People are like this. When you haven't done something, you feel that you dare not do it, or you can't do it. But when you actually do it, it will immediately become: This is nothing!
Zirui had never thought that one day he would raise a knife to cut off someone else's fingers, but things are always unpredictable, just like he never thought that his fingers would be cut off. Feng Yuheng's words kept echoing in his mind - "If you are not ruthless, you can't stand firm! If you are not ruthless, you can't stand firm!"
My sister is right! If you want to be strong, you must be ruthless!
Zirui gritted his teeth, swung the saber in his hand, and in the blink of an eye, all the fingers of the five surviving Qianzhou people were taken away by this child.
Those people were really strong, they just gritted their teeth and didn't make a sound. But death was coming, and even Feng Yuheng couldn't stop Zi Rui's crazy behavior at this moment. Five people turned into corpses in the blink of an eye.
The hatred in his heart was not just directed at these Qianzhou people. The person he hated the most was his father. He knew that the chopping of these knives today was just practice. Sooner or later, his knife would be placed on Feng Jinyuan's neck. He didn't care about being struck by lightning or being punished. He would never want a father like that again even if he died!
Feng Yuheng took a few steps forward and held the child in her arms from behind. She could feel that the child's whole body was trembling. There was hatred and fear in the trembling. The fear of killing for the first time might remain in his heart for many years, or even a lifetime. But at the same time, with such hatred and fear, he would not talk about justice like Yao Shi, and his future path would not be so aggrieved.
Xuan Tianming ordered his men to deal with the body, then turned his head and accurately spotted the boat owner who had been hiding in the corner and didn't dare to come forward. He waved at the man on the ground: "Come here."
The boat owner had been hiding there, and had heard everything that happened between the two sides. He knew the identities of the group of people in front of him. When he heard Xuan Tianming calling him, he immediately crawled forward, knelt on the ground, and said loudly: "I kowtow to His Highness the Ninth Prince! Your Highness, please spare my life!"
Xuan Tianming sneered, "What crime have you committed? Why are you begging me to spare your life?"
The man kowtowed again: "I really didn't know that those were Qianzhou people. I mistakenly let them on board. This is my crime. I plead guilty, but I beg Your Highness to spare my life." He has been sailing for many years and is very smart. He knows who he can afford to offend and who he can't afford to offend. He can also tell who he can't even reason with. Xuan Tianming is like this! If he pleads guilty, he may still have a chance to survive, but if he refuses to admit it, the other party can slap him to death. Popular
Xuan Tianming looked at him for a while but didn't say much. Sailing was nothing more than collecting money to carry passengers. It was his Xuan family's fault, not the people's fault, that the Qianzhou people had infiltrated the Dashun territory. In fact, it was he who frightened his own people.
He sighed in his heart and spoke slowly, "Get up, this matter has nothing to do with you." Then he asked again: "Why did your ship return?"
The boat owner breathed a sigh of relief, and then replied, "We encountered storms during the journey and could not continue, so we had to turn around. To be honest, Your Highness, there are at least several such turns every month on Pengjiang River. Especially in late autumn, the river wind is too strong, and it is easy to capsize if you don't turn around."
Xuan Tianming nodded. He had heard about this situation before, so he didn't ask any more questions. He just said, "Go ahead and drive the boat well. Send all the passengers back to the starting point safely." As he spoke, he looked into the river again. The living people had all gone ashore, and the dead had sunk into the river. He felt a sharp pain in his heart again. "Ah Heng." He lowered his head and whispered, "Give some silver to the passengers."
Feng Yuheng nodded, moved closer to Xuan Tianming, and took out a small bundle from his sleeve. The bundle was full of silver ingots, five taels each, a total of one thousand taels.
Xuan Tianming handed the silver to Bai Ze and said, "Distribute it to the passengers, one for each person, as a way to calm them down." Bai Ze nodded, and walked away quickly with Wang Chuan and Ban Zou. Xuan Tianming asked the boat owner again, "Are we going to continue the return voyage now?"
The boat owner nodded, "Your Highness, yes."
"Yeah." He waved his hand, "Go ahead!"
The boat owner quickly bowed and left. Not long after, the big boat continued to sail. At Xuan Tianming's signal, three secret guards took the silver given by Feng Yuheng and jumped into the river to swim to the shore. After all, there were still refugees who had just landed there. It would definitely not be possible to carry them on this boat. There were too many people. If they all came aboard, the boat's load would be a problem. Fortunately, they could find a nearby village on the shore to stay. With Huang Quan and the secret guards, and the silver, they could still temporarily appease them.
A boatman cleared a few rooms for them, and everyone moved in separately. Feng Yuheng and Xuan Tianming took Zirui to live in the same room. Zirui was still a little scared, and after the bumpy ride in the past few days, he fell on the bed and fell asleep after entering the room. Feng Yuheng caressed the child's head with heartache, and reluctantly took off all the wet clothes. After thinking about it, the three of them simply entered the space together.
