Yan Shi couldn't help clenching his fists. Hua Ling watched them talk, and he also leaned over to look at them. He didn't see anything special inside, so he retracted his head again.
Xu Jing said: "Brother Yan, let me go back and get some food for my sister-in-law."
Yan Shi nodded: "Don't worry, we are here."
Liu Er watched Xu Jing go and didn't stop him, after all, no one wants anything for free.
In the delivery room, the voice of Liu Er's daughter-in-law rose louder and louder, and finally, followed by a heart-piercing shout, followed by the cry of a baby.
Liu Erho stood up from the ground, opened the door a few steps and walked inside.
"Is it a boy or a girl?"
"Congratulations, it's a girl." Qu Liushang walked across to him.
"Girl?" The joy on Liu Er's face disappeared instantly, and his steps stopped.
"Yes, girl, very cute." Qu Liushang said again, "Your daughter-in-law spent too much energy in giving birth. I gave her a pill, but the medicine is not as good as food. You can make some good ones for her to eat." .”
Just as the door opened, an old woman walked over with a baby in her arms, and when she was about to throw it into the bucket, Yan Shi quickly caught it.
This moment happened too suddenly and too fast. Both Qu Liushang and Liu Er were startled for a moment, Hua Ling came from behind with an angry face, pointed at the old woman and said, "She wants to throw the baby into the hot water bucket!"
The old woman was also a little confused by Yan Shi's sudden appearance, and when she heard Hua Ling's voice, she looked at him in a daze. Seeing that it was a strange and beautiful young master, his attitude softened a lot: "Yo, where did this young master come from?"
Hua Ling ignored him, and walked over to see the crying baby in Yan Shi's arms. The baby was small and thin, and it could be seen that it lacked nutrition in the mother's body and did not develop very well. The umbilical cord had just been cut, and there was still blood on it. She didn't know what kind of life and death disaster she had just experienced, and she was crying non-stop. Yan Shi had never held such a small child before, but felt that there was a soft and small one in his arms, and even breathing became lighter and lighter, and the hand holding the baby did not dare to move, as if he was holding the baby .
Hua Ling stretched his neck to look: "It's such a small one." He had never seen such a small child before, so he couldn't help but feel a little strange, especially the one held by Yan Shi. Pass.
Liu Er was the first to come back to his senses, and said with an angry face, "What do you want to do?"
"What do you want?" Hua Ling protected Yan Shi, like an old hen protecting her chicks.
"Give me the child." Liu Er stretched out his hand to grab the child.
Seeing this, Qu Liushang also stood in front of him: "What are you doing? Will you drown her again?" He has been in the rivers and lakes for many years, and he has heard of this kind of thing, but he has never seen it with his own eyes.
Mrs. Liu was also a little reluctant, with a strong dislike on her face and tone: "Could it be possible to keep a girl's film to waste food?"
Hua Ling was very angry at her words, and replied on the spot: "You are also a woman, why don't you commit suicide, what are you doing alive, save wasting food!"
"You!" Mrs. Liu was trembling with anger at being robbed, unable to speak.
Liu Er saw that his mother had been wronged, of course he couldn't bear it, but he was stupid, and now he was so angry that he didn't know what to say, so he raised his hand and hit Hua Ling.
Although Yan Shi lowered his head to look at the baby in his arms, he paid attention to Hua Ling's every move. Almost as soon as Liu Er raised his hand, Yan Shi's leg came over. Kick Liu Er to the wall behind him. Taking advantage of this gap, he handed the baby into Qu Liushang's hands.
Seeing her son being kicked, Mrs. Liu couldn't let it go. She sat on the ground and yelled: "It's terrible, I killed someone! I killed someone!"
Yan Shi frowned slightly, and didn't want to entangle her too much, talking to this kind of person was just a waste of time.
"Let's go!" Yan Shi said but didn't leave immediately. There is no other reason. It is winter now, and the baby's body
There was not even a piece of cloth, and it would be frozen if he went out like this. He looked around, trying to find something to cover the baby. But Liu Er's family is also poor, and he didn't find anything at a glance.
Hua Ling understood what Yan Shi wanted to do. He hurriedly untied the cloak on his body, covered the baby, and said to Yan Shi, "Brother, it won't hurt if I don't wear it for a while."
