Three Kingdoms: Liu Bei seeks the master and seeks to conquer the world

Chapter 19

Gaotang County.

Deep in the rugged mountain road, there is a little-known valley hidden.

In the valley, scattered thatched cottages, bamboo buildings, mud houses...

Skinny men and women looked at the crops in the field eagerly.

A group of children and teenagers covered in mud were lying on the dry field, staring at a place of mud, their eyes were red.

An older boy was pulling out the mud.

suddenly.

A gleam of gold flashed in front of the children's eyes, and the children with quick eyes and hands quickly rushed forward.

"Caught!"

"I caught it!"

The toddler was ecstatic, and hid the slender ricefield eel in his tattered pocket amidst the mud.

Immediately, the childish child ran away!
The older boy was furious, and rushed towards the child, and then snatched the rice field eel from the child's pocket.

"This is to honor Qu Shuai, who allowed you to steal it?" the young man roared viciously.

The child cried, "Brother Ah Hai, my mother hasn't eaten for three days, she's starving to death!"

The boy froze.

But the next moment, Zhitong snatched the eel back and ran away.

With a plop, the child fell to the ground.

But even so, the childish boy didn't cry out for pain, but got up with difficulty, and ran towards a dilapidated thatched cottage.

In the thatched hut, there was a lying woman, also skinny and ragged.

The eye sockets are sunken, and there is only air in, but no air out.

The childish boy brought the slender rice field eel to the woman, and shouted happily: "Mother, there is something to eat, wait for Mu'er, and Mu'er will make you rice field eel soup, which is Mommy's favorite rice field eel soup." !"

Women can no longer see.

Hearing the cry of the childish child, the heart hanging in the woman's heart fell like a stone.

"Mu'er, I can find food by myself now..."

Half an hour later, a child with a dusty face came to the woman with a black bowl of eel soup.

But no matter how the child shouted, the women on the bed remained indifferent.

The young man who came over heard the sound, probed the woman's breath, closed his eyes and sighed: "Ah Mu, stop shouting, Niang Niang is dead."

The eyes of the childish child were as fierce as a wolf in an instant, and they covered the dead woman with both hands: "No! No! No! Auntie is still here! You go! You go!"

The young man remained silent and exited the thatched cottage.

Houses in the valley were precious, and once the child's mother died, the house had to be redistributed.

This is the rule of the valley!
Even if the young man feels unbearable, it cannot change the status quo.

Bamboo house on the hillside.

Qu Shuai Xu Qi's expression was uneasy, and he sat on the ground with a sharp steel knife standing in front of him.

Recently Xu Qi has had a lot of bad luck.

The cooperating Gao Tang Ling died, and the new Gao Tang Ling was Liu Bei, the county captain of Gao Tang County who failed to kill last time.

Liu Bei is a ruthless person.

When I was a county captain, I was determined to wipe out the Yellow Turbans in Gaotang County.

Now that he is a county magistrate, he is even more unrestrained.

The spies in the city spread the news that Guan Yu, the newly appointed county captain of Gaotang County, was practicing county soldiers every day.

This made Xu Qi feel a crisis.

Last time, the former Gao Tang Ling tipped off the news, but he failed to ambush Liu Bei halfway, but this time Gao Tang Ling became Liu Bei, who would dare to tip the news?

What makes Xu Qi even more uncomfortable is that Gaotang County has not rained for a long time.

The fields in the valley are dry!
Xu Qi had to limit the supply of grain and rice to eat, so that starvation appeared every day.

But even so, the grain reserves in the valley will not last long.

"Can't sit still!"

"If you want me to die, I will drag you to be buried with me!"

Xu Qi stared fiercely at the steel knife in front of him.

Since the newly-appointed Gao Tang Ling insists on punishing him, he must be ruthless!
"Qu Shuai, A Mu's mother is dead." The young man's tone was sad, as if begging: "Can you leave the thatched cottage to A Mu? He is still young."

Xu Qi glared at the young man: "Guan Hai, put away your sympathy!"

"The rules are the rules. Since the woman is dead, the hut should be taken back and rewarded to those who have done something."

"Otherwise, who would work hard for me?"

Guan Hai gritted his teeth and said, "But that thatched cottage was earned by Ah Mu's father!"

Xu Qi got up and looked down at Guan Hai. His strong body put a lot of pressure on Guan Hai: "Are you teaching me how to do things?"

Guan Hai bowed his head: "Don't dare!"

Xu Qi picked up the steel knife, and the sharp blade reflected the scorching sun: "Take care of yourself first in troubled times. Only when we survive can we save others."

"Guan Hai, you have also read books, so you don't understand this truth."

Guan Hai was silent, his fingers deeply embedded in his palm.

The way of General Tiangong is not like this!
Seeing Guan Hai's unwillingness, Xu Qi's tone softened: "Guan Hai, there are valley rules in the valley. What we should consider more is how to obtain the grain for the winter."

"There is too little rain this year, and the harvest will not be very good. If you want to survive the winter, at least half of the people in the valley will starve to death."

half?
Guan Hai was horrified: "Shuai Qu, I have calculated that even if the harvest is not good, there is no problem in overwintering. As long as..."

Xu Qi's eyes turned cold: "Guan Hai, it seems that you still haven't understood what Ben Qushuai said."

"If there is no food, winter will be over, but what about next spring?"

"Do you want all the people in the valley to starve to death?"

"When the old, weak, women and children are all dead, the remaining young and strong will have no worries."

"Only in this way can we get real elite soldiers!"

"When the time comes to attack the city, where can we go?"

Xu Qi's ruthlessness made Guan Hai fearful and chilly.

Starve to death the old and the weak, women and children, and attack the city with mourning soldiers, even if they let them slaughter the city, they will not have any worries!
"okay!"

Xu Qi didn't want to explain any more.

"Send a letter to the nearby Qu Shuai for me. I have important matters to discuss with them!"

……

County government.

Although it is hot summer, the air is dry and hot.

But when Liu Bei listened to the county magistrate's report, a chill came down his back.

"The grain depot in Gaotang County only has [-] shi of grain and rice left?"

"Do you dare to lie to the county?"

One stone of rice is enough for one person to eat for about forty days.

Five hundred stones...

Gaotang County still has [-] county soldiers!
When Liu Bei was appointed as Gaotang Commander that day, he was in a hurry to go to Gaomi, and did not check the grain and rice storage in Gaotang County.

I thought that there must be at least [-] shi for grain storage in a county, but it turned out to be only [-] shi?
The county magistrate was frightened and said: "Master county magistrate, this is really not a petty matter!"

"Although there are [-] shi of grain and rice in the county, most of them are sold to yellow turban thieves."

"When Chen Xiang left, he took another five hundred shi..."

Zhang Fei on the side shouted angrily, "Why didn't you say something when Chen Xiangzhi was picking up the rice?"

The county magistrate lowered his head: "If you say so, will the subordinate officials still have their lives?"

Zhang Fei drew his sword angrily: "Chen Xiang can kill you, but I can't kill you?"

The county magistrate plopped and knelt down in front of Liu Bei.

"My lord, please forgive me. Although there is no rice in the county, there is a lot of gold and silver."

"It's all from the previous county magistrate."

"The villain knows where the gold and silver are hidden."

Liu Bei was not happy.

If there is gold and silver, someone must sell grain and rice!
While thinking, the city guard came to report.

"My lord, there are eleven riders from outside the city, and one of them, who claims to be Beihai Zheng Ping, came for an appointment."

Liu Bei stood up suddenly!

　Early reading is very important, don't give up on me.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)