Chapter 956 Mother
After hearing what Xiao Lingfeng said, Yu Sanniang and Yun Kexin did not feel relieved at all.
They even felt a little regretful.
If they could go back to the village with Zhou at that time, even if they would all die, at least they could die with their family and friends. It would not be like now, with all their relatives and friends dead, and they would not be alone, not knowing how to survive, with their hearts filled with despair and grief.
Li Qingyan asked, "What are the names of those people who claim to be deserters? What do they look like?"
Yu Sanniang said as she tried hard to recall.
"It was always the village chief who received them. I never had any contact with them. I only know that there were more than ten of them in total. The leader looked very young, in his early twenties, very good-looking, a little... a little like a woman. I'm not saying he was effeminate, I mean he had delicate features and fair skin..."
Xiao Lingfeng couldn't help but interrupt: "Is his name Yu Jiu?"
Yu Sanniang shook her head: "No, he said his name is Chen Qi."
Xiao Lingfeng still didn't give up.
He took out a portrait from his arms.
“Does that person look like this?”
After he unfolded the portrait, he handed it to Yu Sanniang and Yun Kexin, asking them to take a closer look.
As soon as they saw the man in the portrait, they immediately noticed a significant change in their expressions.
Yun Kexin seemed to want to say something, but couldn't, and could only make anxious sounds.
Yu Sanniang said without hesitation: "It's him! He is the one who brought a group of people to our village!"
Xiao Lingfeng looked at Li Qingyan.
Li Qingyan had never met Yu Jiu and didn't know what Yu Jiu had done, but he knew that Xiao Lingfeng came here to capture the traitor. The man who could allow Xiao Lingfeng to carry the portrait with him could not be anyone else except the traitor he wanted to capture this time.
In other words, the group of people who pretended to be deserters and entered Dafu Village were actually a group of wanted traitors.
Could it be that the truth was really as Xiao Lingfeng guessed, that someone in Dafu Village accidentally discovered the true identity of the rebels, and the rebels massacred the entire village in order to hide their whereabouts and eliminate the trouble once and for all?
The logic makes sense, but Li Qingyan always feels uneasy.
He vaguely felt that this matter was not as simple as it seemed.
Xiao Lingfeng asked a lot of questions again.
But Yu Sanniang and Yun Kexin knew very little and could not provide many clues.
They waited for two days and one night, and finally the government officials arrived.
Not only did the coroner come, but the local county magistrate also came in person, and brought with him more than a dozen constables.
The county magistrate had been traveling all day and was extremely tired, but he did not dare to rest. When he saw Li Qingyan and Xiao Lingfeng, he hurried forward and bowed to them with a very respectful attitude.
Li Qingyan asked the coroner to perform the autopsy immediately.
There were only two coroners in the county government, and both were brought in.
They were faced with 120 charred corpses and the work pressure was enormous.
Fortunately, there were detectives to help, which relieved a lot of pressure for them and prevented the two of them from dying of exhaustion on the spot.
After examination, it was found that the cause of death for each body was basically the same, they were all stabbed to death and then burned into charred bodies.
This is basically consistent with Xiao Lingfeng's previous guess.
Li Qingyan analyzed calmly.
“I remember that many families in the village had dogs.
Even if everyone in the house is asleep, the dogs will definitely bark when they hear outsiders breaking in.
This will definitely alarm the people around.
No matter how fierce those rebels were, they only had a dozen people.
There were more than a hundred people in the village.
The huge disparity in numbers shouldn't allow us to kill all the rebels so easily, unless..."
Xiao Lingfeng continued his words.
"Unless they have been drugged and are in a coma, it won't help even if the dogs bark loudly."
Li Qingyan looked at the two coroners who were still busy and asked in a deep voice.
"Can we find out whether these deceased people were drugged before they died?"
The two coroners shook their heads at the same time, indicating that they could not find out anything.
Unlike poison, which leaves obvious residues, drugs have no other effects other than making people sleepy, and are difficult to detect.
After all the charred corpses had been examined, Li Qingyan personally took the lead in digging a pit so that the corpses could rest in peace.
It was too late to make coffins on the spot, so they could only wrap the bodies in straw mats and bury them one by one.
Yun Kexin and Yu Sanniang knelt beside the grave.
Yu Sanniang cried loudly, tears streaming down her face.
Yun Kexin just stared blankly at the charred corpses. She felt as if she had been punched hard. Her head was buzzing and she had a very unreal feeling.
She hoped this was all fake.
She hoped she was just having a nightmare.
When she woke up from the dream, she could see her mother, the elders and friends in the village again.
But the crying of Yu Sanniang beside her kept reminding her.
This is true.
Their homes are gone.
They have no relatives or friends left.
In one night, they lost everything, leaving only these black, twisted, charred corpses before them.
When Li Qingyan was about to carry Zhou's body for burial, Yun Kexin suddenly came to her senses.
She rushed over and hugged Zhou's body, refusing to let go no matter what. Tears fell down her face and she cried uncontrollably.
She no longer has a father, and her mother is her last relative in this world.
But now even this last relative is gone.
A huge grief swept over her and devoured her sanity.
She didn't want to be separated from her mother. She wanted to stay with her mother forever!
Li Qingyan hugged her gently and comforted her over and over again.
Even if her mother was gone, she still had him.
He would become her family, always be by her side, take care of her, protect her, be the pillar of her life, and hold up a new world for her one day.
Yun Kexin's emotions gradually calmed down.
Her fingers slowly loosened.
Li Qingyan gave his followers a look.
The followers understood and immediately wrapped Zhou's body with a straw mat, lifted it up carefully and placed it in the pit.
This pit was dug by Li Qingyan himself, and it was dug very deep to ensure that the wild beasts in the mountains would not be able to dig out the remains.
The followers began to push dirt into the pit.
Seeing Zhou gradually buried by the soil, Yun Kexin felt more and more sad when she thought that she would never see her mother again in this life.
She wanted those people to stop, she wanted to see her mother again.
She wanted to call her mother in person.
Zhou's greatest wish before her death was to hear her daughter call her "mother" in person.
She didn't hear it when she was alive, but at least... at least she can get what she wanted after her death.
Yun Kexin opened her mouth and screamed with all her might.
However, he could only shout out difficult monosyllables.
“Ah…Ahh!”
Li Qingyan hugged her tighter and comforted her silently.
Yun Kexin's vision was completely blurred by tears and she couldn't see anything clearly.
But she keeps trying again and again.
After trying countless times, she finally let out the cry that had been suppressed for so long.
"mother!"
(End of this chapter)
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