When I woke up the next day, it was already three poles in the sun.

Wu Ming was the only one left in the narrow bedroom, and Chengzong didn't know when he got up, and he was no longer there.

Wu Ming stretched his somewhat sore limbs a few times, put on a robe lined with deerskin, put on thousand-layer shoes, and when he opened the bedroom door a little, he saw a twelve or thirteen-year-old girl standing at the door with a basin of hot water.

The girl served Wu Ming to wash, and then shyly asked Wu Ming to sit down, and took out a comb out of nowhere to comb Wu Ming's hair, her black and white eyes were full of respect. Wu Ming waved his hand, took the light salt water and rinsed his mouth and whispered thanks, the little girl's tender face suddenly turned red, and she picked up the wooden basin and walked away quickly.

Wu Ming was no longer surprised by such a custom, but he was still not used to it, shook his head, stood up and put on his hat, walked through the dark aisle, and came to the place where the wounded were treated last night, and found that several rows of wooden tables and stools had been neatly arranged, and several village elders and Chengzong were drinking tea and chatting around a plate of charcoal.

Several village elders saw Wu Ming hurriedly get up and salute, Wu Ming stepped forward to return the salute politely, took a cup of tea handed by Chengzong, took it in his hand and asked in a low voice, "How is the injured?" ”

"The other two are good, the one you treated hasn't woken up yet, and the high fever doesn't go away, but he can swallow some decoction, and I don't dare to say if he can survive, I have already dressed his wound with medicine, and prescribed a prescription for people to go into the city to grab medicine." Chengzong smiled happily at Wu Ming.

Several village elders around him thanked Wu Ming repeatedly, Wu Ming hurriedly explained that people may not be able to live, and if they want to thank them, thank the person who tied a straw rope to the root of the injured person's leg, without this straw rope to stop the bleeding, the injured person has already lost too much blood and died, even if he has a breath now, he is not out of danger.

Although Wu Ming did not take any credit, he still couldn't stop the village elders from respectfully thanking him, everyone humbly sat down, and Wu Ming drank a few sips of tea.

The old man wearing reading glasses on the opposite side still had long braids of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, holding a poorly printed newspaper in his hand, and was looking at Wu Ming with a smile, and the rest of the village elders were also full of reverence for the "Wu Daochang" who was "highly skilled".

Chengzong told Wu Ming in a low voice that he would stay in Tianjia Village for a few days, and two days later it was the auspicious day of the zodiac, and the two deceased needed to be buried, and the village had sent someone to ask Uncle Bingzhen to go down the mountain to do things.

Wu Ming nodded, knowing that Dao Chengzong had not become a teacher, and had not yet obtained the seal issued by the ancestral court of Longhu Mountain, which was equivalent to not obtaining a diploma for Taoist work, and he could not preside over the Dharma alone, so he could only ask the Daoist Master Bingzhen to work.

Although the chief of the Daoist Bingzhen is a deacon of the righteous faction, he has practiced in Taijin Mountain for several years, and has the responsibility of educating and helping the people in a radius of dozens of miles around him.

Under the introduction of the village elders, Wu Ming learned that Tianjia Village is a medium-sized village, more than 130 households, more than 500 people of old and young, not many fields but drought and flood to ensure harvest, and can also pick mountain goods and sell them for money in the agricultural slack season, and live a much better life than other surrounding villages, so for a hundred years, the villagers have paid special attention to the education of future generations, and the villagers are most proud of the three talents, the private school in the village has a history of 100 years, and the boys and children of each family can basically read and write.

The unfavorable factor is that the village is surrounded by mountains, wild boars and even wild wolves on the mountain infested from time to time, the loss of people and animals in the village for more than ten years is very large, the villagers can not get rid of these ferocious beasts by all means, a few years ago the whole village pooled money to buy back three firecrackers to be better, after a few years two of the firecrackers have not sounded, now it is the time when the green and yellow are not connected, the hungry and dazzling beasts on the mountain frequently go down the mountain to do evil.

The village elders sighed and sighed, and the village chief with a sad face mentioned another difficult thing that the village is currently facing: Wang Donghan, the county magistrate, and the garrison regiment sent people to various villages and towns to issue conscription notices, and Tianjia Village was apportioned 10 places, and after the Spring Festival, 10 young children should be selected to report to the county seat and go to Fuzhou for military training, otherwise the land tax of the whole village would be doubled.

Wu Ming frowned: "There are two or three hundred villages and towns in Shangrao County, could it be that Wang Donghan and they want to recruit two or three thousand soldiers in the county?" ”

"Who's to say it isn't? In the past 20 years, there has never been such a thing, I heard that hundreds of thousands of troops in Jiangnan and Jiangbei fought to the death, thousands of people died in every battle, and the corpses were bleeding everywhere, and no one had restrained them, which was terrifying! Now that the village encounters such a tragedy, and wants to send ten young and strong children to fight, who is willing to do it? Alas! Woe doesn't go alone! It seems that this day will not be able to live. The deep wrinkles on the village chief's face shook frequently, and his face was full of sorrow that it was unbearable to look at it more.

Everyone was silent, looking at the charcoal fire with a trace of green smoke rising from the brazier, and their hearts were heavy and not tasteful.

