Lu Yangge curled up in his uncle's arms and sobbed quietly, calling out to his father and mother in a low voice.

She didn't know what happened to her father, she didn't know what the fire had burned the manor, and she didn't know if the rabbit she kept in the yard had escaped.

In this dark night, she no longer has the company of these people who love her.

She didn't dare to cry, and she didn't dare to cry out in pain.

Only her uncle, with her healthy hands, took Brother Xiaohu and walked with one foot deep and one foot shallow.

In spring, the mountains are foggy.

Chen Erzhu is missing an arm, and it is not easy to take two children to walk this mountain road.

You can't light a torch and a lantern yet, for fear of attracting thieves.

By dawn, Lu Yangge fell asleep, and Chen Xiaohu couldn't walk.

"Dad, my legs hurt, my feet hurt, my hands hurt, my arms hurt, and my face hurts."

Walking on mountain roads, leg and foot pain is certain. The pain in the hands and face was scratched by the leaves of the thorns and grasses of the miscellaneous trees.

Although Chen Erzhu walked in front and opened the way for his son, he still couldn't stop some bounced branches from hitting the body of Xiaohuzi behind.

"You carry your bag on your back."

Chen Erzhu held his knee with one hand, gasped for a while, and pocketed the sleeping Lu Yangge, biting the end of the cloth bag with his teeth, and firmly tied Lu Yangge to his chest again.

"Come, come up, daddy will carry you."

Lu Yangge hugged his chest, and his back was left by Chen Erzhu to his son.

Chen Xiaohu shook his head: "Dad, don't need it, I'll go by myself." ”

Chen Erzhu sank his face: "Come up." ”

It wasn't until the afternoon of the second day that Chen Erzhu took his two children over the mountains and entered the boundary of Nanyang County.

Behind him, on the other side of the mountain, the fire in Lujiazhuang had been extinguished, and only sporadic carbon fires made a crackling sound in the sun. Occasionally, there was a boom, and the moment the wall collapsed, black smoke and dust flew up like butterflies, hovering and shuttling in the morning light, and slowly stopped.

The gate of Dongyang County.

There were more than a dozen idlers reading the notices on the side of the notice board, and most of them stood on tiptoe, just listening to the excitement, and did not know the big characters on it.

I only heard that there were scholars inside shaking their heads and chewing words, half understanding and not understanding, and it did not prevent them from figuring out word by word.

There was also a barely intelligible exclaim: "Lujiazhuang colluded with mountain bandits? ”

"What?"

Originally, people who were passing by and didn't even want to see it heard that Lujiazhuang was robbed, and immediately surrounded them.

"Speaking of the owner of the Lu family, Lu Dashan colluded with the mountain bandits?"

"Fart, how could Lu Dashan collude with the mountain bandits."

"How could it not, I heard that the government suppressed bandits last night and caught the Qingfeng Village bandits on the spot at Lu Dashan's house."

"What about Lord Lu? Are you hurt? ”

"Dead...... Hearing that the owner of Lu Dazhuang and the mountain bandits colluded to prevent the officers and soldiers from entering the village to search, he set a fire to it...... More than 20 corpses were found in Zhuangzi...... and those mountain bandits, who were burned to death together. ”

"Then, isn't the Lu family the last one?"

"No ......" someone who knew lowered his voice: "I heard that Chen Shiyan ran away from hard labor, his daughter-in-law was arrested, and the daughter-in-law of the owner of Lu Zhuang returned to her parents' house with her two sons." ”

Someone immediately folded his hands and rejoiced: "That's really God bless, the two sons are here, and this incense can't be broken!" ”

"Even if it can't be broken, it can't be better, colluding with mountain bandits, this is the crime of killing the head."

Suddenly, the people around him were silent.

The Lu family has done good, and there are very few people in the entire Dongyang County who have not received the favor of his family.

