Abnormal Three Kingdoms

Chapter 466

Ji Yin, Ju Yang

Under the dark sky, misty drizzle sprinkled the banks of the river.

On the opposite side of the river is Lihu, which is only fifty miles away from Juyang in a straight line, but because it is separated by a river, it now belongs to the Yuan and Chu families.

It is said that spring rain is as expensive as oil, and a year's harvest depends on whether the rainfall in spring is sufficient or not.

In the fields, there are busy figures everywhere. Last year, the tax was collected four times a year, and the tax rate of the new tax law is extremely low. People don’t know what it is like in other places, but they can know what level is on the other side of the river.

Ordinary people, in this age of information asymmetry, all they can see when they look up is the palm-sized place in front of them.

For the people living in the Linhe area in the north of Juyang, they may be more familiar with Lihu than they are with Juyang. Last year, they watched their family harvest four times a year, while the other side only had one season.

Superiority and pride often come from comparison. There are two worlds separated by a river. Now Lihu has a girl who wants to marry to the river.

There were also quite a few people running to this side. Although Yuan Shao had a ban, the river would freeze in winter. No matter how many Yuan Shao had soldiers, they couldn't prevent the people from crossing the river by climbing the ice.

Of course, there are also disgusting ones who don’t like people well. In summer, they take advantage of the night to slander and row boats to poison the water source here. In order to prevent this from happening, the water sources in each village are guarded.

After the ideas spread, the two sides have never lost a fight. At the end of last year, they even killed a few idle men who didn't want their women to marry across the river. The relationship between the two sides is no longer as harmonious as it was before.

"Aon, it's time to eat!"

"coming!"

In the field, an old man strode out from the ridge with his waist hanging down. He looked very old, but he walked like flying. After the popularization of meditation, the biggest benefit for ordinary people is that they can work more vigorously.

The old man seemed to be over fifty years old. In this year, it is considered a long life for ordinary people to live to fifty years old.

Looking at the well-built grandson who was raised, the wrinkles on the old man's face seemed to have eased a little, and his stature was much taller than his father's age. Last year, the harvest was bumper and the tax was less. The family's harvest was almost eight times that of previous years. , The meat and eggs that I didn't dare to eat before, I dare to eat now. This little grandson has grown up quite strong after one year, and he will be able to work in the fields next year.

The days to come will get better and better.

When he came to the shed beside the field, the old man sat down and opened the food basket brought by his grandson. The old man stared and said, "Why are there still chickens?"

"Mother said, when Ah Weng goes to work in the fields, he needs to eat more to gain strength." The childish voice was full of enthusiasm, and there was a bit of longing in his eyes as he looked at the chicken.

"Ah Weng can't eat so much." The old man peeled off the eggshell, split the chicken into two, handed it to his grandson, and said, "The dog leftover will help Grandpa eat some."

"It was Ah Weng who couldn't eat it, so I ate it." Zhitong swallowed, and took the half egg, the yolk was all in it. Let him eat, but since A Weng can't eat it, it seems reasonable to help A Weng eat it himself.

"Well, let's eat." The old man nodded.

The toddler stuffed half an egg into his mouth in one gulp.

"Slow down, drink some soup." The old man looked at his grandson with a smile, gave him a sip of soup, and then started to cook the rice by himself.

"Aunt, your clothes are all wet. Mother said that you will catch the wind and cold." The childish boy ate half an egg and sat beside the old man contentedly. He brought a bamboo hat. The old man was soaked by the rain.

The spring rain is like silk, although it is not violent, it is dense and dense, and it is troublesome after a long time.

"Hey~" The old man shook his body when he heard the words, and most of the rainwater on his body disappeared immediately, and then steam rose up, and the water vapor on his body was evaporated after a while.

"Ah Weng is amazing!" Zhitong clapped his hands and laughed.

"Does Gou Sheng want to be this powerful in the future?" The old man laughed.

"Think~" Zhitong nodded quickly.

"Practice the visualization method more if you want to, don't be lazy, it is a gift from Chu Lingjun." The old man laughed.

"Yeah." Zhitong nodded. Chu Nan's reputation has spread to thousands of households along with last year. Now in the Central Plains, if you ask who is today, ordinary people can't answer, but you ask Chu Nan Who is it, no one knows.

"Ah Weng, what kind of official is Ling Jun? Is he very big?"

"Of course it's very big, the biggest official in the world." The old man nodded. He actually didn't know what kind of official Ling Jun was, but everyone else called him that.

"Older than the Son of Heaven?" the childish child asked curiously.

"Who knows, but he must be more capable than the Son of Heaven, and he might be the Son of Heaven in the future." The old man squinted his eyes, the general situation of the world and ordinary people like them couldn't understand it, but after living most of his life, some things can still be seen .

The grandparents and grandson were talking, when the horn sounded suddenly in the rain.

"Damn it! Those bastards on the other side of the river must have come to act as a demon again!" The old man finished picking up the rice in the bowl, cursed, put the bowl in the food basket, patted his grandson's head and said, "Go back quickly, don't bother!" come out."

