Poetry goes: Heroes in Troubled Times If you have a gun, you are the grass head king It is said that during the Guangxu period of the Qing Dynasty, a strange man came out of Wugangbei Township in Southwest Hunan, whose surname was Zhong and whose name was Xianwei.Zhong Xianwei is fourth, with two older brothers and one older sister.In those years, there were constant famines and disasters. After giving birth to him, his parents did not want to be born again, so they named him the character "Wei".But God failed to fulfill his wish, and his mother gave birth to a younger brother for him the next year.

Zhong Xianwei was gifted and intelligent since he was a child, and he knew etiquette and justice quite well.The teacher of the private school saw that he was cute and allowed him to attend the school with the eldest son of the village.Zhong Xianwei memorized "Great Learning" and "The Doctrine of the Mean" at the age of three, four at the age of four, and five at the age of five.When he was six years old, a catastrophe struck him. His eyes hurt continuously for three days and three nights, and then he lost his sight. A poor family raises a blind child, which makes things worse.When the parents were anxious, an old man happened to pass by Beixiang and took Zhong Xianwei away.

More than ten years later, Zhong Xianwei returned to his hometown, and he had already mastered fortune-telling skills. He did fortune-telling for the elders in the village. He was very accurate, and soon his reputation spread like wildfire.From then on, Zhong Xianwei took fortune-telling as his career, and his reputation spread far and wide, and he was known as "Zhong Banxian". In the twenty-fourth year of Guangxu (1898), there was a severe drought in Wugang. There was no rainfall for fifty days, and the Zijiang River dried up to the bottom.In the years of severe drought, the people are panicked, bandits and bandits are rampant, and the people are in dire straits.There is no need for half-celestial divination in this world, everyone knows that it is a dead end.

Zhong Banxian's business was slow, so he had to travel around the four villages.In mid-autumn, Zhong Banxian came to Pushibei Township, Huangqiao.This place is adjacent to the Zijiang River, and the harvest is guaranteed in drought and flood. It is a famous land of fish and rice in Wugang.Zhong Banxian hopes to earn a few liters of rice here. Who wants to run into an old man as soon as he enters the village, he said with a bitter face: "Half fairy, half fairy, you came at the wrong time. Although Shibei is a land of fish and rice, bandits are rampant, and if there is any surplus, they will be looted. Who will return?" Do you have extra rice to ask someone to tell your fortune?"

Zhong Banxian was tired and hungry, lamenting the bad times of the world, and was about to leave when suddenly a middle-aged farmer pointed out: "This morning, Zhang Xingui has a new son in Shibei Zhang's family, maybe he will ask Banxian to do a divination and reward you." A few liters of rice." As the so-called "there is no unparalleled road", Zhong Banxian was overjoyed. Zhang Xingui is also a poor man with no land and no land. His only family property is two dilapidated wooden houses left by his ancestors.When I was young, I lived by helping long-term workers, part-time workers, fishing for fish and shrimp.After getting married, he lived by farming the rich man's land to support his family.

Now, he is over forty years old, has two sons and a daughter, the eldest son Zhang Shunfeng is nearly twenty years old, and the second son Zhang Shuqing is also ten years old; now that he has a youngest son, needless to say he is happy. From far away, Zhang Xingui came up to him happily, and said happily: "God, God, my son just came into the world at night, and the half-immortal arrived as scheduled. People say that the half-immortal has a magic trick, and it seems that this is true. Please, please !" Zhong Banxian was welcomed into Zhang's house, the eldest handed him a sunflower fan, the second poured tea, and Zhang Xingui took out some roasted sweet potatoes from the kitchen to satisfy his hunger.

After Zhong Banxian ate sweet potatoes, he quickly recovered and asked Zhang Xingui to report the baby's birthday.Zhang Xingui reported the truth, and said quite proudly: "My child is really unusual. When he was pregnant, his mother dreamed of a yellow snake in her arms; he was born this morning, and his crying was loud and unabated for three consecutive hours. I think this little guy will be very promising in the future, and he is looking for a Mr. Bazi, but I didn't expect Banxian to arrive at this time!" Zhong Banxian put aside the nagging Zhang Xingui, arranged and combined the newborn's birthday horoscope according to the four pillars and eight trigrams, and then frowned.

Sensitive Zhang Xingui seemed to have sensed something, and asked, "Half Immortal, is there something wrong with my son?" Zhong Banxian hesitated to speak.Zhang Xingui became anxious, and begged: "Banxian, if you have anything to say, just speak up!" "Say it, I'm afraid you..." Zhong Banxian still hesitated. "I don't blame you, it's better if you just say it straight, or I'll be restless all my life." Only then did Zhong Banxian take courage, and solemnly said to Zhang Xingui: "Brother Zhang, your son is an evil dragon, and tens of thousands of souls will die tragically at his hands... ..." He made a dead hand gesture.

