Chapter 7: There was a fire in July of that year
"Open the door! Open the door! The government is handling the case!" The shouts outside the door became more and more urgent, and the intensity of the impact continued to increase, if you don't open the door again, I am afraid that you will be directly knocked open!
"Here, here, come!" Su Heng was still stunned, a little old man bent down and ran out of the back room, the little old man waved at Su Heng and the others, asking them to hurry into the back room, and he was still muttering in his mouth, "Shoot slowly, shoot slowly, my little old man doesn't have the strength to repair if the door is broken." ”
Su Heng and Zhao Qitian suddenly understood, and the two quickly entered the inner room, and at this moment, the little old man also opened the door, "Official, official, slow down." ”
"Bang!" The door of the courtyard was slammed open, and the little old man was also pushed open, "Get out of the way, the government will check!"
"Daddy, what's going on?" At this moment, two voices came from the back room, followed by two bloodstained, shirtless men walked out, carrying two thick bone chopping knives in their hands.
"Who are you?" the leader of the officers and soldiers shouted, only to hear the loud sound of "bang", and more than a dozen officers and soldiers drew their long knives one after another, pointing at the two people who came out of the back room.
The little old man hurriedly walked in front of the officers and soldiers at this time, spread his arms, and explained loudly, "Official, official, you misunderstood, at this time, the two sons of the little old man, this is not the Spring Festival is coming, they are killing pigs in the backyard, and they heard the movement here in the front yard, so they came to take a look." ”
"Hmph, killing pigs? It can't be murder, right?" the leader of the officers and soldiers pushed the little old man away, and then rushed into the backyard with a group of people, and the two blood-stained men followed.
The officers and soldiers searched twice in a daze, and even looked at the beams of the house several times, and found that there was no place to hide things, so they slammed the door in hatred.
The sound of banging on the door, shouting, and scolding slowly faded away.
After the little old man tied the yard door, he trotted all the way into the backyard.
The two men covered in blood also wiped the blood from their faces, and it turned out to be Su Heng and Zhao Qitian.
"Hurry up and get the Boundless out. Su Heng took the bone chopping knife, hurriedly ran to the dead pig that was placed in the sink and was ready to be dismembered, and slashed it on the pig's head, and then only heard a few "hiss" sounds, and the big fat pig with a bulging belly suddenly unfolded along the bottom of the belly, revealing the unconscious Wujiang inside.
"Uncle Zhao, hurry up and get some rice porridge. Zhao Qitian said to the little old man.
"Okay, okay......" Zhao Bo bowed and left.
Su Heng breathed a sigh of relief and sat on the ground, this day was really full of twists and turns, and he almost lost his life, and now he is finally safe for the time being.
At this moment, the front door of the small courtyard sounded again, "Open the door!"
Zhao Bo didn't even have time to buy rice, so he hurriedly ran to the backyard, wiped Wujiang's body indiscriminately, and then carried him into the kitchen.
Zhao Qitian took a handful of blood water from the blood trough full of blood again, poured it on his head, and opened the door in the front yard with filthy blood, Su Heng did the same, drenched himself with blood, and then picked up the bone chopping knife and opened the big fat pig.
"There's one more thing I haven't checked, so get out of the way for me. Zhao Qitian's bloody appearance was really scary, but there were more than ten or twenty brothers behind him, and the leader of the officers and soldiers was not afraid, so he walked straight to the backyard with a knife, and saw Su Heng cutting bones with a bone chopping knife.
"This pig is suspicious, brothers take it away for me!"
The leader of the officers and soldiers pointed to the big fat pig that was about to be chopped up, and shouted at his subordinates behind him.
Uncle Zhao's short body ran out of the kitchen, still holding a bowl of rice washing in his hand, "Oh, official, my old child and my two eldest sons depend on each other, just count on this pig for the Spring Festival, you have a lot, just give my family of three a way to live." ”
"What nonsense are you talking about, get out!" the leader of the officers and soldiers pushed Zhao Bo away, and commanded his subordinates to carry the fat pig and leave.
"Wow!" At this time, Su Heng scooped up the blood and swung it at the officers and soldiers who were about to come to rob the pig, and then picked up the bone chopping knife and danced around, and yelled viciously, "I see who dares to rob our pig!"
Covered with blood, coupled with that fierceness, Su Heng was like a butcher who was ready to pick up a butcher's knife to kill at this time, and he actually frightened these officers and soldiers at once.
"Bold, you dare to openly resist the law, could it be that you don't want to live anymore!?" The leader of the officers and soldiers was a little nervous at this time, and he also regretted it in his heart, why did he want to be greedy for this little cheapness, but in front of all his brothers, how could he dare to show his cowardice? Otherwise, it is estimated that he will never be able to straighten his waist in the future.
"If you want to rob our pigs, don't you just don't give us a way to live? Anyway, we all have to die, I'm going to see how many I can take with me today!" Su Heng grabbed the bone chopping knife in one hand, and his eyes stared at the officers and soldiers, as if he was going to kill someone with a knife in the next moment.
