Chapter 4: Village Guards (Part I)

After sending the village chief Shen Er away, it didn't take long for the third uncle to rush back, and before he could enter the hospital, he heard the third uncle shouting outside the gate: Second brother-second brother

When the second uncle saw the third uncle's panicked expression: Something happened to the third uncle, panicked

Third uncle: The second brother is rumored in the village, saying that you are going to be the village chief of Guangyuan Village

The second uncle smiled slightly: Just now the village chief came to sit for a while, and said a lot of things that I had to be the village head of Guangyuan Village

The third uncle was surprised when he heard this: Then you agreed

Second Uncle: Uh-huh

The third uncle slapped his thigh casually: Second brother, you are so confused

The second uncle's face leaked a little puzzled: Why am I confused

Third uncle: Second brother, at this juncture, Shen Er asked you to be the village head, then you want to point the disaster and the spearhead at our Li family, Li Lin beat the second son of the Zhang family in front of so many people, do you think that the Zhang family can easily give up, his matter as the village chief will not affect the Li family, but if you become the village head, the Zhang family will turn their anger against Guangyuan Village to us, if you have something three long and two short, then the village chief is still his Shen Er

The second uncle waved his hand at the third uncle and motioned for him to sit down: Third brother, do you really think that I don't know what kind of calculation the old boy made by Shen Er

Third Uncle: I know, then you are still the head of this village

Second uncle: Dang-why don't you do it, only when I become the village chief can I be qualified to meet the county magistrate and inquire about the whereabouts of the 50 strong men who were taken from Guangyuan Village

The third uncle sighed lightly when he heard this: Second brother, it has been a year since Dalong and Xiaohu were arrested

Second Uncle: Well, it's been more than a year, and I don't know how those two boys are doing now, whether they are alive or dead

Third uncle: Second brother, my two nephews are auspicious, and God will take care of them

Second uncle: I hope that the third brother will go to Pengxi County after lunch, and things have not been peaceful recently, let the three boys of your family come back, go into battle, father and son soldiers-fight tiger brothers, if you want to survive this current difficulty, you have to rely on your own family

The third uncle nodded when he heard this: Then I'll go now

After speaking, the third uncle got up and was about to go to Pengxi County, and the second uncle saw this and shouted softly to the third uncle: The third uncle will leave after eating

And the third uncle waved his hand: I'll take two dry food on the road, just take a bite

After lunch, the second uncle took Li Lin and Li Song around the village, the village was surrounded by wild grass that was half a person high, horizontal houses and muddy dirt roads, children shuttled around on the muddy dirt roads, most of the houses here were made of adobe and gravel, the beams were made of wood, and the roof was covered with a layer of straw mats, which were tied to the stakes with straw ropes

People with better conditions will use wooden planks to make roofs, and some stones are placed on the roof to prevent them from being blown up by the wind, and many of them are still supported by uneven wooden sticks outside the barns, and only Shen Er's family lives in a blue brick house among more than 300 households in Guangyuan Village, and the second uncle went around the village, and there were only five or six families with cattle in the village, which shows how poor the people in the village are

After wandering around the village, the second uncle took the two brothers to a seat about 2 kilometers north of Guangyuan Village, where there was a mountain col, and under the col there was a large wasteland full of dry grass

Li Lin looked at the wasteland in front of him: Second uncle, this wasteland is nearly a thousand acres

The second uncle glanced at the wasteland: the wasteland in front of him has more than 1,400 acres, and it is only abandoned because there is no water source for irrigation, if you can find a water source to irrigate this field, it will not take a few years for everyone to become rich

Li Song: Isn't it okay for the second uncle to dig a canal from the Guihai River and divert water to irrigate this wasteland?

Second Uncle: You said that Fazi tried before but it didn't work, this wasteland is located north of the Guihai River, it is a sloping land, the further north you go, the higher the terrain and the underground rocks are mostly rocky, and you can't dig the canal

Li Lin: Second uncle, can't dig wells to irrigate wasteland?

