Bang bang bang!

A knock on the door was heard in the night sky.

The head of the Wu family came out of the quilt in fear, and said in a trembling voice: "What is the matter in the middle of the night?" ”

The lady of the Wu family was also awakened and said, "Hurry up and get dressed and go open the door!" A few days ago, there were still people who smashed the door and did not open it, and sat on the crime of 'disobeying Manchuria', and the whole family was killed. ”

Bang bang bang! Bang bang bang!

Not just the Wu family, the entire neighborhood resounded with a violent knock on the door. For a while, the child cried and the woman screamed, completely breaking the silence of the night.

Boom!

The door panel was finally smashed open.

Several Qing soldiers wearing placket jackets rushed into the courtyard of the Wu family, fierce and vicious, and kicked the door when they saw it. The Wu family originally had subordinates, but they couldn't afford to raise them after the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the customs, so they could only be dismissed. Now a family of three, the Wu couple lives in the main house, and the son Wu Bucheng lives in the side box, and before they get dressed, they were pulled to the patio by the Qing soldiers and were held against a row of spears.

The head of the Wu family saw that his son and wife were pulled out, and those Qing soldiers were not good at coming, so he hurriedly shouted: "Master soldier! Our family is a good citizen! What a good citizen! ”

A Han-looking commander walked out of the Qing soldiers, and shouted in the language of the Liaodong Army: "The army is collecting grain!" Eight buckets of rice for one person! There are three people in your family, you should pay two stones and four buckets! Hurry up! ”

The head of the Wu family immediately burst into tears, and cried: "Sir, master, my family is a small family, where can I save two stones of rice?" ”

Two stone rice is half a year's ration for a family of three, who can save so much rice this year? Those Qing soldiers didn't care, I saw the commander wave his hand, and the Qing soldiers only left five or six people to watch them, and the others rushed into the house.

The three members of the Wu family knelt in the courtyard in the cold. Cold, scared and angry, they could only hug each other and cry bitterly.

"Don't smash it! Soldier! My food is in the rice bowl in the kitchen! It's true! The woman of the Wu family cried.

After a while, sure enough, a Qing soldier came out of the kitchen with most of the bags of rice, about three buckets or less. The chief sneered: "Only three buckets of rice? Can't even buy a life. He raised his voice and shouted: "Obey the decree!" Anyone who is less than eight buckets of rice, kill! Don't be greedy for that little bargain anymore, if you lose your life, you will have nothing! ”

His murderous words came out. Several Qing soldiers shouted violently, and their spears were pointed at the three members of the Wu family on the ground. The Wu family is just crying, where can they conjure up food?

……

"Ahh

"Mother! Kill me! Don't kill my dad! ”

"Ahh

……

There was a hissing cry from the yard next door, all of them were neighbors for many years, and Wu Bucheng immediately recognized the voice of the person next door. He came to his senses and quickly knelt down and kowtowed, "Master! I still have money in my house! Can you make it with silver? Ask the Manchurian lord to let my family live! ”

"A tael of silver and a bucket of rice." The officer said coldly.

In peacetime, one tael of silver can buy two stones of rice. Even if the price of rice rises in Chongzhen, most of the time it is the price of one or two stones. At this point, there are already many complaints in the city of Beijing, looking forward to King Chuang coming and living a good life. And yet now. People are making an offer to you with knives and guns, but can you still bargain?

"Yes! Yes! I have! Wu Bucheng hurriedly raised his head, put his face on the dirt, and said, "Just under the bed in my room, there is an altar!" It's my savings. ”

Before the outbreak of the plague, Wu Bucheng worked in a fireworks shop, and was quite appreciated by the shopkeeper, with a monthly salary of one or two silver. It is also considered a well-off home in Beijing. The silver was originally saved for a rainy day, but I didn't expect it to be saved.

A Qing soldier soon came out with a jar. Slam it on the ground. The clay jar was suddenly shattered, and three silver ingots and a handful of broken silver rolled out.

The officer flicked it with his foot, picked up a silver ingot and put it on his waist, and let the Qing soldiers put the rest in his pocket, and said, "Count you to have five taels of silver, which is equivalent to five buckets of rice." ”

"That silver ingot is five taels ......," Wu Bucheng exclaimed.

The officer flew with a kick. kicked Wu Bucheng heavily in the face.

Wu Bucheng fell to the ground with a miserable scream, and it took two breaths before he spit out two broken teeth and a mouth full of blood.