Uncle Zhao was so anxious that he stomped his feet on the side, and the officers and soldiers pressed forward step by step, but Su Heng did not give an inch, and was ready to slash people at any time.
"Okay, okay, second brother, you just cut off two legs for the officials, the officials are tired of walking such a long way, these two legs will be given to the officials to cook meat and wine. Uncle Zhao ran to Su Heng and opened his hands to stop him, and at the same time sneered at the leader of the officers and soldiers, "My second child is a little unbright, please be magnanimous and raise your noble hand." ”
Seeing that this little old man was interested and took the initiative to give himself the steps, the leader of the officers and soldiers snorted coldly and turned to leave, Zhao Bohao said that Su Heng reluctantly chopped off two pork legs and threw them to the officers and soldiers.
After Uncle Zhao locked the door again, the tension in the small courtyard finally eased.
Su Heng wiped the blood from his face and sat on the ground, unable to help but breathe a sigh of relief.
"Wouldn't it be so much trouble to give them the pigs just now?" Zhao Qitian said as he sat next to Su Heng.
"If you think about it, how can we give away the pigs that are going to be celebrated by others so easily? If we really give them at once, I am afraid that it will arouse suspicion. Su Heng said with a smile.
"That's right. Zhao Qitian nodded, then looked at Su Heng, "Do you know why I want to save you?"
"Isn't it because the demons in your heart dissipated after you saw me, and you cultivated to a great progress, that you saved me to repay your kindness?" Su Heng asked rhetorically.
"Yes and no. Zhao Qitian said, "If it's just because of this reason, whether I can save you or not is between the two, and the main reason why I save you is because of ...... Beiji!"
"Beiji!?" Su Heng suddenly looked at Zhao Qitian, wanting to see something from his pair of purple pupils.
"Don't worry, I have no hostility towards Beiji, on the contrary, I have a lot of respect for them, so I came to save you. Zhao Qitian waved his hand and said, "Since you saved the Beiji veterans, I think you also know something about what happened twenty years ago, so you might as well tell me about it." ”
"Are you sure you want to know? Do you know that the current imperial court calls Beiji a traitor?"
"Naturally, I heard a person talk about Beiji three years ago, and he said that the Jushou massacre twenty years ago was far from being as simple as it is now. ”
"Even if you know that you will be killed, you still have to listen?"
"Listen!"
Su Heng took a deep look at Zhao Qitian, and finally spoke slowly, "That was twenty years ago, but the impact was so great that everyone didn't dare to mention it again......"
"Twenty years ago, the first emperor died, and the new emperor succeeded to the throne, when the new law was implemented in the twentieth year, the national strength of Chu became stronger and stronger, and the northern monarch and Shang dynasty could almost compete with each other. However, the new law has damaged the foundation of the Lichu nobles and wants to cut off the way of the door valve, so when the throne is changing, the gate valve nobles finally decided to rebel!"
Every word Su Heng said exploded in Zhao Qitian's heart like thunder, and he looked at Su Heng in disbelief, "How is it possible? Why is it completely different from what I heard? Isn't it that there were traitors in the Beiji Liberation Battalion back then, and finally the leader of the Liberation Battalion at that time killed his relatives and killed the traitors, and then returned to Beiji?"
Su Heng glanced at Zhao Qitian and did not explain, but continued to say softly, "The gate valve nobles are ready to support King Qing, who was only three years old at the time, to succeed to the throne, so as to restore the old law, and only in this way can the gate valve rule be restored." So at that time, the 30,000 cavalry of the Beiji Liberation Battalion set out from Beiji, rushed tens of thousands of miles, killed through Ding'an, stepped on the pass, and finally broke through Jushou. That January coincided with the month of July, so there is a word in the history books, "Bloody July", but there is no explanation. ”
"In Jushou, the Jiejia battalion killed the Guizhou Gate Valve, and it took three whole days to kill all the disciples of the Gate Valve in Jushou at that time, and the blood was smeared all over the entire Jushou City. Seven days after the Beiji Liberation Battalion broke through Jushou, the new emperor succeeded to the throne and is the current emperor. ”
"At that time, the disarming battalion was known as the first cavalry in the world, and the soldiers pointed out, and they didn't dare to obey. So they were stationed in Jushou for more than a month, until the new emperor took over the military talisman, and then led the troops back to Beiji. ”
However, just when the disarming battalion returned to defense, those noble gate lords began to fight back, and the overwhelming number of dead soldiers and private soldiers continued to rush and kill, and when the disarming battalion returned to Beiji, only the last 3,000 of the 30,000 people remained. In the end, the emperor issued an edict to order the Jiejia Battalion to guard the Beiji Wasteland for eternity, and not to go south without an edict......"
Su Heng's voice was very light, for fear of being heard by outsiders, but every word was as heavy as a thousand pounds, and Zhao Qitian's face turned pale when he heard the end.
"You...... Where did you say it from...... Hear that?"
"Beiji Liberation Battalion...... Three thousand veterans ......"
Outside the hospital, the sun shines silently.