Tan Lezi rubbed his eyes and felt his legs and feet were cold. The conditions on the front line were far worse than those in Weijiawan.
While waiting in the mud house, Tan Leizi took a nap. The light outside was still bright, so it would take a while. Tan Lezi turned around and looked around. Although this was a mud house, there were not many household items inside.
Shao, there are some pieces of broken wood in the east side room, with a big stone placed on top. Judging from the thickness of the broken wood, it is probably the same as the cabinet board.
When the Qing army passed by, they smashed them with stones and used them as firewood. The houses with cabinets were pretty good. There were no other valuables in the house. All the copper and ironware must have been taken away. The bed was covered with straw.
There is a rattle at the head of the bed, and there is some residual cotton wool at the end of the bed. It should be at home.
There was a quilt, but it was taken away. It can be seen that the family is living a good life.
Tan Leizi picked up the rattle and looked at it. I am afraid that the original owner may not have a good end, but fortunately Tan Leizi does not need to know.
"You have done evil."
After Tan Leizi finished speaking, he remembered that it was Tang Ershuan's catchphrase. He spat out a mouthful, patted the pieces of wheat straw on his body and walked out the door. It was very quiet outside. There were two peasants where the grain bags were placed. I don't know where they went now.
Tan Laizi looked at it again, and it seemed that the grain bag was also missing. The food that had not been handed over would be blamed on him if it disappeared, so he ran over quickly.
I went to the cellar and took a look. It was indeed placed in the cellar, but it was a bit messy, as if it had been thrown in.
"What are these two idiots doing? Master Tan will give each of them a good beating when he goes back."
Tan Leizi felt relieved and turned his head to look eastward. The streets were empty and only the wind and snow seemed to exist.
There was a well not far from the mud house. Tan Leizi had a taste for it, but he still didn't go to fetch water. It was too cold to drink the well water in this weather.
There was a sound of horse hooves outside the village. Tan Leizi had an experience in Hezhou. He used to have a stress reaction when he heard the sound of horse hooves. He could not sleep well all night after hearing the sound of horse hooves. Recently, he followed the cavalry every day, and this problem seemed to be cured by itself.
There have been fewer cavalry in the army these days, and most of the people passing by are from the Anqing camp. Tan Leizi walked struttingly in the middle of the street, preparing to go to the village entrance to see if the captain had forgotten to hand over the rations, and there was no ration left or right.
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Can I still go back to Weijiawan with the passing cavalry?
The captain was usually in an alley near the entrance of the village. Tan Leizi was already approaching the entrance of the village, when the sound of hoofbeats was very close.
Tan Laizi was walking and looking, and suddenly stopped. There was a soldier sign left on the road in front of him, and a shield sign not far away. There were messy hoof prints on the ground.
The sound of hoofbeats was getting closer and closer. Tan Leizi's face slowly solidified when he saw the soldier's token. After listening carefully to the sound of the hoofbeat for a moment, he rushed over to pick up the soldier's token, turned around and ran towards the alley where the captain came from.
As soon as he disappeared at the entrance of the alley, a group of cavalry appeared on the road passing through the village. Tan Leizi didn't care to look at it, and ran into the alley for more than ten steps. When he saw a door without a door panel on the right, he dodged.
Got in.
The dense horseshoes beat on the stone slabs on the street, forming a roar like a rainstorm. Tan Leizi took a few breaths, carefully stuck his head out and looked towards the alley. A series of figures flashed past the alley, including their faces.
He couldn't see clearly. Tan Laizi was about to rub his eyes when suddenly a cavalryman slowly passed by the alley. He took off his hat, revealing his smooth blue scalp and a copper coin.
Her mouth-sized pigtails swayed behind her. Tan Laizi's whole body froze. He suddenly covered his mouth, turned his head and squatted in the corner and cried twice, "Tatars, Tatars, it's a Tatar, mother, it's a Tatar."
Tatar, mother, do you know what a Tatar is? My silver, my mother-in-law
Ziying, ugh... god damn Pang... ah, god damn Wu Laizi..."
While cursing, he stuffed the soldier card under the collapsed mud wall, and grabbed a piece of mud from the side to hold it down. Tan Laizi was already in tears, and he climbed over the half-collapsed mud wall, "Wu Zi Zi
You harmed me, why did Mr. Tan offend you? You shameless cripple Wu, you only know how to show off. What ability do you have? What do you think?
If it can kill me, I will wait until the Tatars pass before escaping..."
Just as he was about to climb over the wall, he suddenly heard the intensive sound of hooves outside gradually disappearing.
"The Tatars stopped."
There were footsteps in the alley, more than one person, and a strange language that I had never heard before.
When Tan Laizi heard the voice, his hands and feet were shaking so much that he could hardly use them. He climbed up the half-collapsed wall tremblingly, and several bricks suddenly collapsed.
There was a loud shout in the alley, Tan Laizi's whole body trembled, and the wall collapsed together.
…
On the evening of the 17th, there was still a steady stream of cavalry arriving on the official road, and there were many people inside and outside Balizhuang.
Not far from the mud house where he was taking a nap, Tan Laizi curled up into a ball and stood with more than a dozen people. He stood on the far left, next to a woman holding a baby, captured from nowhere.
In front of them were two Qing soldiers. One of them was wearing a fur hat, and the other without a hat was walking up to Tan Leizi. He was holding a short sword in his left hand and a riding crop in his right hand.
"Undress!"
Tan Leizi took a careful look at the Qing army. His cheeks were very thin, and the Chinese with a northern accent was not difficult to understand, but his eyes were very fierce, and his blue scalp looked so scary.
