Chapter 101 Demon Realm

At first, the innate sense of awe that ordinary farmers had towards the wealthy squires had some effect. From the mouths of the older generation, they knew that those wealthy households were often the fourth or fifth generation, or even the fifth or sixth generation, who were diligent and thrifty in managing their families.

Today, most of them themselves have indeed received favors from others: not to mention relief in disaster years, every day

During the busy farming days of the year, the meals of long-term and short-term workers will definitely include meat - and the owner's family, except for the three festivals and two birthdays, are usually vegetarian at other times. If you encounter any emergency or disaster, you can always get help -

- Since ancient times, imperial power has not been in the countryside. For two thousand years, the stability of the grassroots social order has been maintained by the gentry.

Everyone has his own destiny. If someone has a good destiny, it is because he accumulated virtues and did good deeds in his previous life, and was arranged by the Lord of Hell to be reincarnated into a good family. Accept your fate with peace of mind, do more good deeds, and you will be blessed in your next life.

That's what the old people say.

However, Mr. Qian said that these are all fake!

After the Yangzhuang people rushed into Yang Yuan's house, which was already in a mess, although they didn't see any gold or silver, the soldiers couldn't move the remaining grain, but there were still a lot of white flowers and yellow flowers scattered in the warehouse! Everyone was

They rushed to carry it to their homes. There were also some people, such as Yang Shitou, who was the timidest and was afraid of breaking his head if a leaf fell. They just looked on and hesitated and did not dare to take action.

.However, whoever takes advantage of you deserves to continue to starve if you don’t dare to take action! After four or five days, Yang Shitou couldn’t bear the hunger anymore, so he went to Ma Laoqi, who had moved the most, to borrow food, but he gave him a

The people in Yangzhuang all felt that Ma Laoqi did the right thing - you didn't move when everyone else was doing it, and now you are so embarrassed to borrow food? Why should you be a good person yourself?

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Although they now have food in their stomachs, most people in Yangzhuang still feel as if a big stone is weighing down their hearts, and they feel unspeakably awkward. They bump into each other in the village heads. If in the past, their families had more than a hundred kilograms of grain in storage,

They will definitely chat happily for a while, but at this time they will lower their eyelids, lower their heads and walk away silently.

Fortunately, this feeling of depression did not last long.

Zhang Mazi came to Yangzhuang again in high spirits, beat gongs and drums, gathered the young and old in the wheat field, and gave Ma Laoqi twelve taels of silver in public, and then said that this was Master Qian's reward for reporting Yang Bully to him. Bai Liang

The bright white and fine two official silver ingots dazzled the eyes of Yangzhuang people in the sun, making many people feel like "If I had known this, it would be considered as such."

"I can do meritorious service to the imperial court...". In the minds of the villagers, Yang Yuanwai certainly seems to be a good person, but the government has made the opposite conclusion. Mr. Qian is undoubtedly right - can the government be wrong?

?I am just an illiterate farmer, so I must have been deceived by this man named Yang! So Ma Laoqi seemed to be much more pleasing to the eye.

Zhang Mazi came with Mr. Qian's secret agent Master Kang. When everyone was firmly pinned to their heels and minds by two fifty-tael silver ingots, Master Kang cleared his throat and spoke. After all, he was a scholar, and Master Kang had a difficult time speaking.

Can you understand Jiaodong dialect?

The son pierced everyone's hearts blankly: Mr. Qian, young and old men of Yangzhuang, knows that your life is hard! But, have you ever thought about it - you should not have suffered like this! You were all killed by that surname.

Yang’s local tyrants and evil gentry did it!

Shocking...

Master Kang had been away for a long time, and everyone was still standing there dumbfounded. Every one of Master Kang's words was like a hammer, hitting everyone's hearts hard.

"You work from dawn to dusk, but you don't have enough to eat and don't wear warm clothes. Has that person named Yang ever been to the ground or been exposed to the scorching sun?"

