Ming Dynasty man

Chapter 32 After the War
Li Jing was in a panic all of a sudden, how could he lie outside with such a serious injury?

At this moment, Shen Zheng hurriedly entered the courtyard.

When Li Jing led people up the mountain, he didn't let Shen Zheng follow, fearing that he would be hurt, but Shen Zheng missed his father and his family, so Li Jing followed him up the mountain not long after, just in time for Li Jing to let the dozen or so injured brothers be carried.

Seeing that the dozen or so people were lying in the yard with serious injuries, Shen Zheng was furious, and kicked open the door: "Bastards! You let the brothers lie outside, have your conscience been eaten by dogs?"

Seeing Shen Zheng's face was livid, Ma Wu hurriedly stepped forward to hold him back: "Master Shen, calm down, madam and miss wanted to let the injured brothers into the house, but I didn't let them in, for fear of frightening the madam and miss. .”

Shen Zheng glanced sideways at the room: "What's the scare? Without the desperate protection of the brothers, can they stay in the house safely? Bring the brothers in! It's so cold outside, and the brothers have suffered such serious injuries, can they bear it?" Hurry up, Ah Fu! Get all the medicines that can heal your wounds."

The Shen family has a big business and a large population, so many medicinal materials are well prepared.

"Master Shen, don't worry, Madam and Miss have already brewed a lot of medicine for the brothers, and the brothers have already applied it." Ma Wu said hastily.

Hearing that Ma Wu said that the medicine had been applied, Shen Zheng's expression turned pale.

Since Mrs. Shen can arrange for people to apply medicine to the brothers, she probably wouldn't mind these wounded people coming into the house. They depend on these people to save their lives, so they don't care about the rules that female relatives can't see people casually.

Shen Zheng was angry mainly because he was afraid that the bandits who were going back to the mountain would not know the truth, thinking that his brother was desperately protecting the Shen family, but he was still outside after being seriously injured, so he hated the Shen family.

Seeing that Shen Zheng lost his temper, Li Jing shook his head, knowing that Shen Zheng was thinking too much.

In the beginning, Li Jing was afraid that bad bandits would spy on the female family members of the Shen family, so Li Jing specially arranged for them to be close to the back mountain.

The back mountain is steep and extremely difficult to climb. Ma Wu and others don’t need to defend. All the brothers just need to defend the front. Otherwise, how can only more than 30 brothers resist the siege of ten times the enemy?

Of course, Boss Zhou's crude weapons are also one of the reasons. If there were sharp weapons such as strong bows and crossbows or bird guns, Ma Wu and the others would have been wiped out long ago.

However, seeing that Ma Wu and the others were seriously injured, he knew that this battle was extremely miserable.

Li Jing expected that Ma Wu and the others must have the intention of killing each other, and if they really couldn't hold on, they would fight their lives with Boss Zhou's men. The brothers on the mountain also knew that they turned against Boss Zhou and hurt Boss Zhou at the same time. He and many of Sanmazi's subordinates thought that Boss Zhou and the others would never let them go after they broke the gate of the courtyard, and they would die even worse.Rather than being captured and tortured and humiliated, it would be better to die desperately.

The brothers who were seriously injured must have had this kind of thought and they didn't want to enter the house. Otherwise, if they were just worried about frightening the female relatives, they only needed to go to the servant's room.

Most of the bandits under Li Jing came from poor people, and they were all simple and honest men. They went up to the mountain to become bandits because they couldn't make it through.

After Li Jing went up the mountain, he paid them money every month. These bandits were not stupid, they all knew that although Li Jing paid the money, it was Shen Zheng who actually paid the money.

In the minds of these people, it is only right and proper to take the Shen family's money and work for the Shen family.

Not to mention that Mrs. Shen applied medicine to them and let them enter the house, even if they did nothing, they would not feel that there was anything wrong.

At this moment, Zhu Zi walked up to Li Jing and asked in a low voice, "Brother, what should we do?"

Li Jing waved his hand: "Bring it into the house, don't disappoint Master Shen's thoughts."

Zhu Zi nodded, and quickly led people to carry more than ten wounded people into the house.

Li Jing walked to Shen Zheng's side and said in a low voice: "Uncle Shi, don't be angry. Brothers will never blame Madam. Although these people are rough people, it is still clear who treats them well. Go in and see the old man." , I guess the old man was frightened this time."

Shen Zheng nodded, and hurried into the house to visit his father.

"Look, look." Li Jing called out.

Liu Er stunned hurriedly ran over: "What's the matter, master?"

"Hurry up and go down the mountain to find the doctor. Take a few more people to find him. You can find as much as you can. Money doesn't matter. If you don't come, I will catch it." Li Jing shouted.

"Understood!" Liu Erleng turned around and left after speaking.

"Brother, all the prisoners have been tied up, Sun Zongqi asked me to ask you how to deal with them." Gao Qi ran over and asked.

Li Jing shook his head and sighed: "How to deal with it? These people killed many brothers on the mountain, I must calm down the anger in the hearts of the brothers!"

"Brother said it is true, but most of these people are just subordinates, and killing is inhumane, and it will damage the reputation of brother. I think most of the brothers on the mountain are wounded. I am afraid that this time on the mountain will hurt their vitality. Why don't we take the inside of the mountain?" Those who haven't done anything evil stay here to enrich the strength on the mountain. As for the others... just like what the elder brother said, the grievances of the brothers must be appeased." Gao Qi whispered .

