When Yin Shang killed the first person, Jiang Yixue had already covered Zheng Xiaonan's eyes with quick eyes and hands. The people behind were also stunned and subconsciously stepped back, fearing that the sharp blade would turn around and injure themselves.
Yin's upper body is like a ghost, and the altar is clear. He has never felt that the swordsmanship and martial arts he has learned for many years are so integrated. He can kill everyone with ease like the autumn wind rolling leaves.
When the last person fell, the villagers fled in panic, leaving only Xu Fu standing there looking at her with pale faces.
For a moment, all that could be heard in the surrounding area was Yin Shang's breathing, which gradually became calmer.
The white mist came out and mixed with the blood on the ground, making people shudder.
Yin Shang's eyes were blood red, filled with emotionless indifference, as if he was still immersed in the ruthless killing just now and couldn't escape.
She slowly turned her head and looked at the few people left, silent. After a few breaths, Jiang Yixue handed Zheng Xiaonan to Xu Fu, lifted up the hem of her clothes, and walked quickly towards her.
When he stood still in front of her, his figure and face were reflected in Yin Shang's eyes. A piece of white snowflake fell down and fell on his long eyelashes. It flickered lightly and quickly dispersed in the wind.
There seemed to be fear and hesitation in Jiang Yixue's eyes. She moved her lips but said nothing for a long time.
After a long time, he raised his hand and carefully and gently wiped away the sticky blood on her face.
Feeling his sleeves gently wiping her face, Yin Shang remained motionless, only staring firmly into his eyes and asked, "Afraid?"
Her voice was very soft and a little hoarse, as if it would be covered up by the sound of wind and snow at any time.
Jiang Yixue kept moving, humming slightly, and after a few breaths, she said again: "I'm afraid, but I'm not afraid of you."
Hearing this, Yin Shang twitched the corner of his mouth and let out a short laugh. He felt a little relieved all of a sudden. He leaned forward with his whole body and buried his head on his shoulder. The hand that was not holding the knife wrapped around his slender arm. The waists were tightly wrapped around each other, and they slowly tightened until they were close to each other, finally completing an extremely deep hug.
Snow was falling all around, and there was blood stained with silver makeup.
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I don't know how long it took for the two to separate. Yin Shang's eyes were red and he looked at Xu Fu and Zheng Xiaonan not far away.
The boiling emotions cooled down, but the first thing that surged up was feeling overwhelmed.
After looking at each other for a few seconds, Xu Fu sighed, walked forward tremblingly, gently tapped the bleeding cold knife in her hand with his crutch, and motioned for her to put it down.
There was a clear sound of weapons falling to the ground, and Xu Fu said: "You avenged them."
It took a while before Yin Shang realized that she was talking about the people who lost their lives in the conflict between the government and the people - including her daughter.
Xu Fu's eyes were complicated, implying fear and panic, but he still said with a trembling voice: "Let's go, kid, don't stay here anymore."
Yin Shang shook his head, looked at the corpses on the ground around him, and said, "Don't be afraid, I have a way."
She let go of Jiang Yixue and walked casually to a corpse. Her eyes wandered for a moment before she squatted down and touched the corpse's waist and arms.
Money bags, banknotes, jade ornaments...
He is just a county official with no less than ten taels of silver.
Yin Shang looked at it with an indifferent expression and continued to search for the next person.
Seeing this, Jiang Yixue knelt down to join her.
After a long while, the two of them took out all the valuable things and gathered them into a large pile.
Yin Shang called Zheng Xiaonan over, leaned over and spoke a few words to him in his ear.
Zheng Xiaonan experienced this, but he was not afraid at all. He kept nodding his head as he listened to Yin Shang's words. After he finished speaking, he immediately ran to the village, shouting as he ran: "It's time to share the money! It's time to share the money! It's time to share the money at the entrance of the village." !”
Yin Shang bent his knees and crossed his legs, sitting on the ground, looking calmly at the crowd in the distance gathering towards him in fear or confusion.
After a long while, the crowd gathered, and whispers continued, but Yin Shang remained seated as motionless as a mountain.
After seeing almost everyone, Yin Shang brushed off the thin layer of snow accumulated on his body and said to the crowd not far away: "You also saw them, they are all dead."
The crowd fell silent and stared at her with various expressions.
"You don't have to be afraid. I think you may have had relatives and friends die at their hands, or you may have had conflicts with them. Now that you meet me, they are the ones to blame."
She pointed to the pile of money in front of her and said, "These were all found on their bodies. Maybe they should have been yours, but now they are all returned to you."
