Although the city of Deciduous Leaves is small, the distribution of the four gates is very particular.

Funiu Island is adjacent to the Parrot Island of the Jingyu Dynasty, and the Deciduous Leaf City is the first city in the south of the Upper Kingdom of Funiu Continent facing the friendly countries, and at the east gate of the Fuling Ferry on the border of the two continents in the near future, in addition to the Fuke Building for merchants to rest, the most is the hard labor who shuttles back and forth between the two places, and the people at the bottom after selling their feet.

The north of the city is relatively prosperous, and a single drunken flower building can be said to be the landmark building of the Fallen Leaf City, and the only carriage and horse avenue that connects Clear Water City and the Fallen Leaf City is in the north of the city.

The west of the city shrouded in darkness is often more mysterious, and the most business in this area is the cloth business, and the largest dyeing workshop in Deciduous City is here, Tsing Yi Fang.

Many ordinary families who have lived in the west of the city for a long time have set up small dyeing workshops at home, relying on helping Tsing Yi Workshop to process some cheap cloth and do some simple processes such as dyeing and rinsing.

Tonghe dyeing workshop in many small workshops that rely on Tsing Yi Fang to live belongs to the top of the group, the boss is a man who is nearly forty years old, his ancestral home is in Tingzhou, he lost money in business when he was young, not to mention, but also because of the family road that was contaminated with lawsuits, and his parents died and left to come to Funiuzhou.

I finally earned some money, finally took root, and got my mother-in-law as I wished, and I had a girl under my knees, and the little girl just turned four years old, and she was old enough to have a child.

Although he is not a leader, the shopkeeper was still a little lost at the beginning, but at the moment when his little girl smiled at him, his little caution had already been thrown out of the clouds.

The woman always dislikes her own man for not having the ability, and he is not allowed to make decisions about the big and small things in the family, and scolds him if he is slightly unsatisfactory.

People who don't know privately say that Shopkeeper Xue is afraid that he is not a masochistic person, otherwise how can he always smile and smile in the face of a tigress every day!

Those who know can see a little bit of the inside story, the woman's temper has been much better in the past two years after giving birth to her daughter, probably because she has focused part of her energy on her daughter, in short, she is not as fierce as before.

The house was bought from an old woman after the shopkeeper Xue came to the house for two years, the mother-in-law was in a hurry to sell the price cheaply, and it was not a formal channel, Xue Tong had just come to Funiuzhou not long ago, and he didn't have much money in his hand, so he took it over in a daze.

Later, I found out that I was fooled, and the woman turned out to be a woman who specializes in human trafficking, and the woman had just made a deal, and she was afraid that the government would track it down, so she was busy transferring it at a low price, and as for where she got the deed, I am afraid that only the original owner of the house can know.

The two sides simply made a white deed at that time, and after the tooth wife left, Xue Tong had no choice but to stuff some silver in the county government in private, which stamped the official seal on the contract, and finally let the white deed turn into a red deed.

The county magistrate of the former county government was afraid that the matter would leak out and affect his evaluation in the coming year, but God had its own retribution, and the witch disaster still made him lose his official hat.

The house was brightly lit, Xue and his family of three were sitting around the table to eat, and the guys on the other side of the workshop had also gone home after work, except for the cloth hanging on the pole in twos and threes, there were only a few cauldrons and dye vat left in the yard.

The rest of the cloth samples that have been colored are all in the side room on the right, and the temperature is suitable.

There were a few dishes on the table, the meat dishes were well matched, the little girl sat next to the woman and ate with a mouth full of oil, and the shopkeeper Xue Tongxiao, who was sitting opposite, narrowed his eyes into a slit, reached out and took out a handkerchief from his arms, and was about to wipe his own girl's mouth.

The woman's face was full of disgust, and she reached out and slapped away the man's outstretched left hand, and took out a white cotton cloth towel from her sleeve, and muttered as she wiped her mouth, but she couldn't hear what was being said.

