Chapter 1232 Bandits turned refugees
The flood has ravaged the south of the Yangtze River for five days. Most of the south of the Yangtze River is devastated. Almost every house is leaking, and no wall is leaning. The buildings to the east and west are all soaked in a body of water, without boundaries. , there were rafts going between streets and alleys, and millions of victims were displaced.
What a miserable word.
The only good news is that it has been raining in Jiangnan for almost a month, and it has finally stopped.
However, even if the rain stops, the flooding in Jiangnan has not been alleviated much. The water in many places is still several feet deep. For example, in Taiping County, which was severely affected by the disaster, even the Taiping County Government Office is still soaked by floods. Depending on the situation, the floods will not recede in less than ten days and half a month; and even if the floods recede, the flood disaster will not recede. Destroyed houses, washed away farmland, flooded property and food will be difficult to harvest, and millions of victims will be displaced. Crying for food, the road to disaster relief is long and arduous.
Jingnan County was one of the counties that was less affected by the flood and more effective in disaster relief. Many displaced victims from nearby counties fled to Jingnan after hearing the news. On the main roads leading to Jingnan, there were groups of victims one after another. There were even victims from one village fleeing to Jingnan together with their elderly and children.
Dachu Mountain spans the three counties of Jingnan, Tiantai and Taiping, guarding the traffic arteries from Tiantai and Taiping counties to Jingnan. After the flood, victims passed by the foot of the mountain every day, heading towards Jingnan. Fleeing south.
Dachu Mountain is a mountain system, stretching for hundreds of miles, with dozens of high mountains, thousands of meters high, and majestic. Dachu Mountain is very famous in Taizhou Prefecture, but its reputation is not a good one. It is famous for mountain bandits. There are more than a dozen groups of bandits, large and small, in Dachu Mountain. They are notoriously difficult to deal with because they are impure to suppress and uneasy to deal with. Because it spans three counties, if bandits are suppressed in Jingnan, they will flee to Tiantai and Taiping areas; if bandits are suppressed in Tiantai, they will flee to Jingnan and Taiping areas; if bandits are suppressed in Taiping, they will flee to Tiantai and Jingnan areas. Due to administrative factors, it is difficult for the three counties to jointly suppress bandits. They have only done so once or twice in the past ten years, but the joint suppression of bandits has not had much effect. Once the joint suppression of bandits is carried out, the bandits will go to the deep mountains and old forests. There are wild fruits and prey in the mountains, and the bandits will also If they don't starve to death, as time goes by, the three counties themselves will be unable to bear it. As soon as the three counties were withdrawn, the bandits came out of the deep mountains and old forests, and began to resume their old business, occupying the mountains and becoming kings.
People usually feel panic when passing by the foot of Dachu Mountain, but now people are not worried at all.
Those who are barefoot are not afraid of those who wear shoes. We are all victims of the disaster with nothing, and the bandits can steal a piece of it.
On this day, on a main road leading from Dachu Mountain to Jingnan County, a group of more than eighty people came.
The leader is a sturdy man in his fifties. He has a short beard on his chin and a black and white beard. He is dressed in terry brown and has half of his arms exposed. He is as strong as a cow, but at this moment, There are dishes.
Following him was a young man. The young man was slender, wearing coarse clothes and a pair of sheepskin boots. Except for the sheepskin boots that were inevitably stained with mud, his clothes were neat and clean without a drop of mud. Mud, but his face was stained with a few pieces of mud. Even so, it was difficult to conceal his delicate face. His eyebrows were as slender as Yuandai, his eyes were big and bright, his mouth was small, his lips were red and his teeth were white.
How should I put it? The boy is a bit feminine, like a girl, with an oval face, like a fox that has become a spirit.
Of course, although the young boy looked like a boy and a girl, no one looked at him twice along the way. Because he was playing with a dagger in his hand, flying in his hand like a butterfly in a flower.
The victims fleeing the disaster on the road have nowhere to hide and dare to look for trouble. Of course, there were also those who were short-sighted and teased the young man, but they were all quickly taught how to behave by the more than eighty strong men following the young man.
More than 80 people following the leading man and the young man are all strong men, with their sleeves rolled up and shoulders exposed. They all look like crabs, walking rampantly and swearing dirty words. , but he respected the two people in front of him very much, surrounded them, and walked all the way to Jingnan County.
“Damn it, Nuwa Empress has finally patched up the sky again. The rain that has been falling for several months has finally stopped. This month, my calf-nosed pants are all wet. It's wet." A man looked up at the sun in the sky and cursed.
"Hu Laosan, if you don't keep your mouth clean, your second brother will separate from you and live alone!" The young man walking in front turned his head and smiled, and the dagger in his hand rotated rapidly between his two fingers. There was a circle of dazzling cold light in the sun.
Although the boy deliberately made his voice rough, his voice was still pleasant to the ear. He was actually a woman disguised as a man.
"Ahem, the young master's family is joking. We will not separate our families, even if we are beaten to death."
The man suddenly laughed sarcastically, and even dared to walk with his legs crossed, fearing that the young master's family would not spare the two brothers.
A tall and thick man was as frightened as a dog with its tail between its legs by the girl's look and words.
Hahaha.
The strong man in the lead and other men couldn't help laughing when they saw this. They were so cheerful that they didn't look like refugees.
"Ruonan, we are almost arriving at Jingnan County, put away your fish dagger." The strong man in the lead reminded.
"I got it, dad. She's so long-winded, like an old lady." The girl rolled her eyes. Although she was mumbling, she was still very obedient. She held the dagger between her fingers and flicked it. Suddenly, the dagger disappeared into her sleeve.
The burly man was told something by his daughter, and he smiled indifferently, his eyes full of love for the girl.
"Old boss, young boss, I just can't figure it out. We have a lot of future as bandits in the mountains. We eat big chunks of meat, drink from big bowls, share gold with big scales, and play vigorously." There is another one. A bearded man complained with a puzzled look on his face. When he talked about vigorously playing with women, he thought of what happened to Hu Laosan, and instantly He paused for a moment, swallowed the next few words, and then continued, "When we were in the mountains, we lived a free and easy life. The king of heaven was not as good as us, and the emperor even cried with envy. We It's inappropriate to leave a promising bandit alone, why should he become a refugee?"
"That's right."
"It's so shameless for us to be bandits and become refugees. How can we still have the dignity to wander around in the mountains."
Several people in the crowd suddenly responded.
"What a dog said, Zhang Laosan, you still have the nerve to ask! You can't do anything, and there's nothing left to eat! The mountain torrent destroyed the village, and the rations that were finally snatched were all eaten by you foodies. If you don't go down the mountain and become a refugee, you will end up starving in hell. Besides, the fat sheep at the foot of the mountain will suffer. During the flood, everyone went to the flood refuge area. If we, the wolves, didn’t go to the flood refuge area, where would we go? Are you going to be your father or your mother if you take them back? Huh? ”
The strong man in the lead is very gentle to the girl, but to this group of rough guys, he is extremely rough.
Of course, this is what rough guys do. (End of chapter)