Chapter 7: Rebellion is to be killed!

Horseshoe Village, Xichuan County, Nanyang Prefecture, has had a rain since the beginning of spring.

The rain was very rapid, but the time was very short, and it rained in half an hour and the sky was clear.

Teng Wenhu stood in the field, looking at the field full of stagnant water, but there was no joy on his face.

After all, the rain came a little late.

The scorched seedlings showed little vitality except for being a little wetter.

The rain filled the cracked earth, and at most tomorrow the cracked oppositions would close, but the seedlings of the season were finished after all.

"Boss, go back, the corn is hopeless."

His wife saw that Teng Wenhu had been standing in the field for a long time, so she spoke out to persuade him.

Teng Wenhu looked up at the big sun in the sky and spat out, "This dog day." ”

After that, he stepped on the mud and went up the ridge, picked up the shovel and walked home with his wife.

When she returned home, the eldest daughter had already boiled the porridge, and when she brought it to Teng Wenhu, Teng Wenhu's brows furrowed, and he pointed to the porridge bowl and scolded: "What year is it, dare to boil such thick porridge?" ”

Teng Wenhu's wife saw that her daughter was wronged, so she pushed Teng Wenhu and said: "My daughter saw that you have been working hard recently, and she specially fished it for you, and you still scolded your daughter, and your heart is crooked?" ”

Teng Wenhu found that the porridge in the bowls of his wife, daughter, and youngest son was so rare that he could see the human figure, so he poured all the porridge in several bowls back into the pot, stirred it twice and repacked it in a few bowls, soaked a few pieces of dried sweet potatoes in his bowl, and ate it with his head bored.

"It's better to talk about our family on flat land, you have a few brothers in the original, I'm afraid it's even more sad this year, right?"

Teng Wenhu put down his rice bowl and thought for a while: "This is not necessarily, although the land on the plain is good, it is counted, and the land on the original is not good, but it is not counted, as long as you have the strength, it doesn't matter how many officials and families you reclaim."

Last year, the rain was good, and their family probably had more food than we did.

After eating, you take out the dried fruits that were dried last year, and then pick some of our apricots, and I will go to the original to exchange some grain and come back. ”

"You can't go alone, can you? This year is a disaster year, and the road is not restless. ”

"I'm going to go if I'm not restful."

After Teng Wenhu finished speaking, he continued to drink porridge with his head down.

Dried sweet potatoes are in the porridge, but Teng Wenshun doesn't like to drink sweet porridge, he would rather chew and eat dried sweet potatoes than boil dried sweet potato porridge like other people.

He never thought that dried sweet potatoes were food, and if there was no rice in the porridge, he didn't think it was porridge.

Two bowls of gruel and a little dried sweet potato can't fill the belly of a strong man like him, so these two bowls of porridge are still hungry, but their stomachs are bulging.

When the wife saw that the eldest daughter was sensible enough to wash the dishes, she said in a low voice: "Why don't you hire the girl out, collect a little bride price, and fill it?" ”

When Teng Wenhu heard his wife say this, a nameless anger rose from his heart, and he kicked his wife sitting next to him over, pointed to her nose and said, "When I die, you will say that you will exchange your daughter for food!" ”

Seeing that Teng Wenhu was angry, although she was kicked, she didn't dare to fight back, and obediently sat on the bench and began to wipe her tears.

"The younger brother of the Li Chang family is a good family business. Others can't ask for it, and when you come to you, you will become a girl, even if you sell your daughter, you can still find a good person to sell your daughter, if you go back to decades or more, you have nowhere to sell your daughter. ”

"Shut up, dare to say a word about selling your daughter, see if I don't kill you, what's wrong with the younger brother of the Li Chang's family, if you don't make it, you can't marry if you don't give a lot of dowry, it's a fire pit."

My wife wiped her tears and said, "I look very good, I know how to read and write." ”

Teng Wenhu sighed and said: "The bad thing is that he knows words, if he can be admitted to the academy like his brother, and he can also be divided into an official and a half-position after graduation, then it is indeed a good family."

It's a pity that he can't make it, he reads half of the book, his flirting female classmate was expelled from the academy, his reputation has long been stinky, and he hasn't been on the ground much, he can't pick his shoulders, he can't lift his hands, he has no strength to work hard, and he has to eat well all day long.

If it hadn't been for his brother's help, he would have starved to death.

If the girl marries in the past, she must give him the life of a cow and a horse, Lao Tzu's daughter is her own, she has been raised so big from a little bit, and she is an obedient and good woman, not to marry such a bastard.

Let me tell you, this matter is not allowed to be mentioned again, if the elder family comes to ask, it will be said that the girl is weak and ready to raise for two years. ”

The wife muttered: "It's sixteen, and it will be eighteen in two more years, and you have to think about it." ”

Teng Wenshun stood up and said, "I know it in my heart. ”

After that, he put on a blanket on his back, put dried fruits and apricots in two large baskets, tied them firmly to the chicken cart, and pushed the chicken cart and left the house.

Horseshoe Village is said to be a plain, in fact, compared with the Funiu Mountain in the west, most of the land here is hillland, because of the topography, there is very little watered land, and most of it is mountain slope.

Since ancient times, Funiu Mountain has not been a peaceful place, since the Chenghua period, Liu Tong, a Chinese from the west of Henan, led tens of thousands of displaced people to rebel in Xichuan, there are many robbers here.

