Chapter 168 Revenge

At noon, fires suddenly broke out in Huangjia Village, twenty miles away from the Zhan family's ancestral home, followed by cries, screams, and shouts of killing. In the Huang family's big house in the center of Weizi, dozens of The man's body was stabbed or slashed with a variety of weapons, leaving him unrecognizable.

In the six-bay main room, men with broad swords stuck in their waists came in and out, piling boxes of gold and silver ingots and silver coins under the eaves.

Someone was comparing whether the satin clothes they dug out of the box fit. From time to time, the cries of the female members of the Huang family could be heard all around.

Next to the corridor paved with water-polished blue bricks, people threw each account book, contract, and money and food book into the fire, igniting a raging fire.

Hundreds of bags of rice taken out of the barn were moved outside the gate and piled casually in front of the door without any care. On both sides of the stone lion, a dozen iron pots were set up. The pots were filled with hot water filled with flowers. After a few fat pigs were slaughtered, they were quickly disemboweled and thrown into the pot.

Someone on the side shouted loudly, "Eat the big ones! Eat the big ones!".

While shouting, he threw handfuls of Keelung copper coins into the street, attracting more and more people around him.

Zhan Chenjiu also put on a brocade robe taken from the Huang family and patrolled everything, looking quite majestic.

"Brother Chenjiu! I have sent messages to all the family members who are related to our family in the four villages and towns. There are five or six families who dare not reply for fear of getting into trouble. The other seven or eight families are here!" Zhan Xiaoer acted as a temporary messenger. The character relies on his quick legs and feet to pass news back and forth.

"How many people are here?" Zhan Chenjiu's voice became a little low and hoarse, either out of excitement or passion, or because of the sensory stimulation brought by killing.

"I'm afraid there are thousands of people!?"

"Tell the brothers outside to get rice and cook quickly. Everyone has enough to eat and drink before going to Wu's house in Baitu Village!"

For decades, the Wu family, the landlords of Baitu Village, have been raining down their land on the heads of Hakka people everywhere. They often do many evil things, bullying men and dominating women. Today, it is time to settle this account. .

While they were talking here, a painful scream suddenly came from there.

A son of the Zhan family was rolling on the ground with his mouth full of blood, gasping for air-conditioning, pointing vaguely at a woman in the distance and cursing.

"what happened?!"

"Brother Chenjiu, third brother was making out with that woman. He didn't want her to bite his tongue, and he almost bit it off."

"You worthless thing! The mother-in-law at home is not enough for you, so you come here to look for shame." Zhan Chenjiu cursed at his third brother without any idea.

"Chen Jiu, you are the leader now, but don't just reprimand me! The second brother entered the Huang family's house and did nothing. First he slept with Weasel's two concubines, and then took away the Weasel's distressed granddaughter. It made the old woman jump up and down, and she immediately jumped into the well, and you didn’t say anything?”

"You!" Zhan Chenjiu was speechless for a moment and didn't even know how to refute.

These brothers are really not cheap. They used to be honest and trustworthy, but now.

Zhan Chenjiu doesn't know whether their transformation is good or bad.

"Brother Chenjiu! Brother Chenjiu!"

The two children of the Zhan family ran out of the backyard happily. As they ran, they raised the items in their hands high and showed them to everyone happily.

"Brother Chen Jiu, we have discovered something good, please take a look!"

The two men held their inventions in their hands, a steel knife, a spear, and a breastplate.

Zhan Chenjiu took it and took a look, exhaled a long breath and said: "This weasel is really not afraid of death, he dares to hide weapons secretly!"

"But it's ours now. It seems easier to go to Baitu Village next."

During the previous attack on the Huang family, several brothers still missed and were slightly injured.

"How many of these are there?"

"There are about 100 spears and 50 steel knives!"

"This is the time for rebellion." Zhan Chenjiu was shocked. If they hadn't attacked by surprise, the Huang family would not have been able to defeat them.

"Go and distribute the weapons to our brothers and eat quickly so that we can go to Baitu Village to settle the score with Wu!"

"okay!"

After eating and drinking, more than a thousand brothers, led by Zhan Chenjiu, rushed like a flood to Baitu Village ten miles away.

Facing the Weizi wall and the people on the wall, Zhanchenjiu cleared his throat and shouted loudly towards the Weizi wall.

"People on the wall, listen, we came to Baitu Village not to cause trouble for you! We just came to see Master Wu! Everyone knows the good things he has done over the years. If you don't want your mother-in-law to remarry, just leave quickly. I Make sure no one is hurt."

The people in shabby and dark clothes on the wall of Weizi were a little disturbed, and they seemed to want to give up. It was really not worth dying for the Wu family.

At this time, a burst of shouting and cursing came from the wall, "Don't listen to him, everyone. Didn't our brothers who went to the Huang family say that these people are now rebels, burning, killing, looting, and doing all kinds of evil. Think about them coming in, Your mother-in-law is not allowed to serve several people."

"Yes, we can't let them in." When he mentioned his mother-in-law, his eyes were full of determination.

