In April of the first year of Taixi, the impact of the disaster finally passed.

Jiang Shouyi returned to his hometown of Chashan Village and resettled. Because he had money to buy land, he became a good citizen again.

He took his grandson and worked hard to cultivate the land, thinking that the days of peace were finally coming.

However, it was also this month that the founding emperor of the Jin Dynasty suddenly passed away due to a serious illness, and was posthumously named Emperor Wu!

All the princes were young, but Prince Sima Zhong was the oldest. He immediately ascended the throne and changed his reign to Yongping.

The image is always peaceful.

However, the new king, Sima Zhong, was born with dementia and was unable to serve. A year later, the vassal kings and clans rebelled one after another and conquered each other.

Suddenly, the heroes were divided, one founded the country, and the other proclaimed himself emperor! Only ten years after the Jin Dynasty ended the troubled times, the world was once again in chaos!

There are wars and troubles all over Kyushu, and wars and wars are everywhere! Famine and war continue, and the people are in dire straits!

Yongping three years.

In order to supply the King of Qi's "Qingjun side", Langya County continued to increase taxes, and the people all broke their homes, sold themselves to households, or became bandits.

Chashan Village was first exploited by tax collectors and then rampant by bandits.

Jiang Shouyi stepped forward, united the villagers, formed a stronghold to defend themselves, and fought hard for several days. Finally, he forced the bandits back, saved the last food, and survived the winter.

In order to save grain for the second year of farming, the four-year-old Yannu only lived on hay.

"Yan Nu'er, I'm sorry for you. When peace comes next year, I will make you some noodle soup." In the cold winter month, Jiang Shouyi hugged Yan Nu and burst into tears.

"Yeah!" Yan Nu ate the grass with great gusto, not knowing what he was sorry for.

There were still obvious blood marks on his waist, which circled around.

Outsiders thought it was a birthmark, but only Jiang Shouyi knew that it was a wound that had been cut in half when he was a child and had not fully healed.

It took a hundred days for the muscles and bones to break. I cut my hand while chopping wood, and it took ten days to grow back. I cut it off at the waist, and I estimate it will take at least several years to fully heal.

Although it is strange to say that even a broken waist is called an injury, this is how Yan Slave is.

"Aweng said to wait for peace, what is peace?" Yan Nu's big eyes were full of curiosity.

A longing smile appeared on Jiang Shouyi's face: "It means that the world is peaceful and free from chaos, and we people can live a good life without being bullied by others."

"Is it coming next year?" Yan Nu smiled when he saw Aweng, who had always been frowning. He thought that it must be a very beautiful thing, and he couldn't help but want to see it himself.

Jiang Shouyi listened to his grandson's words and looked back at the wars and wars in his youth. Before the Jin Dynasty, the world had been in chaos for hundreds of years. Now that it has been unified for more than ten years, it is time for a prosperous age.

So he nodded firmly: "Of course, next year it will definitely be peaceful."

Yongping four years.

The refugees in Donglai rebelled against the bandits and wreaked havoc in Langya territory.

Its leader called himself "Tianyi Gong" and attacked the city under the banner of "Tianyi Old Immortal, boundless power, saving the world, peace and eternal life".

The major wealthy families stepped up their recruitment of troops, and the garrisons in Langya's cities were stationed in the city. The rebels attacked for a month without any results, so they instead looted major villages and finally headed west.

Chashan Village originally had too few seeds and too much wasteland at the beginning of spring, so the harvest was not good. It was also looted by the rebels, and the people had no food or clothing.

Jiang Shouyi took Yannu and dozens of other villagers and fled into the mountains to survive by digging wild roots.

Yannu still ate grass. He didn't know why the villagers and Aweng wanted to eat the unpalatable wild roots. He tasted them once and thought they were not as delicious as grass!

"Are they Taiping?" Yan Nu asked, pointing to the large and small groups of troops at the foot of the mountain. He had heard this group of people shouting about Taiping and Yongnian.

"No! No! They are all rebels! Robbers!" Jiang Shouyi's eyes were red. Their village was looted and countless familiar faces were taken away.

"Those who don't give us a way to survive are all evil people. The government will definitely put them down. When the government army arrives, we will have peace."

Yongping five years.

Gou Xi, the powerful general of the Jin Dynasty, commanded an army of 30,000 to defeat the bandits. The two armies faced each other at the junction of Qingxu Prefecture.

There were demons among the rebels who were good at changing their ways and infiltrated into the army to disrupt military orders, spread rumors, and burn down granaries, causing the Jin army to be defeated.

Gou Xi gathered the defeated troops and fled to various counties in Qingzhou, marching to Langya County. Because morale was low and the local wealthy people were unwilling to work, he allowed the army to march into the countryside.

Not a grain of grain was left in Chashan Village, and the cries were loud. Soon the entire village was thrown into the hands of a local wealthy family and became serfs. All the farmland in Chashan Village belonged to the Zhang family in Hua County and was renamed Chashan Castle.

The six-year-old Yan Nu was now half a man tall. There were only faint marks on his body, but he was basically healed.

Now he is barefoot, chewing hay, and helping in the fields to cultivate land for the wealthy family.

