Chapter 220: Sister's Hatred (Fourth Update)
There is a bottom line in life, and there are some things that cannot be done.
"I don't want to go back to Jingshi, Xiaoxue, let's go help the Ye family and run away from the Huang family. Hmph, the children of the Ye family are all backbone, and they will definitely not shrink into a grass shed and dare not come out. Ye Changtian said loudly.
Sister A's face froze after hearing this, then she stood up and said slowly: "Hehe, you have the backbone to fight." If you take death, I will not hinder you. But you don't need to accuse me of anything! You think that you need courage to fight, but do you know how many people have died in battle? How many wives have been separated! How many people have been living on the streets and begging for a living! If you can die fewer people, even if you are hiding in the mountains, what is there to do? Do you know? If you don't fight, you need more courage to live hard!
"Changtian, this sister's words, but I agree with some of them. Ning Xiaoxue said softly, without waiting for Ye Changtian to speak, she continued: "Fight for yourself, everyone will do it, and they will have the courage to do it, even if they are defeated, they dare to swing their swords and slash." But if it is for the sake of relatives and people who want to protect, people often have too many concerns, want to fight but can't, want to resist but don't dare, and it takes courage to suppress this inner impulse. It's like when you face the purple spirit, in order to protect us, you choose to give up your freedom or even risk your life. β
"From this point of view, you are still similar to this sister. But after that, you and this sister are completely different. In your heart, a short-term compromise just needs a space and time to turn around. In the face of the enemy, he will never hide and do nothing, nor will he hide and live a seemingly stable but helpless life. Instead, try your best to improve yourself and face all difficulties and enemies. No matter how strong the enemy is, there will be a way to defeat him, and it turns out that you are right. Ning Xiaoxue said lightly.
"yes. Hiding from the world can naturally be uncontested, but that doesn't mean that the enemy doesn't exist. If we have taken refuge today, then the enemy will find them tomorrow, so how can we deal with them? Not fighting and not dealing with them are only short-term expedient methods, and it does not mean that we have always given up resistance. You must know that if people do not fight for a long time, they are afraid that they will lose their sense of crisis and their instinct to fight. Don't mention any gentleman's revenge, ten years is not too late, for hatred such a thing, a day is too long, if it is ten years, I am afraid that the original intention and courage have already been wiped out. Do you remember what you wanted to do in the first place?"
Ye Changtian's gaze swept over Sister A, looked at the tablet placed on the big table in the main hall behind Sister A, and said with a serious expression. The number of tablets is surprisingly large, there are more than 100, and if you look closely at the names on the tablets, you will find that the surnames on these tablets are not the same, and the time is also quite different. The flickering candle made the tablet on the table look a little dark and sad.
"You know, our enemy is simply invincible. If it weren't for that, how could we hide on this cliff!" said with a smile and angrily pointing at Ye Changtian!
With a smile, step aside. Sister sighed, then turned to look at the countless tablets, and muttered: "Twelve years ago, my family was also free of food and clothing, and I learned martial arts with my father and brother since I was a child, hoping to be a heroine who fought for the country and asked for the people's lives. But there are unforeseen circumstances,
The father was killed in a war, and the brother was captured. The imperial court slandered his brother for defecting to a foreign enemy, resulting in a crushing defeat. Overnight, the sky fell. There were more than 30 members of the family, all the men were killed, and all the women and children were charged to the teaching department. Later, I heard that my mother, my sister and others died in the fire. Three years later, I escaped from Jiangzhou Jiangtianfu. β
"Begging all the way to live, I met the fleeing smile and cherry, and the three of us sisters depended on each other and fell to Fuzhou City. Because of the lack of means of livelihood, we were forced to stay away from the city of Fuzhou. But as we passed through a few villages, we found several widows' villages. Do you know what a widow's village is? All the men are dead? Do you know how they live? A woman not only has to rely on barren land to support her family and children, but also has to pay heavy and varied taxes!"
There was no hope, no life in their eyes. There is only a repetitive life like the walking dead, and the food at home is robbed, and it is silent, like a ghost. In this way, some corrupt officials even tried every means to find all kinds of names to search for and scrape them out! I couldn't stand it, so I killed more than a dozen officials, and at the same time killed the county magistrate not far away, and distributed the silver taels that I had seized to everyone. β
"The whole village came out. Do you know what? Those children were skinny, poorly clothed, without even decent shoes, like a thin piece of grass, and could die at any moment. And the women's hands were full of calluses, and their faces were covered with wind and frost. That's when I knew there was so much barrenness and misery in this world!"
