The Happy Life of Small Officials in Northern Song Dynasty

"The days of being a good man are free and easy. The terrain where the village is located is quite steep, and I don't have to worry about officers and soldiers coming to encircle and suppress it. The hundred or ten brothers in the village also get along with each other. They eat a lot of meat and drink a lot every day, and they are free; It is the official way, and there is no fear that there will be no business to do; just the same, the disciples have some criticisms about the target they choose; a large amount of food and salaries sent by Qianzhou to the Lufu pass through the mountain after the autumn harvest every year, but the head of the cottage never dares to send it. When people go to rob, they just rob some merchants and escort carts every day, and even rob the common people who don’t have much money. This makes the disciple quite dissatisfied. Welcome to reading"

Su Jinxin said: You are so bold that you dare to do anything. Only those who are in charge of the family have brains. Robbery of merchants and escort cars is a personal property, and the government doesn't bother to take care of it. If you rob the court's food and salaries, how can your small cottage be safe? Life is strange; just like the Bagongshan bandits, if they hadn’t been bold enough to rob their own 50 shi relief food, I would never have fought them to the end, because it would force the government to go to a dead end again, and if you don’t let them The official will survive, the official will not tolerate you, and will naturally fight with you to death.

"After three years like this, my disciple has superb martial arts skills and is considered a good person. He is respected by all the brothers and was elected as the head of the three villages. There are more than 20 life and death brothers under him. They all want to worship me as a teacher and learn some martial arts in their spare time. However, the disciple thought that this would make it possible for him to be a teacher for one day and a father for life, and to be their master would be able to restrain them better, so he set up rules and gave the sect a famous name "Dragon Tiger Gate". Officially opened the mountain to teach apprentices."

Su Jin rolled her eyes, she was called 'Longhumen' by such a silly name, it's really vulgar, uneducated kills people.

"I didn't expect this move to cause the anger of the masters of Dazhai and Erzhai. They thought that I was trying to win over my brothers to build a small mountain. Although they didn't say it on the surface, they really talked about it behind the scenes. Although I wasn't afraid of them, I also He didn't want to mess things up, so he looked for an opportunity to explain to them, but the master of the second village uttered obscenities after drinking and scolded his disciple; although the disciple was very annoyed, he was a brother after all, so he turned his anger Squeeze your heart."

Su Jin said in his heart: Come on, Feng Huhu is a broom star, he can't live anywhere, and the gangsters in the cottage have offended them, so they must not have a good life.

"I remember that it was the Mid-Autumn Festival in the third year in the village. I drank some wine that day and was sleeping in the shade under the big jujube tree in the back mountain. The master of the big village and the master of the second village took people down the mountain in the middle of the night last night. He said he was going to get some things to go to the mountain for the festival, but the disciple was awakened by the noise, so he went to the hall of the cottage to have a look, and saw a dozen or so women in the courtyard tied up on the ground like rice dumplings, and there were three or four big boxes beside them. It's full of money."

"I'm a little surprised. There hasn't been such a big harvest in the village for a long time. Few merchants and pedestrians dare to walk alone in the official road at the foot of the mountain. This group of women must not have been intercepted at the foot of the mountain; the boss laughed when he saw me, hypocritical I asked my disciple to pick a woman to enjoy first. The disciple knew in his heart that these women were not clothed, and he was afraid that they would be messed with by them halfway. There are not many women in middle school, before robbing women, they were tortured to death within three or two days, very few survived for three days, women are just playthings, of course disciples don’t care about it.”

"When the disciple was going around in circles trying to pick out a slightly better-looking woman, the disciple suddenly saw a person, Amitabha, Buddha, who do you think I saw?"

Feng Huhu's voice was filled with a kind of horror from the heart, so that his voice changed; Su Jin's scalp went numb, and he didn't know who he saw that made him so excited.

"Disciple...disciple...what I saw was Jiefa's wife when I was in Guang'an. For some reason, she was picked up by the big bosses. What I worry about is not her life or death, but how she was picked up. Yes, she was captured, but what happened to my invincible child? My disciple felt chilled, the village rules have always been that no one will be left alive, if my child was present at the time of the robbery, he would definitely die."

