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    Old man Li is 76 years old this year, and everyone in the village calls him Mr. Li.

    His family was a military household in Daming, and was responsible for guarding Xiaoling for generations.  However, except for the access to the mountain, grass grows everywhere near Xiaoling Mausoleum, and the officers of the Xiaoling Guards have not seen orders to maintain it.

    His eldest brother died in infancy, and his second brother joined the army when he became an adult.

    As a soldier, he did not take weapons, but only took axes and ropes, and stole trees from Xiaolingwei for the officers.  Once, when a log was lowered down a mountain, the person and the log rolled down accidentally. The spine was broken, and he suffered from pain for several days at home before he died.

    Therefore, old man Li also became a soldier, filling up his second brother's errand, and doing hard labor for those hereditary military officers.

    If there is no disease or disaster, you can barely survive.

    Occasionally, the officers will distribute some rations, and they and their wives will do odd jobs, which can also slightly subsidize the family.  However, floods and droughts occurred frequently, and his wife, who was in poor health, died of malnutrition first, and then his only son also died.

    The old parents have been dead for many years, and he is the only one left in the family.

    At that time, old man Li couldn't see the slightest hope in life, and lived in a daze all day long.  When an officer has an errand, he will do it, if he has no errand, he will do odd jobs, and if he has nothing to do, he will be a beggar.

    If he is lucky and can still pick up wild eggs in the imperial mausoleum, it will already be his happiest moment.

    Suddenly, the Datong army came, and Old Man Li was transferred to guard Nanjing, and he was given a rusty spear.

    Old man Li was terrified at the time. He heard that the Datong army would massacre the city and liked to eat raw human flesh.  He stood at the top of the city tremblingly, completely unable to understand military orders, and only knew how to follow others around.

    Then, the city was full of secret disturbances, and the people surrounded the nobles, and soldiers rebelled in the deserted lakes.

    Old man Li didn't think much about it, so he rebelled and went to help open the city gate.

    He just felt that the Datong Army was very powerful, so he might as well join the rebels, or follow the rebels to eat human flesh.

    These military households who rebelled against Xiancheng were organized into a security force, responsible for arresting criminals who took advantage of the fire.

    Zhang San, who was acquainted with the old man Li, was usually submissive, but suddenly he showed off his might.  Zhang San didn't go to arrest the bad guys, but used the banner of the Datong Army to blackmail the wealthy households in the city. At that time, dozens of military households followed suit.

    Behead all!

    Old man Li saw Zhang San's head fall to the ground with his own eyes, and was so frightened that he wet his pants on the spot.

    Later, more Datong troops entered the city, and the military households were taken outside the city.  The mission officer escorted the hereditary military officer to come, saying that he was going to hold a complaint meeting, and at the beginning, "The White-haired Girl" was played, which made the officers and the military households who farmed the land cry loudly.

    Old man Li didn't cry when he watched "The White-haired Girl", but he cried at the complaint meeting.

    He chattered on and on about what had happened to his family, detailing how each family member died, and when he mentioned his second brother, he cried, and couldn't go on talking.

    Later, the land of the hereditary military officer was allotted to military households for farming. Old man Li never dreamed that he would have his own land in this life.

    Old man Li works very hard on farming, although he has never planted, his family has been cutting down trees for officers.

    When he met someone who knew how to farm, he nodded and bowed down, begging others to teach him farming skills.  Regardless of busy or slack seasons, I have to wander around the fields every day, wishing I could eat and sleep on the ridges of the fields.

    ?One day, the village chief called everyone to discuss the matter and asked all single men and women to go.

    Old man Li was serving the crops at that time, so he was a little reluctant to go.  Unexpectedly, he was assigned a wife, a female beggar who fled to Nanjing.

    In fact, he is not considered a beggar. He went south with his family to join relatives.

    All the family members died of illness and starvation, so she could only wipe her dirty face and beg along the street.  When the Datong Army cleaned up the beggars, she was half starved to death, and she was taken to the outskirts of the countryside to marry along with other prostitutes who were willing to be good, as well as homeless women.

    Old man Li has land property, a wife, and children, and he has a family again.

    Five sons and three daughters, three of them died young.

    There are as many as eleven grandchildren, not counting the grandchildren.  The family's property was no longer enough, the eldest son followed him to farm, the second son died young, and the third son went to the city to work hard.

    The fourth son died, and the fifth son graduated from elementary school and became an apprentice.

    Today, the third son bought a house in a slum in the northwestern part of the city, even though he was exhausted from carrying his bags.

    The original owner got rich, moved out of the slums, and sold it very cheaply.

    Last year, I heard that there was going to be demolished. If the news is true, the third son and his family can still live in the building.

    The fifth son is even more terrible. He graduated from elementary school and is educated, and he is willing to learn and study. He is already a master in a printing and dyeing factory, with a salary of eight taels of silver a month.  Even his boss is polite to him??, I am afraid that I will be hungry in the coming year.  "

    Li Datong looked at the crying parents, he couldn't understand the situation, the old emperor was gone, and the new emperor was replaced, how could it be like the sky is falling?

    He called the child to have breakfast, and then carried the hoe to weed the vegetable field.

    Passing by a few houses, as long as there are elderly people in the house, they can always hear crying faintly.

    ?After returning home from weeding at noon, Li Datong found that lunch had been prepared, but he could not see his parents. He asked his wife, "Where are your parents?"

    "Going into town," replied the wife.

    "What are you doing in the city?" Li Datong asked.

    The wife explained: "I changed into new clothes, and brought some money and dry food. I said that I would wear sackcloth and mourning for the Long Live Lord. More than 20 old people in the village went there. The village chief was afraid of bad things, so he persuaded him.  No, I have to go with you.¡±

    "Their old lake is painted, and they are afraid that they will be kicked out by the government!"

    Li Datong didn't bother to eat lunch, so he dropped his hoe and chased after him.

    Along the way, Li Datong met several groups of old people, among whom were some young people.

    In the shops selling cloth by Xuanwu Lake and in Changganli, linen has already sold out.  Many old people marched towards the city of Nanjing with linen cloth spun by themselves and worn on their bodies.

    The soldiers guarding the city gate didn't know whether to stop them. With so many people coming from all over the world, there might be troubles in the city.

    But they didn't dare to stop them, and they didn't even dare to scold them, because they were all here to make the emperor cry.
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