In his memory, his father had always been very dignified and imposing, so seeing him covered in blood today was truly shocking.
With Mother gone, Father is no longer as easy to get along with as before.
...
When Liu Qi heard the news of the deposed empress, he was completely stunned.
How did things turn out this way?
Is my brother Liu Liu still alive?
Should we continue making this antidote?
Liu Qi ignored the antidote, shook off the men Lu Xingjian had sent to track and monitor him, and hurriedly headed towards the capital.
However, the situation took another sharp turn for the worse.
He missed the decisive battle in the capital region, but instead encountered the chaos in Henan.
Tens of thousands of cavalry bandits ravaged Henan, while at the same time, the imperial army also set out in force.
The situation is worse than when they caused trouble in Shandong.
When he was in Shandong, he was the leader, bossy and arrogant, and didn't think anything of it.
Now he is all alone, not much different from those refugees.
He was also conscripted to help the imperial army repair city walls and dig moats.
Huo En, the magistrate of Shangcai County, was a frail scholar who had passed the imperial examination. He would come to inspect the city every day, saying that he would live and die with the county and its people.
When Shangcai County fell, he squatted in the corner and watched helplessly as the delicate county magistrate's wife hanged herself.
How can there be such stupid people?
He cut the rope that the magistrate's wife had used to hang herself.
However.
The bandits came over, grabbed the magistrate's wife by the hair, and dragged her away, pulling down her trousers as they did so, saying viciously:
"Your man killed so many of our brothers, and you think you can die easily? Dream on!"
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