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It's autumn, the cool breeze is gradually rising, and the shops on both sides of the street are only five or six out of ten still open to accept customers, and the rest are locked doors, withered in front of the court, and cobwebs are born.

In the market, there are often armor soldiers galloping on horses, shouting "Hurry up the war report, idlers avoid!" If it is in a noisy and prosperous place, it is impossible to bump into pedestrians and cause a life lawsuit.

Nowadays, pedestrians come and go sparsely, in a hurry, mostly with sad faces, or shaking their heads and sighing in front of the store, or in the market with a painful head, the autumn breeze blows, making people feel sad.

Even the hawker's cries were less enthusiastic and seemed dull.

Occasionally, brightly dressed and well-bodied people roam the city, attracting beggars in ragged clothes and bare feet with canes, all of whom gather around them, and their mouths are broken and muttered, hoping to get a copper half.

There was an old man pulling a young man, seeing that the two of them were no different from other beggars, and walked dejectedly past a steamed bun shop, stopping in front of a baked cake stall.

This young man's name is Jiang Li, originally a native of Jinping City, Longling County, Anchuan State, Jiang Jia is a local landlord and squire, with thousands of acres of fertile land, mansions, and beautiful mansions.

Jiang Li is the young master of the Jiang family, and he has been taken care of by someone since he was born. At the age of five, he and his children studied scriptures and poetry at Jiang's private school, hoping to gain fame in the future.

Just like the old lady of the Jiang family, that is a great character, was the first place in the Longling County Township Test, although he did not perform well in the Beijing test, and did not have to enter the palace to meet the Anchuan National Sage, but it is said that he has also seen His Majesty's holy face from afar, and it is the most proud thing for the old lady of the Jiang family in the realm of Jinping City.

If the children of the Jiang family fail the imperial examination, they can live a prosperous life with the Jiang family's industry, and they will be prosperous and rich for a lifetime.

All changes must start from the time Jiang Li was six years old, when there was a drought in several prefectures and counties in Anchuan State, and Longling County was particularly serious.

The old lady of the Jiang family is kind-hearted and exempts the tenants from paying taxes for one year, and the local people all praise the old lady of the Jiang family for her compassion.

But the next year there was another drought, and there was not a drop of rain for several months, and all the crops died in the fields. Two years of drought have left many tenants with their scarce food stocks.

Seeing that the seeds of the tenants' farming were gone, the Jiang family not only exempted the tenants from rent for another year, but also opened the granary to relieve the tenants, and the local people were all grateful to Dade, if the Jiang family did not agree, the immortal shrine of the old lady of the Jiang family would have been erected.

In the third year, the wind and rain finally went well, and the harvest scene in the fields swept away the gloom of the past, and the joy of the people was overflowing.

On this sunny day, the people are actively preparing tools and grain fields for the autumn harvest.

Suddenly, under the clear sky, a thunderstorm arose, and everyone who heard the sound was frightened and trembling, and their hearts were agitated, and even some of them sat on the ground and talked nonsense.

Immediately after that, the sky was overcast, the lightning flashed, the thunder was endless, the sky seemed to collapse, the wind was strong, the sand was flying, and it was the wood that was hugged, or uprooted, or broken at the waist, as if it was destroyed and decayed.

Then the rain falls from the sky, as if the heavenly river is broken, pouring down, the momentum is so great, no less than the waterfall in Linchuan.

Heavy rain has been falling for more than 10 days, and rivers and lakes have all flooded.

In the several prefectures and counties affected by the disaster, countless houses were damaged, people died in the disaster, and there were countless floating corpses.

The Jiang family was not spared by this disaster, more than half of the houses were destroyed, and the courtyard was in a mess, even a number of granaries that had accumulated for many years, which were also destroyed in the storm. The Jiang family has hundreds of mouthfuls, and all the food and clothing have been cut, just because of this natural disaster, no one dares to criticize.

The Jiang family is still like this, ordinary people are even more difficult to survive, the Jiang family itself is difficult to protect, and there is no way to relieve the victims, the front of the Jiang Mansion is surrounded by the victims every day, and the Jiang family has to close the door.

That day, Jiang Li may never forget.

The hungry victims were desperate, and their hearts were broken, and they smashed open the gate of Jiang's mansion, holding all kinds of farm tools, and robbing the Jiang family's money and grain.

