After the liberation, there is a saying that the local tyrants are divided into fields, and when it comes to the landlords and squires, they are all like Zhou Peeling, bullying people in the township, robbing the people's daughters, and occupying the fields, which can be described as full of evil. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

But in fact, this is not the case, at least most of the landlords are not big treacherous people, they use their power at most, buy the fields in the countryside at a low price, and then hire tenant farmers. From a modern point of view, this is at most a vicious acquisition, but it is not a kind of lawless and unscrupulous behavior, and the reason why the landlord is described as a treacherous person is just a means of political propaganda.

Before the liberation, most of the local tyrant landlords lived in the shadow of the warlords, and they were also the scourge of bandits, although the family had some money, but most of them paid tribute to the warlord leaders to fight against the bandits. In the eyes of the landlords, the warlord leader is nothing more than greedy for money, and the typical use of people's money to eliminate disasters for others has at least a certain moral constraint, but bandits are different, burning and looting wherever they go, leaving no room for survival.

The owner of this grange is named Tian Han, in his forties, and has four wives (all bought with money), and has three sons and six daughters under his knees, plus servant bodyguards, and there are about 50 people in the whole village. Most of the estates of the rich landowners inherited from their ancestors, and in his generation, they took advantage of the chaos of the change of dynasty and the chaos of warlords to buy a large number of fields from the families of poor people at low prices. Because bandits have always plagued this area in Xiangxi, each generation of the owner of the grange has to negotiate with the county officials, and he does not hesitate to spend a lot of money to hire bodyguards to take care of the home, and when he encounters bandits, he can also transfer manpower from the county.

In Tian Han's generation, the bandits are even worse, in just a dozen years, they have been attacked three times, but fortunately, the bodyguards hired by Tian Han are all outlaws, and they are also equipped with advanced equipment, so they survived. After several attacks, the bandits within a radius of 100 miles spread the word of mouth, and they all knew that the Grange was not a bone to gnaw on, but it made the Grange a lot more peaceful.

The Grange is built on a flat land at the foot of the mountain, covering an area of more than ten acres, surrounded by a tall wall built with fire bricks, and four towers are set up around the square wall, and every night, there are bodyguards with guns to take turns to keep watch. Although the Grange has not been harassed by bandits at all in recent years, the rich man is very afraid of death, so the security work is not ambiguous at all.

That night, after Tian Han had dinner and drank some authentic sorghum wine, he picked up a shell gun and walked along the wall on the edge of Zhuangzi. He has been in a good mood lately, first of all, the autumn harvest has just been completed, and this year's harvest is higher than usual, which can be regarded as a good harvest year; Second, his fourth wife's belly was enlarged by him again, and he was going to add a big fat boy to him in less than a month, so he was in a very happy mood.

The owner of the grange paced and slowly walked to the front of the tower, and the bodyguard who guarded the building hurriedly nodded to him:

"Hello master, look at the posture of the master's walking, it is really tiger and tiger, full of spring, presumably the skills in the room have been improved recently."

The rich man of Natian is also easy-going by nature, and likes to joke with his subordinates, hearing this, regardless of whether the bodyguard is from the heart or not, he is quite useful, and said happily:

"****, you still know Lao Tzu, I have fought with your second grandmother for hundreds of rounds recently, regardless of victory or defeat, since drinking the tiger whip wine, my body is even tougher, which makes your second grandmother beg for mercy every night! You kid will keep the grange for me, reward you with a few sips of Lao Tzu's treasured tiger whip wine another day, and go back to kill the majesty of your mother-in-law! But when you have something on your back, you don't go through your brain, and you can see Lao Tzu's face clearly when you have a black ball at night? ”

The guy was also thick-skinned, and said flatteringly: "The old man's face has been paying attention to it for a few days, and he knows that the tiger whip wine is full of energy, but don't forget to enjoy the small one and drink a few sips, you don't know, my mother-in-law is very sassy, every time the small one is too fast, and I suspect that the little one is stealing people outside, so angry that the little one taught her a hard lesson!" ”

The rich man laughed when he heard this, and listened to the thug talk about his mother-in-law's commotion, and with the stimulation of alcohol, the things under him began to harden, and he was thinking about which wife's room he should go to tonight to have fun. At the moment, he didn't bother to go to other towers to talk nonsense with the thugs guarding the building, so he answered casually, covered the thing below, and hurriedly slipped into the third wife's room.

Besides, this sycophant thug, nicknamed Tie Niu, has been a ruthless character in the township since he was a child, and he once followed the warlord for two years and learned the ability to dance with guns and sticks. Later, when he returned to his hometown from the army, he was hired by the rich man at a high price and became a thug in the village. Iron Bull and the other three thugs each guarded four towers, and the tower where Iron Bull was located was not far from the gate of the Grange. He lazily tugged at his rifle and smoked a cigarette with the idea of a tiger whip and wine.

By the time of the third watch, the iron bull had already become tired, and as usual, he wanted to lean against the tower and take a nap while the rich man had fallen asleep. Unexpectedly, at this time, he suddenly saw a person walking out of thin air on the lawn not far from the gate. By the light of the tower's fire, Iron Bull's eyes widened, and he saw that the man was wearing a set of ragged clothes of ordinary people, and his hair was scattered, and his footsteps staggered towards the tower.

Although Tie Niu is bold, in the past few years of taking care of Master Tian's house, he has rarely seen anyone in the middle of the night at the third watch. Occasionally, there are villagers passing by, who are afraid of the thugs of the tower of the manor of the rich manor, and generally walk around from a distance.

The Iron Ox rolled up a cigarette, lit it to give himself a look of courage, and then raised his rifle, and described the strange man who staggered with the muzzle, and scolded viciously:

"****! Get out of the way! ”

But the strange man didn't seem to hear the iron bull's insults at all, and still maintained his original posture, and his body stiffened forward, and continued to approach the position of the tower. Tie Niu was originally a bully in the township, where did he suffer such ignorance, and he no longer spoke, thinking that he would take a shuttle according to the leg of the king first, so that his **** didn't know what to do.

There was a "bang" of gunfire from the silent manor, and a beam of sparks burst out from the tower on the east side, and the iron bull had already shot at the visitor, and the bullet hit the man's thigh, but the man did not scream, but fell to the ground in response.

Iron Bull immediately beckoned to his companions in the nearby tower, shouting:

"Wolfdog, come over here and see what I hit!"

The wolfdog had already heard the gunshots from this side, and hurried along the wall, and when he saw it, a man had fallen on the ground. Iron Bull and Wolf Dog walked out of the gate with rifles in their hands, wanting to see if the man had been killed. They don't care about the life of a villager, anyway, if something happens, there is Master Tian on top. They were just curious, who was this person, who did he come to the Grange in the middle of the night, shouting, what did he want to do?

The wolfdog and the iron bull walked up to the fallen man, and saw the man lying face down in the mud, and he could not see what his face was, but his two white hands peeked out from his sleeves, and his nails were as long as half a finger.

Before the Iron Bull could turn the man over with the barrel of his gun, a chill came out of the back of his neck.