Chen Shu shouted out that voice, and felt regret again. The person in front of him is no longer the interesting guest who laughs with his uncle, but the leader of the ringing horse.

Three years ago, when Hezhuang coped with the calf ringing horses, Chen Shu was already fifteen years old, and the scene of her aunt painting her face and neck like black charcoal with the ashes at the bottom of the pot is still fresh in her memory. It is said that she herself could not see her own dignity, but she had a treasure - a small foreign mirror, which was naturally a gift from her uncle, and she could clearly see her appearance after makeup, and she could not help but be angry, and felt ridiculous, so she giggled in the vegetable cellar where she was hiding. aroused the angry eyes of the aunt and the Chen Sanjia. On the cabbage next to her sat her sister Chen Xian, who was also laughing, but was soon frightened by her mother's cruel face.

What does it mean for the horse to enter the village, Chen Xian still doesn't understand. But Chen Shuzhi said. Although Zhilu Dao knows Lu Dao, she is not so afraid, as the so-called ignorant are fearless. Fortunately, Xiangma suffered a big defeat that time, leaving a large number of corpses and retreating, if Xiangma entered Zhuangzi__ all kinds of assumptions were only later, for the consequences, Aunt You Shi vaguely but firmly explained, she also understood. The girls in the mountain towns came out of the cabinet early, at the age of fifteen or sixteen, all of them wore red jackets and sat on the sedan chair as brides.

"Not only a liar, but also a murderous ringing horse leader." Long Qian said with a smile to the girl pointing at him.

"Get out of here! Ignorant hairy child, this place, there is a place for you to speak? Chen Chao was furious.

"It doesn't matter. She's just telling the truth. Moreover, only Mr. Chen's open-mindedness can educate such a cool girl. Long Qian said softly.

Chen Shu was severely reprimanded by her uncle, lowered her head, and quickly exited the hall, and the moment she was about to go out, Long Qian saw tears in the girl's big eyes.

"Mr. Chen," Long Qian coughed lightly, "you have been paying attention to the situation, what do you think about the current situation?"

"Chen lives in the mountains, but he is just a villager, where does he know what the current situation is?" Chen Chao said coldly.

"So, you must have heard of the Boxer, right?" The two of them sat idle for a long time, Chen Chao did not order someone to serve tea, Long Qian did not care, and the conversation was still very strong.

Of course I've heard of this. Chen Chao thought, if it weren't for the stern attitude of Zheng Jing, who had fled nowhere, if it wasn't for the fact that there was no church here, then the Yihe Fist was right in front of him, "But, what does this have to do with us?" Chen Chao said this loudly, feeling irritable, Zheng Jing, that's right, Zheng Jing has escaped, he is lucky, if, if the government pursues himself in the future - the government will definitely pursue himself, what is the thief for? What should I say? Because the Mengshan bandits are powerful? Suddenly, Chen Chao found that maybe there weren't many of them.

"Mr. Chen, what do you think of boxers?"

Chen Chao thought about his thoughts and did not answer.

Long Qian thought for a while, and didn't care about Chen Chao's increasingly indifferent attitude, "It seems that Mr. Chen is unwilling to continue chatting, and it just so happens that I have something to deal with." Long Qian stood up, "Mr. Chen, I'm going to ask you to come forward and set up an organization, which is called the Sanzhuang Village Council. ”

Chen Chao looked at the person standing in front of him in confusion.

"I told you we're going to be here for a while. In order to minimize the impact on the lives of the majority of the good villagers, we needed the presence of the local gentry, including Bai Wei's gentleman, surnamed Xiao. After all, you know better about the situation here. ”

"What do you mean?" Chen Chao didn't understand.

"It's simple. The villagers who died in the war need to be dealt with, and the families need to be comforted. I'm not going to pursue the villagers, but that doesn't mean they will forget. Also, we are stationed here, and we always have to have a relationship with the people, and I hope that this relationship is gentle, and it would be better if we could be like a family__"

"It's a dream!" Chen Chao was reminded, "You have killed so many people, so that women have lost their husbands, parents have lost their sons, you have invaded their homes, you have broken our peaceful life, and now you want to be like a family?" Chen Chao seemed to have heard the funniest thing.

