Chapter 107 Starting a Family
The knife stopped at Lou Zhong's neck but did not cut it.
Lou Zhong was also glaring there, not flinching at all. On the contrary, the disciples who were kneeling on the ground started to scream when they saw Lou Zhong's blood splattering on the spot.
Gao Jin admired Lou Zhong's willingness to die rather than surrender. Only such a stubborn man can be his brother. He put away the knife and laughed, clamped Lou Zhong's neck in his arms, and said with a smile:
"Good man, I have deceived you. With your nature, you are born to be my brother. Come and meet your second brother."
After saying that, Gao Jin asked his younger brother Gao Yu to come over and said to Lou Zhong:
"From now on, you will be the third brother. I am the eldest brother, and he is your second brother. Originally, you had a third brother, but he was too ambitious and talented to be my brother, so I drove him away. So you have to work hard, work hard. Worthy of being my brother”
Gao Yu had no choice but to meet his new third brother here. He is a good brother in every way, but there is one troublesome thing, that is, he especially likes to recruit the third brother. The third brother has been replaced several times and he is still not satisfied. I don't know how long this person named Lou can last.
Then Gao Yu asked Bu Qu to drive away the weak followers, served some fruits and vegetables, miso and rice, and asked Lou Zhong to come over and eat together.
Lou Zhong was not polite. He took out a green onion, dipped it in the bean paste and chewed it. This green onion was so watery!
Gao Yu laughed and admired Lou Zhong's arrogance even more, and then asked his brother to eat together. In this way, the three of them chewed onions, cooked rice, and ate.
Don't feel shabby either, not even a meal of meat. A child of a small wealthy family like Gao Yu can't just eat meat if he eats it.
Meat eats food and grows slowly. After slaughtering, it can only be eaten for a few meals. The meat cannot be stored, so it can only be made into preserved meat. Therefore, since ancient times, chickens and pigs have been killed during big sacrifices, and the whole tribe eats them together. For example, if the emperor's gift is too strong, it is just the slaughter of a whole cow, a whole sheep, or a whole pig. This is the highest level of sacrifice.
The important responsibility of presiding over the division of meat for the clan members during the clan's great sacrifice was also regarded as the person's ability to rule the family. Chen Ping, the prime minister of the former Han Dynasty, was considered to have the ability to rule the world because he divided the meat well.
The three of them finished eating. Gao Yu wiped his mouth and began to formally ask Lou Zhong:
"Third brother, I only know your surname is Lou. Where do you live? Are you good at any weapons?"
It is said that eating people has short mouths. After he was full, Lou Zhong burped and said to Gao Yu:
"My surname is Lou Mingzhong. I am from Heqiu, four miles west of Dongping Mausoleum. I don't have any weapons that I can use well. I just practiced some random farming techniques."
The smell of green onions from Lou Zhong's belch made Gao Yu frown at the side. On the contrary, Gao Jin's expression remained unchanged in front of him. He listened to Lou Zhong's words and nodded:
"It doesn't matter how good you are in martial arts, you can learn it, but you are born with courage, and no one else can learn it. I see that you are a born fighter."
Then he continued:
"I'm afraid you don't know where we will go after you join the army. You and your second brother have been practicing armor for the past few days, and then we will go to Tugu County. If you can win three titles, I will promote you. Be a soldier. Work hard.”
When Lou Zhong heard this, his heart tightened. Thinking about sending a letter to Shigushan, he felt even more anxious, but his expression remained unchanged and he nodded in agreement.
In this way, a message that was supposed to be delivered failed to be delivered due to unexpected funding. In the end, the field guards outside Tugu County had to accept this test unprepared.
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When Sima Ju returned to Qi with half of the military supplies captured in this battle, Zhang Chong also gathered Yang Mao's ten battalions of officials who had stayed in the original Dazhai, burned the Dazhai, and then returned to Mount Tai.
