Chapter 217: Going to Zhengxiang [Two in One](1/2)
『ps: The violent update activity? The starting point? I participated?』
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Wang Qing and others were arrested when they attacked the village. Not to mention that Zhao Yu did not expect it, Guo Da and others did not expect it.
At present, there are still some food and meat in the mountain village of Yuchang. Although Guo Da saw that Wang Qing refused to agree to surrender to their gang and deliberately deducted the meat of Wang Qing and others, under Zhao Yu's dissuasion, Guo Da finally put away his petty care and gave Wang Qing and his gang the same treatment as others. The only thing shortage was alcohol.
There is no way to do this, because there is not much wine storage in this mountain village.
Zhao Yu meant that he hoped everyone could endure it first. Unexpectedly, Wang Qing was dissatisfied with discipline and took his people down the mountain last night. Because he did not admit to surrendering to Zhao Yu, people like Guo Da, Chen Mo, Chen Zu, Chu Jiao were not easy to persuade.
But who would have thought that Wang Qing's subordinates would escape back this morning and ask for help, saying that their group had fallen in a village, and even Wang Qing was captured.
Guo Da was so angry that he said hatefully when discussing with Zhao Yu: "I clearly warned him that Luyang is different from Kunyang and told him to be more at peace in the near future, but he actually dared... Ah Hu, since Wang Qing didn't listen to the warning and was committed to death, why should we care about him? Just tell him to die."
Hearing this, Zhao Yu shook his head and smiled bitterly: "Wang Qing just didn't agree with me, but he is still from our Heihu Village. Brother Guo Da still remembers when we broke through? He did not object to my suggestion at that time, so... let's save it."
After a pause, he said again: "What's more, if we don't care, Wang Qing will definitely be sent to the county government by the people from Zheng Township. If Wang Qing's group of people will be executed for crimes, the Luyang County Government may also follow the clues to find us..."
Hearing this, Guo Da hated Wang Qing more and more, but he also knew that Zhao Yu was right. Even if it was not for saving Wang Qing, he could not let this kid fall into the hands of the Luyang County Government. God knows whether this kid would give them up?
But……
"Ahu, you can guess it's in Zhengxiang at once. Do you know that village?" Guo Da asked with some worries.
Hearing this, Zhao Yu nodded slightly and explained with a little melancholy: "It shouldn't be over. The Zheng Township where he brought people to harassing was the village I was responsible for when I was helping refugees. Whether it was the villagers of Zheng Village or Ding Lu from the refugee village, I was familiar with it, but... maybe my identity could not be hidden."
When Guo Da heard this, he gritted his teeth in hatred and cursed Wang Qing as a bad guy.
But no matter how much he scolded, he knew that the only way to let Zhao Yu take action himself.
After some calculations, Zhao Yu ordered people to invite Chen Mo, Chen Zu, Chu Jiao, Zhang Feng and Ma Hong to explain the situation to these five people.
In fact, Chen Mo, Chen Zu and the other two had already learned about Wang Qing's experience at this moment and were waiting for Zhao Yu to respond. Unexpectedly, Zhao Yu was so decisive to save people.
"I'll go with you." Chen Mo said first: "I heard from Wang Qing's men who escaped back that there were many strong men in the two villages. It is said that Wang Qing and the others were trapped in this matter. Unexpectedly, hundreds of people were killed in one go..."
From the side, Guo Da also said, "Ahu, I'll go with you."
Zhao Yu turned his head and looked at Guo Da. He originally wanted Guo Da to stay in this mountain village, but he didn't expect Guo Da to go with him.
After thinking about it, he said, "Since that's the case, Brother Guo Da and the second village leader will go with me. I will take Brother Niu Heng and Chu Yan with me. This will be enough to take care of each other. Let the rest guard this mountain village. Remember, before I come back, don't act rashly... Chen Zu, Chu Jiao, Zhang Feng, and Ma Hong please you."
"Don't worry."
