Chapter 12 The people are in turmoil

In April of the first year of Taixi, the impact of the disaster finally passed.

Jiang Shouyi returned to his hometown Chashan Village and resettled, because he had money to buy land, he was restored to being a good citizen.

He took his grandson and worked hard to plow the land, thinking that the peaceful days were finally coming.

However, it was also this month that the founding emperor of the Great Jin Dynasty died suddenly due to a serious illness, and he was nicknamed Emperor Wu!

The princes were young, but the crown prince Sima Zhong was the longest, and he immediately ascended the throne and changed the yuan to Yongping.

The imagery is always peaceful.

However, the new monarch Sima Zhong was born with dementia and could not do anything, and a year later, the vassal kings and clans rebelled one after another and fought against each other.

All of a sudden, the heroes were divided, this one was founded, and that one was called the emperor! After the end of the troubled times of the Great Jin Dynasty for only ten years, the world is in chaos again!

Soldiers all over Kyushu are in trouble, and wolf smoke is everywhere! Famine and war are endless, and the people are struggling to make a living!

Yongping for three years.

Langya County has been repeatedly endowed in order to supply the king of Qi's 'Qingjun side', and the people have all broken their homes, or sold themselves to their homes, or fallen into the grass.

Chashan Village was first exploited by tax collectors, and then encountered bandits.

Jiang Shouyi stepped forward, united the villagers, formed a village to defend himself, fought hard for several days, and finally forced back the bandits, kept the last grain, and survived the winter.

In order to save the next year's cropland, the four-year-old Yan slave only ate hay for a living.

"Yan Nu'er, Ah Weng can't stand you, when it is too peaceful next year, Ah Weng will make you noodle soup to eat." In the cold winter, Jiang Shouyi hugged Yan Nu and cried silently.

"Uh-huh!" Yan Nu gnawed on grass and ate it with relish, I don't know what I'm sorry for.

There was also a clear blood mark on his waist, which was circular.

Outsiders thought it was a birthmark, but only Jiang Shouyi knew that it was an injury that was cut in half when he was a child.

It takes 100 days to break your muscles and bones, and if you cut your hand while chopping wood, it will take more than 10 days to grow. Directly cut off the waist, it is estimated that it will take at least several years to heal completely.

Although even a broken waist is called an injury, this kind of thing is very strange, but Yan Nu is like this.

"Ah Weng always said to wait for peace, what is peace?" Yan Nu's big eyes were full of curiosity.

Jiang Shouyi showed a wistful smile on his face: "Even if the world is peaceful and free of chaos, we people can live a good life and will not be bullied." ”

"Is it coming next year?" Yan Nu smiled when he saw Ah Weng, who had always had a sad face, thinking that it must be something extremely beautiful, and he couldn't help but want to see it himself.

Jiang Shouyi listened to his grandson's words, looking back on the troubled times when he was young, before the Great Jin Dynasty, the world was in turmoil for a hundred years, and now it has been unified for more than ten years, and it is time to come to the prosperous era.

So he nodded firmly: "Of course, next year will definitely be too peaceful." ”

Yongping for four years.

The homeless rebels of Donglai have ravaged the territory of Langya.

Its leader called himself 'Tianyi Gong', and attacked the city under the banner of 'Tianyi Old Immortal, boundless mana, relief of the world, peace and eternal years'.

The major wealthy clans have strengthened their recruitment, and the garrisons of Langya cities are based on the city. After a month of fruitless attack, the thieves plundered the villages instead, and eventually headed west.

Chashan Village had a poor harvest because the people had too few seeds and too much wasteland at the beginning of spring. They were also plundered by the rebels, and the people had no food or clothing.

Jiang Shouyi took Yan Nu and dozens of fellow villagers to flee into the mountains and dig wild roots to survive.

Yan Nu was still eating grass, and he didn't know why the people in the village and Ah Weng ate the unpalatable wild roots, but he tasted it once and felt that it was not as delicious as grass!

"Are they just Taiping?" Yan Nu pointed to the army with large bags and small bags under the mountain and asked, he had heard this group of people shouting what peace and eternal years.

"Nope! No! They are all thieves! Bandit! Jiang Shouyi's eyes were red, their village was ransacked, and countless familiar faces were taken away.

"Those who don't give us a way to live are all wicked. The government will definitely pacify them, and when the government's army arrives, we will be peaceful. ”

Yongping five years.

