It's a pity that Xu Gou's wishful thinking failed, and the person who came was not yesterday's official errand, but a fresh face.

And the other party still has a black face, looking like a plague god who is not easy to mess with.

Xu Goushuo's heart suddenly turned cold: "Official, ...... you"

"Is it that you kid wants to ask someone to buy it?" The official sneered, grabbed the collar of Xu Gou's bolt, and lifted the person up like a little chicken.

"Just a few criminals, it's bold! The National Teacher has decreed that no one who is convicted will be redeemed. Don't you want to get out, well, you don't have to wait for three days of exile, I'll take you out! ”

With that, he carried a dog bolt in one hand and dragged people out like a sack. Another faceless official came in behind him, and he also pulled Liu Mazi out.

The two wept bitterly and threw their limbs together, trying to cling to something around them, but their fingers were kicked and let go in vain, and they were dragged out.

The dilapidated door closed slowly, and the few people in the room could not see them, only the heart-rending shouts of the two could be heard.

"The official spares my life, I am innocent......"

"Help! I don't want to die!!! ”

The shrill shouts and the extraordinarily silent room were chilling.

Although Wang Daring scolded Xu Gou and the two of them for being wolf-hearted and dog-hearted, he didn't want them to die like this.

However, the change came so quickly that not only could they do nothing, but they also found it difficult to save themselves. Wang boldly sat on the ground, and this man with five big and three rough feelings once again felt powerless.

At noon, the old servant, with his back on his back, came again, also carrying a dirty little wooden barrel, but there was not even gruel in it, but a bucket of well water.

Without the noisy two, the rest of the room was all very quiet, even a little deadly.

Wang Daring sighed, and fetched a bowl of water for the mother: "Hey, drink it." ”

They are hungry in their bellies, but the officials here do not eat oil and salt, and hunger, hardship and tension wear down the will of the people.

The homeless mother was so thin that she had no milk, and the child was crying because she was hungry, and her yellow and small cheeks were flushed with tears.

The mother gritted her teeth, intending to bite her fingers to feed the child blood, but Huo Rongdong stopped her.

She took out a few fruits from her sleeve and handed them over: "This is what I picked in the mountains before, and I can only satisfy my stomach, but now the situation is special, don't starve the child, you can eat it quickly." ”

The mother was repeatedly favored by her, and her eyes contained a deep sense of gratitude, and she couldn't help but hold the child and kneel on the ground and kowtow: "Thank you girl, thank you girl, thank you, girl......"

Huo Rongdong helped the person up and gave Wang Daring another one.

In fact, this fruit is not an ordinary wild fruit in her mouth, but a kind of spiritual fruit, called Biyi fruit. It can be refined into medicine and eaten raw.

The two mortals ate the fruit, although it was only a small one and there was no juice, but the effect was surprisingly good, and they immediately felt energetic.

Only Song Yu understood what was present.

They glanced at each other, and Song Yu cautiously rubbed over: "Sister, you are still kind-hearted." ”

"It's one that can help one."

Song Yu asked, "Sister, do you feel that something is wrong?" ”

Huo Rongdong nodded, and whispered in her ear: "The officials gave gruel on the first day to ensure that we would not starve to death. But from today onwards, there will only be water, which should be to weaken everyone's physical strength and make everyone have no power to resist. "After all, this one general's mansion alone has imprisoned so many innocent people.

Without water, people die. But without eating, a person can last a few days, but he will be weakened.

Wu Guo didn't need this group of prisoners to be physically strong, but he didn't want them to waste food, so he just wanted them to hold on to their lives.

Because the prisoners would not stay here for long, the morning officer had already said that they would be "exiled" after three days.

It sounds like exile is a long way to go.

Originally, it was not at fault that Xu Gou was bribing officials, but the fault was that perhaps for the national teacher, a little money and income was just a vassal. What he really wants is the population, so for him, not a single prisoner will be spared.

Huo Rendong couldn't help but wonder, what the hell is this rumored national teacher who is a cultivator?

The truth didn't make them wait long, and after another two days, the officials who had taken them in appeared again.

Their expressions changed completely, and with whips in their hands, they violently drove the crowd out of the room and gathered them together in the courtyard.

When the members of the Qian caravan saw the light of day, they inevitably cried and wailed again, begging for mercy and complaining about grievances, but no one listened to them.

And because of the many days of detention, everyone was dirty and haggard. And because they only drank water, the grains of rice did not enter, and some of the frail people could not even stand steadily.

But in the face of these dying people, those officials did not even blink their eyes, they raised the whip in their hands high, swung it down, and insulted and beat everyone in their mouths.

"Cry what cry! Whoever makes trouble again, Lao Tzu cut off his head! ”

"Shut up! Honestly line up and go out! ”

The pain burned the life force of the people, and they cried and pleaded, struggled to get up, and were forced to walk out of the courtyard according to the wishes of the officials, like meat on a cutting board.

Anyone who walks slowly, or stumbles, is to be given two lashes. After a long time, everyone was numb, or maybe they lost their physical strength, but they just sobbed quietly and didn't cry loudly.

Huo Rendong and Song Yu followed in the middle of the crowd, Wang Daring and the woman walked in front of them, and behind them were some homeless people they didn't know, the situation was even worse than them, and they were already dying.

There was an old man who was so emaciated that he had only a handful of bones left, and his face was already dead. A sturdy young man was carrying him on his back and gritting his teeth, perhaps a grandson or a son.

