Chapter 159: There is no summer in the world

Day and night, at all costs, Han Shizhong and Liang Hongyu arrived at the Jiangning boundary when the war had come to an end.

With Weng Jianguo as the main commander, Liu Guangshi, deputy head of the Ma Bu Army, as the deputy commander, led 10,000 soldiers and horses, Ye Mengde and Lu Yihao each led 5,000 people from Yangzhou and Hangzhou to support, and the Great Chu army was beaten to pieces in three days, and they cowered in Jiangning City and did not dare to fight again.

Li Gang went to Jiangning in person, and instead of Wu Gou, he promised to ensure that the Qin family was safe, Qin Hui was reinstated, Qin Hui took off his dragon robe and asked to surrender, and returned to the court with Li Gang.

Liu Guangshi led the army into the city to purge the remnants of the rebels, and indulged the sergeants for three days as a reward.

As a general, Han Shizhong naturally knew the tragic situation in the city, and Liu Guangshi didn't want him to come in and get a piece of the pie, so he politely refused Liu Guangshi's invitation and brought his own soldiers and horses back.

Since they came to Jiangning, thinking of the Taohuawu mentioned by Tang Yin, the group specially went to Tianxia Village to have a glimpse of Tang Yin's former residence.

Han Shizhong went in order to remember his old friend, Liang Hongyu hesitated whether to say it, but thinking that Tang Yin abducted Emperor Roufu and fled, he didn't want to cause trouble for him anymore, so he closed his mouth quietly and accompanied Han Shizhong to visit the small and beautiful, quiet and rich village in Tang Yin's mouth.

In the middle of summer, the peach trees on both sides of the Peach Blossom Creek are fruitful, but no one is harvested, and the fallen peaches can be seen everywhere on the ground and the stream, and the air is vaguely wafting with a rotten breath, and the familiar smell of blood among the warriors.

After many years of fighting, Han Shizhong and Liang Hongyu both knew what this meant, and frowned at the same time.

There are still more than ten miles away from Jiangning City, and it is not an important road, where the military camp is stationed, there is no reason for the soldiers to pass through Tianxia Village and take a heavy hand on the village.

The two glanced at each other, drove across the Peach Blossom Bridge one after the other, and entered the village to find out.

Summer is the time of farming, the village is empty and nowhere to be seen, everywhere is broken and ruined, stained with blood, flies flying, full of dead air, such a scene the two have seen too much.

But I don't understand what is worth thinking about and looting in an ordinary rural village?

No one could ask, and the two of them came to a house that was burned to black, and the peach trees around it burned down and decayed, or should it be said to be a ruin, because the house was left with an empty appearance, and someone dug three feet into the ground, revealing a large hole, and a large stone engraved with Confucian love for the world fell into the pit, and there were traces of slashing with knives and axes on it, which was obviously deliberate.

From this stone stele, the two of them can almost be sure that this is the Peach Blossom Dock, the fairyland on earth where the Peach Blossom Fairy lives in the poem of Peach Blossom Nunnery, why did it become like this? It is impossible for the people who slaughtered the village to collect the bodies of the villagers, so where did the corpses go?

The second question was answered first, and when we reached the end of the village, a large grave bag was sprinkled with paper money, and a few pillars of residual incense with only wooden branches remained, indicating that someone had come to collect the corpses of the villagers.

There is a separate burial mound next to the large burial mound, and in front of the burial mound stands a tombstone made of peach wood.

The tomb of the first father Cao Si and the first mother Lin Xiulan is not a son Zeng Niu Jinli.

The words are carved with a knife and are not neat, and the rough chisel marks are smeared with blood, which shows the grief and indignation in the hearts of the people who erected the monument, and the determination to avenge their parents.

"It's a man, people who slaughter this village have to be careful."

Han Shizhong admired Zeng Niu's filial piety and blood, if he knew that the person who erected the monument was only half a child, he would be even more shocked.

