Anger welled up in my heart......

A buzzing sound rings in my ears......

The body trembled, and the color of the sunlight that fell in the courtyard turned gray......

There seemed to be a variety of voices whispering around......

Mother stood under the eaves not far away, crying into tears, several younger brothers and sisters were also in a hurry, Ning Ke came over from the room with water, and then was scolded and walked back crying......

Ning Ji knelt in the courtyard, his nose was blue and his face was swollen, and beside him, there were three young people who also had a blue nose and swollen face, one of whom was Qin Weiwen, the second son of Qin Shaoqian's family...... Ning Ji didn't bother to care about them anymore.

Anger welled up in my heart......

In the second year of Huaxia, at the end of April, Ning Ji experienced the most humiliating few days in his past ten years......

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The afternoon sun shone on the hills, and more than a dozen figures walked among the rugged mountain roads, with the sound of dogs barking occasionally.

"Go this way."

Ning Xi and Min Chuyi were both members of this team, and they made their way into the deep woods, chasing possible targets.

Even Ning Xi, who has always been kind, looked extremely gloomy and serious at this moment. Min Chuyi's face was also cold, and as he walked forward, he paid close attention to all the suspicious movements around him.

When the sun was gradually slanting westward, someone found some traces in front of them, Ning Xi, Chu Yi and others rushed over, it was on the edge of a cliff, and found some sundries, including small packages, leftover dry food, women's handkerchiefs, and small books with a little bloodstains......

"What about people?"

Ning Xi took the small notebook and looked at it for a moment and asked.

"It seems to be...... Fell. ”

There are traces of people stumbling and sliding on the edge of the cliff, and they are sloping westward, and the mountain stream below seems to be bottomless.

"Prepare the rope, I'll go down." Min Chu said to the people around him.

Ning Xi pulled her away from the edge of the cliff with one hand: "What are you doing down, I'll go down!" ”

The leader of the search party struggled, and eventually, they tied up a long rope and let one of the skinny members of the team who was the best at climbing first.

The sun burned red on the horizon, and the people kindled a fire on the cliff, and when it was getting dark, the thin man came back along the rope.

"The bottom is too deep to search for a while, I searched carefully on the edge of the cliff several times, but I haven't found the body for the time being."

"It's also possible to fall and be taken away by a wild beast, do you see any bloodstains?" Ning Xi asked.

“…… I didn't find it, maybe I have to look for it a few more times. ”

"Rest tonight, and at sunrise tomorrow, I'll go down with you to find it." Min Chuyi said on the side.

The bonfire burned on the cliff, illuminating all the places in the camp, and after a while, Min Chuyi brought dinner, and Ning Xi was still looking at the baggage and various objects on the ground: "You say, did she fall off her footing, or did she jump off on purpose." ”

Min Chuyi frowned: "You want to see people in life, you have to see corpses in death, and you will talk about it when you see it...... If that woman is really below, the second brother will not be able to say it clearly in his life. ”

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At night, it began to rain in Zhangcun.

Ning Ji, Qin Weiwen and others were still kneeling in the courtyard, and Wenwen, Ning Ke, Ning He and other children stood next to them with umbrellas, covering them with some rain.

Ning Yi had already left home, and in a nearby office, he met Hou Wu, who had hurried over and was temporarily in charge of the incident: "...... found something, this woman named Yu Xiao'er, there may be some problems. According to the reaction of some people, this woman has a bad reputation in the neighborhood. ”

"Don't do it when you hear about it, she's a young woman who is not married, and she became a teacher, and of course the old-fashioned people don't have a good opinion. Say something useful. ”

"Yu Xiao'er's father made a mistake, when he was in the northwest, he said that he surrendered on the battlefield, and at that time their mother and daughter had already come to the southwest, and there were several witnesses who proved that her father surrendered. Within two years, her mother died of depression, leaving Yu Xiao'er alone, although it is not necessary to pursue these things, but in private we estimate that it is very bad. Two years ago, Yu Xiao'er was able to be a teacher from the Hedeng faction, on the one hand, due to the impact of the war, the lack of people in the rear, and on the other hand, looking at the records, a little tired ......"

Ning Yi frowned: "Go on." ”

"More than two months ago, Qin Weiwen went to Sangping and did establish a relationship with her in private, but neither of them said anything. I'm afraid it's hard to investigate the specific process, but the first group of people who went today, in this Yu Xiao'er's house, found a small bag of things, which was used between men and women to help the fun...... Aphrodisiac. She was a young woman of eighteen years old, and she was so beautiful that she didn't know why she was preparing this at home...... Judging from the packaging, it has been used recently, and it should not be the ...... left by her parents."

