Chapter 005 Eat first and then make money

Chen Guodong is a general of the Dongjiang Army, and he was originally a Haizhou Weiren.

In April of the first year of the Apocalypse, his hometown of Haizhouwei fell. Chen Guodong's family of eleven people, except for Chen Lian and his brother Chen Guoliang survived, nine people, including Chen Guodong's father, mother, two brothers, one sister, two sisters-in-law, one nephew, and one sister, nine people died in the hands of Jiannu.

Chen Guodong, who was only 11 years old at the time, fled to Guanglu Island with 9-year-old Chen Guoliang and the displaced people. Later, Mao Wenlong attacked Jinzhenjiang and opened Dongjiang Town, and he became a member of the Dongjiang Army militia.

In the sixth year of the Apocalypse, the seventeen-year-old Chen Guodong officially became a member of the Dongjiang Army, and he attacked Jiannu several times with the Dongjiang Army.

However, the good times were short-lived.

Mao Shuai, who has always been unruly, had a conflict with Yuan Chonghuan, as a result, Mao Wenlong was killed, and the Dongjiang Army became a plate of scattered sand, Yuan Chonghuan supported Chen Jisheng, the former deputy general of the Dongjiang Army, as the general soldier, but Chen Jisheng could not convince the public and was resourceful.

In March of the third year of Chongzhen, Chen Jisheng, the second commander-in-chief of the Dongjiang Army, was killed by Liu Xingzhi, Liu Xingji and others, and Huang Long, who was born in the Guanning Army in western Liaoning, succeeded as the third commander-in-chief of the Dongjiang Army.

The new commander-in-chief of the Dongjiang Army, Huang Long, took office with three fires, the first of which burned to Geng Zhongming's younger brother Geng Zhongyu, who led his troops to take refuge in Sun Yuanhua, the governor of Denglai.

And Chen Guodong is one of Geng Zhongming's generals, different from what ordinary soldiers imagine, Chen Guodong is very disgusted with those generals fighting this today and that tomorrow.

The Dongjiang Army is united, even if it is Jiannu, it can be treated cautiously, but after the split, who will treat them as a dish?

After coming to Dengzhou, Chen Guodong deeply felt the malice of Dengzhou and Shandong people, and any Dengzhou people stared at them like a thief.

Chen Guodong led his subordinates on routine patrols, and suddenly, there was a burst of chickens and dogs, and several soldiers of the Dongjiang Army came quickly.

"Mr. Chen!"

"Why are you so alarmed?"

"They...... They...... Bully! ”

Chen Guodong took his subordinates to the south gate of Dengzhou City, and this scene made his head burst out.

More than a dozen Dengzhou soldiers with bright blades are threatening a group of homeless people. The soldiers of the Dengzhou Army asked these displaced people to open the packages they were carrying, throw gold, silver, money, jewelry, utensils and other items into a large basket, and even peel off the clothes on their bodies.

The naked homeless man curled up and shivered. It is not only the men of the displaced people who are required to be naked, but also the women and children. The homeless people are all skinny, even if they are exposed, they have to be pointed at by those Dengzhou soldiers, and if they move a little slowly, they will be beaten and kicked.

If these homeless people were from Shandong, Chen Guodong would never say anything, pretending not to see it.

But the problem is that these displaced people are all ordinary people who can't live on the islands of Dongjiang Town, and when they see that the Dongjiang Army has been transferred to Dengzhou, they are worried about the attack of Jiannu, and without the protection of the soldiers of the Dongjiang Army, they are just a herd of cattle and sheep to be slaughtered.

It is a pity that Shandong, which is extremely xenophobic, is unwilling to accept the Liaodong refugees, and I don't know if it was the spontaneous behavior of the soldiers of the Dengzhou Army, or if it was hinted at from above.

These Liaodong refugees were driven to the moat under the city, a woman with a bare body screamed, struggling to prevent the Dengzhou Army soldiers from approaching, it turned out that the child in the woman's arms was wearing a silver longevity lock on her neck, and was discovered by the soldiers, and the soldiers pulled the longevity lock and dragged it directly.

There was a bloody streak on the child's neck, and the child's mother opened her mouth to bite the Dengzhou soldier.

The soldiers of the Dengzhou Army were furious, shook off the women, held their spears, and stabbed the women fiercely.

"Flutter ......"

The sharp spear pierced the woman's back without hesitation, and also penetrated the mother who wanted to protect her child with her body. The spear pierced the woman's back, but the child in her arms pierced through the chest.

Chen Guodong was furious, he walked up to the Dengzhou Army soldier and raised his hand to slap him.

"Straight girl!"

The soldier of the Dengzhou Army, who was beaten, directly threw down his spear and ran towards the city, shouting as he ran: "The Dongjiang Army has rebelled......"

As the so-called freezing three feet is not a day's cold, the contradictions and hostility between the Shandong Army and the Dongjiang Army were not caused by one day, so the two sides began to slash together.

