Chapter 5 Find a way out!
“...... What can I do? I'm a woman, without a husband......
Even the sound of the marching hooves of the horses could not hide the whimpering outpouring behind them. Every time Dolan felt like she was going to shut up, the voice would continue to talk about her unfortunate life—two days after being on the road, Feng Lian would once again go back to her embarrassing childhood.
If she listened to it for another whole day, Doran was convinced that she would go crazy.
She tugged on the reins and turned around, and as soon as Dolan moved, Lin Junyou in front of her immediately noticed it, lowered her voice and turned her head and shouted, "You come back!"
Doran turned a deaf ear and rode out of the group. When I stopped on the side of the road, I saw Feng Lian, who was wiping tears and being swayed by the horse's back, as if she was about to fall at any moment.
"I don't understand, can't I just find a place to live a good life? I have to get involved with some rebels, it's a business that dies every day, and I don't think there are enough people who die......
The skin on her face seemed to be swollen with tears, forever flushed and bulging, as if as soon as her husband died, she immediately turned into a heavy leather bag. Feng Lian's audience today is Joey, a young man with thick eyebrows and black hair who lowered his eyes and stared at the road ahead without speaking, not knowing whether he was embarrassed or bored.
"Sister Lianzi," Dolan interrupted her with a soft call. As soon as Joey raised his eyes, he suddenly seemed to breathe a sigh of relief, and walked away a few steps.
Feng Lian turned her gaze, and the corners of her mouth immediately drooped: "It's you." ”
She was to be expected to be cold to herself.
After spending a day or two with the villagers, Billy the Hammer tentatively revealed his intention to solicit. Dolan was the first to approve of joining Tianxiangqu, not only herself, but she even persuaded Lin Junyou.
In the eyes of those who are reluctant to participate in the resistance, it is completely her who has done the wrong thing.
Although Lin Junyou has made it clear that there is no need to go with anyone who does not want to go, there are not many people who have the courage to leave the village and live alone, because the majority of young people are full of anger and are bent on revenge. As soon as I heard that the people who did not fall from the spirits and the women and children did not have to fight, even fewer people left.
"Sister Lianzi, what's wrong with you?" Dolan asked with a smile, "Why are you crying again?"
"I'm about to become a rebel, can I still laugh?"
"You forgot again. Dolan's voice was still soft, just enough to be heard in the sound of horses' hooves: "If you remember to call your fallen spirit out to take a look, you will know that you have been a chaotic party since you had it." ”
Feng Lian's falling spirit has always been tightly hidden, and she has never been called out, not even the night her husband died—Feng Lian's face turned red and shouted, "If you hadn't killed that knight chief, we wouldn't have fallen to this point!"
The night was chaotic, and the people of Ellington still think that Dolan had killed the Knight Chief. After the initial "no" that no one heard, she never denied it again.
When you think about it, she has absolutely no reason to deny it.
Doran sighed, as if she couldn't do anything about Feng Lian, she persuaded "calm down", turned to Joey's side, whispered a few words to him, and then returned to the front.
At the next break, there was a sudden commotion among the people of Ellington: a few of the boys were fighting, and their fallen spirits accidentally injured Feng Lian's horse, and she had to sit in a simple carriage at the back of the line.
The so-called car, an abandoned car they had picked up on the side of the road, was not intact and comfortable even by the most tolerant standards. There were several bags of beans and wheat piled up in the car, as well as several wounded people whose flesh and blood were blurred, and as soon as Feng Lian entered the car, she was immediately speechless by the smell.
"It's much cleaner, isn't it?" asked Dolan with a smile at Lin Junyou.
Lin Junyou glanced at her: "Is this necessary?" She was not happy in her heart, she just cried. ”
Sure enough, I said so. Doran pursed her lips, the hard bridge of her nose glowing in the early morning sunlight.
Uncle Lin is soft and kind-hearted, and he never understands that kindness and tolerance are a resource. Like all valuable resources in the world, they are not precious when they are overflowing, and when they are given to others, they will not be cherished.
Yes, her own life is the result of kindness - it is precisely because Dolan knows how heavy Uncle Lin is in saving her, that she can't tolerate him being so good to everyone.
"Why should you make her cry?" When Dolan spoke, in her usual gentleness, she couldn't help but show a little mockery: "Uncle Lin, the moment everyone decides to join Tianxiangqu, you shouldn't see them as fellow villagers anymore. ”
"What's that?"
