Chapter 88: After the Butcher's Knife
Snow is falling.
Under the vast starry sky, there is a vastness. But in the small Shu County, there are monstrous soldiers, the crowd is clashes one by one, the flags have long been confused, the family gates that have been smashed for a time abound, and the dignitaries who are still dignitaries during the day have been reduced to cold corpses at this moment.
Not a single one is left.
This is cruel and inevitable.
Even the snow could not stop the pace of the flames, the flames in the mansion were already very loud, and those mansions seemed to be crumbling in the wind and snow, and black smoke and dust rushed up the sky above this small Jianghuai city, gradually connecting with the endless night.
The sleeping civilians were awakened by the movement in the city, but no one dared to turn on the lights that night. In fact, it's not just ordinary people, even if it's a family that was powerful and blessed in the past, they don't dare to brighten up their homes, the cries of the house next door, and the sound of horses' hooves outside the door hovering in the minds of these people.
White is always the main color of winter, but at this moment it can only bow its head, red is the real nominative in Shu County. Under the starry sky, in the dominance of bright red, white and black are mixed and blended with each other, and the chaos and tranquility in the city are so clearly divided.
knew that the next morning, the family that survived the disaster opened the door of the house.
But before the butlers could gain a foothold, they collapsed, and the blood on the streets was so glaring that it was already flowing slowly in the alleys of the various culverts.
They trembled to their feet, and then they found some armor-piercing men cleaning the street, some pushing carts full of corpses, some picking up corpses scattered on the ground, and others holding wooden barrels and sprinkling unknown potions on the ground.
But they recognized the leader as the owner of the medical hall in Dongcheng, who was very kind and called Mr. Ji...
It wasn't until noon that calm returned to the city.
The number of people on the streets began to increase, but they clearly realized something.
The Zhang family, a behemoth that once stood in the Lujiang River, has disappeared after such a night.
Although it has been urgently disinfected by Jiping, the whole smell of blood in Shuxian County is still a little pungent. In fact, no matter what era it is, there is always no shortage of people watching the excitement, they cover their noses, against the pungent smell, and have formed a huge circle around the city gate.
The human head has been salted with lime, and his face is really pale, and there are three human heads hanging above the city gate, and the owner of this human head is a celebrity in front of him, Zhang Cong and the two heads of the family he relies on the most.
Something is tasteless after it is too fresh, and a group of people surround the city tower, and then disperse, it only takes less than two hours, and this Zhang Cong's head is no longer cared about.
Wang Qi, who was far away in the village outside the city, naturally didn't know about the drastic changes in the city, and after being told yesterday that Zhang Cong and Gao Yun had a conflict, he didn't want to enter the city, but when he saw the rice bowl at home that was bottoming out, he still wanted to try his luck in Shu County.
The wind and snow are still very strong.
Wang Qi carried his big box on his back, and his hand holding the penny was already red from the cold, and the moment he walked to the city gate, he was finally stunned.
Head?
Who is it? Wang Qi naturally hadn't seen Zhang Cong, but had heard his name, of course he couldn't recognize this person, but he still had a bad premonition in his heart, since there was someone to show the public, then there must still be rumors in the city, how can he do this small business?
"Who?" The soldiers defending the city are still forever blackfaced.
Wang Qi's body trembled, and he was also iron-hearted, "Those who do business in the south of the city still hope that the military master will let them go." ”
Shoved a dead dough cake into the guard's hand, the only thing he could handle.
The guard weighed for a while, then smiled: "I've seen you, let's go in, do you understand the rules of trading?" ”
"Save it."
Wang Kai slumped his back into the city, but he could see a smile on the corner of the guard's mouth, it was not a smile or a sneer, Wang Kai understood that it was a complete ridicule...
Around the time of Shen Shi, the turmoil in the city gradually began again.
Those who survived the hardships and were implicated in the Zhang family probably had two attitudes, the first was cowardice and submission, and their doors were so closed that it was difficult for even a bird to fly into their yard.
The second is to be shrewd. Cowardly evasion is never the way to go, close the door and not get out? It's just a joke, if Gao Yun really settles accounts after the autumn, will the door of his own house still be strong in Zhang Cong's house?
So they chose to take the initiative, since they could survive last night's bloody night safely, they naturally wanted to see how much authority Gao Yun was prepared to give them. Every family has a few gentlemen, but today these gentlemen are quite popular with the head of the family.
Gong Du strode down the street, but behind him was a hundred or so armor soldiers, the so-called public security is important after the chaos, so even a general like him came out in person.
Gao Yun had already instructed him how to act today. If some of the children of the family go to the city gate with their servants to spit on the heads of the people, it is a vote, and their names must be noted. If there are children of the family who swagger to the market, it is not excessive behavior, and they can endure it.
He had already seen a few gentlemen riding in the streets, and although he was very unaccustomed to it, he endured it, and it was not until later that he saw what made him unbearable.
A group of people gathered around a commoner's house, led by a rich man, well-dressed, but behind him was a group of black-clothed servants.
It was originally a fierce quarrel, but later it turned into an absolute advantage of the rich son, and their voices were very loud, and Gong Du could probably understand it.
This family is a small household of the Li family, and the so-called small household is nothing more than a commoner who farms for the family, and this Li family Gong Du also knows that it is a family that used to maintain an ambiguous relationship with Zhang Cong. The problem of the dispute between the son of the Li family and the small household is probably the family's tax dispute.
has already started, Gong Du naturally can't tolerate it, and when he goes up, he makes a move, and kicks the Li family's son out with a side kick.
The Li family still wanted to do it, but when Gong Du showed his knife and saw the dress of the person behind Gong Du, he realized that it was the person who guarded the mansion, and for a while he was deflated like a frosted eggplant.
"Go back and tell Li Zhu that your Li family will never have any more small households from now on!"
Gong Du walked away haughtily, but on the contrary, it was the grizzled son of the Li family.
Wang Qi hid in the alley and saw all this really, he no longer had the heart to set up a stall, he already knew that Zhang Cong was dead, and Shu County was also bleeding last night.
The upheaval was sudden, but he was already smart enough to see something famous from the scene just now. I'm afraid this Gao Taishou has already stretched out his hand to the land of those families who are in the wrong place...