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"The fifth brother and the seventh brother are not on duty today, they are in the mansion in their spare time, and they were originally going to accompany me to practice swordsmanship. Later, the housekeeper came to me and ordered me to be responsible for guarding the safety of the eldest lady in the future, and the two elder brothers were also present, so they knew about it and started to help me. ”

Looking at Qingqiang coldly, Wen Yan recounted what happened. As he spoke, he always had a smile in his eyes. This gentle attitude, against the backdrop of his extremely young face, seems extraordinarily pure, without any other feelings.

"My two brothers always take special care of me, so I have to do it myself. However, I heard from the servant in the firewood room that the firewood in the small firewood house had been stored for almost a year, and the moisture was very heavy. If I asked the little sisters in the house to help me do those things, I am afraid that I would be scared enough. ”

Speaking of this, Leng Yi raised the futon in his hand again, and said loudly: "If you have some strength, you should do it with a man." ”

Qingqiang's heart warmed when she heard this, and she finally completely let go of the vigilance and fear just now. At the same time, she also silently reminded herself not to always dwell on the 'things' she just saw, and not to indulge in thinking about those ordinary things.

Thinking about it, as a prime minister, although his status is extremely high, when he uses his power to make decisions, it is inevitable that some people will be unconvinced, jealous, and then cause trouble. The ten families will be by the master's side, and occasionally need to draw a knife to eliminate trouble, also to protect the master. The loyalty of the protector could not be more normal.

Although the members of the ten generals are all from martial arts training, if you look closely, you will find that they are not rough people who only know how to use martial arts. They were faithful to the head of their household. He also cares for his brothers.

Of course, there are also delicate people like Leng Yi!

Seeing that Leng Yi's tone did not lag when he spoke, and he looked straightforward, Qingqiang no longer suspected him.

When her mind calmed down, Qingqiang was worried about the very damp little firewood house he mentioned. After pondering for a while, Qingqiang advised: "If it's too humid, don't live in it immediately, be careful of the smell of mildew and moisture." ”

"It's still Sister Qiang'er's heart." Leng Yi blinked and smiled, "I listen to my sister, I won't live in tonight." ”

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The fifth brother and seventh brother mentioned in the cold words, the former is surnamed Ji. As the name suggests, it will be ranked fifth out of ten. The latter's surname is Tian, in fact, Qingqiang should have a little impression of this person. Because she had only met this person a few days ago, Tian Qi was one of the two people who were in charge of escorting him along the way when Cen Chi went to the temple in the southwest corner of the inner city of Kyoto that day.

In addition to being more familiar with Leng Yi, Qingqiang couldn't distinguish the names and appearances of the other nine members of the ten generals. She didn't have a chance to get close to the chauffeur just now to take a closer look. That's why she ignored Tian Qi, who had several faces, and missed an opportunity for her to see the dark side of the ten generals.

The things she speculated about just now are indeed cold enough.

Out of the back door of Shifu, Ji Wu and Tian Qi pulled a firewood cart through the streets and alleys and came to the vicinity of the garbage mountain in the south of the city.

While business is thriving throughout Kyoto, there is also a phenomenon of large amounts of garbage being discarded every day. After cleaning, an output port is also needed to stack it. However, the main component of the garbage mountain is construction waste, and it is difficult to completely eradicate the inner city area for a while. The garbage mountain has been standing here for a long time, and gradually formed its unique 'garbage culture'.

A corner of the garbage mountain. In addition to the usual dirty image on the surface, there is also a sin on the inside.

The root of the evil lies in the fact that the garbage piled up here is not only the waste caused by people's livelihood activities, but also the abandoned life.

If not not far away. From time to time, the bells and chanting of the Buddha in the small temple came out, but I was afraid that the south of the city would be because of the sin located in the corner of the garbage mountain. And the empty city is half-empty.

