The Republic of China Conspiracy Records

Chapter 69 Congratulations to the Groom (8)

Seeing that everyone had left, the patriarch also said to me: "Mr. disturbing my dream, please go and close your eyes for a while before dawn."

I had long since lost my sleepiness, so I shook my head and asked him what could be done to solve the problem now that the bandits are besieging the village.The patriarch's face was exhausted, and he was no longer strong in front of everyone. He sighed and said, "Is there anything I can do, I just hope that they will retreat by themselves after besieging the village for a few days."

There was powerlessness and bitterness in the tone of his speech, and I was silent when I heard the words. Indeed, facing such a group of heavily armed bandits, what can he, an ordinary old man, do.I was silent for a while, and couldn't help asking: "The old patriarch saved Hu Xiaotian, didn't he say that Hushan and Xiaoyang Village formed a friendship? Why do these bandits siege the village when they say it is besieged?"

"Why don't you say they are bandits? Besides, the head of the family is gone, can you still expect them to remember the love of the previous generation?" The patriarch smiled wryly, and said in a low voice, "This is also because we have not had close contacts with Hushan. The reason is that I wanted to keep a proper distance and still maintain this friendship. Who would have thought that Hu Shan would turn his back on him if he said so. Alas, what a pity the life of the old patriarch!"

I also gave a wry smile when I heard that, the friendship of the bandits is like the snow in March, it melts when it is said to melt.After tonight, Hushan and Xiaoyang Village may become feuds again.The patriarch was very angry about what happened tonight, repeating over and over again, who told people to have guns.

I witnessed Hushan's arrogance with my own eyes, and I felt the same for Xiaoyang Village, but there was nothing I could do, so I had to say a few innocuous words to comfort the patriarch.The patriarch smiled at me, the smile was full of sadness, told me not to sit with him, and go and close my eyes for a while.

I thought to myself that sitting here would really be of no use, but would annoy him instead, so I really went back to the room where I was staying. Since I didn't sleep for a long time last night, I squinted on the bed after returning to the room, and actually fell asleep.After waking up, the sky has been smoked into rice soup color by the morning cooking smoke, thin and dull.I opened my eyes, got up and washed, and found that the patriarch had a happy face, and I was also happy immediately, and asked him if the bandits at the entrance of the village had retreated.

The patriarch smiled and nodded, looking very happy, and kept saying that Xiaoyang Village and Hushan still have a relationship!While talking, he scooped a bowl of rice soup for me and brought me two boiled eggs.I am also happy for him, and the rice soup tastes very good.

After breakfast, I helped the patriarch clean up the dishes.In the situation like last night, it is naturally impossible for me to hand over the letter to Hushan. Now that the people in Hushan have retreated today, I am going to go to Hushan to deliver the letter again. Unexpectedly, before I can say goodbye to the patriarch, Yang Sizhao is in a hurry. He broke in from the outside and yelled: "Something happened, something happened to the patriarch!"

The patriarch's face darkened, and he scolded him: "Half buried in the earth, you are still so restless, is it a joke for the master?"

Yang Sizhao was reprimanded by him, so he hurriedly stood still, shrank his neck and hesitated to speak.The patriarch frowned and asked him, "What happened?"

Yang Sizhao took a deep breath, calmed down his breath, and said, "Siyuan and his wife are gone!"

"What!" The patriarch stood up from his chair in shock, and said after a while, "Have you searched everywhere?"

"The whole village has been searched, but there is no one there." Yang Sizhao hesitated for a moment, then whispered, "Could it be that people from Hushan came in in the middle of the night and kidnapped them all?"

The patriarch didn't answer him, but quickly rushed out of the door and hurried to Yang Siyuan's house.I followed him, and Yang Siyuan's house was indeed empty. The patriarch asked the young people in the village to search again, but they still couldn't find anyone.Everyone said that it was impossible for the two living people to disappear by themselves. People from Hushan must have come in in the dark and kidnapped them.