Hou Wu said and took out a small bag of things from his arms, and Ning Yi waved his hand: "It's not evidence, it's all speculation." ”

"That's all there is to it at the moment."

"Are you looking for someone?"

"I'm using the best manpower to find it, but this woman has been missing for a few days, and it's hard to say whether she can find it."

"Let's go find it first." Ning Yi said.

Hou Wu nodded and left.

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In the early morning, in the courtyard of Zhang Village, the four people were still kneeling there, Wenwen, Ning Ke and other children were still holding umbrellas for them with their red eyes open, and the rain gradually stopped in the sky.

Chaoxia confided that Ning Xi, Chu Yi and others, who were dozens of miles away in the mountains, tied ropes and took turns to go down to the mountain stream to look for them.

At noon, a group of men and horses quickly came towards Zhangcun, led by the one-eyed general Qin Shaoqian. He walked all the way into the courtyard, picked up a wooden stick on the way, and after entering, he knocked Qin Weiwen to the ground with a bang.

In the nearby room, Wenwen, Ning Ke and other children stayed awake all night, still resting at this time, and then they were all awakened.

"! A bunch of brainless things, for the sake of a woman, fratricidal, I'm going to kill you now-"

His stick not only knocked over Qin Weiwen, but then knocked over Ning Ji with a stick, and after the two of them each received a stick, most of the people in the yard rushed over, Hongti blocked the front, and the watermelon snatched the wooden stick in his hand: "Old Qin!" You are not allowed to mess around! Did anyone give you permission to hit the child? ”

"Things haven't been figured out yet!"

"Old Qin, you are ...... discouraged"

"!" Qin Shaoqian also stretched out his foot and kicked Qin Weiwen on the ground, and then retreated from this side, looking at a group of women: "What about Ning Yi?" "Turned around and went out to find Ning Yi.

Ning Ji, who fell to the ground, got up and continued to kneel there again, and what was still surging in his mind was incomparably angry...... ...... with doubts

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Since returning to Zhangcun in the second half of last year, Ning Ji has basically not done anything too out of the ordinary.

He practiced martial arts and medicine every day, and occasionally participated in the high-intensity training and simulated combat of special forces, although his results were not too good, but his family did not ask him excessively.

Practicing martial arts to the age of fourteen, the foundation is solid, it is the age of blood and energy, occasionally inexplicable, he will think of the little cheap dog Qu Longjun in Chengdu, as for why, he is not clear, and he is not willing to think too clearly.

Qu Longjun has already left Chengdu, and the weak woman who is powerless may die quietly somewhere in the outside world. Sometimes Ning Ji has such thoughts and feels pity, but at most it is a pity.

In the school, thirteen or fourteen-year-old men and women, the physical characteristics began to become more and more obvious, and it was the most ambiguous and estranged moment of youth. Sometimes when I think of the relationship between men and women, I will meet red-eared, but in public, there is no boy who will be honest about a girl. Compared with the children around him, Ning Ji has seen more of the world, for example, he has seen a little cheap dog bathing in Chengdu, so in these things, he occasionally remembers that he always has a sense of superiority.

Last year, Aunt Gu once asked him if he liked little dogs, and he would rather be sure whether he was sure about this issue. Even if he really talks about liking, how can a girl like Qu Longjun compare to the girls in the Southwest Huaxia Army, but at the same time, if he wants to say that there is a girl around him who is more attractive than Qu Longjun, for a while, he can't find a unique object to add such an evaluation, he can only say that any of them are much better than Qu Longjun.

In April, the school organized an activity after class for all the children to help out in the relatively poor places on the surrounding mountain sides. Sangping also has a primary school, here there is a very beautiful and gentle female teacher Yu Xiao'er, it is said that she had lived in Hedeng before, and the two sides got along for nearly half a month, during this period, Ning Ji is strong in martial arts, and her temperament is one of the backbones of the class, helping each other to do a lot of things.

On April 23, helping everyone in the village to collect firewood, Ning Ji finally helped Yu Xiao'er, who lived on the remote mountainside, to pick up a load of firewood and go back.

Halfway through the two, it started to rain in the sky. When he arrived at Yu Xiao'er's house, the other party asked Ning Ji to take a bath here, iron his clothes, and then go back after dinner by the way. Ning Ji has a downright temperament and agrees.

