The legend of Dukang

"Niu Er, don't do it, come over and have a rest!" A disheveled, ragged man greeted with a smile.

The person being greeted had a beard all over his face, and his red and green coat was so dirty that it was almost impossible to distinguish the colors.He put down the shovel in his hand, looked up at the person in front of him and said impatiently: "How many times have I told you, my name is not Niu Er!" The voice sounded very young, which was very different from his scruffy bearded image. It matches, it seems to be a young man.

The man stared at his tattered clothes, and continued to laugh: "You are wearing Niu Er's clothes, but who is Niu Er? Could it be that after lying down for so many days, you don't even know your own name?"

The young man pulled his clothes and explained: "I'm really not Niu Er! I'm... er... I accidentally fell down from the mountain, and I'm here after waking up! This clothes should be taken advantage of by someone taking advantage of my unconsciousness. It's time to change it for me!"

As if hearing a big joke, the man laughed loudly: "You really know how to tell nonsense! Are you using this to fool the supervisors who arrested you?"

"I really didn't lie to you!" The young man said angrily.

Seeing him anxiously scratching his ears and cheeks, the other people around him also stopped what they were doing, and asked with a playful smile, "Since you're not Niu Er, what's your name?"

The young man hesitated for a moment before saying, "I can only tell you that my surname is Du!"

"That's good!" One person said, "Brother Du, from which mountain did you fall?"

"The facing balcony of Mount Hua!" The young man's words elicited another burst of laughter.

One of them patted the young man on the shoulder and asked jokingly, "Niu Er, I didn't expect you to run away once. Not only did you gain courage, but you also learned to brag!"

Another person also sarcastically said: "My surname is Niu, what's so difficult about boasting!"

As soon as this remark came out, there was another round of laughter.

Looking at the angry face of the young man, an old man who was sitting on the pile of waste rocks and smoking a pipe sighed softly: "The facing balcony of Mount Hua is so high, even if you fall from it, ten lives are not enough to die! How is it possible?" Stand here with all your eyes and eyes and speak big words!"

"Maybe he is a fairy!"

"How could there be a fairy!"

"Let me see! Maybe it's a martial arts master!"

"Yo! Niu Er will become a master of martial arts when he returns from his escape!"

Everyone joked in unison.

"Don't tell me!" A tall, thin man pretended to be mysterious and said: "A few days ago, I accidentally overheard some supervisors talking. They said that there were gangsters fighting in Huashan, and those who went there were really experts!"

"There is such a thing? No wonder the few bastards who guarded us in the past few days were trembling. They didn't even dare to let us hit stones too loudly."

"It's probably because I'm afraid of being discovered by those masters!"

Listening to their chatter, the young man hurriedly asked, "Where are those martial arts masters now?"

"Who knows!" The tall and thin man said indifferently, "I guess we should go home after the fight!"

"Oh!" The young man instantly became very disappointed.

"Why are you asking about this?" The slim tall man asked with a playful smile, "Do you know those martial arts masters?"

Before the young man could reply, another person jokingly said, "I fell from such a high place and didn't die. Maybe Niu Er has really become a martial arts master!"

As soon as these words came out, everyone burst into laughter again.

"That's enough, that's enough! Don't talk about these useless things! If there were real martial arts masters, those bastards would have been sent away long ago! Will we still be trapped here?" A man shook the shackles on his hands, heavy The chains jingled.

The people who were originally laughing were silent for an instant.

The young man looked down at the handcuffs and shackles on his body, then at the people with pale faces, and said slowly: "I have always wanted to ask, what is this place? Why are you digging stones in this deep mountain and old forest? ? Are you all prisoners?"

"Prisoners are not as miserable as we are!" A man squatting on the ground and resting opened his tattered sleeves, revealing his scarred arms: "We don't know where this is! We were all blindfolded when we were brought in." You can't see the way at all!"

"Then why are you here?" the young man continued to ask.

"Why!" The man glanced at the crowd and sneered, "Most of the people here were abducted by human traffickers, and some were kidnapped for offending people who shouldn't be offended!"

"Offended someone who shouldn't be offended?" The young man was puzzled.

The man patted the old man with the smoking bag next to him, and said, "Old Brother Huang was originally in the jade business, and his property was very large. He was tricked by his brother who has been in partnership for many years. That guy colluded with the local government, and he thought that Old Huang was going all the way. The government was making trouble, so I thought of a solution once and for all, and tied him here! And that kid over there!"

The young man looked in the direction of the man's finger, and saw a thin child about eleven or twelve years old struggling to move black stones into a basket.

"I heard that he is the bastard son of a rich family, and he is very popular with the old man. My brother was afraid that he would share the property, so he brought him here!" The man laughed.

The young man's eyes widened, he was speechless in shock, and then stammered for a long time: "This...is there any law for this! Aren't you afraid of being investigated by the government?"

"Government?" The man sneered, spat out the weeds he had been holding in his mouth, patted his chest and said, "I'm just a yamen servant, so I just fell here!"