The patriarch turned pale with anger, his lips were trembling all the time, and the men in the village were also very angry, clamoring to go to Hushan to ask for an explanation.The patriarch closed his eyes, and two lines of muddy tears quietly fell from the corners of his eyes when he was not prepared.He closed his eyes and yelled loudly, then opened them and said, "What are you doing at Tiger Mountain? Are you going to die?"

The men all shut up, but they were still aggrieved.I saw such a lawless thing happen right under my nose, and I was extremely angry, but I couldn't say a word of comfort.

The patriarch seemed to be overwhelmed by this incident, he aged a lot, and said slowly: "Let's go, let's go."

"Break up? Is this the end of the matter!" Yang Sizhao said anxiously, "Hushan is too deceitful. If you don't ask for an explanation, Xiaoyang Village will no longer have to be a human being. Who dares to marry a girl to Xiaoyang?" Come to the village!"

"Since when did Xiaoyang village become a man in front of the bandits?" The patriarch raised his head and looked at the sky, as if he was asking the sky, "For a hundred years, it has not been manipulated by others. I thought that the old patriarch's life could be given In exchange for a few years of peace in the village, who knows, alas."

He looked around the crowd sadly, and said slowly: "It's all gone, what can you do when you go to Hushan? Let me go with this old bone. I'm going to ask Hushan, they ignore Huxiao Heaven is not afraid of God's injustice when I swore an oath in front of the mountain god! If they don't give an explanation, I will leave my old bones in Hushan!"

Everyone in Xiaoyang Village turned red-eyed, looked at the patriarch sadly, and clenched their fists tightly.I couldn't bear it any longer, and said loudly, "I'll accompany you to Hushan!"

Everyone turned to look at me, I took a deep breath, and said: "It is because I revealed that Xiuping is in Xiaoyang Village, Hushan came to Xiaoyang Village to rob people. The patriarch went to Hushan to ask, what is the benevolence and justice in this matter, and what is the law of heaven!"

The patriarch laughed loudly: "Okay, sir is a person who can read and write, so go up to Hushan with me to judge. If my old bones really stay in Hushan, someone will be a witness!"

I nodded solemnly, and was about to set off for Hushan with the patriarch when a man suddenly ran quickly from the entrance of the village, shouting as he ran, "Hushan is here, patriarch, Hushan is here!"

Didn't Hushan kidnap Yang Siyuan and Xiuping, why are they here again?The patriarch and I glanced at each other, and we both walked towards the entrance of the village.When I arrived at the entrance of the village, I saw a bandit standing there, but he didn't step into the village.I snorted when I saw this, and sneaked into the village and kidnapped him. How dare I pretend to keep my oath this time!

The bandit saw that we had arrived at the entrance of the village, without saying a word, he kowtowed to the patriarch on the ground, put a bundle beside him in his hand, and said: "This is Yang Siyuan's burden, the master asked me to bring it back to the patriarch."

The person disappeared, but only the baggage was sent back. The patriarch and I turned pale when we heard it.The patriarch took the burden tremblingly, and before he could speak, the bandit said again: "So that the patriarch can know that no one from Hushan has stepped into Xiaoyang Village from the beginning to the end, and it was Yang Siyuan who escaped from Xiaoyang Village at night. Yangcun was intercepted by us on the way."

"You're talking nonsense!" Yang Sizhao, who was behind the patriarch, yelled angrily, "How could Siyuan go out of the village by himself when he knew it was dangerous outside?"

The bandit ignored him, and just said directly, after Yang Siyuan and Xiuping escaped from the village at night, they were stopped by Hu Xiaoshan's men, and the two clashed, Yang Siyuan didn't want Xiuping to fall into Hu Xiaoshan's hands , so I pulled her off the cliff together, leaving only this package.Hushan was sorry for Xiaoyang Village in this matter, so Huxiaoshan asked him to kowtow to the patriarch a few times.

As he spoke, he really kowtowed to the patriarch a few more times before getting up and leaving.The patriarch and the others looked at his back as he walked away, and looked at each other. What he said seemed to be true, but why did Yang Siyuan and Xiuping suddenly escape from the village by themselves?That heroic new daughter-in-law died like this?