……

Cheng Shijie was a little lucky, glad that he brought the sword this time. With a knife in hand, Cheng Shijie is somewhat confident. As long as someone comes to kill him, he will not be powerless to fight back, like a soldier who can be blown away by a gust of wind, he should be able to kill two or three by himself.

A middle-aged man is ruthless, and he is afraid.

The guy was still a little confused, he remembered very clearly, when Cheng Shijie moved in, there were very few things to mention, and there was absolutely no knife, especially the Tang Zhi knife that Cheng Shijie is holding now, which looks quite good in texture.

"Don't worry, guest officer, you can't mess here!"

"That's the best!"

Liu Ji Inn is also regarded as the head snake of Dengzhou City, at the beginning of the chaos, the guys have begun to close the door, the door of Liu Ji Inn is very thick, it is a three-inch thick plank, unless it is burned with fire, it is really difficult to break in.

The chaos lasted for a full half hour before it slowly stopped.

The smell of blood began to fill the air, and it seemed that there was no shortage of murder.

Cheng Shijie looked at the door vigilantly until the clear-eyed guy went and returned.

"Guest officer, it's okay!"

"What's going on?"

"I heard that it was the Liaodong soldiers who made trouble!"

This made Cheng Shijie a little uneasy in his heart, if he hadn't consulted the historical materials, he really hadn't figured it out, and now he knew that the current Dengzhou City was already a volcano about to erupt, and it could shake the mountains at any time.

Cheng Shijie decided to try his luck at the Yamen of Dengzhou, Sun Yuanhua was training the Denglai New Army, maybe he needed such a magic weapon in his hands.

The purchase cost ranged from more than 200 yuan to more than 300 yuan, and as long as he could sell it for more than a dozen taels of silver, he would have more than ten times the profit.

Walking out of the Liu Ji Inn, the streets were shouting, a group of officials drove the people, and they were cleaning the streets, and buckets of water were poured on the streets, and soon they were floating a faint red.

"Wow Wow ......"

Just as Cheng Shijie walked forward, he suddenly heard bursts of mournful baby crying, and followed the voice, but he didn't see the baby, nor did he see the woman holding the child.

Obviously, the baby's crying was not far away, Cheng Shijie subconsciously walked over, only to see an infant on the mound next to him, and bursts of crying came from the swaddling clothes.

Cheng Shijie gently picked up the baby, the baby was very thin, the skin on his small mouth had been dry, obviously he hadn't eaten for a long time, and shouted to the surrounding crowd: "Whose child is this?" ”

However, if no one pays attention to him, everyone walks in their own way.

"Abandoned Baby!"

Cheng Shijie quickly thought of this situation, he pretended to leave the street, put the phone upside down in the palm of his hand, exposed the camera lens, and began to record.

Soon after Cheng Shijie left, a woman leaned out of the corner, and the woman knelt down and kowtowed to Cheng Shijie's back.

Just as the woman was about to get up, Cheng Shijie came over with the baby in her arms.

The woman looked up at Cheng Shijie's feet.

"You person, why are you so ruthless, why did you lose the child?"

Cheng Shijie's daughter has congenital heart disease and is also a premature baby, who was just born and raised in the hospital for more than half a year before being successfully discharged. For this, he spent almost 100,000.

Many people persuaded Cheng Shijie to treat him as if he had never had this child, he was still young, and he could have another one.

Cheng Shijie has some contempt for the mother who abandons the child.

The women covered their faces and wept in mourning.

"Then your child!"

Seeing that Cheng Shijie had no intention of adopting a child, the woman picked up the child and reached out to pinch the child's neck.

"Smack......

Cheng Shijie was really angry, and slapped the woman in the face: "You are such a ruthless woman, I want to report to the official ......"

The woman kowtowed to Cheng Shijie, kowtowing and choking: "The slave doesn't want to ...... But there's no way...... The home is gone, the money is gone...... I can't live anymore......"

With the woman's grief and pain, Cheng Shijie finally understood what was going on.

This woman was originally from Liangxiang County, surnamed Yang, and her name was Yunniang. In the first month of the third year of Chongzhen, Liangxiang County was conquered by Jiannu, and the slaughter of Liangxiang County, the fate of women was more tragic than that of men, and Yang Yunniang was robbed by Jiannu.

In the fifth year of last year, the imperial court recovered Yongping Mansion City, and because she was seriously ill, Jiannu did not plunder it outside the pass, but abandoned it in Yongping Mansion City. After the recovery of Yongping Mansion, the government repatriated the captured people to their hometowns, Yang Yunniang was ruined, and she was pregnant, and her mother's family disliked her and was embarrassed, so they drove her away.

Yang Yun thought about committing suicide, but when she threw herself into the river, she was rescued and poured a belly of river water, but she was so scared that she didn't dare to die, and in desperation, she had to go south while begging.

On the way south, Yang Yunniang met a middle-aged widower Luo Gui, Luo Gui did not dislike what happened to her, so he took him to Dengzhou City. Then the two got married, but with the birth of this child, rumors appeared, and her husband Luo Gui thought that the child she gave birth to was a wild seed and drove him out.

