Chapter 48: Human Sorrow
By the bonfire, the girl cried to Lu Yang and told her miserable life experience and her painful experience.
It turned out that she was a girl from an ordinary family surnamed Su in Yunzhou, and her real name was Su Xiaolian. Her Su family has lived in Yunzhou for generations, and her father has only one daughter under her knees, living in poverty and hardship, and her mother died of an incurable disease after she was born. Only she and her father were left to support this dilapidated and impoverished home.
In order to raise her young, her father could only wrap up the deed for the furniture in Yunzhou City, and Shen Dayuan, who was rich in the first party, was driven to cultivate the family's land for her. Although the money received was small, it was barely enough for the father and daughter to live, and Shen Yuanwai was very irritable and drilled a needle into the cotton seam. If something goes wrong, he will whip and scold. But for the sake of his daughter, the father could only work hard.
At that time, Su Xiaolian was only fifteen years old, and a terrible plague broke out in Zhongzhou, and many of the people at the bottom, who were hungry and poor, were infected with this terrible epidemic. They were displaced and had no silver to exchange for life-saving potions to ward off a severe plague. After suffering for a long time, a large number of people died in the epidemic, and the corpses and bones piled up like mountains, filling the rivers and rivers, and exposing them to the wilderness. Even the most hungry beasts were reluctant to eat their bones to feed their hunger.
The Tang king was virtuous and sympathetic to the people, and allocated money to the county and state capitals, so that their respective governors could help the victims. He also ordered the imperial doctors of Tai Hospital to work hard day and night to develop prescriptions to resist the spread of the plague. This was supposed to be a move to calm the people's minds. However, the holy decree was passed down, and these officials and lords who went up to the important branch officials in charge of the treasury and down to the state capital secretly filled their pockets with the disaster relief money that the Tang King spent for the people. After layers of exploitation, in the end, not a single cent fell into the hands of refugees, regardless of the blood and tears shed by the world.
These corrupt and corrupt powerful officials devour the lives and flesh of the people like nails in the board, thorns in the flesh, and mites, without the slightest trace of pain and sympathy. The victims wept tears and wrote in blood, trying to reach the heavens to tell the current saint, but all of them were hidden and not reported. The people's livelihood is devastated, and the wailing is everywhere, not only at one end.
The official family has rice and rotten Chen Cang, gold and silver are red, and pearls and jade are yellow. But he was confined to sheng songs and drunken dreams every day, and his ears could not hear the suffering of all people. Many people are alone in the night, and these are the sufferings of the people caused by their inaction.
Su Xiaolian's father was unfortunately infected with the evil of the epidemic at that time, and he couldn't afford to stay in bed all day. The rest of the family's acres of land were uncultivated, and it was precisely because his father was ill that Shen Yuanwai came to the door with a group of private servants and idlers, angrily claiming that her father was sick and ran away from work, not only did not pay Su Xiaolian's father the salary he deserved, but also punished him twice the silver taels according to the time of missed work.
However, Shen Gongzi, who is in the family of the rich man Shen, took a fancy to Su Xiaolian's beauty, and he wanted her to follow him to be a small one for herself, and she was called by him all day long. Su Xiaolian was more than ten years old, and she was in the boudoir all day long, and she was still afraid of a girl who was alive, how could she fight against that rich family with deep pockets?
Poor Su Xiaolian's father, seeing his most precious daughter being taken away by a group of family members, in a hurry, he got up from the bed and stepped forward, wanting to take back his daughter, he used all his strength, hugged Shen Gongzi's thigh, and begged not to take away his only daughter. But she was forcibly pulled away by several family members, and in Su Xiaolian's grief-stricken cry, she beat her father to death, and then abandoned his father's body to the valley to feed the wolves.
Su Xiaolian was dragged to the Shen Mansion, and she was tragically tragically ravaged by Shen Gongzi that night. She was already completely desperate, but she still missed her father, and she didn't want his father to be devoured by wild wolves. At least, she wanted to find her father's body while she was still alive and bury him, and then she would follow her father and leave this world completely, so that she could be freed.
She endured inhumane abuse and Shen Gongzi's terrible insult to her. Waiting for the opportunity, she fled over the wall, but the power of the Shen Mansion is not small, and there are as many as 100 people in the family, although she sneaked out of the Shen Mansion, it is inevitable that people will find out, and after she failed to escape, she was treated more and more miserable.
During the day, she was locked in the dark cellar to wash her face with tears, and at night, she would be defiled by Shen Gongzi and the doormen of Shen Mansion in turn, she was insulted and bullied all day long, under the coercion of Shen Gongzi, she was forced to lie on the ground and fight with the dog for food.
