Vow to die at the end of Ming Dynasty

Chapter 6

After eating porridge and resting overnight in the unburned house, Qiu Tianxing and his team members regained their strength, and they felt like they were alive again.

Just after dawn, the elders of this village came over.The village elder is a skinny old man, about sixty years old, leaning on a pair of crutches, with gray hair and a white beard on his chin.When he came this time, he brought some impromptu gifts as his gratitude to Qiu Tianxing and his party.

After seeing Qiu Tianxing, the village elders presented the gifts they brought.Mostly food, salt and the like.Although not much, but also their mind.After all, it is not easy to make up these things after half the village is burned down.

In a big house that hadn't been burned down, Qiu Tianxing sat with the village elder.

"Thank you to the strong men for your rescue, otherwise the village would have been destroyed last night!" The village elder sat on the chair, stomped his crutches, and said gratefully.

"Old man, you are being polite. I deeply regret what happened to your village last night. We are all Chinese citizens, and we should help each other when we encounter difficulties. This is what we should do. You don't have to be too polite."

After Qiu Tianxing ate and slept enough, his voice was full of energy, and his hoarseness was no longer the same as before.After finishing speaking, he also took a sip of the tea set on the table, moistened his throat, and felt very comfortable.Although what he said was very impassioned, it was just that when he spoke, the wound on his face that had not fully healed trembled a bit, which was a bit unpleasant.

Seeing Qiu Tianxing's fair and clean appearance was ruined by an ugly wound on his face, the village elder felt a little regretful, so he dared to ask.

"Forgive the strong man, I'm curious about something. I don't know what happened to the strong man's face injury? It seems that he was injured not long ago. There happens to be a doctor in the small village. Do you want him to heal the strong man?"

At this time, Qiu Tianxing was exhausted because he was too tired to fight the fire yesterday, so he forgot about the Tartars going south. At this moment, he suddenly remembered that the Tartars had already gone south, so he hurriedly explained to the village elder.

"Old man, run quickly, the Tartars have already gone south and passed Xinyang. If you don't run, it may be too late!"

The village elder was shocked when he heard it, but he didn't panic, but continued to ask.

"Where did the news of the strong man come from?"

"Yesterday, a large group of our fleeing team encountered the outpost of the Tartars and suffered heavy casualties. We brothers escaped by chance, but everyone's family members were killed by the Tartars. Therefore, we formed a team to fight with the Tartars. The Tartars resist to the end!"

Having said that, Qiu Tianxing's eyes revealed a firmness.He thought that he had a sense of mission when he came to this end of the dynasty where the sun and the moon were dark and the sun and the moon were dark.He felt that the cause of his struggle in this life was to resist the Tartars to the end!
Although he has no political talent, no military ability, and no high economic level.But he has an iron heart!Facing the Tartars, he may fight and fail again and again, but he can do it—swear to the death!
The fate of the nation, the future of China, he has not realized these yet.Now, all he could think about was—to avenge Xiu'er!
It seems that the firm persistence in Qiu Tianxing's eyes made the village elder feel a sense of security and gave him some ideas.Now the situation in the village is very clear to Mr. Village
In the early years, some of the men in the village were taken away by the imperial court, and some of them took refuge in King Chuang, leaving only some old and weak women and children still struggling here.Now, the imperial court is gone, the world is in chaos, some ruffians who have been defeated have become bandits, and they dominate the mountains as kings, robbing their own group all day long.Just yesterday, a group of bandits from the nearby mountains set fire to the village in a fit of rage just because they had robbed their own village of very little food.This made the village elder very frightened. He felt that if the situation continued, he would either be starved to death after being robbed of the last grain by these bandits, or he would be killed directly by them.

Originally, they had accepted their fate and planned to rescue the rest of their belongings and flee here after putting out the fire, but the appearance of Qiu Tianxing and his party gave them hope.As the saying goes, things are expensive away from home, and people are cheap away from home. If there is no way to live, who would want to leave their home?Therefore, the village elder came to Qiu Tianxing with the expectations of the big guys to make a routine.

The village elder didn't talk about the Tatars, but continued to ask.

"This strong man, how do you call him? Old Zhang Hesheng, this is Zhangjiacun."

Hearing the other party call him a strong man, Qiu Tianxing felt a little embarrassed.My figure seems to be a little thin, how can I tell that I am strong?So, he could only say.

"Old man, you are being polite. I am Qiu Tianxing. You can always call me Tianxing."

Qiu Tianxing's attitude is very polite.In fact, at this time, not only Zhang Hesheng wanted to keep Qiu Tianxing and his party, but why didn't Qiu Tianxing want to rely on these villagers?

At this time, Qiu Tianxing's team had nothing to eat, nothing to drink, and they didn't even have a stick for defense.The anti-Tartar cause requires people, money, equipment, and the most important thing is food!Without food, no matter how many teams there are, they will disperse!Today, Qiu Tianxing's team, which has just been established for one day, is already in jeopardy due to lack of food and clothing.Now, only by climbing to Zhangjia Village can we overcome this initial crisis.Therefore, Qiu Tianxing also had a good talk with Mr. Zhang.

Chatting, chatting, Qiu Tianxing talked about the Tatars again, and asked Mr. Zhang how the Zhangjia Village should choose whether to flee or stay.

Mr. Zhang did not choose to go south with the crowd, simply fleeing would be a dead end.Today, there are no middle-aged men in Zhangjia Village. There are only more than 100 old and weak women and children, and the elderly and weak account for more than half of them.He wanted to stay in Zhangjia Village, but he was afraid it would be unsafe. After all, not only the Tartars were scary at this time, but also those seemingly harmless refugees would sometimes show their fangs and eat people.

Mr. Zhang thought hard for a long time, and suddenly he thought of the gang of bandits who came to Zhangjia Village last night.That group of people was actually not many, only a dozen or so, but they were all strong and big men, and it was more than enough to bully myself in a village of more than a hundred old and weak women and children.They robbed Zhangjia Village many times, taking away a lot of food and some women.This hatred is already as deep as the sea, but Zhangjiacun had no strength to take revenge before.Now, Zhang Hesheng seems to see hope.Although the Tartars burned, killed and looted, at least they didn't grab their heads, and that group of bandits always bullied him.Therefore, at this moment, Zhang Hesheng's hatred for the bandits is far greater than that of the Tartars who have never met.

So, he opened his mouth and said.

"Strong man Qiu, I know that there is a very secret place where the strong men can train their soldiers and horses so that they can kill the Tartars. The Tartars will not find out until the strong men have trained their soldiers and horses."

"Oh? Where?" Qiu Tianxing was very moved.Now my team is not even considered as stragglers, and it is definitely a death sentence to meet Tartars.He didn't want to sacrifice in vain, so he was very fond of finding a hidden base.

"Tiger Ditch!"

(End of this chapter)