Chapter 49 Man eats man
After Qi Xianliang fled, the remaining five bodyguards fought with the officials, these people had good martial arts, and for a time the officials had a lot of colors on their bodies, and when they saw Qi Xianliang escape, they turned around and jumped out, as if they wanted to escape.
I saw Zhou Kongqi, who was not far away, raised his hand and seemed to wave it lightly a few times, and the five people who had already crossed the high wall suddenly shook their bodies, and their bodies fell to the ground like a kite with a broken string, rolling on the ground a few times, but no one could stand up, all of them were bloodless, and fell to the ground in pain.
The official escorted the five people back to the public court, and Duan Changqing said angrily: "Where did Qi Xianliang go?!"
These five people were already dying at this time, and one of them had already bled to death and passed out, and no one responded to Duan Changqing's question, Duan Changqing shouted when he saw this: "Put these traitors in prison, and ask for beheading next month!" After he finished speaking, he turned around and carefully took off his official hat, put it on his head, and hugged his fist to Zhou Kongqi and said, "Thank you Lord Zhou for your help." β
"Lord Duan is polite, this is the duty of grass people like us. Zhou Kongqi replied.
"Well, now it seems that Qi Xianliang intends to rebel, come on, quickly arrest Qi Xianliang and the Qi family!" Duan Changqing threw down a token, and the officials were ordered to leave.
"Lord Duan, we are willing to help you. Yun Menghan, Tong Yuan, and Zhou Kongqi said in unison.
"Okay! Today, you will definitely capture this traitor!" Duan Changqing nodded.
Everyone turned around and left the yamen, and not far away, a few disciples of the Huanhua Sword Sect and the Zhou family came, whispering in the ears of their respective stakeholders, and after a while, Zhou Kongqi and Tong Yuan listened to it, and then asked them to retreat, Yun Menghan looked at the two of them expectantly, Zhou and Tong glanced at each other, and nodded to Yun Menghan at the same time, and the three of them looked at each other and smiled.
Ye Yuanqing looked at the truth from the side, but he didn't say a word, just quietly looked at everything in front of him.
Yun Menghan turned his head and glanced at Ye Yuanqing, paused for a moment, and then said with a smile: "Childe, let's go back to the Zhou Mansion to see Brother Lin." β
"Hmm. Ye Yuanqing replied expressionlessly, pulled Cui Ling's yarn head and walked away without looking back, Yun Menghan hugged his fists to Zhou and Tong and said, "I'm out of company." And he chased after him.
The three of them were silent all the way, Cui Lingsha just grabbed Ye Yuanqing's hand tightly, she felt Ye Yuanqing trembling slightly, her face was also a little pale, and she wanted to ask him what was going on, but in the end she didn't speak.
Returning to the Zhou Mansion and pushing open the door, Lin Yuanqing was sitting cross-legged on the bed and meditating, when he saw the three of them, he hurriedly asked, "How is Qi Yaozu?"
Ye Yuanqing didn't answer, but just asked, "Brother Lin, is your injury better?"
"Well, when I was poisoned, I thought the poison was very violent, but after taking the antidote just now, after Mr. Yun treated my wounds, it took me a while, and I felt that my body had completely recovered, and there were no symptoms of poisoning at all, which was a little strange. Lin Yuanqing said puzzled.
"Well, that's because the poison you have and the antidote you eat come from the same place. Ye Yuanqing walked to the side of the bed, picked up the porcelain bottle of the antidote brought by Jiang Wenbin before, gently rubbed the bottle with his fingers, lowered his head and said lightly: "Is what I said right? β
"Hehe, Childe has become sensitive. Yun Menghan walked to the table with a smile and sat down, poured himself a cup of tea and said.
"Because poisoning my brother Lin is also part of your plan. Ye Yuanqing sat opposite Yun Menghan, put the porcelain bottle in front of Yun Menghan, stared at Yun Menghan intently and said.
"Childe is smart, what else did you guess?" Yun Menghan looked at Ye Yuanqing with interest and poured him a cup of tea.
Ye Yuanqing picked up the teacup and drank it all, and pressed the teacup heavily on the table, the teacup suddenly fell apart, and the broken pieces cut through Ye Yuanqing's palm, Cui Lingsha saw this and hurriedly bandaged Ye Yuanqing with a silk scarf.
