Chapter 32 Traces are like smoke
It was already dark, and the horse caravan had been exhausted after a day's journey, so they stopped at an inn.
Everyone dismounted one after another and went into the store to eat and rest.
Su Jinmeng, the daughter of the Su family, was also absent-minded when she ate, and she looked out of the store from time to time.
Su Ruqi: "Into a dream, what are you doing, eat quickly!"
Su Jinmeng: "That black-hearted snake is also hungry, I'll send him some food." ”
When she said this, everyone around her looked up at her. The gaze was so strange, like looking at a monster.
Su Ruqi had a gloomy face and didn't speak, Su Ruqi was silent for a while, he didn't dare to say this anymore, lowered his head and continued to eat.
The people ate and went out the door. The prisoners in the prison cart in the courtyard leaned weakly against the pillars of the prison cart, their hair covered in disarray, and they were half asleep.
Su Jinqi walked over and poked him hard with a horsewhip, right on his cracked wound, "Oh! The prisoner opened his eyes in pain and reflexively sat up.
His haggard and painful eyes looked at the group of wolf-like people in front of him in a panic, it was so helpless and painful.
Su Jinqi whipped him fiercely on his injured body: "Kneel for me, don't sleep, don't lean against the pillar!"
The prisoner moved tremblingly, kneeling in the prisoner's cart, his head bowed, and his hair was covered with a mess to cover his face.
The people walked towards their lodgings.
The sky was pouring rain.
Su Jinmeng looked at the prisoner kneeling in the prison car, and then looked at the rain, "Brother, it's raining." ”
Su Jinqi: "Hmm. ”
Su Jinmeng: "Let him go to the store to take shelter from the rain." ”
Su Jinqi: "What does he do, go to rest early, and you have to hurry tomorrow morning." ”
Su Jinmeng had no choice but to go to his room with everyone to rest.
Her room was upstairs, and from the window she could see the prison cart in the courtyard.
She stood by the window, looking at the prisoner cart, at the prisoner in the prisoner cart.
Although there was no one in the courtyard, the prisoner was still kneeling.
Kneeling all the time......
The rain drifted and fell on him, gradually soaking his thin body.
The girl upstairs kept looking at him, secretly watching him. My heart is really full of pity and forbearance for him.
There is also a strong melancholy......
Look blank......
............
The kneeling prisoner was extremely uncomfortable, and finally, he moved his body and slowly raised his head.
The girl who peeked at him upstairs left the window and hid behind the wall.
After a while, the girl could not control herself again, and secretly looked down from the window again.
The prisoner hung his head weakly, tired, painful and cold, and his body curled up by a rope, almost lying at the bottom of the prisoner's cart.
The girl stood in front of the window and looked at the poor man secretly.
I saw him trembling all over.
Maybe it's because of the cold, or maybe there is pain,
Because of the pain of the body, and the pain of the heart,
His whole body trembled uncontrollably.
The girl who peeked at him was full of distress for him, but she couldn't and didn't dare to do anything for this man who didn't have the slightest personal freedom.
She just stood there and looked at him secretly,
I've been secretly watching like this,
Secretly watching......
Look at him......
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The Su family manor is one of the best in the local area, and its jurisdiction includes mountainous pastorals, which are extremely vast. After the submission, coupled with the rewards of the imperial court, the scope was even wider.
There are many dependent people in the jurisdiction.
Some of the old departments of the Fuyun Society became the Su family's guards and domestic servants, and some became tenant farmers and other tenant farmers who lived in the manor, and the control was extremely strict.
There are corresponding regulations for the entry and exit of tenant domestic helpers around the jurisdiction.
The horse team that went to Shifu to pick up the prisoners returned to the Su family manor.
The Su brothers and sisters entered the hall and sat down to rest.
Su Jinqi: "Bring the black-hearted snake up." ”
The guards escorted Shi Yue into the hall.
Everyone looked coldly at the prisoner who was kneeling on the ground.
After two days of running, Shi Yue, who had not eaten a drop of water, no longer had any strength.
He was curled up and kneeling there, so small and humble.
Su Jinqi said coldly: "Raise your head!"
Shi Yue raised his head weakly.
Su Jinqi looked at him carefully.
He stepped down from his seat, slowly walked in front of Shi Yue, and lifted Shi Yue's face with the horsewhip in his hand to make him face him.
He looked at the scarred face and saw the dark writing on his forehead.
Su Jinqi: "Cheap...... People!"
He couldn't help but laugh when he looked at those two words.
