Without waiting for Shen Tang to answer, Qi Shan continued to mutter to himself.
"Letting them go is inappropriate. These bandits have no other way out and have become bandits. Letting them go will only allow them to start a new group. And these old, weak, sick and disabled people... young and strong people with intact hands and feet have no choice but to become bandits. You can imagine what their fate will be."
When Shen Tang heard the second half of the sentence, he felt uncomfortable.
She said, "It is not advisable to let this path go."
Seeing her response, Qi Shan smiled again and said, "That's right. It's unacceptable. I didn't kill Bo Ren, but he died because of me. If we let these bandits go, how innocent will the people who die in their hands be? Then - why not sell them? Many people here are still young and strong enough to sell for some money. The others, well, can only be sold at a low price."
Shen Tang glanced at Chu Yao and rejected the idea outright.
"No way!"
This is a human being, not an animal!
Qishan is really going too far!
Unexpectedly, Qi Shan added fuel to the fire and said coldly, "Buried?"
Shen Tang: "Buried alive?"
"It's OK to kill them and bury them later."
Seeing that Qi Shan was getting more and more outrageous, Shen Tang showed a rare look of anger on his face. He took a few steps closer and raised his head to question him.
“…Qi Yuanliang! Do you know what you are saying?”
No one said anything, and those who were basking in the sun dared not say a word. The few timid ones turned pale with fear, and their breathing became unstable, as if they would faint in the next second.
"I know."
"I guess you don't know!"
Qi Shan immediately asked back: "Since you are against my suggestion, then how should you deal with them?"
Shen Tang: “…”
she…
What can she do
It's impossible to give these people a sum of money to make them go down the mountain and become good people, right? Pah - if they really did that, Shen Tang would want to have a craniotomy to empty his brain.
The merchants in Xiaocheng and the old and weak in the Lin family, the former were bullied by ruffians, and the latter died in vain in a foreign land, leaving only Lin Feng... Which one of them has nothing to do with these seemingly innocent people in front of us
These people in front of me cannot be killed, released, or sold... Shen Tang held his forehead with a headache.
She complained to herself in her heart why she was leaving all these troubles behind when she was drunk. They were all bad people anyway, and she had already killed so many people, why not just kill them all while she was drunk... When this thought popped into her mind, she was shocked herself.
How could she have such a horrible thought
How could one come up with such distorted ideas
Shen Tang was shocked at how horrible he was, and the more he thought about it, the more panicked he became.
A sharp, dense, and unignorable pain came from deep within her mind, causing her to frown and clench her teeth. Unconsciously, her forehead was covered with fine beads of sweat, her originally rosy cheeks turned pale, and her lips lost their color, as if she had suffered a serious illness.
Qi Shan was the first to notice her abnormality.
He raised his hand to support the shaky Shen Tang, and said in a voice with a subtle urgency: "Youli? Youli? What's wrong?"
"Phew—I'm fine..."
After enduring the stinging pain, Shen Tang felt much more relaxed.
Zhai Le and the others came over worriedly. She waved her hand, signaling Qi Shan not to worry too much, and said, "It should be a hangover. He suddenly had a headache... But it's okay, it doesn't hurt now... As for these people, leave them all here, and don't bury them alive. After all, they are human lives. It's not easy to grow up. Let them do something they can do... I'm going to take a nap."
"Yuanliang, you have known Wulang for a long time, do you know that he has this stubborn disease?" Chu Yao looked at Shen Tang's back and was very worried. This was obviously not as simple as a hangover and headache. He was afraid of some other illness.
Qi Shan shook his head: "I have never had such symptoms before."
"After settling this place, let's go to Xiaocheng and ask someone to take a look?"
"Um."
He paused and changed direction.
Shen Tang said he was taking a nap, but in fact he was not sleepy at all. He was just sitting under the tree in a daze. As soon as he heard the footsteps, he knew it was Qi Shan. Without even looking up, he asked, "Yuan Liang wants to talk to me about something?"
"Apologize for what happened earlier."
"Apologize?"
"Although I meant to provoke you, I didn't expect it would trigger my old illness."
Shen Tang was stunned for a moment, and forgot to refute that he had no old illness. He asked curiously: "You provoke me? Why do you provoke me?"
Qishan: “…”
Shen Tang narrowed his eyes: "My intuition once again tells me that you and Wu Hui are hiding something from me... You provoked me just to make me find a way to deal with these people? Why?"
Qishan: “…”
Shen Tang suddenly said: "Oh, I understand."
Could it be that he is usually so cruel that he can't bring himself to do good things, but he is afraid that she will kill people without blinking an eye like when she is drunk, so he deliberately sings a different tune to provoke her to agree to keep these people
Qishan didn't believe it: "Do you understand?"
Shen Tang insisted, "Yes, I understand!"
Qi Shan shook his head: "Youli, you don't understand yet."
"…Okay, you're right, I don't understand. Then tell me what I don't understand! You have to explain to me clearly what I don't understand. I'm not afraid of guessing, but I'm afraid of guessing wrong…"
If she got the wrong meaning, wouldn't she be embarrassed
Listening to the boy's soft androgynous voice, Qi Shan realized awkwardly that this young man was still very young, with tender shoulders. But whether it was Shen Tang or him, they had no choice.
Qi Shan said carefully: "I hope Youli can learn to take responsibility."
Shen Tang's eyes were dim: "Don't I know how to take responsibility? How dare you say that? Wen Xin Yan Ling always betrays his teammates... You just watched from the sidelines, and I was the only one who got beaten... Can't I take responsibility?"
At such a young age, she has already learned to resist too much.
"... Not this kind of shouldering." Qi Shan coughed awkwardly and skipped this part vaguely, "... I hope Youli will shoulder the lives of these people, no - should I say the lives of the suffering people in the world, their prospects, future, and destiny... as much as possible. Qi Shan also knows that this is really too much to ask, but no matter you or I, there is no way out..."
Shen Tang stared: "... So, you want me to be a nanny?"
Lin Feng is fine, after all, he is a creditor, and a pretty and lovely girl, but why should others do so
Qishan: "Babysitter?"
Shen Tang said: "It's the old lady."
Qishan: “…”
Seeing Qi Shan's increasingly hostile gaze, Shen Tang knew that he had misunderstood again, so driven by the desire to survive, he quickly changed his words and said, "Village Chief, no no no, Li Zheng... Do you want me to play a role similar to Li Zheng?"
Qi Shan nodded slowly: "... Yeah."
It seems to make sense to liken the people of a country to villagers and the ruler to the village chief (lizheng). That's roughly the idea.
Shen Tang wiped the sweat off his forehead and said, "Oh my goodness, so the script I got is to lead the villagers to a well-off life and establish Taoyuan Village."
As for the fact that the founder of Taoyuan Village had to commit crimes to rob tax silver, she had not thought about it yet. She just felt that Qishan had such a soft and kind side.
Shen Tang couldn't help but let his thoughts wander again.
"So, let's give the village a name, shall we?"
You can't plagiarize Mr. Tao's idea and name it Taoyuan Village.
Well, stick to originality.
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