"You asked Jiang Wenbin to instruct Qi Yaozu to cast a secret weapon in front of everyone, in order to make a play for the onlookers, so that they would think that Qi Yaozu would not change his bad nature and would take revenge on my brother Lin. Ye Yuanqing looked at Yun Menghan and said.
Yun Menghan just smiled and drank tea, but did not speak, and reached out and made a gesture to continue.
Then Tong Yuan deliberately smashed the meridians of Qi Yaozu's whole body with a heavy hand, in order to make Qi Xianliang upset, and in the court, Zhou Kongqi and Tong Yuan sang and harmonized, the two didn't seem to be talking about one thing, but their purpose was only one, that is, to provoke Qi Xianliang, make him lose control of his emotions, and instruct his subordinates to do it. β
"Not bad. Yun Menghan exclaimed with a look of surprise.
"But you didn't expect Qi Xianliang to guess your intentions, and have been playing the weak side, so it's not good for you to do it directly, and in the end, Lord Duan had no choice but to step up to force him, if it wasn't for his bodyguards to protect his employer first, I'm afraid you wouldn't have a chance at all, and that flying knife, if my guess is right, it should be someone from the Zhou family, right?" Ye Yuanqing said with a pale face.
"Okay! Childe is really a general!" Yun Menghan's eyes lit up and he said happily.
"Fuck! General's fart!" Ye Yuanqing's bandaged right hand slapped heavily on the table, the wound cracked, and a lot of blood flowed out.
"Childe, pay attention to your words!" Yun Menghan couldn't help but frown and said.
"Yun Menghan! How many times have I said it!Less killing! I know, you think I'm naΓ―ve! Yes! I'm naΓ―ve! I naively thought that you would defeat Qi Xianliang in business by fair and honest means, naively thought that such a wealthy family as the Ye family would definitely not do such a thing, naively thought that Qi Xianliang's plea above the court would have someone who couldn't bear to let him go, maybe he was really a villain who didn't do anything, but his eyes when he looked at Qi Yaozu were desperate and heartbreaking! At that time, he was nothing, he was just a father! He just felt sorry for his son! How could you?! How could you bear it?! Aren't you afraid of retribution?!" Ye Yuanqing roared hysterically with his hands on the table, the silk scarf on his hand was already soaked red with blood, Lin Yuanqing and Cui Lingsha were startled by his appearance, and just looked at him blankly.
And Yun Menghan regained his smile, stood up and walked to Ye Yuanqing's side, pressed his shoulder to let him sit down, and said slowly: "Childe is wrong, it is precisely because I think you are not naΓ―ve that I will talk to you about this." β
Yun Menghan returned to Ye Yuanqing and sat down, and said: "Childe, you and I are not people who live in the same world, it is normal for you to have these thoughts, I don't want to force you like the master, I just hope that you can slowly see the truth of this world by yourself." β
"Hmph, is the truth that people eat people?" Ye Yuanqing's emotions were much more stable after he vented loudly, and after hearing Yun Menghan finish speaking, he said coldly.
"Yes, the truth is that people eat people. Yun Menghan lowered his head, looked at the tea in the cup and said, Ye Yuanqing raised his head and looked at him in surprise, wanted to speak, hesitated for a moment and did not make a sound, Yun Menghan continued: "You have been clothed and fed since you were a child, and you can lose your temper if you don't go well, and the surrounding family members and servants will revolve around you, because you are the grandson of General An Yuan, the son of King Zhenxi, the playmate of the current saint since childhood, as long as you are willing, hundreds of heads will fall to the ground with your fingers, fortunately, you have not become such a person." β
Ye Yuanqing looked at him in confusion after hearing this, Yun Menghan shook his head and continued: "You have never seen people eat people, I have seen it, it is a person eating people in the real sense, there is no grass growing on the land for thousands of miles, and the victims are like humble ants to live, these people eat everything they can eat, tree bark, grass roots, and even some people eat Guanyin soil and are strung to death, you have never seen these, let alone heard of them." β
Listening to what Yun Menghan said, the hearts of the three people in the room gradually sank, Ye Yuanqing naturally hadn't heard of it at all, and was in shock, although Lin Yuanqing's forehead Cui Lingsha had experienced some hardships when he was young, he was far from hearing of these, and he was fascinated for a while.
"Later, even the Guanyin soil is gone, what should I do? You have only seen it in books, and I have also seen it with my own eyes, some families can't survive, so they exchange their own children with other people's children, so that even if they eat children, the guilt in their hearts will not be deeper than eating their own children. β
"This... Ye Yuanqing's face turned even paler when he listened, as if he was enduring a strong sense of discomfort.