Tan Leizi quickly buried his head and took off his outer robe. He suddenly felt like he was in an ice cave, and his whole body was piercingly cold. When the man stretched out his hand, Tan Leizi had no choice but to hand over his coat.
When he came out of Anqing, Tan Leizi was wearing another coat. When he walked to Xuzhou, he found that he couldn't withstand the cold in the north, so he bought a thick coat from a grain seller under the city of Xuzhou. The bald Qing army looked at it.
For a moment, he seemed quite satisfied with the coat. He turned around and looked at the man behind him. The Qing army nodded, with a flattering smile on his bald head. He nodded and bowed before putting the coat on himself and immediately
Bloated like a ball.
The bald head turned around again, brandished the knife, and said fiercely, "Take it off."
Tan Laizi was already trembling all over. He clasped his hands on his chest and begged for mercy, "Master, please forgive me. I'll die if I get out of cold again."
"My master has said that as long as he can work, he will kill anyone as skinny as you. He will be spared the trouble of the master."
Tan Laizi thought of the pile of naked corpses, and he knelt on the ground with a thud in fear, "I know that the villain is the strongest one. The villain can work and do anything. Please forgive me, sir."
Pass."
The man probably couldn't understand Tan Leizi's Jiangbei accent, so he said unmoved, "Take it off."
Before Tan Leizi could speak, the Qing soldier suddenly raised the riding whip in his hand and pulled it down with the head of his pocket. Tan Leizi tilted his head and the whip hit his neck. He screamed, and his neck suffered severe pain as if it was being torn apart.
, seeing that the Qing army was still fighting, he had to take off his underwear again, blurting out and shouting, "Sir, have mercy on me, this villain can really do anything, this villain is from Nanzhili, where can I?"
We've all been there. Whichever city the master wants to attack, the villain will deceive the city gate, enter the city and set fire to it, like Tu Jishan, beg the master for his life." As he took off his underwear, he took off the money bag in his arms.
The tinder and stamps fell one after another, and Tan Laizi didn't dare to pick them up. The man in front of him picked up the money bag immediately when he saw it. He didn't even open it, and sent it directly to the Qing army behind him.
inside,
After taking off his underwear, his whole body was shaking and he was almost speechless.
The Tatar who took the money bag suddenly said, "What's your name? Where have you been?" "The villain Tan Erlin is from Nan... Nan Zhili. Nan Zhili is a good place. There are many good places inside."
Money, grain, and silver can be entered by a small person in the nearby Jinan Prefecture, Linqing Prefecture, and Dongchang Prefecture, as well as in Nanjing, Xuzhou, Fengyang, and Lu'an that are far away.
Zhou, Chaoxian, Hezhou... Hezhou, there are a lot of money, food, and women in there, and even a villain can get in. If the master wants to attack there, the villain will help set the fire and open the door." The Qing soldier came over and looked up and down.
Tan Lezi, Tan Lezi clasped his hands in front of him, barely raised his eyes and glanced at the Qing army. This Tartar only had a few half-length beards on his upper lip, and no beard on his chin.
He was rough and looked to be in his thirties. Tan Laizi's body was about to stiffen. Perhaps only this Tatar could save him. He knelt on the ground with a thud and said, "I have it. It's useful. I know that someone in this village has hidden food. I'll take it with you."
The master went to look for him. He was in a cellar. If he was late, he would be arrested.
Someone else is looking for it."
"Who hid it?"
Tan Leizi twisted his body, "A group of officers and soldiers, dog officers and soldiers, the villain saw it and wanted to steal it."
The Qing soldier tilted his head and looked down at Tan Leizi, "What do you do for a living? Why do you hate the Ming Dynasty officers and soldiers?" "You are a bastard. I hate these officers and soldiers the most, and I hate these Qiu Ba the most. None of those generals are good.
I'm so sorry, I'm working hard for you, so why don't you get some money? Jiang Fan, you goddammit,
Pang Guangzi, you are a bastard, you have lost my wife, Wu Laizi, you are a shameless person, you have the nerve to be an official, you are harming me, ugh..."
Tan Laizi was crying loudly, with tears streaming down his face. The Qing army couldn't understand the Jiangbei accent, but it was impossible to fake it with such emotion and emotion.
The Qing army said to the bald man, "Keep him."
"Yes, Master." Baldhead hesitated, took off his coat and gave it back to Tan Leizi.
Tan Laizi quickly took it and put it on. The coat was still warm, and his body immediately felt much better.
The cold voice of the Qing army came from above, "What are you doing with these papers?" Tan Laizi was caught off guard and found the stamps scattered on the ground. His mind was racing. The purpose of these stamps must not be revealed. , he could only hope that these two people, both of whom were illiterate, would answer almost instantly, "Reply to the master,
Used to make fire, this paper is easy to make fire."
The stickers and tinder fell together, and the Qing army was not suspicious. He lowered his head and looked at Tan Laizi, who was still sobbing, "From now on, I will call you Master, Master Mengtu."
"The villain remembers it."
"Talk about slave."
As he spoke, two screams were heard in succession, and Tan Leizi quickly kowtowed, "I will remember this."
At this moment, there was a sudden cry of a baby nearby. Tan Laizi did not dare to raise his head, only to hear the woman cover her mouth in panic.
Mengtu's voice came from above again, "Tan Erlin!"
"Little... slave is here!"
"Master, I say, throw this crying child to death." (Note)
...Note 1: According to records at that time, the Qing army only abducted young men and women and killed infants, probably because they considered the infants to be of no practical use in the short term. Xu Risheng, a member of the Ministry of Household Affairs at that time, wrote this record to Changshan: "Women They were kidnapped and all the babies were killed. The sound of croaking was mixed with the sound of swords, making the ghosts and gods weep."