As soon as the three words "Zhao Lili" came out, the eyes of the mother and son lit up.

"How is he now?" The two men asked almost in unison.

Wei Qing looked at the longing eyes of the mother and daughter, and really didn't know how to answer. He was speechless for a while, so he simply reached out and picked up the hoe and said, "There is still this point, I will help you finish hoeing the ground and then talk about it in detail." After speaking, without waiting for the mother and daughter to object, they had already waved their hoes. The mother and daughter looked at Wei Qing with gratitude, they were eager to know how Zhao Lili was doing now, but since Wei Qing was helping the two of them hoe the ground so leisurely, thinking that he was doing well, the hearts of the two were also a little calm.

After hoeing, Wei Qing put down the hoe and was about to wipe his sweat, but he stretched out an arm and held a small sweat towel on his palm. Wei Qing hurriedly looked, but it was Zhao Yueru. Zhao Yueru still had some dirt on her face, but she was reluctant to wipe it with a sweat towel, she looked at Wei Qing with big eyes and said shyly: "Brother Wei, wipe your face." ”

Wei Qing took the sweat towel and slowly wiped his face, but his hands were trembling. He didn't know how to say for a while, how Zhao Lili was?

"Brother Wei, how is my father? Has he ever been sick? Zhao Yueru saw Wei Qing wipe her face and hurriedly asked.

Zhao Yanshi smiled on the side: "Yueru, don't be in such a hurry, people have walked so far, and it's getting late, so let's go home quickly, let's fix up some wine and food." ”

Zhao Yueru's face flushed, nodded again and again, and said to Wei Qing: "Brother Wei, please come to the house to eat something." ”

Wei Qing's heart was shrinking. How can he eat? How can you enter the door of Zhao's mother and daughter? He stood there, his mind in a mess.

Zhao Yueru saw that Wei Qing did not move, and was about to persuade again, but heard Zhao Yan's trembling voice ask: "But, but what happened to my wife?" Zhao Yan saw that Wei Qing stayed there and did not move, not as if he had come to report good news, and guessed seven or eight points in his heart.

Wei Qing bowed his head and was silent.

Zhao Yan's voice was filled with fear, and he slowly asked, "Where is his injury?" Is it heavy or not? ”

Wei Qing suddenly bit his lip fiercely, feeling a salty feeling flowing into his throat, he said slowly: "Brother Zhao has been... Deceased. He took out the twenty-four taels and seven cents of silver from his arms, handed it over lightly and said, "This is Brother Zhao's salary, and Brother Zhao asked me to bring it when he was dying." ”

Zhao Yanshi slowly reached out and took the silver, as if she didn't understand anything, she looked at the silver blankly, and couldn't understand why there was so much silver in her hand for a while.

"Daddy~~~~", Zhao Yueru's miserable cry broke the silence. Zhao Yan didn't cry, she didn't hum, and her body slowly softened.

Wei Qing hurriedly stretched out his hand to hug Zhao Yan's, only to see Zhao Yan's eyes rolled up, and he had passed out.

He didn't have time to comfort Zhao Yueru, who was crying bitterly on the side, so he hurriedly put Zhao Yan's flat on the ground and pinched Zhao Yan's people hard.

Zhao Yan's ** sounded, and finally woke up, but Zhao Yueru had already cried to the ground.

Wei Qing saw the mother and daughter hugging their heads and crying, his heart was infinitely sentimental, he stood there quietly, wanting to walk away, but he couldn't bear it, but he didn't know what to say when he stood here.

Zhao Yanshi cried for a while, seeing that Zhao Yueru was crying out of breath, for fear that Zhao Yueru would cry and faint, he gritted his teeth and said, "Daughter, don't cry." Your father killed the enemy and died, and he was loyal to the country. ”

"I don't want to kill the enemy, I want my father!" Zhao Yueru cried loudly.

Zhao Yanshi wanted to persuade again, but before the words came out, he couldn't cry, and he couldn't persuade his daughter anymore.

Wei Qing slowly knelt down.

He knew that it was too cruel to tell the truth at this time, but if he let this mother and daughter be deceived, he would not be at ease in his life. He said slowly: "Brother Zhao didn't kill the enemy, he was killed by me. ”

"What?!" The mother and daughter exclaimed in unison.

Wei Qing slowly talked about the process of how he killed Zhao Lili. He didn't say it fast, but he didn't stop.

As soon as he finished speaking, a piece of dirt smashed into his face. It was Zhao Yueru who grabbed the soil on the ground. Her beautiful face was distorted with anger, and she pointed at Wei Qing and scolded: "You murderer! My father has no grudge against you, you are going to kill him! I'm fighting with you! As she spoke, she went to grab the hoe and wanted to fight with Wei Qing.

Wei Qing didn't move. He knew that he had to kill Zhao Lili, but he also knew that he couldn't face this mother and daughter who depended on each other. He really didn't know what he should do, and at this moment he was thinking that he would simply be killed by Zhao Yueru, so he felt at ease.

