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 Liu Dingsheng is 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 you still 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 could he still be blamed 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, they 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.

When Ge Tai heard this, he was already shocked and confused.

The opponent can kill him now with a knife, so 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.

Liu Ziwen on the side heard this and quickly stopped him: "Sir, no, it's a fact that this person came to assassinate him tonight, 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 dazed, he is a person who values ​​love and justice.

Believe it or not, I will have a good helper in the future. "Liu Dingsheng couldn't help laughing when he heard 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, the matter here is over. 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-finished chess game on the table, and pulled Song Changming to stop him from leaving.

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

In the end, Liu Dingsheng's chess skills were better, and Song Changming was defeated again and left.

The days still went by one by one.

As the climate became hotter and hotter, and there was no rain for many days, there were signs of a severe drought this year.

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

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

The chaos was also uncontrollably intensified.

People who couldn't even get enough food often did more extreme things.

And this severe drought quickly swept most of the Great Han Dynasty.

Each state and county submitted a petition to the court, hoping to receive food relief. One after another, the memorials flew into the imperial capital Yunling City like snowflakes.

But in the end, they all fell into the sea, without any response.

At present, the new emperor is busy with the four kings. The treasury is not rich in money and grain, so how can it be used to help the people at this time?

And with the court's inaction, it became the last straw that broke the camel's back.

The people revolted.

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

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

The Wumeng was generally formed by many ambitious warriors in the rivers and lakes, and formed by the gathering of various secret forces.

As for the Utopia in the south, it was a grassroots uprising of the lower-class people. Although the individual strength was not as good as the Wumeng, there were many people, very many!

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

Moreover, they were also an armed uprising, and they privately forged a large number of weapons and equipment, including not only armor but also crossbows, which were powerful weapons for rebellion! They should not be underestimated!

The rise of the two rebel armies made the court completely lose control of the Dahan Dynasty.

The internal troubles were so serious that the court seemed to be just the largest force in the competition among many forces.

Fewer and fewer people in various places obeyed the orders of the court. The imperial power fell and the court became more and more weak!

It must be said that this drought came at a very bad time.

There were still many people who had confidence in the current court and expected the new emperor to quell the civil strife as soon as possible, stabilize the world, and restore peace and prosperity.

But now, the number of people who think so is also decreasing.

Song's house in Donglai County.

Early in the morning, Song Ping'an returned to the yard with a stick after driving away several thieves.

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

In the courtyard, Song Changming had just finished his practice 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 grain at home early.

Otherwise, our food and clothing would be a problem. The price of grain in the city is now very high. A pound of brown rice sells for hundreds of copper coins! The refined rice has to be bought with silver!"

"Don't tell others about the grain in the family in the future, understand." Song Changming reminded.

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

Song Changming estimated that the grain stored at home was enough for them to eat for three years.

The only trouble was that he needed meat every day, and he had to replenish it frequently.

The price of meat in the city was also quite outrageous, even to the point where he couldn't afford it.

Fortunately, he still had the meat supply channels he had accumulated during his time as a patrol guard, so he didn't have a hard time getting meat.