Chapter 54: Taste
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Zongheng's voice is gentle. He knew that after this evening of fermentation, Hannah's emotions were on the verge of collapse. He had to be as gentle as he could with her.
Holding Hannah and guiding her to sit down in a single high-backed sofa chair, he gently put his arm around her and gently stroked her hair with one hand. It was as if he was comforting a child, and it was like soothing a nervous cat.
Hannah's body was as hard and tight as a stone at first, and it took a while for a while before she gradually relaxed.
She sobbed softly, "Nemo! I regret ......"
"Regret what?"
"What if...... If I didn't have a love affair yesterday...... Didn't park there...... Those two policemen can't find our fault...... So many things don't happen later...... They might be able to spot the gunman's whereabouts in time...... Father...... Mom...... I won't die ......."
Really. Vertical and horizontal heart road. This girl's mind went to the tip of the horns.
Hannah's appearance reminded Zongheng of Youning back then.
Youning is Zongheng's younger sister and Zongheng's wife......
When I first met Youning, Zongheng was only seven years old. At that time, he was still a beggar wandering around, and the heavens and the earth were the feasts. He has nothing but a bronze plaque engraved with the word "vertical and horizontal" that he has worn on his body since he was a child. If he hadn't been adopted by an old beggar when he was a baby, and when he was sensible, he had the talent of infinite power and self-healing power when he got angry, he would have died in the wild and become the bait of wild beasts.
When he was seven years old, the climate in Guanzhong was abnormal, and a heavy rain fell in the autumn, flooding the fields with crops that were about to be harvested in autumn. The ensuing winter was unusually cold, and even the well-off families in the past fell into a state of famine. However, the ruling Tang Ming Emperor listened to the slander of Prime Minister Li Linfu, and thought that the four seas were peaceful and the people had no worries about hunger. Such a beggar was even more driven into a desperate situation.
In order to survive, Zongheng had to fight with a group of vicious dogs who were also hungry and their eyes were red, in a vain attempt to hunt and kill one or two to satisfy their hunger.
It was at that time that Zongheng met his master, Wang Yanjun.
Wang Yanjun's ancestors were originally government soldiers, and they made a living from farming and warfare for generations - they made a living from farming in peacetime, and they put on armor to fight for the country during wartime. Later, the military system collapsed, and the Wang family did not leave behind the family martial arts. It's just that in Wang Yanjun's generation, the population of the Wang family withered, Wang Yanjun was nearly forty years old, and he only had an infant daughter under his knees, and his wife died early. Seeing the courage of Zongheng and the large herd of wild dogs, Wang Yanjun moved the idea of accepting apprentices.
After bringing Zongheng home, Wang Yanjun soon discovered that Zongheng was different from ordinary people. This made Wang Yanjun very happy, and he felt that God had taken pity on his Wang family and gave him the treasure of the Wang family. Since then, Wang Yanjun has carefully taught Zongheng and taught everything he has learned to Zongheng. And when Zongheng was sixteen years old, he set a family affair for Zongheng and his nine-year-old daughter.
Wang Yanjun originally wanted to wait for a few years, and when his daughter grew up, he would let Zongheng and Youning get married. It's a pity that the sky doesn't follow people's wishes, the Anshi Rebellion broke out, and the Wang family needs to enlist in the army according to the old system of government soldiers. That was when Wang Yanjun was old, so he joined the army from the Zongheng generation and went to the battlefield.
This war was fought for eight years as soon as it was fought. In the past eight years, he has fought in the north and south, experienced more than 1,000 large and small wars, and made great achievements. If it weren't for his low background, straightforward temperament, and can't see the pickled things of the flies and dogs in the army, he would at least be an officer like a lieutenant, rather than a little Mo sword general who has always been at the forefront of the battle array.
finally survived until the end of the war, and returned home, thinking that he would be able to live in peace from now on, but he didn't expect that when he arrived home, he found that the Wang family's house had been burned to the ground, and Wang Yanjun's father and daughter were nowhere to be found.
After inquiring with his neighbors, Zongheng learned that just a month before he returned to his hometown, the local county order came to order to select folk show girls to enrich the emperor's harem, and Youning was also selected because of his youth and beauty. Although Wang Yanjun rejected his daughter on the grounds that she was already married and did not conform to the usual practice of the draft, the county magistrate had already regarded this draft as a shortcut to achieve his promotion and fortune, how could he let go of such a rare beauty as Youning?
After all kinds of coercion and temptation failed, the county order simply accused Wang Yanjun of being a bandit, and sent officials to arrest Wang Yanjun into the county jail, and used him to force Youning to enter the palace "voluntarily".
