Chapter 4: A Fight (2)
Yan Jiatang's parent's name is Yan Canyi, a burly and sturdy old man. Judging from his appearance, Yan Canyi is about sixty years old, but his actual age is more than seventy years old, which is because he usually takes good care of himself.
"Cousin and grandfather, great-nephew greets you!" The three Chen Ke brothers greeted Yan Can, the parent of Yanjiatang, according to their seniority.
"Ah, you are ......" Because Yan Canyi had never met the three Chen Ke brothers, both of them called him his cousin and grandfather, so that Yan Canyi didn't turn a corner for a while.
"We are Chen Kesan and Chen Ke's five brothers from Chenjiafang."
"Ah, you're here for the Dabu Camellia Mountain, right?"
"Yes! Yesterday you not only sent someone to pick our tea seeds, but also beat us! Please ask my cousin and grandfather to make decisions for us. ”
"I know about this, this is your fault!" As soon as Yan Can moved, he blamed Chen Ke and the three brothers.
"What's wrong with us?" Chen Kesan asked rhetorically with a strong suppression of anger.
"Nephew Zeng, you are all juniors, there are some things that you don't know, this camellia mountain is originally from our Yanjiatang!"
"Camellia Mountain was originally a good one for you Yanjiatang people, but you have already given it to our old woman as a dowry!"
"There is no such thing at all, it is that when your old woman got married, she secretly stole the contract of the camellia mountain while her parents were not paying attention, and when she arrived at her mother-in-law's house, she said that it was given to her by her parents as a dowry."
"Since it was our old woman who stole it, why didn't you chase it back in the first place?"
"At the beginning, your old woman's parents took care of their daughter's face and did not pursue it, so they had to make a mistake. You've been picking tea seeds for nearly 100 years, and you've benefited a lot, it's time to return them to us! ”
Hearing this, the three Chen Ke brothers were so angry that their eyes were smoking, and they couldn't wait to go up and slap him twice. But after thinking about it, this is in Yanjiatang, and the two brothers dare not have any excesses, otherwise, they will definitely suffer the loss. I didn't dare to move my hands and feet, and I still said fiercely, "You guys are strong words, this is an insult to my old woman!" ”
"Young man, don't be angry, that's how it is! Go back and tell you brothers, don't go to the big cloth to pick tea seeds, starting from this year, that camellia mountain has been taken back by our Yanjiatang people! Yan Can said the words to death in one fell swoop, leaving no way out.
"Don't think about it, you can dream about it!" Chen Kesan said angrily as he handed the letter written by his father-in-law, Chen Jiangwan, to Yan Canyi.
Yan Can took a look at it, took it casually, and out of consideration for understanding the other party's intentions, he still read the letter seriously. Chen Jiangwan wrote three opinions in the letter: first, he asked the people of Yanjiatang to return the tea seeds picked in the mountain field of Dabu yesterday; the second is to ask Yan Jiatang to apologize for the incident of injuring Chen Kesan's family; Third, the people of Yanjiatang must ensure that from now on, no similar incidents will occur.
After reading the letter, Yan Can slowly folded the letter, handed it back to Chen Kesan, and said bluntly: "Go back and tell your father-in-law, I will also send you three sentences: the first sentence is that we can't do the three things you said in your letter!" Won't do it either! The second sentence is that the camellia mountain on the big cloth will be officially taken back from this year! The third sentence is: no matter what means you Chenjiafang people take, we Yanjiatang people will accompany you to the end! ”
Chen Kesan took the letter and said angrily: "Brother, let's go!" This is not the place to reason. ”
"Walk slowly, don't send it far!" Yan Canyi said a send-off word in a fake way.
In the afternoon of the same day, Chen Jiangwan gathered the elders of several houses again and reported the situation of Chen Ke's three brothers coming to the door to seek a peaceful solution. Kill a thousand enemies, lose eight hundred, and if you have no choice, you are willing to fight with others. After some debate, in the evening, the elders finally reached an agreement and supported Chen Jiangwan to adopt the method of "fighting". In the evening, Chen Jiangwan convened a meeting of the heads of the whole clan in the Chen ancestral hall. At the meeting, he first briefly introduced the ins and outs of the three Chen Ke brothers and the Yanjiatang people fighting for the mountain and the opinions of the elders in several rooms, and finally raised his voice and said passionately: "Early tomorrow morning, a middle-aged man from each family will gather in the ancestral hall and prepare to go out after breakfast; In addition, the elders of the big house are responsible for arranging the meals of the people who will go out tomorrow; The elders of the third room were responsible for arranging personnel to rush to the nearby villages of Chenjiashan, Chenjialou and Datang overnight, first, to report the situation and second, to request support to deal with the further expansion of the situation; The elders in the second room are responsible for raising money and food according to the old method; I am responsible for the commander-in-chief of the fight with the Yanjiatang people this time, and Chen Zenger is responsible for how to fight, and everything on the battlefield is subject to Chen Zenger's arrangement; At the same time, the whole Zhuang people are required to unite as one, resist external troubles, not afraid of death and injury, and play Zhuangwei! ”
"When one side is in trouble, all sides support". This is a conscious action to deal with the fight between the same clan and the same surname. In order to ensure the victory of this armed battle with the Yanjiatang people, the parent Chen Jiangwan had to send personnel to the nearby village surnamed Chen to ask for help. On the contrary, if other people surnamed Chen Zhuang fight with others Zhuang Shang and turn to Chen Jiafang people for help, Chen Jiafang people will also be obliged to help.
