The wooden door was gently pushed open, a figure flashed in, and the door was quickly closed again.
Qian Qianqian looked around and saw that it was dark and could not see anything except the flickering firelight outside the window.
"Ah Li," Qian Qianqian called, "Ah Li, where are you."
There was silence in the room. Qian Qianqian walked forward in small steps, looking around: "Ah Li, there is a fire outside. These houses are not good, they may burn down."
"I'm here." A crisp voice sounded outside the window.
Qian Qianqian was stunned and ran towards the window.
Xia Zhaoyi was sitting under a tree, holding a piece of cloth soaked in water and wiping the small gravel on the wound on his elbow.
Qian Qianqian hurriedly turned around and ran around to the wooden door.
"Ali, how did you come out?"
"window."
"The windows are very high."
There is flat ground over there, but the windows here are almost ten feet down.
She looked at Xia Zhaoyi's wounds. Apart from this wound, her entire arm was covered with whip marks, as well as bruises and bruises, both old and new.
Qian Qianqian couldn't help but swallowed and said, "Your injury must be very painful."
"Um."
Xia Zhaoyi responded and lowered his hand. This body was indeed seriously injured. His hand would be sore if he raised it like this and he wouldn't be able to hold on for long.
Qian Qianqian looked at her, feeling indescribably strange, and said softly: "I heard that you are very ill. They are all saying that Liu Sanniang wants Lu Tanlang to kill you."
The noise in the distance became louder and louder. Xia Zhaoyi focused all his attention there. After a long time, he finally heard a man yelling and cursing.
It's so late.
Xia Zhaoyi looked at Qian Qianqian: "Do you have any relatives here?"
"ah?"
"Yes or no?"
Qian Qianqian shook his head blankly: "No, I have no relatives."
"I want to take advantage of the chaos and escape now, do you want to leave with me?"
"Escape?!" Qian Qianqian's eyes widened, "Don't think about it, it's impossible. There are many guards at the foot of the mountain, and there is a very high wall over there, specially designed to defend against the officers and soldiers. Even the officers and soldiers can't get in. We
There’s no way to get out.”
"A wall to protect against officers and soldiers?"
"And if we are discovered, we will be dead," Qian Qianqian said in horror. "Everyone who escapes will be beaten to death if they are caught, no matter how good your skills are or how capable you are."
Xia Zhaoyi raised his head and looked at the fire that was getting stronger and stronger.
She really couldn't be impatient now. Dragging this body with a high fever and pain all over her body to run away would not be called escaping, but risking her life.
"Don't mention what I just told you to others." Xia Zhaoyi looked back at Qian Qianqian and said in a deep voice.
Qian Qianqian nodded: "Well, I won't say."
"If I tell you, I will say that you instigated me, and you will be beaten when the time comes." Xia Zhaoyi said again.
Qian Qianqian was stunned and felt angry, but didn't know what to say.
Xia Zhaoyi put down the sleeves on his arms and walked towards the yard: "Let's go."
Qian Qianqian paused and followed.
The backyard is wide and consists of several small courtyards. In the largest courtyard, there is a kitchen with five rooms in a row, facing due north.
There are three rows of huts on the west slope outside the yard. Each house occupies a small area, and there are three huts in each row.
There is a stream in the southwest, and many people are fetching water and rushing to put out the fire.
The girls retreated to one side, and there were many men standing in the middle. Most of them were tall and burly, but a few were thin and short, but they had sharp eyes.
In front of the burning house, a man with thick arms grabbed a woman in gray who was struggling and cursing. He pulled her hair hard and turned her face to the group of men.
A lean and short man stood in front of the woman and kicked her in the stomach.
In the light of the fire, it can be seen that the woman has a delicate appearance and good-looking appearance, but there seems to be a large area of ulcerated skin on the left side of her face from the base of her ear, and there is also pus.
Xia Zhaoyi looked at the woman's face and felt that she looked familiar, but confirmed that she had never seen her before.
"...You evil ghosts, there will always be someone who can deal with you. You will not end well! Just wait, you..."
The woman cursed hard.
The lean man suddenly increased his strength, but the man behind him failed to catch her. The woman fell to the ground, and blood spilled from the corners of her lips.
The man with thick arms grabbed her hair again and raised her face high to face the group of people.
"I will become a ghost when I die. I will become a fierce ghost! I will come back to you one by one..."
"Snapped!"
The lean man raised his hand and slapped the woman in the face, sending the woman flying and knocking her back to the ground.
