September in the Hebei Plain is the time when the autumn tiger is raging, and the tragic situation after the flood in Anhui is different, Hebei has not suffered, the farmer has successfully harvested, the autumn field is full of piles of wheat straw, sorghum stalks, and some other crop straw or something. These are all things that are fueled by the peasants' homes, so they naturally have to be well prepared.

This year's harvest in Hebei is not good or bad, an ordinary year. Life is so-so and can always go on. According to the practice in the countryside, at this time of year, there must be some celebration or something. And this year, there seems to be something more attractive to the people in the countryside of Nangong County, Xingtai, Hebei Province.

Although most of the crops have been harvested, the farm work will have to continue for a long time. Now there is no need to go to the field, most of the villagers work in the village, and Hejia Village is the same as on weekdays, and there are people early. But today people have no intention of working seriously. Although they were doing something in their hands, most of them ran out into the street and kept looking at the entrance of the village. A cyan flag was planted on the side of the road at the entrance of the village, with a white round bottom in the middle of the flag, and the word "Pang" in black was written on it. This flag was planted alone on the side of the road at the entrance of the village, but no one touched it.

The sun was slowly rising, and suddenly someone at the entrance of the village shouted, "The great king is here!" The voice seemed to explode a thunderclap, and everyone put down their work and ran towards the entrance of the village.

In the distance, a dozen knights and more than thirty horses galloped along the dirt road towards Hejia Village. The leader of the group held a large flag, a cyan flag, with a white round bottom in the middle, and a big "Pang" character was written. Except for the size, it is exactly the same as the flag outside Hejia Village.

The horse team came quickly, and the villagers did not wait long before the horse team arrived at the entrance of the village. The children had already surrounded them happily, and they looked at Pang Zi who was sitting high on the horse with their little faces raised, and shouted excitedly: "Huge king! Huge King! ”

Pang Zi laughed, took out a handful of copper coins and threw them to the side. The children shouted and pounced to pick up the money, and the road ahead was unobstructed. Pang Ziyi urged the horse and continued to move forward with the horse team. When he passed by the flag at the entrance of the village, Pang Zi picked up the flag and laughed.

The villagers looked at Pang Zi's appearance, and many of the young people were already eager to try. I saw Pang Zi finish laughing. Only then did he shout loudly: "Fellow villagers, when I came here a few days ago, I Pang Zi said that if anyone thinks that I Pang Zi should not take care of this village, when I come, come to see me with a flag." How to compare, let the man draw a line. If no one is looking for me, then I'm going to have to compete with everyone. ”

"Huge King, what do you want to compare?" There were already young villagers who couldn't help but shout.

"That's it, more than what, hurry up."

Pang Zi looked at the young villagers one by one, who were already impatient, but deliberately did not rush to speak, he looked around with a slight frown. Seeing that no one around is really hostile to you. Pang Zi suddenly laughed, "I, Pang Zi, am a wine bag and rice bag, let's eat meat and drink wine." ”

As soon as these words came out, the villagers were already thunderous with joy, especially the young villagers, who were even more impatient to start moving tables outside and preparing dishes and chopsticks.

Pang Zi waved his hand, and his men unloaded the wine and meat from the pack horse to eat. There are chicken, duck and fish, but they are mainly pork and chicken, as well as Nangong smoked vegetables that have been prepared. The white-flour steamed buns are packed with more than a dozen large cloth bags, all of which are freshly steamed in the morning, although they are no longer steaming, they are still fresh. There will be no shortage of wine. The village has already been boiled with water, and as soon as these meat and vegetable steamed buns are re-basketed, they are immediately full of aroma.

Although it was claimed to be a competition, Pang Zi did not dare to lose any courtesy. The elders of the village were invited to their seats. Drink and meat and drink first in front of them. Pang Zi toasted the old men first, and then returned to the table where the young people gathered when they moved their chopsticks. It's a long and large table made up of a dozen tables. Hejia Village is not large, that is, it has a population of more than 50 households. One hundred and ten young men. Such a large table was also seated. Everyone saw Pang Zi coming over, and got up one after another, "Huge King, we have to compete with you." The first one laughed.

