Li Qinghuan

Ji Qing held his breath, stretched out his hand and pulled out the short knife from Song Li's waist, and leaned against the wall as if waiting for something, Song Li didn't say a word, but also leaned against the wall tightly, a moment later a figure rushed over, Ji Qing quickly grabbed the man's hair, raised the knife and dropped it, blood splashed on the spot, and the man became a dead soul under the knife in just a moment, his movements were clean and neat, without any muddy water.

Ji Qing dragged the man to the depths of the alley by his hair, and Song Li followed behind, digging up earth and rocks to cover up the bloodstains.

Ji Qing let go of the man's hair and squatted down, and found a short knife from the man.Standing up and clapping his hands, Song Li squatted on the ground, looking at the corpse: "What is he following us for?"

The person lying on the ground was the owner of the tailor shop just now.

Ji Qing: "I don't know."

Song Li: "What happened here?"

Ji Qing shook his head: "I don't know, let's go and see first."

Ji Qing took out a handkerchief from his arms, wiped off the blood on the knife, and put it back into the scabbard.

"Let's go, Ah Li, look elsewhere."

"it is good."

The two walked along the alley and saw a shocking scene.

At the end of the alley was an open field. There was a big pit in the field, and beside it were corpses piled up into a hill. It was estimated that there were hundreds of corpses.

A group of people wearing masks and official clothes were in front of one of the big pits, directing several strong men to keep throwing corpses into the pit.

Song Li clenched his fist, and the bones he squeezed made a crackling sound. Ji Qing was afraid that he would rush out on impulse, so he held him tightly, and whispered: "Be safe and don't be impatient."

Song Li gritted his teeth to force himself to calm down, then nodded and continued watching.

Those strong men began to fill the soil after throwing away the corpses, and the official guarded by him closely.After about an hour, the soil was finally filled, and the strong men ran into the grass to hide their shovels and left with the officials.

After confirming that those people were far away, Ji Qing let go of Song Li, sweating profusely in his hands before he knew it.

"Let's go and have a look."

Song Li nodded and stood up.

The two found the shovels that the strong men had placed in the grass and went to the place where the corpse had just been buried and dug.

The corpse wasn't buried deep enough, and it didn't take long to see the sky. Song Li dug up the soil and found a female corpse with a big hole dug in the heart, and no one dug out the heart.

Song Li was severely stimulated by the oncoming blood, if it wasn't for a piece of cloth covering his face, he would have vomited it out on the spot.

He suppressed his nausea and continued to dig down, digging out several corpses, including young men, women and even children, without exception, their hearts were all taken away.

It was the same with Ji Qing. After careful inspection, the two buried the person back in the soil, put back the shovel and left the mass grave along the alley they came from.

Along the way, Song Li kept his head down and didn't speak, his expression was so gloomy that water dripped out, and Ji Qing couldn't be much better, but he still patted Song Li's shoulder to express his comfort.

There are a lot of refugees on the streets in Canglan County. The shelter has not been built here yet, and the people are lying on the street to bask in the sun.

Song Li found a few rags and put them on Ji Qing and himself, grabbed a few handfuls of ashes and smeared their faces, and got into the crowd of refugees.

If the person who buried the person is the government, then if you want to know what happened, it will definitely not work to ask the government.

Song Li lay beside an old man and basked in the sun with him.

"Where did you come from, my boy?"

Song Li was thinking about how to strike up a conversation, but he didn't expect him to take the initiative to speak.

"I'm from Pingyao. I heard that the disaster here in Yuncheng is not that serious. Come here to try your luck and find a way out."

"Haha, it's like this. My son, daughter-in-law and my grandson have all been taken to settle by the government. I don't care what I do with my old bones."

Song Li's expression changed: "Oh, really?"

The old man laughed again: "The county magistrate is a very good man. Originally, the harvest in Canglan County has not been good in the past few years. At first, I thought our family was doomed. The county magistrate saved our lives. We are the only ones. This group of immortal magistrates even gave us porridge and food."

Song Li was speechless in his heart.

Looking around, the street is full of old people with gray hair.

"You young people, good luck, you can find a way to survive when you meet such a kind person."

Song Li nodded, echoed a few words, closed his eyes and stopped talking.

After closing his eyes like this, he fell asleep without knowing it, and when he woke up again, it was already midnight, Song Li was stunned, closed his eyes and fell asleep again.

After sleeping on the street for two days like this, Song Li waited for the person he wanted to wait for.

Early in the morning, as soon as Song Li opened his eyes, he saw a few officials standing in front of him. They were dressed similarly to those who had buried their corpses in the wasteland, and they were also wearing masks. I’m here to find you, follow them quickly, you don’t have to sleep on the street.”

Song Li rubbed his face vigorously: "Goodbye, old man."

Song Li stood up and looked at Ji Qing, who had a worried face on the opposite side. Ji Qing's brows and eyes were full of hostility, but he still endured it and retreated from the crowd.

The two of them together were too outstanding and too eye-catching, so they discussed it and split up. If one is taken away first, the other will play by ear.

Song Li and a young couple were taken away by those yamen servants. Ji Qing followed closely behind the group, and seized the opportunity to drag an official who fell behind, covering his mouth, into the alley and wiped his neck. , I quickly changed my clothes and followed.

