When Li Tianyang and them came back, it was just dawn, and there was a white snow in the camp, and there were miserable white patches everywhere, which were the paper flowers made of the rice paper on the camp and the paper money spread on the ground.

The camp was also solemn, even if Li Tianyang returned and brought a large number of people into the camp, there were fewer onlookers, except for Yumo and Gan Dabiao, who brought some teenagers over to maintain order.

Yumo and the others each wore a white hexagram on their bodies, and when Li Tianyang them entered the camp, even every teenager who entered the camp immediately got a white hexagram of their own, including Li Tianyang.

"Is there enough spare room in the camp?" Li Tianyang was wearing a white hexagram while asking Yumo, who helped him sort out his clothes.

It seems that Yumo and they haven't had a good time in the past two days, everyone's eyes are red, and their eyeballs are covered with fine bloodshots: "After you left, we took people to work overtime to build a few shanties outside the camp, in addition to being specially used to imprison this group of pirates, there are also preparations for the families of these pirates." ”

"In the past few days, these pirates haven't made any noise?"

"They don't want to make trouble, the problem is that all the guys in the camp want to find their business!" Yumo glanced at the teenagers around him with tired eyes, and replied helplessly: "If it weren't for me, Da Biao, Yuyan and a few of them taking turns guarding these pirates every day, and they didn't even dare to go away after eating, I really don't know what would happen." ”

"Let's gather and let's have a good talk together." Li Tianyang was tired, but he couldn't rest.

"Then are these family members going to be locked up first?" Gan Dabiao pointed to the large group of people behind Li Tianyang and them, nervously watching around.

"It's okay, just let them listen to it."

The drums of the assembly were slowly beaten, and although the teenagers were absent-minded, the long-term training still allowed them to come to the drum platform from various posts when they heard the drums. Coincidentally, the dojo that Yumo and they prepared for several sacrificed teenagers is also here, and there are no Taoist priests and monks in the camp, so there are only a few people who have a good relationship with the sacrificed teenagers who are guarding the spirits of the leader, and even Wu Jie, who has just returned, has appeared among them.

When the last teenager returned to the team, they lined up neatly in a battle formation, standing silently on the cement playground under the drum platform, and next to them, there was a group of old and young women and children who had not yet put down their luggage and were waiting for Li Tianyang to make further arrangements.

"My brothers and sisters, these days have been a difficult time for everyone, including me. Three days ago, we lost five of our friends who grew up and struggled together...... Close relatives! A moment ago, we were all playing, fighting, and working together, but in the blink of an eye, we were already separated forever, and they had become a cold corpse, and they could only live in the hearts of all of us forever. Li Tianyang's hoarse voice because of exhaustion was transmitted to the ears of everyone below in a heavy and solemn manner, standing on the drum platform, gently caressing the five coffins.

"At the beginning, we made a vow together in our hometown together, vowing to build a wonderful life that belongs to us, but everyone may not have thought that the price of this life is so heavy, even more than we can bear!"

"Is it worth it?" Li Tianyang raised a question to the crowd below, and also asked himself: "Everyone may be thinking about this question in their hearts!" I wondered if the sacrifice was worth it. In the past two days, I left the camp with the words that I wanted to cut down the grass and eradicate the roots, but in fact I was just avoiding the reproach in my heart, until I saw this group of people. ”

Li Tianyang pointed to the crowd on the side, it was the family members of the group of pirates brought by Li Tianyang, and the teenagers followed Li Tianyang's gaze and looked at this group of uprooted and insecure villagers. Some of them were sad and sad, and the corners of their eyes were full of tears; Some people are emaciated in body and mind, like a walking corpse, like a stake; Some people were nervous and timid, hiding in the crowd and shivering, quietly observing everything around them; Others stared at this group of well-trained teenagers with a hateful gaze.

Although their demeanors are different, they can't hide the fact that at this moment, they are just a group of rootless duckweed, pitiful people like beggars.

"Let's take a good look, this is the family of these pirates, and it is also the motivation for them to fight for it! The poor must have something to hate, but how can the hateful not have something to be pitiful? Pirates to outsiders, they may be very ferocious, very vicious, but for these people, they are just a father, son and husband, if there are no pirates born and died outside, then these people in front of everyone, I am afraid that they have already been a handful of loess, dissipated in the earth. ”

"I don't shy away from saying that with my ability to raise Li Tianyang, it is not easy to want a rich life and an official life, but it is not impossible. However, in the end, I embarked on such a road of no return, and even brought everyone, everyone who trusted me so much, into such an abyss, what is the picture? ”

"Is it really money?? As long as I am willing to run Qixintang well, at least ten years later, I dare not say that the rich are rival the country, but I will definitely be rich! ”

