Zheng Yuming is forehead hit the carriage after the pain woke up, and when he touched the reddened forehead corner climbed up, found that the mule cart has stopped, Wu Da is strangling the reins and waving the mule whip in the shouting, and the original in the carriage Chu Chao Hui disappeared, placed in the carriage of the steel rod is not in the original position.
"Chu Xian Di, beat this murderer of a thousand knives to death, to think of the even family's mule cart again." Wu Da was obviously furious, shouting so much that his face turned red.
Zheng Yuming climbed to the door of the car and found Chu Chao Hui standing not far away with a steel rod and a yellow man at his feet.
"What's going on?" Zheng Yuming hurriedly jumped off the mule cart and ran to Chu Chao Hui's side.
"Awake?" Chu Chao Hui looked relaxed, not putting the yellow-robed man humming at his feet in the least.
"Uh... This is the previous time to rob the mule cart?" Zheng Yuming unconsciously slept for two hours, the mule cart has passed the back slope, in front of the south port, this place is surprisingly Wu Da last time encountered a robbery of the path corner, that lying at the feet of Chu Chao Hui, hands holding a thigh humming yellow people is exactly the last time one of the two robbers.
"How were all the robbers disposed of?" Chu Chao Hui turned his head and asked Wu Da.
"No need to send to da city, just break his arms and legs!" Wu Da huffed and puffed, generally caught the traitorous disciples have two ways to dispose of, one is to hand over to the official, handed over to the official, the robber is basically punished for slavery or hard labor, handing over to the official must escort the robber to Dacheng, Wu Da obviously do not want to run more, want to directly dispose of, this is the villagers caught the traitorous people the most commonly used punishment, lynchings, but also the official acquiescence, because at that time, the number of officials is very small, the official The official government could not manage to come over.
"Forgive me, adults! I can't think of anything else to do. The fields are in arrears, and I only want to exchange the mule cart for a mouthful of grain to live on." Once the man in yellow heard that Wu Da was going to break his arms and legs, he could not help but howl loudly and beg for mercy. What this robber was wearing was actually not yellow clothes, but yellow and white linen clothes, which turned yellow because they could not be washed clean.
"Unable to think can rob others mule cart?" Chu Chao Hui raised an eyebrow, picked up the steel rod, was ready to break the yellow man's hands and feet, this yellow man and that escaped accomplices, deadbeat, robbed once unsuccessful, but also thinking of robbing a second time, if easily spared, there is no guarantee that there is not a third time, in the future, to go to the city of Dacheng often, the road robbers should be resolutely combated.
"Lord have mercy!" Just as Chu Chao Hui was weighing his stick, another yellow-clothed robber rushed out from the woods on the hillside, and this yellow-clothed man jumped to Chu Chao Hui's body and knelt down and kowtowed violently.
Chu Chaohui and Zheng Yuming froze for a moment, not thinking at all that the escaped robber couldn't leave his accomplice, seeing that his accomplice was going to be punished, he foolishly ran out to plead for his accomplice, was this thinking that they were good to talk to? Or do the two of them look like bodhisattvas, are kind eyes?
"You are from Hou Po!" Wu Da next to him jumped to his feet, this yellow-robed man who came to plead for mercy looked a bit familiar to him, as if he had seen it in Hou Po.
"Owner Wu, please spare our brothers." The pleading yellow clothes were obviously better talkers than their accomplices, crying and begging while telling why the two had robbed Wu Da's mule cart.
It turned out that the two yellow-robed people are back slope villagers, the two are cousins, Chu Chao Hui steel stick swept to the feet of the nude arrested called Tian Hu, this year only eighteen years old, ran to plead for Tian Hu's cousin Tian Leopard, younger than Tian Hu on a year old. Tian Bao from a young age, both parents died, was adopted by Tian Hu's parents, Tian Hu's family has siblings four people, two brothers have become a family, a sister last year has been married out, in the past few years encountered natural disasters, the back slopes of the field is not like the south port by the river can be picked up for irrigation, the ground crop more unbearable, a few years ago, Tian Hu's father died of illness, the two older brothers with the village's hunting team to go into the mountains and hunt did not come back, the family less off the two The family lost two laborers, adding insult to injury. After this year's Spring Festival to watch has not rained and snowed for a month, it is estimated that the drought will have to continue, counting on the grain in the ground to live with little hope, Tian Hu's mother this year has been fifty-five, it is to the age of the old woman sent to the mountains, Tian Hu filial piety, do not want to let his mother go into the mountains, to see the Wu Da often driving mule carts to go to the city of Dacheng, on the mule carts to play the idea of the mule carts.
"Sending mountains? What do you mean by sending mountains?" Zheng Yuming didn't understand what it meant.
Wu Da heard Tian Bao talk about Tian Hu's mother to be sent to the mountain, anger eliminated, full of intolerance, lying at the feet of Chu Chao Hui Tian Hu is crying sadly.
