Before Chen Yi's anger could be vented, an old woman with stumbling steps stumbled over to her side, grabbed the simple woman's hand and said anxiously:

"Ling'er has fainted, the doctor has come to see it, and said that he will not use medicine again, but he is afraid that there will be more luck and less luck, hurry up and think of a way!"

When the simple woman saw her mother-in-law and heard the other party's eager story, she couldn't help but turn pale.

It is now spring, there are many colds, the youngest daughter of the family has coughed and had a severe fever since the first two days, although I also asked the doctor to see it, but the family has no money to spare, and in the case of his husband's salary, even eating is a problem, so he did not take medicine in time, and only hoped that the little daughter could survive.

When people at the bottom encounter minor illnesses and disasters, they will not easily spend money to buy medicine at the pharmacy, and the main habit is to hold on - I didn't expect the condition to deteriorate so quickly.

"How can this be, yesterday was not very serious......" the simple woman panicked.

"The doctor said that the disease has entered the lungs, and the medicine must be taken immediately, otherwise it will be difficult to save her life, and the medicine will cost at least three taels of silver...... "The old woman was about to cry."

"Three taels of silver....." The simple woman shook her feet and almost fell.

Their family is poor, and they only have four taels of silver in their savings, and some time ago they were taken by their husbands and donated to the government for the national war, and now there is less than one tael of silver left in the family.

This is the last thing the family relies on to eat.

But this is not enough to buy medicine for the youngest daughter.

The simple woman could only look at the neighbor woman who had just finished showing off her wine, food and meat to her, the other party had a wealthy family, and this time there were living materials distributed by the government, so she didn't need to spend much money, and she was likely to help her at this time.

"Oh, I just remembered that there is still something at home, and Hu'er is also sick and needs to be taken care of, so I will go first......" The woman smiled stiffly, turned and left, as if she had Hot Wheels under her feet.

The simple woman's tears suddenly overflowed her eyes.

This scene made Chen Yi angry in his heart.

Because of the four words of family and country, ordinary people took out their savings at the bottom of the box when their lives were not easy, which affected their meals, which can be described as honest and kind to the extreme.

But what they didn't expect was that the hard-earned money they donated to defend the country went into the pockets of those officials and servants who were already well-off.

And when they lost their life-saving money, and they couldn't even save their family members when they were sick, the officials didn't pay attention to them.

The husband of the simple woman was indeed stupid, he was already poor, and he spent so much effort to support the national war, took out his savings that were not enough, and personally went to help repair the city defenses, and did not earn any more money to support his family.

Fortunately, the Hu people haven't come over yet, their family can't live anymore, and their relatives will be affected.

The soldiers of the rebel army are also very stupid, most of them are ordinary people, they have worked extremely weekdays, barely enough to live, and now they are abandoning everything to resist the foreign invaders, and the government does not even guarantee them food and clothing.

However, they did not leave, and although they were full of complaints, they still stayed in the barracks.

When the Hu army arrives in the coming day, they die on the battlefield, the family has no young and strong laborers, parents have lost their sons, wives have lost their husbands, and children have lost their fathers, will life be better?

Chen Yi and these people are also stupid, the country is in trouble, and the government should have rushed to the front, but now they have jumped out to contribute money and efforts, not to mention, they will be hated by the government, and they are about to be targeted by the government, and their lives are difficult to protect.

And the officials took the opportunity to fill their pockets one by one, either making a windfall or still living a nourishing life, interpreting the words "the weak and the strong" to the fullest, and bringing the true nature of cannibalism to the extreme.

However, if Daqi didn't have these incorrigibly stupid guys, when the Hu army was overwhelming, where would there still be a family and a country?

Chen Yi took two steps forward and blocked in front of the show-off woman, and when the other party stopped in amazement and was about to scold him for getting out of the way, he raised his hand and slapped the other party in the face!

Only a snapping sound was heard, indescribably crisp and powerful, the blood foam in the woman's mouth and teeth flew together, and when she screamed, she fell to the ground like a kite with a broken string, and half of her face was suddenly swollen like a monkey's buttocks.

The woman lay on the ground and did not move for a long time, and when she looked closely, she had fainted.

The simple woman and the old woman looked at Chen Yi in surprise, not understanding what was happening, and not knowing why Chen Yi, a passerby, suddenly attacked the woman who showed off, and the shot was so heavy.

When Chen Yi walked in with them, they thought that the other party was going to beat them for no reason, but they were all scared and wanted to retreat.

