Chapter 4: Captured
The golden grass strips were stained with strings of small dewdrops, shining with crystal clear light under the moonlight and bonfire, just like the crystal earrings that Zhao Er bought for his mother-in-law when he went to town last year.
I wonder if the grass outside the mountain will be covered with dew like the grass here in the fire plain?
Yueniang got up very early today, and at this time she was already hiding behind the clouds in the west half of the sky, only showing half of her face, I don't know if I can see Yueniang outside the mountain?
At this moment, the eldest man of the twenty-eight families was sitting on the ground leaning against a tree in a daze, his hands and feet were tied by a long hemp rope, and the other end of the hemp rope was tied to the waist of a soldier wearing black and brown leather armor not far away, the soldier was holding a gourd in one hand and drinking something, and the other hand was carrying a rabbit leg in his mouth and gnawing on it, and occasionally free his hand to pull the rope to confirm that the person at the other end was still tied and did not run.
Damn, that's the rabbit that Zhao Da cuddled!
Da Lang took a hard quenching.
A little annoyed, if it weren't for his greed, he suddenly wanted to eat roast rabbit meat, Zhao Da would not have taken himself to hug the rabbit, but the hare after the autumn was the fattest time, as soon as he said it, the people on the construction site coaxed Zhao Da to go and cuddle some to roast and eat, and after eating, he would have more strength to open the way.
If it weren't for the rabbit and ran several miles away from the construction site, he wouldn't have encountered this gang of ruffians, and Zhao Da, who had a tendon, wouldn't have clashed with these ruffians in order to protect the dozen rabbits he had cuddled, and he wouldn't have been injured.
It is unrealistic to expect someone to come to the rescue, don't you see how hard the sharp-faced man who is holding half of the rabbit in his left and right hands and gnawing on his mouth is full of oil?
In the face of such a ruthless soldier, even if the young and strong people of the whole village come, they may not be able to please them, and they will come out of the whole village, at most there are only thirty or fifty men, but how many soldiers are there in front of him? Da Lang can't count them, but he knows that if not one hundred, there are eighty.
There is a contradiction in my heart, I hope that someone will come to save me, and I hope that the people in the village will not come.
Thirteen years old, he is a man, he has to rely on himself, Da Lang squeezed his fists.
The people in front of them should not hurt their lives, otherwise there is no need to bring a child with hands and feet tied in this barren mountain and wilderness, without hands and feet, he is the dragon in this mountain, and it is really cumbersome to be tied hands and feet.
Of course, the hemp rope tied to the hands and feet is actually useless in the eyes of the big man, in the eyes of the wild children in the mountains, on the mountain, in the woods, in the grass, almost anything that can be picked up can be used as a tool, hemp rope only, and this gang of soldiers and ruffians don't know whether to bully their youth or fear of strangling their hands and feet, the tie is not very tight. With his body that has not yet grown, if he really wants to endure the pain, he can break free from this rope without any tools.
But no, who knows if these ruffians will turn back to look for them after they run away?
It was precisely because of the words of these soldiers that Da Lang heard that they didn't know about the existence of a nearby Huoyuan Village, so he endured it and didn't run.
Da Lang didn't have a surname, and Twenty-eight didn't name him. The reason is that Da Lang listened, and he always felt a little weird: My eldest man, that is a big and rich man, I don't dare to give him this name, as for the surname, I don't have a surname anymore, what do you want for a little child?
Ordinary people's families, generally have a surname, there are almost no names, and they are called according to generations or rankings, such as Zhao Da, which is the first in his generation, and he is called Zhao Da, Zhao Da and Zhao Er are brothers, but Zhao Ba and Zhao Da can only be regarded as clan brothers, but Zhao Ba was born a few days later than Zhao Er, coincidentally, in those days, the Zhao family gave birth to several children one after another, so it became Zhao Ba a few days later.
The later generation, if the Zhao family was born at the earliest, it will be called Zhao Dalang, Zhao Erlang, and so on, until one day, all the members of Zhao Da's generation are gone, Dalang will be promoted to Zhao Da, and Erlang will be promoted to Zhao Er.
If there are still many people in Zhao Da's generation, and the later great-grandchildren are born, Zhao Da will be upgraded to "Ah Gong", only the same generation will also call Zhao Da Zhao Er, and the younger generation's will be called "Zhao Family's Big Father, Zhao Family's Second Father." ”
As for words, it is not to mention that only squires or literati with knowledge and status are qualified to have them.
But in the end, although there is no name and no word, but the people of a village will never be wrong, as soon as you hear the word Lang behind, you will know that there are adults in your family or your clan.
Generally speaking, there are few families with four generations in the same house, and those who can go to the same house with four generations can almost all be received by the county. After all, the world has been peaceful for more than 100 years, and there is still this bit of heritage in the yamen.
