Chapter 306: If the soldiers can kill this landlord, we can kill him too!
The people of Zhujiaping threw a punch filled with anger, hitting the servant hard in the face.

These servants have long been accustomed to the people’s submissiveness.

They were completely unprepared and were hit hard, with blood filling their mouths.

“You…you dare to hit me?!”

The servant, who had been hit hard by the punch, covered his bleeding mouth and looked at the villagers in frustration.

The villagers who had been to the battlefield and seen blood stared at him angrily. They felt rage rising to their heads and their whole bodies trembled with excitement, as if they had endless energy.

“Not only am I going to beat you?! I’m going to kill you!”

“what?!”

The servant was stunned, and suddenly saw the villager raising the hoe and smashing it hard on his head.

At this moment, the servant who had been angry and arrogant just now suddenly turned green.

His brain tried desperately to send signals to his body to leave, but his body was so soft that he didn’t respond at all.

“don’t want!!!”

Just as he let out a sharp scream, the villager’s hoe had already dug into his brain, splashing out some red and white stuff.

The remaining shouts of the servant were instantly killed in his throat.

His cursing and screaming all stopped abruptly at that moment.

“I won’t let you curse me again! I won’t let you curse me again!”

“Scold?! Keep on scolding me!”

After the villager beat the servant to death with a hoe, he was still not satisfied and kept mechanically raising the hoe and hitting the servant’s bloody head again and again.

While beating, he was muttering to himself.

This horrifying scene stunned all the servants of the Zhu family who were around.

All the dirty words that were about to come out of their mouths were swallowed by him.

Cold sweat covered their bodies, and their hands and feet were shaking slightly unconsciously.

Even Zhu Hezheng, who was usually arrogant and domineering, swallowed his saliva involuntarily at this moment, and a trace of fear arose in his heart.

Suddenly, the villager who was swinging the hoe stopped what he was doing, turned his head sharply and looked at the remaining servants.

“And you, let’s settle all the old and new grudges together. You must die today too!”

“go to hell!”

The villager raised his hoe and rushed towards the servant closest to him!

“Ahhhhhh, no!”

The servant was so frightened that he turned around and ran away!
Not only was he running, the rest of the servants also turned around, trying to leave this place of trouble as quickly as possible.

But the other villagers would not let them run away so easily.

“Want to run?! Go to hell! All of you, go to hell?!”

“You want to run away now. Why didn’t you think of running away when you were riding on our heads before?”

“You bastards, your farmer grandfather is here! You all must die! You all must die today!”

“…”

Hundreds of villagers, with red eyes, raised their hoes, hammers, sickles and other tools, and rushed towards the dozens of servants like crazy.

With the first villager taking the lead, the rest of the villagers also gave it their all.

With the mentality of fighting to the death, he was determined to fight these servants to the death.

These servants were ordinary people like them. Faced with the absolute numerical advantage, they had no power to fight back at all.

Every servant who was caught up by the villagers was greeted only by a barrage of sticks.

“I was wrong! I was wrong! Please don’t hit me, grandpas! I really know I was wrong, please forgive me this time!”

“It hurts! It hurts so much! I was wrong! I apologize! Please stop hitting me!”

“Grandpa, spare me! Grandpa, spare me! As long as you spare my life, I’m willing to do anything!”

“…”

The shrill screams echoed in the sky, but the villagers of Zhujiaping were already blood-thirsty and had no intention of stopping.

As the hoe was swung down, blood spread drop by drop on the ground.

Only when they could no longer hear any more begging for mercy or screaming did the villagers gradually calm down.

At this moment, there was no longer a living servant in front of them.

“Brother Guangyuan, everyone is dead. What should we do next?”

A villager who had calmed down looked at the bloody corpses all around him, swallowed his saliva, and looked at the villager next to him who had killed people first.

When Zhu Guangyuan first started to kill the servant, he had already thought about their ultimate goal in his mind.

Zhu Guangyuan turned around and looked at Zhu Hezheng who was sitting in a daze on the chair. He walked towards him and sneered: “What should I do? Haha.”

“Now that we have started, let’s kill them all, including the landlord Zhu Hezheng!”

“what?!”

Before Zhu Wenzhen could say anything, the other villagers were shocked by this bold idea.

Killing a landlord is killing the landlord, killing a servant is killing the servant.

