The next two days were uneventful.
Ai Yuchu and others came to invite him several times, and Li Zicheng had a good chat with them.
The relationship seems familiar, and I hope they won't resist stubbornly when they come to power in the future.
The peasant army can conquer the world with mountains of corpses and seas of blood, but it depends on these gentry to rule the world. There is no solution!
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On the ninth day of the second lunar month, Mrs. Gaihu and her three children made a fuss at the county government office to demand justice. The magistrate insisted that Gaihu had surrendered to a bandit, and instead he had her in chains for three days.
Where can I go to reason?
The next day, Han Jin'er went to the city for a stroll and was met by Li Zicheng.
Why are you so polite? Oh, that dry firewood made Lao Li fly into the sky.
"No more, no more..." Han Jin'er threw away his helmet and armor and ran away.
Lao Li was very melancholy, holding his waist and went to the pharmacy to buy tonics.
Two days later, Gao Yigong also entered the city. 1 He was killed in a battle with the chieftain in western Hunan in the eighth year of Shunzhi.
He was from Hulu Mountain in the north of the county. He had been following the "bandits" for several months and fought two bloody battles with the army before he gave up. A few days ago, he ran home with a few younger brothers and became the king of the mountain.
He heard what his elder brother Gao Ligong said about the Huama Sword, so he came to "Conglong".
By the way, I would like to promote my own sister, a young widow.
The former brother-in-law was dragged away to push a cart at the wedding banquet. He followed the army into the capital and died on the way. His body was not brought back.
Li Zicheng simply refused to get married and accepted Gao Yigong as his younger brother.
In the next few days, Li Zicheng spent his free time in the iron shop trying to make gun barrels, making movable lead type, etc. He had simulated it countless times, and he was able to do it with ease.
On the 17th, Han Jin'er couldn't bear the loneliness and came here again.
This time she showed off her feminine power and beheaded Li Zicheng from his horse. Old Li surrendered and begged for mercy.
Gao Yigong couldn't bear it and hurriedly summoned Gao Guiying.2
"My sister is very popular. Let her make new clothes for my eldest brother."
Gao Guiying was a very capable woman, and she even knew a few words, but Li Zicheng couldn't accept her. She was a good family, but she couldn't play around, and she wasn't willing to correct herself.
Just keep him as a minion for now.
Li Zicheng was defeated repeatedly against Han Jin'er, and he couldn't stand it anymore.
He made two heart-shaped clove-flavored soaps, a box of cream, and thirty taels of silver, and finally sent the goblin away.
On February 25th, Liu Zongmin and Liu Fangliang came back one after another.
Tian Jianxiu is still missing.
Li Zicheng didn't want to wait any longer.
Firstly, Tian Jianxiu's family is far away, and secondly, the young man's stance is not firm enough, and he does not have the confidence to conquer the world even when the rebel army is at its strongest. Let him go!
Finally, it was decided to leave Yuan Zongdao to look after the house and communicate news, while the others followed Li Zicheng to Changmao.
Everyone knows that this is a prelude to trouble.
There will be no good fortune or misfortune in the future.
Before leaving, Yuan Zongdi lifted the red cloth on the screen wall of his house, offered incense to the gods of earth and heaven and earth, and prayed for blessings.
Although Li Zicheng didn't believe in that stuff, he bowed three times along with a few others.
When the old man Wang of the iron shop heard that Liu Zongmin had given up his job, he was so angry that he cursed Li Zicheng, thinking that he had been bewitched by him.
Liu Zongmin huddled aside and did not dare to say a word.
Master and disciple are like father and son. Once a teacher, he will always be a father. This is no joke.
Li Zicheng gave the old man another twenty taels of silver and a piece of cloth, and finally promised to support him until he died, and then he blocked his mouth.
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Changmao Temple is sixty miles west of the city.
There was no west gate in Mizhi, so everyone led donkeys and carried loads out of the north gate to the Wuding River ferry. The water was sparse, so there was no need to take a boat.
