Zhai Le put on a handsome face and explained in a low voice: "I'm afraid that when you buried the body, some people nearby saw it. So, as soon as you walked away with your front legs, you came over with your back legs to dig out the body and chop off the fleshy parts with a blunt instrument. For both legs, cut off the thigh meat and take it back..."
Because she was drunk, Shen Tang didn't think about it for a while.
"What are you going to do with these?"
Zhai Le changed from his usual relaxed mood. Even his peach blossom eyes, which were always smiling, turned gloomy. There was sadness at the end of his eyes, but what he said made people shudder: "Cooking, satisfying hunger...otherwise, what else can I do?"
He pointed it out directly, and Shen Tang suddenly opened his eyes wide.
He didn't say anything for a long time.
"But, but that's... a human, how can a human be eaten..." At this moment, Shen Tang looked at a loss and confused. She hesitated unconsciously, murmuring softly, "How could a human be... not possible! Then But people are the same kind, buried in the ground..."
Qishan took Shen Tang all the way to Xiaocheng. In order to endure less hardship and get more information, the route was not too remote, and he could encounter villages and towns every one or two days. The life of the people was very difficult, and they could only make do. Just stick to the most basic bottom line.
Shen Tang knew that such a thing existed, but had never seen it before.
But Zhai Le is different.
Zhai Le and his cousin Zhai Huan set out from the southeast. Relying on their good skills and tacit understanding, the two dared to get into any place. They passed several bandit dens along the way and killed several groups of extremely vicious people. Just as Zhai Le said , act chivalrously and fight against injustice.
Villains are easy to kill but hard to fill their stomachs.
He and his brother once passed through a village. There were only thirty-six households in the village, mostly old and weak women and children. The young and middle-aged had been drafted away to fight.
That day, an old man in the village passed away. He and his brother were staying in one of the farmhouses. As night fell, he heard conversations coming from outside the courtyard. Curious, he looked out through the window and saw the skinny village leader. Delivering bowls of broth from door to door. Thanks to her good eyesight, she also saw a few small pieces of meat floating in the turbid broth. The peasant woman who accepted the broth had a bitter expression.
There aren't many edible tree roots nearby.
Zhai Le didn't know what kind of soup it was at first, so he curiously told his brother about it. To this day, he still remembers his expression at that time. Half of his face was dyed reddish by the candlelight, and the other half was hidden in the shadows. , the shadow appears and disappears with the weak flames.
He even had the terrifying illusion that a ferocious giant beast covered in blood was lurking in the dark. It would jump out and eat him up until his brother opened his mouth, chewing him into mincemeat.
The oil lamp beeped.
Brother A said with an indifferent expression: [The living are always more important than the dead. The dead are dead, but the living must still live.]
Zhai Le still didn't understand the meaning of these words, until the day he left the village, another family held a funeral.
Zhai Le rode away on horseback and turned around unintentionally. He saw the relatives of the deceased crying and burying the body in the grave made in advance. Before he could seal the coffin, Muramasa brought people over to negotiate. Because the distance was too far, he could not hear what they were saying. But judging from their excited exchange that almost turned into a physical conflict, both parties were unhappy, and in the end the body was moved out.
Blessing to the soul.
At that moment, brother's words couldn't get out of his mind.
Only then did he truly understand what had happened.
Zhai Le, who kills people without blinking an eye, almost fell off his horse that day and vomited out all the dry food he had eaten yesterday.
【Ah, brother...】
【Similar things happen all the time.】
Zhai Le:【But...】
Zhai Huan looked indifferent: [Until you are unable to help them stay away from hunger, never criticize their behavior or interfere. Unless - you have the sacrifice courage of Buddha to cut meat to feed the eagles and sacrifice yourself. Xiaofang, they Gotta live...]
Zhai Huan's voice was as gentle as ever, and it also made Zhai Le feel helpless as never before. It was the despair that his cousin, who he had regarded as a role model since childhood, was helpless.
Zhai Le said in a low mood: "My brother said that these people want to live more than anyone else, but the world wants them to die more than anyone else. The injury is not a living person, just a corpse, so what do outsiders have to say that they are cruel and useless?" Human nature? Can’t say…”
After hearing this, Shen Tang stood there, looking at the three severely decomposed and mutilated corpses at his feet, and was stunned for a long time, unable to regain his senses.
For a long time——
She said: "That's right, Guan Yiwu said, 'If you have a solid warehouse, you will know etiquette, and if you have enough food and clothing, you will know honor and disgrace.' But these people don't say, 'If you have a solid warehouse, you will have enough food and clothing.' Their five internal organs temples are all empty, and a family can't even make it together." We are all dressed up together, how can we talk about etiquette, honor and disgrace?"
Under such circumstances, wouldn't it be the greatest arrogance to use etiquette, honor, shame, and ethics to comment on their behavior?
Seeing that something was wrong with Shen Tang's expression, Zhai Le raised his hand and pushed her arm, trying to shake Shen Tang awake as if she was trapped.
Shen Tang took a deep breath, waved his hands and said, "I'm fine."
"Brother Shen, how to deal with them? All..."
Zhai Le looked at the trembling gangsters, raised his hand and stretched out his thumb, making a neat horizontal stroke on his neck.
When several of the gangsters saw this scene, they vaguely guessed their fate. They knelt down with a thud and banged their heads, causing phantom pain in their skulls. They were so panicked that their arms and legs trembled, and tears and runny noses ran down their faces. : "Hero, please spare your life!"
There are also those who do not believe in evil, such as the strong man at the head.
He didn't think that Shen and Tang had the courage to kill him knowing that his backer was the second master of the bandit nest. As for Shen Tang's choice of the bandit nest, he didn't think that the two of them could do it.
He knew how big the bandits' den was.
Shen Tang said: "I want to kill him."
Zhai Le raised his hand and formed a knife. As soon as Shen Tang gave the order, he raised the knife and chopped down the melons and vegetables.
Shen Tang added: "But it would be a pity to kill them all."
Zhai Le: "What a pity?"
Shen Tang sneered: "What else can you do while alive? If you die, you can only bury yourself in the fertile soil. However, I feel very uncomfortable letting this group of people live... Xiaofang, how are you going to deal with it?"
Zhai Le: "I'll kill him, but I can't take him with me."
It was not only the two of them who offended this gang of gangsters today, but also the white-haired old man who stood up, and the onlookers who were watching the excitement were barely included. It would be fine for them to return to the mountain, but those ordinary people would suffer. Disaster.
Shen Tang said: "You said... take it with you? How to take it with you?"
Zhai Le had other understandings.
Surprised: "Brother Shen, are you planning to recruit them?"
If you kill and bury them anywhere, the cost is almost zero, but it's different when you recruit them. That's a big trouble.
Shen Tang: "..."
When did she say that???
Zhai Le looked embarrassed: "I'm not deliberately poking Brother Shen's pain, but one person has one mouth. There are twenty or thirty people here, that means twenty or thirty mouths. How much are the daily expenses? Even if Brother Shen is kind enough to recruit them, they Are you willing to be loyal?"
Brother Shen himself is extremely poor.
So poor that he sells wine for nothing!
What can we use to recruit and raise these gangsters?
Shen Tang was still confused.
She didn't know how the topic jumped to the point of recruiting gangsters. She just followed Zhai Le's topic and was curious about how to "take it with him."
"You, wait, let me think about it again."
Before he could figure out the reason, the leading strong man had already sneered and spat, saying: "You want me to work hard for the pretty boy, just dream! When my brother finds out, you will all—"
