This night was not a sleepless night for Liu Ru.

After all, she was really sleepy. Until she was woken up by Su Ziye the next day, she still couldn't recall what dream she had.

Even though the dream was full of blood, she couldn't remember it at all.

The breakfast the next day was still Su Ziye. Even though Liu Ru was willing, she really couldn't get up. The only thing that was the only drawback was that this time the breakfast was not beef soup.

The freshly baked pancakes were served with the fried golden and steaming poached eggs, and the tempting aroma of smoked pork slices were served on a plate. The transparent cup was covered with snow-white and warm milk.

Very simple but pleasing breakfast.

Liu Ru looked at Su Ziye who was gnawing pancakes: "Why isn't it beef soup?"

"You can't eat it every day even if you taste delicious." Su Ziye looked up and smiled, "Eat it, let's go after it."

"Since it tastes delicious, why don't you eat it every day?" Liu Ru asked back.

She really wants to eat it every day.

I've eaten until I never want to eat it again.

"Because there are many delicious things in this world, no matter how delicious things are, you will get tired of eating them. You will not regret it when you are tired of eating them, right?" Su Ziye smiled faintly and said, "Eat, let's go after eating."

Su Ziye did not say where he was going.

But of course Liu Ru will not forget it either.

She sat opposite Su Ziye and picked up the cake that was still a bit hot.

Bite it in one bite.

...

...

After breakfast, he set off. Su Ziye had no luggage to pack, and Liu Ru came here alone, so almost how the two of them came to this inn, so how did they leave.

Su Ziye has never changed anything, but Liu Ru seems to have been reborn.

Liujiatun is not far from this town, only about forty or fifty miles away. If it is in the hinterland of the empire, it can be said that it is close to the ruler, but this is the frontier of the empire. Not only is the sky high and the emperor far away, but there is no rooster crowing for a hundred miles.

The existence of this border town itself is because it is the garrison of the imperial garrison.

The mountain road is rugged.

The two of them were speechless all the way.

Su Ziye walked very fast, and was even better at walking these rugged and steep mountain roads than Liu Ru, who was used to walking on mountain roads. At the end of the mountain road, the small village was already far away.

"Have you heard of Qingshan Bandits?" Su Ziye suddenly turned around and asked.

"Qingshan Bandits?" Liu Ru was stunned: "Are you talking about those bandits? They have been to our village several times to exchange for some food pigs and ducks."

"Sure enough." Su Ziye nodded: "The first time I arrived last night was here."

"Are there any living people in the village?" Liu Ru asked with a little hope.

"No more." Su Ziye shook his head: "Then I will go and find that Tang En."

"Tang En?" Liu Ru had no idea of ​​this name at all.

"That slave trader." Su Ziye looked at Liu Ru: "He took you women from the Imperial Frontier Army at the price of a silver plate, because he could not use the woman's head to get rid of the fish-me-filled beads."

Liu Ru nodded softly and said nothing.

"You go down and have a look." Su Ziye said lightly: "Go to the village and go to your own home to see. This is your farewell, so I won't accompany you."

Liu Ru didn't want to go down.

But she promised Su Ziye that she would complete this matter as a task.

She pursed her lips gently and walked down the familiar path.

The stream passing through the village is still clear, but in the unique wet smell of water and plants by the river, Liu Ru can still smell the clear smell of blood.

She walked along the stream.

Then he stopped.

She saw a wooden stake.

A wooden stake with a man nailed.

A headless male corpse was nailed to a wooden stake. The wooden stake was pierced from his lower body, pierced through his internal organs, and finally pierced from the broken neck. A straw hat hung on the top of the stake, swaying lightly in the air with the wind.

Liu Ru bit her lips and covered her mouth tightly with her hands.

She stepped forward to try to recognize the person, but ended up finding nothing.

For headless corpses, it is very difficult to identify identities.

She continued to walk forward.

Then I saw more stakes.

These wooden stakes are standing outside every wooden house. Each stake is nailed with a corpse, and each corpse has no head. The empty straw hat is worn on the wooden stake, which looks absurd and cruel.

Liu Ru still covered her mouth and walked forward in the forest set by the wooden stakes.

She finally came outside her home and saw the hard wooden stakes that were also erected.

She saw that her father was also nailed to the wooden stake, her body drooped weakly, and her skin was frozen to the point of being crystal white. She walked forward and quietly held her father's fingers.

The girl's light blue eyes could not see sadness and anger.

Only calm under the deep sea.

She could vaguely guess the fate of her hometown, but she never expected that she would encounter such a fate.

These dead men could not even be buried in the soil, but were humiliatedly pierced by such a wooden stake from beginning to end, standing here forever, quietly frozen, quietly rotting, quietly experiencing wind and rain, and birds pecking at them.

"This is the empire's method to deal with the rebels. No one dares to take these corpses off the wooden stake. They will stand here for dozens or even hundreds of years until the wooden stake is also decayed. These corpses will forever deter the rebels of the empire, letting them understand the price of resisting the empire and the fate they are facing."

Su Ziye's quiet and peaceful voice sounded in Liu Ru's ears.

Liu Ru gritted her teeth: "Can I bury my father?"

"Yes, but there is no need." Su Ziye replied quietly.

"You can keep moving forward and keep this village completely in your mind. Only by remembering it here can you know that one of the greatest meanings of your existence in this world is to not let such stupid and cruel things be repeated countless times."

Liu Ru stood there, finally reached out and took off the straw hat that she wore on her father's head.

She put her straw hat on her head.

Then the girl continued to walk forward.

The first one is a lack of classics.

The same wooden stakes, the same corpse, the same straw hat, the same sadness.

Until Liu Ru arrived at the end of the village.

She finally saw something different.

She saw a kneeling soldier.

The kneeling soldier was wearing the dark gray armor familiar to Liu Ru. He knelt on the fields outside the village, among the tender green wheat seedlings that had grown, like a dead sculpture.

Liu Ru looked at the soldier and continued to move forward without saying a word.

Behind the kneeling soldier, she saw more soldiers.

They knelt neatly, like a triangle printed in a wheat field.

Liu Ru couldn't help but smile with some contempt.

If kneeling down can forgive all the mistakes, then I am willing to kneel down again and again.

But then, Liu Ru's smile froze on the corner of her mouth.

She had arrived in front of the first soldier.

The soil beneath him was soaked in blood.

Two wooden stakes pierced his calves, nailing him firmly to the spot in a kneeling position, but the real fatal injury came from the third wooden stake, which was accurately inserted from the back of his head and pierced along the spine, and finally nailed the soldier's upper body straight here.

Liu Ru continued to move forward without saying a word.

The second, the third, the fourth...

She checked one by one, and the man who was acting was accurate and barbaric. All the soldiers were nailed to this field and faced the village they were slaughtering in a kneeling posture.

"Did you do all this?" Liu Ru murmured.

At this moment, she felt very complicated inside.

There is the pleasure of revenge and the fatigue and loss of being taken away by others.

She had just set a goal in her heart, but then the goal was accomplished by that person in a perfect way that he had never thought of.

"This brutal joy will eventually end in brutality." Su Ziye's voice sounded quietly, and he walked towards Liu Ru in the shadow of the trees.

"If I give you time to complete this revenge, you can come back here in five years to do everything I do now."
To be continued...