Novel "Revolutionary Family" Volume 1 Chapter 1: Tuoxi Hunter (Original by Tan Jiayao)

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Chapter 1 Dragging Creek Orion

One

The magpie chirped and sent the Guanyin Bodhisattva.

Look again, the dojo of Putuo Mountain,

There was a spark that splashed before Nirvana.

The magpie chirped and sent a lifetime of worries.

Look again, the river in front of the door,

There is a clear stream pushing the bamboo raft,

It was not a thousand-year-old Fuwa who was sent.

The story begins with a small mountain village in a small county town. This small county town was named Yidu, and according to Kao, a county system was established in 196 BC, named Yidao. In 210 AD, Liu Bei established Yidu Commandery (宜都郡), which means "suitable for building a capital". Yes, Yidu is the place where the capital is suitable. Xiaoxiao Yidu, embedded in the south bank of the middle reaches of the Yangtze River in southwest Hubei, is located in the transition zone from the Jianghan Plain to the mountains of southwest Hubei, facing the Yangtze River in the east and the Yiting and Zhijiang Rivers, bordering Songzi in the southeast, Wufeng and Changyang in the southwest and due west, and bordering dianjun in the north.

In the middle of Yidu, on the south bank of the Qing River and on the banks of the Yuyang River, there is a small town called Wuyanquan, and in the western part of Wuyanquan there is a small village called Tuoxi, which borders Changyang Yubao Village. The surface of the Tuoxi River is not wide, and the river is not urgent. In ancient times, most people in the Tuoxi River went down to the river to catch fish with trawls, went up the mountain to cut wood, put the logs in the mountains to dry, and then rolled down the trees from the mountain, flowed up from the Tuoxi River to their own shores to intercept, fished ashore and then dried, made furniture or wooden houses, and also made firewood. Hunters go up the mountain to hunt, use the mop rope to put the large prey on the raft of the tuo creek and drag it back to the shore of their own home, the villagers living on both sides of the tuo creek, the function of the tuoxi water energy to the extreme, in this way, the name of the tuoxi has been passed down from generation to generation.

In the twenty-seventh year of Guangguang (1847), there was no rain in all parts of Yichang for a long time. There are historical records that donghu, Xingshan, Badong, Changyang, and Changle did not rain for three months, and the paddy fields became dry and cracked dry land, the zhuang family did not harvest, and the victims fled the village one after another. On the morning of September 9 of this year, there was still a clear stream on the Tuoxi River in Yidu. Well water and spring water have long since evaporated without a trace, and people wash their clothes and faces on the Tuoxi River, and then carry water home.

At this time, on the narrow river, from west to east, a bamboo raft floated, the bamboo raft was covered with a pile of broken cotton wool, people could not help but wonder, there are still people sitting on the backwoods of the Tuoxi River to wander here? More than a dozen men rushed down the river to drag the bamboo raft, only to see one person holding the bamboo pole in one hand and exerting a little force on the stone on the riverbank, taking off in the air, jumping out several inches away, and landing steadily on a square stone in the middle of the river.

More than a dozen men were stunned by this scene. This person is no one else, but the "master" that some young people say is very obedient--Hu Bugui. The master they obeyed was an old hunter, who was more than fifty years old at the time, still walking like a fly, as powerful as an ox, able to shoot arrows on horseback, and it was rumored that Hu Bugui had fled from the north and had come to Tuoxi for more than twenty years. When I first came, I didn't interact with people or deal with people. A man silently went down the river to catch fish and go up the mountain to hunt. Over time, several young people in the village took the initiative to learn from their teachers and learned from Hu Bugui the skills of horseback archery and hunting on the mountain. Slowly, several apprentices followed him, and his martial arts and skills were blown by the apprentices in Tuoxi.

The old hunter Hu Bu returned to the river and dragged the bamboo raft over, unveiled the broken cotton wool and looked at it, his heart was shocked, and he immediately panicked. There was a yellow-skinned baby hidden in the cotton wool, and the hoarse crying made people feel very pitiful. Hu Bugui took the baby in his arms, the baby's crying stopped, Hu Bugui's heart was hot, and he cried out: My baby! Son! Son with a handle! The baby's small face seemed to show a shallow smile, a pair of small eyes that were crystal clear, looking at Hu Bugui, it seemed to see his own relatives, a stranger who drifted from nowhere, Pingshui met, just in these few seconds of time, because of chance, because of pity, because there were too many inexplicable emotions, father and son recognized each other. Even though the little guy is just a baby, he doesn't know he's in a foreign land or that everything in front of him is a strange beginning. The villagers carrying the water gathered around, and some people pulled the cotton wool and opened it to see that there was a note in the cotton wool, and the note read——

Children are born in the year of disaster, and they starve to death with us. If a well-meaning person picks it up, it should be his own parent, the child was born on September 8, 27, Daoguang.

No one and Hu Bugui competed for children, one is that he has not yet married, and he is single. Several of his apprentices voluntarily passed him on, but he refused. He said: You have inherited me, I am picking up the cheap, what do they think of your parents who gave birth to you? The second is that Hu Bugui, who is already in his fifties, picked up a son from the Tuoxi River, and some people said that this was a Guanyin gift, a great joy and a great joy in heaven! The famous lady liu laozi in the village heard that old Hu Guanyin sent a son, personally went to the door to tell her son's fortune, after seeing the eight characters of the birthday, she recited the words in her mouth, blurted out congratulations, and said: "This is the Fuwa sent by Guanyin to the Dragon King, this is the servant sent by the Dragon King, and Lao Hu is so blessed!" Old Hu has hope in the future. When Hu Bugui heard this, his heart was very happy, and he gritted his teeth and gave the tiger skin coat he was reluctant to wear to Mrs. Liu. Since then, he has regarded the son he picked up as his own, carefully cared for him, and gave his son a very memorable name: Husili. It means the children of Guanyin Bodhisattva sent here from the west.

