The Pu brothers, who were full of food, finally managed to return home by leaning against the wall. They were official slaves in the prison camp and lived in Jeju City.
The two Park brothers were originally from a middle-class family, and their father once served as a military attache who also served as a servant. Seven years ago, the current king launched a coup and deposed Gwanghae Gun - known in history as "Injo anyway" - and the Park family suffered
Implicated, the ancestors, father and others were beheaded, and the women and children were demoted to official slaves and exiled to Jeju Island.
On the way, the second-generation housewives of the Park family died one after another because they could not bear the hardships of the journey. Only the two Park brothers were left to struggle to get to Jeju Island, where they barely grew up amid hunger, cold and labor.
The so-called home is just a small house built with a large number of volcanic stones, a specialty of Jeju Island. The gaps between the stones are filled with yellow mud mixed with hay. The roof is covered with thick hay. There is no floor in the house, just a mud floor.
That's all. There are wooden boards placed in the corner of the house, which serve as beds, with hay spread on them. There is a stove in the middle of the house.
The house was newly built, and the humidity was very high. There was a slight fire in the furnace. It was troublesome to make a fire. Ordinary people would leave a few embers in the furnace and cover it with ashes. Therefore, there was a smell of smoke in the house.
If a person in the 21st century walked in, he would not be able to stay for a minute, but for the poor people at that time, this was their daily residence.
Even such a simple house was built with great difficulty by the two Pu brothers. They used the copper coins they had accumulated over the years to bribe the officials and obtained a piece of official land with permission to build a house. They carried stones, mixed mud, and cut the grass by themselves.
, like a swallow building a nest. It was built bit by bit in the spare time of raising horses and farming for the prison. Having your own house means you don’t have to live in the big long house where the official slaves in the prison camp stay. Park Dehuan’s
Marriage is only possible. Even official slaves cannot get married in a dormitory. As the elder brother, Park Dehuan is already twenty this year. In ancient society, he was an out-and-out older youth. What's more, there are
Instructions from the Elders: Their grandmothers and mothers who died on the road to exile once told them to "carry on the family line", even if they were reduced to official slaves.
Although the whereabouts of Park Dehuan's wife is still unknown, Park Dehuan is a very far-sighted person: his wife is nothing more than a maid in the prison camp. Men should be married when they are older, and women should be married when they are older. As long as they can have a house, they can always find a suitable one.
of my wife.
The Pu brothers sat down on the straw mat and burped - this was the most filling and best meal they had had in more than a year. Due to constant famines over the years, the days when they had enough to eat were few and far between. Approximately
There were fleas or something like that, so the two of them scratched it a lot and talked about Park Dehuan's marriage.
Official slaves are equivalent to state slaves. However, except that they are not allowed to leave the prison camp and complete the work assigned by the prison camp on time, there are no restrictions on personal life: you can marry a wife and have children as long as you give a notice to the prison camp.
That's right - the children of official slaves are also bitches anyway, and they continue to serve the country.
The two of them discussed potential wives: there were many slaves in the prison camp, and there had been famines in the past ten years. Every family had not enough food to eat, and families with slaves who had daughters wanted to
Marry your daughters as early as possible to save food rations, and you have a lot of options. But slightly more beautiful women will not have their turn: officials at all levels have long regarded them as forbidden wives.
"...Zhao Chengyi is like this? Her ancestors were originally in the 2nd class..." Unlike his younger brother, Park Dehuan was already thirteen years old when he was exiled. He had clear memories of everything in his family in the past, so he was very concerned about the original identity of the maidservant.
"I heard that she is not in good health. I'm afraid she won't be able to work. My ancestors worked in double shifts and couldn't be used as food - besides, she is not a servant girl." Although Pu Demeng is only fourteen years old, he has become very sophisticated and sophisticated.
"Where's Kim Oh-soon?"
"It's so ugly - even Mr. Liang of the household, a man who can't help but eat meat and vegetables, can't look down on him. Brother, do you really want to marry her?" Pu Demeng said dissatisfied. Although it was his brother who married his wife, the sister-in-law looked too curious and the younger brother was also interested.
fell shame.
Mr. Liang, a household official, is a lustful person. He is insatiable when it comes to women. Naturally, the most beautiful among the maids will not get his turn. The average maid who looks a little more upright will be called by him to "accompany the wine".
"Turn out the lights..." Park Dehuan was about to say, "It's the same if he blows out the lights." But thinking of Kim Oh-soon's appearance, he couldn't help but shudder.
Then they discussed the daughters of several families, including the young widows. Pu Demeng suddenly said: "What do you think of Li Wanji?"
"She is the daughter of a middle-aged man, and the charges are a bit unbearable..." Park Dehuan hesitated. Li Wanji was recently exiled to the island. It is said that she committed adultery while unmarried and was in a state of filth. However, some people also said this
The charges were fabricated and the purpose was to attack Li Wanji's family - Li Wanji's family belonged to the Southern Party and was being attacked by the Western Party.
