Chapter 118: The Smiling Butcher
Shen Mad led everyone to lead the horses around, and the armor that was worn on a few fast horses was no longer there, these had already been hidden halfway through, and their fast horses were only used for hurrying, and they didn't need defensive armor to drag them down. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
After a while, the group had come around and stopped outside the back wall of the dilapidated courtyard, because the people were lazy, the weeds behind the house were dense, and the trees grew arbitrarily but did not cut them down for the purpose of repairing the house or furniture, Shen Mad and Chang Yuheng tied the seven fast horses under the three trees respectively, although the weeds were nearly withered and yellow, the lower weeds were enough for a few horses to eat for a while.
Shen Mad led everyone around to the front and into the courtyard.
The courtyard is not large, and the walls are made of adobe, and the unrepaired and dilapidated areas are patched with tree trunks and branches.
Entering the courtyard, one of the three houses collapsed, and the other side room seemed to leak when it rained, only the larger main house seemed to be better, which was also a person in the house afraid of the night wind, cold rain frightened, helpless to repair.
Looking at this dilapidation, Shen Mad felt at ease, there should be no one to visit the head of this household.
The bookkeeper also knew that the quiet now was what they wanted.
The proprietress is a woman after all, and she still frowns when she sees this house, this is just her natural reaction, but she will not insist on anything, Shen Mad decided that she will follow, her heart has belonged, and everything has a center of gravity.
Fluttershy and Cai'er know that they are going to rest here, and they both show disgusted expressions on their faces, looking at the house and at Shen Mad in their hearts, although they are unhappy, they just have to endure in silence, knowing that their situation is difficult, they can't see the end of this road, and they can't go back to those leisurely, quiet days.
Shen Mad led everyone into the big house, although everything in the house was still worse than everyone imagined, but the sun would not dislike all this, and still climbed in through the two broken windows on both sides of the door, and settled in a place where Shen Mad and the others couldn't stand the pickle.
With the illumination of the sun, Shen Mad had already scanned the room for the second time, and turned back to Cai'er and the proprietress with a bitter face and said, "Cai'er, proprietress boss, you can clean up the bed first, just rest if you can, we won't stay long." β
Cai'er nodded, her eyes were already aimed at the big, broken bed, and the proprietress nodded and responded.
Shen Mad looked at the proprietress with a helpless wry smile Even if she simply apologized to the proprietress , although the room was a little dim, the proprietress in front of her saw Shen Mad 's expression, and then a sincere smile was revealed, she reassured Shen Mad and told Shen Mad that she didn't care about these things if she didn't go back.
Shen Mad saw that the proprietress had gone over to clean up the big bed, and said to Cai'er, who was still stunned: "Cai'er, the proprietress has an injury, how busy you are." β
Cai'er came to her senses and nodded her head and answered the phone, and went over to help, and Fluttershy also looked at Shen Mad and said, "Uncle Shen, I'm going to help too!"
Shen Mad smiled and nodded, and Fluttershy went over there, and Shen Mad turned to the bookkeeper and said, "Sir, let the fat boy be here, he's badly injured, take a good rest, let's go over there." Mr. Bookkeeper nodded, and Shen Maan, Liu Ping'er, and Chang Yuheng had already left the house.
After a long time, it was just a simple clean-up, which also consumed time, and although Cai'er and Fluttershy didn't belong to the kind of girl who often did tiring work, she was still very diligent, and after cleaning up, she was busy going out of the house to help Shen Crazy and them, and also went to the kitchen to get hot water, but when she got out of the house, she thought about the hot water in the deserted village before, and turned around and came back unconsciously.
Fluttershy is about to ask Cai'er how she came back without the hot water, but she and Cai'er grew up together, and their hearts have long been connected with one look or feeling, and Fluttershy doesn't say anything, looks at Cai'er, and walks over quickly.
The proprietress was busy settling the fat boy to lie down, and she didn't pay attention to the two girls.
Fluttershy whispers in the doorway, "Cai'er, γγγγγγ over there"
Cai'er twisted her face, looked at Fluttershy, and said, "Miss, I don't see anyone here, I'm afraid I'll be scared to death if they're lying in that broken kitchen again!"
Fluttershy proves her guess as she listens to Cai'er's words, and Cai'er and her think together, and they look at the dilapidated kitchen unconsciously, and pause before they have the audacity to say, "Let's go, let's go together." β
Cai'er nodded gratefully, and the two of them came out of the house to the kitchen.
Chang Yuheng had come out of the side room and happened to run into the two girls, Chang Yuheng smiled and said, "Fluttershy, why don't you rest first?"
Cai'er was already busy saying: "Brother Chang and Miss Chang are thirsty, let's go to the kitchen to get hot water, the house is dirty, let's clean it up and wash our hands." β
As Cai'er spoke, she really raised her blackened jade hand for Chang Yuheng to take a look.
Chang Yuheng's face changed slightly, but he recovered instantly, and said with a smile: "Oh, Fluttershy, let me come, the room is dirty, and besides, you are all too tired, go back and sit down for a while, I'll go to the hot water, and it will be fine right away!"
