Chapter 13: Reversal
"When?"
Yike's face was as earth-colored, staring intently at the cloth in the young woman's hand, and asked in a deep voice.
Alan also stepped forward, squatted down close to this Ke, and put his hand on the cloth, his eyes full of incredulity.
The young woman couldn't cry, and the cloth in her hand was already wet, so it took a while to calm down a little, and then she slowly told her what had happened before with tears in her eyes.
The cause is bloody, the process is miserable, the ending is very nonsense, in just one day, a fresh young life was deprived of this uncivilized human nature, and there is no way to find out afterwards, and it is impossible to find out.
"Such a young child, how can they be poisoned."
Yike lowered his head, his eyes burst out with a touch of coldness, and his clenched fists slammed into the ground, making a dull sound.
"Damn it."
In fact, for Yike, in addition to anxiety and anger, there is more of a deep powerlessness and self-blame, if it weren't for his sudden kindness, the young woman in front of him would not have suffered this at all, and the child would not have been murdered, and only need to survive one night, and naturally usher in new hope.
Yike raised his head again, and looked at the young woman's eyes full of deep guilt, and wanted to comfort him, but his throat seemed to be stuck, and he couldn't say anything.
In the end, it was the young woman who saw Yike's loneliness and took the initiative to hold the dusty hand.
"Childe, I know what you're thinking, you're a good person, it's not your fault, and the slave family won't have the slightest grudge against you."
"It's just that this creation is too tricky, so that my child has a short life here, and the slave family now has nothing else to ask for, but hopes that he can find a good family in the next life, have a fixed place to live, and not worry about three meals."
As a witness, Alain naturally felt the same way, and couldn't help but reach out and put his hand on Yike's shoulder, and said softly and comfortingly:
"Yes, it's not your fault, it's only because there are too many injustices in this world, some people are desperate to live, and in the end, they are eaten away by those disgusting bedbugs little by little, and they should be the ones who should say sorry, you just did what you should do."
The young woman glanced at Alain, nodded approvingly, and then said to Yike:
"What this girl said is right, I hope that the son will not think too much, it will be a sin if it affects the child's heart!"
The two of you said a word, but it made Yike feel like he was dominating, and he became the object that needed the most encouragement, looking at the faint tears still hanging in the corners of the young woman's eyes, Yike forcibly squeezed out a smile,
"Sister, don't worry, I won't think about it."
When the young woman heard this, she nodded with relief, stretched out her hand to wipe away the remaining tears in her eyes, and smiled knowingly.
At this time, Yike carefully looked at the young woman in front of her, the wind bun showed her sideburns, Xu was crying a little frequently in the past two days, the young woman's dry and godless eyes actually had a trace of clarity, and the original gray cheeks were also as delicate as running jade, and the green silk on the temples was even more windless and automatic, adding a bit of charm.
After a moment's scrutiny, Yike withdrew his gaze, not daring to be overly blasphemous, and after reining in his thoughts, he opened his mouth to the young woman and asked:
"Sister, can you tell me what your name is, where do you live, and what other relatives do you have?"
Yike's salutation made the young woman hesitate, and her heart was full of thoughts, and she immediately prevaricated in a low voice:
"Don't be like this, the slave family should not be called this one."
Then he frowned and whispered:
"The slave family's surname is Shen, the name is Qingyue, a person from Liang Yundu, in the early years, the father and mother were killed by traitors, and the slave family was forced to leave the residence, and fled all the way to Yishui, but who expected to fall into it"
Speaking of this, the young woman shook her head bitterly and smiled bitterly,
"When I was desperate, I thought that I could do it all my life, but in the end I was saved, and this person is my husband, my husband's family has been fishing for a living, my father-in-law died in the flood two years ago, only my husband and my mother-in-law depended on each other, and then they regarded me as their own, in order to repay their family's life-saving grace, they married my husband, thinking that they would live such a peaceful life from now on."
"But it backfired, the waterlogging came even more turbulently, overnight, many people who were unable to move because of cold legs were ruthlessly taken away by the water, including the mother-in-law, and later on the way to exile, the husband was to take care of the slave family and the child, fell on the way, and since then heaven and man have been separated forever, and now, the child has also left me, the slave family ......"
"Alone again, living alone!"
The words were full of helplessness and desolation, and Yike couldn't help but say casually:
"Searching, deserted, miserable and miserable."
It's just a sentence that suddenly appeared in my mind, and it always felt just right, which was very in line with the young woman's bumpy past, but what she was looking for was the desire to live.
Not only the young woman, but even Alan on the side cast strange eyes after hearing the verses coming out of Yike's mouth, either happy or surprised!