Su Jin almost fell headlong into the belly of the Buddha. Unexpectedly, things would develop like this. Frightened, he grabbed a few small pieces of mud with his fingers, and the mud fell down with a rustling sound. Su Jin was so frightened that he quickly held his breath. When he listened carefully, Feng Huhu didn't notice it at all, as if he was immersed in the past and couldn't extricate himself.

Feng Huo gritted his teeth, and the words he squeezed out were full of viciousness and resentment: "I know that I can't reveal half of it, I have to ask the former lady, so I pointed at her to be a little girl." I sent it to the room for me, and those people laughed at me for having a special taste. I don’t want the eldest lady of your family, but I insist on this half-old lady. I have already recognized me, but this woman is considered obedient and kept silent. After entering the room, the woman came up and slapped the disciple's mouth, grabbed me and bit me. broken."

"The disciple hurriedly asked the reason. I knew that the masters of Dazhai and Erzhai led people to go to Guang'an, Zizhou, more than 100 miles away, to rob people. The rest were all killed on the spot. My father-in-law's family was considered a wealthy family, but they actually took a fancy to them. Except for the wife and two little maids, all the father-in-law's family was killed. My... my invincible child... I was also thrown on the stone mill by the master of the village...I was thrown to the ground, my disciple...disciple...is about to go crazy."

Feng Huhu sat down on the futon slumped, his dry eyes were filled with tears, and his nose flowed out, obviously extremely sad.

"Is this retribution? My Buddha is merciful, please tell my disciples, is this retribution? My only flesh and blood was thrown to death by my brothers in the village. The blood of my Feng family was destroyed by the master of Dazhai and the second village." In the hands of the Lord, how can I endure such a great enmity? The disciple was afraid that the woman would spoil my event by crying, so he drew a knife and stabbed the woman to death. The child is gone, and it is useless for her to live. Besides, if it is not because of the child, That day in Guang'an, when she disliked the poor and loved the rich and left the disciple, the disciple wanted to kill her, so there is no need to be soft on her."

"The disciple kept his composure and came to the hall. Master Dazhai and Master Erzhai were still toasting to congratulate. The disciple asked sideways, and Master Dazhai finally said that a five or six-year-old child was killed in Guang'an. The child of the woman in my room; this time the evidence is convincing, my disciple no longer hesitated, took out the simple knife and immediately chopped down the master of the village, the master of the second village wanted to lead people to resist, my disciples thought that the disciple was going to seize the master of the village Naturally, they all agreed with me, and stepped forward to help me; the poor second village master still wanted to compromise, saying that I will be the master of the great village, and he will still be his second village master; it is his mother's spring and autumn dream! The disciple will The more than 60 people who went down the mountain to rob last night were all tied up, and they all knelt in the courtyard. The disciples did not call for help, but personally cut off their heads one by one, and stacked them neatly in the courtyard for me. My son's life, even the heads of all of them put together would be hard to cover, but the last thing this disciple will do for my son is to avenge him."

Su Jin was horrified, as if a pile of headless corpses were thrown into a pool of blood before his eyes, although these bandits deserved to die, it would not be a pity to kill them, but Feng Jingyao's methods were too cruel; dozens of people died at every turn In his hands, killing people is like chopping grass and cutting melons. Apart from using devil to describe this person, there is no other word to describe him.

"I know that the village can no longer stay here. The owner of the village and the others ransacked all the way last night, and many counties were harassed. This matter will definitely cause public outrage. The matter is too big, and the government will send troops to clean it up no matter what; in the past, it is worth mentioning. Now, there are only 40 or [-] people left in the cottage, and they must be unable to resist, so the disciples burned the cottage on fire, took gold and silver, and dozens of disciples all the way to the east. After nearly half a month of trekking day and night , came to Yangzhou Mansion.” “My disciple thinks, this place is four to five thousand miles away from the southwest, and the officers and soldiers over there will never know that we will escape so far. Secondly, Yangzhou Mansion is a rich place. , the folk customs are also simple and honest, and they are not xenophobic. It is very suitable for us to gain a foothold here. The disciple has capital, money and people in his hands. Why don't you worry about creating a situation in Yangzhou Prefecture? This step, the disciple now seems to be on the right track .”

Hearing this, Su Jin put up all his energy and finally arrived in Yangzhou. Success or failure depends on one stroke. I hope he can speak out all that Yangzhou has done.