Chapter 106: Soul Control
Hearing the chaos outside, Uncle Li'er's face changed at that time, and he didn't care about what it was, and when he opened the door, he saw that there were people running around with children in their arms, and behind them were the Qing army who were chasing after them with prancing horses and swords, holding torches.
What is even more paradoxical is that the cavalry of the Qing army only chased the people and pregnant women who fled with their children, and used horse teams to circle the people and pregnant women who were protecting their children, and then the infantry who followed them snatched those children from their parents and took them into mule carts with sheds.
Seeing that it was the Qing army who had no way to retreat from the enemy and had the skill to disturb the people, Wei Ergou stared at him, picked up a firewood knife and was about to go out to clean up those Qing soldiers, but was stopped by Li Shu'er: "Don't be impulsive, don't you think the actions of these officers and soldiers are a little unusual?" ”
"Oh, when is this, you still have the heart to think about this, let's save people first, my Uncle Qin!" Wei Ergou was stopped by Li Shu'er, and he didn't dare to rush out forcibly to save people, seeing those Qing soldiers doing evil, he was anxious to scream and jump.
"You are now extremely vigorous in your body, those officers and soldiers are ordinary people, once you make a move, you will definitely take their lives, in this way, you are not helping them, but harming them." Uncle Li glanced at Wei Ergou sternly and said.
"What, what do you mean?" Wei Ergou was stunned by Uncle Li, and looked at Uncle Li with a puzzled expression and asked.
"These officers and soldiers are dressed in fresh armor, their faces are round, and their horses are fat and strong, which shows that they are not troops who have experienced vicious battles, and in addition, these cavalrymen do not have water bladders and food bags and warm clothes on their saddles, which means that their military camps are stationed nearby, and they have specially come out to plunder the refugees. But the question is, if they are the rout army that robbed homes and houses, killed good people and risked their merits, why did they only rob children and pregnant women, but not property, don't you think there is something wrong here? Uncle Li pushed the frightened man and the four trembling children back into the house, then looked at Yang Yi and Wei Ergou and asked.
"Yes, it's a little illogical, I've only heard of robbing gold and silver, robbing big girls, and I really haven't heard of robbing children, no, what do they want to do when they rob children, it won't be human trafficking, right?" Before Wei Ergou's words fell, Yang Yiqian glanced at him and snorted, "Do you believe this yourself?" ”
"I don't believe it either, so why do you say so?" Wei Ergou grinned, very unconfident in his reasoning.
"Okay, don't choke on the two of you, uncle, I think, these officers and soldiers must have another purpose for snatching children, eighty percent of them are used to practice black witchcraft." Uncle Li looked at Yang Yi and Wei Ergou with a gloomy face, and said in a deep voice.
"Come on, uncle, have you always been bitten by a snake, and you have been afraid of the well rope for ten years, it won't be like those Blue Dao warlocks, you can see it, they are the Qing army, not the corpse chaser, and not Cao Tong, hehe" Seeing that Uncle Li was talking about the matter in front of him and what kind of witchcraft and evil arts, Wei Ergou couldn't hold it back, and looked at Uncle Li is eating and laughing.
"Calf thing, what are you laughing at, your uncle and I are well-informed, I said it has something to do with black witchcraft, it must be related, I don't believe it will take you to the barracks for a while, and find out." Uncle Li glared and scolded Wei Ergou.
"Uncle, what should I do now, I can't just watch the people be harmed, right?" Yang Yi looked at the people who were crying heartbreakingly and crying blood in their eyes because of the loss of their children, and asked unbearably.
"It's in charge, but you can't kill here, otherwise after those officers and soldiers are killed, their comrades will definitely take revenge on these people, and then it will really be a river of blood and no traces, so even if you do good deeds, you must be thoughtful, and you can't just take care of your own pleasure for a while, you know?" Li Shu'er glanced at Wei Ergou, who was eager to try, and continued: "In this way, let's quietly follow these officers and soldiers for a while, see where they are going, and when we find out the way, we will click on it, and then let the people take the children back and flee quickly, what do you think?" ”
"How dare we have any opinions, you command, we just do it, hehe" Wei Ergou heard Uncle Li'er's words very much about his own thoughts, and smiled at that time, and did not forget to compliment Uncle Li with flesh.
"Get out of the calf, I'll tell you, Master Gou?" Uncle Li glanced at Wei Ergou coldly, and there was a hint of intimacy in his tone.
"Thousands of clothes, no sycophants," Yang Yigang sighed, and was slapped on the back of the head by Uncle Li: "It's not big or small, what is it called patting the fart, didn't you see the little expression in the eyes of the second dog that I admire with five bodies throwing to the ground, eh?" ”
The man in the room, who was frightened by the atrocities of the fierce officers and soldiers outside, hugged his four children tightly, and looked at Uncle Li and the others, who were chatting and laughing in surprise, and did not pay attention to those officers and soldiers at all, and had already guessed in their hearts that the shriveled little old man in front of him and the three young men and women who looked handsome, majestic or charming were not ordinary people, and at the same time secretly prayed that they could kill all the officers and soldiers who would only poison the people.
