Chapter 2 Enlistment
www.biquge.info At this time, on the yellow sand land of the barn field, the four people of Tianchen Xiaozhuang are constantly rolling on the ground, scuffling into a group, the scene is loess flying all over the sky, the breeze blowing, but also a bit of martial arts master competition.
The boy who was surrounded in the middle fought back like crazy, his eyes were fierce, his mouth was angry, and his two small fists were bloody, but he still resisted as if he didn't want to die, although the actual damage was not much, but he completely suppressed the other three in terms of momentum, so that they did not dare to underestimate it.
"Heh, little wolf cub, you face the three of us now, if you know each other, surrender quickly, give us three kowtows and three rings, otherwise I will beat you and scream."
The round-faced little chubby dun shouted at Tianchen in the middle, and howled twice like a wolf after speaking, and the other two heard the howl, and immediately laughed happily.
"Just because you three waste still want to bring down Lao Tzu and eat your mother's fart! If you three kneel down and kowtow to me three times now, and call me three more good grandfathers, I can let you go home safely, otherwise, hum." Tianchen stood in the middle, not to be outdone, and looked at the three of them with a contemptuous look.
"Flat him, today not only to beat him wolf howl, but also to call us ancestors... Oh, whoever beats me, stand up for Lao Tzu."
Another somewhat thin boy was furious when he heard this, and immediately started to coax and go up to beat Tianchen, but in the middle of his words, the back of his head was suddenly hit by a stone, and the thin boy held his head in both hands, gasped, and suddenly felt that his head was full of Venus flying around.
"I'm fighting, I'm standing here, what's wrong?"
A lazy voice came from behind the granary not far away, and a boy walked out, looking coldly at several people present, and kept throwing small clods of soil in his hands.
"Oh, it's you, Tianxue, how can you secretly move the rescuers, it's too despicable." The round-faced little chubby dun has sharp eyes, and he can see the identity of the person at a glance, his hands are condensed, he shakes the fat on his face, and says angrily.
When the girl named Tianxue heard this, her face suddenly showed a frightened look, and her round head retracted. Tianhe patted the girl's head and said with a smile: "Don't be afraid, there is me."
Tianxue nodded, walked out from behind Tianhe, looked directly at the hateful eyes of the three people opposite, plucked up her courage, and said with her mouth slightly open: "The three of you say bad things about your brother, and you beat one of the three, it's too shameless."
Tianxue said finally, closed her eyes and stuck out her tongue, and then quickly ran back behind Tianhe, her little hands clutching his clothes tightly, and continued to hide.
"Hmph, you called for helpers, now it's three against three, they are all older than us, I'm not your opponent, Xiao Wu Xiaobao, let's go."
Seeing that the situation was not right, Xiao Chubby immediately relented, and planned to go back first, and the other two boys also gathered at him, looking extremely vigilant.
"Who allowed you to leave? Since you dare to speak ill of my family and beat up my brother with three people, can't you beat me a word, and I want to leave if I don't beat him?" Tianhe broke through the snow, stepped forward in a few steps and walked in front of the three children, bowed his head and asked.
"So, what do you want?" Looking at the uncrowned king of the children in the mountain village who was a head taller than himself in front of him, the little fat dun asked in a trembling voice.
"Who just said that Tianchen and I are fatherless and motherless children? Who is it that scolds my brother for being a wolf cub, I only settle accounts with this guy, and the rest can go." Tianhe looked at the three of them and asked.
When he was hesitating whether to confess and be lenient, the two good brothers around him had already stretched out their fingers and pointed straight at themselves, betraying him in an instant, and they didn't even give him time to hesitate.
"It's him, and that's what he said." One of the boys spoke first, his voice hurried, for fear that if he was too late, punishment would fall on him.
"That's right, Brother Tianhe, we didn't say these things, they were all said by Xiao Zhuang alone.In addition, I also know that he secretly said some bad things about you behind his back, as long as you don't beat me, I will tell you everything."
Another thin boy who was thrown on the back of the head by Tianhe, knowing that he had just said something bad, immediately volunteered to report it, hoping to offset the merits and escape.
Tianhe didn't mean to listen, with a wave of his hand, the two friends immediately breathed a sigh of relief, and escaped from the barn as if flying.
The little chubby was about to vomit blood, and when he saw the two treacherous people go away, he wanted to pounce on them immediately and bite the two dog offal.
"Don't look at it, now we have to have a good talk and settle the score." Tianchen took a bite of the blood foam in his mouth and said lazily.
One sentence brought the little fat dun back to reality, only to see the two brothers of Tianhe Tianchen holding their fingers, and slowly walked towards the little fat dun with bad intentions.
That night, the Tianshu family had just finished cleaning up the dishes and chopsticks, and a couple led a little fat man with a blue nose and swollen face to Tian's house to ask for an explanation.
