Chapter 1371: 1372 classic section
Chapter 13711372 Classic section
In a quiet and peaceful village, an old woman is binding a special kind of dried grass blades. In Shu country, this kind of grass blades can be used to make straw shoes. Poor people wear such shoes almost all their lives.
The old man's eyes seemed to be in bad condition. She stroked the leaves with her hands and felt the humidity of the weeds with her rough fingers. If it feels very dry and tough, then these weeds are a good material for a pair of straw sandals.
The old man’s body is hunched, and his face full of ravines is full of the hardships of life. They say that Shu is rich in business, but after all, it has nothing to do with country people like them.
The lords in the city may be rich, and the family nobles who resell goods may be rich, but the people of Shu still live a primitive and ancient life.
They work from sunrise to sunrise and have to do a lot of physical labor every day to support themselves and their families. If it hadn't been for the changes brought about by the Tang Empire, they might not have experienced much change in their lives.
However, as some commercial products from the Tang Empire entered the Shu Kingdom, many things in the Shu Kingdom have undergone some changes: such as matches for starting fires, candles for lighting, and nails for construction...
That's right, in fact, these light industry products can easily invade some backward areas, and then be called "foreign fire", "foreign wax", "foreign nails" and so on.
Compared to those rare cars and planes, candles that can light up the night and nails that can repair houses may be the things that can really affect the people.
Of course, as time went by, the production technology from the Tang Empire did reduce the cost of living for some people, or turned some materials that could not be distributed to the people in the past into daily consumables.
For example, edible oil, such as salt and sugar, such as some cheap cloth. These things increased the population of Shu and finally allowed the poor people of Shu to wear clothes...
That’s right, I’m wearing clothes. For a long time in the past, ordinary people in Shu had no clothes to wear. Wearing clothes is the privilege of the nobles and the big shots. Common people generally can only go naked to the upper body and only wear something around their waists to cover their shame.
At that time, women in Shu rarely went out for activities, and when they had to go out, they could only use the clothes of their mothers and sisters—they shared one or two sets of clothes.
Anyway, Sichuan is very hot and the climate change is not that obvious. People have been here year after year. Until the Tang Empire's cheap fabrics began to flood the market, destroying Shu's fragile textile industry.
Just as the old woman was about to bundle up the dried grass leaves and take them home, a child's childish cry came from a distance.
"Grandma! Grandma!" A naughty boy ran quickly from the entrance of the village, his clothes full of patches. The child fell down while running, then got up and continued running towards his grandmother.
The old woman stopped what she was doing and looked at her grandson. She was very worried about the safety of her grandson, but the recent situation was not so peaceful. People in the village decided to let the children take turns to watch outside.
When the Qin people came over, they killed several people and placed a steward in the village. This person reported the number of young men in the village a few months ago. Later, the Qin people came and captured seven or eight men.
No one knows where these men went. Later, one of them escaped and said that the Qin army asked them to dig trenches, and later gave them guns and asked them to die.
After this man came back, he killed the steward who worked for the Qin people, and ran into the nearby mountains with the remaining young men. Surprisingly, the Qin people did not come to retaliate, and they did not even ask about deserters in the village. The family of the person who was killed did not dare to speak out, so they buried the person overnight.
In the past two days, I can often hear thunder-like sounds coming from the distant mountains. No one can say what is going on. I only know that the Qin soldiers who were supposed to patrol here this month did not come to grab chickens and food. .
The child ran up to the old woman and shouted loudly, pointing in the direction of the village entrance: "There's a big car! A car! A big iron car."
The old man was taken aback and hurriedly asked his grandson to go home. She walked to the door of a nearby house and slapped the door: "Aunt Li, Aunt Li! Come out quickly! The army is coming."
Everyone has seen cars. In the early years, noble people even drove by here. So people in the village have the word car. The child's shout about the big iron car made the old lady alert.
That is most likely the weapon of the Qin people! The people of Qin are here to take revenge! This was the first reaction in the old woman's mind.
The door of the room was opened, and the woman from the Li family stuck her head out and asked in horror: "What's wrong? What's wrong? What did you say, Aunt Liu?"
"The people from Qin may be back! What happened in our village can't be stopped." Old Mrs. Liu's eyesight was not very good, but she could still see things. She said while looking towards the entrance of the village.
As he was talking, a car had already appeared at the entrance of the village, and some soldiers also appeared one after another. People in the village who had received the news looked at these uninvited guests, and the atmosphere of panic began to spread.
Immediately afterwards, the soldiers who arrived at the village began to search the entire village and check the surrounding situation. Several eight-wheeled armored vehicles stopped at the entrance of the village. These may be what children call "big iron vehicles."
Everyone is required to gather in the open space at the entrance of the village. This is almost a common practice. Mrs. Liu soon saw her daughter-in-law and her little grandson.
Children and women in a village were crying, and the scene was very noisy. After confirming safety, an officer and a few soldiers soon walked up to the frightened Shu villagers and asked, "Is this Jiming Village?"
“…” Silence, sobbing, no one answered, no one knew whether these people in front of them would suddenly shoot and kill.
Looking at the villagers in front of him, the commander of the Tang Army was also speechless. He chased Qin's defeated troops all the way to here, just to confirm the safety of the nearby area and to find out where he was.
He didn’t come to scare a group of women and children, and of course he couldn’t pull out a gun indiscriminately. So he took out a piece of bread wrapped in plastic from his pocket and shook it: "Who can tell me what village this is? I'll give this to him."
The soldier standing nearby looked at his company commander with disgust: Why does the more he looks at his company commander, the more he looks like those landlords who bully the people in movies? He was really afraid that his company commander's next sentence would be a classic: "Those who cooperate will be rewarded... those who don't cooperate will be beheaded!"
(End of this chapter)