Zhang Xingui was taken aback: "You, are you talking nonsense?" "No, I'm telling the truth. Your son has a strong bandit spirit, and when he grows up, he will definitely kill the people!" Zhang Xingui looked at Zhong Banxian for a while, and sneered, "What kind of half-immortal are you? You have learned a few crazy words, and you can cheat food from all over the country! As the saying goes, a tiger doesn't eat its poison. Do you think I'm going to kill myself?" Flesh and flesh? Bah! Don’t say my son can’t become a robber, it’s a good thing if he really does. Our Shibei Zhang family has been harassed by bandits for generations. One day, my Zhang family should be proud! Get out, don’t be here nonsense!"

Zhong Banxian was blushed by Zhang Xingui's scolding, and before leaving, he still said: "If you don't believe me, in the future, this evil dragon will implicate the Zhang family and even the nine clans, and then it will be too late for regret!" Zhang Xingui became even more angry, picked up the dirty water that had washed his son, and poured it on Zhong Banxian's back... Don't talk about gossip, but said that Zhang Xingui had a son in his later years, and he expected to ask for a few auspicious words, but he never expected that Zhong Xiazi wanted him to kill his son!

Zhang Xingui sent Zhong Banxian away, and asked a well-literate elder from the clan to name his son.The old man looked through a "Kangxi Dictionary" and a set of yellowed "Zhang's Genealogy", and named Zhang Xingui's son Zhang Yunqing, named Shunlu, and nicknamed Jianheng. As the saying goes, the poor raise their sons.Zhang Xingui's family took good care of Zhang Yunqing. Zhang Xingui was so exhausted outside that when he got home, he would hold his son in his arms no matter how tired he was.He often said to the eldest son Zhang Shunfeng and the second son Zhang Shuqing: "Father is getting old, and I don't know when he will pass away. You have to take care of your younger brother!" One day, the second child caught a big grass carp weighing two catties from the river. The eldest said, "We haven't eaten white rice for a long time. I think we sold the fish and bought two liters of rice. The whole family can have a good meal." .” But Zhang Yunqing clamored to eat fish. Zhang Xingui agreed to sell the fish, and Zhang Yunqing burst into tears, and even took out a kitchen knife from the kitchen and chopped up her elder brother.Zhang Xingui was so angry that he slapped Zhang Yunqing's butt several times, but in the end the fish was used to cook gruel. When Zhang Yunqing was ten years old, Zhang Xingui and his wife died of poverty and illness.After the two elder brothers got married, they separated, and the older sister became a child bride.Zhang Yunqing became an orphan. The orphan had nowhere to ask for food, so he found his second brother Zhang Shuqing.Shuqing said: "I got married not long ago, and my parents still left me with debts. It's also a mud bodhisattva who can't protect himself when he crosses the river. My elder brother got married early, and he has benefited a lot from my parents. You should go to him." Zhang Yunqing found Zhang Shunfeng, the elder brother kept him for a meal, and then sent him out: "Brother, it's not that I don't care about you, but your sister-in-law... how about this, I'll find you a house, help him herd cattle, and make a meal eat." In this way, Zhang Yunqing became the cowherd boy of Zhang Guanghuo's family, the richest man in the village. During the cattle herding days, Zhang Yunqing often had nothing to cover her body and food.Seeing his pity, one of the long-term workers named Zhang Yakou suggested, "From now on, you come back early and have dinner with us." Zhang Yunqing drove the cattle home early the next day, but Zhang Guanghuo beat him immediately and didn't give him food.Zhang Yakou was very sorry, and would rather eat a few bites less for himself in the future, and leave some rice for him for every meal. It took several years to be a cowherd baby, and Zhang Yunqing slowly grew up in the bitter water.At the age of sixteen, he left Zhang Guanghuo's house and began fishing for shrimps, doing part-time jobs, carrying sedan chairs, working as a porter, and earning a living by doing coolies.After several years, he finally had savings. He built a thatched hut at the gate of his ancestral house and married Yin from the neighboring village.He and the poor Yin family depended on each other for life, managed the family diligently and thriftily, steamed wine and ground tofu, and lived a decent life. In 1919, Wugang suffered a rare flood in a century. The fields failed and the poor people could not survive. The eldest brother Zhang Shunfeng came to persuade him: "Brother, I can't go on living this day, and my sister-in-law is about to give birth. Maybe there is a way out with Zhang Shuncai." This was just heard by Mrs. Yin, who was steaming wine in the house. She stepped out quickly and knelt down in front of Zhang Yunqing with a plop: "By the way, I'm a womanizer, so I shouldn't interfere with men's affairs, but if you want to fall into the grass, the whole family Sooner or later, people will die by the sword..." Zhang Shunfeng felt bored and left angrily.After that, although Zhang Shunfeng did not