"Subordinates. ”
Dolan's smile vanished, and she turned her head to look at Lin Junyou.
"From now on, they should understand that there is only one goal in their lives, and that is to take revenge on the nobles. What I want them to remember is the carnage and the smoke of that night, because I remember it myself clearly. ”
Maybe it's a little too clear, when she can't sleep, when she thinks of those pictures, it feels as if her internal organs and bones are about to burn.
"A while ago, every time Joey and the wine bag called out the falling spirit practice, they almost really fought. It's not because they have a holiday, it's because everyone has a fire in their hearts. Everyone can't wait to make those nobles pay the price—the price of displaced, the price of losing loved ones, the price of smoke everywhere. At this time, the last thing we need is the kind of cowardly and afraid, wavering, and complaining crying. ”
She said so fast that she almost blurted out the last sentence, but fortunately, she knew Lin Junyou's personality and finally swallowed the words back in time.
She wants revenge, and that's the only way she can be freed. For revenge, it is useless for the lotus, but it is useful for the Joeys. Isn't it fair that useless people can be disturbed by the useless people? Isn't that like letting rat feces soak in the soup? Isn't it fair that useless people naturally don't have much rights?
But Uncle Lin will definitely be angry when he hears this.
Lin Junyou rubbed his face a little tiredly, and there was a slight rustling sound when his palm scraped over the green stubble. He looked at Doran, her eyes glinting with inexplicability, and after a moment he sighed and said, "You want revenge...... I'm afraid that in the end you won't get the results you desire. ”
What do you mean? Dolan's heart froze, and she was just about to speak, but Lin Junyou suddenly leaned over and wiped her forehead lightly. A cool touch slid over her skin, leaving a shivering tingling itch.
Growing up, whenever she wanted something and made Uncle Lin feel helpless, he would wipe it on her forehead like this—sometimes with syrup, sometimes with mud, but in the end, he would always fulfill her request.
However, he didn't teach himself a lesson, which was another surprise for Dolan.
The last accident was that he agreed to join Tianxiang - she originally thought that she would never succeed in lobbying, after all, she knew Uncle Lin too well.
Until now, they rode the same captured military horses. Despite the opposition, Lin Junyou came up with several reasons, and finally took the risk of saving the lives of these military horses.
And everyone knew that the rebels did nothing but do one thing, and that was to kill people.
Uncle Lin, who didn't want to be killed, why did he still agree?
Obviously, since this decision was made, its weight had gradually become heavier in Lin Junyou's heart day by day, and he quickly fell silent and haggard. Even if Dolan often forced him to eat more, it didn't seem to help.
They followed Billy and his party as far as they could, passing through the most remote wilderness and countryside on the border. With the Ellingtonians joining, there were few bandits and bandits along the way, and after walking for more than ten days, they finally arrived at the camp of Celestial, and saw the ruined castle in the distance, which was dazzling in the sun.
The castle west of the River of Sighs and the surrounding farmland were originally the domain of a viscount.
It didn't matter who the viscount's name was, for when the rebels broke down the walls and stormed the castle, the viscount fled with all his family into the main tower, where he lit a raging fire and buried his wife and children with his own hands.
Tianxiangqu poured in from the collapsed city gate and took over everything from him. The River of Sighs surrounded his territory, protecting the area like a natural moat, and so it was here that the Celestial Song stayed there for a long time, constantly absorbing the peasants who had defected to the rebels from all directions.
This time, Celestial Fantasy suddenly handed in good luck: the arrival of the Ellingtons meant that the rebel army had twenty-two more Fallen Soul Emissaries in one go. Now there were a total of 15,000 soldiers and a full thirty Fallen Spirits in the Celestial Imagination Legion, and looking at the entire Holy Alliance, no rebel army had such strength.
By the time the crowd settled in the undamaged half of the castle, they had gained the nickname "the one who had been touched on the forehead by the gods"—because there were so many fallen emissaries among them.
"There are also a lot of fallen spirit envoys in our army, from all over the world. But we've never heard of so many people in a small village of a few hundred people!"
In just a few days, Dolan had heard similar sentiments from many people: there were stables, there were fallen spirit envoys, and even the commander of the headquarters of Tianxiangqu, a large and majestic gray-haired old man, who was so loud that his ears tingled when he greeted them loudly.
