After the whole sect traveled to ancient times, I led the rebellion

"Mom, I'm so hungry."

The clothes made of rags were loosely worn on the child.

Yuehong looked at her daughter, her face turned pale with only her black eyes left, tears immediately overflowed from her eyes.

The growling of her stomach and the slight pain were all telling of her hunger, and Yuehong's eyes turned red.

All around were refugees lying or groaning.

The life on their faces was rapidly draining away because of hunger.

Some people even lay on the ground weakly, unable to even groan.

Yuehong struggled to stand up. She looked at the many starving people around her. She placed the child in the corner and covered it with some grass.

"Huahua, hold on for a while. I'll go find you something to eat right away. Just stay here and be good."

Yuehong looked back at the child and staggered forward a few steps.

A high wall made of mud and stones appeared in front of Yuehong.

She looked up at the tightly closed city gates of Huang County. There were patrolling soldiers on the city walls, each holding a bow and arrow in his hands.

Their arrows were aimed directly at the dozen or so refugees including Yuehong.

More and more refugees gathered at the city gate.

Everyone was pale and thin, and the shouting from their mouths became louder and louder.

"Sir, please let us into the city."

"Sir, please spare us."

"My Lord, I haven't eaten for seven days. I can't hold on any longer."

"grown ups……"

Yuehong was one of the many refugees. She opened her mouth and tears streamed down her face:

"My Lord, please save my child."

Everyone's voice was weak, but when they came together it was a deafening sound.

At first they were all cries for help.

Later, when they saw that the city gate remained open for a long time, their cries for help turned into resentment.

"Why don't you save us, why?"

"Why do you have the right to eat and drink delicious food in there, but not even give us a mouthful of porridge?"

"God is unfair."

"What a shitty emperor and shitty officials, they just watched people die without helping."

……

The refugees' words became more and more vicious.

Yuehong saw with her own eyes that the few people closest to her rushed out and tried to break down the city gate using their physical strength.

Yuehong looked at the soldiers holding bows and arrows on the city wall, and then at the refugees leaping away in the surroundings.

She gritted her teeth and joined the group of refugees.

Countless people, whether intentionally or unintentionally, were swept into the team and rushed towards the city gate.

Although they were extremely weak, they unexpectedly burst out with tremendous strength in order to survive.

At this moment, Xu Zezhou, the magistrate of Huang County, stroked his beard. Seeing that the situation below was out of control, he finally turned his head away reluctantly:

"Fire arrows."

"Yes, my lord."

Following Xu Zezhou's order, countless arrows were shot from the soldiers' hands and landed on the group of refugees rushing in the front, and soon some of them fell down.

The refugees were frightened by the wounding arrows.

They watched the real arrows flying towards them, and the last breath they had held on to was inexplicably dissipated, and the courage they had just summoned was gone in an instant.

Yuehong watched the arrow hit the ground only ten feet away from her.

Her weak steps softened along with her body.

Yuehong fell to the ground.

All the refugees were frightened by the deaths from arrows. They looked at the soldiers on the wall and stopped banging their bodies against the wall.

The sound of someone sobbing was heard, and slowly, a sound of helpless crying was heard from the group of refugees.

The refugees gradually dispersed.

Xu Zezhou knew that there was only enough food in the city for so many people.

If he didn't order the arrows to be shot, these refugees would rush in and cause more casualties. He couldn't protect everyone, so he had to do this.

Xu Zezhou could not go back since he gave the order.

Xu Zezhou's official career came to an end because of killing civilians without reason. He had wanted to hold on until the next county magistrate came, but now his career was ruined by his own hands.

Xu Zezhou did not regret it, but he felt guilty about giving up his future and felt sorry for his wife and children.

Yuehong returned to the place where her daughter was placed in a daze. She covered her stomach and did not bring back any food.

The dry food was eaten up, the wild vegetables were dug up, and even the grass roots were dug up.

As one of the refugees, Yuehong tried hard to find some food, even a piece of steamed bread.

But the reality was not as expected. Yuehong walked up the mountain and buried her child on the spot.

If there is no life here, they will go to where there is life, and they will always find life.

Yuehong thought so.

But the next second, her eyes were filled with bright red blood, the cold temperature between her fingers, and her thin body that had been stiff for a long time all told Yuehong cruelly.

Her child, who was only eight years old, died.

He died of starvation.

The sun was still high in the sky at noon in May, and its light and heat were eagerly drilling into Yuehong's chest.

No matter how warm the sunlight is, it cannot warm up the little child's cold body.

Yuehong could no longer shed tears; endless sorrow engulfed her.

At this time, in front of Huang County and in Guangsha City, countless tragedies like that of Yuehong and her daughter were happening.

A disaster claimed countless lives.

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Mu Qing did not leave in a hurry. The title deed and other fields of Xiaoniu Village were taken back.

Mu Qing packed a lot of seeds before leaving, and did not destroy the remaining plants.

Mu Qing didn't know whether there would be a natural disaster in Shengjing, so it would be better to keep the rice than to destroy it.

Liu Yun, Mu Shan, Yu Shi, Mu Qing's brothers and sisters, together with Nanny Zhang and other servants, numbered dozens of people in total.

Mu Shan sent away all his other concubines and most of his servants as well.

Originally, Mu Shan planned to send away some of his privately-raised soldiers.

But Mu Qing insisted on keeping these twenty soldiers and some literate servants.

Mu Shan hasn't been out for so many years and may not know how dangerous the outside world is, but Mu Qing knows that the world is not good now and people's hearts are the most difficult to guess.

The Mu family doesn't have much money, but the soldiers they raise were found from Fan Huifu, so their character can be trusted.

Now that I have raised him for so many years, he is considered loyal to the Mu family.

Mu Shan has a good political sensitivity, but he is slow when it comes to some things outside of politics and dealing with people.

This is also the reason why Mu Shan and his fellow disciples have climbed to high positions of the third and fourth ranks over the years, but he is still at the sixth rank.

Along the way, seeing that various problems had arisen in the matters arranged by Mu Shan, Mu Qing simply took over the command of the team.

Mu Shan didn't mind his son overstepping his authority and was instead happy about Mu Qing's abilities.

A group of people walked and stopped.

Many bodies of refugees were seen on the road, and there were even more bodies on the road near Huang County.

Shen Moyan is already in the team at this moment.

Mu Shan was a little surprised at first about the arrival of Shen Moyan and these children. Mu Qing explained for a long time, saying that she had taken these children in because she saw they were lonely and helpless, and that she would pay for their support herself and would not use the Mu family's money.

Only then did Mu Shan realize that he seemed to be unable to see through his youngest son, especially since his son seemed to have hidden more than one thing from him.

But it’s still because of the filter of family affection.

In addition, Mu Qing's reputation as a prodigy was very impressive, so Mu Shan let Mu Qing go.

This was the second time Shen Moyan had seen so many corpses. The first time was during the battle to slay demons in the world of immortal cultivation.