Jiang Mansion suddenly jumped up and down, and there was a mess, and it was some of the Jiang Mansion's caretakers, seeing that the disaster was huge, and they also took the opportunity to rob it.

At the beginning, the victims were only for money and food, but they were beaten to death by the Jiang family in the dispute, although they were frightened, but they thought that the Jiang family was well fed and dressed on weekdays, and they were busy working in the fields, so they simply didn't do it twice, anyway, it was a disaster year, and they had robbed the money and food, and now they were killed, and they must not be good, so they should all be killed.

The Jiang family saw that the situation was not right, and the victims actually killed people, and it was even more chaotic, but after all, after many years of operation, there were many loyal people among the subordinates, so the Jiang family arranged for the loyal subordinates to escape from the house with the young masters and young ladies of each room.

Jiang Li was only nine years old that year, and he had never seen such a formation, so he only fled with everyone in horror, it was the elders of the former houses or playmates of the same age, and there were no less than twenty people who died in front of Jiang Li's eyes.

On weekdays, the tenants who seem to be loyal and honest, low-brow and pleasing to the eyes are like fierce gods, but when they see the people of the Jiang family, regardless of the master and servant, whether they are old or weak, they are all killed.

Jiang Li was already frightened and couldn't move, but fortunately, a few subordinates desperately protected him and took him out of Jiang's mansion, which can be regarded as escaping. It's just that in the process of escaping, he was separated from his family, and the situation was chaotic at that time, and it was still unknown how many people in the Jiang family could get out of the Jiang Mansion.

A few subordinates took Jiang Li to follow the refugees fleeing for a few days, and when he woke up one day, Jiang Li found that those people were missing, and he couldn't find them around, and he was panicked, so he cried in the crowd.

It's just that in this year of disaster, even seeing such a young man, no one went to care, which of the wanderers who fled the famine was not difficult to protect themselves, and how could they care about the life and death of others.

Soon there were rumors that the emperor of Anchuan was unreasonable, and the immortals sent down calamities to punish, so several vassal kings rebelled, and the imperial court sent troops to suppress it, and the war between the two sides continued.

After the natural disaster, there was a man-made disaster, and the people of Anchuan were like fire and water, and the people were struggling to survive.

Jiang Li suffered this accident and had no support, so he had to mix in the refugees, follow everyone, and didn't know where to go.

Two years ago, Jiang Li was alone in the rivers and lakes, and once he was robbed of the steamed buns that he had finally begged for, and that day the old man woke him up in the middle of the night, and after looking left and right to make sure that no one was paying attention, he carefully took out a shriveled bun from his arms and handed it to Jiang Li.

Although the bun was already cold, Jiang Li ate it with tears in his eyes, and this person's heart is still warm.

It was on that day that Jiang Li got acquainted with the old man, and the two of them each told some of the past, and the old man only told Jiang Li that his surname was Li, and it was okay to call him Lao Li.

The two of them, one old and one young, rely on each other in this troubled world.

On this day, the two followed the refugees fleeing the famine and wandered to Songyan City, and in another half an hour, the sky was afraid that it would be dark, but they had not yet begged for any food.

Lao Li looked at Jiang Li with a sad face, sighed "sigh......", he stretched out the broken bowl in his hand to the stall owner weakly, and said slowly: "This boss is good, I don't know if I can ...... it."

The stall owner didn't need to look at the clothes of the old man and the young man, just looking at the objects handed over by the old man, he didn't know how many openings were missing, and they could still be called bowls, and he knew that he couldn't make half a cent from these two people.

"Let's go!" Before Lao Li finished speaking, the stall owner waved his hand with disgust on his face and shouted, "If you don't have any money, get out, don't hinder Lao Tzu from doing business!"

Lao Li didn't seem to hear the stall owner's words, his feet didn't move a bit, and continued: "Our ancestors and grandchildren haven't ...... for a few days."

"If you two starve to death on the streets, what does it have to do with me, if you don't go away, I will call the street patrol officer to send you both out!"

"Alas......" sighed again, Lao Li shook his head slightly, seeing that he had made the same mistake before the bun shop, he was ready to try his luck in the next stall.

