Chapter 76: Victims riot
Zhuma Town.
Inside the Dafa Rice Shop, on an Eight Immortals table, a dazzling array of chicken, duck, and fish meats are stacked like a hill, which is dazzling.
There are fresh and plump chicken legs and shoulder tips, glistening roast duck, whole fresh and tender steamed sea bass, the best braised pork belly, roasted golden lamb legs, stewed beef with fragrant aroma...
Ma Gaoyi picked up a crispy, soft and glutinous braised pig's trotters and took a bite. Then he took a sip of the wine and immediately showed a very satisfied expression.
As a pleasant wine burp erupted from his throat, Ma Gaoyi's expression suddenly became a little dazed.
Ma Gaoyi was originally a small leader under Guo Xiaohai, the third master of Huangfeng Village. Since Guo Xiaohai was going to Xunyang Mansion to take office, he took away many of his subordinates, so the job of guarding the Dafa Rice Store fell on Ma Gaoyi.
Ma Gaoyi could swear to God that these days guarding Dafa Rice Store were the most comfortable times in his life.
In the warehouse of Midian, in addition to mountains of grain, there are also chickens, ducks, geese, pigs, cattle, sheep and other poultry and livestock snatched from various villages and towns. As long as he wants, he can kill a chicken or a sheep at any time. liquor.
There was endless meat to eat, endless wine to drink, and what satisfied Ma Gaoyi most, there were countless women.
Now, all the food in Zhuma Town has been looted and brought to Dafa Rice Store. Outside are the victims who are so hungry that their eyes are dim. With just a piece of meat, a chicken leg, and a bowl of rice, you can call a pretty girl from outside the rice store. Good, white-skinned, tender-skinned pussy, wantonly ravaged.
You must know that Ma Gaoyi is just the flag-raising little boss around Guo Xiaohai. When he was in Huangfeng Village, he did all the dirty, tiring and thankless work. He really got up earlier than a chicken and went to bed later than a dog. He eats worse than a pig and works more than a donkey; and what he gets is only after Guo Xiaohai and a group of big bosses eat and drink enough, and the rest will get his turn.
Ma Gaoyi never dreamed that such a good thing as keeping a warehouse would one day happen to him.
Speaking of this, Ma Gaoyi thanked the three leaders who killed Huangfeng Village from the bottom of his heart. Guo Xiaotian would not lead the bandits down the mountain to raid the people of Zhuma Town.
Because there was so much food that could not be transported to Huangfeng Village at once, Guo Xiaotian had to put the excess in Dafa Rice Store.
If it hadn't been for that man who killed the magistrate of Wan County, Xunyang Prefecture would not have sent a new magistrate to the county. Guo Xiaohai would not have brought the elite soldiers from Huangfeng Village to Xunyang Prefecture to cause trouble for the new magistrate. Neither would this good job. fell on him.
In order to guard the granary of Dafa Rice Store, Guo Xiaohai left three hundred bandits for Ma Shouyi.
Suddenly there were three hundred bandits under his command, and Ma Gaoyi immediately became a nouveau riche. He divided the three hundred bandits into two groups, one stayed at Dafa Rice Store, and the other continued to plunder the people.
At this time, Ma Gaoyi drank just enough wine. He was a little heady and felt light, but not drunk yet.
Ma Gaoyi raised his head and looked out the window. It was another dusk with the sky full of sunset. If nothing else, it was also the time for harvest.
The flowers are blooming and the wine is slightly smoked. Ma Shouyi is now enjoying the dusk time, waiting for the grain collection team to return home with a full load.
"This feeling is really intoxicating." Ma Gaoyi said with emotion.
Just when Ma Gaoyi felt that he was about to reach the climax of his life, one of his closest friends hurried in.
This horseman's name is Ma Erbao. He is Ma Gaoyi's kin and an accomplice he brought from the same village to defect to the bandits.
Ma Erbao is tall and full of brute strength. Even a few big men can't get close to him. His only shortcoming is that he stutters a bit. This is why he can only follow Ma Gaoyi when he has no fighting power.
"Brother Yi, come... come..." Ma Erbao stammered.
"How many have come back?" Ma Gaoyi guessed that the grain collection team should be back, so he asked casually.
"So... much..." Ma Erbao tried hard to finish the sentence, his face turned red.
"Hey, after searching for so many days, I didn't expect that something would slip through the net." Ma Gaoyi's eyes lit up.
"Disaster victims!" Ma Erbao finally finished speaking.
"What?" Ma Gaoyi stood up in confusion.
It turns out that Ma Gaoyi always thought that Ma Erbao was talking about the food search team sent out during the day and brought back a lot of food. Who knew that Ma Erbao was talking about the arrival of many disaster victims, and the two were not talking about the same thing at all.
"A lot of victims are here." This time Ma Erbao calmed down and actually said a complete sentence.
"What are the victims doing here?" Ma Gaoyi's reaction was a little slow because he drank too much.
It's no wonder that Ma Gaoyi reacted like this, because the bandits in Huangfeng Village have been rampant in Wan County for so many years, and the people in Wan County hid as far away as they could see them, and did not dare to take another look at them.
Of course, the bandits sent out by Ma Gaoyi these days were looting too much, and some victims were so hungry that they even ran to the entrance of the rice store to beg for food.
