Pig Killer

Chapter 229

Huang Zhongchang patted his son's shoulder and said, "I won't do that again. We'll eat white flour buns every day from now on."

"Dad eats wild vegetable dumplings every day now." Li Nu said aggrievedly, "And my brothers do the same."

Huang Zhongchang was stunned when he heard this, then his dark eyes glowed with warmth and he said, "I said later, not now."

"We won't do that, but what about others?" The big tiger asked him with innocent eyes.

"This..." Huang Zhongchang looked at his son with unclear eyes.

Shen Hui'e looked at her son with her shiny black eyes, "We need everyone to work together to overthrow the imperial court and bring peace to the world, so that we can farm peacefully."

"Hmm!" The big tiger nodded like a chick pecking at rice.

"Dad, dad, is the emperor's palace big?" The cat slave pulled his arm and asked.

"Big!" Huang Zhongchang nodded slightly when he heard that.

"How big is it?" The raccoon asked, looking at him with curious eyes, "Is it as big as our county town?"

"It's much bigger than our county town. You can't see the end of it at a glance." Huang Zhongchang said with amusement as he looked at her while she was talking in a childish voice.

"Then why build a palace?" Li Nu looked at him puzzledly and said, "In that palace, the emperor can only sleep on a bed! How can he lie down all over?"

"Maybe!" Huang Zhongchang joked, "Sleep one a day."

"Don't you recognize your bed?" Da Chong asked him with his innocent eyes.

Huang Zhongchang looked at him in astonishment and said, "You ask me this, I don't know, and I can't figure it out." He chuckled and shook his head, "Maybe the emperor thinks differently from me."

"Isn't he afraid? Living in such a big house." The raccoon slave looked at him innocently with pure eyes.

"Silly girl, there is not only the emperor in this palace, but also palace maids and eunuchs, tens of thousands of people!" Huang Zhongchang looked at them innocently and said with a smile, "You can say they are all human beings."

"So many people? What are they doing?" asked Da Chong curiously.

"They all serve the emperor." Huang Zhongchang thought seriously and said, "They serve the emperor's food, clothing, housing and transportation."

"Clothes come to you just by stretching out your hands, food comes to you just by opening your mouth." Shen Hui'e looked at them calmly and said, "You have to be carried by others even when you walk."

"Wow..." Li Nu looked at them with round eyes and said, "That scene is even bigger than that of the rich families in the county."

"Of course." Huang Zhongchang looked at them with his dark eyes and said, "It stretches for more than ten miles."

"Have you seen it?" Li Nu asked, looking at him with bright eyes.

"I have seen it! When the emperor came to the imperial mausoleum to worship his ancestors." Huang Zhongchang looked at the mountains covered with layers of forests and said, "A real man should be like this!"

"Do you need so many people? Can't you do it yourself?" The big tiger asked him with pure eyes.

"I don't know why so many people are needed to serve him." Huang Zhongchang spread his hands and looked at them and said, "Maybe it's to show the royal majesty! Otherwise, the emperor is the same as us common people, or even worse than the rich people in the county. How can he be called the unique emperor?"

"Perhaps the emperor still feels aggrieved!" Shen Hui'e said with a sneer.

"Why? Why is he feeling wronged?" The big tiger looked at him with puzzled eyes.

"All under heaven belongs to the king. The whole world belongs to the emperor. All he does is build a palace and a royal mausoleum!" Shen Hui'e said sarcastically.

"No one objects to him building a house, but he made it so that no one can survive, and that's his problem." Li Nu tilted his head, thought for a while and said.

Shen Hui'e looked at her daughter with eyes as gentle as jade and said, "You're right! That's why everyone is against him."

All under heaven belongs to the king, Huang Zhongchang muttered to himself.

"Father, father, have you ever seen the emperor?" The tiger grabbed his arm and shook it, asking curiously.

"Ah?" Huang Zhongchang came back to his senses and looked at him and asked, "What?"

"What are you thinking about?" Shen Hui'e looked at him in surprise and said, "Your son asked you if you have seen the emperor?"

"How could I have seen it?" Huang Zhongchang looked at them with amusement.

"Didn't they say that the emperor went to the imperial mausoleum?" Li Nu looked at him with eyes like black grapes and asked.

"We are locked in the house! How can we come out casually?" Huang Zhongchang said as he looked at them with his dark eyes.

"Oh!" The cat slave responded obediently when he heard it.

"Are you so curious about what the emperor looks like?" Shen Hui'e looked at them with amusement.

"Hmm! Isn't he tall and majestic? Isn't he very powerful? He looks different from us." The raccoon Kaba, Kaba looked at him with his big watery eyes and asked, "Like a god?"

"Yes! You are unstoppable and invincible." The big tiger asked him with its bright eyes.

"I only know that the carriage is very big, like a house, and it is pulled by more than a dozen horses. As for what it looks like, we can't see it from inside the carriage." Huang Zhongchang recalled with a blink of his eyes, "It's really big!"

