"More than fifty unjust souls?!"

Yang Huairen was shocked, "What you said is true?" ”

Little Stone cried, "My Little Stone vouches with this head of mine that everything I say next is true, and there is no lie." My name is indeed Tang Shi, but I am not from Tangjia Village outside Yangzhou, but from Huangtou Boli Botou Village. ”

Yellow Heads?! Yang Huairen and the other three were shocked when they heard these three words, especially Yang Huairen, what he thought before, maybe Xiaoshi was a witness who knew some evil things that Zhao Bin had done.

But he never expected that he would be a citizen of a small fishing village near Huangtoubo, so from this point of view, is it possible that Xiaoshi's grievances have any connection with the water bandits in Huangtoubo?

Xiao Shi wiped his nose and tears and continued, "Many years ago, when I was a child, I remember that there were two villages by the water in Huangtoubo.

One is Botou Village, the other is Boli Village, the two villages are not big, there are about 20 households in total, hundreds of people, Botou Village is in Huangtou Boshuikou, Boli Village is in the depths of Huangtoubo, the two villages are not far away, and the waterway is three or four miles away.

Originally, the villagers of the two villages made a living by fishing in the water, and some young and strong villagers also went to work as strong laborers on the docks on the Grand Canal to earn some money to buy grain.

But about seven or eight years ago, a group of outsiders came to Boli Village, and these people were very fierce, forcibly occupied the village, and drove all the people in the village to our Botou Village......

"A bunch of bandits?" Little Seventh Brother asked.

Xiao Shi shook his head, but he was not in a hurry to explain, but said according to his train of thought, "Although Botou Village and Boli Village are two villages, the people of the two villages have always gotten along very well, and there are some marriages, so the relationship is still good."

Seeing that the villagers of Boli Village had no place to live, our Boli Village naturally could not see death without help, so we left them behind, although life was more difficult than before, but the villagers did not think much about it, that is, the two villages helped each other.

But since then, the wicked people living in Boli Village have not allowed the people of Botou Village to fish in Huangtou Village, which undoubtedly cuts off the villagers' livelihood.

The village chief sent people to the government to complain, saying that there were wicked people who occupied the village of Boli Village, drove away the people in the original village, and did not allow the dozens of people living in Huangtou to fish.

Every time, the government said that it would check and manage, but there was no movement after that.

The village chief sent someone to look for it again, but the person who sent it was beaten up, saying that Boli Village was requisitioned by the government, and whoever went to look for it again in the future would break someone's leg.

The village chief was helpless, and was ready to send someone to the capital to complain, but then somehow the wicked people found out, so they brought someone to the village to make trouble.

At that time, I was still young, and I can't remember exactly what happened, but the final result was good, the village chief didn't know how to negotiate with the gang of wicked people, as long as the village chief promised them not to send no more people to complain, they allowed the people of Botou Village to fish in the water.

However, the time of fishing has imposed restrictions on the villagers, who are only allowed to fish during the day, and are not allowed to leave the village and enter the water at night for half a step.

The village chief probably thought that the villagers were fishing during the day, so he agreed, after all, we are poor fishermen with no money and no status, and as long as we have a little way to live, we don't want to go against these wicked people and the government.

In the following years, Botou Village and these people were relatively peaceful, and the people in the village slowly accepted this reality.

As for what the gang was doing in the place where the village of Poli was occupied, no one dared to come close to see it, so it was not very clear. But as I grew up, I noticed that every day in the middle of the night, there was movement in the water pool, and there should be boats entering and leaving the water pool and the Grand Canal.

I really don't know what they're doing.

Originally, even if it was like this, the people in the village were a little harder, but they could be regarded as being able to eat.

It's a pity that all the men in the village who are still in good health have run away with their wives and children, no matter where they go, with a lot of strength, even if they do the work of carrying a big bag, it is better than nesting in the fishing village.

So in the past few years, there have been fewer and fewer people in the village, and the young people have left, leaving only some old, weak, sick and disabled who can't get out, staying in the village to get by.

My grandparents were old and didn't plan to leave the village, and my father could have gone out, but he felt that his grandparents were not in good health and didn't want to stay with them, so he didn't take me and my mother to leave the village to beg for a living.

But one night not long ago, while the people in the village were sleeping, suddenly a group of officers and soldiers rushed into the village, saying that there were bandits living in the village, confiscated the villagers' fishing boats, and then locked up all the villagers.

It was supposed to be my grandfather's birthday, and there was nothing delicious at home except salted fish and anything, so I wanted to get some wild duck eggs or something to honor my grandfather, so I secretly ran out at night to touch the duck eggs, so I was not caught by those officers and soldiers.

The next morning, when the sky was bright, I touched a few duck eggs and went back to the village, and I was frightened to see so many officers and soldiers in the village, so I hid in the reeds and peeked.

The officers and soldiers escorted all the villagers to the boat and took them to the village of Boli, and then demolished all the houses in the village, and then covered them with reeds before leaving.

I thought it was wrong, so I hurriedly threw away the duck eggs and secretly followed them back to Bori Village. It was only after dawn that I saw clearly that those officers and soldiers were not the officers and soldiers of the government, but the Cao army in the Caoyun Yamen! ”

Yang Huairen immediately asked, "You read that right?!" ”

Xiao Shi nodded heavily, "I can't be mistaken, I have lived by the water since I was a child, and the clothes worn by the officers and soldiers of the government are different from those of the Cao Yun Yamen, so I can still distinguish this." ”

Tianba's younger brother suddenly realized something, "I remember, when I went to suppress the bandits that day, I did see a village in the distance on the way, it seemed that there was no one and the houses had collapsed.

It's like no one has lived in it for a long time, it's an abandoned fishing village, I didn't think much about it at the time, thinking that maybe it was because there were water bandits in Huangtoubo, and the original villagers had already moved, and now I think about it, the fishing village that looks deserted should be the Botou Village that Xiaoshi said. ”

Xiaoshi said, "Well, if you take a boat from the Grand Canal into Huangtoubo, you must first pass through Botou Village before you can get to Boli Village." ”

Yang Huairen suddenly thought of a terrible thing, and asked anxiously, "What about later?" ”

Xiao Shi's appearance suddenly became frightened, and then he gritted his teeth, and his eyes were full of tears again, "Later, I secretly went to Boli Village and found that the villagers were imprisoned in the village by the Cao army, and the leader was Zhao Bin!"

I was thinking about how to rescue the villagers secretly when a boat came to the water, and Cao Jun on the boat told Zhao Bin that the people were about to arrive, and then, and then...... Zhao Bin immediately ordered the Cao army soldiers to cut down all the villagers! ”