Kou Zhong said, and his voice was already trembling slightly.

Xu Ziling jumped up and hugged Kou Zhong's arm, and whispered in a reassuring voice, "Brother Zhong." ”

Kou Zhong shook his head and touched Xu Ziling's head, "Ziling is fine." ”

Ling Chusi sat at the table, and after listening to Kou Zhong's narration, he didn't speak directly, and his face also showed a bit of deep groaning.

After a while, Ling Chusi said in a low voice, "What about later? Are the survivors of this village the only two children, you and Ziling? ”

Kou Zhong raised his head in surprise when he heard this, the girl in front of him didn't look much older than him, but he called himself and Ziling children. However, he didn't care about Ling Chusi's words at this moment, and just said in an extremely soft voice: "I don't know if there are any other survivors in the village, but yes, when I came out of the cellar, it seemed that I was the only one left in the village. As for Ziling, when I went to the mountains behind to look for my mother and sister, I accidentally ran into him. ”

After all, Xu Ziling is still a little younger, and his current expression ability is somewhat weak, and he hesitated for a while before he spoke: "My family is not in this village, but after an accident one day, my father and mother asked me to run to the mountain, and later, the family was gone, so I followed Brother Zhong back......"

Ling Chusi was slightly stunned when he heard this, "This is not the only village that has an accident?" ”

Kou Zhong said lightly: "There is also a small village on the other side of the mountain, even Ziling's home, which has also been destroyed. When I went to the mountain, I only found my mother's bones, but my sister was nowhere to be found. ”

Subsequently, Kou Zhong simply told Ling Chusi that he had taken Xu Ziling home, but found that there was only the appearance of the fire burned out, and even because Xu Ziling's home was closer to the foot of the mountain, there was a lot of vegetation. When the vegetation dries up in the winter, the fire over there burns even bigger.

Ling Chusi was also silent for a while.

If there are no other survivors, it is equivalent to saying that in the two villages, only the two children Kou Zhong and Xu Ziling survived in the end. By the way, there's also Kou Zhong's sister, the infant child. Kou Niangzi was killed, but Kou Zhong's sister was nowhere to be found, and if she was rescued, there might be a way to live......

"This kind of extermination is really not like the practice of ordinary people who rise up after being cornered." For a long time, Ling Chusi said softly.

"......" Kou Zhong is still a little immersed in the fire and despair of the night of losing his family, even though this young man is optimistic and strong by nature, but for a child, burying his dead mother and father who was most destroyed by the flames, such a deep pain is not stingy with a deep nightmare that can never be woken up......

Ling Chusi closed his eyes and calmed down his mood at this time, before he looked at Kou Zhong and Xu Ziling, and asked softly, "What are your two plans in the future?" ”

Kou Zhong and Xu Ziling glanced at each other, even though these two children were very smart, because they were still young, they could not grasp the implied meaning of Ling Chusi's words for the first time, but even if it was out of instinct, Kou Zhong still shook his head and rejected Ling Chusi's kindness.

Obviously, his eyes were still slightly swollen, but in the face of Ling Chusi, he actually smiled slightly, put on a nonchalant attitude, and said with a little hesitation: "No matter what, you have to live well!" The last thing my father and mother told me before they died was to live well, and I can't let them not be at peace after they die! ”

Xu Ziling also nodded, choked and said softly: "Together with Brother Zhong, I must live well!" ”

Ling Chusi pursed her lips, if it was to provoke the law, she really wanted to say: Just rely on your ability to steal other people's purses on the street?

It's just that, looking at the two children, she finally swallowed the prickly words just now and never said a word again.

Kou Zhong and Xu Ziling sat together, and also looked at Ling Chusi, for a long time, only to hear Ling Chusi nod a little hesitantly, and said in a low voice, "You guys will be fine." ”

Xu Ziling was the fastest, and subconsciously said: "Then when are you leaving!?" ”

When Ling Chusi heard this, he immediately furrowed one side of his eyebrows.

Kou Zhong secretly said in his heart that something was wrong, and secretly pinched a piece of soft meat on Xu Ziling's neck from behind, so that the little boy couldn't help but shrink his neck, and his body was a little shrunken.