turn into a bandit, there were still many rumors, saying that he had become a cattle thief, and that he was involved in the loss of cattle in the four villages.Even when Tan Gang in the neighboring village lost his cattle, some people testified that he was also present. Zhang Yunqing was busy with her own business and didn't pay much attention to her brother's affairs.One morning, Zhang Yunqing picked up a load of newly brewed rice wine and was about to go out. Suddenly, the sound of crows swept across the roof, followed by the sound of dogs barking at the door.He felt that the situation was not good, so he put down his burden and took a closer look.After a while, a dozen regiment guards armed with live ammunition arrived at the back of the house and arrested the eldest brother Zhang Shunfeng who was sleeping soundly. Zhang Yunqing soon learned from his wife, Yin Shi, that the eldest brother and other gangs had been reported for stealing and selling Tan's cattle. Zhang Shunfeng was tied up by regiment guards and walked past the door, escorted to Huangqiaopu. Zhang Yunqing knew that the eldest brother was in danger this time, and he might not come back, so she asked her seventeen-year-old nephew Zhang Muyun to follow. The cold wind was blowing, the horns were whimpering, Zhang Shunfeng was directly escorted into the Huangqiaopu Dharma Ground, the thugs came out suddenly, wielding a shiny saber, the saber fell over the head, and the head rolled to Zhang Muyun.Zhang Muyun held his father's head and cried all the way home. Zhang Muyun placed the head on the field, and knelt down in front of Zhang Yunqing: "Uncle Man, I want to join Zhang Shuncai and avenge my father!" Zhang Yunqing thought for a while, and reminded: "At this point, the only way to go is to fall into the grass. But you must not rely on Zhang Shuncai. These days, the gangster family, Tan Bangcai also has friendship with him, and will never agree to avenge you. .” "Uncle Man... what should I do?" Zhang Muyun burst into tears. "In my opinion, you might as well pull the lever yourself, or don't do it, or make it bigger, and let the government have nothing to do with you." Zhang Muyun is a smart person, with Uncle Man's guidance, he has a plan in mind.He kowtowed a few times: "Thank you, Uncle Man! If there is something to be done in the future, I will definitely avenge him." Soon, Zhang Muyun sold the young man for ninety yuan, and left his hometown to serve as a soldier. In the late winter of that year, the Yin family gave birth to Zhang Yunqing's first son, named Zhang Zhongyi. In the year of Xinyou (1921), there was a severe drought. In June, when the seedlings were headed, there was no water to nourish them. The farmers had to watch them turn into withered grass. Every morning, Zhang Yunqing would go from village to household to sell shochu, but no one cared about it.Sometimes when he gets annoyed, he scolds his mother a few words, then he sticks his head out of the window and says weakly: "There is no food these days, who dares to drink!" The shochu can't be sold, so I can't keep it for myself to drink, and besides, the family will soon be unable to open the pot.Yin said to him: "Master, this load of wine has been sold for half a month, and it hasn't been sold for a tael. Zhang Yakou has been running outside all year round, and he has a lot of ideas. Why don't you go find him." Zhang Yakou was seven or eight years older than Zhang Yunqing, and he had long since ceased working as a long-term worker at Zhang Guanghuo's house, and had been working as a porter on the ancient road from Wugang to Huaihua.He has been traveling abroad for many years, he has seen a lot and has rich experience in the world.Zhang Yunqing said to him with a bitter face, he thought for a moment and said, "Your liquor cannot be sold around here. However, if you have the guts, I can show you a way out." Zhang Yunqing stared: "I am not afraid of death, don't you know me?" Zhang Yakou smiled faintly: "Of course I know you are bold. However, no matter how brave you are, sometimes there are things you can't bear to part with—your wife is delicate and tender, are you willing not to touch her all night?" "Yakou, my family is almost out of control, and you still make fun of me." Zhang Yakou nodded: "Okay, come to my house tomorrow morning, I promise you can replace your shochu with rice." The next morning, Zhang Yunqing put on a new pair of straw sandals and a spare pair tied around his waist, and went out with Zhang Yakou with a load of soju.Their direction is the hinterland of Xuefeng Mountain. After crossing the high sand and passing the entrance of the cave, there is the natural danger of Xuefeng in front of you. At the gateway of the Xuefeng Mountains, nature has split the Wanren Mountain into two halves, and a bottomless river flows through the bottom of the valley. This is the famous "Shuangbiyan". The road is on the mountainside, and the water flows at the bottom of the valley.How insignificant one or two people are in it. It has been paved with bluestone slabs for thousands of years.According to the "Wugang County Chronicles", since the Song Dynasty, this is an important post road connecting Changsha and Xiangxi.If it is not personally on the scene, its