The knife stopped at Lou Zhong's neck but did not cut it.
Lou Zhong was also glaring there, not flinching at all. On the contrary, the disciples who were kneeling on the ground started to scream when they saw Lou Zhong's blood splattering on the spot.
Gao Jin greatly appreciated Lou Zhong's willingness to die and not surrender. Only such a stubborn man could be his brother. He put away the knife and laughed, holding Lou Zhong's neck in his arms and said with a smile:
"Good man, I have deceived you. With your nature, you are born to be my brother. I came to meet your second brother."
After saying that, Gao Jin asked his younger brother Gao Yu to come over and said to Lou Zhong:
"From now on, you will be the third brother. I am the eldest brother, and he is your second brother. Originally, you had a third brother, but he was too ambitious and talented to be my brother, so I drove him away. So you have to work hard, work hard.
Worthy to be my brother”
Gao Yu was helpless. He met his new third brother here. He was a good brother in every possible way, but there was one thing that made him a headache. He especially liked to take in his third brother. After several changes, he was still not satisfied with it.
I wonder how long this guy named Lou can do it.
Then Gao Yu asked Buqu to drive away the weak followers, served some fruits and vegetables, miso and rice, and asked Lou Zhong to come over and eat together.
Lou Zhong was not polite. He took out a green onion, dipped it in miso and chewed it. The green onion was so watery!
Gao Yu laughed and admired Lou Zhong's arrogance even more, and then asked his brother to eat together. In this way, the three of them chewed green onions, cooked rice, and ate loudly.
Don't feel shabby, you don't even have a meal of meat. A child of a small wealthy family like Gao Yu can't just eat meat if you eat it.
Meat eats food and grows slowly. You can only eat a few meals after killing it. You can't put the meat away, so you can only make preserved meat. Therefore, since ancient times, chickens and pigs have been killed during big sacrifices, and the whole clan eats them together. For example, the emperor
Even if the ceremony is too strict, it is just slaughtering a whole cow, a whole sheep, or a whole pig. This is the highest level of sacrifice.
The important responsibility of presiding over the division of meat for the clan members during the clan's great sacrifice was also regarded as the person's ability to rule the family. Chen Ping, the prime minister of the former Han Dynasty, was considered to have the ability to rule the world because he divided the meat well.
The three of them finished eating. Gao Yu wiped his mouth and began to formally ask Lou Zhong:
"Third brother, I only know your surname is Lou. Where do you live? Are you good at any weapons?"
It is said that eating people has short mouths. After he was full, Lou Zhong burped and said to Gao Yu:
"My surname is Lou Mingzhong, and I am from Heqiu, four miles west of Dongpingling Mausoleum. I don't have any weapons that I can use well. I just practiced random farming techniques."
The smell of onions from Lou Zhong's belch made Gao Yu frown at the side. On the contrary, Gao Jin's expression remained unchanged. He listened to Lou Zhong's words and nodded:
"It's not that you have martial arts skills, you can learn them, but your courage is innate and no one else can learn it no matter how much you do. I see that you are a born fighter."
Then he continued:
"I'm afraid you don't know where we will go after you join the army. You and your second brother have been practicing armor for the past few days, and then we will go to Tugu County. If you can win three titles, I will promote you.
Be a soldier. Work hard."
When Lou Zhong heard this, his heart tightened. Thinking about sending a message to Shigushan, he felt even more anxious, but his expression remained unchanged and he nodded in agreement.
In this way, a message that was supposed to be delivered failed to be delivered due to unexpected recruitment. In the end, the field guards outside Tugu County had to accept this test unprepared.
When Sima Ju returned to Qi with half of the military supplies captured in this battle, Zhang Chong also gathered Yang Mao's ten battalions of officials who had stayed in the original Dazhai, burned the Dazhai, and then returned to Mount Tai.
In this battle, Zhang Chong cleverly used a series of tricks to defeat the powerful Taishan County and Langya thieves. A total of 2,000 people were beheaded. In addition, the number of beheaded generals reported by each general reached 16, almost all of which were Langya thieves. A well-known and powerful gangster.
In addition, he also captured 6,000 people, including 4,000 who dared to fight. Of course, there were 500 Taishan Bao soldiers and Yanzhou powerful soldiers who were unwilling to join the army. Zhang Chong followed the agreement and no one gave money and millet, so he was allowed to return it. Home.
Even Bao Yu, Bao's general, begged Zhang Chong to allow him to take away the seriously injured Bao Tao, and Zhang Chong agreed. As for the captured Hu Muban, Zhang Chong did not let him go. He let a member of Hu Mu's family go back. , told them that if they wanted Hu Muban to go back, they should send people to Mount Tai to find him.
For Zhang Chong, if he wants to achieve a peaceful period of development in the future, it should be with this person.
In addition, the total amount of money, grain and millet seized can feed the captives for three months. The bigger harvest is for the generals who have been surrendered. In this battle, Zhang Chongguang absorbed thirteen generals from Taishan Langya.
Among them, there are seven powerful people in the powerful tribe of Yanzhou and Taishan. They are Dong Fang, Zhao Chong, Xu Xi, Guo Song, Guo Mo, Wang Han, Duan Xiu and other seven generals. There are also two generals who were promoted by Zhang Chong, namely Dian Wei , Wang Dang. Finally, the Langya generals who surrendered were Yang Mu, Ge Gong, Ma Jian and Ruan Zhong.
Yes, this Ruan Zhong was the general of Wu Dun who was finally abandoned on the west wall. After the whole battle was over, Ruan Zhong still stayed at the wall, and was later forced to surrender by Li Damu's troops. As for the angry Jiang Sheng, He came out of the wall in the chaos and disappeared.