In this battle, Zhang Chong cleverly used a series of tricks to defeat the Taishan County magnates and Langya thieves. A total of two thousand levels were beheaded, and the number of beheaded generals reported by each general reached sixteen, almost all of which were well-known and powerful bandits among the Langya thieves.
In addition, he also captured 6,000 people, of whom 4,000 were brave enough to fight. Of course, there were five hundred Taishan Bao soldiers and Yanzhou powerful soldiers who were unwilling to join the group. Zhang Chong followed the agreement and no one gave him money and millet, allowing him to return home.
Even Bao Yu, Bao's general, begged Zhang Chong to allow him to take away the seriously injured Bao Tao, and Zhang Chong agreed. As for the captured Hu Muban, Zhang Chong did not release him. He released a member of Hu Muban's family and told them to send people to Mount Tai to find him if they wanted Hu Muban back.
For Zhang Chong, this person should be the one to achieve a peaceful development period in the future.
In addition, the combined wealth, grain and millet seized can support some prisoners for three months. The bigger harvest was for the generals who had been surrendered. In this battle, Zhang Chongguang absorbed thirteen generals from Taishan Langya.
Among them, there are seven powerful people from the former Yanzhou and Taishan tribes. They are Dong Fang, Zhao Chong, Xu Xi, Guo Song, Guo Mo, Wang Han, Duan Xiu and other seven generals. There are also two generals that Zhang Chong simply selected, namely Dian Wei and Wang Dang. Finally, the Langya generals who surrendered were Yang Mu, Ge Gong, Ma Jian and Ruan Zhong.
Yes, this Ruan Zhong is the general of Wu Dun who was finally abandoned on the west wall. After the whole battle was over, Ruan Zhong still stayed in the stronghold. Later, he was forced to surrender by Li Damu's troops. As for Jiang Sheng, who knew how to look at anger, he came out of the wall in the chaos and disappeared.
In this way, amid the raging fire on the wall of the village behind him, Zhang Chong's troops returned to the mountain with great vigor. When the powerful soldiers lurking in the distance saw that these Taishan thieves were really gone, they breathed a sigh of relief and went back to report to their respective heads.
They were all country tycoons. They could not afford to offend either the Taishan bandits or the Langya bandits. They could only sit back and watch, praying for the blessings of their ancestors. It would be best if both groups of thieves were dead.
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Here we return to Jinshibi on the edge of Mount Tai. There is a little man named Jin Bing on Jinshibi.
Jin Bing is a local, and this month is his happiest month.
In fact, since he was born, he has never known what happiness is, and no one has ever asked him whether he can live happily. His life has been black and white and gloomy since the beginning, always filled with endless hunger and labor, as if he was born to be a cow or horse. Just eat grass and work.
Jin Bing is the eldest son of the family, although his name is Bing. His two brothers starved to death when they were born, but he survived because the owner of Jin's Bi finally gave birth to a baby that year. The owner was so happy that he gave three measures of grain to the whole family. With these three measures of millet, his mother finally had milk to feed him. So, in other words, Jin Bing is lucky enough to be the same age as Mr. Jin. It's just that one of them is in color, and you are only in black and white, not in the same world.
When he grew up, Jin Bing was as dull and dull as his father. At the age of twenty, there was no sparkle in his eyes. Over the years, the family has given away many people.
First, my grandmother went into the mountains at night to dig wild vegetables and was snatched away by wolves. Then my grandfather, the oldest in the family, really didn’t want to live anymore, so he went into the mountains alone.
In the end, there were only two poor people in the family, his father and Jin Bing. By the way, Jin Bing also had a younger sister, but one year, his father took his younger sister to the market, and the younger sister never came back.
He asked his father where the little sister had gone, and he said that he had given her away so that she could live and we and our son could have millet seeds. When there is a good harvest this year, I can marry him a wife.
