Chapter 41 How can autumn insects and grasshoppers be underestimated
In Tongbai Mountain, even the old soldiers who came out of the Jingsheng Army were not very familiar with the large-frame bow technique, let alone how to use the large-frame technique to draw a hard bow on horseback with the sheer strength of their arms.
Xu Huai calmly sat on the horse and shot three arrows in a row. The arrows all rushed towards Tang Tiande's door. Zhuang Ke, who was skilled in martial arts, could certainly see how extraordinary this archery skill was.
This idiot actually has such neat and superb archery skills?!
What's even more rare is that Xu Huai was born with supernatural powers and could shoot arrows with a long bow on horseback.
Can we find more than ten or twenty people in the entire Tongbai Mountain?
Everyone couldn't help but sweat for Tang Tiande, thinking that if Tang Tiande hadn't been so agile, he would have died in front of the village gate today.
Feeling the threat of the long bow in Xu Huai's hand and hearing Xu Wufu's sharp reprimand, two people around him subconsciously took off their long bows and pointed them at Xu Huai.
Xu Wukun, with his sword in its scabbard, whipped the two villagers who took off their long bows and aimed them at Xu Huai, cursing: "Idiot, who the hell are you aiming your bow at?"
These two bankers can save the time. No matter what they say at this time, they must speak unanimously to the outside world.
Seeing that Xu Wukun still protected Xu Huai, Xu Wuliang stood patiently in the crowd.
Xu Huai held his long bow in front of him, faced the furious Xu Wufu calmly, and asked: "What else does the master have to say?"
Xu Wufu jumped to his feet and was about to vomit blood. Before he could hold back his internal injuries, he turned around and said to Tang Tiande:
"Tang Dutou, please come back today. I will talk to Deng Langjun about Xu Wujiang's matter. How to deal with it, and whether Xu Wujiang really surrendered to the bandits, we have to go to Tizhou County. Only Deng Langjun and I can do it."
End. Now that I have said my good words, whether you listen or not, Tang Du will be responsible for you today."
Xu Huai's four arrows were aimed at his face. How dare Tang Tiande dare to bluff others?
If he really rushes in with more than 20 soldiers behind him to arrest people, will these soldiers listen to him?
He glared at Xu Wufu bitterly and said: "Xu Wufu, you know what is good and what is wrong. Today you go to the military camp to find Deng Langjun to tell the truth..."
Afraid that Xu Huai's fool would shoot him in the back again, Tang Tiande didn't dare to turn around and leave. Instead, he faced the village gate and backed away slowly. After gaining some distance, he remounted his horse and carried him with him in embarrassment.
The men and horses rushed towards Huaiyuan Town.
After Tang Tiande had left a distance, Xu Wuqi took a long bow from Zhuang Ke behind him, took out four feather arrows and clasped them in his hand, stared at Xu Huai and said: "You bastard, hand over the long bow."
, don’t force me to take action!”
"Lao Wu, why are you as knowledgeable as Xu Huai?" Xu Wukun shouted dissatisfied.
"Take the longbow from this bastard and give it to the head of the family!" Xu Wuqi shouted mercilessly at Xu Wukun.
Xu Wukun couldn't be forced by Xu Wuqi, so he walked towards Xu Huai with a wry smile and said: "Xu Huai, your fifth uncle is afraid that you will get into trouble, so don't shoot me with arrows!"
Xu Huai threw the long bow in his hand towards Xu Wukun and yelled angrily: "The mad dogs have run away, what's the use of this long bow? Give it to you!"
At this time, Xu Huai really had no confidence that he could beat Xu Wu Qi.
What's more, without the threat of Tang Tiande, if Xu Wufu really wanted to order him to be taken down, Xu Huai believed that many bankers would still obey the orders, and he could not continue the stalemate at this time.
Xu Wukun caught the long bow with his hand and said, "You bastard, don't get into trouble again!" He turned around and walked back to Xu Wufu and handed the long bow over.
"Let's go!" Xu Wufu took the long bow in his hand and walked towards Beizhai with a gloomy face.
"Dad!" Xu Heng chased after him unwillingly and shouted.
Xu Wufu strode like lightning, but ignored his eldest son Xu Heng.
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"Xu Wujiang left Qingxi Village without seeing anyone or a corpse, and Su Di and that fool happened to return to Yuhuangling to celebrate their birthday - I think what Tang Tiande just said was right, the so-called birthday celebration was just because they escaped from the military village
A cover, and even if Xu Wujiang did not surrender to the bandits, he must be hiding somewhere in Tongbai Mountain,"
Panting, Xu Heng chased twenty or thirty steps and said in a low voice,
"Speaking of which, it is easy to verify this matter. As long as someone knows the date of birth of Xu Wujiang's father, just ask and see how she can deny it?"
"What do you want to do?" Xu Wufu glared at his son and asked in a low voice.