"I'm going too, to beat the bad guys!" The childish voice was crisp and clear.

"You? Let's talk about it when you can move the hundred-jin stone lock in the village!" The old man chuckled, picked up his hoe and said, "Go back quickly, don't let your mother worry about it!"

"En." Zhitong agreed, picked up the food basket and walked back. After walking for a while, he turned back with a pale face.

The old man didn't ask him what was wrong, but a group of heavily armed soldiers came towards him. Looking at the clothes, they didn't look like soldiers from his own side, but soldiers from Hebei! ?

Seeing the crops in the field being trampled on, the old man didn't care about his distress, he quickly pulled the child over and hid him among the sundries in the thatched shed.

"The dog is obedient, no matter what happens later, don't make a sound, let alone come out." After finishing speaking, without waiting for the grandson to reply, he blocked him with sundries, stood up and held a hoe to meet him, with puffs on his face A flattering smile.

Just as he was about to say something, he saw a ferocious smile on the face of the leading soldier when he saw someone here.

The old man's heart sank, knowing that the visitor was not good, he turned around and ran away. He looked at the old man, but he ran very fast.

"Chasing!" Seeing this, the leader of the corps leader sneered, stomped his foot, and sprang out like a cheetah. In an instant, he was behind the old man, but what greeted him was a handful of yellow mud.

He raised his hand subconsciously to block it, and he heard the whistling sound in his ears, but the old man had already hit it with a hoe.

Old fox!
The corporal cursed secretly, it was too late to dodge, he just turned his body sideways and cut his head into his shoulder, the attack was so ruthless that he could even hear the sound of bones breaking.

Wu Zhang let out a cry of pain and punched out, but was grabbed by the old man.

"Pfft~"

Huge force came, the old man couldn't bear it anymore, he spit out a mouthful of blood, and there was a sound of bone cracking in his arm, but he held on tightly to his fist and didn't let go, a scorching heat surged from the opponent's palm, the corporal wailed in pain He screamed, stabbed the opponent's chest and abdomen with a knife, and then kicked the opponent away.

When I retracted my hand to look at it, half of my palm was already burnt!

"Old thing!" Looking at the old man on the ground who had only breathed out but not breathed in, the corporal chief cursed twice. Fighting, and then suddenly turned around and shot, fortunately the opponent was old and frail, otherwise he would have capsized in the gutter.

"Boss!" The four subordinates chased after him, looking at the scorched palm of Wu Chang, feeling a little chilled.

"How did this ordinary person have such ability to cross the river?" the subordinates were a little puzzled.

It's all right to meet the opponent's regular army. This is just an ordinary old man in the field. He was almost killed by their corporal leader. If the people here are like this, how can they grab it?
"Hey, in the imperial court, the technique of visualization is spread all over the world." The corporal sighed depressingly. In fact, he passed it on to his family members privately, but he just tried not to let people know.

However, an old man here has such combat power, which is indeed a bit troublesome.

The horn was still sounding over there, and the corporal leader was a little annoyed: "What did the team lead them to do? The arrow tower built by a few villagers can't be taken down now!"

The sound of rustling footsteps in the distance changed the expressions of the five people.

"Hurry up, the situation here is not right, don't get entangled with it, or it will attract the imperial army to encircle and suppress, I can't stop it, leave here first!" After the corporal finished speaking, he took the four of them and rushed and go.

Soon, a group of villagers with various farm tools came over, looking at the corpse of the old man on the ground, their eyes were spitting fire.

"Father!" In the crowd, a three-forty-year-old man stumbled and knelt beside the old man's corpse, crying with red eyes.

"Where is the dog leftover? I just saw him delivering food here!" A middle-aged man frowned and looked around.

"Dog left?" The crying man thought that his son was here, his heart sank, he got up quickly, looked around, but he didn't see his son's body, so he hurriedly searched around.

The last group of people saw the child whose face turned pale from fright in the wooden house.

"Goug Sheng, why didn't you answer!?" Seeing his son being hidden here, the man's expression was both startled and angry. He barked so many times just now, the little bastard didn't even fart in a daze.

"Ah Weng said, no matter what happens, don't make a sound, let alone come out." Zhitong spoke intermittently, with fear in his eyes.

Everyone heard the words and fell silent.

One can probably imagine the situation at that time, the old man must have sensed that something was wrong, first hid his little grandson, then led him away by himself, and finally got murdered.

"Who the hell!?" the man said angrily.

"Don't you have to frighten Gou Sheng, Gou Sheng, so that we can see clearly who is chasing you, Ah Weng?"

"Yes...they are dressed differently from us, with knives and iron hats!" Gou Sheng said tremblingly.

"Jizhou soldiers?" Several people realized that in recent days, there have been rumors everywhere that Jizhou soldiers often cross the river to plunder, and now it seems that they have met.

"The horns over there haven't stopped yet. Let someone stay and take Gousheng back first. By the way, report to the county town. Jizhou thieves are coming and looting. The others are going to help!"

"it is good!"

(End of this chapter)