Chapter 383: Running Bull Valley
After these words, Li Chen understood why the other party concluded that he was Ying Yuan's disciple, it turned out that the root was Zhu Feiyan, who called Zhu Feiyan and Tao Ying's relationship seemed to be unusual, otherwise he would not have informed Tao Ying of the agreement with Ying Yuan, and there would be no such words.
Moreover, even if Tang Fu does not return to Tang Wangcheng for many years, no one will have too many suspicions when he goes back a little, after all, Tang Fu can bury anything in his heart, no one can knock it out of his mouth, even if the answer knocked out may be a trick, this is the Tang family's housekeeping skills, and the credibility is low, but it can't be completely disbelieved.
The so-called virtual and real, virtual with real, real with virtual!
As long as you can't be sure that what the other party says is true, or if everything is false, it's best to choose half-believe!
"Looking at their appearance, they don't seem to know that Li Chen and the guardian of the Tang Dynasty are masters and apprentices!" After Tao Ying exposed Li Chen's old background, she also found that Zhou Bo and the others were shocked, prompting her to jump off the horse, kneel on one knee, bow her head and say: "Li Chen, the little woman doesn't know the severity, and I hope that the son will not be blamed!"
"Forget it, I never planned to hide anything from them, but I never had time to talk to them about it, they will know about it sooner or later, and you are not wrong, why bother to take the responsibility on yourself?" Hearing this, before Li Chen became angry, Tao Ying was anxious to block any possibility of his anger, and could only secretly sigh that Tao Ying was too cautious, but he did not deny that the other party had that kind of expectation and what might happen, and waved his hand indifferently.
That's right, he originally planned to inform Zhou Bo and the others about this, but he never had the time to spare, and now, he asked Tao Ying to help him complete this critical work.
And as he said this, it made Tao Ying look up to her, and she vaguely felt that the other party had already anticipated her intentions, but there was no real evidence, so she didn't dare to make a conclusion.
"Thank you Li Chen Gongzi for not blaming him!" Tao Ying owes a debt, and after expressing her gratitude, she then explained: "It's not too early, we should set off for Benniu Valley, grandpa and they have been waiting there for a long time, this time it was grandpa who ordered me to come to greet him!"
As soon as these words came out, everyone nodded, and did not ask why they didn't go to Tang Wangcheng, but went to the Bull Running Valley, just because it would take several days to go to Tang Wangcheng, and the annual Bull Running Festival would be held in the next two days, so naturally they couldn't go to Tang Wangcheng and then turn back, it would only be a waste of time.
Immediately, under the escort of Tao Ying and other people who came here to wait, everyone went straight to the place where the Bull Running Festival was held, also known as the Bull Running Valley.
"Benniu Valley is the main New Year's improvisation program for the poor people at the bottom or serfs, and it is also to show their bravery, so they will basically use the buffalo used to cultivate the land as a tool to attack them!" Tang Hengqing knew that Li Chen didn't know anything about Benniu Valley, so he naturally wanted to act as an introducer.
"Not only that, right?" Li Chen's brows furrowed instantly when he heard this, how could he sound so much like a nobleman fooling the poor people, but he couldn't say it clearly, he just asked with an unconcealable disgust.
Because this place is the fief of the Tang family, everything in the fief is controlled by the Tang family, no matter how happy the poor people are, it seems that it is inseparable from the aristocracy, so he does not intend to point the accusation that the Tang family is the kind of evil and inhumane nobleman.
Besides, he has a great relationship with Tang Heng, and he should take care of Tang Heng in his affection and reason!
"Hehe, I can't hide anything from you!" Tang Heng felt that something was wrong when he heard it, which prompted him to smile awkwardly, and then said: "In fact, our bull running festival has existed long before the Tang Principality, and the Tang family, as a hero from the Tang Principality, has always followed the tradition at that time, and the main purpose is not to fool the poor people, but to let the whole people have the courage to challenge!"
"Because our warrior continent is divided into several classes, serfs, paupers, commoners, viscounts, earls, marquises, dukes, princes, and princes, if you want to climb up from the bottom, you must show the courage to dare to get out of the bottom, if you can't even show this bit of courage, even if they become commoners, they won't be able to support their families!"
"So they get a chance to change the fate of their family once a year, and it won't be too difficult to complete this challenge of just running with their physical strength of working all day in the fields, but there will be certain dangers in it, and it will not be smooth sailing, otherwise, it will not be a challenge to yourself!"
When Li Chen heard this, he already understood that the Tang family certainly had the mentality of taking this entertainment, but the focus was on the opportunity for serfs and poor people to turn over, under normal circumstances, few nobles dared to let a group of serfs gradually restore their status, then their cultivated land would more or less lose people to cultivate, and reducing the cultivated area would mean that the income would become thinner.
But then again, people always have to climb up, without the courage to climb, they are not qualified to straighten their waists and be a man, and they will face the loess with their backs to the sky all their lives.