Seeing the stunned look of the young man, the people next to him hurriedly explained: "Brother Ma Hong was originally a head catcher, and he was ordered to investigate the rape and murder of more than a dozen girls in their county, but unexpectedly he found the son of a high official! The high official entrusted the magistrate to give money to brother Ma Hong, and sent a message to let him arrest anyone and perfunctory the case. Killing people will pay for their lives! Brother Ma Hong didn't want to kill innocent people, so he didn't agree!"

"Then what happened next?" the young man asked hurriedly.

"Isn't it obvious later?" Ma Hong shook the iron chain on his hand, and laughed at himself: "I finally found the evidence of murder in the yamen, and I was about to report it, and then I was brought here to do hard work for no reason! "

"The good person is gone, won't the family look for it?"

"I have been in Gongmen for so many years, and I have seen a lot of ways that officials deal with ordinary people!" Ma Hong said contemptuously: "If you say it, you will be scared to death! Just find a corpse and scratch your face to create the illusion of being robbed and killed." ;or throw the corpse into the water to create the illusion of falling into the water. If there is a lover, you can spread rumors that the lover has run away... In short, there are many ways! Now, whatever the government says, it must be what it is! Continue to make trouble You will only be accused of disturbing the court. What else can we ordinary people do except admit it!"

The young man was stunned, and he murmured: "Brother Ma Hong, the yamen in your place are not afraid of retribution if they are too bold! There are many chivalrous men who are happy with their grievances, and there will definitely be someone to take care of them." of!"

"Little brother, you are too real! It is impossible for Jianghu people to meddle in the affairs of the public." Lao Huang put down his cigarette pouch, picked up a dark stone on the ground, and said, "You think the stones we dug are ordinary stones. Is this iron ore! The axes and tools we use and even the weapons of the soldiers are all made of these!" Lao Huang looked at the mountains with no tops above his head and the people doing hard work all over the mountains and plains, and said: "It is definitely not something that one or two yamen are capable of spending such a large amount of financial, material and manpower! I don't know how many dignitaries have colluded with them!"

"No wonder they're so bold!" interjected the tall, thin man.

"If that's the case, why don't you run away?" Nian's relatives asked puzzled.

The tall and thin man looked at the guards who were chatting away from the summer heat in the shade of a tree in the distance, laughed sinisterly, and said to the young man, "Do you think no one has run away before? There are many wild animals around here. Most people are eaten by wild beasts! You are lucky, you should be more honest in the future!"

"Lang Lang Qiankun, how can you allow such an unbearable thing to happen! Besides, a man born between heaven and earth should stand upright, and must not be a coward at the mercy of others!" Ignoring the man's words, the young man said with righteous indignation: " No matter what, I will find a way to get out of here!"

"Brother, I advise you to give up this idea! Even if you can hide from the wild beasts outside, you can't hide from the dog legs here! Did you see the man in front? He ran away with you, so he was caught back? "The tall and thin man pointed to a handsome man who was wielding an ax not far away, with a little admiration in his eyes: "That guy is also very temperamental, he ran several times without success, and was beaten to death forcibly ! Raised well, then ran! The same was caught again! So many times back and forth, it is lucky not to be eaten by wild beasts! Although the work here is heavy, as long as you are honest, you will not lose your life! Maybe we After helping them with their work, they'll let us go home!"

"Look at your promise! You can be flattened and rounded if you survive?" Ma Hong mocked.

The tall and thin man became angry, "You are promising! I didn't see you have the guts to run away!"

"Okay, okay!" Seeing that the two of them had a big disagreement and started to fight, the other person was afraid that they would attract the guards, so he quickly changed the subject: "You can't blame him for wanting to run away. I heard from the supervisor here that his wife Getting married with a rich young master, not only gave him a cuckold, but also filled him with dumb drugs together with the rich and young, and then threw it here, it is cruel enough! If it was me who shared this matter, it would be considered a crime. The ghost also wants to go back and seek revenge on the adulterer and adulterer, and let the couple die without a whole body!"

"Since there is such a thing?"

"It's absolutely true! A few days ago, he was caught and hung up and beaten. The bastard who beat him said it himself. I heard it very clearly."

"Being cuckolded and cheated by an adulterer/partner, no wonder he is so energetic!"

"What a pity!"

"How could it be possible to be cheated by a woman? It's really stupid!"

Everyone's attention was obviously attracted by the man's miserable experience, and they talked about it in a hurry.There is sympathy, disdain, ridicule, and embarrassment.

How unlucky it must be!Encountered such a bad thing!The young man looked at the tall and straight figure in the distance with emotion.Thinking of his unmarried wife, the young man felt warm, and thought to himself: Fortunately, my cousin is gentle and virtuous, and she will never do such things as cheating on her husband or murdering her husband.

Lao Huang saw that he seemed to have a smile on his face, and thought that he was watching people laugh like everyone else, so he lowered his eyes and said in a low voice: "You should go and thank him! He has been taking care of you for the past few days. If you don't He, you have already been dragged out by those guards to feed the wolves!"

"Oh, good." The young man came to his senses and asked softly, "What's his name?"

"Looks like the surname is Dong." Lao Huang narrowed his eyes and thought for a while, then said, "It's called Dong Chun!"