Chapter 106: Dumb
At the end of February, the cold wind was still howling in the northland, and the whining north wind was blowing people's faces painfully.
In the white world, a line of dark figures moved slowly.
When I got closer, I realized that this group was a sinner who had been exiled to the Northlands.
There were more than 200 people in total, and except for the dozens of soldiers who were escorted, the rest were all people who were to be exiled.
Naturally, the exiled families in Kyoto City were not ordinary people, and even if they suffered, there were always a few in-laws to help, so these people could still travel in donkey carts.
In the long procession of exile, two of the donkey carts were close to each other, and a discerning person could tell at a glance that they were a family.
In the front of the car, a young man numbly drove a donkey cart, on the donkey cart were the elderly father and mother and two little girls wrapped in quilts and huddled together, and in the back car was a middle-aged man driving the car, on the car were one of his younger brothers, two younger siblings, and his wife holding the 'son' in her arms.
At this time, the atmosphere in the car was very heavy.
Cheng Sanlang looked up at his brother who was driving the car, then looked at the bulging figure in his sister-in-law's arms, and said in a low voice: "Big brother, do it!" â
It is no secret that the prison of the Criminal Department can buy and sell human lives, which is not a secret at all in the families of the powerful in Beijing, and of course, the circulation of this secret is limited to a small number of people who are qualified to know.
The old man of the Cheng family used to be a minister in Langzhong, although he was not a big official in Beijing, but the secretary was old and didn't take care of things, so he still had certain rights in the appointment and dismissal of officials.
Cheng Lang is a good ancient book and jade, and the officials who want to mobilize him naturally do what he likes, and all kinds of ancient books and jade in the Cheng family's warehouse have been almost piled up in the past ten years.
A few days ago, Emperor Jiayuan punished most of the officials by gathering people in several small counties to make trouble, and Cheng Langzhong, a greedy Gu worm from the outside of the Qing Dynasty, was also arrested.
Emperor Jiayuan was peaceful by nature and did not like to kill, and the courtiers were almost all exiled to the Northland Snow Plains to serve as an army unless they committed treason. Anyway, Dashang and Beichang are fighting every day, and what the frontier needs most is people.
When they were arrested, the Cheng family already knew that they would be exiled, and after learning from the jailer that they could help them send the child out, the Cheng family decisively sent the only grandson of the family, Cheng Wenhui, out with the hidden silver. In the future, even if the children are ordinary farmers in a small mountain village, it is better than following them to the Northland and their lives are always guaranteed.
The grandson was sent out safely. Children in place of grandchildren also came, after which they were quickly exiled.
There are also acquaintances in the team, and it is obvious that a few of the children and grandchildren of the vast majority of families have changed faces. All the people are tacit.
The children, big and small, were fed dumb medicine, and even if they couldn't scream, they still seemed to know the danger. One by one, they struggled and tried to leave.
The children were forced by their so-called family members to follow the donkey cart in the snow, and their padded jackets were 'loaned' to their siblings. Soon someone had a fever, someone died. Even woke up one night, in the white sky, Cheng Saburo saw a man strangled the child next to him with the chain in his hand.
These children are not supposed to be zĂ i. They must not go to the Northland snowfields.
The elderly woman holding the 'son' looked at the uncle, and then looked at the red-faced child in her arms, thinking of the son who didn't know how a person was doing now, it was rare to be kind, "Uncle, this child won't live long when he sees it, let him leave by himself, and he should accumulate virtue for Wenhui." â
The two young daughters-in-law next to them sneered in their hearts, and they all lowered their heads and remained silent.
Hypocrisy and hypocrisy, they all exchanged other people's lives for their sons' lives, and what kind of living Bodhisattva are they pretending to be!
Cheng Dalang glanced at his wife with a sad face, and persuaded in a dumb voice: "I haven't eaten for a few days." Let him die on his own! â
For a moment, the car fell silent again.
Stampede Tread......
The sound of horses' hooves hitting the ground in unison startled the exile party on their way.
In a few breaths, I saw a group of uniformly dressed forbidden soldiers galloping on horseback, and after catching up with the group, they directly raised their knives and surrounded all the people.
"I'm Zhou Hongfa, the small battalion responsible for escorting prisoners, I don't know what kind of business you have to stop us?" Among the soldiers in charge of escorting, one of them stepped out of his horse and said to the comer.
Zhou Hongfa's head fell off with a knife in his hand, glanced at the trembling crowd and did not dare to resist in the slightest, and said loudly: "Your Majesty has already known about the impersonation of the prisoner by the Criminal Department and the officials of the North, and everyone present will take it back and interrogate it strictly!" â
"Ahh Help me! â
"Don't! Father! Please, don't! â
There was a sudden scream in the crowd, and the little commander of the forbidden army, who was talking, looked up and saw that he was about to lose his frightened demeanor and fell off his horse.