The man didn't care, put down the towel, picked up a piece of fat chicken with a thick and even cut thickness in his right hand and put it in the bowl in front of the little girl, his face was full of spoiling.

The little girl's big watery eyes saw her father picking up vegetables for herself, and she struggled to get up and stand on the stool, and she also had to reach out to her father to pick up vegetables, but unfortunately her petite body was being held down by the woman next to her to wipe her mouth.

The man laughed heartily, and the woman next to him glared at him.

Shopkeeper Xue was glared at by his daughter-in-law and didn't dare to speak, and immediately stopped laughing. After wiping her mouth, the woman put the towel aside.

The little girl was about to get up as soon as she got free, pouting and swaying, which scared the man on the side to death, for fear that one of her daughters would accidentally be planted on the table, so she hurriedly got up and wanted to help.

The woman coughed lightly, and pressed the little girl down on the stool again, while she reached out and took a piece of chicken and placed it in the bowl of the man opposite.

The man's newly raised ass sat down immediately, not daring to move, but just squeezing his eyebrows at the little girl opposite, very sneering.

The little girl was not happy now, pouting, clasping her hands in front of her chest, and her round little face was bulging angrily.

The woman was helpless, stretched out her hand to clip a piece of fresh spring bamboo shoots to her daughter, the little girl saw that she also had it, her face immediately blossomed, her little hand picked up the chopsticks around her, and tried to reach out to the plate of spring bamboo shoots fried meat, trembling and trembling to clip a piece to her mother, and the man opposite was full of relief.

The woman touched her daughter's head and her face was full of spoiling, and she was finally a conscience.

The little girl was very happy when she saw her father and mother, and she was satisfied, so she picked up chopsticks and worked hard.

Shopkeeper Xue smiled at his daughter-in-law, and the woman rolled her eyes, not bothering to look at him.

The woman's tightness to her own girl and baby has never had a good face for him, and it is only at this time that a man can rely on the blessing of his daughter to protect him and enjoy a moment of family love.

The little girl is eating happily, and she can't see the scene here.

The woman ate a few bites, put down her chopsticks and said dissatisfiedly: "I don't know what you think, Ming'er is all relieved of work, didn't you say that you would send cloth samples to Tsing Yi Fang?"

The man didn't look up, picked up the piece of chicken in the bowl and took a bite and said: "A few days ago, everyone was busy with the shipment, and now it has been colored. ”

The woman snorted coldly, "You think it's kind, those helpers originally relied on this to eat, not to mention a day's wages for nothing, and they have to work themselves, just like you, I'm afraid that the dowry will not be able to be arranged on the day of the girl's marriage." ”

The shopkeeper looked up at the girl opposite, his eyes were firm, and said: "It's really going to be the day, my family's Yue'er married grandpa daddy must have a beautiful scene, and it must be no worse than the young lady of this fallen leaf city." ”

"You'll say something nice, but I'm afraid I can't count on you, a good old man's temper. ”

The woman still complained, and the man just looked at his little girl who was snoring and didn't speak.

The woman knocked on the table with her chopsticks and said, "I can't listen to you, can I?"

The shopkeeper turned his head with a confused expression.

The woman was even more angry when she saw him like this, and her voice couldn't help but raise a few points, and said: "I said, when you go to deliver cloth samples tomorrow, you will raise the price with Tsing Yi Fang by the way, and then I am afraid that the family will not be able to afford to eat!"

When the man saw her mention this again, he looked quite helpless.

The little girl who was eating vegetables seemed to empathize, and she raised her heart and looked at her father.

With an innocent little expression, the little mouth that has just been wiped clean is greasy.

The woman was urging the man how to go to Tsing Yi Fang to increase the price, but he didn't pay attention to this, the man didn't dare to ignore the woman on this issue, he was helpless, and he still had to look at his mother-in-law honestly on the surface.

The two of them looked quite like the gentlemen and disciples in the school.

One hates iron and does not make steel, and the other has more than enough heart but not enough strength.