The Great Jin Huwei general was scarce, commanding an army of 30,000 thieves, and the two armies confronted each other at the junction of Qingxu and Xuzhou.

Among the thieves were demons, who were good at changing, blending into the army, disrupting military orders, spreading rumors, and burning down granaries, resulting in the defeat of the Jin army.

Gou Xi gathered the defeated army, wandered through the counties of Qingzhou, and marched to Langya County, because of low morale, and the local wealthy families were unwilling to work the army, so they let the army go to the countryside.

Chashan Village did not leave a grain of grain, the cry shook the sky, soon after the village was put into the local wealthy family, reduced to serfdom, all the farmland of Chashan Village belonged to the Zhang family of Huaxian County, renamed Chashan Fort.

The six-year-old Yan Nu was half a human tall at this time, and the wounds on his body only had faint marks, and he was basically healed.

Now barefoot, munching on hay, he also went down to the field to help with the work and reclaim for the wealthy family.

He innocently asked, "Ah Weng, is it too peaceful?" ”

Jiang Shouyi's face was sad, and he said resentfully: "Good boy, this is not a peaceful ......"

"Although it is the army of the government, it is more hateful than the anti-thief, and the court will definitely punish it severely."

Yan Nu was very curious: "Is it too peaceful after the imperial court severely punishes it?" ”

How does Jiang Shouyi know? He thought about it with his hoe and said: "The king of Qi raised troops on the side of the Qing monarch a few years ago, and there are traitors who rebel in the chaos of the world, and when the king of Qi succeeds, it will be peaceful." ”

Yongping six years.

The king of Qi defeated the usurping king of Zhao, and after the success of the Qing monarch, he granted amnesty to the world and won over the generals.

As a result, Gou Xi, who was full of criticism, was promoted to general of Pingdong, and was transferred to Yanzhou to continue to quell the chaos......

However, before leaving, Gou Xi forcibly requisitioned the people, plundered 60,000 laborers from various counties, built roads and bridges, and transported supplies.

Jiang Shouyi and Yan Nu were tormented along the way, and the soldiers whipped them like prisoners.

"Ah Weng, Ah Weng, is Taiping coming?" Yan Nu listened to the cry in his ears and couldn't help asking.

Jiang Shouyi protected Yan Nu in his arms, gritted his teeth and said: "They don't give us a way to live, we have to find a way by ourselves......"

The war began, and in the midst of the chaos, Jiang Shouyi took Yan Nu and fled while the chaos.

On the way, Jiang Shouyi desperately dealt with the four sergeants, and Yan Nu was stabbed more than 20 times, but nothing happened.

In the end, with the help of the seven-year-old Yan Nu, Weng and Sun fled back to their hometown.

Yongping seven years.

The king of Nansha and the king of Qingjun flanked, broke through the imperial city, and killed the king of Qi in the chaos.

There were immortals who killed the demons among the thieves, and the court issued an edict to pardon the rebels and only punish the evildoers. A month later, Tianyi Gong was killed by his men, and the 120,000 rebels were turned into the Jin army, and all of them fell under Gou Xi's command.

Gou Xi was meritorious because of Zhao'an, and he was promoted to the general of the east! Governor town Taishan, Langya, Pyeongchang, Beihai four counties!

Jiang Shouyi finally returned to his hometown, but Gou Xi then ordered the second- and third-rate wealthy families in each county to contribute to the labor army and send people to repair the city.

As a result, the wealthy families complained and the people were miserable.

Eight-year-old Yan slave, with grass in his mouth, naked and barefoot, ran around at the foot of the city wall, bringing water to the laborers.

When it was sent to Jiang Shouyi, he asked, "Ah Weng, Ah Weng, is this Taiping?" ”

Jiang Shouyi stroked Yan Nu's head with one hand, drank a big bowl of water, and said strongly: "Good boy, wait, wait...... It's almost too peaceful......"

"After repairing this city, we can go home and farm, and if we work hard, it will be okay next year."

Yongping eight years. There is a great drought in Qingzhou, and the red land is thousands of miles.

Tens of thousands of displaced people stormed the Hao manor, besieged the dock fort, and looted the granary.

The Zhang clan of Huaxian County distributed weapons to the tenant farmers and ordered all the docks under his name to defend them. Jiang Shouyi also picked up the knife and stood on the wall of Chashan Fort desperately.

Finally, after ten days, he waited for the sparse army, and after killing the displaced people, he asked the army to enter the Chashan Fort for repair.

