Chapter 6 Eat well first and then make money

Chapter 005: Eat first and then make money

Chen Guodong was a commander of the Dongjiang Army, and he was originally from Haizhou Guards.

In April of the first year of Tianqi, his hometown Haizhou Wei fell. Chen Guodong's family was eleven. Except for Chen Lian and his younger brother Chen Guoliang, nine members of the family included Chen Guodong's father, mother, two brothers, one sister, and two sisters-in-law.

Nine people, including a nephew and a sister, died at the hands of the slaves.

Chen Guodong, who was only eleven years old at the time, took nine-year-old Chen Guoliang and fled to Guanglu Island with the refugees. Later, when Mao Wenlong made a surprise attack on Houjin Zhenjiang and opened Dongjiang Town, he became a member of the Dongjiang Army militia.

In the sixth year of the Apocalypse, the seventeen-year-old Chen Guodong officially became a member of the Dongjiang Army. He accompanied the Dongjiang Army to attack the slaves several times, and was promoted from a small soldier to the commander-in-chief due to his meritorious service.

However, the good times did not last long.

The always rebellious Mao Shuai had a conflict with Yuan Chonghuan. As a result, Mao Wenlong was killed and the Dongjiang Army became scattered. Yuan Chonghuan supported Chen Jisheng, the former deputy general of the Dongjiang Army, as the commander-in-chief. However, Chen Jisheng could not convince the crowd and was full of schemes and decisions.

In March of the third year of Chongzhen, Chen Jisheng, the second commander-in-chief of the Dongjiang Army, was killed by Liu Xingzhi, Liu Xingji and others. Huang Long, who was from the Guanning Army in western Liaoning, succeeded him as the third commander-in-chief of the Dongjiang Army.

The new commander-in-chief of the Dongjiang Army, Huang Long, made three fires when he took office. The first fire was directed at Geng Zhongming's younger brother, Dusi Geng Zhongyu. Geng Zhongming led his troops to defect to Sun Yuanhua, the governor of Denglai.

Chen Guodong was one of the generals under Geng Zhongming. Different from what ordinary soldiers imagined, Chen Guodong was very disgusted with the generals who fought against one thing today and against another tomorrow.

The Dongjiang Army is united, and even slaves can be treated with caution. But after the division, who will treat them as a dish?

After arriving in Dengzhou, Chen Guodong deeply felt the malice of Dengzhou and Shandong people. Any Dengzhou person staring at them seemed to be on guard against thieves.

Chen Guodong led his men on a routine patrol. Suddenly, there was a flurry of excitement, and several Dongjiang Army soldiers came quickly.

"Mr. Chen!"

"Why are you so alarmed!"

"They...they...bully people!"

Chen Guodong led his men to the south gate of Dengzhou City. This scene made his head pound.

A dozen Dengzhou Army soldiers were intimidating a group of refugees with bright swords. The Dengzhou Army soldiers asked the refugees to open the packages they were carrying and throw gold, silver, money, jewelry, utensils and other items into a large basket.

, even the clothes on the body have to be stripped off.

The naked refugees huddled up and trembled. Not only the men among the refugees were required to be naked, but also the women and children. The refugees were all skinny, and even if their upper bodies were exposed, they would be pointed at by the Dengzhou Army soldiers and their movements would be slight.

If you are slow, you will be beaten and kicked.

If these refugees were from Shandong, Chen Guodong would never say anything and pretended not to see them.

But the problem is that these refugees are ordinary people who can no longer live on the islands in Dongjiang Town. When they see the Dongjiang Army being transferred to Dengzhou, they are worried about being attacked by slaves. Without the protection of the Dongjiang Army soldiers, they are just a group of cattle and sheep waiting to be slaughtered.

It is a pity that Shandong, which is extremely xenophobic, is not willing to accept the refugees from Liaodong. I don’t know whether it was the spontaneous behavior of the Dengzhou Army soldiers or a hint from above.

These refugees from Liaodong were driven to the moat under the city. A topless woman screamed and struggled to keep the Dengzhou Army soldiers away. It turned out that the child in the woman's arms was wearing a silver necklace around her neck.

The longevity lock was discovered by a soldier. The soldier grabbed the longevity lock and pulled it hard.

A bloody mark was found on the child's neck, and the child's mother opened her mouth and bit the Dengzhou Army soldier.

The Dengzhou Army soldier became furious, threw the woman away, stabbed the woman fiercely with a long spear.

"Puch..."

The sharp spear penetrated the woman's back without any delay, and also penetrated the mother who wanted to protect her child with her body. The spear penetrated the woman's back, but penetrated the chest of the child in her arms.

Chen Guodong became angry. He walked up to the Dengzhou Army soldier, raised his hand and slapped him.

"Zhi Xie Niang!"

The Dengzhou Army soldier who was beaten dropped his spear and ran towards the city, shouting as he ran: "The Dongjiang Army has rebelled..."

As the saying goes, the conflict and hostility between the Shandong Army and the Dongjiang Army was not caused in a day, so the two sides began to kill each other.

…

Cheng Shijie was a little lucky. Fortunately, he had brought a sword this time. With the sword in his hand, Cheng Shijie was somewhat confident. As long as someone came to kill him, he would not be helpless to fight back. Like a soldier who could be blown away by a gust of wind, he alone should

You can kill two or three.

