Chapter 10: Orphans

The stone mill was surrounded by the naked corpses of women, which inevitably met Gan Fei's eyes, some were on their backs, some were curled up, and some were dissected, and their deaths were extremely miserable, Gan Fei cursed in a low voice, looking around blankly, trying not to look closely, and paying attention to the source of the sound.

The sound of "dong dong dong" continued, but the tempo became slower and quieter.

Damn, if it was when I was still strong before, I must have been able to accurately identify the direction at the beginning, but now I can only bother to prick up my ears, and it is still difficult to judge after listening for a long time.

The sound of the "......" crash sounded at the least, and finally disappeared, and the whole village was strangely silent, of course, not completely silent, at least the flies attached to the corpse still buzzed from time to time, which sounded annoying.

It seems to be there, Gan Fei can't be sure, and walks to the side of the stone mill, where there is still a lonely female corpse, the white skin is stained with dirt, and the flesh and skin in the genitals are turned outward, obviously suffering many times of lewd humiliation, Gan Fei only glanced at it, then looked away sadly, squatted down next to the female corpse, and saw the face of the female corpse, this is a woman who is nearly thirty years old, undoubtedly, she must have been a beautiful woman in her lifetime, the slender willow eyebrows and the dazzling white skin all show this, if the big eyes bent into a ginkgo look at themselves, it will also make their hearts beat hot, but now, those eyes were dry and hollow, and they met their gaze gloomily.

Her waist is very slender, but obviously because she hasn't eaten enough for a long time, and you can still see the craggy skinny situation on both sides of the slender waist, Gan Fei is very sad, this is a beautiful woman who has endured hunger for a long time, but she has suffered the inhuman humiliation of the strong rebels, and ended her life in extreme pain, judging from the fact that her head is soft and crooked to the side, and her tongue is slightly sticking out, the violent strongman should have broken her neck bone alive, and finally left her a whole corpse.

It seemed that there was a sound here just now, Gan Fei looked at it twice, suddenly noticed, carefully grabbed the female corpse, and gently moved her away.

The skin of the corpse was cold and stiff, Gan Fei thought about it, sighed, and when he put down the female corpse, he closed her eyes, and then looked at the original female corpse under the body, but there was a pile of thatch. Gan Fei pushed back the thatch, and a dusty door panel suddenly appeared in front of him.

Gan Fei was in good spirits, he had been to many villages, and knew this kind of arrangement, this was the entrance to the cellar in the village, and he quickly cleaned the thatch, and looked for the crack in the door panel, and with a click, the door panel was lifted, and Gan Fei saw a thin little hand hanging down softly.

Gan Fei put down the door panel, hurriedly leaned in, a cold gray air hit the end of his nose, sure enough, it was a cellar, but it was dark and gloomy and couldn't really see the inside situation, his hand touched it, and he was grabbing a thin body, his body was still faintly undulating, Gan Fei didn't think much about it, he hugged his hands together, and held out the thin body.

It was really an extremely thin body, even though Gan Fei had now lost all his strength, he still felt effortless when he held this body, as light as a duckweed.

In the drowsy twilight, Gan Fei found that this was just a thin child, with long unkempt hair, a face of dust and dirt, unable to see clearly, and could not distinguish between men and women, from the point of view, this child was about eight or nine years old, but Gan Fei was not sure, after all, it was a child in a poor mountain village, suffering from hunger and cold for many years, and his body was often much younger than his actual age.

The child was very quiet, he didn't make any sound when he was rescued, his eyes were slightly open, but there was still some luster, but his eyes just swept weakly on Gan Fei's face, and then quickly turned to the female corpse, his little hand trembled and stretched out, grinned, and looked at his expression, and actually cried.

The child's chest rose and fell violently, which showed that he was emotional, he was obviously crying bitterly, but he couldn't hear the cry at all, two lines of muddy tears made the already dusty face even more dirty, and when Gan Fei put him down, he crawled towards the female corpse with his hands and feet, unable to climb a few steps and seemed to have no strength, unable to move anymore, panting and painful breath condensed into a silent and mournful coughing sound.

This series of actions immediately led Gan Fei to deduce probably:

The robbers attacked, brutally slaughtered the village, the woman, the beautiful woman who was alive only had time to hide her child in the cellar after the stone grinding of the threshing field, the thieves had already found her, right in front of the door of this cellar, the woman was raped, and the woman probably stayed here on purpose, until she was killed after being humiliated several times, but she also blocked the door of the cellar with her own body, and at the same time protected her children from being discovered, which also explains why the village was plundered, but the thieves did not notice this cellar. And from the crack in the cellar door, the child can clearly see what is happening outside, he is likely to watch his mother die of humiliation, what kind of cruel and heart-rending experience will this be for this child?