In order to take care of Hu Xili, Hu Bugui gave Hu Xili to the dumb girl Next door, Li Shi, who only had a surname and no name when hunting in the mountains required wild lodging and squatting. When she was very young, a plague took the lives of her grandparents, father and mother, leaving a single seedling, because she was dumb, and no one had mentioned her relatives at the age of eighteen or nineteen, which was already an old girl in Tuoxi at that time.

Hu Bugui lived in the wooden house next door to her house, which Hu Bugui built day by day according to the habits of the northern peoples. The main beams of the wooden house are all cedar trees that Hu Bugui carried back from the mountains, divided into two layers. The first floor contains debris, prey and grain, and the second floor is a large and a small room. The roof is a common top of the herringbone, all covered with fir bark, with bark as tiles, which is in Tuoxi, not innovation and invention, many villagers, in order to save money and effort, because of the ugliness is simple, the roof cover thatch, straw, fir bark is not only the old Hu family, almost door to door, are living in huts or wooden houses, only a few rich large households, only live in tile houses. The difference is that Hu Bugui is very diligent, and every winter, he has to overhaul the roof once, remove the bark that is rotten or pierced, and replace it with new bark.

The dumb girl's house next door is a dry-based earthen house, the roof was originally built with thatch, and in the summer, it rains heavily outside, and it rains lightly inside the house, and there are leaks everywhere. After the death of the dumb girl's family, Hu Bugui replaced the dumb girl's roof with fir bark, since then the two people often eat together, Hu Bugui went down the river to catch fish and put the fish in the dumb girl's home, hunting and catching prey on the mountain, also placed in the dumb girl's home, Hu Bugui no longer burned the fire to cook, over time, the two people were called uncles and nephews, anyway, dumb people can not speak, Hu Bugui is willing to call how to call, and even how to think, forming a more tacit combination of family.

When Hu Bugui handed Hu Xili to the dumb girl to feed, the dumb girl saw the withered Hu Xili and was so distressed that she shed only tears. Rice paste mixed with eggs became Husili's staple food, and in less than a month, Husili's body grew flesh, his face had a rosy luster, and the ass egg had a lubricating feeling to the touch. When the mute girl bathed Hu Xili, she pulled a pair of Hu Bugui's large hands over and placed them on Hu Xili's ass egg, asking him to touch it to see if there was any change, Hu Bugui touched his son's smooth and delicate ass egg, and smiled heartily, and a warm current surged into his heart. I thought: Although this girl is a mute, she has a melon face unique to southern women, and as long as she smiles, the two round dimples are also very charming. This body is well, not tall, not short, not fat, not thin, everything is with Hu's intentions. Although he is old, his body bones are still tough, and if he is combined with dumb, this is a complete family! Thinking of this, Hu Bugui had his own idea, he picked up his son Hu Xili and kissed him, and then said: "Son, Daddy is tired, go into your mother's arms." This was the first time that Hu Bugui had used his son as a test, to test how the dumb man reacted, and he threw Hu Xili to the dumb girl when he said that he was going with the trend. The mute girl's heart was hot, and she hugged Hussily and kissed her like crazy. Hu Bugui had a bottom in his heart, looking at the intimacy of mother and son, there was a sense of happiness and satisfaction.

That night, when the mute girl was taking a bath, she deliberately opened the door. Hu Bugui suddenly broke in, and involuntarily picked up the naked mute, put it on the bed, and told her: You will be called Hu Keren in the future, and you will be my woman. Then point to Hussily next to you, this little guy is our son.

Hu Keren was not alarmed at all, not afraid at all, this was the happy moment she had dreamed of, she closed her eyes, and after a while Hu Bugui took her to the sky and flew. It was as simple as that, and a family of three was formed.

Families of hunters cultivate their own routines for raising their children. When other people's children were young, they were carried in a basket, Hu Bugui did not pay so much attention, the child just got full moon with a coiled belt wrapped around his back, and Hu Bugui got on the horse together, as long as Hu Xili cried, he put him on the back of the horse, whipped the horse, and the sound of the horse's hooves stopped Hu Xili's crying. Dumb Hu Keren is very unbearable, very painful, every time he sees Hu Bugui carrying his son upside down and flying on the horse, he runs over to stop him from using this barbaric method to toss his son, Hu Bugui said to her: "Dragons give birth to dragons, phoenixes give birth to phoenixes, the son of mice will punch holes, my old Hu family's children are not so golden and delicate, rest assured, I am a hunter, the children of the hunter family should live on horseback from an early age." "Dumb can't speak, and in the face of a wild northern man, he can't interfere and stop Hu Bugui's whimsy. When Hussily was three years old, he followed his father down the river to catch fish and shoot arrows on horseback. This boy, at the age of seven, can catch a live rabbit on foot, shoot a bird with his head up, and as long as he draws a bow and arrow, the living creature becomes dead. What satisfied Hu the most was not archery, but horsemanship.

