As the ancients occupied Xueyang City, the people in the city experienced the initial despair, and after Ren Baqian made people shout all over the city, they gradually calmed down after a few days.
Although still terrified, although still confused about the future, it seems that these barbarians are not as quick to kill as previously thought.
Although from time to time some people were arrested from their homes and had their heads chopped off, those were all hiding "rebels" at home, and ordinary people were not greatly affected.
This made many people breathe a sigh of relief, and prayed every day that such days must continue, and that these barbarians would never raise their butcher knives against civilians again one day.
If it is not impossible to go out of the city, many people still want to go out of the city to escape. After three to five months, they will be able to see clearly.
"My lord, a total of seventy-three households have harbored rebels in their homes, and six of them are big households." Zuo Leng handed over a list to Ren Baqian.
Ren Baqian took it over and glanced at it, raised his head and asked, "Why do you think this is?"
"My lord, I don't understand." Zuo Leng lowered his head and said.
"Why do you say that these people took the risk of losing their heads to take in the rebels? Unless they are close relatives, it is difficult for anyone to do this, right? But if they are close relatives, these hidden rebels know that this will implicate those who protect them Why do you still stay there
One of them would rather risk losing their heads to keep others, but the other would rather help their own people risk losing their heads than give up their lives.
From this point of view, the goals of both sides are the same.
But I'm curious about what's going on in the minds of both types of people. "Ren Baqian said lightly.
Zuo Leng opened his mouth, at first he thought it was easy to answer, because they are close relatives, so he took them in!
But when Ren Baqian talked about it later, he also began to not understand, yes, why those people risked their own relatives' heads and refused to give up their lives to come out
"My lord, I also don't understand at the beginning." Zuo Leng said.
"Is that so? One of the two parties is thinking about the other party's people, while the other party is only thinking about himself." Ren Baqian laughed.
"Let's go and have a look." Ren Baqian got up and said.
A moment later, Ren Baqian left the mansion with twenty guards.
In the front are several hundreds of households and dozens of Tiqi leading the way, and one of them is a warrior who is familiar with this place.
"Zuo Leng!" Ren Baqian shouted loudly, Zuo Leng immediately drove his mount a little behind Ren Baqian.
"It's all arranged, arrest every family, don't let some people hear the letter and run away." Ren Baqian asked.
"My lord, everything has been arranged, they can't escape." Zuo Leng immediately assured.
"lead the way!"
The horse ran on the stone road, and there was a crisp sound of hoofbeats. Several people who had to come out of their homes saw it from afar and hid aside trembling.
Ren Baqian sat on the mount, looking at the two sides, and occasionally saw a figure appearing by the window or door, looking at his group with fear.
The feeling of being feared is neither good nor bad.
It's not very rewarding, and it's not too disgusting.
After walking for half an hour in the city, he came to a civilian area and stopped in front of an alley.
Baihu rushed into the alley with Tiqicong, and finally broke down the door of a house. The noise and two screams could be heard in the distance.
After a while, the four people were escorted in front of Ren Baqian, some of them stayed guard, and some went straight to the distance to continue arresting.
Two of them are men and women who look to be in their forties, covered in shabby clothes, and full of old taste. Generally, these people look much older than they actually are, and life has dragged them down long ago.
The other two are young people in the age of sixteen or seventeen, just at the age of vitality.
At this time, the four of them had knives on their necks, and looked up at Ren Baqian with fear on their faces.
In the surrounding houses, many people were quietly peeping in the dark, like mice in the sewer, not daring to show their heads at all.
"My lord, please forgive me, my lord..."
Ren Baqian ignored the cries of the people below, and turned to Zuo Leng, "Which one is the rebel?"
"Both young ones." Zuo Leng replied after turning around and asking a few words.
"A few days ago, I was shouted by someone, did you hear it? Why did you hide the rebels?" Ren Baqian said indifferently while looking down at the few people on his mount.
"My lord, please forgive me, my lord, Xiao Si is ignorant, he has never done anything bad." The middle-aged man and woman immediately begged for mercy.
"I said, why hide the rebels?" Ren Baqian repeated.
"That's our child!" The two fell to the ground and cried.
"Xiao Si is your child? What about the other one?" Ren Baqian asked softly. It is only natural for parents to protect their children, but it is a pity that this child is not up to date.
The two were overwhelmed by fear, and could hardly make a sound. They cried after being reminded by the knife on their necks: "He brought it back..."
"Who is Little Four?" Ren Baqian looked down at the two young people.
"I... I am..."
"Did you hear what I was yelling?" Ren Baqian asked lightly.
The young man was terrified, trembling, unable to speak a word.
"Tell him, what I say must be answered!" Ren Baqian said lightly.
A Ti Qi immediately kicked Xiao Si, and a mouthful of blood spurted out.
"Did you hear me?"
"Listen... I heard..."
"Why didn't you come out? When you joined the rebel army, you were prepared to die. Why would you rather drag a family of three to lose their heads than come out?"
"say!"
Following Ren Baqian's shout, the young man was hit on the head with the handle of a knife again, bleeding from the head.
"I am afraid… "
"This is the rebel army? Is this the so-called rebel army?" Ren Baqian laughed lightly, his voice full of mockery. "When you are bewitched by someone, your blood is on your head, and you want to shed your blood for the people of the world, but when things come to an end, and for your own life, you would rather drag the whole family to die together, and bring a good comrade in arms? It seems quite loyal, But the price is your parents' lives."
"If you want to kill, kill!" Another young man roared angrily.
"Well, it's very tough. If you were tough, you should have died in battle, and if you took a step back, you should have committed suicide at their house. At that time, they would drag the body out and say that a rebel came to the house, and they would kill you. In this way Maybe you can escape with your life. But you didn't do that, instead you flinched at the critical moment, enjoying the protection that others gave you at the cost of your life with peace of mind." Ren Baqian had a sneer on his face.
"You evil ghost! Evil ghost!" The young man immediately couldn't bear the contents of Ren Baqian's words, and frantically wanted to throw himself back at Ren Baqian, but was trampled on the ground.
"See, what kind of people are these people!" Ren Baqian raised his head and asked.
"I see, my lord."
"Selfish, cowardly, timid, and ignorant, such people are rebels." Ren Baqian chuckled.
A voice full of malice and ridicule, like a devil, spread to the ears of the surrounding people who covered their mouths in the dark and carefully peeped.
"Kill it!" Ren Baqian said coldly after laughing.
Several weapons were inserted into the bodies of several people immediately.
"Let's go, let's go see the next one." Ren Baqian said.
A group of people rode away on their mounts, and it took a long time for the people to look at the corpses lying in a pool of blood from the room, all of them looked sad.
It took half a day for Ren Baqian to watch the same scene seven or eight times. The reasons were various, but the end result was the same. Ren Baqian finally lost interest and went back with his guards, leaving the people from the Captain's Mansion to continue arresting.
"My lord, I still don't understand why you did this." On the way, the guard scratched his head and said.
"Huh, you actually think about why?" Ren Baqian turned to look at the guards and said in surprise.
"I always feel that adults often do things that people can't understand. It's the same this time. I thought about it, but I didn't expect it." The guard said.
"Very good, knowing how to use your brain is the first step in your evolution from a monkey to a human!" Ren Baqian praised.
"Monkey?" The guard scratched his head, not knowing what relationship he had with the monkey.
"Of course!" Ren Baqian then said slowly: "On the one hand, I'm really curious, on the other hand, I'm trying to make an example of others, and at the same time, I want to show these people's hearts to other people, so that before some people do something stupid again , I will think more about whether it is worth it.”
"I'm teaching them what is human heart and what is wisdom!"