"The military master spares his life! I still have a coffin book of ten taels of silver. Ask the lord to be merciful. Grace! Wu Bucheng's mother hugged her son and hurriedly said, "It's behind the shrine." There is a jewelry box. ”

A soldier stepped into the main house, and soon heard the sound of the shrine toppled. The Qing soldier came out with a jewelry box, opened it in front of the officer, and sure enough, there were two silver ingots and five taels of silver collars lying there.

The officer ordered someone to accept it, and his tone softened a little: "There are still eight buckets left, either give silver grain, or choose someone to come out and pay for your life!" ”

"My lord is gracious!" This time, the Wu family was really desperate, and there was really no silver food at home, so they had to lie on the ground and cry.

The officer was also impatient, and had to rush to the next house to collect grain. Xu was because he was greedy a lot, and he was in a good mood, so he said kindly: "Keep the little one." ”

Behind him, a Qing soldier stepped forward and stabbed the two old men of the Wu family with a spear, asking them to choose one of them to die.

Wu Bucheng pounced, hugged the head of the gun, and said with a leak in his mouth: "Kill me, kill me!" Don't kill my mom and dad! ”

The Qing soldier understood the Chinese language, his hand trembled slightly, the head of the gun poked forward, and quietly glanced at him to get out of the way.

Wu Bucheng was originally a man of many elves, but now he was frightened, and he still held the head of the gun and shouted: "Kill me!" ”

Wu hugged his son and pulled back, and he stubbornly pushed up: "Kill me!" Commander! Kill me! ”

The Qing soldier heard the commander behind him "um", and the head of the spear was stabbed and stabbed, and it pierced into Wu's chest and ribs, and then pulled it out, bursting out a puddle of blood.

Wu Bucheng pounced on his mother and used his hands to plug the blood hole, but he couldn't resist the blood gushing out. He lay on his mother in pain, but when he went to see his father again, he was already angry and fainted, so he crawled over and hugged his father and cried.

The Qing soldiers took silver grain, as well as some bronze utensils and cloth, went out into the street, threw things on the car, and rushed into the next house.

The family had two sons, who were in the prime of life, and they had been waiting in the courtyard with a wooden staff in their hands, and when they saw the Qing soldiers rushing in, they rushed up with a wooden cane. It's just that civilians who have never experienced a battle array are the opponents of these Qing soldiers, and four or five spears suddenly stabbed two middle-aged men into bloody men.

Seeing that their son was killed, the two old men of the family rushed out with kitchen knives, but they were killed together.

The officer stepped forward with blood and said, "Search, go quickly!" It was too much time to delay. ”

As soon as he turned around, he saw two Han people with hair in a bun running away in the street. Soon, Qing soldiers chased after them, hacked them to death, cut off their heads, raised them high with spears, and shouted along the street: "Kill those who dare to go out!" ”

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The massacre on the thirteenth day of the first month of the eighteenth year of Chongzhen did not subside until after dawn. On that day, Zhu Cihong left the money to buy his life for the people of the capital, which was not robbed by Li Zicheng, but was looted by these Manchurians. Seeing that it is the season when the green and yellow are not in season, there is neither silver nor food in his hands, and he can't even bury his family, how should he live?

When Song Hongye went out in the morning, he only smelled the smell of corpses in the air, and hurriedly took a smoked handkerchief to cover his mouth and nose. He is now a third-grade dignitary in the court, and he is the regent's coat in the banner, plus he can be a man, and he has some popularity. Therefore, before the grain collection order was issued, he had already notified Xu Xuan, and he didn't know if the Golden Scale Society had escaped the night's slaughter.

"Master, I'm washing the blood from the street ahead, I'm afraid I'll have to wait a while." The butler walked to the edge of the sedan chair and reported in shock.

"Then wait, it won't be long before ......" Song Hongye said, suddenly feeling a little sour and closed his eyes.

Just two years ago, everyone in Beijing felt that the Zhu family was rotten, and they all wished that King Chuang would come quickly and change the emperor to live a good life. However, when King Chuang came, he did not bring any good life to the people of Beijing, but when the prince of the Zhu family left, he left a sum of silver for the people to buy their lives.

King Chuang came and went in a hurry, and he didn't forget to grab a handful when he left, obviously not planning to come back.

Then came these pigtailed soldiers, who at first said that they were coming to beg for thieves from the Ming Dynasty, and then they occupied the inner city, and now they have created such a killing.

I knew that today, it would be better for the Zhu family to be the emperor! (To be continued......)

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