Chapter 163 Heaven helps the self-helper

People live like mandrills, and in Yang Xiong's eyes, there is no point in continuing to live.

Now, the man in front of him—dark, thin, dirty, fierce, desperate, not even as alive as a mandrill.

The woman still has some pieces of cloth on her body, and the man ...... It's hard to put into words.

Some bare fart. The big-headed child put his hand in his mouth and stared at Yang Xiong with a pair of huge eyes.

They said that they were not bandits, and that they were indeed robbing merchants and passers-by at the foot of the mountain.

Say that they are bandits, and in the process of looting, they need to pay several times the price of human lives to rob a little something.

Under the watchful eyes of these people, Yang Xiong came to the edge of the stream, washed his handkerchief, and began to wipe the blood stains left by the leech bite on his arm.

If these people don't speak, he won't be ready to speak.

lest these people, whose nerves are more fragile than the wild pandas, think that he has other plans.

For countless years, this area has been a place where bandits are rampant.

It's not that bandits like Li Hongji, Zhang Bingzhong, and Yun Zhao have plagued this place, they all have ambitions, and they don't look down on these destitute people.

It was the result of the local tycoons fighting each other.

A strong man is a grass king, and the speed at which the city head changes the king's flag is almost every day, causing the people here to live in war and panic forever.

In addition, this place is not only barren, but also a distant hometown of culture,

For so many years, there has not been a strong person who has dominated the local area, bringing some order and limited peace to the local area.

Strongman rule is not terrible, the most terrible thing is fragmentation.

These days, the people on the mountains often come to the plains in groups to rob, Yang Xiong encircled and suppressed several groups of savage robbers and found that these people did not need to be encircled and suppressed, and found that the officers and soldiers were chasing them, and they fell to the ground and died of exhaustion after running a few steps.

After knowing the news that people were starving to death in the mountains every day from a few living mouths, there was the matter of Yang Xiong's lonely body in Lijiaping.

Hanzhong was originally a rich land, but the population is sparse, if you want to develop quickly, you must have a population, otherwise, even if there are ploughing cattle in Guanzhong, seeds and all kinds of materials are allocated, there is not enough manpower to manage it.

"Why are the officials here? There was nothing, no food, no goods, and no beautiful women. ”

A man with tall bones, but no more flesh on his body, leaned over and slowly approached Yang Xiong, and asked cautiously.

"Come down with me, and if you want to live, follow me down."

Yang Xiong began to wipe the mud from his leather boots.

"What do the officials want us people to do? We have nothing. ”

The man reiterated to Yang Xiong over and over again that they had nothing.

"There's still a lot of strength, farming!"

"The officials have also seen it, we have nothing, what can we do to farm?"

Yang Xiong frowned and said irritably: "I said, you still have a lot of strength!" ”

The man sighed, looked back at the group of ghostly people, and said to a young man, "Bring the skin." ”

The boy stubbornly gritted his teeth and remained silent.

The thin man was a little anxious, raised his hand and slapped the young man's head and said, "Take it!" ”

The young man said with tears in his eyes: "My mother will freeze to death." ”

The thin man said angrily: "Bring it! ”

The young man let out a wolf-like howl, turned and ran into the woods.

After a while, he held a rolled leather in his hand and threw it into the hands of the thin man, but Yang Xiong's eyes became more and more hateful.

The thin man shook off the skin, and it was a wild panda skin, very complete, and black and white.

Yang Xiong glanced at the wild panda skin, shook his head, and said, "Give me your son!" ”

When the thin man who was originally submissive heard Yang Xiong's words, his rickety body immediately straightened up, and he said in the most gloomy tone: "The officials are too greedy. ”

Yang Xiong turned a blind eye to the threat of the thin man, looked at the young man and said, "The reason why I want you is not anything else, it is because among such a large group of people, you are the only one.

The rest are just the walking dead.

I'll only ask you once, do you have the guts to come with me?

It's good, it's bad, come with me out to see if the world has changed for the better. ”

"Li Cheng, don't go!"

The thin man was full of expression.

Yang Xiong saw that the young man was a little hesitant, so he raised five fingers and said, "Fifty catties of rice!" ”

Young Li Cheng's eyes lit up, and he took a step forward and said, "White rice? ”

Yang Xiong said: "Last year's new rice, fifty catties, Tong Su is not bullied!" You come with me, and I'll let my attendants bring the rice. ”

The thin man pressed his son's shoulder and said to Yang Xiong: "I won't change!" ”

Yang Xiong smiled and said nothing, Li Cheng looked up at his father and pleaded: "Dad, my mother is seriously ill, and my sister is about to starve to death, so let the child go, with fifty catties of rice, you can boil a few meals of white rice porridge for your mother and sister-in-law." ”

The thin man shook his head and said: "Even if your mother dies, she will not drink the white porridge that you exchanged for your life. ”

Just when their father and son were theorizing, several black savages pushed a few thin teenagers to Yang Xiong's side and said, "Official, one baby for fifty catties of white rice?" ”

Yang Xiong smiled: "Of course you can, but Li Cheng must be here, he is here, how many children I want, Li Cheng is not here, I don't want any of them." ”

A dark old man's lips trembled for a long time before he said to the thin man: "Li Xiong, you don't want to live yourself, don't you give us a little way to live?" ”

Li Xiong shouted: "My son is not for sale!" ”

Yang Xiong sneered when he heard this, stood up and prepared to leave.

