Yu Guanhai fell off his horse, twitched all over and foamed at the mouth.
Di Wu did not hesitate, rushed forward, jumped on Yu Guanhai, and bit his ear.
Yu Guanhai couldn't move, but he tore off his right ear, causing blood to pour out like a fountain!
"ah!"
This man was showing off his power a moment ago, but now he was screaming like a slaughtered pig.
"Pooh!"
Di Wu spat out a bloody ear and opened his mouth to bite him again. Unexpectedly, a huge force came from behind him, but an officer and soldier kicked him on the back and kicked him away.
After all, he was only an eight-year-old child, but the officers and soldiers were well-trained, and their kicks were so powerful and heavy that they almost kicked him to death.
Di Wu flew several feet away and lay on the ground unable to move. His muscles and bones were all scattered, but instead of crying out in pain, he started laughing.
He had known that Yu Guanhai would never let anyone go.
What kind of seven-step poem is just to humiliate the Di family? In this case, it is better to fight to the death!
It was a coincidence that when he went to the city with his father, he met a knight by chance. The knight liked him very much when he saw that he was smart, so he gave him the wooden box of the mechanism for self-defense.
The silver needle in the wooden box was smeared with poison. According to the knight, the poisoned person would not survive more than three days.
Di Wu got the wooden mechanism box and loved it so much that he never left it alone every day. Unexpectedly, one day, this small wooden mechanism box would become a weapon of revenge for their Di family!
"Father, mother, my unfilial child cannot save you. I can only drag this beast to be buried with him!"
Di Wu glanced at his parents in the distance for the last time. The eyes of the family of three gathered at this moment, which contained a lot of sadness, sadness and despair.
The next moment, pain struck, and Di Wu's consciousness gradually blurred.
The surrounding scenery changes, light and darkness alternate, and when the scene appears again, it is in a dark prison.
A boy covered in blood was lying on his back among a pile of straw.
He seemed to have lost his breath and lay there motionless.
"Squeak!"
Along with a rustling sound, a mouse came out of his sleeve.
The mouse looked around for a moment, then ran to the edge of the cell.
Perhaps because the food in the prison was so poor, even the rat was so skinny that it easily slipped out of the gap between the iron bars.
"Snapped!"
Not long after the rat got out of the iron bars, a big rough hand suddenly stretched out from the next cell and knocked the rat unconscious to the ground.
"Haha! I have something good to eat today!"
There was a laugh from the cell next door, but the laughter was a little hoarse.
I saw a rugged man with dark skin and a scar on his chest. He was grabbing a mouse with a salivating expression.
"There are actually rats to eat! Long Laosan, you are going to eat meat today!" An envious voice came from the cell next to him.
"Haha, this good thing didn't get my turn in the first place. The kid next door was unconscious for a day and a night, and the rat didn't even react when it passed by him. It's an advantage for me!" Long Laosan said with a smile.
"Long Laosan, if you have something good to eat, don't forget your brother." The man from before said hurriedly.
Long Laosan glanced at him sideways and said with a smile: "Don't worry, Shameless Li, I'll leave you two rat legs later."
"Oh, thank you big brother!" Shameless Li said happily.
Long Laosan didn't say much. He tore the mouse's belly open and began to eat its hair and drink its blood.
"It's refreshing, it's this meaty smell that I haven't tasted in a long time."
In the dark cell, the sound of chewing came from the dark cell.
Shameless Li was drooling after seeing this, and the hunger in his belly was so unbearable that he found a topic to chat with Long Laosan.
"The boy in the cell next door, I heard he is the only son of the Di family in town?"
"Yeah." Long Laosan responded vaguely.
"As far as I know, the Di family is also a wealthy and scholarly family. How did they end up in such a bad situation?"
"I have offended someone."
While Long Laosan was swallowing the rat meat, he said: "Do you know Yu Guanhai? I don't know what he put into it, but he actually married the daughter of the prefect. Now he wants the wind to win, and the rain to rain! This person will definitely retaliate. Di family
I have offended him before, but he is not willing to give up. Doesn't this mean he has made up a crime to confiscate the Di family and wipe out the entire family?"
"well"
After hearing this, Shameless Li sighed and said: "God is not open to the eyes, good people will not live long! I have seen that Diwen, although he is a rich man, he is willing to help the poor. Back then I was desperate and almost starved to death, but still
I only survive today with a meal donated by him. Looking back at Na Yu Guanhai, I heard that he has been a local bully since he was a child, bullying men and women, and he does everything. It really fits the old saying: repairing bridges and repairing roads will leave no corpses, but killing people and setting fires will lead to a golden belt!"