I saw that all of a sudden, the old man and the old lady, who were sitting well, suddenly strangled the grandchildren and even the daughter-in-law next to them with the chains that bound them to move.
The old lady of the Cheng family felt bad when he saw the person wearing the uniform of the unified forbidden army, and waited for the old lady of the Cheng family and the old lady to smile bitterly when they finished speaking. It's really going to kill his Cheng family.
The old lady and the old lady of the Cheng family nodded and strangled the two little granddaughters next to them, and the man who was driving the car looked at his daughter and shouted in surprise: "Dad, what are you doing?" â
Tears overflowed on the face of the old lady of the Cheng family, full of sadness: "Erlang, we won't survive this time!" For the sake of Wenhui, let's leave a queen for our family! â
Looking at the begging daughter and niece, looking at the tearful old father and mother, the second child of the Cheng family covered his face and squatted down.
Two young women in another car watched their daughter being strangled and rushed out of the car. As he ran, he shouted, "Don't! Daddy don't! Xiaoya is also your granddaughter! â
The two climbed into the car and grabbed their parents-in-law's hands, crying and shouting and begging them to spare the child.
"Erlang, Erlang, save Niuniu! Jiro! Jiro! â
"Mother-in-law, please let Xiaoya go, let me die, let me die!"
"Niu Niu! Girl! A terrible voice rang out. The little girl with a blue face trembled twice, stared at her mother longingly, and finally stopped moving. The young woman cried out in her arms.
At about the same time, the other woman let go of her mother-in-law's tight hand and hugged her daughter, who was still warm.
Why? Why?
Obviously there is still money left at home, why can't that money give her daughter away? Why are her daughters strangled to death now? The daughter is also the bloodline of the Cheng family, why can Cheng Wenhui get everything, but her child has to die for him?
"My chick is dead! He's dead! Are you satisfied? Satisfied? The young woman questioned loudly, jumped out of the donkey cart and ran to the forbidden army, shouting, "I will avenge my girl!" Cheng Wenhui here is fake! The real Cheng Wenhui was taken away! ......"
When the young woman ran away, Old Lady Cheng knew that it was going to be bad, and hurriedly shouted: "Erlang! â
Cheng Erlang subconsciously jumped out of the car and quickly caught up with his wife who ran wildly, forcibly pulled her back, and listened to his wife about to tell the whereabouts of his nephew and didn't care about anything else, the chain in his hand wrapped around his wife's white neck and strangled him fiercely.
The young woman tugged at the chains around her neck with both hands. Unbelievably murmuring "husband".
A tear fell on her face, and the young woman closed her eyes.
In the end, she remembered the down-and-out young man who ran around behind her, if she had chosen another person, would it be completely different.
Cheng Erlang strangled his wife while a long arrow shot straight at his eyebrows. Cheng Erlang fell down with his hands around his wife.
The old lady Cheng in the car looked at the third daughter-in-law, who had always been taciturn, at the moment when the second daughter-in-law ran out, and made a decisive and ruthless move, and the woman who had not been able to react from the pain of losing her daughter lost her life.
In the other car, the eyes of the three adults looked at the 'Cheng Wenhui' in the woman's arms, and they didn't need to be reminded by their husbands and uncles. The woman had already choked the 'son' by the neck.
Things happen so fast!
Not one, but many at the same time!
This kind of cannibalism made even the self-proclaimed well-informed forbidden soldiers stunned! These are all ruthless people!
"Go and save someone! Brother Xiaotu! Brother Xiaotu! Du Xiaoxi, who was taken by Hao Jianying on horseback to find people with the forbidden army, watched a group of crazy people and hurriedly shouted Hao Jianying to save people.
"Huh? Oh! Hao Jianying reacted and hurriedly called the people of the forbidden army to help find someone.
Hao Jianying looked at the brutal picture in front of him, and couldn't believe that his sister's Jiaohua brother was still alive.
The forbidden soldiers reacted and lost face just now, and resolutely stopped everyone's movements with their knives.
"There's a kid here!" Someone screamed that they were born, and Du Xiaoxi and Hao Jianying subconsciously ran over. Du Xiaoxi saw Liu Yao motionless in the arms of the smiling woman.
"Brother Xiaotu! Brother Xiaotu! Du Xiaoxi exclaimed.
The handsome young man with a flushed face remained motionless quietly, and Du Xiaoxi climbed into the carriage in a daze, at a loss.
"My son is dead! Ha ha...... My son is dead! They're all dead! They're all dead! The woman cried and laughed like a madman, and was soon ripped off.
Du Xiaoxi's fingers reached the tip of Liu Yao's nose and did not see the slightest breath.
Trembling, he felt the artery next to his neck.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Slow beating, still alive! Still alive!
