Chapter 129 Drought and Uprising
"A good opponent." Song Changming glanced at this person and recognized the level of strength he displayed.
Being able to fight with him for so long is already rare among martial artists.
Under the same realm, this person probably rarely has any defeats.
It's a pity that it fell into the hands of Song Changming today, which finally made him understand what it means to have a better world.
Seeing that the other party was still trying to struggle, Song Changming was not polite and simply raised his foot to crush the other party's limbs and carried him back to the inner courtyard.
The door to the inner courtyard had been destroyed. Liu Ziwen came back with his brothers and captured and killed the remaining night attackers.
The vendetta was resolved when the young Liu Dingsheng did not take action tonight.
Song Changming threw the person in his hand into the courtyard and looked at Liu Dingsheng.
"Don't worry, I will ask Ziwen to deliver the wild ginseng I promised you in half a month. It will only be a little more than two hundred years old." Liu Dingsheng understood what Song Changming meant and promised.
He could still afford a gift of a two-hundred-year-old wild ginseng, so there was no need for him to break his promise to his juniors at his old age.
"Senior is very generous." Song Changming said immediately. He made a profit by not leaving early tonight.
Not only did he test his fists and feet in actual combat, stretch his body a lot, but he also earned a precious 200-year-old wild ginseng.
The key is that there is no risk to him in this battle.
The opponent is not strong, and there is Liu Dingsheng behind him.
"Let me see who you are." Liu Dingsheng's attention had now fallen on the enemy who had lost the ability to resist, and he motioned to Liu Ziwen to pull off the opponent's mask.
Under the mask is the face of a middle-aged man.
He has thick eyebrows and big eyes. He is not very handsome, but he is still decent.
Just a few scars on his face and neck made this person look a little more fierce.
Liu Dingsheng took a closer look, but couldn't remember who the other person was, but the look of hatred the other person looked at him was unmistakable.
"What grudge do I have against you? Tell me?" Liu Dingsheng simply asked the person involved directly.
"Thirty years ago, in Gejiazhuang, you killed my adoptive father, adoptive mother, and my brother," the man said through gritted teeth.
"It happened thirty years ago, so it's not that long ago." Liu Dingsheng rubbed his brows, seeming to be thinking.
"Gejiazhuang, I have some impressions. I only remember killing a local gang of gangsters that time. Are your adoptive parents and adoptive parents members of that gang?"
"You dare to humiliate my parents! I will never let you go even if I'm a ghost!" Ge Tai was furious, but his limbs were broken and he was held up by a knife, unable to move even if he wanted to.
"Okay, since it's not the evil bandit, you must have found the wrong person." Liu Dingsheng shook his head.
"Impossible, my father is the local magistrate, and many people have seen with their own eyes that you killed him, and yet you dare to quibble!" Ge Tai said angrily.
"County magistrate?" Liu Dingsheng looked strange.
Liu Zi, who had followed Liu Dingsheng for many years, heard that the other party mentioned the county magistrate and couldn't help but said: "I was there at that time. The county magistrate of Gejiazhuang was killed by the gang. How come he still depends on my family!
I remember clearly that when we entered the county magistrate’s house, the magistrate’s family had already been killed in the night. After my family learned about this, he killed the gangster in a rage! "
When Song Changming heard this, his first reaction was that Liu Ziwen, who looked young, was actually a character who appeared thirty years ago? !
He had always thought that Liu Ziwen was not much older than him.
When Ge Tai heard this, he was stunned for a moment, and then subconsciously denied it.
"Impossible! Absolutely impossible!"
"What it is is what it is. Do I need to argue with you now about what I did back then?" Liu Dingsheng snorted softly.
When Ge Tai heard this, he was already shocked and confused.
The other party can kill him now with a knife. There is really no need to talk to a dying person about such useless things.
"If you don't believe it, I'll let you go back and investigate. If what I say is true, you have to clear my name locally." Liu Dingsheng continued.
When Liu Ziwen heard this, he quickly stopped him and said, "Sir, no, it's true that this person came to assassinate him tonight, so we can't just let him go."
Liu Dingsheng shook his head and looked at Ge Tai without changing his mind.
"Okay!" Ge Tai didn't expect that he still had a chance to survive, so he agreed immediately after being silent.
"I will investigate clearly. If you really avenged me, you are my benefactor. I will come back to atone for my sins. I will kill or cut you up as you please!"
In the end, Liu Dingsheng let go of this enemy who came to him with just a few words.
It has to be said that this move was really a spontaneous one.
Song Changming on the side believed that he could not be so open-minded. If others wanted to kill him, no matter what the reason, he would not let it go so easily, even if it was just a misunderstanding.
