In the blink of an eye, the gang arrived in Xujia Village, but to Haoyue's surprise, the bamboo baskets carried by the farmers were not filled with requisitioned grain, but children of five or six years old.

The children cried over the basket with frightened eyes, and a man in a broad robe with a hooded feather and a shoehorn face sat on a horse, yelling at the weeping children in the basket to shut up.

Haoyue thought to herself, what's going on? Has the government started to resell children?

Feeling that something was wrong, while those errands were still far away, Haoyue pulled her brother and ran home, locked the door latch immediately after entering the house, and then hid under the windowsill, pricking up her ears to listen to the movements in the village.

As soon as the servants entered the village, they knocked on the door from door to door, and the villagers saw the officers coming from a distance, fearing that they had come to collect the grain tax again, so they closed the door early and pretended that there was no one at home, while the errand who had already collected the tax had already collected the experience, chose to slam the door directly.

"Open the door!" The messenger slammed the wooden door of Haoyue's house, shaking the earthen wall to dust.

Haoyue in the room tightly covered the mouth of the mute brother and told him not to make a sound.

A sharp-eyed servant noticed a figure shaking in the room through the crack in the wooden door, and immediately shouted, "Everyone is hiding in the house!" Smash the door open! ”

Several messengers heard the wind and stepped forward to kick violently, the loose wooden door could not afford to toss at all, and before Haoyue could react, the wooden door was kicked open, and the officers turned around after entering the house, and found that there were no adults at home, so they casually carried a few beast skins hanging on the wall into their arms.

Haoyue's mute brother just wanted to pounce out to stop him, but Haoyue, who was quick-eyed, hurriedly pulled him back.

The king of Hades is so difficult to invite the little ghost, there are many people on the other side, and now that the father and mother are not there, it is not worth fighting for a few pairs of wild fur.

The servants benefited, and did not do anything to the Hazuki siblings, but only took the two to the wheat field in the village.

In the village, more and more villagers were dragged out by the servants, and then pushed and shoved to the wheat field, and those who walked slowly were beaten with sticks, and the field was suddenly wailed.

The old village chief leaned on crutches and arched his hand to the poor head and said, "Poor master, what are you doing here, our village just paid the grain tax two days ago." ”

"We are not here to collect taxes this time" The poor head held the knife in one hand, signaled the villagers to be quiet, and then pointed to the shoehorn man sitting on horseback and said: "This master is the big housekeeper of our Yuguo Mansion, and I will come to your village to do something today." ”

As soon as they heard that it was the people from the Guogong Mansion, the field was quiet, and the villagers looked at each other, thinking, how could the people from the Guogong Mansion come to our rural place?

The shoehorn man sitting on the horse arched his hand and said: "The great drought in Henan, our Lord Yuguo is sympathetic to the people's livelihood, and invites a priest with great powers, and three days later will be sacrificed in the Temple of Heaven to pray for rain, and many boys and girls will be needed as sacrifices, so we are here to pick the children in the village today, and the people who pick them can receive money consistently." ”

As soon as these words came out, the hearts of people with children in the village were raised to their throats, who would want to send their babies to death.

Haoyue heard that a human sacrifice was going to be held, and she was very surprised in her heart, she had only seen this kind of thing in TV dramas and novels before, but she didn't expect it to happen to her one day......

"Bring all the children of the village and let the chief butler see them." The messenger commanded the officers.

Some of the villagers who did not let go of their children were beaten with sticks by the officers, and several women took advantage of the chaos to run out with the children in their arms, only to be forced back by the messenger with a bright saber in the middle of the road.

Haze Yue and her brother were dragged out of the crowd by the servants, and her mute brother didn't know what was going on, and he grimaced at his sister with a happy face.

The children in the village were all driven to the open space of the rice field, and the chief housekeeper of the Yuguo Mansion looked at them one by one, most of the children in the village were yellow-faced and skinny because of hunger, and a few children looked sick.

The big butler shook his head, and few of them looked at it.

Until he saw Haoyue, the big housekeeper's eyes lit up, and he stretched out his finger and pointed at Haoyue and said, "This girl looks good, so it's her, take it away." The big butler pronounced the death sentence of Haoyue with a light word.

Seeing that it was not their own children who were picked up, the villagers on the field were relieved.

Haoyue, who won the bid, was also speechless, blinking a pair of innocent big eyes: "What? Why should you be sacrificed to heaven if you are good-looking? ”

Without waiting for Haoyue to react, the messenger reached out and picked her up like a chicken.