Chen Yi took out two gold ingots, stuffed them into her basket in the confused eyes of the simple woman, and said in a soft tone that the other party couldn't understand but felt reassured: "Take it back, see your family, don't delay." ”

Only then did the simple woman and the old woman react, and for a while their hearts were mixed, choked and speechless, only tears poured down.

When the two of them knelt down to thank them, Chen Yi had already turned around.

The goodness in this world cannot be guarded, and the justice in this world cannot be treated well, what he can do is nothing more than to protect a little more, and treat some more kindly.

Chen Yi faced the grocery store, raised his arm, and moved his fingers.

Several cultivators who were not far away and followed not far away, their figures flashed, and they rushed towards the officials who were carrying a few boxes of preserved fruits and rice wine out of the house!

Before the other party could figure out the situation, the punching bag's big fist was already like smashing a watermelon, accurately hitting the bridge of their nose!

The two officials let out a scream like killing pigs, and they were both knocked to the ground, and they could no longer hold the preserved fruits and rice wine in their hands.

As soon as they cursed twice and wanted to draw their knives to fight back, they were trampled on their faces by the feet of the two cultivators, and they fainted to the ground.

Chen Yi looked at the two subordinates and returned those preserved fruits and rice wine to the unknown grocery store shopkeeper, his eyes were awe-inspiring.

It is impossible for all the evils in this world to be eradicated, and it is impossible for all the ghosts and ghosts in this world to be cleaned up, all he can do is to never tolerate them when he sees them, and take decisive action.

"Big boss, what's next?"

The two cultivators came behind Chen Yi and asked for instructions with solemn faces.

Chen Yi also had a solemn face.

He stood still, looking at the end of the long street.

In his field of vision, there were several swordsmen in soap-robed uniforms who rushed towards the area.

Obviously, their public beating of officials has been noticed by the other party's companions.

That's not all.

The warning and rescue whistles that belong to the yamen officers have sounded all over the long street, sharp and piercing, like a howl of a ghost.

Almost at the same time, in the endless housing area on the left and right of the long street, the figures of elite cultivators rose from the ground. They went up to the roof and rushed to Chen Yi's location from all directions.

Shaped like a dragnet.

Everyone has a low look, and everyone is angry.

The comers are not good.

Chen Yi and the others have already fallen into a siege.

"Great Master, it's no coincidence that so many government cultivators appeared together, the Assassin Mansion definitely had arrangements in advance, and they want to deal with us!" a cultivator made a judgment in a cold voice.

Chen Yi didn't say anything.

Of course he knew what the situation was.

Attacking the people of the government and attacking the government, even if it is to punish the traitors and eliminate the evil and support the righteous path, will inevitably summon the other party to fight back and suppress like a thunderstorm.

The imperial court and the government are the ruling class and the master group of the country, and the authority and dignity of the ruler and the master cannot be violated at any time.

Chen Yi just didn't expect that the cultivators of the Assassin Mansion would come so quickly and so much.

But just after thinking about it, Chen Yi understood that this must have been Li Ru's premeditated arrangement.

Obviously, whether it was the restraint of the power of the government and the crackdown on the officials and servants of the government in the past few years, the supervision and restraint of the power of the assassin history, and the threat and reduction of the interests of the government, all of which made Li Ru unbearable.

This time, Chen Jinghe's case became the fuse.

This fuse ignited the war between the Yunzhou Thorn Mansion and the local clans and civil forces in Yunzhou!

This is a war for power, you live or die, and no one has a way out.

Chen Yi has been in charge of the long river boat for so many years, he is well-informed and open-minded, and he only needs to think a little to understand Li Ru's arrangement:

Dispatched almost all the officials and cultivators of the Assassin Mansion to secretly disperse into the market, and when they found that there were righteous warriors and chivalrous men who liked to meddle in their affairs on weekdays and were unfavorable to the officials and officials, they attacked the officials in front of the public, and they quickly pulled the net to arrest these Jianghu cultivators!

As long as Chen Yi's people are surrounded and can't escape, there will be human and material evidence, and Li Ru will have a reason to clean up the forces in Yunzhou!

Attacking people in the government is a great crime in any dynasty.

Killing people and killing officials are two completely different things, the latter is no different from rebellion, the government will inevitably use the most severe sanctions, and the government has the name of righteousness, and no one can say what is wrong.

