The heavens start from Changjin Lake

The next day.

The sky shimmered.

For the farmers, this is still just an ordinary day. Early in the morning, the farmers who went to work in the field one after another pushed open the door and walked in the village. The younger generation of farmers have already shouldered the burden of the family, even though Farmers in the field have a bad harvest today. Even though miscellaneous taxes are levied this year, the landlords exploit them, and the land tax doubles, but their life will continue. Farmers rely on the land and rely on the land to survive.

Among the younger generation of farmers, some have higher status, which can be regarded as the rural form under the influence of the clan system. One family, one big family, the eldest son has a high status.

Most of the work in the village is in the form of a clan. Under the leadership and coordination of the old people, they help each other to farm together. Therefore, in the old villages, you can often see young and middle-aged people working in groups. Women stay at home to cook and bring food to the fields near noon.

It's a pity that the exorbitant taxes in the past two years have been too severe. The farmers in the village have no surplus food. For a certain livelihood, they turned the soil over and over again, just to find the wheat grains that fell in the field, and even organized people to Go dig wild vegetables in the mountains and find anything you can eat.

However, today, when the people who went to work in the fields walked into the village, they saw a few people tied to the big trees planted by the roadside of the village from a distance, and a row of pale, stiff corpses lying on the ground. When they took a closer look, they were suddenly taken aback.

The people who were tied to the tree turned out to be the landlord and housekeeper of the village, the wives and concubines were kneeling on the ground with their hands tied behind their backs, and the dozens of corpses lying on the open space in the middle of the road turned out to be hooligans who ran rampant in the village on weekdays and did all kinds of evil.

They also saw sacks of bulging sacks piled up on a cart, and a pot was set up next to the cart, and something was boiling in the pot, and the fire below was burning vigorously.

There is a table under the big tree. A young man is sitting in front of the table. He has washed his face, put on clean clothes, and has his hair combed. A bundle of guns is placed on the ground beside him. He also carried one on his back, and the butt of the gun had been dragged to the ground.

At this time, he was lying on the table and writing something seriously.

"Then, isn't that Xia Yuan!! He, why did he kill so many people!"

"He tied up the landlord!"

Seeing such a picture early in the morning, the farmers who went to work in the fields were stunned. Suddenly, the whole village exploded. Even the elderly people had not gotten up, and they were in a hurry with the support of their families. Come to the empty field in the middle of the village.

But in about 20 minutes, all the men, women and children of the village got up and gathered in the empty field, looking at the landlord tied to the tree and the corpse lying on the ground, everyone was stunned, and the elderly rubbed their hands. With cloudy eyes, he looked at the landlord hanging on the tree in disbelief, stretched out his fingers tremblingly, and mumbled his lips for a long time, but didn't say anything.

The mighty landlord was actually hung on a tree, his fangs turned into corpses lying stiffly on the ground, each one of them looked very pale.

The young man pointed at Xia Yuan who was sitting in front of the table, and said, "It's Sam Xia's son, it's him, but how is this possible, wasn't he a lunatic before?"

Xia Yuan's image is much different from the previous one. When he first came back, he was a lunatic with disheveled hair, ragged clothes, skinny and skinny from starvation. However, he actually tripped the landlord and even killed the The gangsters who do all kinds of evil in the village.

Unbelievable, really unbelievable.

Li Qingming, the eldest son of the Li family headed by the Li family, stared at him. He thought of the night when Xia Yuan approached him and said that he wanted to do a big thing. He said that he would trip up the landlord and take away the food and money from the landlord's house. At that time, he thought that this guy was daydreaming, but now Xia Yuan actually stumbled the landlord without saying a word, and he hung the landlord on the tree. He usually bullied men and women in the village and did all kinds of evil. People were also killed by him, lying in a row on the ground.

In the empty field, the villagers pointed at the landlord and the housekeeper who were tied to the tree and talked about it. They didn't understand what happened. What happened to the tree last night? It turned out to be like this when I woke up early in the morning.

When they were shocked, they let out a heavy breath in their hearts.

The landlord, the housekeeper, and their subordinates run rampant in the village. Almost every villager is oppressed and exploited by them. No one does not hate the landlord and the like, but hatred has no power to resist. Now someone has killed the ruffian, kidnapped Losing the landlord is naturally a sigh of relief to the villagers.

