Chapter 10: The Disaster of Niujia Village
Today is the twenty-fifth day that Ye Zheng came to this strange world, after twenty days of medicine treatment, Aunt Chen's condition seems to be almost improving, as long as the doctor said, and then insist on taking herbal medicine for about ten days, it is estimated that her condition will be completely improved.
On this day, Ye Zheng, as usual, after breakfast, went out hunting with the big tiger and the little tiger brothers, because Ye Zheng did not invite the villagers to join him today, so only the three of them entered the mountain this time.
The three of them carried the necessary items for hunting as usual, and walked leisurely towards the back mountain, at this time, Ye Zheng suddenly saw a strange-looking big man stumbling into Niujia Village at the head of the village, only to see that the big man was about thirty years old, strong and tall, but the clothes on his body were tattered, covered with blood, and he was embarrassed.
Just as Ye Zheng was wondering, he suddenly saw the big tiger beside him exclaiming, "Hey, isn't that Brother Tiezhu? Hasn't he been doing business outside? How could he be so seriously injured?"
"Brother Tiezhu?" Ye Zheng was even more puzzled, and asked Dahu, "Do you know him?"
Dahu nodded, very envious and said: "He is the elder brother of Niu Sanyan in our village, he has the ability in our village, there are so many people in our village, Brother Tiezhu is doing business outside, making a lot of money, I heard that he also knows a lot of words, has learned some kung fu, and is righteous, and he also bought two big houses outside, married a beautiful daughter-in-law, he went back to the village this time, it should be to visit Brother Sanyan and Uncle Niu." ”
Hearing Dahu say this, Ye Zheng was even more puzzled, and thought to himself: Since he had studied martial arts and was still doing business outside, there was no reason why he would be so seriously injured? What made him even more puzzled was that when he saw that Niu Tiezhu entered the village, his expression was flustered, his steps were in a hurry, and his daughter-in-law was not by his side, so he didn't look like he was going home to visit relatives, so there must be something wrong with this.
At this time, Xiaohu suddenly said: "Brother, you see that Brother Tiezhu is so seriously injured, let's hurry over and help him go home." ”
Dahu listened and nodded, and was about to go over with Xiaohu to help, when he suddenly heard a dog barking from Niu Sanyan's yard, and then, they saw Niu Sanyan's eyes running out nervously, and as soon as Niu Sanyan came out, he saw Niu Tiezhu injured in the distance, and was immediately surprised, only to see him running quickly to Niu Tiezhu, and helping him back to the house quickly.
Seeing that Niu Tiezhu was helped back to the house by Niu Sanyan, the big tiger and the little tiger secretly breathed a sigh of relief, although he felt a little strange in his heart, he didn't think about it so much, and turned to Ye Zheng at the moment and said, "Brother Ye, let's go into the mountain." ”
Ye Zheng didn't say anything, just nodded and followed them into the mountain together.
The three of them wandered around the mountains for most of the day, and after hunting two roe deer, they were ready to go down the mountain and return to the village.
On the way back to the village, Ye Zheng's left eyelid kept jumping, and he always felt a little unsteady in his heart, it always felt very strange, inexplicable, anyway, it was very uncomfortable, along the way, Ye Zheng was a little absent-minded, even the big tiger and the little tiger brothers talked to him, and he dealt with it casually, making the big tiger and the little tiger brothers, thinking that Ye Zheng might have left his hometown for too long, and was missing his relatives, and suddenly, the two brothers were embarrassed to continue to bother him.
Ye Zheng and the others had just come out of the back mountain, and looked in the direction of Niujia Village, and suddenly, the faces of the three of them changed greatly, and from a distance, the three of them saw that the entire Niujia Village was shrouded in a fire, and the chickens and dogs in Niujia Village were barking, and thick smoke was everywhere.
Frightened, the three of them ran wildly and rushed towards Niujia Village, and the three of them were full of horror and shock in their hearts at this time, and they didn't understand what was happening in Niujia Village at this time.
Soon, the three of them ran all the way into the village, after entering the village, they found that the village was empty, the doors and windows of each family were broken, the fire was burning, and there was a mess everywhere, seeing this scene, Ye Zheng and the big tiger and the little tiger gasped, and they were extremely worried.
Where has Aunt Chen gone? Where have all the people in Niujia Village gone? Why has the entire Niujia Village been subjected to such a tremendous change in just half a day? The three of them were full of horror and doubt at this time, and they were all at a loss for a while, and they didn't know what to do.
"Mother, where are you? What the hell is going on?" the big tiger and the little tiger cried out in mourning, kneeling on the ground in pain, tears welling up.
