Wen San'er

Chapter 32 Blood Vengeance

"I used to be from northern Henan, my parents and two younger brothers. But when I was seven years old, the county master took a fancy to my family's land and threatened my father. However, the land is the root of life for farmers, and my father refused to give it away." To "the magistrate of the county, he was finally forced to death by the dog official. So in order to prevent us from being persecuted and oppressed, my mother took us to flee thousands of miles to live in a small village in Ganzhou. This village is called Gushu Village. The people here are very nice and kind, and they took good care of us, a family with three children led by a woman. When I was 17 years old, a wandering doctor came to the village, Liu Yuner, who was a year younger than me. At that time, he simply wanted to rely on his own hands to save the common people in the world, hoping to eliminate all diseases. When he was in our village, he showed typhoid fever to the mother of the village rogue Zhao's son, However, the son of the Zhao family didn’t want to pay the consultation fee, so he robbed Liu Yuner’s medicine box. Naturally, Liu Yuner refused to leave, so they beat him up again. My brother and I passed by and couldn’t stand their bullying, so we helped Liu Yuner He snatched back the medicine box in his early days, so he stayed at my house for a while, and helped my mother cure her asthma. As for the language, after talking in detail, I found out that he was from Yuzhou, and he was actually a fellow villager. A few days later, the village A change happened here. In the past few years, the tax collection by the imperial court was increasing day by day. In fact, it was not a problem of the upper echelons, but a matter of the officials at each level. Everyone wanted to fill their pockets, so it came to the common people. , it became a knife for killing people. In those years, every time before the tax collection day, I could hear people crying at night, but the people were the people, and I never thought of rebelling. My family is not bad, after all, three The two sons have grown up, and they can go to the mountains to chop firewood, dig bamboo shoots, and gather herbs to make up for it. Those who are purely dependent on the sky and the land are pitiful, because that year was a rare year of floods, and how to pay taxes if there is no harvest When the yamen servants came to collect taxes, I was picking medicine in the mountains. When I came back, I heard that the daughter-in-law of the Li family at the west end of the village lived with her youngest daughter and her mother-in-law. The mother-in-law was sick in bed all year round. She didn't pay taxes, so she thought about hiding the little grain left, and saving it for her daughter and mother-in-law to live on. Those government officials could do whatever they wanted with her, so as to give the old people and children a way of life. But the government officials heard that She didn't pay the tax, so she was beaten severely, and then left angrily after finding some food from her cellar. But after they left, the daughter-in-law took a kitchen knife and chased after those yamen servants. I want to die with them, but how can a wounded woman beat them, she was stabbed to death by the yamen servant a few times. The people in the village can't stand it anymore, especially the young and middle-aged men are all angry With red eyes, he fought with the dozen or so yamen servants with a hoe and sickle. Even the uncles, uncles, aunts, and daughters-in-law in the village all joined the melee with their things. My younger brothers Chang Yu and Chang Lei also participated in this fight We resisted, but we were a small village, with a total of only a dozen households, forty or fifty people. After fighting to the end, the yamen ran away with one injured, and the rest were all killed in the village, and the village suffered no loss. Small, old and young, added 28 graves, including Changyu.My mother was furious when she heard about Chang Yu, and Liu Yun'er was still alive.When I came back, I saw that the peaceful village was covered in blood. People in the village gathered the corpses of their relatives, and there were low-pitched cries everywhere.When I got home, I saw Zhang Lei who was crying into a ball, and Liu Yun'er who was blaming himself next to him, and I was also stunned.After hearing what happened from Liu Yun'er, I took the rest of the people and hastily burned the corpses of the dead. There was no way, if they were buried, they would be killed by those officials who came back to slaughter us remaining 'rebels' People, digging graves, exposing corpses in the wilderness.Then he took the rest of the food and livestock, and simple baggage, to Mount Mang.From that day on, I no longer believe that there are really gods and spirits in this world, and there is such a nonsense that the sky has eyes, good and evil are rewarded.Then, can we always hide in the vast mountains isolated from the world?One is that the concept of relying on hiding and relying on a paradise is not feasible, not to mention that there is not so much arable land on the Mang Mountain, and on the other hand, our whole village has a blood feud with the government.How can we be worthy of those relatives who have been burned to ashes if we don’t take revenge, so we don’t rob merchants or farmers, even if we rob a bully, we never kill them, but only the government, no matter how big or small we rob, and everyone Will not let go. 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Looking at Chang Feng's obviously unwell complexion, San'er tried to comfort him but didn't know what to say. He could only stretch out his hands to hold his slightly trembling shoulders, and changed the subject: "So, I who survived and Cheng Yu who was let go Is it a precedent?"

Changfeng nodded, "That's because you obviously don't look like someone from the government and county government. I'm 25 this year, and it's been eight years since I went up the mountain. After eight years, we have everything, and the days are getting better and better. I don’t know how many times it got better when I was in the village, and the people who have been forced to have no way out by the government these years, some people will find nearby farmers who are familiar with the Mang Mountains, and those who have families come up to join them, and gradually formed the current stockade. Today His mother, the little birthday star, is the daughter left by the woman who was killed by the government officials. I know that I, Ren Changfeng, are not a good person, and I have the blood of 48 people on my hands, but I don’t kill old people, don’t kill children, and don’t kill children. If I don’t kill a woman, I’m not ashamed if I ask myself, but if I die and go to hell, I will suffer all the crimes and punishments.”

San'er didn't expect that he could talk about Liu Yun'er's story back then. He suddenly felt guilty and wanted to give Ren Changfeng a big hug and give him a shoulder to rely on.