Chapter 4: Good Men
Shen Qiqi sneaked down the mountain.
The soldier saw that she was the general's woman, so he did not stop her.
Her breath was so rapid that her heart was pounding like a drum as she ran down the street in the direction of her home.
The autumn wind blows the foreheads of people, and the face is full of desolation.
The Shen Mansion, which used to be the home of the richest man in the shogunate, has become a ruined wall, and the stone pillars in the courtyard are still standing, like tombstones.
She held on to the stone pillar and walked slowly inside, her palm rubbing the cold surface of the stone pillar, and the more she walked, the more her heart twisted like a knife, so that she burst into tears.
"Daddy...... Mother......"
She slowly knelt down holding the stone pillar, no one answered her, and she was the only one left in heaven and earth.
She wished it was a nightmare, and when she woke up, her parents came back.
She craned her neck, swallowed the tears and the sourness in her chest fiercely, and slammed her head a few times in the direction where her parents lived in the courtyard, biting her lip with blood.
Trembling slightly, she slowly got up, wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes, she didn't look back, and walked out like a ghost.
On the other side, the soldiers sent out by Gu Jinghuai gathered all the people hiding in the city.
As Fu Jingyi said, after they captured the curtain city, the people had nowhere to go, so they could only survive in this city.
Now they were gathered in front of the yamen's bulletin stand, men, women, and children all shrunk up and shrunk together like a sieve.
The young children were frightened when they saw this group of people, and they couldn't help but want to cry, and their parents covered their mouths vigorously to prevent them from making a sound.
Gu Jinghuai sat on the high platform, and Wang Lichuan stood beside him.
Wang Lichuan waved his hand towards the audience, and there was a dead silence below, and no one dared to speak.
"General Gu is mighty and domineering, leading the troops to beat your army to the ground, you don't have to be afraid, if you want to blame, blame your national army for not fighting, now the curtain city is already the territory of our Chu State, since you still want to live here, it is natural for you to hand over the grain, today, we don't want much, before noon, how about you hand over a thousand catties of grain."
There was silence below, and everyone looked like stone statues.
"Why, are you all deaf, why don't you hurry up and prepare food?"
Those people were like wood, and they didn't move at all.
Wang Lichuan's face suddenly became hideous, and he took out the big knife on his waist and shook it in front of the group of people in the audience: "Fuck, I see that you all want to die!" ”
"Master Jun, it's not that we don't want to pay grain, this year's harvest is not good, there is really no grain to pay."
Gu Jinghuai's eyes narrowed.
The body leaned forward slowly, as if it was like a fierce beast with a killing intrinsic intent and ready to attack.
He reached out and pointed downward, and shouted in a deep voice, "Bring me the man!" ”
Wang Lichuan's thick arm went down, and lifted the person who spoke just now by the collar like a chicken.
It was a thin merchant, in his forties, like a thin mountain ginseng, with a treacherous look like a thief's eyebrows.
Wang Lichuan threw it casually, and the guy even crawled and knelt down in front of Gu Jinghuai.
He looked a little scared in the face of the tall and mighty Gu Jinghuai, his body trembled, and he couldn't get up on his stomach.
"Master Jun, we really don't have food, we really don't have anything!"
His tone trembled as if he had beans in his mouth, and he trembled and fell out.
The corners of Gu Jinghuai's mouth hooked up a smile, but the cold smile did not spread to the bottom of his eyes at all.
"When the army of the Yue Kingdom attacked us, you sent them a cart of food, and now you tell me that there is no food, huh? ”
His tail note dragged on very hard.
But it makes people feel like they are in an ice cave, and it is cold from head to toe.
"General, I think this old boy is deliberately teasing us,"
"Really?"
A trace of coldness flashed in Gu Jinghuai's eyes, and he stretched out a hand and directly grabbed the old boy's ear, the man's body shook, and his face showed a frightened look.
He subconsciously wanted to pull his legs and run away.
Gu Jinghuai didn't give him this opportunity, and with a hard pull between his finger bones, he directly tore off one of his ears.
The man covered his ears with both hands, blood flowed down his fingers, and he rolled on the ground howling.
"General, I was wrong, General, spare your life!"
The soldier stepped forward and grabbed him, Gu Jinghuai sneered cruelly, and grabbed his other ear, he looked at his painful face, and continued to exert force slowly in his hand, with the sound of the skin and flesh being torn apart, he threw it down, and the two ears finally met, on the dirty ground.
The man was in pain, and his headless head was like a wooden fish, and blood was sliding down his cheeks, like a little ghost crawling out of hell.
Gu Jinghuai's feet in military boots stepped on his hands, crushing back and forth hard: "Grain, do you have it!" ”
The sound of bones shattering came from his left hand again, and his features twisted in pain.
"Yes, I have!" "To call or not to pay?"
"Deliver, I'll deliver!"
"Now Ken is honest, isn't it a little over!"
He grabbed the man's hair and pulled Wang Lichuan's big knife, the sharp blade against his belly, and used a little force.
Cut straight open his stomach.
The intestines flowed down the ground.
The man clutched his stomach and staggered to his stomach in a pool of blood, face down, and bloodied.
Disemboweled, and died extremely tragically.
The deathly silence in the audience was not that he was not afraid, but that he was already scared stupid.
The child seemed to want to scream, but the mouth was covered by the equally pale adult behind him.
Wang Lichuan took the bloody knife in his hand, and his heart was a little trembling.
Usually it's okay, he always fights with Gu Jinghuai, but as long as he is on the battlefield, he always feels that he is moody, and I don't know when he will become his ghost.
Gu Jinghuai didn't want to sit anymore, so he slowly got up from the chair.
Tall and tall, slender and straight, his aura is powerful, and he gives an order to the audience: "Now line up for me, a column of men, a column of women and children, and a column of old and disabled."
The men, women, and children below consciously moved, Gu Jinghuai looked at the lineup below, and felt that it was almost done.
He pointed to the group of able-bodied men and said, "Give you a stick of incense, either hand over the food in the house, or pick up their corpses!" ”
His voice was low and majestic, and what he had done just now made it clear that he was not a good man who would show mercy to other people's wives and sons.