I saw that the boy who was originally white and chubby, his face was swollen at the moment, and his white face turned into two big purple steamed buns, squeezing his eyes to only a thin slit, and his face was blue and purple, and anyone who looked at it would feel painful.
The two sat in the lobby, the little fat man stood on the side, and the woman pointed to her son next to her and shouted loudly.
Father Tianshu held a wooden stick in his hand, and waved it twice from time to time, whipping his two sons. Mother Cai Guiying accompanied the smiling face to play a round game, comforting the little fat man's parents.
Tianshu threw the wooden stick, leaned back on an old wooden chair, lit a dry tobacco, took two puffs, spit out a smoke ring, and asked.
"Tell me, what's going on? How do you beat people like that? Tianchen, you didn't fight so hard in the past. And Tianhe, how can you learn to fight with others? You have always been very sensible in the hearts of your parents."
Mother Cai Shi watched her two sons kneel for more than two hours, and then they were beaten by Tianshu with dozens of sticks, hitting the son's body, and the pain was in the mother's heart.
"You, you're really, this is educating children, what are you talking about." Tianshu said dissatisfied, but he didn't mean to get up and stop it.
"Dad, don't blame the two brothers, here's the thing." Tianxue, who had been hiding in the back room, opened the door and came out and told the whole story.
Tianxue is the youngest, and she is also the object of everyone's care in this family, so although Tianxue has a cowardly personality, she also likes these two elder brothers, and seeing that her brother may still be punished, she immediately came out to relieve them.
"So that's the case, it's really time to beat, how can there be such an uneducated child, if you want me to say, you should beat him twice, so that he can have a long memory. After Cai Guiying listened to Tianxue's story, she was angry, her eyebrows twisted, and she shouted angrily.
"If you don't blow the wind here and hit it a few more times, isn't it asking for someone's life? Although Tianshu also felt that the children were right, for the sake of their future, he didn't want to condone their behavior and contradicted his wife.
"Oh, just your old man is a good person, we are all bad people. Cai Guiying hugged the child, glanced at Tianshu, and walked to the back room.
In the empty lobby, only Tianshu sat on a chair, smoking a dry cigarette alone, and he didn't know what he thought, and the corners of his mouth couldn't help but show a wry smile.
With the example of Little Fat Dun, none of the children in the village dared to gossip about the heavens.
Zhang Daniu, the son of Second Uncle Zhang next door, knew about it, and ran to Tianshu's house the next day to join in the fun, saying that the two brothers played well and played well, and also complained about Tianxue, and this kind of good thing didn't call him.
Tianxue muttered, blaming Zhang Daniu for not being at home at the time, and couldn't find anyone.
Time passed little by little, and three months passed in the blink of an eye.
During this time, not a single drop of rain fell from the sky, the stream in the village had long been cut off, and the small river ten miles to the east was almost dry.
After two years of harvest, no matter how abundant the surplus grain in the villagers' homes is, there is not much left, and the water source is about to be cut off.
Just when the third and fourth families were also about to go out, the two people who ran away in front of them returned to the village with 100 catties of pasta, followed by the government's recruitment team.
Someone led the way, and the team came directly to the village to open the barn field, and the two families who went out before, according to the agreement, gathered most of the people in the village, and the villagers surrounded the dozen or so people of the Zhengding, gossiping, not knowing what they were talking about.
In such a grand occasion, the energetic and idle children in the village naturally did not miss it, only to see them running with their little legs running quickly, hiding in the granary next to the drying field, or half-bare their heads, or stretching their necks, as if they were thieves.
Tianchen Tianxue was still young and couldn't help the family, so he also came early to join in the fun.
When Xiao Zhuang and the three of them saw Tianchen, they couldn't help but shrink their necks, and their hearts were cold, and then they pinched their hands and feet to bypass Tianchen and ran to the other side to watch.
There are a total of fifteen members of the conscription team in the barn, all of them are strong men, wearing leather armor and sabers around their waists, and they look majestic.
Seeing that most of the people in the village had come, an official who seemed to be leading the army stepped forward, holding a white paper and black manuscript, looked around, and spoke with a high spirit.
"This is the Jinju Prefecture Mansion in accordance with the Western Chu Emperor's decree issued by the Emperor of the Western Chu, as long as the age of sixteen or less than fifty people can participate, participants can get 20 catties of flour, 20 catties of rice, plus 100 copper coins on the spot."
"What kind of bullshit is this order, our Huang family has lived in this Zhongshan Village for more than 100 years, and has never received any official orders, you look for me when something happens, when my father is sick and dies, has your government taken care of us? Go, hurry up and let me go, otherwise you will all be beaten to death."