At the east end of the village, there is a flat land of more than ten acres, which was originally a rice or wheat field. People cut rice and wheat, or harvested buds and other grains, and put them in the sun and dried into the barn, and the large households in the village deliberately asked helpers to level the rice fields, and year after year, the rice fields were flattened by the stone. Since Hu Bugui took in his apprentices, this place has become a coaching ground for horse racing and archery in winter. Every winter, Lao Hu would bring a group of young people here to practice horse running and archery. After practicing for a while, the villagers of the whole village (and people from neighboring villages) were notified to watch the young people's horsemanship performance. Some beautiful girls in the village also took the opportunity to see whose son was the most heroic and the most powerful in kung fu. Then silently remembered in his heart, after returning home, he asked his father to ask the matchmaker to take the initiative to go to the man's home to match, which was a relatively enlightened marriage custom in the closed rural areas of western Hubei, in that feudal era.

The annual equestrian performance eventually evolved into a tournament of unprecedented scale. The leading figures in the village, such as the village chief, the patriarch of the clan with a large surname, and the cultural people with a little ink, as well as the officials and family members of the village who eat imperial food, will be invited to come. Some large families also dressed their daughters beautifully, standing at the front of the horse farm to wave the flag for the horse performers, and beautiful women gathered to examine every martial arts master in the village like a parade.

When Hussily was seven years old, his first-class horsemanship overshadowed his winning brothers. On this day, Hussily, dressed in a bearded costume and wearing a dog skin hat, appeared in the queue of horse performers. The average equestrian performer will only perform such a masterpiece as flying on a horse, archery on horseback, darts on horseback, etc. Hussili was different and had an extraordinary talent for martial arts. From the age of three to the age of seven, but in four years, he practiced three volts in the winter and three in the summer, and passed all the disciples of his father in a kung fu competition. On this day, after the adult performance, Hussily made the final appearance. In addition to flying on the horse, he also had to perform on horseback to pick up purses, flying on horseback to pick up flags, and flying arrows on horseback to wear copper coins.

Hu Bugui screwed Hu Xili out, carrying ten arrows, only to see Hu Bugui holding up the horse whip towards the big white horse "snapped" a whip, the big white horse turned its head and ran, Hu Xili chased up, like a light falcon flying up, the sound of the horse's hooves turned along the horse farm, the girls put colorful flower bags in front of them, only to see Hu Xili put one hand on the horse's back, his face was almost on the ground, and more than ten purses were all pocketed in the blink of an eye. Behind the girls was a door panel with ten copper coins hanging from the door panel. Just when the applause was being applauded, the big white horse that Husili was riding had already turned his back to the door panel, only to see him turn around, ten arrows whizzed out for a few seconds, ten copper coins were firmly nailed to the door panel by arrows through the square hole, the villagers were stunned, and when the big white horse turned around again, Husili spread his wings and jumped up from the horse's back, like a bird spreading its wings, flying to the opposite roof ridge, taking off the yellow flag on the roof ridge, flying down and landing on the horse's back, motionless. At this time, the whole village looked dumbfounded, and the applause and applause lasted for a long time. The mute girl came out of the crowd and walked to the horse, Hu Xili flew off the horse and hugged his dumb mother, Hu Bugui ran over, and the three of them hugged each other tightly, becoming the envy of the villagers.

According to the rules, Husili picked up the purses of more than ten girls, which was equivalent to setting up a marriage. Hussily was still a child, and the girls in front of him were fifteen or sixteen-year-old girls. They didn't go to their hearts, but they just admired the heroic little boy of the Hu family from their hearts.

Back at home, Hu Bugui said to Hu Keren: "If a man wants to make a difference, he must be able to write and be able to fight and be able to do both. The son has obtained the true transmission of martial arts, and in the future, his martial arts will be superior and unmatched. But. After all, if you don't read books, you are just like yourself, just a rough man who hunts, a samurai, and can't do anything big. The mute thought that Lao Hu was right, so he pulled Lao Hu out of the door and pointed in the direction of the Zheng family in the east. Hu did not return to understand, when the mother is hoping that Hu will not return to the Zheng family in the east of the village, the Zheng family is a large family of the Wang ethnic group in the village, there are dozens of children in the family, specially invited Mr. Private School, want to send his son to the Zheng family to study private school.

The next morning, Hu Bugui came to the Zheng family with the rice wine he had brewed and the prey he had caught from the mountain. When the Zheng family heard that Hu Xili wanted to study at his private school, he was full of joy and did not refuse, but there was a quid pro quo, that is, Hu Bugui would take time to teach martial arts to the children of the Zheng family every year. Hu bu thought that this martial art was not a job for making a living, but a reason for connecting feelings, and he also agreed very happily.

In exchange, Hu Bugui sent his son Hu Xili to Zheng Shuli, the most famous private school in the village, and began to study.

