This year's summer in Qingshui Country is not hot at all. Heavy rains have been falling for more than half a decade, and most of the seedlings in the rice fields have rotted, and this small country with a suitable climate and abundant grain production is facing a huge crisis.

Countless peasants sat in the fields and wept bitterly, and an old man pointed to the sky and cried: "God, Immortal Master, can you save us, this heavy rain can't fall anymore, otherwise we really won't be able to live." ”

Large dark clouds still stayed in the sky, and the downpour continued to crash down on the land.

Many of the houses in the low-lying areas have been flooded, and the homeless victims are huddled together, and the heavy rain has fallen on the victims mercilessly, but they can only endure in silence because they have nowhere to go.

The imperial court did not make any response to the torrential rain that lasted for more than half a decade, there was no food for disaster relief, no shelter for the victims, and no arrangements for organizing the disaster victims to deal with the disaster.

Ning'an County is an important town in Qingshui and the most severely affected place this time.

In front of the county guard's mansion, a slightly chubby middle-aged man in a dark blue official uniform bent his waist slightly, and said flatteringly to the white-robed young man next to him: "Immortal Master, the Ning'an County Guard is here, three days ago, this beast who ate dog gall dared to open a warehouse to release grain, and distributed all the grain collected by the entire Ning'an County to those untouchables!"

"Where were you when you opened the warehouse to release grain, why didn't you go to stop it?" the white-robed young man frowned slightly, impatient.

Sun Dongliang, the assassin of Ning'an County, rubbed his hands nervously, his fat body trembled slightly under the dark blue official uniform, and he hurriedly explained, "The immortal master doesn't know, when this beast opened the warehouse and released grain that day, I originally brought twenty families in the house to stop it, but those untouchables saw us stopping, and they all rushed towards us like crazy, if it wasn't for the small one running fast, I'm afraid I wouldn't have been able to see you the immortal master." ”

Speaking of this, Sun Dongliang shook his head with palpitations, and looked at the white-robed young man more humbly and said, "Immortal Master, be careful, I'm afraid there are a lot of crazy untouchables hidden in this beast mansion. ”

"Useless waste. The white-robed young man sneered and smashed the heavy wooden door of the county guard's mansion.

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In the Wenhua Hall of the Qingshui Imperial Palace, a 9-year-old girl in Chinese clothes was lying on the side of a wooden bed, staring blankly at the boy on the bed. I saw that the young man had a ruddy face and was breathing evenly, but his eyes were closed. The girl in Chinese clothes looked at the young man and said to herself: "Brother, when will you wake up, you have been asleep for three years, and a lot of big things have happened outside, Shu'er has often had nightmares recently, and always feels that something bad is about to happen." ”

The young man on the bed was still motionless, and the girl in a fancy dress said in a low voice: "It has been raining heavily in our Qingshui Country for half this year, and there are many victims outside, but my father did not settle them, and did not even give them a grain of rice. I've been having nightmares lately, brother, wake up, Shu'er is so scared. ”

The young man's eyelashes on the bed fluttered slightly, and he slowly opened his eyes.

"Shu'er?" said the young man's hoarse voice.

Xu hadn't spoken for too long, and the young man's voice was as hoarse as a heavy sword cutting through a bluestone slab.

"Brother, it's been three years, and you're finally awake!" the girl in the costume threw her head into the boy's chest, tears welling up in her eyes.

After a full hour, the girl in the Chinese costume finally stopped her tears, listening to the intermittent description of the girl's crying, Yuan Liang also felt a little emotionally about the changes in the world in the past three years of this dream.

It turned out that after falling off the cliff from the back mountain of Yingtian Academy three years ago and falling into a coma, the academy let himself go back to Qingshui Kingdom, and when he first returned to Qingshui Kingdom, several mountain immortals came to see him, and after all came to the conclusion that this person's popularity was lost, they all shook their heads and left. Half a year later, King Qingshui issued a decree announcing the establishment of the second prince Yuan Kun as the crown prince, and then sent the prince Yuan Kun to Yingtian Academy to study.

After Yuan Kun was made the crown prince, there was a rumor in the palace that anyone who was close to Yuan Liang for a long time would become unlucky, ranging from falls and bruises to disasters and diseases, and almost every palace person who served Yuan Liang had many accidents.

This matter was originally a tacit secret of the people of Yuan Liang Palace, but no one dared to reveal half a point, after all, the one lying down was the "darling of heaven".

It was not until the emperor established the crown prince that this matter was known.

After hearing about this, the emperor of Qingshui wanted to debunk the rumors in person, but as the emperor, who came to visit Yuan Liang every day, was accidentally cut by his own sword, and the queen sprained her ankle, the emperor was even more busy with political affairs, and the queen was more focused on teaching her young son, so naturally, there was little time to visit Yuan Liang again.

And Yuan Shu, who insisted on taking care of Yuan Liang from beginning to end, never had bad luck in the past three years.

Yuan Liang shook his head, Yuan Kun became the crown prince, the emperor's attitude towards him, his luck was completely lost, and he didn't care too much about small things, he smiled comfortingly and rubbed Yuan Shu's head.

Yuan Shu didn't understand his indifference after hearing these news, but he didn't know that his memory was still stuck in the drizzly morning when Qin Jiang left, the black carriage.

