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Chapter Nineteen: Li Sishui

Xinzhou and Yue Kingdom ranked first in wealth among the thirteen states. They are located on a plain, with a flat terrain, roads connected to the north and south, and water and land.

There are the most business names in Yue Kingdom and the most wealthy people in Yue Kingdom. Especially Xinzhou City, it has the reputation of being "richest in the world", and its prosperity is even better than that of Yue Kingdom's capital.

Xinzhou is also the largest transit place for goods in Yue Kingdom. In Xinzhou City, caravans of major merchants travel from north to north every day, transporting output from all over the country and even outside the country. Therefore, many merchants outside Xinzhou are also gathered here.

In addition, Xinzhou is also a place where many officials and nobles in Yue State have industries and a large number of upper-class families.

But in addition to middle and upper class people like merchants, wealthy officials and nobles, there are also the most beggars in the city of Xinzhou - the most popular country in Yue!

The richer the place, the more poverty there exists. This sentence can be said to interpret the overall pattern of Xinzhou.

A large number of refugees and beggars provided a large amount of cheap to almost free labor for many businesses and noble landlords in Xinzhou.

They were driven by nobles and wealthy merchants like animals, exhausted and had to eat a bad meal without much food and clothing.

They were also disliked by the vast majority of the civilians in Xinzhou City, because of the existence of these people, the merchants were unwilling to hire more expensive ordinary people.

These people have no name as slaves, but they have the reality of slaves. They can sell everything just to survive.

In other words, this group of people is actually not as good as slaves.

The wharf for cargo, the land in the landlord's fields, the mine cave outside Xinzhou City...

The corpses were scattered in every inch of the land of this rich Xinzhou. To be honest, their lives carried and created the fertility of Xinzhou, but in the end they could only live safely and comfortably in the mansion built on the corpses of this group of people, and squandered them.

The rich family smells of wine and meat, and there are bones that are frozen to death on the road.

This prosperity stained with endless blood is the naked reality of this world.

Li Sishui was born in this prosperous Xinzhou City, but he was miserably a small figure who became a refugee at the bottom.

His family was originally a civilian who did small business in Xinzhou City. Although he was not a rich man, he could also be considered a well-off society.

However, after a family incident, the family property was taken away, and both parents died, leaving only the boy who was only eight years old at the time, and his sister who had just been born two years old.

The young Li Sishui, with his sister, survived humble, dirty but tough, like a cockroach in the sewer.

In the past decade, he has been a beggar and a thief. He has climbed over the fields and carried goods by the merchant terminal.

He once humbly surrendered to a wealthy businessman, but he was almost beaten to death in anger of the other party.

He also once took away the last food of the sick beggar's beggar's "colleague" in the desperate eyes...

Li Sishui is short and ugly. He is covered with scars all over his body, and his heart is extremely dirty.

Li Sishui knew very well that he had no hope in his life. His greatest wish was to see his growing sister marrying a son of a commoner and have a stable life.

Even in the most difficult times, Li Sishui never gave her sister a mouthful of "dirty" food, so even if their lives are so difficult, the little girl's figure is not as short and ugly as Li Sishui.

She is definitely not a beauty, she looks ordinary, and she is even a little weak and sickly.

But among the refugees, she is definitely very ‘clean’.

Revenge? What is this naive idea? Li Sishui has even forgotten who his enemies are.

It’s not that you have no feelings for your dead parents, but that people who have tried their best and useless measures just by living have the extra energy and time to think about such an unrealistic fantasy of taking revenge?

A few months ago, the subordinates of some wealthy people in Xinzhou City began to promote a sect called the "Kunlun Sect" among beggars, refugees and the people.

They said that as long as you join the Kunlun religion and believe in the great Kunlun God Lord, the God Lord will give believers "work", "justice", "health", and "rich".

Moreover, this Kunlun Sect is not a fake thing. As long as you join, you can get a bucket of corn every three days.

For such temptations, not to mention refugees and beggars, there are very few people in the city who can withstand temptations.

For a moment, the so-called "Kunlun Christians" were everywhere in the city.

Li Sishui is one of the rare people who has withstood the temptation of a bucket of corn every three days.

In his opinion, these beggars and refugees are undoubtedly stupid. After living in Xinzhou City for so many years, don’t you know a truth?

Where can the rich have kindness?

Because truly kind-hearted people have long been dead!

A drop of white soup mixed into a pot of black oil will either be assimilated or eliminated, and there is no other way.

Although Li Sishui didn't know why this group of rich people had such a large amount of capital this time - with so many Kunlun disciples in Xinzhou City now, a bucket of corn per day would have to be astronomical!

But he knew that there must be some conspiracy behind the so-called Kunlun Sect.

Whenever he watched the refugees bring corn from the Kunlun Church, he looked very happy, and he would look disdainful in his eyes.

‘Wait, the more you take, the faster you die!’

He thought disdainfully, and then grabbed the broken bowl for begging. In the bowl was half a steamed bun that someone else gave him. It was his dinner today.

Li Sishui skillfully walked through the darkest alleys and alleys in Xinzhou City, and came to the place where he and his sister had lived - a broken courtyard.

In a place like Xinzhou City, such a abandoned yard should not exist, but this small yard is really evil. One household lives and one household dies. It is a famous ghost house. No matter how cheap it is, no one dares to live in it. Even several families around it have moved further away.

Even many refugees and beggars, even if they sleep on the streets without tiles to cover their bodies, were unwilling to get close to this "ghost place".

When Li Sishui moved in with his sister, he was also very scared, but he had no choice.

Of course he could sleep in the open, but how could his sister, who was only two years old, stand the sun and rain?

Now that he has lived in this for so many years, he has gradually stopped fearing this "haunted house". In his opinion, it is just a rumor from ignorant people.

He has lived here for so many years, but nothing happened?

Li Sishui pushed open the door and looked at the stone bench in the middle of the yard, but was stunned.

My sister sits on this stone bench and waits for herself every day. Why did she rest so early today?

Then he tiptoed into the room and saw his sister lying on the bed.

The quilt and mat on the bed were very worn and had countless traces of stitching. It was a bed of bed that Li Sishui had accumulated bit by bit by bit by bit.

He walked to the bed and looked at the small person on the bed, with a gentle smile on his ugly face.

I wiped my hands carefully before I dared to touch my sister's fair little hand.
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