Xinxing Town is not small, but it is not big, and a bluestone road connecting the east and west strings the town together.
Along this bluestone road, there are dozens of shops, large and small, and there are a few storefronts that can only be seen in the county, such as teahouses, restaurants, and carriage and horse shops.
Although Xinxing is a town, after all, it is the gateway of Zhaoqing Mansion, and its land extends in all directions, and it is the primary transportation place at the southern end of Yunwu Mountain, and shrewd businessmen will naturally not let go of this treasure land.
Although these years are troubled times, but no matter how chaotic the world is, as long as there are still people alive, eating, drinking, and wearing Lazar, there will be business to do, and Xinxing Town is an important transportation place, so naturally there are many more kinds of business than elsewhere.
However, in broad daylight, there were few people walking on the bluestone road that used to be crowded, and most of those shops were closed with door bolts, and only a restaurant and a cloth shop were still open.
There are a few tables of business in the restaurant, but it is the green battalion soldiers who are eating and drinking.
The shopkeeper of the restaurant, Song sat in a private room on the second floor, drinking tea and making accounts, not worrying at all that the green battalion soldiers would eat without paying.
Because the proprietor of this restaurant is Zhao Shiyu, the head of the green battalion soldiers, who eats in the restaurant opened by his family, several green battalion soldiers dare to get tired of eating overlord meals Different from the restaurant that is quite lively, there is actually no business in the cloth shop opposite, the two guys sit there lazily and look at the restaurant, and the shopkeeper Song can see from the way they swallow saliva from time to time that these two guys must be hungry.
The proprietor of the cloth shop is from Zhaoqing Mansion, and I heard that it has something to do with the prefect, so this can take down this shop that occupies a fairly good area, and the green camp has also been explained, so no one dares to go to the cloth shop to sprinkle.
It's just that other houses are closed today, how can this cloth shop still open the door, this can't even see a ghost, his family can have a business Look at the appearance of these two guys, Xu is Qi Fat Man is sleeping by himself, but let these two bitter gourd eggs hold it in front.
There are dates or no dates, let's talk about playing two poles, this fat man is so idle.
Shopkeeper Song thought about it, suddenly sighed, and scolded in a low voice: "This murderous urge."
Then he moved his gaze to a few wooden poles not far to the east, on which hung several cages, and in them were a black mass stuffed with something.
He didn't dare to look into the cage, and he didn't even look at it before he looked away, for he knew that the black thing was none other than the human head that had been cut off the night before.
There is a wilderness to the east of Xinxing Town, for some reason, the land here is much worse than other places, and the crops are very small, so no one in the town is willing to plant the land here, and after so many years, this wilderness has slowly become a mass grave.
At this moment, there were a dozen men with braids and rags in the mass grave digging a pit, seven or eight of which had been dug, and there was an ox cart on the side, covered with straw mats, and I don't know what it was covering.
"Let's dig it up quickly, bury these dead ghosts early, let's go back early."
Li Zheng Li Lao in the town is old, and he has a cough problem all the year round, so he has to stop coughing a few times when he says a few words, otherwise, he may not be able to breathe and die.
The people who dug the pit were all men in the town, and most of them were grown up by Li Laoquan, so he respected Li Laoquan very much.
After Li Laoquan spoke, they all got up quickly, no one wants to stay in this ghost place longer, people in this daytime stay here in a panic, Li Zheng is right, finish it early and go home early.
Soon, the pits were dug, and Li Laoquan ordered a few more people to go to the ox cart to carry the corpse covered by straw mats.
The faces of those who were named were a little hesitant, but under Li Laoquan's gaze, they still stubbornly carried the corpse.
After a younger man walked to the ox cart, he muttered like a bodhisattva, and when the others saw this, they also had an attitude of believing it rather than believing it, and they also said a few words to these "dead ghosts", until Li Laoquan urged impatiently, they took off the straw mat, and then carried down the corpses on the cart one by one, and then put them into the pit that had been dug one by one.
The corpses carried down had no heads, and their heads were hung on wooden poles on the east side of the town.
After death, there is not even a whole corpse, and it is really pitiful to look at.
After the corpse was buried in the pit, Li Laoquan looked at it one by one, and finally sighed, and shook his head helplessly, he didn't ask the general manager for his head, but the other party scolded him, there was no way, it could only be like this.
The tombstone must not be erected, these people were all killed by the green camp on the charge of "thief", and they committed a rebellion, who dared to erect a monument for them can only note which pit was buried, and turned around to ask their wives and children to come over secretly to burn some paper money.
Under all kinds of sadness, Li Laoquan was about to take people back, but suddenly, his body trembled, and the whole person stopped there motionless.
The people next to him looked strange, and they all followed Li Zheng's line of sight to look at the clouds in the east of Yunwu Mountain, and after just one look, they all stopped there as if they were enchanted, and they saw that a flag was moving towards this side from a distance.
When the flag got closer, Li Laoquan and his gang also found that there were many people in black clothes under the flag.
These black-clothed people seem to have come out of the cloud mountain in the distance, and from a distance, the black pressure is overwhelming, and I don't know how many people there are.
After the group of black-clothed men appeared, they followed the flag forward, without the continuous sound of horns, no hoarse shouts, and no shouts and killings, just quietly following the flag forward.
In the town not far away, sharp-eyed green battalion soldiers also saw those people in black clothes.
What are those people Everyone was wondering, not knowing what this group of men in black was doing.
"Is it from the imperial court" An honest man put down the shovel in his hand, looked at the black-clothed people with curiosity, and hesitated: "It's a black flag."
"Is there a black flag in the imperial court?"
After hearing this, the man next to him opened his mouth: "Nonsense, I've heard that there are two yellow flags, two red flags, two white flags, and two blue flags in the imperial court, but when have you heard that there are two black flags?"
"The soldiers and horses of the imperial court do not have two black flags, besides, that refers to the color of the flag, not the color of the clothes, you don't know, don't talk nonsense.
Besides, if the Manchurian soldiers of the imperial court can come to our place, you don't have to shout. ” Li Laoquan, who is well-informed in the town, naturally does not believe the statement that there is a black flag, he looked at it for a while, those people in black were still far away, and he couldn't see who they were, and he couldn't see what flag was written on the flag.
Just when these people were confused, suddenly there was a drum in the ranks of the men in black, and then the speed of the men in black accelerated sharply, and Li Laoquan could see clearly that those men in black were rushing towards the direction of the town t1706231537: