Chapter 48 We were forced
"My child."
With the child so close, the woman calmed down and her tone became gentler.
Wei Zhong stood beside Zhou Yunshu with a knife in his hand, looking at the crazy woman opposite with vigilance, ready to kill her with a knife at any time if she attacked.
But the woman did not get angry. She just looked at her child with all her heart and eyes, holding him in her palms like a treasure, hugging him in her arms and kissing his forehead.
"My good child, my good Tong'er."
The woman kissed her child and whispered softly, "Tong'er, it's mother's fault that you don't feel any pain. It's all my fault. From now on, I will take you with me wherever I go. I will never let go of your hand again, my Tong'er, Tong'er."
The two men behind the woman saw that she seemed to have calmed down, and that Wei Zhong had been staying by Zhou Yunshu's side, so they let go of the woman.
The woman, freed from her restraints, curled up against the pillar again, holding her child in her arms. The murmurs in her mouth turned into an unknown nursery rhyme, like a folk tune from Jinling.
Wei Zhong separated Zhou Yunshu and the woman. The woman seemed to have become a lunatic. For the safety of his own princess, it would be better not to let them have any contact.
Wei Zhong looked at Zhou Yunshu and said, "Mr. Zhou, it's too dirty here. Why don't you go to the carriage and rest first?"
Just leave these dirty work to them. If possible, Wei Zhong didn't want Zhou Yunshu to see so many human tragedies. If something happened to her, he would have a hard time explaining to his master.
Zhou Yunshu shook her head, turned around and looked at the large vat outside the yard and said, "Fill it with soil and bury it where it is."
Wei Zhong exhaled, looked at the vat and said, "It should be like this."
When Zhou Yunshu stepped out of the door and looked at Du Laozhuang in the yard, Du Laozhuang and the people around him were so scared that they looked away.
Before, they thought Zhou Yunshu was just a weak scholar who couldn't carry anything on her shoulders or lift anything with her hands, but who knew she was so ruthless and decisive that she stabbed the man through with a knife.
And the calm look on her face when she picked up the head made Du Lao Zhuang swallow hard. He was really old and it was time for him to step down and let others take over.
Zhou Yunshu didn't say anything when she saw Du Lao Zhuang and the others hiding from her. She just stood in the yard. The aroma of meat slowly disappeared as it was covered by the soil, and the air gradually became fresh.
All those who were tied up but not dead were driven into the yard. They huddled together because Zhou Yunshu had suddenly attacked them before and none of them dared to plead for mercy.
Zhou Yunshu took a quick look and saw that in addition to the two dead, there were twelve men, four women and a child who was probably less than two years old huddled in the corner.
Those twelve men were all accomplices without exception, and as for those four women...
Zhou Yunshu looked at the two women who were in better shape and asked, "Are you all together?"
The women huddled in the corner without saying a word. Perhaps the woman holding the child was too nervous and used too much force, causing the child to cry like a kitten.
"If you don't say anything, I'll just pretend you're together."
At this moment, Zhou Yunshu no longer had the compassion she had shown towards the child just now, and her indifference was chilling.
While hesitating, the woman holding the child stumbled forward, knelt on the ground holding the child and said numbly: "I drank the soup."
The woman's voice trembled. "I...I want to live, even for just one day!"
She held the child in her arms and raised her head, looking at Zhou Yunshu with a desperate yet tenacious gaze, "Please let me live!"
The woman held the child and kowtowed to Zhou Yunshu.
The remaining three women may have seen Zhou Yunshu's silence and thought she had softened her heart, so they all knelt on the ground and kowtowed to her.
"We were forced to do this, sir. Please, for the sake of us being a group of weak women, spare us. We were really forced to do this!"
"Sir, as long as you can let me go, I will do anything. I know a lot of things, sir, sir!"
Before the woman could open her clothes and crawl to Zhou Yunshu's side, Wei Zhong had already stood in front of Zhou Yunshu with a knife.
"So, you are together." Zhou Yunshu's cold voice came from behind Wei Zhong.
When the woman holding the child heard Zhou Yunshu's words, she crawled on the ground in despair, holding the child.
A pair of bloodstained cotton shoes stepped out from behind the tall man. When the woman closest to them saw the thin Zhou Yunshu coming out, she grabbed a piece of broken porcelain in her hand and pounced on Zhou Yunshu with a vicious look in her eyes.
But before she could touch the corner of Zhou Yunshu's clothes, the blood-stained cotton shoes kicked her out faster. The next second, the knife in Hu Zi's hand stabbed into the woman's heart without any hesitation.
The rest of the people looked at the woman who died with her eyes open, and their bodies trembled unconsciously.
This time, they are really dead.
"We are not together."
When the captured person was so scared that he didn't know what to say, the woman holding the child spoke again.
"I was captured by them a month ago."
She pointed at the woman on the ground who had just been killed by Hu Zi and said, "She brought these two bitches and the old hag with her, pretending to be pregnant and injured to gain our trust, and then drugged our food."
"When some of our group members were suffering from diarrhea and unable to stand, this group of people jumped out of the ditch and killed all the men in the group who could not escape, leaving only the women and children behind."
"They poured it into me the first time." The woman's voice was calm yet desperate. "The beast you killed said that when raising sheep, you can't let them starve to death, nor can you let them be overfed."
"The second time, it was poured into me while I was unconscious."
"The third time, I took the initiative to drink because she said..." The woman holding the child pointed at the dead woman and said, "The reason our team was deceived was because someone was colluding with them."
"The people who colluded with us were my husband and his cousin, so they were the only two who escaped from the entire team."
She will never forget the despair she felt when she was abandoned, nor will she forget that the culprit who caused her family to be destroyed and fell into such a state is still at large.
Therefore, she cannot die. Even if she turns into a monster that is neither human nor ghost, she must live!
Only by surviving can I take revenge, only by surviving can I cut them into pieces!
"I want to live, I have to live, I must live!" The woman looked at Zhou Yunshu, her eyes seemed to be burning with fire.
She kowtowed again, holding the child in her arms, "Please let me live!"
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