Seeing that his sister was about to be taken away, Haoyue's unresponsive mute brother finally realized that the situation was wrong, and then he didn't say a word, and crashed into the errand like a calf with brute strength, and the errand officer who grabbed Haoyue was knocked by him more than ten meters.

Haoyue was also in the process of crashing into the air, and her brother reached out and fished it out, and then circled it in his arms.

When he saw that someone dared to resist, he suddenly felt that his majesty was provoked, and there were people from the Guogong Mansion next to him, so he scolded angrily: "You dare to attack the official? This is a rebellion! Take him down for me! ”

Seeing this, the young man picked up his sister with one hand, protected him tightly in his arms, and bared his teeth at the officers who came up, his eyes were fierce like a wolf.

The armed officers rushed up with a large number of people, and they were bound to take the two of them away.

In the face of the fierce and vicious servants, Haoyue was firmly protected by her brother in her arms, and her heart couldn't help but feel a warm current.

Haoyue's mute brother fought with everyone while protecting his sister, and he didn't fall behind at all.

But soon, the tricky messenger saw that the mute's weakness was the little girl in his arms, so Qi Qi attacked the hazy moon in his arms instead.

Seeing this, Haoyue scolded in her heart, these dog things are simply shameless, so many people beat a mute and a six-year-old girl.

In order not to let the sister in his arms be hurt, the mute brother who was bound could only dodge with all his strength, and those who couldn't dodge could only resist with his body.

Heavy clubs rained down on the dumb man's head, shoulders, waist, and legs with a breaking sound.

Blood gradually spilled from his forehead and the corners of his mouth, but the mute brother remained silent, protecting his sister in his arms like a lone wolf protecting his cubs.

Haoyue felt distressed for a while, and her heart ached.

"Brother, if you go on like this, you will be killed, let me go, I will go with them, I will be fine." Haoyue couldn't bear to hurt her mute brother again.

Haoyue looked around, the surrounding villagers had already dispersed, and it seemed that no one would care about them, and she instantly felt a little chilled, this is to sweep the snow in front of the door, regardless of the frost on the tiles of others.

At the moment, my father and mother have not returned, and the best thing to do now is to go with them first, and then find a way to escape.

"Brother, let me go, I'll be fine." Haoyue said with her arms around her brother's neck.

The boy supported his crumbling body, and then shook his head gently at his sister, and the originally cloudy and dull gaze in his eyes became extremely firm.

What he meant was that nothing could separate him from his sister today but death.

An errand officer took advantage of the gap between the brother and sister's conversation, went around the two of them, and bent it towards the elder brother's leg to hit him with a heavy stick.

The weakest joint in his leg was hit hard, and his brother was directly beaten to his knees, and he didn't forget to protect Haoyue in his arms before he fell.

"Brother!" Haoyue, who was crying, exclaimed, and was so sad that she couldn't speak for a while, no one had ever protected her so desperately.

After Haoyue's brother fell, he was immediately forked to the ground with sticks by a group of messengers, and then tied up with ropes, and the poor head stepped forward to catch Haoyue.

The red-eyed Haoyue, like an angry rabbit, gnawed and bit the soldier's arm, and the messenger threw Haoyue out of the pain in his hand.

Haoyue, who fell to the ground, splashed dust, and her originally white and tender little face became gray, tears rolled in her eyes, and at this moment she was only angry that she was too weak to be as strong as A-Niang.

Hazy Moon wiped a handful of tears unconvinced, the tears on her face mixed with dust, and she wiped herself into a little flower cat at once.

The little flower cat Haoyue stared at the errand officer with her big eyes, as if she could stare two holes in the person's body in the next second.

This stubborn and pitiful look, if Shen Yinxing saw it, it is estimated that he would have been impatient for a long time, and picked up the kitchen knife and turned the whole audience one by one.

The servants didn't pay any attention to the hostility of a six-year-old girl, and dragged Hazy Moon's mute brother to the ground with a rope, and walked proudly in front of him, and a shocking blood mark was dragged out of the ground.

When the victorious officers were about to leave the village, they were blocked by a group of villagers with hoes and fishing forks, and even the old village chief with a white beard raised his cane.

Haoyue's eyes were a little moist when she saw this scene, it turned out that everyone didn't ignore them, but went back to the house to get weapons.

It's just, why didn't you come earlier......

"Put down the doll in our Xujia Village!" The old village chief put the cane in his hand on the poor nose.

"That's right! Put it down! The villagers with hoes chimed in.

The poor head scolded angrily: "What? Are you going to rebel in your entire Xujia Village! Seeing this, the officers also drew their swords one after another, and the bright blades exuded a chill.