Silence and darkness are intertwined.

Anger and helplessness struggled.

After a long time, Gu Changqing opened his mouth to break the terrifying silence.

"I'll get you up first."

He took the fire fold and shone it under his feet, and the short distance from Xie Ling to the entrance of the cave was quite clean, so he said, "You come here, it's okay, it's safe." You go up and get me some sticks and throw them down. ”

Xie Ling walked over, Gu Changqing half-squatted down and used his arms to build a ladder, Xie Ling stepped on it, and felt that it was almost over, as soon as Gu Changqing exerted his strength, Xie Ling went up.

I suppressed it for a moment below, and then I came out and felt that my breathing was smooth.

The world is big, and there is nothing more suffocating than death.

Xie Ling didn't delay, and collected some branches everywhere for him to throw in.

Gu Changqing lit a fire below, and only then did he completely see the situation in this cave.

The entrance to the cave is small, but the space inside is not very small.

After the firelight lit up, Gu Changqing saw that there were corpses everywhere, and what he saw just now under the light of the fire fold was only a part of them, and there were dozens of corpses in the entire cave.

Among them was the body of the shopkeeper who came out tonight and was carried out by two people at the Autumn Moon Inn.

Gu Changqing took a closer look with extremely heavy steps, there were only three or five corpses of adults, and the rest were all children a few years old.

Three-year-olds, five-year-olds, seven-year-olds, all this old.

Although it was winter, the smell of the cave was still a little subtle, and the decay gradually devoured the life of the person.

Gu Changqing couldn't help but curse the beast, Xie Ling lay on it and asked, "What's wrong?"

Xie Ling, who was above, would never have thought that there would be such a scene inside.

After asking a question, she didn't get an answer from Gu Changqing, so she jumped down again without thinking about it.

This jump shocked her feet numb, and then she looked at the firelight, which scared her scalp even more. I wanted to say something, but I couldn't say anything.

Gu Changqing's face was even more pale, his hands were clenched together, and his muscles were bursting up.

He had seen a lot of crimes, but it was the first time he had seen such cruelty.

The two of them stayed inside for a long time, silent and neither of them spoke.

After a long time, Gu Changqing got up and said, "Let's go back." ”

Returning to the Qiuyue Inn, he quietly led his horse away, whipped his horse all the way, and finally returned to the county office before the sun came out.

The person on night duty at the door was already drowsy, and when he heard the voice of the horse's name, he stood up, found that it was Gu Changqing, rubbed his eyes, saluted, and said, "My lord, why did you come back so early." ”

"Get me all the officials in the house." Gu Changqing said angrily.

Seeing him like this, the officials did not dare to delay, ran into the courtyard and knocked on the doors of each room, and the officials woke up in a daze, complaining that they would not be allowed to sleep well.

Then, after Gu Changqing slowly came out of his room, no one spoke anymore. Just keep your head down and look at your feet.

The officials were woken up suddenly, and they didn't know what important things had happened, some of them just came out in their cloaks, and even worse, they almost continued to sleep in a daze while standing.

"Time for a stick of incense, get dressed, lead the horse and follow me."

Gu Changqing's voice was colder than the air in the early morning, since he saw the child in the cave at night, he felt that the whole person was pressed by a fire, and now he couldn't control it when he saw these servants all like this.

"Let's go, what are you doing? Waiting for me to dress you! Seeing that the group of servants were at a loss, he couldn't help but scold.

A group of people hula and scattered.

One of them turned to Jiancheng and asked, "What do you say, my lord, I've never seen him like this." ”

Jiancheng shook his head, "How do I know, I didn't follow." ”

The group rushed to the border of Yong'an City in a hurry, and a group of officials blocked the Qiuyue Inn according to Gu Changqing's instructions without saying a word, and the other two, Jiancheng and Huang Wu, were responsible for leading people to find the shopkeeper who had gone crazy.

All this must have nothing to do with him.

Gu Changqing himself took a group of servants to the mountain, Xie Linglian followed Gu Changqing for dozens of miles of mountain roads, and at this time he already felt tired and collapsed, so he simply stayed at the inn.

That day, the shopkeeper who was extremely frightened when he saw Xie Ling was also taken inside by a group of people, carrying a package on his back, looking like he was going to escape.

Xie Ling looked at him, he didn't feel tired, and walked over with a wicked smile on his face.

The shopkeeper lowered his head, looked up by Xie Ling, and when he saw Xie Ling, he sat directly on the ground in fear.

"Grandma, please, I really didn't do this, it's all the shopkeeper, it's him, he ordered me I don't dare not go, you can just let me go, my family is still waiting for me to go back?"

The shopkeeper lowered his head and crackled and said something, Xie Ling reacted at this time, this person is so afraid that he has done something unseemly.

"Then tell me what the shopkeeper did to me." Xie Lingsi said coldly.

"The shopkeeper is going to sell it to you, and he has already agreed with the old bustard of a kiln." The shopkeeper said Nono.

"How much silver?"

Seeing that the shopkeeper lowered her head and didn't speak, she kicked hard, "I asked you how much silver you sold me." ”

The shopkeeper was kicked by a spirit, "It's not sold, it's not sold, you just leave." ”

As he spoke, he raised his head and casually glanced at Xie Ling's appearance, and lowered his head in fright, trembling all over.

Xie Ling found it interesting and continued to ask.

"Tell me, what's going on?"

Seeing that the shopkeeper hesitated and didn't know what to say, he kicked again, "You tell me well, if there is a lie, you will be finished." ”

After speaking, she glanced at the whole room, and the servants were doing things, and wanted to ask someone to move a stool for her, but then she thought about it, and she still went by herself, and said that people would not necessarily listen to her.

With a sigh, he moved the chair closest to him, sat on it, and crossed his calves, intending to listen carefully.

"That day, the shopkeeper said he wanted to invite you to drink..."

"Don't say I know." Xie Ling interrupted him unceremoniously, "From the time I got drunk. ”

"The shopkeeper is in the business of selling people, that is, to sell women to some Qinglou, wealthy people, since you want to stay here, the shopkeeper has already paid attention, and has already negotiated with others, invited you to dinner that day, he actually secretly drugged your wine."

"I'll just say, I'm not that bad at drinking." Xie Ling interrupted him again and waved his hand, "Okay, you continue." ”

"When you're drunk, we're going to carry you to a predetermined location, paying for it with one hand and delivering it with the other. But I don't know what's going on, the shopkeeper and I carried you, but the more you walked, the heavier you became, and finally it sank to the point that neither of us could lift it, and the shopkeeper said to let you down and rest. ”

Xie Ling stared at him motionlessly, as long as he touched Xie Ling with his eyes, he would quickly retract it.

It's like looking at something terrible.