"Brother Chen Jiu, what should we do?!"

Several Zhan family members gathered around him, eagerly waiting for him to make up his mind.

"Brothers! Let me ask you, how have you been these past two days?"

"It's so exciting! I'm eating lard, wearing silk, and even women who didn't dare to look up before can now play around!"

"That's right! It's much more comfortable than before. I really want to live like this every day!"

"Okay, since the brothers all want to live like this, then we must conquer the Wu family."

Chan Chenjiu held a steel knife in his hand, and after a shout, he led thousands of people to rush towards the small earthen fortress of the Wu family.

The small earthen wall of the Wu family was pushed hard by more than a thousand people, and it fell apart directly. The servants on it were either buried in the soil or turned around and ran away.

In just half a day, the Wu family was completely conquered by Zhan Chenjiu.

A few days later, Zhan Chenjiu had turned from a farmer's son into a rebel leader. The temperament exuded from him made Zhan Xiaoer a little bit unrecognizable.

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"Xiaoer, the women of the Wu family are locked up in the ancestral hall of their family. Go and choose a young and beautiful one to play with tonight. You have been running back and forth these days, and you have worked hard."

Zhan Chenjiu said lightly, which was regarded as a reward for Xiaoer's running to Changxian County to inform the brothers of the Gu family these days.

"Okay, Brother Chenjiu." He had been jealous before, and now he can finally get started, which makes the waiter very happy.

Late at night, in the flower hall of the Wu family compound, a table of mixed food was set up here, and Zhan Chenjiu, Gu Shengzhi, Gu Qian and others were drinking and talking here.

Gu Qian raised his wine glass to toast: "Congratulations to Brother Zhan for taking revenge and eliminating a great evil for the whole village!"

Zhan Chenjiu laughed and said: "Brother, you are too kind, what can my family do."

"I wonder what your plans are for the future?!" Gu Shengzhi asked at the side.

Zhan Chenjiu thought for a moment: "Now the four villages are resisting grain and taxes. I am the first to rebel. If the government investigates, I will definitely not be able to escape. Beheading is a small matter, but I can't escape with all of us."

"Indeed!"

"I think, just make a big deal about resisting grain and taxes, so that the court can't ignore it, and my head will be more secure!"

Zhan Chenjiu walked to Gu Shengzhi's side, poured him a glass of wine, and asked: "Brother Gu, do you want to join me?"

"If everyone works together, the head will definitely be saved, and the future glory and wealth will also be inevitable. Brother Gu, you are the leader of Chang County. If you come, the brothers will definitely do a good job."

It must be admitted that Zhan Chenjiu's proposal is very attractive, and Gu Shengzhi did have an idea.

He is at most a local snake in Chang County. There are countless wealthy families and county magistrates above him. He is also doing illegal things. If someone is unhappy one day, he will play around.

"Okay! I'll do it with my brother! I'll go back to Chang County tomorrow and do something big for him! There's chaos in the north now, with bandits, refugees and hungry people everywhere. Although we're in Lingnan, the tax collectors everywhere are levying heavy taxes, and there are all kinds of Liao money and suppression money. It's a great opportunity for you and me to build a career!"

"Okay!" Zhan Chenjiu took a sip of wine, and the stimulation of alcohol made his face immediately flushed. "Then I'll wait for you, Brother Gu, to start a rebellion, and I'll immediately take down more than a dozen towns and villages around him! By then, we'll be the county magistrate of Chang County."

"Brother, no!"

Gu Shengzhi was a person who had traveled all over the world, had been to Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and had seen the world. He was much better at thinking than Zhan Chenjiu, a farmer's son who was still farming and collecting firewood in the mountains not long ago.

"Brother Zhan, if you want to keep this head on your neck for a long time and stay there steadily, you should think about conquering the county. You can do whatever you want to the surrounding villages and communities, even if you have to massacre them."

"Brother, why is that?" Gu Qian, whose eyes were red from the alcohol, looked at his elder brother in confusion.

"Occupying the county is equivalent to confronting the government head-on, and he must send troops to encircle and suppress you. Do you think you can withstand the government? If you attack the county, the face of the Lingnan Governor's Office will be gone!"

"So, we only rob towns and never touch the county! We only resist grain and taxes, and never kill officials and rebel!"

"But I killed the weasel." Zhan Chenjiu asked.

"Haha. Brother Zhan, that weasel is nothing, but he got this job because his daughter became the eighteenth concubine of the county magistrate. Saying that he is an official is really a promotion for him." Gu Shengzhi took a sip of wine and enjoyed it very much.

"Killing officials to rebel is also a matter of etiquette. Officials below the seventh rank can be killed at will. They are randomly placed by the superiors, so it's okay to kill a few. Officials of the seventh rank are appointed by the court, so they really can't be killed."

"If there is such a rule!" Zhan Chenjiu was shocked. If Gu Shengzhi hadn't reminded him, he might have been so impulsive that he would have attacked the county town.

If he killed the county magistrate, and then thought about the government army in the future, how could his troops resist it?