Winter - noon of the fifth year of the Republic of China.

Zhang Yaotian was defeated in the county seat, led a team of less than 100 stragglers, and fled to Yunxi Town, dozens of miles away.

Zhang Yaotian was originally a bandit when he was young, and he quickly formed a gang of dozens of people with a ruthless heart and dozens of guns, burning, killing, looting, and looting money. In this turbulent era full of gunpowder, Zhang Yaotian knew very well that whoever had more guns had a hard waist and had the right to speak, so he used his brain to recruit troops everywhere under the banner of the regular army.

Zhang Yaotian is the third in the family, claiming to be the third master of the third day, and marrying a three-room aunt, saying that he was marrying was actually snatched from a brothel, and he didn't even go through the etiquette procedures. His eldest aunt and second aunt were too barren, and only the third aunt gave birth to a son for him, named Zhang Yaozu. He loved his son very much and cared for him in every way, for fear of being wronged. Watching his son grow up, he pinned all his hopes on his son, but Zhang Yaozu never studied well, but learned his style of merry and ruthless to the fullest.

Zhang Yaotian has passed the age of not being confused, plus he has old injuries and serious illnesses, watching his son idle all day long, and hating iron and steel, he no longer cares. His father is like this, his son can be imagined, the son has the protection of his father, he is a tiger fighter, a fish and a common people, rape and pleasure, the people of the county town are full of complaints, and Zhang Yaotian has killed several people for this. Since then, everyone dared to be angry but did not dare to speak, both hateful and afraid, so they had to talk softly behind their backs, but they did not know that the notoriety of their father and son had already spread to a radius of dozens of miles.

Yunxi Town is located in the north of the county, there are more than 50 families in the town, although each family has a little hardship, but everyone is full of hope, everyone sets up stalls, all kinds of land, life can barely support. The town is full of small mud houses and wide courtyards, and there are many lanes on the streets, crisscrossed by long snake-like lanes, and all kinds of things are displayed on both sides of the street on the day of the market. After dinner, men, women and children wrapped in thick cotton clothes gathered at the wheat field at the entrance of the town to watch the program: some sang small songs, and some played erhu...... Everyone lived in peace and had never experienced war.

A middle-aged man with an honest appearance and an honest relationship is driving briskly towards the entrance of the town with a frame car. In the car lay a gray-haired old lady with a pale face and slightly closed eyes. Although the body is wrapped in a flower-green cotton quilt, beads of sweat the size of beans still ooze from the forehead. The car was bumpy on the bumpy dirt road, and the two little feet in the tail area kept shaking with the bumps of the car.

"Mother, hold on, you'll be at Dr. Wang's hospital soon. The man looked anxious, looked back at the old lady in the car and said as he walked.

"Wood, wood. The old lady slowly opened her eyes, her lips were white and she said weakly.

The man heard the old lady speak and hurriedly stopped the car, and put his ear to the old lady's mouth, the old lady slowly stretched out her hand from the quilt and touched the man's head with a kind face: "Mu, don't waste any more money for your mother, it's very expensive to see a doctor, my mother's body knows it, I'm afraid I won't be able to survive for a few days." My mother is most worried about you! You have to save the money to marry your daughter-in-law, so that you can leave a root for our old Xu family. ”

"Mother, don't say that, it's going to be fine, everything will be fine. The man held the old lady's hand tightly, and two lines of hot tears dripped down her purple cheeks onto the old lady's hand.

The man's name was Xu Mu, and the townspeople gave him a nickname: Wood. Xu Mu's father died of illness at an early age, and his mother suffered a lot to support him. Xu Mu couldn't bear to see his mother suffer anymore, so he shouldered all the burdens of the family, asked the landlord to renew the title deed for his mother, and worked hard for the one acre and three points of land for many years. The mother is getting old and thin, and the problems that fell when she was young are all over the body, especially the legs wrapped in the little feet can no longer walk half a step, and this paralysis is six years, Xu Mu has been looking for medical treatment for her mother for six years, but it has not worked, but Xu Mu still has no idea of giving up. His filial piety spread throughout Yunxi Town, and everyone called him a big filial son when they saw him, but some people still called him wood, he just touched his head and laughed stupidly.

Xu Mugang wanted to pull the cart and continue to move forward, when he suddenly heard a terrible sound like a ghost crying wolf in front of him, and the sound was extremely harsh and terrifying in the biting winter. Xu Mu stretched his neck with tears on his face and looked ahead, and suddenly, a large crowd appeared from the corner in front of him, and everyone looked frightened, their souls were not possessed, and they fled frantically towards the alleys in panic, as if there was something behind them that made them extremely afraid.