The little girl didn't know why her father didn't look at herself, and when she saw that her mother was talking excitedly, she stretched out her little hand and picked up the white cotton towel on the table, wiped her mouth like her mother, and took advantage of the two of them not paying attention, her hands supported the stool, and her buttocks slid down the legs of the stool.

Steady landing.

The body movement is very skilled, and it seems that I have not practiced less.

The shopkeeper is being trained, so his little girl sneaked off the stool while no one was paying attention, and at this moment she was shaking around half of the table, from the back of the shopkeeper Xue to the door.

Xue Tongxin was absent-minded, he seemed to be a little weak-hearted, thinking that he would have to find his daughter for help at this time.

He glanced at it, and his heart was horrified, the seat was empty, and there was still the figure of his own daughter.

The shopkeeper was strange, and just wanted to turn his head to look for it, but he saw a flash in his left eye, and a short figure was staggering towards the door.

On the steps at the door, a round little girl looked up at the night sky, winking at the stars in the sky, and her watery eyes seemed to hide a Milky Way.

The shopkeeper breathed a sigh of relief.

The woman also seemed to have noticed that something was wrong, and when she saw the expression of her own man opposite, she followed his gaze and looked out of the door, and saw that her daughter was sitting on the steps of the door at this time, so she was distressed, and she wanted to take the little girl back before she got up.

I don't know that the little girl is very stubborn, and she doesn't want to go back to the house.

If the little white goose at the entrance of the village sees a glowing firefly, even if you lift its neck, it still flutters its wings and runs out.

The woman had no choice, so she went back to the house and took a cushion and laid it out for the little girl.

The shopkeeper was holding his head and watching intently, and he didn't even notice that his mother-in-law was standing aside with his waist up.

When he came to his senses, the woman was looking at him with a fierce face, and the shopkeeper's heart sank, and the calf was finished.

The courtyard was diagonally opposite the direction of the steps, and under a certain eaves of the dye cloth, a hunchbacked man hid in the shadows, looking at this side with fierce eyes.

I don't know how long we have been talking, but the ash on the candlestick has gone down a lot.

The dark shadows in the room flickered, the candles swayed in the wind, the night breeze blew from the half-open window, and among the two who were talking to themselves, the man frowned slightly, got up and came to the window.

In the distant sky, a bolt of lightning pierced, and a subtle sound of thunder came from afar.

The woman got up and put away the dishes on the table, and from time to time she looked sideways out the window.

Suddenly, a night breeze blew, and the candle flame on the candlestick swayed a few times and went out.

It was dark in the house, and the night sky above the courtyard was dim, and the night sky, which was full of stars not long ago, was now like a black cloth, and the moonlight was not enough in front of it, and even the scene in the inner courtyard could not be seen clearly.

The woman stopped what she was doing, got angry at the man, and yelled that she didn't know to close the window in time when she knew it was going to rain.

There was a dark shadow standing on the side of the windowsill, and when the woman saw that he was still not moving, she was even more angry, and she cursed and stretched out her hand to pull.

Before the woman could turn around a few steps away, a candle flame lit up slowly, and the shopkeeper Xue closed the fire fold on the side of the candlestick, and looked here with a puzzled expression.

The woman was stunned, and with a puzzled look on her face, she looked at the windowsill and the candlestick, which were separated by several paces.

The gate in the courtyard was creaky in the wind, and when the day was over, the workers only gently closed the main gate before leaving.

At this time, the main entrance was blown by a strong wind, and there were signs that it was about to be blown open.

Shopkeeper Xue hurriedly walked out of the room and walked towards the door, not paying careful attention.

Seeing that it was about to rain heavily, the woman did not care about the untidy table, wiped her hands with the cotton cloth that the man had left in front of the table, and went out of the house.

When I got closer, there was a half-figure on the cushion on the other side of the steps.

The woman reached out and touched it, and the cushion was wet and cold, without a trace of temperature, and it was obvious that the little girl had been gone for a long time.

