Traveler Major League

Chapter 18
The team was divided into two parts: Liu Ze walked in the front with a knife and a spear and a guide, followed by Lao Kong, Guo Shunwang and the storyteller Cheng Mo, and Wang Guizhi and Wang Shanbao were in front of the two carts Then, the ten borrowed soldiers pushed the carts behind them, and behind the carts were the 75 newly joined men. Liu Ze didn't have high demands on them, so he dared to stand with wooden sticks. It is enough to have a strong lineup in the front. These people form the first half of the team, and the second half is composed of more than 500 old and weak people who follow sparsely.

The team has gone far from the outskirts of Chengcheng, and there are fields abandoned due to drought everywhere, and even the mountains and forests have lost their greenness. Liu Ze and the others walked for a long time, from one barren land to another .

"Old man, why are you so familiar with this village?" Liu Ze curiously asked the guide who volunteered to lead the way.

The guide wore a gray-black ragged felt hat, and a ragged jacket with a hemp rope tied in the middle. He hunched over and carried his grandson on his back, but he seemed to be effortless, walking on crooked feet in the mountains and fields. Windier than others.

Hearing the question, the guide turned his face to one side, but fixed his eyes on the road ahead, and replied: "I have had this since I was a child, how can I not be familiar with it!"

He continued: "Master, don't doubt us. When I was young, I was also a swordsman for the pole. When I was old, I was useless, so I just begged everywhere. I have run around in all the villages! I spit and nail , I will definitely not lie to you!"

"Have you ever been a swordsman? Can't tell!"

Seeing that this guide can't even walk steadily, how can he be the swordsman who licks blood on the tip of the knife, I'm afraid he is not bragging!Liu Ze slandered in his heart.

As if he knew what Liu Ze was thinking, the guide suddenly turned his face and smiled: "Don't look down on me, don't look at my waist bent like a field eel, but that's because I was a farmer for a rich man when I was young. Long-term work is tiring! If I put it aside, I am also a tall and strong man!"

As he spoke, he seemed to have regained his glory: "I have lost my parents since I was a child, and I grew up eating a lot of food. When I was older, I would herd cows and sheep for others. When I was older, I wanted to beg a woman, so I became a wheat guest. Working as a long-term worker, working hard! I’m so tired, there’s no way! Even so, no woman is willing to be with me! Later, the villagers pulled the pole and said that they could share the money, so I stole a sickle and became a swordsman.”

"Hey, that day, I'm happy, but I hurt my hand again." He raised his right hand as he spoke, and only then did Liu Ze clearly see that his right hand was missing a thumb.

"Later, I went back to my hometown and bought a few lands. I begged for a baby with a big butt to give birth to. I gave birth to a baby with plenty of milk!"

Unexpectedly, the fate of this guide is so rough!Liu Ze couldn't help feeling that the world is impermanent!But seeing that the guide was about to fall into his own memories, and the more he said the more outrageous, Liu Ze had no choice but to pretend to cough and interrupt him.

"Cough cough! The Zhaojiazhuang we went to, is there a guardian? How many people are there in the village?" Liu Ze wanted to ask the guide some "dry stuff", and asked the guide to walk slowly, otherwise the cars behind would not be able to follow him if he walked too fast. up.

"That coward, there's no one who can hold a knife, just his stupid son, a single seedling, bah! What kind of bird is a toad with chicken feathers in his buttocks, he didn't even pass the exam as a scholar, and he took a few children up the mountain every day to hunt chickens and go down He touched the bastard, and let the dog bite me last time!"

After finishing speaking, the guide consciously slipped his tongue, looked at Liu Ze quickly and explained: "His family is the richest in this area, and there are few people in the village, so it must be easy to ask for money and food! I didn't lie to you!"

Liu Ze suddenly felt that he was being tricked by this old boy, and he wanted to use his own hand to take revenge: "I know all this, and I checked with others just now, you are not lying, this Zhuangzi is a literary worker, easy to fight I'm asking you who are the characters in his village?"

"There are no real people, just tenants, nothing good. His family's rent is almost [-]%, you can definitely handle it! The daughter-in-law surnamed Zhao is so handsome!" They all regained their brilliance, and didn't mind Liu Ze's interruption, so they continued, "Really, just like my mother-in-law, she is easy to give birth. Come to my house to borrow! Enough!"

Then the guide's voice became lower and lower: "It's a pity that there was a big epidemic the year before last, and all of them are gone. The mother-in-law and the baby are gone! I'm the only one left, and I just thought about it and left!"

After speaking, he patted the back of the child behind him. The child was already fast asleep, and was smacking his mouth in his sleep.

"Then I ran away from famine to beg for food, and I picked up this baby. I don't think any parents are so cruel, they lost the baby! Thinking about it again, it may be that they can't live on anymore, and throw them in the earth temple to wait for kind people! It's not cruel, but it's better than thinking that if I die, he will die too! Just hold on! It'll be fine when the baby grows up!"

Liu Ze suddenly felt a little sad, if he had known earlier, he would have given him another bowl of porridge, and he gave the bowl to his grandson to drink.

"Old man, what's your name?"

"Don't dare to call me old man. People in charge of the family call me: Wei Zi, I will trouble you to give me a meal in the future. I know this land very well, and I don't care about running errands and sending letters!"

Liu Ze turned around, looked at the guide and said solemnly: "You will follow me from now on, and if I have a bite to eat, you will never starve your grandson!"

