Changsheng: My experience in patrolling the liver

Chapter 129 Drought and Uprising

"A good opponent." Song Changming glanced at this person and recognized the level of strength he demonstrated.

It is rare among martial artists to be able to fight with him for such a long time.

Being at the same realm, this person probably rarely fails.

It’s a pity that it fell into Song Changming’s hands today, which made him realize that there is always someone better.

Seeing that the other party still wanted to struggle, Song Changming did not hesitate and simply stepped on the other party's limbs and broke them, then carried him back to the inner courtyard.

The door to the inner courtyard had been destroyed. Liu Ziwen brought his brothers back and captured and killed the remaining people who had attacked at night.

Liu Dingsheng, who is already old, did not take any action tonight, so the vendetta was resolved.

Song Changming threw the person in his hand into the yard and looked at Liu Dingsheng.

"Don't worry. In half a month, I will ask Ziwen to deliver to you the ginseng that I promised you. It must be two hundred years old, no more, no less." Liu Dingsheng understood what Song Changming meant and promised.

He could still afford to give away a mere 200-year-old ginseng. There was no need for him to go back on his word with a youngster at his age.

"Senior is very generous." Song Changming said immediately. He felt lucky that he didn't leave early tonight.

Not only did he try his hand at actual combat and stretch his body, he also earned a 200-year-old precious mountain ginseng.

The key is that this battle does not pose any risk to him.

The opponent is not strong, and there is Liu Dingsheng behind him to support him.

"Let me see who you are." Liu Dingsheng's attention was now on the enemy who had lost his ability to resist, and he signaled Liu Ziwen to pull off the other's mask.

Under the mask was the face of a middle-aged man.

He has thick eyebrows and big eyes. He is not very handsome, but he is decent.

It's just a few scars on his face and neck that make him look a little more fierce.

Liu Dingsheng looked at the other person for a while, but he couldn't remember who the other person was, but the hatred in the other person's eyes when he was looking at him was real.

"What grudge do I have against you? Tell me about it." Liu Dingsheng simply asked the person involved.

"Thirty years ago, in Gejiazhuang, you killed my adoptive parents and my brother," the man said gritting his teeth.

"It happened thirty years ago, so it's not that long ago." Liu Dingsheng rubbed his eyebrows, as if he was thinking.

"I have some impression of Gejiazhuang. I only remember that we wiped out a local gang of vicious bandits. Could your adoptive parents be members of that gang?"

"You, how dare you humiliate my parents! I will not let you go even if I become a ghost!" Ge Tai was furious, but his limbs were broken and he was held at knifepoint, so he couldn't move even if he wanted to.

"Okay, since it's not that evil bandit, you may have found the wrong person." Liu Dingsheng shook his head.

"Impossible, my father is the local county magistrate, and many people saw with their own eyes that you killed him, and you still dare to quibble!" Ge Tai said angrily.

"County magistrate?" Liu Dingsheng looked strange.

Liu Ziwen, who had followed Liu Dingsheng for many years, heard him mention the county magistrate and couldn't help but say, "I was there at that time. The county magistrate of Gejiazhuang was killed by the gang. How can they blame my master for it?
I remember clearly that when we entered the county magistrate's house, the county magistrate's family had been killed at night. After my master learned about this, he was furious and wiped out the gang!"

When Song Changming heard this, his first reaction was that this young-looking Liu Ziwen was actually a character who had appeared thirty years ago? !

He had always thought that Liu Ziwen was only a few years older than him.

When Ge Tai heard this, he was stunned at first, a little surprised, and then he subconsciously denied it.

"Impossible! Absolutely impossible!"

"What is is what is. Do I need to argue with you now about what I did back then?" Liu Dingsheng snorted.

Upon hearing this, Ge Tai was already filled with doubt and uncertainty.

The other party can kill him with just a knife, so there is really no need to talk about these useless things with a dying man.

"If you don't believe me, I will let you go back to investigate. If what I said is true, you have to clear my name locally." Liu Dingsheng continued.

When Liu Ziwen heard this, he hurriedly stopped him and said, "Sir, no, this man came to assassinate you tonight, it is true, you can't let him go like this."

Liu Dingsheng shook his head and just looked at Ge Tai without changing his mind.

"Okay!" Ge Tai didn't expect that he still had a chance to survive. After a moment of silence, he agreed.

"I will investigate thoroughly. If you really avenged me, then you will be my benefactor. I will come back to atone for my sins. You can kill me or chop me up as you wish!"

In the end, Liu Dingsheng let go of the enemy who came to his door with just a few words.

I have to say that this move was truly impulsive.

Song Changming on the side thought he couldn't be so open-minded. If someone wanted to kill him, no matter what the reason was, he would not let him go so easily, even if it was just a misunderstanding.

