Reclaiming Wasteland: Carefree Mountain Farmer

Chapter 262 Light 1
As the sea breeze blew, Liu Jingshun breathed in the sulfurous air, lying on a bamboo deck chair and looking at the gray sky.

It has been a year and a half since the disaster, and the sky is still just as bad.

Even though it was the hottest summer, the sky and ocean looked like they were crying, as if they were about to shed tears.

Coconuts failed to ripen, rice production decreased, and tea and mulberry trees were poisoned by acid rain and volcanic ash.

Cattle and sheep could not find clean fodder to eat, and the animals in the jungle gradually starved to death.

The rats survived tenaciously, and snakes and insects became their food.

After a corrosive rain, large numbers of humans on land and fish in the ocean will die.

Humans are also having a hard time. The oxygen content in the air is decreasing, and seemingly normal people often die casually at their jobs.

Death is a common occurrence, and a human life is less valuable than a cow or a sheep, but the human race is still much better off than the large number of extinct animals.

Liu Jingshun didn't really care about these things; for him, there was food everywhere, both in the mountains and the water.

Liu Jingshun didn't care about farming or not, and he didn't want to farm himself.

It's just that mountain farmers do love farming, and Liu Jingshun seems to care a lot about farming in order to become one.

Actually, things are fine now. King Wu ordered a war, so we fought a war.

Liu Jingshun prefers this kind of life where he works hard for a while each year and then relaxes and enjoys the leisure.

There was food and drink, wine and meat, women, and many Han Chinese mountain farmers to talk to.

The sky was overcast like the setting sun, but it became cool after the temperature dropped, and Liu Jingshun liked this kind of cool weather that wasn't too hot.

Liu Jingshun always adapts to and gets used to the dust and toxic fumes in the air faster than others.

Just as he was enjoying his leisure time, a soldier ran upstairs and found Liu Jingshun looking at the scenery.

"Lord Wan! The Nanyang people are causing trouble in the South China Sea!"

Liu Jingshun was bored, and when he saw that work had come, he stood up and said, "Let's go! Wipe them out!"

Liu Jingshun doesn't know most of the things that people from Shan Nong can do, and he doesn't even know many of the things that people from Shan Nong can do.

Learning ability is worrying...

Liu Jingshun tried very hard to study, but for some reason he just couldn't get into it.

I've tried many times to force myself to calm down and study, but each time I can't sit still after a few minutes.

Liu Jingshun was well aware that he was not a native of Shan Nong, and he tried his best to hide the fact that he could not learn the Shan Nong people's writing system.

Of course, he also couldn't learn the Annamese language.

After realizing his poor learning ability, Liu Jingshun lost interest in politics and agriculture, and in the end, the only thing he could do was fight wars.

Fortunately, there are also people among the mountain farmers who are experts in warfare.

Liu Jingshun was willing to fight for the mountain farmers in order to gain their recognition and that of the Han people, and also to gain his own self-recognition.

If he were to remain idle, Liu Jingshun would feel that he was... a Han Chinese.

Like many others, Liu Jingshun, a convert, was working hard to integrate into the new community.

Liu Jingshun led the Shan Nong people's fleet to sweep through the southern islands according to Beiji Wu's instructions, collecting supplies for his own people and providing safe arable land for the people of Shan Nong Kingdom.

The lawless life did not bring Liu Jingshun happiness. He still longed for a home, a home where he could return and sleep peacefully after committing murder and arson.

Liu Jingshun also lacked normal feelings for his bastard sons and daughters and would not betray the mountain farmers for them.

It's not that they have to be from the mountains and farms, but before betraying them, they need a home.

Liu Jingshun felt that the mountain farmers were very good. He, who only knew how to fight, hunt, and kill, was doing a righteous thing for the survival of mankind!
"By order of King Wu! Kill! Leave no one alive!!" A life-or-death war broke out in a country they had never set foot in before. Mountain farmers, clad in armor and cotton-padded clothes, scoured the islands of the South Pacific further south of Annam Province in the wind and snow.

The battlefield moved from the seaside to the mountains, then into the mountains, and finally to another island.

After slaughtering their way across two thousand miles from south to north, they moved to another island and continued slaughtering from south to north for three thousand miles, then moved on to another island and continued slaughtering.

The South Pacific islands, including several large islands and more than 20,000 smaller islands, endured the darkest four years.

In the spring of 17 AD, four years had passed since the day of the catastrophe.

Having swept through the Indochina Peninsula and then the South Pacific islands, Liu Jingshun stood on the beach of the last island, raised his knife in front of thousands of people, and beheaded the last fleeing king.

The beach was covered in blood. After pledging allegiance to the mountain farmers, Liu Jingshun killed far more people than he wielded a hoe.

The sounds of women and children crying could be heard all around.

Liu Jingshun prioritized killing the rulers, and the islanders, lacking food, had long since resorted to cannibalism.

According to the rules of the mountain farmers, those who eat people do not need to be kept alive.

For the past four years, the farmers in the mountains have still been able to eat meat once a month and have two full meals a day.

As for cadres and soldiers like Liu Jingshun, they ate three meals a day, had meat once every three days, and could drink alcohol once a week.

The difference in physique between the two sides was very obvious. In a regular battle, the mountain farmers could wipe out the entire Nanyang people in the South Pacific Islands in a single day.

The reason they were able to hold out for so long was mainly due to the terrain; these people escaped too quickly.

We have no choice but to kill them. People without food will definitely go to Annam Province to steal food, kill and eat people, all in order to survive.

The Annamese also needed to survive, to transport food to Luoyang and the southeastern provinces, and to ensure their own people could survive the long, dark period.

Between killing the beggar thief who came from outside and letting his own children and family starve to death, Beijiwu made the choice for everyone and took full responsibility.

No matter what, the people of Shannong always prioritize taking care of their own people.

If Annam province doesn't share food with the mountain farmers, then it's not one of the mountain farmers' own people, which is something no one wants to see.

Liu Jingshun and the nearby soldiers were all hard-hearted. They knew that these people wouldn't survive even if they were ignored. Rather than watching them eat each other, they decided to kill them directly.

Liu Jingshun raised his knife and coldly grabbed a woman's hair.

Just as he was about to insert it, a soldier suddenly shouted, "The sun is rising!!"

Everyone stopped caring about the prisoners who couldn't run anymore and looked up at the distant sky.

A beam of white light, long forgotten, shot out from the dim clouds and fell into the sea.

The sunlight lasted for less than half a minute before being blocked by the moving clouds, leaving only slightly brighter clouds visible.

Everyone watched that place with excitement, their teeth and fingers trembling.

Some people knelt down on the ground and kowtowed towards the light.

Liu Jingshun stabbed the woman to death with a single blow, then raised the bloodied blade and shouted excitedly, "Hahaha! Well done! That was the right thing to do! Tell King Wu, the first light has appeared!! Our enemies are all dead!!!"

"it's over!"

"it is finally over!"

"They should have all been killed long ago!"

"Kill all those who can't speak the local dialect!!"

The warriors seemed to have received divine approval, brandishing their swords to execute the foreign men and women.

(End of this chapter)