Water Margin: Lu Bu sits on Mount Liang

Chapter 100 Rain

The rain continued to fall at night, and at some point it became more and more urgent. With a series of flashes of light, the belated rumbling sound resounded through the sky and the earth.

bang——

The wooden door was kicked open, and the couple who were eating in the room turned their heads in astonishment. Before they could speak, they saw the wet sergeant stabbing the man's chest with a spear.

"Ah! The head of the house!"

Seeing her man being killed, the woman yelled in horror, and was picked up by another person who followed behind and took her into the back room.

"What are you doing! Let go! Ah——"

"Hurry up, Zhiniang thief, grab the head while I'm not paying attention, I still want... eh?! It's over?!"

In the wind and rain, women's screams and men's roars kept ringing out, but the sound of the rain seemed to block the sound, making people unable to hear the distant sounds clearly, and the occasional thunderclap covered up the sharp hissing Shouting, until someone kicked open the door and rushed in, the host stood up in amazement.

At this time, the village was in chaos, and there were constant sounds of villagers being killed. Some soldiers came out of the house carrying chickens, some carried iron pots, and some carried three or five copper coins.

"Straight mother thief, there are only so many things, this place is really poor."

"There are few people, and many houses are actually empty."

"It took a long time to get a chicken, so there's no reason for that."

"You're okay, I went to four or five houses to get ten eggs."

A group of soldiers gathered together in twos and threes to complain, and a general came and kicked one of them: "Look, you have never seen the stupid appearance of money, and you are only looking for this small door and small household to make a fool of you, and you are looking for the big courtyard." Grab it."

"Boss, it's so dark that I can't see where there is a big house."

"I found a few big families, but there was no one."

All the sergeants complained one after another.

The general curled his lips, raised his head and looked around, but the rain curtain blocked his vision, and immediately became angry from embarrassment: "Zhi Niang, it's raining so hard that I can't see anything clearly, and I'm walking forward."

After finishing speaking, as if he couldn't hold back his face, he entered the rain curtain and walked ahead. A group of sergeants suffocated their laughter and followed the general straight forward.

Not long after, I heard the general shout from the front: "Isn't this a mansion?"

All the sergeants hurried forward to look hard, and saw a brown door in front of them, their eyes showed greed, and the corners of their mouths grinned, bringing out ferocious laughter.

The general walked to the door, raised his foot and kicked it a few times, the door opened with a bang, and when he walked in, he could hear the neighing of war horses.

Hearing the sound, the general looked to both sides, his eyes lit up immediately, and he said in surprise, "There are horses!?"

……

Go back in time a little bit.

The rain continued to fall, and the sky was getting dark earlier than usual. The old man found a candle to light it up, and the dark room became much brighter immediately. The big candlelight reflected the faces of everyone, adding a soft feeling to the group of men.

"I heard that the old man is right here." Ma Ling looked at the old man after he ate his porridge and had nothing to say. Just then, everyone chatted a lot between eating and drinking. Although Chen has his surname, it is a minority, because it is called Chenjiacun.

"So what about Lizheng." Old man Chen sighed, with a sad look on his face: "This village is almost gone, so it doesn't matter what your identity is."

"Why did the old man say that?" Ruan Xiaoqi raised his head with puzzled eyes.

"Alas~" Old man Chen put down the bowls and chopsticks in his hands, stroked his messy beard, and sighed heavily: "It's not the bloody rice fields. Our village was originally small, and farmland was scarce. Now these fields It was all cultivated with the hard work of generations later.

As a result, since the beginning of this year, various cities and counties have established offices, and the wasteland reclaimed by the villages has been confiscated one by one as government property. Those who originally cultivated the land were fined as tenant farmers. To get a grain of grain, but to pay the government several times the original tax, this... this..."

Old man Chen shook his hands, shook his head and couldn't continue.

He snorted coldly, and put the bowl heavily: "It's the rice field work again, but these guys are black-hearted and only know greed. In my opinion, it is more suitable to call the field work robbery, and they only focus on stealing the people's land. "

"Guest, shh~" Old man Chen looked back nervously as if he was afraid of being heard, and waved his hands again and again: "I can't say that, I can't say it."

"Why? Old man, are you still afraid that the birds from the office will come?" The tall and burly body of Li Que straightened up, with an excited expression, he patted his chest and said, "If he comes, you can just look for me, anyway, you have killed both of them." pinch..."

"Brother Huanyu!"

Lv Bu glanced at Xiao Huan, who reacted abruptly, stopped talking immediately, and the room fell silent for a while, a group of people looked at Old Man Chen who looked a little startled.

After a long while, just as Lu Bu was thinking of appeasing old man Chen, that old man suddenly laughed, grabbed the arm of Li Jiao and said, "Young man, did you really kill the corrupt official of rice field affairs?"