"The children were still alive when they were taken away, but after a while, they became a pot of meat in someone else's pot, some of the children were small, and they were put in one pot, and some were slightly fatter, and the family would keep half of them for next time. β
"Vomit!" Ye Yuanqing finally couldn't help it when he heard this, put his arm on the table, bent down and began to vomit, Cui Lingsha couldn't stop retching, Lin Yuanqing was better, but he couldn't stop nauseating.
Yun Menghan looked at the three of them expressionlessly, for a long time, when Ye Yuanqing had vomited enough, handed him a cup of tea to rinse his mouth, Ye Yuanqing said with difficulty after rinsing his mouth: "Teacher Yun, you... β
Yun Menghan raised his hand to interrupt Ye Yuanqing's words, and continued: "You want to ask me how I saw it, right? Because the little boy who was exchanged is my elder brother. β
When he said this, his expression darkened, and the other three looked at him with a shocked expression, Yun Menghan's gloomy expression only appeared for a moment, and then returned to normal, and said: "My parents were hungry at the time, and my brother had a lot of food, so he was chosen, do you know how he was replaced?" One night my brother and I were sleeping in a dirt pit, my parents were sleeping outside, I couldn't sleep hungry, he coaxed me to tell me a story, just when I was about to fall asleep, suddenly I heard my parents whispering my brother's name on it, my brother stood up and was about to look outside, suddenly a wooden stick hit his head, and then he collapsed on top of me, I was young at that time, frightened, I kept holding my brother and crying, my parents came down and pulled me away, put him in a cloth bag and dragged him out, I chased and cried behind him, until they walked into a broken temple, I followed up and found that there was a couple of people who looked like a husband and wife inside, The woman was still holding a baby in her arms, they took the cloth bag and opened it to take a look, and then a boy came out from behind the pillar next to him, the boy was as tall as my brother, but thinner than him, the horror was that his neck was broken with a big hole, the whole person felt that he was dead at that time, and the two godless eyes just happened to be facing me... Those eyes, I will never forget in my life, my parents talked to the couple for a long time, and finally, my father carried the boy and walked out, and the couple also carried my brother away, and I kept following the couple, and at the foot of a hill, the man began to set up a pot and light a fire, and sat aside to sharpen the knife, although I was small at that time, but I also understood what was going to happen next, and secretly went around behind the man, lifted the stone and smashed it hard, probably because of hunger, the man was knocked to the ground by me and did not move, the woman next to me saw this and rushed towards me, I picked up the knife that the man fell on the ground, and a knife was inserted into the woman's stomachSeeing that both of them were out of breath, I quickly ran over to open the cloth bag and dragged my brother out of it, but when I saw him, he was already dead. Yun Menghan stopped when he said this, and looked straight at Ye Yuanqing, his dark eyes were empty and godless, as if a black hole was eroding every nerve in Ye Yuanqing's body, Ye Yuanqing couldn't help but shiver.
"I cried for a long time holding my brother's body, and then put him in a bag, and then the baby in the woman's arms began to cry again, and I also picked him up, and dragged my brother's body back to my parents, and as soon as I got closer, I smelled a smell of meat, and I looked horrified at my parents who were squatting in front of the cauldron, and their eyes exuded a kind of greed, and they were overjoyed when they saw me carrying the bag and holding a baby in their arms, and they were busy picking up the baby, hiding my brother's body in a dirt pit, and beckoning me to hurry up and eat, I approached the cauldron, only to see that a pot of meat was boiling inside, and even because I was in a hurryThey put the boy whole in the pot and boiled it, and I will never forget the scene and the taste for the rest of my life. β
"Vomit, vomit!" At this time, not only Ye Yuanqing vomited again, but Cui Lingsha and Lin Yuanqing also began to vomit wildly, and Yun Menghan's description greatly shocked their hearts.
"Then I only remember that I was terrified to the extreme, kept retreating, my parents kept calling me, but I just wanted to escape from this place quickly, I got up and ran away without looking back after tripping over the stone behind me, until I met your grandfather, Guoliang Gong, he took me in and taught me to read, read and practice martial arts, so the Ye family has the grace of reinvention for me. Yun Menghan let out a long sigh of relief after saying such a long paragraph, then covered his nose with a frown, and looked around only to find that the three of them had vomited all over the room.