"He, damn, I fought with them!" His Highness King Qin had a target this time, and rushed out again carrying a hatchet.
"Second brother, don't be impulsive," the third and fourth brothers quickly stopped him and said, "Do you know where the Leek Mountain is?"
"Do you know how many people are copycatting a village? Do you want to die alone?"
"What if they lied, and it's not a mountain of leeks at all, but a mountain of eggs?"
"This..." Zhu Xi was dumbfounded again.
"Could it be someone from the same village who did it?" A sharp light flashed in Zhu's eyes. Although the relationship between us has eased a lot now, people's hearts have been sinister since ancient times, and the world is unpredictable.
"They didn't do it." At this time, Zhu Zhen came in from outside.
"Lao Liu, when did you go out?" Zhu Di said anxiously: "The situation outside is unclear, so don't fucking run around!"
"While it was still dark, I followed the footprints and went out to take a look." Zhu Zhen pointed to the muddy courtyard. The few lines of outward footprints were almost completely covered up by the rain and their brothers' footprints.<
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"Otherwise, I'm sure I won't be able to see anything tomorrow."
"What did you see?"
"Yes, a group of four." Zhu Zhen nodded and said, "They came in from the west end of the village, and I also saw horse hoof prints at the entrance of the village."
"Do they have horses? Are they so powerful?!" The brothers couldn't help but be surprised. They already knew that horses are very rare. There are very few horses among the people, not to mention them in Jinqiaokan, even in the Insinful Township.
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I'm afraid that only the noble houses in Fengyang County can afford to keep horses, right? It would be great if the wealthy families in this county can have a donkey or a mule.
"If there is no horse, we can still solve it ourselves; if there is a horse, we have to think about it in the long term." The third brother analyzed calmly.
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At this time, the movement in the Hong Family Courtyard alarmed the neighbors, and Tang Jiachang and others came to check one after another.
It's not just to watch the fun, because the Ming Dynasty stipulated that "village thieves are responsible for Lijia". Boss Zhu also ordered that "if there are robbers, thieves, escapes from the army and prisoners, or evildoers, no one person can arrest them, and the old man Lijia must be punished."
Gather a large number of people and capture them before the officials. Those who violate the rules will be punished.
Therefore, Tang Jiazhang and the men in the same armor also have the obligation to help them deal with this group of thieves.
After listening to Lao Wu's story and watching the scene, Tang Jia Chang twirled his goatee and shook his head: "Weird, really weird."
"Why is it strange?" everyone asked.
"Linhuai County is the hometown of the emperor, and bandits and thieves always go around." Tang Jiazhang explained: "Because no one knows whether any family will be related to the current emperor? Maybe there will be some case.
It’s a big case!”
"Yeah." The brothers nodded, thinking that it made sense, for example, we could get married...
"Besides, they are all powerful thieves with four or five horses. How can they risk coming to Dixiang to commit crimes in a poor place like ours?" Tang Jia Chang analyzed again: "We should go to Fengyang County to rob big households.
Yes!"
"That's right. Instead of robbing the rich, come to rob the poor of food? It's so unreasonable." Everyone continued to nod.
"To say the least, even if they are really hungry and don't have the guts to rob the big households, they just want to rob food in the village. How can they only rob one household? The Hong family's small amount of food is not enough to fill the teeth of the village.
." Tang Jiazhang is really very clever and continued his analysis:
"You have to grab a few households to make up for it."
"It's true." Everyone nodded more loudly this time. It was raining, and all the men had gone to work in the fields. Only the old, weak, women and children were left in the village. It was not impossible for the bandits to rob the whole village.
"So, have you offended someone?" Tang Jiazhang looked at the five brothers.
During this period of contact, he felt more and more that the five Hong brothers were full of mysteries. Their identities might be scary.
"No, no." Zhu Xi scratched his head.
"To put it bluntly, when we first came here, there were some immigrants who were jealous of how much we had to share." King Jin recalled in detail.
"My brother and I even scared them."
"That's not the case. Besides, they have no horses." Tang Jiazhang shook his head.
Everyone gathered together for a while, but seeing that it was getting dark and there was no clue, Chief Tang Jia had no choice but to say: "Let's leave now. Tomorrow morning, the old man will take the Hong brothers to the county to report for an official position and see what the old parents say."
"That's all we can do." The neighbors all dispersed. Before going out, Tang Jia Chang asked: "Is there any food left tonight? Go to my house to get some food first?"
"There is still half a bag of rice in the kitchen, but they didn't find it." Zhu Ru said softly.
"Okay." Tang Jia Chang said nothing more.
~~
Half an hour later.
One night before liberation, five brothers gathered around the stove fire, holding wild vegetable soup with sparse grains of rice in their hands, listening to the sound of rain outside the window, and feeling filled with desolation and resentment.
"Grandma, if he had known he would have eaten dry food three times a day!" King Qin's anger never subsided. "It's a waste of money, it's all for the bandits!"
"I'm so sorry, it's all my fault..." Brother Wu just kept crying while holding the bowl, unable to swallow even a grain of rice.
"How is it your fault? You have no strength to restrain a chicken, so you fight them desperately for some food? That's the stupidest thing!" Zhu Di shouted in a deep voice: "Don't cry, no one will blame you!" p>
"Yes, yes. No one blames you, Old Five!" The second brother, who was clumsy, also quickly comforted him and said, "I won't complain anymore. Stop it. Don't feel bad."
"That's right, Fifth Brother, we are brothers, there is no need to apologize." The sixth person's comforting perspective is always very unique. "For example, I made you whipped, I never thought about apologizing, because I know
,Brothers will definitely not blame me."
"Hahaha, that's right."
"No matter how hard life is, don't forget our identities!" Even the third brother, who always speaks very harshly, said to Lao Wu:
"Don't forget that we are here to practice, and we don't really want to spend our whole lives on this Golden Bridge! So the more difficulties we encounter, the better. As long as we overcome the past, our experience will be more effective!"
"Well..." Lao Wu nodded and shed tears again. But this time he was warmed by his brothers...
After listening to the third brother's words, Zhu Zhen suddenly thought of a possibility and asked quietly:
"Do you think today's incident was arranged by my father?"
"What?" When the brothers heard this, they were stunned for a moment, then burst into laughter and said:
"Hahaha, Lao Liu, you really know how to tell jokes!"
Even the fifth brother couldn't help but laugh.
"I didn't tell a joke." Zhu Zhen pouted.
"Impossible, absolutely impossible!" The fourth brother said flatly: "Father, as a human being, would not trap his son to death like this!"
"That's right." The third brother rarely agreed with the fourth brother: "Father can't do such a thing!"
"That's right." The second brother also said with deep understanding: "Tiger, tiger poison doesn't even eat its seeds."
"Lao Liu, this kind of thinking of yours is very dangerous." The third brother smiled and wanted to pinch his cheeks, but there was no flesh on his cheeks anymore, and he only pinched his loneliness.
Then King Jin said sternly: "No matter what situation you encounter, never think in the worst possible way about your father! Do you remember this, Lao Liu?"
"That's right." The fourth brother also educated him: "There are no bad parents in the world, and there are no bad kings and fathers. They are always like this."
"Yeah, I understand." Zhu Zhen suddenly realized that he was not stupid, so he could naturally understand what his brothers meant.
Only then did he realize to his horror that not only his eldest brother, but also his third and fourth brothers were much smarter than him!
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