Second Uncle: This method has been tried before, but this well not only consumes manpower, but also consumes a lot of silver, and how deep you have to dig to find the water source no one can say, the villagers used to dig a lot of wells but there is no water in them, and after a long time, everyone gave up this idea

Hearing the second uncle say this, the two brothers looked at the wasteland in front of them and fell into deep thought

And in the capital of Duyuan County, a very spacious mansion was full of a frightened atmosphere, the maids and the family were busy cautiously, and in the main room of the mansion sat a man about 50 years old, with his hair coiled up, a country face, a goatee, wearing a gray silk robe, twisting his beard with his hands, sitting on the main chair with his eyes closed

It looks like a solemn and majestic official image, this person is Zhang Da, the head of the Zhang family, and the second son of Zhang, who took people to Guihai River and Guangyuan Village to grab water yesterday, is standing in front of Zhang Da respectfully

Zhang Da picked up the teacup and took a sip of tea: What happened to the thing that Wenxuan asked your father to do

It turns out that the full name of this second son Zhang is called Zhang Wenxuan, and he is called Zhang Ergongzi because he is the second child in the family

Don't look at Zhang Wenxuan's arrogance on weekdays, but in front of his old son Zhang Da, it can be said that he is talking about tiger color, at this time Zhang Wenxuan lowered his head like a child who did something wrong, he cried to his father with a handful of snot and tears: Dad took people to Guangyuan Village yesterday and saw that the matter was about to be done, but he didn't want the village chief of Guangyuan Village to make the villagers murderous, Dad, you look at these injuries on my body, I was beaten by the Li brothers in Guangyuan Village

Dad, when did our Zhang family suffer this anger, you have to avenge the child, and you must make Guangyuan Village and the Li brothers pay the price

Zhang Da's eyes leaked a fierce light that made people shudder, and he already hated Shen Er and the Li brothers in his heart, but he gritted his teeth, only to see Zhang Da get up violently and drop the teacup on the ground casually, only to hear a crisp sound, which scared Zhang Wenxuan, who was standing aside, into a sweat: There are still people in Duyuan County who dare to touch my Zhang Da's son, this enemy father will definitely report to you, I want to let them know the fate of going against the Zhang family

On this day, the third uncle sold meat in the village as usual, but there were not many people who bought meat today, so that the third uncle waved a banana fan to drive away flies, and shouted at people, "Today's new pork is 20 yuan a catty, come and take a look, and I promise to buy it back to cook and eat it is tender and fragrant."

The third uncle shouted at the throat for a long time and few people came to ask, so the third uncle sold a stupid one on the chair, at noon a group of people came to the village, the third uncle was idle and had nothing to do in his heart, they were a total of eight people, the third uncle guessed that this group of people was going to the north somewhere to pass through Guangyuan Village, but this group of people slipped back and forth in Guangyuan Village several times, looking at this posture they seemed to be looking for someone

I saw a few of them get together and shake their heads at each other, and then a middle-aged man walked towards the third uncle's meat stall, and when he came to the meat stall, the person asked the third uncle: Old brother asked you about something

When the third uncle heard this, he stopped the fan in his hand: Say something

Middle-aged man: Brother, we are distant relatives of the village chief's family, and today we passed by Guangyuan Village and wanted to visit us, but we haven't moved around for many years, and I can't remember where his family lives

The third uncle didn't think much about it when he heard it, and pointed to the south casually: You go along this road, and you see a blue brick house that is the village chief's house

The middle-aged man heard that he arched his hand to the third uncle: There is Brother Lao

The third uncle nodded when he heard this, and the middle-aged man turned around and left after speaking, but he didn't have a few cloths and turned back, only to see a smile on his face: Old brother, I am asking you about something, is there a hunter surnamed Li in this Guangyuan Village

The third uncle frowned slightly when he heard this: There is such a family in the village

The middle-aged man asked again: Are there still two boys in Li Orion's family who are about twenty-four or five years old