danger is unimaginable.If you look down while walking, no matter how calm you are, you will feel dizzy—there is a deep stream under your feet, and the whimpering water makes a terrifying sound. Throughout the ages, countless innocent souls have been swallowed here! When it comes to Shuangbiyan, there is no one in a radius of a hundred miles who does not feel creepy.It's not because this place is dangerous, but because it has been a place where robbers have been haunting for generations! In the Song Dynasty, Yang Zaixing, a green forest hero from Wugang, made a living cutting trails in this Shuangbiyan before he joined Yue Fei! Zhang Yakou in front stopped.Zhang Yunqing changed her shoulder, wiped her sweat, raised her head to look, and asked, "Is Shuangbiyan here?" Zhang Yakou nodded.According to the rules of going out, it is not allowed to answer when you pass a checkpoint or pass through a place where robbers and wild animals are infested. Otherwise, it is considered a bad omen. The two began to walk in fear, and the closer they got to the Yankou overpass, the more intense their heartbeats—that was the place where the bandits robbed. Most of the bandits haunting here are protected by Zhu Yunhan, the giant bandit at the entrance of the cave. They are in groups of three or four, armed with sharp weapons, and relying on their familiarity with the terrain, they attack passers-by here.Due to resistance, it is natural that people often die under the rock.Early in the morning, if someone finds dead bodies floating in the river under these double-walled rocks-here, this phenomenon is as common as floating a few dead fish... When crossing the overpass, Zhang Yunqing couldn't help but look down the bridge, there was indeed a headless corpse floating below, her heart couldn't help trembling again, every hair on her body stood up... Fortunately, there were no bandits "off the sheep" this morning.After walking through Shuangbiyan, the next slope is the ancient pavilion.The gazebo is under the shade of ancient maple trees, and there is another clear ancient well. After drinking enough water and wiping off the sweat stains on his body, Zhang Yunqing breathed a sigh of relief, and turned around to find two human heads hanging on the double-walled rock wall.I was secretly glad that I didn't look up just now. "The day before yesterday, the government sent troops here." Zhang Yakou explained, "Actually, these two dead ghosts were not caught here. The officers and soldiers did not have such ability. They caught two thieves in the city and pretended to be bandits. kill here." A group of passers-by were already taking a nap in the gazebo. They were talking about the bandits in Shuangbiyan. They all said that the army had just suppressed the bandits, and the bandits would hide for a while. Now is the best time to do business.Regardless of needles, threads, or cloth, tobacco, or shochu, as long as you cross the Wugang border and go to Qianyang, you can exchange for a white ocean. This news excited Zhang Yunqing the most.Seeing his excited look, Zhang Yakou said: "The more bandit-infested the place, the easier it is to do business. Rare things are more expensive, the reason is very simple. When you meet shopkeepers later, they will buy your wine—— If you want to sell for a high price, go straight to the bottom and ignore them." Zhang Yunqing knew that Zhang Yakou was teaching him the scriptures, so he nodded gratefully. When we set off, businessmen and porters marched in groups and groups to the depths of Xuefeng Mountain.Zhang Yakou soon got a business too - picking cloth for a merchant to go to Hongjiang. When we arrived at Xixi, there were shopkeepers who wanted to buy Zhang Yunqing's wine, and the price was more than double that of his hometown.Zhang Yunqing couldn't speak, so he flatly refused, which immediately aroused the displeasure of the shopkeeper.Seeing this, Zhang Yakou hurriedly said with a smile on his face: "Boss, this load of wine is mine. I booked it at a hotel in Qianyang a few days ago. If you want it, I will definitely bring it next time." Leaving the shop, Zhang Yakou told him that anyone who runs a hotel on this ancient road has a background, and most of them are subordinates of the tycoon Zhu Yunhan, and he must be polite to them and not offend them. Zhang Yunqing nodded again and again to express her understanding. Zhang Yakou asked: "After Qianyang, the business will not be good. After selling the wine, should you go home first, or wait for me on the road?" Zhang Yunqing said: "I will neither go back nor wait for you. I will go to Hongjiang with you and learn about the sales of liquor along the way—from now on, I will only do this business." Zhang Yakou nodded: "It seems that you really have a heart. To tell you the truth, the shochu business on this road is definitely easy to do—it's just that Shuangbiyan is not easy!" The two were silent all the way.When he arrived in Qianyang, Zhang Yunqing sold a load of shochu at a high price of three catties of rice for every catty of wine, which was three times higher than that of the village nearby.Because it was hard to carry two hundred catties of rice on his shoulders, he had to exchange the rice for ocean when he arrived at the next