I live in Dayu Changsheng

Chapter 47, Miserable

Under the blazing sun at noon, strings of white and dazzling lights and shadows transpired, and the air was filled with a sickening, sweet and bloody smell.

Under such circumstances, Jiang Ping'an came to the courtyard where Fang Rui was.

"I saw that the door of the house is locked. I think your sister-in-law and the others should be here..." Jiang Pingan looked a little tired, and the other party smiled sharply.

"Brother Jiang, come in quickly... my sister-in-law was dragged by my mother, and now, let's cook lunch together in the kitchen..."

Fang Rui invited: "Brother Jiang, come over with us, and we'll eat here at noon."

"Then bother!"

Under the big willow tree in the yard, there was a stone table, and the two of them sat down facing each other. Jiang Ping'an had to patrol the streets in the afternoon, so it was not suitable for drinking, so Fang Rui took some high-quality broken pieces to drink.

"In the morning, I heard the voices, and the city became more and more chaotic... Huh? I don't think Brother Jiang's complexion looks good, are you alright?" Fang Rui asked.

"It's okay, I'm just a little tired... The city is indeed in chaos, and vicious cases can't be suppressed... And, we must always be on guard against the attacks of peaceful thieves, and our spirits are tense..."

Jiang Pingan smiled bitterly and said, "I'll come back too. Only when I get to Brother Fang's place do I dare to relax a bit."

"Brother Jiang, you've worked hard!" Fang Rui poured out a bowl of tea and handed it over.

"What am I? Compared with many others, it is much better. Brother Fang, you don't know..."

Jiang Pingan shook his head, talking about what he had seen and heard when he was patrolling the streets at noon: "...I witnessed with my own eyes: a family, a beautiful woman, was stripped...three or five hooligans surrounded..."

"This is in broad daylight... I have seen more than one case of such a thing today... I haven't seen it, I don't know how many more..."

"Too much, too much!" he sighed.

Fang Rui listened quietly without interjecting. Following Jiang Ping'an's narration, scenes of tragedy seemed to appear in front of him, and he couldn't bear to look directly at them.

"Prosperity, the people suffer; death, the people suffer...especially the latter." Fang Rui sighed.

"Brother Fang's words should make sense."

Jiang Pingan raised the bowl subconsciously, and when he drank it, he remembered that it was tea and not wine. The bitter taste, together with the scene he had experienced in the morning, made him a little stupid for a while, and he was speechless.

Fang Rui was also silent.

Frankly speaking, neither of them is a good person in an absolute sense, but both have their own moral bottom line.

now.

One is to be shocked by personal experience;
The other, who came from time travel, subconsciously compared with the previous life, listened to Jiang Ping'an's narration, and even heard the evidence in the morning, as if walking into the history in the book from the prosperous age, his emotions were surging, complicated and unspeakable.

——It's like, the six words 'the year is hungry, people eat each other' in the history books, just to read, absolutely can't empathize with it, only in that era, can you know how desperate it is!
"Brother Rui, it's time to eat!"

In the end, it was Xue's voice from the kitchen that broke the silence between the two.

"Mother, let's eat in the back room with Third Sister, Sister-in-Law Jiang, Ling'er, Nannan and a group of children!"

Fang Rui warned: "There are a lot of people, share more meals... As for me and Brother Jiang, we men, we can just eat outside. It just so happens that you have something to say, and you are not suitable to listen to it..."

In a large family, there are many rules, only the hostess and guests have finished eating, and the female relatives and children can eat.

However, they don't need to pay so much attention to their small family, they just need to share some meals and let Fang Xueshi and the others eat inside.

"That's fine, you guys are eating and chatting..."

Mrs. Fang Xue, San Niangzi, and Sister-in-Law Jiang helped bring out the food and set it up on the stone table before leading a group of children inside.

This yard is big enough, so many of them are in the back room, and they are not afraid that it will not be able to accommodate them.

Outside, in the shade of the great willow tree.

Today's lunch: a large bowl of fried bean sprouts, a small pot of bacon and mushrooms, a small bamboo basket of sorghum buns, and two large bowls of noodles made of white flour.

"So rich? Compared with Brother Fang's, my house's hospitality in the past seems poor!" Jiang Pingan joked with a smile to dispel the sad atmosphere.

"Haha, it's just one or two meals. Most of the good things I brought from my family are here. The misfortune is gone, and it will be gone...Brother Jiang will come next time, don't blame me for not being good enough."

Fang Rui handed over the chopsticks: "Come here, brother Jiang, eat while it's hot!"

They eat, and there is no rule of 'no talking when eating, no talking when sleeping', they chat while eating.

