Chapter 161: Women and children rioting with the people
"It's useless." Shang Shixu looked at the sky in despair, and said with helplessness and pain: "I have been a disaster star since I was born. I have harmed so many people, including Lin Shangshu..."
Lin Jingmo lowered his head, not knowing how to face it. One was his father and the other was his husband. After hearing what Shang Shixu had just said, Lin Jingmo had a moment of extravagant hope, praying to God that his father was not Shang Shixu.
It was harmful, but in the end it backfired and she had to face it.
"Why?" Lin Jingmo was tangled in her heart, but her voice was surprisingly calm. She asked: "What exactly did you say to my father? Why did he make that choice?"
Shang Shixu did not answer directly, but said: "All choices are actually helpless. Even we can't decide."
Lin Jingmo tried his best to control his emotions and asked: "So...did you realize at that time that my father would die?"
"Yes!"
The one word spoken gently by Shang Shixu was enough to defeat all Lin Jingmo's reason!
Lin Jingmo stood up, slapped Shang Shixu, and said angrily: "You keep saying you love me, but you personally sent my father to his death?"
Shang Shixu pursed his lips and replied: "If it were up to me, I would definitely choose to stop him... But..."
"There are no buts!" Lin Jingmo could no longer control his feelings and said with tears: "People can't be resurrected after death! Once a person dies, he is dead. Do you know what I lost? You have never thought about it for me.
, you didn’t kill Boren, but Boren died because of you! Shang Shixu, listen, you are the murderer! I will kill you, I will kill you to avenge my father!"
After saying that, Lin Jingmo burst into tears and left Shang Shixu.
Lin Jingmo did not return to her room, but left through the back door of the government office that night. She was walking on the street with her heart full of thoughts when she was suddenly pulled into an alley.
"Miss Lin!"
Lin Jingmo took a closer look and saw that it was the Nanling people who helped her when setting up the porridge shed before, so she asked: "Where is the little tiger?"
The man lowered his head and said: "Brother Hu was arrested by the government and may be killed soon."
"How is that possible?" Lin Jingmo said in surprise: "It takes five or six days to send documents back to Beijing from here, which is 800 miles away. This is only the fourth day. How can they kill people at will without getting His Majesty's order?"
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"Alas..." the man sighed and said: "How can we still be considered common people now? If we say the wrong thing and stand on the wrong team, the situation will be completely different. Only by obeying the yamen's arrangements can we survive. Once we resist, we will die.
!I heard that the yamen will distribute grain to me tomorrow. Although I don’t know if it is true, but the grain will only be distributed to obedient people. Brother Hu took the lead in forcing me to open a warehouse, but in the end, when he distributed the grain, it became the day of his death...
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"No, how could this be? Is it because of Shang Shixian?" Lin Jingmo said: "The prison in the Yamen is so big, I have never heard of anyone being imprisoned... You know Xiaohuzi and the others are now imprisoned in
Where?"
"I know!" The man replied: "It was in an abandoned village. The people in it had all fled. There was a fence around the village, so the so-called rioters arrested were all in that village."
Lin Jingmo looked up at the sky. It was going to be dawn soon. At this time, the guard was the most lax, so he said, "Can you please lead the way for me?"
Upon hearing this, the man hurriedly said: "How can this be done? There are many officers and soldiers guarding it, how do you get in?"
Lin Jingmo replied: "Aren't they catching rioters? I am a rioter, can't I just let them catch me?"
The man replied: "Girl, aren't you afraid of death?"
"Afraid!" Lin Jingmo replied: "But if I don't figure out what the facts are, then there is no point in my life."
The man looked at Lin Jingmo's firm eyes and said, "Okay, in that case, I will take the girl there!"
Lin Jingmo was led by that person to the vicinity of the abandoned village. Lin Jingmo looked at the guards around him and found that they were all Lu family troops.
Lin Jingmo rushed to the door, making a show of going in.
The soldier at the door asked: "Who are you?"
Lin Jingmo replied: "The people of Nanling!"
The soldier asked again: "How dare you come to this place casually?"
Lin Jingmo replied: "My brother was caught by you inside, I will come to find him!"
When the soldier heard this and was about to expel her, another soldier said: "Since she wants to go in, let her go in."
The soldier said: "How can this be done?"
So another soldier whispered a few words beside him: "I am worried that I can't catch anyone to report back to the general. If I don't catch him, I won't catch him for nothing!"
When the soldier heard this, he hesitated and said: "She is just a woman... Even if we want to make up the numbers, we really shouldn't attack a woman!"
Another person whispered: "They will all die tomorrow, who will care about men and women? If she wants to die, let her in!"
So he opened the door at the entrance of the village and said to Lin Jingmo: "Go in."
Lin Jingmo ran in. The sky was misty and bright. Lin Jingmo slowly wandered around the village. She found that the people arrested in the village were not only young men, but also some old and weak women and children. They were lying next to each other in the dilapidated house.
In the village house, I casually covered myself with some old and patched clothes.
Lin Jingmo observed the village with some surprise: Doesn't this... mean that the people arrested are all rioters? Why are there still old people and children?
The sky is getting brighter and people are waking up one after another.
She saw Chen Tiehu in a group of people, so she shouted: "Little Huzi!"
When Chen Tiehu heard someone calling him, he quickly looked in the crowd and saw that it was Lin Jingmo, so he ran in her direction.
Chen Tiehu came to Lin Jingmo, looked up and down and asked: "Miss Lin, why are you here? This place is dirty and messy, and it is not a place for a noble person like you to stay!"
Lin Jingmo looked at the mud all over Chen Tiehu and said, "What on earth is going on? It's not that the imperial court arrested a group of rioters. Why do I see that there are not only some frail old men here, but also some young children?"<
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Chen Tiehu replied: "Look carefully, even we young people are not necessarily rioters! Those who arrest people in the yamen are indiscriminate, they just arrest people at random on the street. Everyone is too hungry, so why not?"
Have they all been arrested?"
Lin Jingmo looked at the scene in front of her. An old man and a child were huddled in a corner, sharing moldy food. She couldn't believe her eyes. If both the old man and the child could be called rioters... there are still people in this world.