At dawn, Huang Yuchen, who had been leaning on the wooden stake for a night, moved. He didn't know what he was now, and he was angry and unwilling to accept it. As a person who had been inspiring to benefit the people, the previous scene had already penetrated the softest part of Huang Yuchen's heart. All this was something he absolutely could not tolerate.

Before Huang Yuchen could give instructions, Yuan Dongyun went to the village alone. The whole story must be clarified. The affairs of a village can reflect many hidden bigger things later.

Huang Yuchen arranged for the breeder to go to the nearby village to explore the jungle. He surrounded the village and investigated all the nearby jungles. If any unusual traces were found, he would report them back. Huang Yuchen walked to the bonfire that everyone lit last night and sat on a tree stump. The bonfire in front of him came warm. He looked at the flames and was stunned.

Zhuang Lexian handed Huang Yuchen a piece of dry food, but Huang Yuchen did not answer or say a word. His mood was indescribable, and he thought of many things from a village.

The mountains were blocked with heavy snow, and the village was looted, and there were no signs of murder, but all living people and food were looted. Huang Yuchen not only hated those who did these things, but also thought deeply whether such things were really happening frequently in the entire empire. If this is true, then the problem of the Qitian Empire would not be just a movement. Chaos is as simple as it is.

"Don't think too much." Zhuang Lexian sat next to Huang Yuchen and whispered: "I don't know what's going on now. I haven't seen a dead person, so maybe there will be any other turning point."

"Can't you see the child's arm?" Huang Yuchen said softly: "His injury has not healed yet. His arm was cut down. What's the point of turning around like this? This is just a small village of more than twenty families. What about that big village, town, and city? Such a thing is definitely not an isolated case."

"You mean..." Jiang Mingjie frowned slightly from the side and said, "Someone wants to rebel?"

"You may not know what Qi Tian is doing." Huang Yuchen said: "Before I went to Yongcheng of Chunhu, the world was in trouble. The chaos had just subsided. The rebellion of the Three Kings involved the entire Qi Tian in the storm. At that time, I heard that my elder brother ascended the throne of Qi Tian. I thought things would develop in this good direction, but I didn't expect..."

"No matter how much you think at this moment, it's useless." Zhuang Lexian said: "Everything has to be cleared before you draw a conclusion. Even if someone secretly accumulates strength to compete with your elder brother, this is not a problem you can solve now. Doing anything comes at a price!"

Zhuang Lexian's words made Huang Yuchen slightly stunned. He seemed to have a deep meaning in his words. He was likely to hear some of the conversation between Huang Yuchen and Jiying before, and Zhuang Lexian should also be very clear about Huang Yuchen's emotional changes later. The meaning of his words now is to let Huang Yuchen see everything in front of him and not be hindered by the things in front of him.

Zhuang Lexian seems to be an ordinary sentence, but Huang Yuchen sounds very meaningful. Zhuang Lexian seems to be trying to bridge the gap that only appeared between him and Huang Yuchen, and bridge the feeling that only exists in his heart.

This person is too sensitive, far from being as careless as he seems on the surface. Huang Yuchen didn't say anything, he understood the truth, but he really couldn't do it if he wanted to really ignore everything he saw now.

"No matter how strong you are, your energy will always be limited. Things must be prioritized. Some things must be done immediately, and some will not." Zhuang Lexian saw that Huang Yuchen did not say anything, and continued to say beside him: "I know you can't stand others suffering, but there are too many people in the world that you can't take care of them all. After you figure this out, no matter how big the things are, they are not what you should do now. Don't forget your original intention of desperately coming out of Yongcheng, Chunhu."

After Zhuang Lexian said these words, Jiang Mingjie and Yin Cai were also silent. They all had what they wanted to do. Can Jiang Mingjie and Yuan Dongyun be willing to give up their hopes that they have fought for more than ten years and not return home immediately, but to care about the affairs of some people who have nothing to do with them?

No matter how strong a person is, he also has his own emotions, his own thoughts, and he also has his own things he must do. It is not appropriate to be indignant when he sees injustice, but very few can really help.

Reality is often cruel, but no matter how cruel it is, it is reality.

Something more cruel will come immediately.

The surrounding zodiac soon sent back the news and found several corpses in a secret corner of the jungle. When Huang Yuchen heard this, he immediately stood up and followed the zodiac to this place.

In the jungle valley, there is a deep pit buried by snow. Standing on the edge of the pit, you can see the heavy snow below, and the unburied human hands and clothes. Look at this, there are more than a dozen people.

