stubborn thief

Chapter 55
The coffin maker didn't cry, just couldn't believe it.

After making a coffin all his life, this craft was finally used on his son.

At dusk, Du Laowu with a horse face was called back from Laomiaozhuang by Cao Yao.

He collected three handfuls of millet from the coffin maker, lit the oil lamp and was so busy that he didn't eat dinner, and tried his best to clean up the body of the young man in his early twenties with limited materials.

Liu Chengzong was not impressed by this young man, he only remembered that he had lowered his head and asked in a soft voice about his experience as a soldier, saying that he did not want to be a coffin maker.

But he was not cowardly, on the contrary, he valued the land more than life, and finally died of bravery.

The refugees from the county government office came in handy, those who played suona, those who ordered to read graves, and those who wrote letters all found jobs.

The elderly in the clan pulled out the Tibetan ice reserved for themselves from the mountain cellar, and put it under the mourning hall and covered it with a quilt.

The cries overwhelmed the clan's uncertain future, and Liu Chengzong felt impatient with this scene, so he changed into tattered clothes and played lanterns and went to the North Mountain Wilderness.

The lights flickered, no one was around, corpses were everywhere, and the wind was cold and blood was cold.

The palm of the hand is moistened and then astringent, time and time again, the wrist-relieving knives range from sharp to blunt, one after another.

Until panting, dragged the last headless body into the pit, and walked to the river outside the mountain with muddy feet.

The moonlight on the ground made him want to cry for no reason.

Self-blame, aggrieved.

In order to support fifty mouths, and to make life better, he spent all his wealth to buy land.

I bought it and took care of it with [-] more mouths, and it also attracted thieves.

The clansmen have worked so hard to cultivate the land, and they are all blind in less than half a day.

The thieves didn't know them and had no grievances or hatred, and they didn't even have the basic skills to use weapons. They were ordinary people who couldn't be more ordinary.

But he had to kill a corpse all over the place, and his head would be picked off when he died.

In another memory, everything can't be used for reference, even if you know more, it's useless.

What kind of world is this?
The Black Dragon Mountain at night was more frightening than ever, and Guo Zashi's voice trembled when he called out to him all over the valley.

The butcher dared to bring clean clothes.

Liu Chengzong said nothing, washed himself in the river shallow to his wrists, put on his clothes and went back to sleep.

In the next two days, Liu En, the horse householder, went to the county government and reported that he did not come back, which made people wonder if another clan member died outside the Heilong Mountain.

Liu Chengzu was too busy to touch the ground. After his first battle, the township soldiers were very polarized.

Some don't want to fight anymore, some train harder than usual, and some demand daily drills.

The ground was broken anyway, and they had a lot of time.

Mr. Liu said that he was resting, but in fact he couldn't rest. First, a tenant was on the cusp of a bull's horn. Seeing that he couldn't pay the tenant rent, the whole family hung on the beams and hanged to death at night.

Later, the clan members ran away again, and six families escaped the next night.

The clan members gathered at the ancestral hall to discuss, only to realize that there were actually two families who wanted to run away the day before. They met a ghost with claws and claws in the mountain pass, thinking that the ancestors would not let them run away, and they came back.

The description is amazing.

Liu Chengzong felt that it might not be his ancestors, but that he was bathing in the river naked.

The fields in Heilong Mountain have been seriously damaged, and the production of the fields that are not growing well will have to be reduced by another [-]%.

Not many were really cut off by the starving people, and when they were taken away, the scumbags were eaten anyway.

The most uncomfortable thing is that most of the fields were trampled when the hungry people who collected millet in the fields and ridges fled.

People are still staying here, just hoping that Liu En can bring back good news from the county government and give some money to help them escape.

Master Liu returned all the borrowed food, it was meaningless.

The crops in the fields are not enough for the seeds of summer tax and autumn grain, and the entire Heilong Mountain will run out of grain sooner or later.

This is also the reason why many tribesmen practiced assiduously in their descendants.

If I really want to talk about the advantages of this battle, there is indeed one.

The backbone of the hungry thieves was wiped out, and the young and strong followers were beaten to the ground, leaving a large number of weapons for Heilongshan.

Earlier, they didn't even have the swords and spears of the previous team. Now there are hundreds of spears and short spears, not to mention the thief's head.

The past two days in the mountains have been very chaotic. The mature and prudent clan elders and elders discussed and discussed in the ancestral hall, but no one could come up with a reliable solution.

Every household's rice jars and noodle jars will be empty before July, and the new grains in the fields will probably be enough to pay the summer tax, but the wheat planted before and after Bailu will have to be borrowed elsewhere.

But even if this thing doesn't die from drought, it will not be cooked until May next year.

Heilongshan not counting the escaped households, plus two teams of frontier troops and 500 households, more than [-] people.

Even if it is only based on the standard of starvation, one hundred stone grains are required every month.

Even with loan sharks, it would be difficult to find a large household around Yan'an who could borrow a thousand stone of grain from them.

There are not many choices left for them, either flee to Guanzhong, and if they stay here, they can only find ways to find food and survive.

Liu Chengzong removed the blue cloth mask on the thief's head at home and nailed pieces of his own armor.

The thief's head helmet is very good, and it was given to Guo Zhashi after washing.

The quality of the pieces of the cloth armor is also very good, but it is also a military coat with insufficient number of pieces.

Combined with Liu Chengzong's original cotton armor, there are only 380 pieces of armor.

Mother said to help him remove the cotton lining, but he did not agree, only washed the inner and outer layers of fabric.

It's easy to remove armor now, he's just afraid that in a few months, the weather will get colder, and the turbulent environment won't allow him to put the cotton lining again.

It was not until the fifth day that Liu En brought back the news of Fucheng.

Due to the presence of a large number of thieves in the territory, the city of Yan'an was under martial law for three days, and people were not allowed to enter the city until yesterday.

The outside of the city is already in chaos, and the hungry thieves from the south are robbing them everywhere, bringing great inspiration to the displaced people outside the city.

Many homeless people depended on the pitifully little clear soup and water in the porridge factory to hang their lives every day. This time, the porridge factory was closed for three days after closing the city gate, and dozens of people starved to death outside the North Gate alone.

There are also strong people, who all form gangs to loot everywhere, and there is also news among the refugees that people outside the city gang up to steal corpses.

The people living in the gates outside the city were so worried about the scourge that even children had to carry hatchets when they went out, and their families did not dare to bury them if they died of starvation.

As for the matter with the first level, there was no good news from the county government either.

The yamen are reluctant to leave the city, and they need to send the head to the city for inspection. The county government will report the matter to Xi'an, but the business road has not yet been opened, and it is still unknown whether they can give silver rewards.

"The county government doesn't have any money. The official's intention is that if the head is correct, what the county can do is to reward thirteen people for promotion to the first rank as usual."

Liu En sighed and said in the ancestral hall: "The fourth master and two scholars will give honor to the ninth-rank crown, and the other ten will be exempted from the righteous people Jingyi, and they will be exempted from handyman for five years; if they want to become officials, they will be given to Yanan Wei Three general flags and ten small flags are actually granted, and the county can handle them."

Liu Chengzong's expression was beyond description.

At this point, it is useless for the imperial court to give a title of outstanding youth.

Being an official is even more a joke. Can the general flag and small flag be called an official for the time being, let alone the shortage of Yan'an Guards, the officers and soldiers have no life to flee, they kill thieves and make meritorious deeds to enter?

They both clapped their hands and looked at Liu Xiangyu: "Da, in this situation, you will die early, and you will die early. We can't avoid it, so we have to pick one."

(End of this chapter)