Two

As for the teaching principles and methods of private schools, in the stage of Mongolian education, great attention is paid to the cultivation of the habits of The Mongolian children, emphasizing the need for the Mongolian children to develop good moral character and living habits. For example, there are strict and specific rules for the behavior and etiquette of Montessori, such as dressing, forked hands, making moves, walking, audio-visual, etc., which are the traditions of education in our country. In terms of teaching methods, Mr. Li adopts the injection style completely. During the lecture, the gentleman was sitting precariously, and the students put the books on the gentleman's desk in turn, and then stood aside, listening to the husband circle and humming, finishing the lecture, and ordering the students to repeat it. The student then returns to his seat and reads. Where Mr. Sir prescribes to read aloud, students are required to recite them. Under this high pressure, Hu Xili memorized the "Three Character Classic", "Hundred Family Names", "Thousand Family Poems", and "Thousand Character Text" backwards in less than a year, and began to learn the study of sentence reading and arithmetic in the second year. Arithmetic is nothing more than simple addition, subtraction, multiplication, division and abacus, and sentence reading is learning to punctuate ancient sentences. In ancient times, punctuation was all round dots, and it was enough to use a brush to point at the end of a sentence, and the Four Books and Five Classics, "Ancient Literature and Guanzhi" and so on were also well learned, and finally learned the writing of the Eight Strands of Literature. One reading is ten years, ten years of cold window out of the head, fortunate to participate in the township examination, fame in one fell swoop, get the number one Xieyuan style. When he participated in the examination, he became a Gongsheng again, and since then he has achieved nothing, and he has had to return to his hometown to become a teacher.

Fast forward to the third year of Tongzhi (1864), the Manchurian Zhenglan Banner man Jue Luo Guimao was appointed as the prefect of Yichang Province. He heard that there was a Gongsheng named Hu Xili in Tuoxi, so he came to visit. Hearing that his father came from the north, Hu Xili performed equestrian skills for him on the spot, which he liked deeply, and was elected as a discipline, and the official rank was cong bapin, assisting the local prefect, responsible for the education affairs of Yichang Province, which was also an official official who ate imperial food. It was just that the official silver was too small, the money was very thin, and the income could not be made enough, and in less than a year, he resigned from the official and returned to the field. After resigning and returning to the field, Husili wanted to return to his former life, take care of his elderly father, and serve his dumb old mother. Live that kind of free life. After going home for a while, I found that there was an endless stream of visitors and door-to-door learners, and it was really overwhelming to say that the townspeople wanted to say that this person was not humane, and the visitors would be able to do it. Therefore, unable to withstand the persuasion of several children who practiced martial arts together, they thought of hunting and living in seclusion in Tiger Gorge together and living a few days of leisure.

Hussily said: "Parents are not far away. "Now that the old father is old, and the old mother is a dumb person who can't speak, how can he live in seclusion in the mountains, regardless of his family?" Hu Xili's childhood playmate Zhou Yaozu said: "You are now famous, if you stay at home for a long time, but also to add chaos and disorder to the old people's home, it is better to hide in the mountains and live some days, let people forget that there is such a tribute as you, maybe return home again, the door will be left out in the cold." Hu Xili thought about it too, so he bid farewell to the second elder, and took zhou Yaozu and Liu Yiguang, who had been practicing martial arts with him as a child, and three of them to march west, hoping to enter the Tiger Gorge and join the mountains.

Tiger Gorge is located on the edge of the western part of Yiling, climbing from the bottom of the canyon to the top of the mountain on both sides of the Tiger Gorge, and the average person has to walk for a day and a night. From the bottom of the valley to the summit on both sides, the distance is surprisingly equal, the ridge is surprisingly similar, from the mountainous terrain to every shrub and every rock, and the left and right peaks correspond to each other. The valley floor is flowing straight down, eerie and terrifying. The middle of the mountain tops on both sides is flat and overgrown with bushes, and the surrounding alpine cliffs go straight into the clouds, creating a natural barrier for the flat summit. The summits on both sides are split in two by Tiger Gorge, and if there is no canyon to make a cut split from the middle, the two sides of the summit are joined together, which is a huge oval peak flat. It's off the beaten track, and few people climb to the top of the mountain. The summit is not untouched, the summit is lush with vegetation and rain, there is a beautiful Tianchi pond on the left peak, and the mysterious Dragon King Pond on the right peak. Tigers occupy the mountain as kings, wild boars and wild cats, goats and wild deer, chamois and roe deer and other rare birds and animals are regarded as paradises, attracting hunters to the mountain to hunt, I don't know when, breaking the proper tranquility. The crossbowman with a sword on his back, a long-barreled earthen hammer on his shoulder, a noose on his back, and a dart hidden in his body, risked the risk of being rumored to be pulled out of the anus by the wolf, the tiger locking the throat, and the wild man's hand tearing, climbed the ridge from the stream trail on both sides of the valley floor, all the way to the top of the mountain, built a shack, lit a bonfire, the hunter is the natural enemy of all the birds and beasts on the top of the mountain, from the bottom of the valley to the top, only the climbing footprints of the hunters, there is no trail to walk.

The footsteps of time moved to late autumn, and the autumn leaves of the mountains bid farewell to the branches, and they fell down to kiss the land, leaving the trunks and branches to compete with the cold wind. A group of three people walked for a day and a night, and when the people were sleepy and tired, they finally reached the bottom of the Tiger Canyon. Looking at the straight mountain beam, the three people could not make up their minds for a while, go up the mountain, where to put the horse, if placed at the bottom of the valley, maybe it will be the delicacy of tigers and cheetahs, just hesitating, from the mountain down an old man and a young medicine picker, the old man called himself Langzhong of Donghu County, named Huang Shikui, who has been practicing medicine for more than twenty years, and has his own medical center in Donghu City. The three of them discussed and decided to give the three horses to Lang Zhong, who heard that there were horses accompanying him and did not have to carry the weight, and promised to be very happy. So he tied the medicine basket to the back of one of the horses, and the two men each led a horse, which solved the worries of husili and the three people in his party, and Husili repeatedly told him to feed the horses, hunt back, and must be thanked again, so yunyun, thank Langzhong, and climb up the mountain along the path of the medicine picker.

