Big businessman and little fisherman

Chapter 207 Dreaming Back (4)

Lu Yange curled up in his uncle's arms, sobbing softly, calling for his parents in a low voice.

She didn't know what happened to her father, she didn't know what the fire had caused the manor to burn down, and she didn't know if the little rabbit she raised in the yard had escaped.

In this dark night, she no longer has these people who love her by her side.

She didn't dare to cry, and she didn't dare to cry out for pain.

Only my uncle, with his healthy arms around her, led Brother Xiao Hu, walking with deep feet and shallow feet.

In spring, the mountains are foggy.

Chen Erzhu was missing an arm, and it was not easy to walk this mountain road with two children.

I can't light a torch to light a lantern yet, for fear of attracting thieves.

At dawn, Lu Yange fell into a coma, and Chen Xiaohu couldn't move anymore.

"Father, my legs hurt, my feet hurt, my hands hurt, my arms hurt, and my face hurts too."

Walking on the mountain road will definitely hurt your legs and feet.The pain in the hands and face was scratched by the bushes, thorns and grass leaves.

Even though Chen Erzhu walked in front to open the way for his son, he still couldn't stop some bouncing branches from hitting the little tiger's body behind him.

"You carry your bag on your back."

Chen Erzhu supported his knees with one hand, panted for a while, and turned the sleeping Lu Yange up, biting one end of the cloth bag with his teeth, and tied Lu Yange tightly to his chest again.

"Come on, come up, Dad will carry you."

Lu Yange was hugging his chest, while Chen Erzhu left his back for his son.

Chen Xiaohu shook his head: "Father doesn't need it, I will go by myself."

Chen Erzhu lowered his face: "Come up."

It was not until the afternoon of the second day that Chen Erzhu took the two children over the rolling mountains and entered the boundary of Nanyang County.

Behind him, on the other side of the mountain, the fire in Lujiazhuang has been extinguished, only sporadic carbon fires crackling in the sun.Occasionally, there was a bang, and the moment the wall collapsed, black smoke and dust flew up like a butterfly, circling and shuttling in the morning light, and slowly stopped.

The gate of Dongyang County.

There were more than a dozen idlers who read the notice, and most of them stood on tiptoe, just listening to the excitement, and didn't know the large characters on it.

I only heard some scholars shaking their heads and chewing on the words. They didn't understand half of the words, but it didn't prevent them from pondering every word.

There was also an exclamation that could barely understand: "Lujiazhuang colluded with bandits?"

"what?"

People passing by who didn't even want to look at it heard that Lujiazhuang was robbed, and immediately surrounded them.

"Speaking of the owner of the Lu family, Lu Dashan colluded with bandits?"

"Fart, how could Lu Dashan collude with bandits?"

"Why not? I heard that the government suppressed the bandits last night and captured the bandits from Qingfengzhai at Lu Dashan's house on the spot."

"What about Master Lu? Are you hurt?"

"Dead... I heard that the owner of Lu Da Zhuang and the bandits colluded to prevent the officers and soldiers from entering the village to search, so he set himself on fire... More than 20 corpses were found in the village... and those bandits were burned to death together .”

"Then, isn't the Lu family dead forever?"

"No..." Those who knew lowered their voices: "I heard that Chen Shidun was released from labor and ran away. His wife was arrested, and the wife of Zhuang Zhu returned to her mother's house with her two sons."

Someone immediately clasped his hands together and said happily: "That's really blessed by God, with both sons here, this incense will never be broken!"

"Even if it can't be broken, it can't be cured. Colluding with bandits is a crime of beheading."

Suddenly, the people around became silent.

The Lu family does good deeds, and there are very few people in Dongyang County who have not received the favor of his family.

In Dongyang City, from the yamen to the soldiers guarding the city gates, to the shopkeepers in the city, to the shopkeepers, and even the fishing boats in the river, almost most of them have had the help of the Lu family.

There are also those farmers outside Dongyang City, those who have fields, those who are close to the Lu family's fields, every year they divert water to irrigate the canals, and the Lu family let these people water first, and never bully others because of their large land.

Those who don't have land, rent and plant the land of the Lu family, and only pay three cents of the rent a year, while the tenants of other families pay four cents.

Not to mention that the annual income is not good, and the Lu family also reduced the rent.

When there was no harvest due to severe drought and flood, the Lu family not only waived rent, but also borrowed grain.

Because of the Lu family, there is no one in Dongyang County who is poor and throws their soil away from home to sell their sons and daughters because of the famine.

When they heard the news that the Lu family colluded with bandits and Lu Dashan died unexpectedly, most people in Dongyang County who had been favored by the Lu family couldn't believe it. They spontaneously went to the direction of the Lu family together in twos and threes.

Even if the Zhuangzi of the Lu family was burned, they would take a closer look and burn two pieces of paper money, which would be considered their best effort.

There are also those who are not right-minded, thinking that the owner of Lu Dazhuang is dead, so the borrowed money and food will not have to be repaid.

I can't help but regret it, I knew it would be better to borrow more.

Before everyone approached Lujiazhuang, they were stopped by officers and soldiers.

The dense army of officers and soldiers surrounded Lujiazhuang with three floors and three floors outside. I saw carts coming out from the direction of Lujiazhuang. The carts were piled with sacks, and the wheels were sunk in deep car marks on the mud. .

The people who were stopped outside looked up at the road leading to the county road. Hundreds of carriages were lined up one by one.

"Isn't that the food of the Lu family? Where is it going to be transported?"

"Hush..." He immediately lowered his voice to remind the people around him, "Don't talk nonsense."

Where can this grain be transported, it is naturally confiscated by the government.

Not far from Dongyang County, on the mountain near Nanyang County, there is only one Qingfeng Village, about [-] miles away from Dongyang County.

There are less than 200 people in Qingfeng Village, most of them are elderly, weak, women and children.

It's more like a village than a stockade, most of them have the same surname, and more than a dozen families live in a mountain depression.

They make a living by hunting and selling mountain products.

To say that they are a den of bandits is somewhat flattering them.

It's just a nonsense made up by the local government to suppress bandits.

In fact, everyone knows that Qingfengzhai is far from the real bandits.

Maybe among these spectators, there are relatives of that family, such as nephews, cousins, and clan members who are from Qingfengzhai.

What are you talking about, the owner of Lu Da Zhuang and the bandits colluded.

This is to deceive those fools.

Zhuangzi burned and people died, but the food was still there, and the government took over and transported it away so quickly.

When the two young masters of the Lu family come back, can the food be returned to the Lu family?

The ghost knows where this bandit came from, but no one has seen it, and the government has taken advantage of it anyway.

It took two days and two nights to transport the grain of the Lu family. Thousands of officers and soldiers took turns to carry it, before the food was all transported before the rain.

On the third day, news came from Nanyang County.

Lu Dashan's daughter-in-law came back to attend the funeral with her two sons. When she passed by Qingfeng Village, she was kidnapped by Chen Da, the head of Qingfeng Village.

The mother and son of the Lu family, together with the uncle of the Qiu family who escorted them back to the funeral, the second master of the Qiu family, and the third young master of the family were all buried in Qingfengzhai.

In Nanyang County now, only Second Grandma Qiu, two young masters and a minor girl are left.

The next day, the government raised troops and wiped out Qingfeng Village.

Some people also said that Song Dazhang of Qingfeng Village ran away overnight with a group of young and strong men, and those who died were old and weak women and children who had no strength to restrain chickens.

As for Dongyang County and Nanyang County, there is no more banditry.

(End of this chapter)