Hundreds of years ago, when the clans in the Central Plains were popular, in order to maintain the inheritance of the family line, the nobles attached great importance to compiling family trees. The birth and death of their children, weddings, funerals, official appointments and other events would be recorded in detail.
When clans became popular, the compilation of family trees was the main basis for recommending officials, so the government naturally had to get involved to prevent fraud, which was also called official genealogy espionage.
However, these have nothing to do with common people, let alone common people.
After the fall of the previous dynasty, after a hundred years of war, almost all the official genealogies were destroyed by the war, and the clan system was completely destroyed.
Since the founding of the Dai Viet dynasty, there has been a decline in clans and the practice of selecting scholars through the imperial examination. However, those scholar-bureaucrats who consider themselves noble still regard themselves as nobles and still like to compile family trees, but the officialdom will no longer be involved.
Before the Xu family moved to Tongbai Mountain, they were not a famous family. However, they came to Tongbai Mountain to breed and live in Xu Huai, Xu Xin'an, Xu Heng's generation is already the ninth generation, and no one has yet become a scholar-official.
There is no tradition of compiling family trees.
Within the clan, the direct branches and side clans can only be traced back five generations.
Except for parents, brothers, sisters and other close relatives who may be able to remember someone's birthday, people with more distant relationships may not even have the slightest impression of it.
Of course, some people in the clan may have some impressions of Xu Wujiang's father's birthday, but can they withstand the cross-examination, and what can they do after the cross-examination, to really hand over the families and children of the soldiers?
Xu Wufu rarely had such a stern look in his eyes, which made Xu Heng startled.
"Follow Tang Tiande and others and see if they retreat to the north bank of Qingliu River honestly."
When Xu Wufu saw Xu Wuqi, Xu Wukun and others approaching, he handed Xu Huai's long bow to Xu Wuqi and ordered them to follow Tang Tiande and others to see if they were honest enough to exit Qingliu Creek.
After Xu Wukun and Xu Wuqi left with the banker, Xu Wufu stared at his eldest son Xu Heng sadly and said:
"Now that you have found someone to confirm that Xu Wujiang's father's birthday is not today, what can you do? Do you really want to send Xu Wujiang's father and Su Digao to the Inspection Department and hand them over to Deng Gui? Even if you can convince the clansmen about this, you
Isn't it possible that Xu Wujiang, who is not worried about the golden cicada's escape from his shell, will one day be ambushed by the side of the road and suddenly become murderous to avenge his father and Su Di?"
If Xu Wufu still can't see that all this is arranged by Xu Wujiang, he will be blind. Why does Xu Heng, the eldest son, need to remind him?
The key issue is that Xu Wujiang and the others are hiding.
"Dad, are you saying that Xu Wujiang has seen through everything and knows that we and Deng Gui both want to harm him?"
"If you hadn't seen through this, do you think it would be fun for Jin Chan to escape from his shell and be accused of deserting the army?" Xu Wufu glared at Xu Heng and asked.
It is a serious crime to desert the army and join the bandits. If you are not desperate, who would choose?
"That bitch Xu Huai, why did dad let him go and not tie him to the ancestral hall and punish him severely?" Xu Heng thought about Xu Huai's kick and felt resentful in his heart.
Xu Wufu picked up a branch, stirred it into a pile of cow dung on the road, threw it on his eldest son Xu Heng, and said:
"Stupid thing, you tie this stick to the ancestral hall to relieve your hatred! Don't you understand? That idiot Xu Huai is the stick that stirs shit in Xu Wujiang's hand. Maybe Xu Wujiang sneaked back to the Nanzhai area last night and waited.
They are trying to trick us into making mistakes so that they can attack us!"
"How is he going to attack?" Xu Heng threw away the branch stained with cow dung and asked unconvinced.
"We can't talk about the assassins, and we can't talk about the lobbying we received from Chen Tong. How do you want the people to believe that Xu Wujiang was not killed by the bandits, but that he surrendered to the bandits without incident?" Xu Wufu asked, "Do you think I gave the order?
If I kidnap that idiot Xu Huai to the ancestral hall, will Xu Wukun and the others obey my orders regardless of what I say? Among the three armies, we have to be on guard against the generals causing trouble. Do you think I, the head of the family, can really make others go through fire and water without blinking an eye?
Just a glance? Don’t think too highly of yourself, this will cause trouble!”
"What should we do?" After hearing these words, Xu Heng realized that the matter was much more difficult than he thought.
"Xu Wujiang and the others did not dare to bear the charge of 'escape from battle' because they were playing the role of golden cicada, so they would not dare to show up unless it was absolutely necessary," Xu Wufu said thoughtfully, "So we have to wait and see how this matter will change. The clan
We can only insist on the theory that they died to suppress bandits first, and wait and see what changes will follow..."
"Who will be sent to talk to Deng Gui?" Xu Heng asked.
