Chapter 10: The Embrace of Ideals
It was a cellar, or rather hell, with no windows and no doors. There was a faintly lit oil lamp, which made people faintly see the walls with water droplets on all sides. In the center of the cellar hung from the beams of the top wall a number of rusty torture instruments, including shackles and handcuffs, sharp three-edged iron hooks, tongs, soldering irons, etc., and on the ground were tiger chairs, ten-finger clamps, heart-splitting awls, bone-crushing sledgehammers, peeling knives, and other terrible torture instruments that had never been seen and heard of.
It also seems that this kind of thing is only found in hell.
On one side of the torture instrument against the wall, there was a table and a chair, and in front of the table was a small round charcoal stove on the ground.
There were only three people inside, one was Bai Xue who was tied to a pillar next to the torture instrument, one was the man in black who suddenly appeared in her room that night, and the other was a shriveled white-haired old man with a hideous face.
"This is what will happen to betraying me!" Suddenly, Bai Xue heard the voice of the man in black howling like a wolf that night in the gloomy cellar.
"Is it to peel the skin, or to cone the heart, or to use a soldering iron to burn a few transparent holes first?" asked the man in black in a ghostly voice.
"Or ...... Let's scald a few transparent holes first!"
"Hello!" the shriveled old man, with a look of great excitement, turned around and picked up the red-hot soldering iron from the hearth.
He held a soldering iron and walked towards Bai Xue with a sinister smile.
Bai Xue was terrified, and she cried out in pain, "Spare me!
"Wait a minute!" the old man was about to put the soldering iron on Snowy White's cheek when he heard the words of the man in black, and his soldering iron stopped in the air for a moment. However, his expression seemed to be a little impatient, and he was ready to insert the soldering iron into Bai Xue's body at any time, as if this was also his greatest pleasure as an executioner!
The soldering iron stopped in front of Bai Xue, less than a fist away, and her face was already strongly scorched by the heat.
"Have you figured it out?" asked the man in black.
Bai Xue looked at the face of the man in black calmly, and she suddenly remembered her own determination, and remembered the person she loved so much, and she said resolutely in her heart: "Never!"
At that moment, she looked at the snake-like eyes of the man in black, and suddenly spat in his face with resentment, so she felt relieved, and she laughed maniacally. Moreover, she is ready to die calmly at this moment.
"Kill me!" she said.
The man in black thundered and roared angrily.
"Die, stinky girl!"
Immediately, the soldering iron in the old man's hand also slammed into her heart.
Bai Xue shuddered and woke up with a wail.
She suddenly found herself snuggled in a man's arms, and she looked up in surprise to see that it was Wu Shuang! She was pleasantly surprised, but she couldn't believe her eyes. She didn't know which was the reality and the dream between the scene in front of her and the one she was afraid of just now.
So, she had to ask in horror.
"Is this true, where am I?"
"It's true, you're in my arms. Wu Shuang said, "I'm in your attic." ”
She suddenly remembered that Wu Shuang had gone to the top of the Divine Sword, so she concluded that this must be a dream, and now Wu Shuang must be dead, and he himself is dead. So she cried out bitterly, "Are we all dead?"
"Not only are we not dead, but we will live better in the future!" Mr. Wu said.
His words were so firm, so confident, so full of strength, that Bai Xue felt safe and steady like never before.
"Have you really come back from Mobei?" asked Bai Xue.
"Yes. Wu Shuang said, "You have to talk less and rest more now, your body is very weak, you have been in a coma for two days!"
"I feel good now," Bai Xue said, "I feel very happy, happy, and happy to be in your arms!"
"You put your clothes neatly in order," Wu Shuang said, "and stuffed this bag of poison under the pillow, what are you doing here?" Wu Shuang held the bag in front of her eyes.
"Ahh
"So you're in pain!" Wu Shuang hugged her tighter, so as to convey greater strength and strength to her.
"Yes, I feel like I'm worse off than dead," Bai Xue said with tears streaming down her face.
"How could you have such an idea!" Wu Shuang said, "You are so stupid! you have survived so many years, not to mention that we will be able to destroy that demon in a little while!"
"You mean the man in black?"
"I don't know who the man in black you are referring to," Wu Shuang said, "but I know there must be a terrible demon behind you!"
"Yes, that man is terrible. Bai Xue said with a chill.
Just then, there was a knock on the door.
"Come in!" Wu Shuang said.
The door creaked open, and Mao Xiaoer walked in cautiously with a bowl of steaming medicinal soup.
"Wu Daxia's medicine is ready!" Mao Xiaoer said, he kept his head down.
"Hard work!" Wu Shuang said as he reached out and took the medicinal soup in his hand.
"Brother Mao really thank you!" Bai Xue said.
"Boss, that's what I'm supposed to do. Mao Xiaoer still lowered his head and stood respectfully on the edge of the bed.
"We do have to thank Brother Mao," Wu Shuang said, "If it weren't for Brother Mao anxiously waiting for me at the city gate, I wouldn't have rushed here directly, so it would be impossible to know that your condition is so serious." ”
"Ahh
"Everyone will do this!" Mao Xiaoer raised his head at this time, looked at them and smiled calmly. At that moment, his smile was so beautiful, as if it was better than all the flowers in the world.
"Has Brother Mao married?" Wu Shuang suddenly asked.
"How dare someone like me think about this!" Mao Xiaoer said with a flushed face.
"It's okay now, Brother Mao!" Bai Xue said, "I have prepared a hundred taels of silver for you here." Bai Xue opened the small box at the head of the bed, took out the sealed one hundred taels of silver, and handed it to Wu Shuang.
Wu Shuang held the silver, but he was not in a hurry to hand it over to Mao Xiaoer.
He said: "Then since this is the case, I don't know if Brother Mao is willing to have a good family affair?"
"It's good that we can become a family, so don't care what you want to pick and choose fat and thin!" Mao Xiaoer said, his eyes shining brightly, and his face was full of joy.
"That's okay," Wu Shuang said, "Uncle Yao, who raises horses in our village, has a dignified and virtuous good daughter, who is twenty-eight years old, and it is just the right time, and I will talk to him when I turn around." ”
Wu Shuang handed the bag of silver to him and said: "You take this bag of silver back first, go home and prepare a little dowry, and when we are all matched here, we will choose a good day and an auspicious day to do your great joy!"
When Mao Xiaoer heard this, he was so excited.
Bai Xue also smiled and said, "Congratulations, Brother Mao, it seems that our Wu Zhuang master is capable!"
Mao Xiaoer went, and Wu Shuang helped Bai Xue to drink the medicine.
"Brother Wu, your family background has suffered so much," Bai Xue looked at Wu Shuang's face and said, "Then you must have suffered a lot!"
"Yes, we are all children who grow up in suffering. Wu Shuang muttered, "I have been able to grow up to this day because I have three noble, selfless and great people in my life." ”
"And who are they?"
"One is my adoptive mother, one is my master, and the other is my wife!"