"Hey!"
Long Laosan sneered and said: "When will God open his eyes? If God had eyes, how could you and I be locked up here? What is said about 'good deeds will be rewarded' is what the superiors tell the people below, otherwise
Doesn’t it mean that the world will be in chaos?”
"It makes sense." Lai Pi Li nodded as if he understood.
Long Laosan had already finished chewing the rat and threw two rat legs over. Shameless Li was already hungry, so he took the rat legs and stuffed them into his mouth, chewing them.
"This child has a hard life. He was born into a wealthy family, read poetry and books, and was full of ambitions. It was a time when hope was limitless. Who would have thought that everything would be turned upside down in one day, and he would be reduced from a rich young man to a prisoner under the rank? Listen to
It is said that his father could not bear the humiliation and committed suicide in prison, and his mother could not bear the torture and died suddenly the day before yesterday. Now only this lonely and miserable child is left."
"At any rate, he has lived a good life for a few years." Lapi Li mumbled while chewing a rat leg.
"You do not understand."
Long Laosan shook his head and said: "If he is like us, born in a poor family since he was a child, and has not eaten enough, even if he dies one day, it will not be too painful. The saddest thing is this, once
After a few years of good life, you suddenly fall into the bottom of the valley, your family is ruined, and your future is ruined. This is the most painful thing!"
"oh"
Shameless Li nodded perfunctorily.
He didn't quite understand what Long Laosan said. The two rat legs didn't fill his stomach, but instead aroused deeper hunger.
His eyes were wandering around. If he couldn't chew the iron bars, he might even eat the iron bars.
At this moment, there was a "squeak" in the distance, and the rusty cell door was pushed open from the outside.
A ray of light shone in.
Immediately afterwards, several middle-aged men in official uniforms and a group of jailers walked into the prison.
The leader frowned, seeming to be disgusted with this dark and messy environment.
They walked to the middle of the prison, and one of them took out a document from his sleeve and read: "The new emperor has ascended the throne and granted a general amnesty to the world! Anyone in prison can be freed if he is not a treacherous person. If the sin is serious, he will be punished."
Go serve outside the customs, build the Great Wall, and build canals, and never return. The emperor's grace is so great, please remember it!"
After the man finished reading the document, everyone in the prison cheered.
"Thank you, Your Majesty, thank you, Your Majesty!"
"The Emperor's grace is mighty!"
"Long live my emperor!"
In the midst of praises and praises, the man ordered the jailer to open the cell door and let out more than ten prisoners in the prison.
These people lined up to go out, and there were officials behind them to judge their sins. Whether they would regain their freedom or be exiled outside the customs was all at the discretion of the officials.
"Hey, why is there another person?"
After everyone left, the man in official uniform looked around and quickly spotted the boy lying on the ground.
Immediately, a jailer came forward and said: "Report to your lord, this man is Di Wen's only son. Di Wen has committed the crime of treason. According to the law of our court, everyone in the family should be beheaded. The original beheading time is tomorrow at noon, but
His parents have died in prison, and only this son of a traitor is left."
"Um……"
The man in official uniform nodded slightly.
He vaguely remembered that there was such a prisoner, and someone from above had told him that he must be beheaded to show the public. But now that the new emperor has ascended the throne, it would be hard to kill someone at this time...
"Otherwise... let's exile him outside the customs. It's bitterly cold and the environment is dangerous. He is an eight-year-old child. He won't be able to survive there for long. Sooner or later he will die."
Thinking of this, the man in official uniform cleared his throat and said calmly: "Since it is a crime of treason, he should be executed. Although the emperor's grace is great and the world is amnesty, he cannot be acquitted. He should be exiled outside the customs."
"yes."
Naturally, the guards on the left and right didn't think so much. After receiving the order, someone brought cold water, turned Di Wu over and poured it on his face.
It was the cold winter in the twelfth lunar month, and when the basin of cold water was poured down, Di Wu shivered and woke up from a coma...
…………
A rugged mountain road, windless, snowless, lonely and bitterly cold, with bare branches on the roadside, and the occasional crow, like a death knell for travelers.
Several figures were struggling to move forward on the mountain road.