In Dongyang City, from the yacha to the soldiers guarding the city gate, to the shops in the city to buy and sell night incense, and even the fishing boats in the river, almost most of the people have received the help of the Lu family.

There are also those farmers outside Dongyang City, those who have fields, those who are close to the fields of the Lu family, and the Lu family let these people water the canals every year, and they never bully others because they have a lot of land in their Zhuangzi.

If they don't have land, they rent the land of the Lu family and pay only three cents of rent a year, while the tenants of other people's families pay four cents.

Not to mention that the year is not good, the Lu family also reduced the rent.

In the face of a major drought and flood, the Lu family not only exempted rent, but also borrowed grain.

Just because of the Lu family, there is no one in the entire Dongyang County in these years who has left home to sell their children because of the famine.

After getting the news that the Lu family colluded with the mountain bandits and Lu Dashan died, most of the people in Dongyang County who had received the favor of the Lu family couldn't believe it, and they spontaneously went to the direction of the Lu family in twos and threes.

Even if the Lu family's Zhuangzi was burned, they took a closer look and burned two pieces of paper money, which was considered to be their best.

There are also those who are not right-minded, thinking that the owner of Lu Dazhuang is dead, and the borrowed money and grain do not have to be repaid.

I can't help but regret it, I knew that it was better to borrow more.

Before everyone could get close to Lujiazhuang, they were stopped by officers and soldiers.

The officers and soldiers who were pressed by the black pressure surrounded Lujiazhuang three layers inside and three layers outside, only to see one cart after another coming out of the direction of Lujiazhuang, and the carts were piled with sacks, so that the wheels were sunk into the mud and there were deep car marks.

The people who were stopped outside looked eagerly at the road leading to the county road, hundreds of horse-drawn carriages lined up one after another, and hundreds of rack cars shuttled back and forth between the granary and the county road in Lujiazhuang, and countless grains were delivered to the carriages.

"Isn't that the Lu family's grain? Where is this going to be shipped? ”

"Shhhhh......h ”

Where this grain can be transported, it is naturally confiscated by the government.

Not far from Dongyang County, close to the mountains of Nanyang County, there is only one Qingfeng Village, about 30 miles away from Dongyang County.

There are less than 200 people in Qingfeng Village, and most of them are old, weak, women and children.

It is said that it is a village, most of them are with the same surname, and more than a dozen families live in a mountain col.

He made a living by hunting and selling mountain goods.

Saying that they are a den of bandits is a bit of a lift-up.

It's just a nonsense made up by the local government in order to suppress bandits.

In fact, everyone knows that Qingfeng Village is far from the real bandits.

Maybe among these people who watch the excitement, there are relatives of that family, such as nephews, cousins, and clansmen, who are from Qingfeng Village.

What is the collusion between the owner of Lu Dazhuang and the mountain bandits.

This is to deceive those fools.

Zhuangzi burned and people died, but the grain was there, and the government took over and transported all the grain so quickly.

When the two masters of the Lu family come back, can this grain be returned to the Lu family?

The devil knows where this bandit came from, but everyone didn't see it, and the cheap was taken advantage of by the government anyway.

The Lu family's grain was transported for two days and two nights, and thousands of officers and soldiers took turns to carry it before the rain.

On the third day, news came from Nanyang County.

Lu Dashanren's daughter-in-law came back with her two sons to run for the funeral, and when she passed by Qingfeng Village, she was hijacked by Chen Da's family in Qingfeng Village.

The three mothers and sons of the Lu family, together with the second master of the Qiu family, who escorted them back to the funeral, and the third young master of the family, were all buried in Qingfeng Village.

Now in Nanyang County, only Grandma Qiu Er, two young masters and an underage girl are left.

The next day, the government raised troops and exterminated Qingfeng Village.

Some people also say that the Song family of Qingfeng Village ran away overnight with a group of young and strong men, and the people who died were just those old and weak women and children who were powerless.

And Dongyang County and Nanyang County have so far, there is no banditry.

(End of chapter)