"Let the horses come!" Pang Zi said with a smile. And they sat down at the table and began to eat. The wine was drunk first, and everyone held steamed buns in their left hands and chopsticks in their right hands, and kept eating. Where have the young people seen so much meat, smelling the meat, and already drooling. Seeing Pang Zi move the chopsticks, everyone immediately began to eat. Bowls of meat* were served and then eaten cleanly. The whole roast chicken comes up, and everyone can even get one in front of them. The big guy buried his head and ate it violently, but he couldn't eat it after only half a chicken. The vast majority of young people have never eaten so much meat in a single meal and swallowed so much oil and water. At this time, although the inside of the mouth is still very insufficient, the stomach already feels full. Although I still want to eat something, I can't stuff it.

Pang Zi doesn't have this problem, he eats steamed buns while eating meat. Two bowls of * meat went down to the stomach and ate half of the chicken. Then he brought the pancakes, put Nangong smoked vegetables, big meat, and chicken in the pancakes, poured a lot of bean paste into them, sprinkled shredded green onions, rolled the cakes into fist-sized rolls, and ate them when he took them. Eat it in a while. The large bowl was filled with red bean and millet porridge, which was hanging next to it at the beginning. At this time, Pang Zi brought it, and drank the porridge with a snort. Looking at the people at the same table again, there were a lot of unfinished meals left in front of them, and they all watched Pang Zi eat so freely in amazement.

Pang Zi smiled proudly: "It's just such a thing, I haven't let go of eating yet." A meal of three or five catties of meat, eat it without getting tired. Otherwise, where do you think I got my strength of a few hundred pounds from? ”

Whether the fat man has hundreds of catties of strength, the young people in Hejia Village don't know. But Pang Zi's amount of food can be seen in a real way. So everyone is more inclined to believe Pang Zi's words.

"Guys, is there anything you're not convinced?" Seeing the admiration in everyone's eyes, Pang Zi said while the iron was hot.

The young people of this ...... were not convinced, but everyone was juniors, and what they said didn't count.

The fat man knew this, and he laughed and said: "Actually, this is not a matter of whether you can call the shots, I don't collect food from everyone, and I don't let you pay me any money." I just want to tell everyone that if you encounter any difficulties in the future, you can just go to me directly. If you are not convinced, and think that any of you is better than me, then stand up and let's compare. It is not clear who is strong and who is weak. We're all men, let's have a good time! ”

Pang Zi didn't succeed in convincing the young man, but he didn't care. These days, I have encountered a lot of this kind of thing, from being anxious and dissatisfied at the beginning, to being able to deal with it calmly. Pang Zi felt that he had also improved a lot. After eating and drinking, Pang Zi always had to put down his words, and the object of this persuasion was those elders, "Fellow villagers, my Pang Zi is just a wine bag and rice bag, but I always want to give everyone strength." Now that I have opened a dart bureau, I will go to our Nangong County, and what I will go is the business of our Xingtai. If you don't dislike it and want to find something to do, go to me. ”

After saying this, Pang Zi didn't stay long. Turning over the horse with his subordinates, Pang Zi arched his hand towards everyone, "If the old and young masters have a place to use me, I will definitely not refuse." After speaking, Pang Zi turned the horse's head and roared away with his subordinates.

Although everyone has their own ideas, the top priority now is not to consider Pang Zi's words, but to hurry up and move the table full of wine and meat as much as possible home. The women in the house can't serve the table, and they are already in a hurry when they are waiting at home.

The horses galloped, and Pang Zi felt very happy. Not only was the refreshment after a big meal, but the envious and longing eyes of those villagers made Pang Zi feel that the meaning of his life had been realized to a large extent. People are born to be envied and jealous. This is one of Pang Zi's views. So he actually knew that he would not be able to catch up with Uncle Jing Tingbin in his life.

This is not something that can be directly explained in very clear words, if you have to say it forcibly, Pang Zi knows that Uncle Jing is a "serious person". And he is far from having the "rules" of Uncle Jing. Back then, whether it was someone who liked Uncle Jing or someone who didn't like Uncle Jing. Whether it is the landlords, the gentry, or the common people, they all think that what Uncle Jing did is "truth". It doesn't matter if you're a snake in front of you, or if you stick a knife in your back. But even those who oppose Uncle Jing actually don't dare to say that what Uncle Jing did is unreasonable.