That autumn, Jin Bing still failed to marry a wife. It was not because there was no good harvest, but because his father was exhausted.
My father was sent home by his neighbor's millet shop, who said that his father was out collecting millet for others. For some reason, he suddenly coughed up blood and fainted. By the time everyone found out, he was already out of breath.
Jin Bing cried, he was the only one left in the family. After that, the guests from Jin's Bi Temple came to Jin Bing and said that Jin Bing's father died and you, Jin Bing, should arrange the funeral ceremony for your father.
Jin Bing didn't understand. Wouldn't it be enough to bury it at home? What is the etiquette for burial?
The guests of the Jin family told him that you, Jin Bing, are a member of the Jin family. Your behavior is not only your own, but also represents their entire Jin family.
If you don't bury your father, you are unfilial. Our Han Dynasty governs the world with filial piety. If you are unfilial, then the whole Jin family will be regarded as an unfilial family by everyone in Tugu County. This will affect Xiaolangjun's entry into the Fu family in Dongpingling. If not, then Jin Bing is the sinner of the entire Jin family.
Jin Bing didn't understand why whether or not he buried his father would affect the young man's future, and why he became the sinner of the Jin family. He even didn't understand how he could bury his father on the ground with such etiquette.
But he understood the threat from Kim's guest, and he fell silent and agreed.
After that, the Jin family bought a coffin for his father, Mai, and buried his father in the wasteland outside their Jin family cemetery, saying that he was considered a member of their Jin family.
After that, Jin Bing listened to the arrangements of Jin Bing's old guests for all kinds of etiquette. Although he was tired, he was still satisfied. Is this the grand funeral that the old people said?
But when my father was buried and the earth had just been laid here, an old guest of the Jin family over there told him that he owed a sum of money, and you, Jin Bing, had to find time to settle the knot.
Jin Bing was confused, what money?
Unexpectedly, Jin’s old guest sneered:
"Are you a charity man from Jinxiang? Can you bury your father for free? In addition, I have wasted a lot of effort in order to persuade Mr. Jinxiang to allow your father to be buried in our Jin family garden. I don't need any money for this effort. ”
Jin Bing was silent. He had no money, so he could only sell the remaining five acres of land at home to Jin Bing's old guest. As for the ripe millet on the field, his father was exhausted and used it to marry Jin Bing. The millet naturally fell into the hands of the old guests.
Later, Jin Bing became the apprentice of Jinxiang Lao, supporting the Jin family and continuing to work hard for their Jin family.
Does Jin Bing hate it? Just as he had never been happy, Jin Bing never knew what hatred was.
It wasn't until Taishan's Shi Jiajun broke through the Jin family wall, and Jin Xianglao took his son to hide in Dongpingling, Jin Bing suddenly experienced what hate is and what happiness is.
What is hate? When he and his disciples on the same wall helped to carry the wooden ladder to the wall of Jin's dock, the Taishan soldier who had given him a portion of the millet balls died in front of him. He hates why good people don't live long!
What is hate? When he broke through the wall with the Taishan Shi family army, he found his sister in the old guest's home. From her mouth, she learned that her sister volunteered to be a slave as long as the old guest could bury her father. He hates the shamelessness of the old guests!
What is hate? When he took his sister with him and the Shi Jiajun men broke through the inner wall, he saw Jin's dogs eating millet. When I saw the open Jin's warehouse, the millet inside was piled up like a mountain, and the bottom layer was rotten. How could his hateful heart be so dirty!
So what is happiness? It was he who took his sister to eat dog meat; it was the people from the Shi Jiajun who gave him the millet; it was he who walked to a field that was larger than his own, and the people from the Shi Jiajun told him that it would be his from now on.
Later, his sister married the fellow disciple who carried the wooden ladder with him. That companion also had a sister, and she married him.
From then on, Jin Bing had a family again.
There was a little man named Jin Bing in the Han Dynasty. Would he believe in light?
(End of chapter)