Shao Qingge hid near the yard, pricking up his ears and listening carefully to what was going on inside.
Han Ningshuang was dragged to a corner. A young man waved a sharp knife in front of her and asked with a smile: "Little girl, should I cut off your left hand or your right hand first? Should I cut off your ears first?"
"
Han Ningshuang was so frightened that her face was filled with tears. She knelt on the ground with a bang and shook her head desperately: "Don't kill me! Please don't kill me. I swear, I won't tell anyone else!"
A woman next to her said coldly: "Since she saw our appearance, why not gouge out her eyes first?" The woman gently raised Han Ningshuang's chin and smiled: "These eyes are really beautiful."
After she said that, she made a show of digging out Han Ningshuang's eyes.
At this moment, a little boy suddenly rushed over and bit the woman's hand hard: "Let her go!"
The woman's hand was bitten with a row of bloody teeth marks. She became angry and kicked the boy to the side. She tore the little boy's collar and slapped him several times. She said angrily: "You stinky boy belongs to
Is it from a dog? How dare you bite me!"
The young man just said: "Fourth sister, if you don't teach these children a lesson, it seems they won't be obedient."
The woman took the knife from his hand, slashed it down, and cut off the little boy's fingers cleanly.
"Ahh——"
The screams of children could be heard in the yard.
Looking at the blood on the ground, Han Ningshuang seemed to be frightened. She cried: "Qi Ran, your hands!"
The woman named "Fourth Sister" clapped her hands and said coldly: "Take these children down, chop off their hands first, then their feet, and let them taste the consequences of offending us."
At this moment, the old woman suddenly rushed over, hugged Han Ningshuang tightly, and said: "Don't kill them, they have some strange diseases, you will get sick if you eat them."
The woman was startled, then looked back at her: "Strange disease?"
The mother-in-law said: "These children have a lot of red spots on their bodies. They probably have smallpox."
When several people heard the word "smallpox", their expressions suddenly changed. The person who was holding the child immediately let go of them and hid as far away as if they were avoiding the plague. The mother-in-law walked over and lifted up Han Ningshuang's clothes. Sure enough,
I discovered that there were many large and small spots on the girl's back.
The mother-in-law choked and said: "These children have had no father or mother since they were young. Now that they have smallpox, they will definitely not survive. Let's just find a place to bury them. Don't eat their meat, you will get sick...
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The fourth sister and the young man looked at each other and said with disdain on their faces: "Go, find a place and bury these three sick bastards alive. As for this old woman... maybe she can be of some use if she keeps them."
As if he was worried about being infected, the young man simply wrapped the three children in sacks.
The old woman was dragged down.
Han Ningshuang struggled in the sack and shouted: "Let me go! You beasts will definitely get retribution!"
Her words angered the young man. He punched and kicked the sack. I don’t know if the little girl was knocked unconscious by the kicks. The sack gradually became quiet and finally became motionless. The young man then called a few people and carried the three girls.
They went to the wasteland in the center of the town, dug a big hole, and buried the three people alive.
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Shao Qingge witnessed the tragic situation 20 years ago with his own eyes and didn't know how to evaluate it for a while.
These beasts have indeed lost their humanity. No wonder the murderer would be so ruthless and kill all their descendants.
Ye Qi also felt Shao Qingge's anger and said frustratedly: "It's a pity that we can't stop this. Once we intervene to stop it, my mother-in-law is saved, and the murderer no longer takes revenge, the murder world in twenty years may not exist.
Professor Xiao and the others may never get out of this secret room..."
The butterfly effect is too scary. Once they intervene in historical events, it will indeed affect other teammates. Ye Qi and Shao Qingge do not dare to act willfully. However, watching the tragedy happen without being able to stop it, both of them feel a little bit.
heavy.
Shao Qingge changed the subject and asked: "The little girl who escaped and Ren Yuan, what are their plans?"
Ye Qi said: "The little girl's name is Zhou Xiaoyun. She has calmed down and plans to go to the yard to rescue people after dark tonight. Their plan is to set a fire to burn the yard and take advantage of the chaos to kill the mother-in-law and three other children.
Get rescued."
Shao Qingge was silent for a moment and analyzed in a low voice: "Four children, Qin Feng, Qi Ran, Han Ningshuang, and Zhou Xiaoyun. Among them, Qi Ran just had one of his fingers chopped off by those people in order to protect Han Ningshuang; the mother-in-law said they had it
Smallpox is probably a lie. I think the red spots on Han Ningshuang's body look more like the marks left after having chicken pox. The three children have been wrapped in sacks and buried alive. Since Qin Feng is still alive twenty years later,
Someone must have saved them."
Ye Qi said: "Could it be that Ren Yuan and Zhou Xiaoyun who escaped discovered that they were buried alive and rescued them?"
Shao Qingge shook his head: "If a person is buried alive in the ground and lacks oxygen, he will suffocate and die in just a few minutes. Since Ren Yuan and Zhou Xiaoyun have agreed to set fire to save people at night, and they don't know that three children are buried alive, it is impossible
Three children were saved so quickly. I am more inclined to think that someone else saved these children."
Ye Qi praised: "That makes sense. Mr. Shao, your reasoning ability has improved a lot!"
Shao Qingge smiled and said: "I have been following Xiao Lou and Yu Hanjiang for so long, and I can learn a few things from them."
Ye Qi asked: "Are you following them?"
Shao Qingge was hiding on the roof of a nearby house at this time, looking directly at the place where three children were buried alive. He said: "Well, I have been watching here. I can't take the initiative to save people, there should be someone
This person is also crucial to saving them."
