Chapter 73, Jin Bo’s bravery
The grass grows and the orioles fly in the June sky.
It was at this time that Xi Xingchen came to Yangjiacun again.
The person who received Xi Xingchen and Jin Bo was Li Zheng Yang Sansong from Yangjiacun.
As soon as Xi Xingchen walked into Yangjia Village, he saw a little boy with a pale and thin face and a belly almost touching his spine. He was picking up a piece of bark with trembling hands, chewing it up and swallowing it hard.
Xi Xingchen was shocked when he saw this, and quickly took out a big cake from his arms and handed it to the little boy. The little boy took the big cake and immediately started to gnaw it. Because he ate in such a hurry, the little boy was quickly choked. His little face suddenly turned red.
Xi Xingchen quickly grabbed the pie, took off the kettle and gave the little boy a sip of water. After a while, the pie stuck in the little boy's throat slid down his esophagus and into his stomach. There was no food blocking his throat. The little boy His anger finally came over, and his complexion returned to normal.
"Eat slowly. If you eat too quickly, you will hurt yourself." Xi Xingchen returned the pie to the little boy and said softly with a smile.
After the little boy ate a few bites of the big cake and drank a few more sips of water, the hunger in his belly subsided slightly. He took the big cake and stopped eating. After thanking Xi Xingchen, he ran towards the village.
Upon entering Di Village, Xi Xingchen saw the men in the village laboriously collecting bark, the women digging grass roots in the fields, and the skinny old man sitting in the corner with hollow eyes, moaning feebly.
Xi Xingchen has seen famine before. The situation in Yangjiacun obviously means that they have been without food for some time.
Xi Xingchen came to Yangjia Village two months ago. Although the villagers in Yangjia Village were having a hard time at that time, they were not eating tree bark or grass roots.
"Yang Lizheng, how could this happen? What happened in the village?" Xi Xingchen was shocked when he saw this and asked.
It was okay for Xi Xingchen not to ask, but when he asked, Yang Sansong became angry: "The night you left, I don't know who killed Yao Guoping's family, and even set fire to Yao's house."
Xi Xingchen was stunned when he heard this. Because the "goddamned one" in Yang Sansong's words was none other than himself.
Xi Xingchen felt guilty, so he asked cautiously: "Yao Guoping's family bullies men and dominates women, and runs rampant in the countryside. Isn't it a good thing that such evil people are eliminated?"
Yang Sansong said with a bitter face: "Originally, this is indeed a very happy thing. There is no one in the eight villages in Zhuma Town who has not been bullied by the Yao family, and there is no one who wishes that their family would die early."
"Then you still scold others?" Jin Bo knew the whole story and defended Xi Xingchen from the side.
Yang Sansong sighed and said: "Two little brothers, you only know one but not the other?"
"Is that two related to this famine?" Xi Xingchen asked.
Yang Sansong nodded and said: "Not long after the death of Yao Guoping's family, rumors spread in Wan County that all the Yao family members were dead, and their fields, soil, and food were all ownerless. Whoever grabs it first belongs to him.”
"That's right!" Xi Xingchen wanted this effect when he burned down the Yao Mansion.
"The truth is correct. We thought so at the beginning. Until a month ago, tens of thousands of disaster victims suddenly poured into Zhuma Town. They rushed into the 'Dafa' rice store, robbed all the food, and divided the Yao family Only then did he realize that he had caused a big trouble." Yang Sansong said.
"You didn't go and grab it?" Jin Bo asked.
Yang Sansong coughed a few times and said a little embarrassedly: "Everyone is starving to death. Seeing that everyone is grabbing, do you grab some?"
"Have the fields been divided?" Jin Bo asked again.
"It's divided." Yang Sansong explained, "Actually, it doesn't count. We only got back the land occupied by the Yao family."
"While everyone was dividing the Yao family's land, the head of Huangfeng Village came to Zhuma Town with many bandits. The head of Huangfeng Village said that Yao Guoping was his brother-in-law and that he would now manage the property of the Yao family. The grain and land that were robbed from the Yao family must be returned in full, otherwise Zhuma Town will be slaughtered with blood."
"You all paid it back?" Xi Xingchen asked.
Yang Sansong said angrily: "Can you not return it? Some people who were unwilling to return it had their heads chopped off on the spot and dragged through the streets with ropes. Their skin and flesh were so rotten that only their bones were left."
When thinking of the scene at that time, Yang Sansong still seemed to be frightened, and his tone was trembling.
"The land was returned, but the rice stolen from the Dafa Rice Store had been eaten up long ago, so there was no way to get it back. So the bandits from Huangfeng Village came to the village every day, searching every house, and robbed everything they could eat. Now there is not even a grain of rice in the whole village, and they have been eating bark and wild vegetables for several days. Now that the bark and wild vegetables are all eaten, we can only wait to die."
After hearing this, Xi Xingchen finally understood why Yangjiacun was in such a state of decline.
"I originally wanted to take the people in the village to escape, but the roads out of the town were blocked by bandits. I couldn't go anywhere. I could only sit and wait to die." Yang Sansong said almost in tears.
"Are you really going to sit here and wait to die?" Jin Bo said angrily.
"Then what else can be done?" Yang Sansong said discouraged.