Compared with Uncle Jing Tingbin, Pang Zi does not have such a reputation at all. In Nangong County, Pang Zi is famous for being a guy who likes to make friends. The direct result of this word-of-mouth is that Pang Zi's image has been greatly affected. And Pang Zi himself did not mean to imitate Uncle Jing Tingbinjing. Regarding the fact that he likes to make friends with the "lower three indiscriminate", Pang Zi doesn't feel that there is anything wrong at all.

The rebellion led by two uncles, Jing Tingbin and Zhao Sanduo, almost encouraged the bloody men from Xingtai to Shandong. After the failure of the uprising, Yuan Shikai led the Beiyang New Army to brutally suppress it. Those who dared to fight were either killed in battle or left their homeland elsewhere. All that was left was scared. Let them do something, these people think about it, where is the pride of the predecessors who have a bowl of wine in the life and death of their predecessors.

The predecessors of the past did not make a promise of life and death for the sake of that bowl of wine and that meal. What allows everyone to truly intersect is Uncle Jing's "morality". As the saying goes, an iron shoulder bears morality. Uncle Jing is that kind of person, he is almost jealous and hateful, and when he encounters things that are not moral, not in line with etiquette, Uncle Jing can always stand up. He is not upholding justice, but upholding morality.

Pang Zi is not this kind of person who can take on morality, and when Uncle Jing was alive, he was not less scolded. It stands to reason that Uncle Jing has passed away, Pang Zi should be able to develop freely, and no one can restrain Pang Zi anymore. But what makes Pang Zi himself strange is that what he wants to do most now is a person like Uncle Jing. is not to imitate Uncle Jing Tingbinjing, but to have that kind of "moral" life from the root.

Over the years, Pang Zi discovered one thing. I don't know why, but the way of the world has begun to change. In the past, foreign priests, wherever foreign goods arrived, there would definitely be chaos there. Uncle Jing, they have devoted their lives to the eradication of foreign religions, * foreign goods. It is to be able to restore traditional morality. But now, Chinese priests, foreign goods produced by the Chinese themselves began to appear constantly. Originally, when I saw those curvature and bent words, I knew that they were foreign goods. Now it's all Chinese characters, how do you know that they were made by fake foreign devils?

Pang Zi's theoretical and practical knowledge is very insufficient, and he doesn't know what is going on in this world. He just knew that the world was slowly but inexorably changing. The whole country has become impetuous, and the relationship between people is no longer based solely on "morality" as a criterion. A lot of things are constantly changing. In the eyes of Uncle Jing Tingbin, Pang Zi is already a deviant child. But in the face of such an overall change, Pang Zi's first thought was to hope that this society and the world could return to the road that Pang Zi was familiar with.

If you want this world to return to the path that the fat man wants, you have to have someone and a gun. Otherwise, before Pang Zi could achieve his ideals, he would be killed. Pang Zi is very clear about this. After Uncle Jing's death, the forces that had been suppressed in Xingtai surfaced one after another. Those guys who were originally ignored at all now also feel that they are a character, Pang Zi thinks that the current opponent is them, if he can't suppress these people, he will definitely not become the leader of Nangong County.

Even if it is in an unusual way, as long as it can regain the dominant position in Nangong County in the short term, Pang Zi does not care who he cooperates with or what means he uses. This is what Pang Zi thought before he met Chen Ke.

After meeting Chen Ke, more specifically, after receiving Chen Tianhua's help, Pang Zi found that suddenly, he had a lot of new chips that he could use. Chen Tianhua is committed to building a breeding farm. At that time, Wu Xingchen was still in Nangong County, and with him in charge, Pang Zi did not dare to oppose directly. That's how the feedlot got going.

There were a lot of twists and turns, but it was finally done. First the eggs, the duck eggs. Then there is chicken, duck meat, and after more than half a year, the piglets raised in the feedlot have grown to 100 catties. If it is according to ordinary pig breeding, such pigs can already be killed and eaten for meat. And Pang Zi did the same. Calling himself a "wine bag rice bag" is not Pang Zi's hobby. Now Pang Zike has no more means to buy off the surrounding villagers. Anyway, there is no investment in the farm, and if you spend money on these meats and eggs, you will need a lot of money. But if you take it out to do favors, it's very cheap. Pang Zi hopes that this life of drinking and meat all day long will attract those young people to join his team.