Fluttershy was stunned, and Cai'er said happily, "Thank you, Brother Chang, then let's go back to the house and help the proprietress take care of the fat child, she is injured." β
Fluttershy responds as Chang Yuheng nods, and Cai'er pulls Fluttershy back with a smile.
The kitchen was just a stove, and an iron pot with a large hole removed, and some miscellaneous items that seemed to have not been touched for a long time were piled up in the place where the roof did not leak.
Chang Yuheng entered the kitchen, and came directly to the corner where the sundries were piled up with a good light source, a man in tattered clothes was lying there, with a placket covering his face, Chang Yuheng came over, the chest of the lying person was undulating, not dead, Chang Yuheng held the man's head and tied the two corners of the placket with his hands, which was also what Shen Mad had just ordered.
The lying person hid on the side of the debris, covered with a soft mat with holes, and he became an undoubted debris, Chang Yuheng went to the courtyard to collect firewood and come back to boil water, so that the wanton smoke from the stove that had not caught fire for a long time was sultry.
The strong wind of the early morning is dispelled by the sun, and only then is there the smoke of thousands of homes, and the magnificent earthly scene. Thousands of years of human affairs, into the painting of the end.
Liang Zi's face was still stained with blood, looking at the smoke and contemplation by the well, the overflowing water from the bucket when it was tilted was sprinkled on his shoes, but he didn't feel the cold, and the stupid expression reflected the distance of his mind.
A courtyard that does not show the atmosphere of opulence, can be regarded as clean and tidy, two large rooms, the main house is the room where the owner's family lives, and the side room is the kitchen and storage place for some items.
There was another hut in the depths of the side house, and if there were distant relatives who occasionally came, they could stay here for a few nights, but now no one could move in anymore, two fast horses were blocked in the house by the tethered door, and the grass was scattered on the ground, and a young couple and a little girl who was only six or seven years old were lying on the small kang, they were not breathing, the blood at the corners of their mouths had dried into maroon, and their necks were twisted off in an instant.
Liang Zi carried water into the kitchen, and was busy for a long time before returning to the main room with some leftover rice and pickles from his own food, Lu Ting and Peng Jian looked frightened on the bed in the middle, their hands were tied, and their mouths were stuffed with bloody rags.
Liang Zi came over and put the leftovers directly on the bed, the cruel and contemptuous smile was still on his face, and he reached out to pull out the dirty cloth that the two of them had sealed, Lu Ting and Peng Jian immediately coughed dryly, but they didn't dare to call, Liang Zi had already warned them verbally, and he had also warned them with practical actions.
When the smiling faces of the little couple in the kitchen turned into surprise after seeing Lu Ting and Peng Jian, Liang Zi's face changed. Cold, the neck of the man who doesn't know how to resist was twisted off in an instant, the woman's mouth was covered when she wanted to scream, and when her frightened eyes widened to the limit, her neck also turned around, and she was twisted off by Liang Zisheng, and the sound of bone collapse was deaf, and the little girl who had just come out and was scared and cried was also shot in the throat by the clod of soil kicked by Liang Zi's toes, looking at Liang Zi coming, the clever little girl was no longer crying, but crying and shouting: "Uncle, uncleγγγγγγ"
The little girl was so frightened that she couldn't even think of crying out for mercy, but Liang Zi did not spare her, and his whereabouts would not be seen by anyone alive, and one of the farmers and the old woman who saw them at the entrance of the village were also twisted off their necks and hidden in a pit densely covered by vegetation.
The little girl's tears had not yet slipped down her tender cheeks, her crying had stopped, her big eyes were staring blankly into the distance, and her delicate neck had been twisted.
Lu Ting and Peng Jian, who had stopped coughing dryly, looked at Liang Zi, and their eyes were terrified with hatred for beating this beast to death with a killing stick.
Liang Zi cut off the hands tied by Lu Ting and Peng Jian again, and said lightly: "Eat, go to bed after eating." β
Lu Ting picked up the chopsticks, didn't eat first, and still said with some reluctance: "Who are you, what can we do by tying us up?"
Peng Jian was also uncomfortable with being confused and troubled, and before Liang Zi could speak, he added: "If you have so many rich people to tie up for money, why do you take such a big risk and tie up two people who are far more dangerous than beneficial to you?" If there is a grudge, this official and Lord Lu are dedicated to the people, and the ten villages and eight villages have no intention of leaving a trace of infamy, how can they be guilty of you?"
Lu Ting didn't say anything more, and Peng Jian completed what he wanted to say.
Liang Zi sneered, and paused before continuing: "If the two adults want to know the villain's thoughts, it's not that they can't tell them, but then you will know something about me, so it is inconvenient to run around in this world together, so as not to think of me who makes you hate me so much." β
Of course, Lu Ting and Peng Jian could hear the meaning of Liang Zi's words, the two looked at Liang Zi's smile, and unconsciously glanced at each other, and whatever they said was harmful to them, they knew what to do and what not to do, and the two of them invariably chose to endure the trouble caused by silence.
Liang Zixiao watched the two of them savor the rest of the meal he ate, and a trace of pure light flashed in his eyes.