Xuan Tianming took the sleeping Zirui to take a bath first, and then Feng Yuheng took over. Feng Yuheng had prepared clothes for the three of them in this space early in the morning, and they just came in handy at this moment.
After everyone changed and washed, the three of them came out again. After settling Zirui down, Xuan Tianming said, "After we get ashore, we must quickly go to Xiaozhou and notify the government to rescue people here."
Feng Yuheng took out the noodles that were prepared in the space and replied, "I'm afraid the people in the river can't be fished out. I am responsible for this matter. I... should go back to the capital to apologize to my father."
Xuan Tianming shook his head helplessly: "In the final analysis, it is for the steelmaking technique. Hengheng, you have to know that the current Dashun is just like the former Zong Sui. Iron is hot, and steelmaking is even hotter. This is the price that Dashun must bear. Speaking of it, Dashun is sorry for you and this child."
She also smiled bitterly, "Many things just happened by chance, and things all collided with each other. In the end, it is hard to say who is sorry to whom."
Just like on the previous ship, Feng Yuheng brought out a lot of noodles from the space and asked people to deliver them to other private rooms. She thought about it again, then took out a lot of candies from the space, walked to the cabin in person, and distributed them to the children who were frightened by the previous situation.
The rainstorm stopped at noon that day, and soon the sun came out, and people breathed a sigh of relief. The boat owner came over several times to ask Xuan Tianming what he wanted to eat. There were a few river fish on the boat, which could be stewed. Xuan Tianming thought about it, and then told him to stew the fish into soup, but not for him to drink, but to share with all the passengers on the boat. The boat owner nodded and did it without saying anything, which was also neat.
After a lot of trouble, everyone was exhausted. Feng Yuheng also fell asleep on the bed next to Zirui, with Xuan Tianming sleeping on the edge. He held her tightly with both hands, fearing that this damn girl would not sleep well and kick him to the ground.
Feng Yuheng slept until midnight. She was awakened by the heat. In her dream, she felt as if there was a stove next to her. As soon as this thought came to her mind, she suddenly felt something and opened her eyes immediately.
Almost at the same time when she opened her eyes, Xuan Tianming also opened his eyes, and then asked her in a low voice: "What's wrong?"
Feng Yuheng quickly helped Zirui up, and he was indeed very hot.
"Zirui has a fever." She sat up, laid Zirui flat, reached into her sleeve and took out a thermometer.
Xuan Tianming also sat up and reached out to look at his head, then he grabbed his left hand with the broken fingers, looked at it for a while, frowned and said, "Getting wet in the rain is a small matter, the main thing is the inflammation of the wound."
Feng Yuheng's eyes were filled with shame again, and he quickly said to her: "You don't have to blame yourself too much for this matter. Zirui is a child of the Feng family. His background is destined to make him go through hardships in his life, so this is not your fault."
She knew it wasn't all her fault, but if she had been more careful, if she had told the secret guards how to crack the tracking arrows earlier, Zirui would not have been kidnapped, and the ten brothers would not have died tragically. It was her negligence, and she couldn't shirk this responsibility.
Feng Yuheng pulled the corners of his mouth, his smile was uglier than crying, "Everyone has their own destiny. I want to see who will take over Feng Jinyuan's life in the end."
Xuan Tianming snorted coldly, "That person cannot be killed yet. The matter of the other third of the Qianzhou map must be clarified. However, you can still seek revenge."
Feng Yuheng understood what he meant and finally laughed, "Yes, death is too easy for him, he will be a living eunuch, and then, this princess has a hundred ways to make his life worse than death."
The thermometer showed that Zirui had a high fever of 39 degrees. Feng Yuheng carried him into the space, gave him a fever-reducing injection, and applied an ice pack to his forehead. He did not carry him out of the space until his temperature dropped.
Xuan Tianming couldn't help but sigh: "Your world is really good. If it were someone else, they would be so anxious that they would die." After thinking about it, he asked her again: "What are those things that you hit Qian Zhou Shenshe with?" He has always been very curious about this matter. For Xuan Tianming, that thing is just like Feng Yuheng's world space, something beyond his vision. He remembered the process of Feng Yuheng killing people with that thing clearly, and even saw clearly that Feng Yuheng hooked a place, and then shot something out of that round hole. It is similar to a bow and arrow, but it is much smaller and faster than a bow and arrow. He doesn't understand.
Feng Yuheng knew that Xuan Tianming would ask this question sooner or later. Once the gun was taken out, she could no longer pretend that it had not happened. Even if Xuan Tianming didn't ask, she would take the initiative to tell him. However, she was still struggling with some conceptual issues and didn't know whether it was right or wrong to do so.
"If it's hard to say, then don't say it." Xuan Tianming saw her frowning, and felt very sorry for her. He reached out to touch her brows and took back his question. "Just pretend I didn't ask. I've said before that there are some things that are hard to explain. Even if I ask, you can choose not to say it. Hengheng, I won't blame you."
She laughed and shook her head, "There's nothing I can't say." She reached into her sleeves and soon took out two revolvers. She handed one of them to Xuan Tianming and said solemnly, "My husband, this is my dowry."
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