Hearing this, the crowd became commotion, staring straight at the pile of money, but they did not dare to act rashly because of the girl in front of them who had killed several people.
Yin Shang looked at the crowd and asked, "Is there no one in charge in the village?"
After a few breaths, the crowd moved, and a woman came forward from behind. She was not tall, about thirty years old. She looked at Yin Shang, with fear and forced calmness in her eyes, and said in a trembling voice: "I-I am."
"Very good," Yin Shang nodded and asked, "What's your name?"
The woman glanced at her friend beside her, paused, and then said, "Xu Jiahe."
Yin Shang smiled and said: "It's easy to get money. Find a person with complete documents and go to the city to buy some things for me. The remaining young and middle-aged people will throw these bodies away on the mountain and bury them on the spot, and deal with the traces." , if anyone comes to ask from now on, just pretend that this incident never happened."
Xu Jiahe thought she was afraid that she would be punished if she killed someone, so she hurriedly wanted to escape, but hesitated for a while.
Hesitatingly, she looked down at the corpse, thinking of the relatives and friends who died in their hands, and then looked back at the villagers, thinking of the boiling winter.
After a long moment, she knitted her eyebrows, nodded, and said, "I'll go shopping for you. I have all the paperwork."
Yin Shang asked: "Are you alone in this village?"
When she heard this, she immediately became vigilant and said hesitantly: "There is still my daughter."
She subconsciously glanced at a little girl in the crowd. She looked about ten years old and had big eyes. She was hiding behind an adult and looked timidly at everything in front of her.
Yin Shang smiled and asked Xu Jiahe to come forward.
She took out a banknote from her arms, showed the amount to her, and said: "Buy a horse, two cloaks, some dry food, and only choose ordinary stores. Don't attract attention or make people suspicious. I The money on hand is enough, you can use the rest for yourself, but if you have any evil intentions, your daughter..."
She took it with trembling hands and nodded hurriedly: "I know, I know, I'll go and come back soon."
Yin Shang curled his lips as gently as possible and handed the money to her.
Xu Jiahe put the money into his arms, told his daughter and the villagers a few words, and hurried out of the village. After she left, Yin Shang faced the crowd and said, "Let's start. You move people, and I'll share them." Money, let’s make a quick decision.”
The crowd was silent for a while, looking at each other with different eyes. After a long while, a few bold people came forward, cautiously approached a corpse, and picked it up one by one, braving the wind and snow, and walked deep into the body. Walking up the mountain with shallow feet.
Yin Shang called Zheng Xiaonan, asked him to come over, and asked: "Xiaonan, do you know how many households there are in the village?"
Zheng Xiaonan nodded and said, "I know." He stretched out a small hand and used his five fingers to break it for her one by one.
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It wasn't until the sun was approaching noon that Xu Jiahe led the horse back. She couldn't ride a horse and was a little afraid of this big guy, so she only dared to hold the reins from a distance. Her hands were stiff all the way.
As soon as I entered the village, I found that the original corpses and blood stains had been cleaned up, and the villagers had dispersed. I think they had all received some money.
She handed the horse and things to Yin Shang, then tremblingly took out the remaining large bag of money and said, "This, this is too much."
Yin Shang took the horse and said, "You are the leader of the village, so use the money to take everyone back to the city for the winter."
Hearing this, Xu Jiahe was stunned and said, "Really?"
Yin Shang didn't answer, he just picked up a cloak and put it on, then gave the remaining one to Jiang Yixue, and then said to Xu Fu, "Go back, it's cold outside."
Xu Fu narrowed his cloudy eyes and watched the two of them mount their horses. Then he patted Zheng Xiaonan and said, "Say goodbye to my sister and brother."
Zheng Xiaonan had lost the vigilance and ferocity he had when they met yesterday. He stood obediently in front of Xu Fu, raised his head and said to the two of them: "Sister, brother, goodbye."
"goodbye."
The horse moved in response, carrying the figure into the snowy sky.
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They had already passed Peishui, so the two of them no longer had to cross the river, so they continued to follow the mountains, forests and wilderness all the way north, leaving marks along the way for the scattered people to see.
In just one day, Yin Shang's state of mind seemed to be turned upside down. The joy of leaving Dingzhou and the desire for heavenly power disappeared. There was only an indescribable sinking feeling that kept pressing in his heart.
After rushing until late at night, the two of them found a place to rest in a dense forest with leeward wind. Jiang Yixue noticed her low mood and felt a little sad, so she asked softly: "What's wrong?"
