Chapter 189 The Brothers' Joys and Sorrows Are Different
There was a severe drought in Xiongzhou, with starving people everywhere and people suffering.

Everywhere you look, you see yellow earth.

An old man and a young boy were staggering along, the toothless old servant was leading a skinny little yellow horse, and even the little yellow horse was walking with one deep step and one shallow step.

Originally a Huangpi Dragon's BMW, now that it was so hungry, there was almost only a horse frame left, still struggling to hold on.

It’s not that Xu Fengnian doesn’t want to ride a horse, it’s just that the conditions don’t allow it. If Xu Fengnian rides on it, there’s no doubt that there will be only one outcome for the little yellow horse.

That means they were crushed to the point where they could no longer get up. The physical strength of both humans and horses had reached its limit, and they were only supported by a tenacious will to survive.

If this is the case with horses, let alone humans!
Xu Fengnian is now emaciated and looks barely human. Even if his portrait from Beiliang were taken out for identification, no one would be able to recognize him.

Of course, this does not include Lao Huang. Lao Huang is a first-grade warrior after all, and his physical fitness is much better than that of ordinary people.

However, faced with the drought-stricken area, even the grass roots had long been dug up. Even if Old Huang wanted to find something to eat for the young master, he could not do anything without the rice.

The two were just regretting, why did their brains suddenly go astray and they took the wrong path?

Xu Fengnian could no longer remember how long he had been walking, nor how many days he had not eaten. He only remembered that he had not drunk water for almost two days.

What to drink if not water?
Ahem, liquid gold!
My stomach had been numb for a long time, my brain was numb too, my whole body felt light and fluttery, as if I was stepping on a piece of cotton, I was so hungry that I didn't want to talk.

Xu Fengnian looked at the little yellow horse and licked his cracked lips with his tongue, but he couldn't squeeze out a drop of saliva. Finally, he thought, don't touch it unless it is absolutely necessary.

The little yellow horse is now regarded as a reserve food by Xu Fengnian, and it is only a matter of time before it is eaten.

If Xu Chunlin had not urged Xu Fengnian to practice standing still when he was a child to leave some foundation, and if Xu Fengnian had not learned those seemingly useless things, I'm afraid Xu Fengnian would not even be able to stand still.

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Xiongzhou is huge, covering thousands of miles. It used to have fertile land and beautiful scenery. Because it is close to Tai'an City, it was also prosperous in the past.

However, that is the past.

It seemed as if the people of this state had angered God. In just a few short years, floods, banditry, locusts and droughts ravaged this land one after another.

The once rich and fertile land has been turned into a barren land where almost no food can grow.

Where did the victims Xu Chunlin met outside Tai'an City come from?

Most of them fled there from Xiongzhou. They thought that Tai'an City was, after all, under the feet of the emperor and the best place in the capital. But who would have thought that they were all turned away and saw their last way of survival was cut off.

Xu Fengnian and Lao Huang have been traveling along the official road in Xiongzhou for two months. The post stations and pass they passed along the way were all dilapidated and deserted, with basically no people within a hundred miles.

Occasionally, you would see starving people dying on the roadside, and there would often be groups of wild dogs with green eyes guarding them.

As soon as the starving person died, they rushed over and surrounded his corpse to eat it.

As a result, Xu Fengnian has lost almost 50 kilograms by now.

The reason why he didn't starve to death on the way was simply because of luck - vicious dogs eat dead people, but he and Lao Huang had eaten wild dogs.

"Old dog, old dog, there is no such thing in the world. Buried in the dirt, looking for bitterness in the sweetness. Old dog, old dog, there is no such thing in the world. With a broken tail, there is no way back!"

Old Huang was singing incoherently. Now, in the face of these natural and man-made disasters, the two of them really looked like old dogs wagging their tails to beg for mercy.

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The ground along the way was cracked and the rivers dried up.

There was nothing but dead trees, withered grass, sand, gravel and not even a puddle of water.

The heat burned the corners of their lips dry and cracked, and the hazy sun was shaking, as if the world was spinning.

Xu Fengnian endured the dizziness and found a dry tree to take shelter temporarily, while Lao Huang put his walking stick beside him and groped into his arms for a while.

After a long while, he took out a piece of dried meat the size of a thumb. Without hesitation, I knew it was wild dog meat.

Old Huang bared his teeth and said to Xu Fengnian with a smile: "Hey, Master, there is still a little bit!"