"That's right, I only punish the evil ones. Brother, I read you right." Li Jing patted Gao Qi: "However, we have killed quite a few people this time, and I don't want to kill more. , that Sanmazi is the chief culprit. Except for this person, I want to leave the others to you and Sun Zongqi. You are officers and soldiers. If you want to fight well, you can’t do without military merit. I will send those who have done evil I will give it all to you, and the heads of the dead bandits will also be handed over to you, with these, I guess you and Sun Zongqi can at least be promoted to one or two ranks."

Gao Qi shook his head: "Big Brother, since I handed over my family to Big Brother, I'm ready to follow Big Brother. Military merits are useless to me. In fact, it's not that I haven't done meritorious service before, but there is no one above me. All the credit was falsely claimed by others. At that time, my younger brother was dissatisfied and sued the Shangguan. Unexpectedly, he was beaten with [-] military sticks and then transferred to guard the city gate. This time I went out of the city privately, let alone What a credit, it’s not bad if you don’t get boarded.”

"Then give the credit to Zongqi Sun." Li Jing said.

"If you give it to Zongqi Sun, I think he can be promoted to an official position. I used to be his subordinate. This person has a similar temper to mine. He is not good at being an official and always offends his boss. Otherwise, he must be a thousand households at least now." .” Gao Qi laughed.

"Brother, do you think we can bring Sun Zongqi here?" Li Jing suddenly said.

"Hehe, almost, I think Sun Zongqi brought people here this time, and he couldn't help it, so he had this thought. One is that you have already suppressed them, and the second is that the money given by the big brother is generous. What are we people doing as soldiers? , Don’t you just want to get promoted and get rich? But now we can’t be promoted because of meritorious service, so we have to work hard for money, as long as the eldest brother is willing to give up the money, they will sell their lives to you.” Gao Qi laughed.

"If you people can come to me, then I will be even more powerful." Li Jing laughed.

"It's not difficult to recruit them, but if you want them to stay on the mountain with peace of mind, you must bring their family members so that they won't have any worries. It's just that I don't think you can accommodate so many people on this mountain." People, I'm afraid it's a bit difficult to do this." Gao Qi said.

"It makes sense. Jinniuling is too small. We have to change places. I heard that Hongshanling in Sanmazi is a good place. I'm going to have a look. If it's good, I'll move there. In addition, there are a few bandit dens nearby. Clean up what should be cleaned up, and what should be flattened must be flattened, otherwise I will go down the mountain in the future, and they will give me another one, which will not feel good." Li Jing said.

"It's not uncomfortable, I think it's quite uncomfortable." Gao Qi laughed.

"Let's go and see the wounded brothers."

Li Jing patted Gao Qi on the shoulder and entered the room.

Old man Chen and the others had already passed out and stood firm all night. When they saw Li Jing bringing someone back, these people couldn't hold on any longer.

Li Jing checked their injuries, then shook his head, knowing that even if these people survived, they would probably be disabled.

Li Jing tucked the quilt for old man Chen, and said to Zhuzi, "Zhuzi, go and call Dahu and Erhu."

Old Chen's left shoulder blade was pierced by a gun, and the whole bone was completely broken. Even if he could be cured, his left arm would still be useless.

For this old man, Li Jing was full of guilt. Old man Chen's family was originally a kind family, but Li Jing forcibly dragged him into the dispute between the Shen and Xu families.

It can be said that all the troubles of this family were brought by Li Jing, which made this old man disabled.

When Dahu and Erhu entered the room and saw Li Jing sitting next to their father, they were stunned, thinking that something had happened to their father.

The two had been dependent on their father since childhood, and their relationship was extremely deep. They hurriedly knelt in front of their father, wanting to lift the quilt to check their injuries.

"Uncle is fine, it's just that this arm is going to be useless." Li Jing stopped the movement of the two of them and said, "I came to you two to ask you whether you will regret it after becoming a bandit with me. If you don't want to If you do it, I will give you a lot of money, and you will lead the uncle to live a life of a rich man."

"Brother, why do you say that?" Erhu asked anxiously.

"Uncle is injured today, and it will be you and me tomorrow. It doesn't even matter if you can save your life. You are my only relatives. I don't want you to have any problems with me." Li Jing shook his head and said.

"Brother, I won't leave. Dad told us before that a man should live a vigorous life. I don't know what it means, but after becoming a bandit with you, I feel that life is delicious. This is the life I want to live. Besides, Dad told us that you are a promising person, and you can't go wrong following you." Dahu said.

"Since you have made up your mind, you will have to suffer in the future. Today you also saw how those officers and soldiers fought. The two armies are against each other. If you want to survive, you have to kill your enemy. You must not be soft-hearted and give Opponents have any chance. I plan to train you personally in the future, you are my brothers, I will say hello to you in advance, and I will not show you any favor during training." Li Jingzheng said.

"You just hold it, Erhu and I will never have diarrhea." Dahu patted his chest and said.

Li Jingjing nodded and said no more.

At this time, Liu Er Leng came back with the doctor.

(End of this chapter)