"The emperor looks like us, he doesn't have three heads and six arms." Shen Hui'e looked at them with her jade-like eyes and said, "If he was really invincible, he wouldn't be in this predicament. If he was really a god, we would have been destroyed by them without any effort. He is also a human being."

"Ah!" Hearing this, the big tiger looked at her with eyes wide open and said, "It's a human!"

"What else do you think it is?" Shen Hui'e looked at them with amusement.

"Isn't it the reincarnation of a god?" The big tiger looked at her with its black eyes and said.

"Tsk... those are all myths, they are fake." Shen Hui'e sneered, "If you don't say that, how can you appear different from us!" She raised her index finger and smiled, "Keep it mysterious!" She pursed her lips and looked at them and said, "People are afraid of the unknown."

"Don't you believe that there are ghosts and gods in this world?" Huang Zhongchang asked her with his deep and dark eyes.

“I don’t believe it!” Shen Hui’e said, her clear eyes reflecting his figure. “You haven’t even understood how to live! Live in the present so that your life will not be in vain a hundred years from now. Leave the afterlife to afterlife.”

"Emperors all like immortality. The late emperor was always looking for the elixir of life during his lifetime." Huang Zhongchang looked at them with his dark eyes and said, "I heard that he ate a lot of elixirs."

"Then will you be immortal?" Shen Hui'e raised her eyebrows and looked at him with amusement.

"No! He passed away two years ago, just over 50 years old." Huang Zhongchang thought for a moment and said to her.

"That's it. There's no such thing as immortality!" Shen Hui'e looked at them with her crystal clear eyes and said, "Only the emperor wants immortality. Just ask the beggar, he definitely doesn't want it."

"Why?" asked the raccoon slave, looking at her with watery eyes.

"Because you can't beg for food for the rest of your life!" Huang Zhongchang joked with a smile.

"No, no! I don't want to be a beggar." The raccoon slave shook his head like a rattle and looked at them and said.

"That's it. Only when you have endless wealth and splendor would you dream of immortality!" Shen Hui'e looked at them with eyes as black as black jade and said, "Ordinary people pray to God for a good birth in the next life, a good family background."

"Hehe..." Huang Zhongchang shook his head and chuckled when he heard this.

"What are you laughing at?" Shen Hui'e asked him, tilting her head slightly.

"Nothing? A very real thought." Huang Zhongchang nodded with a smile.

"But this late emperor can be considered immortal." Shen Hui'e said as she looked at them with her bright eyes.

"Why? The person is gone." The raccoon asked her with his confused little head.

"Because he ended the disputes among the princes, swept across the world, unified the country, and destroyed the princely states. Those nobles could not own their own land, the princes had no military power, no right to collect taxes, could not appoint officials at will, and were subject to the jurisdiction of local officials. Violators would be punished! The power was concentrated in the court!" Shen Hui'e looked at them with bright eyes and said, "We are no longer livestock that can only speak human language in the hands of the nobles. He also distributed the land to the common people. In addition to paying taxes, most of the harvest can be kept." The bright eyes looked at them and said, "This is already a name that will go down in history." The dazzling eyes looked at them and said, "Isn't this immortality? Speaking of emperors of all dynasties, who can surpass him!"

Huang Zhongchang's eyes widened when he heard this. "He is not that kind to us. I was dragged to build the imperial mausoleum, along with many other civilians. The mausoleum has been built since he ascended the throne. In the past two years, people couldn't stand it every day and died."

"Merits are merits, faults are faults, this is an objective evaluation." Shen Hui'e looked at him with eyes as clear as water and said.

"This..." Huang Zhongchang moved his mouth, but swallowed the words that were about to come out of his mouth. "I don't know how to say it. Maybe you are right, but I can't like what people like us say."

"I didn't ask you to like him." Shen Hui'e looked at him with her dark eyes and said, "Everyone is partial and has their own preferences." She sighed and said, "It can only be said that time is not on his side. If there is enough time, he will not be so anxious. He has not chosen a successor to implement his policies. After so many years of war, it is time to recuperate, but he is so wasteful." She chuckled and said, "Let's not talk about him. God has his own arrangements. Each generation has its own mission. Maybe his mission is completed, and now it's time for all parties to take the stage."

"You believe in fate?" Huang Zhongchang looked at her in surprise and said, "Didn't you just say you don't believe in ghosts and gods?"

"Believe it! You can fight for your fate! It all depends on whether you have the ability to break free from the cage of fate." Shen Hui'e nodded heavily, "I believe in cause and effect. You will reap what you sow!"

"Can life be fought for?" Li Nu looked at her with his big, bright eyes and said.

"Aren't we fighting now? If you accept your fate, then just wait for death." Shen Hui'e looked at her with eyes as gentle as jade and said, "We don't believe in fate. Myths are full of stories about fighting against fate. This is our background." She looked at them with bright eyes and said, "You have heard of the stories of Pangu creating the world, Houyi shooting down the sun, Dayu controlling floods, and Yugong moving mountains!"