"Find a way to live!" Jin Bo felt a little resentful that iron could not make steel.
"How to survive? All the bark and grass roots have been eaten." Yang Sansong continued to shake his head and sigh.
"Then I'll treat you to a nice meal?" Xi Liangchen said.
As soon as he heard that there was food, Yang Sansong's eyes suddenly lit up, and then dimmed again: "You didn't bring anything, how can you get food?"
"No, someone has brought something." Xi Xingchen pointed to the outside of the village.
Following the direction Jin Bo pointed, six horses were galloping towards the village.
When Yang Sansong saw those people, his expression changed drastically and he said: "Two little brothers, they are bandits searching the village. You should hide to avoid getting into trouble."
"I think they are all here to deliver food." Xi Xingchen winked at Jin Bo, who immediately understood and went up to him.
Six fast horses arrived in an instant. When the bandit at the front saw Jin Bo standing on the road blocking the way, he not only did not stop, but instead whipped the horse's butt hard. The horse was in pain and was as high as crazy. He jumped up high and stepped on Jin Bo's head.
Seeing that Jin Bo was about to be trampled to death by a horse, Yang Sansong didn't want to see the bloody scene and was so frightened that he quickly closed his eyes.
There was a loud "boom" and the screams of horses immediately came.
Yang Sansong opened his eyes and saw Jin Bo's tall body in the flying dust, standing there motionless as if a god descended from heaven.
Two feet away behind Jin Bo, a man and a horse fell to the ground and were twitching. It was obvious that they would not survive.
It turned out that when the horse's hoof stepped down, Jin Bo summoned up his strength, grabbed the two horse legs, followed the inertia of the horse's forward motion, threw the bandit over his back, and threw the bandit together with the horse.
When the bandits behind him saw this, they drew their swords and rushed towards Jin Bo.
Facing five bandits riding powerful horses and holding sabers in their hands, Jin Bo stood proudly in the wind with firm eyes and no fear.
"Boy, you are looking for death!"
The bandit who rushed at the front had a ferocious scar on his face. When he saw Jin Bo standing in the middle of the road, he was furious.
The sword slashed through the sky, with the sound of howling wind, and struck directly at Jin Bo's face.
It's too late, but it's soon.
When the bandit's sword was about to strike at Jin Bo, Jin Bo suddenly turned to the side and dodged the sword perfectly.
Immediately afterwards, Jin Bo flew up with a kick and hit the bandit's horse in the belly.
The horse was in pain and let out a long neigh, and its forward momentum suddenly stopped.
Jin Bo stretched out his hand, grabbed the bandit's wrist, pulled hard, and pulled him off the horse, knocking him to pieces.
Seeing this, the other four bandits shouted and rushed towards Jin Bo.
Sixteen iron hooves beat the ground like drums, kicking up a cloud of dust.
Facing the horse that was galloping at high speed, Jin Bo showed no fear on his face, just like Yuan Yue Zhi, steady as a rock in this violent situation.
Taking advantage of the remaining power just now, Jin Bo rushed towards one of the bandits like an arrow.
The bandit was furious. When the men and horses approached, the sword in his hand drew a long arc in the air and slashed towards Jin Bo's neck like lightning.
However, this knife disappointed him. At the moment when the men and horses were intertwined, Jin Bo suddenly ducked and got under the bandit's horse.
He pushed hard with both hands and instantly jumped onto the bandit's saddle.
The bandit was so frightened that he galloped with all his strength, trying to throw Jin Bo off his horse.
However, Jin Bo was like a maggot attached to the bone, clinging tightly to the horse's back, unmoved at all.
Jin Bo punched the bandit on the head with a fierce punch. The bandit's skull suddenly shattered, his body went limp and he rolled off his horse.
Meanwhile, the attack of three other bandits is approaching.
The three bandits saw that Jin Bo killed three people in an instant. Knowing that Jin Bo was powerful, they immediately changed their battle formation and mobilized their horses to outflank Jin Bo.
Jin Bo showed no fear, moving around on horseback like a spiritual ape, dodging their combined attacks. Then he jumped on another horse and punched the bandit on the horse to the ground.
After dealing with this bandit, Jin Bo jumped on the horse of another bandit, followed the same pattern, and knocked the bandit off his horse with one punch.
Seeing that the situation was not good, the remaining bandit turned his horse's head and tried to escape.
How could Jin Bo let him go? He turned over like a kite, flew over the bandit's head like an eagle, grabbed him from his horse, and threw him heavily to the ground.
This battle is over just as quickly as it started.
The villagers of Yangjia Village had been bullied severely by bandits these days. When they saw Jin Bo alone, facing six bandits on horseback with his bare hands, he was unscathed and won a great victory. They all gathered around him.
At this time, Xi Xingchen also brought five horses over.
It turned out that the horse had no one to control it and stopped after running a few steps. Xi Xingchen would not miss such a good thing.
Xi Xingchen pointed to the horse whose neck was broken by Jin Bo and said with a smile: "Yang Lizheng, I said I would treat everyone to a good meal, and I will keep my word."
Yang Sansong stared blankly at the six bandits lying on the ground. His face suddenly turned pale and his whole body was trembling. "Brother Xi, you have brought great disaster to Yang Village this time."