Yike paused for a moment, sighed deeply, and said to the young woman:
"Sister Qingyue, my parents died early, and now I am alone, if you don't dislike it, from now on, you and I will be called sisters and brothers, you can call me Yike, you can also call me Ake, or little brother."
The young woman had just recovered from the misery of the poem, when she heard Yike's sentence, she was so frightened that she waved her hand again and again and refused it.
"Don't be a son, a wild woman in the countryside in the slave family, how can he be commensurate with his son's sister and brother!"
And Alain's mood when he heard this was even more indescribable, and his eyes kept lingering on the two of them.
Knowing that the young woman had scruples, Yike shook his hand casually and said bluntly:
"Ah, what's the matter, if it weren't for your age, otherwise I would have recognized you as a godmother."
"Ah......h
"This ......," the young woman was a little ashamed.
Yike took advantage of the situation and continued:
"If you don't agree, then I can only find a suitable in-law for you, otherwise you are alone, I am really not at ease, you choose one, whether it is with me or marry someone else."
The speaker has no intention, and the listener has a heart, and the two are not in conflict, but at this time, when they say it at the same time, there is a kind of forced marriage.
For a while, the young woman's cheeks protruded a touch of red staining the roots of her ears, and she lowered her head and kept twisting the corner of her clothes, without saying a word.
Alan stretched out his hand and pinched Yike's arm hard, smacking softly,
"Phew, big color embryo!"
Then he rebuked loudly:
"I was still admired for what you did just now, thinking that you are a gentle and frugal lady, but I didn't think that you were waiting here!"
"People have just experienced the pain of losing their children, and now they are alone, which is already very miserable, and you still tease people like this, it really disappoints me!"
Yike took a deep breath of cold air, almost lost his voice, endured it, and said in a muffled voice:
"What are you doing, you're sick, what do I say, I'll be a big embryo."
"Did I say something wrong, either be my sister and I will take care of her, or I will ask her to find another family, so I have to rely on it, where did I say it wrong."
After listening to Yike's explanation, Alan came to his senses and shrank his head, but he didn't have the slightest idea of admitting his mistake, and just wanted to quibble, there was a shout behind him,
"Everyone is quiet, all quiet, my lord has something to say to everyone."
The two followed the prestige, only to see that surrounded by a group of cloth clothes, a middle-aged man in brocade clothes with a big belly and a round head and round brain, shaking a folding fan in his hand, appeared in everyone's field of vision proudly.
The person who came was Tang Guanli's brother-in-law, Chen Dali.
Chen Dali's nostrils were facing forward, his eyes were half-squinted, and after scanning the audience for a while, he slowly spoke:
"The contemptible person is Tang Guanli, the magistrate of Liuyun City, the brother-in-law."
"It is said that the world is a family, no, this time I specially came to visit your neighbors on behalf of my brother-in-law."
"It's been a while since everyone came, and it's not difficult to find that our Liuyun City is in a remote area, and our ability is very limited, so we can only do some meager things to help everyone."
"However, in order to let everyone better feel the enthusiasm of my Great Xia, we are non-stop to write and play, and the court is even the suffering of the people, and it is not easy to read me, so we allocated more than 16,000 taels of silver, and we also sent someone to send some of it to everyone overnight, I think you should have received it!"
For a while, after listening to Chen Dali's generous speech, a group of distressed and displaced people showed words of praise one after another, and their gratitude was even more overflowing.
"It turned out to be a gift from the Great Xia court."
"I'll just say, where is the benefit of pie in the sky."
"It's better to be in the summer..."
……
Yike and Alan were silent, and as long as the result was good, they let him distort the facts.
"But ......"
Hearing this, the scene suddenly calmed down.
And everyone's reaction also fell smoothly into Chen Dali's eyes, and after sneering, he was even more confident, and after shaking the fat on his stomach, he said:
"My emperor's grace is immense, but there is a small night to abandon it, and the silver that was originally reserved for repairing the residence of the rest of the house was stolen overnight."
For a while, there was another burst of insults and rebukes from the people below.
"And this kind of thing, this person is too bold!"
"It's not going to let us live."
"That's right, this kind of person should be cut with a thousand cuts."
One of them immediately stood up and shouted:
"My lord, has this person been caught, and if he is caught, please break him into pieces."
All the people cried in agreement,
"yes, catch him."
"Kill him."
"Ten thousand broken corpses."
……
Such a reaction won Chen Dali's heart, and he saw him stretch out his hand and wave lightly, stopping the noise of the homeless, and said with a smile
"You don't have to worry, it's so small, how can you easily escape, and we received news that this person is likely to be among you, so the government sent someone to bring everyone together, just to be able to investigate the case well, but in this way, it may be a little sorry for everyone, and I hope everyone can understand..."
Without waiting for everyone to respond, Chen Dali bowed slightly and said:
"Chen thanked me in advance."