It was precisely because the child could see the outside that he saw Gan Fei's arrival, but his mother's body was pressed against the door panel, with his thin body and weak strength, he couldn't open the door panel of the cellar at all, so he could only knock on the door panel to get Gan Fei's attention, and in fact, knocking on the door panel was also the child's last strength, if it wasn't for Gan Fei finally following the sound to find it, maybe the child would soon starve to death in the cellar.

Thinking of this, Gan Fei looked at the female corpse, feeling sad but also respectful in his heart, and suddenly thought that the woman who was a mother could not expose the corpse naked in front of her own child, so she hurriedly ran over, took off her coarse linen coat and covered the female corpse, and when she looked back at the child, she seemed to gradually lose her breath and curled up into a small ball.

Gan Fei immediately picked up the child, pinched him lightly, attached it to his chest, and listened, fortunately, he just fainted, but his heartbeat was very slow, and his breathing was extremely weak.

Gan Fei knew that this was caused by hunger, thirst and throbbing for many days, and touched his bag with his backhand, except for half a bag of water and a few pieces of broken cake crumbs, there was nothing else to eat, and he couldn't help but be a little annoyed that he ate the last piece of wheat cake when he went up the mountain, and he couldn't say that he had to hurry up and get some food for the child.

The child was pinched by the Ganfei people, and woke up slowly, but his head was still drooping, and his eyes were slowly closed. Gan Fei bit the water bag and let him drink a few sips, and then quickly ran back to the thin horse with him, turned over on the horse, patted the horse's neck, and the thin horse immediately opened his four hooves as if he knew something, and the top priority was to find a place where someone could get some food, and then delay, I was afraid that the child would really starve to death. Although Gan Fei is a demon slayer, he is also known as a chivalrous mind, leaving orphaned children, and his life is in danger, how can he ignore it?

According to Gan Fei's past temperament, the corpses in this village are scattered and miserable, even if they are all dry bones, they should be buried in a pit, which will always give the deceased a comfort to fall into the ground. But today, firstly, the child was so hungry that he needed to find someone to satisfy his hunger and misfortune, and secondly, he really had no strength, and he really buried the bones of this village, and I am afraid that he would have to work hard all night, and by that time, most of his life would have been lost from exhaustion and hunger, and he would have made a living with the unjust souls of this village who had died in vain.

Thin horses gallop fast, I am afraid that it is also known that the life of the people is critical, along the way do not look for the inaccessible mountain road and forest paths, but go straight to the thoroughfare, finally arrived at a town when the sky is just dark, see the town is brightly lit, people shout horses neighing, but it is quite lively.

Gan Fei estimated that the thin horse had traveled more than ten miles at most, and it was quite surprising that there was such a large town not far from the slaughtered mountain village.

Saving people is important, Gan Fei did not hesitate, and did not pay attention to whether there were soldiers guarding this town, but found the nearest house with bilitting white smoke and went straight away.

Gan Fei's luck is good, this is a small shop next to the city wall, the stove at the entrance of the store is gurgling hot, a smell of broth came, and Gan Fei felt hungry, more than a dozen merchants looked like big men sitting in front of the store, holding pottery bowls, while blowing and blowing, while sending it to the mouth, I saw Gan Fei holding the child and riding a horse, and the body was ridiculously only wearing a shirt, several big men were a little curious to take a look.

"Shop shop, just come up if you have anything to eat. Gan Fei turned over and dismounted, found an empty table and sat cross-legged, looked at the child in his arms, fortunately, his eyes were slightly open, and he was still breathing, but he was wilting and had no energy.

"Guests from the south?" a shopkeeper greeted him, speaking in the Heluo dialect, but fortunately it did not prevent Gan Fei from understanding.

"It's a life-saving meal, it's not trivial!" Gan Fei replied angrily, not only to save the child, but he himself felt very hungry.

The shopkeeper was good-tempered, he smiled, and put dishes on the table: "Okay, let's bring some haggis soup to the guests first." A glimpse of the child in Gan Fei's arms: "Hey, the guest came out with a baby." ”

Gan Fei didn't say anything, and he didn't bother to reply, but the shopkeeper answered: "The baby is small, I'm afraid that the haggis soup will not be used to it, do you want some goat's milk?" ”

Gan Fei was overjoyed: "There is goat's milk, the best and best, bring it quickly, and others, haggis soup, cakes, meat, what do you want!"