In the nameless lake next to the garbage mountain, the water of the lake is dark blue all year round. In the past, the swamp by the lake often swallowed passers-by, and it was difficult to find the dead body, so there were rumors that the reason why the lake was blue was precisely because it was a symbol of the pool of the dead in the world.

This kind of rumor spread to the people, and gradually caused two phenomena. In addition to those who are passively swallowed up by the swamp, some people who can't think of it will also take the initiative to come to this place, but not deliberately to step on the swamp, but to deliberately jump into the lake, with their lives, hoping to get a good reincarnation.

Later, the swamp was filled in, and the shallow water in the swamp was pushed into the lake area and piled up, raising the water level of the nameless lake, but the disappearance of the murderous swamp weakened the rumors, and instead caused far fewer people to run to the lake to seek their deaths.

But between the huge lake and the mountain of garbage, which can never be cleaned up, there is another area, which is the corpse dump.

Originally, it was strictly forbidden to dispose of corpses in Kyoto, and those who did not have the money to bury their deceased relatives could go to the yamen to receive subsidies. Emperor Nanzhao took the land closest to him as the first model of his statecraft after he took power, and after nearly ten years of management and control of the official and civil order in Kyoto, until now, there will never be a situation where people die for a few days and are not buried in the territory of Kyoto.

And if the city patrol team sees a wandering beggar who died silently on the street, they will also send their bodies to Yizhuang in the south of the city for burial. Every year, Yizhuang receives material support from the imperial court and is obliged to take care of these affairs.

However, although Nanzhao established these comprehensive laws and implemented them very efficiently, these were the treatment of adults, and there was another outlier among the dead bodies, that is, dead babies.

Whether it is a difficult birth in the mother's womb, or suffocation at birth, or a more cruel death...... In short, this kind of corpse is the most difficult to dispose of, and it is a dead body that even Yizhuang is unwilling to receive.

There is an eternal legend that is difficult to dissolve, saying that the infant spirit has three uncertain souls, seven souls lack six, and only one human soul is the strongest, and it has a trace of anger of the reincarnation of the undead in the previous life. This kind of soul after death is not easy to overcome, but it is easy to be held hostage by the evil spirits in the world, so no one in the world wants to touch the dead baby, and perhaps only their mothers do not mind.

But the dead babies who have left traces of life in the world and therefore do not need to erect a monument to commemorate them are not cats, dogs, livestock, but also human beings, and they also need to be buried seriously. If no one or department wants to take over this kind of thing, there is only a private settlement.

And most of the things that need to be settled privately are not in order, and they are in this environment. It inevitably adds to the weird atmosphere.

Although the living standards of Kyoto residents have improved in recent years, and no matter how poor they are, they cannot afford to have children, there are still a few accidents that occur when women give birth.

In that gloomy corner next to the garbage mountain, although the place is not big, occasionally every month or two, there are women with red and swollen teary eyes who come with baskets, maybe to bury the corpse, or maybe just to burn a few yellow watches to worship the land here. Commemorate some regrets and sorrows.

The main reason why it became a burial ground for dead babies is because of the nearby temple, which has long been rumored to be there mainly for the purpose of suppressing evil spirits.

But. There are people who are outside the rules everywhere, and sometimes other dead bodies are buried in the burial ground, and this change in this phenomenon is actually a practice that the people of Kyoto know in private.

Ji Wu and Tian Qi pulled the firewood cart to the area where the baby was buried next to the garbage mountain, and then stopped.

When the two of them left the back door of the Prime Minister's Mansion. He had already untied the saber from his waist, took off his coat and wrapped it, and hid it in the chariot. At the same time, they untie the hair bands and use their fingers as a comb to break up their hair. With such a slight change in appearance, the two of them look not much different from ordinary chaifu.

Camouflage is a skill that the Ten Masters will have to learn, and these are just small tricks. It's enough to deceive passers-by.