After making up his mind, Uncle Li looked back at the man who really showed reverence in his eyes, and said with a smile: "What, we have more important things to do now, Ling Zun Lingtang's poison can only be said later, by the way, there is no shortage of dead corpses along the way, you just need to find the ownerless corpse, bake the corpse's chin out with corpse oil, and then smear Ling Zun Lingtang's heart and feet, which can delay the spread of poison, remember to remember." ”
After instructing the man, Uncle Li left the food for the family, and then took Yang Yi, Wei Ergou and the Taomu Demon out to hide behind a collapsed house to observe the Qing army.
At this time, the Qing troops who were about to step down had already looted two carts of children and began to retreat in an orderly direction to the northwest.
After seeing this, Li Shu'er asked the peach wood demon to stay, and organized the people who had lost their children to follow slowly behind, while Li Shu'er took Yang Yi and Wei Ergou to follow behind those officers and soldiers, and when the time was ripe, he intercepted those officers and soldiers and rescued the children.
After the arrangements were made, Li Shu'er took Yang Yi and Wei Ergou to carefully use the snow mounds on the snow as cover, and followed those officers and soldiers in the northwest direction like ghosts.
The officers and men were not moving fast because they were escorting mule carts loaded with children, and the cold wind along the way, the cavalry were still good, and the infantry who walked on two feet could not help but shrink their necks one by one, and they were full of complaints. During this period, Uncle Li and the others vaguely heard those infantry muttering dissatisfiedly: "This General Lu is also lost in silver, this is nine cold days, let the brothers come out to make this adjustment, there is no salary, no wine and food, he just makes a fortune there, but we are here to be cold and drink, and it is not a thing for his grandmother." ”
One person complained, which immediately aroused the response of other officers and soldiers, all the officers and soldiers, you just scolded the street there, those who don't want to say it have no intention, and the listener has a heart, but let Li Shu'er, Yang Yi, and Wei Ergou who are following behind them understand a general idea.
After a long day of trouble, these officers and soldiers were all Green Battalion soldiers stationed in Yuanqu County, belonging to a Green Battalion guerrilla control system named Lu Yongjia, and those officers and soldiers were instructed by Lu Yongjia to come out of Yuanqu City to rob the children of fleeing refugees, but although those officers and soldiers were dissatisfied, they did not dare to disobey the orders of Shangfeng, so they could only reluctantly come out to harm the people and do these evil deeds that had lost their conscience.
"Uncle, what kind of thing is this Lu Yongjia, he can command so many troops, he seems to be a powerful character, how can he send troops out to snatch children, is he going to sell people, he is poor and crazy?" Wei Ergou listened for a while, then looked at Uncle Li with some confusion and asked.
"Where do you know, according to the military system of the Qing Dynasty, this guerrilla is the commander of the battalion, the most basic component of the green battalion army, and its rank is the same as that of the governor and magistrate of Nazhou County, but in this troubled era where martial artists are rampant, these military leaders with soldiers in their hands are fierce and abnormal, where to put those governors who can't pick up their shoulders and can't lift their hands in the eyes of the governors and magistrates who are scholars who can't be picked up on their shoulders and can't lift their hands, but they often override the local administrators and become the emperor of a county. In this world, where people are cheap and expensive, there are many people who hoard good land, but where will anyone spend money to sell people to add burden? It must be to get the child to do some unsightly evil deeds, damn! Li Shu'er briefly introduced the military system of the Qing Dynasty to Yang Yi and Wei Ergou, and explained a little of his guess to them.
"What are you going to do with these children, could it be steamed and eaten?" Yang Yi was shocked, thinking of the human tragedy recorded in the ancient history books in the year of famine, and the victims changed their children and ate their children, and couldn't help but shudder.
"You've seen too much of the fucking Eastern Zhou Dynasty Chronicles, and you're still steaming and eating, it's bullshit!" Uncle Li sneered, "Judging from Uncle'er's experience, then Lu Yongjia either knows a little bit of evil arts, or there are scum of the Blue Dao who understand these evil arts, and they must be trying to get these children, they must be trying to engage in the soul control technique of raising children and ghosts, it can't be wrong!" ”
"Raising a child ghost?" Listening to Uncle Li'er's words, Yang Yi and Wei Ergou couldn't help but exclaim in a low voice.
Raising child ghosts, as the name suggests, must be related to ghost raising techniques, which can't help but remind Yang Yi and Wei Ergou of the four female ghosts and four little ghosts they received in Cao Tong's inn.