Chapter 11 The Villagers Raise Things
was just a lawsuit with no end in sight, and before a few words were spoken, the case was broken! A group of people were coaxed out of the county government by the officials, and no matter how they cried, no one cared about them.
According to Li Lintang's words: "In the past, they were lackeys of the Manchurians, but now they are the lackeys of the foreigners." ”
"Brother, we can't just put up with it." Liu Bing changed his clothes and sorted them out in front of the diorama, "People die in stinky pieces, I can't kill them, and I want to disgust them." ”
"What are you going to do?" Li Lintang didn't know what his brother was going to do, but he felt uneasy in his heart.
Liu Bing sat down and said, "I'll give money to Sun Wen and Li Jinbang, oh, and the Boxers!" ”
"Sun Wen and Li Jinbang?" Li Lintang felt that the matter was going to make a big fuss, "What are you going to do?" ”
Sun Wen is a villager in Guanting Village, Fangling Society, and Li Jinbang is a martial artist in Shengjiazhuang. Both of them were people who had killed relatives and friends in the conflict with the railroad company a few days ago, and the important thing was that they were both talkable in their own piece of land.
In this experience, the two of them also saw through the government and did not dare to provoke foreigners. As soon as they left the gate, the two men discussed with the person who had gone to complain, saying that they wanted to do something about the railway company. The official on duty at the door obediently smiled: "You have the ability to go!" People have guns and cannons in their hands! What virtues do you look at? More than 40 people are not enough to be other people's dog food! ”
The crowd was annoyed when they heard this, but this was the entrance of the yamen, and they had sprinkled fire here, and they were going to eat in prison if they didn't keep it. So they gave up and went back to their houses. However, as soon as Li Lintang and Liu Bingqian entered the house, someone sent a letter, which was from Shengjiazhuang.
Liu Bing read the letter and had the paragraph just now.
Liu Bing pushed the letter in front of Li Lintang, Li Lintang read the letter, and Liu Bing continued: "Sun Wen and Li Jinbang said that they would persuade this county and Linxian to give a ruthless blow to foreign devils in all the villages where the railway has passed. Brother, I'm a businessman, I have Liujiazhuang to guard, I can't charge into battle. Therefore, the shopkeeper of the pawnshop will pay for the purchase of a little more broadsword, spear, and even gunpowder cannon. ”
Li Lintang put down the letter and gasped: "Brother, you are going to make a big deal!" If you give money to Sun Wen and Li Jinbang, you will be over the mud yourself. It's best if you can get revenge, if you can't get revenge......"
"Brother, who said I paid for it?" Liu Bing said, "The shopkeeper of our pawnshop Qiao is very sad and angry because the old lady was killed by a foreigner. So he embezzled the money from the pawnshop privately and privately funded villagers Sun Wen and Li Jinbang. ”
Li Lintang frowned and threw the letter back on the table, saying, "Are you worthy of our old fellow in doing this?" ”
Liu Bing smiled: "Brother, what I just said is not all lies. At least it's true that he embezzled the pawnshop's money without permission, and after eating our family's rice for so many years, it's time to lay an egg for me to fight the thunder. ”
Li Lintang pondered for a moment and said, "If there are really more than 3,000 people who can rise up, I will also go." ”
Liu Bing hurriedly said, "Brother Lin Tang, what are you going to do?" I'll tell you a heart-wrenching word, you've been in our house for nearly ten years, I know who you are, and I treat you as my own brother! Now that our father has made a mistake, you must not send him to death, otherwise how will I explain to my father! ”
"You don't have to persuade me," Li Lintang stood up, "If you hadn't received this letter, I would have planned to go to the Boxers tomorrow." The foreigners killed our father, I want them to pay back ten lives and a hundred lives! I'm tired today, so I'll go back and rest. ”
Li Lintang didn't bother with Liu Bing anymore, and went straight out of the room, leaving Liu Bing alone in a daze, not knowing what he was thinking in his heart.
