Empress: Your Majesty, please respect yourself, I don't want to be promoted

Chapter 167 The Real World

Snapped! !

The woman who came rushing suddenly ran to the nearby place, without saying a word, she slapped the man surnamed Chai on the face with the strength she didn't know, and at the same time she angrily reprimanded:
"Chai Yuan, you bastard!!"

She obviously knew everything, and there was a strange fierce light in her blood-red eyes.

As she said that, she directly blocked Lu Chen's sight, and tightly protected his current body behind her.

Seeing this, the man beside Chai Yuan ran away in a hurry.

Looking at the emaciated woman standing straight in front of her, trying her best to make herself look untouchable, Lu Chen inexplicably felt a sore nose, and a strange emotion kept rising in his heart.

This woman... is Chai Hongyu's mother, right?

In the next second, as if to confirm his judgment, the owner of his current body, Chai Hongyu, who was a child, stepped forward slowly, and stretched out her withered little hands to pull the woman's dirty clothes.

"Mother... Daddy loves Yu'er, please stop beating Daddy..."

Hearing this, the faces of the two trembled at the same time, and Chai's mother's anger not only did not dissipate, but even more angrily shouted at Chai Yuan: "Chai Yuan, look at Yu'er, she is so cute and sensible, and You, a father, actually want to trade your own flesh and blood for flesh and blood, are you still human?!"

"Then what else do you think we can do?!"

Chai Yuan didn't fight back, but roared with a broken face:
"Before the yellow disaster happened, the people from the government robbed our life-saving food and took away all the supplies in the prefecture and county. It was obvious that they wanted to use the spiritual disaster to mess up the cycle of reincarnation. Those in the prefecture and county Didn’t the dog officials force us to plant those fairy grasses that we couldn’t eat at all? We refused to plant them. Now that the yellow disaster comes, after we starve to death, this place will become a land of no one. In my opinion, this The yellow disaster was caused by those dog officials on purpose!"

"The imperial court can't count on it, there is no trace of disaster relief money and food, the storehouses of the prefectures and counties are empty, and those domineering elders have already run away. Now that all the official roads and the people's roads are closed, what else can we do? ?!"

Facing her husband who had lost his mind, Chai's mother's expression remained unchanged.

"The imperial court has abandoned us like we are, and if you don't give us food, you will use jade to fill your stomach?!"

These words were like a sharp knife, piercing into the depths of Chai Yuan's heart in an instant, tearing apart his heart that had been tortured beyond recognition by the extreme hunger.

"what!"

He didn't refute Chai Mu's words, but opened his mouth suddenly as if he had lost his mind, let out hysterical roars, and let the yellow sand keep pouring into his mouth.

After a while, his eyes finally regained their clarity.

The moment his reason returned to his body, he suddenly raised his hand, grabbed his head and squatted down, and then let out a heart-piercing cry.

Seeing this scene, Lu Chen felt very unhappy.

At this time, the eyes suddenly went dark, but it was the young Chai Hongyu who had completely passed out from the extreme hunger.

Memories flow quickly.

When his sight was restored again, Lu Chen inexplicably felt a lingering smell of meat on his mouth.

The feeling of weakness in the body also dissipated a lot.

Where did the meat come from?

Lu Chen was puzzled.

However, when Chai Hongyu glanced at the empty-eyed Chai Yuan and the kind-faced mother in front of him, he keenly noticed that there was a smear of blood on Chai's mother's left sleeve, and her shoulders were shaking unnaturally.

Could it be that…

Thinking of a certain possibility, Lu Chen couldn't help but tremble in his heart.

In the days that followed, the family of three followed tens of thousands of fleeing teams and struggled forward, trying to escape from the coverage of the yellow disaster and seek a chance of survival that did not exist.

However, although the yellow disaster is not fatal in a short period of time, it is not like the fire disaster and white disaster that will make a large number of creatures sleep forever in an instant, but its scope is extremely wide, and the yellow sand that covers the sky will completely lose people's consciousness. direction, once you get caught in it, it's hard to survive.

Soon, Chai Hongyu, who had just recovered a little strength, fainted from hunger again.

Then he woke up inexplicably in the smell of meat.

Repeatedly.

As if nothing had changed.

But Lu Chen noticed that Chai Mu's left hand gradually became empty.

Then there is Chai Yuan's left hand...

Soon, when he woke up again, Chai Yuan disappeared and was completely buried by a sudden dust storm.

