Chapter 244 The Turbid Way of the World (3)
"Can it be saved?"
"Old age and frailty, too deep illness, broken internal organs, exhausted vitality, lack of replenishment, unable to be saved. ”
"Then use the Rejuvenation Pill to let the old man return to the light and see what wishes she still has to go. ”
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When Granny Liu opened her eyes, she found herself lying on a bed.
The futon is very warm and soft, the material is extraordinary, the touch is good, and the thick one does not seem heavy, which is a good thing that she has never covered. There is sandalwood in the room, and the faint fragrance is refreshing, which is a rare thing that Granny Liu has never seen. The decoration of each place is simple and elegant, and the furnishings such as screens and porcelain are very valuable at a glance.
If this is the world after death, if she can meet her family here, Granny Liu's only feeling is that she died not early enough.
She soon knew that she might be able to reach such a world after death, but only if she had a good baby. It's still a human world.
The woman who walked in was wearing embroidered brocade satin, her figure was graceful and beautiful, and the golden step on her head was meticulously workmanlike, but she did not have the arrogance of those small town rich and noble families that Granny Liu met on weekdays, but smiled easily and kindly, and was polite.
"Where is this, why is the old woman here?" asked Granny Liu uneasily. She had never encountered anything good in her life, and the experience at this time made her instinctively panic. She wanted to get out of bed and give a salute, but found that she still had little strength, but her spirit seemed to have recovered somewhat.
"The old woman doesn't have to get out of bed, just lie down. When we found the old woman, she was being dumped in a pile of rotten grass by the river. We got you on board. It was clearly the woman's age, but she was still holding the girl's hair in a bun, indicating that she was not married, and put a brocade ball on the back of Granny Liu, so that she could sit and talk.
"Is this on a boat?"
Granny Liu looked left and right in disbelief, the room was wider than the thatched hut she lived in, but she didn't expect it to be a cabin, so how big does this boat have to be? It's just that the old woman is penniless and doesn't know how to repay her, so she dares to ask where the girl is a nobleman? The old woman must remember the girl's great kindness. ”
The beautiful and mature woman sat down at the table in the room, shook her head, and said, "The old woman doesn't have to thank us, and we can't save your life." As for my identity, has the old woman ever heard of 'the people in Tsing Yi remove the evil knife, and I will show the righteousness in the world'?"
Granny Liu's eyes were suddenly full of fear.
She had heard this sentence before, and more than once, although she remembered it inaccurately, but after all, it was not an obscure poem, and when she heard it again, she still remembered the group of fearful people for the first time.
It is rumored in the market that there is such a group of people who are in charge of the injustices of the world, who kill the wicked in the world, who do chivalrous deeds for the heavens, and the damned people who die under their hands are piled up like a mountain and cannot be counted.
Granny Liu was blinded when her son was killed, and when she had no way to ask for help, she thought about buying murder to take revenge, and paid special attention to the swordsmen in the rivers and lakes. It was then that she heard the legend of this group of Tsing Yi swordsmen.
But Granny Liu didn't spend a lot of effort to find this group of people in the end, she has lived for so many years, and she has never encountered such a thing as a trap falling from the sky, if she wants to ask a knife to kill someone for her, she must give silver, and the price will not be low, she can't take out so much money.
On the other hand, because during this period of time, this kind of Tsing Yi swordsman has made frequent shots, and has been wanted by the government, and on the notice of the government, the other party is not a chivalrous and righteous man, but a bandit and robber who gathers in the mountains and forests, killing people only to take people's money, and often harming people's whole families, so the notice asks who to see
Those people must report to the official as soon as possible, and the government will give a reward.
Regarding the content of the notice, Granny Liu basically believes it.
Things in the world are so ironic, Granny Liu has a deep hatred with the official, but she still believes in the government's announcement.
Perhaps, following the orders of the government for a lifetime and obeying the authority of the government for decades, she has developed the habit of subservience and trust in the other party while bowing her head to survive. Or perhaps, compared to a group of murderous swordsmen, the government is indeed worth trusting. Believing in the government may just lose some opportunities, but believing in a murderous swordsman is likely to save his own life.
Because of this, when Granny Liu heard that the woman was the so-called Tsing Yi swordsman, she felt fear.
"Old woman, don't panic, I used the pill to give you a chance to return to the light, but your time is running out, you still have any wishes, you can tell me, if I can help you, I will try my best to help you." ”
Even if she sat there and didn't do anything, just moved the corners of her mouth, which was as red as blood, and there was a charming and enchanting woman, she didn't change her expression because of Granny Liu's attitude, and her voice was gentle as always.
Granny Liu thought of her little granddaughter, remembered the other party's panicked and helpless crying call, her heart immediately hurt as if she had been pricked by a needle, she didn't care about the announcement of her imminent death, let go of her fear of the murderous knifeman, looked at the woman with anticipation and apprehension, and pleaded bitterly:
"Woman, please, save my granddaughter, she is only five years old! The old woman died, she has no relatives, and now she may have fallen into the hands of the town bully Skinny Tiger, as long as the woman can save her, give her a bite to eat, let her not starve to death, even if she is made a maid and a servant, the old woman is grateful, and in the next life she will be a cow and a horse to repay the woman......"
The woman nodded, "What's her name?"
"Milk name Xiaoya!" Granny Liu's eyes were suddenly full of hope.