Tian Bao lifted up his rubbed red eyes, and was surprised that the two tall and strong men did not know what it meant to send the mountain.
"The mother of this Tian Hu turned fifty-five." Wu Da's voice was low.
"What's wrong with being fifty-five years old?" Zheng Yuming still do not understand, are fifty-five years old why to send to the mountains, this era of people aging very quickly, to more than fifty years of age is the wind and candles, sent to the mountains is not a dead end.
"There is no food in the house, only the old mother can be sent away! The even family doesn't want the old mother to go and feed the beasts." Tian Hu howled.
"You mean having your old mother sent to the mountains to die?" Zheng Yuming drifted off, he seemed to have heard that in ancient times long ago, people would send some old people who were incapable of working to the mountains to feed the wolves in order to save food.
Tian Hu's family has only two laborers, Tian Hu and Tian Bao, but they have to support two widowed sisters-in-law and four young nieces and nephews and an old mother in her old age. Now that the fields have been in short supply for a long time, and the family is on the verge of starvation, Tian Hu's old mother has offered to send her into the mountains. The phenomenon of Wudi sending old people around sixty into the mountains had been rare, but with the intensification of the famine, this phenomenon has begun to appear again. Tian Hu heart can not bear to see Wu Da driving a mule cart at night in their village, the heart of the intention to rob, want to rob the mule cart to sell for some food, through the time of the harvest, and so on the ground later to hit the grain, the old mother will not have to be sent to the mountains.
A sullen atmosphere spread between the people, the five people present, except for Tian Hu's low sobs, there was no sound for a while.
"Two wise brothers, let them go." Wu Da let out a long sigh.
Chu Chao Hui released his right foot that was stepping on Tian Hu and retrieved the steel rod.
"Thank you three proprietors! Thank you three lords!" Tian Hu got free and hurriedly climbed up to kneel and kowtow, and beside him, Tian Bao also kowtowed non-stop.
"If you guys go back like this, will old mother still be sent to the deep mountains?" Chu Chao Hui narrowed his eyes slightly and suddenly asked when the two cousins wanted to leave.
The two men, Tian Hu and Tian Bao, looked at each other, wondering what the tallest and stoutest outlander had in mind when he asked this.
"You want to help these two?" Zheng Yuming lowered his voice and asked Chu Chaohui in Mandarin.
"It's not helping, it's that they have value to use." Chu Chao Hui could not be as benevolent as Zheng Yuming thought, he only thought of the future plans that required a large number of laborers, this cousins were not too small in terms of their strength to eat and eat.
After Chu Chao Hui and Zheng Yuming finished speaking, they turned to face the Tian brothers.
"Tian Hu Tian Bao, next month Nambu will need hard labor, if you come to help out, not only will you be fed, but you will also be allowed to take a day's ration back with you."
"Really?" Tian Hu Tian Bao's eyes glowed, doing a day of hard labor help can bring two laborers' rations home if you add some wild vegetables or something, the other seven old and weak women and children in the family can have a mouth to feed and survive.
Looking at the distant Tian brothers, Wu Da worried, "Chu Xian Di, where in Nangbu is there work for outsiders to do."
Nambu wharf portering work is never the village people do it themselves, outside the village people want to come to solicit some work, will always let the villagers of Nambu concerted efforts to drive out of the village.
"Brother Wu, don't worry, there will be very many hard labor jobs in Nambu in the future, the village people alone can't do it all." Chu Chao Hui pacified Wu Da, and Wu Da was also afraid that if Chu Chao Hui gave the pier portering work to the Tian Brothers, the hard laborers in his own village would have to starve.
"Are you going to gather the villagers together to meet them today?"
"No need, meet with the villagers again after some time." Zheng Yuming felt that there is nothing to say to see the villagers now, or to wait to plant food to see their tenant farmers again, for the Nambu village, he and Chu Chao Hui have a set of programs in their hearts, tonight, Zheng Yuming decided to have a good talk with Chu Chao Hui.
The mule cart entered the village, the residents of the village did not know that the stranger in the mule cart had become their landlord, so the attitude remained much the same as before. Wu Da drove the mule cart with more vigor, and his two brothers with different surnames said that he, who was his brother, was also a landlord in Nambu, and that the three of them should share the same blessings and difficulties in the future.
The car into the house, Wu Da only from the mule car down, Wu Feng ran out of the house, a pounce on his father, followed by wood from the house scurried out, around Zheng Yuming whimpering, Zheng Yuming, Chu Chaohui, Wu Da three went to Dacheng went to five days, the wood stayed in a strange place, the amount of food is much less, the body of the dog's hair is less oily.
Huo's siblings timidly followed behind Wu's wife, both eyes also can't hide the happiness, Zheng Yuming and Chu Chao Hui is their dependence in this world.
