That year, the promotion hall was as severe as the surrounding ten miles and eight townships, and many places in the world were also unharvested, and because the devils were pressing on Hunan and Chu step by step, there were people fleeing from famine and avoiding chaos everywhere. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

It is not uncommon for Lu to see the bones of starvation, and it is not uncommon to hear that the remains of people have been taken by wild beasts in the mountains, and there have even been cases of passers-by being attacked. In this era when people are too hungry to survive, many men in the labor force choose to serve the army, and serving the country is just an excuse, mainly for that ration. When you go to the battlefield, you can die, and you can still earn glory for your family, stay at home and starve to death, and there may be no one to collect the body.

In this kind of environment, Xiangchu, as the land of fish and rice, is actually not much better. At that time, the government was in a situation at the local level, and it was undoubtedly the common people who were to suffer. It is almost difficult for the people to have overnight surplus grain in their homes, and even Xiangchu, which is rich in grain, has seen the phenomenon of selling children and daughters. So even the most wooden villagers know how to go out to make a living.

However, there is no similarity in the world, and this situation has occurred in Hunan and Chu, which are good at fish and rice, and the situation in other parts of the country can be imagined. Even in the face of the predicament of Xiangchu, many people from all over the country still poured into Xiangchu, hoping to save their lives here. What the final predicament of that year was, history later determined, but this kind of big turmoil momentum naturally also greatly affected this small mountain village.

Although the promotion hall belongs to a relatively remote mountain village, because there are several leading figures in the village, with the efforts of their conscience, not only are there few incidents of people starving to death, but even rumors from the outside are only occasionally transmitted into the village. Although there were many joys and sorrows, and even many strong men in the village were conscripted into the army, the overall situation was still pleasant.

Especially when there were some riots in the surrounding villages, there was a piece of good news from the promotion hall. This good news is not a day or two, it has been spread in the village for a while, and it is said that a road will be repaired to the village soon. At first, everyone thought it was just a rumor, and even some clan elders in the village went to negotiate, but no one dared to come back and say anything.

But with the return of Gao Yantang Tang Zuyou, the villagers finally felt the truth of this matter.

To say that this Tang Zuyou is still Gao Yantang's loser, he followed his father to Guangxi in his teens, and he is also a figure in Guangxi. Later, when he grew up, he followed his father Tang Dazi to do business in Guangxi, and I heard that he was also very talented and very popular on the scene. But it is said that later he interacted with a regimental deputy of the Gui army, and usually learned to smoke big cigarettes and play pai gow.

These two things are the most taboo in the township, not to mention Tang Dazi, who has a thin family property. Afraid that his son would not be able to end up when he was young, and his father took back all his business and work, Tang Zuyou was finally driven back from Guizhou (Guizhou: the name of Guilin by the people of Hunan and Chu) by his father. Even if Tang Zuyou is like this, everyone knows that he has seen the world, and they still have some respect for his words.

If there is a big road passing through the propagation hall, this is undoubtedly the most glorious thing for the ancestors! When the villagers heard the news, although they were not sure, the news alone was already joyful.

Carry forward the hall belongs to the small county of Xiangdong, although the small county is not large, there was also a very famous official road, or in the last years of the previous dynasty widened. At that time, on this official road, there was the largest rice merchant in Xiangshui City, and the reputation was that the prefectures of Xiangchu were very famous. Of course, because Xiangchu has been rich in tea and rice since ancient times, Xiangdong also has the oldest ancient tea horse road.

It was because of the existence of the rice merchant family that this ancient official road was widened at the beginning of this century. As a result, the small county in eastern Hunan gradually spread its reputation, and the people were able to go south and north. Since then, Xiangdong has also become an inland city, and this official road has also become famous, especially the main road for the Hunan and Chu people to enter Liangguang.

This official road is also the most envied by the people of the promotion hall, because the surrounding people have the convenience of the official road, and the production in the fields and the fresh fish in the waterway have become income, which can be transported to other places by land and water. When the people around them have income, their lives are naturally much better than those in other places. It is also a village on the edge of the official road, and the promotion hall is far away from two villages, which is not only a little inconvenient to enter and exit, but also the income of the villagers is naturally far from comparable.

Usually, the villagers only set off from Yaoju Village on their shoulders and went to the official road of Xiangjia Village, and then went to Guangdong and Guangxi, or from then on to Xiangdong County and even farther Xiangshui City or even the provincial capital. Although Xiangjia Village is not too far away, the yearning for that official road has become a dream in the hearts of the villagers of Hongyangtang.

Now this dream seems to be about to come true, Tang Zuyou came back to confirm that the Xiangdong County Government has agreed, in order to respond to the government's call, let the people of Xiangchu support the Gui army, from Wanfuting down the road next to the famous creek Baiguang Creek, build it into a road that can exercise large trucks, and connect the road from Jinshawan to Dong'an Shunhuang Mountain, so that the Gui army can support Xiangchu at any time in case of war.

For the people of the promotion hall, this is a great good thing, everyone is happy, naturally including the Wanfu Pavilion, Zhonglong Hall, Fengling Village and so on along the line.

This kind of follow-up joy is not mentioned, but it is said that after Tang Zuyou returned home, he began to be the young master of the family. Because after all, the huge foundation of the family was all caused by his father Tang Dazi, that is, his grandfather Tang Changsheng and his brothers all followed his father Tang Dazi in Guangxi. Those who stayed in the promotion hall to guard the ancestral house were undoubtedly some old and weak women and children.

