CHAPTER XLVII
There is a place called Wollongong in Nanyang, Henan, and there is a village called there. When the group arrived, they were attacked by the local people. Although there are many of them, there are more villagers, all of whom are armed with hoes and shovels, and surround them violently. You can pick up a bow and arrow to defend yourself, but you don't dare to attack them rashly, after all, you don't know what happened, and you can't hurt the innocent.
One of them, who seemed to be taking the lead, slammed his hoe to the ground and said in an accent in the local dialect: "As long as you hand over all the money, we will let you go!"
Xiaoliang was really angry, and scolded: "You fucking don't farm with hoes and shovels, and use them for robbery!" and then pushed it out, "My brother is a magic archer, arrows and arrows cost human life, if any of you don't want to die, come up and try it!"
At this time, a voice suddenly appeared in the crowd of fellow villagers, "He doesn't have many arrows, so many of us!"
Xiaoliang shouted: "Then I want to see which of you wants to be the first!"
After saying that, fellow countrymen, you look at you and I look at me, and then make way of a way, and in the middle stands the person who had just spoken.
"Hey, hey, I didn't say I wanted to try......" The man stood there with a shovel and shivered.
But without a little panic, he stood firmly in place, his eyes narrowed like an eagle, drew his bow, released the arrow, and in one go, the arrow flew over and shot through the rod of the shovel that the fellow was holding. The fellow shook his hand, threw the shovel on the ground, and ran away with his pants peeing.
Just when the villagers were still hesitating, a child stood up, walked at the front of the crowd, and said with a crying voice: "Big brother, your martial arts are so high, save us, my mother is still lying in bed, and she is about to die......"
The child could be seen, and the second arrow, which had been mounted on the bow, was suddenly loosened at once, hearing his begging.
Xiao Liang immediately answered: "I can see at a glance that you must have something unspeakable, and even if you have, you can't be a robber." You can ask us for help, but at least you have to lay down your weapons!"
When the villagers heard this, several of them threw away the murder weapons in their hands, and the others immediately responded when they saw that someone had taken the lead, and threw away the iron weapons in their hands one after another.
Later, at the home of the village chief, they learned about the cause and effect of the incident. It turned out that the village was one of the poorer villages in the neighborhood, but the villagers worked hard and barely survived. However, in recent years, the government has collected more and more taxes, and it has to pay five catties for ten catties of grain grown at home, and every household has been miserable. Especially this year, the climatic conditions suddenly deteriorated, and during the perennial rainy season when the rice was ripe, the roots of the rice were rotten, the grain harvest failed, and life was quite difficult.
And this is only the beginning of the tragedy, due to the long rainy season, the climate is humid, and there are rats running around. People lived with rats, and the plague spread, and more than a dozen people have died of the disease so far. There are no professional doctors in the local area, and the doctors in the county don't even look at them when they see that the people here have no money. The common people are suffering from hunger and disease, and they really have no choice but to make this decision.
After the village chief finished speaking, he sighed, "I'm really sorry...... It's because I, the village chief, didn't do a good job......"
Hearing the village chief's sincere apology, some of the people around them bowed their heads and choked their wrists, a little crying, some had haggard faces, and some were skinny, and they couldn't bear to watch them continue like this.
"Village chief, don't worry, as long as we can help, we will definitely help you. You can think about it, "Seeing that everyone is really hungry, we must first solve the problem of food, village chief, where can I buy food here?"
The village chief looked at the people around him, "Now there is a shortage of food in the surrounding places, and the only ones who have food are the granaries of the government." But ......"
"But what? Since the granary of the government has grain, why don't you open a warehouse for relief?" can be asked suspiciously.
"Is there any reason for this, they are all a group of dogs who have eaten the world by themselves!" Xiao Liang, who was standing on the side, was indignant and slapped the table and shouted.
You can turn your head to look at the village chief, who lowered his head and shook his head helplessly. Xiaoliang paced around on the side, angry and scolding.