You listened in horror to her husband's roar under the window. Usually he doesn't speak so loudly, but now he is facing not an ordinary person, a bandit, a bandit leader who sent troops to occupy Zhengjiazhuang and Chenjiaya, You Shi can hardly remember the appearance of the person who used to be a guest in her house, leaving her with only a very vague impression: tall, bearded__She listened nervously to the man's reaction, for fear that the man would become angry because of this, which would bring disaster to her husband?

"Your life was not peaceful." Long Qian's voice was still calm and unwavering, "Stop deceiving yourself. Think about the scene I saw last time at the entrance of Zhengjiazhuang Village, and think about the villager who was put on a flail in front of the gate of the village for protesting against Zheng Jing's rent increase. Even if I don't come, your so-called peaceful life is rapidly being shattered, and some people who were originally good will become unable to live. I have traveled all over Zhengjiazhuang, Zheng Jing's house is so luxurious, and a large number of mud sheds are all over the village. According to preliminary statistics, Zheng Jing's family occupies as much as 8,400 mu of Zhengjiazhuang's 14,000 mu of cultivated land, and more than half of the people in the village cultivate his land and become his hired farmers and slaves. That's right, slaves. Do you think that the peasants give more than half of their harvest to the landlords, and what they leave is barely enough to eat, what is not a slave? I also know that Zheng Zhong, who was killed by us, casually abused the wives and daughters of hired farmers in Zhengjiazhuang, and no one dared to express dissatisfaction. Someone once asked Zheng Jing to tell Zheng Zhong about his evil deeds, so he was arrested and imprisoned in the county prison as the eyes and ears of the ringing horse. I didn't make up these things, did I? Mr. Chen, do you think that if we drive Zheng Jing away and kill Zheng Zhong, those hired peasants who were humiliated and oppressed by him will avenge his master? ”

"The old man of my family is not that kind of person," You suddenly broke in and knelt down in front of Long Qian, "The old man of my family has never bullied the people in the village, please spare him." ”

Long Qian didn't wait for You Shi to kowtow, and grabbed the woman, "Madam, please get up, what is this for?" Don't do that! Hurry up, please. Long Qian pulled the woman up hard.

Chen Chao said angrily, "Women's family, embarrassed, what are you doing here?" Don't get out of here yet! ”

"Mr. Chen, Mrs. Zun is concerned about it." Long Qian turned to You Shi and said, "Since the last time I visited Chenjiaya, I have regarded Zunfu as a friend. Please rest assured, Madame, Long Qian will never do anything to hurt her husband. ”

"Then Mr. Xie Lu Xie Long, my grandson has been cold for ten years, and it is not easy to gain fame in the examination, and I hope that Mr. Long will take back his life." You said stubbornly. She has been listening to the conversation between the two outside the window, thinking that Long Qian wants Chen Chao to come out to do things, which will make her husband fall into a place of no return.

"I'm just talking to him. If he doesn't want to, can I force it? Long Qian smiled, turned back to Chen Chao and said, "Mrs. Zun and his wife are deeply affectionate, which touches me. What I said just now, I also asked Mr. Chen to think twice, and he was entangled in everything, so he took his leave and came back to visit him another day. With that, he bowed his hand to Chen Chao and got up to leave.

Chen Chao's pressure disappeared suddenly, and after witnessing Long Qian's back disappearing into the wall, Chen Chao sat on the chair in a dejected manner, feeling that his back was wet, and unconsciously, cold sweat had soaked his clothes.

After all, he is a robber who kills people without blinking, but he is a rich gentry. Is it really a friend? Even if it is a friend, in the face of major rights and wrongs, how much is friendship worth?