Yan Yi nodded: "I'll be out in a while and hurry up."
When Mrs. Liu saw that they were about to leave, she made more noise on the ground, kicking and digging. Liu Er got up from the side of the wall and wanted to come over, but when he saw Yan Shi giving him that piercing look, he shivered in fright and dared not move.
The door opened, but it wasn't Yan Shi who opened it. Xu Jing walked in with a bowl of fragrant hot porridge, and saw the baby in Yan Shi's arms at a glance, and his face brightened: "It's born!"
Afterwards, he realized that something was wrong with the atmosphere in the room, and he understood it immediately, and the joy on his face disappeared instantly.
"This porridge, give it back to my sister-in-law." Xu Jing was slightly embarrassed holding the porridge in his hand.
Mrs. Liu was so worried that she had no place to vent her anger. She could see that the three of them were more difficult to provoke than the other, especially the one who was the first to hold the baby. She looked weak, but just kicked her son It can't be used in a few moments. This is also the reason why she sat on the ground and made a fuss, but didn't dare to go up and do her best.
But Xu Jing is different, Xu Jing is from the same village as them, no one knows what he is like. Mrs. Liu immediately spread this evil fire on Xu Jing: "What to eat! That bitch still has the face to eat!" Saying that, a bone got up from the ground and rushed towards Xu Jing.
But before he touched Xu Jing's clothes, he was blocked by a shining dagger halfway.
Yan Shi held a dagger in his hand: "I don't have eyes with this knife." Almost as soon as he finished speaking, he waved his hand, and the dagger was inserted into the wall behind Liu Er. Liu Er was so frightened that he almost peed his pants when he intervened. After finally standing up, the body fell down again.
Mrs. Liu only hiccupped once, and then she was frightened and became silent again.
Xu Jing walked in with the bowl, and Qu Liushang followed. The house is dilapidated and small. Everything that happened outside fell into the ears of the second daughter-in-law Liu. She was lying on the bed and weeping silently.
Seeing her in such a state, Xu Jing felt uncomfortable, but he didn't know what to say, so he just asked her to drink the porridge. At first she didn't want to drink, and stared into the distance with empty eyes, like a wooden dummy.
Xu Jing can't help it, he is a man and can't feed him.
Qu Liushang suddenly said: "Don't you want to leave here?"
The woman's eyes moved suddenly, and her gaze gradually shifted to Qu Liushang's body.
Qu Liushang lowered his voice and said: "I know you were also abducted, and all the women in Xiaxi Village were abducted. You don't have to say anything now, you don't have to ask anything. You just need to remember, and you can bear it a little longer at most. One day, you will leave Xiaxi Village, we are here to save you. This porridge is here, you can eat it or not."
Xu Jing put the porridge on the chair beside him, and Qu Liushang took out a pill from the medicine box and put it next to the porridge bowl: "After eating the porridge, take this medicine and you can sleep till dawn. Even if someone calls you, you won't wake up."
After finishing speaking, he went out with Xu Jing.
The woman fixed her eyes on the bowl of porridge, and slowly stretched out her hand, she wants to live! Whether what he said was true or not, there was hope.
When leaving Liu Er's house, Yan Shi pulled out the dagger nailed to the wall, and wiped Liu Er's neck repeatedly: "If you know what you did to the pregnant woman in the house, you know the consequences. .If others find out what happened tonight, I will cut off your tongues and feed them to donkeys. You also put away your cleverness, and don’t even think about calling people from the village to deal with me. I saw it just now. No one in this village can beat me, even if I die, I will kill you first before I die."
After Yan Shi finished speaking, he opened the door first and went out, Hua Ling followed closely behind, seeing Yan Shi's back, Hua Ling looked happy, my brother
Just so domineering.
Wen Man helped Xu Jing cook the porridge just now. She was also thinking about the Liu family and couldn't fall asleep. Hearing movement outside at this moment, he hurriedly opened the door to look.
Seeing her, Yan Shi nodded at her, and Yan Shi put the baby on the bed where Xu Jing lived, and this bed has been given over to Wen Man tonight. The baby had already fallen asleep in Qu Liushang's arms all the way, but when she was put down, she suddenly woke up and cried hard. Several men who had never coaxed the child were at a loss, Wen Man walked over: "Give her to me."