"Yes, damn it, what do you say?" Xiao Liang looked at Ke who was deep in thought, and kept asking beside him, "Yes, you can say something!"
"Village Chief, is this far away from Guancang?"
"It's not far, it's more than ten miles. ”
You can come all the way and see a lot of corruption and incompetence in the government, but now when you meet this kind of official who doesn't care about his own people, he has long been angry, and he thought about it in his heart, and when he heard the village chief say this, he slapped the table and stood up, and said:
"Then we will open an official warehouse and distribute official food!"
A few days before the operation, you can learn about the terrain conditions, where the village to the granary passes through Wangzhuang, Erlong two villages, and you can reach the granary in about half an hour by horseback. There were two garrison posts around the granary, and there were no more than twenty people in total. During the day and at night, there will be two people guarding the barn door, and the shift will change every two hours. The granary was three stories high, and at the bottom was a large gate, locked with a large chain and a lock, with two windows on it. Since I had never seen anyone enter the granary, I could not be sure whose key was in my hand, and the window above was too high, so the only way was to cut the chain with a knife and break in.
Xiaoliang went to the county town with the rest of the people to buy some things that could be needed, and rented ten good horses of good quality and low price, taught a deposit of 1,000 taels, and returned them after three days. You can see the horses rented by Xiaoliang, touch here, pat there, and exclaim:
"Good horse, good horse!"
The village chief was in a dilemma with this idea, although it could be a good intention, but if the people from the government found out the reason for the theft of the granary, they would definitely trace it down and it would be over. After listening to the words of the village chief, he actually expected the village chief's concerns a long time ago, and comforted:
"Village chief, you don't have to worry, I have thought of this a long time ago, I will arrange it, help people to the end, it will definitely not affect you!"
The village chief looked at several village cadres around him, and thought of the villagers who were about to starve to death, and held his hand tightly with tears in his eyes, and said tremblingly: "Good people, good people......
You can gather them to the village chief's house, and on the table is a hand-drawn map of the village to the granary, and discuss the plan to rob the granary. He thought that there were many people and many ideas, and if they worked together, they would definitely be able to come up with a perfect plan. There were so many people in the village chief's house suddenly, and the dog tied to the door of the house didn't know whether it was scared or excited and barked non-stop, and the village chief even roared in fear for a long time before it quieted down.
"You see, this is the map, we go to the granary for about ten miles, and everyone can come back in about half an hour on horseback and carrying grain. This is the granary, these two are the guard posts of the officers and soldiers, they have two people to handle the gate of the granary during the day and night, and they change shifts every two hours. There are about 20 officers and soldiers, and if we fight hard with them, we will not have the upper hand, so we can only seize the opportunity. ”
At this time, one of the people in the crowd said, "We can take advantage of the fact that those two men are guarding the granary, and we can secretly deal with those two people, and not alarm the rest of the people." ”
You can nod your head and smile, "Good idea, and it's best to do it at night, it's more hidden." ”
Another person in the crowd spoke, "But we only have two hours, and it takes half an hour to go back and forth, which means that we can only carry four trips at most, and we will definitely not be able to carry the food inside, so what about the rest?"
You can take a breath and say, "It's burned!"
The village chief, who was wandering around pouring water for the others, jumped up in a hurry when he heard what he could say, and shouted, "What? It's all the food we have worked so hard to grow, so it's burned!"
Xiaoliang patted the village chief on the shoulder and frightened: "Village chief, you want food again, and you want the people of the government not to investigate, look at how you are honestly so greedy." ”
The village chief was so anxious that he stomped his feet and waved his hands, "I'm not greedy, I'm not greedy, it's just a pity that those grains are all grown with our hard work." ”
Xiaoliang comforted: "I can't take it away in the first place, it's better to burn it if it rots in the granary!"
The village chief drooped his head when he heard this, and muttered in his mouth: "Evil, evil!"