But because it's two people, they walk slower after all. An official with a big waist and a round waist next to him couldn't look at it, and scolded with a horizontal nose and vertical eyes: "What are you doing slowly, don't you get to the front!" ”

The whip in his hand made a sound of breaking wind, and the young man could not dodge it, so he could only close his eyes and wait for the pain to fall.

It's just that in front of everyone's eyes, when the whip fell, it suddenly turned in a different direction, and pulled it towards the official's own arm, and with a "snap-" sound, it hit it firmly.

"Ouch!" The leather whip tore through his clothes to reveal flesh and blood, and the official bared his teeth in pain, but he could only eat this dumb loss by himself, and his mouth was not dry and scolded for a while.

Song Yu, the initiator, snorted coldly: "What kind of dog fights human power......

But they can save one, but they can't save a group. If we don't get to the bottom of the truth, we will never be able to put an end to it.

The official messenger drove everyone onto the street, and Huo Rendong was shocked to find that there were four or five waves of people coming to the capital one after another! All come from different places and converge into a spectacular flow of people.

So many prisoners!

The prisoners were all malnourished, and despair was spreading in the crowd. Some people cry quietly as they walk, saying that they still have elderly parents to raise, and others say that their young sons are weak and they will lose their loved ones at a young age. As for the family like the woman holding the child, they are even more desperate - not only are they going to die, but they can't even leave the family incense.

Crying, running away, and begging for mercy are all in vain, and they can only be exchanged for cold eyes and whips from officials. Because of the hurry, the already hungry prisoners were even weaker.

In the end, hundreds of people lined up in a long line, and were driven by dozens of officials on both sides with whips, knives and guns and other weapons, and walked towards the mountains outside the city.

From a distance, the mountain looked yellow, as if it was originally a mine, but then the mine was dug and the grass could not grow, so it became such a bare barren mountain.

It doesn't look far, but it's not close. The prisoners walked and stopped, delayed for most of the day to reach the foot of the mountain, and almost lost half their lives.

As soon as the leading official shouted to stop, everyone sat down on the ground, begging in a low voice for saliva.

The people were dirty, messy, huddled together. But the officials who had a bad temper did not beat and scold them abnormally, but showed expressions of mission completion.

It was as if taking them to this barren mountain was the end.

The leader smirked: "Do you want to drink water and eat?" Wait a little longer, and your wishes will come true. ”

Everyone looked at him suspiciously and with a little expectation. Only the six people of the Sun Moon Sect who were mixed in the crowd were tense, something was wrong!

Huo Rongdong was afraid of startling the grass and snakes, so she didn't dare to use her divine sense, but fortunately, her eyesight had improved due to her cultivation, and she could clearly see the ambushes around her.

Soldiers were stationed near the slopes of the hill, encircling the prisoners and cutting off all the roads leading out of the mountain, roughly estimated at forty or fifty men.

But these soldiers were just ordinary mortals, and the rumored national teacher did not appear.

Huo Nindong saw Song Huan in the crowd, and the other party nodded at them and signaled to continue waiting.

This waited until late at night, and three or four groups of prisoners were sent over one after another, and I don't know what it was composed of, but it was by no means a great traitor, it was simply ordinary people.

They were also terrified, with tattered clothes, yellow faces and thin muscles, and only the strength to be silent in the face of the beating and insults of officials, like a corpse that could still breathe.

By the time the last small group converged, there were already thousands of prisoners gathered in the open space in the middle of the col, huddled together, as if this would add some security.

When it was completely dark, the soldiers lit up with torches in their hands and quietly circled the prisoners.

But Huo Rongdong found out that something was wrong: for the number of prisoners, the number of soldiers and officers was too small, even if they were armed with weapons......

Perhaps because of the courage to huddle together, and relying on the strength of the crowd, a few bold men among the prisoners stood up and shouted loudly with their fists: "Dog officer, what are you going to do!" ”

"We are innocent citizens, let us go home! Cruel and immoral, officials like you will be punished by heaven! ”

"Dog thieves who disregard human life, you should go to hell......"

Human emotions are extremely easy to be stirred up, perhaps because the power of the cluster is too large, more and more people shouted with those men, and gradually formed a camp, as if they wanted to fight against the officers and soldiers.

A man in coarse cloth clothes stepped on the thigh of a fellow villager, condescendingly waving his fist and shouting, "We are going home!" Go home! Return-"

Before he finished speaking, the people below suddenly felt a heat on their faces, and a slimy fishy smell.

Looking back, they almost didn't die of scare.

The man who was still shouting slogans just now had his head cut off by something he didn't know at the moment, and his body slowly fell to the ground when his head and neck were separated.

"Murdered ——!!!"

Blood splattered, and the crowd erupted in exclamation, and there was an instant riot. Like a headless fly running wildly in all directions, delusionally trying to find a way down the mountain.

But this is a tomb, how could the officials tell them to leave easily. In an instant, the surrounding soldiers with knives and guns walked forward quickly, intimidating everyone with their bright swords.

"Shut up and be honest! Don't kneel down for me yet! ”

"If you dare to talk nonsense, this person is your fate!"

"Whoever moves first, dies first!"

The crowd was in a commotion, but it was quiet under great threat. Everyone was crying silently, and even some parents held their children's mouths, for fear that the children would be beheaded if they cried.