After rebirth, the Queen of Madness has gone against the will of Heaven

"Oh? What is it?" Yu Qingli said, but she had hallucinations in her heart. Murong Yanhui, which one is the real you?

"Bury!" Murong Yanhui said crisply. "Looking at the method used by the teahouse up ahead, we know that Pei County is likely to adopt the same approach. While this method may be crude, it is currently the best and least polluting method. If we used open flames, with so many bodies, I'm afraid the sky would have been burned black by now."

Murong Yanhui said, pointing to a city gate, "North Gate Xuanwu, I'm afraid they transported the bodies out and buried them through this gate."

Yu Qingli nodded. "It rained heavily all night, but the wheel tracks in front of this gate are still clear. It shows that even in the heavy rain last night, they still came out to bury the bodies. But why at night? Burying the bodies is not something shameful. It is inevitable that there will be deaths due to epidemics."

Murong Yanhui sneered, "Lili, why don't we wait till tonight and see if it's over?"

Yu Qingli smiled when she heard this, "That's exactly what I meant."

Xiluo had already set up the tent. Because it was inconvenient to make a fire, everyone ate dry food and rested. When it was getting dark, a lot of泔水 suddenly fell from the top of the city.

The people below the city immediately scrambled for food like a herd of beasts.

Murong Yanhui, Yu Qingli and others were filled with righteous indignation and hated the Pei County Magistrate's actions. They waited patiently until nightfall. The whole area was silent except for the whistling of the wind. Suddenly, a long "creak" sound was heard briefly in such silence.

Changkong sat up with a start and said in a low voice, "Master, here we come."

Murong Yan replied with a "hmm" and had already walked to Changkong's side.

The city gate slowly opened, and then an uncovered carriage slowly drove out. The carriage was filled with countless corpses, stacked up like a small mountain.

Looking at the direction the carriage was heading, Murong Yanhui nodded, "It seems that Lili and I were right this morning. I guess that valley is the mass grave."

"Go and take a look?" Murong Yan turned her head to look at Yu Qingli, but saw that she had already changed into men's clothes and was standing behind her with a handsome appearance.

"Let's go." Yu Qingli took the lead, but her brows were furrowed.

Murong Yanhui thought she was worried that the city guards would not let them into the city, so she said, "Don't worry, with me here, they won't be worried. During the day, they're worried that our identities might cause trouble, but they won't worry about us at night."

Yu Qingli paused slightly, turned to look at Murong Yan and said, "Little Uncle, do you think I'm worried about this?"

"Not this? There's...what else?" Murong Yanhui was suddenly stunned when she spoke. She saw three or four more carriages coming out of the city gate one after another, and the person on the last carriage was tied up.

They struggled to survive on the carriage, but their meager strength was met with only beatings. A woman, weeping, kept moving towards the shaft of the carriage. Seeing this, the city guards drew their swords and said, "If you move again, I'll kill you!"

From a distance, the woman seemed to say something to the city guard. The city guard paused slightly, but only urged the coachman to go faster.

"What's going on?!" Murong Feng was stunned for a few seconds, then suddenly thought of something. His whole demeanor suddenly turned cold, "How dare they, how dare they bury a living person!"

Changkong's face was also pale, not because of the dead, but because of this cruel county magistrate.

"Master, I'll go and take a look." As soon as Changkong finished speaking, he flew out like lightning. After just a few takeoffs and landings, he arrived at the edge of the valley. The people in the last carriage had already been driven into the valley.

There was a huge pit there, with countless people lying in it in all directions. There were obviously many such pits nearby, which were already filled with corpses.

Over 10,000 victims?

Yu Qingli looked at these huge pits and felt cold, the kind of cold that penetrated into her bones.

What could have allowed these people, who were supposed to be the people's support, to be so careless about human life, to kill their own people so calmly? What could have given them the confidence to write in a memorial that the number of disaster victims was only 10,000?

There are more than 10,000 people in these few big pits, right?!

"what!"

Suddenly, a scream tore through the night. Murong Yanhui and Yu Qingli looked over and saw a thin figure of a child clinging tightly to the thigh of a city guard, trying desperately to stop him from pushing the woman into the pit.

"Dog, run away quickly and don't worry about your mother!" The woman struggled desperately, her face covered with tears but she kept admonishing the child. But the child refused to let go. Seeing that Chengwei pushed harder, he simply bit Chengwei's leg hard.

Blood was oozing out, and the city guard finally got angry and kicked the dog away.

The child's thin body drew a beautiful arc in the air, and when it was about to be stabbed into the broken wood under it, a white light flashed. The city guard felt that the shouting in the distance suddenly became close. When he turned his head, his eyes went dark. After a crisp "pop" sound, his cheek suddenly felt hot and painful.

"Who is it!" Cheng Wei straightened up and covered his face with his hands. Before he could finish his words, he was slapped on the other cheek.