After an acquaintance, Liang Hongyu dismounted and bowed to the tombstone, thinking of the hanging child, laughing heartlessly, not letting Su Xiu's hard-working child, grief-stricken and writing in blood, his heart stinged.

A bad premonition came to his heart, Han Shizhong's unintentional words might really become a prophecy, and the price of slaughtering the village would be a river of blood.

After all, she has seen Zeng Niu's wisdom and sharpness in his casual eyes, and the unfathomable Tang Yin as his teacher, and the Tang family is in the hidden accumulation of strength.

The inner irritability continued, Liang Hongyu went out of the village first, and met a woodcutter on the road, she stepped forward to inquire.

The woodcutter tells the truth about the slaughter of the village of Timxia.

Tianxia Village has been living a moist life these days, the main store in Jiangning City, the steamed wine on display, and the fresh vegetables in winter are all from Tianxia Village, Mrs. Weng Jianguo's maiden Yang Mansion has sent people to come many times, and they have repeatedly refused to buy out these two technologies, if it weren't for Tang Yin's good reputation, the wine and anti-time vegetables are all taught by Tang Yin, and the Yang family is not easy to take by force, otherwise they would have dealt with these people who don't know how to lift.

Later, the situation in Jiangning was chaotic, and the Yang family gradually forgot about it, and now Tang Yin is dead, Jiangning is back in the hands of Weng Jianguo, and the Yang family has a heart of plunder, and tells Liu Guangshi the secret of the treasure hidden in Taohuawu, Liu Guangshi is greedy for money, and immediately allocates soldiers and horses to kill people in the village, and kills people on the grounds of searching for spies.

"All the men in the surrounding ten miles were requisitioned to fight, and the rest of the village were old and weak, women and children, and they were able to do it."

There were not enough soldiers, Qin Hui forced the people to go to the battlefield, and fought in the same room, Liu Guangshi claimed to have killed tens of thousands of enemies, but the results of the battle were stacked by the corpses of civilians.

Seeing Han Shizhong, who was dressed in military uniform, approaching, the woodcutter hurriedly shut his mouth and asked Liang Hongyu to leave quickly: "These military masters will arrest women when they see them, girl, you should leave quickly."

After speaking, he ignored Liang Hongyu, buried his head and hunched his back lower, and cautiously turned into the wild path.

"Did you ask anything?"

"I don't know what you guys are doing, pulling strong men, robbing money, food, and little girls' skins, making the people miserable."

It's not aimed at Han Shizhong, it's purely emotional.

"The imperial court does not pay full salaries, how can the soldiers be willing to kill the enemy with their hearts, if the people of Jiangning had responded to the current resistance to Chu, how could they have fallen to this step."

In Han Shizhong's eyes, the people under the rule of the Great Chu Dynasty were all traitors and did not need sympathy.

"The little people are as brave and fearless as General Han, and you, the general, have to make Xian."

The common people live to have food and clothing, to have a wife, children, and hot kang is the blessing of the ancestors, the court does not give weapons or support, and they are too harsh for no reason, and finally they are charged with the crime of joining the enemy, and in the name of indulging the soldiers as evil, this kind of court is better than nothing.

"Kill all the people who shouldn't be killed, and return the ones who should be killed to his high-ranking officials, and it's really a saint today."

Da Chu is gone, but Qin Hui and the Qin family are still there.

"The mercy amnesty is to be seen by other state capitals that are still waiting and seeing, and the world must be settled first, so that there is a way to resist Jin with all its might, and not to slaughter a city, and it will be even more difficult to clean up if there are people attached to the rebels in the future."

Han Shizhong tried to make Liang Hongyu understand the painstaking efforts of the imperial court, but Liang Hongyu couldn't listen.

"Take these words and deceive others, and don't come to me."

There were differences of opinion, and it was useless to say more, Han Shizhong felt for the first time that Liang Hongyu was separated from him, and riding side by side was like a stranger.