"Tear!"

Xu Fengnian used his remaining strength to duel with the piece of dried meat, ignoring the rotten smell of sweat and the unique smell of wild dogs mixed in the dried meat.

It hurt so much that his teeth were bitten off by the knife and he managed to tear off a few pieces of meat from the dry meat.

He bit hard, letting the dry flesh cut his throat.

Old Huang held it in one hand, afraid of losing even the slightest bit of residue.

Xu Fengnian swallowed it with great difficulty, but he choked and grimaced, feeling as if he had swallowed a stone in his stomach.

"Old Huang, what do you think? I'm afraid I'm going to be left here, right? Rather than dying of thirst and hunger, I'd rather stay in the Beiliang Palace..."

Xu Fengnian's hoarse voice made it impossible for him to speak. The high temperature made his brain foggy and more and more unrealistic fantasies appeared in his mind.

such as:

"It would be nice to have a glass of iced wine right now..."

"what?"

"That is……"

Old Huang suddenly raised his eyes and looked into the distance.

In the hazy summer air, a wisp of smoke is rising.

There is actually a family here?

When he stood on a high hill, he saw the end of his sight - a village leaning against the mountain with sparse smoke from chimneys.

Old Huang quickly carried Xu Fengnian on his back and rushed towards the village without any hesitation. As for when he got there, he wondered if there would be any kind-hearted person willing to give him some food.

Now that it has come to this, we have to try our luck.

If it really doesn't work, he can "borrow" something. The famous Jian Jiuhuang has also fallen into the situation of stealing.

Old Huang was also smart. He hid the little yellow horse far away in advance to prevent the villagers from taking advantage of the horse.

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"Sister-in-law, we are not bad people. Can you give us two bowls of water to drink?"

Outside the fenced courtyard, Xu Fengnian and Lao Huang bowed to the host in a flattering manner.

The woman was leaning against the door, sewing clothes with needle and thread. She looked up when she heard the words, revealing a tanned head.

She stared at Xu Fengnian for a long time with a dull look in her eyes, but suddenly a gleam appeared in her eyes, revealing her sparse gums: "Then come in and sit down!"

Then he stood up and shouted towards the west wing:
"Someone is coming!"

Xu Fengnian and Lao Huang were flattered to be invited into the house.

The furnishings of this farmhouse were shabby, with a half-curtain drawn in the kitchen. A big pot was burning, emitting billowing white smoke and a fishy smell.

The woman asked the two of them to sit down, then went to the kitchen and came out with a bowl of water a few moments later.

"Thank you, sister-in-law!"

Xu Fengnian took the bowl of water and was about to drink it impatiently, but was gently stopped by Lao Huang, who gave him a look. Xu Fengnian moved his eyes and saw a few drops of oil floating on the water.

"...?"

But Xu Fengnian did not think too much about it. He was really dying of thirst. Even if there was something fishy, ​​he would rather die than be drowned, so he drank it all in one gulp.

"Where are you from, young man?" the woman asked from the side.

"Woo woo, it came from the north." Xu Fengnian wolfed down a bowl of water like it was nectar, answering while drinking.

"Just the two of you?"

"Yes."

"That's a good feeling!"

She smiled and said:

"I'm cooking in my pot. Please sit down and I'll serve you a bowl."

At this time, Lao Huang couldn't help but speak.

"Master, I guess the food here is not to your taste, let's go!"

Xu Fengnian said without caring: "Leave? Where to? There is only one family like this within dozens of miles. If we leave here, we will have no way to survive."

Old Huang scratched his head, and finally had to whisper in Xu Fengnian's ear: "My young master, her meal is made of lean meat chopped into stuffing, fat meat squeezed into oil, bones added to firewood, and leftovers fed to the dog. Do you think it tastes good?"

(.)
Isn’t that great?

There was a clear stupidity in Xu Fengnian's eyes. Even though he was somewhat scheming, he was still shallow after all. What's more, Xu Fengnian did not think about it in that direction.

Seeing this, Old Huang had no choice but to step forward and grab the woman's arm.

The woman was startled and couldn't help but turn her head to look at her husband and son who were blocking the door.

Xu Fengnian also looked over. The man was in his forties, and the younger one was about the same age as Xu Fengnian, also eighteen or nineteen, both had sparse eyebrows and bloodshot eyes, and they were grinning at him with their toothless mouths.