She patted the baby lightly a few times, and the baby stopped crying immediately, Hua Ling looked at it strangely and came over to take a look. Wen Man said: "This child is hungry."
"Then what does she want to eat?"
"Make her some rice soup."
Xu Jing hurriedly went to make rice soup, and after putting the baby to sleep, everyone breathed a sigh of relief.
Xu Jing gave up his room to Wen Man and the baby, so he and Qu Liushang had to build a suggested bed in the main room. Fortunately, there were still a few large wooden boards in the barn, otherwise he would have slept on the floor.
At dawn the next day, after breakfast, Yan Shi took Hua Ling for a walk in the village. Because I just had breakfast, there are not many people in the village, only some children running around and making noise.
Yan Shi looked at the smoke curling up in the distance and sighed softly. Who would have thought that the village, which looks peaceful on the surface, hides so much filth
As he was walking forward, he suddenly heard the heart-piercing cry of a woman, followed by an immature child's voice: "I'll kill you! I'll kill you! Let's see if you still dare!" !"
Yan Shi and Hua Ling looked at each other, then hurriedly walked in that direction.
From a long distance away, I saw a group of children around ten years old. These children clapped their hands and shouted: "Hit her! Hit her! Hit her and kill her!"
"What are you doing?" Yan Shi shouted.
The group of children were startled by the sudden voice, before they could recover, Yan Shi had already walked up to Hua Ling, holding Hua Ling's hand. He pushed away a child in front of him, and saw a woman kneeling on the ground with her head in her hands. There was also a ten-year-old boy riding on her body. The boy was holding her hair with one hand, and was waving his fist with the other to land on the woman.
"Who are you?" On the boy's face was a slight displeasure of being interrupted.
"Who are you?" Yan Shi asked back.
The boy said: "My name is Zhao Xiaohu."
Yan Shi asked again: "Who is under you?"
Zhao Xiaohu said: "She is a servant of my family."
There are servants in such a poor place as Xiaxi Village? Yan Shi frowned slightly, his heart skipped a beat. He stepped forward and threw Zhao Xiaohu to the ground. Zhao Xiaohu was unprepared, and was pushed somersault by Yan Shi. He was very unhappy immediately, and shook his fist to hit Yan Shi.
"Hit him! Hit him! Hit him!" The children around were shouting slogans again.
Hearing a crisp "click", Zhao Xiaohu's wrist softened like noodles, and he let out a scream of "aww".
Those children saw how Yan Shi took off Zhao Xiaohu's wrist, and they didn't dare to make any more noise, they all shut their mouths obediently in fright.
Hua Ling gently tugged at Yan Shi's cuff, and Yan Shi patted the back of his hand to comfort him.
Zhao Dahu screamed too loudly, the woman kneeling on the ground got busy and wanted to see him, Zhao Xiaohu had never been wronged like this when he was so old, but he also knew that Yan Shi was not easy to mess with, so he was so angry It sprinkled on the woman, and stretched out the other hand to push her.
"Ah—" There was another scream, and his wrist was also removed by Yan Shi.
The children onlookers were frightened, and some wanted to run away, but as soon as they moved their feet, Yan Shi's cold voice reached his ears: "Want to leave? The consequences of wanting to leave are the same as him."
No one in the group of children dared to move anymore, Yan Shi took out a bundle of rope and a piece of cloth from the treasure bag, and let the group of children throw it away: "Tie him up for me, and then gag him."
How dare those children refuse to follow, tremblingly
Zhao Xiaohu tied him up and stuffed the cloth into his mouth to silence him.
Yan Shi nodded in satisfaction, and said, "Help her up."
Some children went up and dragged without hesitation, Yan Shi shouted: "Easy!"
Those children had to relax their hands and feet, and they couldn't be more gentle, and finally helped the woman up from the ground. The woman just kept crying and couldn't even speak.
Yan Shi stared at one of the boys with burning eyes and asked, "Let me ask you, is she Zhao Xiaohu's mother?"
"Yes yes yes!" The boy nodded repeatedly, fearing that Yan Shi would do something to him. Really, although Yan Shi had already guessed it, after hearing the answer, Yan Shi still felt a little uncomfortable. This group of people are really insane, even their own mothers can do it!