The only one who reacted in particular may be the tall brown-haired young man in front of him.
"I just came back this morning and have already learned about the situation from the commander. I am deeply honored to have you on board. ”
The young man nodded slightly, and the brown curls on the top of his head shone in an irregular glow in the firelight. Although he was dressed in ordinary clothes, his accent was calm and elegant, his posture was as tall as a statue, and even his fingers were slender and clean, without a trace of any previous work.
His next sentence immediately made Lin Junyou and Dolan stunned at the same time.
"Thank you to the Western God, I can't imagine that our Jiyingling area can still preserve such a precious fire as you. ”
"Could it be that Your Excellency is also from Jiyingling?" Lin Junyou couldn't help asking.
"I haven't introduced myself yet, so it's rude. The young man nodded, his face serious. "My name is Roman Ransay and I am the second son of the Ransai family. Before joining Cosmopos, I had been living in the Mesoko family. ”
"You're a nobleman!"
Dolan stood up and nearly knocked over the chair, the room assigned to Lin Junyou was huge, and the creak of her chair immediately stirring up echoes as it wandered between the stone walls. Romandan waited for his voice to gradually subside, then looked at the girl and said, "I used to be." ”
"Why would the nobles join the Resistance?" she blushed—wasn't that a joke?
"Coming from a so-called aristocratic family and being born into a poor tenant farmer are just two different kinds of suffering. ”
As if unaware of her emotions, Romandan replied calmly. Even when he sits, his back is still straight, and there is not a trace of sagging in his body, but he feels like he is buried in layers of shadows, and he has to straighten up or be crushed: "I am an orphan with both parents. Before I got the Fallen Spirit, nothing in this world was truly mine...... However, I don't want to bother you with my bitter and boring past. I am no different from you, both to declare war on revenge against this country. ”
It seems that he is very aware of the experience of the people of Ellington.
Dolan couldn't help but raise her eyebrows. There was something deep and obscure in the other person's voice, and she couldn't get out of her mocking sneer.
"Why?"
"In the end, it's all about falling spirits. They awaken the worst part of the human body. ”
Romandan waved his hand, indicating that he didn't want to continue the topic any longer. He turned to Lin Junyou and said in a deep voice, "You have been here for five days, right?
"Everything was fine. Lin Junyou nodded. During this time in exile, his hair grew a lot, and at this time he slid down his shoulders with a smooth movement.
"Although I have only just returned, the Commander has already sent me your request, so I have inquired carefully for you. Roman Dan lowered his eyes, his upright and handsome face was still calm, but he seemed to be a little difficult to say what he was going to say.
Dolan was stunned. This was the first time she had heard that Uncle Lin had made any request to the commander.
Lin Junyou pursed his lips and asked urgently in a low voice, "How?"
"There are few survivors in the villages from the Gamu Hills to the Ellington area, except for you who escaped first. Romandan sighed lightly, "Among the people arrested by the Holy See Jury, there is not a single teenager who fits the description. And these arrested people were also quickly executed. ”
Juvenile!
Dolan suddenly understood. For a moment, she felt as if her bones were being washed away by bursts of cold water, and she could only sit in place, feeling that Romandan's voice seemed to sound from a far away, vague: "...... Unfortunately, I can only convey this sad news. I think it's very likely that he died at the hands of the jury. ”
Doran didn't even notice it, and a short, high-pitched voice erupted from her throat, and she couldn't tell if she was crying.
"Are you sure?" Lin Junyou stood up suddenly, his face turning pale for a while. "He, like me, has an oriental name that is often misunderstood...... Lin Yuqing, did you write these three words correctly? He is sixteen this year, and he is also a fallen spirit envoy——"
Romandan raised one eyebrow, a subtle expression floated, and replied softly, "Yes." Lin Yuqing, I'm not mistaken. ”
After his words fell, there was only dead silence in the stone brick room. Romandan sighed again and stood up.
"I'll take my leave. He said.
Doran hurriedly raised a pair of bloodshot eyes, and when she opened her mouth, she was stunned, as if she had forgotten what to say at this time. Romandan shook his head, motioning for her not to get up, and said softly, "I'm sorry. ”
With that, he turned and left the bedroom.