Bury the Qing Dynasty

Chapter 93 Running towards a better day
Yang Daniu first went back and put on his clothes, and then called out his parents who had already fallen asleep. After Yang Daniu roughly repeated what the two yamen servants said, he left his parents to pack up their belongings, and Yang Daniu followed Two yamen servants went to inform other people in the village.

The homeland is hard to leave, and the prerequisite for the homeland is hard to leave is to be able to survive in this homeland and to be able to marry a daughter-in-law in this homeland.

Seeing that if we don't leave, our Tatar Qing officers and soldiers will come to slaughter villages and cities. Who is still talking about the difficulty of leaving our homeland at this time?
As for the so-called belongings... In fact, there is nothing to clean up.

Let alone Yang Daniu, including the entire Xiaoyangzhuang, the dozens of households have similar family backgrounds. The family with the best conditions is Yang Erwai at the head of the village. His family has a crowing rooster and two old hens who lay eggs. chicken.

The rest are basically the same as Yang Daniu's family, except for the little food that I don't know if it can last until the autumn harvest, and the rest are only some broken plates and bowls and the like.

Of course, if the small unicycles built by the farmers themselves out of wood are also counted as cars, then eight of the ten households in Xiaoyangzhuang have their own cars, and the cars are not burned. Oil, quite environmentally friendly.

When Dongfang gradually showed a pale belly, the two government servants who made do with Yang Daniu's house for a night's rest gathered all the farmers in Xiaoyangzhuang.

Two yamen servants stood in front of the crowd, and one of the yamen servants shouted loudly: "It doesn't matter whether you have cleaned up or not, you should leave quickly. If there is another day or two of delay, the Tartars may send officers and soldiers over."

"At that time, it will be different if the village is not slaughtered, but the little food in your hands will definitely be lost."

Another yamen servant also shouted loudly: "Hurry up, those who are old can't walk, and those who can't walk sit on a wheelbarrow and let the family push them. Those who are young can walk , those who lacked arms or legs, followed along obediently.”

"We take care of each other along the way. It takes hundreds of miles from our place to Shandong. If anyone fails to keep up, they may have to be left on the road."

"Think about the good life after going to Shandong. Not only can you get your own land, but you don't have to pay taxes to the government. The food grown by your own family is your own, and you can eat it with your belly open. Maybe those bachelors can still eat it. able to marry a daughter-in-law."

"Anyone who fails to keep up will be killed if his head is chopped off by the chasing tartar!"

One kind of farmers looked at the two yamen servants as if they were looking at fools.

People from Zhuangzi drive hundreds of miles together, so they will naturally take care of each other, so do you two need to remind them?
Besides, those of us peasant families are all working hard when we are young, so it is not a problem to rush on the road, but you two grandchildren of Eagle Claws, don't get tired and collapse on the way!
Just as the farmers in Xiaoyangzhuang were complaining about the two yamen servants in their hearts, one of the yamen servants shouted loudly: "Don't forget what I told you just now, the two of us will take care of you along the way, wait After arriving in Shandong, even if you don’t want to push us and us two yamen servants, then you have to testify for us two, proving that we have never bullied you.”

In fact, everyone has a steelyard in their hearts. How these two yamen servants usually treat the people of Xiaoyangzhuang, they don't need to say, the people of Xiaoyangzhuang know very well.

If you come to Xiaoyangzhuang to rely on a meal when collecting taxes, then there must be some, and you must have done this kind of thing without taking two sticks from someone's cornfield to go home.

However, as these two yamen servants said to Yang Daniu before, they came to Xiaoyangzhuang to collect taxes only to complete the task of apportionment by the government, not like some yamen servants who dug graves and knocked on widows' doors on weekdays. .

Therefore, after listening to the demands of the two yamen servants, the farmers in Xiaoyangzhuang shouted, "We will testify for you!"

"I will definitely recommend you to be government servants, but you have to be the same as before in the future, and you can't harm us!"

"We took care of each other along the way!"

"..."

With the promise from the householders in Xiaoyangzhuang, the two yamen servants felt relieved. After they looked at each other, one of them shouted, "Let's go!"

Yang Daniu helped his father to help his half-blind old woman onto the wheelbarrow, spat in the palm of his hand again with a bah sound, rubbed his hands, pushed the wheelbarrow, and shouted: "Let's go! "

Along the way, like Xiaoyangzhuang, there are many people who fled together in the whole village, some like Xiaoyangzhuang are organized by yamen servants, and some are the households of the whole village to take care of each other.

In the eyes of these people, the wheels of the wheelbarrow could not stop rolling forward, and they were slowly leading their family towards a better life.

However, this good day is a bit far away.

From Qing County, where Yangzhuang was located, to Leling, which is now under the command of Meng Lianggu's rebel group, the straight-line distance is only more than 200 miles. When encountering water and surrounding water, the actual distance may be three or four hundred miles.

Fortunately, the two yamen servants did not break their promise, and they took good care of the households in Xiaoyangzhuang along the way, so the households in Xiaoyangzhuang did not fall behind. They just waited for the households in Xiaoyangzhuang to be busy. By the time they arrived at the Xuanhui River in the north of Leling, many people had already lost a lot of weight.

After resting for one night by the Xuanhui River, just after dawn the next day, the two yamen servants yelled, calling out all the farmers in Xiaoyangzhuang.

"Go on!"

"We have already crossed the Xuanhui River, and the Gejin River should be ahead. After crossing the Gejin River, we will be considered to have reached the border of Shandong."

"I told you in advance that when we arrive at the border of Shandong, I don't care whether you have relatives or no relatives in Shandong, you will honestly listen to their arrangements, and if you meet someone who serves porridge, I will give I'll line up, don't f*cking swarm up."