He took a bath first, and then sat in the room in a single coat to drink tea, Teacher Yu ironed the wet clothes for him, because there was hot water, she also went to wash it, and when she came out, the wrapped bath towel fell off......

Ning Ji's mouth was dry, and the female teacher was also a little flustered, but then she didn't hide it and slowly approached him......

For Ning Ji, the next thing is of course a love. Although I don't know what to do next, Yu Xiao'er is really perfect for him, she is mature and gentle, she doesn't want to be so boring as the little girl around her, her body looks like she has seen in Qu Longjun, but she is her own person in the southwest - how can she like those women outside the southwest.

On the evening of the twenty-fourth day, he also spent it at Xiao'er's house, and Ning Ji said a lot of things. On the morning of the twenty-fifth day, everyone who came over wanted to leave for Zhangcun, although Ning Ji was full of happiness, but naturally did not have the courage not to go back, he followed the large army back, and was still thinking about how to think of a way to go to Sangping again, who knew that it was twenty-nine, Qin Weiwen came from Sangping with two followers.

According to Qin Weiwen, he and Yu Xiao'er are in a real relationship, and they have been together in private for more than two months. On the twenty-fifth day, he came back from outside and saw that Yu Xiao'er was injured, he tried to ask, but Yu Xiao'er kicked him out. Qin Weiwen asked around what happened, and on the afternoon of the 26th, when Qin Weiwen went to Yu Xiao'er's house again, he found a blood letter written by her, saying that her innocence had been tarnished and she no longer wanted to live. And the person who defiled her with force was Ning Yi's second son, Ning Ji, although he was only fourteen or fifteen years old, but his martial arts were strong, and he was furious on the night of the twenty-fourth, he couldn't resist at all, he was beaten, and his innocence was taken away, and now he can only die.

Qin Weiwen suddenly panicked, first of all, he naturally wanted to find Yu Xiao'er and ask for clarification, and immediately called a few friends to look for him nearby, but he never found it, and later learned from the people near Yu Xiao'er's house that in the early morning of the twenty-fifth day, he did see Ning Ji walking out of her house. Qin Weiwen couldn't hold back any longer, and rushed all the way to Zhangcun.

After seeing the blood book, Ning Ji was suddenly blinded, as if the whole world suddenly changed color, he didn't know what was going on, and his first reaction was to go to Sangping to find Yu Xiao'er, Qin Weiwen directly punched over. Ning Ji was upright in his heart, he thought that he had not done anything wrong, where would he show weakness, and at the moment, he was one against three, and all four of them became blue and swollen, and then the matter spread.

The second son of the Ning family raped a woman......

It seems that he is still a teacher......

He also committed suicide......

In a trance, Ning Ji could hear such discussions coming constantly, at his age, even if he had been on the battlefield and killed the enemy, how could he deal with such a thing...... Xiao'er's face occasionally flashed in his mind, and he didn't know what was going on......

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Ning Ji, Qin Weiwen and the other four knelt past twenty-nine and thirty, and when Qin Shaoqian arrived, it was already the first day of the fifth lunar month. On this night, Ning Xi, Min Chuyi, Hou Wu and others arrived one after another and reported the results of the phase.

In the mountains dozens of miles away from Sangping, the scene of the woman's suicide is quite realistic, but no corpses can be found under the mountain stream, and there are suspicious points in it, which is likely to be a suspicious formation. On Hou Wu's side, they investigated that this woman had bought a road guide and identity certificate through special channels, and on the 27th, this certificate appeared near Chengdu, and now it should be a cargo ship to go out of Sichuan by water, which is difficult to find.

"Other speculations cannot be proved for the time being." Hou Wudao, "However, the matter of Yu Xiao'er buying an identity certificate was two months ago, and the handler had already caught it, so we can only speculate about her purpose at the beginning for the time being...... At that time, she happened to have a relationship with Qin Weiwen and Qin Gongzi, maybe over the years, because of her parents' affairs, she held a grudge and wanted to do something, so after two months, in April, she would rather go to Sangping, she lived in Hedeng, and she happened to be able to recognize it, so she ......"

In the room of the small courtyard, Ning Yi, Qin Shaoqian, Tan'er, Ning Xi, Chu Yi and others listened to this, and their faces became more and more gloomy.

“…… Catching Qin Weiwen and even killing Qin Weiwen is nothing more than making General Qin sad, but if this fake death can really be believed, Mr. Ning and General Qin have a dislike because of the child's matter, then it is really a big advantage for outsiders. "Hou Wudao.

