Chapter 981: Troubled Times
The man who was called the steward did not pay attention to her, but turned his eyes around the shipyard, and his eyes gradually showed a lewd attitude, and fell on the cat-hugging woman who was half-lying on the couch.
The woman was targeted by him, with a look of fear and disgust in her eyes, and her body stiffened but did not stand up.
The man narrowed his eyes and walked over to her.
In the sound of footsteps of 'dong dong dong', the boat shop shook slightly, and except for the woman lying on the couch, the other women all showed relieved looks.
Under the hazy red light, the face of the woman prostrate on the couch gradually turned pale, and the uneasiness in her eyes quickly expanded, but the corners of her mouth had been hooked, revealing a flattering look.
"Lord Steward—"
"Get out of the way!"
The man didn't pity her, and pushed her hard, pushing her body like a water snake away from the couch, revealing the white cat she was hiding underneath.
The white cat was frightened, arched its back, made a 'ha' sound, and turned to slip away—
But the man reached out and grabbed it by the tail, and lifted it upside down:
"Haha, I didn't expect to find a good thing today......"
The cat's tail was lifted upside down, and in the midst of the terrible cry, he immediately showed his claws and scratched the man's face hard.
'Whew-'
The claws cut through the flesh, leaving several deep marks.
The man let out a scream and subconsciously let go of his hand.
The white cat took advantage of this opportunity to flexibly turn over and jump on the bed, and quickly escaped and jumped on the beam, making a threatening sound of 'woo'.
"Brute! How dare you catch me! ”
"Your Excellency, spare your life—"
The woman who had been kicked off the couch did not care about the pain, sat up and took the man's leg, and cried out bitterly:
"The slave will take your sin for it—"
"Get out of here!"
The man in a fit of rage kicked her hard in the chest, covered his face with one hand, and said viciously:
"I'm going to send your boatload of men into the Red Camp and skin and debone that beast!"
"Your Excellency spares your life."
When the other women in the shipyard heard this, they all looked panicked, and looked at the woman holding the cat, showing resentment.
"Sister Qiao keeps a cat privately, and it has nothing to do with us."
"This cat has hurt the adult, and we are willing to peel the skin for the adult and make it into leather goods and present it to the adult."
Several women scrambled to beg for mercy, and the girl who was kneeling on the ground fell on all fours, swayed her body and crawled in the direction of the man, and said very flatteringly:
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"If you want to be angry, there are many ways, and please spare your life."
The rest of the men stood up, as if trying to catch the cat that had already been on the beam.
"Don't hurt my cat!"
The woman who was still crying and begging before endured the pain at this time, and stood up with a white face, looking like she was going to fight with everyone.
Several women quickly got into a mess, and between the tears of their clothes, the women were quickly wounded.
At this time, the eyes of the man covering his face fell on Song Qingxiao's body.
He had actually seen her from the time he entered the shipyard, and he vaguely felt that she was different from several other women.
After he entered the ship, the rest of the people showed more or less fear and panic.
And only Song Qingxiao has been looking at him calmly, as if he doesn't know his identity.
When he got angry, everyone competed to please him, but she sat on the bed and looked at him.
"Come here."
After seeing the man's gaze, Song Qingxiao hooked his fingers and said to him calmly.
When the man heard this, he smiled and showed a mouthful of yellow teeth: "I'm over, don't run away." ”
The women in this shipyard are not bad looking, and they are just the right age, but unfortunately they have been on the boat for a long time, but they are no longer what they used to be.
Compared with this boatload of women, Song Qingxiao's temperament is too unique.
She is like a touch of clear ice and snow, and when she sits there, it is difficult for men to ignore her.
Hearing her call at this moment made him disappear even the anger on his face from the previous scratch by the cat, and as if bewitched, he showed a lewd smile and walked in her direction.
'Meow-'
The stimulated white cat on the beam let out an uneasy low, and when the man walked half a step away from Song Qingxiao, he was about to reach out and press her shoulder-
But before his palm touched her body, she had already raised her leg and kicked him in the shin.
The 'bang' kick was accompanied by the sound of a 'click' of bones breaking.
The pain was far worse than being scratched by a cat, the man's face turned pale, and before he could scream, his body lost support and fell down.
Song Qingxiao grabbed his hair, held his chin with the other hand, and shook his palm, and the power came out through her palm.
