The men were walking and screaming, and the cries of children and women rang out. One of the guards was annoyed by the noise and shouted to them, "Don't make any more noise, stop making noise and plug your mouths with sand!" ”

When the children and women heard this, they whispered.

Zhong Laosan's family was brought to the stage, and the three men were lined up and knelt at the front. Xiao Qi walked up to the stage at this time and asked in a loud voice to Zhong Laosan, "Zhong Laosan, what else do you have to say?" Today, almost all of our brothers at sea have arrived, and my Li family has always been fair. If you are not convinced, let's just theorize in front of everyone. ”

Zhong San glanced up at the audience, and sure enough, there were some familiar faces, but he immediately lowered his head again. Zhong San has been living at sea all his life, and life and death are sometimes not the most important thing for him. At this time, he felt shameless to see everyone again, and he just wanted to die quickly.

"I, Zhong San, believe in the demagogy of Nan Juyi's dog official, and want to use Chen Qian Island to confront the eldest lady, but I am really innocent. I just hope that the eldest lady and all the brothers will let go of my wife and children on the past love with me Zhong San. ”

Zhong San's words were loud. Everyone in the audience heard it clearly.

Xiao Qi looked at Li Ying, but Li Ying didn't answer, but asked Xu Xinsu on the side, "What does the second uncle think?" ”

Xu Xinsu laughed, "This Zhong Lao San was caught by your subordinates, and it is up to you to decide." What's more, you've always been up to you to decide what we're doing at sea! It doesn't matter, no matter what decision you make Ying'er, the second uncle will support you. ”

Li Ying glanced at Yu Ren again, and was about to ask his opinion, when she heard the crowd in the audience start shouting.

"Zhong Laosan fornicated with the government and broke our rules at sea, so he should be killed."

"If you can't listen to him, you can't cut the grass and don't remove the roots, and the spring breeze blows and grows again!"

……

Everyone in the audience shouted in chaos, but there was only one general opinion: the entire Zhong family must be killed, and no one should be left.

Yu Ren looked up at the stands, kneeling behind the three men, the youngest child was a baby still in his hands.

Li Ying heard the anger of the crowd behind her, so she stopped asking Yu Ren's opinion, stood up, and said loudly: "Since everyone thinks so, Zhong San, you don't blame me." If you want to blame, you can only blame yourself, who made you obsessed, you have to listen to Nan Juyi's words, and embarrass our brothers at sea. It was your actions that ultimately killed them. ”

After speaking, a cold light suddenly flashed in Li Ying's eyes, and she said coldly to the stage, "Kill them all, not one will be left!" ”

As soon as Li Ying's words fell, the stage became chaotic, and the shouting was loud for a while. A woman shouted: "I am not from their Zhong family, I was robbed to the island by him." Really, my home is in Yuyao. I'm not from the Zhong family, I don't ......"

Before the woman's words were finished, she was gagged by a group of Li family soldiers who had been prepared for a long time, and she could only make a "woo" sound.

Then, the stage quickly fell silent. Because all of them were gagged. Then I saw a big man with a knife come up to the stage.

Someone brought Zhong San to the stage, and the big man with the knife stood aside and raised the knife in his hand. One of Zhong San's heads rolled down the stage with a pillar of blood.

Then there were Zhong San's two brothers, and then the women and children behind them.

Seeing the heads fall to the ground, some people in the audience applauded loudly. Li Ying looked at the scene in front of her calmly, as if she was thinking about something, but she didn't seem to be thinking about anything.

Yu Ren felt an indescribable discomfort in his heart. Because these people were caught because of him. In his worldview: Zhong San was killed, naturally he was innocent, but these children and women were innocent. But he also knew that even if he pleaded for these people, he would not be able to save their lives. After all, for this group of people, he Yu Ren can only be regarded as an outsider.

Seeing a seven or eight-year-old boy being pushed to the front of the stage and beheaded, Yu Ren couldn't stand it anymore. He couldn't accept the cruelty in front of him, but he clearly understood the purpose of Li Ying's doing. Li Ying wanted to use this to achieve the effect of deterrence, so that no one else present dared to learn from Zhong San.

