Pig Killer

Chapter 194

"Why are you interested in this?" Shen Changsheng looked at her with a helpless look.

"Who says these can only be used in war? You can also use them in business! Both parties come and go, hoping to achieve their own expectations." Shen Hui'e raised her eyebrows and looked at him and said.

Shen Changsheng thought about it seriously after hearing this and said, "It's true!" He smiled and said, "You used to read it as a story and threw it away after reading it. You also said that fighting and killing are not good. Now you like it so much."

"We only have so many bamboo slips at home. I have to teach the children. I also read them every day. After reading them many times, they will naturally remember them." Shen Hui'e looked at him with warm eyes and said, "Here it comes in handy."

She wasn't lying! She had read those bamboo slips so many times that she could memorize them.

"Will the world be in chaos?" Shen Changsheng suddenly murmured to himself.

"What do you think?" Shen Hui'e asked with a raised eyebrow.

"I want to go to Hezhong Prefecture to see if it's also so chaotic." Shen Changsheng stopped and looked at her and said, "It's just that the summer harvest is over, and there's nothing wrong in the fields. We need to know what's going on outside."

"Can you find out?" Shen Hui'e looked at him frivolously and said, "There are some things that we common people won't know."

"Go and take a look, you can always find out something, even if it's just to understand the price of grain." Shen Changsheng said solemnly and seriously.

"Go now?" Shen Hui'e frowned and looked at him and said, "It's too dangerous."

"I've become a refugee." Shen Changsheng looked at her with his dark eyes and said, "Our county is too small. If there is any news from outside, we don't know how far behind it is when it reaches us." He laughed at himself and said, "In fact, if I hadn't paid money to redeem myself, I would have been dragged to repair the palace. My family would have gone out to beg for food a long time ago."

"Are you going alone?" Shen Hui'e looked at him without blinking.

"Go by yourself! The third brother must be at home this time." Shen Changsheng said seriously, "It will be better if someone takes care of you if something happens."

"Big Chong's uncle and uncles are all here, so you should take your third brother with you!" Shen Hui'e frowned and looked at him and said, "A man who is alone now is the best target for robbery."

Shen Hui'e continued to persuade him, "Now there are night watchmen in the city, and there are people in the suburban villages day and night. If something really happens, we also have the power to fight back. We are not unarmed peasants waiting to be slaughtered."

"Okay then!" Shen Changsheng thought for a moment, looked at her and nodded.

After packing up, the Shen brothers went to Hezhong Prefecture without stopping.

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The whole summer was spent in this tense atmosphere.

The big insect looked at the heavy ears of grain in the fields and sighed, "I wonder how much I can save this time."

"The worst case scenario is just like the summer harvest. How much worse can it be?" Li Nu looked at the bumper harvest with his big blinking eyes and couldn't feel happy at all because he didn't know how much could be left.

"Looking at the ears of grain, the yield should be better than last year." Huang Bochang said while carefully holding the ears of grain, "After being covered with river mud, the crops are different. The leaves are all green and dark, and they look very strong!"

"It can't be doubled." The cat slave pouted and muttered.

"Haha..." Huang Yuanji looked at her in astonishment and laughed, "You are really too greedy, but I want it too."

"Is the village peaceful recently?" Shen Hui'e looked up at Huang Bochang and the others and asked.

"It's peaceful." Huang Bochang glanced at her with his dark eyes and said, "Except for some petty thefts, nothing happened."

"Aunt, those bandits are scared by our beating! So they dare not come." Huang Yuanji said to her with sparkling eyes.

"It's to make us relax." Shen Hui'e looked at them with a cold gaze and said, "The most dangerous time is after the autumn harvest."

"What do you mean?" Huang Jichang looked at her in confusion and asked.

"Can the bandits come to the fields to harvest the grain themselves?" Shen Hui'e said to them with raised eyebrows.

"That won't happen. Wait until we have collected everything, then come and rob!" Huang Yuanji said without thinking. Suddenly, his eyes widened and he looked at his father and said, "Father."

"After the autumn harvest, we will need to increase our manpower." Huang Bochang said to them with a sharp look in his eyes.

"Yeah!" Shen Hui'e looked at the endless fields with her deep and distant eyes and nodded slightly.

"Second aunt, second aunt, uncle is back." Huang Zhaoye ran towards them.

Upon hearing this, Shen Hui'e ran away and passed Huang Zhaoye in the blink of an eye.

"Second Aunt, Second Aunt, our uncle is at our house!" Huang Zhaoye shouted at her back.

Shen Hui'e waved her hand when she heard that, and without slowing down at all, she disappeared in front of them in the blink of an eye.

"Second Auntie ran so fast." Huang Zhaoye's eyes widened as he looked at the now-disappeared Second Auntie and said, "She was like a gust of wind."

"My mother is also running with us." The big insect came over and chuckled, "According to my mother's words, being able to run when there is something to do is also a skill."

"Haha..." Huang Bochang smiled and walked over and said, "Yes!"

