Chapter 7: Rebellion requires beheading!

It has rained since the beginning of spring to now in Mati Village, Xichuan County, Nanyang Prefecture.

The rain was very fast, but the time was very short. It took half an hour to clear the rain.

Teng Wenhu stood in the field, looking at the field full of water, but there was no trace of joy on his face.

This rain came a little late after all.

The scorched seedlings did not show any vitality except that they became a little wet.

The rain fills the cracked earth, and at most, the cracked opposition holes will close together tomorrow, but the seedlings of this season are still over.

"Master, go back, the corn is out of salvation."

His wife saw Teng Wenhu standing in the field for a long time, so she advised her.

Teng Wenhu looked up at the sun in the sky and spitted, "Damn God."

After that, he stepped on the mud and went up the ridge of the field, carried a shovel and walked home with his wife.

When my eldest daughter returned home, she had already cooked the porridge. When she brought it to Teng Wenhu, Teng Wenhu frowned and pointed to the porridge bowl and scolded: "What time has it been, and she dared to make such thick porridge?"

When Teng Wenhu's wife saw that her daughter was wronged, she pushed Teng Wenhu and said, "I saw that you were working hard recently, so I specially made it for you. You even scolded your daughter, but your heart was crooked?"

Teng Wenhu then realized that the porridge in his wife, daughter and youngest son's bowl was so thin that it could be seen. So he poured all the porridge in several bowls back into the pot, stirred it twice and put it in several bowls, soaked a few pieces of dried sweet potatoes in his bowl, and started eating it.

"It's okay to say something about our family on the flat ground. You guys are all on the ground. I'm afraid you'll be even more sad this year, right?"

Teng Wenhu put down his bowl and thought for a while, "This is not certain. Although the land on the plain is good, there are numbers. The land on the plain is not good, but there are no numbers. As long as you have the strength, you don't care about how many officials can cultivate them.

Last year, the rain was good, and their family might have more food than we did.

After dinner, you take out the dried fruits from last year, then pick some of our apricots, and I'll go to the original to exchange for some grain."

"Can you go alone, right? This year is a disaster year and the road is uneasy."

"We have to go even if we are uneasy."

After Teng Wenhu finished speaking, he continued to lower his head to drink porridge.

There is a porridge with dried sweet potatoes, but Teng Wenshun doesn't like to drink sweet potatoes. He would rather chew dried sweet potatoes than make dried sweet potato porridge like others.

He never thought that dried sweet potatoes were food. If there was no rice in the porridge, he would not think it was porridge.

Two bowls of porridge and a little dried sweet potato are simply unable to fill his stomach for a strong man like him. Therefore, after these two bowls of porridge, they are still hungry, but they are just bulging.

When my wife saw that her eldest daughter was going to wash dishes with sensible sensibility, she whispered: "How about hiring her daughter out, collect some bride price, and fill it?"

When Teng Wenhu heard his wife say this, a sense of nameless anger arose from his heart. He kicked his wife sitting next to him and pointed at her nose and said, "When I die, you can say that you can exchange your daughter for food!"

When my wife saw Teng Wenhu getting angry, she didn't dare to fight back even though she was kicked. She sat obediently on the bench and began to wipe her tears.

"The younger brother of the chief family is a good marriage. No one can ask for it, but when you come, you will become a daughter. Even if you sell your daughter, you can still find a good family to sell your daughter. If you go through more than a few decades, you will have no place to sell your daughter."

"Shut up, I will say something about selling my daughter. I won't beat you to death. What's wrong with the younger brother of the village? If you don't make a good fortune, you won't get a good fortune. If you give more brides, you can't marry. That's a fire pit."

My wife wiped her tears and said, "I look pretty good, I still know the words in vain."

Teng Wenhu sighed and said, "The bad thing is that he is aware of his words. If he can get into a college like his brother, and he can get a job with one or two positions after graduation, that is indeed a good family.

Unfortunately, he was not good at it. He was halfway through his studies and was fired by the academy. His reputation had long been bad. He had never been too much. He could not pick his shoulders or lift his hands. He had no strength to make a living, and he had to eat well all day long.

If it weren't for his brother's help, he would have starved to death.

If my daughter gets married, she will definitely be the life of a cow and a horse. My daughter is her biological daughter. She has raised her so old little by little. She is also an obedient and good girl who will not marry such a bastard.

Let me tell you, this matter is not allowed to be mentioned again. If the family leader comes to ask, he will say that his daughter is weak and is still planning to raise her for two years."

My wife muttered, "It's already sixteen, and it's eighteen for two years. You must think about it when you are the leader."

Teng Wenshun stood up and said, "I know what I know."

After saying that, he carried a bag on his back, put the dried fruits and apricots in two large baskets, tied them firmly to the chicken bus, and pushed the chicken bus and left the door.

Mati Village is said to be a plain, but in fact, compared with Funiu Mountain in the west, the land here is mostly hills. Due to the terrain, there is very little water irrigation, and most of it is mountainous slopes.

Since ancient times, Funiu Mountain has not been a safe place. Since Liu Tong, a Chinese from western Henan, led tens of thousands of refugees to rebel in Xichuan, there have been many robbers here.

