Chapter 125 Repentance
Zhang Goudu was now full of wine and meat, burped, paid the money, and was ready to go out.
The county soldier upstairs who was still eating meat quickly put down his food and started to follow.
I saw Zhang Goudu swaying, singing folk songs happily all the way out of the city, swinging in the direction of Mount Tai.
Zhang Goulv had reason to be happy, because he felt so happy.
Happiness is something that can only be compared with others. When other brothers followed him to the battlefield to fight, he followed his little father Zhang Bingnan to watch in the supply camp. While other brothers were practicing every day, he was still relaxing in the supply camp. Even when the brothers were competing for some fishy meat, he could go into the city to eat meat from time to time.
Isn't this happiness?
But Zhang Goulv also knew that what he did could not be told, and it violated Zhang Chong's regulations. Zhang Chong was strictly prohibited from leaving the mountain without any reason.
How could that dog and donkey come out of the mountain so frequently?
Because he was the oldest old man in the baggage camp under his younger father Zhang Bingnan, he would often be responsible for going out to buy some salt. After going back and forth, he not only saved a lot of money, but also used the money to get through to several old brothers who were responsible for going out.
Zhang Goulv was assigned to his younger father, Zhang Bingnan, as a transport soldier because he was too weak to fight. However, after spending two years in the transport camp, he was raised to be fat.
On weekdays, he likes to have some meat and fish in the kitchen, but after the implementation of the holy treasury system, the Shi Jiajun's meals were all unified, and it was difficult for individual troops to open small stoves like in the past. Zhang Goudu couldn't bear his greed, so he ventured out into the mountains to find meat.
He was frightened at first, so he didn't choose Licheng, which was closest to the mountain. He was worried about meeting acquaintances there, so he specifically went around to Dongpingling, which was further away.
But then he became more and more courageous and went out to the mountain more and more frequently. Even the old guys guarding the mountain pass were a little scared and asked Zhang Goulv to take it easy.
Zhang Goulv patted his chest and assured that it was okay.
Now, the trouble came to him.
When Zhang Goulv was about to walk into a forest, he suddenly heard a sound of footsteps behind him. He suddenly became alert and hurriedly ran to a big stone and hid behind it.
After thinking about it, he felt uneasy and took out two hundred dollars from his bag. This was the money he brought with him when he went out to the mountains this time, and of course it was also the money he earned from the baggage camp.
He kissed the money bag, buried the money behind a stone, and finally put a stone on top so that he could recognize it at a glance in the future.
After that, Zhang Goulv sneaked around to another mountain road. When he saw no one, he started running wildly.
Suddenly, a person came out of the forest and grabbed Zhang Goudu's sleeve. With a fierce move, Zhang Goudu tore his sleeves, broke away from the man, and ran forward desperately.
But just as he was about to run out of the forest, he stopped running because there were about ten people in front of the forest looking at him. Zhang Goulv looked back behind him again, only to see ten more people chasing him behind him.
At this moment, Zhang Goulv knew that there was no hope of escape, so he simply sat on the ground silently. The pursuers arrived from behind. Some grabbed Zhang Goudu's feet, some grabbed his shoulders, and some clung to his bun. They dragged Zhang Goudu all the way to the entrance of the forest. At this time, Xun Yu was waiting there.
Zhang Goudu was being dragged and cried all the way:
"Everyone, you have recognized the wrong person. I am nothing, I have nothing. You can search, you can search. Stop dragging me, really, people will die."
He continued to howl, and was dragged dozens of steps, and then he stopped howling because he saw the first lackey of Zhang Hong, the third elder in Da Sang, Qingnu.
Zhang Goulv was desperate now, knowing that something big had happened this time.
After the county soldiers brought Zhang Goudu in front of Xun Yu, they began to strip off his clothes, and all his clothes were stripped off until only his nose and clothes were left. Then the soldiers took out short sticks and began to beat Zhang Goudu desperately.
Zhang Goudu was covered in fat and was whipped until he was knocked upside down. He was crying for his father and mother, begging for mercy, but the stick wouldn't stop, and he was slapped twenty times.
Seeing that Zhang Goudu obeyed after being whipped, Xun Yu gave Yin Li a look.
Yin Li understood, stepped forward and stepped on Zhang Goudu's face. While he was crushing him back, he asked:
"Dog, donkey, are you a Taishan thief?"
Zhang Goudu panicked and cried:
"Qingnu, you know me well. I don't even dare to kill a chicken. How can I have the courage to be a thief?"
After Yin Li heard this, he put more force on his feet and said bitterly:
"Of course you don't dare, you dog and donkey, but the second son of the Gouzi family dares to say, was he the one who brought you to Luocao? Also, Naigong's name is Yin Li now, not Qingnu."
When he saw Qingnu, whose name was not Yin Li, he suddenly mentioned Zhang Chong. At this moment, Zhang Gou Donkey was completely panicked. He knew that Yin Li was not deceiving him, he really knew it.
Zhang Goulv’s inner defense collapsed instantly, and he cried and said:
"I said it all, I said it all, but I want to eat beef."
Hearing this, Yin Li felt happy. He turned back to look at Xun Yu. When he saw him nodding, he put his foot down and said to Zhang Goudu:
"Want to eat beef? Okay, I will get you a pot. But if you dare to hide anything, be careful that your heart and liver will be fried and eaten by Nai Gong."