"There is no need to send people to find Deng Gui. Deng Gui did not hand over the warrant to Tang Tiande, which means he is not stupid. He just pushed out Tang Tiande, who knows nothing, to test our attitude." Xu Wufu said.
"..." Xu Heng was a little stupid. How could he have thought that he had so many scheming ideas?
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Tang Tiande, Xu Wufu and others left Nanzhai one after another, but the chaos in Nanzhai did not stop there.
Only then did Xu Wujiang's mother find out that her son led his troops to suppress the bandits, but no one was found alive or dead, and his body was not found. He was also accused by the inspection department of being a bandit, and she fainted from tears immediately; the other soldiers and their families also had no idea.
, crying and fussing around Su Di.
When Su Di was a girl in Nanzhai, she was fierce and capable, but no one took her seriously at that time.
At this time, none of the military soldiers had a backbone, and Su Di, as Xu Wujiang's wife, had just blocked the inspection department from arresting people at the gate of the village, so everyone naturally regarded her as the backbone.
Su Di asked everyone to go to Xu Wujiang's house to discuss the matter first, and everyone obeyed.
Of course, some people remember that Xu Zhongyu was the head of the household in Nanzhai, and greeted him: "Old man Xu, you have to help us make an idea on this matter!"
Xu Zhongyu had not recovered from being kicked by Xu Huai. When he saw Xu Huai standing aside with a arrogant look on his face, he glared over like a leopard. He gasped and said with hatred: "I have no control over this matter. Don't try to drag me into it."
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"Everyone has seen the attitude of the family leader - he is an official in the state government. He is afraid that offending Deng Langjun and the officials of the state and county will hinder his future, and he wants to hand us over; in the end, if Xu Huai hadn't taken action, he
Seeing that he really couldn't get over the trouble, he wouldn't stand up and say those words hypocritically. And Xu Zhongyu looked at Xu Wufu's face in everything, so he couldn't rely on it..."
Everyone went to Xu Wujiang's yard. According to the planned plan, Xu Wuliang stood up to incite everyone.
For ordinary people, the main reason they couldn't believe that Xu Wujiang and the others would surrender to the bandits was because they were angry. However, if the inspection department and the prefectures and counties could confirm this, or they might have a tougher attitude and directly send a large number of troops over,
It is impossible for them to really fight against the government even if they arrest the young soldiers.
In front of the government, it is not a trivial matter for the entire clan to cause trouble?
However, the young soldiers had no choice. Even if Xu Wujiang and others surrendered to the bandits, at least they would still be alive, which would be easier for them to accept than to die without seeing their bodies.
These children were the first people Xu Huai and the others wanted to unite with.
The military soldiers went into hiding with Xu Wujiang, but it does not mean that there are no young and strong members of the family.
For example, Su Di and his father Su Laochang are only forty-three or four years old. They are strong and well-trained in boxing and kung fu. Among the other family members of the martial arts family, there are young adults between the ages of fifteen and fifty, and there are more than forty
People are available.
Whether it is recruiting military soldiers, or conducting autumn training exercises in the countryside, or organizing rural soldiers and village warriors, it is still done according to the rule of "three Dings draw one"; all the soldiers join the inspection department as regular members, and there are still many leftovers in the family.
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At that time, there was a saying that "the poor in literature and the rich in martial arts" meant that poor people had no meat to eat on a daily basis, and if their children practiced martial arts, their bodies would be too exhausted to support them, and it would be difficult for them to achieve any great achievements.
However, in reality, poor people have a more intuitive and urgent desire for physical violence.
If you don’t want to be tied to the barren land, working like a skinny cow and horse all your life but getting nothing, practicing martial arts to work as a guard thug for the rich family, becoming a village soldier, becoming a bandit, or running rampant in the countryside as a rogue, but
There is a broader way out at the bottom.
As for the current dynasty, which used culture to control military affairs, worshiped culture and suppressed military force, and the imperial examination was the right way to select scholars, what does this have to do with the people at the bottom?
As far as the Lutai villages are concerned, almost everyone from the Nanzhai village knows some boxing and kicking skills.
The Yuhuangling rural soldiers must be fully mobilized. Although the total population of Nanzhai is small, rural soldiers will account for 40%.
After all, they are poor, and this is a rare opportunity for Nanzhai to supplement its food shortage.
When participating in the autumn training, in addition to a small subsidy, the more important thing is that the clan provides food and a rural soldier uniform, which saves a lot of expenses for the family.
Therefore, the children of Nanzhai look very thin, but they are the most martial arts practitioners.
What Xu Huai and the others have to do now is to gather more than 40 young men, including Su Di's father Su Laochang, and live in Nanzhai to take care of each other - in addition to preventing the inspection department and prefectures and counties from coming again
To capture people, they also have to be on guard against Xu Wufu’s secret persecution...