Back to Shouchun Mansion, Chen Bian has sworn allegiance to the new dynasty, and since then only used the name of Jianyan year, the thunder blow to Jiangning really shocked both sides to curry favor, and the rats who supported the army and respected themselves recovered Shouchun Mansion without a single soldier, facts speak louder than words, Han Shizhong believed that he was right, and tried to persuade Liang Hongyu several times, Liang Hongyu said that he was sick and avoided, so angry that Han Shizhong scolded her for being a stupid girl with long hair and short knowledge, and couldn't tell which was more important.

Liang Hongyu stopped arguing with him and took over the task of transporting the coffin of Emperor Roufu back to the court.

The original plan was deviated, Liang Hongyu did not participate in the test, and the person in Shouchun Mansion took the responsibility of confirming that Emperor Roufu was dead, of course, after a thorough investigation, Chen Bian could not escape the charge of poor supervision, and what was lying in the coffin had nothing to do with Liang Hongyu.

In order to curry favor with the new emperor, Chen Bian sent a large ship and a soldier and horse to escort the coffin north, and sent all the wedding teams to the ship.

Carrying the black pot and sending money, Liang Hongyu naturally wanted to laugh.

When counting the palace maids, the only young Tang Yin said that Li Ying should be inside, and Liang Hongyu was even more sure that Emperor Roufu had escaped smoothly.

As soon as they landed, the forbidden army came to take over.

The eunuch read a message to the coffin, never mentioning that Emperor Roufu had been ordered by the Emperor Taishang to marry Qin Hui, only mentioning how the new emperor was grateful for the past friendship with the imperial sister, and denounced the Jin people for brutally killing the royal family and the people of Limin, vowing to avenge the blood of their father, brothers and sisters, implying that Shen and Shu had been poisoned by the same as Emperor Roufu, and laid the groundwork.

At the end of the decree, Emperor Roufu was posthumously crowned as the princess of Heguo, and the accompanying palace maid was given to accompany the funeral.

Chen Bian sealed the silver money, and the court was even happier, and he was buried alive.

Before the decree was announced, Liang Hongyu raised her head and glared at the eunuch, the eunuch shouted at her, and was about to take down this woman who offended Tianwei, Han Shizhong forcibly pressed Liang Hongyu's head, led his subordinates to shout long live, and then stuffed the white jade wrench he got from Chen Bian to the eunuch, promising to teach Liang Hongyu a good lesson.

"So-and-so will give General Han a face, and then there will be a next time Hugh blames a certain truthfully to the saint and hand it over to the saint."

snorted at Liang Hongyu and waved his hand to recall the forbidden army.

After getting along on the boat for a few days, Liang Hongyu and the palace maid got acquainted, and the palace maid kept asking Liang Hongyu for help, Liang Hongyu said that everything could be done again, and the court would treat them well.

Liang Hongyu's heart was hot, her hand stretched out to her waist, the sword had not yet been pulled out, her arms were restrained, and Han Shizhong dragged the person back.

"Give me back to Shandong immediately, I will repair the book to Liang Shuai and ask him to find a young talent to marry for you, you are in your twenties, you can no longer be willful and reckless like the girl's family, I can't control you, let your husband take care of it."

A palm slashes a person unconscious.

When Liang Hongyu woke up again, he was already on the way to Shandong, and in his drowsy head, he thought that all Niu Gui said in Wushanlou.

"What are you doing to save that princess Rausch, isn't it enough for her to enjoy the blessings? She was happy to be saved alone, but the people who stayed behind were miserable."

Niu Gui can see through the things, she actually thinks that the court will not be wiped out.

Ridiculously wrong, ridiculously stupid.

"Bohu makes money, hoards food, and recruits private soldiers just because he doesn't want to be treated as cattle and wrapped into human wontons."

Liang Hongyu questioned Tang Yin's intention to collect the secret spies of the imperial court.

Tang Yin dipped his fingers in the wine and wrote the word self-protection on the table.

"It is better to ask for others than for yourself, and it is better to slaughter others than to be slaughtered."

How deviant, how reasonable.