Chapter 16: Ruan Duyun

The riot began to spread from the north gate of Guangyuan City, like a sporadic wildfire on a green grassland, and in an instant, it burned red.

The people walked the streets and alleys, calling for friends. They have endured repression for too long, government oppression, bureaucracy, injustice in everyday life...... The only reason they can endure in silence is that no matter what, this rotten life is still in their hands.

This worthless head is still around his neck.

But what happened recently frightened them, and outside were the Song people who were besieging Guangyuan City. Inside is an army that kills innocents indiscriminately, and if at this time, they don't take up arms to resist for themselves, then they feel that they are no different from the fish on the chopping board or the salted fish.

Many people still flinch in the face of well-trained soldiers, but often at this time, smart people will stand up and take advantage of the panic of the people to their own advantage.

Ruan Duyun was born in an ordinary family in Jiaozhi, and this family brought him little help. The only thing that can comfort me is that the surname Ruan is the surname of Jiaozhi, and when you go out, you can always meet a few people with the surname Ruan.

By chance, Ruan Duyun was favored by a rich young master as a scholar who accompanied him. The young master studied very hard, but Ruan Duyun knew the importance of this opportunity better, and he studied harder than the young master.

His diligence is rare for Mr. Teach, so Mr. Teaching has also leaned towards him a little.

After ten years of studying, the rich young master felt that he had succeeded in his studies, so he wanted to go to Shenglong Mansion to participate in the scientific examination held by Li Deqian in imitation of the Song Dynasty.

However, Ruan Duyun's only relative in the family, his mother in her sixties was sick in bed, and seeing that time was running out, Ruan Duyun didn't want to regret that he didn't accompany her at the last moment of his mother's life, so he planned not to go to Shenglong Mansion with the rich young master, but to stay in Guangyuan City.

The rich young master had a good relationship with him, and after dropping a sentence of Lingtang's importance, he went to Shenglong Mansion alone and in style. At that time, Ruan Duyun felt that he was the greatest luck in his life to meet him, whether it was in his daily life or in his studies, the young master took care of himself, and he would definitely give up his life to repay this kindness.

So Ruan Duyun stayed in Guangyuan City to take care of his terminally ill mother.

At that time, the resignation of Guangyuan City Guard was imminent, and as a local official who was about to be promoted, it was too normal to get a handful before leaving.

Unfortunately, the Ruan family is on this list.

What can the Ruan family have? When my father was here, the family still relied on the relationship of the rich young master, and did a small business that was not prosperous but could barely make ends meet.

Since the death of his father, the family often has to rely on the rich young master to help him with his pocket money in order to barely survive. The money that my father had saved when he was there was also medicine for my mother. But after more than two years, a lot of money was spent on medicine, but the disease did not improve.

A doctor took a look, and they all shook their heads and said that they were preparing for the future, which made Ruan Duyun bitter and couldn't speak.

Why can't it be cured? Didn't I spend the money? What about my money? Where did my money go?

The reality is like this, Ruan Duyun has no ability to change his life against the sky. He has been studying for ten years, but his talent is useless because of his identity.

God knows how many times Ruan Duyun, a seven-foot man, cried secretly in a place where no one was, maybe the rich young master knew, but he wouldn't say.

Everyone has their own difficulties in life. If you accidentally see them embarrassed before the difficulty, it's best to forget about it, or keep your mouth in jail.

As soon as the tax collector heard that he had no money, he began to rummage around. In the end, they rudely snatched the bracelet that their mother was going to take away, emptied the Ruan family's rice jar, and left with a scolding.

The mother comforted her son, but the seeds of hatred had been planted in his heart.

A month later, my mother died. Ruan Duyun was at his father's grave outside the city, and buried his mother again. Perhaps most people would think that Ruan Duyun, who was alone, would get better in the future, but what made him more painful was still to come.

After the rich young master entered Beijing, there was no news, he was entrusted by the old man to personally go to the Shenglong Mansion to look for it, inquired around, but asked for a bad news.