And once the two sides go to war, the Yunzhou garrison will have to stand on their side, and Chen Yi and other Jianghu forces will have absolutely no chance of winning!

Judging from this arrangement, Li Ru has an accurate understanding of the virtues and behaviors of government officials and errand servants, as well as the behavior and habits of the righteous people in Yunzhou.

On the one hand, he understands that even in the current situation, the people of the government will still run rampant, squeeze the property of the common people, and even become more unscrupulous because of the expansion of power and the righteous name during the war;

On the other hand, he also knows that with the sense of justice and unscrupulous style of action shown by these righteous heroes in Yunzhou, he will never sit idly by and ignore these situations.

So this plan is bound to succeed!

It's knowing oneself and knowing one's opponent.

Chen Yi realized in an instant that since Li Ru had such a meticulous and vicious clean-up plan against the Changhe Boat and other forces in the rivers and lakes, then the situation faced by the good and upright clans in the Yun family and other places would only be worse.

For the Yun family, the Long River Boat Line and other existences, this is the sudden arrival of the autumn of life and death!

How do you cope with the current situation?

Should we rise up and resist, for the sake of justice and justice, and not hesitate to fight a bloody war with the other party, or should we take into account the overall situation of the national war, avoid uncontrolled large-scale internal friction, and temporarily forbear?

He didn't know that Li Ru had already judged that the Hu army would not take the initiative to attack Yunzhou, so he had no scruples about making this arrangement, what he thought in his mind was that the Hu army was about to come to the city, and the limited strength of Yunzhou would not be able to afford to lose a single star until the imperial reinforcements arrived!

Chen Yi is in a dilemma.

I feel a dilemma.

I have to be in a dilemma!

There is no doubt that the situation is getting out of hand.

Because he just wanted to protect more kindness and justice, because he chose not to tolerate it in the face of evil ghosts today, he brought the chivalrous forces such as Changhe Boat Line into danger!

Or even a desperate situation.

This is an extremely ironic situation, but also an extremely realistic situation.

"Great master, the cultivators of the government are about to besiege and kill, what should we do?"

The cultivator who had spoken before couldn't help but be extremely anxious when he saw that the great master, who had always behaved decisively, had been silent and did not speak in the face of a rare critical moment.

Chen Yi retracted his surging thoughts, raised his head and stared at the hundred and ten uniformed government cultivators who were already close to a hundred paces away, besieging them in a state of siege, staring at them on various rooftops, and only felt bitter for a while.

What to do?

What could he do?

He can afford to bear the responsibility for harming the overall situation of the national war? Is this his true intention?

Tied up and let the government arrest them, sit back and watch the government encircle and suppress the Yangtze River Boat Line and other forces in the rivers and lakes, so that countless elite and righteous cultivators will become the soul of the official government because he has become a dead soul under the sword of the government, how can he bear this consequence?

No matter how he chooses, the consequences are not acceptable to him.

The situation is so vast and severe that it is beyond the scope of what he, the master of the long river boating company, can handle.

He is just the leader of the forces in the rivers and lakes, not the minister of the military state on the ruling side, let alone the princes and magnates who hold the power of the dynasty in the court!

The grief and helplessness in Chen Yi's heart accumulated to an indescribable height in an instant, and in the face of an uncoping situation, he couldn't help gritting his teeth and shouting:

"Millions of foreign invaders are coming, thousands of miles of territory have fallen, countless soldiers have died in battle, and the society is in unprecedented danger, at this time, those officials in the Yunzhou Assassin Mansion who are in high positions and hold great power, and should be the mainstay of the imperial dynasty, why can't they lead the people who serve the country with enthusiasm and devote themselves to the national war, and still kill each other with us?! Where is the reason, where is the justice?!

"What is going on in this world of Great Qi?! This is the peak and prosperity of Great Qi that has not been encountered in a hundred years?!"

His low roar was filled with sadness and resentment.

His eyes were split.

His heart was bleeding.

In his decades of life, there has never been a moment when he feels that the world is so absurd, and there has never been a day when there is such a strong sense of world collapse.

He didn't know what to do.

He was at a loss.

He felt hopeless!

And then - he heard a voice.

An ethereal and heavy, flat and powerful, vicissitudes and calm.

"From ancient times to the present, if any powerful country with a large land and a large population is attacked and destroyed by foreign invaders, the most fundamental reason is not how strong the foreign invaders are and how strong the enemy army is, but only the country itself has very serious problems.