Yun Zhao, Li Hongji, Zhang Bingzhong, the first-line king, touching the sky and other thieves have all opened mountains and established villages here, until Yun Zhao dominated the world, Funiu Mountain can be regarded as stable.

In the fifteenth year of Chongzhen, after the current empress Feng Ying withdrew to Lantian County, she handed over the farmland that had been reclaimed here to the county order of Xichuan County to resettle the displaced people.

Funiu Mountain has also been transformed from a robber's den into a place of peace.

Teng Wenhu's target this time is Funiu Town, exchanging the specialties on the plains for the grain produced in the original, which is a very common thing in Xichuan County.

This year, there is a severe drought in Xichuan County, and food has always been tight, and it is not easy to exchange dried fruits for food, so Teng Wenhu is not very sure that he can exchange for grain when he goes to Funiu Town this time.

Teng Wenhu was a swordsman when he was young, and he had some brothers in Xichuan County, since the world was peaceful, he had no place for this swordsman, so he honestly returned home to cultivate the fields as a business.

At noon, he drank 20,000 gruel, and he couldn't stand the delay, so Teng Wenhu walked very quickly on the road, and he arrived in an hour and a half after walking thirty miles.

Funiu Town was the largest town in the original area, and the reason why he had to hurry here was to catch up with tomorrow's market.

After coming to Funiu Town, Teng Wenhu went straight to his former brother Jiang Tiansheng's house, preparing to rest at his house for one night and go to the market early tomorrow morning to exchange food.

Jiang Tiansheng's house is on the edge of Funiu Town, and since his mother-in-law died in childbirth, he has lived alone, and his home is a mess.

Entering Jiang Tiansheng's house, Teng Wenhu was stunned, he saw Jiang Tiansheng lying on the kang of the thatched hut, humming and chirping.

When I got closer, I found this guy's fart. The shares were beaten up in a mess and all from the wounds to the fart. It can be seen on the stock that this is the punishment of the government.

Only playing the board can cause such consequences.

"What's wrong?"

"The dog officer beat it."

"What are you doing?"

"What can I do? This year's drought was severe, and the imperial court exempted the original taxes and gave some spring seedling subsidies, and when I went to receive the subsidies, the dog's day He Lichang not only did not give it, but also reprimanded me in public.

I retorted a few words, and then pressed me to the ground and hit me twenty boards.

Brother, this evil breath is hard to get rid of, and when I am healed, I will go to him to settle accounts. ”

Teng Wenhu frowned and said: "The spring seedling subsidy issued by the imperial court should be shared by everyone, why doesn't he give it to you?" ”

Jiang Tiansheng moved his numb body and said: "The dog official said that the people who planted the land in the spring could only receive the spring seedling money because of the death of the spring seedlings because of this great drought, and said that I didn't farm in the spring, so I didn't have the spring seedling money." ”

Teng Wenhu frowned when he heard Jiang Tiansheng say this, how could he think that the lieutenant chief didn't seem to be wrong, the people who were affected by Chunmiao's disaster were subsidized by the imperial court to subsidize Chunmiao's money, and Chunmiao's subsidy was not affected by the disaster.

"You didn't farm this year, what did you do?"

Jiang Tiansheng stretched his neck to look out of the door, and when he saw that there was no one around, he said in a low voice: "Liu Chunba gathered more than a dozen people and prepared to enter Funiu Mountain." ”

When Teng Wenhu heard this, he was taken aback and said, "You want to fall into the grass?" ”

Jiang Tiansheng shook his head and said: "Don't hide it from my brother, isn't it looking for death in the grass these years?" We entered Funiu Mountain because we took a fancy to a road. ”

Teng Wenhu said: "What way?" ”

Jiang Tiansheng said: "It was discovered by Liu Chunba by accident while hunting in the mountains, didn't the merchants have to pay taxes when they took the big road?" There were some cunning businessmen who were not ready to take the big road, so they found a small path in the mountains, and passed through Funiu Mountain, which was regarded as entering the Guanzhong.

There are also merchants who come back from Guanzhong, who will also walk on this path in order to avoid taxes......

Brother, you are excellent in martial arts, much more powerful than Liu Chunba, it is better to lead the brothers to do this work, everyone rob these businessmen together, not for a long time, as long as you do a few transactions, it is enough for our brothers to eat and drink spicy. ”

"Shut up, it's a sin to kill your head."

Jiang Tiansheng got up from the kang, moved his body to the yard, and looked at the wheelbarrow lane pushed by Teng Wenhu: "Brother is going to exchange dried fruits and apricots for food?" ”

Teng Wenhu said: "Didn't you add a donkey to your family last year, and sold more grain, but this year's drought is not enough." ”

Jiang Tiansheng grabbed a handful of apricots from the basket and said while eating: "In the years of the great drought, my brother's business is not easy to do. ”

Teng Wenhu said: "If you can exchange food, you can exchange food, if you can't change food, you can change some potatoes, and sweet potatoes can also satisfy hunger when you go back." ”

Jiang Tiansheng smiled and pointed to his hut and said: "My brother has no food at home, you don't need to change it, I keep the apricots, I just need to move as much food as I want." ”

Teng Wenhu glanced at Jiang Tiansheng suspiciously, opened the door of the hut, looked up and was taken aback, only to see that in this small room, there were sacks full of grain......

Jiang Tiansheng smiled and said, "How is it?" Brother, what might this business do? ”