Immediately after the death of the master

Girl, don't you think that Mr. Ji has a very mature temperament, while some of me are still a little green? "

I choose my words carefully so as not to offend or hurt my self-esteem, and I'm always extra delicate when it comes to me.

"Brother Shenxian's temperament is indeed mature, but you—" the little girl looked me up and down for a long time, looking at me innocently, "Uncle, do you have such a thing as temperament?"

This sentence... pokes my heart a bit hard. Apart from reading less, being unkempt, not paying attention to speaking, and often bullying and beating my teammates, I am clearly a knowledgeable, friendly, high-spirited, helpful, open-minded, Pure and pure—a gentleman.

"Little girl, you can eat indiscriminately, but you can't talk indiscriminately," I reasoned with her righteously, "I'm the benefactor who saved you, why don't I have no temperament?"

"Yeah, you are a good person," the little girl agreed, "but uncle, you still have no temperament!"

"You! You girl, wouldn't it be nice to give me a few compliments?"

"I want to boast too, but uncle, you really have nothing to boast about!"

The girl blinked her eyes, extremely innocent.

Xiao Zhu, who had been maintaining a serious state, failed, lying on the ground and laughing non-stop.Even Ji Sanqing failed, and couldn't help laughing.

This ugliness is not in vain. After the atmosphere is active, everything can be discussed.

Ji Sanqing was finally willing to talk to me.

"How's it going outside now?"

"The Fourth Prince died, and His Highness the Crown Prince succeeded to the throne and became the emperor." I spoke concisely and told the truth.

Ji Sanqing was surprised by this:

"Is that why you told me such important news?"

"It's useless for you to know, anyway, you can't last until your Majesty comes to save you," I said bluntly, "The new emperor's backyard is still on fire, and he won't care about you for a while."

Ji Sanqing smiled without saying a word, and continued to teach the little girl how to write, while I was bored waiting.Xiao Zhu refused to refill my tea, and after I poured myself a third cup of tea, Ji Sanqing finally got up, and he suggested:

"Master Li, let's go outside for a stroll together."

"But it's disrespectful!"

This is what I was waiting for, seeing is better than hearing a hundred times, he asked the little girl so many questions about the people of Wancheng, the next thing is of course to see it with my own eyes.

Let Ji Sanqing see the current situation of Wancheng with his own eyes, that's why I brought the little girl to Ji Sanqing.Ji Sanqing is not a fool, on the contrary, he is the most sensitive person I have ever met. From the moment he saw the little girl, from the information I confide from time to time, Ji Sanqing already knew my purpose - to witness Wancheng with his own eyes. After the tragedy of the people, he who loves the people like a child will definitely feel unbearable in his heart, and this unbearable will make him choose to betray the new emperor.

The prince and the common people are the two things he cares most about.The prince is the king he chooses, and the people are people he can't live up to.

Under the Starry Night, Ji Sanqing, who just won the crown, told me.

Now, I'm forcing him to choose between the two, and if he chooses one, he must betray the other.

This is a blatant conspiracy, and he will definitely jump in, just like the third prince back then.

Because he is Ji Sanqing, the eldest grandson of Prime Minister Ji.

This trip, no little girls, just the three of us gentlemen.The outside of the prefect's mansion is no different from when I first came here, the streets are empty, and there are rotten smells and groans coming from the dark alleys.Xiaozhu was curious about the stench, so he turned into the alley to find out.

When he came back, Xiaozhu supported the wall and vomited at the base of the wall.

"Ouch—as expected of the young master, can't you take it anymore?"

"How can you be so calm, this is a living human life, this is cannibalism!"

Xiao Zhu turned pale and stared at me angrily.

"That's not human. In Dayu Kingdom, most people are not human," I said coldly, stating the truth that the nobles in the capital couldn't see. , They have a bunch of good names, peasants, common people, Limin, they are praised in history books, and officials praise them. However, peasants, common people, and Limin are just titles like castles in the sky, which cannot replace a vivid Human life. Don’t care about how the history books praise it, don’t care about how the peace is whitewashed in the memorials. You go to thousands of villages, you go to the cities outside the capital, you go and see Those petty officials who show off their might, look at those powerful landlords like blood-sucking insects. You will know that most of them are not human!"

"How can you say that?!" Xiao Zhu refuted me loudly.

I sneered, fingered deeply, and lit my beating heart, revealing my past and the hidden reality.