The old man with long pigtails sighed, patted the newspaper in his hand and lamented: "The world has been in chaos, the commander-in-chief Jiang Gong Kai-shek has just won the victory in the Central Plains War, the Kuomintang and the Communist Party have begun to fight in the same room again, the situation in the world has changed rapidly, these days I have heard that our whole territory of Jiangxi is again gunshots and wars, and there are countless dead, and now it seems that it will soon affect our small people, and there is no pure land in the whole world!" ”

Before the lamentation fell, several young people from the village hurriedly came, and after giving the salute, they told Chengzong and Wu Ming that the seriously injured had woken up, but they could not speak, and their eyes moved a few times and then fell into a deep sleep.

Chengzong and Wu Ming hurriedly went to visit, and after careful examination, they didn't know the bottom of their hearts, Wu Ming guessed that the injured person was unconscious because of excessive blood loss, and he was type O blood and could donate hundreds of milliliters, but no one could do anything without blood transfusion tools, Wu Ming did not dare to take risks, worried that the injured would die faster, so he could only explain some precautions to the injured family.

After a busy look at the other two injured people, Wu Ming and Chengzong had some meals at the simple and enthusiastic village chief's house, and it was already noon when they returned to the private school where they were resting for the time being. The village elders in the private school also returned to their homes, leaving the clever girl to add tea and water to Wu Ming and the others.

Wu Ming sat by the brazier, finished reading the four newspapers borrowed from Mr. Private School, carefully folded the newspapers and put them on the grass mounds on the side, turned to Chengzong and whispered: "Judging from the current situation, the big cities in the provinces of the Yangtze River basin have begun to strike and strike classes, Nanchang has also suspended classes and the market twice, the Kuomintang military and police in Nanchang are arresting ** everywhere, the Kuomintang troops of four divisions are attacking the area of southern Jiangxi, Yiyang County, which is dozens of miles west of us, has been attacked three times by Fang Zhimin's peasant Red Guards in the past six months, and the provincial chairman Xiong Shihui has dispatched heavy troops to carry out encirclement and suppression. Maybe one day the flames of war will burn all around us. ”

Chengzong gently stirred the charcoal fire, remembered what Wu Ming told him about being rescued by ** people in prison, pondered for a moment and raised his head and asked: "I remember some things you said about **, which makes me very curious about **, judging from what I learned in the past two months, ** is outnumbered and weak after all, I'm afraid it won't last long, right?" ”

"No, ** can't be killed, how can you say it? Let's put it this way, a spark can start a prairie fire! Wu Ming could only answer vaguely.

Chengzong was slightly surprised: "You mean, ** can it be done?" ”

Wu Ming sighed faintly: "It can be done, they are the party of the toiling people in the world, as long as they can mobilize the poor, they are not afraid of not being able to grow, but I am afraid that it will take many years to achieve this, the truth is easy, just a few words, but it is difficult to do." ”

"If that's the case, isn't it the same as the chaos in the world of all dynasties?" Seongjong felt a little bit.

"It's almost, every time there is a change of dynasty in history, it is accompanied by chaos in the world, and the current situation is the same, the difference is that in the previous chaos in the world, most of the opposing armies used spears, broadswords, bows and arrows. Nowadays, it is different, the various forces have a clear political proposition, with the Three People's Principles, ** and so on, guns and bombs are used to fight, and even more lethal planes and ironclad vehicles are used, the two sides of the war will fight more fiercely, the scale of the war will be bigger and bigger, and there will be more and more dead people, and in the end, whoever can hold on will be the winner. Wu Ming said that this was also quite emotional.

Chengzong thought for a while and nodded: "That's right, alas! Thinking of the guns on the shoulders of the soldiers in the city, my heart was blocked, no matter how good my martial arts were, I couldn't withstand a bullet, the world changed too fast. ”

"Yes! Don't talk about it from afar, let's just say that in front of me, yesterday evening the wild boar herd entered the village, if the villagers had a few rifles in their hands, there would not be two dead and three wounded, and there would be nothing to do with our brothers, I really want to have a gun! Wu Ming sighed with deep feeling.

Chengzong stared at Wu Ming vigilantly: "Don't come nonsense, in the past few months, the county government and the garrison have repeatedly issued orders to strictly prohibit private ownership of guns, and all guns in the villages of the county must be handed over except for birds, otherwise once discovered, they will be detained and punished." At this juncture, I don't want anything to happen to you. ”

Wu Ming had no choice but to nod: "I understand, listen to you!" However, it is estimated that the situation will change soon, and I am afraid that no one will be able to stop private people from having guns. ”

Seongjong recalled the army he saw when he entered the city recently: "That's true, but guns can only be owned by the army, and the general public is still the same as before, no matter what, the decree is still there." ”

Wu Mingzhen didn't know how to explain to the kind-hearted Chengzong, thought about it and said: "The decree is a decree, it will only be useful to the people who are obedient, and it is useless to the squires and those businessmen and wealthy families everywhere, you have also seen that the rich gentry in Shangrao County, the landlords and rich families in the surrounding towns all keep their families in captivity, which one does not have a few long and short guns?" The sons and daughters of several famous families in the county town all wore shiny German-made shell guns on their waists, and they were rampage to show off their might, and who would dare to hand over their guns from the garrison soldiers on the streets? Aren't they all turning a blind eye? The more this is the case, the more the people feel unfair, the rich gentry and landlords with guns are bolder, and they will be more unscrupulous to bully men and women, and the people will be more resentful because of this, and sooner or later they will provoke the anger of the people. ”

Chengzong was stunned for a moment, nodded thoughtfully and fell silent, thinking about it carefully.

Wu Ming saw that Chengzong was deep in thought again, and he also closed his mouth and picked up the newspaper again to read, but he kept thinking in his heart, is he trying to find a way to get a gun back?