53. Fear
Zhong Xiaodong sat on the ridge weakly, the house had not been fired for two days, the blind old lady was so hungry that she couldn't get out of bed, if she didn't eat anything today, I was afraid she would have to pass. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
"Shan'er, Shan'er......!"
Hearing this name, Zhong Xiaodong's heart felt like being stabbed with a knife.
A few years ago, Jiangxi suffered a disaster, and it did not rain during the spring ploughing season, but Xiao Jiabi controlled the water source, and if he wanted to use water, he had to increase the tenant rent to seventy. Seeing that the crops could not be planted, my father could only agree to the request. Who knew that spring had just passed, but it was rainy in western Jiangxi. As a result, there was not much production in the fields, and the silkworms raised also developed pestilence.
The harvest was not enough to pay the tenant rent at all, and Xiao Jiabi's dog leg grabbed his father and beat him badly, and when he carried him back, he only had one breath left. But the next day, the doglegs arrested their eleven-year-old sister Bao Shan.
The old lady ran to inquire, and was kicked by the dog's leg and vomited blood. Xiao Jiabi's young master also poured a bowl of hot tea directly on the old lady's face, and as a result, she became blind. Where Bao Shan was sold, no one knows. started to hide it from his father, but how could this kind of thing be hidden, and in the end he was angry to death.
"Xiaodong, did you find anything?"
His childhood friend, Heeshun, came from the other side of the ridge, just sneaking around, as if he was guarding against something.
"Nothing, it's all gone."
If there is anything else the Xiao family doesn't want, I'm afraid there are only rats and locusts. However, this year's harvest was not good, and two oceans were added to the apportionment, and the villagers had no food in their stomachs, swallowing everything they could eat into their stomachs, even the grass roots on the edge of the fields. It's just that no one dares to go down the river and go up the mountain, it is the private property of Master Xiao, and if he catches it, he will be beaten severely at the lightest, and he will lose his head if he is heavy.
"Give!"
Hee Soon looked left and right, and saw that there were no outsiders, so he took out a handful of grain from his trouser pocket.
Zhong Xiaodong's eyes immediately widened, he grows this thing every day, but when he is eighteen years old, he has eaten it a few times. Usually, the rice is milled out, and the white one is supplied to the Xiao family, and the chaff is the family-sized ration. Now there was a handful of golden grains in front of him, and he couldn't help but shout.
"Where did it come from?"
"Shhh
Hee Soon was so frightened that he covered his mouth. When he made sure that there was no one else nearby, he whispered:
"Just now I carried grain for the Xiao family, and I told you that it was all piled up in the sky. Steward Liu of the grain depot saw a lot of spills on the road, so he asked us to clean the dustpan and remove the gravel, and stole a handful of ...... while people were not paying attention. ”
Zhong Xiaodong was so frightened that his face turned white.
"You kid don't want to die? You dare to steal the Xiao family's things, and you caught the one who was going to have his hands cut off. Who will take care of your parents when the time comes? ”
Xishun's face turned pale in an instant, and their family was also cut off, and when they saw those grains, they really couldn't resist the torture of hunger, so they quietly grabbed a handful.
"Xiaodong, I'm ......, don't worry that no one will see it."
He said so, but his teeth rattled.
When the Xiao family punished people, the nearby villagers had to watch, beheading, burying them alive, lighting sky lanterns, what cruelty was used, thinking of this, Xishun felt that he was going to pee his pants.
"You hide it first, and if it's okay tonight, come and get it quietly tomorrow."
When Zhong Xiaodong said this, he suddenly thought of something.
"Xishun, most of the village is cut off, and this grain can't be cooked on a fire. The three pillars that were lit a year ago were stolen two handfuls of rice, but when they went home to make a fire to make porridge, they were caught by a dog's legs. Let the uncle and aunt eat raw at night, otherwise it will be fatal. ”
"Got it."
Hee Soon nodded solemnly.
As soon as they hid the food, they saw a group of people rushing out of the Xiao family's mansion, obviously coming for Zhong Xiaodong and them.
"Xiaodong, what can I do? Xiaodong ......! ”
Heeshun was so anxious that he was so frightened that he cried on the spot.
"Don't panic, it's not on you, if they come to interrogate, you say you don't know."
Zhong Xiaodong's heart was also pounding. The Xiao family likes to sit together the most, and they are also coerced and obedient, if they really want to investigate it, they will have to lose their heads.
Xishun took a few deep breaths, but his heart was beating faster and faster, and finally he sat down on the ground and watched the people of the Xiao family rush to him.
"Xiaodong, it's broken, I still have a grain in my pocket."
Zhong Xiaodong's brain "buzzed", the Xiao family's mansion has all kinds of torture instruments, it is good that there is no evidence, but Xishun still has a grain in his pocket.
"Woo woo, Xiaodong, I'm afraid, I'm afraid."
Hee Soon was so frightened that she burst into tears.
Zhong Xiaodong's upper and lower teeth clicked, and his body seemed to be paralyzed, and he couldn't even move.
The people of the Xiao family did not have the arrogance of the past, and their faces were only full of panic. When he passed by Zhong Xiaodong and Xishun, he didn't even take a second look, and ran away like this.
"Chase, catch up. We can't let these thieves escape. ”、
Xie Zulan shouted loudly.