Climbing to the top of the mountain, the sky is full of stars. The empty mountains are lonely, and the cold moon is like a hook. The cold stars are dotted, suspended above the sky, as if they are dotted with light spots, like chess pieces. At night, the top of the mountain, originally it was miserable and cold, like a deserted desert, looking closely, the ground under the moonlight was densely grassy, and various vines were entangled on the trunk, becoming a protective film for the trunk to resist the cold wind.

The three of them were already hungry, thinking that there should be pheasants in the trees and hares in the grass, so they took materials from the spot, picked up some dead branches and bundled them together, lit torches as lights, and held torches to look for prey on the empty top of the mountain. Walking along, I vaguely heard the cries of wild wolves, groped forward in the general direction, walked for about half an hour, and when the torches were about to burn out, I suddenly heard the cries of wild wolves one after another, as if the wolves were beating up single animals in the group. They extinguished their torches and walked toward the wolves. Not far away, there was a natural lake, and in the moonlight more than a dozen wild wolves surrounded the three figures in an aggressive howling demonstration, and Husiri thought: These three people are also hunters? Is the hunter still so messed up? Just as he was surprised, he saw a wild wolf jump up and pounce on a figure, and Zhou Yaozu said busily: "Wait a minute, I'll come!" Only to hear a "whimper", the wolf screamed and fell in front of the figure, frightening the figure to collapse to the ground. The three of them took their bows and fired in a salvo, and more than a dozen wild wolves fell to the ground one after another, and before they could scream, they cried out for their lives, and the hearts of each wild wolf were pierced by sharp arrows, and this archery and martial art could only be such extraordinary skills as those who were masters with extraordinary skills. The three men ran over to take a look, but they saw three women curled up on the ground, trembling. Can't help but be shocked, this tiger gorge on the top of the mountain, how the woman came up, could it be a fairy under the mortal or encountered the legendary female ghost. Seeing that someone had come to rescue them, the three women also began to speak, and the woman who had just been thrown down by the wild wolf was named Ulun Zhuzhige, who said that they were from Kyoto (today's Beijing), and their parents fought with the Qing army, and were overturned by the iron hooves of the Qing army in the vast desert, and the women were taken as booty to abduct the Qing camp. Later, they were given as giveaways to British merchants doing business in Yichang. On the way to escort, he was robbed by mountain bandits and brought to the top of this uninhabited mountain.

Husiri asked, "When the mountain bandits robbed you and put you into this primeval forest, wouldn't that be self-destruction?" Urunjurig pointed his hand and said, "A dozen of them are sleeping in the cave opposite." Husiri said, "First roast the wolf and eat it, then fill your stomach and then clean up these mountain thieves, and after dawn, take you down the mountain to find a way to live." ”

Hussily took the lead, and the three of them set out together, found the dead branches and decaying grass and piled them together, lit it, and by the light of the fire, dragged a wolf, hung it on the tree and began to peel it, and after peeling the skin, he opened his stomach, took out all the internal organs, and then threw it in the lake, washed it with a rush, found a stone slab, and sprinkled the salt and condiments he carried with him on the washed wolf, and the wolf's meat rack was stained with salt and seasonings in every place, and after an hour of salt, it was set up with a wooden stick and placed on the burning campfire and kept roasting. After half an hour, the taste of meat became more and more intense, and Liu Yiguang, who was from a butcher, took out a machete to cut the meat and cut off the roasted wolf meat piece by piece, one piece for each person, and the three men ate it with relish. They brought the meat to the mouths of the three girls, who had been hungry for days, unable to resist the temptation of the smell of meat, and without the restraint of the women, they devoured it.

Soon a wolf was eaten by three men and three women, leaving only a skeleton shelf, and they were full, and fell asleep together with a full burp.

In the middle of the night, the cold wind on the top of the mountain roared, the sound of the wind overshadowed the snoring, the wind blew over, like a rattan pumping on the face, these wild men could not resist, one by one was awakened by the "wind lord", found that the girls were also crowded together, and did not leave their few stinky men.

Husily said: "The wild wind on the mountain is strong, so we might as well move to the cave." But Ulun Zhuzhig stopped him: "There was a leader in the cave, called Zhou Ba leper, who carried a plate axe with him, and saw him kill two officers and soldiers with a plate axe, and then jumped on the carriage, killed the groom, and forced us into the carriage with the plate axe." ”

Zhou Yaozu said, "Big Brother, wait a minute, this week's leper, just give it to me, you don't have to do it." ”

Liu Yiguang was unwilling, he grabbed the head and said, "Look at what you said?" I haven't fought in a long time, and these hands are very itchy. ”

Husily said, "There are a dozen or so people in there, be careful not to hurt people, teach them a lesson." As soon as the three girls heard this, they knew that these three people all had kung fu and were not ordinary hunters. They led the way in front, and when they reached the mouth of the cave, they hesitated to go in.