"Don't worry, Master of the Great Village."
Chen Zu, Chu Jiao, Zhang Feng, and Ma Hong agreed with their fists.
After the discussion, Zhao Yu took the Jingniao who never left him, and Guo Da, Niu Heng, Chen Mo and Chu Yan, and went downstairs to the mountain together.
Given that there were no horses, carriages and other transportation tools, Zhao Yu and others could only walk.
Speaking of which, the mountain village they are located at the junction of Luyang and Liang County. Zheng Township is actually not the closest village to where they are. The two places are thirty or forty miles apart. I really don’t know how Wang Qing and his gang touched Zheng Township.
Zhao Yu guessed that it was very likely that Wang Qing and his gang were walking straight south after going down the mountain, and then they bumped into Zhengxiang.
Perhaps it was dark at that time, and Wang Qing and others could not see the specific scale of Zhengxiang.
What size is Zhengxiang’s village?
It was a special village with a population of more than 1,500 people, and there were hundreds of people in Zheng Village alone, not to mention that there were thousands of people in the refugee village. What was even more terrifying was that nearly 70% of them were young and strong.
What is this concept?
There were not so many people in his Heihu Village during his heyday.
Go and plunder a village of this size?
Not to mention the thirty or forty people under Wang Qing, even if all the remaining enemies in the Black Tiger Village were gone, including Chen Mo, Niu Heng, and Chu Yan, the outstanding fierce enemies may not be able to win.
This is the village with Luyang characteristics. Every village with a workplace is a special village with dense population. To a large extent, it is the reason why Zhao Yu warned everyone not to go down the mountain to cause trouble.
Because of the special villages in Luyang, ordinary bandits really can't afford to provoke them.
Zhengxiang is one of them.
Wang Qing and his gang fell into the hands of Zhengxiang. To be honest, Zhao Yu was not surprised at all.
After walking for about half an hour, the official road he was walking was suddenly replaced by a ditch facing him, and the official road was moved to both sides.
Seeing this ditch, Zhao Yu was slightly stunned.
From the side, Niu Heng was happy to see this, touched his head and said with a strange look on his face: "What do people in Luyang think? Digging a ditch in the middle of the road?"
When Guo Da heard this, he glanced at Zhao Yu quietly and cursed in a low voice: "What are you talking nonsense?"
"Where am I talking nonsense? Which county will open a ditch in the middle of the road?" Niu Heng shouted dissatisfiedly.
While Niu Heng and Guo Da were arguing with each other, Zhao Yu couldn't help but walk forward, carefully looked at the ditch in front of him, and then squatted down and touched the soil next to the ditch.
Judging from the quality of the soil, these soils are relatively new, probably only in one or two days.
『Are you continuing?』
Zhao Yu turned his head and looked to the south.
"What's wrong?" Chen Mo stepped forward and asked.
Zhao Yu stood up, shook his head slightly, and then pointed to the south and said, "You can reach Zhengxiang by following this ditch south..."
Hearing this, Chen Mo and Chu Yan both looked at Zhao Yu in a strange way, and then thought about it.
Only the silly Niu Heng asked the question in his heart: "Ahu, how do you know?"
However, before Zhao Yu could explain, Guo Da slapped Niu Heng on the back of the neck and whispered: "You are so bull, why are you talking so much today?"
Niu Heng was furious and was about to fight Guo Da with his neck thick, but Zhao Yu laughed and dissuaded him.
Under Zhao Yu's guidance, everyone continued to walk south along the ditches.
Then the further south they walked, the wider the ditch beside them, and people were gradually in charge of digging operations appeared in the ditch. After only a dozen miles, the ditch beside them was more than twenty feet wide and eight or nine feet deep.
At this time, even the silly Niu Heng could see it, and opened his eyes wide and said incredibly: "It turns out that the people of Luyang are digging rivers, what a big river..."
Hearing Niu Heng's words, people who were digging nearby looked at it, and some of them smiled and said, "Are you foreigners?"
