The protagonist committed numerous evil deeds.

Chapter 198 Plan

"Elder, you can't go in! The patriarch and the hall masters are still inside discussing matters."

"You can't go in and listen; the patriarch is talking about very important matters inside."

"I am an elder of the Liang family. What can't I hear? You girls, get out of my way!"

“You can’t go in! This is not a place for you.”

There was a commotion outside, and Liang Tian waved her hand, signaling everyone to go outside.

Outside the secret room is Liang Tian's study, and usually no one dares to come in.

"Let them in."

"Yes!"

The door was suddenly opened from the inside. The Grand Elder, a ninety-year-old man, was banging on the door when it suddenly opened and he was caught off guard and fell inside.

"Ha ha……"

The women inside couldn't help but laugh. They looked down at him, showing no intention of helping him up.

"What are you laughing at! Don't laugh! Even your father and grandfather had to bow to me and show me respect. The Liang family was ruined because of your generation!"

The First Elder scrambled to his feet in a disheveled state. He looked at Liang Tian on the main seat and angrily shouted, "Liang Tiantian! Are you only satisfied when our entire Liang family dies here? It's one thing that you couldn't defend Danli, but now you've even gone so far as to abandon the city!"

"How could my Liang family produce such an unfilial daughter! What a tragedy, what a tragedy!"

The man was almost a hundred years old, crying and shouting in the hall. Liang Tiantian found it annoying to watch.

"What does the elder think I should do?"

Liang Tian spoke earnestly, and the Grand Elder looked at her with some hesitation, but still gave his opinion.

"Danli is the place where our people have lived for thousands of years, and we cannot easily back down. How about this, let's try to negotiate with the demons. In this war, it is always the common people who suffer. Why don't we all sit down together and think about how to live in peace?"

Liang Tian asked, "Oh, peaceful coexistence? How do we achieve peaceful coexistence?"

"What else can we do? Since we can't beat them, we'll just give up some of our things. We don't need Tianqu or Lanjiang anymore. We'll send some elixirs and beauties to the demons later."

"What if it doesn't work?"

"If all else fails and we have to abandon the city, where will my Liang family move to? Have you made all the necessary arrangements? Once we arrive, we need to make the necessary arrangements in advance, including sending them treasures and women..."

Liang Tiantian couldn't stand it anymore, and the person next to her noticed her signal and kicked her out the door.

Those old geezers should be thrown into a furnace to be refined into elixirs.

"Ah You……"

Liang Qi slowly stood up, walked to the door, and looked down at the old man.

The old man fell to the ground, coughing incessantly, and struggled for a long time but could not get up.

"I heard you have a teenage adopted son who's quite good-looking. How about this, I'll go out and ask around to see where there are any handsome men among the monsters. I'll be the first to take him there. It's all for the Liang family, so it's a bit unfair to him."

"Liang Tiantian! You beast! How did you even know about him! He's my successor, he's a man! Don't forget how your brother died. If he were here, he would definitely have done better than you!"

Liang Tiantian stomped on his foot, and blood flowed from his mouth and nose.

"Don't mention him to me. The Liang family is only where it is today because of me. If it were anyone else, the Liang family would have been wiped out long ago."

"Elder, I have said before that as long as I am the head of the family, no man in the Liang family has any right to interfere in anything."

Liang Tian removed her foot and calmly ordered, "Someone, take the Grand Elder back. Also, tell those old men in the Elder Council to keep practicing their pills. If they can't even do this properly, I'll personally throw them into the furnace. They've enjoyed so much good fortune for so many years thanks to us women; it's time for them to make some contributions to the clan."

The elder was dragged away. He struggled to open his eyes and looked at the room full of women. They held their heads high and looked at him with contempt, as if he were an ant.

But clearly, weren't the women of their generation, and indeed the Liang family for generations, just playthings used to curry favor with the powerful and wealthy?

That a woman in charge of the household is a joke!

If he had known that the Liang family would end up in such a disgraceful state, he would have preferred that the Liang family had died out completely more than ten years ago!

