Fighting to destiny

Chapter 5 Dare or Not (Page 2/2)

"Good brother, the people of Zhangjia Village will remember this favor, and they will repay you handsomely in the future." Zhang Daqiang patted Niu Yao's shoulder heavily. He was no longer hypocritical, because Niu Yao was telling the truth.

"Don't just stand there, all the dry food put down should be surrounded outside to prevent people from snatching it. I just took a quick look and found many unfamiliar faces. As the old saying goes, you can't have the heart of a thief, but you must be on guard against thieves." Niu Yao ordered.

After he said this, everyone couldn't help but get nervous. Now every bite of food is related to the lives of the whole village, and they can't afford to be careless.

Zhang Xiaozu and Niu Dawa hurriedly put down the dry food and got out of the crowd, standing at the outermost edge, looking around vigilantly, feeling that everyone looked like a robber.

"Hey, kid, soldier, you two are here too!" A skinny boy suddenly rushed out from behind, put one hand around Zhang Xiaozu's neck and the other around Niu Dawa's neck, and greeted them happily.

"I knew they would come."

"It's going to be lively now."

There were a few other boys of the same age behind the skinny boy, and they seemed very happy to see Zhang Xiaozu and Niu Dawa.

Zhang Xiaozu and Niu Dawa were startled by the skinny boy, and when they looked back, they grinned. They couldn't help but punch the skinny boy in the chest, and laughed and scolded: "Damn it, where did you guys go just now? We looked around and didn't see your shadows, so we thought you didn't come."

These boys are all from Zhangjia Village, and they are the same age as Zhang Xiaozu and Niu Dawa, and they just held their coming-of-age ceremony this year. They often play together on weekdays, go fishing in the river and pick birds in the trees, and they are very familiar with each other.

"It's a pity that you just came today. You missed a good show." The skinny boy shook his head and said with regret. His name is Zhang Dezhuang, which sounds the same as "***". His father hoped that he would grow strong and majestic, but this boy seemed to be sent from heaven to deliberately go against his father. He has eaten chicken, duck, fish and meat since he was a child, but he just doesn't gain weight. He is so skinny that his father almost got sick. That's why his nickname "skinny monkey" is known throughout the area.

Niu Dawa's eyes lit up when he heard that there was a good show, and he urged: "What good show? Tell me quickly."

"Tsk tsk, you two didn't see it. The scene and the scene yesterday were simply earth-shaking and weeping!" The skinny monkey was amazed, shaking his head and waving his hands, pretending to be pretentious, and whetting the appetite of Zhang Xiaozu and the others.

"Get out of the way!" Niu Dawa was not a good-tempered person. He slapped the skinny monkey and pointed at another person, saying, "No. 1 scholar, you speak."

The boy named by Niu Dawa was named Zhang Chutian, nicknamed "No. 1 scholar" because he had studied in a small private school in the county for a year and a half and could recognize more than 200 characters. He was the most knowledgeable among his peers, so he got this nickname.

The two villages of Liu and Zhang have been digging for food in the fields for generations. The poor people in the ravines have never seen the world. They envy and admire the scholars who are doing academic work, but if they are asked to pay for their children to stop doing farm work and go to private schools, they will not do it even if they are beaten to death. And the boy who grew up in the ravines has been used to being wild since childhood, so how can he bear to nitpick on words. Therefore, the people in the two villages are basically illiterate from generation to generation, and can only write their own names.

Zhang Xiaozu has always admired Zhang Chutian, because he was beaten with willow branches by the old village chief for a whole year, and suffered a lot of pain and t*****e, and he could only recognize 108 characters, while Zhang Chutian could recognize more than 200 characters, which was really amazing.

Zhang Chutian usually enjoyed the nickname of "top scholar", and would say a few words from time to time, and he was very careful in dressing. Take this time for example, he and Zhang Xiaozu and others were all wearing coarse linen clothes. Due to the hot weather, Zhang Xiaozu and others unbuttoned two or three buttons, spread their chests, and their hair was messy, tied behind their heads with a hemp rope. But he was different. His clothes were neat and tidy, without even a fold, and his hair was smooth and smooth. Standing among Zhang Xiaozu and his group of wild boys, he really looked like a scholar.

"Ahem..." The champion covered his mouth with his hand, coughed twice, cleared his throat, grabbed a gavel with his right hand, slapped it in front of his face, and made a "pa" sound with his mouth. Then he raised his eyebrows and glared, looking like a storyteller in a tavern.

Everyone loves to listen to this guy's pretentious storytelling on weekdays, no matter if he heard it from hearsay or made it up, they just like it and think it has a special taste.

I only heard the champion shouting: "It is said that at 3:30 yesterday afternoon, more than ten villages gathered here, wanting to cross the valley and go to the Black Forest to hunt. However, the valley entrance was blocked by the horse tyrants of the big family in the county. Each person had to hand in five catties of food before entering the valley, and half of the prey had to be handed in when leaving the valley. Everyone was stopped at the valley entrance, and dared not speak. The two sides were deadlocked for several hours, and finally people from three villages suddenly rose up and tried to force their way into the valley. Nearly 200 people from the three villages, armed with hunting knives, steel forks and other weapons, suddenly rose up and attacked, but were killed by only five people from the big family in a moment. Armor, wailing everywhere. The battle ended almost as soon as it began. Seven people from the three villages died in the battle, and the rest were all injured. No one escaped unscathed. The five people from the big family just had some dust on their clothes. They flicked their hands, as if they had just played a game. "

"Dog--Damn it!" Niu Dawa jumped up with his eyes wide open, shouting in disbelief: "Really? Five people fighting two hundred people, and they still won? ! Not only did they win, but they also won so easily?"

Zhang Xiaozu was also in disbelief. Although he had long guessed that the big families were very strong, otherwise they would not dare to offend the public and block the valley entrance to collect tolls, he could never have imagined that they were so outrageously strong. Five people fighting two hundred people, and they still won easily. Could it be that they were five gods of war?