Brother Wang walked in the front, and his two buckets were filled first.
Use a pole to string two buckets, put it on your shoulders, and then use the force to turn around. He must spin very slowly and try not to shake, otherwise the precious water in the bucket will be spilled. In this drought year, spilling out A drop of water will cause heartache for a long time.
However, as soon as he turned around and saw the scene behind him, he was completely confused.
At some point, a strange hill made of small white balls appeared behind him.
Brother Wang's mouth opened wide and he couldn't close it for a while. The bucket on his shoulder slipped down and fell to the ground with a clang. Not a drop of water was left in the two buckets.
The villagers next to me felt very distressed and said anxiously: "Brother Wang, why did you drop the bucket? These... two buckets of good water..."
He felt so distressed that he wanted to kneel down on the spot and hold the mud together.
Brother Wang was extremely stiff and said: "Everyone...look...behind..."
The villagers by the pond turned back one after another.
One to turn back, one to settle down!
Turn back one more time and settle down another one!
In the blink of an eye, a large group of villagers seemed to have their acupuncture points tapped. They all maintained stiff gestures and looked stupidly at the small round ball mound behind them.
A villager opened his mouth to scream, but Brother Wang rushed over and covered his mouth.
Only then did the rest of the villagers wake up. This is Gaojia Village. We are here to steal water. We must not shout loudly, otherwise we will be caught and killed on the spot.
Brother Wang walked to the small round ball mound, picked up one, smelled it, and said in a low voice: "Is this flour? I must be right? It smells like flour, and the particles are so big. Could it be that the flour got wet and stuck into balls?”
Another villager nodded: "It's definitely true. Just now I was thinking why I suddenly smelled the fragrance of flour. Maybe I was too hungry and had hallucinations."
Brother Wang: "How did this flour ball appear?"
"I do not see it!"
"I didn't see it either."
"I was fetching water just now."
Brother Wang gritted his teeth and said, "It's someone from Gaojia Village who quietly put him behind us while we weren't paying attention. This is the only possibility."
The villagers looked at each other.
"Are the people in Gaojiacun so nice?"
“Where do they get all this flour?”
“Why stick flour into balls?”
“With so much flour, it’s impossible to give it to us for nothing.”
"You secretly let us go behind our backs in the middle of the night, this..."
Brother Wang looked left, right, forward, and behind, looking around in a big circle, but he couldn't see anyone's shadow. He threw a flour ball into his mouth, chewed it, and almost hit him with a pop. He sneezed, and the smell of raw flour was hard to describe. He whispered: "It is indeed flour! It was given by people from Gaojia Village. This is the only possibility. They knew that we came to steal water in the middle of the night. In order to save us some face, they did not expose it to our faces. We, sympathetic to our poverty, put these piles of flour balls here for us to eat.”
Ten thousand villagers did not believe this analysis, but apart from this outrageous analysis, they could not think of any other possibilities.
Brother Wang whispered: "Everyone pour the water in the buckets back into the pool. First use the buckets to fill the flour, as much as you can. Remember, this must not be wasted. Be more careful than carrying water." , if anyone spills flour, my boss will beat him to death with my fists."
The villagers didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "Brother Wang, you don't need to tell me this. If we spill flour, we will beat ourselves to death without my brother taking action."
A group of people quickly poured the water from the bucket into the pool!
They didn't dare to use wet buckets to directly load flour, as they would get burnt. So they held the wet buckets, faced the wind, and kept waving them in mid-air. It took a while to dry the buckets. He quickly rushed to the flour mound, filled two buckets of flour, carefully picked it up, and took small steps carefully.
I was even more careful when holding my newborn baby with my hands than the night my wife gave birth, for fear that if I accidentally shook it and the flour ball rolled down to the sand, I would be so heartbroken that I couldn't breathe.
A group of people left carrying flour and walked outside the village. The leader, Brother Wang, suddenly put down the bucket, clasped his hands towards Gaojiacun, and made a big salute: "Today is a generous gift. I, Wang Er, will note it down. Must be repaid.”
He didn't know who he was thanking. Anyway, it must be a certain master in Gaojia Village. Today he was a water thief, and the master didn't want to meet him, so he secretly sent flour. In the future, I must come openly and thank you openly.
After hearing his words, Li Daoxuan knew his name, Wang Er!
I always feel like I’ve seen this name somewhere?
His heart moved, and he quickly opened the historical materials of the late Ming Dynasty that he had been reading for a few days, and searched inside. Finally, he found Wang Er's name in the book "Records of Luqiao":
In the year when Chongzhen changed to the Yuan Dynasty, there was a great famine in the Qin Dynasty, and the land was red for thousands of miles. The two kings of Baishui broke into Chengcheng and killed the county magistrate.
The book "Little Knowledge of the Lie Huang" is even more vivid and colorful:
Tianqi Dingmao, Shaanxi suffered a severe drought. Zhang Yao, the magistrate of Chengcheng County, was very cruel and the people could not bear his poison. There were two kings, and hundreds of people gathered on the mountain. They all painted their faces with ink. Wang Er shouted: "Who dares to kill Zhang Zhixian?" Everyone responded in unison: "I dare to kill!" Three of them broke into the city. The gatekeeper did not dare to resist, so he went straight into the county to kill Yaocai. Everyone gathered together in the mountains.
Historians define Wang Er's uprising as "the starting point of the peasant uprising in the late Ming Dynasty." In other words, this person was the benchmark figure in the peasant war that overthrew the Ming Dynasty. Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong are all his juniors.
Li Daoxuan silently closed the browser and turned his attention back to the landscaping box.
Wang Er has already taken his people out of the landscaping box.
All they left behind were footprints on the ground, and traces of even a layer of soil being dug away from where the flour was piled.
Li Daoxuan sighed lightly: "Since you are the symbol of the beginning of the peasant war in the late Ming Dynasty, it seems that it will not be long before the flames of the peasant uprising will reach Gaojia Village. We will meet again."
Turning back to look at the dilapidated houses in Gaojia Village, Li Daoxuan knew that once the peasant uprising broke out, Gaojia Village would inevitably be involved in the war. If he stood in front of the landscaping box and reached into the box to sweep away thousands of people, The army can protect the safety of little people.
But if you fall asleep or go out to do something, the little people will be in great danger.
It will take more than a month to complete the Hakka enclosure, but Wang Er's uprising may be imminent.
We can't wait foolishly for the Hakkas to surround their houses. We have to get something else in advance to protect their safety.
Thinking of this, he couldn't help but glance around the house, looking for things that could be used to help the little people. Soon, he noticed a piece of rusty iron turned up on the clothes hanger.
Li Daoxuan's eyes lit up: Break the iron! This can be used to make armor for little people.
However, these villagers have low combat effectiveness. Even if they wear iron armor, they may not be able to defeat the bandits and officers and soldiers, and they must be given more reliable protection.
His eyes fell on the pile of Lego bricks next to the desk again. Hehe, this thing can be used to prop up the Hakka enclosure before building it.