Another half a month passed, and two rains washed away the crops along the railway. The grievances of the villagers are getting deeper and deeper, and the anti-foreign devils are getting stronger and stronger. The Germans don't care about this, whether the railway should be repaired or repaired, it is still a rampant and domineering style. It was also in this half a month that Liujiazhuang's account went like flowing water, only the incoming and out, and the half-year harvest of Liujiazhuang was lost.
However, Li Lintang knew that the money was not spent in vain.
At that day, the construction site was in full swing. Recently, the weather has been getting hotter and hotter day by day, and this is the solar term for roasting the dead. Therefore, the laborers working on the construction site did not dare to be shirtless even if it was hot, otherwise they would have to peel off a layer of skin the next day.
Suddenly, a loud noise came from a distance, and everyone couldn't help but turn their heads, only to see a black iron ball flying from the sky and landing on the empty field near the construction site, bursting into a big spark! The worker closest to the place where the ball had fallen, was also two or three feet away, and he felt his crotch wet when the heat wave of the sparks hit his face.
"Run...... Run! The unfortunate man came back to his senses and let out a terrible scream!
Looking up, people poured out from all directions, some looked like farmers, some wore practice clothes and tied square scarves, some carried large knives and spears in their hands, and some simply held hoes and rakes. They shouted and rushed to the construction site, and in the crowd, there were several gun trucks, one of which was still smoking from the muzzle!
Li Lintang was among these people, carrying an iron rod and running without hurrying or slow. These people who rushed to the front would die, Li Lintang knew in his heart. Seventy percent of these people are rural villagers, and the remaining thirty percent are Boxers.
In the past half a month, Li Lintang has been in contact with this gang of Boxers several times, and knows that they are not good birds! It is not for nothing that it is said that there are masters who can fight gods, but it is definitely not like what they say, you can invite gods to come up after worshipping the gods. Most of these people are witches and gods. After the foreigners' churches were opened, they provided free medical treatment to people in the countryside who lacked medical care and medicine, and gathered the parishioners. These witches and gods are the first unlucky ones to lose their jobs!
Now that the construction site of the raid on the foreigners, the Boxers are actually some children who have not grown up at the head of the thirteen or fourteen hairs. Li Lintang was indignant in his heart, but he didn't have so much effort to care about other people's affairs in the battle array, and now he thought in his heart, all he could do was take revenge!
The Germans were confused for a while, how could they have thought that these Chinese with braids would dare to resist!
It is true that the regular army that came here to settle the siege of the railway company did not leave, but there were only forty or fifty people! But now they have to face a sea of people, more than 10,000 angry people of the Qing Dynasty!
Reload! Shoot! Reload! Shoot!
The Germans killed many villagers, but many more rushed over! The German officer would rather die than imagine that he was surrounded by a group of "barbarians" with old-fashioned artillery and cold weapons!
Li Lintang saw that the two sides were already in close combat, so he no longer hesitated, accelerated his speed, and rushed to the front of the formation!
The foreigner was also startled when he saw a big man like an iron tower running straight with an iron rod, and raised his gun to shoot. Li Lintang flew up, jumped more than one person high, and the iron rod hit the foreigner's head a little, and the foreigner's head was like a watermelon bursting open, and the contents of it were splashed everywhere.
Li Lintang landed steadily, he didn't look back after killing someone, and continued to rush forward, as if he had killed only chickens and dogs.
Li Lintang is red-eyed here, and the villagers on the construction site are not idle! Tear down the roadbed pillows, burn tents and equipment, and rob the food hoarded by foreigners!
More than 10,000 villagers washed away the construction site as if the flood had washed away the crops. Foreigner? Kill! Worker? The Boxers said, kill too! These laborers are all religious people who believe in foreign religions, and they enjoy a lot of privileges, and it is not a day or two to follow the foxes and fake tigers behind the foreigners' butts, and some of them are not good things because they have committed a case of death! Now that you have such a good opportunity, don't kill and keep the waste of food?
