Witch Wind

Chapter 297 Dirty Human Heart (Part )

Eastern China.

In Fentian City.

The former imperial city of Dayu Dynasty, ever since the emperor passed away and the empress dowager fled, Xing Tianli slaughtered several old ghosts of "our Great Qing" here and sent them to the Tongtian Yuling Banner. Then, the two old men Xing Tianjiao and Xing Tianhou, together with Xing Tian Yazi and other elite members of the Xingtian clan, took over the place immediately.

With the help of the Great Witch, the traces of destruction were filled in a short time. Cities, towns, streets and markets were also quickly restored. The people of Dongguo Shenzhou, like the ancient Eastern country in Xing Tianli's previous life, had extremely strong vitality. It didn't take long for Fentian City and the surrounding areas to become full of vitality, even better than before.

In Fentian City, on the bell towers, drum towers, city gate towers, high up in the imperial city, and even on the tops of the tall buildings of various wealthy families, there were family flags made of tanned animal skins with various witch patterns painted on them with animal blood. They were filled with the wild and primitive aura and swayed slightly in the wind.

Waves of faint magical power spread out in all directions, and these family flags invisibly divided Fentian City into different territories.

Ordinary people naturally cannot feel the difference.

Only those among the three ancient families who have achieved a certain level of cultivation can recognize which family these witch patterns represent, and can confirm which neighborhood, which street, or even which restaurant or mansion is currently protected by which family.

On the streets, teams of soldiers wearing new uniforms and carrying long spears were marching slowly in neat rows.

At the end of the world, not many members of the three ancient families have appeared in the world. The army now responsible for guarding Fentian City is none other than the White Lotus Sect army organized by Xiangliu Baiwei and Li Kuisheng. They were reorganized and trained after taking the witch pill provided by Xing Tianli.

Compared with the scourge of the Beijing camp and the scum of the yamen runners in the Dayu Dynasty, these new troops have strict discipline and do not harm the people.

Therefore, the prosperity of the market is several times more than when the emperor and empress dowager of Dayu Dynasty were still in power. The people are more energetic and vigorous. No matter men, women, old or young, everyone smiles brightly and is full of joy.

Suddenly, at the intersection of two main roads in the city, a team of new soldiers came striding in. In a few moves, they pinned down several tightly tied up rogues and stripped off their pants neatly.

A junior officer, holding an official document, stood in the middle of the intersection, loudly announcing the crimes of these young scoundrels to the people who quickly gathered around him. When the Dayu Dynasty controlled the world, it was actually no big deal. Wasn't it just that a few people drank two bowls of cat urine, ran to kick the widow's door, and pinched her breasts in front of the neighbors?
But now...

Several sturdy soldiers came up carrying heavy fire and water sticks. Amid the hysterical cheers of the people around them and the miserable cries for mercy of a few young scoundrels, they beat them down with twenty solid sticks of "bang bang bang".

After twenty solid blows without mercy, these young scoundrels' buttocks were beaten to pieces and blood was all over the ground.

The junior officer announced that twenty sticks were only a minor punishment. These young scoundrels must pay a total of one hundred taels of silver as compensation to the bullied widow, and then be sent to the northern mountains to do labor to plant trees and cultivate forests for two years!
The people were in an uproar and clapped and cheered wildly.

When the officials of the Dayu Dynasty ruled the country, these young scoundrels were like a huge mountain weighing down the people's heads. Many people were bullied and humiliated by them, and their families were broken up, but no one cared.

Even the people themselves felt that a widow, not to mention being kicked in the door and having her breasts pinched, was nothing compared to being carried to bed. But they never expected that these new troops who occupied Fentian City would actually make decisions for the people to such an extent.

In just a few months, all the foxes and rats in Fentian City were almost wiped out.

Even young girls and wives dare to stroll on the streets without any worries on weekdays. Even when it is dark, they don’t have to worry about being harassed by thugs when walking in the alleys!
There was an old scholar who had learned a few books and knew a few words and shouted at the top of his voice: "This is the appearance of a saint who will pacify the world... My fellow soldiers, when will your general ascend the throne and become emperor? We, the common people, have been waiting for a saintly monarch for countless years!"

