Chapter 3: Great hunger at the end of the year, people cannibalize each other
“Hey, have you heard? These people all escaped from the two states of Yunchen.”
“Yes, Look, how old is this baby? He’s almost starving to the point of being skinny and bones! He’s suffered so much along the way! Ah..."
"There is still a part of Qingzhou between Yuzhou and these two states! If you calculate it this way, it must be 1,300 to 400 miles away, and this is still less. ! ”
“Alas...the world is like this...”
"Alas..."
After Gu Changsheng came out of his home, he didn't go far and found that there were many more refugees on the street.
Everyone is covered in filth, some are still holding up wooden sticks, with children nestled in their arms, eyes numb, leaning on the roadside, all of them are equally weak, ragged, and skinny. .
Some were lying down, some were sitting, and only when they saw someone coming, a trace of pleading could burst out from their numb eyes.
Seeing that there was a crowd discussing in front of him, he walked over and stood at the back of the crowd to listen for a while, and then he basically understood.
Gu Changsheng frowned, and a piece of news from a few months ago flashed in his mind. In the eighteenth year of Emperor Anping, that is, this year, there was a severe drought in the two states of Yunchen!
I thought it had nothing to do with Yuzhou, but I didn’t expect the situation to be so serious.
And listening to the discussion among the crowd, in fact, the most important thing is not only natural disasters, but also man-made disasters, otherwise the situation would not be so bad.
However, each one of them was very tight-lipped. They only dared to say one or two sentences, and then they did not dare to continue talking any more. They looked at each other and revealed that Sympathetic eyes and sighs from time to time.
That’s what it means. The water here is very deep and I can’t grasp it. I can’t say more. I can only say that I understand everything.
It is estimated that many people, like Gu Changsheng, are secretly cursing the "Dog Emperor" in their hearts.
A sudden heavy rain last night made things worse.
You can see that many people are lying on the ground, watching as they breathe out more and take in less air.
"Masters, please do me a favor. I have pity on my family. Please buy this child so that my family can have some rice soup..."
"Dad, When we get here, no one will chase us away, right?”
"Mother, I'm so hungry, mother, mother, why don't you say anything, mother..."
"..."
Gu Changsheng couldn't bear to turn his head to the side, with a trace of expression on his face. heavy.
I sighed softly in my heart, "When people are hungry, people eat each other."
If you don't experience it yourself, I'm afraid it will be difficult to understand these short six words in the history books. Behind the scenes, it will be so painful.
"Dad!"
Suddenly there was a burst of crying not far from him, and Gu Changsheng immediately looked sideways.
I saw a refugee family, which should be a family. There was a seven or eight-year-old girl in this family. Although she was so hungry that she looked different, her facial features could barely tell that she looked pretty. It was so beautiful that it was picked out by a wealthy family in the city and paid for it.
After paying the money, the buyer hadn’t gone very far, and the little girl was still looking back.
And this cry came from the little girl's mouth.
A few powerful but idle men, obviously members of gangs in the city, were smiling and snatching away more than half of the money that the family had just received from selling their daughter.
The lives of refugees are not valuable. In fact, the money is not much in total, just dozens of copper coins.
But for the refugees, the money is life-saving money for the family.
Just like that, the gangs in the city actually wanted to take away most of it.
Of course, this is not a robbery in name, but a money grab. Commonly known as "protection fee".
They even rob refugees of their money from selling their children and daughters.
This operation... is really inappropriate!
"Alas..." Gu Changsheng sighed secretly, turned and left.
For this world, at this moment, his understanding is even deeper.
......Inner city.
Izumo Martial Arts School.
Although there are many large and small martial arts schools in Yuzhou City, there are only three famous ones, namely Izumo, Shanshan, and Benlei.
Also known as a palm, a punch, and a knife.
Izumo Martial Arts School is the one with the lowest fees among the three martial arts schools. At the same time, it is also the most suitable for Gu Changsheng.
Compared to other martial arts schools in Yuzhou City, Izumo Palm is already the least harmful to the body among all martial arts taught in martial arts schools. Of course, it is also the most difficult to master.
Perhaps it is for this reason that the charges are relatively low.
What Gu Changsheng lacks most is time, and he knows his body very well. Maybe this "relative" is not so obvious, but this is already his best choice...
The closed red door looks very tall, and the two majestic stone lions at the door add a bit of solemnity to the martial arts hall.
Gu Changsheng stood in front of the gate of the martial arts gym, looking at the plaque above his head.
He exhaled softly to calm his emotions.
Step forward, reach out and knock on the door of Deyun Martial Arts Hall.
"What are you doing?" Soon, the side door was opened with a gap as big as half a body, and a young warrior showed his head, looking at him with a careful look.
"I, Gu Changsheng, heard that Izumo Martial Arts School has excellent martial arts skills, so I came here to learn martial arts under my master!" Gu Changsheng bowed and said politely.
"Tsk..." The young warrior clicked his tongue and muttered to himself: "Why are you so elegant..."
He looked at Gu Changsheng up and down again and stepped aside: "Come in."
Gu Changsheng's expression remained unchanged, he pretended not to hear and followed him in.
As soon as I entered the martial arts gym, what I saw was that there were many shirtless men who were laughing and joking hard at each sandbag, wooden stake, air, or pool. hammer.
The sound of palms slicing through the air! The dull sound of flesh and wood colliding! The sound of the water hitting the water!
For a while, it was heard all the time.
He followed the young warrior through the training ground and stopped in front of a house.
"Senior brother, someone else came to learn martial arts from me!"
The young man knocked on the door and shouted inside.
“Come in.”
A sonorous and powerful voice came from inside the house.
Inside is a separate small training room, with a figure facing away from Gu Changsheng and the young warrior who brought him in.
"Papa papa!"
The hands of the owner of the figure almost turned into afterimages and disappeared, and they kept slapping towards a bluestone the size of a human head.
I don’t know if it was an illusion, but Gu Changsheng actually saw beauty in the hands of the big man that were constantly waving!
It is a kind of ethereal and eerie beauty...
After a few breaths, the owner of the hands finally stopped.
Without even looking at Qingshi, he took a handkerchief from the side and wiped his hands and turned around.
"Master..."
"Touch!"
Just when the young warrior was about to speak, the bluestone the size of a human head suddenly split into four pieces.
"Hiss..." The young warrior took a deep breath in cooperation, with a face full of admiration. He stepped forward and introduced to Gu Changsheng loudly like a dogleg:
"Have you seen it? , this is the second senior brother of our martial arts school - Qi Xiao, senior brother Qi!
Don’t look too far away! Although the senior brother is young, he has already entered the ranks of third-rate warriors. He is extremely proficient in the Izumo Palm. He is also famous in the world of Yuzhou!
He is known as! Qi Xiao!”
(End of this chapter)