As soon as I stepped into the cave entrance, I heard a farting sound, lit a torch, and the cave was lying on the ground, all sleeping on the dry grass. Liu Yiguang took the machete and shouted loudly: "Let Lao Tzu get up, make room for him, and wait for our three grandfathers and three grandmothers to sleep." This voice, like a ringing brass bell, echoed in the hole, buzzing. More than a dozen monks were confused by this sudden roar, and one by one they were like wooden chickens, and their sleepy eyes shrugged their heads, not knowing what to do. When he came back, he saw only three people coming, and Zhou Bazi stood up and patted the dust and weeds on his body, and said casually: "I thought that the officers and soldiers had touched it, which frightened me." Two or three hair thieves came, beating the swollen face and filling the fat, just want to occupy the magpie's nest, where is the bottom of it. Saying that, a kick up the board axe, catch it with one hand, hold the board axe in hand, and slash at Liu Yiguang, Liu Yiguang was on one side, his head was tilted, a cool breeze passed by, only to see Liu Yiguang gently sweep under his feet, and his left hand pressed the neck of Zhou Ba leper and pulled, and a dog ate and fell to the ground. The moment Zhou Ba leper fell to the ground, he roared, "Brothers, what are you still doing, give me a beating." Hu Xili saw that the cave was too small and there was no room for maneuvering, so he beckoned Zhou Yaozu and Liu Yiguang to exit the cave, and more than a dozen people chased them out and chased them all the way to the lake, Hu Xili said: "Just teach these mountain thieves here, you two dodge away, let me have fun and talk again." ”

As soon as Hu Xili turned around, he picked up the head of a mountain thief, lifted it up, and threw it into the lake, only to hear a bang, the sound of falling water fluttering, splashing water. A few mountain thieves who came, before they could understand what was going on, were thrown into the cold lake by Husili in the same way, the lake was not very deep, and when they were pulled ashore, they froze like chaff one by one, and shouted to Grandpa to spare his life.

Hussily said: "I just turned twenty this year, don't call me Grandpa, call me old." Well, go and collect firewood yourself, and light the campfire and roast it. "Not a single one of the dozen minions disobeyed, obediently went to collect firewood, and in a few moments the campfire was lit, reflecting half the sky, and The burly figure of Husili was under the fiery red shadow, and with the swing of the flames, like a flowing sail, erected above this dark mountain, his resolute and handsome face was weakened by the long braids, and according to the current aesthetic custom, the man's masculinity was detracted from the inherent heroism because of a braid at the back of his head.

The minions had already frozen their upper and lower lips, and Husiri told them to take off their wet clothes and roast them with wooden poles, one by one, like relegated roast chickens, standing around the campfire with wooden poles. At this time, Liu Yiguang called the three women and asked them, "Who among these beasts has harmed you, as long as you point it out, our eldest brother will make the decision for you." The girls looked at each other, looked at the more than a dozen men with red stripes, and did not dare to look at them in shame. Maybe the girls were afraid of ruining a human life if they said it, Zhou Yaozu said: Don't worry about anything, we never do killing people for a living, we only do punitive games. A girl named Gegentana pointed to Zhou Bazi and cried, "It was he, he who spoiled me." ”

Zhou Ba leper was so frightened that he sat on the ground like a lump of soft mud, and Liu Yiguang walked over to him and asked, "You said it yourself, how to punish?" Zhou Ba's leper stumbled, and when he spoke, his tongue no longer listened to the call, and his mouth was not favorable, and he even said: "Grandpa, spare, spare, spare." I, I, don't dare anymore. Husiri said: "You can rest assured, we did not intend to take your life, you did not think, your life is life, other people's lives are not fate?" You slept in a cave and drove the three girls into the wild, and if they hadn't run into us, the three girls would have become the food of the wolves. Heart to heart, are you still human? ”

Liu Yiguang said: "Big brother, tie this boy to a tree, I flew an embroidery needle at his life root two feet away, and shot him unlucky, and if he didn't shoot, he should be lucky, how?" Zhou Yaozu echoed: "I think this is a good idea!" With a sly smile revealing a vicious face, he instructed the minions to tie The Zhou Ba leper under a towering ancient tree with kudzu vines and pick up his weak living creature with a wooden stick, Liu Yiguang shouted - Go! Only to see the flying needle wrapped in the sound of the wind, in an instant like a parallel flying rain wire, dozens of silver needles into the living thing, the living thing like a hedgehog full of spikes, several needle eyes out of the red blood. Zhou Ba leper was already frightened and scattered, the little minions did not say a word, no one dared to come forward to intercede, at this time, only Ulun Zhuzhig stood up and spoke for him——

He walked up to Husili, knelt on the ground with his hands together, and cried, "This master, if I beg you, these mountain thieves are really hateful." After all, they hadn't wanted our lives yet, and the three of us women were still alive. We can't bear to kill people like this! "Say it, and cry out loud." Husiri lifted up UlunJuzhig and whispered to her, "Don't take it seriously, we'll scare him." Then turning back to Liu Yiguang, Liu Yiguang walked over and pulled out the silver needles one by one, took out the golden creation medicine, put it on the epidermis, cut down the branches of the surrounding trees with one hand, peeled off the bark, wrapped the living creature of Zhou Ba leper in the crotch, and told him: "I have a number in my heart, only sent three points of force, no force, hurt a little skin and flesh, far from the bones and bones." After a while, the wound heals. He laughed twice, and then he confused him and said, "However, in the future, this thing will not be easy to make, no different from the eunuchs in the palace, and when you meet a woman, your shotgun is a decoration." ”

Zhou Ba leper hung his head in despair and felt like the sky was spinning.