"Oh, the person you're looking for is a young turtle from Guangyuan Prefecture, right? Hehe, for the sake of your ingot of silver, grandpa will make an exception to tell you.

A few days ago, Li Changjie and Li Dashuai held a banquet, he said something that should not be said, offended someone who should not be offended, and has already gone to report to Lord Yama! You're late!

But it's just a few days ago, if you have a good relationship with him, go to the mass grave outside to try your luck. If you're lucky, the dogs and wolves don't gnaw him clean at the mass grave, you might be able to help him collect his corpse. ”

In the scorching summer, Ruan Duyun was like falling into an ice cave. The walking dead generally came to the mass grave three miles outside the city of Thang Long Mansion, and sure enough, as the man said, there were white bones everywhere.

A ragged beggar was carrying a set of good-looking clothes in his hand, and Ruan Duyun accidentally caught a glimpse of it, so he rushed up to snatch it like crazy.

But he, a scholar who accompanies him, where can he rob the beggar who grabs food from others every day?

Within three rounds he was kicked to the ground, and the beggar pointed at him and yelled, "How crazy are you shit?!" Can't you see that grandpa is wearing clothes that don't look like people are wearing?

I finally picked up a good dress, and you still have to grab it on a dog's day, do you still have a conscience! You're still not human! ”

"Please give me that dress!" Ruan Duyun said with tears streaming down his face: "That's my young master's clothes......"

The beggar was stunned for a moment, and then took a sip and said, "You said that it was your young master's, and it was your young master's?" Roll,

I've never seen a madman like you......"

The beggar wanted to leave after scolding, but Ruan Duyun hugged his thigh, dragged him and cried, "Give me back my young master's clothes...... Give me back my young master's clothes......"

As a result, Ruan Duyun was naturally thrown away by the beggar and kicked a few times.

Ruan Duyun, who found that he couldn't do anything, had mixed feelings in his heart, guilt for the young master, anger at his own incompetence, hatred for this unfair world, and resentment against the Jiaozhi government magma erupted like a magma eruption.

His emotions completely collapsed, and he fell to his knees and cried uncontrollably.

When the beggar saw that he was crying pitifully, his heart suddenly became irritable. scolded and scolded: "Okay, okay! Fuck me down! Taller than Lao Tzu, crying more than a girl! Clothes are for you! Don't want it!

By the way, Lao Tzu also has a kind heart, you walk up thirty-five steps along this road, stop when you meet a locust tree, turn left and walk a little more than ten steps, and you will see a bush.

If this dress belongs to your young master, then your young master is lying in that grass now. ”

After saying that, the beggar scolded and left, muttering bad luck and dog days and the like.

Ruan Duyun clutched his clothes tightly and kowtowed three times in the direction the beggar had left before unfolding the placket of the garment.

Seeing a patch the size of a finger on the neckline, with a delicate lotus flower embroidered with a needle, Ruan Duyun began to cry.

The collar of all the young master's clothes has such a mark, which he broke himself, and then asked himself to help him get it.

It took half an hour for Ruan Duyun to accept that the maggot crawling out of his mouth in front of him, who had become a half-skeleton corpse, was his own young master.

Kneeling in the mass grave and crying for half an hour, Ruan Duyun tied the young master to his back with his clothes, and walked in the direction of Guangyuan Prefecture while crying.

Naturally, a lot of things happened along the way, and the people carrying the corpses on their backs were inevitably interrogated by officers and soldiers, and they were inevitably disliked by the coachmen of the carriages.

In the end, it was a kind coachman who sent Ruan Duyun back to Guangyuan City, and when Ruan Duyun dragged the coffin to the house of the rich family who had accepted him, he learned what a fucking life is.

The rich family's house was raided, and the whole family was exiled. The men are full of men, and the women are sold as prostitutes and maidservants.

Although Ruan Duyun considered this possibility on the way back, he really didn't expect that the other party would do so desperately and be so ruthless.

When he buried his young master, the best friend in his life, to the grave of his parents. Perhaps buried in the ground is also his heart that once remained kind.