Yu Ren excused himself and left the venue. He walked to the beach. Looking at the sea gently pushed by the waves, Yu Ren once again remembered the days before the crossing. As a modern person, he feels that the values deep in his heart are difficult to fit in with the world in front of him.

In the past, all Yu Ren thought about was how to live his life. Anyway, his life was also picked up, as long as he lived happily every day, and he had silver flowers in hand, he didn't care about other things, and he didn't want to care. But now, for the first time, he had the idea to create a new world with his own hands. He can't guarantee that there will be no wars and no killings in this world, but he doesn't want this world to be like this: the slaughter of innocent women and children.

Killing and slaughtering are two different things altogether. Yu Ren understands that in any era, killing is sometimes unavoidable. In order to survive, he can also kill people without psychological barriers. But the massacre was unacceptable to Yu Ren.

He doesn't want to see the slaughter happen again, so he wants to create a new world.

The fine sand by the beach is comfortable to step on. Yu Ren took off his shoes and stepped barefoot on the beach. He wanted to forget the massacre just now, but those desperate, innocent eyes always lingered in his mind.

"Yu Xianggong is not used to it! It can't be helped, we're all rough people here, so it's natural to be rude. However, I think what Miss Li did this time should be very effective. For these rough people who were born as pirates, you might as well show them if you tell them. The so-called killing chickens and monkeys! She can't help it! A voice sounded behind Yu Ren. Yu Ren hurriedly turned around. It turned out to be Xu Hai and Xu Sanye, who were sitting with Xu Xinsu.

"It's the third uncle!" Yu Ren also shouted after Li Ying. He didn't pay attention to this Xu Sanye just now, but he didn't expect that this Xu Sanye was such a shrewd person, and he could see his dissatisfaction with this matter at a glance.

"Don't dare to be. I'm just a miscellaneous guy under my second brother. Miss Li gave me face, so she called me the third uncle. You don't have to follow along! Just call me Xu Hai. Xu Haidao. He looks very kind, and he looks much easier to get close to than Xu Xinsu. It's just that Yu Ren doesn't know his status in the Xu family. Of course, he would never believe Xu Hai's own words: he was a miscellaneous man.

Just because he can still have a seat in front of Li Ying and Xu Xinsu, it can be judged that this person's status in the Xu family is not low. Yu Ren had already seen this.

"Second Uncle is humble!"

"Why did you get here alone?" Xu Hai asked.

"It's a bit homesick. It's been nearly half a year since I came out to study, and my father doesn't know what's going on! Yu Ren said. To be honest, Yu Ren has never thought about this problem all this time. But when he heard Xu Hai's question, he suddenly answered like this, which seemed to be very natural.

But when he said that, he suddenly realized that he really should go back and have a look. Although emotionally speaking, he has nothing to do with this father who has never met before, but there must be the same blood in his body. This kind of involvement is something he can never change and deny.

So, for the first time, Yu Ren really had a plan to go home in his heart.

Xu Hai seemed a little surprised when he heard Yu Ren suddenly say that he was homesick, but he came back immediately. "This is also normal for the Son of Man. I heard that Ling Zun is the waiter of the Ministry of Rites in Nanjing? ”

"No, my father is just a little master." Yu Ren suddenly heard Xu Hai ask about his father's official position, and he couldn't help but feel vigilant. He hadn't forgotten that the people in front of him were pirates and smugglers. By origin, they should be enemies rather than friends.

When Xu Hai saw Yu Ren's suddenly vigilant expression, he knew what he had in mind. Xu Hai smiled lightly, "Xianggong Yu don't want to misunderstand. I just asked casually. In fact, although we are drifting on the sea, it is inevitable that some relatives and friends at home will work in the government, which is normal. After all, we are all the people of the Ming Dynasty! The world is so big, it is not the king's land! In the final analysis, we live on the sea just because we don't want to be oppressed and exploited by those corrupt officials.

Our wish is actually very simple, as long as the government does not take the initiative to provoke us, so that we can do business with peace of mind, we will naturally not let go of a good peaceful life, and take the initiative to embarrass the government. ”

Yu Ren nodded again and again, in fact, he also understood this truth. But he didn't understand why this Xu Hai was not familiar with him, why he suddenly came to tell him so many things.