Seeing that the matter was almost settled, Hussily said to the minions, "Your big boss has been taught by us, and you must remember it for a long time." Tomorrow at dawn, let you go down the mountain, scatter, don't get together, do something harmful. Is it okay? ”

The little minions were like chickens pecking rice, their heads were like pounding garlic with their heads, lying on the ground and bumping their foreheads into large bags, looking like grandchildren, and no longer had the prestige of a great master.

The clothes of the minions, baked by the campfire, the steam gradually dissipated, and the coarse cloth linen clothes covered more than a dozen muscular ketone bodies, although they were mountain thieves, they were humiliated by this and were unwilling. One of them, a boy named Huang Mao, got dressed, tightened his trouser belt, lifted a stone from the ground, and smashed it at Hu Xili, who was sleeping, Liu Yiguang saw it, a carp stood up, his feet just landed on the ground, another turned over, the foot board collided with the stone in the air, only to listen to the "poof" sound, the stone bounced back, just smashed on the yellow hair's small belly, the yellow hair howled, a toe, covered his stomach and fell to the ground.

Liu Yiguang walked over, twisted the yellow hair up, lifted it to the top of his head, and fell heavily to the ground. Both Hu Xili and Zhou Yaozu were awakened by the sudden conspiracy, and Zhou Yaozu grabbed Zhou Bazi and ordered, "Those who ask you, don't make any crooked ideas, all return to the cave, and send you down the mountain in the morning." If there are any second thoughts, this boy is the end. Zhou Yaozu pointed to the yellow hair lying on the ground and took out a machete to cut off his hand. Hussiri stopped him and said, "Let's not do these barbaric and bloody practices." Otherwise, what is the difference between us and the mountain bandits? Let him go, and as soon as dawn comes, we will go down the mountain and run our things. ”

Zhou Ba leper is very cooperative, and it seems that he has confessed. He asked one of the minions to support Huang Mao and beckoned several of his "shrimp soldiers and crab generals" into the cave, Hu Xili turned his head away, Liu Yiguang and Zhou Yaozu understood the spirit, and took three girls to follow him, and when they came to the mouth of the cave, they were lying on the dry grass. In this way, more than twenty people huddled in the narrow cave and rested for another hour or two, before they saw a faint dawn under the clouds in the east.

Three

After the words came down, Husili encountered two problems. First, these mountain bandits are all unscrupulous people, and they are dismissed to go home to farm, and none of them are willing. Second, there are three girls, how to place them, I can't make up my mind for a while.

The group swung to the East Lake Medicine Store and thanked Huang Shikui for helping to feed the horses. Huang Shikui was very surprised and asked, "When I saw you, there were only three people, how come there were so many people when I came back?" ”

Husiri said: "It is difficult to say a word, go up to the top of the mountain, meet these mountain thieves, and rob a few girls." ”

"Oh my God, fortunately we didn't climb to the top of the mountain, if we had gone up, we might have become the knife ghosts of these mountain thieves." Huang Shikui said.

"These mountain thieves are not too bad, they are not murderers and overstees, but they are not doing their jobs together, and if the government asks questions, they hope not to leak their mouths, so as not to cause trouble." Hussily admonished.

Huang Shikui said: "I am not so mean, my own medicine shop is too busy, where is the spare time, just chew the root of the tongue?" ”

Husili asked again: "There are large households in the East Lake who need help, and after I take down this group of mountain thieves, if there is no place to live, they will get together again and do something harmful to nature." ”

Huang Shikui said: "A few days ago, the Yichang River Rice Shop was established to hire porters, and it is said that looking for people everywhere, because the work is too heavy, many young people, after a day's visit, can't resist and go back to their hometown. ”

Liu Yiguang said: "This is a place to go, it is better than gathering people as bandits." Can you take us there, find out, ask for an understanding? ”

Huang Shikui pointed his hand to the east and said, "Go forward along the river, but one or two miles is the boundary of the river rice line, so you should visit it yourself." ”

Hussily thought, yes. So he asked Zhou Bazi to take his men and go along the river.

Yichang River Rice Line, located at the east end of the North Left Gate, goes out to the east for more than 100 meters, that is, the rice line. The house has two rows, more than 100 meters long, and the two rows of houses are open door to door, and the transparency effect is excellent. The four sides of the house were made of local materials, made of bare stones on the side of the dock, and in order to prevent moisture, the ground was separated by fir boards and empty. Carrying a bag of rice on the board, each step makes a "creaking" sound. Rice workers get up early in the morning every day, go to the dock to unload or load ships, and work more than ten hours a day. If you encounter a busy season, the working hours are longer, and the dock workers, especially those who consume physical strength and have a thin body foundation, simply cannot persist.

A group of people came to Mi xing, met the principal, and explained their intentions. The chief said: "My rice line, unloading and loading the ship, all need manpower, and I can't eat bitterly, nor can I mix food." The salary is very thick, five pieces of light in January, tube to eat and live. ”

Zhou Ba leper listened, did not need Hu Xili to open his mouth, and directly promised to come down.

It is said that in the third year of Qing Xianfeng (1853), after the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom established the capital of Nanjing, the upward movement of Huai salt was blocked, a large amount of Sichuan salt was transported, and the transport volume of Yichang Wharf increased sharply. At one time, thousands of ships were loaded, reloaded, loaded, collected and rested in Yichang, and more than 10,000 boat workers were civilian. As a result, boats are lined up from Shanghe Street (Banqiao) to the slope of the Great South Gate and Erma Road, and the river surface is lined with trees and masts.