The party struggle in the Li Dynasty was very fierce and lasted for hundreds of years. The fierceness of the party struggle was not inferior to that of the Ming Dynasty. It was even worse - but what is so powerful is that such fierce internal party struggle did not exist.
The subjugation of the country is probably a manifestation of the superiority of the principle of big things. Many of the official slaves on Jeju Island are losers and victims of political struggles.
"Brother, what else is there about the middleman? When she gets here, she is an official slave just like us - if we talk about the middleman's daughter, you and I are still the middleman's son." Pu Demeng said.
"What you said is true, but here we are all bitches." Pu Dehuan lamented - he was already a well-educated young man when the family changed drastically. Sometimes when he recalled the situation when the family lived together, he always felt
It feels like a dream.
"We finally got a lot of food today. Let's go pay homage to our elders," Pu Dehuan said.
His father and grandfather died on the execution ground in the capital, and his grandmother and mother died on the road. The bodies were hastily buried in an unknown place and became lonely ghosts. This is what Pu Dehuan has always thought was the most uneasy. He was reading
The person who wrote the book was deeply influenced by the Confucian idea of filial piety. So after he and his brother were able to survive in Jeju for a while, they secretly made a memorial tablet, and every festival and New Year, they took it to the wild and filled it with water and water.
Simple food worship to the north.
Today he had rare good food, so he also wanted to show his filial piety.
The city gate of Jeju has been closed, but Jeju City is very large and there are many open spaces and wastelands in the city. The two brothers carried their belongings and went to a secluded place beside the city wall.
It is close to the city wall and is almost entirely covered with vegetable gardens and woods. There are only a few small thatched houses occasionally, and it is already an idyllic scene. The two brothers walked along the path to a mound beside the city wall. There were woods on the mound, which was very picturesque.
A quiet and secluded place. The Park brothers usually pay homage to their ancestors here.
The two of them had just laid down the sacrifices when suddenly several colorful "monsters" jumped out of the bushes and frightened the Pu brothers almost to death. Before Pu Dehuan even uttered a exclamation, his mouth and nose were covered and dragged down.
On the ground, his joints were immobilized. Pu Demeng was knocked unconscious by a direct blow.
Xue Ziliang whistled softly and looked at the two poor boys - poverty is a universal language that does not distinguish between ethnic groups and national boundaries. Just look at their clothes and the withered color.
"You go interrogate them." Xue Ziliang ordered one of his soldiers with gestures. This person was not from the special reconnaissance team, but an agent from the Foreign Intelligence Service, a Korean translator specially trained for the Jeju Island landing operation.
Xue Ziliang no longer went to see these two prisoners: from arriving at Feiyang Island by boat and then walking here, they had captured several prisoners along the way. Most of them were such poor people: they had no clothes to wear and no food to eat.
Quite appropriate adjectives, and these two are no exception.
Entering Jeju Island was easier than he thought. Although the city gate was closed when they arrived at the city, Xue Ziliang was surprised when he saw the city wall - is this a city wall?
Xue Ziliang was stationed in South Korea for a period of time. However, as an American, he was not interested in the history and culture of the Universal Empire. His daily pastime was mainly the lower body. He rarely visited historical monuments and did not pay much attention to them when he saw them. When the real original
When the city wall appeared in front of him, he was immediately shocked!
Damn, this is the city wall!
The city wall made of volcanic stone looks very regular - square, but the height of the wall is wrong. Of course Xue Ziliang can't see any city walls in the United States, but he has been in Hainan for so long, and the city wall in Hainan
I have seen quite a few of them. The city wall in Jeju can only be regarded as a "wall" at best - a wall with low anti-theft standards.
He visually inspected outside the city and found that the city wall was only less than 4 meters high - not to mention, because of the use of firearms at that time, it was a trend for the city wall to change from high and thin to short and thick. However, there was no defense on the entire city wall.
There were no facilities, even the battlements on the walls of the most remote and backward small counties in Hainan, but there were none here. From the telescope, he could clearly see that the soldiers standing on it were completely exposed from the waist up.
Not to mention rifles, even bows and arrows can easily kill the defenders and suppress the city. As for the enemy towers and watchtowers that are common in general city fortifications, they do not exist on the walls of Jeju City.
Such a city does not require any special reconnaissance teams, no cannons, not even the Fubo Army. The labor squadron holds spears and machetes, climbs the city with ladders and ropes, and can break through with a single charge.
Xue Ziliang didn't know that less than forty years ago, in the 25th year of Wanli, the military generals of the Ming Dynasty who aided the Ming Dynasty once said the following to the officials of the Li Dynasty: "The soldiers have spoken, and in our country's cities, there are
"It's just a child's play." (Volume 88 of "Seonjo Baolu") This is the evaluation of the Ming army generals on the defense of the eupseong wall in Korea after the Imjin Japanese Rebellion.!~!
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