In the bedroom, there was a long silence, and the air seemed to freeze, and the atmosphere of stagnation could not be diluted at all.

However, Zu Zhao seemed to have made up his mind, and he had no intention of leaving or continuing to ask, just waiting patiently for Xin Qiubai to answer. For him, whether he can break Xin Qiubai's guard is completely up to him.

After a long time, Xin Qiubai suddenly lowered the wooden bowl in her hand, she didn't turn her head to look at Zu Zhao, and said in a faint tone: "Yesterday, you obviously had many opportunities to kill me, but you didn't do that. I killed so many people in your ancestral village, and I almost killed you several times, and even your own said that the struggle between life and death has no morality at all. I want to ask you, why don't you kill me. ”

Her voice was clean, without the murderous intent and anger she had before, like an unpretentious country girl.

The other party's rhetorical question made Zu Zhao a little unsure of how to answer, if he told Xin Qiubai the truth that he just wanted to get clues from him, it might only increase the negative impact. After a moment's hesitation, he said, "Because you didn't kill me when you were in Taishoufu." You may say that one life is worth one life, and you and I should not owe each other anything else, but it was the moment when Taishou Mansion made me feel that you were not hopeless, or rather, so bad. ”

Xin Qiubai glanced at Zu Zhao in surprise, and then lowered his head again. She said in a calm voice: "If you have such thoughts, sooner or later one day they will kill you." ”

Zu Zhao suddenly smiled and said, "At least, I didn't die in your hands. ”

Hearing this seemingly playful remark, Xin Qiubai was stunned for a moment, and soon smiled at the corner of his mouth. The smile is like a simple orchid, not so charming or bright, but it is extremely real.

For a moment, Zu Zhao felt that Xin Qiubai was indeed a beauty embryo, the kind of mature and alienated beauty, even if there was a shocking scar on his cheek, it was difficult to hide this innate charm.

After a while, Xin Qiubai sighed again, she wiped the oil stains and rice grains on the corner of her mouth with her arm, her eyes gradually became lost and dull, and she said sadly: "You know, in fact, you don't know me at all." The reason why I didn't kill you that day in Taishou Mansion was nothing else, just because you looked like my younger brother. If not, I will still kill you, no matter how young you are. ”

Zu Zhao had long expected that there must be a story behind Xin Qiubai, a weak woman could not hesitate to join forces with Hu Ma and thieves, and wantonly kill her own compatriots, this could never be due to nature. He was not disappointed by this sentence, and Xu Sheng said: "No matter what, since you can still care about your family in your heart, it can also prove that you are not a cold-blooded person." ”

Xin Qiubai sneered, contemptuous and sad, she said, "You won't understand my past at all, because you were born in such a prosperous big family, and you have no worries about food and clothing since you were a child. But my parents, my brother and sister, they worry about filling their stomachs every day. Regardless of whether the harvest was good or bad this year, there was never a time when our family was full. Those old men would rather watch us starve to death one by one than give away the rotten grain in the warehouse. It is precisely because of big landlords and gentry like you that so many people will starve to death in the world. ”

At this point, her laughter gradually turned to choking, her head hung down, her hair scattered, and the tears in her eyes were like full buds, but the overflowing tears were like withered petals.

Zu Zhao finally understood Xin Qiubai's heartache, and he saw his relatives starving to death, so he hated the privileged class, and everything was so logical. To be honest, he doesn't have such an obvious hatred for people like Xin Qiubai, even though the other party has killed many children of the same clan, but compared to Hu Thief, Niu Hai, Liu An and the like, he always deserves a sympathy. After all, Niu Hai and Liu An are not only to meet the most basic survival conditions, but also to grasp a certain privilege of life and death, and always hold a bit of speculation in the hope of satisfying more of their selfish desires.

Sinking slightly, he said in a gentle voice: "There is no so-called fairness and justice in this world. I sympathize with what you have suffered, but since you can't change it, you can only face it calmly. At the very least, the past can be let pass, and if you have the opportunity, or if you are willing to work hard, you will definitely be able to change your future destiny. ”

Xin Qiubai sneered, her face was first teased, and then turned gloomy, she said sadly: "It's really funny, I have come to this point, naturally there is no room to turn back." What's more, I never regret my choice. I only hope that while I live, I can kill more wicked people. ”

Zu Zhao Zhengse said: "Wicked? Do you really think that all the rich people in the world are wicked? ”

Xin Qiubai didn't back down at all, and said in a strong tone: "Isn't it? Don't think that if you saved me today, I will be grateful to you. If you ask yourself, have you ever oppressed and exploited the poor in your own family? You people can't get out of it. It is precisely because of the malicious exploitation of you people that so many poor people are forced to rise up today. ”

Zu Zhao knew that Xin Qiubai's mind was now deep-rooted, and it was really difficult to convince her by words alone. He sighed again and said, "If you really think that the people who rise up now are just trying to survive, why are you reduced to the point where you can't even eat a bowl of rice?" Yes, I admit that the current unrest in the county is related to many displaced and miserable people, but do you really think that they will have food to eat if they rebel? Don't you think they're being taken advantage of? Or how many of them will not have enough to eat after they fill their stomachs? ”

He could actually roughly guess that Xin Qiubai was wandering alone, and he must have had a conflict with his accomplices, or he was abandoned by his accomplices. Since he couldn't convince Xin Qiubai from a positive point, he could only weaken the other party's stubborn thoughts by knocking on the side, at least it was not completely impossible to talk.

Xin Qiubai was stunned, her originally gloomy expression showed a layer of loss, she hung her head, sluggish, and didn't make any other movements at all, just let her fall into a fixed spell.

It seems that I guessed correctly! Zu Zhao saw it in his eyes and sighed secretly in his heart.

After a while, Xin Qiubai slowly spoke: "I can only say that I saw the wrong person." ”

Zu Zhao sighed: "But you can't look at the surface of everything. ”

Xin Qiubai suddenly looked a little stunned, and said almost stupidly: "I will kill him too." ”

Zu Zhao was stunned and asked strangely, "Who?" ”

Xin Qiubai seemed to be detached from her memories, she raised her eyes at Zu Zhao, her eyes were full of complexity, but she didn't speak.

Zu Zhao knew that the other party must still have a mustard in his heart, he would not rush to ask Xin Qiubai for the intelligence clues he needed, and when they could further trust each other, he believed that Xin Qiubai would not have other psychological burdens at that time. After a pause, he changed his tone and said, "Okay, you can rest here in peace these days." However, I advise you not to have any more troubled thoughts, no matter what kind of grievances you and I have, I just hope that it can be stopped for a while, can you agree? ”

Xin Qiubai pondered for a while, and although he didn't speak, he nodded slightly.

Zu Zhao then said, "If you need anything, you can give orders to the servants outside the door. Alright, you have a good rest, and I will take my leave. With that, he turned and walked away.

Xin Qiubai looked at Zu Zhao's back, his expression was indistinguishable-

[There's another chapter later, around half past eleven!] 】