"The sky is dry and things are dry, be careful about the fire."
"Bang Bang——"
"The sky is dry and things are dry, be careful about the fire."
Around five o'clock in the morning, two watchmen, one holding a lantern and the other tapping two bamboo boards in his hand, walked slowly from the distance of the street.
When passing by Changfu, the two watchmen stopped and discussed what happened in the city yesterday.
That is to say, the old head of the Chang clan, Chang Xi, impassionedly criticized the Bei Bo Army in front of countless people in the county, accusing the latter of being a rebel who committed many evil deeds, but he praised the Wei Army in every possible way.
"Lao Liu, you said the Beibo Army...are they really heinous villains? Aren't they the rebels of Song County? Besides, the Beibo Army didn't do anything to us a while ago..." One of them shouted
More people said in confusion.
After hearing this, the watchman named Lao Liu scratched his head and said: "What Mr. Chang said must not be wrong... Mr. Chang is highly virtuous and respected. Several generations ago, his ancestors were still princes..." After a pause,
He added: "But if you think carefully about what Chang Gong said, it does make sense. We have all been under the rule of the Wei people for more than ten years, and the Wei people's decrees are not harsh on us, so why bother causing more trouble? Bei
The Bo army provoked the Wei army for no reason, but did not dare to fight the Wei army head-on. The Wei army hid among our people as soon as they arrived, causing the people of Jinxiang County to be killed..."
"You, how can you say that? The people of Jinxiang County were killed by the Wei army!" the watchman holding a lantern said angrily.
Another watchman heard this and said angrily: "If the Beibo Army hadn't been timid in the face of the battle and hid among the people in Jinxiang County, how could the people in Jinxiang County be killed? I look at the Beibo Army.
It's not a good thing... God knows whether Song Yun is doing it for public or private reasons?"
"Of course General Song Yun is a righteous man!"
"Yi Bo Yuntian? Hey, people from Yi Bo Yuntian will hide behind us people?" Lao Liu curled his lips and said: "In short, what Mr. Chang said is not wrong. He said that the Beibo Army was a rebel.
The Bo army is the rebels!... Lao Zhang, think about it carefully, what kind of person is Chang Gong? A few years ago, there was drought and floods, and your family couldn't solve the problem. You begged Chang Mansion to reduce the land rent, but the people in Chang Mansion didn't say anything.
Just give you a reduction?"
"This, this is..." Lao Zhang, who was holding the lantern, said in a slightly lower voice.
"And your son who caused trouble broke the leg of the third son of the Liu family in the backstreet two years ago. In the end, did the young master (Chang Man) come forward to help you make up the compensation?"
"You...why are you bringing this up?" Lao Zhang's voice became even softer.
Lao Liu chuckled and said: "So, what Mr. Chang said must be right! What do you think?"
"Well..."
Lao Zhang nodded slowly, and he had no words to refute. After all, the Chang family has always been a model of virtue in Changyi.
At this time, a gust of wind blew, causing Lao Liu to shrink his head, gasping and muttering: "It's almost mid-March, and it's still so cold... Lao Zhang, it's almost time, come to my house to sit and have a drink.
Hot wine to warm you up?"
"Isn't this... inappropriate? I've just been to your house a few times recently..." Lao Zhang hesitated.
"Okay, why are we old brothers so polite?" Lao Liu said with a smile. Suddenly, he seemed to notice something and asked doubtfully: "Huh? Is the door of Chang Mansion open?"
"Huh?" Lao Zhang was stunned, and raised the lantern in his hand in the direction of Chang Mansion. Sure enough, he vaguely noticed that half of the door of Chang Mansion was open.
It is undeniable that in Song County a long time ago, when the Song Kingdom still existed, almost all the people in the country abided by the national laws, and the public order was very good. It can be said that "the road is not picked up, and the houses are not closed at night." However, in the past ten years, due to the collapse of the Song Kingdom,
There are many strong men in other countries, and rogue bandits have come to Song County, so the security of Song County has become worse and worse. Therefore, the people of Song County have gradually developed a sense of prevention, and almost no one sleeps with their doors open.
"Is anyone there?"
Carrying a lantern and walking up the steps in front of the house, Lao Zhang poked his head into the door and called softly twice: "Is anyone there?"
However, there was no movement in the house, and the doorman did not know where he had gone.
Seeing this, Lao Zhang and Lao Liu, who came forward, looked at each other and walked into Chang Mansion one after another.
Suddenly, the two brothers stopped because they saw a pool of blood on the ground, and there were faint traces of something being dragged.
Suddenly, the two brothers felt hairy all over their bodies, and had a vague premonition: Changfu, could something have happened?
Looking at each other, the two brothers bravely walked towards the depths of the house.
Along the way, I could see blood stains and traces of dragging heavy objects from time to time, but there was no body.
Until they came to the main hall in the backyard of the mansion.
"ah--!"
Even though the two brothers were over fifty years old, when they saw the tragic situation in the main hall, they screamed in fright and fled to the front door of the mansion in a panic, shouting: "Kill people! Something happened in Chang Mansion! Someone is coming quickly.
Ah! Killed..."
Neighbors nearby heard the commotion, and not long after, a well-built man ran out shirtless, followed the shouts to the front door of Changfu, and asked all kinds of questions about what was going on.
thing.
I saw Lao Liu and Lao Zhang trembling with fear, and stammered: "*** courtyard... The inner courtyard is large, the lobby..."