When Hua Ling heard this, her beautiful face immediately changed color: "Is she his mother? How could he beat his mother!"
The boy's expression was slightly disdainful: "They are just a container for giving birth to us. It is their honor to give birth to us. They are our servants, servants, do you know? Look at which servants are not happy with the master Just enjoy the food? If you are unhappy, just hit it a few times."
Hua Ling was trembling with anger, and Yan Shi was also trembling with anger when he heard this remark. He thought that these poor women were just beaten and scolded by their husbands in Xiaxi Village, but he didn't expect that even the children he gave birth to would treat her like this. they!
The already cold winter made Yan Shi feel cold all over his body.
"A bunch of little beasts!"
He couldn't bear it, and he couldn't wait anymore, the matter of Xiaxi Village will be resolved today!
He took Hua Ling's hand and went back to Xu Jing's house. As soon as he opened the door, he saw Wang Yong, Sun Si and Zhou Da.
Hua Ling asked strangely, "Why are you here again?"
Qu Liuzhang said: "They said they took a fancy to us and came to pick us up to their home." Qu Liushang said it calmly, as if saying that today is a sunny day.
Hua Ling hurriedly pulled Yan Shi's hand tighter vigilantly, and called "Brother" like a kitten meowing.
Yan Shi was laughed angrily by them: "It's so ridiculous!"
"It's funny, I think it's funny too." Qu Liushang took out a few peanuts out of nowhere, peeled off the shells and threw the peanut kernels into his mouth.
Hua Ling's pupils dilated slightly: "Where did you get these peanuts?" He clearly remembered that Xu Jing's poor family didn't have them.
Qu Liushang threw a few more peanuts into his mouth, stretched out his finger and pointed back: "In that room, there is an open box." The room he was referring to was the room where Yan Shi and Hua Ling slept. Just now when they saw Zhou Da and the others coming in the room, Xu Jing hurriedly asked Wen Man to hide in Yan Shi's room. Qu Liushang helped her take the quilt she put on last night, and when she entered the room, she saw Hua Ling's snack box spread wide open on the bed.
Hearing Qu Liushang's words, Hua Ling wailed as if a mouse's tail had been stepped on, and then walked to her room in two steps. After coming out again, holding the snack box in his arms with a mournful face, he ran up to Yan Shi with small steps, stretched out a finger and pointed at Qu Liushang in aggrieved way: "Brother, he stole my delicious food!" .”
"How much food is missing?" Yan Shi pinched his face reassuringly.
"I haven't looked carefully yet." Hua Ling lowered his head and looked at the snack box in his arms. "The peanuts are almost gone, and there seems to be some candied fruit and nougat..."
Yan Shi smiled at him, then looked at Qu Liushang and said, "Young Master Qu, did you hear that? If you eat Madam's food, you will have to pay Madam in the future."
Qu Liushang opened his mouth, and finally cupped his fists helplessly, and bowed and swept the floor in a dawdly way: "My lord obeys, madam, I offended you, please forgive me."
"Then I'm not too happy." Hua Ling curled her lips, feeling aggrieved.
Yan Shi said again: "Then shall I buy you some more?"
Only then did Hua Ling reluctantly nodded and agreed: "Alright then."
Xu Jing looked at the scene in front of him, it was funny and heart-warming, but he did not expect the relationship between the prince and his wife to be so
so good.
The three of Wednesday and Sun, who had been left out all the time, looked at each other, thinking that the "adult" in Qu Liushang's mouth was a joke, not just a real adult, so they didn't take it to heart. Zhou Da finally said first: "Since you already know our reason for coming, then let's go."
As he said that, he was about to come over and grab Hualing, but before he touched his hand, he saw a flash of cold light, and then he heard Zhou Da scream: "Ah—"
The dagger that Yan Shi took out many times finally had a use. The dagger was stably stabbed in Zhou Da's palm, passing through the back of his hand.
The blood came out immediately, Sun Si and Wang Yong trembled in fright, even Xu Jing was startled, he was just a frail scholar, he had never seen such a scene before.
"Who wants to come?" Yan Shi suddenly pulled the dagger out of Zhou Da's hand, and the blood immediately flowed into the spring.
Qu Liuzhang stretched his neck to look while picking peanuts into his mouth: "Tsk tsk tsk, such a big blood hole, this hand is probably useless."