From the moment this group of strangers entered Guangyuan Village, the third uncle noticed them, and as soon as they came, they walked back and forth in the village several times, first inquiring about where the village chief's house was and then inquiring about the Li family

So the third uncle joked with the middle-aged man: Why is Li Orion also your distant relative

I saw the middle-aged man waving his hand: "Brother, you misunderstood, I have long heard that there is a hunter surnamed Li in Guangyuan Village, who goes into the mountains to hunt all the year round, and I want to buy some furs on his hands

Listening to the middle-aged man say this, the third uncle was even more firm in his conjecture, this group of people came to Guangyuan Village to inquire about stepping on the point, so the third uncle started to be sloppy, our family lives in the northernmost part of the village, but the third uncle told the middle-aged man You go to the east of the village, and when you go to the end, you see a few adobe houses surrounded by stone walls, that is the Li Orion family you are looking for

And the middle-aged man couldn't imagine that the meat seller in front of him was the member of Li Orion's family that he said in his mouth, and when the middle-aged man turned to leave, the third uncle grabbed his arm: I'm afraid it's not appropriate to go to relatives with empty hands like this, you see that my pork here is newly killed today, every piece of meat is fat and thin, buy it back, whether you are fried or stewed to eat, it is all old and fragrant, go relatives, you come to these two, and when it comes to noon, isn't it also a snack dish

Seeing this, the middle-aged man shook his hand in embarrassment: No-no, I just passed by and went to a relative's house

Saying that, the middle-aged man took his arm back, and then left Guangyuan Village with the group of strangers, after the group of strangers left, the more the third uncle thought about it on the chair, the more wrong it became, and there was a bad premonition in his heart, and he always felt that something was going to happen, so the third uncle put away the meat on the board and pushed the cart home

When the third uncle returned home and pushed open the door to enter the hospital, the second uncle sat cross-legged under the eaves, where he actually went to the bowstring to maintain the bow and arrows

I saw the third uncle holding a bowl, went to the water tank and filled a bowl of water "Gu Dong - Gu Dong" and drank it: There is no one today, I haven't sold a few catties of meat this morning, the second brother came to the village today A group of strangers came to the village, and they don't look like good people, I saw them wandering back and forth in the village several times, and asked me where Shen Er's family lived, second brother, guess what the group of people still asked me about

The second uncle shook his head and replied with a smile: Then how can I guess it

Third Uncle: He also asked me where we lived, and also mentioned Xiao Lin and Xiao Songzi to me

When the second uncle heard this, his expression instantly became serious: The third brother, the group of people you said, are they still in the village?

Third Uncle: You said that the gang had been gone for an hour

Second uncle: It's bad, eighty percent of them came to Guangyuan Village to step on it

Third Uncle: Second brother, let's think of going together, or I can come back so early today

Second uncle: Don't go to the meat stall these days, stay at home, don't go anywhere

When the third uncle heard this, he responded: Hmm

Second Uncle: By the way, when will the big cow-two cow-little calf come back?

Third Uncle: The three of them will be back tonight

Second uncle: You have to have a few more meat dishes that night, your three boys have suffered a lot outside in the past two years, and our master will have a few drinks in the evening

Third Uncle: That's natural, and the family hasn't been lively for a long time

Second uncle: The third child of your family came back this time, don't let them go to work for a large family as a long-term worker, and now the family is also short of those three pairs of dishes and chopsticks, and our family will find a way to see if we can plant a few acres of land next year

Third uncle: If the second brother can really build a few acres of land, then the relationship is good

Second uncle: Don't tell others about the birth of people in the third village

Third Uncle: Second brother, I know

In a blink of an eye, it was the morning of the fourth day, the calm Guangyuan Village suddenly broke in, a group of gangsters had hundreds of people, this group of people was rolling their arms and sleeves, and they were grinning with a child deliberately leaking their chests outside, and they were holding wooden sticks with both hands and taking small square steps, each of them was a posture that was not afraid of heaven and earth

