The sword in Zhe Shu's hand fell with a clang, and he fell to the ground in despair, grabbing his hair with both hands and saying in pain: "I didn't mean it, I didn't mean it!"
Zhe Shu stared at the sword on the ground, the guilt seemed to have swallowed him up. He did not kill the child with his own hands, but the child died because of him.
Jingcun still had some sense left. He walked to Zheshu and tried to explain: "Zheshu, don't be like this. It was the enemy's method. It was their cruelty that harmed the children. I can't blame you."
Zhe Shu held his head in pain and lamented: "He is still so young, so young..."
Jingcun could no longer utter any words of comfort. He took off his outer armor, took off his inner shirt, carefully wrapped up the lifeless child, and said, "Let's bury him properly."
Guan Jiyu took the child into his hands, Jingcun took Zheshu to find a place, cut off the grass and trees on the ground, and dug out a small tomb with the weapons in his hands.
"Ayu, put the child in." Jingcun said softly.
Guan Jiyu glanced at the child in his arms. There was no blood in his round face, but there was some blood on his cheeks. There was blood foam on his forehead, including in his nostrils. Guan Jiyu carefully used his sleeves to gently
I wiped away his blood lightly, feeling extremely sad in my heart.
Whose darling is this child? How sad would his mother be if she knew about the suffering he suffered?
"Child, sleep well." She knew that she was the sinner because the three of them made a mistake in their judgment and let such a child lose his life in vain.
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry."
Guan Jiyu felt that this body was no longer hers. She opened her mouth stiffly and said sorry in a stiff voice.
What's the use? She keeps saying sorry, only sorry.
If saying "I'm sorry" is really useful, she would rather kneel on the ground and say it a thousand times and ten thousand times day and night. If she could exchange for the lives of Jiang Qing, Jiang Yingnian and this child, she would spend her whole life doing it.
repent.
She watched helplessly as Jingcun placed the child in the grave. The cold soil covered his little body bit by bit. He was still so young and left in a hurry before he could feel the beauty of this world one by one.
Jingcun held up the last handful of soil and said, "My child, don't come to the True Fool Country again in your next life. Find a good place to give birth to a good child..."
The three of them slowly stood up from the tomb. Guan Jiyu then discovered that the fog in the forest had appeared again. This time the fog was thicker than ever before. She said alertly: "Be careful, the fog has come out again! Don't get separated."
".
The heavy fog came suddenly and strangely. Zhe Shu ignored the pain in his heart and hurriedly picked up the sword on the ground and followed Guan Jiyu step by step forward.
"Uh-huh! Uh-huh——"
Guan Jiyu stopped and asked: "Listen - did you hear any sounds?"
"Creak, creak—"
Zheshu said uncertainly: "I seem to hear the sound of someone swinging on the swing, I don't know..."
Jingcun held his breath and listened quietly for a while, then said: "I did hear people's voices." He looked at Zheshu and said: "How could it be the sound of swings? It's good for people to be alive in a place like this.
,How could someone come here to play on the swing?"
"Really! Listen to it again!" Zhe Shu put his hand to his ear, listened for a while and said, "Listen to this creaking sound, isn't it the friction sound made by the ropes tied to the swing?"
Guan Jiyu pointed to the direction to the right and said, "I hear the sound coming from over there. No matter what the sound is, go and take a look first!"
They groped their way carefully in the hazy fog, and they suddenly stopped until they clearly saw what was making a sound in front of them.
In front of the three people is a century-old tree. Unlike many other plants and trees, it seems to be the largest tree in this forest, standing proudly here.
A hemp rope as thick as an arm hangs from a thick branch, and a person is being tied to the hemp rope with his backhand.
The other end is hanging on a tree.
If you don't look carefully, it really looks like a person swinging on a swing!
The man hanging on the tree had his head drooped. His clothes were all torn into strips of cloth hanging on his body. His hair was scattered and covered in front, making it impossible to see his face clearly. All he could hear was "
"Uh-huh" sound.
Zhe Shu raised his head and shouted to the person on the tree: "Hey, what's going on? Why are you tied here?"
"Who are you and can you speak?"
The man hanging in the tree did not speak. He seemed to have heard Zhe Shu's question and slowly raised his head.
The hair that was hanging down in front of him spread to the sides of his face as he raised his head, revealing his true face bit by bit.
Zhe Shu stood at the front, and he was the first to shout out loud: "Third Young Master?!"
Guan Jiyu and Jingcun caught up and took two steps forward. Only then did they see that the person hanging on the tree was none other than Jiang Yingnian!
Zhe Shu excitedly shouted: "Great! Third Young Master is not dead, he is not dead!"
His mouth was tightly gagged with a piece of cloth, and he could not speak. He could only scream "Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu". I don't know what kind of death penalty Jiang Yingnian received. There was no one anywhere on his body from head to toe.
The good places are full of bloody wounds, some are still dripping with blood, and some seem to have dried up...
Guan Jiyu was so shocked that she couldn't speak. She would never have imagined that one day Jiang Yingnian would be so hurt!
Jingcun said sternly: "It must be those idiots who deliberately tied the Third Young Master here to humiliate him! Zheshu, put him down quickly!"
Just as Zheshu was about to lift his legs and run towards the big tree, he stopped after only five or six steps and said, "Ah! You can't get through here!"
