#84 - I'm so disappointed in you!
This bandit suppression battle, which was not in the plan, ended unexpectedly quickly.
From the encounter with the bandits to the end of the battle, it took less than a quarter of an hour.
The entire village returned to silence, with only the "crackling" sound of the remaining fire burning the houses echoing in the night, reminding everyone that two massacres had just taken place here.
"Mop up, put out the fire, and see if there are any survivors!"
Liang Zhen never dismounted from his horse, issuing instructions loudly.
The Qingjia Army immediately divided into several groups and acted according to orders.
Some went to check if the bandits were dead, some went to fetch water to put out the fire, and some went to look for survivors.
Some also dragged the villagers' bodies out of the houses one after another and placed them in the open space at the entrance of the village.
Most of them were killed with a single knife, and the cuts were all in the heart.
Looking at these corpses, Wei Changtian felt more and more that something was wrong, and Liang Qin came back at this time.
"Dad! Brother Changtian!"
She shouted at the two of them first, and then turned her head to stare at Cao Shu, her tone filled with anger and grief.
"Lord Cao! Are you satisfied now!"
"Lord Cao has his own considerations, you should blame these bandits!"
"Humph!"
Liang Qin opened her mouth, but in the end, she just snorted and stopped talking, walking aside to wipe the blood stains on her body.
Liang Zhen cupped his hands and said to Cao Shu some words like "Lord Cao, don't be like my little girl", and then several soldiers ran back from not far away to report the situation:
"General! There were a total of one hundred and twenty-eight bandits, none of them escaped, and all of them have been killed."
"Only a dozen brothers were slightly injured, but dozens of horses died."
"Yes."
Liang Zhen nodded and asked, "How many people died?"
"More than two hundred bodies have been found, and some are estimated to be buried in the ruins of the houses."
"Are there any survivors?"
"There is a little girl and a woman."
"Bring them here."
"Yes!"
The soldier waved his hand, and immediately someone led two figures, one large and one small, over.
The woman was about thirty years old, wearing tattered linen clothes and messy hair.
However, if you observe carefully, you will find that she is actually quite good in terms of appearance and figure. If she dresses up, she should be quite charming.
In short, three words - mature beauty.
As for the other little girl, everyone had just met her at noon today...
"A'Chun?"
Liang Qin was the first to react, and immediately ran over and bent down to ask: "Does your family live here?"
"..."
A'Chun stared wide-eyed without speaking, seemingly frightened enough.
Liang Qin felt a little distressed and wiped the dirt off her face, looking up at a soldier next to her.
The latter immediately understood and explained:
"Miss, we found her in a well."
"At that time, we were patrolling in a burned-down house, and we happened to hear the sound of falling water from the well. After checking, we rescued her."
"It is estimated that she should have been clinging to the well rope in the well at first, and finally fell into the water because of lack of strength..."
The soldier explained the ins and outs in a few words, and A'Chun finally came back to her senses at this time, bent her knees and knelt on the ground with a plop, bowing her head and kowtowing non-stop.
"Thank you, thank you, madam, thank you, sir!"
A'Chun suppressed her crying, her small figure趴伏, her voice full of gratitude.
Liang Qin took a step forward and hugged her in her arms, her heart almost melted.
Such a sensible child, but her life is so bitter.
Not only are her parents gone, but now even her home is gone.
"A'Chun, don't cry, A'Chun, don't cry."
Liang Qin patted A'Chun's little head and said softly, "You will follow us from now on, okay?"
"Madam, are you willing to take me in?"
"Of course."
Liang Qin smiled and nodded.
"..."
The little girl was stunned for a moment, and suddenly tears welled up again, her voice full of excitement and joy.
"Thank you, madam, thank you, madam!"
"Madam, don't worry, I eat very little, and I can do a lot of work..."
A'Chun hurriedly began to introduce her "advantages", and everyone who heard it felt a little sad.
A little girl without relatives, who had just been rescued from the brink of death, was promoting herself like a commodity in order to survive...
Many of these soldiers have wives and children, and at this time, they can't help but think about what would happen to their wives and children if they died one day...
Some people were saddened, but Liang Zhen was quite distressed at this time.
Because Liang Qin had already taken in many maids like this!
It's not that the Liang family can't afford so many people, it's just that this is not a long-term solution after all.
There are so many poor people in the world, you can't just take them in when you see them, right?
But he couldn't go against Liang Qin in this kind of thing, so he had to sigh helplessly, turn his head to look at the woman, and casually asked:
"How did you survive?"
"Sir!"
The woman had been wiping her tears just now, and now when she heard that she was finally asked, she immediately cried out loudly: "I have been hiding in the firewood pile at home just now, and I dared to come out after hearing the fighting outside, and I happened to meet a few military masters..."
Several soldiers next to her nodded, proving that this was indeed the case.
"What about the other people in your family?" Liang Zhen asked again.
"Dead! Husband, son! All were killed by that group of bandits who deserved to be cut into pieces!"
The woman wailed in grief: "Leaving only me, a woman, how, how can I survive in this world!"
"If I had known this, I might as well have let the bandits kill me too!"
"Woo woo woo..."
If A'Chun gave people the feeling of sadness and distress, then the woman at this moment was miserable.
If the other people in the village were fine, she, a widow, might still have a way to survive.
But now that everyone in the village is gone, and she is already so old, I am afraid that she has no other choice but to fall into a brothel.
Everyone was silent again, and at this moment, Wei Changtian suddenly said something very inappropriate, even incomparably harsh.
"Since you can't survive, then you might as well just go die now."
?
For a moment, everyone looked at Wei Changtian in astonishment, wondering why he would say such a thing.
No matter how lowly the woman's identity was, she was a poor person who had just lost her husband and son!
However, before they could react, Wei Changtian did something even more shocking.
As soon as he finished speaking, he jumped off his horse almost without hesitation, and rushed straight to the wide-eyed woman at an extremely fast speed!
"Shua!"
The dragon's roar unsheathed, Returning Dust with one slash!
In just an instant, the woman's head flew into the air, and Wei Changtian didn't even intend to stop, as if he was crazy, he turned around and stabbed the woman's vital points five or six times in a row!
"Plop!"
The head landed, the body turned over, and blood splattered everywhere.
"Changtian! What are you doing?"
Liang Zhen came back to his senses at this time, stunned and wanted to ask Wei Changtian why he suddenly killed someone.
However, before Wei Changtian could answer, Liang Qin suddenly rushed over and stood in front of the woman's riddled body, her face full of anger and disappointment.
"What's there to say!"
"Brother Changtian! You have disappointed me too much!!"
"I thought you had changed!!"
"But I didn't expect that you are still the same as before, no, even more terrible than before!!"
Liang Qin was really disappointed in Wei Changtian at this time.
After all, although the previous owner was extremely violent, he at least had a reason when killing people.
But now...
Liang Qin suddenly thought of Wei Changtian's indifferent appearance when suppressing bandits, and her heart became more and more uncomfortable, and her eyes became more and more indifferent.
She stared at Wei Changtian, not even noticing the changes in the expressions of the other people around her.
"Brother Changtian, this is the last time I call you that..."
"From now on, I have nothing to do with you..."
Liang Qin didn't finish this sentence, because Wei Changtian pointed to her behind her at this time.
She almost subconsciously turned her head to look, and then she was instantly stunned with wide eyes.
Under the moonlight, where was the woman in the pool of blood?
It was just a huge ghost-faced spider.