After repeatedly explaining to the people of Xiaoyangzhuang several times, the two yamen servants continued on their way with a kind of farmers in Xiaoyangzhuang.

It's just that when the two yamen servants brought the people of Xiaoyangzhuang to the Gejin River, they found that what they saw seemed to be different from what they had imagined.

What appeared in front of the two yamen servants and the householders in Xiaoyangzhuang was a well-organized barracks. A large flag with red characters was flying in the middle of the barracks. A large number of soldiers shuttled through it. Nearly a hundred tents were scattered around the barracks. , but the porridge shed that should have been in the imagination is nowhere to be seen.

The two yamen servants were a little confused.

Could it be that Shandong is not accepting the people as in the legend at all, but is planning to drive the people back?
If Shandong really plans to drive the people back to Zhili, wouldn't the people in Zhili have to face the butcher knife of our Qing dynasty?

But when the two government servants looked at each other, and the householders in Xiaoyangzhuang looked confused, a few men in armor came out of a tent in front of the barracks, and it was unknown whether they were soldiers or generals.

The two yamen servants continued to be confused, and the people in Xiaoyangzhuang continued to look at each other in blank dismay.

No one could figure out what was going on with this extremely weird scene in front of them.

And while the two yamen servants and the farmers in Xiaoyangzhuang were still in a daze, these people who didn't know whether they were soldiers or generals had already walked directly to the farmers in Xiaoyangzhuang.

One of them looked at the people in Xiaoyangzhuang and said with a smile: "The folks are the people who escaped from Zhili, right? My surname is Li, and my name is Li Ergou. I am the commander of the first division, regiment and battalion of the Meng Lianggu Rebel Army. I don't know the folks. Among them, is there a leader?"

The name Li Ergou quickly shortened the distance between the common people and Li Ergou, the "officer and soldier".

All the householders in Xiaoyangzhuang set their sights on the two yamen servants.

The two yamen servants resisted the numbness of their scalp and came to Li Ergou, nodded and bowed their heads and said, "I have seen Jun Ye."

Li Ergou sized up the two yamen servants, and suddenly gestured to the soldiers behind him, then frowned and asked, "Are you government yamen servants?"

The two yamen servants suddenly turned pale with shock, one of them shouted: "No!", while the other responded in a low voice: "Yes!"

Li Ergou frowned even tighter, and asked in a deep voice, "Is it, or isn't it?"

The two yamen servants looked at each other, and one of them nodded and bowed his head and replied: "Returning to Lord Jun, we used to serve as yamen servants for the Tazi government, but we have already changed our ways, and we have never harmed the people. If you don’t believe me, ask the people in Xiaoyangzhuang, they can testify for the two of us.”

Then Li Ergou hummed, with a rather smug smile on his face: "I tell you, I used to work as a government servant for the Tazi government. Don't look at you wearing the clothes of ordinary people, but the smell on your body The smell, I can smell it from far away!"

The two yamen servants were stunned.

What's the matter, you, Li Ergou, still think it's an honor to serve as a government servant for the Tartars, don't you?
Didn't I see that the old men were ashamed and threw away the dog skin on their bodies?

Looking at the strange catalogs of these two yamen servants, the smile on Li Ergou's face suddenly froze, and after a cold snort, he looked at the people in Xiaoyangzhuang and said, "No, that's all in the past. Well, I, Li Ergou, have been fighting against the Qing Dynasty since Ningyang County."

After forcefully defending himself, Li Ergou went on to say to the people: "Have the folks seen those tents? They will line up later, and I will arrange for someone to lead the big guys to the tents." Bian Deng, uh, yes, register!"

"The purpose of the registration is very simple. It is to record where the big guy comes from, how many people are in the family, and whether anyone knows any crafts such as blacksmithing or carpentry, so that the government can arrange work for the big guy."

"In addition, after the registration is completed, someone will lead the big guys to take a bath. Our big head has already prepared new clothes for the big guys. The original clothes have to be washed and dried after drying. Give it back to you guys."

"Also, when we have meals in the military camp, we will also prepare a portion for the big guy. The meal may not be very good, it is just ordinary food. The big guy fills his stomach first, and waits for the government to arrange for the big guy. Once you have a job, you get your wages, and you can eat good food!"

After thinking about it, Li Ergou added another sentence: "You have to listen to the arrangement, honestly, if you have any opinions, you can ask us, but you can't make trouble. If anyone dares to make trouble, we will drive him back! "

Hearing what Li Ergou said, Yang Daniu and the others were shocked, and quickly lined up under the command of several soldiers, and then followed those soldiers to the tent.

After entering the first tent, he saw a table in the tent, and a scribe was sitting behind the table.

The clerk looked at Yang Daniu carefully, and asked, "Name? When was he born? What family? Where was his hometown?"

Yang Daniu's heart tightened, and he answered honestly: "Yang Daniu, I am 20 years old this year, and Qian Deaf was born in 31 years. I, I am Han, and my hometown is Xiaoyangzhuang, Qing County."

While Yang Daniu was answering, the scribe was writing vigorously, and when Yang Daniu finished answering, the scribe picked up a piece of paper that had already been written in his hand, and said to Yang Erniu: "You take this, it is your identity certificate , don't lose it."

"When you settle down, you have to bring your family's ID to the farmers' association where you live. Someone from the farmers' association will take you to the government to register and exchange them for household registration books."

"With the household registration booklet, you can be allocated your own land. When you marry a wife and have a baby, your baby's name will also be registered on the booklet, and then you can go to school."

Yang Daniu took the paper carefully.

Paper is light, yet heavy.

(End of this chapter)