"You have seen with your own eyes the grain piled up in Yang's house. He has never carried a hoe. Where did he get so much grain? Isn't it all grown by you?"

"You have planted grain, but you want to give it to Yang Heixin for free because you think the land belongs to his family, and it is natural and right. But do you know how his family's fields came from? It's not all his ancestors who deceived others.

You robbed someone else and deceived them into taking it by force! Otherwise - why have your ancestors worked with their backs to the sky and the earth for generations, but all the good land has been taken over by other people?"

"Your baby is cutting pig grass, and his baby is studying. When the Black Heart baby grows up, he will still bully your baby just like he bullied you!"

"Yangzhuang Yangzhuang, are you really all sheep, to be slaughtered by that black-hearted guy?"

Hammer after hammer, the big stone that was weighing heavily on everyone's hearts was smashed into pieces and disappeared without a trace - it turns out that we did the right thing! These grains are our own!

Mr. Qian, Master Kang is simply a living Bodhisattva who descended into the mortal world to save people in need!

Yangzhuang is a small village with more than a hundred households. According to the Ming Dynasty's Baojia law, every ten families have one Ajia, and every hundred households have one guarantee. The former guarantor of Yangzhuang was naturally Yang Yuanwai. Yang Yuanwai's house was ransacked, and Master Kang resigned on the spot.

The great meritorious Ma Laoqi did Baozheng.

The small fire in the hearts of the people of Yangzhuang burned into a raging fire. The only family in Yangzhuang that could be burned was turned into ashes. So under the leadership of Ma Laoqi, the fire quickly spread to Zhaozhuang, Xuying and Dongying.

...and spread.

Soon, all the wealthy gentry households in the surrounding suburbs were wiped out. Although it was a devastated year of famine, most people still lived a good life with fine food and meat every meal.

Although it was short-lived.

Many people are farming again, and large tracts of farmland are deserted there. Travelers often have to walk for a long time before they can occasionally see a few cultivators. Master Qian of Nanyang Prefecture was delighted with a bumper harvest - the gold he copied.

Not to mention the softness of the money, Master Kang was a connoisseur of goods. In the subsequent series of government inspections, antiques, calligraphy, paintings, and authentic works by famous people, nothing could escape his discernment.

Yin Erwu and the others don't understand this, and they don't have the time to think about it. As long as they eat white-flour steamed buns with their bellies open, and then kill the pigs, cows, sheep, and chickens raised by the local tyrants and evil gentry to feast on them, it will be the days of gods. As for the future... who can care about all that?

!Everyone is eating anyway, if you don’t eat, you deserve to be unlucky!

What makes Yin Erwu the happiest is watching those normally aloof members of the Communist Party of China kneel at his feet and beg for mercy in tears. The feeling is as refreshing as being possessed by a god in golden armor. Ma Laoqi is really a human being.

Only then did he come up with many ways to deal with people. For example, tie a thumb and a big toe with a fishing line, and then hang the person up to a height just enough for him to stand on his tiptoes.

Face the wall

Kneel down on the piled broken bricks, and then push a big green brick against the wall with your forehead. Another example is, wait for the ice to freeze in the river, break a hole, tie the person's legs down, and tie the waist down.

Clamp on board and freeze the upper half

On the ice, in order to prolong his suffering as much as possible, he built a shack and lit a fire in it... The majestic and arrogant Ma Laoqi in front of him was no longer the scoundrel who everyone looked down upon huddled under the corridor of Tugu Temple.

Following Ma Laoqi, he got addicted to traveling around the countryside. Seeing that there was nothing to worry about in the countryside, everyone flocked to Nanyang Fucheng in spring.

Entering the city this time, Yin Erwu, who has been a bachelor for half his life, opened his eyes. Once when he was shopping at a grocery stall at the gate of the city, he saw a group of people wearing hairdressers (a typo, the end of the word - okay, these two words are also typos)

Yes, it turned out that a man named Luo was imprisoned for treason, and his wife hanged herself. Since Dong

After leaving the camp, Ma Laoqi was actually no longer a bachelor - everyone knew what happened to the daughter who was not a member of the board of directors before she died, but no one dared to say anything - she heard passers-by pointing and talking about how beautiful the Luo family's wife was.

