Patriarch Chen blushed at Chen Zuwang's rebuke and said angrily: "Lao Qi, just tell me whether you want to borrow the grain today or not."
"If you don't borrow it, you won't get food, and if you don't borrow it, you won't get it."
"Okay, you are going to secede from the clan. My whole family has been hungry all day. This is unkind of you. I will make the decision today. The Chen family has not divided the property. All property should be shared by the clan. I declare , these four thousand kilograms of grain belong to the clan and are kept by the big house. The whole clan will eat porridge together tonight, do you agree or not?"
The two hundred people cheered together.
“It all depends on the patriarch”
"No objection, just do it if you have no conscience."
"If he doesn't agree, give him a tough one."
"Let them not recognize images. Next time, we can sell some of the girls in Room 11 and get some food."
Patriarch Chen is very proud. It seems that his appeal is still good.
"Who dares to dig for straw?" Chen Zuwang pulled out a three-eyed gun from the straw under the bed. He took out the fire seal and blew it red and bright.
Chen San also took out a loaded three-eyed blunderbuss, trembling at the crowd, and shouted: "You white-eyed wolves, even though there are few people in our room 11, we will not be bullied by you. I will fight with you." ”
They borrowed two carts from the shipyard to bring the grain back. They were afraid of meeting bandits on the road. There were hungry people all over the place these days, so they brought the three-eyed musket they had secretly kept at home. After all, they were both soldiers and wanted to make fire. There is still a way to use weapons.
Patriarch Chen looked at the black muzzle of the gun and immediately started to tremble, "Old Qi, don't be impulsive. Don't be impulsive. It's easy to say something."
Chen Pizi rolled his eyes and said sullenly: "The world is big and the food is the biggest. We are right. The fault is their eleventh room. It is because they refuse to save others and are unkind for the sake of wealth. They dare not open fire. Let's all work together." Come on, the dolls are hungry. Come on."
he yelled, backing up.
Everyone's eyes were red with hunger, and they surrounded him like a group of roaring wild beasts with hot breath blowing from their nostrils. He was about to rush into the house to grab food.
Chen Zuwang sighed, he really couldn't do it if he really wanted to attack his clan brothers. If they want to grab it, just grab it.
Seeing that he couldn't do anything, everyone felt relieved and immediately became arrogant and swarmed over him.
"Don't force me, don't force me." Chen San cried and screamed.
"Coward, you've been a coward all your life, get out of here." Chen Pizi came out again at this time and slapped Chen San with his mouth.
"Ah!" Chen San shouted with his eyes closed.
With trembling hands, he poked the fuse into the fuse.
"Bang!" There was a gunshot.
The three-eyed cannon went off, and a lead bullet was fired at Chen Pizi's mouth. The lead bullet entered from the left cheek, shattering one of his teeth, and flew out from the right cheek. The lead bullet hit Patriarch Chen again. The arm flew out after a cut.
"Ah!" Chen Pizi covered his mouth with both hands and rolled on the ground in pain. Blood spurted everywhere.
"Help, help," Patriarch Chen sat down on the ground, crying.
After Chen San fired the gun, he seemed to have released a psychological shackles. He gritted his teeth and shouted: "I'll let you bully others and bully others. If you don't do it, I'll beat you idiots to death." Take the fire folder and look for the remaining leads.
The Chen family were all frightened. The people in Room 11 really dared to shoot.
Chen Zuwang sighed, the brothers from the same clan have become like this. Now that they have reached this point, they can never go back to the past.
It’s okay if you don’t want this home.
He took a step forward with a three-eyed gun in hand, and everyone else took a step back in fear.
Chen Zuwang picked up Old Mrs. Chen and yelled: "Squat down for me. I will kill anyone who touches him."
Suddenly more than 200 people were so frightened that they squatted on the ground, crying and screaming. The women were paralyzed on the ground.
Chen Zuwang's heart was filled with ice. These were their relatives. They were as ferocious as wolves when they bullied the weak. When they encountered strong men who dared to kill him, they did not even dare to resist. It's up to you to take it or take it. Then they take it out on the weak. Reading, reading, the knowledge of saints, how come they turn into such useless things?
Gu He spit a mouthful of thick phlegm at everyone in the big room.
