Quick Transmigration: Underdog Turns out to be Untouchable

Chapter 1050: Chapter 961: First Rank Official 22

Originally, Murong Shuangshuang only dared to train everyone, not teach them martial arts, because practicing martial arts consumes much more food than training. After practicing, not only does the appetite increase dramatically, but each meal must include large amounts of meat, not just porridge.

In fact, if Murong Shuangshuang’s breeding farm hadn’t been running so smoothly, especially with those piglets, which she had castrated, growing fat quickly, one by one becoming plump and healthy.

Every time the villagers saw these chubby pigs, they couldn’t help but drool. They looked so appetizing, and the meat supply from the breeding farm was more than enough to feed the entire Yu Family Village.

It was because there was a guaranteed source of meat that Murong Shuangshuang dared to let the young and strong in the village practice martial arts with her. Without meat to supplement their nutrition, she wouldn’t have been confident enough to let so many people follow her in learning martial arts.

However, before Murong Shuangshuang began training everyone in martial arts, her neighbors, the Fang Family, encountered a problem. The trouble was caused by Fang Keixin’s troublesome grandparents. Because Fang Keixin had opened a restaurant in town, which was doing very well, her uncle heard about it and immediately felt unbalanced.

Fang Keixin’s uncle returned to complain to Grandpa Fang and Grandma Fang, saying that Fang Keixin’s father was unfilial, earning money without supporting the elders. Somehow, Fang Keixin’s father was moved by Grandpa Fang and Grandma Fang’s talk of family ties, and insisted on bringing Grandpa Fang, Grandma Fang, and Fang Keixin’s uncle’s whole family to the town, despite Fang Keixin’s objections.

Actually, Fang Keixin’s uncle’s family wanted to leave, partly to avoid Murong Shuangshuang’s training, as this family was considered the laziest in the entire Yu Family Village, often shirking work.

They had long been unwilling to participate in such hard, exhausting training, but under pressure from Murong Shuangshuang’s authority in the village and the promise of meat for training, they reluctantly persevered but always lagged behind.

Now, the two kept nagging their parents to approach Fang Keixin’s father, looking to escape the hardships. The villagers also disapproved of these two for being lazy during training and insatiable when it came to eating meat. With the whole family leaving voluntarily, everyone felt relieved, thinking it was for the best without the two slackers dragging them down.

Murong Shuangshuang didn’t teach any profound martial arts, not out of unwillingness, but because the more exquisite the martial arts secret manual, the more it required a particular aptitude to learn. Only ordinary martial arts could be learned by anyone with any aptitude.

This time, not only the young and strong practiced martial arts. Except for the elderly unable to practice, everyone, regardless of gender or age, had to follow and learn martial arts. She wanted to turn Yu Family Village into a place where everyone practiced and understood martial arts.

Nowadays, Murong Shuangshuang’s status was almost mythical, with no one in the village opposing her. They initially thought letting the girls practice martial arts would face obstacles, but surprisingly, Murong Shuangshuang’s anticipated resistance never materialized, and all the girls successfully entered the newly established martial arts training ground in the village, joining Murong Shuangshuang in martial arts practice.

Murong Shuangshuang was a bit surprised by this. Indeed, because of Murong Shuangshuang’s abilities and Fang Keixin, despite the Fang Family’s antics, it couldn’t be denied that Fang Keixin was a formidable woman.

She managed to open a restaurant in town with just her honest parents, making a name for herself. Although she didn’t quite match up to the legend of Murong Shuangshuang in their minds, there was no denying that Fang Keixin was a capable woman.

With Fang Keixin and Murong Shuangshuang as role models, the mindset of the people in Yu Family Village had subtly begun to shift towards valuing their daughters. If a daughter was raised well, she could be no less competent than a son. If they were fortunate enough to raise a daughter like Murong Shuangshuang, no number of sons would be an equal trade.

Seasons changed, time flew by, and within a few short years, in Lin County, there was a hidden mountain stronghold, harboring nearly a thousand bandits. These bandits, originally refugees driven to desperation by heavy taxes, turned to banditry for survival, initially robbing without killing, but in times like these, who wouldn’t guard their food with their lives?

While some sought to rob and others refused to yield, these refugees turned bandits resorted to violence. Once they started killing, they couldn’t stop. By now, this group of refugee-turned-bandits had become so ruthless that they left no survivors wherever they went.

Having killed so many, these bandits even took pleasure in the cruelty, completely forgetting that those they murdered were once like them, starving, and overtaxed poor souls. They toyed with their victims like cats with mice, cruelly humiliating and slaughtering them for amusement.

They roamed the surrounding counties, looting and killing everywhere they went. Despite the magistrates of several counties joining forces, they couldn’t capture these bandits because their hideout was so well-hidden, it was hard to find.

Yet today, someone found their hideout. It was a troop of about two hundred, led by a beautiful woman, with men and women equally mixed in the group.

Regardless of gender, these people wore matching dark martial arts uniforms, with bundles and double swords on their backs, moving silently like phantoms. Before the bandits guarding the gate could react, these agile individuals swiftly leaped and climbed into the bandit stronghold, quickly taking out the guards and gatekeepers.

Though merely a two-hundred-person troop, once inside the stronghold, they wiped out nearly a thousand bandits utterly, as if they were cold-blooded killing machines. Both men and women in the group executed their task viciously, with expressionless faces, showing no mercy.

In less than an hour, all the bandits were slaughtered. Once all were dead, the beautiful woman in charge took out a signal firework and lit it. Soon, an ear-piercing explosion echoed in the sky.

After sending the signal, the well-coordinated group of two hundred left the bandit stronghold, disappearing silently into the forest. Shortly after they left, the County Magistrate of Lin County arrived with his soldiers, swiftly beginning to clean up the bandit lair, counting the dead bandits.

After counting the bandits, the subordinates of the County Magistrate couldn’t help but exclaim, ”Murong Shuangshuang is truly remarkable, training mere villagers to be so formidable, executing with such clean precision every time that it unnerves me a bit.”

The County Magistrate was unfazed by this. In recent years, the court was in chaos, and the Emperor had grown increasingly muddled. Not long ago, he impulsively insisted on building some grand structure called the Heaven-Reaching Massacre, disregarding the lives of the common people, refusing to reduce taxes, and forcibly conscripting laborers to construct it, resulting in unknown numbers of deaths, leading to multiple uprisings.

Instead of self-reflecting and restraining himself, the Emperor intensified his oppression, sending people to suppress the rebellions. With wars breaking out all over, the common people, left with no way to survive, either rebelled or turned into bandits.