After saying this, Xun Yu frowned and felt unhappy. After all, he is a wild man in the countryside, and his wild nature is difficult to subdue. Now he can only use it for now.
Of course, Yin Li didn't know that what he said casually had already aroused Xun Yu's resentment. He was excitedly pulling Zhang Goudu up and pushing him back to Dongpingling.
Xun Yu thought for a moment and asked Yin Li not to take Zhang Goudu back to the city, but to take him to a dock he had set up outside the city, which was more private.
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At this moment, it is in a dock wall two miles west of Dongpingling Mausoleum.
Zhang Goulv was holding a bowl of beef there and chewing it wildly. He didn't stop until his cheeks hurt, because he was worried that this would be his last meal and he had to eat something good.
Yin Li looked at Zhang Goulu eating beef, and he felt greedy in his heart. Although he had been with Zhang Hong for a long time, he could not easily eat beef. Now that he saw Zhang Goulu eating beef, he immediately remembered his good memories of beef. All ticked out.
Yin Li felt that he was with the wrong person. This man named Xun Yu, the Prime Minister of Dongpingling, had indeed been married for generations. This cow was killed as soon as he was told to kill it, just to feed the pickled man in front of him. The steaming beef was really wasted.
But he also felt that this might be just a drop in the bucket for the Xun family. Didn't you realize that they had just come to Dongpingling and they had built such a large dock wall here.
Sure enough, following Mr. Xun Lang, not only would you have meat to eat, but you would also have a future.
At this time, Xun Yu was still calm in the breeze and calm in the water. He squinted his eyes and sat on a horse, beating time with his hands. He didn't rush the dog or donkey, and just let him eat there.
Zhang Goudu felt bitter in his heart. He wanted to eat more so that he could be full and delay the journey. But his stomach was really unsatisfactory, and he couldn't eat any more after eating half a bowl.
Okay, he accepted his fate.
He threw the basin on the ground, and the beef he had just regarded as delicious jumped to the ground, dirty.
Now, Yin Li had another reason to kill Zhang Goudu.
Until now, Zhang Goulv asked directly:
"Okay, you do what you say, I'm not a bad dog or a donkey. If you want to ask anything, just ask."
Yin Li thought he was coming to ask questions, so he opened his mouth, but was stopped by Xun Yu.
Xun Yu asked directly:
"Don't let me ask. You tell me everything from the beginning to the present. And please don't lie to me, because I am really, really, very smart. If you lie to me, you are really It will be discovered, and it will be miserable.”
Zhang Goulv looked at the young man. When he said these words, it was as if he was talking about someone who had nothing to do with him. He felt a chill in his heart, and then he started talking.
This lecture went straight to dusk. During this process, Xun Yu personally refilled eight bowls of water for him, as if Xun Yu was really a listener listening to the story.
Finally, after telling everything, Zhang Goulv suddenly cried. It turned out that he didn't realize it himself. It turned out that his feelings for Shi Jiajun were so strong. He regretted it so much. Why did he covet food and drink, harming himself and Shi Jiajun.
Yes, Zhang Goulv knew that these people must be enemies of the Shi Jiajun, but what could he do? He was really afraid of pain and death, otherwise he wouldn't have stayed in the supply camp and indulged in debauchery.
He knew in his heart that Zhang Chong was a great hero, Du Man was a smart man, Zhang Dan was also heroic, and even Zhang Nan and Zhang Wu from the same place were braver than him. But he really didn't want to be like Zhang Wu and die in the mountains.
On the day Zhang Wu played the God Master Card, Zhang Gou Donkey also participated. He knew that one day all of them would die, but Zhang Wu took the first step. He Zhang Gou Donkey really doesn't have any ideals. He is just an ordinary person and he just wants to live a good life.
But the world never asked him, and drove him to death all the way. And Zhang Chong, the leader of the Ququ, has never asked him if Zhang Goulv is willing to do this with you.
Isn’t it true that not everyone is like Zhang Chong, who does big things, so why don’t we just let him go?
While Zhang Goulv was feeling sorry for himself, Xun Yu was also overwhelmed with emotion after hearing the story. At this moment, Xun Yu only had one word for Zhang Chong: "enemy of famous religion".
He originally regarded Zhang Chong as a figure like the red-browed thief Fan Chong, who was just trying to survive, living in the grasslands, but he really didn't expect that this farmer from Licheng would have such a great ability to change the world. Vigor.
Listen to the phrase "walking in the way of heaven". Whose heaven is it for, whose way is it, and who is it being dealt with?
Listen to the sentence again: "Raise swords, exchange for peace, teach the world to restore the Qingming." This is such a monstrous talk to deceive the public, it is similar to the Tao of Taiping.
Yes, you heard it right, Xun Yu still doesn’t know that the Taishan bandits are from Taiping Road. It's not that Zhang Goudu had a kind heart and deliberately didn't tell him, but that Zhang Goudu really didn't know.
When Tang Zhou impeached Zhang Chong, he was right about one thing, that is, Taishan Fang really did not preach the scriptures at all levels. It wasn't that Zhang Chong didn't have time, but that he simply didn't inform the entire army that they were now members of Taiping Dao.
Only the core members knew that Zhang Chong himself was the Taiping Dao Qushuai. Although Zhang Goulv is a seventy-five-year-old brother, he is already very peripheral because he is not motivated.
At this moment, Xun Yu, who didn't know that Zhang Chong was Taiping Dao, was thinking about Taiping Dao.
(End of chapter)