However, the good times did not last long, and Tang Dazi followed Tang Weihan, the most famous brother of the Carrying Forward Hall, when he returned to the township again because of the road construction. When he heard that his son was still dead at home and continued to smoke and gamble with some people, he completely returned the power of the family to his youngest brother Tang Daxing. This undoubtedly dealt a huge blow to Tang Zuyou, and also made Gao Yantang's pulse almost severe.

One day in the early autumn of this year, Tang Zuyou was depressed almost all day because of his power, and finally encountered something that made him dare to be interested in that day. His wife, Gou, felt the decadence of men, so she interceded with her uncle Tang Daxing, who was more than ten years younger than him, and was given a chance to go to Yaoju Village to collect rent. Originally, Yaoju Village was not far away, but at that time, there were towering trees everywhere, and Tang Zuyou emptied his body because of smoking, so he took a sedan chair and slowly went to Yaoju Village.

It is said that everything is also destined in the dark, when this Tang Zuyou arrived at the tenants of Deyao Ju Village, he actually met a woman who was a helper, this woman was only sixteen or seventeen years old at the time, and her name was Ah Xiang. Later, after a little inquiry, I learned that this Ah Xiang was from Henan in the Central Plains, and he followed his father and brother to help out in the nearby village when he was farming, and he was just begging for food for his family.

On this day, Tang Zuyou didn't know which tendon was wrong, and he actually fell in love with Ah Xiang, and it was difficult for outsiders to know the details, but later everyone knew that Tang Zuyou wanted to accept Ah Xiang as a concubine. At that time, this was a very ordinary thing, because Tang Zuyou's family was rich, and it was said that this Ah Xiang also had good looks, although his hometown was thousands of miles away, but there seemed to be nothing wrong with it.

Tang Zuyou's cousin Gou is also a member of Xiangjia Village, but compared with the Tang family of Gao Yantang, it is still a little lacking. However, the Gou family is virtuous and decent, and Gao Yantang does not dare to despise this matter. As the principal in Gao Yantang, Tang Daxing is not yet an adult, and he is just standing up. Although he is in charge of money, in Tang Zuyou's private affairs, he can only let Tang Zuyou decide by himself.

For Ah Xiang, who later became one of the protagonists of the story, maybe no one will remember it many years later, but people will not forget it, it is said that this day is the day when Tang Zuyou took Ah Xiang through the door. Although Gao Yantang did not have a big banquet of relatives and friends, at least Tang Zuyou's fox friends and dog friends still came, and even many people from the promotion hall came to congratulate.

Because it was a concubine ceremony, and the other party's family had no place to live, Tang Zuyou didn't have to pick it up, but only instructed a few elderly tenants to hire a sedan chair early, and send people to Gao Yantang when the time came. But that afternoon, before Ah Xiang came in, Gao Yantang encountered a catastrophe.

Tang Zuyou took a group of people to drink tea and blow in Gaoyantang, and someone brought him good tobacco soil to celebrate, so he was naturally happy to share it with everyone. I didn't expect to hear the long worker say that someone outside the door sang the lotus flower outside the door, and asked the groom to go out and rejoice. This Tang Zuyou originally wanted to be a happy day, and casually sent a little to ask for good luck. Although I knew that there was a bad friend, I said that you are poor yourself, and you also took out the money to help those who fled and asked for food.

This bad sentence stimulated Tang Zuyou's young master's temper, and he ignored the movement outside while lying on the bed. Who knew that there were really a lot of people gathered outside to ask for food on this day, and everyone knocked on the bamboo board with a horn, singing the lotus flower falling in harmony, and listening to the accent was mostly from Henan. To say that this Henan people are really pitiful, because it is located around the Yellow River, there is often nowhere to hide in the face of heavy water, and there is often no harvest in the event of drought. Therefore, there have always been many beggars in Henan, but it is due to the geographical location.

The people in the house were tired of hearing it, so Tang Zuyou sent people out to drive people out, and these beggars responded loudly. At first, they sang some good words, but when they saw that the main family ignored them, and asked people to drive these people away, everyone started to complain. This also angered Tang Zuyou and some young masters in the house, and everyone drove out a few of Gao Yantang's guards and bit a few young beggars.

Although there were some people in Gao Yantang who couldn't bear it, including Tang Daxing, they were all stopped by Tang Zuyou. This commotion naturally aroused the anger of this group of begging beggars, and although they did not dare to attack immediately, they also shouted for the master to come out and explain the reason. Tang Zuyou was determined to drive away these people, and with the coaxing of a group of bad friends, he got into trouble with this group of beggars. Originally, Tang Zuyou didn't take it to heart, who knew that an elderly beggar said to Gao Yantang's elderly cousins that if the main family did not compensate, Gao Yantang would not be at peace.

What happened at that time is now that few people can accurately express it, because most of the gentlemen present at that time were Tang Zuyou's fox friends and dogs. Some did not survive the change of dynasty, and some survived the change of dynasty immediately, nor did they escape the big scenes of the Great Movement. And people like Tang Da Province are either too young to get close to understand, or they are blocked by people at all.

But that day, the promotion hall was surrounded by rats, and it was really surrounded by a group of rats. No one can count how many rats there are in this group, because in the range of Gao Yantang, there are groups of rats in every place. Rats big and small, all kinds of mice. From the hall to the bedroom, from the antechamber to the backyard, from the ground to the roof, everywhere you can think of, it has been taken over by rats.

Except for where people stand, the rest are full of rats!