This mountain is called Xigang.

It is famous in Yongqiu, but few people approach it, because legend has it that there are wild wolves in the mountains, and everyone who enters the mountains is eaten by wild wolves, and even the most brave hunters will stay away from it.

In the mountains, the cold wind blew bitterly, and the ghosts cried like wolves.

But there are no wolves in the mountains, only a pack of cannibalistic "devils".

Clusters of lights roamed through the mountains, flickering like ghostly fires with a terrifying roar.

"Quick. Hurry up. ”

"Drive the cows and horses, all of them!"

"Push into the pit!"

"Jump off - dog thing! Jump! ”

Next to the hinterland square of Xigang Mountain Pass, a deep pit of about ten zhang was dug, which was poured with fire oil, piled with firewood and fake incense medicine that had not had time to be disposed of, and was burning with a terrifying sound of crackling.

However, it is not the cows and horses that are called "cows and horses", but a group of slaves who are called in tattered clothes and are called like cows and horses, and work here all the year round as fake incense.

They were men and women, young and old, and children.

These people, without exception, were all deceived.

The foremen of Xigang will recruit workers everywhere, and the name is "Xiangyaofang Employment", which is two or even three times higher than the monthly salary of ordinary workers, and the examination of recruitment is stricter than that of other foremen-

What they are looking for is the kind of "clean white man" who is poor, has no one to rely on, and no one will look for or care about him even if he dies outside.

There is a strict process here, but as Wan Liyu said, once these people are sent to Xigang, they will never be able to leave the mountain again for the rest of their lives, not only will they not have wages, but death is their final return.

Three meals a day, eating pig-like food, doing a lot of labor, dark and muddy.

Even so, they still have the belief to survive, day after day, year after year.

Who knows, survival has also become a luxury.

The order to extinguish the mouth was given in the middle of the night.

The fire pit was dug and they dug it themselves.

But when they dug up, it didn't occur to them that it was not anyone else who was going to be burned and buried alive, but themselves—everyone.

Some people did not have time to escape, and were pushed into the fire pit and burned alive.

Some people were still bloody, and they rose up to resist, pounced on them to fight the thugs in Xigang, or fled in all directions......

But where can they flee to?

Xigang is full of obstacles.

No one can escape.

The wailing is earth-shattering, this place is like a huge hunting ground, the "cattle and horses" are the prey to be slaughtered, whether they struggle or not, there is only one ending waiting for death.

They can't be allowed to live to see people.

They must not be allowed to see the light of tomorrow.

They must not be allowed to be evidence of a crime committed by the above.

All are going to die.

"All out! Come out. ”

Outside the stable, thugs were shouting.

The emaciated mother, who was hiding in the haystack of horses, picked up a wooden stick and trembled on guard, her eyes fixed on the dark door, one hand clasping her child tightly. The child buried his head in his mother's arms, his little shoulders trembling slightly, his teeth rumbling, and he did not dare to look back, move, or even cry.

Bang!

The door panel of the stables fell.

The child screamed, and finally couldn't stand the sudden fear, shrunk into his mother's arms, and howled heartbreakingly.

How could the mother's thin body protect her?

"Please, please...... Mother's eyes were pleading, and the north wind mixed with a hoarse voice, almost at the same time, she wanted to kowtow, but her body was so stiff that she couldn't make any movement.

Great fear, like a mountain.

Pressed her, but didn't crush her.

Tears fell from her eyes, obscuring her dirty face.

She had thousands of times in her mind the images of those "cows and horses" being pushed into the fire pit and wailing, she could die, but her children could not......

Her stick stabbed out and stabbed the thug in the waist.

The desperate force made the sharpened wooden stick exert extraordinary power and penetrate the thug's waist at once.

The wounded thug howled and staggered to the ground.

His shout was heard by his accomplices, who were searching next door, and he rushed in, and saw the ghostly eyes of the emaciated mother in the dimly lit stable, and the look of holding the child in her arms to fight them.

"Look at your little bit of interest. Tell a woman to stab her. The man taunted his wounded accomplice with a torch in his hand, and walked forward with a sinister smile.

The light of the torch turned her mother's eyes a blood-red color.

"I don't want to burn in a fire pit, and it's the same here."

"Tonight, no one can escape."