What happened to Yang Yunniang, Cheng Shijie could only sigh.

"What month was your baby born?"

"The First Day of July"

Cheng Shijie can be sure that this child should be Luo Gui's, after all, Yongping Mansion was recovered by Chongzhen in May of the third year, and it only takes 280 days to conceive a child, even if it is beyond the due date, at most two weeks.

Cheng Shijie hesitated, if he didn't care about Yang Yunniang, Yang Yunniang and her children would only be dead.

But, how? He's just a passerby.

Cheng Shijie touched the silver in his arms, he still had more than seven taels of silver, although it was not much, it was not impossible to give Yang Yunniang a little.

Thinking of this, Cheng Shijie took out the silver and gave Yang Yunniang a piece, about one or two more, Cheng Shijie didn't know how much.

"Thank you, but you can't ask for slaves!"

"Why!"

Yang Yunniang held the child and looked into the depths of the alley.

In the depths of the alley, three big yellow teeth were exposed, and their clothes were ragged, they should be beggar leaders, after all, ordinary beggars can't eat all over their faces.

A woman with a baby less than a month old and money in her hands is original sin.

Thinking of this, Cheng Shijie said: "You come with me!" ”

Cheng Shijie didn't think much about it, he decided to rent a room for Yang Yunniang in Liu Ji Inn, as long as he sold the sword in his hand, he would have a lot of money, and when the time came, he could let Yang Yunniang live by paying more for the room.

As for the future, that's fate.

Cheng Shijie walked in front, and Yang Yunniang followed behind.

He had a vague feeling that there was a tail behind him.

Take out your phone again, put it in your sleeve and click on the video function,

Cheng Shijie didn't look back, clicked on the video playback, and sure enough, three tails appeared behind him, but it was not the beggar in the alley, but three people with waist knives and dressed in cyan suits.

What's going on?

Cheng Shijie pondered, it is very likely that he is a person from the Xingping pawn shop, a thousand taels of silver, which is a huge amount of money at the end of the Ming Dynasty, is it because he wants to eat black?

Two thugs must be hired at once, or else......

It's really not safe.

Thinking of this, Cheng Shijie clenched the Tang Zhidao in his hand hard.

It's still not well prepared, but unfortunately, the stun baton can't be purchased directly online, otherwise, I don't know how to be so frightened.

At this moment, Cheng Shijie found a beggar on the side of the street.

This beggar was different from the other beggars in that he was surrounded by beggars who were out of place with him, and this beggar was covered with scars, all on his face, neck, chest, and arms, but all of them were old wounds, especially a hideous scar on his face, which made people shudder.

In particular, the beggar had clothes on his body, all of which had become strips of rags, and his beard and hair were gray, and he looked fifty or sixty years old, and the beggar moved lazily, revealing his back, and there was no scar on his back.

It's you.

Cheng Shijie walked towards the beggar, he slowly squatted down, and took out a silver nugget from his arms, the copper coin had been sold by him, and now he still had six or seven taels of silver in his hand.

This piece of silver is the smallest of them all, and it can be exchanged for about a few hundred copper coins.

"I want to hire you to do things for me!"

"The old man only kills!"

Cheng Shijie's eyes lit up: "If someone kills me, you help me kill him!" ”

"If you want to hire me, give me money first!"

"Here you go!"

The beggar took Cheng Shijie's silver, put it in his hand and weighed it: "Old man Shen Mingyu's life is yours!" ”

Cheng Shijie took Yang Yunniang and Shen Mingyu and walked towards Liu Ji Inn.

When he came to Liu Ji Inn, the guy looked at Cheng Shijie with an embarrassed face.

Yang Yunniang said that although the clothes were tattered and tattered, they were still clean, but that Shen Mingyu smelled all over his body.

Cheng Shijie stuffed a piece of silver into the man's hand: "Prepare some hot water for him, let him take a bath, and find him a piece of clothing, it doesn't need to be too good, just wear it!" ”

"Guest officer, please!"

It's easy to get things done with money.

However, with the money given to Shen Mingyu, Cheng Shijie only had one or two pieces of silver left in his hand.

After more than half an hour, Cheng Shijie was in Liu Ji's upper room, and Shen Mingyu, who had changed his clothes, appeared in front of him again.

Cheng Shijie was stunned, he almost couldn't recognize Shen Mingyu, the original Shen Mingyu had gray hair and beard, and his face was full of dirt, looking like he was sixty or seventy years old.

But now he is a middle-aged man.

"Shen Mingyu meets the master......"

"Don't call me master, call me boss...... It's still the owner! ”

"Yes, owner!"

"Shen Mingyu, how old are you?"

"The old man is six years old in thirty!"

"Look at you like sixty-three, not seventy-three!"

"Goo-Goo......

Shen Mingyu looked at Cheng Shijie embarrassedly.

Cheng Shijie took out the last piece of silver: "Man, prepare wine and food!" ”

He decided to eat first and then make money.