Chapter 74: Punishing civil strife (II)

Author: Xianren Grass Tofu Milk

Chapter 74: Punishing civil strife (II)

Six months later

Shouchun City

The kings of Huainan have been besieged for six months, and the Han army outside the city has never dared to attack the city.

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Day 1

Scream-

An ancient wooden house was opened and a pretty girl walked out.

"Miss Fu, early...good morning..." A young man greeted her shyly across the street.

"Good morning." The girl Fu Xiaozhu responded softly to the shy young man. She naturally knew what the young man thought about her, but she didn't care.

Because she also has a good impression of the young man, but her parents refused to agree. Her parents thought she was pretty pretty. It would be a pity if she married a civilian from Luzuo. If she could use her beautiful face to match the young master of a powerful family and become the wife of a powerful family, this would be the best future.

"Xiaozhu, pour water." At this time, Fu Xiaozhu's mother gave her instructions while squeezing the tofu.

Since the King of Huainan invented tofu, many small vendors who make tofu and sell tofu have appeared in Shouchun City, and this is the case with Fu Xiaozhu's family.

Their family is quite rich peasants. The family of three has 100 acres of land. They also run a tofu shop in the city, which is quite comfortable among self-cultivated farmers.

Moreover, my father was a senior in the army of the king, so the Fu family's status was slightly higher than that of ordinary self-cultivated farmers. No neighbor dared to bully their orphan mother and widow.

At this time, several soldiers hung a linen on the wall at Fu Xiaozhu's doorstep with many words written on the linen.

Fu Xiaozhu had never read a book and couldn't understand the words on it. She just saw these soldiers posting linen cloth and ran to other places to continue posting.

"The Emperor of Qin was tyrannical and cruel to all the people... and worked together." At this time, a literate officer told the people about what was written on the linen.

"Haha, even though it has reached the point of life and death, the king still dares not call Emperor Liu Che's name directly, and he just uses Qin Emperor to point out the mulberry and scold the locust as before." Someone who understands the situation shook his head and mocked him.

But the officer and the soldiers seemed to have not heard it and did not care. They heard too much about complaints like this and could not care about it.

The king himself has no determination to resist, so what can we people do?

Even the girl Fu Xiaozhu, who was beside him, felt that the King of Huainan was too cowardly. He either did not rebel. Since he wanted to rebel, he would be decisive. He hesitated in this way, and he did not dare to rebel to the end. He was just weak and incompetent.

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Day 5

Step by step ~

Fu Xiaozhu, who was repairing the holes for tattered men's clothes in the house, saw that there were many sounds of horse hooves coming from outside, so she opened the door, but saw a group of Huainan soldiers riding horses supporting each other dejectedly, and many soldiers were injured.

Fu Xiaozhu looked at the group of soldiers, but could not see his father.

She knew that these soldiers went out to grab food, because she heard that the food in the city had been eaten up, and the soldiers could only risk going out from the west gate deliberately left by the Han army to grab food from the people of the village outside the city, and her officer's father was one of them.

However, they seem to have failed...

"Where is my husband?" Fu Xiaozhu's mother was blankly looking for her officer husband among the soldiers.

"We were ambushed by the Han army as soon as we left the city. Sima of a Han army named Wang Changyu ambushed us. Many people died in battle, but we were the only one who escaped back to the city by luck." A soldier explained that this soldier was the young man who was pulled out of the army four days ago and was forced to join the army. He just joined the army for four days and followed these veterans out of the city to grab food.

"Husband!!!" "Woo woo woo woo woo--"

Fu Xiaozhu's mother cried in despair and fainted.

"Mom!" Fu Xiaozhu held her mother, and then was at a loss. She, a little girl, experienced such a huge change. The only man, the only man, the officer's father, was ambushed and killed by the Han army when she was leaving the city to grab food.

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Day 10

Dong! Dong! Dong! Dong!

Fu Xiaozhu's door was knocked.

"Open the door!" "If we don't open the door, we will break through!"