Chen Zenger, who is not confused, is 1.76 meters tall, tall and burly, with two thick eyebrows, and a standard Chinese face. On Chenjiafang Village, he is not only a beautiful man, but also a well-known figure. The one-handed fist and foot kung fu is very good, especially the "Zhu Bajie-style" wooden rake kung fu, which is even more difficult to meet opponents. This time, he fought with the Yanjiatang people on the big cloth, and was entrusted with a heavy responsibility by his father-in-law Chen Jiangwan, which was well deserved.
After breakfast the next day, Chen Jiangwan carefully selected thirty-three descendants in the Chen ancestral hall, plus twenty people who helped Chen Ke and the three brothers pick tea and peaches, a total of fifty-three people, and marched all the way to the big cloth.
On the big cloth, it is the place name of the location of the Camellia Mountain of the three brothers of Chen Ke, more than six miles away from Chenjiafang, more than three miles away from Yanjiatang, the topography of the Camellia Mountain is like an irregular rectangle, two long ends, one end is east, one end is west, and there are more than three miles long between them; On both sides of the wide, one side is south and the other side is north, and the distance between them is just over a mile wide. The mountains are flat and open. In a bumper harvest year, nearly 100 quintals of tea peaches can be picked.
Although the population of Yanjiatang is not as large as that of Chenjiafang Village, Yanjiatang is close to Dabu, and the people they organized are more than 20 more than Chenjiafang.
Chen Jiangwan, although he is the head of a family, has experienced a lot of big and small things in his life, and has the courage that ordinary people in the village do not have, but it is the first time to really fight with someone surnamed him, and when he heard that so many people came from the other party, he couldn't help but be timid. I saw him panting, his hands and feet trembling slightly, and he quietly pulled Chen Zenger and asked, "Zenger, there are so many people from the other side, do we have to adjust the deployment?" ”
"Don't be afraid, everything goes according to plan!" Chen Zenger confidently answered his question, and strengthened Chen Jiangwan's courage,
"Can we win this fight?" Chen Jiangwan has no bottom in his heart, he only knows that Chen Zenger's masonry skills are superior, but he doesn't know how capable his martial arts are? Because Chen Zenger's kung fu was learned by doing crafts outside, is his martial arts a fist embroidered with fists, or is it genuine? He had only seen him fight, but he had never seen him fight. So, I had to ask again tentatively.
"Based on what I know about the people of Yanjiatang, we should win this fight! As for how much you won, it's hard to say. Chen Zenger shook the rake in his hand and replied with confidence.
Chen Jiangwan saw that Chen Zenger was waiting for Cheng Zhu to look like he was in his chest, so he couldn't say anything, so he had to wave to the people behind him, touched the few hairs on the top of his head, cheered up, and followed everyone to the big cloth.
On this occasion, although it can't be compared with a war where either you die or I die, the scene is still quite scary. Yanjiatang people are in groups of three, five in a group, some people are holding wooden sticks, some people are holding shuttle darts, some people are holding hoes, and some people are also picking up big knives. If you really fight, you will kill people if you don't do it.
Chen Jiangwan and his party walked along the mountain road to a wide area in the middle of Camellia Mountain and stopped. Seeing that the people of Chenjiafang came to the center of the tea mountain, the people of Yanjiatang slowly came up from various intersections and mountainsides. Seeing that the people of Yanjiatang were surrounding, Chen Jiangwan took out the iron horn prepared in advance, quickly handed it to Chen Genliu beside him, and once again told him to shout like this. Chen Genliu took the speaker, cleared his throat, and shouted loudly to Chashan: "Guests of Yanjiatang, please listen: you have worked hard!" This camellia mountain is our Chenjiafang people since the Daoguang years of the Qing Dynasty, you don't pick tea seeds anymore, please pick the tea seeds in the basket at the intersection of the east and west, we are very grateful! If we are obsessed and continue to pick tea peaches, we will all be regarded as stealing tea peaches and will take coercive measures......"
This shout was like a boulder falling into a pond, and the silent camellia mountain suddenly boiled. The screams and scoldings of the Yanjiatang people, as well as the roars and screams deliberately made by the young descendants, were louder than the others.
The people of Yanjiatang shouted while rushing up towards the place where Chen Jiangwan had stayed, only to see one by one with red faces and red ears, rubbing their fists, eager to eat the people of Chenjiafang in one bite.
More and more people gathered, and soon formed two opposing camps of Chenjiafang people and Yanjiatang people.
The two sides first talked to each other word by word, and then it developed into a pair of scolding, and the scolding became louder and louder, the more scolding the words became more ferocious, and the more scolding became more vicious. Suddenly, Yan Can, the head of Yanjiatang, waved his right hand, and more than 70 people surnamed Yan ran around in unison, firmly surrounding more than 50 people in Chenjiafang in the middle. Seeing that the encirclement was successful, Yan Canyi took the rusty iron horn from the hands of others, and repeated loudly the three sentences to Chen Kesan the day before, and asked the people of Chen Jiafang to leave quickly, so as not to be beaten and humiliated here, and cut off their hands and feet.
Yesterday, after Yan Canyi rejected the messenger of the Chenjiafang people, he expected that the situation would further develop and deteriorate, so he organized and mobilized the living forces of the whole village overnight, and hurried to the Dabushang Camellia Mountain after breakfast today, waiting for the arrival of the Chenjiafang people to fight the male and female.