Immediately, the man who had been pulling her hair lifted her up again.
"Haha," the woman opened her mouth and smiled sadly, her teeth were covered in blood, which made her look particularly hideous, "Your death is coming soon. God is the most serious about doing good and punishing evil, hahaha..."
"I'm out of patience," a man in the crowd shouted, "hurry up."
The lean man looked back at him, pulled out a dagger from his sleeve, stepped forward and stabbed the woman directly in the abdomen.
The servants who were doing chores in the backyard quickly turned their eyes away, and the girls let out many low murmurs. Some even screamed, and then quickly covered their mouths.
"That's all I have..." The woman's mouth was full of blood, and with a "poof" sound, she spat on the lean man's face.
"you wanna die!"
The man was furious, stretched out his hand to pinch her mouth, raised the dagger, and stabbed into her stomach again and again, causing her lower abdomen to become bloody and bloody.
After stabbing for a long time, I finally stopped.
The woman was already dead, her eyes slightly opened, her head tilted limply on her shoulders, and she still stared at him until she died.
The man pulled out the dagger, wiped the blood spattered on his face, and pointed at the sea of fire: "Throw it in!"
Seeing her body being thrown in, the man still seemed to be resentful. He looked towards the crowd and shouted angrily: "Who was crying just now, ah? Who!"
When he yelled like this, the girl's low sobs became more and more frequent.
Qian Qianqian, who was standing next to Xia Zhaoyi, was also frightened and cried. She bit her mouth tightly and did not dare to make a sound.
The man pushed through the crowd and strode forward, shouting angrily: "Who! Who is crying!"
He casually grabbed two girls with red eyes and pulled them out. One of them was thrown directly into the sea of fire: "Why are you crying? We might as well die together!"
The girl fell outside the hot door frame. She screamed and jumped up, panicked and patted the sparks above, and looked at the man tremblingly.
Xia Zhaoyi looked on in shock, her hands hanging by her sides clenched into fists, trembling slightly.
Is this the human world?
No, this is hell, another hell.
On the battlefield, you and I die. Although it is cruel, there is still blood, loyalty and courage to speak of.
And here, there is something.
To wreak havoc, to inflict violence, to dominate, to humiliate.
If a person is not a human being, his life will be as humble as mustard.
"Okay, okay," a bright girl's voice said, "I'm almost starving to death. Can you put out the fire quickly? I'm waiting to eat."
Xia Zhaoyi followed the sound and realized that there was a boy and a girl standing among the crowd.
The girl who spoke was wearing a skirt with a light pink collar, a red half-arm, a long skirt of the same color, and a light-colored belt around her waist. She had a slim appearance and looked to be about thirteen or forty-five years old.
The boy next to her was slightly smaller than her, and he was more delicate and handsome. His eyebrows were very similar to hers. The two of them were too out of place with the big and round-waisted men around them.
The girl looked at the frightened girl, then at the servants on the other side, and said, "Put out the fire quickly, I want to eat later."
"Yes." A servant girl responded.
"If you let me starve, you will suffer the same fate." The girl pointed at the girl and said to the servant woman.
"Yes." The servant girl nodded and responded again.
"Let's go," the girl turned around and said lazily, "This place is smelly and dirty. I don't want to stay any longer."
The young man beside her also turned around, walked a few steps, looked back at the lean man, and said, "Panyun Road will have troops stationed in the next few days."
The lean man paused and said, "I understand."
The young man turned and left, and the other men followed him.
The lean man looked at the little girl, coldly wiped off the blood on the dagger, walked towards those people, and said fiercely to the servants and women beside him: "You have to work hard for me these days, and I will not let go of anyone who is lazy."
Pass."
"Brother Lu, wait a minute," Liu Sanniang saw that he was about to leave, so she ran out of the crowd and shouted, "There is a sick person in the room."
"If you are sick, go to the doctor!" the man said, and left without looking back.
Liu Sanniang looked embarrassed.
Several women sneered in the crowd.
Liu Sanniang was annoyed, with an embarrassed look on her face. She turned around and looked at the cabin behind the northwest with displeasure. However, she suddenly paused and looked at the crowd with emotion, and happened to meet a pair of bright eyes.
Liu Sanniang frowned, why did she run out!
Just right!
Liu Sanniang was about to step forward, but there was a hint of smile in her eyes, cold and playful, but also looking pitiful.
A chill ran down Liu Sanniang's spine for no apparent reason.