The Zhang clan in the fort refused to open the door, and Gou Xi was furious and ordered an attack, and Chashan Fort was slaughtered.

A fire burned down the whole village, and only a few households of the former Chashan villagers escaped to various places.

Gou Xi is known as a big thief, beheading more than 10,000 people!

Jiang Shouyi desperately fled up the mountain with Yan Nu, escaped the catastrophe, and when he came back, he was already devastated and corpses were all over the field, and countless familiar faces were killed.

"Ah Weng......" Yan Nu found a few blood-stained grass and stuffed them into his mouth, and he didn't finish his words.

Jiang Shouyi knelt on the ground and sobbed, grabbed the scorched earth on the ground, and whimpered: "No...... Nothing left......"

"Everybody's dead...... They're all dead......"

Yan Nu squatted aside: "Ah Weng, what will happen if you die?" ”

"It's just that I'll never see ...... again," Jiang Shouyi got up and hugged Yan Nu.

However, Yan Nu pointed to the corpse hanging not far away: "Aren't Uncle Datou, Aunt Cha, Ah Lian, and Xiao Quanzi all there?" ”

"But they will never speak again, they will not call you Yan Nu'er, and they will never move." Jiang Shouyi howled and cried.

Seeing Ah Weng so sad, Yan Nu couldn't help but cry.

Jiang Shouyi wiped away his tears with his rough hands: "Yan Nu'er, don't cry...... Don't cry ......"

Yan Nu was very obedient, wiped away his tears and said, "Aren't you happy when you cry?" ”

"Yes, Aung likes to see you laugh."

Yan Nu immediately burst into a touching smile, warm and bright.

Jiang Shouyi also showed a bitter and strong smile, and a wave of energy rose in his heart again.

"Good boy, you smile so beautifully, Ah Weng likes it." He is a bad old man, I don't know how many times he wants to die, but for the sake of Yan Nu, he still has to live desperately.

It was as if he lived for this smile.

"Let's go, let's go into the mountains! Yan slave, you eat grass, Ah Weng digs wild roots! When it's too peaceful, we'll come back again......" Jiang Shouyi said strongly.

He couldn't help but rejoice that Yan Nu was too easy to feed, and he had basically eaten grass all these years...... In winter, you can still keep warm......

Thinking of this, Jiang Shouyi felt sad, he was too useless, he didn't give Yan Nu any good life, but he relied on Yan Nu to survive many difficult moments.

"Was it too peaceful when you came back?" Yan Nu asked.

Jiang Shouyi nodded heavily: "Yes!" That sparsely provoked the family, and there are not many good days! ”

Nine years of Yongping.

The king of the East China Sea raised troops on the side of the Qing monarch, and Gou Xi led the army to respond.

In order to prevent a fire in the rear, the king of the East China Sea asked the leader of Shilin, the Langya Wang clan, to come forward to temporarily suppress the resentment of the Hao clan and ease the tension between Gou Xi and the Hao clan.

Soon after, Gou Xi was promoted to general of Zhengdong because of his meritorious service.

The families then reined, recruited displaced people, trained the villagers, reclaimed wasteland, and recuperated.

The forest of the tea mountain was cut down, Jiang Shouyi could no longer make a living, and was forced to go down the mountain to reclaim, and was enslaved under the name of the Hao family.

The ten-year-old Yan slave struggled to pull the plow and swallowed the grass at the same time.

Jiang Shouyi was also ploughing with sweat on the side, his skin was withered and black, like smoked bacon.

"Ah Weng, Ah Weng, when will the world be peaceful?"

"Wait...... When those vassal kings are all settled, good days will come. ”

Yongping ten years.

The king of the East China Sea invaded the imperial capital, beheaded the king of Nansha, and controlled the government.

It went east and west to fight, pacified the rebellion of the vassal king, and there were immortals to congratulate, and for a while, the princes were served.

Gou Xiping has merit in quelling chaos and has been promoted to the history of Qingzhou Thorn! Governor Qingzhou Nine Counties!

He became more and more arrogant and domineering, preying on the common people, enriching the treasury with gold and jade, and the relationship with the Hao clan was bad again, and there were constant conflicts within the territory.

Old and young like the grandfather and grandson can only work hard, cultivating land during the day, chopping wood and burning bricks for the Hao family at night, and getting up early in the morning to fetch water, and then continuing to reclaim the land.

However, even so, after autumn, they still have to go to repair the dock fort for the Hao family.

