Chapter 21 Risking Your Life
After all, if you want to say that any girl is not jealous at all, then I don't believe it, because if you care about a person, you will definitely be jealous. Then he went straight to the barracks and asked all the soldiers to assemble, a total of 1,500 people. "General, what are you going to do?" "Yes, aren't you training today?"
There was a lot of discussion at the bottom, and I stood on the stage and was silent. "I brought everyone together today to say one thing. Yesterday I took in some of the people who had fled from other places, and I believe some of them were among you.
They used to be honest croppers, but now the bandits have destroyed their homes, and if I don't take them in, I'll starve to death. But there has never been a person in our guard who is waiting for death, and I have my own selfish motives in taking them in.
Because the price of food is rising now, although I can guarantee that you will not go hungry now, but what about the future? What if you can't buy food with money in the future? So we are bringing everyone together today to reclaim a piece of wasteland and give those displaced people a place to live and grow food. It's also for the sake of our army's future rations, do you think it's okay?"
Li Jin, Qian Qi and Hong Zhentian took the lead and said, "We obey the general's arrangement." Seeing that there was no objection from below, I ordered them to reclaim the land at the foot of the mountain. The group walked for about five minutes to the bottom of the mountain, which is called Lin Mountain. It's about the height of a building dozens of stories. The surrounding area is full of yellow weeds, and the mountain is too steep to climb.
According to the locals, there are some yellow beasts on the mountain, and some people are bold and do not believe in evil. But after going up, he never came down. When the soldiers saw their destination, they picked up wooden shovels and pickaxes one by one and began to do it.
It seems that the training during this period of time has indeed been effective, and then I stepped forward and grabbed Hong Zhentian, who was about to join it, and asked: "Have you ever read a book in the barracks, or have a clever brain, pick out a few, check the details, I have to go to the refugees I received yesterday, and I will bother Brother Hong to take care of it here."
Hong Zhentian clasped his fists with both hands and said, "Leave it to me here, Brother Wei, don't worry." I went back the way I came, looking at the dozens of tents in front of me. Then I randomly chose one and walked in, and several old people were chatting together.
"Hello general, thank you for taking it in, the old man and the others are grateful. "As soon as a few people saw me coming, they immediately stopped chatting, and I was polite. For example, how do you live, are you still used to it, and then go straight to the point: "Today, I came mainly to discuss one thing with the elderly.
Yesterday I thought about it for a while and prepared to reclaim the land at the foot of the mountain. Of course, if you have to plant the crops, you only need to hand over 60 percent of the crops for our army's rations, and I will buy the rest at the market price.
The remaining forty percent is up to you to decide whether to sell or not, I won't force it" After speaking, a person who looked like a village chief stood up on crutches, and this person's back was bent like a stretched bow. He wore a hat sewn from coarse cloth on his head, his face was full of wrinkles, and his eyes were almost narrowed into a line. The clothes on his body were also covered in patches.
He said softly, "Ahem, on behalf of the villagers, thank you for the general's arrangement." The general is already grateful that he can take us in. We will obey all the arrangements, as long as the general doesn't think we are old," he said and beat his back again.
Actually, I didn't know that at that time, the tax was 70% to 80% of the grain, so of course they were willing. Otherwise, there would be nowhere to go, after all, they were originally honest croppers, and they were all in their forties.
As for this old man, he should be the head of a certain village. While he was talking, there was a noise outside, "Let me in, I want to see the village chief, I really have something urgent", but the two soldiers just stopped as if they didn't hear it, and in their hearts, there was no general to speak, and everything had to wait. Then I asked Ma San to let the people outside the tent in.
It was a middle-aged man in his thirties, with dark skin and a gray cloth ribbon around his head. Thin as a bamboo pole, as soon as he came in, he said with a panicked face, "General, general, good." Village, the village chief is good, out, something has happened. ”
The village chief coughed and thumped his back. said: "Ergou, don't worry, say slowly." Ergou breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Li, Aunt Li, I'm sick again." Hurry up, go, go and see. So I instructed Ma Liu to ask people to invite Langzhong, and I followed the village chief out of the tent first.
When the tent is set up, it is divided into men and women, after all, there is a difference between men and women. A few people helped the village chief to walk for about two minutes, and a few old women outside hurriedly opened their tents when they saw the village chief coming.
There was a shabby quilt on the floor, and an old lady in her sixties was lying on it, her eyes closed and her face pale. There was no blood on her faces, and the women outside were too frightened to come in, saying outside, "It's all right when you eat in the morning." ”
"yes, she said she was a little sleepy and went to sleep. The village chief looked at me anxiously and said, "General, can you please ask for a Langzhong?" The old man is willing to mortgage things and ask the general for help. After speaking, he took out a jade pendant. I hurriedly helped the village chief, "Lang Zhong is already on the way, don't worry, I'll take a look first." ”
Then I crouched down, sniffed first, and then checked my pulse. It's faint, but it's breathy, and I'm relieved to see this. After comforting the village chief, about a moment later, a man in his forties carrying a wooden box walked in.