"After carrying a blood feud for thirty years, I found out in the end that I had the wrong target for revenge. It's really like a child's play." Song Changming felt it was outrageous as he watched Ge Tai leave.

"Hahaha, this is how the world is. All kinds of strange things happen every day. I think this man is a little stupid, but he is a man who values ​​friendship and loyalty. Believe it or not, I will have a good helper in the future." Liu Dingsheng couldn't help laughing after hearing what Song Changming said.

"Uh, this..." Song Changming looked at the corpses on the ground in the yard. To be honest, he didn't quite believe that the man who wanted revenge 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 him until death, he would not dare to try to accept the person who had wanted to kill him for the past thirty years.

I don’t know if he is too cautious or if Liu Dingsheng’s ability to judge people is just so accurate.

"Senior, now that the matter here is over and it's getting late, I should go back." Song Changming said.

"Hey, this game of chess must be finished." Liu Dingsheng did not forget the half-played chess game on the table and pulled Song Changming to stop him from leaving.

Even though his enemies came to his door today, it did not disturb his interest in playing chess.

In the end, Liu Dingsheng was better at chess, and Song Changming was defeated again.

The days still go by one by one.

As the climate gets hotter and hotter and there has been no rain for many days, there are signs of a severe drought this year.

In addition, due to years of war, the Fifth Prince frequently forcibly requisitioned grain, causing several surrounding counties, including Donglai County, to fall into an emergency state of food shortage.

As a result, food was hard to come by in the market, and more and more hungry people appeared inside and outside the city, and people starved to death.

The chaos became increasingly uncontrollably worse.

People who don't even have enough food to eat tend to do more extreme things.

This severe drought quickly swept across most of the Dahan Dynasty.

All prefectures and counties submitted petitions to the imperial court, hoping for food relief to save the people, and memorials flew into the imperial capital, Yunling City, like snowflakes.

But in the end, there was no response at all.

Right now the new emperor is busy confronting the four kings, and the treasury is already short of money and grain, so how could he use it to help the people at this time?

This wave of inaction by the court became the last straw that broke the camel's back.

The people revolted.

An uprising army called Wumeng took the lead in rising up in the north, intending to overthrow the new emperor.

Soon after, an uprising army emerged in the south, calling itself the Utopia, and its momentum was even greater than that of the Wumeng in the north.

The Martial Arts Alliance is generally formed by many ambitious warriors in the martial arts world, and is an alliance community formed by the convergence of various secret forces.

As for the Utopia in the South, it is a grassroots uprising of the lower-class people. Although their individual strength is not as strong as that of the Martial Alliance, there are many of them. A lot of them!

This is also the reason why the southern uprising army was so powerful from the beginning.

Moreover, they were also an armed uprising, and they had privately forged a large number of weapons and equipment, not only armor but also crossbows, which were powerful weapons for rebellion! They should not be underestimated!
The rise of the two rebel forces caused the imperial court to completely lose control of the Dahan Dynasty.

The internal troubles were so serious that on the surface, the imperial court seemed to be just the largest force among many competing forces.

Fewer and fewer people in various places obeyed the court's orders, the imperial power fell into the wrong hands, and the court became increasingly weak!

I have to say that this drought came at a very inappropriate time.

Originally, there were still many people who still had confidence in the current court and hoped that the new emperor would be able to quell the civil strife as soon as possible, stabilize the country, and restore peace and prosperity.

But nowadays, the number of people who think this way is decreasing.

Donglai County City, Song Residence.

Early in the morning, Song Ping'an returned to the yard with a stick in his hand, having just chased away a few thieves.

"Brother Song, there are grain thieves everywhere in the city now. They come every few days. It's really annoying." Song Ping'an muttered.

In the courtyard, Song Changming had just finished his training and rested. He shook his head and said, "The world is like this. If you want to blame someone, blame the world for not giving these people a way to live."

Song Ping'an scratched his head. He didn't know many words and didn't understand many things. He just said, "Fortunately, thanks to Brother Song, we stored a lot of food at home early on.

Otherwise, we will have problems with food and clothing. The price of food in the city is very high now. A pound of brown rice costs hundreds of copper coins! Even refined rice costs silver coins!"

"In the future, don't tell anyone that you have food at home, okay?" Song Changming reminded.

"I know, Brother Song." Song Ping'an smiled.

Song Changming estimated that the food stored in his home would be enough for them to eat for three years.

The only trouble is the meat he needs every day, which needs to be replenished frequently.

The price of meat in the city was also quite outrageous, and at one point it was so outrageous that even he could not afford it.

Fortunately, he still had the meat supply channels he had accumulated during his time as a patrol officer, so he was not hard-pressed to get meat.

(End of this chapter)