"Internal problems have corrupted the foundation of the family and the country, causing the country to weaken, and foreign criminals can take advantage of it.

"The so-called prosperity of the wealth accumulated by the rich, if there is no support from the righteous path and the hearts of the people, it is just a mirror, looking dazzling, but in fact it will be shattered with one blow. ”

As this voice came into his ears and hit his heart, Chen Yi's spirit was suddenly shocked.

Then, in his field of vision, there was one more cultivator standing with his hands in his hands, his robe sassy, and his back was dusty, his aura was as powerful as the sky, as unfathomable as an abyss, and as solid as a mountain.

The moment he saw this back, Chen Yixin only felt that his head was hot, and a lot of strength suddenly appeared in his body, and he couldn't help but bow down, and said in a hoarse and powerful voice:

"Chen Yi, the big boss of the subordinate Changhe boat industry, meet the son!"

Zhao Ning raised his arm slightly and waved it casually, signaling that Chen Yi didn't have to be polite, just get up on his own.

With his appearance, the powerful cultivator Qi was shocked on the spot.

The cultivators of the Yunzhou government who were close at hand were shocked and shocked with their faces, and their menacing appearance could no longer be seen, only the awe and fear from their hearts, which made their limbs stiff and no longer dare to take a step forward.

Zhao Ning looked at Yunzhou City flatly, ignored the officials of the Assassin History Mansion who were at a loss, and continued to teach Chen Yi, a subordinate of the humerus:

"In the national war, the bloody battle with the foreign army is only a part of the overall event, and it is not the most important. Solving the internal problems of the dynasty and gathering the hearts and minds of the great Qi are the primary tasks and foundations of the war.

"You have to remember that there are two battlefields in the national war itself, and the difficulty and cruelty of the internal battlefield will never lose half a point to the external battlefield.

"Now, do you know what was wrong with your hesitation?"

Chen Yi, who got up, looked at the majestic figure in front of him, and his previously chaotic mind became extremely firm in an instant:

"The subordinates should not be afraid of the oppression of the Assassin Mansion, they should not be afraid of the future, and they should not forget the teachings of the son, and they should not always adhere to our principled position in the face of the threat of evil ghosts!

If the people of Yunzhou, the people of the Quartet, see that the government has done a lot of evil deeds and do not have to pay the price, and learn that the government has slaughtered all of us, who are the masters of the people and the country, we will inevitably collapse our faith, and we will no longer be able to go to the battlefield one after another to protect the world of Daqi!"

Zhao Ning bowed slightly, expressing his affirmation of Chen Yi's enlightenment, and he ended this lesson to Chen Yi with a word, and it was also a lesson to all the forces in the rivers and lakes such as the Changhe Boat Line under his command:

"You all have to remember that we and the ordinary people are the main force in the national war, the mainstay of the Great Qi Dynasty, we are incomparably strong, and no one is afraid!

"Whether the other party is a local magistrate with great power, or a million Hu people and foreign criminals, whoever stands in our way to defend the country, we will destroy him!"

The words fell, Zhao Ning stepped out, a huge wave under his feet, and his clothes swayed in an instant.

Chen Yi didn't see how Zhao Ning made a move.

He only saw that on both sides of the long street, the cultivators of the Thorn History Mansion on the roofs were as if they had been hit by mountain peaks, as if they had been hit by the waves, and they all vomited blood and flew out like scattered autumn leaves.

He saw Zhao Ning walking step by step on the endless long street.

He saw countless Tsing Yi swordsmen, jumping up in this city in the farther neighborhood.

They slashed out dazzling sword light in their hands, knocking down the officials who occupied the high places one by one, and capturing the cultivators who had lost their combat power one by one, just like an eagle pounced on a pheasant or hare.

He saw the rows of roofs, the beams of brilliant sunlight, extraordinarily bright.

He stayed where he was, as if he saw the heavens spread his face, as if he saw a god come into the world.

After he came back to his senses, he hurriedly beckoned his subordinates and jumped forward together, keeping up with Zhao Ning's pace and following behind Zhao Ning.

The road ahead is long, and it is destined to overcome obstacles and spill blood everywhere.

Even the corpses on the side of the road, buried in the sand of bones.

However, they have nothing to fear.

Because they're strong enough!

On both sides of the long street, the people of Yunzhou who witnessed this scene in the shops and on the side of the street, including the owners of the grocery stores, were all full of reverence, swaying in their hearts, and then all of them were full of energy.