They had the courage to kill those servants because fundamentally, those servants were ordinary people with the same status as them.

But Zhu Hezheng was different. He was not an ordinary man. He was a landlord and a master. His ancestors had been masters for generations.

They themselves are not from a certain class, and they have an instinctive awe for people from a higher class.

“What’s wrong with landlords? Landlords are also human beings!”

“Don’t you know that the court’s current slogan is to kill the landlords and divide the land?!”

Zhu Guangyuan turned his head, a murderous look flashed across his face: “Since we are all going to kill them, what is the difference between waiting for the court to send troops to kill them and killing them ourselves?”

“Believe it or not, if we kill the landlords ourselves, not only will the court not hold us accountable, but it will also support us and reward us!”

“This…is true.”

Zhu Guangyuan’s words made sense and soon gained the support of other villagers.

“Guangyuan is right. Since we are all killing landlords, if the imperial court’s soldiers can kill them, we can kill them too!”

“We’ll kill him ourselves! We’ll kill him ourselves! I’ve disliked Zhu Hezheng for a long time, and this time I’m going to kill him with my own hands!”

“That’s right! That’s right! Zhu Hezheng has bullied us for so many years. Today is the time for him to pay the price with blood.”

“…”

The villagers’ anger towards Zhu Hezheng eventually overwhelmed their fear.

This group of people walked forward aggressively and surrounded Zhu Hezheng, who was still sitting on the sedan chair.

Zhu Hezheng was in a panic.

But in front of everyone, he still maintained his usual arrogance and did not show any weakness.

“What do you want to do?”

“I’m warning you, don’t mess around!”

“The land you cultivate at home is mine. If you dare to touch me today, you will not be able to cultivate a single acre of land in the future.”

“If you guys know what’s best for you, get out of my way! Otherwise, you’ll have to bear the consequences yourself.”

Although he was still trying to keep up a good attitude, Zhu Hezheng revealed his guilty conscience as soon as he opened his mouth.

The arrogant Zhu Hezheng in the past would definitely start cursing after encountering such a thing.

How could one possibly make such a threat that has no practical effect?
Moreover, dozens of his servants were beaten to death in front of him.

But he didn’t get angry, he just asked the villagers to get out of the way…

The villagers looked at each other and were sure that Zhu Hezheng was already scared at this moment.

Zhu Guangyuan stood in front of Zhu Hezheng with a hoe in his hand, looking down at him with no expression on his face. “Zhu Hezheng, when you were bullying us before, did you ever think that this day would come?”

Zhu Hezheng’s heart skipped a beat and drops of cold sweat dripped from his forehead.

“Bully you? When have I ever bullied you?!”

Zhu Hezheng denied it repeatedly: “I have never oppressed you, I have never oppressed you!”

“You have no land, so I gave it to you to farm!”

“If I hadn’t given you the land to farm, you would have starved to death! I’m not oppressing you, I’m helping you!”

Zhu Guangyuan sneered: “Then have you ever thought about why the entire Zhujiaping land is in your hands alone?”

“This this……”

Zhu Hezheng was panicked. He was completely panicked.

Because from these two short sentences, he had already felt the strong murderous intent of the villagers of Zhujiaping.

They really wanted to kill him!

Zhu Hezheng suddenly raised his head and looked at Zhu Guangyuan: “This is my ancestral property! Ancestral property!”

Zhu Guangyuan’s hoe had been raised high.

“You must pay for the sins committed by your ancestors!”

Zhu Guangyuan swung the hoe in his hand vigorously and smashed it hard towards Zhu Hezheng’s head!

“boom!”

Blood splatters!

Zhu Guangyuan smashed the instep of Zhu Hezheng’s right foot with a hoe.

Zhu Hezheng blinked his eyes and suddenly let out a sharp and shrill scream.

“Ah ah ah ah ah ah ah!!!”

The ten fingers are connected to the heart, and the soles of the feet are also connected to the heart. Zhu Hezheng was in so much pain that he wished he was dying when half of his foot was hit off.

He subconsciously bent down and tried to cover his foot, but the moment his hand touched the wound, he felt excruciating pain.

Zhu Guangyuan glanced at Zhu Hezheng coldly, then turned and left.

At the same time, another villager came up with a sickle in his hand.