Poor Wang Yanjun thinks that he has been loyal and good for generations, and he has no martial arts, but he does not dare to show it to the government. After being imprisoned, he kept invoking the laws of the Tang Dynasty and defended his grievances. Within a few days, he was secretly killed by the county order. However, Youning was locked up in the sister-in-law nunnery on the edge of the county seat, guarded by several old nuns day and night, completely unaware of the news from the outside world, let alone that his father was dead. Now the county order is just waiting for the imperial court to give an order, and it will send You Ning to Beijing and send it to the palace.
Zongheng is not Wang Yanjun, and the eight-year battlefield battle has long made him accustomed to seeing the sea of corpses and blood, and also made him accustomed to solving problems by killing people. Seeing that he fought for the court to quell the chaos, but he couldn't even keep his family, how could he not be resentful?
On the day he learned the news, Zongheng put on the armor he brought back from the army, carried a Mo knife, rushed into the Guzi Nunnery first, rescued Youning, and beheaded the old nuns who kept persuading Youning to obediently enter the palace to serve the emperor. Then he entered the county government and slaughtered the heads of the houses, the soap officials, the officials, and the wives and children of the county commander's family. And the county order, after being forced to watch his wife and children being killed, and after eating minced meat made from the bones of his wife and children, he was cut off his limbs, inserted and provoked by a long pole from the dung door, and wailed for a long time before dying.
Zongheng remembers that that day, when You Ning was rescued by her, watched him commit a lot of murder, and learned that his father Wang Yanjun had actually been killed, he also hugged his waist and kept sobbing and blaming himself.
Her rhetoric was the same as Hannah's rhetoric today.
Zongheng clearly remembers that day You Ning cried and said: "If the concubine was just the rough appearance of a village girl and a wild woman, she would not have caused this disaster, father...... My father won't die......"
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Zongheng hugged Hannah tightly, kissed her hair gently, and said, "You stupid girl, don't think so." If you think about it this way, those two cops weren't good people in the first place. They met us that day, and if they had met someone else who had no ability to resist, I am afraid that their crime would have succeeded. We killed them for the sake of heaven and to save others from harm. And, with their virtue, do you think they will do their duty and keep that path well? ā
Hearing this, Hannah's sobs became a little quieter and more relaxed.
Seeing that the persuasion was effective, Zongheng hurriedly continued: "The real blame is the gunman named Ahmad Mohammed and the Midwood Police Department. If Ahmed Muhammad hadn't done evil first, so many things that followed would not have been possible, and James and Marilyn would not have been killed. If the Midwood Police Department had been more cautious in their operations, they wouldn't have had a shootout with gangsters in a crowded place like a supermarket, and James and Marilyn wouldn't have been hit by bullets. So the reason is not in you or me, but in these people. Ahmad Mohammed, in particular, is to blame for all these tragedies. ā
Zongheng understands a simple truth, if you want to resolve a person's self-blame, the easiest way is to set up an enemy for him, let him turn his remorse for himself into resentment, and vent it on the enemy who is the target. What Zongheng has to do now is to help Hannah set up such a hateful goal.
Sure enough, Hannah's sobs suddenly stopped, and she raised her head and looked at Zongheng with an unwavering gaze.
"I must find Ahmad Muhammad and tear this guy to pieces!"
Zongheng nodded and said, "I support you!" I'll do it with you. ā
The two men looked each other in the eye and reached a common declaration in silence.
It wasn't until this moment that the two truly had the feeling that each other was a companion hand in hand.
Looking at the vertical and horizontal eyes, Hannah's snort gradually thickened. She poked her head out and kissed her lips.
Everything was like it happened seven days ago. It's just that the passion lingered in the car that time, but this time it was in the study. That time it was vertical and horizontal, Hannah was above, and this time, the positions of the two people were exactly reversed......
The next morning, he was woken up by a gust of wind. He thought it was strange, because he clearly remembered that the windows of the study had been closed all night before.
He opened his eyes in a daze, and saw a woman sitting on a single sofa chair not far from the floor.
"Han ......" He wanted to call Hannah's name, but halfway through the shout, he realized that something was wrong.
It wasn't Hannah sitting on the armchair. This man has black hair that is very different from Hannah's. She's Lydia.
Lydia's face was pale, and her eyes were bloodshot. Hearing the voice, she said, "Hannah is still catching up on sleep in her room." She was exhausted last night. ā
"You...... Got it all? Zongheng hesitated for a moment and asked.
He glanced at the door of the study, shut.
Lydia smiled miserably and said, "I didn't sleep last night. In the middle of the night, I heard the faint sound of footsteps outside the door, and I went out to check and found that Hannah was not in her own room. Later, I went to her room several times and found that she did not go back to her room to sleep until about 4 o'clock in the morning. And then I came here. I could smell the house and I knew what was going on. ā
Hearing her say this, Zongheng subconsciously sniffed his nose. Sure enough, there was a faint smell of sea in the air. If Lydia hadn't opened the window early to ventilate, the smell would have been even stronger.