"Uncle, Sister Zhaoye, we're leaving first." Da Chong nodded at them and ran after his mother.

Shen Hui'e ran all the way to the Huang family courtyard, and saw the Shen brothers sitting in the middle of the courtyard, accompanied by Huang's mother.

"Brother!" Shen Hui'e said as she stood in front of them with a steady breath, "You're finally back after being gone for so long."

"Da Chong's mother, Da Chong's father will be back soon." Huang's mother looked at her happily with red eyes.

"What?" Shen Hui'e's pupils shrank suddenly when she heard this, and she looked at Shen Changsheng in shock, "The court is not going to repair the palace anymore."

"No, it's not that you misunderstood." Shen Changsheng looked at her with his dark eyes.

"What happened? Tell me quickly." Shen Hui'e took a deep breath secretly.

"I heard that the laborers who were building the palace were dissatisfied with the exploitation and abuse by the supervisors, so they beat the supervisors to death and fled." Shen Changsheng looked at her excitedly and said.

This is a riot, Shen Hui'e thought to herself.

Shen Hui'e, who had calmed down, smoothed the hair by her ears and looked at him and said, "Those who have troops in the capital, can they escape?" Will they not be suppressed?

If this army is dispatched, can these unarmed and malnourished civilians resist it?

"The imperial army has gone out of Tongguan to quell the rebellion." Shen Changsheng looked at her excitedly and said, "In the past two years, the grain levy has been continuously increased, and the people have been forced to work. There are complaints everywhere. The common people who can't survive have picked up hoes to resist. They directly killed the local officials." Then he said, "It has become a prairie fire."

"Why are you so excited? You want it too!" Shen Hui'e said when she saw his face flushed with excitement.

"What I'm wondering is whether the imperial court will revoke its order after seeing this. Then will our lives return to the way they were before?" Shen Changsheng said to her with his dark eyes.

"Unlikely!" Shen Hui'e rolled her eyes and said, "On the contrary, when a war breaks out, doesn't it matter whether the two sides collect food or grass? They all fight on empty stomachs! Why do they fight? Isn't it just for food?" She added gloomily, "Neither side farms, nor is willing to farm. They only know how to rob. There's a knife in their hands, on your neck, you give it or not!"

"Uh..." Shen Changsheng thought for a moment and said, "So my second sister asked us to get ready early."

"If we keep doing this, there will be no change, and something will happen sooner or later." Shen Hui'e looked at them calmly and said, "We have to protect our homeland, and we can't do without swords and guns." She snorted coldly, "These people who are rising up now will not be able to achieve anything."

"Why?" Huang's mother looked at her in confusion and asked.

"They have no goals." Shen Hui'e said, looking at them with her deep and penetrating eyes.

"Target?" Huang's mother blinked her black eyes and looked at her puzzledly and asked.

"In short, what do you want to do?" Shen Hui'e snorted coldly, "That group of rabble killed officials and the rich people in the city, just to rob food, gold and silver, and women... What about the future?"

"In the future?" Shen Changsheng blinked and looked at her and said, "In the future? The imperial army is coming to attack us..."

"Can they hold out?" Shen Hui'e said unhappily, "The imperial cavalry are no pushovers. They are just a bunch of rabble, blinded by the silver they robbed. Are they capable of resisting?" She snorted, "Are there any who understand military tactics? Or are there any who are in charge of a region? Do the soldiers have daily drills?"

"What does it mean to be in charge of a region?" Huang's mother looked at her humbly and asked.

"Just like the county magistrate in our county." Shen Hui'e said, counting on her fingers, "At the very least, he needs to know the population of the county, the number of acres of land, the number of high-quality land, and the number of medium-quality land. Spring plowing, summer harvest, autumn sowing, and autumn harvest are all within his grasp."

"We haven't even seen the county magistrate, how can he understand these things?" Huang's mother sneered and said without thinking, "As for the population and acres of land in the county, even if the account books were placed in front of them, they wouldn't know a single word!"

"How can we expect them to have any long-term goals? They only care about the immediate interests and won't go far." Shen Hui'e said bluntly.

"I heard that those nobles whose countries were destroyed before the unification of the court have secretly risen up and want to destroy the current tyrannical and unjust court." Shen Changsheng said to them with his dark eyes.

"Ambitious people." Shen Hui'e snorted and said, "They take advantage of the situation." Then she added, "They have money, food, and goals."

Shen Changsheng smiled and said, "The goal is to destroy the tyrannical and unjust court."

"Yes!" Shen Hui'e nodded slightly after hearing this. She looked at them with her crystal clear eyes and said, "These nobles are all-rounders in both civil and military affairs, and they have received education."

"If they lead the way, they can compete with the imperial army." Shen Changsheng's eyes lit up when he heard that.

"But the imperial cavalry is hard to contend with. Their armaments are not in disrepair, and their soldiers' combat capabilities are still very high." Shen Hui'e looked at them with clear eyes and said, "It's not easy to fight!"