"After that, in order to avoid the arrest of the officials, the people of the village gave the three of us the cliff left by our ancestors to live in. For more than ten years, we killed corrupt officials and helped the poor, and some women without children or orphans who lost their parents also began to follow me up the mountains to learn martial arts. Some of them settled here, and most of them were scattered in a stockade a few miles away. β
"I have enemies, and all the people here have enemies. We have only one enemy, and that is the imperial court! Over the past 10 years or so, I have returned to Jiangtianfu many times to investigate the cause of the incident, but to no avail. I want to take revenge and fight, but I don't even know who the real enemy is! But I know one thing, all court officials who are corrupt and pervert the law should be killed!" Sister Ah said murderously.
"Sister. Both the smile and the cherry were in tears.
"Haha, hahaha. Ye Changtian stood up and laughed loudly. Xiaoxiao and Cherry opened their eyes angrily, and they wanted to explode, but they were stopped by Sister A.
"Why are you laughing?"
"I'm laughing at you, since you want to kill corrupt officials, why don't you kill big corrupt officials, how much can these small magistrates be greedy? You have to think clearly, sometimes not all officials want to be greedy, but have to be greedy, even if you kill several county officials, are people still greedy?"
"If you are greedy, you will kill one, and there will always be a day when you will finish killing!" said with a smile.
"Well, the greed of corrupt officials does not cease because of your threats. In officialdom, if you don't want to be greedy, you are the enemy of greed. As an enemy, it always needs to be killed. If you are not greedy for supply, how can you make oil and water, and if you don't have oil and water, how can you be willing to let you sit in an official position
This is not the most important thing, the most important thing is that you should not give the money you bring from the killing of corrupt officials to the people in the stockade. Ye Changtian shook his head and smiled bitterly.
"Why, they are all poor like that, why don't you give them a share? Do rich children like you know what hardship is? Do you know how thin their children are? A man of five or six meters weighs less than fifty pounds!" Cherry also said angrily!
"Ah, you guys. has grown old in vain, but he is still so naΓ―ve. Let me ask you, did the silver taels you robbed after killing the corrupt officials be distributed to the people in the village? Then may I ask you, has the life in the village improved a lot?" Ye Changtian's tone was a little cold.
"Of course. In the first few years, we divided a lot of silver taels, but no one dared to spend them or use them, so they just buried them in the ground. In the past two years, everyone saw that the imperial court had not moved, so they were relieved to take out the money, and some people in the stockade also went to the city, set up shops, and started small trades. I've been to see them, and they're doing well. He said with a smile and some pride.
"Hmm. So you think that the people in the court are all blind, right? A poor village has some guys with money, and one or two are just that, but if the people in the village are suddenly full and dressed, and their faces are not yellow or hungry, what do you think they will think?" Ye Changtian sighed.
"You mean, the court will be suspicious of the people in the village?" Sister A's face changed.
"You're not stupid. But you seem to be wrong, they are not suspicious, they are afraid that they have come. Ye Changtian sighed, it seems that the sergeants he saw on the way here were not in any military situation, but after Yue Yun sat on the Fuzhou City Guard, he immediately rectified the military affairs in Fuzhou City and the surrounding areas.
"No way. Hanxiao's face also turned pale, and the two hurriedly ran out of the room, walked around the mountain peak and looked carefully at the village in the distance, only to see that the village was pitch black, there was no movement, and there was no sergeant coming, so they couldn't help but feel relieved.
"Sister, he's a liar. Wu Lixuan's guy is a greedy person who is afraid of death, and he never dares to send people deep into the mountains, for fear of losing the sergeant and not being able to keep the black yarn on his head. Otherwise, people would have been sent to search the mountains a few years ago. Said with a smile and some anger!
"There is some truth in what he said, and I am a little relieved. With a smile, tomorrow you will go to Fuzhou City, to inquire about the movement, cherry, you will go to the village tomorrow, and then go to the nearby county town to see if there is anything abnormal. As for the two of you, let's take a break in the firewood room for the time being, smile, and untie them. Sister said.
Xiaoxiao wanted to hesitate, but seeing that Sister A was a little sad, she reached out to untie the two.
Ye Changtian and Ning Xiaoxue rubbed their wrists, which were a little sore, and the two glanced at each other. There were quite a few soldiers around the mountain, and under the cover of night, they had come closer. It seems that the other party has figured out the location of this place, otherwise he would not have found this mountain so accurately. At this time, it is less than an hour before dawn, and it is difficult to move in the dark night, let alone climb the mountain. It seems that the other party also wants to attack when the sky is slightly bright, and capture everyone in one fell swoop.