Su Jinqi sneered: "These two words are quite in line with you!"
After thinking about it for a while, I felt a little puzzled, "How could I give you these two words?"
"Who gave it to you?!"
"Oh, could it be that he is a member of the Shi family!"
He stared at the man on the ground in surprise.
Skinny and scarred all over his body that he couldn't bear to see.
It was still early spring, the weather was still cold, and he was wearing only a tattered thin coat.
The muscles on the body are not fully covered and exposed.
Because of the cold, I was still shivering.
What has this person, all these years, been through?!
He thought it was unreasonable.
Is this a black-hearted snake?!
This was once a famous black-hearted snake that made the people of the Fuyun Society frightened, hated and feared!
How did you become the way you are?!
He remembered seeing this man years ago.
Although he was his enemy, to be honest, this man was quite handsome at that time.
He is also a member of the Shi family, how could those relatives of his treat him like this?
Appalling!
What a heart!
However, he deserves it!
This great enemy of the Restoration Society, how many Restoration Society brothers have been killed!
Especially his own great enemy!
His own father died at the hands of this wicked man!
His mother also died tragically in the war he commanded.
Thinking of this, he was angry and sad, and anger rushed up.
Raising the whip in his hand, he slammed it at the man kneeling on the ground.
He whipped a few times, stopped, and stared in horror at the man he had been abused by.
The man knelt there motionless, except groaning in pain, and allowed his whip to fall on him!
Don't say resist, even the instinctive dodge, he controls not to do it!
Has he always been arbitrarily **** by others like this, and he didn't dare to resist and protect himself in any way?!
It's so submissive!
The young manor owner Su Jinqi was so confused that he didn't know what to do for a while.
Looking at the extremely painful and numb man in front of him, he felt that it was a very cruel act to beat him.
He raised the whip again, and he couldn't do it a bit!
He felt very annoyed that he had such a strange thought.
Su Jinqi: "Come on, drag this person to the dam, let all the people come to watch him and spit on him!"
He thought for a moment, then added, "Let the guards keep watch, and don't let those angry people kill him!"
The manor is full of people from the Fuyun Society, and every one of them hates the Black-Hearted Snake and can't tear him apart!
This can't be done, this person is going to be tortured slowly!
When the guards heard this, they stepped forward and dragged Shi Yue up, escorted him to the dam of the manor, and made him kneel there.
There were more and more onlookers on the dam, and everyone rushed to tell each other, and the black-hearted snake was caught!
The guards held weapons and firmly guarded Shi Yue.
But it still can't curb people's hatred and disgust.
People spat on him and threw all sorts of things at him.
They even picked up stones from the ground and hit him.
Several stones hit Shi Yue's body, cracking his skin and causing blood.
With the help and shouting of the guards, the violence was stopped.
But with it came all sorts, softer and dirtier things that hit him.
A chubby aunt came over with a basin of foot-washing water and shouted, "Get out of the way!"
With a "bang", all the dirty water was poured on Shi Yue's body.
Looking at him who was drenched in soup, the wolf dam was unbearable, and everyone laughed.
"Bah, bah, bah" Everyone vigorously tied up the enemy, kneeling there motionless and not daring to move, spitting happily.
The wanton humiliation poured out the hatred and pain that had accumulated in my heart for many years.
At the same time, they also vented all the dissatisfaction and hurt brought about by the war between the court and them for many years, but they could not and had nowhere to vent, on this person who knelt in front of them and did not dare to resist in the slightest.
Shi Yue, who was soaked all over, was covered with saliva and dirt, shivering with cold.
The body that has been tightly bound by hemp rope for a long time, unable to move at all, the uncomfortable feeling, it is really impossible to express in words.
He hung his head and allowed these strangers, whom he had never met, to abuse him wantonly.
Over the years, all kinds of self-ravages have become numb.
In the eyes of these people, they are not a flesh-and-blood person at all.
Just an object that they can ravage, play with, and manipulate at will!
The uncontrollable moaning and screaming were just a sound in their ears.
Shi Yue was so cold that his whole body trembled, and his legs were numb from kneeling.
I really can't stand it.
When will this abuse and humiliation end!
Kneel down again, and I really can't hold on!
Shi Yue is getting colder and colder, and he has less and less strength.
Consciousness is getting more and more blurred.
At some point, he finally couldn't hold on anymore and fell to the ground.
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It was a small cell, dimly lit, with only a small window in the wall letting in the light.