Most of the men in the village are the same as usual, as soon as the sun rises, they go to work in the geography, and the people who stay at home to take care of the family are the elderly-women and children, so that the gang of splashes are rampant and violent in Guangyuan Village, and even molested the little daughter-in-law on the street, which made Guangyuan Village restless for a while

It also happened that after the three brothers came back, the second uncle took the family to make a series of preparations, first reinforced the gate and the door, collected some small stones near the house, and made a few shields with wooden boards

As soon as the third uncle went out, he saw several villagers, who were beaten by a group of people with sticks, and the third uncle waved his hand at the villagers and shouted: Alas, this way

The villagers lost their lives when they heard this, and ran towards the third uncle, and the third uncle introduced several villagers into the yard, and immediately closed the gate, and the third uncle was afraid that the gate would not resist kicking, so he used two arm-thick wooden sticks to push the gate up, and at the same time he shouted at the top of his voice: Second brother - copy the guy

As soon as our cousins heard this, they immediately picked up wooden sticks and wooden shields, and set up a formation in the courtyard, while the second uncle asked the women and children who ran in to quickly hide in the house, and told them to close the door - no matter what happened, don't come out, just when several male villagers were about to enter the house together, the second uncle did stop a few of them, "Don't hide, old man, hurry up and copy the guys and beat them with our master."

A villager heard this: The second child of the Li family doesn't know about others, don't you know, we are all authentic croppers, where can we fight, you just let a few of us into the house

Seeing this, the other villagers hurriedly echoed: Yes, second brother

Second Uncle: You can't fight, right, that's okay, just listen to me for a while

Several villagers looked at each other, looking a little reluctant, and the third uncle roared angrily when he saw this: Hmph - listen to what you just said, our master is desperate outside, let a few of you hide in the house, what is the matter with our master, if you really don't want to help, then you can climb over the wall and roll out

After being slammed by the third uncle, several villagers copied wooden sticks from the ground, and at this moment, there were a few muffled sounds outside the gate, "Bang-Bang" The splashes began to kick the door, and after a few muffled sounds, I heard someone outside say "The door is kicking and not moving-a few of you go over the wall to get in, and a few of you go in from there" Then there were six or seven splashes of skin from the outside

At the moment when the splash skin landed, the second uncle shouted to everyone "throw stones" as soon as everyone heard that they picked up the stones on the ground and threw them at the splash skin, and the stones in the sky beat the splashes to the head and bleed-wail in pain, and the splashes outside heard the wailing, thinking that the gang of splashes who had just turned into the yard had succeeded, so they rushed up and prepared to turn into the yard

As everyone knows, as soon as the splashes appeared, they were waiting for them to be covered with stones, and the stones thrown out alone overturned more than a dozen splashes, and the splashes outside the earthen wall saw that their accomplices had suffered a loss, and picked up the thrown stones from the ground and threw them into the courtyard, but fortunately, a few of us blocked the attack of the stones with wooden shields, and the villagers were not so lucky, and were smashed by the flying stones and injured three

Seeing this, the second uncle hurriedly asked the injured villagers to hide behind the house first, and at the same time, about a dozen splashes jumped in from the earthen wall through the gap between the accomplices throwing stones into the courtyard, so the two groups of people started a fight in the courtyard, and during the fight, one of the splashers took the opportunity to run to the gate and kicked the two top door posts open, and let the accomplices outside in

There is a way that a good tiger can't stand the wolves - two fists are hard to beat four hands, because the splashers are many in the fight, our wave of people fell into the disadvantage in a blink of an eye, and soon the splashes surrounded our wave of people, and after a stalemate for a while, the splashes rushed up to attack our group

In the face of the situation that the enemy is outnumbered, he can only take care of his own eyes, which is taken advantage of by the splashes, and the third uncle is not careful, he was hit with a stick on the head, and before he came back to his senses to react to what was going on, the splash made his head and a stick, only to see the third uncle's body fell to the ground, and then several splashes surrounded the third uncle is a violent kick