Seeing this, Ling Chusi couldn't help twitching the corners of her mouth, and after thinking about it, she took out a few pieces of gold and silver from the package, the amount was not large, but it was enough for the two children to live a good life for a long time.

Kou Zhong and Xu Ziling's eyes lit up at the same time.

Ling Chusi gently pushed the silver coins over from the table, and whispered, "You guys put the money away!" Beware of guilt. After a pause, Ling Chusi also specially added: "Ask you for the reward for these words today!" ”

"Thank you so much, Miss is generous and kind, Kou Zhong will remember it in his heart!" After seeing the money, Kou Zhong, who was still in a dark mood, seemed to have a clearer voice, and thanked him again and again, and finally, Kou Zhong licked his lips, and couldn't help but ask softly tentatively: "Miss, do you have anything else you want to ask?" ”

Ling Chusi let out a "hmm", blinked his eyes, and finally said softly, "Did your father tell you anything before he died?" From Kou Zhong's description just now, Uncle Kou's identity is obviously not an ordinary peasant person, and there are obviously some secrets hidden in his body.

Even, after listening to Kou Zhong's description, Ling Chusi couldn't help but wonder if the murder of the entire village was related to the unknown identity of Kou Zhong's father.

At the same time, Ling Chusi couldn't help but think of what Ji Xiaobai said before he and Ji Xiaobai separated, that the chaos outside Yangzhou City was behind the actions of the Yin Sect. Although she had not found any trace of the Yin Sect at the moment, she had made other unexpected discoveries, so that the whole thing seemed to have become more complicated.

Kou Zhong thought about it carefully, but in the end he only shook his head hesitantly, and asked Xu Ziling to put away the silver taels given by Ling Chusi, and replied calmly: "No, my father only said those things that were a little strange before the accident that night. I had never heard him say that before. ”

Ling Chusi listened and nodded thoughtfully.

Judging from the clues he had now, if nothing else, there should have been at least three different groups of people that night.

First of all, the people who rebelled or bandits, but this group of people with the largest number was the most inconspicuous, Ling Chusi had no doubt that their usefulness was probably to be used to cover up their true identities.

Subsequently, it was a group of people who caused Kou Zhong's father, Uncle Kou, to fluctuate violently. It's just that there are too few clues now, only some vague descriptions of Kou Zhong can prove that Uncle Kou is obviously an insider, and he has been incognito for more than ten years, and has even married and had children here like an ordinary peasant family.

The next is not mentioned in Kou Zhong's description, but according to the information obtained by Ji Xiaobai, there is indeed a third wave of forces from the Yin Sect. Ling Chusi and Ji Xiaobai once speculated that the chaos outside Yangzhou City was caused by the Yin Sect instigating some people to revolt, although in the mouth of Kou Zhong, a survivor, there was no Yin Sect.

As for the last, it is the side that led Kou Niangzi's death and the disappearance of Kou Zhong's sister. At the same time, the person who did such a thing could not be ruled out as a mysterious person known to Uncle Kou or a person from the Yin Sect.

Ling Chusi knew that he probably wouldn't get more news from Kou Zhong, and in the future, he could only try to investigate this clue of the Yin Sect to see if there would be anything else to discover.

Ling Chusi, who had made up his mind, quickly said goodbye to Kou Zhong and Xu Ziling, the two young boys, and left without looking back after coming out of this rather dilapidated and dark house that seemed to collapse at any time.

Kou Zhong and Xu Ziling were lying on the window and watched Ling Chusi's figure disappear, and the two young men breathed a sigh of relief.

"It's gone." Kou Zhong rubbed his eyes, which were still a little sore, and let out a long sigh of relief.

Xu Ziling had red eyes, but her eyes were bright and said, "She at least gave us a lot of money!" ”

Kou Zhong nodded and said casually, "That's right." ”

After Kou Zhong and Xu Ziling returned to the house, the two of them first properly hid all the silver taels that Ling Chusi had just given, and then sat down at the table, divided the rest of the buns, and couldn't help but gobble them up.

As for Ling Chusi, after leaving this small village, at night, he went and returned.

She changed into a dress on her side, and her face was also covered with a light veil, and quietly returned to this small village, and found a place between the broken walls and ruins where her vision was quite wide enough to see where Kou Zhong and Xu Ziling lived, hid her figure, and began to wait patiently.