Tan'er raised her head: "Can you still catch her in four days?" ”

"Our people are still chasing." Hou Wudao, "However, Yu Xiao'er has been trained by the militia in the past, and seeing her pretending to be dead this time, she is very thoughtful. If it is determined that she did not commit suicide, it is likely that there will be other ways halfway, and she will turn around again halfway, and after leaving the river, she is not too sure. ”

Ning Yi was silent for a moment: "...... When you were in Heden, how much harm the people around them had done to their mother and daughter, and what happened, you should check carefully...... Don't be too quiet, just check it out and let me know. ”

"Yes." Hou Wu nodded.

Qin Shaoqian, who had a gloomy face, pushed away his chair and went out of the room, where silver starlight was shining in the courtyard. Qin Shaoqian walked straight to the middle of the courtyard and kicked Qin Weiwen over, followed by another kick, kicking Ning Ji over.

"A bunch of difficult brothers and sisters, being played like this by a woman."

Qin Weiwen got up, stared, didn't understand why his father said this, and after a while, Hou Wu, Ning Xi, Chu Yi and others came over and told them the outcome of the matter.

Ning Ji raised his head, his gaze turning blood-red.

The first person pulled him up, and he remained motionless, his lips open, and so on for a long time.

"She said she liked me...... I'm just ......"

Ever since he saw the blood book, Ning Ji and Qin Weiwen had a fight, and he didn't make any excuses in this matter, and it was only at this moment that he was finally able to say this. After a few moments, his eyes closed and he fell to the ground.

He fainted......

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There seemed to be some gurgling sound in the darkness, like water was boiling, and like blood was boiling.

When she woke up, her mother was lying on the edge of the bed and asleep, the eyelids of both eyes swollen like small lanterns.

It may be early in the morning, and my father and my eldest mother Su Tan'er are talking softly outside.

“…… I have long said that if you are born in this kind of family, you will encounter many times worse things than ordinary people......"

“…… It's all the woman's fault, scheming. ”

“…… Ordinary people don't encounter this kind of scheming...... So, I don't think it's enough to prepare for it, Ning Xi has been safe until now, I'm really thankful......"

“…… Thinking of Xiao Ji's age, when this kind of thing happens, I am sad, he is a child......"

“…… If you want to open it, he didn't suffer anyway, I heard that the one surnamed Yu looks pretty good...... Okay, what's the use of hitting me, what else can I think ......"

In the whisper, Ning Ji fell asleep again.

When he woke up again, a group of brothers and sisters had already gathered in the room, and Xiao Ningke fed him white porridge. Ning Ji didn't have too many injuries on his body, and after a few sips, he brought it over and cooed, changed his clothes, and got out of bed and walked around.

Walking out of the room, out of the yard, out into the street, someone greeted him with a smile, but he always felt that people were secretly talking about the previous few days in their hearts. He walked to the river in Zhangcun, found a piece of wood and sat down, and the big sunset was setting in the west, which was soft and warm, as if to comfort him.

His mind flashed over Xiao'er's face, and sometimes it was Qu Longjun's, and their faces alternated in his mind, which made him feel bored.

I'll never like a girl again in my life.

He told himself in his heart.

This day is the second day of the fifth month.

On the third day of the fifth month, he stayed at home for a day, although he didn't go to school, but no one came to talk about him, he helped his mother sort out the housework, talked to other aunts, and specially asked Ning Yi to ask for peace, under the pretext of asking about the case, he chatted with his father for a while, and then played with his brothers and sisters for a long time, and several dolls he treasured were also taken out and given to Wenwen, Ning He and others.

In the early morning of the fourth day of the new year, he put on his makeup, left the letter he had written on the bed, and quietly turned out from the side of the courtyard with a small baggage. His light skills were very good, before dawn, wearing night clothes, he quickly left Zhang Village. He knelt down on the side of the road at the entrance of the village, quietly kowtowed to his parents, and then ran away as fast as he could. Tears rained down his face.

He knew that they would chase after him from the main road, so he chose the small road and ran wildly from field to village, and by the afternoon he felt that he had left Zhang Village very far, so he chose a road with few people nearby.

Around Shen Shi, there were war horses running from behind, Ning Ji didn't look back, he just leaned on the side of the road and walked forward naturally. The war horse surpassed him, and Ning Ji frowned slightly, because the knight on the war horse was actually Qin Weiwen. This person galloped away quickly, and then Qin Weiwen grabbed the reins again and turned back to look at him in front. Then he got off his horse.