At this time, when they arrived at their destination, they took out their clothes with knives from the firewood cart and threw them on the ground. Then the two of them pulled out two bamboo tubes from under the board, tore off the wooden cork, and splashed them on the firewood cart.

The yellowish thick liquid in the bamboo tube was sprinkled on the firewood cart, and there was no smell, and it seemed to be a relatively pure grease. But it's a little different from the oil used in stir-frying. The two not only sprinkled the firewood with this grease, but also did not miss the firewood cart.

Finish doing these. The two threw the bamboo tube onto the car, and each took out the fire fold from the sleeve of his coat, blew it up, and lit the firewood cart back and forth.

The firewood, which originally looked so damp that it was about to rot, seemed to burn violently in an instant with the help of the kind of grease that had been poured before.

Not only does a cart of wet wood burn and the fire rages, but the temperature and color of the flame on the pyre also seem strange. The two who lit the fire only hesitated for a moment, and the skin of their arms exposed outside their clothes was scorched red by the heat wave that churned out from the flames.

The flame seemed to be attached to a kind of magic, it didn't seem to come from the firewood, but as if the air was burning, and then it actively devoured everything it could get its hands on - even the damp wood, even the three newly dead corpses covered under the wet wood.

The sound of "zi-zi-zi-" could still be heard in the flames, but it quickly faded away.

With the flames that soon dimmed, the firewood, the firewood, and the three corpses all turned into burnt white ashes, and there were not even half strips of carbon left.

The two of them, who had stepped back a few paces away, watched the scene change with cold eyes, until the fire was extinguished, and then they slowly approached again.

In the place where the body was burned, the fire had been extinguished, but the temperature was still relatively high. The kind of flame that seemed to be able to swallow a qiē almost instantaneously was only ignited on the firewood cart at first, and after the firewood cart collapsed, the flame stayed on the surface of the ground for a short time with the ashes, but it was only because of this moment's work that the slightly wet land was scorched.

Ji Wu walked to the pile of white ash left behind after the burning, squatted down and stretched out his palm, probed close to the white ash, and then he nodded sideways to Tian Qi beside him.

Tian Qi didn't speak, just exchanged glances with Ji Wu, and he knew something in his heart.

After killing someone, Tian Qi and Ji Wu are not the first time to do this. The two of them have cooperated on this kind of thing several times. There are some rules that are already familiar with each other.

It's just to do this kind of thing to the people in your own house, after all, it's very rare. When Ji Wu stood up and walked away, a complicated look vaguely slipped in his eyes, but Tian Qi, who was standing, didn't see this scene.

After Ji Wu walked away a few steps, Tian Qi pulled out the knife wrapped in his clothes and fiddled with it a few times in the white ash. After some inspection, after making sure that there were no complete items left, he held the hand of the knife, turned his wrist slightly, shook the blade, picked up two burnt and deformed iron rings on the ground, and threw them into the blue lake water on the side.

The two rings, which had been nailed to the wheels, were now the only remnants of the flames. If you leave iron sheets, it is easy to wonder why even the car is burned when the garbage is burned. Removing these, the white ash of the ground is closer to the residue of burning the garbage.

The blade turned, cut off a section of the sleeve of the underwear, and brushed away the ashes stained on the blade, Tian Qi put the knife into the sheath, wrapped the knife into the coat again, and then looked sideways at Ji Wu on the side, and said calmly: "You can go." ”

Ji Wu nodded slightly, and walked with Tian Qi, at this time he was vaguely different from when he came, when he left the burning land, Ji Wu did not walk side by side with Tian Qi, but was a step behind.

Ji Wu's temperament is a little silent and withdrawn, Tian Qi has long understood this, so he doesn't care. And even if he had the leisure to chat with Ji Wu about the feeling when he burned Shi just now, he knew that now was not the time.

After walking a distance, Ji Wu and Tian Qi did not go back to Shifu directly, but turned a corner and walked into the emerald green bamboo forest next to the nameless lake.