In the yellow disaster, even sad tears are precious water sources, and there is not even time for sentimentality, so the surviving mother and daughter continue to move forward.

Not long after that, Chai's mother fell into the yellow sand forever, and Chai Hongyu finally saw that her mother's left shoulder was already empty...

Chai Hongyu burst into tears after learning the truth.

But at this time, among the tens of thousands of victims at the beginning, only a hundred or so survived until this time. Facing the endless yellow sand with no end in sight, they were no longer like before. As long as someone in the fleeing team fell down, they would immediately Pounce on it and eat it.

They have run out of energy.

Moreover, people who have lived to this day basically have no flesh and blood in their bodies, no water, no salt, and it is difficult for them to even struggle to survive.

In the end, they could only fall one by one into the yellow sand.

Only now, after experiencing all this personally, has Lu Chen truly realized what a horrible purgatory this ancient world of high martial arts called Zhongzhou is for the low-level people without spiritual roots!

Although he inherited the memory of his predecessor, he knew that ordinary people's lives were not easy, and he also saw the difficulties of the people in Yuzhou with his own eyes.

But the predecessor was born in a high-class prefecture at any rate, and when the demon queen was in chaos and corruption was rampant in the government and the public, Yongchuan sent Xia Yan, a super good official who would rather sacrifice his own interests to let the people live and work in peace, make the predecessor Although the family is poor, life is not too difficult.

At least eating is not a problem.

And although the people of Yuzhou were deeply harmed by the tyrant king, corrupt officials, and mediocre officials, the land under their feet was spiritual soil anyway, and when Lu Chen passed by, no natural disasters broke out, and the floods were subsided. .

However, the Daxia River and Mountains, which stretch for hundreds of thousands of miles, are more people like Chai Hongyu in her childhood, who have to face the threat of spiritual disasters from time to time.

With spiritual disasters, if the government does not act, the disaster area will be a real purgatory on earth.

What is even more frightening is that the inaction of the government has become more and more normalized.

Even deliberately conniving.

Although the spiritual disaster is terrible, in some people's eyes, it might not be a good knife that can make a profit.

By completely substituting Chai Hongyu's life, Lu Chen started from Yizi Xiangeclipse. In Chai Hongyu's flashing memory, he witnessed the tragedy that should have appeared in hell. The cognition in his heart was refreshed again and again. Shock, still shock.

Chai Hongyu naturally survived in the end.

It seems that after seeing her mother's empty shoulders, she was stimulated by her mother's miserable and tragic death, or through the fusion of some kind of power through this tragic way, the originally thin Suzaku blood in her body was completely activated, winning her A silver lining.

There is no memory during coma.

When he opened his eyes again, Lu Chen found that Chai Hongyu was in a tent.

She was rescued.

Rescued by hundreds of refugees from other prefectures, led by a small official, in a slightly better condition.

These refugees were originally slave laborers, and the little official was responsible for taking them to work.

That little official was a good person, seeing that Chai Hongyu was still alive, he gave her some of his remaining supplies, and took care of Chai Hongyu in every possible way during the escape, completely treating her as his own daughter.

Under his leadership, these victims did not lose their humanity, but supported each other and went through the adversity together. Even if some people could not hold on and died unfortunately, they would be buried properly and the whole body would be left instead of being food in someone's stomach.

From that little official, the young Chai Hongyu finally realized that not all officials in this world are dog officials as her father said.

Of course, at that time she didn't know the difference between an official and an official.

Those refugees were also very kind to Chai Hongyu, and they often chatted with Xiao Chai Hongyu to relieve boredom. Later, they even took Chai Hongyu as their spiritual sustenance, telling Chai Hongyu the wishes and yearnings of ordinary people like them from time to time.

And these words, after they fell to the yellow sand one after another, were deeply engraved in Chai Hongyu's mind and became her lifelong obsession.

Seeing this, Lu Chen finally vaguely felt why Chai Hongyu was so obsessed with him, even putting himself in danger to save him from the enemy's inevitable attack, and now even disregarding his identity as a traitor, Go to Beijing in person to prove his innocence.

Realizing this, Lu Chen suddenly felt an indescribable heaviness, which made him a little out of breath.

He couldn't help feeling self-doubt in his heart for the first time.

Shengxian, is it really that important...

In other words, is this system called the way of being an official, the weird reward conditions, really an obvious loophole...