The shopkeeper agreed, his hands and feet were quite sharp, and he turned his hand to bring two bowls of white goat's milk, Gan Fei picked up a bowl and sent it to the child's mouth, the aroma of goat's milk made the child a little energetic, his mouth was close to the edge of the bowl, and he drank a small half bowl in a blink of an eye, the white juice was dripping, and the poured Gan Fei was spotted, Gan Fei grinned and didn't care.

Soon, a stack of wheat cakes and two bowls of hot haggis soup were also served on the table, Gan Fei saw that the child had a spirit, and had already taken the bowl and drank goat's milk, and he was really hungry and couldn't stand it, so he hurriedly freed his hand, stuffed a large piece of wheat cake into his mouth, and handed the child a piece, muttering in his mouth: "Take care of my horse too, what good ingredients are there to eat." ”

Several merchants who were watching turned their heads to look at the thin horse at the door of the store, and laughed disapprovingly, such a thin horse is also fed with good materials, which is too wasteful.

The shopkeeper was happy to make more money, so he agreed repeatedly, and at the same time brought a bowl of mutton over: "Although the meat of the small shop is not as good as Ashan's, it is also fresh meat that was cut yesterday, and the taste is not bad, and the guests eat it." ”

This is the second time I've heard the shopkeeper talk about Ashan's house, Gan Fei doesn't know what the road is, a few mouthfuls of wheat cakes down, hunger is slightly suppressed, and then look at the child Although he is wilting and leaning on himself, but holding a goat milk bowl, and holding a half-eaten wheat cake in his hand, the situation is much better, Gan Fei put his mind at ease, ripped off a piece of boiled mutton to the child, and stuffed a piece of meat into his mouth, one bite down, his lips and teeth were fragrant, I was afraid that he would not even chew his tongue, until this time, Gan Fei had the heart to look around.

Although Gan Fei is empty now, but after all, he is fat, with a big knife behind his back and a long bow at his waist, but he looks like a martial artist, those merchants dare not look directly, they have already skimmed their eyes, Gan Fei is unaware, just look at the surrounding situation, and find that the city wall of this town is built of loess, which is not a southern style, and it also looks short, but there are no soldiers guarding the city, so it is impossible to judge which country this is under the rule now. There are still chariots and horses passing by at the gate of the city from time to time, and look at the situation, most of them are merchants who come to settle down, and the sound of bowls and lamps clashing and laughing comes from far away from the town, which is really the most prosperous and lively place that I have ever seen along the way.

"What is this place?" said Gan Fei was now curious.

"Qiabu Kan......" Gan Fei was confused, and the shopkeeper explained with a smile: "That's the name given to An's by the Xianbei people, earlier in the Great Jin Dynasty, this place is called Shaofang County, don't look at us here There are still hundreds of miles away from Luoyang, but this south-to-north merchant Jia Duo is this one, isn't there a saying, travel hard, there is a good land, the game of Jueshan Guangliang wine, the roast sheep of Qia Town, the sister of Anji, that Qia Town is to say that we are here, and the guests who are used to walking long distances all know the way, hey, the guests are from the south, right?

Gan Fei really doesn't know the saying of the road, although he has been in the rivers and lakes for a long time, he is mostly in the southern border, and this saying is about the four good places in the Central Plains, but the word roast sheep makes his eyes shine.

When the shopkeeper saw Gan Fei's expression, he knew that it was the first time he came to Qiabukan Town, and he grinned: "It seems that the guest doesn't know the way, our Ashan's roast sheep here is really the best in the world, and it is roasted in the way of Xianbei people, and many merchants still specially transfer here to taste it." But tonight the guest is afraid that it is late, there are too many people, every day, as long as the unitary time passes, people will not receive it, the guest is the same in our place, the boiled mutton in the small shop is also an old craft. ”

Gan Fei nodded in his heart, he hadn't eaten meat for a few days, he had a drunk here tonight, and it was not too late to taste the roast sheep of the Ah Shan family tomorrow, now he had to find a place to live, and he had to wait for the child next to him to recover more.

Thinking of the tragic scene in the mountain village, Gan Fei asked again, "Shopkeeper, do you have any robbers here who haunt from time to time?"

When he asked this, the boy stopped chewing, raised his head, and fixed his eyes on the northeast.

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