Xu Fengnian lowered his head and remained silent for a few seconds, as if he suddenly understood something. The book said: Red eyes, sparse eyebrows, sparse teeth, and black tendons are signs of a cannibal!

Old Huang narrowed his eyes and asked in a low voice: "We are just refugees, can you give us a way to survive?"

"How can that be possible? It's not easy to meet a living person in this weather, and besides..."

The woman's sparse teeth were dripping with saliva, and she kept laughing: "This young man's meat is so tender when chewed!"

"You are such a skinny old man, you need to use more fire and stew it for a while longer. But it's good to have something to eat in this year, I don't mind, I don't mind!"

As he spoke, he took out the scissors hidden in his sleeve.

The father and son at the door also took out their axes.

The family of three slowly approached Xu Fengnian and Lao Huang.

"Ugh……"

Xu Fengnian closed his eyes and said nothing more, as if he had accepted his fate. He never imagined that Xu Fengnian, the prince of Beiliang, would end up being buried in a human stomach.

In this year, this kind of thing is not uncommon at all.

"Master, close your eyes!!!"

Old Huang roared and had to take action.

When Xu Fengnian opened his eyes again, the scene changed. Two of the three members of the family had died in the blink of an eye, leaving only the head of the family lying seriously injured in a pool of blood, shaking like a quail.

"Old Huang, you still have this trick?!!"

Old Huang smiled shyly at this time: "Farmer, Farmer, Master, I have said it before, learning martial arts will not hurt you, and learning martial arts will not fool you..."

"No, don't try to persuade me. It was hard enough when Chunlin forced me to stand still. I don't want to learn from him if it means suffering and hardship!"

The two of them turned their heads again and looked at the only remaining man.

"Don't! Don't kill me!"

He spat out dark red blood foam, his chest was dented, and he pleaded in a somewhat crazy manner:

"This area has suffered disasters year after year. The government has been talking about disaster relief every year, but it's all in vain. The land can't grow food, and people can't survive..."

"The officials in the government office drank wine and ate meat, while we dug grass roots and ate tree bark. Later, when there was no tree bark left to eat, we fished maggots from the dry toilets."

"In the end, we had no choice but to eat our parents! Eat our daughters! Eat our neighbors! Eat strangers passing by! We don't want to eat either..."

He suddenly changed his tone and yelled hysterically: "If we don't eat people, our whole family will starve to death!"

"If we don't eat people, we will be eaten by others! This world forces us to become ghosts, what can I do?!"

He tried to use his reasoning to convince the seemingly frail, toothless old man in front of him.

Xu Fengnian sighed. It was difficult to survive in that year. There was a great famine and people were eating each other. Xu Fengnian had only seen this in books before.

I didn't expect it to happen right before my eyes.

A person who is extremely hungry is no longer a human being. He has violated human morality. How is he different from an animal?

Xu Fengnian could not be blamed for anything, but since he had done it, he had to admit it and bear the corresponding consequences.

Old Huang did give them a chance. He looked at the man's dead wife and son, and then looked at himself who was about to die.

Maybe it’s not such a bad thing for a family to be together?

The ghosts in the underworld are better than the people in chaos.

Xu Fengnian turned his back and Lao Huang stepped forward with the knife.

“Go on your journey with peace of mind!”

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Send that family on their way.

Xu Fengnian lifted the curtain and came to the kitchen. In the hazy white mist, a stove was burning brightly. There was a crack in the lid of the pot on the stove, and steam was overflowing from the edge.

The fishy smell...or rather the meaty aroma, came from this pot.

Xu Fengnian hesitated for a moment, took a deep breath, and opened the lid of the pot.

My stomach is churning, I can’t say I feel sick... or I feel thirsty.

He forced himself to cover his mouth, and crawled out of the room and came to the west wing.

Pushing open the door, I saw human bones and broken pieces all over the floor. However, the most eye-catching thing was a corpse that had been dried by the wind for so long that it had turned into bacon.

Hanging on the beam, he was as thin as a piece of firewood, with sunken eye sockets and his mouth stretched back in pain.

"vomit!!!"

Xu Fengnian finally couldn't hold it in any longer, and all the bitter bile-like juice gushed out of his stomach. He collapsed to the ground, feeling depressed.

He felt extremely bitter in his heart, looked out the window, and muttered to himself: "The world outside Beiliang is too hard to endure!"