As they moved, a figure passed in front of the two, but the stall owner, who was originally glaring at the two of them, opened his mouth wide and looked surprised, all of which lost the fierce and vicious appearance just now.

"Someone's stealing bread!" shouted the stall owner, piercing the depressed street.

The crowd followed the prestige, and saw an unkempt and ragged beggar, with his hands clasped tightly in front of his chest, and a few baked cakes in his arms, running in front, followed by a person chasing after him with a rolling pin, who was the stall owner who caught the thief loudly.

Just when the crowd was in turmoil, Lao Li saw the opportunity, grabbed a few baked cakes on the baked cake stall with lightning speed, quickly hid them in his arms, and then pulled Jiang Li away as if nothing happened.

"Xiao Li'er, you have to remember that a man must be upright and upright in his work, and this stealing must not be taken lightly. Lao Li turned his head and spoke to the young man with a serious face, ignoring Jiang Li's disdainful eyes.

The look in his eyes was clearly saying, "Tell me how the pancake in your bosom came to be." ”

The beggar who stole the baked cake ran towards the intersection with all his might, his face pale, thinking that it was caused by hunger for many days, so he turned the intersection, and with a "bang" sound, he collided with the halberd soldier who rushed to the scene, and the beggar fell to the ground, and all the baked cakes in his arms were scattered for a while.

There were five soldiers in this team, all dressed in black armor, with long halberds in their hands, tall bodies, and eyes that were full of battle.

The first person should be a military commander, staring at the beggar, slashing the halberd in his hand, pointing directly at the beggar, and shouting: "Dare to desert, don't go back to the camp with me quickly to be tried!"

The beggar was already hungry and thirsty, and he fell to the ground, and when he saw five burly officers and soldiers standing tall in front of him, he was glared at by the murderous eyes of the chief of the army, and the smooth and shiny halberd suddenly fell in front of him, and the beggar shuddered instantly, and his body trembled slightly.

Just now he still had the strength to snatch the bread and escape, but the beggar couldn't lift half a point now, knelt on the ground, and said in a panic: "The adults misunderstood, the villain is a fleeing famine, he has not eaten a grain of rice for many days, he is hungry and thirsty, and he really has to steal a few baked cakes from this shop, and the villain is definitely not a deserter!"

When the beggar heard that the officers and soldiers called him a "deserter," he panicked, and if he was caught as a deserter, his life would be difficult to protect.

"Hugh has to quibble! Where is the left and right armor soldiers? Why don't you take this person down?" the commander completely ignored the beggar's words, and at the sound of an order, several soldiers tied up the beggar and took him away.

Wu Chang put away his halberd and slammed it to the ground, and suddenly the surroundings were silent, his eyes swept over the onlookers, and he seemed to want to find a few "deserters" and arrest them together.

How did everyone not know that this Wu Chang was catching strong men by his name, but they all hung their heads to dodge, and they didn't dare to look at Wu Chang, and now the soldiers of Anchuan were in chaos, like this beggar, whether it was really as the official said, but no one cared, for fear that he would also be arrested in the name of "deserter".

However, the stall owner saw that the baked cakes were scattered on the ground, and even if he picked them up, he was afraid that he would not be able to sell them, so he said to the captain with a sad face: "My lord, the villain is a small business, but I have to let the damn beggar compensate for the villain's losses!"

Wu Chang snorted coldly when he heard this, but he didn't pay attention to it, but his eyes looked at the old man and the two.

Lao Li's heart tightened, and he secretly said badly, of course he wouldn't think that the baked cake in his arms was discovered by Wu Chang, how could Wu Chang pay attention to this little thing, he must have seen Jiang Li beside him, and he would be arrested and sent to join the army.

Lao Li hurriedly accompanied the smiling face and blocked Jiang Li tightly behind him.

After a few breaths, Wu Chang turned around and left without saying a word, Lao Li wiped the sweat on his forehead, breathed a long sigh of relief, and pulled Jiang Li straight to the city gate.

Songyan City is not allowed to stay on the streets after nightfall, the two of them now have food, and seeing that it is getting late, and they were looked at by the commander just now, they hurried out of the city to find a place to spend the night.

After Lao Li and Jiang left the city, they found a ruined temple, there were already many people here, and the two found a no-man's corner, and laid the treetops on the road, which was a temporary place to stay.