Huang Yuchen stood at the edge of the deep pit, looking at the situation below, frowned, and immediately ordered the survivor to go down and clean up, and lifted all the corpses up.

Soon, the seven bodies were neatly placed in the snow. Judging from the costumes of these people, they were all ordinary farmers, both men and women, but it was obvious that they were both older and had no young and middle-aged people.

Huang Yuchen looked at the seven corpses in front of him, all of which were killed by a knife, and the wounds were all on the neck. The person who used the sword had the cultivation level. Judging from the wounds, it was done by one person.

"These should be people from the village." Zhuang Lexian said on the side: "It may be the people who were forcibly conquered. When I came here, I found that they might not be suitable, so I was dealt with like this."

"Just right next to the village, why can't they let them go back?" Huang Yuchen frowned, unable to tell what it felt, it was cold.

"Can't go back." Zhuang Lexian said softly: "That village has been erased, and there is no possibility of going back. Although these people are not in their prime, they still have at least a dozen years of life. Keeping them may be a hidden danger."

"Do you kill people at will because of possible hidden dangers?" Huang Yuchen suddenly felt hatred in his heart. His chest was blocked, and he felt unspeakable, but his external behavior was still restrained. However, his whole body seemed to be frozen, and a hint of chill surged out of him.

"Buried these people." Zhuang Lexian sighed and said, "I'm afraid the people in the village don't know about their deaths. Sometimes, it's easier than knowing them."

Huang Yuchen didn't say anything, but just nodded gently. Several survivors stepped forward and carried the corpses down one by one, and carried them into a deeper depth to bury them. But I don't know when the news of these people's deaths will be known by their relatives, and they may never know them.

If there is no hope in people's heart, there is nothing left.

Back at the bonfire just now, Huang Yuchen just sat down and saw Yuan Dongyun coming back from the direction of the village. She had been there for a long time and should have brought detailed news, but everyone knew very well that this must not be good news.

Yuan Dongyun walked to the campfire and sat down, looked up at Huang Yuchen, and whispered: "I asked clearly. This village has been looted three times in total. The first time was a regular army. The people who came here were wearing standard armor. They only collected the food stored from farmers and left enough money."

"How can there be regular troops nearby?" Huang Yuchen frowned and said, "General local forces do not need to collect food and grass at all. All the food and grass garrisons are uniformly allocated by the imperial capital. If these regular troops are garrisons in surrounding provinces, then they have only one purpose..."

"These should be all things you expected, right?" Zhuang Lexian said: "Before you came out, the empire was already in chaos?"

Huang Yuchen didn't say anything, but looked at Yuan Dongyun and waited for her to continue talking.

"At the beginning, the villagers didn't say anything. After all, these soldiers left enough money to purchase grain, left them enough food to survive the winter, and did not show any oppression. Even if this matter was gone," Yuan Dongyun looked at Huang Yuchen and whispered: "There are 22 households in this village, and there were a total of 67 people at that time. When the soldiers came for the first time, there was no riot."

"But the next night, the same group of people came again, and the previous order was immediately disrupted. They forcibly collected the money they had previously distributed to these farmers, and forced a few young and middle-aged people to transport grain and grass in the name of transporting grain and grass. When the grain and grass were transported to the destination, they would let them come back."

"They had no way to resist, they could only obey. This time it was only the first looting. At this time, the people in the village began to panic."

"If these soldiers still have some bottom line, just rob their money and food and do not hurt people, then what happened later will be completely beyond control."

"A month later, a group of soldiers broke into the village again. These people seemed to have lost the battle and their armor was broken. After entering the village, they forcibly broke into the farmers. The mob woman snatched food and finally took away all the young and middle-aged people in the village, and almost all the money and grain." Yuan Dongyun said this, sighed softly, looked at Huang Yuchen, and said, "We went to the village chief's house last night. His baby was cut off his arms at that time, his son and daughter-in-law were forcibly taken away, and the stock in the family was also looted."

"Originally, this doll will definitely die, but when the Taoist practitioners on the nearby mountain came down the mountain and saw the doll, they told him to cure the blood, which was considered to have saved their lives."

Hearing this, Huang Yuchen felt that his namelessness was infuriated. He forced himself to do not burst out, but the hatred in his heart was already to the core.

"At the end, there were a group of bandits, who were no longer soldiers." Yuan Dongyun said softly.
Chapter completed!