Whenever encountering such a situation, Ma Gaoyi would usually beat the victim half to death, then tie him to the back of the horse and let the bandits drag him through the town, dragging him to death as a warning to others.
After experiencing this kind of thing several times, no one dared to come to Dafa Rice Store to cause trouble anymore.
"Grab food!" Ma Erbao would stutter every time he was in a pinch, but this time he said it was a thief.
"Robbing for food?" Ma Gaoyi laughed wildly with red eyes as if he had heard a big joke, "What are they using to grab food, with bare hands?"
It is not without reason that Ma Gaoyi is so arrogant.
Since the Qing clan, the royal family of the Dayan Dynasty, was a nomadic tribe outside the customs, they took advantage of the Xia clan's internal strife to capture the Xia people's territory. In order to prevent the Xia people from rebelling, the Dayan Dynasty had extremely strict control over civilian weapons from the day of its founding, and continuously attacked All kitchen knives must be registered with the government.
Weapons control did have the effect of eliminating the source of unrest to a certain extent at the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China and during the country's peace period. However, when the country's rituals and music collapsed, especially when it was invaded by foreign invaders, it also encouraged the development of extremely evil forces. arrogance.
Just like the bandits in Huangfeng Village, they have been rampant in the countryside for so many years. It's not that the people of Wan County don't want to resist, but they just don't even have decent weapons. How can they resist?
"Blow the horn and assemble the team. I want to see how these cheap bones, who don't even dare to kill rabbits, come to steal my food!"
Ma Gaoyi picked up the wine glass on the Eight Immortals table, poured a glass of wine, drank it all, and walked angrily towards the rice store's granary.
In order to ensure the safety of the granary, Yao Guoping not only built tall walls and arrow towers around the granary, but also built a watchtower more than ten meters high.
Ma Gaoyi and Ma Erbao climbed up to the watchtower and saw groups of victims in ragged clothes, swimming like long snakes, coming from all directions towards Zhuma Town.
Some of these victims were carrying hoes, some were carrying sickles, some were carrying pot lids, wooden sticks, and some were even carrying a bamboo with branches and leaves. They were so vast that there were at least tens of thousands of people.
Seeing this situation, all the wine Ma Gaoyi drank suddenly turned into cold sweat and flowed down.
Although Ma Gaoyi was just a bandit, he realized by this time that this was a riot by the victims.
When Xi Xingchen sent the villagers from Yangjia Village to inform nearby villages and lie to them that there was food in Yangjia Village, he actually didn't hold out much hope. In his mind, a few hundred people in each village would be enough.
So when the villagers of Yangjiacun drove towards Yangjiacun with groups of victims, Xi Xingchen was dumbfounded.
In fact, the blame for this is the bandits of Huangfeng Village. They have been ruthlessly looting these days.
Youdao is to leave a thin line in everything so that we can meet you later.
The bandits in Huangfeng Village had no such concept at all. Wherever they went, they basically dug three feet into the ground, and they dug over and over again until there was no grass left.
The bandits are so dedicated, and the people of Zhuma Town are in dire straits.
They had just survived five years of natural disasters, lived frugally, and managed to save a few seeds. They were about to plant them in the fields. They had a little hope, but they did not expect that man-made disasters would come again.
The bandits from Huangfeng Village searched every village over and over again, snatching away all their remaining rations.
In order to survive, they had to eat tree bark and gnaw grass roots like the villagers in Yangjia Village. Even so, the bandits in Huangfeng Village still refused to let them go.
In order to prevent the villagers from fleeing, the bandits from Huangfeng Village blocked all access to and from Zhuma Town, clearly intending to starve them to death.
Just when everyone thought they were going to starve to death, someone from Yangjia Village suddenly came to tell them that the new magistrate had sent people to Zhuma Town to suppress bandits and was distributing food to the people in Yangjia Village.
Because of the emergency situation and the presence of bandits from Huangfeng Village, the county did not have more manpower to distribute food to each village, so each village needed to send people to Yangjia Village to receive relief food.
The people sent by Yang Liusheng to spread the message were all the smartest people in Yang's village. They were afraid that there would be too few people from each village, so they said that food would be distributed according to head.
Distribution is based on head count, that is, whichever family has more people going there will get more food.
Villagers in each village immediately understood the essence of this sentence.
So all the villages in Zhuma Town immediately mobilized their entire families, bringing everyone from eighty-year-old mothers to infant babies.
Anyway, you are talking about allocation based on head, and there is no age limit, so if I bring the old mother and baby, there will be nothing wrong with me.
Even if they are so hungry that their eyes are dizzy, the common people's wisdom in thinking about problems is still online.
Because they were so hungry, in order to eat as soon as possible after receiving the rice, the villagers even brought cooking pots, eating bowls, and cooking firewood so that they could make a fire to cook immediately after receiving the food. .
Anyway, the person who delivered the letter in Yangjia Village said that in order to ensure that the food distributed was not robbed by bandits along the way, everyone must bring weapons for self-defense.
So, can the pot I bring be used as a shield, and can the bowl be used as a concealed weapon?
Also, the fire stick is a serious weapon, there is absolutely nothing wrong with it.