Seeing old man Chen's strange smile, Lu Bu and the others felt strange. When he saw him asking about it, Lu Bu didn't want to hide it anymore, so he nodded, "It is true that two people were killed in Xiangcheng County, what are you going to do?"

"Hehehe~" Old man Chen let out a strange laugh, his dry and old face coupled with a bellows-like laughter immediately made one's scalp tingle.

Deng Fei and Ruan Xiaoqi slowly stretched their hands to their waists, afraid that the old man would suddenly change his appearance and bite him, but he might as well be held by his arms. When he looked up, it was Lu Bu who shook his head slowly at them. .

After a while, old man Chen stopped laughing, but two lines of muddy tears flowed from his eyes: "My old woman... died a miserable death!"

A group of big men silently looked at the sad old man Chen, but no one laughed at him, because no one would cry in front of outsiders if he was forced hard.

The old man Chen let go of his arm and wiped away his tears: "Don't blame the guest, the old man has a feeling in his heart, but he lost his composure if he couldn't hold it back for a while."

Deng Fei shook his head at the side: "Old man is serious, if you have any sad things, you might as well tell us, it will make you feel better if you tell them."

Old man Chen was silent for a while, his expression was hesitant to speak, and finally he sighed and said: "It's not because of the good deeds of those corrupt officials, the old man is Li Zheng, and he always tells the old man about any difficulties in the village.

There are not many fields left, and there are many grievances in the village, so the old man went to the county government for a day to find someone to clear up the relationship and see if he could get back some fields. "

Old man Chen wiped his mouth and nose with his sleeves and continued: "It's also a coincidence that a corrupt official from the office came to this village to plan the land that day, and the old stupid woman went up to argue with him, but was beaten Pushed down, sadly there was a rock on the place where she fell, and a hole was cut in the back of her head, and she died without treatment."

As he spoke, tears flowed again. Everyone was looking at old man Chen sympathetically, but when they saw him, they said excitedly: "The old man knew about this, so he went to the county government to sue him and others, but the county magistrate gave him a good meal." , Said that the old lady disrespected the officials, and that the old man was guilty of not teaching. The old man... the old man is really... alas!"

bang——

Ruan Xiaoqi thumped the table hard: "How can there be such a muddled county magistrate, it really makes no sense."

Pan Zhong's eyes were also burning with anger: "Hmph! He is a good official raised by Zhao Song. He only knows how to protect each other. He never thought of doing things for the people."

The old man Chen looked sad: "Who says it's not? Since the establishment of this office, there have been many people who have broken their homes. Many of them who can't survive have fallen into the mountains and fallen grass, even the old and rebellious..."

Old man Chen suddenly stopped talking here, but everyone looked at each other, as if they felt something, but the old man didn't want to say it, and he couldn't wait to force him.

Just as Lu Bu was about to open his mouth, he seemed to hear something, and suddenly turned his head, "What sound?"

thump—

thump—

bang——

Lu Bu stood up suddenly and looked outside: "Someone kicked the door."

"Zhiniang thief! Is it from Xiangcheng County who are chasing you?" Yan Jiao also stood up.

Pan Zhong scratched his head: "My brother killed so many people, how dare Xiangcheng County come to tease me?"

Everyone immediately took the weapons from the big bag on the ground, opened the door with a murderous look and walked out. The old man behind looked at the weapons and couldn't help but his eyes lit up, as if he wasn't afraid.

Just as Lu Bu and the others stepped out of the room, they heard a man exclaim in surprise: "There are horses!?"

Everyone followed the sound and saw a group of soldiers dressed as low-ranking generals standing at the door, followed by a sergeant running in with a chicken and an iron pot, and looking behind him came a few more with bowls The sergeant with chopsticks couldn't help being stunned when he saw many strong men with swords coming out of the house in the courtyard.

"Where is the beggar coming from, come here to play wild." He smashed his big ax to the ground, and the bluestone intersected with his copper ax tail, making a muffled sound of metal and stone clashing.

Just at this moment, a muffled thunder sounded, and the two sides blended together, which seemed full of momentum.

"Not good." Lu Bu's expression changed suddenly, he looked at the officers and soldiers in front of him and said, "He came to slaughter the village, so he should have killed many people by now."

"Tucun? Is it another official army slaughtering the village?" Ma Ling gritted his teeth and looked at the person in front of him.

The general took two steps forward, pointed at Lu Bu and the others and said, "Wow! Sure enough, there are thieves in this village, don't surrender early when you see the officers and soldiers coming!"

As soon as the words were finished, there was a knock at the door next to him. From the left and right wing rooms came out ten more light soldiers with weapons in their hands, but a group of guards also heard the sound and had just put on their clothes and came out.

"There is an ambush! Hurry up..."