In this way, with the raging fire on the wall of the village behind him, Zhang Chong's troops returned to the mountain with great vigor. When the spies from the powerful soldiers lurking in the distance saw that these Taishan thieves had really left, they breathed a sigh of relief and went back to report to their respective heads. Already.
They were all country tycoons, and they could not afford to offend either the Taishan bandits or the Langya bandits. They could only sit back and watch, praying for the blessings of their ancestors. It would be best if both groups of thieves were dead.
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Here we go back to Jinshibi on the edge of Mount Tai. There is a little character named Jin Bing on Jinshibi.
Jin Bing is a local, and this month is his happiest month.
In fact, since he was born, he has never known what happiness is, and no one has ever asked him whether he can live it. His life has been black and white and gloomy since the beginning, always filled with endless hunger and labor, as if he was born like a cow or horse. Just eat grass and work.
Jin Bing is the eldest son of the family, although his name is Bing. His two brothers starved to death when they were born, but he was able to survive. It is said that the owner of Jin's wall finally gave birth to a baby that year, and the owner was happy to give it to the whole clan. Three bushels of millet were made.
With these three bushels of grain, his mother finally had milk to feed him. So, in other words, Jin Bing was lucky enough to be the same age as Mr. Jin. But one of them was in color, and you were only in black and white.
Not in the same world.
When he grew up, Jin Bing was as dull and dull as his father. At the age of twenty, there was no sparkle in his eyes. Over the years, many people have passed away in the family.
First, my grandmother went into the mountains at night to dig wild vegetables and was snatched away by wolves. Then my grandfather, the oldest in the family, really didn’t want to live anymore, so he went into the mountains alone.
In the end, there were only two poor people in the family, his father and Jin Bing. By the way, Jin Bing also had a younger sister, but one year, his father took his younger sister to go to the market, and the younger sister never came back.
He asked his father where his little sister had gone, and he said that he had given her away so that she could live and we and our son could have millet seeds. When there was a good harvest this year, we would be able to marry him a wife.
That autumn, Jin Bing still failed to marry a wife. It was not because there was no good harvest, but because his father was exhausted.
My father was sent home by his neighbor, who was a millet shopper. He said that his father was out collecting grains for others. For some reason, he suddenly coughed up blood and fainted. By the time everyone found out, he was already out of breath.
Jin Bing cried, and he was the only one left in the family. After that, the guests from Jin Bing's family came to Jin Bing and said that Jin Bing's father died, and you, Jin Bing, should arrange the funeral ceremony for your father.
Jin Bing didn’t understand. Wouldn’t it be enough to bury him at home? What is the etiquette for burial?
The guests of the Jin family told him that you, Jin Bing, are a member of the Jin family, and your behavior is not only your own, but also represents their entire Jin family.
If you don't bury your father, you are unfilial. Our Han Dynasty governs the world with filial piety. If you are unfilial, then the whole Jin family will be regarded as an unfilial family by everyone in Tugu County. This will affect Xiao Langjun's entry into the Fu family in Dongpingling.
If not, then Jin Bing is the sinner of the entire Jin family.
Jin Bing didn't understand why whether or not he buried his father would affect the young man's future, and why he became the sinner of the Jin family. He even didn't understand why he had buried his father in the field.
an etiquette.
But he understood the threat from Jin's guest, and he remained silent and agreed.
After that, the Jin family bought a coffin and linen for his father, and buried his father in the wasteland outside their Jin family cemetery, saying that he was considered a member of their Jin family.
Afterwards, Jin Bing listened to the arrangements of Jin Bing's old guests for all kinds of etiquette. Although he was tired, he was still satisfied. Is this the grand funeral that the old people said?
But when my father was buried and the earth had just been laid over here, an old guest of the Jin family over there told him that he owed a sum of money, and you, Jin Bing, had to find time to settle the knot.
Jin Bing was confused, what money?
Unexpectedly, Jin's old guest sneered:
"Are you a charity man from Jinxiang? You can bury your father for free? In addition, I have wasted a lot of effort in order to persuade Mr. Jinxiang to allow your father to be buried in our Jin family garden. I don't need any money for this effort.
of?"
Jin Bing was silent. He had no money. In the end, he could only sell the remaining five acres of land at home to Jin Bing's old guest. As for the ripe millet on the field, his father was exhausted and used it to marry Jin Bing.
The millet naturally fell into the hands of the old guests.
Later, Jin Bing became the apprentice of Jinxiang Lao, supporting the Jin family and continuing to work hard for their Jin family.
Does Jin Bing hate it? Just like he has never been happy, Jin Bing never knows what hate is.
It wasn't until the Shi Jiajun in Taishan broke through the Jin family wall, and Jin Xiang took his son to hide in Dongpingling, Jin Bing suddenly experienced what hate is and what happiness is.
What is hatred? When he followed the disciples who lived in the same wall to help carry the wooden ladder to the wall of Jin's dock, and the Taishan soldier who had given him a piece of millet died in front of him. He hated why good people don't live long.
!
What is hatred? When he followed the Taishan Shi Family Army to break through the wall, he found his sister in the old guest's home. He learned from her that her sister volunteered to be a slave as long as the old guest could bury his father. He hated the old guest's
Shameless!
What is hatred? When he took his sister with him and the Shi Jiajun men broke through the inner wall, he saw Jin's dogs eating millet. When he saw the opened Jin's warehouse, the millet inside was piled up like a mountain, and the bottom ones were all rotten.
.Why is his hateful heart so dirty!
So what is happiness? It was him who took his sister to eat dog meat; it was the people from the Shi Jiajun who distributed millet to him; it was the people from the Shi Jiajun who told him that this land would be his from now on when he walked to a field that was larger than his own.
Later, his sister married the fellow disciple who carried the wooden ladder with him. That companion also had a sister, and she married him.