Chen Chao saw that his wife was still in a daze, his heart softened, and he said softly, "Ah Luo, why do you have to do this? In the future, don't be reckless__ things between men, you women don't understand. ”

You Shi's nickname is Ah Luo, only when the couple is **, her husband will call her by her nickname, You Shi sat on the chair, "Husband, don't promise him to come out to do things, that is a thief!" If the government investigates it, you will have to eat a lawsuit. ”

"For the husband to save nature. But this guy is not an ordinary ringing horse, and I don't think he will force me. Chen Chao calmed down, "Fortunately, our Chen Jiaya is lucky this time__You go and say to Shu'er, don't be too ignorant, Long Qian has studied, has a tempered bearing, and doesn't care about her in general." But not necessarily with his men. You control Shu'er and Xian'er for me, and from now on, stay in the courtyard and don't go anywhere. ”

"Yes, the concubine will go talk about her." You Shi is also a bit cultured, "I don't know what the ending of this catastrophe should be." ”

Who knows? Chen Chao silently drank a cup of tea, got up and walked out of the courtyard, there were two Mengshan Army soldiers standing guard with guns at the door, seeing Chen Chao come out, one of them said in a local accent and amicently, "Master Chen, my commander has an order, you can go casually in Zhuangzi, but don't leave the village." ”

Chen Chao nodded, and walked west with his hands behind his back, he wanted to see the scene in the Zhuangzi, what Long Qian said sounded good, who could guarantee that his people would be as well-behaved as they had just entered the village?

The street was silent, there was hardly a single person to be seen, and at the intersection stood two soldiers, their uniforms were so dazzling, one of them wore a hat, and the other was bareheaded, like a monk. The two of them just glanced at Chen Chao, did not speak, and did not stop him.

No braids! Chen Chao noticed this extremely abnormal phenomenon. He had seen the bandits who hugged the calves back then, of course, they were all corpses, and they were dressed in a mess, but everyone had braids on their heads. But Long Qian didn't, and neither did his people, this is not normal__Chen Chao turned on the road to the ancestral hall, still quiet, as if the people in Zhuangzi had gone to the market, in the past, this place, there were always middle-aged and elderly women sitting on the stone pier in front of the door chatting, doing needlework that could never be done__Now it is different, Xiangma occupied Zhuangzi, his Chenjiaya, but he felt at ease about the silence in Zhuangzi, which at least showed that the bandits who occupied Zhuangzi did not harass the residents. This reduced the worry in Chen Chao's heart, and for a while, he felt ashamed that he had ordered the surrender. Well, now that the fight starts, the township soldiers will have dead and wounded, perhaps a large number of dead and wounded, although they are township soldiers, but they are all hardcover men in Zhuangzi, and the death of one means the destruction of the family__

Walking further, I heard the noisy voice, at the door of the ancestral hall, two soldiers and two villagers were discussing something enthusiastically, Chen Chao was stunned, and the four people immediately saw Chen Chao, one of them was Chen Gouyu, "Oh, the owner of the village is here, Mengshanjun's brother wants us to do a little carpenter work__"

It seems that Chen Gouyu is very familiar with the two soldiers, and introduced to the soldiers, "He is the owner of my village__"

The two soldiers nodded at Chen Chao, and one of them said, "My name is Zhang Yulin, and I am stationed in your Zhuangzi on the order of the commander, and the commander has explained that Master Chen Zhuang is his good friend." If there is anything that cannot be done, please point it out. ”

Chen Chao nodded at the two kind-looking soldiers, thinking to himself, the biggest problem is not to camp in Chenjiaya, but this is obviously impossible to agree to the request, seeing that Chen Gouyu is holding a planed wooden board in his hand, "What is this?" ”

"It's called a splint, and it's used to treat brothers who have broken bones," Zhang Yulin replied, "It's really good to have a carpenter job left over from the Brotherhood."

"You don't want to take it to the ancestral hall to do it." Chen Chao said coldly to Chen Gouyu, "The ancestral hall still needs to let the children study." ”

"No, I'll take it home and make it." Chen Gouyu grinned.

Chen Chao thought that when the Mengshan thief opened Zhengjiazhuang, his in-laws who had a feud with Zheng Jing must have been overjoyed, and even taking Chen Gouyu was like picking up gold ingots. He glanced into the ancestral hall, and there were still a few soldiers inside, "This brother, this is where the private school of my village is located, you had better move out." ”

"Success, let's move out." The soldier surnamed Zhang said happily.

"It's okay, just move to my house__" Chen Gou was very enthusiastic.