Corruption is rampant in the officialdom. As the parents and officials of the people, the monks only care about the gods and ask questions, but they don't ask about politics. Slaughtering those who are in trouble, and forcing one side to be peaceful and peaceful, this is the way of being an official...how can the common people have a reason for stability?
The people are in such a difficult situation, but he obviously holds an important position, shoulders the trust of the emperor, bears the heavy responsibility of the high-ranking person and the expectations of all parties, and has enough ability and opportunity to change all this, but he puts his mind on relying on the strange conditions of the system Shengxian...

Is this really good?
Chai Hongyu is obviously a traitor, but he has devoted everything to keep his rare hope. Although he, an upright official of the court, has done some practical things for the people and the country, but based on these alone, if he really has a chance to meet the system requirements in the future , Can he really put aside all this with peace of mind, and ascend to the fairy world by committing suicide?
The memory continues.

However, the memory that follows is no longer the picture of Chai Hongyu when she was a child, but the night when Chai Hongyu, who had already cultivated her skills, was in Yuzhou and was slaughtered in Gou'er Village and Qu'er Village, she saw Lu Chen for the first time. scene.

The caster of the soul search technique can feel the emotional fluctuations in the memory world of the soul searcher.

In Chai Hongyu's field of vision, Lu Chen looked at him who suddenly pulled out the sword of the extreme way, rode a royal horse and led a group of Xuanji guards to Yuzhou without hesitation, and was drifting away when he was about to kill King Yu. From the back, one can clearly feel how shocked and curious Chai Hongyu was at that time.

And, longing.

Afterwards, he walked out of King Yu's mansion with King Yu's head in his hand, and soon met Li Wei's house in Gou'er Village. They talked for the first time, and then watched him go to various places to help the people in person from a distance.

In the end, he and a group of Xuanji guards were attacked by the enemy at Fu Yu's crossing the catastrophe. Chai Hongyu led a group of righteous men to rescue them.

In the middle, there is no unusual intersection at all.

A proper meeting by chance.

Obviously, being here is enough to prove that she and Lu Chenqing are innocent, and there is no connection at all, let alone love for a concubine, life and death.

And with constant empathy, Lu Chen's heart gradually became extremely complicated.

In Chai Hongyu's heart, how radiant she is, but...

As soon as he thought of this, he couldn't help but sigh.

And at this moment, when the memory progressed to the point where he was blasted back to Luojing by the enemy's fire spell, the moment his figure disappeared, in her eyes, like Fu Wei, who thought he had been buried in the hands of the enemy, the world suddenly become red.

This memory ends here.

I don't know whether Chai Hongyu lost her mind or passed out because of overdrawing her spiritual power.

But Lu Chen felt it very clearly. At the moment when Chai Hongyu's vision was covered with fiery red, a wave of despair suddenly gushed out from the depths of his heart, as if he had lost the whole world and the meaning of existence.

That strong emotion made Lu Chen's spirit tremble suddenly.

Immediately afterwards, the next memory followed.

After regaining consciousness again, her subordinates handed her a mysterious note, on which was written the news that Lu Chen was safe and sound and had returned to Beijing in rubbing script.

Lu Chen knew that this must be Fu Wei's handwriting.

The moment Lu Chen saw the above information, he felt a surge of joy.

At the same time, in the Tai Chi Hall.

poof...

Accompanied by a few muffled sounds, Chen Cang, Zhao Bingliang and several courtiers suddenly fell to the ground. Looking carefully, their faces were pale, their eyes were extremely hollow, and there was a deep gleam in their eyes. deep despair.

it's over it's over
"Whoo~"

The Empress let out a breath of foul air slowly.

Things have come to this point, the matter is no longer in dispute.

Everything will be settled.

She slowly stretched out her hand, wiped the fine sweat off her face, and then didn't even bother to look at the courtier who was making noise behind her. Chai Hongyu glanced at her facial features.

A look of admiration gradually appeared in his eyes.

For the sake of righteousness, this woman actually did this for Lu Chen. She clearly endured unimaginable pain, but until now she still kept silent and did not let out a single wail of pain, which affected Lu Chen who was performing the soul search technique. .

This tenacity is really terrifying.

In this world, there is actually a strange woman who is as tough as Lu Qing.
　It’s the end of the month again, and there’s a lot of work to do, so I can only update 4K first. Readers, please forgive me. I’ll just wait for the younger brother to finish his busy work for these two days.

　　
　
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