, and then the three families were divided into Jin, and Zhao and Han divided the Shangdang into two. Entering the Warring States, the King of Qin wanted to clear and sent troops to attack Korea, but the Yewang was captured, and the Shangdang guarded Feng Ting and surrendered to Zhao. The king of Qin refused to sit idly by, and then there was the Battle of Changping.
The people of 7,000 villages went to Luzhou to govern Changzi County, which is a county and a place for herdsmen. The county must be heavily guarded, Li Hu, Su Su and others are worried that there is a wanted notice posted at the city gate, so they dare not enter the city.
Li Hu found a local woodcutter who was going to go into the city to sell firewood and asked him where Erxian Village was. The woodcutter said truthfully that he was fifteen miles away from the west gate, and when he heard that Erxianzhuang was not in the city, Li Hu and the others were all overjoyed. So after settling his subordinates, he gave the woodcutter twenty yuan to lead the way to Erxianzhuang.
Li Hu, Wang Junkuo, Li Chongjiu, and Su Su traveled all the way west, but although they saw that the vicinity of Erxianzhuang was not in the city, it was also more lively than other places.
On the street, such as crude medicine shops, charcoal shops, and whip shops, the doors are open, and among the blacksmith shops, sparks burst out, and the sound of choking is endless.
Along the way, pedestrians come and go, it can be said that one after another, the most numerous of which are the big men in the land of Yan Zhao, these people crossed the sword, deliberately pressed down under the felt hat, projected to Li Chongjiu and his party, but they all looked up and down.
Note 1: Shiai County is now Xiyang County, Shanxi.
Note 2: Shangdang County is roughly today's Changzhi City, Shanxi.