The massacre turned into an. Li Lintang counted in his heart that he had already killed twelve foreigners. He said that ten foreigners' lives were used to repay Mrs. Liu's life, and no matter how much he killed, it would be considered earned! Some of the people he killed were wearing military uniforms and bow ties. But Li Lintang doesn't care, it's these people who killed their godfather, so they all deserve to die!
An hour, a full hour, and everything calmed down.
More than 10,000 villagers stood all over the mountains, all the foreigners died, and the laborers were killed. The railway was demolished and went out, food was looted, and tents were burned. Although they died more than foreigners, they won! They won! The Great Qing Kingdom can also defeat the foreigners! Even a group of villagers can defeat foreigners!
"Let me say a few words," a bearded man stood up, he was the speaker of the Boxer Rebellion, Li Lintang had some impressions, "Now, we should take advantage of the victory to pursue!" The railway company is finished in our place, but he is still harming other places in the Qing Dynasty! The grain here is gone, and the foreigners have other food in their hands! The wires in the county, we should dismantle them all when we turn around! ”
The people around nodded yes, and the people of the Boxers echoed the mountains and seas.
At this time, Sun Wen stood up and said: "The bearded man is right, let's fight foreigners, it shouldn't be a day or two." We need to take all our crops!" Let the foreigners eat the rice, spit it out! ”
Li Lintang thought about it, and followed everyone all the way to the county seat.
When they arrived in the county seat, the Boxers dismantled the wires, but Li Lintang did not follow suit, and he went straight to the county government with the angry villagers.
There are only a few officials in the county government who are responsible for arresting the head, how can they stop so many angry villagers? In the evening, a fire rose in the county office, and from the front hall to the back house, it was all bright!
The villagers captured the wives and children of the county order, and arrested the history and master in the yamen, but they could not find the slightest shadow of Gaomi County. I thought about it, but this did not prevent the villagers from taking such a bad breath.
Gaomi County dressed up in ordinary cloth clothes, carrying a small package, smearing a little mud on his face, and looking closely, he even cut off his beard.
The errand officer said that there were thousands of people outside the county office, and Gaomi County knew that they were really rebelling this time! He asked the officials to resist, and he didn't even notice his family, took the official seal and the money box, and drilled out of a dog hole in the backyard of the county government.
Few of these villagers have seen Gaomi County, and they are not familiar with the road traffic in this county. Gaomi County got out of the dog-beating hole, walked through the streets and alleys, and walked in a roundabout way, for fear of being discovered by the rioters. He thought that now that it was dark, and by the middle of the night, the rioters should all have stopped, and he would sneak out of the city to find a way to survive.
Gaomi County now passes through most of the county by trail, and it is far away from the county office. At this time, a greeting with a smile came from behind him: "Gaomi County, don't come unharmed." ”
Gaomi County turned around and saw a man as tall as an iron tower, standing behind him with a long stick in his hand, so frightened that his legs and stomach turned tendons: "Strong man...... You—You've mistaken someone. ”
Li Lintang smiled: "I went straight to the county government when I entered the county seat, and I went to the court room before your door was closed, and followed you all the way from the roof, I think I didn't recognize the wrong person." ”
When Gaomi County heard this, cold sweat instantly soaked his back: "Strong man, you and I have no grudges in the past, and no enmity in the near future, you leave me a way to live, and I promise you fifty taels of silver!" ”
Li Lintang lifted the iron rod: "You don't know me anymore?" That's right, when I knelt at the foot of the hall that day, you probably didn't see my face clearly. You don't know me, but I know you. ”
Saying that, Li Lintang raised the iron rod high, swung it down fiercely on the top of Gaomi County's skull, and shouted out the unfinished sentence for Liu Bing: "You dog official!" ”