"Isn't there any other reward than a change of fate?" he asked, then, thinking of a place, but not ambiguous.
Since it is an opportunity to change fate, it is definitely not limited to this fate, after all, everyone's starting point is different, some want to change their status, and some only bend their waists for half a bucket of rice in front of them, without a little extra reward, and it is difficult to attract the people at the bottom who care about the problem of food and clothing in front of them.
"Well, as long as those who reach the end point safely and soundly can be promoted to the next level, and get a piece of arable land that can support their families, and problems such as cultivation can also be solved, only by paying can they get the harvest, and if they don't pay, they can only continue to work hard for the nobles, don't expect us to help those guts who are unwilling to pay but only want to harvest!" Tang Heng nodded.
Li Chen nodded in agreement, there is really no need to pay financial and material resources to pay attention, it will only cost limited resources in vain, just like when he was in Pingyuan Town, all of them are civilians, and none of the children are serfs, otherwise there will be more children in a small town.
And this is basically based on the principle of the predecessors planting trees and the descendants enjoying the shade, if the parents do not work hard, the younger generations will only inherit the fate of the suffering of the parents, and if you want to change, you can only rely on your own hands, so that the descendants will not follow the kind of poverty, or the bleak fate of being at the mercy of others.
As the conversation came to an end, he did not intend to ask any more questions that did not make much sense to him, for he did not belong here, and there was no need to think about them for the poor people who were being tested in this place.
The so-called legs and feet grow on others, and what others want to do is not someone else's business, and a sideways foot into it will not only not get the approval of others, but also may make others suspect that they are harboring evil intentions, which is a bit thankless.
About a day or so, they also came to the so-called Running Bull Valley, and the noise was like thunder, constantly sweeping from a distance.
The scene of the surging heads of people made people a little shocked by the cold wind, just because they couldn't see the end, and the whole two large areas were crowded with people.
Both of these large seas of people separated a meandering, river-like ditch about thirty meters wide and only five meters high from the mud layers on both sides.
"This is the Running Cow Valley?" Li Chen looked at the ditch called the valley from afar, and suddenly felt a little unable to adapt, what kind of valley could this be, it was almost the same as the ditch.
"Hehe, it's just a name, it's not a real valley, and it always needs a venue to hold the Bull Running Festival, and it's not a natural formation, it's a man-made product!" Tang Heng smiled awkwardly.
Because this is not a valley at all, there are no steep mountains, just a crack in the plain, and the depth is only about five meters, so whoever hears the valley will feel exaggerated, but this is just a synonym, otherwise who knows the meaning of its existence!
Just as they were talking, they had already broken into the noisy crowd of people, and as soon as they saw them, they immediately chose to retreat to a passage that could be entered by people on horseback, but many uninformed people were a little angry and insulting, who called people squeezed for no reason, but as soon as they heard that it was the people of the Tang family entering, their faces turned white, and they hurriedly covered their stinky mouths, for fear of annoying the people who couldn't be provoked because they didn't leave virtue on their mouths.
"People are afraid of disasters coming out of their mouths!" This also made Li Chen take in the bottom of his eyes, and sighed very understandingly for these people who had just been abused.
I think back then, he also belonged to this kind of person, and he couldn't afford to provoke him, so he could only swallow his anger and be at the mercy of others.
When he really walked out of the small place where he was oppressed, he really regained what he had lost back then, all because he relied on his own strength to regain it, if he didn't have that ability, he would not be able to avoid continuing to swallow his anger.
"Huh!" Just when he felt that his fate could not be matched with the crowd of people around him, a feeling of disgust also quickly drilled into his heart, as if ringing the alarm bell, and he was secretly startled.
This feeling is not unfamiliar, but I haven't felt it for more than a year, and when it comes again, I immediately dig up the memory of that time, and my face is ugly.
"Brother Li Chen, did these guys collide with you?" Tang Heng saw that Li Chen's face suddenly turned fast, making him frown, he was not sure the reason why Li Chen's anger suddenly appeared, but he couldn't help but ask.
"There are demons hidden in the sea of people!" Li Chen lowered his voice and said.
"What!" As soon as Tang Heng heard this, he exclaimed in a low voice, and his face quickly darkened, and then, he didn't look around, it would only make the demon aware of the danger, but the more he thought about it, the more angry he became, this place was their Tang family's fiefdom, and the demon came here without noticing a bit of irony, and asked in a low voice: "Those demons are hiding nearby?"
"There are two demons about eight kilometers away from us, one is a sixth-order cultivator and the other is a fifth-order cultivator, they didn't come together and forcibly pulled them out, then they will definitely fight back to the death, endangering the innocent is inevitable, but since the two of them appear here, I believe they have other accomplices, I want to wait for this matter to be over, and then wipe them out one by one, which can not only reduce the casualties of the innocents, but also wipe them out!" There was already a killing intent surging out of Li Chen's eyes, and the reappearance of natural enemies would inevitably be only a dead end, and he nodded.