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The smashing of the gate of the county guard's mansion did not cause any movement in the mansion, and the entire mansion was quiet, and not even a girl or servant could be seen. Sun Dongliang, who was following behind the white-robed youth, narrowed his already small eyes, shrunk his head, and shrunk his entire fat body directly behind the white-robed youth as much as possible.

There was a soft creak, and the main door of the living room was opened by a thin old man, the old man had long eyebrows and sideburns, the corners of his eyes drooped slightly, and his long beard was gray.

"Immortal Master, it's him, it's this beast who opened a warehouse and released grain!" Seeing that only the old man came out, Zhang Dongliang came out from behind the white-robed young man, pointed at the old man and scolded loudly.

"Zhang Dongliang, I'm really ashamed to reason with you, people like you are already rotten from the inside out. The old man looked contemptuously at the fat and obscene colleague opposite, and then sighed at the white-robed young man: "Look at this son's extraordinary weapon, is it really the helper invited by this dog thief, who wants to put me to death?"

"It's not. The white-robed young man replied dryly. When he saw a glimmer of hope rising in Chen Zhongming's eyes, Zhang Dongliang showed a frightened look, and the white-robed young man grinned: "I am the helper invited by the emperor of your Qingshui Kingdom, not only to clean you up, but also to clean up and down your entire county." ”

"You, Your Majesty, how could he ......" The old man was hit hard, and then he was unwilling to say: "You alone, how can you take over hundreds of thousands of people in our whole county?"

The corners of the white-robed young man's mouth curled slightly, and he took out a small sword out of nowhere and threw it into the sky.

boom

A man's head, still confused, fell in front of the old man.

Knock, knock, knock

The head of a woman with a smile still on her lips fell in front of the old man. The heads of two sleeping children with their eyes closed also fell in front of the old man.

"Enough! Kill me! I did everything, and it has nothing to do with these innocent people!" the old man shouted at the white-robed young man with red eyes.

The white-robed young man looked at the old man coldly, and the corners of his mouth showed a trace of disdain: "Lao Tzu has traveled all the way, this is far from enough." ”

Knock, knock, knock, knock, knock, knock

Knock, knock, knock, knock, knock, knock

The sound of the head falling became more and more intense, hitting the old man's heart like spring thunder.

The old man's heart and throat seemed to be choked by something, and he was stuffy and painful, but he couldn't make a sound, and he kept kowtowing to the white-robed young man, banging, and blood splattered. But the thunder showed no sign of stopping.

Two quarters of an hour had passed, and the heads in the courtyard had been piled up into a high hill. The white-robed youth's small sword flew back, and the thunder stopped. The blood from the mountain of human heads merged into a bright red and smelly stream, flowing to Sun Dongliang's feet, and Sun Dongliang muttered quietly as he dodged: "These damned pariahs will not be able to live when they die." ”

The white-robed young man took out a piece of talisman paper and said in a cold voice: "The untouchables of Ning'an County listen well, return all the grain immediately, if one person does not return it, I will kill one person, and if one county does not return it, I will kill one county." The rune paper lit up, and his voice spread through the streets and alleys of Ning'an County.

"Is this what Your Majesty meant?" a hoarse voice came, and the old man's forehead had been peeled open, revealing his white bones.

"What do you think?" the white-robed young man put away his small sword and walked towards the old man, "It's your turn." ”

"Haha, hahahaha. The old man stood up with great difficulty, and laughed loudly and desolately: "Your Majesty, is this really what you mean?" The old man spat on the ground, his eyes revealing infinite despair: "This world is really rotten. He drew the dagger from his waist and stabbed himself in the heart.

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Drinking the ginseng soup prepared by Yuan Shu, Yuan Liang felt that he had regained some strength.

"How is Daqin?" asked Yuan Liang.

"Great Qin annexed the entire Eastern Continent. ”

"Oh?

"In the early spring of the second year when you were unconscious. ”

Yuan Liang rubbed his temples, "Why so fast?"

Yuan Shu raised her head, as if recalling something: "A lot of things have happened in the past three years, when you just fell into a coma and were about to return to China, the Yishan Mine in the territory of Yunluo Kingdom in Dongzhou disappeared, and then the Great Qin army quickly began to annex. ”

Yuan Liang was surprised: "Raise troops, isn't the iron law of the Immortal Family that our countries are not allowed to send troops?"

Yuan Shu rolled her eyes and said, "Yes, but Daqin has 100,000 monks and soldiers out of nowhere, and they cooperate with the immortal family on the mountain to kill Dongzhou without any resistance." ”

"Is she okay?" said Yuan Liang softly.

"She?

"Nothing. Yuan Liang shook his head. It's really confused, how can Shu'er know about her.

"I've regained a lot of strength, so come with me to see the victims of the city. Yuan Liang got up and said.

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On Qingyang Mountain, a man with a nose like an eagle falcon looked at a palm-sized jade plaque, on which a girl in a gorgeous costume was talking to the young man on the wooden bed, the man squinted his eyes, frowned slightly and said to himself: "I have endured it for 8 years, I have waited for three years, and I can finally take a good breath, a heavenly outcast, this time even the ancestor will not stop me." ”