In the night, the woman groped with her hands and called her girl's name, "Yue'er, Yue'er, don't be afraid, come to my mother's place, come. ”

No one answered.

The woman panicked, and her voice began to tremble.

After just a few sounds, there was still no answer.

In the lonely yard, from time to time there was the sound of a few silk cloths on the pole in the wind, and in the dark night, the wind whistled and whimpered.

When the woman's heart sank, she cried out with a loud voice, but as soon as she was about to speak, she felt a numbness in her back, and she fell headlong.

In the dark night, a black shadow flashed, and Kankan hugged the woman who was about to fall to the ground, silently.

Shopkeeper Xue closed the door tightly, turned around and walked towards the inner room, although the night was dark, but his yard didn't know how many times he walked back and forth, even if he closed his eyes, he wouldn't hit the dye vat.

On the other side of the main room, the dishes on the table looked like they had just started to clean up, and the room was empty.

Xue Tong was puzzled, turned his head and looked around, but did not see his mother-in-law.

He shook his head helplessly, and reached out to clean up the table.

Just without waiting for a start, Xue Tong felt that something was wrong, and subconsciously his heart sank, and he hurriedly walked outside the house.

The top of the staircase, where there was a cushion, was also empty.

The shopkeeper reached out and picked up the cushion, looking dazed.

He stood on the empty steps and shouted a few times, but no one answered.

There was only the whimpering sound of the whistling wind, as if it was telling something.

Xue Tong felt that something was wrong, so he turned around and went back to the house in a hurry, and dragged down the lanterns hanging in front of the front hall and the back room.

He reached out and took out the fire fold he had just used from his sleeve, and with a light blow, the flame lit up.

Xue Tong's hand that took off the lampshade trembled slightly, and it was not easy to light it, and without looking at it, he ran towards the courtyard with the lantern.

In the courtyard where the wind was whining, Xue Tong looked left and right with a lantern, and all corners of the yard, the side houses on the left and right, all checked one by one, but found nothing.

"Yue'er, Yue'er, don't scare Daddy, where are you, come out, Daddy lost, let's stop playing hide and seek. ”

"Wife, wife, where are you, come out?"

In the howling night wind, there were dull thunders from time to time, and the man's panicked cries did not reach far.

A bolt of lightning lit up in the night sky, and the man's face turned pale in the light of the lightning.

Xue Tong searched everywhere to no avail, and returned to the house in despair.

The man's eyes were glazed, as if he had used up all his energy tonight, and in the corner of his cloudy eyes, he saw a figure sitting at his dining table in a trance.

The shopkeeper rubbed his eyes and looked wide open, and there was a place where his daughter's seat was sitting before.... Person?

The figure at the table was scruffy, dressed in a tattered cotton coat and his hair was disheveled and knotted.

The man was eating the cold rice on the table, making it difficult to see his face, and there was a slight bulge on his back, which seemed to be a camel.

The shopkeeper's heart was surprised, although he didn't know who the person in front of him was, but since he appeared here out of thin air without warning, it was probably related to the disappearance of his mother-in-law and daughter.

The man is nearly forty years old, and he has experienced the ups and downs of the world in his ancestral hometown of Tingzhou, lost money in business, was wrongfully sued, was cold-eyed, beaten, fell in the middle of the family, and his parents died.

The situation at this moment does not allow him to be dizzy, and he is afraid that he will regret taking a wrong step.

Xue Tong settled down, didn't dare to slack off, and quietly put down the lantern in his hand, for fear of disturbing the person.

He crept to the table and stood still, not daring to sit down, his huge body obscured a little light, and the man who was eating from himself suddenly went dark in front of him.

The man seemed to be aware of this, and his right hand, which was busy with pilaf, paused slightly.

Xue Tong's body was tight, and he didn't dare to come out.

It was only a short moment later, above the sight of the table, the corners of the man's mouth began to chew again, and he still reached out to grab the rice, looking a little hungry.