At this time, Aunt Chen was nowhere to be found, the whole village was in chaos, Ye Zheng's heart was in chaos, he was shocked and anxious, it was the first time in his life that he encountered such a big change, and he suddenly only felt short of breath, his legs kept trembling, and he couldn't stand steadily. Suddenly, Ye Zheng seemed to think of something, he clearly remembered that before going into the mountains to hunt in the morning, Niu Sanyan's brother was covered with injuries and broke into Niujia Village in a hurry.
Thinking of this, he wanted to inform the big tiger and the little tiger brothers of his doubts, and see if he could analyze the clue.
"Big Tiger Little Tiger, Little Brother Ye, is it you?......" At this moment, a familiar voice came from behind them vigilantly and lowly.
When the three of them heard someone calling them, they were shocked, and they hurriedly looked back, and found that the person was Niu Sanyan, who was known as the "No. 1 Marksman in Niujia Village", at this time, Niu Sanyan was hiding in a bamboo forest carefully and vigilantly, and kept waving to Ye Zheng and others, with a very nervous look on his face.
At that moment, Ye Zheng and Big Tiger and Little Tiger hurriedly ran towards Niu Sanyan, wanting to ask him what was going on.
When he came to the bamboo forest, Niu Sanyan didn't wait for Ye Zheng to ask, only to see his eyes red, and he gritted his teeth sadly and said: "Just now, the people from the government came to our Niujia Village, and all this in front of me was done by the officers and soldiers of the Qingshan Town Guardhouse. ”
Dahu Xiaohu was stunned for a moment, and eagerly asked: "What about my mother, and what about the blind dates in the village? Where have they gone?"
"Your mother, my father and eldest brother, as well as the villagers in the village, were all taken away by the officials and bandits of the guard. Niu Sanyan said this sentence excitedly, the expression on his face was quite sad and angry, and his fists were clenched tightly, because he was too hard, causing his nails to be inserted into his palms.
Hearing that Aunt Chen and the villagers were taken away by officers and soldiers, the big tiger and the little tiger were stunned on the spot, and they were stunned for a while before the two brothers reacted.
Suddenly, Xiaohu roared. "I'm going to save my mother, my mother didn't commit a crime, why should the officers and soldiers arrest her, I'm going to go to them to theorize and ask them to release her!" After speaking, without waiting for everyone to react, he turned around and strode out.
Seeing this, Niu San hurriedly rushed up with an arrow, pulled Xiaohu to death, and shouted: "If you go now, you will throw yourself into the net, not only can you not save your mother, but even you will have to get in!"
While struggling, Xiaohu scolded angrily: "Fart! I don't believe that this world can't be done without the king's law? We haven't violated the king's law, so why should the government arrest people? Hurry up and let me go, I'm going to save my mother's ......."
When Niu Sanyan heard this, he was furious, shouted violently, and shouted: "Why should the officers and soldiers arrest people, because they are soldiers, and we are the people! If you kid is still stubborn with Lao Tzu, believe it or not, Lao Tzu will beat you!"
When Ye Zheng heard this, he found that there was a hidden meaning in Niu Sanyan's words, and immediately pulled Dahu forward to persuade Xiaohu, asking him not to be so impulsive first, and then it was not too late to make a decision after understanding the situation. Hearing Ye Zheng say this, Xiaohu didn't struggle anymore and slowly calmed down.
After Ye Zheng and Dahu pulled Xiaohu up, the three of them were in the bamboo forest and asked Niu Sanyan about everything that had just happened in Niujia Village. The cause and effect of the whole thing, as Ye Zheng guessed, has something to do with Niu Tiezhu, the elder brother of Niu Three-eyed.
It turned out that what happened was like this, Niu Tiezhu had been opening a Niu family tavern in Qingshan Town, because this person was bold and righteous, coupled with the amount of wine and food, the price was fair, especially the game in his tavern was a must in Qingshan Town, generally like many peddlers and pawns from the south to the north, and the green forest heroes would choose to eat and stay in his tavern, so the business of his tavern has been very prosperous over the years, but the good times did not last long, just last night, his tavern caused a notorious star.
The troublesome star is called Gongsun Lang, is the only seedling of the town lord of Qingshan Town, Gongsun Chang, because this son is the middle-aged income of Gongsun Chang, so it seems to be very spoiled, therefore, this Gongsun Lang has developed an arrogant and domineering character since he was a child, and now he is less than twenty years old, and he is a neighbor of Qingshan Town, especially his lustful nature, I don't know how many good women have been ruined in Qingshan Town, and I don't know how many women choose to commit suicide after being humiliated to express their grievances, but it is useless, because his father is the town owner of Qingshan Town, and he is the emperor of the soil here, provoked the local people to be angry.