The ice and snow instantly froze his head, sealing his screams in his throat.
She twisted her hands slightly, like turning a screw, and with a 'click' sound, the head that was frozen into ice crystals was unscrewed off by her and carried it in her hand.
'Tutu-'
Blood spouts poured out like fountains from the severed neck, but they were quickly frozen by the remnants of ice-based spiritual power.
The headless corpse lost its support and slowly slid down at her feet, falling to her feet with a 'thud', instantly scaring several women in the shipyard who were fighting.
Song Qing let go of his hand, his head fell to the ground with a bang, and he rolled off his foot.
The woman in the shipyard trembled, and suddenly did not dare to speak again.
Even the white cat on the roof beams tightened its legs, trying to hide its body in the shadows.
"Tell me, where did these ships come from, and where did you come from?"
She trampled the still twitching headless corpse and asked.
Several women were blank, looking at her with horror in their expressions.
It wasn't until a long time later that the woman holding the cat, who was torn and beaten by several women, straightened up her hair and clothes, and squeezed out a smile:
"It's a long story......
"I have time, you can make it clear." Song Qingxiao interrupted her words, the woman paused, pushed away the woman who was paralyzed on top of her, and glanced at the beam:
"Can I find my cat first?"
"Yes."
Song Qing nodded.
She entered a hundred years ago, coinciding with the siege of the Li Dynasty.
It seems that Zhang Shouyi has not gone crazy at this time, that is to say, he has not caused the slaughter of Shen Zhuang, so that the tragedy of a hundred years later.
At this time, Song Qing had a lot of doubts in his caution, and he needed to find clues to sort them out one by one.
Before she entered a hundred years, she should have been inseparable from the female ghost with a red light she saw on the river before.
The song sung by the female ghost seems to be related to the emotion of marriage.
And this female ghost got her into a hundred years ago, I don't know if there is any secret hidden in it.
"Mimi, come down."
The woman received her answer, quickly calmed down, and called at the cat on the beam.
'Meow ......'
The white cat heard the call of its master, showed its head, and barked timidly.
The woman called a few more times, but the frightened cat was lying on the beam, I don't know if it was frightened, or because it was too high to jump down, it could only keep meowing.
When the other women heard this one cat meow after another, their faces were uneasy, and they turned their heads from time to time to look in the direction of the boathouse, as if they were afraid that they would alarm the others again.
The woman who called the cat seemed to be very patient, and did not care about anything outside her body, but instead called the cat wholeheartedly, and at the same time walked to the place where the white cat was hiding, and stretched out her arms high:
"Come down ......"
In the end, the white cat seemed to obey the call of its master, and after several attempts, it mustered up the courage to leap into the woman's arms.
The woman's face showed a gentle and joyful smile, touched the cat's head a few times with pity, and then put her face against it, as if she had found her life, and after a long time, she looked up at Song Qingxiao and said:
"Where do you want to start?"
"Let's start with Li Guochao's pursuit of Zhang Shouyi."
The ghost disaster of Shenzhuang was the slaughter of the city when Zhang Shouyi retreated to Shenzhuang a hundred years ago, and Zhang Shouyi's slaughter of the city had a lot to do with the siege of Li Guochao.
Song Qingxiao wanted to learn more from Aunt Wu's mouth before, but unfortunately after a hundred years, the events of that year were no longer clear, and Aunt Wu couldn't tell the difference at all.
Now that we have returned to a hundred years ago, we are taking this opportunity to find out the cause of the incident.
Perhaps it was her sudden killing behavior that shocked the women, so when she called Li Guochao's name, she did not surprise the women.
The woman holding the cat lowered her head and muttered for a moment, as if organizing her thoughts, and then raised her head again after a while:
"Half a month ago, General Zhang failed to attack Liaocheng, led his troops to cross the river, and retreated to Shenzhuang."
Her gaze darkened, as if recalling the scene:
"At that time, Li Guochao had just become king in Liaocheng and won a battle, and it was when he was in high spirits, so he led his soldiers and forcibly summoned merchant ships to chase this place."
Song Qingxiao smiled faintly when she heard this.
The woman holding the cat saw her expression, as if she knew that she was not very satisfied with her words, and immediately smiled slightly, put her cheek against the cat's head, and continued:
"Let me tell you about Li Guochao."
