"Don't be too concerned about those two Xianbei people, otherwise you will expose your flaws. Now is not the time for you to show kindness."
After a few words, Song Xin calmed down his restless mood. Yes, although this is ruthless, it is the truth. What can I do if I go out...
Yu Ji paused for a while before continuing: "Don't waste all my efforts. If your spiritual core is discovered by Liu Jing, I will be in vain. The only thing you have to do is to learn to sense and control you as soon as possible. The true energy in the body.”
"Okay, don't worry about things outside. Just follow the breathing rhythm I told you, close your eyes and sleep, and don't think about anything."
"Sleep?" Song Xin even felt that she heard it wrong. When she was so nervous, Yu Ji let herself sleep?
Although he was thinking in his heart, Yu Ji still knew it somehow, "If you don't know life, how can you know death? Rest is also an important lesson for practitioners. The heaven, earth, sun and moon have to take turns, let alone humans."
"Then what do they do?"
"Liu Jing won't kill them for the time being. You have to be prepared. If you show kindness during the day and secretly feed them food, Liu Jing and the others will definitely find an opportunity to beat you up."
Then he followed Yu Ji's instructions and breathed calmly. At first, his mind was filled with distracting thoughts, but with the help of his breathing and the effect of the medicine, he fell into a deep sleep after a while.
Song Xin woke up from his sleep with a cockcrow in the morning. He felt in good spirits. He rubbed his eyes and saw a shallow mark on his wrist. He knew that the ghost vein vine must have visited him last night.
He walked out of the house, only to see the door of the brother and sister's house open, and they were nowhere to be found.
"You will follow the stewards to see the execution later, and tell them not to beat the person to death." An order came from Liu Jing's room.
Song Xin suddenly felt cold and ran away privately. He would face severe punishment within the family.
Sure enough, less than a quarter of an hour later, Manager Zheng walked in, looked at Song Xin with a gloomy face and said, "Follow me!"
Following the old steward in an anxious mood, the two of them walked in circles for a long time, and finally came to a three-foot-square sandy area. Various torture instruments were placed under the surrounding high walls. The blood stains on them had become hard and black.
On the human-shaped wooden frame, Tuoshan and Tuoye were tied with their hands behind their backs, and their two fingers were suspended by ropes. The fingers were swollen, black, and thickened, which was very pitiful. They hunched over and touched the ground with their toes. Judging from their painful and exhausted looks, I don't know how long they have been hanging here.
They had already been beaten into disgrace, and their heads were swollen. The girl Tuoye's big eyes were now swollen with only a slit left, and the corners of her eyes and the edge of her nose were covered with scabbed blood.
Tuoshan was even more miserable, with whip marks all over his body and even scarier skin and flesh, shivering in the cold morning wind.
In addition to them, there were more than a dozen men and women kneeling here, just lowering their heads submissively. It looked like they were all bought and dressed up. They were asked to kneel on rough stones, and many had blood stains under their knees.
Several burly servants, shirtless and with hands in their hands, stood beside them and stared at them solemnly.
The purpose of killing chickens to scare monkeys is obvious, to break them psychologically and make them feel at ease as slaves of the Wei family. Every time a slave escaped, they would be asked to come and see him.
The Wei family's methods did work, and many slaves had anger in their eyes. They were angry that the two Xianbei people had escaped and resisted, and they would be punished together with them. It is only right to accept this reality like them.
But what seems like it should be, is it right?
Seeing Song Xin arriving, the old man with a white beard said, "These two people escaped in the middle of the night and were caught. What do you think we should do with them?"
"Me?" Song Xin was very surprised. The other party actually asked him to tell him how to punish the two Xianbei people.
"Master Liu just said that he would like to ask the people in charge to spare them this time."
"Hehe, since Master Liu has said it, he will not kill them. But if they are not punished, then these students will be punished on their behalf. It's your choice."
Song Xin felt a surge of unknown fire, but it was still suppressed by him. The old man also wants to make a moral choice for himself. No matter which side he chooses, he will be hated by the other side.
When the white-bearded manager Zheng saw Song Xin biting his lip and not speaking, with a sinister and proud look on his face, he stepped forward, smiled, pulled out a whip from the bucket next to him, and pointed left and right at the wooden frame and the ground. The kneeling man asked again, "Boy, tell me, who are you going to hit? Them... or them?"
The little girl instinctively curled up to hide. The feeling of a whip dipped in water was not pleasant.
But as soon as he moved, the injury on his finger was affected again, and two lines of tears flowed from the swollen gap in his eyes, but he couldn't cry out.
At this time, Tuoshan twisted his body excitedly and roared angrily, "Old dog, come at me. What's the point of coercing others!?"
The white-bearded old steward only sneered and whipped Tuoshan on the mouth, causing his blood and several teeth to scatter on the floor.
"The child ran away secretly. According to the family rules, the man's tongue must be cut off, and the woman's ears must be cut off."
Song Xin finally couldn't help it anymore, "Master Steward, Master Liu still keeps them useful, and you have punished them. If they die, I'm afraid Master Liu will blame him..."
The old man took back the whip that fell from his hand. He narrowed his eyes and looked at Song Xin with interest: "Oh? What do you mean, don't punish them and let these students be punished for them!?"
Song Xin forced out an ugly smile, "I don't dare...it's just..." At the same time, he felt countless vicious eyes falling on him, and the students were all looking at him.
"Huh, don't you dare? I think you are very brave." The old man said suddenly.
Song Xin was immediately stunned, "I..."
"You didn't preach the rules seriously, but instead secretly gave them food. Then they escaped. Don't you have no fault?" As soon as he finished speaking, several strong men around him swarmed up and pushed Song Xin to the ground. .
"Hehe, I will give you a third way. According to the family rules, you will be punished for them."
Song Xin never expected that this old man with a white beard looked kind and honest, but he didn't expect him to be so bad. He really knew people but not their hearts. No wonder Yu Ji said that Liu Jing would take the opportunity to beat himself up, and he was afraid that he had arranged all this for him.
Manager Zheng turned to the students and asked, "Do you think he should be beaten?"
The faces of the dozen or so students immediately showed expressions of relaxation and gratitude. But instead of being grateful to Song Xin, they felt gloating about his misfortune.
These people were all talking, vying to say, "It should be beaten, it should be beaten hard, it's not because this kid said the rules were unclear, that's why the Xianbei people ran away!"
Song Xin bit her lip tightly and clenched her fists tightly. If there was no one here, he would definitely punch this old man in the face. If there is a chance in the future, we must get rid of this scourge!
The old man looked at his unconvinced look and said slyly: "Hey, there is one more thing. Master Liu asked you to tell them the rules yesterday. Did you say you can't escape?".
"Master Liu just said that you are not allowed to go out at night, enter his house, or escape... Do you need to say this?"
"Since you didn't say anything, it's your fault. Hold him down and give him twenty lashes!"
The whips hit Song Xin's back like raindrops. At first, he gritted his teeth and endured it. But in the end he couldn't stand it anymore and passed out. The blood stains on the back looked like small red snakes emerging from the eggs, spitting out letters and crawling slowly. The students who were originally gloating about their misfortune were now silent, as if they were frogs frightened by poisonous snakes.
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