In a silent room, an old square table.

Li Gui's corpse was placed on it, and in the position of his abdomen, there was a wound pierced by a sharp weapon, which penetrated deep into the internal organs.

After revealing his identity, Chen Qingniu knew the reason for the incident from his mouth, and naturally, he also understood where the fatal wound on Li Gui's body came from.

In addition to being furious, Chen Qingniu did not lose his mind and went back to the county seat to kill those who attacked Li Gui one by one, but carried him on his back and returned to the small ravine.

On the way back, Chen Qingniu used many methods, but even if he used his vitality to seal the wound for Li Gui and stop the bleeding, he still only let him close his eyes after he reached the small ravine.

"Bang!"

An old man in the village slammed the table and cried out: "Evil, evil! This is a human life, and it is ......."

"Alas! At the beginning, I stopped Li Cripple and asked him not to go, the county lord and the landlord Liu Youcai have moved around every New Year's holiday, and Liu Youcai is not doing evil for a day or two, even if he does a great evil now, how can we be sued by those of us who are mud legs. ”

"That's fate. If it weren't for Li Gui's luck, he met Ah Niu halfway and carried him back, maybe he wouldn't even have a bone......

"Alas, don't say it, now Ah Niu has just returned to the village, and before he has a good talk to his mother, let's come to his house, not to mention that the matter has already been ......."

“......”

Because Li Gui swallowed his last breath after returning to the small ravine, the villagers in the small ravine still chose to believe that Chen Qingniu was alive, even if they felt incredible. In fact, they are also more willing to accept Chen Qingniu in this way than the little doll who looked sick and thin before.

And the "that thing" in the mouths of these old people, Chen Qingniu naturally knew from Li Gui's mouth, and the time naturally had to start after Chen Qingniu fell off the cliff.

In a poor rural area like a small ravine, the death of someone in the family is naturally a big deal, although Chen Qingniu's bones were not found, the villagers should contribute, they should give rice and rice, and a few days later, they still did a beautiful white thing for Chen Qingniu.

However, on this day, I don't know if the auspicious day of the zodiac was wrong, or if the movement was too big and spread too far, Liu Youcai, a landlord a few miles away from the small ravine, actually led a large group of people to protect the courtyard and appeared in the village.

In the surrounding ten miles and eight townships, this Liu Youcai was already a local emperor with his solid net worth and good fists and feet, and after the county lord in the city was transferred here a few years ago, he was even more lawless, and he was already notorious for bullying the township on weekdays.

But even so, no one will say anything more on the surface, after all, the countryside is mostly simple people, and not to mention whether it is useful or not, just for the wages that can be earned from this landlord from time to time, they would rather bear it.

However, this dignified earth emperor came to this small ravine to make people scratch their heads, although it is close, but because of the proximity, then Liu Youcai also knows more about the poverty here in the small ravine, neither like those villages with hunters generally have oil and water to fish, in recent years of drought, let alone be able to buy low and sell high to deceive some grain to transport to the city.

But after all, people are here, and there are white things in the small ravine, and most of the fellow villagers have people doing long-term work in the landlord's house, so the politeness that should be there is naturally indispensable.

So, many villagers took out the bacon and old wine that had been stored for I don't know how many years from their homes, and held a fairly sumptuous banquet, and Liu Youcai and his party obviously also walked the mountain road, so what kind of red and white things do they naturally eat, and then Liu Youcai and his group of people in the courtyard sat at three tables.

The wine and food were full, the banquet was dispersed, and there was no saying that there was a well-dressed mound in the small ravine, so naturally everyone planned to go back to their respective homes after mourning.

However, at this time, Liu Youcai finally showed his fangs, and even asked a group of people with sticks to protect the courtyard to surround the villagers, saying that they wanted to make a big deal with the villagers.

In recent years, it has been a year of famine and drought, and doing this white thing for Chen Qingniu is still a village, and the villagers are naturally curious when they hear the words of that big deal.

But the next moment, when Liu Youcai said the content of the deal, the villagers scolded one after another, and even some grumpy villagers had already protected their dolls behind them and rolled up their sleeves.

Five taels of silver for a doll, male or female, but no more than ten years old!

In this way, this group of simple villagers naturally can't do it, not to mention that it hasn't reached the point of starving to death, even if it does, they would rather gnaw the bark and shave grass roots and sell their own babies, they can't do it.

In this regard, Liu Youcai just sneered again and again, and was not angry, as if he was ready to face such a reaction from the villagers, but with a wave of his hand, the group of people in the nursing home immediately started to rob the child in broad daylight.

The villagers naturally want to resist, especially the young and middle-aged people in the township, who are naturally desperately and stubbornly at the forefront, taking whatever they can have, and fighting with the group of people who brought Liu Youcai to the courtyard, although many villagers were seriously injured, but because of the large number of people, they quickly forced the group of people to retreat to the center of a small circle.

The villagers have been facing the loess all their lives, and it is okay for ordinary neighbors to scold a few words, but if there are further actions, it is natural that they will never dare, so they can only stalemate like this.