The Xiao family's nursing home has a lot of people, and after knowing that Xiao Jiabi was captured, the people of the Xiao family gave each person a reward of fifty oceans, and if Xiao Jiabi can be rescued, another fifty oceans will be issued. The provocative nurses screamed, and they were now entangled with a series of entanglements.
In order to prevent the Xiao family's people from escaping, the battalion commander let himself rush over with three companies. Sure enough, the Xiao family was in a hurry, and the old and young ones were cleaning up. It's just that when I saw myself, I ran away in a panic.
Now the second and third rows of people are searching the mansion, and they themselves are chasing the fleeing people with a platoon.
"Bang!"
With the sound of a gunshot, one of the guards who wanted to turn around and shoot fell to the ground, and after a few convulsions, he did not move. This sudden sound frightened the people of the Xiao family into screaming, scurrying around like headless flies.
Xie Zulan fired a few shots into the air, and then shouted:
"Get down on your knees with your heads in your hands, or we'll shoot."
The people of the Xiao family were frightened by several gunshots, and their legs were numb, and they quickly knelt on the side of the road one by one.
Seeing that these people were controlled, Xie Zulan breathed a sigh of relief, only to find that there were two and a half children sitting paralyzed on the side of the road. Ragged, skinny, and his dirty face was full of fear.
"Little brother, don't be afraid. We are the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, the contingent that has come to your rescue. ”
Xie Zulan's words did not have any effect. The two children in front of them only had blank eyes in their eyes, occasionally glancing at the people of the Xiao family, and then they were so frightened that they quickly lowered their heads.
"Now that we are still destroying the enemy, why don't you hurry home and remember to close the door and not break in."
The child in front of him, but no one moved, just sat stupidly. Xie Zulan sighed, turned his head to the fighters and said:
"Bring all the people of the Xiao family back, look at it."
"Yes!"
The people of the Xiao family looked at the muzzle of the black hole, and they trembled one by one, but no one dared to resist, because the corpse of the nursing courtyard was still lying next to it.
When Xie Zulan was about to leave, he remembered that he still had two flatbreads in his pocket, which the division headquarters ordered the cooking class to make when he set off. He took out the flatbread and gave it to the two children.
Seeing those soldiers walking away, Zhong Xiaodong said in astonishment:
"The people of the Xiao family have been arrested."
"Woohoo."
Xishun cried loudly, tried several times and felt that his legs were weak, and finally he was supported by Zhong Xiaodong before he could barely stand up. It's just that there was a smell on his body, which made Zhong Xiaodong frown.
"Don't say it, I want your life if you say it, woo woo."
Zhong Xiaodong looked at Xishun's dripping pants and nodded solemnly.
"Xishun, just for today's handful of grain, I will definitely not tell the matter."
The two of them helped back to the village, and saw Xishun's father and mother probing their brains at the gate of the courtyard.
When Xishun Niang saw her son, her anxious expression disappeared from her face in an instant. He bowed a few times with his palms together in all directions, and then picked up a bamboo stick and rushed out.
"Where did you run away, you dead kid, you don't know how to come back from shooting everywhere, your father and I are in a hurry."
"Oops, oops! Mother, don't fight, I saw the people of the Xiao family being ....... ”
Before he finished speaking, his mouth was covered by his own Lao Tzu, and soon the thick slap fell on his buttocks.
"Do you kid want our family to be destroyed? These soldiers look fierce and vicious now, but after eating the offerings of the Xiao family, they don't want to let him go. ”
After all, Xishun Niang felt sorry for the child, so she quickly grabbed Xishun's father.
"That's pretty much it, don't break the kid."
Xishun's father stopped at this time, and when he saw that Zhong Xiaodong was also beside him, he called him into the house as well, and asked Xishun Niang to close the door tightly, then he lowered his voice and said:
"You two silly boys, do you really think those Qiu Ba will do anything to Master Xiao? They just beat Master Xiao and make him spit out more money. In the year of the fall of Dajin Kingdom, Master Xiao's father was still alive, and he also shouted and killed their family at that time. Master Xiao went to the county to donate a sum of money, and he became the persimmon oil party. More than ten days later, he became a county senator again, and when he came back, he threw some villagers who had accused him into a lime pond, and when they were hot and rotten, they were thrown into the river to soak, and after seven or eight days of hard work, those people died, and in this way, they were not allowed to collect the corpses, and the bones were only washed away after a big flood. ”
Xishun's face turned a little pale, and he quickly took out the cake from his pocket, but before he could speak, Xishun's father jumped up as if he had been burned by fire.
"You dead child, where did you get this, you rebel son is really going to destroy our family."
Xishun Niang was also frightened, watching her husband raise his fist high, and didn't dare to stop it anymore, but kept wiping her tears with her hands.
"Uncle, this was given by those military masters, not from the Xiao family."
Seeing that his friend was about to be beaten again, Zhong Xiaodong quickly stood up and said.
"Whew!"
Xishun's father suddenly softened on the ground, fortunately he didn't hold the Xiao family's things, otherwise his family would really have no way to live.
"Dad, you're talking, what a whole thing!"
Xishun Niang saw her husband's depressed appearance, and she was even more scared, she said with a wince.
"As long as it's not Xiao's, hide it for a few days and see, and if no one pursues us, we'll eat it." Xiaodong and Xishun can't shout about it, and they won't lose their heads. Xiaodong, you also hurry home, remember to cover your ears, don't be stupid to be used as a gunman. ”
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