With a "snap", the hoe grazed Wei Qing's ear and hit the ground, and Wei Qing's ear hurt. Wei Qing looked up, but it was Zhao Yanshi who pulled Zhao Yueru and pulled the hoe off. Zhao Yueru looked at Zhao Yan's and wondered why her mother wouldn't let her kill this villain.

Zhao Yan hugged Zhao Yueru and cried: "Daughter, your father is dead, if you don't have a life, how can I live?" Zhao Yueru held the hoe handle in her hand, and she couldn't get away for a while, she scolded Wei Qing angrily: "You dog officials! Have the ability to go to the battlefield and kill the enemy by yourself! Why do you only dare to get along with us ordinary people? Sooner or later, you will be struck by thunder! ”

Wei Qing left the grieving and painful Zhao mother and daughter. He couldn't help but leave. It was almost dark, but Zhao's mother and daughter were still there hugging and crying, and some people gradually gathered around, many of them scolded him, although no one dared to come up and beat him, but he was inevitably thrown a lot of dirt and stones, a stone hit his forehead, and now the blood has not dried up.

He didn't know where he was going to live tonight, Zhaojia Village was far away from the county seat, and he couldn't go to the county seat tonight, but no matter where he lived, he couldn't stop in Zhaojia Village, he would rather sleep in the wilderness than face the people of Zhaojia Village.

He was far from the village, and the sun was slowly sinking, leaving only the last rays of sunlight floating on the top of the mountain in the distance. He walked slowly, his heart was confused, and Zhao Yueru's tearful face still seemed to be shaking in front of him.

A child's cry could be heard on the side of the road.

Wei Qing stood still and listened attentively.

Yes, it's the cry of a child, as if two children were crying not far from the side of the road.

He looked to the place where the cry had come from, and saw two children crying as if they were sitting in an unfinished piece of land.

Wei Qing's brows furrowed.

What about their parents? These two children look like they are only seven or eight years old, and the eldest is only twelve or thirteen years old.

He stepped over the weeds on the side of the road and strode towards the two children.

The two children were unaware of the approach, and they sat in a patch of dirt, hugging each other and crying, with a hoe and a rusty woodcutter thrown aside.

"Who are you?" Wei Qing stood still beside the children, and saw that the two children were still crying, so he had to raise his voice to ask.

The two children were taken aback, and they all looked up at Wei Qing.

The little child was a little scared and hid behind the eldest child, the older child also wanted to hide back at first, but the little child clung to the eldest child's clothes, and the eldest child realized that he had to stand up now, so he replied with a cower: "Uncle, we, my name is Li Youfu, he is my younger brother, Li Youcai." ”

Wei Qing smiled bitterly, blessed and wealthy, this is the highest wish of ordinary people. But these two children do not look like they are blessed and rich, but on the contrary, they look like very poor children.

He crouched down and asked in as gentle a tone as he could, "It's so late, why are you crying here?" ”

"Because we really don't have the strength to finish the ground." Li Youfu said and cried.

"What?!" Wei Qing was taken aback. Let a seven or eight-year-old child and a twelve-thirteen-year-old child turn over such a large piece of land? Whose parents are so vicious?

"Where are your parents?" Wei Qing's unconscious voice was a little high.

Li Youcai cried again. Wei Qing secretly regretted it, and hurriedly lowered his tone gently, "Don't be afraid, uncle speaks loudly, but he is not a bad person." ”

Li Youfu didn't cry, he hugged his younger brother and said, "Uncle, he wasn't scared by you, it was the words you asked that made him sad." ”

"Why?" Wei Qing faintly felt bad.

Li Youfu pointed not far away with his hand: "Our parents are there." ”

Wei Qing looked in the direction of Li Youfu's finger, and his face couldn't help but change color. There is a grave! It turns out that both of these children's parents are dead! He only felt a congestion in his chest, tears in his eyes, and he could barely see the faces of the two children in front of him. "You 。。。。。。 Do you have any other relatives? He asked, a little choked up.

Li Youfu couldn't hold it anymore because of this sentence, his tears flowed down, and he replied with sobs: "Uncle, I have two uncles and an uncle, but they all died in battle!" My aunt hanged herself, and my aunt went crazy and ran somewhere. ”

Wei Qing sat on the ground with a butt.

He couldn't hold back his tears anymore. What a world it is! Two young children had to climb the ground on their own to survive, and the family was ruined, and none of them survived. I really don't know how long these two children will live?

He dried his eyes and saw Li Youcai stretching out his dirty little hand to help his brother wipe his eyes. Wei Qing looked at that hand, and was shocked in his heart, reached out to hold Li Youcai's wrist, and gently pulled it closer, and at a glance, he exclaimed "ah".

What a pair of hands that were! The part close to the finger has been ground into a calloon, and the finger belly is full of blood blisters, some of which have burst and been ground again, resulting in a blur of flesh and blood. This is a seven or eight-year-old child!

"He has little strength and can't hold a hoe, which he helped me turn over the ground with a woodcutter." Li Youfu said softly on the side.

Wei Qing's eyes seemed to see a small and thin figure, slashing the ground with a rusty woodcutter and helping his brother turn the ground. He looked up to the sky, but he couldn't stop the tears from streaming down his cheeks again.