The people were in an uproar again, with smiles on their faces, looking with great anticipation at these new army soldiers, whose spirit and energy were completely different from the troublemakers in the Dayu Chaojing Camp back then.

On another street.

A Western-style four-wheeled carriage, built entirely of precious wood, with large badges hanging on the doors and window frames inlaid with a large number of gold and silver patterns. It was colorful and extremely gorgeous. Because it was traveling at a fast speed, it knocked down an old man who was trembling with his steps.

An old man from Xilu, dressed in fancy clothes, with red hair and green eyes, leaned his head out of the car window, pointed at the old man impatiently, and cursed loudly in extremely dirty Xilu dialect.

There were more than a dozen guards in front and behind the carriage, and several men who were clearly of Eastern appearance were cursing loudly: "You bastard, you disturbed the counselor, do you want to die? Old man, get out of here, or I'll issue a notice to send your whole family to jail, and you'll be in a dilemma of life and death!"

This old man from Xilu was actually the counselor of the embassy of one of the hundred countries in the far west to the east.

In the past, let alone knocking down an old man, even if they killed several people, what would happen? According to the nature of the officials of the Dayu Dynasty, the family of the old man who was killed had to pay a huge amount of mental damages to the counselor, and even send the handsome boys and girls in the family to the counselor's mansion, otherwise the family would be destroyed.

But now...times are different, Mr. Counselor.

Sharp sirens sounded, and two teams of patrol soldiers armed with live ammunition came running over from both ends of the street, swinging their heavy gun butts and hammering at the guards.

In a few seconds, more than a dozen guards had no time to draw their weapons before they were beaten to the ground vomiting blood by the new army soldiers who had taken the witch pills and had at least tens of thousands of pounds of strength.

The dignified, reserved, proud, and arrogant counselor was dragged down from the gorgeous carriage like a dead pig... Under the surprised, unbelievable, and almost fanatical gazes of the people of Fentian City from all directions, the counselor's pants were stripped off in the street, revealing a white butt that looked like a drowned corpse, but was covered with acne and waxberry sores.

A soldier borrowed two nearly three-foot-long jujube wood rolling pins from a roadside bun shop, picked up the heavy rolling pins, and beat the counselor's big buttocks with them.

From all directions, accompanied by the sound of "bang bang bang" of hammers, all the people of Fentian City who witnessed all this clapped and stomped their feet crazily, some even ripped open their clothes, exposing their chests, their faces full of tears, almost unable to control themselves, and almost banged their heads on the ground to express their joy.

There was a scholar who started by cursing the founding ancestor of the Dayu Dynasty, Yu Lynx, according to the genealogy of the emperors of the Dayu Dynasty, one by one... and kept cursing the last emperor who was already a dead ghost.

Hey, how many years has it been?

Ever since these foreign masters from the Western Land relied on their sharp guns and cannons to fight all the way to the city of Fentian and directly killed the elite troops of the Beijing Camp in Fentian City, what has become of the people of Fentian City because of the harm they have done to them?
These foreign masters are all mentally ill.

They like to harm people.

They like to bring harm to people's homes by those who are underage.

You said that they like to harm beautiful girls, and ordinary people can probably accept it, right?
Their brains are really sick.

These foreign gentlemen from the Western Land actually like to harm handsome boys rather than pretty girls the most - but in a traditional, conservative, and extremely patriarchal country like the Eastern Land, boys are the hope for a family to continue the family line and are truly like the lifeline!

Because of this kind of thing, in the past few decades, in Fentian City and even in the surrounding areas, no matter if they were ordinary people, wealthy families, or even some big families with a scholarly background, boys had mysteriously disappeared. In the end, all the clues pointed to the mansions of these foreign masters!
Over the past few decades, the number of boys who were abducted, as recorded in the case files of various government offices in Fentian City, is probably over 200,000!

Two hundred thousand!
How many kind-hearted people have cried out to the sky for their own children, but have received no help. Some have even taken drastic measures in anger to seek justice, but in the end their entire family was wiped out.
The blood and tears are hard to distinguish.

The crimes committed by foreigners are too numerous to list.