The woman stood up, "If we save her, we will let her go to the old woman's grave to worship." ”
"Thank you...... Thank you to the woman, the old woman will definitely be a cow and a horse for the woman in the next life!" Granny Liu trembled with excitement, thanked her again and again, her black fingers full of chilblains, and unconsciously grasped the futon.
When she fell on the street and was about to die, her greatest wish was to be able to have a good birth in the next life and not be a poor person, but now, for the sake of her poor and helpless little granddaughter, she is willing to be a cow and horse in the next life.
"Woman, can the old woman ask, why do you want to help the old woman?" Seeing that the woman was about to go out, Granny Liu, who no longer believed in the government but had turned to a group of murderous swordsmen, asked this question that she couldn't understand.
The woman turned around and said: "The people in Tsing Yi remove the evil knife, and I will show the unrighteousness in the world." ”
Granny Liu opened her mouth, she didn't know what to say, she regretted it very much now, if she had known that there were really chivalrous warriors in this world who did not want to reciprocate, and if she had known that the proclamation of the government was a deception that reversed black and white, she should have found this group of people even after a lot of hardships.
In that case, maybe Xu Xian won't be able to escape, and her son's blood feud may be avenged, maybe she won't die so early and have the opportunity to watch her granddaughter grow up.
"Can the woman tell the old woman your high surname, if there is a next life...... The old woman also needs to know whose kindness she should repay!" As the woman went out, Granny Liu shouted loudly.
The woman paused, this time she didn't look back, but tilted her head slightly, revealing half of her face with bright makeup: "Our name is, Yipinlou." ”
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Granny Liu's mood couldn't be calm for a long time, and her spirit gradually dissipated
, during the last sober period of her life, she has been repeating those three words, trying her best to remember it, so as not to forget it in the next life.
After the gorgeous and charming woman went out, a pure little girl in Tsing Yi walked in with a tray, she put the tray on the bedside table, and in Granny Liu's surprised and puzzled gaze, she picked up the steaming soup bowl on the tray, scooped a spoonful of fragrant chicken soup, and sent it to Granny Liu's mouth, and said sympathetically:
"This is black chicken soup, the old woman should drink this bowl of soup before going to sleep. ”
When she was a teenage girl, Granny Liu drank chicken soup, and the family was in a good situation at that time, and her loving parents let her drink almost all the chicken soup during the Chinese New Year, and let her eat the most meaty and delicious chicken legs.
But what kind of chicken is black chicken, she doesn't know, and she has never drunk it, and even the bowl of chicken soup from her girlhood is just a distant memory in her mind, and she looks back on it vaguely. After marrying a wife, even if there was occasional meat soup at home, she gave it to her husband and son, and she had long forgotten the taste of chicken soup.
I didn't expect that now that I was dying, I would have a chance to drink hot chicken soup with a group of strangers.
"It's delicious, it's delicious......" The black chicken soup of the soup spoon entered her mouth, and Granny Liu showed an intoxicated smile. She had never eaten anything so delicious, and it turned out that there was such a delicious food in the world.
Granny Liu didn't take a second sip.
She would never be able to take a second sip.
But when she was dying, the smile on her face did not dissipate, and she seemed to be still reminiscing about the taste of chicken soup, and her hand kept stroking the futon without moving away, as if she wanted to remember the touch of the futon until the next life.
Suffering and suffering, suffering and being angry all her life, dying, covering the quilt made of brocade, tasting rare delicacies in the world, at the moment of leaving the world, Granny Liu felt a rare kindness and warmth.
Although, this kindness and warmth came too late and very short-lived.
But it was enough for her to sink into the endless darkness and be less lonely.
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Hu Honglian came to the bow of the boat and said to Zhao Ning, who was dressed in a white robe and looked at him from afar: "The person is gone." ”
Zhao Ning, who was looking at the snowy scenery of the canal, did not look back, Hu Honglian couldn't see his expression, and could only hear the other party ask: "Have you left a will?"
"There is a little granddaughter who should still be in Pinewood. Hu Hong practiced.
Zhao Ning was silent for a moment, "Tell the ruler dagger that the head of the wicked man will be hung at the head of the city for a day." ”
"Yes. ”
As early as when they rescued Granny Liu, the ruler dagger personally led the people and followed the two ruffians who threw the corpses away, if there was no accident, at this time the ruler dagger had already found the culprit.
Hu Honglian knew that in order to ensure that the head was displayed to the public all day, he needed the Tsing Yi swordsman from Yipinlou to stay at the scene for a whole day, and even needed to repel officials from the state and county.
It is self-evident what kind of scene it will be, what impression it will leave on the onlookers, how much sensation and crowd memory it will cause, and what kind of influence it will leave behind.
Zhao Ning didn't say anything more.
Hu Honglian didn't speak again, and stood quietly behind Zhao Ning's side.
Granny Liu asked her why she wanted to help herself for free, and Hu Honglian's answer was not wrong, but it was actually simplistic.
In other words, "Tsing Yi people remove evil knives, and I will show the unrighteousness in the world", this sentence is not difficult to understand, but why did Yipinlou dispatch a large number of swordsmen to do this in various places, and play this slogan, even though it is indeed the original intention of doing chivalrous righteousness, punishing evil and promoting good, but the intention is definitely more than that.
Hu Honglian also knows very well that what Zhao Ning does is never simple.
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