The three were returning to Nambu from Dacheng in the morning, and were delayed for a while on the way by Tian's brothers, and it was already afternoon when they returned to Wu Da's house. Zheng Yuming and Chu Chaohui had a simple meal in Wu Da's house, and then took their two children and a little puppy to say goodbye and return to the valley, and made an agreement with Wu that they would meet up tomorrow on a path not far away from the gap, because firstly, the quinine western medicine given to Healer Xu would need to be sent by Wu Da to Dacheng, and secondly, they would need to do some work in Dacheng, and when they return to the valley, they will go back to Dacheng. When Wu Da returns, at the beginning of this month, the three of them will also go to Dacheng together to buy slaves.
Wu Da's mule cart did not send Zheng Yuming and Chu Chao Hui and his party to the gap this time, because the mules needed to rest from continuous traveling, and tomorrow Wu Da still had to go to Dacheng, so he had to let the mules recuperate and regain their strength.
When going back, Huo siblings one person sat a basket, picked by Chu Chao Hui walking, while Zheng Yuming holding wood followed beside. Going out for five days, Woody wanted his master so much that he was emaciated, but the Huo siblings raised their faces with more blood, and when they reached the outskirts of the village, Huo Si-Zhong whispered to his two adopters.
"My two lords, my sister and I didn't say anything, not even when Auntie Mother asked." Auntie is Wu Da's wife.
"Not bad, good children, very obedient." Chu Chao Hui lowered his head and praised the child in the basket, before he and Zheng Yuming set off to Dacheng, he had taken care of the two children, the matter in the valley cannot be told to anyone, once told, there will be bad people to rob, then there will be no food to eat, no clothes to wear.
Huo siblings in the valley of two days such as into the heaven, how willing to heaven disappear back to hell, Zheng Yuming and Chu Chao Hui's care in mind, others asked about Zheng Yuming and Chu Chao Hui's residence, the siblings are a question three do not know.
The two cross people now do not want outsiders to enter the valley, the seam of the matter also do not want to let outsiders know too early, told Wu Da out of the valley is the way they found a small mountain road out of the valley. Living in the mountains is a self-made house, Wu Da's wife was curious about the clothes worn by the two children, inquired about the situation of the two Habitat, did not expect Huo's siblings with two logs, what reaction is not.
Nambu village walk to the gap mouth of the foot of the mountain to forty minutes of travel, to the foot of the mountain, Chu Chao Hui put the basket down to change to Zheng Yuming, Zheng Yuming put the wood into the arms of Huo Sihua, stretched up the basket and walked a few steps, and found that Chu Chao Hui is still standing in place and not moving.
"Tired? Want to rest for a while?" Basket is Chu Chao Hui breath to the foot of the mountain, Zheng Yuming thought Chu Chao Hui standing still, perhaps tired.
"You go first, I'll be right there." Chu Chao Hui waved his hand at Zheng Yuming.
Zheng Yuming walked for a few minutes, Chu Chaohui slowly and methodically followed behind, Zheng Yuming carrying baskets flashed to the large camphor tree into the gap, Chu Chaohui immediately followed, and so several figures have disappeared behind the large camphor tree, a black shadow from the bushes flashed to the side of the camphor tree, the black shadow of the black stare to hear the sound of footsteps fade away, only then cautiously probed into the back of the camphor tree.
Author's Note: In the pre-Qin period, due to the backwardness of the productive forces, in order to get rid of the burden of the elderly over 60 years old buried alive or fed to the wolves, and then Li Si proposed to the first emperor of Qin to prohibit this kind of behavior, the first emperor agreed. There is also a record in the Records of the Grand Historian: The Records of the Grand Historian say: Sun Yuanjue was a native of Chenliu. Sun Yuanjue was a native of Chenliu. He was fifteen years old, but he was a filial son. His father was unfilial, Yuan Jue's grandfather was old, sick, thin and weak, and his father hated him, so he tied the basket and lifted it to abandon the mountains. Yuanjue remonstrated with his father in grief. His father said, "Ah Weng is old, although he looks like a human being, he is senile, and if he does not die, he will become a fox. He then raised his father and abandoned him to the mountains. Yuan Jue cried out in grief and went to the mountain with his grandfather, admonishing his father bitterly, but he would not obey. Yuan Jue then looked up to the sky and cried, and then brought the carriage back. His father said to him, "What is the use of this evil thing? JUE said, "This is a mature thing, and if I give it to my father, I will not build anything else. The father was shocked when he heard this: "You are my son, why did you abandon me? Yuan Jue said, "The father's transformation of the son is like the flow of water, and since I have received the father's instruction, I would not dare to disobey it. The father was then enlightened, so he returned his grandfather to his family, and was more diligent in his filial piety than he had ever been. Confucius sighed and said, "This is what a filial son does when he does not disobey his parents. The theory of Yingcai said, "Zheng Hong was kind and righteous, he let his brother in with his horse and cart clothes, he did not wear his own clothes, he was famous all over the world, he was promoted to be a county [filial piety], and his position was as high as that of the chief minister of the state.