Anyway, Da Lang is called Da Lang, no name and no surname. This Da Lang is not called so by him when he was born, when he was very young, the people of Huoyuan Village called Da Lang the twenty-eight sons, which means very straightforwardly, the twenty-eight sons. It wasn't until the people in the village thought he had the ability that Da Lang Da Lang began to scream, otherwise a fatherless and motherless abandoned child picked up would be good if he didn't call you a beggar.
Da Lang always felt that Twenty-Eight Ah Da's rhetoric seemed reasonable on the surface, yes, Ah Da didn't have a surname or a name, so naturally he had no surname and no name when he was a son. But when he said this more than twenty-eight times, listening to the tone seemed to be a little weak-hearted, it made Da Lang mutter, but it was just a child's heart, and after a while, he forgot it completely, and when he thought about it one day, he would leave it behind for a while.
At least one more can show that Twenty-Eight Ah Da seems to know something, Twenty-eight Ah Da himself has properly collected the swaddling clothes and refuses to take them out to use or sell, that is at least a zhang long, it feels very silky and warm brown cloth, I don't know what the material is, about what people say about silk and satin or something, I heard that a zhang of silk can be exchanged for at least one cow.
But wrapped in Da Lang's cloth, Twenty-eight said no, and Leng said that he was picked up by him lying naked in the snowdrift. How could it be? Da Lang was a little suspicious, he clearly remembered that Twenty-eight Ah Da said when he was a child that he was picked up before his eyes were opened, how could a baby who didn't open his eyes stay in the snow without any disease roots?
Just thinking about it like this, and before being caught, in order to lure away these soldiers and no longer hurt Zhao Da, he ran two mountain beams without his life, his legs and feet were so tired that he fell asleep unconsciously, and in his dream, he saw Twenty-eight Ah Da pinching a hot rabbit leg that was burnt and yellowed and dangling in front of his eyes, but how he reached out to reach it, he couldn't reach it.
I felt that someone lifted myself, and then I reached out and caught the rabbit leg, but why is this rabbit leg so heavy?
"Ouch~!This little cub can kick people!" and then "snap!", and suddenly the butt hurt hotly.
It turned out to be nothing more than a dream.
When he opened his eyes, he saw that the thin-faced leader who had injured Zhao Da was in front of him, holding a roasted brown rabbit leg with an attractive aroma, and next to him, there was a tall and fat and a medium-sized soldier, who was not fat or thin, was staring greedily at the rabbit leg in the leader's hand. Strange thing, why did this thin-faced leader suddenly become so short, as tall as himself?
"You're not honest, little. Seeing Da Lang open his eyes, the corners of the thin-faced leader's mouth were raised, and the rabbit leg in his hand was raised and shook in front of Da Lang's eyes: "A certain family kindly brought you food, did you repay it like this?"
If you look closely, the right corner of the leader's eye seems to be swollen a little, and there is still a little mud foam hanging on the cheekbone. There was a scar above the frame of the eyebrow in the corner of the right eye, which extended to the bottom of the cheek, splitting the entire right side of the face in two.
"That's right!" Da Lang quenched, "If you don't catch me, I will have food every day, who wants you to give it, besides, the rabbit is also my hug, you robbed me, and injured people." "But I didn't have the heart to think about how I could kick so high, kicking into the eyes of this thin-faced leader, so accurate, relieved!
"It's right that you hug, but it's a kind of roasted one, you little cub, if it weren't for..."The thin-faced leader didn't watch out, and was quenched by Da Lang, ashamed and annoyed, wiped his face, and the spit on his face was mixed with mud, and painted him into a flower face, just like the old village elder who was on his birthday, and the village deliberately used ten fire fox skins to play the chicken thief who was caught in the team invited from the county, Da Lang was a little happy, yes, he will be called a chicken thief in the future.
The chicken thief didn't say anything, but waved his hand: "Yes, tie this cub to the horse, let him taste the taste of turning things upside down, watch closely, don't turn people upside down." Then he hatefully shoved the rabbit leg in his hand into the arms of the tall and fat soldier, "You can eat it cheaply." ”
"Wow!" behind him shook Da Lang's ears buzzing, as if there was a musical instrument shop in his head, what drums, gongs and gongs rang loudly.
"You!" the chicken thief turned around, raised his leg and kicked it, "If you have a small voice, you will die, if you want to deafen this little cub, you can't protect you!"
Then Da Lang felt that his body was light, and he lay down on his back, strange, not so hard under him?
Only then did I realize that I was being lifted by the collar.
"Wow!" again, just as deafening, but better than just now, not so sad.
Looking back, it was a black man with five big eyes and three thick lips, small eyes, thick lips, and a scar on the corner of his left eye that was bent like an earthworm and extended to the root of his left ear. It's a couple, and Da Lang thinks of the scar on the right side of the chicken thief's face.