"The ghost will not go away...... Ning Ji muttered in a low voice, and walked towards that side, Qin Weiwen also walked over, he was originally carrying a knife on his body, but at this time, he unsheathed it and was still on the side of the road.

"If you stop me again this time, I'll kill you!"

Ning Ji said as he walked. Although he was not yet fifteen at this time, and Qin Weiwen was three years older than him, he had already reached eighteen, but he really had to fight to the death, and Ning Ji would be able to kill everyone on the twenty-ninth day.

The bruise on Qin Weiwen's face did not disappear, but he did not flinch at this time, he did not speak, walked closer, and punched Ning Ji in the face.

"Fuck, it's all that slut's business, you're not done-"

Ning Ji scolded, waved his hand to block, and punched the opponent's lower abdomen, Qin Weiwen took two steps back, and then rushed up.

The two fought each other on the side of the road for a long time, and only stopped after Qin Weiwen staggered and Ning Ji also received a few punches and kicks. There was a big cart passing by on the road, Ning Ji dragged his war horse aside to make way, and then the two sat down on the grassy slope by the roadside.

"What do you have to go out for......" Qin Weiwen said.

"I found that slut and slaughtered her with a knife." Ning Ji said.

Qin Weiwen was silent for a moment: "She actually ...... We didn't have a good time before, maybe we ...... There are also places where I can't live with her......"

"It's my business, either you go with you, or you're a cat in the mountain nest!"

"I'll bring you something." Qin Weiwen got up, took the burden from the war horse, sat back again, and put the burden on Ning Ji's lap, "You, your father asked me to send it to you......"

"Ah......h

"Otherwise, how can Lao Tzu find you! If I really want to arrest you, can you get away! Qin Weiwen waited for his eyes to shout, pulled the top of his face, making him grin a little, and then took out a letter with fire paint from his arms, "Well, this letter contains the contact information of all kinds of people in the Huaxia Army outside, after you read it, you will burn it, and now it will be given to you, it has not been opened, you can read it now." It's going to burn later! ”

Ning Ji silently opened the letter, and in the letter, it was indeed written that some Huaxia Army's joints in the outside world, he rubbed his eyes and tried to carry it. At the end of the letter, there were two more lines.

The father's handwriting reads: Son, take care of yourself.

Mother's handwriting reads: Come back early.

There were tears all around.

Ning Ji held back his voice, wiped his tears hard, he read it out loud, stammered the contents of the letter twice, snatched the fire fold from Qin Weiwen's hand, lit the fire a few times, and burned the letter.

Qin Weiwen's tears were also falling, and he stood up at this time and kicked Ning Ji on the shoulder: "You have to go out and die!" ”

Ning Ji said: "Lao Tzu's martial arts are the best in the world, you can't fight like this will die-"

He didn't care that Qin Weiwen kicked him, he opened the baggage, there were dry food, silver taels, weapons, and clothes, as if every aunt had put something into it, and then his father asked Qin Weiwen to send it to him. At this moment he realized that the sneaking away in the morning seemed unnoticed, but perhaps his father had already waved himself away from the attic of the house. And not only the father, but also Aunt Gua, Aunt Hongti, and even the elder brother and the first year of junior high school can also find this.

They must not want to leave the southwest by themselves, but at this moment, they did not really stop it.

Ning Ji took his burden and walked forward, Qin Weiwen didn't follow again, he led the horse: "You let her live——"

"I'll bring her back as a kick for you—"

"Do you want a horse—"

"you—"

"I'll grass your uncle-"

On Ning Ji's cheeks, the tears couldn't stop, he could only walk and scold over and over again, after a while, Qin Weiwen's voice was gone, and Ning Ji dared to look back at the southwest, as if his parents were still waving at him.

Someday, the young swallows will leave their warm nests to go through the real wind and rain and become strong......

Father, mother, brother, sister-in-law, brother, sister......

When I get back, I'll be able to protect everyone in my family......

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At this moment, the summer sun is shining on this vast land.

Zou Xu led a team of men and horses to the north of Jindi, trying to negotiate a favorable deal; Liu Guangshi and Dai Mengwei are ready to go south of the Yangtze River; In Jiangnan, the Fairness Party conquered the city and continued to expand; In Fujian, the reform measures of the orthodox court are emerging one after another.

A monk named Ping'an followed Lin Zongwu, crossed the Yellow River, and headed south. And the boy named Ning Ji is heading towards the cruel world in the east and north-

All the way forward.