Her voice was soft, as if she was afraid of startling the cat:
"Li Guochao is a scholar from a poor background, but when he was born, it is said that a vision fell from heaven."
"He planted some strange plants in his house, which are said to have been given by a mysterious woman, and they did not move for several years after they were planted, but when he was born, those seeds took root overnight, and blossomed into bowl-sized blood lotuses."
The blood lotus blooms, a different star descends from the sky, and the king of heaven is born!
This is the reason why Li Guochao called himself the king of heaven.
After he was born, the late Jin government has shown a trend of depletion, disasters continue in various places, corrupt officials and corrupt officials are rampant, but the court is powerless.
Li Guochao went to the examination several times, but his name fell to Sun Shan, and since then he has hated the imperial court and has turned against him.
"This person is very scheming, and has been looking for an opportunity, and during the drought four years ago, he claimed to be the emperor star from heaven and unveiled the uprising."
He claimed that he did not pay tribute or pay taxes, "everyone grows the land, and everyone shares the grain." ”
Therefore, he attracted many people to join his team along the way.
The people who joined him were desperate poor people, forced by exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes, just to have something to eat, and the whole family to have a way to live.
With the increase in the number of defectors, Li Guochao's ranks gradually expanded, and finally waved his army all the way south, and soon occupied Liaocheng.
"How do you know this?" When Song Qingxiao heard this, she felt a little playful in her heart, and couldn't help but ask her.
"How did I not know?" When the woman holding the cat heard her question, she immediately laughed:
"I am one of the people who led my parents to defect to Li Guochao together."
The smile on her face widened as she said this, but it didn't reach her eyes.
While speaking, she hugged the cat, and her eyes also turned around like cat's eyes, and under the red light, her eyes seemed to be sarcastic:
"Look at these people around you, who is not a defector to Li Guochao?"
This was a little unexpected for Song Qingxiao, she raised the corners of her eyebrows, and before she could ask, she saw the woman smile and bend her eyes:
"The king is known as not paying tribute, not paying taxes, having land for everyone to plant, and everyone to share grain, but in addition, the men in the family enlist as soldiers, and the women are useless, so they also need to be divided equally."
"Li Guochao called himself the Nine Heavenly Kings in Liaocheng, and set up three camps of yellow, white and red to detain women."
Among them, Huang Ying is the most important, and the wives and daughters of some dignitaries and dignitaries in Liaocheng lived in it, and they were beautiful and moving, and they were favored by him, about fifty or sixty people.
The white camp is second, and the camp selects beautiful and young women as his spare slaves and concubines, and will fill his yellow camp in the future.
In the red camp, there are some old and decrepit women, or women who have made mistakes, are beaten into it and used as military quartermasters.
"What is Quartermaster?"
Song Qingxiao frowned when she heard this.
"Don't you know about the quartermasters?" The woman holding the cat was stunned for a moment, and then explained with a smile:
"When the army fights, the grain and grass go first."
Her words contained a lot of meanings, which made Song Qingxiao's face cold.
"Besides," the woman holding the cat looked as if she didn't realize that she was not looking good at this moment, and lowered her head and pressed the cat's head, and said softly:
"It is also for the king's army to vent, if the life is good, maybe he will get out of the red camp, if the life is not good, he will be a ghost under the knife, and he will be washed and peeled off the pot, and he will make that plate of Chinese food and belly food."
She laughed, as if she didn't realize what terrible words she had said:
"A woman in troubled times, her life is like duckweed, but she lives with others, and dies with others, where can she take care of herself?"
“……”
Even Song Qingxiao has experienced a lot of terrifying trials, and has seen powerful ghosts and wicked people, but when she heard the words of the woman holding the cat, her eyes were still cold, and her feet stepped on the corpse hard.
'Boom! ’
The force passed through the corpse, stomping on the pedal, making a thud that caused the ship to sway.
Originally, the woman who didn't change her face when she mentioned the 'yellow, white and red' three camps, but when she saw the movement she made, she was shocked and trembled.
The woman tightened the white cat in her arms, and the cat was stimulated and let out a loud 'meow'.
"Don't be afraid, don't be afraid."
The woman holding the cat disturbed the cat, and hurriedly reached out to stroke the cat's neck, making a soothing sound in her mouth, but she didn't know whether this was to make herself not afraid, or to coax the cat to calm down.