Uncle Huang, the eldest in the village, was strong enough to tear him to pieces, and the official was slightly angry, and immediately shouted: "You dare to tear up the official order? Don't die? Someone is coming......
As soon as the big men in the village saw that the other party had the intention of hurting Uncle Huang, they immediately glared angrily, stepped forward together, and swallowed the second half of the frightened official's sentence, and immediately restrained his thoughts about wanting to take down the other party, and then said.
"It's not compulsory, I'm just always publicizing, whether or not to participate in personal wishes.By the way, I forgot to say just now, this time what was sent out is only some groceries loaded with grain and iron, and I won't go to the front line to fight.
This scene, even if those children who watched the excitement saw it, they all knew the cowardice of the official, and they were grinning at the moment, and the Tianchen brothers and sisters were the same.
"Brother, what is Zhengding?" Tianxue blinked her round eyes, looked at Tianchen, who was a head taller than him, and asked.
"Zhengding, it should be calm! That's right, it's calm, which means that you must be stable, not chaotic, Mr. Qiu Da in the village said." Tianchen is naughty and active, where do you know any words, when I hear my sister ask, I can't pull my face and say that I don't know, so I have to talk nonsense.
Tianxue hesitated, and nodded as if she didn't understand.
"I don't even know about Zhengding, hey~" The child on the side pouted and muttered quietly.
Tianchen's ears were sharp, and when he heard this, he immediately stared at this position with a cold light, and the little boy was hairy all over his body, laughed awkwardly, and ran to the other side.
Just when Tianchen was wondering whether to go up and make a strong argument, a new situation appeared outside, and in the child's surprised voice, Tianchen turned to look.
I saw that Tianshu walked out of the crowd at some point, and was talking to the official.
"I don't know where the flour and rice are, and the hundred."
"Oh, okay, what's your name? I've got two notes here, you draw a pledge, and we'll sign a contract, and the rice will be delivered to your house now." When the official saw that the applicant was a strong man, he was immediately overjoyed, and secretly said that this trip was not in vain, and there was finally a difference.
"Tianshu, are you crazy? Do you believe what the government says? Have you forgotten why our ancestors fled here?"
"Yes, Tianshu, don't go, it's a place to eat people and don't spit out bones."
The villagers persuaded one after another, but only his good brother Zhang Bao did not speak. He was next door to Tianshu's house, and he opened the door every day, and he was very clear about the situation in his family.
Tianshu is a diligent person, it is a farmer and a hunter, and the family originally had a lot of surplus food, but since seven years ago, there were two more children in the family at once, and the expenses have increased all of a sudden.
If it is in the perennial year, these expenses are tightly so that the family has no surplus food, but after more than a year of only not getting in and out, the heavenly family can be said to be destitute, even the old dry tobacco that he has not touched for a long time began to smoke last year.
It's not that Zhang Bao doesn't want to help his brother, but three years ago his mother went and invited the villagers to eat for three days and three nights, and almost ate the surplus grain of the previous years.
Last year, he was able to enter the forest with Tianshu and a few other people, and came back to hunt some prey, but today because the water source is depleted, a large number of trees have begun to die, the area of the forest has decreased sharply, and the animals have no food, and they have begun to migrate to the south, and the prey has nothing to fight.
"Everyone, don't persuade me anymore, my heart has been decided." Tianshu said to the villagers with a smile, and then stepped forward and walked to the official's side.
The official took two pieces of white paper full of black letters and put them in front of him, and there was a red clay seal next to it. It stands to reason that Tianshu originally wanted to sign, but the people in the village knew a few words, and the official would do it for him.
The official carefully folded the two copies into his arms, and with his hands, two people dressed as soldiers came behind him, one carrying a bag.
"You go with this guy and deliver them to their house." The official announced it loudly, but in the end, he whispered another word in the ears of the two people.
"Be careful, don't let him run."
The two soldiers nodded imperceptibly and followed Tianshu towards the village.
"Now that a strong man has participated, are there any more of you? Don't worry, there will be no loss of what you promised just now." The official rubbed his hands together and smiled with a smile on his face.
Tianchen hurriedly walked around the granary, he was not stupid, when the official saw Tianshu's drawing, he looked like a thief smiling, obviously nothing good! But he didn't know what this "calmness" meant, and he didn't know where to start.
At this time, he regretted that he had just scared the little boy away, if he asked the relevant meaning from his mouth, with Tianchen's dexterity, he would definitely be able to find a solution.
"Let's go, go home and find my mother!"
Tianchen took Tianxue's little hand and said to her.Tianxue was full of doubts, but she followed Tianchen's ass back when she was a child, and nodded without thinking too much.
But where are the children as fast as the adults, although they are running fast on their legs, they still returned to the door of the house with Tianshu, and before Tianchen's mouth opened, Tianshu said everything.