"Tomorrow this mountain will be a ruin, do you think you can survive by hiding in the stable?" He knew this woman with a child, who was also tricked, and there was no difference between other "cows and horses".

"It's better to die than to die." The thug drew his knife and laughed slowly: "Seeing that you are pitiful with the child, I will fulfill you and give you a good death." Just a knife! In the next life, find a family to reincarnate. ”

"No!" The mother screamed in horror.

Her child was crying, and she was protecting it, begging with tears on her face.

"Spare my child, she's only five years old, she doesn't know anything, she doesn't understand anything." She shook her head desperately, "She can't even understand the words, she won't betray you, she won't...... Please, please......"

The thug was stunned.

This lady is a smart person.

Many people were pushed into the fire pit and still did not know what they were dying for.

But she knew it because they knew too much.

They are all evidence.

The evidence is that you can't live -

"Don't blame me. If you want to blame it, blame your life. The thug didn't know if he thought of his own life of poverty and misery, and at the moment when he waved the big knife, his voice had the compassion of his kind, and then he screamed......

The body went limp.

He was struck by a stone, first on his knife, bursting out of sparks, then on his forehead, and with a buzz, his mind went blank for a moment, and he knew nothing more.

The torch fell to the ground.

The horse grass met the fire and quickly ignited.

The mother clutched the stick tightly and was overwhelmed at the sight of the man who had fallen in front of her.

Until a figure rushed from behind and picked up her child, "Hurry up!" It's going to burn. ”

The woman looked back and saw a young lady who was as thin as she was. The little lady was holding her child, and next to her, there was a tall and cold-faced gentleman, with a pale face, cold eyes, and a small beard on his chin......

It's all unfamiliar faces.

The woman did not know them, but guessed that they were "cows and horses" with the same fate as her.

"Thank you for the rescue."

"Stop talking nonsense. Run, the stables are about to burn. ”

The little lady held the child in one hand and dragged the gentleman out of the stable.

The woman was stunned, wiped away her tears, picked up the knife that the man had dropped, and followed them.

Out of the stable, a few thugs chased after him.

"Don't let them run!"

With this shout, more thugs fiercely surrounded him.

The woman wiped away her tears and abruptly stopped running for her life.

"Little lady, run, I'll hold them back—"

She pointed in one direction, then looked at her expectantly.

"If you can survive, please help me tell my daughter that she is ...... Incompetent, powerless, and incapacitated, and led her into the fire pit...... But my mother loves her very much, and my mother wants her to live well, and when she grows up and gets married, she must open her eyes and see clearly, and don't be deceived again. ”

Xin Yi looked back in surprise and looked at her thin body, "How are you going to hold them back?" ”

The woman shook her head, "I don't know, it's just death." Run, run......"

With that, she held the bloody knife, stared at the chasing thugs with scarlet eyes, and looked at them with a kind of desperate, tragic, and mortal courage.

"You jackals, I'll fight with you."

Outside the stable, there is a square, stacked with patches of tin wood boxes, exuding a strange fragrance......

The boxes were full of spices that hadn't had time to be transferred.

There are some people who are pushing incense into the fire pit, along with people.

There were also thugs with torches, "cattle and horses" chasing fleeing all over the ground, children crying because they couldn't find their parents, people who were injured and struggling and howling, and corpses crawling on the ground......

This is a purgatory-like existence on earth.

Who would dare to believe that this happened in the Yongqiu Territory, which is so close to Bianjing Mansion?

While these people are struggling for a full bite of food and a life, the bustling Bianjing City is full of lights, waiting for the arrival of the New Year......

Xin Yi's eyes narrowed slightly, glanced at Fu Jiuqu, who had a cold gaze on his side, walked up to the woman with the child in his arms, and sneered at the thugs.

"You fools, do you think you can live by killing them?"

The thugs looked at this little lady who came out of nowhere, and the long Lang Jun who was standing not far behind her, they were all stunned, and then they were a little flustered.

"Who are you? Where did you come from? ”

Xin Yi didn't answer his words, and glanced around the incense medicine square.

"The birds are all gone, the good bow is hidden, the cunning rabbit is dead, and the lackeys are cooked. Do you think you'll end well as other people's lackeys? Long brains! ”