It's just that they were shocked that the person who vented their anger on them was Xia Yuan!

"Crazy Xia Yuan actually tied up the landlord!"

"He killed those people too? Isn't he crazy!?"

"It's unbelievable, how did he do this? The landlord has so many guns in his hands, but none of us big guys heard the gunshots last night. He didn't even fire a gun, so he solved them?"

Mr. Li of the Li family is highly respected in the village. After all, the Li family is a big family. One-third of the people in the village are surnamed Li, so they can be said to be able to speak. Li Qingming murmured in Mr. Li's ear for a while. With an inconceivable look on his face, he grabbed Li Qingming's hand and said, "I don't know what he went through outside, and he looked crazy after he came back. I didn't expect that it was all a disguise. Is this what he did for this day? . "

Mr. Li said again: "I'll ask on behalf of the big guy."

Li Qingming grabbed Grandpa's hand: "Grandpa."

Li Qingming's father said: "Don't worry, if Xia Yuan wants to harm a big guy, he won't wait until now, let alone a big landlord."

Among the crowd, the old farmer who was beaten in the field hunched over, looked at Xia Yuan sitting in front of the table, with an expression of disbelief on his face, "He"

The old farmer's son said, "Father, that's Sam Xia's son."

"I know, I know." The old farmer murmured, recalling what he said to himself in the field that day.

'That is the team of the people. He can bring happiness to the people. He will drive away the landlords and distribute their own land to the people. They are a group of people with ideals. They will build a new China and let everyone live a happy life. . '

The old farmer whispered: "Red Army. Red Army"

The old farmer's son asked again: "Father, what are you talking about, the Red Army?"

The old farmer looked at the landlord who was tied to the tree, and then at the corpse on the ground, and said, "Could it be that the Red Army is here? It must be, it must be, San Xia's son is not lying, and the Red Army will drive the landlord away." Yes, look, the landlord is not tied to a tree now."

His voice caught the attention of the surrounding villagers, who discussed in low voices.

"Red Army, what is a Red Army?"

"I heard from people outside that the Red Army seems to be a traitor, burning, killing, looting, and committing all kinds of crimes. Could it be that they are here?"

"Then why did he attack the landlord? He also tied the landlord up."

"He should not be the Red Army."

With the support of Mr. Li, his eldest son and his grandson Li Qingming, he came to the table. Seeing the person coming, Xia Yuan stopped the pen in his hand. The content in the book was the amount of food distributed by each household.

"Mr. Li, come and sit down. I just have something to discuss with you, and I also heard what the big guy said just now. It seems that everyone has some misunderstandings about the Red Army, so let's talk about what the Red Army is by the way. "

Xia Yuan stood up with a smile on his face. Mr. Li is a respected and respected old man in the village. Besides the landlord, he has a certain right to speak in the village. He found Li Qingming because of Mr. Li's reputation. To pull up a team in this area, the help of Mr. Li must be indispensable.

"Red Army, are you alone?" Mr. Li asked as he sat on the stool beside the table, with his cane on the ground.

"No, the foundation of the Red Army is in Nanhu. I'm here to promote the spirit of the Red Army and let everyone know what the Red Army is!"

Xia Yuan believes that after the masses understand the nature of the Red Army, they will definitely change their views on the Red Army and even join the ranks of the Red Army. The appearance of the Red Army is destined to be what the people want. The team, such a team should be promoted in the village, not misunderstood by them.

In order to encircle and suppress the Red Army, the Jiang Group deliberately promoted the Red Army as bandits, entered the villages, burned, killed and looted, and did all kinds of evil, so that the common people at that time were very dissatisfied with the Red Army, especially in the places where the Red Army passed by. .

This made many Red Army very discouraged at that time. They all came from the masses and peasants, but they did not expect that they would look at themselves so differently, and those who were really helped by the Red Army would unconditionally believe in the Red Army, trust the Red Army, and even put their trust in the Red Army. Their children were sent to the ranks of the Red Army.

And all of this is inseparable from the ideological foundation that the Red Army has done to the masses and the benefits that the Red Army has brought to the masses after its arrival is beyond the reach of the White Army.

