Chapter 44, Meng Shaoxia
Meng Jingye listened to the veteran soldier continue: "Once, our county was quite peaceful, with no special products or resources. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 infoSo, not many people want to come to us, most of the people in the local area are poor people, guarding one acre and three points of land, or doing some real small business, and the days are like this. But ah, everything has changed since the few of them came!"
"First intercepted Zhang Daguan's car on the road, killed all the old and young of the family, took all the money away, and threw the corpses of other people's families into the river to feed the fish. If it weren't for a medicine boy who saw it from afar when he was collecting medicine on the mountain, I'm afraid no one would know about it!"
"When the medicine boy saw this, he was so frightened that he hurriedly ran back, and he didn't dare to report to the official, he was so frightened in the house that he trembled, and the master saw it and asked, so he told his master about it once, and then his master heard it, ouch, this is a terrible thing! This kind of thing still has to be reported to the official, so he went to the government to sue these people, by the way! Originally, it was not the Seven Evils, but the Eight Evils!"
When the county order heard this, it was really furious, so he sent the county lieutenant and the catcher to arrest these people, our county seat, and it is not a border fortress, so there is no garrison, only a few people who watch the city gate, they are all old men, like me! The place was originally safe and secure, poor and poor, but it would not starve people to death, so there were few fast catches, only so there were about a dozen. ”
"The county lieutenant took the catchers and bumped into these people in Luliang on the road, so a fight was inevitable, but the catchers were all ordinary people, and they had only practiced some tricks, but the emphasis was on the number of people, and a fight came down. The catchers were killed, the wounded were wounded, no one came down intact, the county lieutenant was also less injured, and several people in Luliang ran away. One man was so badly injured that he died, so the Eight Evils became the Seven Evils. ”
"There are only these seven evils, but I don't know how, they have reined in a lot, and they no longer plot to kill the people in our county, but they are still the same for outsiders, so that no one dares to come to our county! Although they do not harm the lives of the people in our county, they do not allow the people of our county to leave, and anyone who wants to leave will be harassed and attacked by them endlessly. Countless people who tried to leave were heard from after leaving. ”
"There are few young people in our county, and many of them have gone to other places in the early years, and there are only so many people in the local area. Either they tried to go out and didn't come back, or they were about to come back, but they were on the way. Before you know it, it's gone!"
Meng Jingye listened and asked, "There are only seven of them, so it is possible to stop so many people? More people, or a few more batches, take small roads and mountain roads, and you can always get out! When the time comes, find a big official to complain, then won't it be done?"
The old soldier sighed and said, "That's true, but how can there be only seven of them, and there is another group of bandits, and their stockade is three or four in the mountains, and now anyone who passes through the mountains will be caught." Before, he only occasionally went down the mountain to rob passers-by, but he didn't dare to harass the county seat, but then he may have seen the strong cadres outside the county, so he harassed the farmers from time to time, and every harvest season, this group of people came. Anyone who dares to resist has been killed, and those who are now in the county town are used to it! If they don't dare to resist, they can survive! They simply raise us as bees!"
"Moreover, this group of bandits has also sealed the mountains and forests, and they were able to go into the mountains to collect medicine and hunt before, but now they can't go in! The old soldier said, tears running down his face.
Meng Jingye said to the veteran: "Old man, it will be fine in the future! ”
The veteran wiped his tears and said, "Dare to ask the young man's name!"
"My name is Meng Jingye!"
The veteran arched his hand and said, "Let the old man lead the way for the young man!" The veteran walked to the front of Meng Jingye's ox cart, pulled the ox nose ring, and slowly walked into the county seat, shouting as he walked: "The villagers have come to see!
Meng Jingye sat in the car, looking at the depressed street, except for a few necessary shops, there were no other shops, no taverns and teahouses. The things in these shops are all made of materials near the county seat, a little seasoning or something, and the salt is also nearby mineral salt, and the quality is very poor, but you can't help but eat salt.
As the veterans shouted all the way, some people began to poke their heads out continuously, curiously looking at the ox cart on the road, Meng Jingye looked at the people who came out one after another. In their eyes, there was no god in the people Meng Jingye had seen in Tan Long City. How can I put it? It is a lack of vitality, a dead air, as if I have looked down on everything.
For Meng Jingye on the road, everyone was mostly curious, but no one stepped forward to thank or kowtow or anything. Standing in the distance, he just watched quietly, his eyes were numb. There are very few young people, all of them are elderly, only some children, and there is a yearning for the future in their eyes!
Meng Jingye looked at this, half of his heart was sad, half of him was happy, sorrow means: If you want to change these people, it is very difficult, and it can't be changed overnight, joy means: If you can change this group of people and take them for your own use, you will definitely die for yourself. Moreover, if a person who has been suppressed and paralyzed for a long time is released, he will burst out with tremendous energy!
Meng Jingye sat quietly in the car, watching everything that violated the harmony. But there is a reflection on the future.
The veteran pulled Meng Jingye's ox cart, crossed the dilapidated street, and came to the yamen, Meng Jingye looked up and saw that an old man in an official robe was stepping on a stool, wiping the [Ming Spiegel Hanging] at the door. The thick dust, wiped by his wet handkerchief, slowly became smooth and bright again. The old man looked at the plaque for a while.
Meng Jingye didn't make a sound to disturb, and the veteran wanted to call him. But Meng Jingye stopped the old soldier, and the two of them just looked at the old man quietly.
Maybe it was because of his age, the old man didn't stand for long, and after a while, he trembled and crawled down, and also saw Meng Jingye and the three of them.
The old man stepped forward and said to Lai Weng: "Lord County Commander, this is Meng Shaoxia, on the way Meng Shaoxia came, he had already destroyed Lu Liang Qisha!"
The old county magistrate's eyes lit up when he heard this! With hot eyes, he looked at Meng Jingye, hurriedly stepped forward and hugged Meng Jingye's arm, and said, "Young man, you have to help us in Jinshan County!"