hotel.Seeing that he was selling soju, the owner of the hotel was very polite, and lamented that the number of people bringing liquor in these years has decreased, and it is difficult for guests to drink, so he told Zhang Yunqing to definitely bring liquor next time. The so-called "there are no doubts and no way out in the mountains and rivers, and there is another village with dark willows and flowers", Zhang Yunqing couldn't help but rejoice, thankful that she finally found a way to make money.He also sighed that the business of the past few years has been for nothing. If he came to this place to sell wine from the beginning, he might have already sold it.Finally, he suggested to Zhang Yakou: "Yakou, you don't have to be a porter anymore, just join me in the shochu business!" Zhang Yakou was noncommittal and said after a long time: "It's the first time you've walked this road. After a long time, you will naturally understand. Let's get on the road!" It takes less than half a day to travel from Qianyang to Hongjiang.After the goods were delivered and tipped, someone came to contact the goods for the return journey——Zhang Yakou took another load of salt, and picked it from Hongjiang to the entrance of the cave, and he could get half a slap in the face.It was the first time for Zhang Yunqing to travel such a long distance, and he was still not qualified for the porter's errand, and the main reason was that he wanted to do the liquor business and disdained being a porter. Stayed in Hongjiang Hotel for one night, got up before dawn the next day, and a dozen porters started on the road with salt. Since ancient times, the porters on the Xiangxi post road have practiced excellent shoulder kung fu and foot kung fu. They "two hundred catties are not heavy, one hundred and fifty catties are the easiest, and one hundred and twenty catties are as fast as the wind on their shoulders." ".The hinterland of western Hunan was originally a closed and barbaric barren land. It is through generations of porters who carried their hands on their shoulders, traversing mountains and ridges, and bringing in civilization from outside, that the current situation came into being. Zhang Yunqing followed the salt-picking team over the mountains and ridges along the ancient stone road, and walked southward. In the afternoon, an ancient pavilion appeared in front of it. On the west-facing side, a large wooden sign was hung, which read prominently: Double-walled rocks ahead, please pass through together Zhang Yunqing took a closer look, only to find that it was the place where he rested when he came here: the tall maple trees, the antique Chinese fir structure pavilion, and the clear and sweet old well. There were more than 30 merchants and porters sitting in the pavilion and under the tree. They were all panicked and talking about a frightening thing: from yesterday afternoon to this morning, two bandits with knives While robbing this Shuangbi Rock, a smoke and soil merchant refused to accept it and was pushed off the rock... Obviously, these people gathered together because they didn't dare to go over.Zhang Yunqing's whole body is shaking, he has eight oceans on his body, this is the largest fortune he has grown up to own, and it is also the life-saving money that the whole family depends on at present, in case...he dare not think about it... Zhang Yunqing is worried Find a shade and sit down.While wiping his sweat, Zhang Yakou approached Zhang Yunqing, looked at Shuangbiyan and said, "Didn't you ask me why I don't do business? Now you should understand that the salt I picked belongs to the boss, and it doesn't matter if I lose it. It's not me." You are gloating, you must be very sad now." Zhang Yunqing was really sad, and he hung his head in pain. Suddenly, a thought flashed in his mind, and he grabbed Yakou's shoulder with both hands: "Yakou, would you like to cross the rock with me—I want to get the two bandits out of here." Lose!" "Only you?" Zhang Yakou looked at him in surprise, "He specializes in killing people and stealing goods. You are a 'white ticket'." Zhang Yunqing said seriously: "Because I am a 'white ticket', they will not be on guard. I will definitely kill him by surprise! Don't worry, I will do the killing as long as you follow behind to remind me." Zhang Yakou was overwhelmed by Zhang Yunqing's courage, nodded, looked around and said, "The two of us take risks, and everyone benefits. I'm not reconciled." Zhang Yunqing glanced around, a sly smile flashed across his face, and beckoned Zhang Yakou to put his ear on, and so on and so forth. Zhang Yakou was overjoyed, and immediately got up, patted the dead grass on his buttocks with his hands, and shouted in a rough voice: "Brothers, it's getting late, let's go!" Someone answered immediately: "Okay, you go ahead!" "I go ahead?" Zhang Yakou sneered and said, "I go ahead. If I am killed by bandits, will you support my family? You should go ahead!" "We also have the old and the young, so we can't die." Someone muttered. Zhang Yunqing continued: "After all, you are all afraid of death. I ask you if you wait until you are old? We are a large group of people, and we don't know each other. When the bandits rush down to rob, we will all sweep the door by