Chapter 18 Ignoring Human Life
On the way, the teenagers talked about the old man's baggage.
Curiosity is in the nature of teenagers.
Some say that it contains gold and silver, because it looks bulging and heavy; Some people guess that it is an ancestral object, and it is easy not to show it......
However, Xiahou Jie, the eighth calf of the king, said that it was the ashes of the old man's son, and he wanted to return to his roots and bury them in his homeland.
The voice is still very loud.
As a result, he was almost killed.
Later, the old man took the initiative to open the baggage, and inside was a rectangular wooden box, which was opened and filled with bamboo slips.
According to the old man, this is the ancient book he has treasured over the years, and it is more important than life.
The teenagers couldn't understand this and pouted.
It's the thing they hate the most.
Not one of them.
When asked about the identity of the old man, the old man did not say it explicitly, only said, but once he returned to his hometown.
When they came to the gate of the county seat, the boys turned over and dismounted, and then led their horses into the city.
Seeing this, the guards didn't dare to step forward to stop them, these young men were wearing armor and leading soldiers one by one, and their eyebrows were unruly, and they were not easy to mess with at first glance.
As an old oilman guarding the city gate, he still has this bit of eyesight.
Walking into the county town, the city is very lively, compared to Jiwu County, it is simply heaven and earth.
It may be that Boss Cao is here to raise an edict to beg for thieves, so there are a lot of outsiders who have stayed in Chen during this time, including righteous warriors and chivalrous, and some reckless in the rivers and lakes.
When there are many people, it is easy to make trouble.
Therefore, the county town is also strengthening control, and whoever dares to deliberately cause trouble will be directly imprisoned pending trial.
Walking on the main street in the city, the old man on horseback walked around and watched the flowers, listening to the familiar accent of the people along the way, tears faintly filled his cloudy eyes, and he couldn't help but sigh: "I haven't returned for many years, Chen Liu is still the same as before, but I have frosty ...... sideburns."
The young man doesn't know nostalgia, and he doesn't understand the old man's homecoming, along the street, here and there.
Ordinary passers-by saw this group of young men in armor and took the initiative to avoid them from a distance.
There was a little boy in rags who ran up boldly from behind, grabbing Xiahoujie's leg armor, pitiful: "Little master, give me something to eat, my mother is dying of hunger......"
Xia Houjie glanced back, not only was he not angry, but grinned at the cousin next to him: "Brother En, look at this kid, he has a tiger head and a tiger brain, and at first glance he is a good material for practicing martial arts."
"You know again?" Xia Houen didn't have a good breath, and his younger brother was stupid.
Xia Houjie didn't care, he only felt that this kid had courage, and among so many people, he chose himself.
Perhaps, this is providence.
"I'll give you the money, but when I come back from the crusade against the thieves, you'll have to come with me."
Xia Houjie took the copper plate in his hand, and then the bamboo tube slid down like a bean into the palm of the little boy's palm.
Looking at the copper coins that fell in his hand, the little boy's eyes lit up, with money, he could buy food, and with food, his mother would not starve to death.
As for the request made by the big brother in front of him, the little boy also agreed to it.
As long as he doesn't starve to death, he can do whatever he wants.
"Wait for me, little one!"
Xia Houjie smiled, rubbed the little boy's chicken-like hair, waved his hand, and turned to chase after his cousin in front.
Knowing about Xia Houjie's 'righteous act', Xu Zhun and others were full of laughter, and quipped: "Xia Houjie, you are losing money for nothing, and when you come back, the child will be gone for a long time."
"That's it, with this spare money, you might as well invite us to drink!"
"Go, go, stay where it's cool!"
Everyone laughed at Xiahou Jie, how could Xiahouen, who was a brother, sit idly by, although the little brother is not very good, he can only be bullied by him, and no one else.
While coming out to protect the calf, Xia Houen also comforted his little brother, if it is really providence, we will definitely meet again!
Xia Houjie nodded heavily, extremely sure of this.
He hadn't gone far when the sound of galloping horses' hooves came from ahead.
The people in the streets hurried to get out of the way.
More than ten rides are like a whirlwind, rampage.
The young man led by him was dressed in brocade clothes, wearing a jade crown, with a jade pendant flying around his waist, and the evil servants who followed behind him also galloped on horseback.
The people dared not speak out of their anger.
Xia Hou'an and the others, who were leading the horses, also hurriedly got out of the way.
"Bastard thing, starving ghost reincarnated, snatching shit and eating you!" Li Ze scolded, he was not used to watching these things.
The young man on horseback obviously heard this, turned around and glanced at Li Ze fiercely, if he had to go out of the city to pick up his friends, he would definitely dismount and teach this guy a good lesson.
At the end of the road, the little boy went to buy steaming flatbread, and although he was very hungry, he never wanted to eat it, but ran to his mother with joy.
However, at this moment, a black steed suddenly galloped from the right side, and with dry force, it slammed into his weak body.
Boom!
After the muffled sound, the little boy flew seven or eight feet away and fell heavily to the ground.
"My son!"
Seeing this, the woman, who was already dying of hunger, suddenly let out a terrible scream, and then braced her body and ran desperately to her child.
But when she ran over, the little boy was lifeless, and blood was flowing all over the ground.
"Someone's killed!"
The gathered people exclaimed.
The young man who stopped at Lerma frowned slightly, as a murderer, he didn't care, not only did he not have the slightest guilt on his face, but snorted lightly in displeasure: Bad luck!
"Young master, you go out of the city first, and I'll deal with it here."
The entourage behind him was not in a hurry, and motioned for the young man to go first, obviously it was not the first time he had dealt with this kind of thing.
The young man didn't want to delay his efforts, so he immediately changed direction.
The woman who was holding her son and wailing saw that the young man wanted to leave, and out of nowhere, she burst out of strength and pounced, and grabbed the young man's calf, and her face was full of sorrow for the loss of her son as a mother: "You return my child!" Give me back my child!"
The people around were all moved.
The young man frowned, his voice was cold, and he was very disgusted: "Beggar mother-in-law, take your dirty hands away!"
The woman was immersed in the pain of losing her child, and at this moment she was already in a trance, and repeated the same sentence in her mouth, and dragged the young man to prevent him from leaving.
Noisy!
The young man was so annoyed by the woman's words that he didn't wait for the servant to come and pull it, but he directly drew his saber and stabbed the woman in the chest in full view of everyone.
The bright red blood soon overflowed, staining the clothes on her chest, but the woman who was shaped like a bamboo pole still did not let go.
Then the young man drew it, and mended another sword, and when the woman was crumbling, he lifted his leg and kicked her hard, and threw her down in a pool of his son's blood.
Careless of human life, nothing more than that.
This scene fell in the eyes of Xia Houan and others.
The teenagers were furious, although they had done tyrannical things before, but they would never kill innocents indiscriminately.
Xia Houjie threw away the horse rope and struggled to squeeze through the crowd, and when he saw the little boy lying in a pool of blood, his heart rose with unprecedented anger.
He looked at the young man on horseback, his eyes were cracked, and he almost gritted his steel teeth: "Bastard, I am your ancestor!"