At this time, Zhao Yu had not brought the ridiculous mask, but he covered half of his face with a cloth. Seeing someone talking on his own initiative, he signaled Chen Mo, Guo Da, Niu Heng, Chu Yan and others not to speak casually, and continued: "Ah, we came from Ruyang... This canal is still being repaired?"
"Cultivate, practice, practice all year round." The man said casually, making everyone who was digging the river nearby laugh.
Perhaps because Zhao Yu and others started talking, some people temporarily stopped their homework and started chatting with hoes.
"God knows how many years will this canal be built?"
"How many years do you have to do? If you repair it for one more day, we will receive an extra day of wages. What's wrong with this? Instead, I'm worried about what to do after the river canal is completed?"
"You don't need to worry about this. The government has already said that after repairing this canal, everyone will be transferred to the west of the county to help the people in the west dig a lake near the upper reaches of the Shahe River to store water. It is said that after the incident, they will also have to dig a fine canal for irrigation... I thought, it will not be able to get it down in seven or eight years."
"Oh... At the time in Rang County, I was a hunter for generations. I escaped to this damn Luyang and dug the soil. I forgot the ancestral craftsmanship."
"Hahaha……"
Just as he was smiling, a strong man came from a distance, cursing as he walked: "What a laugh? Who would allow you to be lazy?"
"The head of the tun is here, the head of the tun is here."
"Hurry up."
As soon as the gate chief approached, the group of people who took the opportunity to lazily talk and laugh quickly worked hard, and Zhao Yu immediately took Guo Da, Chen Mo and others away.
"Dig a lake in the upper reaches of Xisha River in Yuxian County to store water...?"
Continuing south along the canal next to it, Zhao Yu's mood was a little complicated.
Suddenly, Niu Heng asked strangely: "What are those stones for?"
Hearing this, Zhao Yu looked forward and saw that not far ahead, some workers responsible for building rivers and canals were piled up square stones that were embraced by one person on both sides of the canal, and then filled the gaps between the stones with mud, making both sides of the canal neat and beautiful.
Seeing this, Zhao Yu's mood became more and more complicated.
Because whether it is the width, depth of the canal, or the river embankment on both sides of it is made with stones, these are the suggestions he originally wrote on the river-making drawings.
The width is to prevent collisions from passing ships, and the depth is to have better draft. The stacking of stones on both sides of the canal as river embankments is mainly to prevent the soil on both sides from being washed by the river water and eventually causing the river water to flow backwards, and by the way, it is also for the sake of beauty.
Since he wanted to build a canal in Luyang County named after his father, Luyang Township, Zhao Yu naturally hoped to be perfect, even if it would be an exaggeration to make this canal a major landscape in Luyang in the future.
I still remember that after he took out the drawings for building a river, the people in the Luyang County Government were frightened, and the county magistrate Xu Xuan turned pale because of this, and he said, "How much does this cost?"
However, all this has lost its meaning to Zhao Yu today.
"Let's go."
After a moment of silence, Zhao Yu continued to walk forward silently, and Jingnv clenched his hand with heartache.
As I walked, a stone tablet suddenly appeared in front of me, standing beside the canal.
I saw that the head of this stone tablet was two dragons holding beads, and the pearls were in it, and the two dragons were located on the left and right; the base of the stele was a dragon turtle, which was like the legendary stele-shaped beast cemetery; and what touched Zhao Yu the most was the four words carved from the top to the bottom of the stele body: Wang Jinggongqu.
In addition, there is a line of small characters on the left side of the bottom: In the 36th year of Wang, in the Xia and Luyang County governments, the ones who destroyed the stele were punished seriously and not slapped.
"Wang Jinggongqu?" Niu Heng scratched his head and asked curiously: "Who is Wang Jing? Is he the one who donated to build this canal?"
Zhao Yu smiled slightly, slowly approached the river monument that was as high as others, and reached out to touch the monument gently.
To be continued...