Pig Killer

Chapter 207

"The food, drink, and toilet expenses for these three thousand people are not small. Second brother, you have to think of a way out." Huang Bochang looked at him gently and said, three thousand people, not thirty, three hundred.

"Are there any of our fellow villagers here?" Huang's mother looked at her second son with her bright eyes and asked, "Can't they go home?"

"Yes! Let those who are from the same hometown go home." Huang Zhongchang's eyes lit up when he heard it.

"Where are your fellow villagers? They went with you at that time, and were later recruited as laborers one after another." Huang Bochang looked him straight in the eyes and asked.

"Not much." Huang Zhongchang took a deep breath and looked at them and said.

Huang Bochang looked at his dim eyes and said, "Let's take whatever we can get!"

"As for the others, if they could leave, they would have left long ago. They just followed us because they had no other way to go." Huang Zhongchang looked at them helplessly and said, "We need food and money for everything we do now." He nodded in understanding and said, "Find a way to attack the granary!"

"These granaries are heavily guarded." Huang Bochang looked at him seriously and said.

"A small county town is fine." Huang Zhongchang raised his thick black eyebrows and said, "The autumn harvest has just ended and the grain has just arrived at the granary. It has not yet been sent upstairs."

"No, no!" Huang Bochang objected immediately after hearing this. "After you take down a small county town, you must first open the warehouses and release grain to stabilize everyone. With grain in hand, there is no need to panic! Farmers don't have any grain left at home, and this winter will be difficult."

Huang Zhongchang looked at him with some surprise and said, "Let's see the situation." Don't be impatient, this is not something that can be accomplished overnight.

Huang Zhongchang raised his head, looked at them with a friendly expression and said, "I'll go see Hui'e and the children first."

"It's too late now!" Huang Bochang blinked his dark eyes and looked at him and said, "Let's go in the morning!"

"I'm anxious to see her now, because I feel so sorry for her by being thrown into jail." Huang Zhongchang stretched out his hand and was about to scratch his head, but suddenly he remembered his hair and put his hand down.

"This big bug is already asleep. It's not nice to disturb it!" Huang's mother looked at him straight in the eyes and said, "It has been plowing the land all day and it has fallen asleep when it lies down."

"She's still plowing the fields?" Huang Zhongchang looked at them in surprise.

"If you're not here, the land will be left uncultivated and people will scold you to death." Huang's mother stared at him with her black eyes and said, "We have to help, but we have to finish planting the land at home first!" She sighed and said, "It's really not possible to have no man in this family."

"Since you said so, I should go see her. She has worked hard these past two years." Huang Zhongchang said with gentle eyes.

"Okay!" Huang's mother looked at him anxiously and said, "Let your eldest brother take you there. If you go in alone, you might be caught as a bad guy."

"Are there patrols in the city?" Huang Zhongchang asked curiously.

"Yes! Patrol day and night." Huang Bochang stood up and said, "Let's go!"

"Awu, you go back first! I'll be back soon." Huang Zhongchang stood up and said to Awu who had already stood up.

"Yes!" Awu said respectfully with his hands bowed.

Huang Bochang looked at the two and said with a smile, "Let's go!"

"Light a torch to help illuminate the way." Huang's mother said quickly upon seeing this.

"The moon is so bright, there's no need to light torches, it's a waste of kerosene." Huang Bochang waved his hand and said, "Let's go."

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The Huang brothers and Awu left the house together.

Huang Bochang looked at the two of them through the moonlight and said, "Awu is not familiar with the road, let's send him to Yuanji." Then he added, "Don't let him run around, or he might get hurt by mistake."

"I'll listen to you." Huang Zhongchang nodded.

The Huang brothers sent Awu to Yuanji.

The two brothers hurried to the city. Huang Zhongchang's dark eyes concealed the beauty of the moonlight. "I have been away for the past two years. Big brother, tell me about the things at home!"

"Okay!" Huang Bochang said as he walked, and told his second brother every detail of the family affairs.

"It's very hard for a woman to take care of a child. Now that you're back, you should be nicer to your sister-in-law." Huang Bochang looked at him gently and said, "Don't let your sister-in-law down and do something that goes against your conscience."

"Need I say more? She is my wife." Huang Zhongchang said in an unusually gentle tone, but his eyes were like black holes, without any emotion visible.

Huang Bochang stood on the moat and shouted, "Open the door! It's me, Huang Bochang."

"Secret code!" the guard on the city gate shouted down.

"Little chickens are pecking at rice!" Huang Bochang said with a smile in his black eyes when he heard it.

"You're still using secret codes!" Huang Zhongchang looked at him with amusement and said.

"In order to avoid accidental injuries, it's better to have a secret code." Huang Bochang said with a smile on his face.

As he was speaking, the suspension bridge over the moat was lowered with a creaking sound.

"It's so late, Brother Huang, you want to go into the city!" Wang Xiaomai, who was guarding the city, looked at him and said.

"My second son is back and is eager to see his wife! Sorry to trouble you to open the door so late." Huang Bochang said embarrassedly.

"Oh! Second Uncle is back." Wang Xiaomai said excitedly, "Big Chong missed you so much."

"Second uncle?" Huang Zhongchang looked at him on the city gate tower in surprise.

"Aunt taught us how to catch rabbits." Wang Xiaomai said with a smile.