In the cold winter, Jiang Shouyi relied on the Yan slave to keep warm, and repaired the wall outside the 'New Tea Mountain Fort' on a snowy night.

"Ah Weng, is Taiping still coming?"

Jiang Shouyi said almost numbly: "The war is over, the world is going to be peaceful, next year will ...... It will be better next year. ”

Eleven years of Yongping. Rebellion.

The clans and tribes that were originally attached to the Great Jin Dynasty, helped quell the chaos, and took the opportunity to grow stronger, rose up one after another, ravaged the north, and slaughtered and looted.

They are fierce and unstoppable, and they have strange power and evil magic, and in just a few months, they have swept across the north and south of the river, and have flowed through all states.

Yongzhou, Bingzhou, Youzhou, Jizhou, and Yuzhou were in chaos one after another, and dozens of counties fell.

Countless hungry people were forced to rebel, form armies to protect themselves, and fled to various places, begging for food.

Gou Xi sat in Qingzhou and added endowments again and again, and the wealthy families frantically repaired forts and practiced soldiers, and the heavy hard labor made the life of the grandfather and grandson more and more difficult.

One day, Jiang Shouyi was seriously ill, and Yan Nu was in a hurry, and when he heard that there was good medicine in the warehouse of the martial arts training ground, he directly broke in to get the medicine and feed it to Ah Weng.

Afterwards, he was whipped half to death by order of the nobles in the castle, and almost choked his breath.

Looking at his grandson's tragic condition, Jiang Shouyi was extremely distressed, and faintly regretted letting him be an ordinary person: "Next time, don't be so impulsive and annoy the nobles...... If something happens to you, how will Aung live? ”

Although Yan Nu was miserable, he still stubbornly said: "Where are the nobles more noble than us? ”

Jiang Shouyi was stunned: "Nobles study more, and there is a ......university that governs the world."

He thought of the chaos in the world, so he changed his words again: "Most of the wealthy nobles have been immortals, immortals are immortal, calling for wind and rain, and have unimaginable power ...... mortals."

Yan Nu suddenly said: "So immortality, is it noble if you are powerful?" ”

Jiang Shouyi didn't understand, but said: "We are all untouchables, when the world is peaceful, you can live a good life, and Ah Weng will be satisfied." ”

Yan Nu asked, "Can Taiping really wait?" ”

"Yes......" Jiang Shouyi murmured numbly: "I heard that the nobles of the family want to invite the immortals to be born, and the immortals will create peace." ”

In the twelfth year of Yongping, demons were born in the year of the catastrophe, and evil demons were conceived in the chaos.

Now the chaos has lasted for more than ten years, and the world is gradually full of demons and demons!

There is a golden-horned demon in the state, ten feet long, leading beasts to eat people, and animals are sheep! I want to eat 300 women a day!

Countless heroes went to crusade, only to become a meal for the 100,000 wolves under his command.

Yongzhou has a drought that abuses the world, does not live or die, and where it passes, not a single inch of grass grows!

The Twelve Scattered Talents of Jiming Mountain were born to subdue demons, fell in Tianshui, and turned into zombies.

There are nine dragons pulling up the mountain in Qingzhou, and a blue and white giant peak rises on the flat ground, and the climbers are hit by the robbery clouds.

Eighteen demons live in it, set up eighteen layers of purgatory, torture and torture immortals, known as the 'Nine Dragons Demon Cave'.

Seeing this chaotic situation, he finally woke up the family gate valve and asked his own immortals to come out and subdue demons.

As everyone knows, there is also great power among the barbarians. Since the previous dynasty, it has been attached to the development of the Central Plains, and now it has become a trend!

They merge with demons, and they are extraordinary.

On the other hand, the monks of the Central Plains responded very little. The immortal family is in a leisurely mood, dashing, escaping from the world, and living far away in the mountains and seas.

Occasionally, it is also casual! It floats and goes......

Even with the secular situation of the Great Jin Dynasty, the top families and first-class gate valves have suffered heavy losses, so they simply gave up their ancestral land, retreated to the war-free Jiangnan, and cultivated their lives.

The big clans all moved south, which made the barbarism of the northland even more arrogant.

There are many places left that the small and powerful people have stayed behind and inherited the property of the big clan in the Northland.

"Ah Weng Ah Weng, the nobles are crying, it seems that some ancestor has died?" Yan Nu gnawed on the grass and said the news he had inquired about.

