The mountain people in the Funiu Mountain area all have the same characteristics, regardless of whether they lived here originally or have entered the mountain in the past ten or twenty years.
That is to escape into the mountains to avoid various disasters.
A drought is enough to cause a large-scale famine. In order to survive, people have to flee the famine. Some of them will go to the city to beg for a living, some will passively wait for porridge, and some will find ways to sneak into the city to work as beggars and work.
Others simply take risks and become thieves.
Many others were hijacked by bandits and became part of the refugee army.
Others will choose to flee to the mountains.
The mountain people living here in Funiu Mountain came here to escape the famine.
Most of them come from Nanyang Prefecture in the south or Ruzhou in the east.
After escaping into the mountains, although the mountains are barren, it is very difficult to open up wasteland for farming, and the harvest after a year of hard work is not much.
However, after escaping into the mountains, it is equivalent to becoming a gangster. Without various officials, tax collectors and landlords are exploiting them in various ways.
Therefore, although it is hard work and life is very simple, as long as you put in the effort, you can still survive.
Of course, the premise is that you don't meet people like Fan Dilong who give birth to sons without buttholes. If you really meet a bandit like Fan Dilong, it is normal to have all your food rations taken away and your family to be destroyed overnight.
Previously, Li Huangzhuang was unlucky enough to encounter the Earth-turning Dragon group. After a series of burning, killing and looting, the entire village was reduced to rubble.
More than two months ago, when the nearby mountain people knew that another group of thieves had entered the mountain, they went directly to Sanshui Village and killed Dilong and his group.
The surrounding mountain people were actually very panicked, especially the villagers in Huangjia Village, which was relatively close to Sanshui Village.
They were worried that the new group of thieves would plunder nearby villages just like Dilong and others, and that they would suffer the same disaster as the people in Lihuangzhuang.
A few survivors of Lihuangzhuang fled to Huangjiacun. Through their oral accounts, the people of Huangjiacun also learned about the tragic experience of Lihuangzhuang. Later, some of them went to Lihuangzhuang to see it, and saw only one thing. The ruins are full of corpses.
At that time, after Fan Dilong and the others plundered two villages in succession, they still had a lot of food in stock for a while, so they were not in a hurry to attack other villages. They wanted to wait until the autumn harvest before plundering.
However, before the autumn harvest, Sun Lili, Luo Zhixue and others were killed in Sanshui Village, and the earth-turning dragon was immediately finished.
But the arrival of Sun Chengli and others also frightened the surrounding mountain people. Many of them were ready to flee at any time with their only rations.
The Qinling Mountains are huge, and the Funiu Mountains area is just the edge of the Qinling Mountains.
If they can no longer stay in Huangjia Village in Funiu Mountain, they can only continue to move towards the mountains in order to survive.
But it is not easy to make a living in the mountains. They have worked hard for so many years in the Huangjia Village area of Funiu Mountain and spent countless amounts of water to cultivate some fields. If they want to open up wasteland again in another place, it means a huge effort. And it may not be successful.
In addition, another crucial point is that this year's autumn grain has not been harvested yet. These autumn grains carry all their rations from autumn and winter until next year's new grain harvest.
These unharvested grains are their life!
It would be very difficult for them to abandon their homes and flee into the depths of the mountains, abandoning their unharvested food.
After all, it is not easy to open up wasteland in the mountains, not to mention that even if we open up wasteland for farming now, it will take until next year to harvest food to support the family. What will they eat during this time? How to live?
Therefore, they are unwilling to give up their homes, their land, and their unharvested food until they have to.
Therefore, even though they were uneasy at that time, they had to continue to stay here.
But slowly, they discovered that the new group of thieves seemed different from the original Earth-turning Dragons.
The first official contact between them was when Sanshui Village sent people to recruit craftsmen, and finally took Carpenter Huang away.
Although coercion was used when taking away Carpenter Huang, after all, if there was no coercion, how could the family's mainstay follow you and a few thieves and leave without knowing why.
However, the rebels in Sanshui Village still followed Luo Zhixue's instructions and left a certain amount of food for Huang Carpenter's family as settlement expenses.
At the same time, he also promised Carpenter Huang that as long as he worked hard, he would be given a certain amount of food every month for him to take back.
For the safety of his family, Carpenter Huang was forced to follow him to Sanshui Village.
At that time, everyone in Huangjia Village thought that Carpenter Huang might be gone forever.
But he didn't expect that just a month later, Huang Carpenter would return to Huangjia Village with large and small bags of things, including extremely precious grains.
Carpenter Huang stayed at home for two days. During this period, many people naturally came to ask him about the situation of the bandits in Sanshui Village. Carpenter Huang was also an honest and honest man.
