Ke Rong turned from the main street of Linying County to a small road and walked in the northeast direction of Linying County. As the houses on both sides gradually decreased, a dilapidated thatched house was faintly seen, standing lonely in the wilderness. When Ke Rong saw this thatched house, his face unconsciously showed joy. Imagining his mother's joy at seeing the prey he had killed, he himself couldn't help but feel a little excited, and at the same time his pace was much quicker.

"Mother" Ke Rong shouted happily and pushed open the door, but he didn't hear a response. There was silence in the room, which made him feel uneasy, and he forgot to put down the antelope, and went straight to the door of his mother's house, knocked a few times, but there was no answer, and then pushed the door open.

With a "bump" sound, the antelope fell to the ground and Ke Rong's face instantly turned white, and his eyes looked straight ahead, stunned in place. It stood like a wooden sculpture and stopped breathing, and his eyes were full of disbelief.

Following Ke Rong's gaze, there was a woman's body hanging from the roof in the middle of the dilapidated house, apparently the woman had hanged herself.

After a long time, a heart-rending cry resounded in the wilderness, Ke Rong quickly ran over to remove the woman's body from the roof, and after carrying it to the wooden bed next to it, he looked at the pale woman lying on the bed with a blank face, took two steps back in horror, and fell to the ground with weak legs.

"Why, mother, why?" Ke Rong screamed heartbreakingly, tears gushing out of his eyes, he kept kowtowing on the ground, making a muffled sound of "dong dong dong", and Yin Hong's blood marks had already appeared on his forehead. His hands kept clutching the ground, leaving scratches on the ground, and the blood that flowed from between his fingernails stained the scratches on the ground blood-red.

The sky was covered with dark clouds, and the sky that had been dyed red by the setting sun had turned into darkness, and after a series of lightning thunderbolts, thunderbolts resounded in the wilderness, mixed with the heart-rending shouts from the thatched huts, which looked very strange and made people feel creepy.

Junko lay on the outside of the window of the thatched house, poked a hole in the window paper with his fingers, and was shocked after seeing the situation in the house from where, and finally he understood the reason for the incident, and secretly sighed: "This stinky woman, is her temperament quite strong?" ”

After a long time, Ke Rong knocked down and never lifted up, and under this sudden bad news, he collapsed physically and mentally, and finally passed out.

Shunzi outside the window saw that Ke Rong was not moving, so he slowly got up and rubbed his legs, which were already a little numb, and cautiously walked into the room, came to the bedside and glanced at Ke Rong kneeling on the ground, and then kicked Ke Rong aside, and his eyes moved to the woman lying on the bed. The woman's face was white, but it still could not hide the nobility of her beautiful face.

Junko disapprovingly stretched out his right hand in front of the woman's nostrils to confirm that she was no longer breathing, and then pinched the woman's cheek with his dirty hand, and then touched down the woman's neck, and kept stroking on the woman's chest, his face was full of intoxication and unfinished expressions, at this time he remembered today's good things, and couldn't help but sigh a little: "What a good stunner, it's a pity!" ”

Junko stood up straight and looked around, and when he saw a letter written on the cloth on the bedside, his body shook suddenly, and he quickly picked up the letter and read it. When Junko read a few lines, a sinister smile appeared on the corner of her mouth, and she whispered to herself: "Unexpectedly, this orphan and widow turned out to be a traitor!" ”

Junko continued to read, and when he read the last few lines, his face suddenly turned white, the muscles on his face twitched, his body trembled involuntarily, and he clutched the letter with both hands, not knowing what to do.

It took a long time for Junko to react, and with trembling hands tore off the back half of the letter, threw away the upper half, put the lower half into his pocket, and fled the scene in a hurry, and when he ran out of two steps, he ran back and picked up the first half of the letter, and hurriedly put it in his pocket and ran away, and when he ran out of the house in a hurry, he tripped over something and fell heavily to the ground, and the letter fell out of his pocket and fell aside.

Junko looked around in horror, and then touched the black thing under his feet, only to find that it was a dead antelope.