Jiang Shouyi let out a long sigh, he knew that many of the immortals in the wealthy clans in Langya County had died in the blue-white magic mountain that suddenly rose thousands of miles away.

He looked a little dazed, this world is getting more and more difficult.

Look at yourself again, she is over the age of six, her gray hair is as thin as firewood, her body is not as good as day by day, and she is almost dry bones in the mound, how long can she accompany Yan Nu?

He hugged Yan Nu tightly, and said weakly: "Remember, Ah Weng will die one day, don't cry when the time comes, live bravely and strongly." ”

Yan Nu muttered, "Live......"

Jiang Shouyi stroked him: "Yes, you can live, you can eat, you can laugh, you can miss, you can protect the people you love......"

"You are still young, if you live, you will definitely see the day when you see peace."

Yan Nu nodded vigorously: "Knowing Ah Weng, I will live forever!" ”

Thirteen years of Yongping.

A Human tribe called the Bald Hair Clan swept to Qingzhou.

Although the entire tribe is only 30,000 people, the soldiers are extremely fierce.

Qingzhou Thorn Shi Gou was shocked, and while gathering a large army to meet the enemy, he also ordered the wealthy clans of various counties to send troops to help.

However, the wealthy clans hated him deeply, and only sent some old, weak, sick and disabled, and Jiang Shouyi was among them.

"Good boy, don't be afraid, Ah Weng is not here, you have to be good alone." Jiang Shouyi was full of white hair, holding a soldier and saying goodbye to Yan Nu.

Fourteen-year-old Yan Nu was already about the same height as him, with a lean body with slightly dark skin and a pair of big eyes as bright as stars.

Yan Nu was eager to try: "I want to go too, Yan Nu has never been separated from Ah Weng!" ”

"Nope! No! Jiang Shouyi said solemnly: "You have to be obedient, wait for me to come back in the fort, remember not to cause trouble!" Work hard......"

"Those noble people were born nobler than us. If they bully you and don't give you food, you will secretly dig grass......"

"If they beat you up, don't fight back, but if they want to kill you...... You have to run! Whoever stands in your way will be killed! Kill desperately! ”

Jiang Shouyi didn't know if he could come back if he went, he was too worried about Yan Nu.

Yan Nu is innocent and fearless, and his sex is as fierce as fire. On weekdays, he is still a little stupid, and he always can't figure out a lot of common sense things.

On the other hand, once he figured it out, what he had decided on would not be changed again, and ten cows would not be able to pull it back.

When he is there, he can still manage him, but what can he do when he is gone?

Without Xue'er, the magic of Yan Nu has come to a standstill, and the strange ability to eat grass or something is still eating the old book of infancy.

Thinking of this, he asked again: "Remember, child...... You also have a family member, her name is Zhu Yanxue, and she is the noble daughter of the Anqiu Zhu family......"

Jiang Shouyi has kept his promise over the years, he has never been to the Zhu family's territory, and he doesn't know how Xue'er is, so he wants to grow into a beautiful girl.

At this moment, he told Yannu everything about Xue'er, and he was afraid that he would not have a chance to talk about it in the future.

"Family?" Yan Nu scratched his head.

"Yes, you were all born by God, and Ah Weng picked you up......" Jiang Shouyi finally told him about his life experience, and he didn't know if he and Xue'er were considered sisters or sisters, so he only said that he was family.

"If one day, someone bullies you and you have nowhere to go, go to her. It doesn't matter if she doesn't recognize you, you just need to follow her and protect her, even if it's good to be a servant by her side. ”

Jiang Shouyi knew that as long as Xue'er was by his side, Yannu would be even more magical, and he would have the capital to protect himself in this troubled era.

Although it may be easier to cause trouble and be coveted by many bad people, but at that time, there is no way to do it, maybe Yan Nu is really destined not to be mortal.

If he had known that the world would be like this, he probably wouldn't have let the two children separate.

"Xue'er grew up in a famous family, she must be more sensible than you, if ...... If you feel it makes sense, you listen to her. ”

"I see...... Aweng, you must come back early. Yan Nu smiled warmly.

Jiang Shouyi reluctantly stroked Yan Nu's soft black hair: "Ah Weng will come back, Ah Weng hasn't taken you to live a good life yet." ”

Yan Nu grinned: "Oh! Awn! When you come back, will the world be peaceful? ”

Jiang Shouyi smiled: "When the world is peaceful, Ah Weng will come back." ”

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