ourselves. Xue, in the end everyone is still dead." Zhang Yunqing's words really worked, and some shopkeepers became anxious like ants on a hot pot.After Zhang Yunqing finished speaking, she gave a dry cough and gave Zhang Yakou a wink. Zhang Yakou said again in a rough voice: "Brothers, I have a suggestion," pointing to Zhang Yunqing, "This Mr. Zhang has practiced martial arts since childhood, and he has unstoppable courage, especially with a pair of healthy feet that can be pulled The dog's tail that sprints. If you will spend a little money, he can escort everyone over the double wall rock!" Everyone fell silent, and Zhang Yunqing clasped his hands together: "Brothers, it's not that Zhang deliberately took advantage of others' danger, but someone has to take the lead, and we can't wait to die. If anyone of you is more courageous, for everyone, I, Zhang, would like to take the lead and give away two An ocean!" As soon as they heard that they would charge two oceans for the escort fee, several straw sandal sellers immediately said that we don't have two oceans even if we give everything we have.Zhang Yunqing had an idea, and proposed to make a commission based on the price of the goods, so that the silk and satin merchants and the tobacco and soil merchants would pay more.Rich people are most afraid of death, and now that someone is willing to take risks for them, they readily agree.In this way, more than one hundred oceans were easily added to Zhang Yunqing's wallet. Zhang Yunqing drank water, changed into a new pair of straw sandals, wrapped the purse tightly one after another with the rope of the old straw sandals, tied it firmly around his waist, put on a belt, picked up a load of empty wine jars, and looked back. Zhang Yakou took a look, and walked calmly. The money bag containing more than a hundred oceans was dangling on Zhang Yunqing's back, and every step he took made a ding sound.Zhang Yakou stared at the money bag without blinking, but his legs did not move. After walking a few steps, Zhang Yunqing noticed that there was no movement behind her, so she turned her head and said to Zhang Yakou, "The money is with me for the time being, and I will give half of it to you after passing through the rock." He patted the money bag. Zhang Yakou happily picked up the burden and stepped forward, saying: "Whoever we are with whom, three to seven times is enough." Zhang Yunqing didn't say a word, looked up at Shuangbiyan, and started to walk. I heard from those passers-by who were waiting in the gazebo that the two bandits who robbed here were very cruel, and pedestrians would use knives at the slightest resistance.Zhang Yunqing has already made various plans. It would be best if he had the opportunity to kill the bandits, so that the road would be peaceful, and he could do the liquor business in peace; I can definitely escape with my pair of healthy feet, and a bag of ocean is enough to feed my family for two years. The sun is setting in the west, and the cool breeze is blowing on the mountain. Various inscriptions from the Ming and Qing dynasties are erected along the way, which adds a bit of historical weight to this ancient road.Zhang Yunqing will not express nostalgia for the past, at this moment, like a wild wolf, every cell in his body is on "high vigilance". Suddenly, a strange sound came from my ears, like a tiger coming out of the jungle, or like a snake swimming in a deep stream.It was too late, and then soon, a big man with a black face jumped onto the rock with a shining saber in his hand, and shouted loudly: "I opened this mountain, and I planted this tree. If you want to pass from here on, stay and buy a road." fiscal!" Zhang Yunqing stopped, thinking about how to deal with this situation.Just as he was about to pull out his shoulder pole, another bandit suddenly appeared behind the boulder next to him. Before he could react, a saber with a cold light was already on his neck——Zhang Yakou behind him had dodged for some time. Zhang Yunqing felt that the saber blade had cut the skin on his neck, and a small stream of blood was flowing slowly. "Hands up!" shouted the bandit behind him. Zhang Yunqing raised his hands obediently. The burden on his shoulders slid down because he lost the support of his hands. Two baskets filled with wine jars rolled back and forth on the mountain road. The one in front stopped at the corner, while the one in the back One was bounced by the front one, and fell into the bottom of the valley... Zhang Yunqing didn't hear the sound of baskets falling into the valley, what he felt the most was that the body odor from the bandits made him miserable.This guy was very disgusting, ordered him to open his mouth to see if there was any money in it, and stroked Zhang Yunqing's upper body like a woman, and then stretched out that evil hand to his crotch, and touched the bag of ocean. At that time, he shouted to his companion on the rock in surprise: "Get rich!" The bandit bent down and began to untie Zhang Yunqing's purse, but he couldn't untie it all at once. Suddenly Zhang Yunqing felt that the time had come, and pretended to be docile and said: "Brother, I'm tied in a knot, I'll help you untie it myself." He planned to use the hard money bag to hit the bandits