The shopkeeper plucked up his courage, and his voice trembled: "If Mr. is hungry, I will go and make a new one, the food on the table is already cold, and I am afraid that if I eat too much, I will have a bad stomach." ”

The man was still only eating, as if he had not heard.

Xue Tong took a deep breath, and a special aroma came into his mind.

The smell was especially noticeable in the greasy hands of the hunchbacked man.

The shopkeeper's nose shrugged slightly, trying to grab something.

The hunchbacked man sneered at the corner of his mouth.

I don't know if he was full, or because he was disgusted that there was no wine on the table, the man's movements stopped.

He took the white cotton cloth from the table and wiped his hands.

Then a strange voice rang out, and someone asked, "When did you move into this house, and how did you move in?"

The voice was not very sharp, but it overshadowed the night breeze whistling outside the house, and the tone was calm, not a question, but like a chatter.

Xue Tong's expression was stunned, and he replied: "The villain moved in five years ago, and he came from an old woman. ”

The shopkeeper was afraid that the man would not believe him, so he hurriedly added: "It is an official deed, sir, if you don't believe it, I can go and get the deed." ”

As he spoke, he was about to walk to the inner room.

A cold snort rang out from inside the room.

Xue Tong didn't dare to continue walking, and stopped in place.

The voice continued to sound, and asked, "What does that woman look like, and where is she now?"

The shopkeeper's heart was worried, five years ago, he bought this house, at first he was just greedy for a small bargain, but afterwards he knew that he had been fooled, and he was also very angry.

It's just that the matter has already happened at that time, and I can't find the mother-in-law, and the government has also prepared the case, as for privately bribing the county government to confirm the ownership of the house, but it is also a corruption case under the government government, and it is an expedient measure.

Xue Tong knew that most of the previous owners of the house came to the door today, and his mother-in-law and daughter-in-law didn't know what was going on, and how they dared to open their mouths.

He hurriedly said: "The villain only found out afterwards that the mother-in-law who bought and sold my house was actually a full-time human trafficker, and the villain went to the county government to prepare the case." ”

The hunchbacked man's heart sank, Ya Po?

The voice sounded abruptly again, and in a hurry, he seemed a little anxious, no longer as calm and calm as before, and asked, "When you settled with that mother-in-law, did you ever see a six- or seven-year-old round-faced girl next to her?"

Xue Tong knew that the mother-in-law was in a hurry to sell the house because he had just done a case, and he didn't know that the mother-in-law was so bold and reckless, and the person who sold it was actually a six or seven-year-old girl.

He didn't dare to slack off, and said sincerely: "I have never seen it, I was alone when I handed over the house with that mother-in-law, and no outsiders were present. ”

The hunchbacked man on the other side of the table seemed to have heard some expected answer, and his back, which had been slightly bulging before, sank downward, as if he had lost something, and as if he had broken down the spirit that had been tense for a long time.

Xue Tongxin was anxious and continued: "If this room belongs to Mr., the villain is willing to return it to Mr., but he also asked Mr. to release the villain's wife and daughter." ”

The hunchbacked man on the other side of the table rested his hands on the table, still with his head down, making it difficult to see his face.

The voice never sounded.

When the shopkeeper saw this scene, he became more and more sure that his wife and daughter were in the hands of this hunchbacked man.

Xue Tong knelt down abruptly, and said to the person on the other side of the table: "The villain swears that he will never find the official mansion afterwards, the villain is sincerely willing to return the property of Mr., and is willing to sign and draw the mortgage, as long as Mr. lets me see his wife and daughter, the villain is willing to take them away overnight." ”

The shopkeeper knelt there, and his tone was eager and sincere, with a faint cry.

His body trembled, as if he was about to fall at any moment.

The hunchbacked man at the table finally moved, he stood up, hunched over and walked out of the house, like a little old man in the twilight.