Yun Zhao, Li Hongji, Zhang Bingzhong, the first-line king, the sky and other bandits all opened mountains and established villages here. It was not until Yun Zhao unified the world that Funiu Mountain was settled.

In the fifteenth year of Chongzhen, after the empress Feng Ying withdrew from Lantian County, she handed over the farmland that had been reclaimed here to the county magistrate of Xichuan County to resettle refugees.

Funiu Mountain has also changed from a robber's nest to a safe place.

Teng Wenhu's goal this time is Funiu Town. It is a very common thing to exchange specialties on the plain for the grain produced on the original in Xichuan County.

This year, Xichuan County has a severe drought, and grain has always been tight, and it is not easy to exchange fruit for grain. Therefore, Teng Wenhu is not sure that he can exchange grain for food when he goes to Funiu Town this time.

Teng Wenhu was a swordsman when he was young and had some brothers in Xichuan County. Since the world was safe, he, a swordsman, had no place to use his skills and honestly returned home to farm the fields.

I drank 20,000 porridge at noon, and I couldn't stand the delay, so Teng Wenhu walked very quickly on the road, and it took me an hour and a half to walk thirty miles.

Funiu Town is the largest town on the original. The reason why he rushed over was to catch up with tomorrow's market.

After arriving in Funiu Town, Teng Wenhu went straight to his former brother Jiang Tiansheng's house, preparing to rest at his house for one night and go to the market to exchange food early tomorrow morning.

Jiang Tiansheng's house is next to Funiu Town. Since his wife died of dysfunction, he has lived alone, and the house is in a mess.

After entering Jiang Tiansheng's house, Teng Wenhu was stunned. He saw Jiang Tiansheng lying on the kang in the thatched hut, humming.

When I got closer, I found that this guy's butt was beaten so badly that it was all over his butt. It could be seen from the wound that he was punished by the government.

Only by hitting a board can such consequences be caused.

"What's wrong?"

"The dog official beat him."

"What are you doing?"

"What can I do? This year's drought is so severe that the court exempted the original taxes and gave some subsidies for spring seedlings. When I went to receive the subsidies, the dog-drinking He Lichang not only refused to give it to him, but also scolded me in public.

I pushed me a few words, then pressed me to the ground and hit me twenty boards.

Brother, this anger is hard to relieve. When my injury heals, I will settle the score with him."

Teng Wenhu frowned and said, "Everyone should have a share in the spring seedling subsidy issued by the imperial court. Why don't he give it to you as a village chief?"

Jiang Tiansheng moved his body and said numbly, "The dog official said that the person who farmed in spring could only get the money for spring seedlings because of this severe drought. He said that I had no land in spring, so there was no money for spring seedlings."

When Teng Wenhu heard Jiang Tiansheng say this, his brows frowned. Why did he feel that the inside looks like he is right? The people who were affected by the spring seedlings are subsidized by the court, but the subsidies for the spring seedlings are nothing.

"You haven't farmed this year, what have you done?"

Jiang Tiansheng stretched his neck and looked out the door. Seeing that there was no one around, he whispered: "Liu Chunba gathered more than a dozen people and was about to enter Funiu Mountain."

When Teng Wenhu heard this, he was surprised and said, "You are going to be defeated?"

Jiang Tiansheng shook his head and said, "I don't hide it from my brother anymore. Are you looking for death nowadays when we are in trouble? We are attracted by a path when we enter Funiu Mountain."

Teng Wenhu said: "What road?"

Jiang Tiansheng said: "It was Liu Chunba who accidentally discovered it in the mountains. Doesn't merchants have to pay taxes when taking the main road? There are some cunning merchants who are not going to take the main road. They find a small path in the mountains and cross Funiu Mountain. This is considered entering Guanzhong.

There are also merchants who have returned from Guanzhong. In order to avoid taxes, they will also walk on this path...

Brother, you are very skilled in martial arts and much better than Liu Chunba. Why not lead your brothers to do this job? Let's rob these merchants together, without asking for a long time. As long as you do a few transactions, it will be enough for us brothers to have a good time."

"Shut up, this is the sin of beheading."

Jiang Tiansheng got up from the kang, moved his body to the yard, and looked at the wheel drive that Teng Wenhu pushed: "Brother is going to exchange dried fruits and apricots for food?"

Teng Wenhu said: "Didn't you add a donkey to your family last year? You sold more food. This year, the drought this year, so there is not much food."

Jiang Tiansheng grabbed a handful of apricots from the basket and ate them while eating them: "In the years of severe drought, my brother's business is not easy to do."

Teng Wenhu said: "If you can change the food, you can change the food. If you can't change the food, just change some potatoes. Sweet potatoes can satisfy your hunger even if you go back."

Jiang Tiansheng smiled and pointed at his cottage and said, "My brother has no food at home, so you don't have to change it. Keep the apricot for me. Just move as much food as you want."

Teng Wenhu glanced at Jiang Tiansheng suspiciously, opened the door of the cottage, looked up and was shocked. He saw that in this small room, there were sacks filled with grain, he reached out and pinched the sack, and quickly untied the rope that tied the sack. The sack was full of yellow wheat...
Chapter completed!