Ye Yinfeng stood up awkwardly. He moved his exhausted body with difficulty and came to the long sword. He lowered his body and picked up "Wufeng". His hands had already lost any strength.
But he still raised it with difficulty, pointing the tip of the sword at the dwarf who fell in the woman's arms.
There was a dagger stuck in the dwarf's chest. The dagger had already been buried in his chest, and only the handle was exposed outside the body. Blood couldn't stop flowing from his mouth, bright red and coquettish, and he coughed violently.
The sound came from his mouth full of blood.
The woman held him in her arms, and the resentful look in her eyes had long since been replaced by a pair of empty eyes without any emotion. She held him in her arms, letting the blood from his mouth overflow.
, flowed to her chest, dyeing her already red cotton clothes even more red, revealing a strong and coquettish blood.
"Ha ha ha ha???????",
The dwarf man let out a weird laugh in her arms, and blood spurted out from the corner of his split mouth. He turned his big head and looked at Ye Yinfeng, his eyes like a sharp weapon.
, Ye Yinfeng felt a chill in his heart when he saw it.
He had never seen such a strange look in his eyes, with resentment, unwillingness, hatred, and all kinds of negative emotions mixed in it. But the other party was like a trapped animal, unwillingly letting out a low whine.
The howling cold wind sounded especially miserable and made people shudder.
"I didn't expect that I would die in her hands in the end. It's retribution." He murmured in his mouth, looking at the dumbfounded little fat man Li Congjia with disdain in his eyes, and Li Congjia's eyes remained with his eyes.
There were traces of tears falling down inside.
"I know you are angry with me on purpose, right?" The endless tender voice was mixed with his violent coughing. His eyes no longer had a ferocious look, but only looked at her with infinite tenderness.
"I didn't expect you to hate me so much. You know, I was going to stop after this business. We will retire from the world and find a place where no one knows us. Find a place that is better than here."
Beautiful little mountain village, and then we will have a lot of children. What I hope is to look at you every day."
He murmured again, with endless reveries and longings, and his eyes once again had a gentle luster, as if he was living such a life at this moment. No more grudges, no more vendettas. Some.
Just green mountains and flowing water, men plowing the fields and women weaving, and children circling their knees happily laughing.
"I was an orphan and was taken in by a juggling class. Who knew that the steward of that juggling class was so unconscionable that he put a group of us orphans into a porcelain jar with only our heads exposed. We are constantly growing.
The bones were squeezed, so we became deformed, became dwarfs, became tools for them to make money, and became clowns in the eyes of the dignitaries." His eyes were full of memories of the past, and his tone was urgent.
With endless hatred.
Ye Yinfeng listened quietly, and he put down the raised sword. He could imagine everything that the dwarf had experienced. If it were him, and he encountered such a thing, he would rather commit suicide than
Those people made him look like a human being or a ghost.
"Later, I escaped with several children like me, but they were captured again. Only I really escaped. Later, I met my master. He tried his best but there was no way at all.
The method was able to make my body grow again, so he taught me martial arts and made me a martial artist. My master taught me a lot, but I failed to live up to my expectations and only learned some superficial skills from my master."
There was another loud cough, and the blood overflowing from the corner of his mouth began to turn black slowly. He was almost exhausted, and he didn't know what faith kept him going.
"Later, I thought I had mastered martial arts, so I went down the mountain without telling my master, found the juggling class, and killed all the people in the juggling class. At that time, I felt a sense of pleasure that I had never experienced before. I
I started wandering around the world, and I would kill anyone who looked at me with contempt. Later, people in the world gave me the nickname "Shura Boy". So I was targeted by a killer organization, and they wanted me to kill someone.
They gave me a generous reward. This was the last deal I took, but I didn’t expect that I would fail this last time.”
The luster in the Shura boy's eyes began to slowly dissipate. When he finished speaking the last word, he tilted his head and fell into the woman's arms.
The gloomy sky once again blew gusts of cold wind, seeming to lament the plight of the dwarf.
Ye Yinfeng's exhausted body could no longer hold on. His tense nerves relaxed and he sat on the bluestone in front of the house, regardless of the mud and water all over his body.
Li Congjia's eyes were blank. He didn't know what to do. For this dwarf, he was kind-hearted and forgot that he wanted to kill him. He only had endless pity and sympathy for his plight.
The woman kept hugging the Shura boy. She didn't move at all. There was no luster in her empty eyes. She squatted like a clay sculpture.
At this time, the sound of two pieces of clothes breaking through the air reached Ye Yinfeng's ears. He immediately stood up and gripped the long sword tightly.
Not long after, two figures climbed into the courtyard wall at the same time.
After Ye Yinfeng saw the face of the visitor clearly, he let out a long sigh, and saw a fat figure dressed as a Taoist priest and an old man in commoner clothes falling onto the ground in the courtyard at the same time.
When Li Xiaoyao and the old man Dugu saw the situation in the courtyard, they were shocked. When they found that Ye Yinfeng and Li Congjia were not seriously injured, they also breathed a sigh of relief.
"How could it be him?" The old man Dugu said in shock when he saw the true face of the dwarf in the woman's arms. At the same time, Li Xiaoyao also stepped forward and took a closer look at the body of the dwarf.
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At the same time, Li Xiaoyao also took a deep breath of cold air, and a sudden feeling arose in his heart.
The woman still didn't feel the return of the two men, she still kept the same posture, and her eyes were still so empty and scary.
Li Xiaoyao walked up to the woman and wanted to say hello to her. He stretched out his hand to help her up. When he touched the other woman's arm, his body trembled a few times as if he was electrocuted, and his hand
He also shrank back as fast as lightning. His face was shocked and at the same time confused. He stretched out his hand to explore the woman's nostrils and found that the woman had already died.