Most of these people were in ragged clothes, with shackles on their bodies and anklets on their feet. They looked like prisoners exiled outside the customs.
At the end of the team are two officers and soldiers, with swords at their waists and strong skills.
"Brother Wang, after climbing over this mountain, we will reach Yuxia Pass. After passing Yuxia Pass, we will reach the wilderness. Our mission will be completed when we get there." One of the officers and soldiers said.
After hearing this, the other person laughed and said: "Brother Li, you are still familiar with this road. I am a new recruit and I will have to hang out with you in the future."
Before he finished speaking, he had already taken off a wine gourd from his waist and brought it to the other party, "Come on, brother, drink!"
The officer and soldier who spoke earlier was named Li Zhong. He grinned when he saw this, took the gourd of wine unceremoniously, and poured a few sips into his mouth.
“Good wine!”
Li Zhong patted the latter on the shoulder and said with a smile: "Brother Wang Meng, if you follow me, I will never let you suffer in the future!"
"Thank you, brother!" Wang Meng smiled happily.
"Wine, it's good wine..." Li Zhong shook the wine gourd and sighed: "It's a pity that there is wine but no vegetables. In the past two months, we have been eating dry food every day, and we feel like a bird in our mouths."
!”
After Wang Meng heard this, he also frowned, "We are already at the northwest border here. The climate is bitterly cold and the human habitation is extinct. We can't even catch a single game. There's nothing I can do about it, brother."
While they were talking, there was a sudden commotion ahead.
The two stopped talking and looked forward. They saw several men surrounding a child. The child was twitching all over and his eyes turned white.
"what happened?"
Wang Meng rushed over.
"Sir, this child is dying. You see his whole body is twitching. I'm afraid he won't survive today." Someone among the prisoners said.
Another person also said: "Sir, this child is too young. He has been wearing handcuffs and anklets for a long time, and the blood circulation in his body is not smooth. Moreover, he has only eaten a few mouthfuls of dry food in the past few days, and his energy and blood are seriously depleted. He will not be able to get over this place if he continues like this.
Mountain."
…
After listening to the chattering of the people around him, Wang Meng looked down and found that the place where the child was tied by handcuffs and anklets was indeed covered in bruises.
The man from before said again: "Sir, why don't you untie his handcuffs and anklets first to activate the menstrual blood? He is only an eight-year-old child anyway, how can he still escape from the military master?"
After Wang Meng heard this, he looked hesitant, but Li Zhong came over at this moment and said calmly: "Untie him."
"But."
"It's nothing but, we calculate the rewards on a head-to-head basis. Now that Yuxia Pass is right in front of us, we can't let him die on the road. When we get to Yuxia Pass and count the number of people, then whether he is alive or dead will depend on us."
It’s irrelevant.”
After Wang Meng heard this, he suddenly said: "Brother is still thoughtful!"
Having said that, without hesitation, he took out the key and unlocked all the child's handcuffs and anklets.
A knowledgeable prisoner next to him immediately stepped forward and gave the child a massage. The child's complexion improved slightly and he slowly woke up from his coma.
Wang Meng and Li Zhong looked down at the child as if they were looking at an animal, showing no mercy.
"I remember your name is Di Wu?" Wang Meng said coldly.
"It's good not to cough!" the child said coughing.
"Looking at how pitiful you are, I will temporarily unshackle you. Don't do any tricks on the way, otherwise your prince's sword will fall and chop you into pieces!" Wang Meng patted the sword on his waist with a fierce look on his face.
"I know, I know." The children murmured repeatedly.
"Hmph! Why don't you get up? You've wasted so much time just because you were alone!" Wang Meng kicked him again.
Di Wu was in pain and struggled to get up from the ground.
When the others saw this, although they couldn't bear it, they did not dare to speak at this time. After all, this was just a small episode on the way to escort, and everyone had to move on to face that hopeless future.
The team set off again, and Di Wu followed the crowd, lowering his head, wondering what he was thinking.
But from an angle that the two officers and soldiers couldn't see, the cowardice in his eyes had long since disappeared, replaced by a kind of indifference.
When no one was paying attention, he spit out a ball of black stuff from his mouth and fell into the mud on the roadside.
PS:
As a note, Di Wu is Lian Xin. It is written that Lian Xin's real name is "Le Tianxiang". However, due to my carelessness in naming, the name "Tianxiang" has been used many times. In order to distinguish it from Luo Tianxiang, the name in the previous chapter has been changed.