"Your mother can't eat any meat, so it's good to honor Lao Tzu," Junzi scolded Ke Rong, picked up the antelope and walked out of the thatched house, disappearing into the dim sky.

It was completely dark, except for lightning bolts that lit up the space around them. The rain kept falling, as if the heavens were weeping for this poor woman.

In this dark night of heavy rain, every household in Linying County has turned off the lights and gone to sleep, only one house is still brightly lit, and the noise coming from the house has also caused the neighbors' dogs to howl. As soon as you enter the house, you can see an old man with gray hair and a haggard face busy with something next to the stove, and next to the entrance door there is a random antelope skin. In the middle of the floor of the back room was a large simple round table, on which were several jars of wine of various sizes, and along the edge of the table were a dozen or so large bowls. Around the table sat a disheveled man, some lying on the table, some looking at Erlang's legs, some humming a small tune, all kinds of postures looked very chaotic, and directly north of the round table sat a middle-aged man with sharp ears and monkey cheeks, looking at his appearance is obviously a Shunzi who had a conflict with Ke Rong during the day.

"It's all spirited, who's going to pour a drink for everyone?" Junko scolded everyone.

"I'm coming, Brother Junko" Hearing Junko's scolding, a quick-witted young man got up, picked up the wine on the table, and poured wine for everyone around the table.

"Do you know why I invited you to drink today?" Junko asked with a dry cough.

A fat man sitting next to Junko squirmed his fat body and echoed: "Of course it's Brother Junzi's righteousness!" ”

"yes, yes!" "Brother Shunzi is the most righteous," after listening to the words of the fat man, these people echoed in unison, raised the wine glass in their hands, and drank in unison: "Respect Brother Shunzi." ”

Junko had a smug smile on her face, picked up the wine on the table and held it with everyone and drank it down.

"The meat is ready," said the old man, who was busy in the outhouse, brought in a steaming pot of collar mutton and placed it in the center of the table, and the smell of meat filled the room.

"Junko, you drink less!" The old man put the meat basin down and said to Junko.

"Okay, I see, don't chatter," Junko replied impatiently, then ignored the old man and reached out to grab the meat in the basin.

The old man looked at Shunzi and stopped talking, sighed helplessly, and when he turned to leave, Junzi stopped him, took out a few pieces of meat from the basin and put them in a bowl, handed them to the old man, and said, "These are for you, and I won't say that I am not filial in the future!" ”

The old man took the bowl of meat, shook his head and sighed and walked out of the room.

"Gollum" Everyone smelled the fragrance coming from the meat, stared at the meat on the table with their eyes intended, and swallowed and foamed.

"It's really disappointing," Junko complained, and then first picked up a piece of meat from the meat basin and chewed it in his mouth, waved the hand holding the meat to everyone, and said vaguely, "Well, it tastes good, brothers eat it!" Eat! Eat! ”

After listening to Junzi's words, the big men who couldn't bear it anymore seemed to have heard some amnesty, snatched the meat in the basin and bit it frantically.

"What about wine? Pour the wine," Junko shouted muttering incoherently as she chewed on the meat.

"Alas!" The clever young man agreed, and poured the wine one by one.

"I'm calling the big guys over today to tell you a chance to get rich," Junko said solemnly after everyone had poured their wines.

As soon as these words came out, everyone came and asked with interest.

"Quiet, quiet," the fat man sitting next to Junko stood up, stopped the noise, and said respectfully to Junko, "Is there anything to pay attention to Brother Junko?" If you say it, we'll follow you, won't we? Guys," he asked, as if he had to scan the crowd again.

"Yes," "Follow Brother Junko," there was another commotion.

"You all know Xiao Nakayu, right?" After everyone quieted down, Junko took a sip of wine and said slowly.

"Just that poor ghost? He is a well-known poor filial son, who doesn't know this! After speaking, the fat man looked at Junko with some confusion.

"You know what, the road to riches I'm talking about is on him," Junko said disdainfully.

"Isn't that kid hiding some great treasure? Haha," a tall man laughed.

