Half River Autumn Moon and River Spring [Rat and Cat]

"That night, Mr. Li was wounded and ran to the village. He said that all the young people in the village were tricked into picking bird's nests, but in fact they were caught and cut off their legs and turned into monsters. He said that most of the young people People couldn't bear the pain and died. Only a small number of people survived, but those who survived became monsters, with fish-like tails, and could only live in the water forever. No one believed him, everyone thought He is crazy, but he took out a jade pendant..."

Trembling, Wei Huxiang took out a thin piece of white jade tied close to his body with a red string: "I recognized at a glance that this is the jade pendant of my son Quan. Stay with me."

"Master Li said that my son is gone, and he gave him the jade pendant before he died, saying that he was homesick." Wei Huxiang stared at the white jade piece, choked up and said, "I finally believe that he didn't lie to me."

"If that's the case, why do you still treat him like this? Master Li has been helping your village from the beginning to the end, and he has never let you down in the slightest!"

Wei Huxiang looked up at Zhan Zhao, and said slowly, "It's his fate, he was so injured that he passed out, we saw that he was injured and left him in the graveyard overnight... Unexpectedly, those devils chasing him When we came to the village, they asked us to hand over Master Li, or we would kill everyone. At this moment, the impostor said that even if we handed over Master Li, everyone in the village would die, but he had a This method will not only save the village, but also save Master Li's life."

"Then he went out to negotiate with the group of devils, and when he returned to the village, he said that from now on he is the real successor of Li Li, and the man in our village is my son Wei Quan... Said that as long as Mr. Li's mouth is blocked and his limbs are broken, he will not be able to tell the truth. In this way, the whole village will be safe. He also told the group of devils that we will not inform, because we still want to I want them to persecute more people."

"Heh, I don't care if they will harm others again, I just want my villagers to be safe."

"So, you let all the villagers participate in the action of torturing Mr. Li?"

Wei Huxiang nodded, with a dead man's expression on his face: "There are many people in the village, and I can't ruin the lives of everyone in the village just because some people talk too much about it, so I came up with this method, except for those little ones. The child fell asleep and didn't know what happened. All the other villagers committed unforgivable crimes against Mr. Li. I watched them trembling one after another with a knife on Mr. Li's body. They were all scared, and even knelt in front of Mr. Li and kowtowed... But no one flinched, because everyone knew that only Mr. Li's sacrifice could bring the safety of our entire village."

"My lord, do you think I was wrong? If I handed over Master Li to his death and let them slaughter everyone in the village, would that be considered as fulfilling your so-called righteousness?"

"Or, we tried our best to protect Master Li, and waited for them to step on our corpse and kill him? Is this what you want, that bloody and hypocritical justice?"

Zhan Zhao was silent.

Wei Huxiang bowed his head, the wound worsened, and he was already struggling to breathe: "I...I am the head of the grave village... My mission in life is to protect all the villagers. This is my persistence, and it is also a responsibility carved into my bones. !"

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"Village Chief Wei, you may be a good village chief for Tomb Village, but you are not worthy of being a human being." Ye Hong walked out the door and looked at Wei Huxiang who looked like a dead man. Appears to be out of this world like a ghost.

Seeing Ye Hong coming out, Wei Huxiang was taken aback for a moment, and tried to smile and said, "Master Ye, have you remembered everything?"

Ye Hong shook his head: "I didn't remember everything, it was Young Master Bai who told me everything that happened."

"Ah...really? Maybe you won't remember it for the rest of your life, but it's a good thing for you." Wei Huxiang smiled, "Thank you...you."

"no need thank me?"

"Thank you for taking care of 'Wei Quan' for me." He said with difficulty, "My old bones, I'm afraid I won't be able to hold on until they come and chop my head off, I... I'm in 'Wei Quan' Under the bed, I put the savings that the family has accumulated for a lifetime... Although it is not much, I still hope that you can accept it and use this money to take care of him..."

"I'm no longer qualified to apologize to him..." He panted heavily, "If there is really a next life..."

"There will be no next life." Ye Hong said, "If you think that you are right, there will be no next life, and you don't owe us anything. This world is not black and white."

"We tried our best to help you. Although the ending was ruined in a mess, we have a clear conscience. From now on, we will live with a clear conscience. So, you don't have to bring guilt to meet us in the next life, never see you again That is the greatest respect for us.”

"Yes... yes, you are right," he opened his eyes wide and slowly fell back, "If I could die with a clear conscience, it would be great... how good..."

"village head?!"

"Old Wei head!!!"

Wei Huxiang fell to the ground, his back was dripping with blood, Lao Liu and a group of villagers rushed towards him, but Wei Huxiang just opened his eyes, staring blankly at the dark night, and he never woke up again.

The whole cemetery village was in grief. Seeing that no one was paying attention to him, Zheng Liang ran out quietly. Bai Yutang noticed that Zheng Liang had run away, so he gave Zhan Zhao a nudge and said, "Cat, what about Zheng Liang? Run away!"

Zhan Zhao frowned slightly: "Chase!"