"What's going on?" Jingcun walked over and saw that in front of him was a ravine ten thousand meters deep, which divided the place into two. The three of them were standing in one part. Although the big tree was right in front of them,
But it's in another part.
It's just that the fog is too heavy. If you don't look carefully, you will accidentally fall off the cliff!
"What should I do? I can't fly through it even if I try to use Qinggong!" Zhe Shu looked around anxiously and saw a wooden rafter lying across the ravine. It was much longer than an ordinary wooden rafter, and it happened to be placed right on top of the ravine.
between two places.
Zheshu said happily: "Come on, we can walk across this long wooden rafter!"
Jingcun walked over and as soon as he stepped on it with one foot, he found that the wooden rafters were slightly untied. He knelt down and checked vigilantly, saying: "This wooden rafter has been left there for too long, and it has rotted inside. Don't worry.
It is said to carry the three of us, but it is difficult for one person to go there alone."
Zhe Shu said anxiously: "What should we do? The third young master is still hanging there -" He said and looked up at Jiang Yingnian opposite, only to find that there was only the big tree left, and there was nothing on the branches.
Hanging, as if everything they just saw had never existed before.
Zhe Shu rubbed his eyes and said in disbelief: "Huh? Why is he missing?" He patted Guan Jiyu and said: "Ayu, look across the way, why is the third young master missing?!"
After hearing this, Guan Jiyu and Jingcun looked across and saw that the tree was just a tree with nothing tied to it, not even a hemp rope.
The three of them looked at each other, too shocked to say a word for a long time. Guan Jiyu said: "This..."
Zheshu: "I heard the Third Young Master say before that the Real Foolish people are very talkative, and this place in the Really Foolish Country is even weirder. I thought he was making up nonsense, but I didn't expect it to be true!"
Jingcun looked at the trees opposite and was fascinated. Suddenly there was another heavy fog blowing in front of them. This time they couldn't even see the big tree in front of them clearly.
Guan Jiyu and Zhe Shu did not dare to say anything again. They looked at Jingcun who was lost in thought, and followed his gaze towards the direction of the big tree. They waited in tacit understanding, with the whistling wind in their ears.
Waiting for the wind to blow away the fog.
After about half a stick of incense, the heavy fog in front of them slowly dispersed, and the big tree clearly appeared in front of them again, along with an arm-thick hemp rope on the tree, and hemp rope.
Jiang Yingnian hanging on a rope.
Jiang Yingnian raised his head with difficulty. He could not call for help or speak. At this moment, he was looking at him with a sad look in his eyes.
God is watching them.
Zhe Shu said excitedly: "He's out, he's out!" He quickly greeted Jingcun and said: "That wooden rafter can't be used anymore. You see there are many trees in the forest. Let's just cut down some thick roots.
Tie them up into a simple bridge and walk to the other side!"
Jingcun did not hesitate and went to cut branches with Zheshu. Guan Jiyu stood by the ravine and stared at the opposite side.
Seeing Jiang Yingnian alive with her own eyes should have been an extremely exciting thing for her, but for some reason, when she looked at Jiang Yingnian opposite, she felt a strange feeling in her heart.
She just felt strange.
He was tied up and hung on the tree, and the way he looked up at her made her feel strange. Guan Jiyu couldn't tell what was wrong, but he just felt that there must be something wrong with the scene in front of him.
Jiang Yingnian, who appeared and disappeared across the street, always made her feel unreal.
Zheshu and Jingcun quickly brought over a large pile of thick tree trunks, and they were about to tie them up. Guan Jiyu suddenly said, "Wait a minute!"
Jingcun didn't raise his head, and was concentrating on adding more tree trunks to make this "handmade simple bridge" stronger. He asked doubtfully: "Ayu, what's wrong?"
Guan Jiyu said: "I always feel that all this is very strange."
Zhe Shu raised his head and said in surprise: "What's wrong? What's strange? Haven't we already seen the Third Young Master on the opposite side? Now as long as we prepare these things and let us pass smoothly, everything will be over!"
Guan Jiyu shook his head and said: "No, no. I don't think so!"
She ran to Zheshu and Jingcun and said, "Didn't you notice anything strange?"
Jingcun stopped what he was doing and asked doubtfully: "Ayu, you mean, did you notice anything weird?"
"In my opinion, everything here is weird!" Zhe Shu wrapped the branches and said: "From the moment we stepped into this place, nothing normal happened. Everything is out of our control. What can we do? Just
I can’t live with my conscience for the rest of my life about that child!”
Guan Jiyu said solemnly: "No, let's not talk about this for now! Think about it carefully. When we first entered the forest, was everything different from what we expected?"
Zheshu asked in confusion: "What do you mean? I don't understand."
Guan Jiyu knelt down, looked at them levelly and said, "I'm just making a conjecture. Please listen and see if it makes sense." She picked up a branch and drew a spider web on the ground, saying, "The first thing we encountered was
Use rope to make a spider web-shaped web, right?"
Both of them nodded, and she continued: "Actually, I reminded you before we saw that net. At that time, I said that if you encounter such a net, you must be careful. The ropes used in this net are extremely tough.
If the sword can't cut it open, don't rush to use your hands to untie it, right?"