As a respected old man in the village, Mr. Li has naturally heard of the Red Army, but it was the Red Army after the White Army described it, just like bandits who did all kinds of evil. Xia Yuan claimed to be the Red Army, but he did not appear to be like the White Army. It depicts the appearance of the Red Army committing all kinds of crimes, even arresting the landlord, killing the hooligans under the landlord, and tying the landlord up.

Mr. Li sat on the stool, leaned his crutches against the table, smoothed the wrinkles on his body, and looked like he was sitting upright. He behaved naturally better when dealing with these soldiers. Many soldiers have casual personalities, especially Red Army, don't think that Xia Yuan grew up in Nianping Village, but no one knows what he went through during this period of time. He killed more than a dozen local ruffians and still had Xiao Ou Rang on his face.

Those corpses made them feel chills in their hearts.

After Mr. Li sat down, the villagers who were talking a lot fell silent, and gradually quieted down.

Xia Yuan said with a smile on his face: "Everyone's first impression of the Red Army was from the White Army. What were they? Grab gold, silver and jewels."

He didn't say a word, and the villagers nodded in deep agreement. It really came from the White Army. The White Army spread the evil deeds of the Red Army everywhere. The bandits on the mountain went down the mountain.

Xia Yuan said: "However, the facts are not as what the White Army said. The real Red Army does not take a needle from the masses. The military discipline is very strict and does not move a single drop. , did not exorbitantly impose miscellaneous taxes, and even drove away landlords and hooligans, and helped everyone regain their land and food, and the people were their own masters, and it was no longer the landlords who oppressed the people, but the people themselves managed the people.”

The faces of the villagers showed doubts, and Mr. Li asked a little excitedly: "Is there really such an army?"

Xia Yuan nodded and said, "Do you know why the White Army called the Red Army bandits? This is because the White Army relied on the landlords to collect food, the landlords to collect money, and the landlords to catch the young men. Isn’t beating the landlords the same as hitting the roots of the White Army? So, in order to smear the Red Army, the White Army spread the word that the Red Army is a bandit everywhere, as long as the Red Army is smeared, it will be beneficial to them.”

He raised his voice suddenly: "However, justice is in the hearts of the people. Whether it is good or bad, everyone will judge for themselves. Therefore, I am here, and I am here with the policy of the Red Army. The landlords and local tyrants in Nianping Village bully everyone, and they do a lot of evil on weekdays. , this time we will try his crimes fairly and seek justice for our fellow villagers.”

Xia Yuan walked under the big tree, amidst the villagers' discussions, untied the landlord's rope, and pulled him to kneel on the ground.

"Little brother, little brother, please forgive me, I didn't do anything, really, I really didn't do anything."

When pulling the housekeeper, the housekeeper kept begging, Xia Yuan snorted coldly: "Whether you want to be a big guy knows it or not, what I say doesn't count, what the masses say counts."

Xia Yuan asked the two of them to kneel in front of everyone, walked up to Mr. Li, and said, "Mr. Li, come and preside over the trial meeting. We must seek truth from facts and not make up random things. Whatever the landlord does, everyone will say what they say." , I will call the shots for everyone.”

Mr. Li was stunned for a moment, "Can you really say that?"

"Yes, everyone can speak freely. The Red Army is everyone's solid support, and I will also be the master for everyone. The Red Army is an unswerving team beside the farmers now." Xia Yuan stood in front of the landlord, like a wall, Said: "Let me come first. The landlords are exorbitantly paying miscellaneous taxes, and the people are in dire straits. Many people's homes have been emptied. Everyone should know about my home!"

His gaze became sharp: "The land tax has been tripled, my father still has insufficient money after emptying out the family, and the local supervisor led the local hooligans to break into my house in the middle of the night and beat my father to death. My mother was frightened." After going mad, I disappeared, and I was sold to the noble gentry in the town to be used as a cow and a horse. I was given only one meal a day. If I hadn’t escaped with the help of kind people, I might have died inside.”

Xia Yuan turned his head to look at the trembling landlord and housekeeper, and said fiercely: "Just this one, the crime is heinous, ten lives are not enough for them to pay!"