When a middle-aged man becomes ruthless, he even fears himself.

The clerk was still a little confused. He remembered very clearly that when Cheng Shijie moved in, he carried very few things and absolutely no knives. Especially the Tang straight knife that Cheng Shijie was holding now, which seemed to be of quite good quality.

"Don't worry, sir, there won't be any trouble here!"

"So much the better!"

Liu Ji Inn is also considered a local snake in Dengzhou City. When the chaos started, the waiters had already started to close the door. The door of Liu Ji Inn was very thick, with a three-inch thick wooden board. Unless it was burned with fire, it would be really difficult to break through.

enter.

The chaos lasted for half an hour and then slowly stopped.

The air began to be filled with the smell of blood, and it looked like there was a lot of murder going on.

Cheng Shijie looked at the door warily until the handsome boy came back.

"Sir, it's okay!"

"what happened?"

"I heard it was the Liaodong soldiers who caused trouble!"

This made Cheng Shijie feel a little uneasy. If he hadn't consulted historical data, he really wouldn't have figured it out. Now he knew that Dengzhou City was already a volcano about to erupt, and it could shake the mountains at any time.

Cheng Shijie decided to try his luck at the Dengzhou Governor's Yamen. Sun Yuanhua was training Denglai's new army. Maybe he needed such a magical weapon in his hand.

The purchase cost ranged from more than 200 yuan to more than 300 yuan. As long as he could sell it for more than ten taels of silver, he would have more than ten times the profit.

After walking out of Liu Ji Inn, people were shouting on the street. A group of government officials drove the people away and were cleaning the street. Buckets of water were poured on the street, and soon a faint red color floated on it.

"Wow wow..."

Just as Cheng Shijie was walking forward, he suddenly heard the shrill cry of a baby. He looked around, but he didn't see the baby or the woman holding the baby.

Obviously the baby's cry was not far away. Cheng Shijie subconsciously walked over and saw a swaddling baby on the mound next to him, and bursts of crying could be heard from the swaddling baby.

Cheng Shijie gently picked up the baby. The baby was very thin and had dry skin on his mouth. He had obviously not eaten for a long time and shouted to the crowd around him: "Whose child is this?"

However, if no one of the pedestrians around him paid attention to him, they all went about their own way.

"Abandoned baby!"

Cheng Shijie quickly thought of this situation. He pretended to leave the street, turned his phone upside down in his hand, exposed the camera lens, and started recording.

Shortly after Cheng Shijie left, a woman poked her head out from the corner. The woman knelt down and kowtowed towards Cheng Shijie's back.

Just when the woman was about to get up, Cheng Shijie came over with the baby in his arms.

The woman raised her head and looked at Cheng Shijie's feet.

"Why are you so cruel? Why do you want to throw away your child?"

Cheng Shijie's daughter had congenital heart disease and was also a premature baby. When she was just born, she was raised in the hospital for more than half a year before she was successfully discharged. For this, he spent nearly 100,000.

Many people advised Cheng Shijie to just pretend that he had never had this child and that he was still young and could have another one.

Cheng Shijie had some contempt for mothers who abandoned their children.

The woman covered her face and cried sadly.

"Get your kids!"

Seeing that Cheng Shijie had no intention of adopting the child, the woman picked up the child and reached out to pinch the child's neck.

"Snapped……"

Cheng Shijie was really angry and slapped the woman on the face: "You are such a cruel woman, I will report it to the official..."

But the woman kowtowed to Cheng Shijie, choking while kowtowing: "I don't want to... but there is no way... my family is gone, my money is gone... I can't live anymore..."

Following the woman's grief and pain, Cheng Shijie finally understood what was going on.

This woman was originally from Liangxiang County. Her surname was Yang and her given name was Yunniang. In the first month of the third year of Chongzhen, Liangxiang County was captured by slaves and massacred in Liangxiang County. The fate of women was even more miserable than that of men, so Yang Yunniang was taken into slavery.

Robbed.

Five years ago, the imperial court recaptured Yongping Fucheng. Because she was seriously ill, the slaves did not plunder her outside the customs, but abandoned her in Yongping Fucheng. After Yongping Fucheng was recaptured, the government repatriated the captured people to their place of origin. Yang Yuniang was

She was ruined and pregnant, so her parents thought she was embarrassed and drove her away.

Yang Yun thought about committing suicide, but was rescued when she threw herself into a river. She drank a lot of river water, but she was too frightened to die. In desperation, she had no choice but to beg while heading south.

On the way south, Yang Yunniang met Luo Gui, a middle-aged widower. Luo Gui did not dislike her experience and took her to Dengzhou City. Then the two got married, but with the birth of the child, rumors emerged, and she

Her husband Luo Gui thought the child she gave birth to was a bastard and kicked him out.

Cheng Shijie could only lament what happened to Yang Yunniang.

"When was this child born?"

"The first day of July"

Cheng Shijie can be sure that this child should be Luo Gui's. After all, Yongping Mansion was recovered in May of the third year of Chongzhen. It only takes 280 days to conceive a child, even if it is beyond the expected date, it can only take two weeks at most.

Cheng Shijie hesitated. If he ignored Yang Yunniang, Yang Yuniang and her children would be dead.
To be continued...