once the money bag was untied... "Don't move!" The bandit seemed to have sensed his intentions, and raised the saber in his hand, "Be careful, I will kill you!" Zhang Yunqing still held his hands up, as if he was holding up a golden tripod, which would fall to the ground and shatter if he was not careful, but his eyes kept looking at his side. Naturally, the bandit cannot untie this carefully woven knot with one hand.A desire for money made him relax his vigilance for a moment. He instinctively dropped the saber and leaned against Zhang Yunqing's feet, freeing his right hand to help his left to relieve the knot.This negligence gave Zhang Yunqing an excellent opportunity to make a move. Seeing that the purse was about to come off from behind, Zhang Yunqing had an idea, pumped up all his energy, and clamped the purse tightly with his belly and belt, the bandit cursed angrily: "Fuck you—" The word "mother" has not yet been uttered, the bandit only felt his eyes go dark, purple blood spurted from his back, and he fell to the ground... The bandit standing on the rock didn't expect this accident to happen, he jumped down and took Zhang Yunqing straight with a saber in his hand.At this time, Zhang Yakou, who was hiding in the dark, stepped forward to help out with a wooden pole. The angry bandits slashed a few times with extremely unskilled knife skills, knowing that they were invincible, and bluffed to escape.Zhang Yunqing saw the flaw and reminded: "Yakou, stop him, don't let him run away!" Zhang Yakou's shoulder pole was no match for a saber. Seeing the bandits approaching ferociously, he dodged and let him escape.Zhang Yunqing watched the bandits go up the mountain like monkeys, and then got into a cave in a blink of an eye, and then complained to his companions: "Yakou, you have left a curse - we can't cross this road again!" Zhang Yakou didn't make any distinctions, and threw a shoulder pole that was about to be broken into two pieces on the ground.Zhang Yunqing shook her head and sighed: "God's will, this is God's will!" People waiting in the ancient pavilion have been paying attention to the movement of Shuangbiyan.Seeing that the bandit had died and escaped, everyone was elated and rushed up to congratulate Zhang Yunqing. At this time, Zhang Yunqing had no joy after victory. What he thought of was that the escaped bandit would not let it go, and would definitely come to him to avenge his dead companion. The head of the dead bandit was cut off and hung on the stone wall at the overpass.There is a row of iron hooks specially used for hanging human heads.The two heads in front of the queue were already smelly, attracting a swarm of flies and butterflies.The freshly hung head was still dripping blood, dripping on the stone wall.Human blood dyed the stone wall black. Year after year, despite the wind and rain, the stone wall became an eternal black landscape. People praised Zhang Yunqing and praised him as a hero, but Zhang Yunqing was furious: "Shut your mouths, I don't want to listen to flattery! When bandits seek revenge, none of you will care about me!" What Zhang Yunqing said was the truth, everyone kept silent. On the way, Zhang Yakou said to Zhang Yunqing several times: "I didn't mean to let the bandits go, I panicked all of a sudden." "It's nothing." Zhang Yunqing showed a rare smile on his face. He patted Zhang Yakou's shoulder and said, "We are in the same boat, and we will be together no matter what happens in the future!" Zhang Yakou nodded seriously. Zhang Yunqing and Zhang Yakou went out this time and made a small windfall.However, just two days after they returned home, a very frightening thing happened in Shibei Township: a new bandit leader named Huang Dashun appeared in Huangqiaopu. At night, he ransacked the home of Tan Bangcai, a rich man in the neighboring village, killed thirteen members of Tan Bangcai's family, and took Tan Bangcai's concubine Pu Huer abducted as his wife, and then burned down the Tan family mansion. These days, it is not surprising that it is "Huang Dashun" who fell into the grass and fell into the grass. Huang Qiaopu's father and elders had never heard of him, but everyone guessed that he could not be a foreigner, because there was already a Zhang Shuncai in the local area. It's a violation of the rules.Unless Huang Dashun has some kind of relationship with Huangqiaopu, that's another matter. People in a state of tension are always very sensitive, and Zhang Yunqing quickly connected this Huang Dashun with the bandits who escaped at Shuangbiyan that day. On the second day after Tan Bangcai's family was bloodbathed, Zhang Yakou also came to Zhang Yunqing in a disturbed state: "By the way, is Huang Dashun the one who escaped from Shuangbiyan?" Zhang Yunqing pondered for a moment and analyzed: "No way, if that guy, we were the ones who suffered last night. They only took Tan Bang to the knife. In my opinion, it may be the 'beams' formed by Tan Bang in Jianghu." "Tan Bangcai has always been protected by Zhang Shuncai, and he will not make trouble outside. As for Huang Dashun killing his family, it can be explained from two aspects: Tan Bangcai and his family resisted; Huang Dashun became disgusted when he saw the color." "Then, why didn't they find us, but