Wang Chengzhu braved mental exhaustion and traveled all night.
Before dawn, the three of them arrived near the messenger's village.
"Uncle Liu, are we almost here?" the soldier asked, "under the two trees on the slope ahead, there seems to be a shrine for the Night Tour."
The man who was called Uncle Liu put his hands on the awning and looked at it for a moment, then replied: "You didn't become a soldier in vain. You can still know the way home in such darkness."
"It's because I'm lucky, and it's also because Master Zhang has studied in school and has good vision." The soldier said, his voice lowered.
The local people have been buried in the soil for generations. Without external intervention, it is difficult for ordinary farmers and long-term and short-term workers to muster the courage to leave this familiar land.
When Old Beiyang was here, we rented land to grow grain and paid taxes and donations. After changing to the new government, we still rented land to grow grain and paid taxes and donations. The Dawang Banner was changed at the city head, except for the Dawang Banner at the west end of the village, which was given to the tax-collecting officers and soldiers from the county town.
More money for tea, the idle men in the village rubbed their lips while basking in the sun, and the cold and heat passed by just like that.
It's just that in this new year's situation, life is becoming more and more difficult.
Old Zhang Dahu grew old in the winter of the year of Xinwei. After Xiao Zhang Dahu took over the family business, perhaps because of the good feng shui of the Yin house, the fields had a few good harvests. However, in the year of Yihai, the village suffered two natural disasters in a row. Zhang Dahu
The old grain that the family kept was basically eaten by the villagers.
Although the production in the fields has been reduced year after year, the grain tax has not decreased at all. You can see it even if you look up or down in the village. Xiao Zhang, a big family member, has lost weight visibly. Thanks to him working all day long, he has a strong body and no one.
He pointed it to his face and said he was not as good as his father.
Such a "half-village landlord" was wiped out when a grain of sand fell on his head.
Some people say that when Xiao Zhang went to work in the fields, he gained strength but lost his brain. There was not enough grain cellar dug at home, and there were not enough firearms for guarding the courtyard.
However, with such a small amount of output, the people in the village relied entirely on his family's help in providing porridge, so a few people did not starve to death. How could there be any leftover money to make the early preparations that people say, "It is better to be wise than to be wise in hindsight".
The bandits pass by like a comb, the soldiers pass by like a grate, and the enemy's sweep is better than a sieve grate.
Xiao Zhang Dahu had a strong body and strong family background. He survived until the first month of the Ji Mao year before going down to accompany his elder Zhang Dahu.
After finishing his chores, the young master of the Zhang family did not go back to the county town to go to school, but took up farming at home.
In order to treat his father's illness, the family almost lost a layer of their skin by selling or pawning their field jewelry.
Now, in order to support the family and pay off debts, teenage men have taken on the burden of responsibility.
Zhang Dahu's family has been defeated. Everyone in the village who has been renting and cultivating Zhang Da's family's fields in the past misses it.
Even though they paid taxes and went home, they were well off and entered the hospital, but they were still the weight of the bad years. When the children and the elderly were starved for food, the Zhang family would, for the sake of the folks in the village, donate half a bowl of gruel, which would cost people their lives.
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There were many villagers who joined the anti-Japanese armed forces with this soldier, most of whom were half-grown children in the village. Young Master Zhang acted as a guarantee and persuaded the adults and elders to ensure that none of these boys who worked for half a man and had to eat for one person would starve to death in the village.
Opportunity, follow the troops.
"Hehe!" the soldier smiled naively.
Approaching the slope, Wang Chengzhu saw that there was a tomb behind the shrine, but there was no word on the stone tablet in front of the tomb. He couldn't help but be curious and asked the two people beside him: "You have the habit of burying people next to temples!"
Uncle Liu didn't react. The soldier who had trained and studied in the army for a few days replied: "That's a foreigner. I heard from Young Master Zhang that he is our senior county official..."[2]