At this time, the Song army had already begun to assemble in Yongzhou. And Li Changjie also received Li Deqian's order and led the army to advance towards the bank of the Fuliang River.

Ruan Duyun was full of thoughts about revenge, he hated the tax collector who came to rob the door, and hated the murderer who killed the young master...... He hated the entire government of Cochin.

But others are soft-spoken, and they cannot accomplish the great cause of revenge by their own strength alone.

So he learned from the book to try the courage of the hook, while finding a job in the city to copy books for others to fill his stomach, on the other hand, like a poisonous snake lurking in the grass waiting for the opportunity.

The rebellion of the people of Guangyuan City came from the long-term contradictions between the army and the people on the one hand, from the temptation of Tang Ning's letter on the one hand, and on the other hand, from the encouragement of people like Ruan Duyun.

If they hadn't picked up the letters on the ground and read them to the people word for word.

If it weren't for them shouting in the crowd that people were swords, I would be fish and meat.

If it weren't for them, they would constantly stir up the relationship between the government and the people.

The riot in Guangyuan City was not caused by a letter from Tang Ning.

But in every city, in every country, there will be such a kind of people. Downing came hundreds of years later, and there were too many such people in that era......

"Fellow citizens!" Ruan Duyun stood at the forefront of tens of thousands of people, and in front of him were heavily armed Jiaozhi soldiers. Behind him were civilians armed with rudimentary weapons and fierce faces confronting officers and soldiers.

"The world and the country are the same. Today, there are children who plough and weave, work hard all year round, and there are few silks, and their fathers and brothers take them all and wander them. If you are a little unsatisfactory, you will be whipped and cruel, and you will be merciful to death. ”

The people shouted in unison: "Unwilling! ”

"In addition to being desplendid, he also serves the enemy. The enemy relies on my wealth to enrich himself, but when he sees the insult, he makes his children respond to it. The children are able to support it, and they condemn everything.

However, the things of the enemy are not invaded and insulted at the beginning, and you are at peace? ”

The people shouted again: "Is this reasonable? ”

Ruan Duyun clenched his fists, and at this moment, he thought of his mother, who had been on the sickbed and finally died. I also thought of the brother who left in a dashing manner, but ended up in the wilderness.

Why is all this going on?

Ruan Duyun burst into tears and shouted loudly: "Today's labor is heavy, the officials invade the fishery, and the agricultural mulberry is not enough to supply.

The husband is born of the people, the shepherd of the tree, and the original is to support the people. However, if the officials are tyrannical, can the hearts of heaven and man be unashamed?

And the sound of dogs and horses, civil and wooden prayer shrines. The people of Duwu are diligent all year round, their wives are frozen, and they can't get enough food for a day. ”

These words went to the hearts of the people, and they were all indignant and shouting something.

In the end, it's still one

A person who had read the book couldn't listen to it, so he shouted loudly.

Then the rest of the people also shouted indignantly: "Only life! ”

"In the past 30 years, the old ministers of the patriarch have been degraded to death, and those who are in charge are all filthy and evil people, but they know that they are obscene and promiscuous with their voices, and all the major political affairs of the court are also compassionate.

In the external supervision department, the shepherds are also greedy and despicable, and do not care about the locality.

I, the people of Guangyuan, have been suffering from exploitation for a long time!

Outside the city, the Song army was eyeing the tiger, but looking at our army, they went out of the city twice and returned with feathers. However, the officers and men did not think they were ashamed, but instead committed murder in the streets and killed innocent people indiscriminately.

In broad daylight, it is bright and clear. Why are the people innocent, with swords and swords?

Man is a sword, I am a fish. If it's not at this time, when will it be?! ”

"It's the other way around! It's the other way around! ”

"Anti-fucking! Dog day! Lao Tzu has long seen that they are unhappy! ”

"Big brother, haven't we already reversed?"

"Silly you, if you come out and say the opposite, let's jump back, if it doesn't work out, won't it be over if you push him out? You're so stupid! ”

“……”

Because the place where the people gathered was not far from the Shuaifu, Li Changjie came to the front again. Ruan Duyun's impassioned words, Li Changjie heard it clearly word for word.