“Ah ah ah ah ah ah ah!!!!”

The next moment, Zhu Hezheng’s shrill screams spread throughout the sky again.

From then on, Zhu Hezheng’s screams were incessant and never stopped.

No one knew how long it lasted until Zhu Hezheng completely stopped breathing, and his screams stopped along with his breathing.

Since then, no one has talked about what kind of torture Zhu Hezheng suffered that day.

Later we only learned that Zhu Hezheng’s body was divided into 119 pieces.

After the people of Zhujiaping executed Zhu Hezheng, it was already dark.

After they took over and returned to the village, they said goodbye to each other and returned to their homes.

When their family members saw them return safely, they cried with joy. The whole family hugged each other tightly and talked to each other from the bottom of their hearts.

Those people who did not wait for their loved ones to return could only shed tears and sob during the day of reunion.

The moon crescents over Jiuzhou, making some families happy and others sad.

In addition to the common people, Zhu Hezheng’s family was also worried.

Since Zhu Hezheng went out with dozens of servants in the afternoon, there has been no news from him.

Not only was there no news from Zhu Wen Zheng, but there was no news from even his dozens of servants.

They seemed to have disappeared from the face of the earth, which made Zhu Hezheng’s family feel terrified.

Especially recently, the slogans of the court officials and soldiers to kill the landlords and divide the land have been everywhere, making the landlords in the south of the Yangtze River feel insecure.

I don’t know if it was the imperial officers and soldiers who came and arrested them all.

Zhu Hezheng’s family spent the night in this anxiety and fear.

The next day, at dawn.

The people of Zhujiaping heard the thunderous sound of horse hooves in their dreams before they got up to work.

A group of soldiers and officers from the imperial court, about two thousand people, were rushing towards Zhujiaping from afar.

When the people living outside the village saw the imperial officers and soldiers rushing towards them.

They did not feel fear or panic, but instead, they were excited and thrilled from the bottom of their hearts.

“The imperial soldiers are coming! The imperial soldiers are coming!”

“They are here to kill the landlords! They are here to divide the land among us!”

The villagers’ excited roars echoed throughout Zhujiaping.

The villagers of Zhujiaping who were still asleep also got up from their beds, excitedly rushed to the village head, and looked at the approaching army.

The villagers cheered and were happier than during the Chinese New Year.

The imperial army rushed into the village.

They bypassed the villagers who were watching the fun and went straight to the best and most luxurious house built in Zhujiaping.

“Bang! Bang! Bang!”

After breaking open the door, the next thing to be heard were the screams of Zhu Hezheng’s family.

Zhujiaping is not big and not rich. Zhu Hezheng’s family is not large, and the house he built is not as luxurious as those of landlords in other places.

After just one hour, the screams in Zhu Hezheng’s house subsided.

But soon, the officials and soldiers of the court also discovered an important problem.

“Report, Lord Zhao, we have killed people all over the mansion, but we still haven’t found the landlord Zhu Hezheng they mentioned!”

Zhao Xun is also an officer of the Xianzhen Camp, and now he is in charge of this team of 2,000 people.

After Zhao Xun heard this, his face suddenly darkened: “I haven’t found it yet, keep looking!”

“Even if I have to dig three feet underground, I will find him for me!”

“Yes, my lord!”

Their mission will not be completed until the landlord dies.

They had encountered similar situations of landlords hiding secretly several times along the way.

It is quite difficult to find a local hiding in such an unfamiliar place.

The best solution is to mobilize local villagers to help them find it.

So Zhao Xun came to the crowd and asked them.

“Fellow villagers, we are soldiers sent by the imperial court. I believe everyone is clear about the purpose of our coming here.”

“But now, Zhu Hezheng, the landlord of Zhujiaping, has gone into hiding and we can’t find him. I hope that villagers who know his whereabouts can take the initiative to tell us.”

“Helping me is also helping yourselves.”

Before Zhao Xun finished speaking, an abrupt voice suddenly rang out: “Sir, there is no need to look for it.”

“Why?!” Zhao Xun frowned.

“Because he’s dead.”

Zhu Guangyuan in the crowd walked up to Zhao Xun while speaking.

He opened the blood-soaked, foul-smelling cloth bag in his hand.

A pile of minced meat and a head were shaken out.

(End of this chapter)