went to Bao Tan's house first?" Zhang Yakou said. "Violence" is bandit jargon, which means attack and robbery. "It's easy to understand," Zhang Yakou rolled up a dry cigarette and took a puff. "When bandits seek revenge, they don't seek revenge on just one enemy, but the whole town. Let's wait and see, if Huang Dashun After beating Tan Bangcai, he continued to do evil in Huangqiaopu, and the next thing he wanted was to tear us into pieces." A few months later, in the middle of the night, Huang Dashun fought openly again, looting all the properties of Shi Bei Zhang's family and claiming Guang Huo's family.Then, dozens of cattle and 300 fat pigs were snatched from the villagers nearby.At the same time, more than 20 young women and ladies were raped by Huang Dashun and his subordinates... Zhang Yunqing and Zhang Yakou had a premonition that Huang Dashun's next goal was to deal with them.Zhang Yunqing made up his mind and said to Zhang Yakou: "Yakou, we can't just sit and wait to die. You have four brothers. Pull them out and let us work together!" At this point, there is no other way out, Zhang Yakou asked: "Then, who is in charge?" "Of course it's me!" Zhang Yunqing said, "Although you are somewhat educated and have watched "Three Kingdoms" and "Water Margin", you have no courage and cannot subdue others. Besides, your three younger brothers are only qualified to be killers." "When will it happen?" "It's not too late, it's tonight." Zhang Yakou was very anxious.Zhang Yunqing said, "I have a ready-made saber here. You go home and find four kitchen knives, sharpen them, and come to my house for a party after dark." "Who is the first target?" Zhang Yakou looked at Zhang Yunqing. Zhang Yunqing gritted her teeth and said, "Zhang Guanghuo bullied us in the past, let's take him first tonight!" "But Huang Dashun just beat him!" "It doesn't matter." The flesh on Zhang Yunqing's face twitched, "There are three hundred catties of nails in the boat. Kill him first, and I'm not afraid that he won't dig out the buried property to pay tribute!" After Zhang Yakou left, Zhang Yunqing ordered his wife Yin to kill the only old hen in the family, and then went to the town to cut three catties of meat, and held a sumptuous banquet at home. Yin didn't know who her husband wanted to invite, so she wanted to ask several times, but Zhang Yunqing scolded her angrily.She didn't dare to ask any more questions, and hid her four-year-old son Zhang Zhongyi on the bed with tears in her arms.She felt that her husband was very abnormal during this time, and she had a premonition that something big would happen soon at home. It was dark, and Zhang Yakou's four brothers each came to Zhang Yunqing's hut with a kitchen knife in their waists.These four brothers are very famous in Huangqiaopu. Their looks and nicknames alone can make people remember them for a lifetime after meeting them once.The eldest, Zhang Yakou, has an exaggeratedly large mouth; the second, Zhang, has the eyes of a deer-headed rat; the third, Zhang Luoluo, is short and fat, resembling a grain basket; Zhang Yunqing had already prepared the food and drink, and seeing the four people coming, she greeted them, lit three sticks of incense, and bowed to Nantian three times, then went back to the table, took out a large bowl of shochu, bit her right middle finger, and drained the blood on the in wine... "I'm a rough man, and I don't know much about the rules of the rivers and lakes. Today, the five of us became brothers, and we fought together to kill the wicked. We share blessings and share hardships. We don't want to be born on the same day, but to die on the same day. The four of us If there is no objection, please shed your blood into a bowl." Zhang Yakou, Zhang Zuanzi, Zhang Luoluo, and Zhang Sigou bit their fingers one by one and drained the blood into the sea bowl. Zhang Yunqing called out good, stirred the blood wine with her fingers, brought it over and said: "Now the blood of the five of us has merged into one body. After drinking, there will be me in you, and you will be in me. In this life, we will never be separated! If there is Whoever betrays his brother will be struck by lightning and die a terrible death!" After speaking, he drank a mouthful of blood wine and passed it to Zhang Yakou. 五个人喝完血酒，然后各就其位，开始大口吃肉，大碗喝酒，一边商量等会儿如何暴张光火家的具体细节。 草房的另一头，尹氏哄儿子睡下来，偷偷起来探听，当得知丈夫真要落草时，禁不住泪如雨下，意识到这个家很快就要破离了。 五个初结盟的绿林一阵风卷残云很快把一桌酒席吃个精光，然后开始用锅底灰涂黑面孔准备动身去张光火家行劫。 恰在此时，外面一片火光，并夹杂凌乱的脚步声、打杀声。张云卿顿觉不妙，准备突围，但茅屋已被重兵团团围住。 张云卿镇定地稳住大家：“弟兄们，俗话说兵来将挡，水来土掩，先不要惊慌，弄清他们是何方神仙再作打算！”说罢推开窗户，只见火把下一列荷枪实弹的土匪队伍站立在禾场上，为首的却是本镇巨匪张顺彩及另一个面目陌生的匪首。 张云卿向张亚口递了个眼色，张亚口会意，拱手向张顺彩问道：“张老爷，俗话说一笔难写两个张字，加之我们平素无冤无仇，今日兴师动众，不知晚辈何处得罪了老人家，请教正。” 张顺彩原是保定军官学校毕业生，曾在蔡锷的护国军中做过营长，统领过八百余人枪。蔡锷死后，因受到排挤，一气之下拖了百余人枪回黄桥铺为匪，在四乡打家劫舍。他见张亚口动问，拈着山羊须道：“亚口，你休要仗着一张毛嘴在老子面前撒野。俗话说，老鹰不打窝边鸡，我张顺彩虽为绿林，但从未危害乡里。冤有头，债有主，今夜找你们是有我的道理。这位老爷你们认不认识？”他指了指身边的陌生匪首。 张云卿、张亚口摇摇头，他们确实不认得。 张顺彩鼻子哼了哼：“我说出来你们自然认得！这位是洞口的朱云汉老爷。前几日，他的两位弟兄在双壁岩讨生活，其中一位被你二人杀了。” 张云卿与张亚口互瞟一眼，来者不善，这一场灾难看样子是躲不过了。 张顺彩不等张云卿他们申辩，接着说：“国有国法，帮有帮规，我和朱老爷早在数年前就私下订了协议，他占据洞口，我驻扎黄桥铺，互不侵犯。现在，你们犯了规矩，朱老爷本欲率部攻打黄桥铺，诛灭张姓人。他看在我的面子上，先礼后兵，特地来向你们讨个说法！” 朱云汉在火把下干咳一声，阴森地问道：“谁是张云卿？” 朱云汉的声音好比丧钟，令人感到一种难以名状的恐怖。但张云卿天生秉性不怕死，他毫不畏惧地应道：“我是张云卿，前些天双壁岩那个土匪是我所杀！” 朱云汉认真地打量他好一会儿，像看一个难得一见的珍稀动物。他高高的喉节蠕动着，他就要发话了，只要他一声令下，张云卿顷刻即为刀下鬼。