You have mastered the art of thunder and you tell me that it is in a strange world?

Chapter 59 Magic Soup

The girl seemed to recall some extremely frightening and soul-shattering scenes, and shuddered:

"At that time, several villagers from the east of the town came together, and I was among them. After I arrived, I found that they were indeed gathered around an iron pot. The pot was very large and full of boiling water, but what was inside was not some stone, but real meat!

"The villagers who ate the broth looked very strange and abnormal, with red eyes, like monsters filled with blood. They directly grabbed kitchen knives and went to the streets to arrest people who had not eaten the broth. I came with Brother Wang at the time. Brother Wang did not escape, but was chopped on the neck and stuffed into the pot. I was lucky and hid in a small house with no one around."

The girl sighed, "But I'm so hungry that my eyes are dizzy. If you hadn't come back, Brother Xiao, and brought me food, I'm afraid I wouldn't be able to resist and would have gone to drink that bowl of broth. I think I would have been beheaded by then."

He looked at Xiao Changcheng and the two people on the donkey cart behind him in confusion:
"Brother Xiao, where are the other people who went out with you? Where are this Taoist priest and this girl?"

"They... were murdered by traitors." Xiao Changcheng recalled the tragic deaths of several fellow villagers. His eyes were dejected for a moment, then he looked at Zuo Chen again and regained his spirits:
"The Taoist is a deity, and he is here to save us! He has the ability to make rice grow. As long as the Taoist is in Changshan Town, we will never lack food."

Zuo Chen was too embarrassed to say that he actually shared the food that burst out of the black rice with them, so he could only add:
"You will have to go to the monks' place to farm for food in the future. You can't just rely on me for relief."

"You're right." Xiao Changcheng simply told the girl about his experience on the road. The girl's eyes widened and she was shocked.

When he looked at Zuo Chen again, his eyes were filled with admiration and awe.

Judging from Xiao Changcheng's description, Zuo Chen is really like a god, with extraordinary abilities.

Now that he had some free time, Xiao Changcheng finally had time to introduce this girl to Zuo Chen:

"Master Dao, this is my childhood friend Liang Yimei. She was one of the ones who sent me out of the village."

Upon hearing this, Liang Yimei hurriedly lifted the hem of her skirt towards Zuo Chen, as if she wanted to salute him. But then she thought that such a small courtesy of giving food was a bit inappropriate, so she decided to kneel down.

Zuo Chen waved his hand to exempt her from the kneeling ceremony.

Everyone wants to kneel down and kowtow when they see him, which is a bit annoying.

"Since Zhendong is so dangerous, why don't you go back?" Xiao Changcheng asked. He seemed to have suddenly remembered something important, and his voice became anxious: "And my mother, how is my mother?"

"The main road between the west and east of the town has been occupied by them. I was afraid that if I sneaked over there, I would be discovered and caught in the trap." Liang Yimei paused and tilted her head slightly:
"Grandma... Grandma is a little weak. She probably can't hold on for too long."

Xiao Changcheng's eyes changed several times, he pondered and thought, and finally gritted his teeth.

He walked up to a villager who had closed his eyes, untied the cloth from his hand, took out the knife, and wrapped it around his own hand.

He held the rice bowl in his left hand and the hatchet in his right hand, with a fierce look on his face.

"Brother Xiao?"

Liang Yimei looked at Xiao Changcheng hesitantly.

She always felt that this Brother Xiao looked different from the good-natured Xiao in her impression.

In her memory, Xiao Changcheng had never had such an expression. He always had a kind smile on his face when dealing with his neighbors on the street.

But now he seems like Zhang the butcher on the street, and just standing here makes people shudder.

"I want to save my mother. I will kill anyone who tries to stop me. They are like ghosts now, but my mother can't live like this!"

Xiao Changcheng took a step forward and protected Liang Yimei behind him:
"Sister, I will rush forward in a moment. You stay behind me. The Taoist priest is here, so you will definitely not be in danger."

Liang Yimei's face was full of doubts and a little fear, but she could only nod and agree to Xiao Changcheng. Xiao Changcheng turned to look at Zuo Chen, who just waved his hand and said:

"Just keep going forward. I'm here. What are you afraid of?"

Xiao Changcheng nodded heavily, then looked back and looked forward, his aura was completely different.

Seeing him like this, Caiyi came close to Zuo Chen and asked in a low voice:

"Master, you can kill all these disasters with just one slap, why do you have to let Xiao Changcheng take over?"

"I can protect them for a while, but I can't protect them forever. If you don't have the backbone in your heart, even if I send them to the monk, there will still be no big change in the end."

Zuo Chen said, staring at Xiao Changcheng with admiration in his eyes:
"If he gains more experience, he might be able to take up the banner of Xuzhou."

Without further delay, everyone moved forward and soon arrived at the place where Liang Yimei mentioned the meat was stewing in the pot.

As soon as you get here, you can clearly see that the area is already full of people.

They were all residents of the east side of the town. Now they were sitting in dishevelled clothes around a big pot. There was firewood piled high underneath the pot, making the soup in the pot bubble up.

These residents have incomplete limbs. Some are missing arms, some are missing legs, and some have exposed skin with flesh missing, revealing their white bones.

But there was no pain on their faces at all. They just stared at the big pot in front of them with obsession, their faces full of happiness.

Smoke billowed up from the big pot, and behind the pot, a tall and thin man was stirring the pot with a spoon.

As he stirred, he muttered:

"In times of famine, it is difficult to eat rice, but meat and rice can be used as food. We are all rice and meat, so why can't we eat them?"

"Manager Liu?"

When Xiao Changcheng saw the man's face, his eyes trembled violently.

He knew this man. He was the owner of Zuixianlou in the east of the town and was also a famous wealthy businessman in the town. When there was no famine, the food sold in his hotel was quite delicious. It turned out that whenever Xiao Changcheng had some spare money, he would go to his store to have a drink or two and eat some food.

After the famine, he was also a good man. Seeing that his fellow villagers could not afford to eat, he shared his own stored grain with them.

But this naturally couldn't last long, and soon Manager Liu ran out of rice.

He was so hungry that he closed the door of Zuixianlou and thought day and night about how to save his fellow villagers. When Xiao Changcheng went out on patrol, he was also thinking about it inside.

But I didn't expect that when I saw him again this time, he had become like this!
Stirring the soup spoon in his hand, Manager Liu raised his head and looked at Xiao Changcheng and Liang Yimei through the steam of the hot soup floating up.

Laughed:

"Xiao Xiao, Xiao Liang, you two came at the right time. Come and try the magical soup I just made. After eating this bowl, you won't be hungry anymore. The people in Changshan Town will also be full."

He looked at the donkey cart behind him and Zuo Chen Caiyi on it, and his smile became even wider, his mouth corners seemed to be stretched to his ears:

"Xiao Xiao, I didn't expect you to go out and look for food and actually find three grains. Wait, I'll stew them for them in a while!"

(End of this chapter)