When Zheng Liang saw the two men chasing him, he was so frightened that he couldn't stand still, and fell into the fence of a house, which instantly woke up the dog in the house and kept barking. A child came out, rubbed his eyes and asked: "Huanhuan, what's your name?"

When Zheng Liang saw the child, he immediately grabbed him and grabbed his throat with one hand. The child was startled by the sudden shock and burst into tears.

"Xiao Shanzi!"

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang who rushed over saw that Zheng Liang had grabbed Xiao Shanzi, so they didn't dare to go forward for a while, only heard Zheng Liang grab the child's throat and said: "Don't come over, if you come over, I'll break the baby's neck!"

Seeing this, Zhan Zhao hurriedly comforted him: "Boss Zheng, if you have something to say, please speak up, and don't hurt the child."

"Zhan Zhao, I just want to live. If you let me go, I will let this child go, but now..." He tightened his grip on Xiao Shanzi's throat again, "He is my life-saving talisman. Put your Give me the horse!"

"Okay, I'll call it over now." Zhan Zhao whistled, only to hear a horse cry not far away, and then two horses, one red and one white, galloped towards them at the same time.

The red horse Huo Ling walked around Zhan Zhao, Zhan Zhao touched the horse's head, then pointed to Zheng Liang, Huo Ling bowed his head and snorted, understood what Zhan Zhao meant, and stepped forward. In front of Zheng Liang and Xiao Shanzi.

Zheng Liang grabbed the reins and looked enviously at Zhan Zhao's Huo Ling: "I heard that Mr. Zhan's horse is a descendant of Chitu. Land can travel thousands of miles, and water can cross rivers. I'm going to try it today. Can you carry me across the Luo River!"

After saying that, he took Xiao Shanzi and got on the horse, and Huo Ling shook his head in dissatisfaction. Seeing that the horse was disobedient, Zheng Liang clamped the horse's belly hard, Huo Ling was in pain, glanced at Zhan Zhao, and immediately He ran towards Luojiang with his horseshoe.

The white horse at the side pushed Bai Yutang on the top of Zhuyuan Xue, and motioned for the two to get on the horse. Bai Yutang got on the horse, and stretched out his hand to Zhan Zhao: "Cat."

Zhan Zhao took Bai Yutang's hand and climbed onto Bai Yutang's Zhuyuanxue, Zhuyuanxue neighed and started to chase after Huoling.

After chasing to the Luojiang River, Zheng Liang actually planned to cross the river on horseback. Bai Yutang and Zhan Zhao got off their horses and stood by the Luojiang River to look out.

Seeing that Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang did not catch up, Zheng Liang thought that if the two gave up, he was about to escape successfully, and he felt relieved when he suddenly felt someone grab his feet.

He looked into the water in horror, and saw a guy with a fish tail grabbing his feet. He screamed in fright, but before he could scream, other pseudo-mermen dragged him into the Luo Jiang was so desperate that he sank, while Wufeng hugged Xiaoshanzi on the horse's back. Xiaoshanzi, who was crying loudly, fell into Wufeng's arms and stopped crying instantly.

The water in the Luojiang River is surprisingly cold, but Wufeng's embrace is hot and warm.

"Mother? Mother!" Xiao Shanzi hugged Wufeng's neck, almost going crazy with joy, "Mother, have you finally returned? I miss you so much, I miss you so much!"

Holding back tears, Wufeng slowly swam ashore with Xiaoshanzi in his arms: "Mother misses you too!"

Wufeng put Xiao Shanzi on the bank, Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang hurried over to catch Xiao Shanzi, while Huo Ling also swam ashore by himself, shaking his mane non-stop.

"Xiaoshanzi, be good, go back with these two brothers, don't catch a cold."

"Mother, won't you go home with me?"

"Mother still has important things to do, so I can't go home with Xiaoshanzi. If Xiaoshanzi misses mother, let grandma cook sweet syrup for you. It's the bird's nest that mother found in the cave. , grandma said that Xiaoshanzi likes to eat the most."

Zhan Zhao recalled the scene when he saw Xiao Shanzi eating bird’s nest. At that time, he didn’t understand why such an ordinary family could eat such a good bird’s nest. Now he understands, because the Wuhe Sect is in the dead bird’s nest. This bird's nest was brought out by Wufeng from the Corpse Bird's Cave and handed over to her mother. Her mother knew long ago that her daughter was not dead.

"Xiaoshanzi doesn't want sugar water, he just wants mother to go home! Xiaoshanzi hasn't seen mother for a long time, Xiaoshanzi doesn't want anything but mother!"

Facing the child, Wufeng choked up and was speechless.

Zhan Zhao took off his coat and wrapped the drenched Xiaoshanzi, then comforted him and said, "Xiaoshanzi must listen to mother, mother can't go back with you now, but if you don't come home so late, grandma will definitely I'm worried, grandma is getting old, and it's so dark, it would be troublesome if she came out to look for Xiao Shanzi and fell, so Xiao Shanzi will go home with brother first?"

Xiao Shanzi looked at Zhan Zhao, then at Wufeng: "Then mother must promise Xiao Shanzi to come back immediately!"

Wufeng nodded with tears in her eyes.

"We pull the hook!"

"it is good……"