Xu Mu looked at everything in front of him blankly and was at a loss, at this moment, two gunshots rang out behind the crowd, and everyone screamed in fright, hunched over and fled even more crazily. Because the alleyway is narrow, it is even more crowded, and as soon as the people behind are crowded, the people in front fall down, and the people behind them step on the bodies of the people in front of them, completely ignoring the life and death of the people under their feet. Xu Mu was stunned for a long time before he reacted, pulled the car and turned around and ran backwards, the muttering of the old lady in the car was muttered by the noise around him. Although Xu Mu didn't know who was behind him, he knew that it was not a good stubble that could be used this year. Xu Mu pulled the cart and ran wildly towards the depths of the alleyway in the cold wind, and the old lady on the car was shaken and retched because of the bumpy dirt road. Since he arrived at the door of the house soon after going out, he hurriedly took a stick from behind the door and blocked the gate as soon as he entered the door.

Xu Mu heard the dense and chaotic footsteps in the alleyway, and secretly looked out timidly through the crack in the door until there was no sound outside the door. He just wanted to turn back, but suddenly, a cold eye stuck to the crack of the door from outside the door, and Xu Mu suddenly sat down on the ground in shock.

"Mu, what's going on?" said the old lady in the rack car, stretching her neck with great effort.

"Mother, it's okay, it's okay. Xu Mu heard his mother calling him, and hurriedly got up and took his mother's hand to comfort him.

At this moment, a man's hoarse roar came from outside the gate: "There are people in the courtyard, you two will knock the door open for me." ”

As soon as the words fell, I saw a muffled sound of the door, and a door fell to the ground and raised a burst of dust, and in the dust, a man's fat face gradually became clear. This man was quite dark-skinned and extremely fat, dressed in a brown military coat, with two pieces of white hair smeared with yellow dust on the placket, followed by two people, dressed in guard clothes and armed with firearms, and the three were sloppy and dusty.

Xu Mu and the old lady looked at the three fierce people at the door and didn't know why. "Get the money out and don't force me to do it. The leader suddenly pointed at Xu Mu and said in a fierce voice.

As soon as the words fell, I saw that the two people behind him immediately loaded the bullets, and aimed their guns at Xu Mu and the old lady. The old lady seemed to have some confusion in her eyes, squinting at the three people opposite. Xu Mu hurriedly took out the money from his coat pocket and wanted to hand it over to the person in charge, but the old lady grabbed him when he saw this: "Mu! you can't give it to him, you have to keep it for our old Xu family! ”

How could Xu Mu not know his mother's good intentions, but now in the face of the fierce and vicious three, he had no choice but to compromise. Just when Xu Mu was in a dilemma, suddenly the leader rushed forward, snatched the money bag from Xu Mu's hand, glanced at Xu Mu with a look that he didn't know what to do, and then turned his head to look at the old lady.

"Old woman, don't be embarrassed, I Zhang Yaozu haven't been able to get what I want to take, if it weren't for my father's old thing to come into the town and not kill you people indiscriminately, I would have saved trouble with one shot. The man who claimed Zhang Yaozu had fire in his eyes, pointed at the old lady and scolded angrily.

Xu Muqiang endured his anger and didn't dare to say a word, but he hated it in his heart. Zhang Yaozu turned around and just walked to the door, but the old lady suddenly stretched her neck and shouted: "A group of animals that have lost their conscience will be punished by God sooner or later, you ......"

Before the old lady finished speaking, Zhang Yaozu's face suddenly changed slightly, he snatched the rifle from the guards, and pulled the trigger on the old lady, and in an instant, a bullet penetrated through the middle of the old lady's forehead, half of the skull was removed, and blood was splashed everywhere. Xu Mu's ears rang with shock, and his mind was blank and his mouth was open and he was stunned in place. When Zhang Yaozu saw a shot hit, he snorted coldly and walked away with the two of them, leaving only Xu Mu, who was stunned.

"Mother. A terrible sound resounded in the sky, Xu Mu's legs fell to the ground weakly, tears poured out instantly, gritted his teeth and looked at the door, but there were no three people.

In the middle of the night, Xu Mu stood up leisurely, wiped his tears, dragged a hoe from the corner of the wall and dug a pit in the courtyard. Until the evening, when the pit was two meters deep and one meter wide had been dug, he dragged a mat from the main room and put it into the pit, gently put his mother and quilt into the pit, and then filled the pit with a spade and a spade......

The night was getting dark, and there was no sound outside. Xu Mu entered the house, changed his clothes, washed his face, took out a cigarette pouch and sat in the middle of the courtyard, taking one bite after another. His eyes were fixed in the direction of the doorway, and his face was dark and gloomy behind the firelight. Addicted to smoking, he knocked his pipe on the ground, got up and took out his clothes from the room, threw them all on the rack car, poured kerosene and wiped the matches, and in an instant, the fire spread rapidly, the sound of crackling wood resounded in the fire, the raging fire lit up half of the yard, and the rising smoke was filled with the smell of bloody blood and burnt clothes.

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