Water Margin farming to become powerful

Chapter 201 The Trembling Little Widow

Twenty miles to the west of Shili Pai, there is a rather large villa. The owner’s surname is Wang, which is different from the big Wang’s Village in the northeast of Dengzhou City. The owner of this villa is an older man, and everyone calls him Dawang Officials, so some people call this Wangjiazhuang Dawangzhuang.

On Dawangzhuang, Widow Chen got up early in the morning to wash up, wiped the faces of her two sons, first took two handfuls of pot ashes under the stove and smeared them on their faces, and then went out with the children.

Originally, Widow Chen's family was happy. Until last year, because bandits were recruited in the village, Chen Dalang, the husband of the Chen family, was recruited by the owner of the Wang Zhuang to be a guard.

Originally, I thought I could get more money and food, but I didn't want the bandit to come so fierce and fierce that he defeated the Baoding of Sun Xinzhuang in one fell swoop. The owner of Wangzhuang was also cruel, so he gave up at that time He defended the village, but protected himself behind closed doors. He only kept the special defense of his own mansion tightly and sent more soldiers to guard the village. As for the other farmers in the entire Dawangzhuang, he let him go.

At that time, because Chen Dalang was worried about the safety of his wife and children, he secretly took the weapon and went home to take Chen and his two sons into the villa of the owner of Wang Zhuang to hide.

Unexpectedly, when Chen Dalang took his wife and children to Zhuangzi and wanted to go in again, the steward of Wang Zhuang's house inside accused Chen Dalang of running away. he goes in?Seeing those thieves getting closer and closer.

No matter how much Chen and the two boys cried and shouted that the village would not open the door, Chen Dalang had no choice but to fight with the nearby bandits with a simple knife, but was finally hacked to death by the other party.

Chen took her two sons to hide under the gate of Wangjiazhuang and begged bitterly. The guards of Wangjiazhuang looked at her pitifully and did not dare to open the door, but they also shot crossbows and arrows on the wall to drive away the bandits.

The bandits didn't intend to rob the biggest Zhuangzi at first, so when they saw that the Zhuangzi was heavily guarded, they also changed direction and plundered the private houses of other ordinary Zhuangzi in the village, which made Widow Chen survive.

The bandits robbed a lot of pots, pans, pans and clothes and left. Since then, Chen has also become a widow and can only take her two sons to live in the village.

Widow Chen has a pretty face, and the life of orphans and widows is already a bit difficult. In the village, she has to be harassed by some idlers. Therefore, Widow Chen often carries a pair of scissors in her arms to show that she has the strength to deal with it in a hurry. self-determination.

It's not that Widow Chen is so resistant to remarrying, chastity is just a luxury for people like Widow Chen, but none of the idlers who would look for her is sincerely willing to support these two Damn it, it's easy for her to eat light meals after she remarries, but these two children will definitely suffer in the future.

A family who is willing to accept him, and is willing to sincerely raise the two children by his side, not only needs good intentions, but the most important thing is to have money.

The two children will be about five years old. If they are able to go out to work, they will have to be raised for at least another seven or eight years, and they will have to pay for the board and lodging of the two boys for seven or eight years. No one is willing to pay for this.

After a lot of times, the idlers in the village also knew what Widow Chen meant, fearing that she would cut herself with scissors, so they didn't dare to harass her again.

But today, Widow Chen got up early in the morning and smeared the bottom of the pot on her face. She looked nervous, and she was going to take her two children to work in the farthest field in the village before dawn.

All this is because the steward of Wangjiazhuang had informed the whole village yesterday that today the guards from Sunjiazhuang are going to station at their Wangjiazhuang to help defend against bandits.

The steward said to everyone with a benevolent expression on his face: "From now on, the farmers in Wangjiazhuang will no longer have to be obliged to be guards, as long as they hand over the money and food to the guards every year!"

It is said that he is protecting the whole village, and the owner of the Wang Zhuang also has the title of Baozheng, but the last time the incident happened, it exposed the thoughts of the owner of the Wang Zhuang: in an emergency, the owner of the Wang Zhuang will even send all the villagers. They all retreated to their own houses, regardless of the life and death of the whole village.

Afterwards, the dealers had some complaints about the Wang family forcing them to serve as Baoding. They always used the excuse that they were unwell and did not want to serve in the military. First of all, they couldn't recruit people, and these Zhuang Ding's fighting power was really bad, so the owner of Wang Zhuang reluctantly thought of a way to let the guards protect the village for them.

When the Wang family announced this matter, they were full of benevolence for reducing the corvee to the dealers in Zhuangzi, but the dealers were a little terrified when they heard it.

The amount of money handed over to the guards is not large, compared to the days when the old Wang Zhuang asked them to work as a farmer, it is still cost-effective, but how can this foreigner not plunder and harass when he arrives in his own village? ?
Naturally, the guards had an agreement with the old manor lord, and they didn't dare to touch the manor of the old manor manor, but for ordinary lords like themselves, no one felt that they would be treated differently by those soldiers.

Ever since the steward announced the matter yesterday, everyone has been terrified. Some villagers don't know what the name of the guard is, and they have never heard of their eight-character slogan.

Speaking of Sunjiazhuang, they all know that Sunjiaji is the largest market among the three mountains and five miles. They often go to Sunjiaji together to catch business on the first and fifteenth day of the Lunar New Year. They also know that Sunjiazhuang is a big market Their Dawangzhuang is going to prosper several times, but how can this be a good thing?

If the few Zhuang Ding in the old man's yard were domineering to everyone when they were favored by the old man, they would not lose their profits when they went to ask for food and wages at other people's homes.

The richer and more powerful people are, the more ruthless they are. Wouldn't the Baoding from such a wealthy village have to be as ruthless as a demon king from the sky?
I got the news yesterday that all the girls and daughters-in-law in the village have been ordered by their families to keep their doors closed today.Widow Chen originally wanted to not go out and cause trouble, but when I asked a few relatives and neighbors, they were all afraid of Widow Chen's reputation for being beautiful, and there were always a few widows who caused gossip in every village.

If a few idlers in the guard came to harass, and asked where the widow in the village was, whoever hid Widow Chen would probably be harassed at that time. They all have families and mouths, how willing?
Therefore, Widow Chen asked several families, and the other party said euphemistically that she had no way to accept him. There was no other way. Widow Chen wanted to go out, but she was afraid that there would be nowhere to cook. Reluctant to leave, after much deliberation, I could only send a few liters of grain to the farmer's family who was separated from the field I was renting. I made an agreement with the family that I would take the two children to work on the field together, and they would send some when they delivered meals in the field at noon. Give her meals.

Early this morning, Widow Chen drew an ugly face and prepared to walk to her field while the sky was dark. She thought to herself that the guards said they were going to the village today, so they wouldn't come at night. .

Widow Chen was relieved when she heard that there was no sound outside the house. She led the child to open the door, but she only felt something soft hit her door.

(End of this chapter)