Chen Qi got out of the carriage and searched for a long time before he found a living person, this is a fifty or sixty-year-old woman, her eyes have long been blind, because she has been hungry for many days, her lower limbs are paralyzed, and her spirit is a little trance.

Chen Qi fed her some food and water, and her spirit was a little better, and she spoke intermittently.

This year the whole Central Plains is a year of many disasters and difficulties, since the beginning of summer, the torrential rain has been falling non-stop, the big rivers burst, all the rivers and lakes of all sizes are also overwhelmed, the entire Central Plains region has been soaked in water for almost two or three months, and the grain production in various places has been reduced by half or even the harvest has not been harvested, so the famine broke out.

To add insult to injury, after a once-in-a-century flood, a great plague broke out, spreading and raging with the fleeing crowds, killing countless people and strewn corpses all over the field.

Chen Qi asked the old woman's relatives where they were and wanted to send her to a reunion.

"No, most of them are dead, the young people have fled, my wife and I are old and blind, I can't affect them, they can only live. ”

Chen Qi asked the old woman again if she would like to go with him, she refused again, she was born in Si, grew up in Si, should die in Si, and be buried in Si. But the old woman begged to dig a grave for her, right in her family's ancestral grave, next to her dead wife, whose eyes were inconvenient.

Chen Qi helped her dig the tomb, cut down a few more trees, made a shoddy coffin, put it in the tomb, and then helped the old woman in, leaving most of the dry food and water, and then left with a heavy heart.

Soon after the carriage was on the road, it stopped again, and Chen Qi got out of the carriage and found a small corpse in front of him, a little girl of eight or nine years old, curled up in a ball, lying there, less than a meter long, obviously starving to death.

Chen Qi let out a long sigh and dug a small grave nearby to let her be buried in the ground. The carriage moved forward again, and soon encountered another corpse, which was a hunchbacked old man, whom Chen Qi buried as usual.

The carriage continued to walk, and it kept encountering starving people lying on the side of the road, most of them old and weak children, and it was obvious that the young and strong would be better able to survive in such a catastrophe. Chen Qi buried every corpse he encountered, but later he encountered more and more corpses, and Chen Qi spent almost the whole day on it, and in the end he was almost numb.

In the evening, Chen Qi lit a bonfire and roasted dry food with the handlebar, but suddenly smelled a smell of meat. Chen Qi was stunned for a moment, now that a famine was breaking out, there were still people who could eat meat, so he got up and looked around, and found that there was a bonfire by the river a mile away, and there was a pot on the fire, and the heat in the pot was boiling, as if something was cooking.

Chen Qi slowly approached, but found that something seemed wrong, there were three unkempt adult men around the bonfire, their eyes were red, and they were gobbling up something, but why did they look so much like a baby's arms?

Chen Qi, who felt that something was wrong, strode forward, looked into the pot, and suddenly his eyes were split, he shouted angrily, waved his palms, and burst the brains of the three people who were concentrating on gnawing.

Chen Qi stood by the campfire, looking at his little head churning in the boiling water, his mind blank.

At this time, there was a baby's cry in the distance, and a woman in her twenties, unkempt, holding a baby, ran to this side, crying at the same time, "I don't change, I don't change, the child's father hides it from me, return the child to me!"

When the woman came closer, she saw the situation in the pot at a glance, and immediately let out a terrible howl, threw the child in her arms, and rushed over. Chen Qi reacted quickly and hurriedly stepped forward to catch the baby, and the baby cried even more after this fright.

The woman howled and cried, ignoring the boiling water, reaching out in the pot and scooping it up, and finally could only fish out a few white bones. Holding a few white bones, the woman let out a desperate wail, then turned around, rushed to the river, and plunged headlong into it.

Chen Qi was taken aback, hurriedly put down the baby, and jumped into the water to save people. However, the woman jumped into the river and did not struggle at all, allowing the turbulent river to sweep her away and swallow her, Chen Qi searched for a long time, but did not find it, so she had no choice but to go ashore.

