Chapter 43: Attacking Heidong(1/2)
"Xiu'er, do you know the consequences of doing this?"
Before Zhu Kaishan and Zhu Wei could speak, Zhu Chuanwen stood up and questioned Xiu'er.
"Brother, there are no consequences. He is just a sick child."
Xiu'er avoided Zhu Chuanwen's eyes and replied.
"You said you don't know, are you fooling us or yourself? A few years ago, tens of thousands of people died in our area due to the plague. Corpses were everywhere in the Black Province, and every family was in plain sight. There were massacres in the city and no one died.
There are so many compatriots, you and I pretend not to see them."
In Zhu Chuanwen's opinion, Xiu'er's current situation is not a sign of kindness, but something wrong with her brain.
The plague began in 2010 and lasted for more than a year. It has only been less than two years, and the scenes of devastation of life are still vivid in our minds.
At the beginning, Zhu Chuanwen also sent people to carry out numerous epidemic prevention propaganda in the Yuanbao Town area.
It’s not that Xiu’er didn’t know what the consequences of the plague were, yet she insisted on leaving a day with the plague, which was a joke on everyone’s lives.
It seems that Xiu'er is very kind, but in fact this is a kind of cruelty to the villagers.
Previously, Zhu Chuanwen felt that Chuanwu's unwillingness to marry Xiu'er was a loss.
At this moment, Zhu Chuanwen really felt that Chuanwu had done the right thing.
If Xiuer married into the Zhu family, Zhu Chuanwen would really not be able to handle this kind of thing.
"Come here, take Miss Xiu'er back." Zhu Chuanwen is not Xiu'er's father, so he doesn't have to coddle Xiu'er. He shouted to the long-term worker and mother-in-law who were waiting in the yard: "Prepare quicklime and send Miss Xiu'er to the house."
All roads in the village will be disinfected."
Zhu Chuanwen himself has experienced too many epidemics, so he dare not ignore this aspect.
"Stop." Zhu Wei stood up and stopped: "Chuanwen, what are you going to do? It's a human life."
When it comes to kindness, there are people like this in the old Zhu family, and Zhu Wei is one of them.
It was because of Zhu Wei's kindness that the old Zhu family saved Xia Yuanzhang who was about to starve to death on the boat.
"Hurry up and do your work. Aren't you afraid of catching the epidemic?"
Zhu Chuanwen waved his hand and asked Yong Ren to take Xiu'er out first. At this stage, even if Zhu Chuanwen had not provoked Zhu Kaishan's family status.
In front of the servants at home, Zhu Chuanwen was also the best at speaking.
Even if these servants were paid by Zhu Kaishan, it would be useless.
"Sigh." Seeing the mother-in-law taking the person out, Mrs. Zhu Wei sighed: "Chuanwen, you are really promising. Mother can't control you anymore, right?"
"Mom, that's not the life of our compatriots, it's just the life of a day." Zhu Chuanwen explained to Mrs. Zhu Wei.
If it was one of his own countrymen, even Manchus, and Zhu Wei wanted to save him, Zhu Chuanwen would not have any objections.
But this period is not the time to carry forward the spirit of internationalism and humanitarianism.
"No matter who it is, it is a human life." Zhu Wei still felt it was a pity.
"Mom, those were the days. They were not good people. When you sympathized with him, he just wanted to bite you. Mom, you don't know other things. Don't you know the story of the farmer and the snake?"
This young man who suffered from the epidemic later became a member of the Chamber of Commerce and started business outside the customs.
These days of doing business are all about drawing profits from outside the customs, and finally feeding them back to the country.
If we hadn't gained too many benefits outside the customs, it wouldn't be difficult in the future.
"You didn't even see anyone, how did you know that the child was a snake?" Zhu Weishu was obviously angry.
Zhu Wei is more doting on Chuanwu, but Zhu Wei has always had the strictest requirements for Zhu Chuanwen.
In this era, everyone thinks that the eldest son should take more responsibility.
"I have never seen this day. I haven't seen the days of Lushun City. Such a big city was completely emptied by them."
Zhu Chuanwen was already a little angry about Zhu Wei's attitude.
Our Lady Zhu Chuanwen was anxious when she saw outsiders.
But the most anxious thing is that someone in my family wants the Holy Mother.
Don't talk about what we will do in the future, just talk about what these people did before. These people should not be forgiven.
Not to mention the time when these people were still Japanese pirates in a distant time.
