The deserted road is covered with loess and dead grass. Except for a hint of green in the mountain forest on the roadside, everything else that comes into view is yellow.

The scorching sunshine in the Six Dog Days shone on the earth, drying up my mouth and tongue. My whole body felt like it was on fire. I felt dizzy and wished I could just fall to the ground and sleep.

"Snapped!"

"I'll walk faster! If it gets dark and you can't reach the ground, let's see how I deal with you!"

"Why are you staring so big? Be careful, I will dig out your tricks and feed them to the dogs!"

"A group of criminals who were exiled by the imperial court still thought they were the high-ranking imperial officials they once were!"

A group of police officers held whips in their hands and wore knives on their waists. They cursed fiercely at a group of shackled prisoners. The whips in their hands were ready to move. They wished that these people would be so high up in the evening that they would not even glance at them. The officials, ladies, young masters and ladies have a taste of rolling around on the ground.

The hot sun shone on them, making them even more grumpy.

There were five to six hundred prisoners, men, women, and children in total, but there were only sixty guards to guard them. Therefore, the guards did not dare to loosen the shackles on their bodies and let them go on their way easily, for fear that something would go wrong and let them go. They ran away.

They don't dare to really kill them. Although prisoners sentenced to exile can be humiliated at will, there are still death indicators. If too many die, it will be difficult for them to communicate. After all, the walls and ditches at the border still require people. Digged.

Thinking of this, a group of guards felt even worse.

With a "pop" sound, the long whip in the guard's hand swung onto the back of a young man.

The young man was already at the end of his strength. When he was struck by the whip, he made a short "ah" sound, and fell straight forward. A burst of dust was stirred up, and then there was no movement.

"Get up, don't pretend to be dead for me!" The officer stepped forward and kicked the young man with an impatient expression.

The young man who fell to the ground did not move.

The officer was so angry that he hit the young man hard with the whip in his hand, "Pretend to be dead, right? Pretend to be dead, right? I want you to pretend to be dead!"

After being whipped for ten consecutive times, the young man still did not move.

The officer frowned, stopped beating, kicked the shackles with his foot, and turned the young man over.

The young man's eyes were closed tightly, his brows were furrowed, and there was a painful expression on his face.

The officer was stunned for a moment, then bent down and reached out to explore the young man's nose and neck.

No breath, no pulse.

unlucky!

The officer stood up, rubbed the finger that had touched the young man on his thigh, and whipped the young man's body again, and then impatiently said to other prisoners: "Whose family it belongs to, dig a hole and bury it!" "

After saying that, he cursed and walked towards the carriage following the team. The carriage was pulling dry food for the entire team, as well as some useful tools, such as shovels - used to dig holes and bury corpses.

People were bound to die on the way to exile, and the imperial court issued an order strictly prohibiting people's corpses being thrown on the roadside, saying that it would easily cause plague. For the officials who escorted the prisoners, it was just another problem on their way to escort the prisoners. A nuisance.

Seeing the guard walking away, a woman nearby whose mouth was covered by a man broke away, her face covered in tears, and crawled to the side of the dead young man.

She panicked and touched the young man's body. After confirming that the young man was really dead, she was in great pain. She clutched her chest and was out of breath. Just when she was about to cry loudly, the man who was covering her mouth stretched out his hand with red eyes. He covered her mouth and shook his head at her.

Can't cry!

The woman looked at the gathered family members, threw herself into the man's arms, opened her mouth, and began to cry silently. She could only hear the rapid gasping sounds from the man's arms from time to time.

Yes, I can't cry.

If you cry loudly, you will not attract sympathy from others, but will be whipped by the escorting officer. After traveling for more than a month, one by one, their bodies are already broken. If they are whipped again, they will not be able to heal. If there is no medicine, I'm afraid I can only go with him.

But they can't follow him yet. They have other sons and grandchildren, and a large group of family members to take care of.

The guard who just brought a shovel over, threw it on the ground, and said in an impatient tone, "Hurry up! Don't let me wait too long!" If you wait too long, you might have to sleep in the wild again. When he thought of this, his expression became even more intense. I'm impatient, who the hell wants to feed mosquitoes in the wild!

The woman and her family dared not speak out in anger. They all lowered their heads for fear that the angry expressions on their faces would fall into the eyes of the policeman.

Under this situation, no matter how much hatred there is, it can only be buried deep in my heart!

The man picked up the shovel and looked at the guard.

The officer then took off the shackles around his neck, leaving only the iron chains on his feet.

The man walked towards the roadside with frivolous steps.

He also wanted to find a geomantic treasure land for his child, and wanted the child to find a good family in the next life, but reality did not allow him to think too much. He could only choose to start digging a hole under a big tree not far from the roadside.

But that's okay, the goal is quite obvious. In the future... in the future, I can face this sign and reassemble the bones... if there is a future.

The young man was removed from the shackles, wore a prison uniform, and was wrapped in a tattered straw mat. He was buried in a pit that was only as deep as the man's knees.

After covering the last handful of soil, the man loosened the shovel in his hand and fell straight to the ground, looking at the dirt bag under the tree with a blank expression.

When the officer waiting aside saw that the man had been buried, he immediately stepped forward and put the shackles on the man again.

Already exhausted along the way, coupled with the physical work just now, as soon as the man put on the somewhat heavy shackles, his whole body was shaky, his vision went dark, and he fell straight back.

Still crying and sad, his family members rushed forward to support him. He wanted to say something, but couldn't open his mouth. He felt really uncomfortable. When he opened his mouth, he couldn't help but want to cry loudly.

The policeman was also frightened. Another one would die, right? We haven’t even reached a third of the distance, and almost ten people have died!

This time, the guards stopped urging them. After they had calmed down for a while, they took them back to the crowd.

"So slow!" The officer who beat the young man to death asked irritably to the officer who brought them back.

The officer was not afraid of him. He rolled his eyes at him and ignored his words. He yelled at the man and his family around him, "Go over there, don't be an eyesore!"

As he spoke, he pushed the man and his family to the other side, far away from the officer who killed their family.

This Li Tietou has a bad temper, is impulsive, irritable, and cruel-hearted. He has a mean mouth and loves to poke people's wounds. Don't say some unpleasant words when the time comes. He will bring out the bloody nature of the family and a conflict will arise between the two parties. , the whole family had to follow the young man buried in the soil.

The family came to the other side with the force of official duties. Before they could take a break, they were about to follow the team again.

He wants to find it

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