A voice of hatred sounded, full of resentment, "What is the use of this house that I want you." ”

Where is Xue Tong willing to let him go, he climbed forward and hugged the stiff man's trouser leg, snorted and cried: "Sir, sir, I beg you, you let go of my wife and daughter, if Mr. is not angry, shouting and shouting and killing, just greet the villain, and never complain." ”

As soon as the hunchbacked man's feet moved, Xue Tong seemed to have been hit by something in the chest, and flew backwards with his hands, and the tables and chairs were hit into a large area.

The shopkeeper curled up in his arms, as if in great pain.

Outside, the night wind was still howling, and there was a lot of killing, and the sound of ticking seemed to be raining.

The hunchbacked man walked out of the room, and a black shadow flashed, Xue Tong somehow got up, lifted a chair and smashed it down on the head of the short man in front of him.

There was a bang, and before the chair could fall on top of his head, Xue Tong seemed to have been knocked out by something and fell on the wall in the room, causing the candlestick on the table to sway, and the lamp the size of a bean swayed with the strong wind, as if it would be extinguished at any time.

The reflection on the walls of the house is mottled, and in the sound of the night wind, it is like a mass grave in the night, and it is terrifying.

Xue Tong's face was covered with blood, and he knelt down on the side of the wall with his body in his arms, and vaguely saw that the hunchbacked man was about to walk out of the door, and he shouted at the man in a terrible voice: "I don't know what that little girl has to do with you, but since you also have a family, you should know that the family should be neat together, I just bought this house because I was greedy for a little cheap, what does that little girl have to do with me being trafficked by Ya Po, you are so vicious, do you want my family to be ruined, why?"

"Why?"

In the last three words, Xue Tong seemed to have used up the last bit of strength left in his body, and the voice of despair echoed for a long time in the dark night.

He couldn't control it anymore, and coughed up a mouthful of blood with a "wow".

The hunchbacked man at the door paused at his feet, as if he had been touched by the scales, and slowly turned his head.

With a loud boom, a bolt of lightning pierced the sky, dragging a long tail through the darkness of the night.

The brilliance flashed, and what appeared on the other side of the door was a terrifying face with ravines and scars, like the intertwined roots of an old tree.

That voice sounded again, and at this moment it was sharp and abnormal, just like a soul seeking life.

"Hahaha, hahahaha, hahahaha... ”

The man seemed to have been poked in the hole of laughter, and laughed wildly, almost laughing to tears.

His eyes were like poisonous snakes, staring at Xue Tong word by word and said, "Why? I'll tell you why!"

"Five years ago, I only came to escape the world, although I pretended to live in Miaoshan Witch Village, but the witch herself loved me, and afterwards quietly planted the 'Three Days Revenant Gu' on me with the 'Bone Jade Toad'. In the Chongxuan view of the bull's nose, I just borrowed the 'fire talisman' in advance, and I knew that it would be useless, but I thought that the bull's nose was indiscriminately besieging me, and I killed a few thieves by mistake in order to protect myself, and the man broke my spine and knocked me off the cliff. Pity me, I shouldn't die, I can't move on the sick bed, and I lie down for three years. ”

He paused and continued: "I passed through a small village, and because I saw a poor girl, I took her into the city, but I was abducted and sold by you. A few days ago, when I came out of the valley, when I passed by the village, I knew that the small house where I lived at that time was forcibly occupied by a scoundrel, and I was kind enough to talk to him, but he actually spoke wildly and humiliated me. ”

Speaking of this, the hunchbacked man was already speaking sharply: "Do you think this face is what I want?

The man stared at Xue Tong and still said word by word, gritted his teeth and said, "Ah? Who of you will pity me?"

The shopkeeper's expression was miserable, coughing up blood.

"It's ridiculous, is that why you take revenge on others at will? and whether it's right or wrong, what is the difference between what you are doing today and what you are doing to the people who hurt you in your heart?"

Xue Tong's words were vague and slurred, and his voice gradually weakened after speaking, as if talking to himself.

He struggled and shook his head, as if driving away the layers of tiredness, and his Adam's apple went up and down, as if his throat was blocked by the air poured into his lungs, and it itched terribly.