The boss of the big room was trembling and didn't even dare to wipe it off.
"Go and get the family tree. Hurry up, hurry up, and you will be like Chen Pizi." Chen Zuwang said fiercely.
"Hey, go right now, go right now, don't use the gun, don't use the gun." The boss of the eldest house ran back crawling.
After a while, he ran back holding a large thread-bound book.
Chen Zuwang turned directly to the eleventh room at the end and pulled out the contents of the eleventh room. Throw away the family tree.
He used a fire stick to directly ignite the dozens of yellowed pages of paper.
"Ah! Old Seven is crazy."
"What are you going to do? How dare you burn family trees."
Chen Zuwang watched the dozen or so pages of genealogy turn into smoke, and said coldly: "Today, the eleventh room of my Chen family has separated into independent clans and has nothing to do with you anymore. If you come back again, this musket will not recognize you."
The Chen family were all dumbfounded. He stood there dumbfounded.
"roll!"
More than a hundred people immediately felt like they had been granted amnesty. They picked up the old patriarch and Chen Pizi and ran away, rolling and crawling. They were all gone in an instant. Many people didn't dare to come back to pick up their shoes after they ran away.
The snow was really white and clean.
"Uncle, woo woo woo," Chen San stamped his feet and cried.
The identification of clans among people in this era is not something that modern people can understand. Without clans, it is like becoming a lonely ghost and unable to enter the ancestral graves after death. This is a very tragic thing.
"My dear, don't cry. People will live and trees will die. If you stay among the wolves, your family will be eaten by them sooner or later. No bones and dregs will be left. Haven't you heard that they want to sell your daughter?"
Chen San collapsed and squatted on the ground crying. "Uncle, I don't understand. The Chen family is like this. Can't they unite together? Think together and work hard together. There is no sky that is not bright and there is no river that cannot be crossed. How can they still return? They have to force those who are weaker than them. If you hit them with a stick and dodge, when will they be the leader? Sooner or later they will be finished."
Chen Zuwang's heart felt like a knife piercing his heart, and he said sadly: "It's not just the Chen family, the Ming Dynasty is also like this. The world is sick."
"The whole world is sick, so there is no hope, so what can we do?" Chen San said while crying.
"Don't be afraid, the grass is sick, and there are wildfires! Burn all the diseased pastures. As the ancestor's poem said, wildfires can't burn them all. The spring breeze will blow them again, and after the wildfires there will be prosperity again."
Chen San was dumbfounded. He couldn't figure out what wildfire and grass he was talking about. He trembled and said, "Uncle, you are already forty-six, so don't worry about it. Just keep talking. You are the only elder I have left. You can do whatever you want."
"Let's sign up. The whole family will go, and the entire eleventh room will go. Let's go to Vladivostok to gain wealth and gain a future for our children and grandchildren."
"Uncle, can we just go there? After working for a few years and earning money, we can come back and buy some land. What a wonderful life it will be."
"My mistress, you think I am willing to leave my hometown. You can't see through it. The whole world has been ruined by scholars. Can you keep the land you bought? Sooner or later, you will have to make wedding clothes for others. The owner of this shipyard , I don’t think you’re an ordinary person, I’m forty-six and I dare to take my whole family there, what are you afraid of when you’re only thirty?”
Chen Sanyi gritted his teeth. The old uncle was the last elder in the eleventh room. He is cowardly by nature, but he respects his elders, "Uncle, you are always the most knowledgeable in the Chen family. I listen to you, and my whole family will go. But I can't bring so much food with me when I move. I'm a little reluctant to part with it."
"Except for what's necessary, I won't take it with me. I can take as much food as I can and don't need the rest."
"Uncle, I feel bad for taking advantage of those white-eyed wolves."
"Then burn it, and don't give it to them. Burn the house, and burn all the remaining belongings, but don't give it to them."
After all, the elderly and children at home have to travel ten miles on a trolley, so we can't take them all with us.
An hour later, Chen San and Chen Zuwang were each pulling a cart. There were old people and children sitting on the cart, and simple household items and food were placed on the cart. The daughter and wife were pushing the cart behind, facing the wind and snow in the evening, and walked hard towards the shipyard.
A raging fire broke out in two underground tunnels behind him, and thick smoke shot straight into the sky.