Xiao Liang looked at it angrily, and pointed at the village chief, "Yes, you said that old man is really ......"
You can wave your hand, "Okay, okay, let him go, it's not easy for him to be a good village chief for the villagers." ”
"Then how do we get into the granary?"
You can give Xiaoliang a look, Xiaoliang took out a package, spread it on the table, can unwrap the package, take out a knife, shake it in front of everyone, and said: "Since you are going to rob, how can you not have a weapon, when the time comes, each person will take a knife, and it will not be okay to cut the iron chain with one knife in the past, and it can be used for self-defense when necessary." ”
"Yes...... That's a kitchen knife......" Another voice came from the crowd.
"What's wrong with the kitchen knife!" Xiao Liang also picked up a kitchen knife, waved his hand, and stuck it on the table with a "bang", "This is the most expensive and best kitchen knife!
The village chief was startled by this sudden sound on the side, and when he heard what Xiaoliang said behind, he muttered again: "Ouch, scared to death, scared to death, evil, evil!"
"Uh-huh......" A crisp, undeveloped voice came from the crowd, and then the youngest person spoke, "What if the kitchen knife keeps cutting the chain?"
I really haven't thought about such a problem, in the novels I read, as long as I go to rob prisons, such a thick iron chain can be smashed with one knife, and I haven't seen how good his knife is, that is, the quality of the kitchen knife. But it's really a big question as well, and you can nod your head and say:
"Try it and you'll find out!"
The crowd searched and found no chain, and the village chief's dog began to bark again when he saw the crowd. The crowd looked at each other, and two of them walked towards the village chief's dog.
The village chief saw his dog with his tail between his legs, stretched his neck by the chain, his head was painfully attached to the corner of the table, and the other end of the chain was held and pressed on the table, and he didn't know how much distress he felt, and said: "Evil, what a crime, dog, you can bear with it......"
Everyone gathered in a circle, stretched their necks, and watched the scene of kitchen knives cutting chains. You can glance at it and say, "Which of you has the most strength, come up and give it a try!"
Everyone, you look at me, I look at you, and then a tall and big middle-aged man came out, with a dark face and strong arms, walked up to the can, and said, "Let me try!"
Xiaoliang glanced at him and handed him a kitchen knife, "Big Black Cow, it's up to you!"
The man took the kitchen knife, first put it on the table, stretched out his two naked arms from his clothes, and tied the two sleeves of the clothes around his waist, so that people could see that they were very professional. You can look at it and secretly ask Xiaoliang what he used to do, Xiaoliang said in a low voice:
"Slaughtering pigs. ”
The big black bull picked up the kitchen knife on the table, and the momentum was so great that the people on both sides of the iron chain couldn't help but be a little afraid. "Ha!" I heard him cry, and the kitchen knife slashed into the chain, making a sound of metal colliding, and the chain made a sound of wood colliding on the table, and the dog was startled and began to bark. At this moment, everyone saw that the kitchen knife stopped abruptly, and the iron chain did not move, and began to discuss.
Seeing that this was useless, the big black bull picked up the knife and slashed down again, and there were gaps in the blades of the kitchen knives, and the chains were still unharmed. Everyone sighed in disappointment: "Alas......"
The second time it was still like this, the big black bull was furious, raised the kitchen knife again, and carried out a continuous attack. Before each cut, he had to shout "Ha!", and after a few times, everyone figured out his rhythm, and when he shouted "Ha!", everyone also shouted "Ha!" in agreement, and after shouting, he sighed "sigh......".
The big black bull became more and more vigorous, and the more everyone shouted, the scene suddenly became chaotic, the sound of metal, wood, the sound of the crowd, and the barking of dogs were mixed together. The dust and sawdust in the cracks of the table kept falling under the table, and the big black bull sped up the pace, and everyone also sped up the pace, and finally the table fell apart with a "bang" and became a pile of ruins.
