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Chapter 1380 Fighting for the People¡¯s Life and Death

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    August 10th, at the mouth of the Xishui River.

    Li Laoliu is fifty-five years old this year and is an old fisherman.  He broke a leg when he was young, so he couldn't serve as a soldier, but he lived to this age safely.  When he was young, his peers who laughed at his broken leg were all drafted into the army in various wars, and then never returned, and their bones were long gone.

    Li Laoliu gave birth to five sons, but only two were born.  In his early years, the younger son followed a tax collector to the city and was beheaded; while the older son was drafted into the army last year and is said to have died in Liaodong.  His old wife died early, and his daughter-in-law was taken away by the conscripts at the beginning of the year. Apart from him, the family only had a seven or eight-year-old grandson left, and the grandparents and grandchildren depended on each other.

    Although Li Laoliu is old and physically handicapped, he can still support his grandson.

    In the past two years, all the able-bodied men in Goguryeo have been recruited to serve as soldiers. In the bustling fishing villages in the past, there are not many people who can fish.  This summer, even a few older brothers who were in the same grade as him were recruited to serve as soldiers, leaving him alone in the village to go fishing.

    Strange to say, in previous years when there were many fishermen, there were not many fish in the river.  Now there are fewer people fishing, but more fish.  I heard that this phenomenon happened in previous years because the fish in the river ate the corpses in the river, so they all grew fat.

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    In the past two years, Li Laoliu would rather go fishing in the sea to the west than go fishing in the river.  Old people say that when a fish eats human flesh, it becomes a spirit and cannot be beaten.

    Of course, this is just Li Laoliu's external rhetoric. In fact, it is because the city lord's palace has issued an order this year. There is a shortage of food in the country, and 80% of the fish caught by the fishermen must be handed over to the city lord's palace.  Li Laoliu was old and frail and couldn't catch much fish at all. He had to pay taxes to eat, so Li Laoliu thought of going to the sea to fish in order to avoid this heavy tax.

    Li Laoliu is old. Decades of exposure to wind and sun have made him extremely old. He sometimes thinks about death. What's the point of living alone like this? But he still has a little grandson, so he doesn't dare to die.  Every time he went to sea, he took his grandson with him because he was afraid of being taken away by conscripts.  Nowadays, all boys over the age of twelve are forcibly conscripted by the government to fight in the north.  Although the grandson is only seven or eight years old, if he has no money to show his respect, those recruiting soldiers will regard seven or eight years as twelve years old.  In the village, children from several families were taken away, and Li Laoliu spent his only savings to pay off official officials to save his grandson.

    Li Laoliu did not dare to let his grandson stay in the village anymore, so he could only live and eat on the boat.

    In recent years, the wars in Goguryeo seem to be endless. When will these days end?

    It was still dawn when Li Laoliu quietly slipped out of the village and prepared to return to the ship.  There was no salt on the boat, and his grandson became bloated. Li Laoliu sneaked back to the village just to get some salt.

    Arriving at the entrance of the village, Li Laoliu happened to meet Grandma Wang from the village.

    Grandma Wang¡¯s six sons all went to the battlefield and did not return, leaving only one eldest grandson.  Grandma Wang was afraid that her grandson would die on the battlefield again, so she secretly hid her grandson in the reeds in the south of the village. Grandma Wang would bring food to her eldest grandson every now and then.

    There are many villages like Grandma Wang¡¯s.

    ?????????? Old people in their fifties and sixties, down to children in their teens, were all dragged onto the battlefield. Even women were not spared. Those who wanted to live, there were only a few who did not escape.

    Li Laoliu and Grandma Wang glanced at each other at the end of the village. They both walked in a hurry, without speaking, and left quickly.

    At this moment, suddenly a person in front ran over in a hurry and happened to bump into Grandma Wang. It was Liu, the leper in the village.  Lezi Liu got up in a panic and shouted: "The government arresters are here."

    Li Laoliu and Grandma Wang were both frightened and ran away.

    The government competed with the people in a battle of wits and courage. If they had known that the people would run away, they would often go to the villages to block people before dawn.

    Li Laoliu had bad legs and couldn't run fast, so he happened to be bumped into by his captor.  The other party directly took away a package he brought, including the salt that Li Laoliu risked his life to get.

    Li Laoliu didn¡¯t dare to resist at all. In the past, there were people who wanted money rather than their lives, and they would really be beaten to death by their captors.

    The other party saw him as a lame old man and kicked him, but didn't take it to heart.  This damn old man's leg is so badly injured, or else he can be pulled back to make up for it.

    A group of young man captors reentered the village like tigers and wolves, and soon the whole village screamed.  There was a lot of excitement, and not long after, everyone escorted a few half-year-old children and six or seven women, and then came out with a cart full of stolen goods.  Among those arrested was Grandma Wang just now.

    When the other party met Li Laoliu, Grandma Wang kept looking at Li Laoliu, her eyes full ofIt is the color of prayer.  Li Laoliu knew that the other party wanted him to give his eldest grandson some food.

    Li Laoliu limped out of the village on a walking stick.

    When they got on the boat, Li Laoliu didn't say anything, and the grandfather and grandson rocked the oar and headed towards the sea.  Perhaps only in the sea can there be a place for their ancestors and grandchildren.

    It was almost noon. Li Laoliu found a quiet place, fixed the boat, and cast a net.  The little grandson handed a rice ball to Old Man Li. Li Laoliu didn't take it, but asked his grandson to eat it.

    There is only one rice ball in the family, and he cannot compete with his grandson for food.

    ???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????: Li Laoliu leaned against the side of the ship as he had no food, trying to be as inactive as possible to reduce his hunger.  Drowsily, Li Laoliu actually fell asleep.

    I don¡¯t know how long it took, but the grandson pushed Li Laoliu awake in a panic, then pointed into the distance and shouted: "Big ship, big ship!"

    Li Laoliu looked in the direction his grandson pointed and was also shocked.

    Where the coastline appears in the distance, rows and rows of black shadows appear in the sky, and the darkness blocks out the sky and the sun.

    That¡¯s a boat, a big, big boat.

    Li Laoliu has lived for more than fifty years and has never seen so many ships or such big ships in his life.  There are so many big ships in the sea, I am afraid there are not so many in the whole of Goguryeo.

    Li Laoliu often fished in the Xishui River and was used to seeing three or two Goguryeo warships leaving the port. This was not a Goguryeo ship.

    Such a big ship is probably only found in that legendary country to the east!

    At this time, on the sea, riding the wind and waves, this invincible navy was the 50,000 elite commanded by Zhou Fashang and Huang Mingli.

    They started from Bozhuo City and headed south along the west coast of Goguryeo to the mouth of the Xishui River.

    At this time, the vanguard fleet responsible for guarding and clearing the way discovered Li Laoliu's fishing boat and came here.  Li Laoliu was shocked and immediately swung the oar and headed east.

    Although he didn¡¯t know the identity of the other party, Li Laoliu knew that being caught by the other party would not end well.

    Just hearing a crisp sound on the sea, a spear hit Li Laoliu's ship, and the ship was immediately smashed open.

    After a long time, there were still circles of ripples where the ship exploded, mixed with the wreckage of the ship, and it never calmed down for a long time.  (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
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