"Is it power?? Although the imperial examination is difficult and difficult to climb to the sky, as long as I Li Tianyang works hard, although I dare not say that I am a Jinshi, I am still sure that I have a background in a scholar. ”

"What's that for? I told you a reason, saying that I want a different and wonderful life! Now I admit in front of everyone that I lied!! ”

The teenagers below, when they heard this, suddenly surged with emotion and discussions, and some even looked at Li Tianyang, the leader and leader, like strangers. Everyone willingly followed Li Tianyang to this place of poor mountains and bad waters, and black smoke and miasma, wasn't it all because of the beautiful and wonderful future promised by Li Tianyang? Now, in front of everyone, he said that he had lied and deceived everyone, how could he not discourage everyone and even resent.

It's just that when I saw Li Tianyang standing on the stage, looking at everyone with sincere eyes, and the long-term trust in him, everyone gradually stopped thinking and wanted to listen to his explanation.

"One night eleven years ago, all of a sudden, the world was spinning, and everyone remembers it. Since then, our village is no longer peaceful, every day there are villagers who have left their hometowns and dragged their children to our village, and many of the people present also came to our village at that time and made friends with us! As you may remember, in addition to you, there are many, many other villagers who were driven out of the village by our father and them. ”

"Do you remember how my sister Pu Jia, before she was adopted by our family, came to the village? At that time, whenever someone defected to our village, but was driven away by my father, I took Brother Jie and Da Biao to watch this scene happen, just to let everyone clearly understand the darkness of this era and helplessness. ”

"Why can't my father tolerate all of you, but not those fellow flesh and blood folks? The reality is always so cruel, but the original reason is only because there is not enough food in the village, compared with those other villagers, all of you have an extra father with strong labor, and those people are just a group of old and weak women and children like these villagers now!! ”

"All of you have survived until now, thanks to my father and them, although they took in your family, and more of them also took a fancy to the labor of your fathers, but what you should hate more is those corrupt and inactive officials!! It is those gentry landlords and unscrupulous merchants who take advantage of the fire to rob and make a fortune!! Have you ever thought that most of the grain you have worked so hard to harvest every season will be handed over to the government as a tax, and every year, you will have to perform all kinds of hardships and dangerous conscription? ”

"But why is it that when everyone needs help, these governments don't even provide the least relief to the victims and help the wounded!! There are even officials who are entangled in the old wealth of landlords and unscrupulous businessmen who take the opportunity to raise prices, lend usury, and buy the land in everyone's hands at a low price. This is also the reason why everyone finally left their homes and came to our village alone! ”

"Over the years, I have been telling you a truth, while a person enjoys rights, he must also fulfill the obligations corresponding to these rights. But why do these officials, landlords, and gentry have so many rights, but they don't even fulfill their basic obligations!! Why!! ”

The more Li Tianyang spoke, the more excited he became, and when he got here, he even shouted out every word, making his whole person look a little hideous. However, the effect is significant, Li Tianyang's imperceptible education over the years is undoubtedly reflected at this moment, everyone thinks of the experience of these years, who doesn't know the same empathy as Li Tianyang. Think about the government's door-to-door work every quarter every year to urge grain and send labor, and then think about the behavior and behavior of these bureaucrats all along, they are no longer a group of fools, they no longer believe in nonsense such as 'the whole world is not the king's land', and they have long held their anger at the endless oppression of the government.

"That's why I want to take you out of that unfair world, come here, and create a new world of our own, written by us. Here, I sincerely invite you to accompany me to build this world, I don't know if you are still willing? When Li Tianyang said this, he bowed deeply to everyone and didn't get up for a long time.

"Willing to !!" The neat shouts resounded in the sky, and the depression of many days finally showed a trace of vitality in this shout.

"Look at these folks, they are actually just like all of us, they are just a group of poor worms who have been oppressed and want to survive during this time!! Do you all really have the heart to hate such a group of pirates who want these relatives to survive? If it were you, what would you do in such a situation? ”

With the previous words that resonated with everyone, now that Li Tianyang said something more, everyone couldn't help but fall into deep thought.

"Therefore, I hope that everyone will think about it, since we have all chosen such a path, then in the future, the sacrifices that we all have to make will also be unprecedented. Haven't you thought that behind those people, there are also families that need to be taken care of by them? ”

"If we act in this way, what difference will we have from the bureaucrats and gentry, and what fairness will there be in the new world we want to build???

At this point, Li Tianyang didn't know what he was talking about, and silently walked off the drum platform, leaving only a group of pensive teenagers, and the old and weak women and children who were wandering opposite them.

(End of chapter)