At five quarters, after breakfast
The fog in the mountains has slowly dispersed.
As the fog disperses and the sun shines through, you can slowly see the distant vegetation, which makes you feel at ease.
A foggy weather is like a magician controlling everything. There was no need for a source or a reason, and suddenly there was heavy fog.
Fortunately, Zhang Rui and others have also camped here before and are familiar with it. Even if it was foggy, we wouldn't be in a hurry.
The fog in the mountains is not like smog. There will naturally be a lot of fog, and people who go out will inevitably get their clothes wet.
At this moment, Zhang Rui was taking Wang Kaiyuan around the camp.
"Brother Six, why are there so many disabled people in our camp?" Wang Kaiyuan asked, looking at the prisoners "letting go" outside the camp.
"Oh, I forgot to tell you, these are the captured soldiers we defeated the Tatars last time. This is also the purpose of our coming here this time." Zhang Rui looked at where Wang Kaiyuan was pointing and said slowly.
Afterwards, Zhang Rui took Wang Kaiyuan towards that place.
"Hello, Sixth Brother..."
When the bandit suppression team members saw Zhang Rui coming, they all saluted and said:
"Hello everyone, thank you for your hard work." Zhang Rui also returned the greeting to the team.
Wang Kaiyuan looked at everything with freshness and didn't even need to kneel down. But it is indeed much more convenient in the army.
"It's not hard. Brother Six is harder." The team members replied loudly.
When Zhang Rui heard this, he remembered a joke from before.
"Comrades get a tan..."
"The leader is darker..."
"Fortunately, I didn't say I was tanned just now..." Zhang Rui thought with a sense of comedy in his heart, and then said to them
"They didn't cause any trouble, did they?"
"No, they dare? They are all staying there now!" At this time, Li Zhongyi (Li Sigou), already the commander of the spear hundred, replied to Zhang Rui.
"Okay, Brother Zhongyi. I'll go over and see them." Zhang Rui said to Li Zhongyi
"Okay, Sixth Brother." Li Zhongyi said and followed Zhang Rui.
When the captive soldiers saw Zhang Rui coming, those who were squatting on the ground stood up one after another and gathered to look at Zhang Rui.
Nowadays, Zhang Rui is a "famous" figure in their hearts.
"Brother Six..."
"Hello, Sixth Brother..."
…
The captive soldiers who saw Zhang Rui's arrival greeted Zhang Rui one after another.
All in all, Zhang Rui's "credibility", "benevolence" and "education" brought them a good impression.
"Hmm...Hello everyone, have you had breakfast?" Zhang Rui nodded and greeted.
"I've eaten and I'm still full..."
"Haha, you only know how to eat, but you don't know how to thank Sixth Brother..."
"that is…"
………
Wang Kaiyuan couldn't understand the way the captive soldiers were teasing each other.
Of course, there are also those who remain silent
"Are you feeling better? Does the wound still hurt?" Zhang Rui asked a wounded soldier next to him who had lost his arm.
The face of the captive soldier who was greeted by Zhang Rui suddenly became excited, and tears welled up in his eyes. From the moment he was injured until now, aren't the people who have been caring about him all the time? Sixth Brother's people? How can your own Shangguan care about your own life and death?
"More Brother Six, it doesn't hurt much anymore. If Brother Six hadn't been able to tell me, I would be a pile of bones and I would never see my parents, wife and children again. Thank you, Brother Six, thank you."
With that said, the captured and wounded soldier immediately knelt on the ground and kowtowed to Zhang Rui. Seeing this, Zhang Rui quickly pulled him up and said
"What are you doing! We Han family members are not in the mood to kowtow. I think you won't go to the battlefield anymore, just go back and live a good life. If I don't die in the future, you can come to me if you feel uncomfortable living. "
"Yes, Brother Six. Brother Six is really a kind and righteous person. I think the biggest mistake in my life, Chen Baoli, was to come here and become an enemy of Brother Six. People like Brother Six will not be defeated like this. I hope you can live a long life." Years old." Chen Baoli said excitedly
"With your good words, everyone may live a long life." Zhang Rui replied
Chen Baoli's words made many captive soldiers fall silent again.
"Brother Six, I'm going to do it with you..." But a Green Camp soldier said angrily as if he had made up his mind.
Zhang Rui was a little confused when he heard this. How is this going? I'm going to brush up on the "sense of presence".
All the captive soldiers made way for the Green Camp soldier who spoke out.
At this time, a thin but tall green soldier came out, but he was wearing the change of clothes that Zhang Rui gave them when they built their house.
"Brother Six, I, Zhou Xiaohu, don't know much. But, I also want the world you mentioned." Zhou Xiaohu knelt down to Zhang Rui and said.
Seeing this, Zhang Rui could only go over and help him up.
Zhou Xiaohu was very moved by Zhang Rui, and he felt like a groupie.
at this time. Zhou Xiaohu had also stood up and looked around at the people watching.
"Brothers who are familiar with me all know that I, Zhou Xiaohu, am not my Uncle Zhou's biological son. I was picked up and raised by Uncle Zhou outside. Now Uncle Zhou has passed away and left me this position as a Green Camp soldier, saying that as long as I If you work hard, you won’t have to go hungry again in your life.”
"But, is this really the case? Today's flag soldiers are bullying us more and more, and our superiors are also bullying us. But who is willing to say a word more for us soldiers below?"
Zhou Xiaohu's question made the bullied Green Camp soldiers around them lower their heads.
At this time, Li Kaifu, who was in the distance, saw the situation here and came over to see what was going on.
"...When I was a child, my name was Yang Caogen, and I was originally from Fujian. My family didn't have any land, so I made a living by farming for the landlord's family. I have a father and a mother. Although the family was a bit miserable and there was nothing good to eat, the family was living happily. . Until the year when I was twelve years old, there was a severe drought. There was no output from the land, but I still had to pay rent."
"At that time, the land manager's family came with his servants to arrest someone. My father was afraid and ran out over the wall. He hoped to hide and find someone to borrow money to pay the rent. But the housekeeper heard this and wanted to drag my mother into selling her. .”
"My mother refused to obey. When she was passing by the village entrance, she was pushed by them and hit a big stone on the roadside at the entrance of the village. She was killed. I held my mother there and cried. I still clearly remember the blood. It's soaked through my chest and clothes." Zhou Xiaohu shed tears as he spoke, and his tone was full of sadness.
"My father hadn't gone far when he saw this scene. He wanted to go out and argue with them, but he was stabbed to death by them. At that time, the blood spattered on my face."
"But, do you know?" Zhou Xiaohu became angry as he said this
"At that time, the housekeeper said to the servant who committed the murder: 'These untouchables who don't pay rent deserve to be killed. The little magistrate Ma Yunchao dare not interfere with the affairs of the Wu Ya clan of the Eight Banners of Manchuria. Unless he wants to die.'"
"At that time, all the villagers could do was look at it like this? What could they do? They just buried their parents hastily and said a few words that their fate was bad. This matter just passed." With that, Zhou Xiaohu said As if breathing out of breath, he murmured
"That's right! Don't say that the county magistrate doesn't dare to take care of it. So what if he takes care of it? The Manchus don't have to die if they kill us Han people. Is it a whipping with a shackle? Or is it a ridiculous 'exile'?"