The village chief's dog took advantage of the chaos to drag the chain and escaped, but the village chief stood aside and said distressedly: "Ouch, my table, I haven't broken it for 50 years, you guys, what a sin......"
You can look at the broken table on the ground and the big black cow standing on the side, sweating profusely and panting, and understand that it is very unrealistic to cut iron chains with a kitchen knife. I was a little disappointed in my heart, if I couldn't get in through the door, I could only go up through the window, but the window was as high as two and a half floors, and even if I went in, it was convenient to transport food out, so I sighed and said, "If we can't get in through the door, we can only enter through the window." ”
"How do I get in the window?" When everyone faced this question, the answer was the same, just break the window and use a hook to climb up. But the most difficult thing to solve is how to quickly transport grain, if it is thrown down directly, it will definitely be smashed to the ground, and if a small hole is exposed, the rice will be dropped along the way, and it will be directly exposed.
Just when he was about to give up, Xiaoliang came up with a solution. He said that he could first let the window be smashed, and then throw three wall hooks and tighten the other end of the rope, so that the sack could slide directly down the hemp rope. He also said that when a person comes down, he can hold a hemp rope in his hand and tie it crosswise, and the person only needs to grasp the two ends of the hemp rope and slide it down, as long as he controls the strength of the hand pulling the hemp rope, he can control the speed of the descent.
Everyone was a little confused, so Xiaoliang found a few hemp ropes and made many successes on a big tree in the woods on one side, which amazed everyone.
Everything was ready, and in the middle of the night, Xiaoliang took the other fourteen people, all put on night clothes, and secretly lurked next to the granary. Waiting for the man in front of them to go away, they could shoot two arrows with lightning speed, and the two guards of the granary fell to the ground almost at the same time.
The crowd sprang into action, and could shoot four arrows with a "whoosh" that would smash the entire window to pieces. Although Xiaoliang does not know martial arts, he is very agile, and he can shoot arrows with a hook. After a while, Xiaoliang went up, greeted on it, and then he could tie a rope around his waist and climb up, and he could go up and greet him, and he went up with a rope again.
The three of them were on top, fixed the three ropes, and beckoned the people below, and the people below pulled hard. Xiaoliang lit a fire fold, saw the sack full of warehouses, and began to move. The sack fell to the ground as planned, and when the rest of the men had enough of them, they put them on their horses and rode them back. Soon the horses that came to move the fourth trip came back, and they could see that the time was almost up, so they beckoned Xiaoliang.
"Xiaoliang, it's almost time, it's time for us to go......"
"Wait, yes, come and see ......"
Xiao Liang could be seen standing in front of an open box with another person, walking over and asking, "What's wrong?" Xiao Liang didn't answer, and didn't know what happened until he could walk in front of them.
Xiaoliang looked at the box full of silver and swallowed, "I've never seen so much money......"
You can pick one up and look at it, "We can't take it away, this is official silver, there is a seal underneath, if you use it, you will be wanted." After saying that, he pulled a handful of small grains, and Xiaoliang came back to his senses and pulled another person.
The three of them went down with the small grain very smoothly, and when they got to the bottom, they poured sesame oil on the granary, rode on their horses, and took out three arrows wrapped in cotton balls, and after lighting them, one shot them into the wall, and two shot them into the granary, and looked at the raging fire, and left quickly.
By the time I could get to the front of the village chief's house, there was already a very high pile of grain, and before I had time to say goodbye to the village chief, I rushed to the county seat with the rest of the people overnight.
"Yes, this one is too enjoyable and too chivalrous!" Xiao Liang said with a laugh.
You can pretend to be calm and say, "We're just doing chivalrous deeds." In fact, he couldn't calm down for a long time, and felt as if he had done a big thing.
The people behind him also talked and laughed, and the atmosphere was very harmonious, which made Ke Ke's original vigilance against them relaxed. At least everyone's essence is not bad, maybe everyone has something unspeakable about the past like Xiaoliang, as long as they get along more, they will be able to open their minds to each other one day.