Hejia Village is not too far from Gaojiazhai where Pang Zi is located, and when I went, I brought a bunch of wine and meat, which took a long time. Pack light when you come back. In addition, Pang Zi, who took advantage of the strength of the wine and spent more than two hours riding back to Gaojiazhai, did not feel tired at all, and he was full of energy at this time. After turning over and dismounting, Pang Zi threw the reins to his subordinates waiting at the gate of his compound. Then he strode into the courtyard.

This courtyard has not changed much from when Chen Ke and Chen Tianhua came together, except that Pang Zi has actually given this courtyard to Chen Tianhua to live in, nothing else is different. Now Pang Zi is mainly active in the county seat, which is the most beautiful thing he thinks he has done in his life so far.

Four months ago, a month after Wu Xingchen left Xingtai, the farm that Chen Tianhua and Wu Xingchen had started together had been able to provide stable eggs and duck eggs. It was April, and it was about to be a day of scarcity. Pang Zi immediately summoned the landless poor men in the county seat of Nangong County and the surrounding places. There are probably more than 200 of these brothers. When Pang Zi got them to Gaojiazhai, he really felt that he had found the right person.

At first glance, these people are the kind of brothers who no longer want to have a future, and they are typical of being drunk today and drunk today. When everyone was beckoned to eat, everyone ate neither fast nor slow. There is no difference between drinking wine and eating meat and eating steamed buns. Although you can see the decadence in their eyes. From another point of view, these people also have a temperament that Pang Zi cares about very much. At best, it's a kind of bearing. What makes these people desperate is not the helplessness of life, not just the inability to live.

It must be said that it is the kind of desperation that arises from being abandoned by the mainstream. If in the eyes of many others, the setbacks suffered by these people are only temporary. But these people have a sense that they can no longer be accepted by the "right path". It is not so much that they are forced into this precarious life, but that these people have chosen to self-exile and want to face the end of their lives on this idle road.

Why these people have such an attitude, Pang Zi really can't understand. But Pang Zi knew he had found the person he needed. Facing everyone, Pang Zi asked, "Are you afraid of losing your head?" ”

These people below did not say that they were afraid, nor did they say that they were not afraid. Everyone asked, "Have you eaten enough?" ”

Pang Zi said with a smile: "As long as everyone is in the county seat, I want to scare and scare the government." I don't know if everyone is afraid. ”

"Afraid of what? Behead? Hit the board? Everyone laughed.

Pang Zi also laughed when he heard this, these idlers didn't mean to be afraid, "It may not be necessary to cut off the head, to be beaten by the board, and to be flailed." But what should be eaten and used by everyone, I will definitely not be less. And if you want to work with me in the future, you can do it. I don't lack it here. If you don't want to work, this meal won't be missing everyone. ”

"As long as we take care of the food, what are we afraid of? If you can't do it, can you still do it? "The idlers gave the bottom line of what they could do. And what Pang Zi needs is such a bottom line.

After some discussion, Pang Zi took more than 200 idlers to occupy the street in front of the county government in Nangong County. The idlers lined up and walked back and forth from one end of the street to the other. The team began to circle around the county yamen. If you just walk back and forth on the street, it only arouses the curiosity of the officials. This circled around the yamen, and the officials immediately panicked.

The county magistrate got the report and sent someone to inquire. When the idlers saw that a servant had come to question, they immediately became noisy, "What do you want to do?" Now that life can't go on, we want to rebel! ”

Hearing this, the officer's face instantly turned a little pale. "Dude, stop kidding." The officials tried to ease everyone's mood.

Pang Zi and the idlers had already discussed the matter, and when the officials said so, the idlers immediately shouted, "Life can't go on!" Rebellion is counted! ”

As he spoke, he took out all kinds of guys and surrounded the county government. When the official saw that something was wrong, he was so frightened that he rushed back to the yamen to report. And the idlers surrounded the county government tightly and began to coax.