Chapter 52: Dahai Temple Farm
Li Ji saw a mess in front of him.
Cuixiang's hair was disheveled, the lapels of her red jacket were torn, and the left leg of her red pants was torn to her knee.
The makeup on her face was covered with tear marks. She stared at Li Ji with a pair of helpless, frightened eyes.
He suddenly became furious and felt like doing evil. Bang!
A slap hit the old man in the face.
"You old bastard, you dared to marry someone who is not your daughter-in-law. You even tortured her to the point where she is no longer human."
With a whoosh, he drew out his sword and was about to strike.
Suddenly, Li Ji's voice was heard: "Master Li, come and take a look!"
At Li Ai 's shout, Li Ji hurriedly put down the steel knife in his hand.
He hurried over and looked into the water tank, and a foul odor hit his nose.
"Wow! Wow!"
He felt nauseous and vomited immediately.
Li Ji's face was distorted by anger, with veins bulging and eyes wide open.
He pointed at the men in the room and asked tremblingly:
"You, why are you doing this?"
There was a female body in the water tank, with a ferocious face and black hair covering her sunken breasts.
His right leg was missing and part of his left arm was missing.
Before Li Ji traveled through time, he had watched many horror movies, but when he arrived at the horror scene, he was totally at a loss.
Your mother, isn’t this a blatant murder?
What’s more, the one killed was a bride who looked like a flower bone.
At this time, the old man knelt down and cried miserably.
Our village is not big, but years of drought have resulted in a complete failure of our crops and the bark of the trees in the village has been stripped clean.
All the grass roots have been eaten up.
In a village of 300 households, nearly half of them starved to death, and it seemed that the entire village was on the verge of starvation.
We really couldn't find anything to fill our stomachs, so we thought that instead of waiting to die, it would be better to eat human flesh.
At first they stole food from the dead, and then the dead disappeared too.
Li Ji asked in confusion: "Why do you only check the food of the new bride?"
The old man said:
"These days, men are just skin and bones. There's not much meat left even if you kill them."
Li Ji was so angry that he trembled all over as he listened to the old man's narration.
At the end of the Sui Dynasty, famine, poverty, and banditry were problems that arose simultaneously.
There were starving people everywhere, granaries were running out of food, and people were eating each other.
However, these people were so heartless that they planned to take the new bride out, kill her, pickle her with salt, and use her as food.
My God, this is the tragic scene of the late Sui Dynasty.
Li Ji was so angry that his eyes were filled with murderous intent.
He waved his hand and raised his Green Dragon Crescent Blade. With just a few clicks, several men were beheaded.
He put away the steel knife, walked forward and hurriedly helped Cuixiang up.
While buttoning her collar, he comforted her:
"Cui Xiang, don't be afraid. I have already beheaded the bad guy. Let's go quickly. The man's sedan chair will be here soon."
Li Ji took Cuixiang, got on the carriage, and went straight to the old woman's house.
When the old woman saw this, she was shocked and thought, who are these people helping?
Li Ji hurriedly said, "Old man, the wedding procession just now was a fake. I have avenged your granddaughter, so you can rest assured."
The old woman asked, "What shall I do in the future?"
Li Ji said: "We have already agreed with the man that Cuixiang will go first, and they will come back after a year or so."
Li Ai also said: "Cui Xiang is your granddaughter, don't worry, old man, we adults will take care of this matter to the end."
Li Ai took out another five taels of silver from her pocket and gave it to the old woman.
After a while, on the path at the entrance of the village, eight kinds of musical instruments were played together, including sheng, pipe, flute and xiao, and eight people carried a sedan chair and walked slowly towards the old woman's house.
The man who had filed a complaint at the county government office in the morning was also in the wedding procession .
Li Ji hurried forward and said with a smile:
"Congratulations, groom. Come on, wait a moment. The bride's attire will be ready soon."
When the man saw Li Ji, he was surprised and happy.
He fell to his knees on the ground and kowtowed repeatedly to express his gratitude.
He thought to himself that Lord Li was personally acting as matchmaker and witnessing the wedding, which was truly a great honor for his family.
After a while, Cuixiang was dressed in new clothes and was led by the groom to the bridal sedan slowly.
A large sedan chair, carrying Li Ji's hopes, gradually went away.
After the sedan chair left the village, Li Ji and his companions said goodbye to the old woman and rushed to Xingyang County.
“Ding Dong!”
The system sent a prompt message: Help Cuixiang change her fate successfully and you will be rewarded with fifty loads of wheat seeds.
What, so many prizes.
You have to know that fifty loads of wheat seeds is a huge number.
Li Ji returned to the county government office and immediately convened a meeting of the leaders of each camp.
He glanced at it sternly, and then said in a loud voice:
"Today, there is an important decision that I want to tell all the leaders."
Ji Hua, the leader of the Ji Camp, was already filled with anger.
He missed the Dahai Temple ambush because his whip wound had not healed.
Whatever battle there is this time, he must participate.
Before Li Ji finished speaking , he asked anxiously:
"Are we going to attack Dongdu?"
Li Ji laughed.
"Chief Ji, your spirit is commendable, but this time we are not fighting, but farming."
Jihua was confused. We are soldiers. We hold swords and spears, but we have never held hoes or sickles.
Li Ji continued, "You leaders may not know that a terrible incident happened recently in the countryside of Xingyang."
"Master Li, what happened? It's so scary."
Li Ji said with a heavy face:
"Xingyang has suffered from severe drought for many years, banditry is rampant, and the rural areas are not experiencing a poor harvest, but a total loss of crops."
He took a sip of water and slowly said:
"Just think about it, without food, people have no energy to work, which results in large tracts of land in the countryside becoming barren."
"Half of the people in one village starved to death, and there was even cannibalism."
Li Ji's face suddenly turned pale and his eyes turned red, as if tears were flowing out.
"If we hadn't seen it with our own eyes, I wouldn't have believed it myself."
He raised his voice and said, "So, the big decision today is to farm."
The people below began to talk.
"Soldiers don't fight in wars, but go to farm instead. What if the Sui army comes?"
"There are so many bandits. What should you do if the food you worked so hard to harvest is taken away by them?"
Li Ai saw the leaders muttering non-stop, so he tapped the pipe in his hand and said loudly:
"Be quiet, wait until Lord Li finishes speaking before you start discussing ."
As soon as the butler reminded them, the leaders immediately stopped talking.
"I'm thinking of reclaiming all the vacant land and wasteland around Dahai Temple and contracting them out on a camp-by-camp basis."
"Submit grain to the county government according to the number of acres of land as war reserve grain. The remaining grain will be handled by each camp independently."
Ji Hua asked, "Master Li, what should we do with this situation?"
Li Ji smiled and said, "I will be responsible for solving the seed problem. You will be responsible for the management problem."
He looked at Li Ai and said, "Butler Li, from now on, we will start building the Xingyang granary and store more food in preparation for the war."
Li Ai knelt down on the ground with a thud, bowed his head and said, "Yes, sir!"
Li Ji silently chanted the name of the system in his mind, and soon the system sent a message:
"My Lord, the fifty-dan wheat seed card has been activated."
The leaders were in a daze when suddenly there was a gust of wind outside the government office. They turned around and were so shocked that they were speechless...
