095: The Wind Under the Forest【Seeking Monthly Pass】
"You, don't come over-"
The little girl was so frightened that she came back to her senses. With trembling hands, she held a non-threatening gold hairpin towards the two of them. She probably realized this, and turned the hairpin head against her chin. The top of the gold hairpin was polished. It sunk deep into the skin and left only a little red mark.
It doesn't work whether it's used to threaten people or commit suicide.
Shen Tang: "I won't go over, you come out."
The little girl shook her head with a pale face: "No!"
Eyes full of fear suddenly rolled down with crystal tears.
She blinked, trying to clear her eyes full of tears, but the tears rolled down more densely. The beads rolled from her round and milky cheeks to her chin, and after gathering together, they fell down one by one. I have to admit, it does make a beautiful woman cry. People are soft-hearted.
Zhai Le stood aside and laughed: "Brother Shen, you are disliked."
A girl in distress needs gentle comfort.
Speaking harshly will only scare people.
Shen Tang tilted his head and thought for a moment, then struck out at lightning speed, grabbing the little girl by the collar and lifting her out of the box. The little girl was quite stubborn, and even though she was extremely frightened, she did not give up her struggle, and held on tightly with trembling fingers. A gold hairpin.
Zhai Le smiled and said: "Hello girl, I and Brother Shen are both good people."
The little girl endured the chattering of her teeth!
She didn't believe this nonsense.
Zhai Le asked again: "The girl's surname is Lin?"
The little girl shrank back and glanced at the corpses lying on the ground inadvertently. Her round eyes widened in shock. She didn't even care that Shen Tang and Shen Tang were still there, grabbing the gold coin. Hairpin, almost staggering and crawling closer.
He stared straight at the still warm and soft body.
There was something called "hate" in the eyes that should have been pure. Ignoring the dirty blood, I wiped off the bruises on the corpse's face with my bare hands, and wiped it with my sleeve for easy identification. After confirming that it was correct, I inserted the gold hairpin into the corpse with a sudden force. Eye socket.
Zhai Le gasped and raised his hands to cover his eyes.
With that burning hatred, she struck hundreds of times in a row. The golden hairpins inserted into both eye sockets of the corpse were turned to pieces, and the eyeballs turned into blood foam. She sat back as if exhausted.
Two gangsters waiting to move the body: "..."
They almost jumped up and hugged each other, shivering.
After a long time, the little girl came back to her senses.
She gritted her back molars, suppressed the boundless fear in her heart, stood up, straightened her clothes and sleeves, and took two steps forward with her round, oval face - clearly childish, but deliberately exuding some maturity and poise - , crossed his hands at Shen Tang, and said two blessings deeply.
"Thank you so much for avenging twenty-four members of my Lin family."
Zhai Le on one side raised his eyebrows.
He put his hands on his hands and said with a smile: "Young lady is so brave."
The little girl's already pale face became increasingly pale.
Shen Tang raised his foot to kick Zhai Le.
"Why are you so scary when you have nothing to do?"
Zhai Le jumped away: "How can I scare you? It's clearly a compliment."
Although I don't know the inside story, I can guess two or three things. An eight or nine-year-old child watched his relatives being slaughtered by the guards at home and dumped their bodies in the mountains. He was lucky enough to survive and met a group of people who didn't know good and evil. How could he do this? The level is really not easy.
At least, the courage is commendable.
Shen Tang kicked back the lid of the wooden box and used it as a stool.
"Who are you? What happened before? Are there other relatives? Why are you hiding in the wooden box?"
Zhai Le reminded: "Ask politely."
Shen Tang glared at him, and for a moment he had the illusion that he was being stared at by his brother Zhai Huan, so he subconsciously chose to turn off the microphone and keep silent.
Zhai Le: "..."
No, he is obviously the "brother"!
Seeing that Shen Tang was not malicious for the time being, the little girl relaxed her tense nerves a little, grabbed the golden hairpin, and her nails almost dug into the palm of her hand, and forced herself to answer: "The little girl's surname is Lin, her ancestral home is Lingzhou. With Chongci, Jiaci , my concubine, my brother-in-law, my brothers and sisters, as well as a group of maids and women, went south to visit my relatives. Who knew that the servants on the way became thief, and killed people and took wealth..."
Including her, there were twenty-five people in total.
"So many women are walking outside, and only one man is following them? This is really..." Zhai Le frowned when he heard this. The world is so chaotic, and we must guard against foreign enemies as well as domestic thieves. He only sent an elder "brother-in-law" to escort him, plus an unknown age. "Brother" is too big-hearted.
The little girl bit her lower lip, lowered her head, and her eyes turned red.
Who would have thought that a guard who had been serving for seven or eight years would suddenly turn against him? The leader of the guard was still highly trusted and had saved the family owner's life.
"...Because he was naughty, he played with his sisters and hid in a wooden box to escape."
She often quarreled with her sisters at home, and would occasionally hide in wooden boxes to avoid being found. The elders were worried, so they opened dark holes in her two wooden boxes to facilitate ventilation. When she woke up from the wooden box, she was still wondering why no one had found her. .
She used the hole to secretly peek out, and saw the servant raising a butcher knife towards her relatives. The old, weak, women and children were unable to fight back, and all of them, including the seriously injured uncle, were killed.
The only thing she could do was cover her mouth and swallow her cries.
But she knew she would be caught.
More and more desperate.
Who knew it would take a turn of events.
"Everyone else has already...only the little girl is alive...wuwu..." She wiped away her tears and sniffed hard to prevent her nose from dripping down. She cried until her nose turned red. She pursed her lips and tried to swallow her emotions back, but she became more and more suffocated. The more sour it became, I finally couldn't help it, and my tears broke down, like broken pearls falling one after another. It was so pitiful.
Shen Tang lowered his eyes and thought for a moment.
"Besides the relative who is going south to seek refuge, do you have any other relatives that you can seek refuge with? It's best to be closer..."
The little girl stood there and shook her head, looking confused. She really didn't know what to do now. She had no one to rely on.
Zhai Le sighed: "It's so pitiful, why don't we just accept it too."
Shen Tang wanted to poke a few holes in him with his sword.
"What to charge? How old is she?"
Zhai Le: "...???"
He jumped suddenly and his voice rose seven or eight degrees: "I'm telling you to keep her by your side as a maid. It's a way to survive anyway. If you have the opportunity to look for relatives again in the future, Brother Shen, where did you think about it? ?Did you think it was the 'receipt'?"
Shen Tang: "..."
She couldn't help but cover her face.
Well, her mind is unhealthy.
Shen Tang adjusted his mood and coughed lightly to relieve the embarrassment: "You heard it, right? Do you want to go home with me first? When the situation is stable, then contact your other family members or go south to find relatives? You are too young and cannot survive alone. Going down."
The little girl lowered her head and thought for a long time.
He nodded vigorously with tears on his face.
"Thank you so much, my benefactor."
However, he still wanted to speak but stopped, as if he was in trouble.
Shen Tang guessed what she wanted to say and said: "Wait until daybreak! It's too late at night to search in the dark. It's too dangerous. Just pray that those wild beasts haven't gone crazy from hunger, or you can leave intact corpses."
In this era, children as young as eight or nine can be treated as adults. When relatives die tragically, they also know how to collect the bones and bury them in peace.
"Thank you so much, my benefactor."
The little girl bowed deeply again, extremely grateful.
Then he said: "My nickname is A'nan."
"You didn't get a name?"
The little girl said nothing.
Shen Tang: "Then I arbitrarily choose one? It's not convenient to call you by a nickname. If your surname is Lin, you might as well name it 'Feng', Lin Feng."