Seeing this, a dozen strong young men looked at each other and walked into the mansion together until they reached the inner courtyard lobby that the two brothers mentioned.
"hiss--"
When they saw the tragic situation in the main hall of the inner courtyard, even these strong young men in their twenties felt their scalps go numb.
What did they see?
They saw that more than a hundred people in Chang's residence, including more than a dozen members of the owner's family, as well as the servants and maids of the residence, were all killed and their bodies were thrown in the lobby.
However, the Duke of Chang, whom the people of Changyi County had always admired, had his eyes gouged out, his tongue cut out, and he knelt in front of the wall of the lobby.
And on that wall, four big characters dipped in human blood were written with flying dragons and phoenixes - Those who surrender to Wei will be punished!
"What...what should I do?"
A dozen strong young men looked at each other, at a loss.
At the same time, at the county government office in Changyi, Wei envoy Cui Yong had already gotten up early.
Yesterday, he made an appointment with Chang's eldest son, Chang Man, and today the two of them were going to visit the people in the city together. Although it was just a show, Cui Yong believed that the Chang family had a very high reputation in Changyi, so he enlisted the Chang family's young master's family to appease them.
This is far more effective than Wei people like them acting alone.
Walking outside the house, Cui Yong scooped a handful of water from the water tank with his hand, sucked it into his mouth, and gargled.
At this moment, a Wei soldier hurriedly walked in and said to Cui Yong with a worried look on his face: "My lord envoy, something happened. The entire Chang clan has been wiped out."
"Pfft--" Cui Yong suddenly spat out a mouthful of water after hearing such explosive news.
I saw him wiping his mouth with his sleeve and asking in horror: "Seriously?!"
"It's absolutely true, this matter has been widely spread in the city!" the Wei soldier said seriously.
Hearing this, Cui Yong's face flashed with blue and white color, and he ordered with a bit of anger: "Take me there!"
A quarter of an hour later, Cui Yong led dozens of Wei soldiers to the street in front of Changfu Gate.
At this time, the entire street was blocked by the county residents in the city.
Seeing this, Cui Yong shouted loudly: "I am Cui Yong, the imperial envoy. My fellow villagers, please give way."
"Your Majesty the Envoy..."
"The envoy is here..."
The people of the Song Dynasty gave way one after another, and finally Cui Yong and the Wei soldiers squeezed in front of the Changfu gate.
At this time, in front of the Changfu Mansion, a dozen strong young men spontaneously blocked the door. When they saw Cui Yong leading a group of Wei soldiers, one man came up and said, "Your Majesty, envoy, you are here.
"
"..."
Cui Yong was a little surprised by the other party's attitude. He frowned and asked in a deep voice: "I heard that Chang Gong and his family were killed? What happened? Chang Gong is the newly appointed county magistrate by the imperial court. Who dares to harm him?"
The dozen or so strong young men looked at each other in confusion. After a while, one of them said dullly: "My lord envoy, you... you'd better go into the mansion and see for yourself."
After a while, Cui Yong and dozens of Wei soldiers, led by several strong young men, arrived at the lobby of the main house in the inner courtyard.
At this time, people outside the lobby were also surrounded by nearby neighbors.
Cui Yong finally squeezed into the crowd and took a breath, but was stimulated by a very strong smell of blood and coughed repeatedly.
Immediately, when he saw the corpses all over the house, he looked ugly, held on to the door wall, and vomited in public.
No one laughed at Cui Yong, because even the Song people who were watching and the Wei soldiers beside Cui Yong looked very ugly at this time. Some of them even walked to the corner and vomited like Cui Yong.
The reason is that those brutal thugs, not only killing people and dumping their bodies, but also chopped up the corpses in the house with knives, so that there were stumps and broken arms everywhere in the house, even on the walls and doors.
Of flesh and blood.
"This...what kind of hatred is there?"
One of Wei Zhong's uncles endured the turmoil in his stomach and murmured with an ugly face.
For soldiers like them, killing people is commonplace, but dismembering corpses is against human ethics and morality.
Suddenly, a Wei soldier pointed to the wall in front of the house and said, "My lord envoy, there are words on the wall that seem to have been left by the perpetrator."
Cui Yong, who was vomiting and dizzy, wiped his mouth with his sleeve, raised his head and glanced at the wall in the room. He was shocked to see the words "Those who surrender to Wei will be punished" written on the wall.
"..."
Cui Yong's pupils shrank suddenly.
At this moment, there was a burst of rapid footsteps behind him.
Cui Yong turned around and saw Zhang Qigong and more than a dozen Wei soldiers crowding beside him.
Zhang Qigong walked outside the door, glanced inside the room with a frown, and then glanced at the bloody words on the wall. He sighed and said sadly: "It's my fault. I should have thought of it yesterday. Like Mr. Chang yesterday."
Those who spoke uprightly and exposed the true face of Beibo's rebellion will definitely be persecuted by those evil parties... However, I never expected that the Beibo army would be so cruel and cruel, and massacred the entire Changgong family..."
After that, he turned around suddenly and said angrily: "The imperial court will never give up! The Beibo Army rebelled and must pay the price for their atrocities!"
Upon hearing this, the people of the Song Dynasty who were watching were so excited by Zhang Qigong's words that their faces flushed red and they all shouted in agreement.
Even the Wei soldiers looked furious.
Only Cui Yong, standing behind several Wei soldiers, took a deep look at Zhang Qigong.