Chapter 7: Killing
In fact, strictly speaking, Qisheng and Baiqi are not completely free from contact with the outside world, at least once every six months, they will go down the mountain and exchange the hunted elk and wild boar for some daily necessities.
When they go down the mountain, they all dress up in disguise, but Qisheng thinks that no matter how his father dresses up, just standing in the crowd with his burly body is enough to attract attention.
Qisheng likes the market very much, and he is reluctant to leave every time he goes down the mountain without going shopping until dark.
There are many delicious and interesting things here, and she is only a child of a few years old, and she is accompanied by wild animals and birds in the mountains all day long.
Bai Slash looked at the seven lives who were as happy as a hare, both relieved and melancholy.
I think that he and Youxue were worried about Qisheng's illness at the beginning, and they searched for doctors and medicines everywhere to no avail, and then Youxue died tragically, and Qisheng was sunk into the lake as a "bone corpse", and when he fished the child out of the ice lake, he once thought that she would not survive......
Unexpectedly, after the ghost gate, Qisheng was cured, deaf and dumb, when he called his father for the first time, he was so excited that he couldn't help wiping his tears, thinking in his heart that if Youxue was still alive, I don't know how happy he would be.
Time flies, where is there still a shadow of a deaf, dumb, stupid and sick child in Qisheng today, not only can he speak, he can run and jump, but he also has a lot of ghost ideas, he is smart and clever, and he is very endearing.
It's a pity that when I met a father like him, I had to hide in the mountains and forests with him, and be accompanied by birds and beasts.
But as Qisheng grew up, the thoughts in Baizhu's heart became more and more urgent.
He understood that he shouldn't have trapped Seven Lives in the Barrier Forest all the time.
Soon after returning from the market, her father said something inexplicable to her, saying that he wanted her to go down the mountain to live at a relative's house for a while.
Daddy, the so-called relative, is recognized by Qisheng.
A few months ago, a farmer strayed into the obstacle forest and was attacked by a black bear in the forest, and she happened to meet her and her father to help him save his life.
Coincidentally, the farmer did not expect to know his father, saying that he was a companion of the iceman in the past, and the two of them had a long talk with each other, treating the wine as a song, and drinking all the wine that his father had hidden in the forest before leaving.
Later, the two families had intermittent contacts, and Qisheng called him Uncle Li.
Before leaving, her father instructed her not to reveal the identity of her daughter's family during the time she lived in the third uncle's house, and she should be careful in everything.
Qisheng felt that his father was thinking too much, she was only five years old, and it was difficult to distinguish between men and women, coupled with this dark skin, short hair, and animal skin clothes, no one believed that she said that she was a girl!
Mao'er Mountain belongs to the branch veins of the Desperate Mountain Range, and compared with the huge Desperate Mountain Range, Mao'er Mountain is like a small hill. Lihe Village is at the foot of Maoer Mountain, the village is not big, there are more than 30 families living in it, the whole village is surnamed Li, and the neighbors are all relatives with relatives.
Just after autumn, the cold winter in the north is long, and everyone likes to gather on the kang to talk about homely things.
This is basically a village with no secrets, and it is clear who has a few cows, a few ducks, and a female dog who has been pregnant for several months.
Therefore, as soon as the seventh foot entered the door of Uncle Li's house, the news of the back foot exploded in Li He Village.
In the off-season, everyone relies on what is wrong with someone's family to pass the boring time. So as soon as he heard that Uncle Li had picked up a wild boy from unknown sources in the forest, he ran over to see the excitement.
Li He Village is located in the remote north, most of the crops who rely on the sky to eat, because the climate here is cold, can only be harvested once a year, the output of grain in this era is very limited, when the harvest is good, in addition to taxes, it is enough to feed and wear, if there is a bad harvest, there are not a few people who freeze to death and starve to death.
For Qisheng, Aunt Li is already a hundred unhappy, her two sons can't support her, where is there any surplus food to feed an unrelated outsider, it looks like winter is about to begin, the cold winter in the north is notoriously dripping into ice, and one more person means that it will endanger the rations of others, which is a major event that will cause people's lives.
So since Qisheng arrived at the Li family, the third uncle and the third aunt have quarreled all day long because of rations, making chickens and dogs jump, and people come to squat at the door every day to watch the excitement.
Regarding Qisheng's life experience, Li San swore that he would never leak it, but the third aunt made trouble every day, and even became suspicious because Li San resolutely refused to drive away Qisheng, suspecting that Qisheng was secretly born by Li San and the woman in the next village.
After the third aunt heard that Bai Chu was willing to pay 1 gold coin every year, the Li family finally regained their calm, and they treated Qisheng more and more pleasantly.
The life under the fence is not good after all, but fortunately, Qisheng has not been in vain for so many years in the orphanage, and the two sons of the Li family have suffered several big losses, so they obeyed Qisheng's words, although they were occasionally called by the third aunt to do some housework, they also let Qisheng transfer it to the two stupid sons of the Li family behind his back.
About a month later, it snowed heavily, and a group of people suddenly came to the village, saying that they were merchants passing through this place, but the northern fortress was barren and bitterly cold, and most of them were aborigines or labored miners who had committed crimes.
Qisheng once met with one of them, that person was short, wearing a half-worn silk cotton jacket, a pair of eyes under the dogskin hat narrowed into a slit, and when looking at people, there was a tiresome speculation and prying, which made Qisheng's heart instinctively wary.
The group hurriedly passed through the village, but they didn't stop long, but the psychology of Qisheng was still faintly ominous.
Soon this ominous fulfillment was fulfilled......
The moonlight is like water, a faint halo shrouds the Barrier Forest, a group of them have been hiding in this damn Barrier Forest for days, this is really not a place for people to stay, just after autumn, there is a heavy snow here, dripping into ice, especially at night The temperature plummets, even around the bonfire is cold to the bone.
"Boss, hasn't the master replied?" Scar Man said impatiently, thinking that he was once a soldier who galloped on the battlefield, although he was forced to leave the barracks to join the black camp army because of a crime, and he also participated in a lot of business, but it was rare that he needed to lurk for so long like this time......
"It is estimated that there will be news in the next few days, just wait!" The man at the head, dressed in a heavy tiger skin coat, added a handful of firewood to the bonfire, and said lightly.
In the corner of the cold cave, several people were sitting in twos and threes, and someone lowered his voice and said: "I obviously saw the white dove a few days ago, it stands to reason that I should have acted a long time ago, why wait?"
"Don't you understand the boss's temperament? Don't look at him as fierce and vicious, but his heart is soft. The other whispered.
The person who was called the boss is named Wu Qi, short in stature but good at martial arts, although his face is not good, especially when his eyes are squinted, he is a lewd look, but he is a kind-hearted person, he will serve for a long time before each action, and if he encounters someone who really doesn't want to kill, he will hesitate for a longer time.
"......" was quiet all around, and several people suddenly stopped talking.
They are also murderers, they used to be heroes who fought for the country, but now they are doing things that violate their conscience, how can they not make people sigh.