But have the officials of the Dayu Dynasty ever cared about it?
What the hell!
How many officials even took the initiative to help foreign masters find handsome boys and girls and sent them directly to the foreign masters' mansions, just to ask the foreign masters to slip some money from the Western trade through their fingers, or to say a few good words for themselves in front of their superiors?

But today!
No, not just today, in recent months, how many once arrogant foreign masters have been dealt with by the new army?
Some people shouted enthusiastically: "The saint has come to the world, and the sea and the river are peaceful... My fellow soldiers, when will your general ascend the throne?"

Similar things happened all over the huge Fentian City.

These new army soldiers, even if they only dealt with the most inconspicuous thief who was cutting wallets with a small blade on the street, could arouse the people's wild cheers - the people were so sure that they could not find out who the generals of these new armies were and where they were, that they simply wanted to embroider dragon robes for themselves and push that general onto the throne.

With such an army under his command that loves the people like their own children and fights for the people, if he doesn't want to be the emperor, who will?

Who?
Fentian City, the crossroads in the center.

At the intersection of two main roads, each one mile wide, there was a restaurant on the roadside, with the first floor facing the street. At the most inconspicuous square table, Xiangliu Baiwei and Li Kuisheng sat opposite each other, watching the noisy people on the street seriously.

Without him.

An old woman, who was not young, wearing rather old clothes and looked a bit shabby, was walking on the road. Suddenly, she covered her throat with her hands and fell down.

Among the patrolling new soldiers, a fair-skinned and sweet female soldier immediately gave first aid to the old man. Regardless of the dirt on the old man's body, she helped the old man suck out the phlegm that blocked his trachea from his throat mouth to mouth...

The people are simply going crazy.

This is something that even one's own blood children may not be able to do. Such a gentle, fair, pretty... female soldier - the 'Soldier Master' in everyone's mouth, the high and mighty Soldier Master, would actually go to such lengths for an old woman from the bottom of the market?

The people were clamoring, stamping their feet, clapping, and cheering. Large groups of people knelt on the ground and kowtowed to the female soldier. The female soldier was so scared that she also knelt on the ground and kowtowed to them.

Thus, a vicious cycle was born.

The female soldier kowtowed once, and the civilians kowtowed twice. The female soldier was so scared that she cried loudly, and kowtowed more diligently... The soldiers who were patrolling with the female soldier were also stiff, and they didn't know how to deal with this situation.

When they were being reorganized and trained in the military camp, their superior officers did not tell them what to do in this situation.

Xiangliu Baiwei picked up the wine bowl and took a big gulp.

He sighed and smiled at Li Kuisheng, "Old Li, have you ever thought that we would end up like this?"

Li Kuisheng wiped his beard and glanced at Xiangliu Baiwei: "What? What did you say? What do you mean, we have to suffer this day too?"

Li Kuisheng looks like a rough and uncultured man, but in fact he is a smart and thoughtful person - otherwise, how could Xing Tianli's father Xing Tiantongming entrust his wife and children to Li Kuisheng under such circumstances?
How could Li Kuisheng be able and willing to raise Xing Tianli safely and securely to adulthood in Xiaolongqiu Town?
He also picked up the wine bowl and took a big gulp: "What you mean by 'today', do you mean that the people of Fentian City are so happy and living in peace today, or do you mean the 'glory' we have now, or even this army, and the... 'authority' that this army brings?"

Xiangliu Baihu didn't expect that Li Kuisheng would say this so frankly.

He pondered for a moment, then slowly asked, "Why did you join the New Army back then?"

The "new army" here refers to the new army organized during the so-called new policy when the Queen Mother of Dayu Dynasty was still in power. Xing Tianli's father, Xing Tiantongming, was the captain of the squadron of the Black Borneo Expeditionary Force in that new army!
Li Kuisheng blinked for a while and said in a deep voice: "For... for... to change a new world?"

Xiangliu Baiwei smiled and said, "So you are joining the new army to change the world and the dynasty?"

Li Kuisheng hurriedly shook his head: "That's not right, Chief Coach. Changing the world and changing the dynasty are two different things... I joined the new army back then just because I was holding my breath. I felt that our ancestors had been glorious, and even though our family was impoverished for a while, we couldn't be bullied by the barbarians from the Western Land!"