That night, Gongsun Lang took a few dog-legged thugs, passed by the Niu family tavern after drinking the flower wine, and accidentally saw Niu Tiezhu's lady Xu Xianzhi, and was immediately fascinated by her beauty. In a fit of rage, he broke into the door angrily, knocked down a few dog-legged thugs who came to stop him, and grabbed Gongsun Lang's brute is a violent beating, because he was afraid of Gongsun Lang's background identity, so he didn't hurt him hard, but after adding a pain to his flesh, he threw them out of the tavern, before leaving, Gongsun Lang looked at Niu Tiezhu with a resentful face, and sneered: "My means, you will know sooner or later......
After beating Gongsun Lang, Niu Tiezhu knew that he had made a big disaster, and with the character of Gongsun Lang, he would definitely not stop there, and after appeasing his own lady, he prepared a heavy amount of money, ready to come to the door to worship and see if he could reconcile this matter, because if he Niu Tiezhu wants to survive and do business in this Qingshan Town, he must calm down the matter, otherwise, not only his tavern will suffer, but even his own relatives will be implicated. However, he wanted to calm things down, but Gongsun Lang refused, and that night Gongsun Lang led dozens of thugs and evil slaves to surround Niu Tiezhu's tavern and set fire to it.
Niu Tiezhu will let his mother ride his only horse with her young child in her arms and flee back to her parents' house, while he will take a wooden stick and go out from the backyard to cover her mother and son to escape at night. From the backyard of the breakout, due to the large number of opponents, although they have some fists and feet, but also two fists are difficult to defeat four hands, but fortunately, the night was dark and moonless, he took advantage of the chaos to rush out of the encirclement, towards his own lady in the opposite direction of escape, intended to attract the attention of Gongsun Lang and others, along the way, the two sides chased and fled, Niu Tiezhu suffered a lot of injuries, and that Gongsun Lang was not good, he swept off his arm with a stick, screaming, all the evil slaves came forward to treat the injury, for fear that something would happen to their young master, which allowed Niu Tiezhu to get rid of Gongsun Lang's pursuit and escape, and fled back to Niujia Village overnight。
(Note: During the Dalie Dynasty, the total population of a town was about 3,000 households, about 15,000 people, and there was a town lord in the town office, who was in charge of coordinating all government affairs and public security and criminal issues within the jurisdiction.) In addition, there is a Wei director under the town lord, and the Wei director is under the command of 50 guards, who are responsible for law and order issues and criminal disputes in the jurisdiction)
After the lord of Qingshan Town, Gongsun Chang, learned that his precious only son had his arm broken, he was furious, and immediately ordered his wife and brother, who was the head of the guard in the town guard, to lead all the officers and soldiers in the guard to hunt down the Niu Tiezhu who injured his son, and the matter must break the Niu Tiezhu into ten thousand pieces to vent the hatred in his heart. Gongsun Chang has a master under him, nicknamed the Yellow Squirrel Spirit, this person is cunning and cunning, with a bad stomach, like in the past, if Gongsun Lang committed a bad thing, he came up with some bad ideas in the back, helping him cover up and fool him through, and he was quite hateful. This time I heard that the town master went to arrest the Niu Tiezhu, he rolled his eyes, and gave Gongsun a very vicious note, saying that Niu Tiezhu injured the young master this time, all because the young master bullied his wife first, if he is convicted, I am afraid that the teacher is unknown, it is difficult to convince the public, if you want to arrest him openly, why not put him on the charge of banditry, saying that he colluded with bandits, plotting to kill his neighbors, so that we can send troops to suppress bandits in the name of capturing him alive.
When Gongsun Chang heard this, he nodded his head again and again, but since he sent troops to suppress bandits, it was definitely not enough to arrest Niu Tiezhu alone, he also had to arrest all the people in Naniujia Village and put them in prison. Originally, in the past few years, they have been in this area, and the bandits have been very troublesome, and the city of Dezhou knows it, if they don't catch a few mountain bandits and explain to the above, it is estimated that their promotion next year will be no fun, so this time this incident came just in time, he not only wanted to arrest the Niu Tiezhu to avenge his son, but also to arrest all the villagers in the Niu family village as mountain bandits to arrest and detain them, anyway, the Niu family village is at the foot of the deep mountain, there are not many people and it is located in the middle of nowhere.
The most reassuring thing for him is that almost all the people in Niujia Village are not locals, it seems that they were exiled from other places a long time ago, such a small village, to give them the crime of settling a mountain bandit, is the least suspicious, and I heard that Niujia Village is almost all hunters, and it is not easy to find some bows and arrows in the village, so it is more reasonable to convict them of mountain bandits and thieves。
So, after Gongsun Chang and Director Wei secretly agreed on this plan, early the next morning, they asked Director Wei to lead fifty guards to Niujia Village to arrest the bandits, so later there was everything Ye Zheng and they saw after returning to the village.