She shook her head, said nothing, tied the horse to a nearby tree, sat down with her back against a big tree, reached out to hold Jiang Yixue's hand, hugged his fragile body into her arms, and finally gently He gathered the placket of his cloak little by little.
After doing all this, Yin Shang stretched out his hand to tuck a strand of hair from his forehead behind his ear, and asked softly: "Is it cold?"
Jiang Yixue shook her head and said, "It's not cold." After thinking about it, she asked, "How long until we get to Qihui?"
Yin Shang said: "If everything goes well, it will take four or five days. Then I will take you to see my parents and sister."
Jiang Yixue hummed and said, "Qi Hui, isn't it good?"
Thinking of his hometown, Yin Shang felt a little more relaxed and said, "Very good. Before I was eight years old, I thought all places were as good as Qi Hui. After eight years old, I thought all places were as prosperous as Yi'an... Even though I know that Emperor Yongzai imposed heavy taxes and rape, I have never seen it with my own eyes... I don’t know how the people are in dire straits, and I don’t know how the dire straits are.” She paused, raised her head, and looked at the blurry scenery on the other side of the mountain forest. Qunlan from Yuanshan said: "I didn't know that there were so many people who didn't have enough to eat or keep warm... and were even afraid of snow."
The word "Xue" was spoken slowly between her lips and teeth, with unbelievable absurdity and extremely helpless pain.
Jiang Yixue frowned slightly, looking at her confused side face, her cyan eyes overflowing with distress. He reached out from his cloak and put his arms around her neck, gently leaned into her arms and said, "I When I was a kid, my biggest wish was to be full.”
His voice was clear and shallow, slowly ringing in the dark night, and he told her about a childhood past that he had never actively told anyone: "My mother used to be an actress in the palace, and she was arranged to attend a palace banquet... She originally thought It was just an ordinary dance that day, and then you could go home, but that banquet was for the soldiers on the border to cleanse themselves from the dust. Some generals fell in love with the dancers, so Jiang Mingwu gave them all away with a wave of his hand. "
Today, many years later, he no longer has any deep emotions. He is just telling the story very calmly: "There are men and women, sending them back and forth. In order to pretend to be enjoying themselves, he also accepted one." The actress is my mother."
"He treated my mother as a toy, just for fun, and randomly assigned her to a remote palace to lock her up. He never regarded her as a person."
"My mother thought that life would be easier after giving birth to me, but that person never thought of her. After finally seeing her, he felt that she was born too young and was not worthy of giving birth to his child."
Jiang Yixue laughed, her tone full of ridicule, and continued: "My mother took me in that palace... Can you believe it? Yin Shang, we don't even have anything to eat."
He thought about the broken days of his childhood, and now he felt a sense of absurdity, saying: "Without freedom and food, we seem to be a forgotten thing in a corner. It takes all our strength just to survive."
"In order to support me, my mother cried every day and begged the surrounding palace people to help them with their work and help them... As long as she could get food in exchange, she would do anything. On good days, her former friends would come to see me secretly. Give her something, and we just live on the charity and mercy of others. At that time, I was most afraid of snow, winter, cold and hunger. When it was the most difficult time, my mother fed me her flesh and blood. .”
"If it weren't for me, my mother would have no longer wanted to live."
"Those years... were really..." His eyes were empty, falling somewhere in the sky, and he didn't know how to describe those dark childhood years.
After a long time, he continued: "Later, Dingzhou summoned the royal princes of various countries to Yi'an. Jiang Mingwu was reluctant to leave his other children, so he thought of me... my mother... She was only a little thin at that time, but in Jiang Mingwu When he was about to take me away, he rushed out and was killed by the guards around him. He was as light as a fallen leaf and was gone."
A chuckle came from his arms, Jiang Yixue's voice was hoarse, and she asked softly: "Yin Shang, how do you think we should live in this world?"
Yin Shang's eyes were complicated and dejected. He narrowed his eyes and looked at Jiang Yixue's beautiful cyan eyes, speechless for a moment.
After a long time, she finally buried her whole face in Jiang Yixue's slender neck and said word by word: "I will save you, Jiang Yixue, I will save you, I will save you. "
Jiang Yixue felt a warm moisture in her neck, and her eyes began to feel astringent. She held her head and choked, "I know, Yin Shang, I've always known it."
From the first moment he saw her at the age of seven, when she walked towards him with food and clothing, he knew that only she could pull him out of the abyss.
Yin Shang.
Yin Shang...
The road ahead is boundless and full of wind, frost and swords. Do you want me to share it with you?