Ji Qing was much taller than the others, and in order not to be exposed, he kept his head down and walked at the end.

"The new one at the end? Why don't you hurry up, what are you doing?"

Ji Qing: "Here we come!"

It seemed that he was lucky, the person he killed happened to be a newcomer and he was not familiar with them, Ji Qing felt slightly relieved and followed behind them.

"I caught three more, how far is it?"

"41."

"Oh, what a crime, you can kill more than me."

"Yeah, I thought that letting me out was to make me change my past, but I didn't expect to use my old profession."

"Brother, what did you do before, how did you get arrested?"

"I killed more than a dozen people from Jia Yuan's family in the county. I was originally asked to beheaded by Qiuhou, but the county magistrate put his face on his face and let me go."

"Oh, don't talk about it, I don't know what will happen after the matter is over."

"I don't know, it's a day to live, but I heard that the news of the dead in the county seems to have spread."

"It's okay, that woman is frightened and crazy, talking nonsense, no one believes it."

"That's right, those officials are so busy that they don't have much time to come here."

"That's not necessarily true. Otherwise, why did our county magistrate suddenly ask us to bury the body?"

"It's already April, even if you put it in the cellar, it will stink sooner or later. It's better to bury it earlier with a little effort."

"Hey, what did that kid in the back do?"

The voices of the two people in front were a little softer, "the kid behind" refers to Ji Qing, who listened carefully to what they said without saying a word.

"It seems that he killed his parents, wife and children."

"Tsk tsk, he's more insane than us, don't get too close to him."

"Yeah, the three of us will be handed over to him at that time, and we brothers will go have a drink."

"That can't be done. This is the county magistrate's big business. He's a newcomer. What if he messes up?"

The voices of the two were very low, but they still reached Ji Qing's ears without saying a single word.

The group arrived at their destination in a short while. It was supposed to be a magnificent house, but it looked very deserted, and it should have been abandoned for a long time.

The leading official pushed open the side door of the house and led the crowd in.

Ji Qing silently followed behind them, calmly holding the dagger in his hand.

As soon as they entered the door, a smell of blood that was thousands of times thicker than in the wasteland rushed towards their faces. The young couple smelled the extremely strong stench and spit it out. Finally, they realized that something was wrong, and said tremblingly: "This Where is it? What are you going to do?"

The leader said: "Of course I want to resettle you."

The couple looked around. There was a large open space in the front yard of the house, and there was a stone platform in the middle, which was stained by layers of blood so that the original color could not be seen clearly. The whole front yard was like an open-air slaughterhouse. But what was killed was not animals, but people.

The couple held each other's hands tightly, and the woman boldly said: "Don't put us down, let us go, we can..."

Before he finished speaking, he was interrupted by the distorted smiles of those "official servants", and the leader said: "This is beyond your control, you want to go out even after entering the capital? Do you know how to not suffer anymore? Forget it, don't talk nonsense with you, please, give you a good time."

As the man spoke, someone moved his hand, grabbed the woman and was about to pull her to the stone platform.

Song Li couldn't bear it anymore, and cursed: "Let go of her, let me come first for what you want to do!"

The leader approached Song Li, raised his right hand and slapped Song Li hard: "Hey, you still want to be a hero to save the beauty? This is a married woman."

Song Li frowned in pain, his palms were slightly sweaty, he might not be able to beat these people, and he didn't know where Ji Qing was now...

But the words have already been spoken, so I can only bite the bullet: "It's a hero who saves the beauty, so what?"

The leader said with a sinister smile: "Sooner or later it will be your turn, but since you want to be a hero to save the beauty so much, then you can look forward to it."

Before he finished speaking, he stretched out his hand to the woman, and with a slight tug, one of the woman's sleeves fell to the ground.

The woman's husband struggled: "You bastard! Let her go!"

Song Li turned his eyes away without looking at injustice, and said angrily, "Let her go!"

Unmoved, the man reached out and tore off the woman's other sleeve.

Regardless of the woman's wailing, he continued to tear at her clothes. If Song Li hadn't been restrained by someone and couldn't break free, he could have gone straight up and chopped it off.

Just as Song Li was struggling hard, he suddenly felt that the checks and balances in his hands were gone. Song Li turned his head and saw that the person behind him fell down slowly, his neck was still bleeding, and there was a person standing behind him. Blinking, then took off the mask, it was Ji Qing who followed all the way.

Song Li felt relieved at this moment, pulled out the dagger from his waist and rushed towards the leader. The others were stunned for a moment before rushing forward to fight Song Li. Ji Qing kicked away the person closest to Song Li People, went up to make a repair, the incident happened too fast, and the other people were stunned before they could figure out the situation, and asked, "Then newcomer, what are you doing? Why did you kill your own people?"

Ji Qing wiped off the blood splashed on his face, frowned irritably, turned around and asked, "What?"

Those people saw his face clearly and panicked: "He has no tattoo, he is not one of us."

As soon as this sentence was finished, all the people who had just rushed towards Song Li rushed towards him.

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Copy of Canglan County (???ω???)