In the end, Xu Fengnian really didn't have the energy to dig a hole to bury these people, so Lao Huang had no choice but to burn everything with fire.

If you want to wear a crown, you must bear its weight.

Perhaps, after experiencing all this, Xu Fengnian will understand what responsibility is!
Only then will it be different from the original and make changes.

Retire from the world?

Oh, how can it be that easy?

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Different from Xu Fengnian's travels that challenged his understanding of life.

At this time, Xu Chunlin was dressed in a blue shirt, like a swordsman, and looked like an unruly playboy, with a strong smell of alcohol all over his body.

The original Xiao Hei also changed from a donkey to its original appearance of a horse. Xu Chunlin rode on the horse and used the dragon energy of the Li Yang Dynasty to brew a gourd of rare wine.

This wine is mellow and powerful!
Taking a sip is like swallowing the scorching sun into the stomach, and when it reaches the stomach, the extreme yang gives rise to yin, which transforms into a stream of cool air that rushes straight into the purple palace of the mind and nourishes the soul.

Behind Xu Chunlin followed an old man and a young man, both of whom were dressed as servants.

There was no need to say much about the old man. The young man was none other than the young eunuch captured by Xu Chunlin in Tai'an City.

Originally Xu Chunlin wanted to give it to me, but who knew that I disliked it and didn't want it, so Xu Chunlin had no choice but to keep it for himself. After all, he was once an immortal, right?

Just think of it as hiring a thug!

Although his realm has declined due to the loss of dragon energy, he can still walk sideways in the snowy world.

At this time Qi Lianhua was looking at the young eunuch with some curiosity, marveling at it. He wondered what means his grandson had used to make this master so obedient.

Looking at the young eunuch again, his appearance had changed slightly, becoming increasingly androgynous, his skin was as white as jade, and he walked barefoot through the mud, but there was not a speck of dust on his jade feet.

The yin and yang energies in the body seemed to merge into one, and he once again reached the realm of immortality, breaking through and then standing up again, and even making subtle progress.

Sometimes, even Qi Lianhua couldn't tell whether he was a man or a woman.

Qi Lianhua couldn't help but look at Xu Chunlin from behind with a strange look in his eyes. His grandson shouldn't have any special hobbies, right?

Xu Chunlin on the horse couldn't help but shiver. He felt a chill in his heart and looked around. He felt as if someone was staring at him.

To talk about the origin of this young eunuch's change, we have to start from the beginning.

Normally, this young eunuch feeds on dragon energy to prolong his life and lifespan, allowing his pure yang and pure yin to reach the ultimate perfection, thus achieving the realm of celestial immortality.

Now that they have left Tai'an City, the dragon energy is like rootless duckweed. In order to balance the yin and yang in the young eunuch's body, Xu Chunlin has thought of some ways, but the results are not very good.

Finally, as a last resort, Xu Chunlin gritted his teeth and asked the deity for a method of reincarnation!

The Law of Creation by Heaven and Man: Heaven and man create all things, and all things grow. The Creator is the pivot of Yin and Yang, and the change of all qi. Heaven and man have the ability to reproduce vitality, and make up for the deficiencies.

Following the principles of Yin and Yang, you will possess both the two principles and merge them into the body of Tai Chi. By understanding the wonders of heaven and man, you will obtain the pure and wonderful body of heaven and man!

Those who have achieved great success in their practice have bodies illuminated by seven colors: fire, gold, blue, red, white, yellow, and black. Wherever they pass, heavenly music will be played, flowers will fall from the sky, and heavenly fragrance will fill the air.

The body is not a mundane and filthy body composed of skin, flesh, tendons, fat, blood, marrow and bones. It can change into various colors at will, fully demonstrating the purity of heaven and earth.

Celestial beings are humans who are not divided into male and female. They can only reproduce with other celestial beings of the same kind, or be conceived by the Qi of heaven and earth, in order to give birth to offspring. They are the only candidates to be celestial slaves and eunuchs.

After obtaining this method, the young eunuch had mastered it to perfection in just a few days. Since all beauties are beautiful, he is now posing a threat to the country and the people.

A pair of clear eyes embellish her jade-like face, her hair is casually tied up in a bun, and the excess black hair is casually draped over her shoulders. Her smile has a unique and charming charm.

Even Xu Chunlin would feel a chill in his teeth when he saw this normally!
"Damn, did I create something indecent?"

(End of this chapter)