"We just want to stand up straight and let our fellow countrymen change the way they live!"

Xiangliu Baivi nodded: "It's for the purpose of changing the dynasty."

Li Kuisheng stopped talking. He filled a bowl with wine, gulped it down, and took a sip. He grabbed two fried peanuts from the porcelain plate in front of him and stuffed them into his mouth. Li Kuisheng chewed them for a while, then gulped down another sip of wine. Then, he took another two peanuts and took another sip.

With Li Kuisheng's drinking capacity, he could finish a bowl of old wine in one gulp.

Li Kuisheng gulped down the old wine for eighteen mouthfuls before swallowing the last drop of wine in the bowl. He put down the bowl heavily and stared at Xiangliu Baiwei: "What do you want to say? Go ahead. Do you want to be the emperor?"

Li Kuisheng smiled brightly: "I'm not saying anything, but those people up there won't speak up, and you?"

Li Kuisheng pointed to the sky and shook his head gently: "You can't become the emperor, and I don't want to be a marquis or a general... This world should be peaceful, right? When it is truly peaceful..."

Counting on his fingers, Li Kuisheng said, "It's so hard for me, Old Li. I'm already old, but still a bachelor... Fortunately, I have a good nephew. I don't have to worry about the expenses for the rest of my life."

"Well, how about getting a seventh-rank county magistrate? That should be no problem."

"Get a seventh-rank county magistrate's title, open the yamen every day, judge cases in court, support the people, and find three or five blind landlords, local tyrants, and beat them hard with a stick every day."

"Then, I'll get a wife, five or six concubines, and a dozen maids... Hey, if my old waist can still hold on, I'll keep seven or eight mistresses outside... and four, five or six courtesans in the brothel!"

"Then, let them work hard to give birth to babies for me."

"I don't have many brothers or sisters. I am the only one left in the Li family... I want to expand the Li family... I need 18 male descendants to carry on the family line for me."

"Of course, I can't have only 18 children. That's too much of an insult to me, Li. Back then, so many brothers and sisters in Black Borneo died in that damn place. Many of them didn't even have brothers or sisters at home. When they died, they hadn't even married or been to a brothel!"

"Old Li, we need to give birth to hundreds more of him, and as many fat boys as possible so that all of our brothers can adopt one!"

Li Kuisheng laughed filthy: "Before, I was worried about how I could support so many children... But now I have a good nephew with extraordinary abilities. He can help me raise thousands of sons and grandchildren. What's that? They are all his brothers and nephews!"

Xiangliu Baivi's face turned black.

Bastard Li Kuisheng.

Do you really have the stubborn and rough thinking of an old farmer?
Or are you pretending to be deaf and dumb to me?
See what's happening in the market outside.

Look at the cheers of the people.

In this situation, in this situation, you tell me that your highest ideal in life is to be a small seventh-rank official and beat a bunch of unlucky people with a stick every day?
Then, you just work hard to sow seeds and have babies?
Xiangliu Baiwei took a deep breath and said word by word: "Our nephew, Xing Tianli, has the ability to reach the sky... Old Li, you are right, the ability to reach the sky!"

Li Kuisheng restrained his smile and said, "Does my nephew have anything to do with you?"

Xiangliu Baiwei smiled and said, "We are brothers. Your nephew is naturally my nephew... or, he can become my biological nephew... The head of my Xiangliu family said that there are 872 girls of the Xiangliu family with the purest bloodline of marriageable age. If he wants them, they can all marry him."

Li Kuisheng's eyes widened: "You guys, do you still have any shame? Is it that serious?"

In the sky, colorful mysterious light appeared.

Countless people looked up at the same time, looking in horror at the gorgeous clouds in the sky that were as clear as colored crystal and full of colorful colors.

In various places of Fentian City, masters from the three ancient families took to the sky one after another.

They were shocked and took a deep breath in surprise.

In the void, wisps of primordial Qi are continuously emerging, and even the primordial Qi visible to the naked eye, like apricot blossoms and spring rain, is continuously flowing from the west along with the wind.

(End of this chapter)