Fortunately, one of the villagers, that is, Zhang Erzi in Li Gui's mouth, because he had been an apprentice in the county for a period of time in the early years, he still had some insight and knew the seriousness of this kind of thing, so he said to Liu Youcai, "Master Liu, if your behavior of buying and selling children is known by the government, you will ...... it."

Who knows, before the word Li Erzi was imprisoned was spoken, he was kicked out by Liu Youcai, who jumped up and suddenly attacked, and broke the crooked-necked willow tree in the courtyard of Chen Qingniu's house, so he gave up.

Where have the villagers who have been farming all their lives seen this formation, they were naturally frightened by Liu Youcai's sudden attack, and they all protected their dolls and retreated, and some even let their women flee home with their dolls.

Where would Liu Youcai allow this kind of thing to happen, only to hear him scold a sentence of "toast and don't eat and drink", and then he made a brazen move again, and walked towards the villagers who surrounded the people who guarded the courtyard, in short, I didn't see him have any drastic moves, anyway, it was just a punch and legs, just a few breaths of effort, and the villagers lay on the ground one after another.

The people under the nursing home began to snatch the children, and the young adults who were knocked to the ground could no longer move, but they were about to see their loved ones snatched away like this, even if it hurt no matter how painful it was, as long as they didn't die, where were they willing to be willing, they stood up again with the pain, and rushed towards Liu Youcai, screaming desperately.

And the result is that this group of young adults in the small ravine, including Chen Qingniu's father and eldest brother and second brother, have fallen under the poisonous hands of Liu Youcai, after Liu Youcai took the group of people in the courtyard to snatch more than a dozen children in the village and left, these villagers who were injured by Liu Youcai held out for three or five days, and the bad ones died on the spot.

It is not an exaggeration to say that such an act is terrible.

Suffering such a catastrophe, the small ravine suddenly fell silent.

Naturally, even if they knew that Liu Youcai and the county lord were close, some villagers still decided to sue the government, after all, it was more than 20 living lives.

It's a pity that something happened that made the villagers even more angry and desperate, and they went to several groups of people one after another, but they didn't see anyone come back, even if the villagers were stupid, it was just one or two times, but three or four times, how could they still not figure out the reason?

For a while, the snow worsened, the sorrow became more sad, and the whole small ravine no longer had the tranquility of the past, and was completely immersed in a dead silence.

Li Gui was the last person to enter the city to sue the official, and before he went, many people in the township stopped him, but he himself said that he was still a cripple with no children and no daughters in his life, and he was afraid of nothing.

And this, naturally, is the reason why Chen Qingniu is willing to bring this fellow villager back to his home, he is willing to bury this lame man with no children and no daughters.

After the grief-stricken villagers left their homes, Chen Qingniu once again carried Li Gui on his back, took the family's hoe, and asked for some incense, candles, yellow paper and a straw mat from an old man in the township, and then walked towards the mountain.

A small wasteland, littered with a lot of graves, used to go up the mountain to chop firewood would always pass here, but for more than a month without coming, more than 20 small graves were added.

Dig the soil, wrap it in a straw mat, and fill it in.

Obviously, it was the first time to do it, and it was also the first time to see a dead person, Chen Qingniu was not only half afraid, but also did it quite smoothly.

After burning some yellow paper for Li Gui, Chen Qingniu walked towards the small grave of his father and eldest brother and second brother, although the distance was not far, but with every step, his feet were so heavy.

Thump!

From childhood to adulthood, even Chen Qingniu, who was imprisoned by his father for three months because of his behavior different from that of his fellow townspeople, did not admit his mistake, for the first time in his life, he knelt down heavily to his father in this life, and kowtowed three times in a row.

"Daddy!"

Chen Qingniu called hard.

He slapped himself with his hand, again and again. The major events of life and death, how to make people not sad.

He slapped himself because he blamed himself for his selfishness, if he hadn't hid in the mountains because of those hundreds of catties of tiger meat, even if he hadn't condensed his vitality at that time, Liu Youcai would definitely not have no way to deal with it.

He slapped himself because he blamed himself for his ruthlessness, thirteen years of kindness, he was able to leave in such a dashing manner, leaving these relatives to suffer here.

He slapped himself because he wanted to tell himself that his name was Chen Qingniu, and in this life he was called Chen Qingniu, with flesh and blood, parents and brothers, he was not the emotionless traverser, he was a living person, and his parents raised him with a mouthful of milk and porridge in this life.

Smoking and sobbing, Chen Qingniu's face was already very red, and at this time, a thin and calloused hand grabbed him tightly.

The woman said with red eyes: "Forget it, old five, it's not your fault!"

Chen Qingniu hurriedly helped the woman squatting aside and called, "Mother!"

"Old Five, do you remember what your father used to say when he was alive?" the woman was still choking and muttering to herself, "It's not your fault, it's only the damn world, it's only the blame that we are the little people in this poor ravine, it's only the ......."

For the first time, Chen Qingniu left tears.