"Sorry to bother you." Huang Zhongchang said in an unusually gentle tone.

"No, no, how can I, a city guard, sleep?" Wang Xiaomai said with a smile, "I just received it, and I woke up completely when the cold wind blew."

"It's getting cold now, so wear more clothes," Huang Bochang reminded him.

"I'm wearing quite thick clothes." Wang Xiaomai said with a grin, "You guys go in quickly!"

"Let me help you pull up the suspension bridge!" Huang Bochang said, stretching out his hand.

"Okay!" Wang Xiaomai and he worked together to pull up the suspension bridge and put it in place.

"We're leaving." Huang Bochang and the others said goodbye to Wang Xiaomai and hurried home.

When they met a patrolman on the way, Huang Bochang gave a secret signal and they let him pass.

Huang Zhongchang really admired them for how they managed to arrange everything so neatly in a short period of time.

In the quiet night, the knock on the door sounded particularly loud.

"Who is it?" Xiaodouzi turned over and sat up quickly, walking to the door in his slippers.

"These are the children my brother and sister-in-law adopted. They are five very capable refugees! They used to live outside the city, but now that things are not peaceful, we let them move in together." Huang Bochang briefly explained, "One of the oldest, Cheng Donglai, went to repair the palace. There has been no news since then." He remembered and asked, "Did you meet him?"

"No!" Huang Zhongchang shook his head slightly and said, "Maybe they were assigned to different places!"

"Who is it?" Xiaodouzi shouted towards the door while standing in the yard.

"Xiaodouzi, it's me." Huang Bochang shouted towards the yard.

"No wonder Huang'er doesn't bark!" Xiaodouzi laughed when he heard it.

"I'll go open the door, you guys go back to the house quickly." Shen Hui'e, who was neatly dressed, came out and said to Xiaodouzi.

"Hey!" Xiao Douzi replied with a smile, "Uncle Huang is here."

"I'll go and take a look. It's so late, I wonder what's the matter?" Shen Hui'e walked towards the gate and opened it with a creak. "It's so late, is there something urgent?" Looking at the starry sky, it was around two o'clock in the morning, it was really the middle of the night.

"Sister-in-law, my second brother is back." Huang Bochang said happily.

"Who?" Shen Hui'e looked at him in confusion and asked.

Huang Bochang was stunned when he heard this, and then he further explained, "Big Chong's father, your husband is back. He rarely talks about your second brother on weekdays." He pulled Huang Zhongchang over and said, "What's the matter? Why are you hiding when you see someone? Speak!"

"Uh..." Huang Zhongchang stammered, "I'm back, Big Beast." He stammered, "Hui...Hui...E,"

Shen Hui'e was a little overwhelmed by the enthusiasm, so she simply opened her voice and shouted to the back, "Big Chong, Li Nu, your father is back."

"I heard it, I heard it." The big tiger and the raccoon slave ran out wearing straw sandals.

"Dad, you're finally back." The big tiger pounced on him.

"Hey, hey!" Huang Zhongchang said, avoiding him, "I'm covered with lice, don't get too close to me."

The big tiger suddenly stopped, a smile spread across his face and he said, "Don't be afraid, don't be afraid."

"It's very troublesome to get rid of lice." Huang Zhongchang waved his hand gently, "Wait until I get rid of all the lice on my body before I hug you, okay?"

"Well then!" Da Chong said reluctantly, "Father, please go inside. It's cold outside."

"Let's talk in the room." Shen Hui'e looked at them calmly and said.

"Brother Douzi, make the fire burn brighter." The big tiger shouted towards the house.

"The fire has been lit." Xiaodouzi said with a smile, and the firelight made his face red.

Li Nu looked at his father through the moonlight and asked, "Dad, are you hungry? Have you eaten?"

"We ate it, we ate it!" Huang Zhongchang looked at them curiously and said, "Your grandmother cooked some food I've never heard of before, steamed buns, they're really delicious, and they also made sweet noodle soup."

Shen Hui'e stared at the back of Huang Zhongchang's head with her eyes as black as black jade, without blinking, with a look of deep thought on her face.

Didn't this guy have any doubts? He accepted it so calmly.

Da Chong lifted the curtain and let them in. "Father, come to bed quickly. It's warm now."

"No, I'm covered in lice and I'm going to get dirty for you." Huang Zhongchang straightened the hem of his clothes and sat on the bench, saying, "I'll just sit here."

"Father, how did you become like this?" The tiger stared at him with eyes wide open in disbelief, "Is it because you don't eat well? Mother said that the food the peasants eat is very bad, not even as good as what pigs eat."

"It's all over." Huang Zhongchang smiled gently and said, "Just take care of it."

Shen Hui'e sat on the edge of the kang, looking at Huang Zhongchang with her dark eyes. She had really lost weight, with sunken cheeks and protruding cheekbones, like a walking skeleton.

He was dressed in rags, had unkempt hair, and his hair was a mess. Shen Hui'e could even see fleas jumping among his hair.

Shen Hui'e closed her eyes and turned away. She couldn't bear to watch it. She was afraid that she couldn't stand it and vomited.

Since they couldn't avoid getting along, and avoiding wouldn't solve the problem, she couldn't stand this filthy look, so Shen Hui'e forced herself to ask, "Are you still leaving?"