Half a month ago, unknown troops occupied the county seat of Lu County!

This was so unexpected that Cheng Lingtong felt a chill in his heart.

It seems that her previous speculation that Lu County was also affected by the disaster was probably wrong in general.

Lu County may have also suffered a disaster, but it was probably not a natural disaster, but a man-made disaster!

Mu Sanniang was also surprised: "What does this mean? Could it be that someone is rebelling against you?"

When she said the word backwards, her face suddenly turned pale. Natural disasters are already hard enough. If there is also a rebellion, how will the people at the bottom live their lives?

Mu Sanniang then said hurriedly: "This, this can't be possible, can it? Such a big news, we are in Ping County, we haven't heard the news..."

Hong Guangyi said in a low voice: "Sister-in-law, after that group of people entered the city, the first thing they did was to lock the city gates and then... massacre the city!"

What?

Mu Sanniang was stunned and sat a little further away. Cheng Erni and Cheng Dani, who were eating deliciously, also stopped eating.

Cheng Ling sat beside a fire, wiped away the thin beads of sweat on his forehead, and put the bowl in his hand aside.

Mu Sanniang said dryly: "Why, how did you massacre the city?"

How did you massacre the city?

Hong Guangyi paused for a moment, as if recalling something.

In fact, it is a bit wrong to say that it was a direct massacre of the city. Hong Guangyi laughed, which seemed to be self-deprecating or sarcastic.

He whispered: "There is no plan, the city gate is closed, a general rides a horse, runs from one end of the street to the other end of the street, shouting at the same time, asking everyone to be calm and obedient, and not to massacre the city. Then.

, everyone agreed, and the general said, disband!"

After disbanding, the soldiers can move freely, hey!

It sounds nice to say not to massacre the city, but what is the result?

Hong Guangyi paused, and then said with a slight trembling: "I don't know why there are so many soldiers. They are all over the streets and alleys, and the whole city is full. They are chasing people from house to house. If anyone is disobedient, they will not be killed."

Come out, those evil spirits, rush in and kill people."

Kill a few, and no one will dare to come out.

Then, Hong Guangyi's eyes gradually turned red.

He pushed back his hair that was scattered in the front and said through gritted teeth: "It's called handing over food, money, and cloth. In short, we hand over whatever we have, and we are not allowed to keep any property. We will be plundered until we die! No."

After enough was looted, they were all slaughtered."

"I can't live anymore. Who can live after being shaved so hard?"

As he spoke, Hong Guangyi couldn't help but cry in his voice: "We escaped secretly at night, using all our means and all our efforts to escape."

"Woooo..."

The crying started.

It wasn't Hong Guangyi, it turned out to be Shi Hong who woke up!

He didn't know when he woke up, and he didn't say anything. He just listened silently to Hong Guangyi's words. After listening for a while, he burst into tears.

Hong Guangyi turned to look at him, with a mix of sadness and joy: "Brother Shi, you're awake!"

Shi Hong sat up unsteadily and said faintly: "I am lucky, I am not dead."

Then, he sat there and cupped his hands to Mu Sanniang and said, "I've met my aunt."

He cupped his hands to Cheng Ling from a distance and said, "Thank you so much for saving my life!"

After saying these words, Shi Hong thought to himself: "We escaped from the city, but most of the people were still imprisoned in the city waiting to die. These rebels have no food, grass or equipment. Wherever they capture,

Just sweep wherever we go.”

"You can eat now!" Shi Hong wiped away his tears and said with a sneer, "I was in Lu County half a month ago, and now I don't know where I have gone."

These words and this insight actually seemed a bit extraordinary.

Cheng Ling also felt heavy in his heart after hearing this, and immediately said: "Brother Shi, do you have an opinion? Do you have any predictions about where they are going?"

Then he said: "Brother Shi, have you read books?"

This time, before Shi Hong could answer, Hong Guangyi straightened his back and said as if he was honored: "My brother Shi is a scholar in the ninth year of Jiande!"

Shi Hong is really a scholar!

This is actually a combination of a butcher and a scholar, which is quite interesting.

Studying is not an easy task these days. Shi Hong seems to be young, but he can be admitted as a scholar. For someone like him, it is not an exaggeration to say that he is one in a million.

Mu Sanniang stood up immediately and said politely: "It turns out that the scholar is in front of me, but the young woman is rude."

Saying that, he walked away to the side.

Shi Hong became anxious, oops, and said quickly: "Madam, please don't let this happen!"

He wanted to get up and pull Mu Sanniang, but his legs and feet were weak. Besides, it was rude to pull her.

Shi Hong turned pale with anxiety. Mu Sanniang immediately returned to her original position and sat down. Hong Guangyi, who was beside him, quickly supported Shi Hong and handed the bowl he was still holding to Shi Hong.

Shi Hong: Gudong!

Swallowing, when a very hungry person faces food, doesn't it matter whether you are a scholar or a beggar, the word "eat" is always occupied by the word "eat"?

A quarter of an hour later, Shi Hong had eaten and drank enough, and Cheng Ling finally gained a better understanding of the world through him.

Previously, Cheng Ling only knew that the country she was in was called Qi State. As for how big Qi State was and what the situation was like around it, she turned a blind eye.

The people at the bottom have limited information channels and can only see the one-third of an acre of land in front of them and a repetitive and boring life.

But Shi Hong knew: "Since the split of the former Qin Dynasty, the world's heroes have been divided and fought endlessly for years. Now that the Wei Dynasty in the north has finally been unified, we in the south, Qi State, Shu State, and Chen State, cannot have a common leader at all.

"

Cheng Ling raised her eyebrows slightly when she heard this.

It turns out that the world is divided into the north and the south by the Shen River. The Wei State in the north unified the Wuhu, but the Qi, Shu, and Chen in the south were in conflict with each other for eighty years.

As for their current king of Qi, even though he has been in power for eleven years, he is actually an emperor!

The King of Qi came to the throne at the age of two. When he came to the throne, he was still a baby who only knew how to eat, drink and defecate. After eleven years, he was only thirteen years old.

And the auxiliary minister below, just the auxiliary minister, has changed three times!

As for who really controls the government?

Shi Hong said very carefully: "There are three heavens above us. Your Majesty is the first heaven, the Queen Mother is the second heaven, and the nine-thousand-year-old father-in-law Mi is the third heaven."

But when it comes to who among the three heavens is more powerful and which one suppresses which one, Shi Hong has no way of knowing.

Although he had studied and learned a lot from his teachers and classmates, he was only a scholar from a squire family. Many court officials couldn't understand the top-level affairs of the court, let alone him, Shi Hong?

By the way, that's right, Shi Hong came from a well-known squire family in Lu County, and he was actually different from Hong Guangyi, Cheng Ling and others.

Of course, someone like him cannot be said to be a wealthy person.

Perhaps among the local county-level forces in his hometown, his family can be regarded as a wealthy gentry, but in fact, if you look at the whole world, the Shi family is just a small landowner in a poor family.

As for people like Cheng Ling and others, they can't even reach the level of a humble family!
Chapter completed!