This man has a figure-eight eyebrows and a goatee. He was in his early forties, his face was full of red, and his eyes were bright. At first glance, he is a person who strives for excellence, and the people in the rivers and lakes are called "miracle doctors".
"Jean, I'm Langzhong. Several women gathered outside consciously made a way. As soon as this person came in and looked at the old lady's face, he directly began to take the pulse. Then he frowned. The village chief looked busy and asked, "How is the doctor?"
Lang Zhong sighed and said, "Suffering from the wind and cold, coupled with the invasion of foreign evil caused by the long journey, I can only control it with a silver needle first to prevent it from spreading in my body." But after all, the old man is old, and it's difficult."
When the village chief heard this, he knelt again, and I asked Lang Zhong, "Is there no other way?" Lang Zhong said, "There is a general Hui, but he needs ginseng, Sanqi and so on." These two herbs are too difficult to find, but there are still some left in the ginseng villain's medicine box. However, Sanqi seems to be only found in the forest and mountains, and there are many fierce beasts in the forest and mountains.
I heard that there are still cannibals, and besides, this lady's illness may be difficult to survive tonight. That's why it's hard for the villain to say. "I see, I asked Sanqi what he looked like. With the growth environment, the yellow beast in their mouth should be a tiger.
But I want to get a good handle with this man-eating tiger," Ma San went to the barracks to pick up twenty spearmen, and ten archers followed me up to Linshan. Ma San hesitated and said, "Big brother, why don't I go with my brothers." You're still going to have to sit here."
I know he is worried about my safety, "Your life is your life, let you go, hurry up". I asked Lang Zhong to try to drag Aunt Li's illness first, and then get out of the tent. Li Jin also followed the spearmen who went straight to Linshan, and Hong Zhentian heard that I was going to Linshan.
Originally, I wanted to come along, but I asked him, what if you go to the barracks? Then he asked Qian Jin to follow, and picked a few elites from the guards and beggar gangs, so he was relieved.
In this way, a group of eighteen of us went up to the forest mountain, and several members of the guards and beggars cut the protruding weeds and branches with knives in front. The ground was full of jutting rocks, and when I looked up, I looked up at the mountain in front of me. It looks like a building dozens of stories high is pressed on its back, as high as if it is about to collapse.
On the top of the mountain, the dense woods are like a huge black blanket hat fastened to the cliff, and clusters of unknown wildflowers jump out of the rock wall from the black and green. I told them to make a mark, in case they got lost when they went down, and they encountered a lot of wild boars along the way.
He let the archers shoot a few of them, perhaps because of the bloody qi suddenly burst out with a roar of two half-man-tall tigers, a pair of sharp claws stained with blood. There was a big king on the top of his head, and the intestines of animals were still hanging from his mouth, and there were also several wild wolves staring at him. I took a closer look at the tiger in front of me, and it really deserved to be "avoiding the tiger in the morning, and avoiding the long snake at night"
Those bright eyes exude a chilling atmosphere, as well as the domineering spirit of a king who overlooks everything. It seemed that at the slightest roar, the whole forest would tremble spontaneously, and all living beings would bow down.
Several soldiers with spears were so frightened that they couldn't hold their guns steadily. It was also the first time I had looked at a tiger so closely, and I couldn't help but feel a little hairy. When the soldiers saw that I was standing still, they all clenched their spears and surrounded me in the middle, and the archers were ready.
Li Yun and Qian Jin said, "You protect the general first, and we will each have one." The two of them had to compare everything, and then Li Jin turned around and said, "Archer cover." “
Li Yun and Qian Jin carried spears and fought one against the other, but the speed of the tiger was faster in comparison. I saw the two tigers put down their prey in their mouths. Looking at the two of them, he pressed his front paw on the ground, and his body was facing forward, and he rushed straight to the two of them.
Although the two stabbed the tiger, they were not the key after all. The two tigers became more and more ferocious when they encountered blood, and they bit the two of them desperately. It seems that even if they die, they will be buried with the two of them, and Li Yun and Qian Jin are also torn by the tiger's claws.
The claw marks dripping with blood on their chests gradually exhausted their strength. I looked at it now, "Shoot the arrow." Ten archers who had already taken aim released their arrows together, and the eyes and stomachs of the two tigers, each with an arrow in their legs, were about to turn around and run. Then Li Yun and Qian Jin stepped forward to make up a few more shots, until the two tigers were out of breath, and the blood stained the entire grass red.