Shi Yue was curled up in the corner, still tied with hemp rope.
The sound of the door opening woke him up, and he opened his eyes slightly.
A jailer came in, and he brought Shi Yue some food.
The jailer put the food in front of him, and then walked over to untie the hemp rope on Shi Yue's body.
Without saying a word, go out and lock the door.
The prisoner, who had not eaten for two days and nights, did not look at the food in front of him.
The eyes are not a little angry,
Fixed, dumbfounded.
I don't know where I'm looking,
I don't know what I'm thinking.
The face is like ashes.
............
I don't know how long later, the door to the cell was opened again.
Shi Yue heard the sound of the door opening, but he still had his eyes closed, lying on the ground, motionless.
A man walked in.
Looking at the man on the ground who described the withered tree, the food around him was still there, and he didn't move.
The visitor sighed softly.
She walked over, squatted beside Shi Yue, and put the basket of food in her hand on the ground.
Shi Yue felt the breath of the other party approaching him, and he slowly opened his eyes.
I saw a seventeen or eighteen-year-old woman in front of me.
He lowered his eyes blankly.
Su Jinmeng hesitated, "You ......"
Su Jinmeng: "Why don't you eat?"
Su Jinmeng: "You better eat something! You haven't eaten for three days!"
Seeing that the other party did not move, she sighed lightly.
Su Jinmeng: "No matter what, you can drink some water!"
She handed the water in her hand to Shi Yue, Shi Yue's lips were already dry and shelled, but he looked at the water but still didn't move.
His heart was truly dead to ashes, without any life.
Life is so desperate, it hurts to the bone,
Then let's be thorough!
Su Jinmeng saw his intentions and knew that he had made up his mind to seek a decisive decision.
I couldn't help but feel unbearable pain in my heart.
The eyes are sparkling.
Su Jinmeng: "You can't be like this, you have to be strong!"
Shi Yue was stunned for a moment, couldn't help but raise his eyes, and looked at the woman in front of him.
This woman was only seventeen or eighteen years old, and her appearance was so beautiful, but her dress was so gorgeous.
Such a dress should be a nobleman.
How could you go to this filthy prison cell and bring food to your own lowly prisoner?!
And with such a gentle attitude, speak to yourself!
Even if you say something like this!
Ever since he was considered a prisoner, who has ever treated himself with this attitude?
Except for the two children,
No one sees themselves as a person.
Even in their eyes, they are inferior to lowly beasts.
Whoever you are, you can trample and humiliate yourself at will.
Su Jinmeng handed him the water in his hand,
Su Jinmeng: "Drink some water!"
Suddenly, Shi Yue faintly felt that this woman was a little familiar?
Where do you think you've seen it?
Where is it......
When......
He searched in his mind......
Traces, like smoke......
Looming......
Foggy and confused......
It seems to be visible but not grasped......
............
Ah, probably that day in the Shifu hall, this woman seemed to have come with her to escort herself!
Shi Yue lowered his head silently, leaning against the wall weakly, his face was like earth, and he was silent.
Su Jin dreamed of him like this, and his heart was very uncomfortable, and tears almost burst out of his eyes.
Su Jinmeng: "You can ignore yourself, but you must live!"
"You still have such a small child waiting for you!"
Shi Yue's heart palpitated,
Ah, little Dan!
His already numb heart twitched with pain.
Little Dan!
My poor child!
The thin and pitiful image of Xiao Dan came to mind,
The heart is like a knife.
Little Dan's big, bright eyes, like stars twinkling,
looked at himself, but tears were glending......
Such helplessness,
So pathetic.
Shi Yue's heart was about to break.
Why are you so selfish?
Because he couldn't bear the suffering of life, he wanted to abandon the poor child!
He is so young, he doesn't have a loved one, he is gone, he, what to do?!
Shi Yue's dry eyes gradually moistened.
He slowly turned his gaze to the water in Su Jinmeng's hand,
Slowly, slowly, reached out and took the water.
A teardrop swayed, swayed......
Finally it dripped, dripped in a bowl, and dissolved into one with the water.
Shi Yue's chapped lips leaned towards the bowl and drank them together......
Su Jinmeng opened the lunch box, took out the food and put it in front of him,
Then he took up the food that the jailer had served, and stood up,
She gave him a long, long look,
With a deep sigh, he turned around and walked out.
Shi Yue looked at the food on the ground and was stunned,
This food is really good, not only food and vegetables, but also meat!
It's all fresh!
The people here treat the prisoners really well.
It's rare!