"So, you just cut off your braids?" Li Cunshui looked at Wu An, who was eloquent at this moment, and couldn't help but interrupt him and asked.
"Yes!" Wu An replied after calming down.
"Maybe what you said is right, but how do you know that this bandit-suppressing army will definitely defeat those Manchus?" Li Cunshui looked at Wu An and asked, feeling worried about Wu An's impulsiveness.
"If they can't conquer this country, you will be beheaded if you cut off your braids!"
"Beheading?"
Cheng Yitang and Yan Xiyi trembled inadvertently after hearing this.
They have often heard the word "beheading", and they have also seen people being beheaded at the vegetable market at noon. But I never thought that I would contact the people around me.
"Beheading?"
"Good afternoon" said these two words repeatedly.
I saw that he was trembling in his heart, and then he shook his head and replied stubbornly:
"If they can still chop off my head, I will admit it."
Suddenly, Wu An continued to say with a tragic tone:
"As those anti-bandit troops said, if everyone dares not resist because they are afraid of being beheaded, then when will the Manchus bully us?"
"If we don't resist, then those Manchus will step on our bones and say to their grandchildren, 'Look, these are slaves.' If we don't resist, then those Manchus will step on our descendants' descendants. Smiling on their backs and saying to their grandchildren, 'Look, this is a slave.'"
At this time, a gust of wind blew in, bringing with it the fresh breath in the air and blowing away the clouds that were blocking them.
The sun follows the footsteps of the clouds, and the bright sunshine pours down. Strong light shone on Wu An, and the light scattered by his plain cloth suddenly gave Li Cunshui and the other three people an illusion.
"Good afternoon, when did you become so tall?"
Cheng Yitang, Yan Xiyi, and Li Cunshui all froze there, feeling like a bolt from the blue and unable to calm down for a long time.
"Yes, are our children and grandchildren going to have to be bullied by the Manchus? This should never be the case."
"Arise, you who do not want to be slaves..."
At this moment, a group of bandit-suppressing troops patrolling the streets were walking and singing songs.
Under the sun, the ten people walking looked so energetic, and the masculinity in their singing declared their eliteness.
With such a team, how can one not have confidence in them?
It is said that in the battle last night, the Manchu generals saw that they could not defeat the king's army, so they planned to burn the city. If the bandit suppressing army had not fought the Qing soldiers and put out the fire at the same time, there is no telling how many people would have died in Wuchang City.
Just as Li Cunshui and others looked at the bandit-suppressing army patrol that was passing by them with respect and vigilance, they saw one person walking out of the patrol of ten people and walking towards them.
Looking at this bandit suppressor who suddenly walked over, for some reason, Li Cunshui and the others were so frightened that their feet became weak and their hearts trembled.
"Did we commit something? This is not to cause trouble for us, is it?"
Li Cunshui and the others looked at the bandit-suppressing army getting closer and closer, and couldn't help but murmur in their hearts.
"I wonder what this military master wants to do with us?" Wu An plucked up the courage to ask the approaching bandit suppressing army.
"I don't dare to be a military master, but I am prosperous in Xiajiang. These fellow villagers have posted notices at every city gate, talking about the distribution of fields and other things. Have you heard about it?" I have only seen them here. The man said good afternoon in fluent Hubei dialect.
"Divide the fields?" Wu An asked in surprise.
"Exactly, there are also things like taxes, corvee and so on. It's all good things for everyone, you can go and find out. If anything goes wrong in the future, you can report it to the Independent Commission Against Corruption, and Sixth Brother will help everyone make the decision." Jiang Wangsheng said proudly.
"How can I say it? I have to go and see it again." Wu An replied with a natural nod.
I don’t know why, but after Wu An heard Jiang Wangsheng’s friendly and familiar voice from his hometown, it became natural for Wu An to communicate with Jiang Wangsheng.
"Well, that's good. I still have to patrol, so I won't talk to you any more." After saying that, Jiang Wangsheng naturally gave a military salute to Wu'an and the others.
Wu An and others looked at Jiang Wangsheng who was saluting and didn't know what to do. They just stood there and watched blankly.
Jiang Wangsheng seemed not surprised by this. He turned around naturally and trotted back to the team, and then the patrol slowly left in unison.
After looking at the leaving patrol, Wu An and the others finally came back to their senses. Although they could not understand what Jiang Wangsheng's military salute was, they could feel Jiang Wangsheng's polite attitude towards them.
It would have been nice if the Qing soldiers they had encountered since childhood did not give them any trouble. How could they dare to expect that soldiers would be polite to civilians like them?
"this…"
Li Cunshui suddenly didn't know what to say.
"Cun Shui, how do you feel about these people?" Wu An asked happily, hesitating that he represented the bandit suppressing army.
"I don't know how to put it. It's a very strange feeling. I have never had such a feeling since I was a child. This is a good soldier who does not disturb or harm the people. This is what the real King Master is like!" Li Cunshui was still looking at him. Looking at the patrol team that had gone away, he stood there and kept replying.
"Yes! Cun Shui is right, I think so too." But it was Cheng Yitang who agreed with Li Cun Shui in admiration.
"By the way, who did he say about Sixth Brother just now?" Yan Xiyi asked Wu An as if he had just come back to Jiang Wangsheng.
"Brother Six?" After listening to Yan Xiyi's words, Wu An couldn't help but close his eyes and think about the name.
"Oh, this is their leader! They all call him like this." Wu An thought for a while and then suddenly remembered where he had heard this name.
"Your name is Brother Six? People like them who are rebellious...rebellious...shouldn't the leader be a king or a marshal?" Yan Xiyi asked still strangely.
"I really don't know about this, everyone else calls it that. Maybe there is a special reason for this!" Wu An replied after touching his head.
"Okay, isn't it said that there are various introductions posted on this city gate? Why don't you go take a look?" Wu An asked the three people beside him.
"Go, why don't you go? I'll go in a minute. I'll go back and see my wife and daughter at home first, so as not to worry if they can't find me when they get up." After saying that, Li Cunshui followed a few others and left.
………
"Jun Zheng, how was my performance just now?" Jiang Wangsheng, who returned to the military camp after patrolling, asked Huang Shiyuan, a military commander in his team.
"That's right, keep up the good work. Don't let down Brother Six's expectations of us!" Huang Shiyuan came to Jiang Wangsheng's side, patted him on the shoulder and encouraged him.
"Don't worry! Junzheng, no matter what, I will do a good job in the things that Sixth Brother has given me!" Jiang Wangsheng replied happily.
"Um…"
