Runing Mansion, that is, the original Runan County and Caizhou. Because Chengzu Zhu Di sealed the four sons of the domain here, called the king of Chongzhuang, it became Runing Mansion.

Li Shuo, a general in the late Tang Dynasty, outwitted Wu Yuanji, led a light cavalry to attack on a snowy night, put him to death and was born, becoming a classic military example, and left an allusion to "Li Yuxue entered Caizhou at night", which is about this place.

Runing Mansion is two hundred miles east of Nanyang.

Xiong Chu left Nanyang in the early hours of the morning, and then galloped all the way east, and came to the vicinity of Runing Mansion at the time of the Dingjian Watch.

Yan Erniang's reminder aroused the great attention of the Xiong Prince, and the White Lotus Sect was moving around, lest the world be chaotic, and no one could guarantee that Han Bingru would come all at once if he was not in Luoyang.

This worry is naturally grounded, because if Xiong Chu hadn't killed him halfway last time, Han Bingru would have already been killed in Song County, and then he would have been destroyed.

Therefore, Xiong Chu asked Yan Erniang to take Xiong Kaishan to the Black Dragon Temple immediately, and he must take strict precautions.

Once he found out that the White Lotus Sect had ill intentions, he and Peng Wuying, Huang Yanying and others led Wu Da Niang and others south to join him, and he must not be stirred into the rebel army.

However, this time Xu Hongru and their rebellion, how dangerous is it, Xiong Chu is not clear in his heart, so he wants to come and see in person.

Now the sky is bright, the four gates of Caizhou City are closed, the torches are in the sky, and the fight is strict.

Prince Xiong knew very well that the rebels were in Luyi County (now Dan County) in Guide Fu (now Shangqiu) in the north, only a hundred miles away from Caizhou, so it was no wonder that King Chongzhuang was like a great enemy.

In the current situation, since the city has been locked down, outsiders can't enter it at all.

Xiong Chu's body was not fully recovered, and he was exhausted from the rapid journey of the whole day. Now that he can't go into the city to rest, he finally found that he was really a little Meng Lang.

Since there are more than 100,000 or 200,000 rebel troops, it is a sweeping trend, how can anyone let you enter the city. What if you're a meticulous worker?

Now that it is a fait accompli, it is too late to return to Nanyang, and he can only come and be safe, bypassing five miles north of Caizhou City, preparing to find a place to deal with a night, the key is that Hulei Leopard must rest.

Walking out less than three miles, and only ten miles away from Caizhou City, Xiong Chu already knew why the people rebelled.

Two years ago, the locust plague caused no harvest, and a year ago, the Yellow River burst its banks. The common people are precarious, and they are easy to eat, and they have not recovered in the first place.

Unexpectedly, at the beginning of this year, another major earthquake suddenly struck, which has completely pushed everyone to a dead end.

When all the common people regard themselves as dead, the great riot becomes an inevitability, and it is an unstoppable trend.

The bear prince rode his horse slowly, and walked for several miles, not to mention people, not even a ghost was encountered.

Finally found a forest, Xiong Chu felt that Hulei Leopard should be allowed to rest here for a while, eat a few mouthfuls of grass by the way, and let the sweat on his body be dissipated.

If he hadn't entered the woods, Xiong Chu's mood was heavy, but it wasn't bad enough.

However, he had already decided to go into the woods, and he had already entered the woods, so his mood was completely broken.

The moment the bear prince jumped off the horse, he didn't know what he should do next.

Because all the leaves and bark were gone, and the whole forest was bare white trunks. It was too far away just now, and it was too dark to see clearly.

Now I jumped off the horse and looked, not to mention the grass on the ground, even the grass roots had been cut clean.

If it was only the victims who had eaten up the leaves, bark, and grass roots, Xiong Chu's mood would not have collapsed, but because he was stunned and saw three other things.

These are three complete skeletons, Bai Sensen's, less than a zhang away in front of Xiong Chu.

These are three human skeletons, and the bloody gas that has not dissipated in the woods.

It's mid-to-late June in summer, and there is still blood in the air, which means that the owners of these three skeletons must have been alive half a day ago.

A person who was alive half a day ago is absolutely impossible for him to become a skeleton after half a day.

Even if he died, the body should still be there now, and it hasn't completely stinked, so it's even less likely that there will be blood.

Xiong Chu's mood completely collapsed, and he thought in an instant: "Less than half a day ago, three people were eaten in this grove!"

The three of them were eaten, how to be eaten, Xiong Chu was no longer willing to think about it.

For he found the three skeletons, one large and two small, indicating that two children and one adult were eaten together.

At this moment, a cool breeze of the summer night blew, and Xiong Chu not only shivered.

Because instead of feeling cool, he felt standing next to the three skeletons, smelling a faint smell of blood, so he felt that there was a gust of wind around him.

"Give me back my child—"

Just when Xiong Chu didn't know what to do, a heart-rending cry finally made a decision for him.

The sound came from the northeast direction, although the sound was not loud and faint, but when you stood near the skeleton of the three white forests in the middle of the night, and there was a faint bloody breath blowing in your face, you would feel that this sound could definitely be compared to a thunderbolt on a sunny day.

Time waits for no man.

Xiong Chu's figure flashed, and he had already used the light body exercise to the extreme, and his whole person turned into a cloud of green smoke and shot to the northeast.