"It's child's play to have carried a blood feud for thirty years, only to find out in the end that you got the wrong revenge target." Song Changming watched Ge Tai leave and felt that it was outrageous.
"Hahaha, this is how it is in this world. All kinds of strange things happen every day. Although I think this person is a little stunned, he is a person who values love and justice. Believe it or not, I will get a good one in the future. Helper." Liu Dingsheng couldn't help laughing after hearing what Song Changming said.
"Uh, this" Song Changming looked at the corpses in the courtyard. To be honest, he really didn't believe that the revengeful man would eventually choose to be loyal to his original enemy.
And if it were him, even if the other party wanted to swear allegiance to the death, he would not dare to try to accept the person who had wanted his life for the past thirty years.
I don't know if he is too stable, or if Liu Dingsheng's ability to recognize people is so accurate.
"Senior, something has happened here. It's getting late, so I should go back." Song Changming said.
"Hey, this game of chess must be played eventually." Liu Dingsheng did not forget about the half-played chess game on the table and pulled Song Changming to prevent him from leaving.
Even if his enemies came to visit him today, they didn't disturb his interest in playing chess.
In the end, Liu Dingsheng was the better at chess, and Song Changming was defeated once again and left.
The days are still going on day by day.
As the climate gets hotter and hotter, and there is no rainfall for many days, there are faint signs of a severe drought this year.
In addition, the fifth prince frequently requisitioned food due to successive years of war, causing several surrounding counties, including Donglai County, to fall into an emergency state of food shortage.
As a result, it was hard to find food on the market, and more and more hungry people and people died of starvation appeared outside the city.
The chaos became uncontrollable and intensified.
People who don't have enough to eat often do more extreme things.
And this severe drought quickly swept through most of the Great Han Dynasty.
Prefectures and counties came to the imperial court, hoping to provide food relief to the world, and memorials flew into Yunling City, the imperial capital, like snowflakes.
But in the end, everything fell into disarray and there was no response at all.
At the moment, the new emperor is busy confronting the four kings, and the treasury is not rich in money and food, so how can it be used to help the people at this time.
And this wave of inaction from the court became the straw that broke the camel's back.
The people revolted.
A rebel army named Wumeng took the lead in rising up in the north, intending to overthrow the new emperor.
Immediately afterwards, a rebel army emerged from the south, calling itself the Utopia, and its momentum was even greater than that of the Wu League in the north.
The martial alliance is generally formed by many ambitious warriors in the world, and is an alliance community formed by the gathering of many secret forces.
As for the utopia in the south, it is a grassroots uprising of the people at the bottom. Although the individual strength is not as strong as that of the Wu League, there are many people, very many!
This is also the reason why the rebel army in the south became so powerful when it first came out.
And they can be considered an armed uprising. They have privately forged a large number of weapons and equipment, including not only armors but also weapons such as crossbows for rebellion! Not to be underestimated!
The rise of the two rebel armies caused the imperial court to completely lose control of the Dahan Dynasty.
The internal troubles were so serious that on the outside, the imperial court seemed to be just the largest force in the competition among multiple forces.
Fewer and fewer people in various places still obey the orders of the imperial court, the imperial power is falling apart, and the imperial court is declining!
I have to say that this severe drought came at the wrong time.
Originally, there were still many people who had confidence in the current imperial court and hoped that the new emperor could put down the civil strife as soon as possible, stabilize the world, and restore peace and prosperity.
But nowadays, the number of people who think this way is also decreasing.
Donglai County City, Songzhai.
Early in the morning, Song Pingan carried a stick and had just beaten away a few thieves and returned to the courtyard.
"Brother Song, there are food thieves everywhere in the city now. They come every now and then. It's really annoying." Song Ping'an muttered.
In the courtyard, Song Changming had just finished his work and rested. He shook his head and said: "The world is like this. If you want to blame it, it's the world that doesn't give these people a way to survive."
Song Ping'an scratched his head. He didn't know much about literacy yet, and he still couldn't understand many principles. He just said: "Fortunately, thanks to Brother Song, I have stored a lot of food at home early.
Otherwise, our food and clothing will be a problem. Now the price of food in the city is extremely high. A pound of brown rice costs hundreds of copper coins! All that polished rice was bought with money! "
"From now on, don't tell anyone about the food at home, you know." Song Changming reminded.
"I know, Brother Song." Song Pingan smiled.
Song Changming himself estimated that the food collected at home would be enough for them to eat for three years.
The only troublesome thing is the large amount of meat he needs every day, which has to be replenished frequently.
The price of meat in the city was also quite exaggerated, and it was even so exaggerated that even he couldn't afford it.
Fortunately, he still had the meat supply channels he had accumulated during his time as a patrolman, so it was not hard to find meat.
(End of chapter)