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Chapter 3 Execution
In another era, Chen Mu had been to Qingyuan, and he had a college roommate of the Bai family who took him to the Bai family ancestral hall in Shuidong there.In his verbal bombardment, Chen Mu's memory of the ancestors of the Bai family enshrined in it was still fresh.The first in the Ming Dynasty was Bai Tingyong during the Hongwu period, who was granted the title of General Zhaowu, Commander of the Fujian Guard, Shiyin Qingyuan guarding hundreds of households; and the second place in the Ming Dynasty was Bai Yuanjie, the governor of Tongzhi, the commander of Guangdong, and the commander of the world. Commander of Yinqing Yuanwei, famous in south of the Five Ridges for his bravery and skill in battle, later went north to fight against the Japanese and participated in the Luliang naval battle, burning more than [-] Japanese ships, and wrote a glorious stroke in the merit book.

The current Bai Yuanjie is Chen Mu's immediate boss above the general banner, Qingyuan Weibaihu.They are about the same age as Chen Mu, but the hereditary hundreds of households with good family background in memory are far better educated than poor military households like them!In Chen Mu's eyes, this is an unsinkable golden thigh that is right in front of your eyes!

Thighs are not difficult to hug, the difficulty is how to discover the potential to become thighs when the thighs are still thin.This most difficult process was skipped by Chen Mu, who is familiar with the turmoil, and he was naturally in a good mood.

Shao Tingda was puzzled by Chen Muhuan's joy, but then Chen Mu took the question away and asked him about the situation in his hometown.Shao Tingda, who has just turned 20, looks much older than this age. Even though he is strong, he sighs again and again, and his face looks sad like an old farmer whose harvest has been ruined, especially when he mentions his hometown.

"This year, the police have been sent thousands of miles along the coast, and this is even more so in Yuegang." Shao Tingda raised his dirty fingers and scratched his hair anxiously, looking extremely disturbed, "I heard that General Qi won the battle in Fujian, but there is no letter Come here, this is not in a hurry to die!"

In Yuegang, Chen Mu’s mother’s Shao clan is in Yuegang, Fujian, and the entire village has the surname Shao. To put it bluntly, it is a family heirloom of farming and reading, but in Chen Mu’s memory, only the patriarch who should be called the grandfather in terms of seniority is a decent and generous scholar , but none of the uncles of the descendants studied well, most of them were farmers or merchants, there were butchers and merchants, but most of them had average living standards.For example, Shao Tingda's father was a farmer in the past, and later he suffered a lot from the farmers because of a whipping method, so he sold the family land to open a medicine shop.It is indispensable to have Gongmen servants in the clan - Japanese pirates.

It was only after Chen Mu came that he realized that Japanese pirates or Asian pirates in this era were mainly Ming people. Most of them were poor people along the coast or serious maritime merchants engaged in trade before the sea ban. After the sea ban, most of them became pirates who were also merchants. .Because of the convenience of trade, Japan was in frequent wars during the Warring States period. They occupied the islands around Nagasaki, hired wandering samurai who had lost their names, and wore Japanese costumes and used Japanese warships, so they were called Japanese pirates.

Kou is a real bandit, but a Japanese is not necessarily a real Japanese.

This also affected to some extent the imperial court's strangling of the Japanese pirates. The villagers and clans were closely related, and the Japanese pirates came and went like the wind along the coast. People are harmonious, but the imperial army is not popular in the countryside. Even if the soldiers in the guards are not so lax in military discipline, they will definitely lose more than win.

Therefore, for Shao Tingda, the imperial court suppressed the Japanese. It was not good to win, because relatives and brothers would die;

Since it's not a good thing anyway, I simply don't think about it, just like ants on a hot pot, anxiously waiting for the message.

The two brothers were chatting in the house, when they heard the chaos outside the house, there were teenagers running and shouting from far to near, "Chen Xiaoqi, Chen Xiaoqi! There is an order for a hundred households, summon the bannermen!"