The BMW was psychic, and the thunder leopard hissed, and suddenly the four hooves flew over, chasing the master and galloping towards the northeast.

More than 40 people gathered around a large cauldron, and the makeshift stove was blazing, and the water in the pot was already boiling.

Xiong Chu's body was still in the air, and he had already found a man and a woman torn together, and the object of their tearing was a child!

"You mother-in-law is really ignorant, what are you afraid of when the child is gone? As long as the adults can survive, the child can be reborn!"

"Father, child, this is your own son, flesh and blood that fell from me. Eat me if you want, and leave my children behind—"

Xiong Chu's heart shook suddenly: "The child can still be reborn?

Xiong Chu's distraction, the internal force was naturally interrupted, and his body fell to the ground. His whole person suddenly felt dazed, as if the whole world had been chaotic, and he didn't know where he was.

The woman finally couldn't tear her man, the child had been snatched away, and the woman had passed out on the spot.

"Stop!"

When the bear prince saw that the man was about to throw a living child into the pot, he was immediately frightened.

The nine-link pace exerted unprecedented speed, and the two ups and downs had already rushed to the side of the cauldron, and then with a right hand exercise, just caught the child who had fallen to the cauldron.

However, in the process of moving the body, he temporarily grabbed the child, and the body lost its balance, and as a result, Xiong Chu's right arm touched the boiling water.

Gritting his teeth, twisting his body, he threw the child up, and with his left foot as the axis, he rotated one and a half times, and his right foot had already flown up, just kicking the man's waist.

Poof—When the bear re-caught the child, the big man fell to the ground.

When the big man fell, a scene that made Xiong Chu feel that the world had been completely turned upside down happened!

The thirty or forty people on the side seemed to have springs under their feet, and the moment the big man landed, everyone rushed up and lifted him up, and then threw him into the cauldron!

Ahhh

Screamed half a time, only half a scream!

Because the big man's head was sent into the cauldron, the boiling water in the pot directly scalded off the two ears, and then the flesh on the face was scalded, and then, then, and then Xiong Chu held the child, leaned over and grabbed the woman who had fainted and flew away.

Xiong Chu ran all the way and vomited all the way, because those people had gone completely insane.

The big man was only one head was sent into the cauldron, and his two legs were still struggling desperately, but those people had already swarmed up and began to bite.

The bloody aura spread again, making Xiong Chu think of the three white bones in the grove, and he had to run.

In the face of a group of people who have gone crazy, no one can do anything. Xiong Chu is really worried, and the next person to be eaten is likely to be himself.

"Brother Qiu, this is a thousand taels of silver. I killed his husband, the father of this little child. Please help take care of this woman so that she can raise her children in the future. ”

Xiong Chu returned to Nanyang overnight to find Qiu Wanshan, a disciple of the beggar gang with eight bags, and then handed over a pair of mother and son to him, and then left Luoyang by one person, and then he didn't know what he should do, and then he could only go west.

Originally, he was ready to investigate what was going on with Xu Hongru's rebel army, but Prince Xiong was in no mood to look at it anymore, because when he returned, he kept finding skeletons, and none of them had meat on them.

Moreover, Xiong Chu once prepared to assassinate a group of local tyrants who hoarded Juqi and would not save them when they died. But after running around for two hours, all I saw were ruins, and the homes of those landlords and tyrants were all full of white bones.

There is no doubt that once the victims rise up and riot, the first to bear the brunt are those local tyrants and gentry who are unkind to the rich, and there is no need for him as a killer to do more.

Water can carry a boat, or it can capsize a boat.

Xiong Chu suddenly discovered that the most powerful killer was actually not a full-time killer, but those ordinary people who regarded themselves as dead!

They can enter the homes of local tyrants and inferior gentry with their bare hands, they can fight head-on with the officials and soldiers with their bare hands, and they can truly go forward and succeed each other, and regard death as home.

This is something that no killer can do, but those unarmed civilians can.

Do you blame those victims for losing their conscience and having no humanity? Prince Xiong felt that something seemed wrong.

So, what is the reason why a father wants to cook his son alive? No one can answer Xiong Chu's doubts.

Xu Hongru rebelled, was it wrong? Or was it right? Similarly, no one could answer Prince Xiong's doubts.

Hundreds of thousands of people rebelled, whether rebels or officers, and at least hundreds of thousands were killed.

So, who is the real murderer?

Is it the people who rebelled? It doesn't seem right.

Is it the officers and soldiers? It doesn't seem right.

The court said that those who rebelled were mobs, and the common people said that the court was a traitor.

The imperial court must maintain its own system and dignity, the officials and soldiers must carry out the orders of their superiors, and the common people only need to get a mouthful of life-saving food.

They all have a reason, and they can all be justified.

So who is wrong?

Xiong Chu didn't know.

He was just a slave and then worked as a killer for two years, and he never thought about such a complicated issue.

The only thing he knows is that no matter who is right or wrong, the common people are always the unluckiest.

Poor and hungry, they can eat their children alive, are the people voluntary?

Apparently not.

Prosperity, the people suffer, death, the people suffer.

This is Xiaoyaozi's favorite sentence every time he gets drunk.

At this time, he suddenly remembered Xiaoyaozi's words, and Xiong Chu suddenly felt even more dazed. K