What a pity, Ma Laoqi still led everyone to intercept several servants of the Luo family who were carrying the coffin.

The servants who had lost their master just buried the young mistress with a simple emotion that was almost instinctive. They had no idea about their future livelihood. How could they dare to resist Ma Laoqi who aggressively insisted that there was evidence of treason in the coffin?

After a few blows with the stick, he dropped the coffin and ran away with his head in his arms...

The remains of the deceased have been sorted out, but the cartilage at the base of the tongue is broken, and there is still a small section that cannot be put back into the mouth. It looks quite scary. Even so, it did not stop the curiosity of the bachelors. Waiting for these guys to finish their research

The outside, and then became very interested in the internal structure, someone took out a knife...

It was getting dark, and the bachelors finally dispersed, talking about what they deserved as they walked: How much grace is it for the imperial court to grant you fame? This guy actually conspired to rebel, doesn’t he deserve retribution! Yin Erwu, Meng Youcai, you guys

I said it wordlessly, as if what I had just done was a

It was a just matter, and from time to time someone said a few dirty words. Everyone laughed happily, and there was no scruple of guilt in their hearts. The people who went out to cut firewood the next day saw only those who were chopped to pieces.

The coffin, and the broken bones and bloody traces that had been eaten away by wild beasts.

In a blink of an eye, it was time to pay the royal rations again.

Most of the fields were deserted, but Master Qian's orders must be carried out to the letter. Zhang Mazi personally directed Ma Laoqi, and Yin Erwu to collect them door to door in each village. Zhang Mazi privately told Ma Laoqi

As I said, money

The adults only look at the quantity collected by each village and don't care how it is harvested! So those who are still farming honestly are in bad luck. It doesn't matter what rations you have, seeds and grains. No one else has it but your family has it. What do you think you should do?

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The unscrupulous people are always able to come up with various ways to hide food, but this is not a problem for Zhang Mazi, Ma Laoqi and the others - everyone knows how much your family's acres of land will produce! There is another phenomenon that everyone has discovered one after another.

: The more ruthless you are to others, the more trust you will gain! In other words, the less you need to worry about being forced to blame yourself! Many of those who reported that their neighbors’ grain caches were seized, even received rewards!

However, after everyone discovered this trick, neighbors became wary of each other like thieves, and the success rate of secret reports plummeted, gradually turning into a means of venting personal anger. Zhang Mazi often sweated profusely and found nothing.

I also lost interest. When the method of checking the color of feces is invented, everyone's good life will finally come to an end...

The fields are completely uncultivated. In the first year, some people secretly carved out some land in the barren hills ten or twenty miles away from the village to grow some grains. Now they are all barren, and the grass is as tall as a person. Zhang Mazi has been waiting for the official for a long time.

We haven’t seen each other since Ma Laoqi was driven out of the city by a stranger whom he didn’t know or have any friendship with.

It quickly shriveled like an eggplant beaten by frost. In the large Nanyang Mansion, not to mention the several rich families who ran out early when they saw the opportunity, many ordinary people also left to seek refuge with relatives and friends, and the rest were in ruins.

Like living ghosts - most of them, like me, had a good time of being popular and having fun.

The sun was shining on Yin Erwu, and he felt a little hot. He had no food in his stomach, and he felt dizzy when he sweated. So he stopped thinking, got up from the broken kang, and walked out, thinking hard about which mountain nook was not there yet.

I've been there, and I'm going to try my luck today to see if I can dig up some wild vegetables.

Yin Erwu dragged his feet to the river, wanting to drink some water first to quell his hunger. After walking a few steps, he was stunned: on the Jieshui River five or six miles away, there were densely packed boats and rafts.

There is no end yet, it is slowly but surely heading towards me!

Guan Shengyun's army has arrived.
Chapter completed!