Almost as soon as Shao Qingge finished speaking, a sneaky young woman appeared nearby. She took a shovel and dug up the mound of soil that had just been buried. Then she jumped into the pit and laboriously removed the three sacks.
Drag it up.
When they untied the sack, the faces of the three children were already turning blue from suffocation.
Han Ningshuang opened her eyes in a daze, looked at the woman in front of her and said, "Qing... Aunt Qing?"
The woman made a "shush" motion on her lips, shook the other two children awake, and then filled the surrounding soil back into the big hole, pretending that the big hole had been filled, she hurriedly took the three
The child walked towards Ren Yuan's residence.
Shao Qingge informed Ye Qi in his mind: "The rescuer is here and is heading to Ren Yuan's residence. Be careful and stay hidden."
Ye Qi hid in the corner of the yard and eavesdropped. Within a moment, he saw the woman bringing three children to Ren Yuan. He immediately retreated into the shadows and said in his mind: "I saw it. Who is this woman?"
Shao Qingge said: "Han Ningshuang calls her Aunt Qing. She is probably raised by Grandma Sun like Ren Yuan. These children look very familiar to her."
Soon, the sound of several people talking was heard from the eavesdropper.
Ren Yuan said excitedly: "Ah Qing, why are you back? When did you come back?"
Aunt Qing said: "I was originally in Yuezhou. I heard that there was a famine here, so I wanted to come back and see you. Unexpectedly, when I came back, I saw several people putting Ningshuang and others into sacks and burying them alive. Fortunately, I arrived in time.
, saved them.”
After Han Ningshuang recovered her breathing, her face gradually turned rosy. She choked and took Qi Ran's hand and said: "Qi Ran, how is your hand? I will bandage it for you right now..."
Qi Ran said calmly: "It's okay, it's just a finger."
Qin Feng looked at them and hesitated to speak.
After a moment, he whispered: "My mother-in-law was taken down, will they give her to..."
Han Ningshuang said angrily: "Those beasts will definitely chop up my mother-in-law and eat her! Didn't you see them cooking human flesh? They have already gone crazy!"
Zhou Xiaoyun timidly said: "Sister Shuang, what should we do? Go and save my mother-in-law?"
Ren Yuan said: "They have a large number of people and strong martial arts. We are no match for them. Why don't we act at night?"
Qi Ran said coldly: "If we go at night, my mother-in-law might have been quartered long ago."
Qin Feng also said: "A Ran is right, if you want to save people, you should do it as early as possible."
There was silence in the cave for a moment, and finally, Aunt Qing decided: "Let's do this. You four children stay here, and Brother Ren and I will find a way to save people." Ren Yuan agreed: "Okay, let's set a fire and see.
Let’s see if we can take advantage of the chaos to rescue people.”
After the two people discussed it, they quickly arrived at the yard.
However, when they arrived, they found that the mother-in-law's hands and feet had been chopped off, and she had died of excessive blood loss.
The old woman's body was thrown on the side of the road like garbage.
Ren Yuan was so angry that his eyes were about to burst, he wiped away his tears and took his mother-in-law's body back to the cave.
When the four children saw their mother-in-law's miserable condition, they threw themselves on her body like crazy and burst into tears: "Mother-in-law!"
Shao Qingge and Ye Qi couldn't help but feel sour in their hearts when they listened to the tragic cries in the bug. For these orphans, their mother-in-law was their only relative. Now, in order to protect them, their mother-in-law had her limbs chopped off by gangsters and died like this.
pain……
This simply pokes a bloody hole in their hearts that can never be filled.
Zhou Xiaoyun fainted from crying, and Han Ningshuang was halfway through crying when she suddenly gritted her teeth and said, "We must avenge my mother-in-law!"
Qi Ran said with a cold face: "Let them pay with blood!"
Aunt Qing choked and touched the children's heads and said: "Silly boy, we can't protect ourselves now, let's survive first. Qingfeng Town is no longer safe, why not come back to Yuezhou with me?"
Ren Yuandao: "But with so many of us, wouldn't it be more dangerous if we act together? In today's world, nowhere is safe. I met two strangers today and they were robbed on the road."
Aunt Qing asked: "What do you think we should do?"
Ren Yuan glanced at the food in the hole, was silent for a moment, and then said: "Let's do this. Qi Ran is injured and it is not convenient to travel long distances. Xiaoyun is not in good health. Qi Ran and Xiaoyun will stay here with me.
I will take care of them. The food I have saved should be enough for the three of us to survive. Ningshuang and Qin Feng, you take them to Yuezhou, where there are fewer people and it will be easier to move."
Aunt Qing simply nodded: "Then it's settled. If everyone can survive, we'll meet in Yuezhou City."
That night, Aunt Qing took Han Ningshuang and Qin Feng away from Qingfeng Town. She got a horse from nowhere. The three of them rode a horse and rode all night, and soon escaped from Qingfeng Town.
Qi Ran and Zhou Xiaoyun, who were injured, stayed in the cave with Ren Yuan.
Ren Yuan bandaged Qi Ran's fingers, cooked sweet potatoes for the two of them, and told them not to go out in the future.
Ye Qi said in his mind: "Except for Qin Feng, the other three of the four children may be the murderers. Who do you prefer?"
Shao Qingge said: "I think it might be Qi Ran. With such an obvious feature as a severed finger, we will never meet anyone with a broken finger in the world twenty years later. He hides very deeply. Of course, Han Ningshuang and Zhou Xiaoyun
These two girls may also have committed the crime, especially Han Ningshuang, her eyes are full of hatred, and when she followed Aunt Qing just now, she kept saying that she would come back for revenge in the future."
Choose one of three, which one is the correct answer?