Since the First Sino-Japanese War alone, these people have directly caused at least millions of casualties in the country.
There are at least tens of millions of people who cannot survive indirectly because of this.
Zhu Chuanwen now regrets that he did not take his whole family to visit the city of Lushun, which was slaughtered by life.
At first, they were afraid that the tragedy would frighten the family members, so they didn't go in directly when they passed by.
"Chuanwen, don't talk about your mother." Seeing that Zhu Chuanwen was hard on Zhu Wei, Zhu Kaishan definitely couldn't agree and said to Zhu Chuanwen: "Don't you even want to cooperate with you?"
"Dad, when I deal with them, don't I just want to take advantage of them? Learn from the foreigners and learn skills to control the foreigners and improve our own strength.
It’s not like you don’t know the ambitions and evil deeds of these idiots. It’s not like you didn’t see what these people did in the capital back then.”
Zhu Chuanwen directly shouted back at Zhu Kaishan.
Zhu Wei had some sympathy for life. It can also be said that Zhu Wei had not seen the evil of Mao Zi's life.
But Zhu Kaishan, someone who has seen everything in the capital, shouldn't be so naive.
"Okay, let's leave this matter as it is. Didn't we promise Xiu'er?"
Thinking of the Boxer Rebellion, I had no fond memories of Zhu Kaishan, and my face darkened.
"Dad, this matter cannot be settled. I need to tell you the reality. Even our family has not reached a consensus, so how can I ask others to follow me in doing things.
Not many foreigners who come to our territory have good things. Especially life. Not to mention not all of them are bad people. Every tax they contribute will be converted into bullets fired at our compatriots. There is no innocent person...
"
Zhu Chuanwen also wanted to enlighten people's wisdom for outsiders and awaken everyone's sense of national responsibility.
Ignoring that my family's stance was not firm, the backyard almost caught fire.
"What should we do about this matter?"
After Zhu Chuanwen spent a lot of time and effort, the old Zhu family finally had some common hatred towards foreigners.
"No matter what we do, we won't participate anymore. If we don't burn people to death ourselves, it has proven that we are more merciful than life." Zhu Chuanwen finally said.
"Young man...this is what happened." Although he didn't care, Zhu Chuanwen certainly had to pay attention to the follow-up of the matter and sent a servant to follow him to check the follow-up.
After Xiu'er was kicked out of Lao Zhu's house, she came to Han's house again.
Han Laohai is already organizing the long-term workers at home to throw away his small life.
I happened to meet Xiu'er who had returned.
Xiu'er clung to the young boy and refused to let go, preferring to die rather than send him away.
Han Laohai really couldn't stand up to his only daughter, so Xiu'er and Han Laohai ended up in a stalemate.
At this time, the people Zhu Chuanwen sent out to spread lime to disinfect the villages also began to take action.
Such unusual behavior will of course arouse inquiries from the villagers.
This kind of thing needs everyone's attention, and no one will help cover it up.
Without even having a cigarette, most people in the village knew that a plague-ridden boy had entered the village.
Compared with people inside the customs like Lao Zhu's family, people outside the customs at this stage have a clearer understanding of the evil of foreigners.
To put it bluntly, the land outside the customs is actually a colony.
These people have personal pain and understand the consequences of colonization better than those who have not been harmed.
After several days of massacre outside the pass, no one had a good impression of these people.
These foreigners actually have a worse reputation than the bearded bandits.
At least there are beards and bandits, and there are some "righteous bandits" who follow the rules and have a good reputation and only steal from the rich and give to the poor.
If it were a Chinese and the villagers got the plague, they might just think of isolating them.
But this was the day when the villagers spontaneously began to resist.
When he went to Han Laohai's house, he asked for the same treatment as Ri Ri, and took Ri Ri outside the village to be burned.
Xiuer's character certainly won't give in.
Because Han Laohai had many relatives and friends and was a big landowner in the village, the villagers were wary of Xiu'er, so another stalemate ensued.
In the end, even Han Laohai's status as a big landowner in Fangniugou could not protect his young life.
Of course, Han Laohai didn't want to protect the day, he just wanted to protect Xiu'er.
Because Xiu'er insisted on advancing and retreating with life, Han Laohai persuaded the villagers.
In the end, he agreed to spare Xiu'er's life and not to burn her to death but to drive her out, and finally reached a consensus.
It was as if Xiu'er had lost her mind and had to take the boy with her. This was an unexpected situation.
To be continued...