He was shocked in his heart, he could say such a thing, that was a talent! People who have not read more than a dozen books may not be able to recognize these words when they are written and placed in front of him.

How could such a talent embark on the road of rebellion? What's going on? Could it be that he is a spy planted by the Song people in Guangyuan City?

But if it weren't for the Song spy...... Li Changjie shook his head, if this person can't be used by His Majesty, then he can't show mercy to his subordinates.

The city guards outside tried hard to persuade the people to lay down their arms, but Li Changjie did not have the patience. He didn't have time to spend any longer, and the Song army, which heard the unusual movement in the city, had already begun to gradually approach Guangyuan City.

After thinking about it, Li Changjie did not hesitate any longer. Ordered the archers to shoot arrows at the man who had just shouted, and after a volley, he himself wanted to see the man die.

The archer officer swallowed his spit and said, "But the big handsome...... If you fire an arrow like this, you will injure the people by mistake......"

"Do you still think they are the people?" Li Changjie frowned and said: "If they say the opposite, then they are anti-thieves!" Do it! ”

The archer officer gritted his teeth, was ruthless, stomped his feet, and waved his big hand, and the rain of arrows in the sky suddenly fell from the arrow tower.

Ruan Duyun no longer sees himself as a human being, he regards all the people in this world as beasts, as his own kind.

The advantage of this is that it is easy to conclude that the other party will kill you. So when Ruan Duyun saw that the archers on the city tower had moved, he immediately shrank into the crowd.

Puff puff......

It was the muffled sound of sharp feathered arrows entering the human body, and the people had no shields, and the only ones who could defend themselves against the arrows were their own.

The people standing in the first row didn't react at all, and when they began to cry out in pain, the second and third arrows fell on them one after another.

In the end, they were not professional soldiers, but just a group of rabble, and the people suddenly fell into a state of panic.

Inside the Shuaifu, Li Changjie, who was standing in the attic, sighed.

This kind of thing happens, and no one wants it to happen. But there is really no way for him, if he solves the problem in the city as soon as possible, the Song army outside the city will not be able to deal with it.

If you want to deal with the Song army outside the city, the riot in the city can't be treated as if it didn't happen......

In the dilemma, Li Changjie, as a person with vicious means, naturally wants to pick a soft persimmon and pinch it and solve one of them first.

"Run!"

"I'm sorry! I don't want to rebel anymore! Don't kill me! Oops......"

"I was wrong, I was wrong......"

"Officers and soldiers, go to death! Don't be afraid, fellow citizens, they ...... Belch! ”

After three volleys of fire from the archers, the infantry, who had retreated at the mouth of the alley, began to charge. A death order has been issued from above, and we must do whatever it takes to resolve the rebellion in front of us in the fastest possible time.

Therefore, they had no other way, and the knife in their hands that should have been cut at the enemy ended up on their own people.

Ruan Duyun was hit by an arrow in the shoulder, but fortunately he ran fast and did not lose his life.

Confronting the officers and soldiers head-on was really a choice he would only make if he lost his mind, Ruan Duyun gritted his teeth, racked his brains and began to think about what to do next.

The only way to defeat the officers and soldiers at the moment is to find someone who can match them.

But in such a short period of time, where are you going to find someone? The Song army outside the city may be able to help, but will they really help? There is one thing to say, every stroke in that letter, Ruan Duyun didn't believe it.

But now there is no other way out, Ruan Duyun gritted his teeth and said, "Go to the north gate!" Go and grab the north of the city, open the north gate, and welcome the Song army into the city! ”

"What?" Suddenly, some people began to question: "If the Song army enters the city to slaughter, how can we deal with ourselves?" ”

"Is there any other option? Either they were slaughtered by officers and soldiers, and they died without a life. Either they were slaughtered by the Song army, but didn't they promise that they wouldn't hurt the people? Now we can only believe in them, this is our only chance of survival! ”

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