"...I'm relieved that your sister-in-law and the others are here, thank you." Jiang Ping'an thanked.

"Brother Jiang, what kind words did you say?"

Fang Rui waved his hand: "In the past, Brother Jiang took care of my house, but now it's my turn to repay the favor... In the future, when Brother Jiang goes out, sister-in-law Jiang and the others will stay with me, don't worry."

"But come on,"

He sighed again: "Not only other places, but even our Tianshuijing Hutong was not peaceful in the morning... I heard a lot of sounds of smashing, smashing and looting, not far away... I also come to my yard I killed two thieves, but I broke my hands and feet and threw them out..."

"A group of idiots who can't see the situation clearly!"

Jiang Pingan yelled and cursed, "The Taiping thieves are rampant, and the gangsters are also in a daze, causing chaos everywhere, bullying the common people, and domineering... If you really have the ability, why don't you dare to go find it?" Big family?"

He was right, the Taiping bandits had a limited number of secret operations, and the real effect was just an introduction. More chaos was actually caused by the original hooligans in the city.

This group of bullying and fearful people can cause great harm to the common people. Individuals are not strong, but even if there are many people, the destructive power gathered together is quite shocking, and the impact it brings is also bad.

To be honest, they can't get much money, just a little money. After all, what do ordinary people have to grab?

Doing this is more like: venting the tyrannical desire in my heart.

"Brother Jiang's words are right. They're just a bunch of bullies. How can ordinary people have any money? The real meat is in the hands of the rich!"

Fang Rui disdained to bully the weak and the weak. In addition, he also looked down on the slightest benefit in the hands of these ordinary people, so he would not follow suit.

He even sneered at this group of people.

"That's right, the big families in the city are really fat and oily! However, their strength has not lost much at the moment. Even if they have a heart, they dare not act rashly for the time being... Otherwise, they will be courting death!"

Jiang Ping'an could see it clearly: "In my opinion: Those smart and strong people will probably have to wait until the city is broken before they will take advantage of the fire!"

"Brother Fang will make a move at that time?"

"Brother Jiang was joking, with my small size, how can I compete with those strong people for food?"

Fang Rui shook his head: "In this world, it's better to be careful and be careful!"

The main thing is: apart from robbery points, he really doesn't have much to lack right now.

"Haha, you, you just like to hide your clumsiness!"

Jiang Ping'an pointed at Fang Rui with a smile, and didn't go deep into this topic, so he skipped it.

"Brother Jiang, this person has a clear mind, and he probably saw something. Maybe he guessed that I am an eighth-rank or seventh-rank?"Of course, a middle-rank warrior, even Brother Jiang, might not dare to think about it...'

Fang Rui thought to himself, and waved his hands: "Forget it, let's not talk about that, Brother Jiang, do you have any news about the situation outside the city?"

"Know some."

Jiang Ping'an nodded: "...This morning, the Taiping bandits first attacked with a wave of masters, but they were blocked by the two families, other big families and official warriors..."

"Later, the Taiping bandits drove out the captured refugees, and the ants attached to attack the city... The situation was deadlocked, and the scene was very bloody..."

These news, that is, he is working outside, and in addition, he has some connections, so he can get it.

"Is that so?"

Fang Rui frowned: "This is a real handover... The forces in the city have been stained with the blood of the Taiping bandits, so the matter will not be so easy to settle... If the city is broken, then Li Xuantong will probably let the bandits go and kill them randomly... Wan Once the loss is too great, the delay is long, the city is burned down, the refugees are artificially created, and the people are coerced... I am not surprised..."

"Even more pessimistically, it may not be impossible to massacre the city..."

Let the thieves go, don't seal the sword; or: burn Changshan City, create refugees...

He wasn't afraid of any of this, but he was afraid of... massacring the city.

Such an established large-scale army, even if he has entered the middle class, he can't touch it head-on, at most he can protect himself, Fang Xueshi, San Niangzi and the others are afraid...

"Huh? Brother Fang still takes the long view..."

Jiang Ping'an felt awe-inspiring: "However, if you let the bandits go, you can't help but be more ruthless. Burning down Changshan City is the limit..."

"Of course, even in these two situations, we will not have a good time."

"As for massacring the city?"

He frowned and said: "With the military discipline of the Taiping bandits, I am afraid it is difficult to do it...Forcibly doing it is thankless, it will arouse strong resistance, and most of the bandits will suffer heavy losses...Then Li Xuantong is a smart man, and he will not be so lucrative. ..."

"That's true, I thought so too."