The general's complexion changed, and before he had time to finish issuing the order, Ma Ling held out Fang Tian's painted halberd, which was one size smaller in his hand, and killed him like a whirlwind.

puff--

"Uh...you...you..."

The general didn't expect Ma Ling to be so fast, he was immediately pierced by the halberd tip through his chest, he had to hold on to the front end of the halberd in vain, and gradually lost his strength, he let go of his hands weakly and lowered his head, dying of breath.

Ma Ling picked it up with a cold face, the man immediately flew off the ground and fell heavily on the ground, thick and bright red blood flowed out from under him, and became a little thinner under the washing of the rain, and was soon wiped out by the continuous rain. It is washed clean and then penetrates into the soil.

"He...he killed the army leader!"

"Come here..."

How could Ma Ling listen to this group of people shouting, raised his halberd, and used the halberd technique he learned from Lu Buna, but seeing the halberd's light flashing, it seemed like stars were shining in the dance, these ten or so soldiers were no more than soldiers How could they resist Ma Ling's killing, they were hacked and killed on the spot, and the screams could be heard far away.

"Let's go, get on the horse." Lu Bu immediately led the crowd towards the horses, and said in his mouth, "Brother Yan Jiao, please come with Brother Xiao Qi."

Luan patted the axe and said: "Brother Lu, don't worry, my old man will not lose the chain."

Lu Bu looked at Deng Fei again and said, "Brother Deng Fei, you are going with Brother Pan Zhong."

The two of Deng Fei would not have any objections, so they agreed immediately.

Ma Ling came over and looked at Lu Bu and said, "Master, I will protect you."

Lu Bu looked at him and nodded, "One person with two guards, if you encounter bandits, you don't need to ask more questions, just kill them."

"Yes." Everyone agreed in unison, and walked towards the shelter. Only one person muttered in a low voice: "Bandit army? The village master doesn't see Song soldiers as officials anymore."

"You're the one who talks a lot, so follow up."

On the other side, Lu Bu pulled out the red rabbit, put it on his hips, and said to Ma Ling, "Follow!"

With a flick of the reins, the red rabbit horse screamed towards the sky, with all four hooves exerting force, it jumped out of the Chen family's gate first, and the rest of them shouted loudly and beat their horses to follow.

Old man Chen stood up in the back room, hunched over and walked to the door, looked at the open door, his eyes seemed to flash a strange look, and muttered in his mouth: "Kill, kill them all and you will be clean."

……

"A bunch of tired bastards, they haven't finished killing them yet, so we really should punish this group of bastards."

Hu Youwei spit, his legs stretched straighter, standing at the door of a residential house at the entrance of the village, he took a horsewhip and whipped the door frame a little anxiously, making a burst of noise.

"My lord, brothers haven't had a chance to make a fortune for a long time, so it's inevitable that you're slow." The confidant looked at his back and curled his lips, holding the rope in his hand, and Xi Sheng was on the other end of the rope. He was tied and gagged and stood outside the door. The rope around his wrist was longer and could be pulled by someone.

Hu Youwei didn't say anything, and looked into the distance with a solemn face, holding the door frame with one hand, with bulging veins on the back of his hand, obviously exerting a lot of force.

The confidant is still nagging: "It's been a long time since I've had meat, Zhemo will waste a lot of time, and this village..."

"enough."

Hu Youwei raised a hand, and with a livid face, he stopped his confidant's words. The man didn't know why Hu Youwei was on his mind, but he just looked at him from the side with an ugly face, closed his eyes and took a few violent breaths.

The rain became lighter. It seemed that the sudden thunderstorm had consumed all the rain clouds in the sky, and the rain became gentler. The rain curtain connecting the sky and the earth also became sparse, as if a piece was missing.

Hu Youwei suddenly opened his eyes, and seeing the rain that had already lightened, he became happy with the naked eye. He turned his head and said to his confidant: "You wait here, I will go back as soon as I go."

"What's the matter, my lord, why don't I help you with the villain, and you wait here to take shelter from the rain." The confidant slapped his chest, looking like he was going up a mountain of swords and down into a sea of ​​flames.

"No, just wait here." Hu Youwei said before walking out.

The confidant quickly took a step forward: "Master, please reward me with the matter, you sit here and wait..."

"I'll reward you! I'm going to go to the toilet." Hu Youwei turned his head and looked at his confidant fiercely, and the person he was staring at took two steps back with an uncomfortable expression on his face.

"Women, one or two are useless trash, how could I be blind back then."

Hu Youwei was cursing and finally able to leave, he led the horse away from the eaves, but he was too lazy to look at the idiot again, thinking of riding directly into the village for a while to check.

The confidant murmured behind him and couldn't speak, so he shrugged helplessly and watched Hu Youwei go to the woods outside the village.

(End of this chapter)