He asked innocently: "Aweng, is it peaceful?"

Jiang Shouyi looked miserable and said angrily: "Good boy, this is not peace..."

"Although they are government troops, they are more hateful than rebels. The court will definitely punish them severely."

Yan Nu was very curious: "Is there peace after the severe punishment from the court?"

How did Jiang Shouyi know? He swung his hoe, thought for a while, and said, "The King of Qi raised an army to Qingjun a few years ago. The chaos in the world is caused by the rebellion of treacherous ministers. When King Qi succeeds, there will be peace."

Yongping six years.

The King of Qi defeated the usurping King of Zhao, and after the success of the Qing Dynasty, he granted amnesty to the whole country and won over the generals.

As a result, Gou Xi, who was full of criticism, was promoted to General Pingdong despite his merits, and was transferred to Yanzhou to continue to quell the rebellion...

However, before Gou Xi left, he forcibly recruited people and robbed 60,000 laborers from various counties to build roads and bridges and transport supplies.

Jiang Shouyi and Yan Nu had a hard time along the way, and the soldiers whipped them like prisoners.

"Ah Weng, Ah Weng, has Taiping come?" Yan Nu couldn't help asking as he heard the loud crying in his ears.

Jiang Shouyi held Yan Nu in his arms and gritted his teeth and said, "They won't give us a way to survive. We have to find our own way..."

The war started. Among the rebels, Jiang Shouyi took Yan Nu and took advantage of the chaos to escape.

On the way, Jiang Shouyi fought tooth and nail to kill four sergeants. Yan Nu was stabbed more than twenty times, but nothing happened.

Finally, with the help of Yan Nu, who was only seven years old, Weng and Sun escaped back to their hometown.

Yongping seven years.

The king of Nansha also cleared his side, broke through the imperial city, and killed the king of Qi among the rebels.

An immortal killed the monster among the rebels, so the imperial court issued an edict, pardoning the rebels and only punishing the culprits. One month later, Yi Gong was killed by his subordinates, and 120,000 rebels were transferred to the Jin army, all under the command of Gou Xi.

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Because of his meritorious service in the imperial edict, Gou Xi was promoted to General Dongfang and commanded the four counties of Taishan, Langya, Pingchang, and Beihai!

Jiang Shouyi finally returned to his hometown, but Gou Xi then ordered the second- and third-rate wealthy families in each county to contribute money and labor and manpower to repair the city.

As a result, the wealthy families complained and the people suffered unspeakably.

The eight-year-old Yan Nu, with grass in his mouth, naked upper body and bare feet, ran around at the foot of the city wall, delivering water to the workers.

When Jiang Shouyi was sent to him, he asked: "Aweng, Aweng, is this peace?"

Jiang Shouyi stroked Yan Nu's head with one hand, poured down a large bowl of water, and said with force, "Good boy, wait a little longer, wait a little longer... we will soon be in peace..."

"After building this city, we can go home and farm. It will be fine if we work a little harder. We will be fine next year."

In the eighth year of Yongping, there was a severe drought in Qingzhou, and the red land was thousands of miles away.

Tens of thousands of refugees stormed wealthy manors, besieged Wubao, and robbed granaries.

The Zhang family in Huaxian County distributed weapons to the tenant farmers and ordered all the forts under their name to defend them. Jiang Shouyi also picked up a knife and stood on the wall of Chashan Fort to fight for his life.

Finally, Gou Xi's army arrived ten days later. After killing the refugees, he asked the army to enter Chashan Fort for repairs.

The Zhang family in the fort refused to open the door. Gou Xi became furious and ordered an attack, and the Chashan Fort was massacred.

A fire burned down the whole village, and only a few households of the former Chashan villagers were lucky enough to escape.

Gou Xi was known as the Great Bandit, and had beheaded more than ten thousand people!

Jiang Shouyi desperately fled up the mountain with Yan Nu and escaped. When he came back, it was devastated, corpses were everywhere, and countless familiar faces had been killed.

"Aweng..." Yan Nu found a few pieces of blood-stained grass and stuffed them into his mouth before he finished speaking.

Jiang Shouyi knelt on the ground and sobbed, grabbed the scorched earth on the ground, and sobbed: "No... nothing..."

"Everyone is dead...all is dead..."

Yan Nu squatted aside: "Aweng, what will happen if you die?"

"I just can't see him again..." Jiang Shouyi stood up and hugged Yan Nu.

However, Yan Nu pointed to the corpse hanging not far away: "Uncle Big Tou, Aunt Cha, Alian, Xiao Quanzi, they are all there, aren't they?"

"But they will never speak again, they will never call you Yannu'er, and they will never move again." Jiang Shouyi cried loudly.

Yannu couldn't help but burst into tears when he saw Aweng was so sad.

Jiang Shouyi wiped away his tears with rough hands: "Yan Nu'er, don't cry... don't cry..."

Yan Nu was obedient, wiped away his tears and said, "Aren't you happy if you cry?"

"Yes, Aweng likes to see you smile."

Yan Nu immediately broke out into a moving smile, warm and brilliant.
To be continued...