Zhao Jun's eyes showed reminiscence. He tightened his shoulders, and his two turbid eyes revealed a lot of fatigue and weakness:

"That should have happened seventeen years ago. That year, I rushed from the north to Kaifeng Prefecture, Tokyo to conduct scientific research."

"That was the third year of the establishment of the Zhou Dynasty. The situation was still unstable. The bandits and thieves on the Central Plains were plagued. The road to the test was not peaceful. You can often see hunger and dry bones."

"There are also some very hungry people who see pedestrians, and they come up with green eyes and pounce on food, saying they are asking for some food, but in fact they are no different from robbing them, and they are not afraid of death."

"Even if the court ordered that the scholars who were taking the exam were not allowed to attack, it was not very effective, and people were extremely hungry, so it was not surprising that they did anything, and robbery was just a trivial matter."

"I was young and proud at that time. I relied on some skill to understand a little bit and didn't listen to my family's advice, so I went on the road alone. At first, it was peaceful, but after I arrived in Zhaozhou, I met a group of bandits."

"It's actually a group of skinny people. I divided more than half of the food in the package, but they were still not satisfied and still chased me to ask for it. No, it can't be said to be asking for it, it's already considered to be a killing of my life."

"The order issued by the court is very interesting. No one is allowed to harm scholars during the scientific examination. Violators will be severely investigated. As a result, the robbers did not dare to leave me to live, and they swear to take my life."

"I escaped into a nearby mountain and was forced to the top of the mountain by them. There was a river at the foot of the mountain. In order to have a glimmer of vitality, I jumped down."

"When I woke up again, I was lying in a farmhouse cellar, and a thin and yellow girl looked at me timidly. She was about thirteen years old, with a small face and a dirty look, but her eyes were very beautiful, like a pitiful puppy."

"She met me while fishing. After fishing me out of the water, she dragged me home with difficulty."

"I thanked her for saving her life. I wanted to leave Beijing and take the exam immediately, but my injuries were serious and I could only recuperate."

"She told me that her family is a paradise that hides the world, named Zhangjia Village, with a total of seventeen households and about eighty or ninety people. Although life here is poor, it can barely be filled with food."

"However, the village was extremely disgusted with outsiders entering, so she saved me from her family. She told me not to go out when I was recuperating, otherwise I would be found out, not only would I be executed, but she would also be implicated."

"I didn't say anything, so I rested for a few days. Every day she would secretly give me food. My body gradually improved, but her face became increasingly ugly."

"Suddenly one day, a boy of eight or nine years old broke into the cellar and scared me. But he had no malice. He was the little girl's younger brother, and he came to deliver food to me as the girl ordered."

"I asked him where the little girl was. His face changed and he was very angry."

"It turns out that in order not to let her father discover me, the food she gave me every day was saved from her own mouth. That's not enough. She hasn't eaten enough every day and goes fishing for me. She has done more and eats less, so she actually gets sick."

"And she is not thirteen years old, but sixteen years old. She looks thin and small because she often doesn't have enough food."

"I felt very uncomfortable. Since then, I have never asked her to come and deliver food to me again. She asked her to eat first before saying that she would not agree. My health has improved a lot, so I said I could go out for fishing in the middle of the night."

"She couldn't resist me and could only agree, but she was worried and insisted on letting me go with her and my brother. In the middle of the night, I would fish with her and my brother."

"That was the happiest and most carefree period I have ever lived in my life. Now, I was really in the blessed state of my blessings."

"It's a pity that the good times didn't last long. Every time the two children went out in the middle of the night, their father discovered it."

"Their father was furious and acted to kill the little girl. I quickly resisted, but my injuries were not healed, and I was tied up."

"Her father looks fierce, but he is actually an idea. He said that as long as I stay and be a husband for the little girl, he will let us go if I don't leave Zhangjia Village in this life."

"I have no choice but to agree for the time being."

"Although it was a show-off, the little girl has treated me as her husband since then. She has a gentle personality and an honest person. She always listens to me. Although I don't hate her, I still feel much short of it if I like her."

"Besides, I have a passion for the imperial examination and become an official, punishing evil and promoting good, and seeking welfare for the people. How could I stay in this small mountain village and live alone to live a lonely life? Therefore, I am often depressed."

"The little girl saw my thoughts and secretly pointed me a way out of the village from the back mountain. I was so excited. But when I thought of me leaving, how could her father spare her? My heart calmed down again."

"She told me there is no need to worry. Although her father looks vicious, he has always been good to her. Otherwise, according to the village rules, she and me, as an outsider, would have been beaten to death long ago."

"I said goodbye to her, left secretly, and entered Pingji County. I lived in a local restaurant, the current Zhuangyuan Building."

"Because of this period of delay, the date of the scientific expedition has been missed. I was thinking about whether to go home to continue studying, but one day I heard about the great victory on the border and our army beheaded dozens of enemy troops."

"It is said that the heads of those enemy soldiers were hung on the wooden shelf beside the city wall. My patriotism was so hot that I moved my thoughts to see it."

"But who knows, when I went there, I almost scared my soul. It's because I saw her father in those heads."

"Kill Liang and take credit for success... Kill Liang and take credit for success!"

"There are no enemy enemies. It is clearly the group of beasts who slaughtered seventeen households in Zhangjia Village, killed Liang and took the people as their achievements! Zhangjia Village is a evasive village and has no contact with the outside world. As long as all the villagers are destroyed, no one will know their way of killing Liang and defeating the people!"

Speaking of this, Zhao County Magistrate's hand was tightly clamped against the iron railing, and the veins on his thick and black hands were tense. His whole body trembled like a sieve, and his back teeth were creaking and creaking.

After a long time, he took a deep breath several times and swallowed several times before he finally spoke again.

"I looked at the heads one by one. There was no girl or her brother inside, and I couldn't help but feel lucky. But it was also possible that the beasts just felt that the heads of the two children could not act as enemies, so they were not hung on the wooden shelf..."

"I didn't dare to think about it carefully, so I sneaked back to Zhangjia Village from the back mountain that night."

"Under the cold moonlight, the river beside the village is black and red, and there is only dead silence left in the village. The air is filled with the fishy smell of burning corpses, which makes people feel cold all over."

"There are also three or five soldiers in armor wandering around with knives in the village from time to time, as if they are cleaning the battlefield to see if there are any living beings."

"I know that they may not survive, but I still took the opportunity to go into the village and took a look."
Chapter completed!