The spring breeze makes the wheat green, the peach and apricot buds bloom, and the cypresses and willows compete.
Most farmers don't dare to plant winter wheat because of the bad weather. There may be a cold wave someday, and they are afraid that they won't be able to survive the spring drought. It will probably take more than ten days, after the Qingming Festival, to plant spring wheat.
However, most dry fields without water conservancy still dare not grow wheat, and there are a variety of drought-resistant millet, sorghum, barley, oats, etc.
After crossing the Wuding River to the west, we enter the mountainous area, with mountains connected to mountains and ditches to ditches.
A few miles ahead is Guanzhuang.
Because the Xiaoai family was famous, people knew that the people living in Liuwan were all high-ranking officials, and the people buried in their ancestors' tombs were all officials, so they renamed this place "Guanzhuang".
I want to ask how many rapeseeds there are in Guanzhuangguan? Three buckets and three liters of rapeseed.
Continue walking for more than ten miles and arrive at Aidongzhuang. Li Zicheng's former boss Ai Yingjia lived here.
In addition, the descendants of the Ai family are scattered all over the mountains and ravines of Mizhi, including Aihaowan, Aijiaping, Aijiasi, Aijiamao, Aijiapan, Aixinzhuang, Aihaozui, Aihaomao, Aijiagou...
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Too many to count.
Can't afford it!
After getting up early in the morning and driving all day, the small team finally climbed up to Changmao Mountain as it was getting dark.
Liu Zongmin took off the grain bag on his shoulder and complained with a heavy breath: "Brother, you think it's a hassle for the brothers to rent two more donkeys."
Li Zicheng smiled and said: "What is this? From now on, I will run ten miles every three days to practice hard."
"I'll take my life." Liu Fangliang immediately collapsed to the ground.
Li Zijing and Li Guo in the cave heard the noise outside, put down their bowls and chopsticks and ran out.
"Second brother, why are you back?"
Li Zijing is the third eldest son of the Li family and the younger brother of Li Zicheng.2
"Second uncle, you are finally back."
Li Guo is the eldest child, only three years younger than Li Zicheng. His father is adopted. 3
Seeing that the rice jar was about to bottom out, Li Guo was thinking of going to the city to find relief.
Li Zicheng kicked him and said, "Go and set the pot on the fire and eat first."
Li Zijing and Li Guo looked at the piles of big and small bags on the ground and drooled three feet long. They agreed and hurriedly ran back to the house to get busy.
At this time, the neighbors who heard the commotion came out to watch the fun.
Li Zicheng politely asked them to eat together, but no one was polite at all. The gentlemen quickly urged their mother-in-law to help.
These people were so hungry that they felt like they could eat a cow.
Li Cheng stepped forward and spoke, "Huang Laiwa, have you seen my family Daliang?"
Li Zicheng said nonchalantly: "It's good! He's eating so well that he's fat and has gained ten pounds. The day before yesterday, I saw him reading and writing, and he said he was going to Beijing to take the top exam."
Li Chenggang smiled for a moment, then turned bitter again, "Don't you dare to talk nonsense? What are you doing to coax the old man?"
This old man is not a good guy either.
In the future, he will become a leader and help the county magistrate dig up Li Zicheng's ancestral grave.
Having said that, can a farmer withstand the pressure of the county magistrate? He is just trying to save a small life. They are all pitiful people.
So Li Zicheng didn't want to embarrass Old Man Li.
Compared to the shit-eater Ai Zhao who proposed the idea of ​​digging graves, he is a polite scum who cannot be treated well. He is also considered a scholar? Even if the ancestral graves of ordinary people are digged up, how do you see the other person's reaction? Not to mention Li Zicheng.
For a tycoon who started a rebellion, it was normal to have Ai Zhao beheaded.
Changmao Town is even more lively than the Chinese New Year tonight, with a bunch of young and old men and women with incredibly beautiful legs.
There used to be fifteen families here, living in twenty-hole cave dwellings. The Li family was considered a "big family" and occupied four cave dwellings. Due to years of famine, there are now only seven families left.
To be continued...