"Treasure? Haha," the crowd couldn't help but laugh when they heard the tall man's words.

"You know what? That stinky boy is a thief," Junko yelled angrily as she looked at everyone's indifference.

As soon as these words came out, everyone suddenly fell silent, staring at Junko with an incredulous expression.

"When I went to that kid's house today, I saw that his mother had hanged herself," Junko said slowly, chewing on the meat in her mouth.

"Huh? Why did his mother suddenly commit suicide when she was so alive? The fat man asked in disbelief, and everyone present stared at Junko curiously.

Faced with this question, Junko's body trembled obviously, and his right hand unconsciously touched the suicide note he hid in his pocket. He tried his best to suppress his uneasy look in a changed voice and said: "First of all, no matter how his mother died, I found out in the suicide note left by his mother that they turned out to be the daughter and grandson of the anti-thief Fang La," said he wanted to take out the suicide note from his pocket, but the top half of the suicide note was gone, but he didn't need to be that fast now, as long as the lower half of the suicide note lay quietly in his arms.

There was silence, there was silence in the room, and everyone opened their mouths in astonishment, and their faces were full of disbelief.

After a few moments, the fat man first recovered from his shock and asked in a low voice, "Then what are we going to do?" ”。

"How? I'll go tomorrow and arrest any traitor and hand it over to the county government to receive the reward," Junko said with a gloomy face.

"Xiao Zhongyu's skills are so powerful, can you beat it?" The obese man asked with some concern.

Junko didn't answer immediately, but glanced at everyone with gloomy eyes, and everyone bowed their heads under Junko's glance, and the room fell silent again.

"No matter how good he is, can he still deal with many of us?" The clever guy pretended to be brave and expressed his attitude first: "Brother Shunzi, as long as you say a word, I will follow you to the soup." ”

"Okay" Junko slapped the table and shouted: "As long as you catch Xiao Zhongyu, everyone will eat fragrant, drink spicy, and play with women openly." ”

"Grab Xiao Zhongyou and follow Brother Shunzi to the soup," Hearing this, everyone also came to the spirit and rushed to express their attitude.

With a satisfied smile on her face, Junko picked up the wine bowl and raised it to the front and shouted, "Come, brothers, do it for tomorrow's fortune." ”

"," the group raised their bowls and touched one place.

There was silence in the thatched hut on a dark rainy night, save for the sound of rain outside and the occasional thunderclap.

Lightning swept across the sky frequently, illuminating everything in the thatched hut. A noble woman lay quietly on the wooden bed, while Ke Rong fainted and lay motionless on the ground.

A thunderclap resounded in the sky, Ke Rong's body shook, he suddenly opened his bloodshot eyes, he quickly climbed onto the wooden bed, and shouted in his mouth, "Niangniang, wake up, don't leave me," he shouted hoarsely, because his voice had become hoarse in the crying in front of him.

He shouted like this, and kept shaking the body of the unresponsive woman, which was actually a corpse, but he didn't want to believe it, and he didn't accept this reality.

A flash of lightning flashed in the sky and illuminated the woman's corpse, Ke Rong looked at the woman's corpse in front of him, and slowly stopped shaking. He slumped to the ground, his eyes turned dead and gray, and he couldn't see any life. He was stunned for a while, then suddenly got up and ran outside, pointed to the sky, and scolded, "God... Give back my mother's life," and then he raised his hands and slammed them into the ground, smashing the hard ground into a deep pit, he kept pounding the ground, beating himself like a crazy King Kong, slammed the door and ran into the house, raging everything around him, and his actions seemed so confused in this dark night, until he saw that he was drowned in this endless darkness. He shouted hysterically, "Why, why, why" and his voice seemed so weak in the rainy night that it was drowned out in the thunderclap. It was only when lightning flashed that he could see that the blood that had flowed from his body because of his raging and his tears were so terrifying.

He went crazy for a while, and then suddenly his body stiffened, and he fell to the ground and passed out again. His body was already exhausted, and his body and mind were already completely broken.