……

Meanwhile, on the front lines of Manzhou, Chaoyan had just arrived from Yueban with her men, carrying grain.

"Great! We have food!"

"We have food!"

"Will we be able to have a proper meal tonight?"

"Don't grab it! What if it spills!"

Everyone was excited to see the grain, but they were very disappointed after all the grain had been transported.

"Why is there so little? Is there any more?"

"That's all! How many days will this little bit of food last?"

"I heard that the Feather Spirit Army eats rice every meal, so why is it so little here?"

"Stop talking, it's good enough that we have something to eat."

The scene was noisy and chaotic. Asagao called out to the cooks to come out and maintain order. She looked at the people in front of her and saw that they all looked much more haggard. Perhaps they were hungry, as they were all lying on the ground waiting for their meals.

The cook pushed out the food and shouted, "Two sweet potatoes for everyone, as usual!"

Everyone lined up to get sweet potatoes, but Asagao noticed that someone behind her had a sweet potato snatched away.

"What are you doing! There are two for each person, why are you stealing from others?"

The man wasn't ashamed when he was caught. Instead, he shouted, "I'm a cultivator. I've killed more monsters on the battlefield than you people without spiritual roots. What's wrong with me eating an extra sweet potato?"

Asagao punched him and cursed, "How could our Northern Desert Iron Cavalry produce such a scoundrel as you! On the battlefield, those without spiritual roots suffer more pain and die more easily than you, and they are more worthy of respect than people like you."

People around came over and pulled Chaoyan away. The man who was hit didn't dare to fight back, but kept shouting, "He gave it to me willingly. You can ask him if you don't believe me!"

Asagao lowered her fist and asked the person whose sweet potato had been stolen, "Really?"

This soldier was clearly still a child, not even as tall as Asagao, probably only thirteen or fourteen years old. He was probably just coaxed into enlisting by the recruiters.

"General, yes, it was my own choice. I have no spiritual root, and my martial arts skills are poor; I can't even kill a single demon. He saved me several times on the battlefield, and he's right; eating too much would be a waste."

Hearing what he said, Asagao didn't say much. It was a mutual consent matter, and she was the one meddling.

She patted the child on the shoulder, "It's okay, everyone is like this at first, but you have to believe that you can kill demons even without spiritual roots."

After saying that, he turned to the person still lying on the ground and said, "And you, don't take advantage of such a small favor to bully others. Mutual help is what we, the Northern Iron Cavalry, should be like. Maybe one day on the battlefield, it won't be you saving him, but him saving you."

Asagao took two sweet potatoes and ran off to find Pei Kuang with a carefree air.

The child who remained looked at her with eyes full of admiration.

Someone next to him said, "This is General Asagao, who is even more powerful than many cultivators."

Asagao walked along the road, cheerfully greeting people. It was wonderful that she had finally been transferred back to the general's side!

As soon as he entered the tent, he was met with Pei Kuang's helpless expression.

Her smile froze for a second, and she asked hesitantly, "Hehe, what's wrong, General?"

Pei Kuang turned his head, his face cold, and said, "Chao Yan, do you think all cultivators in this world deserve to die?"

"what?"

Asagao's face froze. She jogged over to Pei Kuang's side and forced a smile: "General, we can't say that."

"Low food and medicine, they're sending you here from mid-month with ill intentions."

"Do you believe that in times of crisis, ordinary people like you and me are the ones they will abandon?"

Chaoyan fell silent. In the past two years, without the Crown Prince as their backer, their treatment was far worse than before.

Thinking of Shen Yingsi, Chaoyan said, "He doesn't entirely deserve to die. There's still His Highness, isn't there? His Highness is a good person."

Pei Kuang snorted and said, "He deserves to die for being bewitched by a female demon and abandoning the world."

These words startled Asagao so much that she broke out in a cold sweat and repeatedly made sure that no one else was in the tent.

Pei Kuang looked at the map and said, "But without him, these cultivators are unreliable. We need to make plans soon."

"What's the plan?"

Pei Kuang looked at her, his face still expressionless, but Chao Yan felt a chill run down her spine for no apparent reason.