Chapter 31: Old Sandy
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The village of Shan Feng sits on the edge of a cliff on the Guangfang Plateau. It is not far from Loumu City, and you can see the beautiful scenery of Loumu City from the edge of the cliff. Outside the village is a large field of farmland, and beyond the farmland is the forest. The forest is so deep that no one dares to explore it. There are only about 60 households in Shanfeng Village, and most of the villagers make a living from hunting and farming. Old Sandy is the only big family in the village, and the eldest son is a brother and a petty official in Lou Mucheng.
Old Sandy is the only herding family in the village, and there is a meadow on the edge of the plateau where the children play. It is also the place where old Sandy herds the first forty sheep of his family. It was dark tonight, and old Sandy was enjoying the beauty of the sunset, and as usual, he drove his sheep home from the meadow behind the hillside. I don't know what good dishes the old woman made today, old Sandy has no other hobbies in his life, just greedy for wine. Seeing that he was about to reach the entrance of the village, old Sandy hummed a little song and drove the sheep unhurriedly.
In the distance, there was a "boom, boom" sound of horses' hooves. The voice is very uniform, the voice of a professionally trained regular army. The bandits don't have such a high level of horse training skills. Old Sandy turned around and looked into the distance, where a team of cavalry in fiery red armor ran over, the sand was flying, and there were hundreds of people in Wuyang. Old Sandy had been on the battlefield before and knew a lot about equipment. This group of cavalry is very well-equipped, not to mention bandits, even the son of old Sandina, who is the captain of Shangning City, is not so sophisticated.
The cavalry bypassed Old Sandy's flock and surrounded the village directly. What are they doing around the village?
Suffered, old Sandy suddenly remembered a word! "Kill the good and take the risk!" , I heard my son say that some unscrupulous armies will slaughter ordinary people, rob their finances and hand over their heads as military merits to receive rewards. Old Sandy's heart tightened, but he still pretended to be calm, he was the head of this village, and he wanted to think about the lives of the whole village.
"This military master, what are you?" Before Old Sandy could finish speaking, the two horsemen dismounted and came directly to carry Old Sandy away.
It's over, old Sandy's heart sank to the bottom, and his life couldn't be saved, this is to pull me to cut off my head, but it's a pity that my five-year-old granddaughter is gone.
Old Sandy was sad, and two horsemen put Old Sandy down, and instead of killing him, they escorted him to a gold-armored warrior. Old Sandy secretly glanced up at the gold-armored general. Good fellow, is that armor real gold? In the light of the setting sun, people can't open their eyes. This is inevitably too rich!
The golden-armored military general with a suspicious face hugged old Sandy and asked, "Old man, how much is this sheep worth?" ”
Is this a cross-examination of the price? O my sheep! Old Sandy's heart was dripping blood, "General, if I can let the whole village live, I will give you half of the sheep, even if it is all for you." "If it weren't for the two soldiers holding him, old Sandy would have knelt down.
"I ask you how much a sheep is!" General Jin Jia said impatiently. A look of displeasure.
Old Sandy knew that this military master was angry, and he didn't dare to say more. "Adult, an average of thirty dinars. Five dinars in childhood," said old Sandy tremblingly.
General Jin Jia counted and threw a money bag to old Sandy, "You have a total of forty-two sheep, this is two thousand dinars, this half of the sheep, I bought it" General Jin Jia compared his hand to the middle of the flock and drew to the right. "Old man, count the dinars, there are a lot."
Before old Sandy could react, a soldier dismounted and began to catch the sheep. The golden armor general pulled old Sandy over, "Old man, you have so many sheep, it is estimated that there are also people with faces in the village, we have just finished trading, and we can be regarded as having a friendship." As the saying goes, it's a guest from afar, and a friend is here, so you shouldn't invite me to dinner! ”
"Huh?" Old Sandy is a little confused?
"Oops, it's just that our brothers haven't drunk wine and eaten meat for a long time, do you have wine there, I have money!" The golden armor military general gave a thumbs up.
"Phew! Virtue! In the distance, Li Youqian and Manid spat together.
"Yes, yes, yes." Old Sandy didn't quite understand it yet, but he knew that his life was probably covered. The general who took the lead is definitely a rich man. Two thousand dinars, that's a lot of money! It was enough to buy all the sheep he had, but he only needed half of it. Although the general who took the lead is ruffian, the person looks pretty good, quite humorous, but the strength is too great, this arm is pressed on the body, so heavy!
After a while, a lot of people came out of the forest, more than 1,000 red-armored cavalry, and about 4,000 infantry, this is the regular army of three legions? What are these regular soldiers doing in this backwoods? Old Sandy didn't dare to continue thinking about it, he was just a small citizen, and if he knew more, his life would not be saved.
The infantry did not enter the village, but rested on the grass behind the mountain. The brothers brought them mutton and mutton soup, and after a week, everyone finally tasted the meat. Old Sandy secretly watched the movement of this army. If you look at the soldiers that a man leads, you can see the character of this person, which is what his son who is an official said. Although it's good now, it's hard to draw the skin of a tiger, and you don't know your heart, and old Sandy only hopes that they are good people now, and she won't attack them as ordinary people.
"I said, old Sandy, do you have a winemaker in your village?" James hadn't drunk in a week, so he couldn't bear it.
"Yes! It's just a wine from the country, and it's so strong! Old Sandy replied.
"How big can it be?" Not long after entering the village, James pulled old Sandy to find the winemaker in the village, five hundred dinars, and carried all the wine away.
There were more than 200 people in the village, and James organized the villagers and his brothers to sing, dance, eat meat, and drink wine. I knew that I was kidnapped, but I didn't know, I thought it was a condolence performance by the military and political song and dance troupe. Li Youqian danced a dance for everyone for a long time. Everyone had a great time. Lee Youqian and Cook were arranged to live in the old Sandy's house. Fearing to disturb the villagers, Chibei's brothers slept in the apple orchards outside the village.
James and old Sandy hit it off at first sight, especially for old Sandy's granddaughter, who liked it very much, and asked old Sandy's granddaughter to recognize him as a godfather. At night, everyone slept, and James pulled old Sandy to live and not let him go, and the two drank all the night, and drank all the good wine that old Sandy had in his private collection.
On the day of the day, it was the time of the turn of night and day, and the soldiers got up early to make a fire and cook. After breakfast, Akabi's brothers quietly led their horses down the mountain. Old Sandy secretly followed them. Lee's rich army stayed in the apple orchard for one night, two thousand people, and not a single apple was lost. The old general looked through the vegetable patch, and the vegetable pits dug up by the soldiers of Li Youqian's army were buried in the dirhams. Such a military discipline was difficult for even the knightly educated Royal Knights of Swadia that he knew to do.
At dawn the next day, the honest villagers got up and went to the ground. The soldiers were cutting trees in the forest, and when they saw the villagers, they greeted them enthusiastically. The villagers are all simple people, whoever is good to him, he is good to whom, these soldiers are not like bad people, everyone likes them very much, and these soldiers are very rich, things are never taken in vain, and the villagers are very happy to make money.
The only unhappy person in the village was the second son of old Sandy, whose carriage was gone. There was a piece of paper on the ground, and it took the only literate gentleman in the village to recognize it, "I borrowed the car, how much money to find old Sandy, I am his granddaughter's godfather, James." ”