The other party flashed left and right like a ghost, and slapped him on the cheek one after another steadily and fiercely.

Two teeth and blood flew out, and the city guard finally knelt down, "Master, Master, stop hitting me, stop hitting me!"

Murong Yan hugged the dog and coldly looked at the city guard who was kneeling and begging for mercy. Then he turned around and asked, "Son, tell me, will you spare him? Just say the word, and I'll make him die here today!"

Gou'er thought for a moment, then walked from Murong Yan's arms to the city guard, put his hands on his hips and said, "Go ahead. I know you're just following orders, but you shouldn't bully my mother by relying on someone else's power."

The city guard immediately nodded his head like crazy, kowtowed a few times, and then ran away.

Once he ran away, the others naturally didn't dare to stay any longer and ran away in a hurry as well.

Gou'er hugged his mother and cried loudly. However, the woman seemed to be a well-educated person. She hugged Gou'er and was about to kowtow to Murong Yan.

Murong Yanhui hurriedly reached out to support her elbow. The woman looked at him with neither servility nor arrogance, and without a trace of self-deprecation, she said in a serious tone, "Thank you for saving my life, benefactor. I have nothing, and only if you accept this token of my mother's kindness can I feel at ease."

Murong Yanhui paused, then finally released her hand. The woman and her dog kowtowed three times, loudly.

Murong Yanhui leaned slightly aside, a gesture of half-reception. After the mother and son stood up, Murong Yanhui asked, "This lady doesn't look ill. Why is she being treated like this?"

Yu Qingli handed over the water and food, also full of questions.

The lady took the food but didn't eat it. She carefully fed it to the dog and said, "I've always been in poor health and always weak. A few months ago, a strange disease suddenly appeared in this county. The county magistrate, fearing his own life, immediately consulted all the doctors in the city, but to no avail. Then, someone said it was the work of an evil spirit, and the county magistrate believed it and sent for a Taoist priest. The Taoist priest made some random divinations and said that there was something unclean going on in the city. He asked each of us to donate money and gather at the county government office to perform a ritual."

The woman smiled bitterly at this. "But my family is very poor, so how can we donate anything? So, that night we went to participate in the exorcism meeting, and the Taoist priest suddenly captured my husband, saying that the evil spirit was possessed by him and wanted to use his blood as a sacrifice to the heaven..."

When the woman said this, she suddenly covered her face and burst into tears. This woman who had always been so strong suddenly showed unusual fragility.

"This county magistrate should be beheaded!" Xiluo snorted coldly.

Changkong folded his arms and said, "Behead? That's too easy for him! He should be lingchi (death by a thousand cuts) or turned into a human pig!"

After the dog had eaten and drunk his fill, he looked up at the sky and asked, "What do you mean by 'human pig'?"

Changkong was stunned and patted the dog's head. "Good boy, you will understand when you grow up."

The dog nodded obediently, wiped his mouth and said, "When I grow up, I will avenge my father!"

The woman hugged the child and said softly, "Dog, when will the cycle of revenge end? Remember to forgive when you can. Don't think about revenge, think about the future."

The woman, with tears on her face, hugged the dog and said, "You must remember, your father will be at ease only if you live well."

When Yu Qingli heard this, her eyes were filled with coldness. In her two lives, she had seen many corrupt officials and cruel people, but she had never seen anyone so cruel to the bone. Don’t these people worry at all that the wronged souls will come to claim their lives?

However, the officials around here can be so bold and presumptuous, I think they must have some backers!

Yu Qingli looked up at the tall city wall. This time, she wanted to see whether those people had stronger backing or whether they, the group, had stronger abilities!

Because they were temporarily unable to enter the city, Yu Qingli and the others found a place to stay nearby. As for the woman and the dog, they declined their kindness and stayed outside the city temporarily, continuing to live with those thin victims. However, they also promised that if they were needed in any way, they would stand up at any time.

After a heavy rain, the weather became much clearer. Yu Qingli and her friends rented a small farmyard outside the city. Because of the rampant plague in the vicinity, many inns were closed and local people did not dare to take in outsiders. The owners of this farmyard were a middle-aged couple, and they had a silly-looking child at home.

Murong Yanhui spent a lot of effort to get the other party to agree to take them in, and what made Murong Yanhui even more satisfied was that the owner of this house was a good person. It was said that he was originally a wealthy family, but later he spent all his wealth to treat his only child. Such a character is really admirable.

The host's surname was Zhang. Murong Yanhui concealed his identity and only said that he was a passing merchant who was unable to enter the city, so he stayed here for the night.

The man surnamed Zhang did not suspect anything. The Jiangnan region was originally a prosperous place, and merchants often passed by or came here specifically to do business. Moreover, he saw that these people had extraordinary demeanor, so he thought they must have come from places within the capital. It was just that he probably didn't know that Jiangnan had suffered a disaster, so he made this trip in vain.