All honestly.
He said that after he arrived in Sanshui Village, he went to work and helped the bandits build houses, make furniture, and other tools.
The work is very hard, but you can also eat, and you eat from a big pot with other bandits.
When the work is light, eat two meals a day, and when the work is heavy, there will be an extra meal of porridge.
Although most of the time it is whole grains, but sometimes there is also good white rice.
At that time, Huang Carpenter sighed to the group of people surrounding him: "I have never tried to eat so much white rice in my life. The rice balls are as big as those..."
When he spoke, everyone listening around couldn't help but swallow their saliva.
After Huang Carpenter came forward to speak out, it became much easier for Luo Zhixue to send people to Huangjia Village to buy and sell goods. The people in the village would bring out some of their mountain goods, such as prey, furs, rare medicinal materials, etc., and go to Luo Zhixue. The people exchanged some salt, cloth, iron pots, hoes and other things that could not be produced in the mountains.
And these materials in Sanshui Village also sent people to purchase outside the mountains. Although so many of them have food in the mountains, there are still many materials that they cannot produce on their own and need to go out to purchase. Among them, salt, ironware, and cloth are all Top priority.
When these purchased materials are large, they will also exchange some mountain goods with the mountain people in the surrounding villages, and then sell these mountain goods out of the mountains.
After many exchanges like this, people in the surrounding villages also changed their attitude towards the thieves in Sanshui Village.
Although he is still afraid, he will not run away as soon as he sees the rebels in Sanshui Village like before... but he will dare to make some contact with the rebels in Sanshui Village cautiously.
Just like now, when Sun Chengli and Luo Zhixue arrived at Huangjiacun, although Luo Zhixue could still see the fear in the eyes of the local mountain people, he did not turn around and run away. Instead, an old man appeared and walked away quickly. come out.
After approaching Sun Cheng and his group, he immediately bowed and knelt down, and at the same time said with a hint of trembling: "Little old man, I respectfully welcome all the kings."
Luo Zhixue looked at this man carefully. He had a beard and a dark face covered with wrinkles. He was wearing a short robe with many patches. He looked as if he was sixty-seven years old.
Looking at this person, Luo Zhixue knew that he should be the head of Huangjia Village whom Anyongduo and the others had reported.
It is not appropriate to say that he is the village chief. There is actually no village chief in such a remote place where mountain people gather. This person has just lived here for a long time, and because of his age and high prestige, he was pushed out by the people in Huangjia Village to be the person in charge. That’s all.
Luo Zhixue closed the folding fan, took a step forward and said, "You're welcome, Mr. Huang, get up, get up quickly, don't break the boy."
However, Huang Laoer still knelt down before standing up again, but he did not stand up straight, but still bowed, like a cooked shrimp, so that no one could see his face.
At the same time, I heard him say: "I wonder what happened to the great kings when they came here. Just give me your orders, and I will do my best to handle it."
As he spoke, his whole body bent even lower, as if he was about to kneel on the ground again at any moment.
Seeing him like this, Luo Zhixue sighed a little in his heart.
Are these the ordinary people in this era?
Humble...not like a human being!
On the other hand, Sun Chengli, who was standing by, was accustomed to the demeanor of Mr. Huang in front of him.
This reaction is normal. It would be abnormal if the attitude was neither humble nor arrogant.
Didn't you see a dozen fully armed cavalrymen standing behind them, leading horses?
Not to mention ancient farmers, even modern ordinary people would probably be so frightened that their legs would weaken and they would not even be able to speak when being pointed at by a dozen gangsters with guns and fierce looks.
At this time, Sun Chengli saw Luo Zhixue showing a kind expression and said: "Huang, please relax. Don't worry, we are here to do you a good thing this time."
"A good thing?" Huang Lao'er muttered in his heart: "I have lived for more than forty years. If I could just believe such nonsense like you, I would have died a long time ago!"
However, despite this muttering in his heart, Huang Huang Laoer still looked panicked: "No matter what the kings tell you, we will do our best no matter what."
Seeing that he still looked so humble, Luo Zhixue ignored him and turned slightly sideways, giving up a position, showing a serious look: "This is General Sun of my Funiu Mountain Baoxiang Camp."
As soon as this introduction came out, Sun Chengcheng on the side couldn't react in time. When did their group become the Funiu Mountain Baoxiang camp?
Why don’t I, the boss, know this?
But, this name seems to be quite good. It sounds very formal, and it immediately puts all kinds of messy thief names like Dilong and Chuang Wang on the ground.
Thinking of this, Sun Chengli couldn't help but straighten his back, look forward, and then nodded slightly like Li Tonglin before, as if he was a boss...