The hunchbacked man at the door had a strong ear, and he listened to Xue Tong's words really and word for word.

He stepped forward, grabbed Xue Tong's hair, stared at his eyes and said, "Ridiculous? You say I'm ridiculous, right? The laipi man said that I was ridiculous, I planted him with red phosphorus Gu, today I just accidentally bumped into that skinny monkey, but he reached out to hit me, so I gave him red phosphorus powder." You also call me ridiculous now, how do you think I should thank you?"

Xue Tong was already weak, and he couldn't force his hair to pull it at the moment.

He stared at the horrible ugly face in front of him, the corners of his mouth moving slightly, and his eyes were full of mockery.

The hunchbacked man who was hunched frowned slightly, his head flicked, and he dodged a mouthful of saliva mixed with blood.

He smashed down hard, and Xue Tong's head was like a ball that was thrown away casually, bounced up and down on the ground a few times, and calmed down.

The shopkeeper lay motionless, blood oozing from the place where his head was smashed.

The hunchbacked man stood up and walked to the side of the gate.

Xue Tong's head moved, as if he heard footsteps, and his hands hanging on the ground were slightly forced, as if he wanted to grab something.

The hunchbacked man stopped again just as he was about to cross the threshold.

The voice suddenly sounded, and he said mockingly: "But you are right in what you said, the family should be neatly together, and I will return your wife and daughter to you." ”

The figure lying on the ground was a great reward, and he raised his head with difficulty, his hands half-propped on the ground, and looked ahead.

The door outside the house was long gone, and bursts of unique special aromas came with the wind.

A few pieces of cloth in the yard had long been blown away by the strong wind, the poles for drying the cloth rattled in the night wind, and the dye vat full of water was blown by the wind, and the water splashed on the surface of the jar, like a rising tide beating against the reef.

The rumbling thunder rang out again, louder than before, and lightning crackled and lit up in the dark night, as if it were day.

Heavy rain came as scheduled.

The door of the house, which had been open, moved without wind, and closed automatically with a "pop".

Behind the gate against the wall, two figures leaned against it, motionless.

One big and one small, their faces were pale and bleeding.

Xue Tong looked at the two figures with a dull gaze, and the whole person's head seemed to be smashed from the air by a giant hammer.

He was stunned and let out a miserable cry, mournful and complaining.

Blood was already oozing from the two pairs of wide-open pupils.

Xue Tong staggered and wanted to stand up, but he couldn't stand up.

He lay on the ground and stretched out his hand to the front, trying desperately to grab the two most important people in his life, but to no avail.

He wanted to shout loudly, but it was as if he had already used up all his strength, and he couldn't make a sound.

In a trance, I only felt that the aroma was getting stronger and stronger, as if it was about to be engraved in my mind.

Xue Tong was rushed to the top of his head with a wave of fatigue, his throat was itchy, his breathing was not smooth, and his face was red with blood.

He stretched out a hand and grabbed his neck, bleeding from all his orifices.

The five fingers of the outstretched palm slowly fell, and after struggling for a long time, it finally lost its life.

Outside, it was pouring rain.

Inside the house, the candle flame finally burned to the end, and it was extinguished with a "pop".

In a bowl on the table, half of the uneaten chicken lay quietly.

Silent.

As early as half an hour ago, the back door of the city's eunuch's mansion was opened, and a middle-aged man with a slight fortune walked out.

The soldiers of the prison and government standing at the door bowed and saluted, and the other two county officials in soap clothes had already turned their spirits when they heard the rumbling thunder in the distance, and they no longer looked like yawning and yawning.

I have been looking forward to my master coming out as soon as possible, and if he doesn't come out, he may have to become a soup chicken.

Huang Weihe, the county leader, walked down the steps, a gust of night wind hit, he squinted sideways, and looked up at the moonlight in the sky.

The moon cat slowly faded behind the layers of draperies, wanting to speak.

He frowned slightly, shook his hand and walked forward.

The two officials looked at each other and followed behind, following in unison.