Hearing the voice, a half-grown man who was even more desolate than Shao Tingda looked pushed open the door, poked his head in a vain manner, a little frightened but widened his eyes with uncontrollable excitement, and his thin clothes were in the spring moon Unprotected from the cold wind, his fingers that were red and swollen like radishes leaned on his knees and panted heavily, and then he said loudly: "The old cripple has been arrested!"

This half-sized man is the "fifth and a half" person under Chen Mu's banner. He is not as tall as a two-handed Japanese sword, and his name is Wei Balang.His father is an old bannerman in the guard. He killed people in the village in his early years and was sent to the army as a prisoner. He didn't study and couldn't give him a name. Because he was the eighth child, he was called Hachiro, and the first seven died young. , the official wife was also crazy, and died of illness not long after giving birth to him. I thought that this frail and sickly Hachiro would not survive, but I never thought that his father was dead and he was still alive. Make Zheng Ding.

"The old cripple has been caught, Brother Mu." Shao Tingda looked at Chen Mu with wide eyes, with horror in his eyes, but sighed in his tone, "This is the third time he has escaped!"

No one knew what the old cripple's real name was, and he was not under the same general banner, and they were not familiar with each other. They only knew that he was a military household in the guard of Guiyang Prefecture before he was exiled to Qingyuan.When the chieftain rebelled, he did not dare to fight and became a deserter. He was arrested before he escaped far. He was punished eighty times according to the Ming law and continued to serve. Bai, exiled to Qingyuanwei, Guangdong Province.

In Chen Mu's mind, the owner still has the memory of the old cripple when he was first brought in. The wound on his right leg became inflamed and maggoted due to the hot weather in south of the Five Ridges. But how far can he escape as a lame man who is nearly fifty years old?

"The third time——" Chen Mu murmured, his heart beating loudly in his chest. Even if he knew that he would face such a situation sooner or later in this era, he just took it for granted. He didn't make enough preparations, "Ming Lv, flee the army three times, hang him!"

Shao Tingda and Wei Balang seemed to be used to this kind of thing, Balang told Chen Mu, and trotted to call other military households.Under Shao Tingda's service, Chen Mu changed into a mandarin duck coat with a hooded armor and a waist knife, and in a blink of an eye, Chen Mu looked like a military leader and took the lead.When they arrived at the Martial Arts Field belonging to their hundreds of households at the edge of the guardhouse, there were already three or forty people standing scattered. The scattered queue could not attract his attention. people.

Everyone in the guard called that man an old cripple. He looked as if he had been severely beaten when he was arrested. He knelt on the ground with disheveled hair and his body was tied with ropes.Next to him, the young military officer wearing a gorgeous cloth-covered iron armor and announcing the order of disposal was Bai Hu Bai Yuanjie.

Apart from the two of them, there are also a few Bai family soldiers around them, regardless of their fierce body shape or bright armor, they are far stronger than the guards below.

Standing in front of the team, Chen Mu led the six flagmen under his banner, looked up at the high platform with wide eyes, even though he was close at hand, he couldn't hear what Bai Yuanjie was reading, and everything in his vision lost color for an instant, except for his own beating. He couldn't hear anything in his heart, he just opened his mouth slightly and took a big breath, but it made his mouth even more parched.

As the noose tightened around the old cripple's neck, the bound man suddenly tossed like crazy. Bai Yuanjie swung his big hand down, and someone pulled down the wood chip. With a 'thump' sound, the wooden plank under the old cripple's feet sank, and the rope lifted him up in the air.In just a short while, the bloody leg twitched a few times with the corners of the cotton trousers, and his neck was tilted. All the sounds and colors seemed to crash into Chen Mu's world again.

"vomit……"

He heard the low and long breath from the old cripple's mouth after his death, and when he came back to his senses, Shao Tingda was used to it, and chuckled in his ear, "The old cripple is not bad, hey, what a pity!"

Chen Mu turned his head abruptly, half of his neck was covered with cold hairs standing on end.Then he turned back and raised his face. The dazzling sunlight made him feel cold all over his body. Bai Yuanjie's scanning gaze finally stopped on his face. When he met his gaze, Baihu grinned. Thick white teeth.

(End of this chapter)