Chen Qi held the baby in his arms, stood by the river, looked at the turbulent river, his chest was filled with an inexplicable emotion, he wanted to yell and vent, but he couldn't make a sound.

"The white bones are exposed in the wild, and there is no rooster crowing for thousands of miles"

"The people have vegetables, and they travel thousands of miles to seek food"

"Hungry carry the road, easy to eat"

......

These short words only occupy a small corner of the history books, but only by doing our best and seeing it with our own eyes can we experience the pain, the sorrow, and the despair!

At this time, Chen Qi suddenly had a strong desire in his heart, he wanted to break this old world and build a new world, a new world where everyone can be fed and clothed, just like the previous life, although there are many shortcomings, but at least people's basic needs to be fed and clothed and live can be realized.

But after calming down, Chen Qi gave up this plan again, not because he couldn't, but because he didn't want to.

If you want to build a new world, you must gather people to fight in all directions and unify the world in order to achieve it. This is a bloody road, a road of royal power full of corpses and bones, hundreds of thousands, even millions, tens of millions of people, will die directly or indirectly because of Chen Qi, blood flows, and corpses are everywhere.

Of course, Chen Qi thinks that he is still hard-hearted and can calmly bear these deaths and killings, as a tribute to the new world.

And the most important reason why Chen Qi is unwilling to dominate the world is that he is lazy, yes, he is lazy. In order to concentrate on martial arts over the years, he pushed most of the things to Xiao Xiang'er, if he really embarked on the road to hegemony, Chen Qi could only be busy with mundane things every day, and he had no time to doppelganger, and his heart was tired and his body was even more tired.

Moreover, since then, Chen Qi has almost no free time, and the path of martial arts can only be abandoned. However, the obsession with martial arts, after two lifetimes of precipitation, has penetrated deep into the bone marrow and immersed in the soul.

Moreover, since encountering the giant snake, seeing the ghost zombies with his own eyes, and the magical spell of the sour Taoist priest, Chen Qi suspected that there were immortal cultivators or legendary immortals in this world.

Immortality is the deepest ambition in everyone's heart, and Chen Qi is no exception.

"The saint is impermanent, and the heart of the people is the heart"

Chen Qi was very ashamed, he had great selfishness, and he couldn't be like a saint.

The carriage turned around, and Chen Qi could no longer face all this, and just wanted to escape to Lingnan and return to his home.

Five days later, Chen Qi's carriage came to the gate of a small county town, he found that there were a lot of refugees gathered here, everyone was talking about it, showing anticipation, a inquiry, it turned out that the government posted a poster, the county ordered the adults to have mercy on the victims, and asked the court for permission, today opened the treasury, and distributed rice and grain to the refugees.

After listening, Chen Qi frowned, feeling a little strange, the government disaster relief is generally soup porridge, because the rice and grain distributed to the victims are likely to cause greater chaos.

At this time, a gong sounded, and dozens of hunters and escorted ten carriages full of grain, slowly coming. Passing by Chen Qi's side, he reached out and touched it, the bag was indeed filled with rice, picked up a few fallen rice grains, looked at it, and found that it was good whole rice and new rice, and it was not shoddy with broken rice or old rice.

Could it be that I have thought too much, the county order of this county is indeed a rare good official?

However, after the grain distribution began, what happened made Chen Qi stunned. Suddenly, out of the city rushed out of the city, a hundred and tenth, carrying sticks, each with large shoulders and round waists, and his face was full of oil, and he did not look like a hungry man at all.

They beat them with sticks in their hands to drive away the victims who were queuing up to receive food, and they lined up in front of themselves, taking out the large bags that had been prepared from their backs to receive food. What is surprising is that the catchers turned a blind eye to these things, and still gave them food, and filled every big bag to the brim.

After the 100 people left with the food, most of the 10 truckloads of grain had been distributed, and although the victims were angry, there was not much food now, and the most important thing was to receive the food, and they flocked to it.

At this time, dozens of people came to the city, this time with sharp swords and long swords, and the victims were unarmed and could only be driven away, and the same thing happened again. In this way, ten carts of grain were taken away by inexplicable people, and not a single grain of rice reached the hands of the victims.