"Because I wasn't considered a human before. Xiao Zhu, you know what I have experienced before. If I hadn't chosen the right master, I would never be able to become a human in this life." I showed him another barbaric world, " If Ji Sanqing hadn't saved you, you would have been exiled to the frontier. I stayed in the frontier for seven years, and I know what kind of life those exiled 'nobles' lived. These guys are the prey, the enemy country, the people of the frontier, The frontier garrison, everyone can bully them, everyone can plunder them. Several times, our army was short of money and food, in order to alleviate the urgent need, I also ordered the massacre of several noble families who were exiled outside the fortress."

"You...why did you do that?"

Xiaozhu was frightened by the bloody meaning in my words, but he was not frightened, he stood upright, and questioned me with an empty shell without momentum.

"If our army dares to protect these people, it is blatantly disobeying the imperial decree. The emperor sent them to such a ghostly place. It is hoped that we will get rid of these hidden dangers directly, so as to prevent them from making a comeback. But unless we are short of money, we will usually pretend to be stupid, pretending not to understand the will, and not to get involved in this muddy water in the capital. Moreover, our army kills people It’s killing people, stealing money is stealing money, at least a whole body can be left. If they are in the hands of the enemy, it’s not just a simple matter of robbing money, all women, and handsome boys like you , tsk tsk..."

I made an obscene and obscene voice, Xiaozhu understood what I meant and couldn't help trembling.Ji Sanqing on the side didn't talk to us on the surface, but actually pricked up his ears to listen, and that's exactly what I wanted.If it wasn't for the sake of telling Ji Sanqing, I wouldn't have said that to Xiaozhu, a pure kid.

I continue to add fuel to the fire.

"Compared to the famine, the frontier is nothing. There was a famine that swept the country seven years ago, and I happened to leave the capital at that time. Do you know what I saw on the way?"

Xiao Zhu had a bitter face, obviously not recovering from the panic just now, but the world I was talking about was something he had never seen before, his curiosity prompted him to prick up his ears to listen to my words.

"It really looks like hell. Not far from the capital, I can see the corpses of refugees floating in the river. The corpses are soaked until they are swollen, and they emit a stench. Even the champagne can't cover up the smell. The smell still drills into the nostrils, making your stomach twitch and make you want to vomit. Going further, the gates of the city are closed, the village is empty, and there are scrawny corpses lying on the side of the road, flies buzzing and rotting around the corpses There are white maggots crawling among the corpses. On the road to the frontier, there are often no people for several miles, the farmland is abandoned, weeds are overgrown, and the hungry wild dogs are used to eating carrion, and they spy on us in groups. , always ready to share our food. The more we go, the more desolate, the fewer people we go, and the more shocking the scene. At the beginning, people can still have a complete body, and the more we go to the place where the drought is severe, the degree of mutilation of the corpse The higher, finally, we saw the cleanly gnawed human bones in the pot in the wild.

"Man eats dog, wild dog eats man; man eats bird, crow eats man; man eats man, man eats man. In that famine, after eating all that could be eaten, man turned his gaze to Powerless old people, weak children, submissive wives. In the end, in the worst-hit places, only young men in their twenties survived."

As long as you tell the result, most of the process has already been guessed.Children, women and the elderly have a much higher death rate than those who are starved to death. This is the bottom "people" of this era.

The people's living and working in peace and contentment are just appearances. Floods and famines, exploitation wars, natural disasters and man-made disasters peek at people in the shadows. When the floods are raging, when the sun is high, when the landlords are exploiting, when the wars are raging, people are forced to become inhumans. Many human beings are reduced to animals that drink blood, and the singing and dancing in the memorial shows the bloody absurd core of reality.

The world is peaceful and the people are happy?Looking at the history books, peaceful years are the exception, while wars and killings are the norm.

This is an era of cannibalism, and those who survived are murderers.

Be it the young adults who survived the famine seven years ago, or you and me standing here now, none of them are innocent.

Ji Sanqing, do you really understand?Do you really know what price you have to pay and what kind of infamy you will bear for the heaven in your dream?

Are you really willing to be like the old prime minister? Can you really become that cold-blooded lunatic?

Xiaozhu is not stupid, he can guess what I mean, imagining the tragic image in my mouth, he has a certain expression of sympathy.Ji Sanqing, who had been listening all the time, couldn't help showing pity.

I look at this pair