Due to the large amount of Sichuan salt being transported and re-exported in Yichang, it brought a brief prosperity of Yichang dock culture. The prosperity of salt transportation on the Sichuan River has also greatly promoted the development of commercial trade in Yichang towns. Mountain miscellaneous, furs, grease, rice, coal, salt, sugar, tobacco, tobacco, tobacco, fruits, etc. transported from the mountains of northwest Hubei by land, except for sales in Yichang, most of them are transported downstream through re-export here. The daily necessities, porcelain ironware, rice, and cloth transported by downstream ships, except for the counties and towns that are distributed by land in Yichang, most of them are transported upstream by ship. As a result, Along the River Street became a trading market for commercial warehouses.

During the dry season, small stalls and vendors also operate "river shops" along the river sand dam. At that time, the area around Gulou Street and Suotang Street in Yichang City became a commercial and trade center. As a result, Yichang was given the title of "overloaded dock".

Husiri thought to himself, if these little minions can't eat their bodies, maybe they will fall into the grass again, first place them in the rice row, and then transform them into sticks and sticks on the docks, and become the burden of independently pulling passenger goods, perhaps more suitable for them.

This matter was solved cleanly and sharply, where did the three girls settle down? Liu Yiguang said: "The three girls, the appearance is OK, the height and appearance, are more attractive than the mountain girls." As long as you freshen up and change into decent clothes, you will be a mother-in-law who is loved by everyone. Otherwise, one by one, they will be taken home to be their mother-in-law, and you can see that their bodies are much tougher than those of the women in the creek. ”

Zhou Yaozu also said, "Your idea is really good. However, without the permission of his parents, he brought the girl's house into the house, afraid of adult interference and made things yellow. ”

"Huang, big deal to think of as dry sisters, one for each person, to see if they are willing?" Hussily said.

After the three men told the three women their thoughts directly, UlunJuzhig took Husiri's arm and told him bluntly: "I will follow you, whether your parents agree or not, I am your woman, willing to bear children for you, husband and son." ”

Gegentana also took Liu Yiguang's arm and said the same thing. There was also a girl named AruVinchas, holding Zhou Yaozu's arm, did not speak, bowed her head and had a love pulse... Zhou Yaozu said, "I don't have to choose anymore, this is Providence." ”

After Hu Xili brought Ulun Zhuzhig home, Hu Bugui looked at the girl's appearance, went around behind him, circled around the girl, and said to Hu Xili: "Good boy, get back a tall and big foot girl, it is really God has eyes, you see this girl's ass, our old Hu family will be prosperous and rich in the future." ”

Hussily didn't know what Papa meant, but just smiled and said, "So, Daddy, you agreed?" ”

"Stinky boy, you brought all the girls home, can I disagree?" What is the girl's name? ”

Seeing that Husili could not answer, Urundzhuzhige replied busily: "Old man, my name is Ulun Zhuzhige. ”

"What beads, what grids?" This name is too long to be called, and it will be called Zhu Rige in the future. Hussily said.

"It doesn't matter what you call, just call it smooth." You take the girl to your mother's room, although she is a mute, her ears can still hear, and they will spend a long time with their mother-in-law and daughter-in-law. Hu Bugui said.

Zhu Rige had seen Hu Keren, this mute mother-in-law looked at the girl, looking left and right, as if admiring a treasure, and could not bear to let go. Hussily smiled, pulled the mute mother and said, "Mom, you don't see people like this, cook, we are already very hungry." ”

Hu Bugui is a foreigner, in Tuoxi for decades, although the relationship with the villagers is good, the distress is that there are no relatives. Therefore, when the daughter-in-law entered the door, she only invited a few apprentices and the village chief Zheng Shuli, and made two family banquets herself, which was regarded as the marriage of Hu Xili, which was considered to be the marriage of hu Xili.

Just as Husili expected, more than a dozen mountain bandits, barely mixed in the rice line for a week, tired and fell down. In desperation, Husili set up the "Stick Society", organized a dozen mountain bandits, appointed Zhou Ba leper as the president, and began to solicit customers and deliver goods on the dock.

Moreover, the night That Husiri announced his marriage to the foreign officials, he put his arms around Jurig and slept in his bed. That night, Hu Bugui "listened to the sound" outside his son's door, the strange cry of his daughter-in-law, and the sound of the bed board clucking together, and Hu Bugui silently read in his heart——

O my God,

Shake the bed board rattling.

The bodhisattva sent yo,

Incense burns for thousands of years.

In this world, there are mothers-in-law in every house,

In this world, every household is thriving!

Just as Hu did not return, in the sixth year of Tongzhi (1867), on the ninth day of the ninth lunar month of the lunar calendar, Hu Xili gave birth to a son, named Hu Dewan. On the day of the full moon of Hoodwan, all the brothers of the Stick Society came under the leadership of Zhou Ba leper.

They carried rice bags, pig's hooves, and peanut seeds to the Hu family to send congratulations. One by one, drunk and unconscious at the banquet, they stayed in Tuoxi for the night and returned to Yichang Wharf two days later. As soon as he arrived at the dock, he was controlled by the police, and then thrown into prison, claiming that the rice line had been robbed, which was related to these dozen "sticks" and needed to be carefully examined. Zhou Ba leper was confused, who knew that he went to Tuoxi to send a congratulatory greeting, and he was accused of robbery. To find out what happens next, listen to the next chapter to break it down. (To be continued)