Chapter 32: Peasant Girl vs. Princess of the Former Dynasty (7)
Wang Ergou struggled out of the trap, his body covered with wounds. When he dragged his body back to Wangjia Village, he saw a ruin.
Every house was burned to ashes, and each piece looked like a pile of black soil. He couldn't believe it. He couldn't believe that these neighbors he once knew had died, died in such a pile of black soil.
He staggered and found Shi Yi's house based on his memory. In front of the door lay three charred bodies with unclear faces. Two were adults and one was a child.
"I must not be awake yet." He raised his hand and slapped himself, his face burning with pain.
"How could this happen? How could this happen?" He staggered and fell to the side of the well.
He couldn't believe that the child's body was Shi Yi's. It was his Shi Yi.
"Save me, save me~" A weak voice came from the well.
"Ah!" Wang Ergou was surprised and happy, "Who is it? Who is talking?"
"Ergou, quickly pull your father up." Upon hearing his son's voice, Wang Ergou's father immediately scolded.
"Dad, why are you in the well?" Wang Ergou looked into the well and jumped in after taking a closer look.
This well was the only source of drinking water for Wangjia Village. Later, the villagers brought a stream down from the mountain, and the well was abandoned. It has not rained recently, and there has been some drought. The water in it is almost just above the children's waist. So the drunk Wang Ergou's father was not drowned.
"Don't say it, your father almost got drunk to death." Wang Ergou's father tried hard to climb to the mouth of the well, remembering the scene when he was kicked to the edge of the well by Shi Yi's father and fell down.
"I'm going to settle accounts with this old man Wang now. He almost drowned me." Wang Ergou's father bent down and wrung out his trouser legs, cursing, "This shameless old man is still raising an illegitimate daughter outside, and he doesn't even take a look..."
"Dad!" Wang Ergou yelled at him.
"What are you doing!" Wang Ergou's father turned around and glared at him, "Have you grown wings? Are you itching for skin?"
"Dad, Shi Yi's father is not here." Wang Ergou squatted on the ground and cried.
"Not here?" Wang Ergou's father was confused, "Isn't he in the village now?"
Shi Yi's father worked outside for many years and didn't go home often. He must have kicked him out yesterday and ran back overnight.
"Dad, look around...!" Wang Ergou cried with snot and tears.
He was just trapped in the mountains for a night. How come when he came back, the village became a ruin and the villagers disappeared.
"What's around..." Wang Ergou's father was still speaking when he saw the corpses not far from him and trembled all over. "This, this is..."
He just drank some wine, why are there so many around? !
"All the villagers are gone..." Wang Ergou looked at his father with a sad tone.
His Shiyi was gone too.
"They must have been killed by those soldiers." Wang Ergou's father woke up all of a sudden, "They must have killed them."
He remembered that he brought a group of soldiers to Shiyi's father, and then he said some nonsense and drunken words and was kicked to the side of the well, and then he lost consciousness.
What he didn't dare to tell his son was that he was the sinner who brought those soldiers into the village.
Wang Ergou's eyes were red as fire, and his small fists were clenched tightly, "I must avenge the villagers."
"My son, we are just ordinary people, how can we avenge the villagers?" Wang Ergou's father was afraid that his son would die in vain, so he hugged him, "We ordinary people fighting against soldiers is like eggs hitting stones, we will definitely lose, and we will lose miserably."
"I don't care, these people killed my Shi Yi, I must avenge her."
Wang Ergou looked at the burnt black corpse of the child, and he wanted to tear the evildoers' skin and bones.
"My son, don't be stupid." Wang Ergou's father was still persuading his son, "Now there is no one alive in Wangjia Village, the two of us should move away quickly and return to where we used to live."
Although he was an alcoholic, he had only one son, so how could he not love him.
These soldiers were able to massacre the village, which meant that they came here directly and found what they were looking for.
What they were looking for at that time was, it seemed, a woman. A beautiful woman.
"I won't leave."
Wang Ergou only thought about revenge.
Those people might come back, and he would kill them one by one. He would use the sword of his ancestors to kill all the evil people.
"If you don't leave, wait for those officers and soldiers to come back and kill us?" Wang Ergou's father's thoughts became clear all of a sudden. The people in their entire village had suffered from the unprovoked disaster of that woman.
"Dad, I want to avenge my Shi Yi." Wang Ergou's eyes were firm, "I promised her that I would marry her when I have a promising future."
It was originally a child's baby talk, but at this time, Wang Ergou's father couldn't refute a word.
He seemed to see the shadow of his ancestors in his son.
"Okay, let's avenge Shi Yi." He patted his son's thin shoulders heavily. Since ancient times,
heroes have emerged from youth, and the most feared thing is short ambition. Since his son is determined to succeed, he, as a father, cannot hold him back.
Their Wang family's ancestors had the first famous general Wang Qi, and the blood of heroes flows in their veins.
"Let's go back and get the heirloom first."
It's time to take out the sword that has been hidden for generations.
If it weren't for the kick from Shi Yi's father yesterday, he would have died among the bones.
His current life was given by their Wang family, and he should avenge his benefactor.
"Okay." Wang Ergou clenched his fists.
He remembered that Shi Yi asked him to come back to inform the woman in their family, so it must be the group of officers and soldiers who killed the villagers. And the relationship between that group of officers and soldiers and that woman is extraordinary.
If they find that woman, they will surely be able to find that group of officers and soldiers and avenge his Shi Yi and the entire village.
At this time, Chen Mu and his party and Lin Zhi were rushing to Kyoto non-stop.
Sitting in the carriage was Shi Yi in disguise.
"Will it work?" Lin Zhi, who was riding with Chen Mu, was still a little worried.
She couldn't be sure that Shi Yi would follow their arrangements.
"Don't worry, as long as she still wants to see her parents, she will be obedient." Chen Mu put his big hand directly on her waist, "If I catch you this time, don't think about escaping from my palm."
"General, don't." Lin Zhi cooperated with him tactfully and temporarily forgot his hatred.
(End of this chapter)
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