Fang Rui was slightly relieved: "I think the key to defending the city lies with the Lin and Xia families... and if the situation is not good for these two families, it is hard to guarantee that there will be no differences..."

For the big family, it is naturally the best choice to defend the city and wait for the government soldiers to come to rescue them; but before the government soldiers arrive, if the Taiping bandits storm the city, they will probably be wiped out.

For a compromise, colluding with the Taiping thief, dedicating the city to the thief, this is also to cut flesh...

In short, it is a difficult choice.

"Yes, but we are such little people, we can't interfere with the thoughts of those two big families, we can't do anything, we can only resign ourselves to fate..."

Jiang Pingan sighed: "In these years, I have also dealt with those big families, and I know their temperament... It seems to be polite, but in fact it has a high mentality. It does not match the strength and status of the other party. It may not be possible to see... let alone listen to opinions..."

On this point, it is the same no matter what era, even if some nobles are enlightened and can be courteous and corporal, they must at least be "scholars" to do it!

"really."

Fang Rui recalled the meeting with Young Master Lin back then, the other party was not domineering or domineering, but the arrogance in his bones could not be concealed.

"If my true strength is exposed, I can interact with such a big family on an equal footing to a certain extent... This is the foundation, and it can be used as a lever to leverage the situation... and the key to defending the city lies with the Lin and Xia families. The key to breaking the game is also these two, among them, there may not be no possibility of manipulation...'

'No, what do I want to do, what does it matter to me?The ones who should worry about these are the peace thieves... In case of a long delay, wait for the government soldiers to arrive...'

Fang Rui shook his head, let go of these thoughts, and took a big bite to eat.

In other words, Jiang Ping'an is really rude, with bacon in his big chopsticks, chewing until his mouth is full of oil.

——Of course, this is also a proof that the relationship between the two has reached a certain level. For people like them, it's really polite, and it means that they haven't regarded you as a friend yet.

"Brother Jiang, you are quick enough!"

"Brother Fang is not slow!"

"Ha ha!"

In this struggle, the food seemed to become more delicious. The laughter of the two men shone together with the light and shadow like broken gold scattered through the mottled willow leaves.

……

After lunch, Jiang Ping'an left in a hurry and went to patrol the streets again.

Sister-in-law Jiang, Niu Dun, and Xiaodou Sprout still stayed here.

in the afternoon.

The chaos in the city continued, with scolding, crying, beating, smashing and looting, shouting and killing from the direction of the city gate...it was a mess.

The courtyard where Fang Rui was located was basically unoccupied.

Why say 'basic'?
Because: In the middle of the afternoon, two more waves of hooligans came one after another, they were all interrupted by Fang Rui and thrown outside.

Then, it is completely clean.

There is no danger... Well, actually, to be precise, it doesn't even count as a 'shock'.

As Fang Rui and Jiang Ping'an talked, at this moment, most of the rioters are local hooligans, and it is the common people who suffer the most. The big and powerful families in the city are still largely intact.

Fang Rui was reading medical books in the main room of the front yard.

In the backyard, Mrs. Fang Xue, San Niangzi, and Sister-in-Law Jiang were doing needlework and gossiping; Nannan, Fang Ling, Niu Dun, and Xiaodou Sprout were playing.

One afternoon, it passed so quickly.

……

In the evening, Jiang Ping'an returned, came to Fang Rui's yard, and picked up Jiang's sister-in-law, Niu Dun, and Xiaodou Sprout.

At night, because of the shift change, he didn't have to go out to patrol the streets anymore... The county lord didn't force him to death.

Here.

After dinner, Fang Xueshi, San Niangzi and Fang Rui discussed going back to Liushu Alley.

"Brother Rui, most of the food stored at Sanya's side is wheat bran, not too much sorghum noodles, and almost no stick noodles... Or, go back to Liushu Alley and buy our cornmeal and sorghum noodles fine grains. Bring some more?"

"What Auntie said was that I came here in a hurry last night, and I didn't have time to bring some trivial things... Now I'm going back, I just brought them together..."

"Okay, let's go together then!"

Fang Rui thought for a while and agreed.

He also thought about leaving Fang Xueshi, San Niangzi, Fang Ling, and Nannan at Jiang Ping'an's house, and let the other party take care of them...

But just thinking about it, I quickly gave up the idea.

——Jiang Ping'an's strength is good, but it's just that among ordinary people, he is not even an advanced martial artist. Even if he holds a waist knife, his strength is just that...

In case of any accident, Fang Rui regretted that there was nowhere to buy the medicine.

Therefore, he would rather troublesome and bring Mrs. Fang Xue and the third lady with him.

……

(End of this chapter)