Barren Land

Song Demei looked at Liang Chongde before her and asked, "Did you just say you killed that little bastard?"

Liang Chongde lowered his head. "I urged him to come back to the village with me. He wouldn't listen, so I followed your orders and..." Song Demei smiled faintly. "Good kill. That little bastard deserved to die."

Liang Chongde kept his head lowered, and instantly felt much more relieved.

But Song Demei's second son, Yue Congde, could not make sense of this. "Mother, you killed Tang Xinde. Will that foreigner really let this go?" Song Demei cast him a glance. "Were you expecting him to let it go?"

Second Brother had said very little these days. Whenever he did speak, he was always watching everyone else's reactions.

She knew the Second Brother before her was not the real Second Brother, but she had never exposed him, because this Second Brother had brought her quite a few benefits.

Song Demei had made a move against Xiao De because she did not want to remain deadlocked any longer. She wanted to drive Cui Tike mad. If Cui Tike still refused to act, she herself would soon be unable to hold on. Yesterday, Song Demei had received news that Li Qi had delivered a shipment of grain to Virtue Praise Cliff.

Cui Tike had used an epidemic to threaten Virtue Praise Cliff; Song Demei could endure that. Li Qi had sent away the disciples of all the major sects; Song Demei could endure that too. Even when Li Qi had killed her son, she could endure it.

But Li Qi sending grain to Virtue Praise Cliff was something Song Demei could not endure.

She knew the nature of Virtue Cultivators very well. If that batch of grain truly reached Virtue Praise Cliff, and the