At this time, a gust of cold wind blew over the woman's body, and Ye Yinfeng's eyes were facing the woman's back. After the gust of cold wind blew by, Ye Yinfeng's eyes condensed, and his heart trembled inexplicably.
stand up.
The cotton-padded clothes on the woman's back had been turned into a cloud of dust at this time. The cold wind blew and lifted up the cotton-padded clothes on her back. The cotton-padded clothes turned into dust floated in the wind, revealing the woman's back.
Her back was as white as snow, and a fishy-colored whip mark was like chrome on her back, but there were some whip marks as thin as worms on her back, reddish with black. She
His back was covered with whip marks like swarming insects.
Ye Yinfeng quickly turned his head. He could no longer look at her. An unknown chill arose in his heart. His sympathy for this woman had already surpassed that of the Shura boy.
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Not far from the wine shop, there were two tombs, one for the woman and one for the Shura boy. There were no monuments or signatures on those two tombs, just two piles of raised earthen bags.
With a "boom", the earth trembled inexplicably, and a loud noise came from the gloomy sky. It turned out to be a winter thunder. The relatively rare winter thunder sounded like an explosion. Perhaps it seemed to be for someone.
These two lonely souls and wild ghosts are singing at the festival.
Four people and one dog stood quietly in front of the two solitary graves, making no sound. Three of them were covered in mud, and a fat young man also had some mud splashed on his body, but he was slightly better than the other three.
Ye Yinfeng threw the mask in his hand on the grave of the Shura boy. Originally, he wanted to keep it, but in the end he threw it away. The mask was blown by the cold wind on the earth bag and rolled away from the grave.
After falling, it was blown up by the cold wind and floated up into the distance, towards the distant sky.
A burst of crows came from the sudden sky, and a few crows flew "plop-plop" above the grave. They were not afraid of anyone, and kept shouting happily with their mouths open. The miserable cries were like the same
He pierced everyone's heart like an invisible sharp sword, causing everyone's expressions to change again.
"We are in big trouble." The old man looked at the crows cawing happily on the grave and said inexplicably.
Li Xiaoyao's face hardened when he heard this, but a sharp light burst out from his eyes, which was very dazzling.
"Yes, this little monster is dead. I'm afraid the old monster will cause trouble for us." Li Xiaoyao said quietly. Although you could see his heavy solemnity from his eyes, there was no fear in his eyes.
look.
At this time, Ye Yinfeng thought that the Shura boy had said that he had a master. Could it be that if the Shura boy died, his master would come out to avenge him. But he and others were not the real murderers of the other party.
, that of the dead woman.
"Let's go. It may take some time before the old monster is found out. We are still safe for the time being." The old man Dugu looked back at the lonely grave again, then turned to leave.
Ye Yinfeng followed behind Li Xiaoyao, while the little fat Li Congjia followed behind the old man.
There were only two lonely graves left quietly at another place at the head of the village, and a few crows were hovering above the graves. No one knew why the woman wanted to kill the Shura boy. Everything came and went.
, everything turned into a handful of loess, and they continued their current and previous lives under the Nine Netherworld.
But when they walked back to the entrance of the village and were still under the towering trees, they found a figure running towards them in a hurry.
They took a closer look and saw that the man was Chen Changqing. He was sweating profusely and running in a hurry. By the time he ran in front of everyone, he was already out of breath.
"Finally I found you all. I'm afraid I won't be able to leave today, and there are still some goods that haven't been packed yet, so I came here to look for you and let you know." Chen Changqing said to everyone while wiping the sweat on his forehead.
The four of them looked at each other, and a thought emerged at the same time, that is, there was a traitor on the merchant ship. Otherwise, how could the man dressed as a boy know what happened on the merchant ship so early in the morning?
Every move he makes is controlled by others.
"Thank you, Mr. Chen. Since we can't set sail until tomorrow, I'll have a good time around here." Li Xiaoyao bowed to Chen Changqing and said.
Chen Changqing didn't ask why he didn't see them yesterday. Instead, he introduced the beautiful scenery nearby. It was obvious that he had already known about the disappearance of the four people last night, and also knew that they lived here. Maybe there was someone in the dark.
He had been informed a long time ago.
Li Congjia had a look of fear on his face. What happened this morning was too unimaginable. He had never experienced any big storms at such a young age, so he could not bear such a fright.
But Chen Changqing didn't notice Li Congjia's changed expression at all. He still talked endlessly about every beautiful place in Hukou County and Poyang Lake. At the same time, he also talked about the two Shizhong Mountains where Hukou is connected to the Yangtze River.
.Some allusions came to him at his fingertips, as if they were commonplace. This detailed explanation brought him closer to the others.
"You are still used to staying here last night. If you are not used to it, I have booked an inn in Hukou County. It will be better for me to go there." Chen Changqing looked at the wine shop under the towering ancient trees.
Asked everyone.
No one answered, but in Chen Changqing's eyes, it seemed that these four people were quite satisfied with this place. Besides, he had no real friendship with these four people. He thought that the four of them had excluded him. At that moment, he felt
Although there was some uncomfortable feeling, the uncomfortable feeling came and went quickly. He was a businessman, so of course he would not show his inner thoughts on his face.
"Since you are used to living here, I will say goodbye first. There are still some things to deal with on the merchant ship. I will send someone here to pick you up early tomorrow morning. I wonder what you think."
Chen Changqing chatted with everyone here for a long time, and after introducing all the beautiful scenery nearby, he also felt that these four people had some special identities, so it would be better for him to stay away from them at this time.
"Okay, Mr. Chen, please go back first. After all, the merchant ship is important, and I will take good care of it." Li Xiaoyao smiled bitterly. He did not expect that the other party actually misunderstood them, so he had to make a mistake.