He came to the outer room and saw that the old man was still baring his teeth and burning the fire. He probably thought that the two had already succeeded.
The boy stepped over and pressed the sword to his neck. He was startled, the hand that was holding the fire stick to poke the fire couldn't help but stop, and slowly turned his head to look at the boy.
"They are all dead?" He still gritted his teeth, the expression on his face was reflected by the fire in the stove, and he couldn't tell whether he was laughing or crying.
"That's right, kill them all!" The boy nodded.
"Are you going to wait for dawn to come with me to see the official, or let me kill you too?"
"Meet the official?" He bared his teeth and grinned miserably, "I can't see the official" He rubbed his neck against the young man's sword vigorously, blood spattered, he lay on his side on the ground, what he saw was lifeless up.
The boy was afraid of being splashed with his blood, so he jumped back.
The fire in the stove was still burning, and there was a tempting smell of meat coming out of the pot.
The boy looked inside and outside the house, and there was no one else.
He packed the sword and put it on his back, picked up the bag and was about to leave when he suddenly heard a faint human voice coming from the place where the bed was originally placed.
He went out and got a torch, illuminated the ground, and found that there was a square wooden cover there.
The wooden lid was not heavy, and he lifted it gently, revealing a dark cellar underneath.
He took a torch and looked down, only to hear a child's exclamation from below. He looked down and saw a dozen children lying in the cellar, looking up with horrified eyes.
One of the older children seemed to have seen clearly the appearance of the boy above, and boldly stood up and walked to the cellar door, asking, "You, who are you? Are you newly arrested by them? You put it down?"
"Are you all captured by them?"
"Yes, you, aren't you?"
"I'm not, I killed them all?"
"Kill them all?" The children who were lying or sitting got up.
"Well, kill them all!"
"Did you kill them all? We are saved." The children looked at each other excitedly.
"Please let us out, please." The older child looked up at the young man and begged.
"How to put it?"
"There is a ladder outside, you put the ladder down, and we will climb up."
The boy went outside to look for it, and sure enough there was a ladder in the outhouse. The boy carried the ladder in and put it into the cellar. The children climbed up one by one. The boy counted them, and there were fifteen in total.
The teenagers couldn't help being startled when they saw the bodies of the two men on the ground, but soon they gritted their teeth and went up and kicked him one by one.
"Are you all hungry? There is meat cooked in the pot outside. It's called 'Hegulan'. Why don't you go and eat it?"
"Rotten bones?" The older child yelled and ran to the outer room.
The other children followed suit. The boy followed at the end.
The older child lifted the lid of the pot, and a puff of white steam rushed up with a strange smell of meat.
The steam dissipated quickly, and the older child looked at the meat in the pot, tears streaming down his face.
The other children also sobbed and burst into tears.
"Why are you crying?" the boy asked strangely.
"Little Sanzi, you died a terrible death!" The older child finally cried out.
The other children also cried loudly.
The young man leaned over strangely, looked into the pot, and saw a small skull and other bones in a pile of boiled and rotten meat.
"Could this be human flesh?" The boy was startled, and couldn't help turning his head to retch.
"Yes, he is the third son, and he was also arrested by them. They thought he was disobedient and beat him up. They beat him to death, and then dragged him out. Unexpectedly, unexpectedly" The older child cried again.
"Don't cry, you can bury him." The young man smelled the tangy smell of meat, and felt nauseated.
The children endured crying, sobbing, and fished out Xiao Sanzi's meat and bones from the pot with a strainer, and dug a pit outside the house to bury him.
The teenager watched them do it all. Then he asked the older child, "What are you going to do?"
"Some of us were kidnapped by them halfway, and some were snatched by them when our parents were not paying attention. We don't even know the way back, and now we don't know what to do."
"I still have something to do, so I can't accompany you. Look, it will be dawn in a while. As soon as it dawns, you should call your lord to report to the officials, and the officials will send you home. However, don't say that you have met me, let alone I killed them, you just said they got into a dispute and killed each other, remember?"
The older child nodded.
The boy asked the other children again: "Do you remember, you say what he said, remember?"
"Remember." Some of the children were still sobbing.
The young man carried the sword in the cloth pouch and the bundle in one hand, turned around and continued walking forward.
The boy continued walking for a few miles along the main road, and it was dawn, and more merchants came up behind him. The boy heard them talking a lot, saying that there was a black shop where people were trafficked and a family of three got into an argument last night for some reason. Attacking each other and killing each other in the house, it is really "the law of heaven is clear, and the retribution is not good".
The young man listened without saying anything, and continued to drive his way lazily.
At noon, the young man turned into a fork in the road and continued walking, only to see a lush forest in front of him, and a manor hidden behind the forest.
The young man walked away at this time with a thirsty mouth, thinking that it would be better to go to the manor to ask for a bowl of water.
Walking all the way, I entered the forest, but the forest grew on the high slope outside the manor, and under the high slope was the fence of the manor and the backyard inside. The young man went astray for a while, and he went all the way to the high slope next to the fence on one side of the yard, and happened to see the inside of the yard.
Seeing that it didn't matter, the boy's attention was immediately attracted, and he couldn't help but sat down on the high slope through a tree.
It turned out that there were two teenagers competing in the yard.
These two teenagers were about the same age as him, one was thick and stocky, the other was broad-shouldered, with long body and long legs. Both of them were wearing a pair of trousers with black cloth tied to their feet, and an open Chinese-style button-loop vest on their upper body, with a black cloth belt tied around their waists.
I saw that the thick and stocky man was grabbing one of the long-legged legs at this time, and made a "little devil grinder" to throw him down. The long-legged man knew something was wrong, and hurriedly moved his steps according to his strength, while pressing down on the center, looking for an opportunity to fight back.
Seeing that he couldn't fall down in a hurry, the short and solid man couldn't help being impatient. He suddenly grabbed his leg and pushed it in, and his shoulder lifted his leg. Then he leaned in and said "Zhou Cang" "Carrying the knife" knocked him over.
Unexpectedly, the long-legged one lay down on the ground, and a "Double Dragon Stirring Pillar" came and turned the thick and solid one to the ground.
Seeing their wonderful fight, the young man couldn't help applauding: "Good!"
The two teenagers were fighting inseparably, when they heard the applause, they couldn't help being startled, at the same time they rested their hands and looked up, shouting: "Who is it!"