Chapter 128 129 Refugees
Zhou Jia thought that this was all he could do. The victims were starving and had tasted the sweetness of looting. Who knew what they would do.
"Okay, you go ask Uncle Chen to build the wall, and I will take people to cut the wood and go down the mountain."
The two went out and went their separate ways. After Li Yu went to Chen Yaohui's house and told him the news, he asked him to lead people to build a wall for defense.
Chen Yaohui frowned and said, "Xiaoyu, I can only do as you say. I will take people to build the wall right now."
Chen Yaohui went out with a frown on his face. After Li Yu returned home, he went to the workshop and said to the woman in Hujiacun: "If the days are not peaceful, the workshop will also stop working. I will settle the wages into food and give it to you. You can take it home!" After you go back, you'd better let Chief Hu lead you to surround the village, otherwise you really don't know what will happen?"
The women and girls in Hujia Village were stunned after hearing this. Hu Gui's daughter-in-law, He, screamed: "Girl, are those people really coming?"
Li Yu nodded, "You pack up, I'll ask Ruyi to prepare food for you and then send you back. You should eat sparingly after you take it home. You should be able to eat it until the spring wheat matures."
Mrs. He nodded, "Girl, we will remember it. Thank you. We will pack up and go back."
Li Yu calculated their wages, asked Ruyi to exchange them for food, and sent them back to Hujiacun.
Zhou Jia took people to the mountains to cut wood and send it back to the village. Chen Yaohui took everyone to ram earth and build walls at several openings in the village.
Carpenter Chen and his people connected the wooden rods and boards and used iron nails to make a simple wooden door, ready to be installed at the entrance of the village.
Yunxian County, which was still about ten days away from Tongzhou City, had been besieged by mobs. When the news reached Tongzhou, Tongzhou City closed its gates and could only prevent people from going out. People fell into panic, and the victims outside Tongzhou City became emboldened. Get up, a group of people gathered at the city gate, waving their fists and shouting at the city, "Let us in, let us in..."
A man rushed up, snatched the spear from the defender's hand, and pierced his chest with one shot. Others rushed forward.
"You want to rebel, don't you? If you break in again, you will be killed without mercy." An officer and soldier shouted loudly.
"Let us in." The victims rushed toward the city regardless. The officers and soldiers waved their weapons and stabbed the man in front of him in the chest, killing several people before the victims retreated.
Jixiang and Zhaocai took Li Qing and hurried out of the city before the city gate closed. When they arrived outside the city, they found the victims outside Tongzhou City. They looked at them in groups like hungry wolves. Jixiang took out a machete and held it in his hand. In his hand, he shouted to Li Qing: "Aqing, sit still."
When the victims saw the two men's mule cart coming out of the city, they all rushed forward. When they rushed over, they saw Ji Xiang holding a machete in his hand but did not dare to climb onto the cart. They surrounded the mule cart and prayed, "Brother, please do a good job and give me something." food."
Two men grabbed the rafters and started to climb up the mule cart. Zhaocai waved his whip to drive the mule. The mule let go and ran. Zhaocai whipped the hand of the man who grabbed the rafter on the left. The man Chi pain let go of the car rafter and fell down.
The man on the right was clinging to the rafters of the car. Jixiang raised the machete and put it on his hand and shouted: "Let go quickly, otherwise, don't blame me for being too harsh."
When the man saw Jixiang holding a machete with a murderous look on his face, he let go angrily and was rolled twice on the ground by the car. He lay on the ground and watched helplessly as the car drove away.
The two of them got up and returned to the fire. They said to a tall man with thick black eyebrows and a long scar on his face, "Brother Yang, you can't get food now, and you don't dare to go outside the city." Let’s do it openly with those people, let’s just do what we did before and find some people to walk a little further together and go to a more remote town to find food.”
The Lala named Brother Yang tightened the coat on her body, sniffed and said, "Okay, let's go now!"
A group of people gathered dozens more victims, this time there were a hundred or ten in total, and walked towards the villages and towns around Tongzhou City with sticks and machetes.
I arrived in Sanming Town when it was dark and knocked on the door of an inn. The innkeeper loudly responded in the room: "Sir, please go and look elsewhere. I have no need to eat at home."
Before he finished speaking, he heard the sound of banging on the door. In a blink of an eye, the door was knocked open. The innkeeper saw a group of ragged people rushing into the inn. Just as he was about to scold him, someone rushed up and hit him on the head with a stick. He fell to the ground, lifeless.
A group of people, like wolves, picked up the food next to the stove and ate it.
Brother Yang led the people towards the guest room in the inn, turned to a man and said, "Yang Cheng, you take the people to the room over there. Yang Yong and I will go to the room over here."
"Okay! Brother Yang." Yang Cheng carried a wooden stick and led two people into the house to rummage through the cabinets and collect them.
Yang Cheng dug out two pairs of old cotton robes in the cabinet and put them on, while he kept muttering, "I'm so damn poor, I don't have any good things."
Brother Yang took Yang Yong to the boss's house and found a few taels of silver and some thick clothes. He threw them to Yang Yong and said, "Take them and put them on to keep warm."
The other people brought food from the inn and ate it. They licked their faces and said to Brother Yang, "Brother Yang, it's starting to snow outside. Can we stay here tonight?"
Brother Yang glared, "Have a rest, eat quickly, and grab it from a rich family while it's dark."
Yang Cheng's eyes lit up and he chuckled, "This is a good idea. We can always find a rich family and everyone can make some money."
After a group of people had eaten and drank, they left the inn and started searching around the town. When they came across a house with high walls and blue tiles,
Brother Yang's eyes lit up, he pointed to the door and said softly to a thin man next to him: "Yang Chun, go and pry the door open."
Yang Chun nodded and took out a thin-edged knife, put it into the crack of the door and slowly fiddled with it to the side. The door latch was slowly opened, and a group of people filed in.
The sound of numerous footsteps disturbed the half-awake door. He opened the door and saw a group of people in rags breaking in. They shouted, "Come quickly!...
There was only a 'pop' sound, and the door was knocked to the ground by Yang Cheng with a stick.
Someone in the house was awakened and rang the gong, and servants rushed out with knives and sticks. Brother Yang rushed forward with a machete, shouting with red eyes, "Kill, kill, kill these masters." them."
He shouted, and the machete in his hand struck a servant mercilessly. These servants were no match for these vicious refugees. They died in a short time and were injured. Brother Yang's fingers were covered in blood. He looked at those people and smiled ferociously: "If you don't do anything, you will kill them all."
An injured servant trembled and begged for mercy, "Uncle, the master is resting inside! We are also housekeepers, please spare us!"
A group of people who have been tortured by long-term hunger and a homeless life have long since turned into evil ghosts, and they cannot listen to the servants' pleas for mercy.
The servant who begged for mercy was stabbed to death by Brother Yang without hesitation. The other men took the knife and killed the remaining servants without even blinking.
Brother Yang and his gang, who were red-eyed, rushed into the house with weapons in their hands. They killed men, women, old and strangers in sight, and the group quickly washed away the house with blood.