Su Xiaolian was imprisoned in the Shen Mansion for three years, and finally sneaked out of the Shen Mansion on this night, taking advantage of the Shen family's inattention. Unexpectedly, she was still discovered by the Shen family in the alley, and led the crowd to chase her out, wanting to kill her completely. happened to meet Lu Yang who rescued her and helped her escape from the pursuit of many family members.
After listening to Su Xiaolian's tragic experience, Lu Yang gritted his teeth with hatred, punched the cave wall, and said angrily: "This rich Shen family is doing such evil, it is really intolerable. Could it be that in this world, there can really only be such wicked people acting recklessly, let's go to Yunzhou Mansion tomorrow to report to Yunzhou Mansion, so that the people of Yunzhou can see the crimes of this Shen Yuanwai family!"
"But Lu Yanggongzi, they have money, power, and run rampant, and no one dares to take care of their affairs. Xiao Lian has suffered a lot of humiliation in the past three years in the Shen Mansion, and has seen many people being oppressed and coerced by them, according to the power of the Shen family in this Yunzhou City, even if they kill a person, there will be someone who will accept the lawsuit for them, and in the end, if they offend the Shen family, they will be retaliated against. Su Xiaolian hung her head and said timidly.
"Listen to me, little mercy. It is precisely because they are so lawless that the people of Yunzhou can only swallow their anger and let them be bullied. It is precisely for the people of Yunzhou to be free from bullying that we have to go to the Yamen to publicize the evil deeds of the Shen family, and the people at the bottom will fight against us together. Lu Yang said indignantly.
"Xiao Lian's life was saved by Childe, what Childe says, Xiao Lian will do. Su Xiaolian was young, and she spent three years in the dark Shen Mansion, which made her heart also covered with a layer of desperate darkness and deep sadness, fortunately she met Lu Yang, so that the bloody grievances she suffered could be completely washed away.
That night, the two of them spent a night in this cave, and the next day, Lu Yang took Su Xiaolian into Deyunzhou City, but only saw the post road in the distance, and the city gate was hanging high, and there were a large number of Shen Mansion family members who set up checkpoints. At the city gate, there was a portrait, and Lu Yang saw it from a distance, and it was Su Xiaolian's appearance.
"Young Master Lu Yang, they set up a checkpoint, but how did we enter the city?" Su Xiaolian saw that the relationship was not good, and hurriedly covered her face with her sleeves, leaning on Lu Yang's arms, at this moment the two of them were standing on the official road, but they were only like a pair of brothers and sisters who snuggled up to each other, plus the two were young, dressed in simple and shabby clothes, just like they came from the countryside, but they were not very eye-catching.
Lu Yang comforted Su Xiaolian and raised his eyes to look around, but he saw that the city wall of Yunzhou was not very tall, I am afraid that with his current physical strength, he was enough to secretly climb over this wall and enter the city, just because Yunzhou City is in Zhongzhou, it is not a rich and developed first-class city, so even the city wall of the guard is not very strong. That's why Lu Yang thought of taking Su Xiaolian from the city wall that no one paid attention to, and quietly turned in.
At that moment, the two of them left the official road, picked up the remote path and walked, and when they couldn't see the people coming and going, Lu Yang instructed Su Xiaolian to lie on his back tightly, he took a deep breath, and sank the vitality that could be mobilized in the dantian on his calves. Lu Yang picked up Su Xiaolian's delicate body, jumped forward, and flew towards the city wall.
He only felt that the dantian was warm, and under the force, the whole person seemed to be free from the gravitational pull of the earth, and it seemed to fly out of the air from the ground, jumped over the city wall, and his body whirled around to relieve the falling momentum, and fell straight into a remote corner.
"Ahh His arms hugged Lu Yang's broad back tightly, he had also seen Lu Yang's extraordinary speed yesterday, and naturally felt that this man was extraordinary. But Lu Yang's instantaneous burst of jumping power also caught her off guard and exclaimed.
Relying on him like this, Su Xiaolian just felt that by his side, there was a sense of security. It seems that all the wind and rain in this world seem to be able to be covered by him moving forward.
Lu Yang jumped a few feet, as if he was in a dream, and he was also shocked when he landed. He never imagined that his body would become so strong that he could still rise from the ground and jump up the city wall more than ten feet high with all his might. What he once thought was a fantasy and an incredible thing was completely displayed in him.
Now Lu Yang's body no longer belongs to the category of mortals. He took a lot of immortal herbs led by 'Yuepan Jade Immortal Zhi', and his body was light and healthy. In the demon ruins, he survived again and again. Now Lu Yang has grown up step by step, and he is no longer the bookish teenager he used to be, like a childish butterfly, dancing in the fire of the Heavenly Dao, and gradually breaking out of the cocoon and being reborn.
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