Li Cheng said loudly: "I'll go with you!" ”

As he spoke, he broke free from his father and gradually came to Yang Xiong's side, Li Xiong mourned and called for his son in the back, but Li Cheng didn't hear it.

Yang Xiong shouted from afar, and after a while, three southern Yunnan bantam horses carrying grain bags came up from the muddy mountain road, and one horse carried two hundred catties of rice on its back.

A total of 600 catties!

Yang Xiong adheres to the tradition of buying children with forty catties of millet in his own county, and does not pick, as long as it is sent to the children around him, he wants, after asking for twelve boys and girls, he decisively led three bantam horses with eleven crying and a guy who did not have half a tear in his eyes and embarked on the way home.

There were hoarse shouts of men and women behind him, but Yang Xiong was smiling and walking extremely quickly.

Turning the mountain bend, Yang Xiong said to Li Cheng, who was always looking east and west along the way: "If you want to run, you missed three opportunities just now, once when we crossed the wooden bridge, you can jump into the water to escape."

Once when you bend the neck tree, you can jump on the big tree and go into the woods.

The most recent time we were turning a corner, you could cut my neck with the stone chip you were holding in your hand...... It's getting late, my companion is ahead, and you don't have a chance. ”

Li Cheng said: "I'm not sure! ”

Yang Xiong laughed, patted Li Cheng's head and said, "Your choice is right, none of the three chances I said just now is true." ”

As he spoke, he took out his double-barreled short gun and fired a shot into the river beside him, and after the roar, two dead fish that had been hit by the shrapnel floated in the river.

Another shot was fired at the tree, and the smoke cleared, and a monkey fell from the tree and fell to the ground already dead.

He put away the short gun, choked and pulled out the long knife behind his waist, and shouted, the long knife flashed a cold light, only to see that a thick section of the trunk of the bowl was actually broken from it, and the knife was withdrawn, and the big tree that was broken into two pieces fell to the ground.

"If you dare to escape, I will kill all your people."

Yang Xiong still had a smile on his face when he said this, but those eyes that contained a smile made Li Cheng feel cold.

He originally had the idea of deceiving Yang Xiong's white rice first, and then finding a chance to escape back.

Now, after seeing Yang Xiong's ability, he couldn't hold back the panic in his heart anymore, and tears finally flowed, he really didn't want to leave his father and sick mother, as well as the thin girl like Lu Chai stick.

The walking corpse followed Yang Xiong to a clearing, where seven or eight tents had been set up, and someone had lit a big fire in the middle of the tent, and they were roasting meat......

The twelve children were huddled together, Li Cheng was on the outermost, the aroma of barbecue meat stimulated his taste buds, and his saliva was wiped over and over again, but he couldn't wipe it clean.

A young man with a red birthmark on the left side of his face came to the children with a pot and put a large bowl of porridge in front of each of them.

Seeing that Li Cheng was watching the barbecue, he shook his head and said: "You have been hungry for too long, and you can't stand eating meat at this time, drink some porridge to nourish your stomach, and you can eat meat in a few days." ”

Li Cheng didn't believe this person's, but it was good to have porridge to drink, he picked up the big bowl and took a sip, and then stopped suddenly, somehow, he always felt that when he was drinking porridge, the girl's eyes were looking at him with envy.

At this time, no matter how delicious the porridge is, there is no way to drink it at this time.

He came to Yang Xiong, who was eating barbecue, with a bowl of porridge and said, "I want to give this bowl of porridge to my sister-in-law, I'll go back as soon as I go." ”

Yang Xiong smiled: "Then go quickly, you only have half an hour." ”

Li Cheng looked at the long knife that Yang Xiong put beside him and said seriously: "I will definitely come back." ”

Yang Xiong smiled: "I know! ”

Li Chengchang took a breath, and ran quickly up the mountain with the porridge bowl, the speed was very fast, but the porridge bowl in his hand was very stable.

The young man with the birthmark on his face laughed and said, "Why do you torture people like this, tell them that it is difficult to go down the mountain and farm together and live a peaceful life?" ”

Yang Xiong shook his head and said, "Birthmark yellow, have you forgotten human nature?" ”

Huang Guidao: "I always feel that people's kindness can resolve all misunderstandings. ”

Yang Xiong shook his head again and said: "No one will cherish what is given for free, if you do this, our support will be too cheap, birthmark yellow, don't think that our relief is for everyone."

Only those who are not reconciled to the present predicament are worthy of our relief, because if we help them at this time, we will receive greater rewards in the future.

And our relief is not long-lasting, it is only a temporary measure, and next year, they will still have to rely on their own hands to find food from the land.

God help the self-helpers!