Du Xiaoxi raised his head violently. Liu Yao is still alive!
Right! First aid! First aid!
"Brother-in-law, come on, Brother Xiaotu is still alive!" Saying that, Du Xiaoxi tried to flatten Liu Yao.
"Brother-in-law, you press his chest like this, don't press too hard, just press so deep." Saying that, Du Xiaoxi tried to do a few chest and part compressions and handed them to Hao Jianying, and he adjusted Liu Yao's head and gnawed on it.
The good first kiss is gone!
Even if Du Xiaoxi is a medical scumbag, a simple first aid operation can still come out.
Time passed little by little, Liu Yao's chapped lips were already moistened by Du Xiaoxi's gnawing, and he finally sighed and was able to gasp by himself.
Du Xiaoxi let go of his mouth and called loudly: "Brother Xiaotu! Brother Xiaotu! â
Liu Yao heard someone shouting at him constantly, and struggled to open his eyes and saw Du Xiaoxi with a happy face. His head tilted and he fainted.
Du Xiaoxi's purpose of their trip was to save people, Liu Yao was too sick and had a high fever to be able to hurry, Hao Jianying resigned from the forbidden army, and planned to take Du Xiaoxi to live in a nearby town for a few days, and then return to the capital when Liu Yao was better.
Liu Yao couldn't ride a horse, and the handsome and dashing Young Master Hao could only sigh and use his beloved horse to put on the donkey cart and drive slowly. Du Xiaoxi sat in the car with Liu Yao in his arms.
found Liu Yao, the nerve that had been tense in Du Xiaoxi's heart relaxed, and he couldn't help but think of the scene he had just seen.
"Brother-in-law Hao, how can they do it?" Du Xiaoxi really couldn't understand why he wanted to kill his granddaughter.
Hao Jianying seemed to know what Du Xiaoxi was thinking, and said as a matter of course: "How can those outsiders be as important as their own children and grandchildren!" â
"Isn't that his granddaughter?"
"Anyway, it will become someone else's in the future."
"Aren't those two little daughters-in-law from his?"
"It's not the same blood, it's an outsider after all!"
What logic! Du Xiaoxi really can't understand the patriarchy of these people, obviously they are all children of the family. Why is it that a boy is a treasure, and a girl is a grass that can be discarded at will. Since women are not human inside and out, what kind of women are you looking for, one by one, there is a kind of bachelor who lives by himself! Is it interesting to belittle a mother and daughter in order to enhance your authority?
Hao Jianying smiled: "What is the little girl thinking?" It's enough for your father and your master to treat you as a treasure, so why do you care about others? Every day, there are daughters who drown, can you take care of it? Okay, you can sleep well, and I'll call you when the time comes! â
Du Xiaoxi snorted and tucked the quilt for Liu Yao.
Oh, yes! She can't care if she complains too much, how these people should be or what they are. In Dujia Village, in recent years, there have been tax exemptions and suffocation of female babies to death, not to mention those poor who can't afford to eat. This deformed and perverted society must be changed if it is to be changed.
Du Xiaoxi stopped talking, but Hao Jianying was aroused.
"Why did you just let me press on his chest?"
Du Xiaoxi can't say it, I'm afraid you won't understand it, the key is that she doesn't understand it, let's put it simply, I'm afraid you won't believe it.
"Why did you kiss people just now? You are an unmarried couple, and you can't do this in public! Although you are still young, there are still people who are foolish. â
Thin?
Du Xiaoxi "......" hehe
"Didn't what you just did teach you the Master of Joy? Master Xile is really skilled in medicine, and this disease of suspended animation can be cured. He is truly a master-level monk! Ay! The next time I see the master, I must ask the master to help me do the math. Little girl, for the sake of me helping to save people this time, I must remember to help me say good things in front of the master! â
Du Xiaoxi: What is "......"? How many sons do you count? How old do you live? How many pimples?
Hao Jianying took the two children to the nearest Changji Town, stayed in the only inn in the town, and called a few Lang Zhong to come over to see Liu Yao.
After some discussion, the main reason was hunger, Hao Jianying hurriedly called the inn to make a good liquid food, and let Du Xiaoxi feed it slowly spoonful by spoon. After taking the medicine, Liu Yao's fever subsided that night.
Early the next morning, Du Xiaoxi opened her eyes and saw Liu Yao, who was staring straight at her.
Du Xiaoxi smiled happily: "Brother Xiaotu, you're awake!" That's great! â
Liu Yaomu looked at Du Xiaoxi with a face, and opened his mouth twice.
Liu Yao found that he couldn't make a sound, and his mouth grew in horror and wanted to speak, but what he made was a hoarse and ugly ahhhhhhhh
Liu Yao was speechless! (To be continued.) )