New and dark light years

Chapter 143 White Elephant Divine Meat
The woman's face was filled with despair as she spoke.

Li Lin turned his head and asked, "Commander Xie, are you aware of this matter?"

Xie Shuyou shook his head.

Li Lin looked at the woman again and asked, "Why has your southern region become a desert?"

The woman first shook her head, then her expression turned mad: "This must be the punishment of the great god Mo Yi for us, because we did not bring him enough blood sacrifices, we did not bring him enough Han heads. He was unhappy and abandoned us. He turned our land into sand, cut off our water supply, and left us without food... Hahahaha, this is divine punishment."

Li Lin shook his head: "Lock her up again."

Two soldiers came up and threw the woman back into the house and locked her up.

Li Lin moved away from these small houses and then felt that the air was much fresher.

"County Commandant Li, what should we do with these four hundred-plus people?"

"Execute according to wartime military law!"

Xie Shuyou hissed.

Li Lin glanced at him sideways, his expression indifferent.

Xie Shuyou immediately realized what was happening and said seriously, "Please give instructions on the specifics, County Commandant Li."

"Women under the age of thirty-five and over the age of fifteen were kept. After being checked and found to be free of disease, they were sent back to Tianjin and put into the laundry department."

“Girls or female infants under the age of fourteen shall be sent to the Yarenfang.”

"Boys over six years old, adult men, and the elderly shall all be executed. Boys under six years old shall also be sent to the slave trade." Li Lin looked at Xie Shuyou: "Any further questions?"

Xie Shuyou shook his head vigorously: "No more."

"Then get to work."

"Yes!" Xie Shuyou replied respectfully.

He sensed a chilling murderous aura emanating from Li Lin.

Li Lin turned around and said to the constables he had brought from Yulin County, "Take your men outside, find a flat place, and dig a big pit."

Seeing Li Lin's cold expression, the captains felt somewhat afraid and immediately clasped their hands in response without hesitation.

Soon, the five hundred local militiamen brought by Li Lin arrived outside to dig pits, while the more than one hundred soldiers in the military town took the men or elderly people who were to be executed outside.

These people were starving, and although they knew disaster was imminent, they were powerless to resist.

Of course... there are also many who do not resist.

Because they saw that their little children, under five years old, seemed to be able to survive.

He willingly followed the soldiers.

Soon, almost everyone in the entire military town went out to work.

Only four people remained in the military town.

Li Lin, Bai Zhiwei, Zhao Hao, Su Bei!
"Go ahead, I'll keep watch here," Li Lin said with a smile.

Bai Zhiwei and Zhao Hao pulled Su Bei towards the secret passage.

Of the more than four hundred southern barbarians, less than two hundred were to be executed.

The rest survived.

And they were all women.

They locked themselves in their houses, not daring to come out or even look outside.

More than an hour later, thanks to the efforts of five hundred local militiamen, a large pit had been dug.

Those southern barbarians were pushed to the edge of the pit, made to kneel, and then their heads were chopped off with a single stroke before their bodies were kicked into the pit.

It sounds cruel... but it's actually quite merciful.

At least they weren't tortured.

When the Southern Barbarians invaded the Great Qi, what they did was truly inhuman.

All of this was recorded in the history books.

Li Lin stood on the city wall, looking on with a cold expression.

Not long after, Bai Zhiwei and his group emerged from the secret passage. They secretly hid their bundle outside before returning to the military town.

By evening, the pit had been filled in again, and the local militia and soldiers had returned. "Reporting to the county magistrate, the military order has been fulfilled."

Li Lin nodded.

At this moment, a military clerk came over and placed a record in front of Li Lin.

After reviewing the records for a while and confirming that there were no errors, Li Lin beckoned, and someone brought over the county magistrate's seal.

Li Lin stamped the record document and then signed his name.

This record will be passed up through various levels in the future, reviewed, and finally stored in the Beijing Archives.

Looking at the distant mountains and forests, Li Lin suddenly asked, "Will the leaves in those mountains and forests turn yellow and wither in late autumn?"

"will not!"

"What a pity," Li Lin sighed. "If only we could burn it down."

Xie Shuyou looked at Li Lin in surprise. He thought the man was very handsome and had a fair complexion, but his actions were the opposite of his appearance.

It's very dark.

"So that's why the county magistrate sent me here," Li Lin sighed. "The Northern Barbarians are attacking our northern border like madmen. Now the Southern Barbarians are willing to die to come from the mountains. What exactly is happening around the Great Qi? Why are natural disasters and man-made calamities happening in the north and south at the same time? This doesn't make sense."

Xie Shuyou was a martial artist, and he understood even less, so he could only listen.

After thinking for a while, Li Lin said, "Governor Xie, if you can capture any more Southern Barbarians in the future, be sure to interrogate them thoroughly to find out exactly what happened in the south, and if the south has become desertified, what the cause is."

Xie Shuyou nodded repeatedly.

Li Lin descended the city wall and said to several constables from Yulin County, "Arrange for everyone to rest for the night, with good food and drink. Tomorrow we'll return to the county town, but we'll take over two hundred women back with us."

Everyone laughed.

A bold village soldier asked, "County Commandant, I don't want this month's salary. Can I choose a wife to take home?"

Everyone laughed.

Li Lin shook his head and said, "Don't be silly. Wait until they're in the laundry department or the brokerage department before you think about this. If you act recklessly now and get caught, I'll be fine, but you'll probably be in big trouble."

The local militiamen all burst into laughter.

They were just asking.

After all, there are many single men here.

If they were to marry a woman from a respectable family, they wouldn't be able to afford the dowry.

But if it were a woman from the southern barbarians, she could be bought for less than a tenth of the dowry.

The local militia set up camp in the military town and cooked their meals.

Li Lin sat idly in a chair, looking at the scenery.

Not long after, Xie Shuyou came over and said, "County Commandant, I heard that you come from a prestigious family and know much more than us roughnecks."

"Not from a prominent family, just an ordinary person."

Xie Shuyou, however, did not believe it.

Could an ordinary family raise such a handsome and refined young man?
"What exactly happened with the Southern Barbarians? Can you speculate on it?"

Li Lin shook his head: "I'm not sure."

"However, I have heard some rumors!" Xie Shuyou suddenly said mysteriously.

"What rumor?"

"The gods of the southern barbarians are dead."

"Ok?"

Where there are supernatural beings and immortal cultivation, there must naturally be gods.

"Has anyone seen the Southern Barbarians' god die?" Li Lin asked curiously. "What did their god look like?"

"It's a white elephant."

"A huge white elephant! As tall as a small mountain," Xie Shuyou said. "I heard that quite a few people in the Tang family army have obtained the divine flesh of the white elephant!"

(End of this chapter)