The person outside the door shouted urgently.

Fu Xiaozhu was very scared. Fu Xiaozhu's mother lay on the couch with a pale face and said to her, "Tang'er, open the door."

Scream-

There was no way, Fu Xiaozhu opened the door and saw several soldiers, among which was the childhood sweetheart she liked.

I saw that there were a few scars on the young man’s face, and the heroic appearance of the young man was missing, and there were many more vicissitudes and ruthlessness.

I heard that veterans in the military camp often abuse new recruits. Could it be that he?

Seeing the young man's change, Fu Xiaozhu thought so in her heart.

"Where are your family's food? The king collects grain!"

A small officer in charge said coldly to Xiaozhu.

"I, I..." Fu Xiaozhu was very scared and took a few steps back, his little face pale.

"Hmph!" The little officer snorted coldly, and then ordered several soldiers behind him: "Search for grain! You can't let a grain of food go!"

"promise!"

Dong! Ding! Ding!

The soldiers rummaged through boxes and cabinets at Fu Xiaozhu's house, searching every corner, and even dragging Fu Xiaozhu's mother out of the collapse, lifting the collapse mat to see if there was any food hidden.

"Can you not collect our family's food..." Fu Xiaozhu looked at the young man and prayed to him with two lines of clear tears.

My father died outside the city in battle, and it would be fine if he could not get the pension. Now the orphan mother and widowed daughter are forced to collect surplus grains. If all the grains are collected, what will they eat?

"I'm sorry..." The young man seemed helpless, and he had to obey military orders and search for the food from Fu Xiaozhu's family more carefully.

"Finished!" A soldier found the place where Fu Xiaozhu's family stored food.

"No! You can't conscript my family's grain, our mother and daughter will starve to death!" Fu Xiaozhu's mother dragged her sick body to protect the grain.

Bang!

The officer slapped Fu Xiaozhu's mother directly and said coldly: "The Han army besieged the city, and the army lacks food. All of them are the king's people. We should give everything to the king. Even your lives belong to the king, let alone some food."

After saying that, he ordered several other soldiers: "Take all the food and stop those who collect food will be regarded as crimes of treason and be killed immediately!"

"No!" The young man agreed, and then he made a cruel decision to drag the food from Fu Xiaozhu's family out of the pottery jar.

"No! No!——" Fu Xiaozhu's mother tore the young man's trouser legs, but...

Bang!

The young man seemed to have completely transformed. He was no longer the shy and innocent boy he had turned into a demon and actually kicked Fu Xiaozhu's mother away.

"Mom!!!Woo woo woo woo--" The timid Fu Xiaozhu did not dare to stop the soldiers from forcing the surplus grain, so she could only cry and hug her mother who was constantly vomiting blood.

The soldiers left, and Fu Xiaozhu's family was in a mess.

"Mom...Woo woo woo--"

Holding his mother and crying bitterly, Fu Xiaozhu saw many soldiers outside the door searching for the surplus grain from other people's homes. The streets were full of Lu Zuo who begged not to collect grain.

"Leave us some rations, please, wuwu--"

"Give me back our food, bastard!!!"

"If we don't give us a way out, I will fight you!"

"Those who block the grain collection will be killed immediately! Kill! Kill! Kill!"

"promise!"

"kill!"

"ah--"

"No, don't kill me! Ah--"

A middle-aged man grabbed a soldier's arm and wanted to steal food, but was stabbed to death by another soldier with a sword.

There was also a child blocking the soldiers' road, being held on the ground by an officer, and then being trampled to death by one foot.

The once rich king capital of Huainan seemed to be falling into hell.

Dozens of unbearable civilians rushed towards the soldiers with bare hands.

Step on the pedal-

Scream—

"ah--"

"You guys must die a little! Uh--"

A group of cavalry in Huainan Kingdom charged from a distance from the streets and massacred all the rebellious civilians. The rebellious civilians were cut off their heads as military merits.
Chapter completed!