"Wow......"

A faint cry ran against her earlobes and cheeks, melting into the unclear darkness ahead.

Xu Shi was full of excitement, and suddenly thought of what he had followed to come here......

It was the cry of a baby, not loud, but it was poignant and hoarse, and it could easily break through the silence of the night......

She also seemed to see a series of footprints stretching from the other side of the boardwalk, leading her step by step to the river. The footprints were small, about the size of half a palm of her hand, and they seemed to be stained with black ash. She thought that the owner of the feet might have stepped barefoot on the ashes, so that she could leave such a string of black footprints.

Ashes......

The two words that passed through her heart made her back suddenly feel a chill, she still remembered that winter night, the two brothers of the Gu family were sitting together eating wine, and when she brought them food, she occasionally heard the conversation between the two.

"Recently...... It was so much that I burned it all afternoon...... Loaded with three dustpans......"

"All in the river? Didn't anyone see it? ”

"No, don't worry, big brother."

"I'm sorry for you, but someone has to do this errand, you are my brother, and I can only rely on you."

"What is polite to the family, by the way, eldest brother, let my sister-in-law boil a basin ......of hot water for me in a while, I will wash it well, get dusty, and she will ask again when I go back."

"They are all married, and she has to know the situation in the village sooner or later, so it is better to tell her as soon as possible."

"Don't worry, wait...... She's timid, don't scare her......"

Of course she knew what they were talking about, but after so many years, Gu Yuyin had never specifically mentioned this matter in front of her, and she had never asked, and the two seemed to have reached a tacit understanding in silence, a tacit understanding that they would never mention this matter.

But can silence bury everything? Today, she suddenly questioned this deeply.

"Wow......" A sharp cry fell from above, like a cry, sighing quietly.

Xu Shi seemed to be stupid, his two eyes were round, but there was no emotion in his eyeballs. Because she found that she suddenly had something in her arms, two feet long, with white flowers on a blue background......

Inside, there seemed to be something else wriggling, gently, softly.

***

"Qingzhou County Commander Li Hai has always wondered why the imperial court's ban has been under for so many years, and why he has sent people to guard the Yuhe River all the year round, but the number of people is still decreasing, especially in Sanping Village. By now, the mystery should have been solved. The sick, the unfed, and the unwanted were all sent to the tower and burned alive. Gu Lizheng, over the years, your 'contribution' to Sanping Village is really not small. ”

Gu Yuyin's sallow face now became a little blue, and after his lips trembled slightly a few times, he squeezed out a few words from between his teeth: "Forgive the villain for being stupid, the villain...... The villain can't understand what the adults are saying. ”

Zhao Zimai gritted his teeth and sneered twice, "It doesn't matter if you don't understand, but I want to tell you one thing, today your brother Gu Yuming's soul was brought back, but soon, he was devoured by an evil spirit." Guess what's this thing? ”

Gu Yuyin stared at Zhao Zimai for a long time, and finally slowly lowered his head and muttered, "My lord is a big man from the capital, how can he still believe in such a strange force?" ”

As soon as the words fell, he felt his neck tighten, and he couldn't breathe. Baotian knelt on the bed on one knee, grabbed his collar with one hand, and said viciously to him, "You can answer whatever my son-in-law asks, otherwise, don't blame me for not having long eyes with this fist." ”

Gu Yuyin was strangled by him to tears, but the words he said were still tough: "I don't know, I don't know, do you still want to force the fight to succeed?" ”

"Baotian, let him go." Zhao Zimai walked to the side of the bed and said these words calmly.

"Childe ......"

Gu Li was afraid that he and his fellow villagers would be punished by the government, so he naturally didn't want to say it. But I don't think he has figured it out yet: the entire Sanping Village is now full of resentment, and there is a tendency for luck to be approaching, and his younger brother Gu Yuming is a good example. In the long run, if we do not intervene, I am afraid that the lives of the whole village will be lost. Compared with this, what is the rod and punishment? ”

After saying this sentence slowly, Zhao Zimai picked a chair and sat down, sipping tea while paying attention to Gu Yuyin's expression.

Gu Yuyin was gasping for breath, obviously being strangled by Baotian just now, but gasping and panting, he began to laugh, and the voice came out of his nose, not big, but like a steel needle, piercing Zhao Zimai's heart.

"Resentment? Does the adult mean revenge? He forced a laugh and put his hands into fists to his mouth and coughed a few times.

"You don't believe me?"

Gu Yuyin made a cold face, "Believe it or not, but I did it, if God really thinks that I Gu Yuyin is not punishable, then come and accept me, my cheap life is not comparable to that of adults, if you don't have it, it's gone." ”

"Gu Yuyin, so far, you still don't repent, and you haven't apologized to those children who died at your hands?"

Zhao Zimai looked at the middle-aged man in front of him, his ordinary face was written with a quality that he had never had: tenacity. Tenacity is often built on despair, and those who have experienced despair are either defeated or indestructible.

He was suddenly a little depressed, because he knew that his words could not shake a strong and fearless heart.

"Lord Zhao, looking at you like this, you should have never suffered hardship, so you definitely don't know what it's like to be hungry. I'll tell you, hunger feels like there are tens of thousands of claws scratching at your empty stomach, and you won't stop without scratching them and making a hole. He spread out one of his palms, "My lord, do you see these scars on my palms?" I cut it out of myself when I was a child, and I was so hungry that I cut it and licked my own blood. Adults say that blood is sweet and warm, and that's true, and it tastes much better than rotten bark and grass roots. ”

He slowly held his hand, looked up at Zhao Zimai's serious face as frozen as ice, and chuckled, "Some things are cruel in the eyes of adults, so cruel that they are unreasonable, but if you look at it from the perspective of this land where I live, maybe it is not so incomprehensible, do you say yes?" ”

As soon as she said this, the door of the house was suddenly pushed open, and Xu walked in from the outside, she was wet from head to toe, as if she had just been fished out of the water.

She walked to the side of the bed in three steps and two steps, her eyes lit up, and she said loudly to Gu Yuyin, "Official, we have a child, we have a child." ”