I couldn't believe it, and the patriarch was also stunned for a while, then he slapped his thigh, turned to me and said, "Sir, do you still remember that Xiuping and Siyuan stayed here last night, as if they wanted to say something to me, but I drove them home Go to sleep?"

I recalled that at that time, Xiuping really blamed himself for being troubled, and blamed himself for bringing disaster to Xiaoyang Village. "Could it be that they fled overnight because they were afraid that they would bring trouble to the village?" I asked the patriarch, a little surprised.

"That's right. It's a pity for these two good boys!" The patriarch sighed deeply.At this moment, someone suddenly knelt down next to the package with another plop. We were all taken aback. After looking closely, we found that the kneeling person was Yang Siwei.Someone came up to help him up, and asked him, "What's wrong with you?"

Yang Siwei broke free from the man's hand, trembling all over, and said, "It's me...I'm the one who killed brother Siyuan and sister Xiuping!"

We were very surprised when we heard the words, and the patriarch shouted: "What's going on?"

Yang Siwei's lips trembled, and he said something.It turned out that he was the one who told Yang Siyuan that Hushan besieged the village, and it was not an option to continue like this.Anyway, what Hu Xiaoshan wanted was the embroidery screen, so Yang Siyuan took the embroidery screen and went out to hide for a while. As long as the embroidery screen was not there, the people in Hushan would naturally retreat.

Yang Siyuan and Xiuping didn't want to hurt the villagers, so after hearing his words, they packed up their parcels and prepared to take the path behind the village, but they were blocked by Huxiaoshan.

After hearing what he said, the patriarch's face turned livid, and he said, "You have always been the one who gets close to Hushan in the village, and you are the one who comes forward for any dealings." He said, staring firmly into Yang Siwei's eyes, " Now tell me, do you really just want Siyuan to hide for a few days?"

Yang Siwei froze, slowly took out a few silver coins from his pocket, folded them beside Yang Siyuan's package, and murmured: "I just want to marry a wife... I just want to marry a wife..."

As he was talking, he suddenly burst into tears, crying and shouting, "He said he just said a few words to sister Xiuping, just said a few words, and he wouldn't do anything to Brother Siyuan. I didn't expect him to kill Siyuan Brother, I didn't think of that."

I opened my mouth and looked at him in shock, and everyone in the village understood what he said, and saw the few silver coins next to the package.Everyone looked at him silently, someone came and took away Yang Siyuan's package, but no one said a word to him, and no one looked at him again.

Yang Siwei knelt on the ground stiffly, watching them take the package away, his eyes glazed over, as if he had been hollowed out.I glanced at him, and sighed in my heart, he did such a thing, it was a betrayal of the entire clan, and no one would accept him again.

In other words, he has been exiled by Xiaoyang Village.

The person who took the package sent the package back to Yang Siyuan's house, and then everyone left in silence without saying anything.I followed the patriarch back, and the patriarch was also ashamed, extremely disappointed with what happened today, and kept telling me that what happened in Xiaoyang Village made my husband laugh.

I comforted him a few words, it was not easy to mention the matter of going to Hushan at this time, so I stayed in Xiaoyang Village for another day, occasionally went to the village entrance to have a look, and found that Yang Siwei was still kneeling at the entrance of the village, not even changing his posture , like a clay sculpture in general.I felt a little sympathetic in my heart, so I went over to persuade him a few words, the matter has come to this point, people cannot be resurrected after death, so I told him to go home quickly.

Yang Siwei seemed to have never heard of it, his eyes were straight, his lips were so dry and cracked, it hurt me to look at him, but he was indifferent.I couldn't persuade him, so I thought about going back and asking the patriarch to persuade him.Unexpectedly, when I went back and talked to the patriarch, the patriarch shook his head and said to me in a gentle voice: "Mr. "

I drink the bitter wine I make myself, and others don't pretend to be magnanimous, and I don't take the opportunity to add insult to injury. This is the simplest concept of right and wrong, and I have nothing to say about it.Fortunately, after Yang Siwei knelt for a whole day, I went to the entrance of the village to check when it was dark, and he was no longer there.I breathed a sigh of relief when I saw this, if I really knelt there for a day and a night, I'm afraid his knee would be useless.

(End of this chapter)