In a quiet and peaceful village, an old woman was tying up a special kind of dried grass blades. In the Shu Kingdom, this kind of grass blades can be used to make straw sandals. Poor people wear such shoes almost all their lives.
The old man's eyes seemed to be in bad condition. She stroked the leaves with her hands and felt the humidity of the weeds with her rough fingers. If they felt very dry and tough, then these weeds were good materials for a pair of straw sandals.
The body of the old man was hunched, and his face full of ravines was full of the hardships of life. They said that the country of Shu was mercantile and wealthy, but after all, it had nothing to do with country people like them.
The lords in the city may be rich, and the noble family members who resell goods may be rich, but the people of Shu still live a primitive and ancient life.
They worked at sunrise and rested at sundown, and had to do a lot of physical labor every day to support themselves and their families. If it hadn't been for the changes brought about by the Tang Empire, they might not have experienced any changes in their lives.
However, as some commercial products from the Tang Empire entered the Shu Kingdom, many things in the Shu Kingdom have undergone some changes: such as matches for starting fires, candles for lighting, and nails for construction...
Yes, in fact, these light industry products can easily invade some backward areas, and then be called "foreign fire", "foreign wax", "foreign nails" and other titles.
Compared with those rare cars and planes, candles that can light up the night and nails that can repair houses may be the things that can really affect people.
Of course, as time went by, the production technology from the Tang Empire did reduce the cost of living for some people, or turned some materials that could not be distributed to the people in the past into daily consumables.
For example, cooking oil, salt and sugar, and some cheap fabrics. These things increased the population of Shu and finally allowed the poor people of Shu to wear clothes...
Yes, I put on clothes. For a long time in the past, ordinary people in Shu had no clothes to wear. Wearing clothes was the privilege of nobles and big shots. Common people generally could only go naked from the waist up.
Wear something to hide your shame.
At that time, women in Shu rarely went out for activities, and when they had to go out, they could only wear the clothes of their mothers and sisters - they shared one or two sets of clothes.
Anyway, the land of Shu was very hot, and the climate change was not that obvious, so people came here year after year. Until the cheap fabrics from the Tang Empire began to dominate the market, destroying the fragile textile industry of Shu.
Just when the old woman was about to bundle up the dried grass leaves and take them home, a child's childish cry came from a distance.
"Grandma! Grandma!" A naughty boy ran quickly from the entrance of the village, his clothes full of patches. The child fell down while running, then got up and continued running towards his grandmother.
The old woman stopped what she was doing and looked at her grandson. She was very worried about her grandson's safety, but the recent situation was not so peaceful. The people in the village studied and decided to let the children take turns to watch outside.
When the Qin people came over, they killed several people and placed a steward in the village. This person reported the number of young men in the village a few months ago. Later, the Qin people came and captured seven or eight men.
No one knew where these men went. Later, one of them escaped and said that the Qin army asked them to dig trenches, and later gave them guns and told them to die.
After this man came back, he killed the steward who worked for the Qin people and ran into the nearby mountains with the remaining young men.
Surprisingly, the people of Qin did not come to retaliate, and they did not even ask about the deserters in the village. The family of the person who was killed did not dare to speak out, and they buried him overnight.
In the past two days, I have often heard thunder-like sounds coming from the distant mountains. No one can say exactly what happened. I only know that the Qin soldiers who were supposed to inspect this place this month did not come to grab chickens and food.
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The child ran up to the old woman, yelled loudly, and pointed in the direction of the village entrance: "There's a big car! A car! A big iron car."
The old man was taken aback and hurriedly asked his grandson to go home. She walked to the door of a nearby house and slapped the door: "Aunt Li, Aunt Li! Come out quickly! The army is coming."
Everyone has seen cars. In the early years, noble people drove by here. So people in the village have the word car. The children called "big iron cars", which made the old lady alert.
That was probably the weapon of the Qin people! The Qin people came to take revenge! This was the first reaction in the old woman's heart.
The door was opened, and the woman from the Li family stuck her head out and asked in horror: "What's wrong? What's wrong? What did you say, Aunt Liu?"
"The people from Qin may be back! What happened in our village can't be stopped." Old Mrs. Liu's eyesight was not very good, but she could still see things. She said while looking towards the entrance of the village.
While talking, a car had appeared at the entrance of the village, and some soldiers also appeared one after another. People in the village who had received the news looked at these uninvited guests, and the atmosphere of panic began to spread.
Immediately afterwards, the soldiers who arrived at the village began to search the entire village and check the surrounding situation. Several eight-wheeled armored vehicles stopped at the entrance of the village. These may be what children call "big iron vehicles."
Everyone was asked to gather in the open space at the entrance of the village, which was almost a routine. Mrs. Liu soon saw her daughter-in-law and her little grandson.
Children and women in a village were crying, and the scene was extremely noisy. After confirming safety, an officer and a few soldiers soon walked up to the frightened Shu villagers and asked: "Is this Jiming Village?
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"..." Silence, sobbing, no one answered, no one knew whether these people in front of them would suddenly shoot and kill.
Looking at the villagers in front of him, the commander of the Tang Army was also speechless. He chased Qin's defeated troops all the way to here. He just wanted to confirm the safety of the nearby area and figure out his location.
He wasn’t here to scare a group of women and children, and of course he couldn’t pull out a gun indiscriminately. So he took out a plastic-wrapped bread from his pocket and shook it: “Can anyone tell me what kind of village this is?
Just give this food to him."
The soldier standing nearby looked at his company commander with disgust: Why did the more he looked at his company commander, the more he looked like the landowners who bullied the people in the movies? He was really afraid that his company commander's next sentence was classic: "
Those who cooperate will be rewarded...those who do not cooperate will be beheaded!"