Seeing Liu Ze being so serious, the guide was a little unaccustomed to it, hesitated for a while before touching his head and said, "Thank you, Master!"

"Don't believe me, the reason I'm here is to change this world where people eat people! I want to make a living for the poor!"

The guide hesitated for a moment, and replied as if he had made up his mind: "Master, you are a good person, but this person is too kind, the pole must fall!"

Liu Ze did not refute, but said silently: "But someone has to do this!"

"The gangsters are coming! The gangsters are coming!"

As soon as he arrived at the entrance of the village, Liu Ze heard a burst of crying father and mother shouting in Zhuangzi, saying that it was Zhuangzi, but he couldn't compare with the grandeur of Majiazhai.

At the entrance of the village, there is a wall made of thorns less than two meters around. A group of men with hoes and farming tools leaked their heads from the wall.

The overall Zhuangzi is built on a small mound, and the thatched roofs of the houses under the mound can be seen from the outside. It can be seen that the overall layout is very regular. Every house is backed by the mound, and the buildings on the mound are very distinctive. Below the courtyard in front of the cave dwelling is the roof of another family. There are stretches of farmland underneath, and the Luo River flows through it behind the hillside. The village river, unfortunately, is now dry, it is a good place!The only pity is that it is no longer suitable for defense, because this Zhuangzi is in a plain area, so it can only defend against small thieves, but not gangsters.

Liu Ze brought everyone to the flat ground outside Zhuangzi and formed a formation.

There is nothing like strategy and tactics, only a bluff to show strength positively.

"Is the manager here? Come out and speak!" The guide Weizi stood in front of him with his hips on his hips and shouted.

On the wall, a long-bearded and rich old man wearing a black six-in-one hat stretched out his head and said, "Isn't this a sprain, why did you bring someone here?"

"I didn't bring people here, it was the leader of the second brother Baishuiwang who brought people here, so I'll pass on a message!" Wei Zi turned around and pointed to Liu Ze, Liu Ze nodded and said loudly: "Mr. You should have heard that my second elder brother Wang occupied Chengcheng these two days, killed that corrupt official surnamed Zhang, and opened a warehouse in the city to distribute food to the people, but there are too many victims, and they cannot be rescued! This is not true. , and sent us to the countryside to collect money and food!"

Liu Ze turned around and pointed to the crowd around him, then said, "I can't help it. I heard that Mr. Zhao is very generous and has a lot of money, so I came to you here first!"

"It turned out to be the people of Baishui Wang Er. If I didn't say it earlier, I would have sent someone to send it to me, and even sent my men to pick it up. It's not worth it!"

The old man on the wall said again: "I'll let someone carry down a hundred catties of millet for you right away, and a sling of money. You can go to Biezhuangzi to collect it while it's still early. Don't dare to delay Wang Er's important event!"

Liu Ze didn't answer, but turned his head to motion for Wei Zi to reply: "Bah, this is a beggar? I feel ashamed! This is the richest place in your village, so you have to do whatever you want."

Weizi looked back at Liu Ze, Liu Ze said softly, "We have 600 people here, and each person has a hundred catties of miscellaneous grains!"

The storyteller, Cheng Mo, was dozing off from sleepiness at the back, but when he saw Liu Ze talking about a hundred catties of miscellaneous grains per person, he woke up from his sleep as if he had been suddenly tapped, and said, "Yes, yes, one hundred catties per person." Miscellaneous grains, bring them quickly!"

Old Kong next to Liu Ze heard this, he stroked his beard with a smile and said, "Aren't you sleepy? You have good ears!"

Cheng Mo glared at Old Kong. He was very tired from running around. He closed his upper and lower eyelids and dozed off again!

"My boss told me that if I want [-] catties of miscellaneous grains, if I don't give them, I'll see blood on my knife!" Wei Zi replied imposingly with his hips akimbo.

"This can't be allowed, I don't have so much food after selling this village! The big boss can't be allowed!"

Seeing that member Zhao was in a hurry, Liu Ze didn't think he was lying, so he patted Lao Kong beside him.

"Old Kong, how much can this Zhuangzi harvest in a year?"

Old Kong walked around Zhuangzi, and replied confidently: "This Zhuangzi has a good land boundary, at least one thousand stones can be harvested a year!"

Hearing the thousand stones, Cheng Mo woke up again from his doze. He pulled the sleeve of Guo Shunwang next to him and asked in a low voice, "One thousand stones, really?"

"That's right, what Old Kong said!" Guo Shunwang nodded affirmatively.

Cheng Mo was no longer sleepy after hearing this, but after thinking about it, he frowned and ran to Guo Shunwang's ear and asked softly, "Tell me, can that kid Liu Ze receive the food?"

Guo Shunwang looked around and found no one was looking at him, so he said to Cheng Mo: "I don't think so! He only has so few people, and they are all from hungry people. I'm afraid it won't be useful! Besides, he can collect so much food. , I don’t think there are so many in the village.” After saying that, he shook his head.

Cheng Mo was already worried, but after hearing Guo Shunwang's words, he felt hopeless, so he sighed and said, "I'd better squint for a while, my body is useless!"

As soon as he finished speaking, he closed his eyes, as if he didn't care about anything.

Liu Ze, who was standing in front, didn't hear the conversation between the two behind him at all. At this moment, he was still immersed in joy because of Lao Kong's words!
"I'll wipe it, send it off, let's knock this Zhuangzi!"

(End of this chapter)