Chapter 172: The Choice of Love
Black, pitch black!
Except for a subtle breathing that can be seen, it is true that there is a symbol of life here, there is no more visible—at least, there is no evidence in the darkness.
A light click sound followed by a dim light that increased from weakness. It turned out to be a horse lantern. The light was actually very dim. However, in this dark environment, its light was fully demonstrated.
The man carrying the lantern is a beautiful girl in white.
She carried the lantern and walked down the stone steps lightly, and came to a stone room door surrounded by high density using iron steel pillars as thick as a baby's arm. She raised her jade hand and shone the lantern inside. The man in gray was sitting cross-legged on the ground. She looked carefully, bent down and placed the food box on his other hand gently in front of the iron pillar door, and said softly: "Mr. Mu, I have been wronged for you for five years, Xiaoru is sorry."
"Five years-" The man in gray, who seemed to be numb as if he was wood, seemed to tremble slightly, as if he was moaning in pain, murmured, "Five years?"
His closed eyes suddenly opened, as if two rapids had penetrated the shackles of time and space, reaching the depths of his soul, almost suffocating: "Miss, is it the winter solstice today?"
The girl in white was suffocated and couldn't help but take a step back. She took a deep breath before answering: "No, tomorrow will be the winter solstice."
The man in gray said "Oh", closed his eyes again, and also closed his mouth.
Obviously, he no longer intends to talk to the girl.
The girl in white stared at the man with long hair, hanging shoulders, beards and stubble, looking sloppy, but she couldn't help but recall him back then, handsome, tough and a pretty boy of standard. However, in just five years, he completely subverted his image, especially the hurried look just now, handsome completely interpreted his inner disappointment, even despair.
What is the reason why a beautiful boy who was once full of energy could ravage his soul in such a complete despair in just five years?
Maybe, she knows.
It was she who knew that, so she was even more helpless.
She bit her lip, hardened her heart, and said softly: "Mr. Mu, it is Xiaoru's last meal tonight. There is a key next to this box, and the door outside will not be closed. You are leaving and you can leave at any time... Xiaoru said goodbye to you, goodbye, take care of yourself..."
The girl in white hurriedly left as if she was running away.
After all, five years, more than 1,500 days, I repeated one thing, and repeatedly faced someone and said that there was no emotion, that was an absolute lie. As the saying goes, love may not be love over time, but sometimes, when some emotions accumulate over time, the power generated is often more lasting and shocking than gorgeous love.
With the "bang" sound, the stone chamber returned to its darkness and silence.
However, if you can calm your mind, you will find that the subtle breathing sounds have become heavy and turbid...
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winter solstice.
Early this morning, the government office received a report that four families in Dongjiao Village were destroyed, including men, women, young, women, children, and 17 people, all of whom were killed!
How dare the government neglect such a major murder case? It immediately dispatched a large number of yamen runners and constables to the scene to conduct investigations.
The case soon gained a preliminary understanding. The four families who were killed in the No. 4 Mine, the Meng Family Mine!
The yamen runners and constables could also use their toes to determine that the master behind these tragedies must be the Meng family!
However, imagination and speculation are only for the object of investigation of the case, narrowing the scope of investigation and moral condemnation. In fact, this does not have much effect. The reason why the law exists is that its foundation point focuses more on factual evidence.
According to various evidence collection and verification, after the mine accident yesterday, no one in the Meng family did anything unusual. Even Mr. Meng once went to Jiangfu at noon. As a business partner, it was understandable that he had such an accident and discussed the details of the response with his partner. As for, someone saw that the second son of the Meng family had left the city at dusk yesterday, but his direction was exactly the opposite of Dongjiao Village. On the road
When passing Guandi Temple, he played chess with the old man Zhuzhuang in the temple, and he had vegetarian food before returning home. According to the senior detective, when a person has extreme thoughts, especially evil and sinful thoughts, his emotions will be seriously affected, and he will not calm down and do the game of chess that is the most important thing to focus on his mind. It is not only a matter of being unable to get along with himself, but simply torture and ravage himself!
Therefore, a person who can play chess calmly, generally speaking, will not have evil thoughts and do extremely vicious behaviors under the premise of relatively simple minds?
Of course, no one is a fool in this world.
As the saying goes, having money can make the devil push the mill.
Things that can be solved with money are nothing for the wealthy Meng family.
You can suspect that the Meng family used money to buy lives, but what about the evidence?
After careful consideration, the yamen runners and constables finally locked in the two young masters of the Meng family who left the city before dusk yesterday. Where did he go and who did he meet?
So, the yamen runners and the constables were divided into two groups, one group stayed at the village to monitor the tragedy, and one group rushed to the road outside Xicheng to investigate clues left by the second son of the Meng family yesterday.
Of course, under the high-pressure order of the supervisor Lord Horhan, the military headquarters of the Datong Prefecture had to cooperate and dispatch a group of elite players to secretly monitor the Meng family.
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At dusk, a man dressed in ordinary clothes and had an ordinary appearance walked into Dongjiao Village. Perhaps considering that he was wearing a kitchen knife, this was a violation of the ban in the eyes of the government. Although the government was open to martial arts people, his appearance really didn't have much to do with martial arts people, so he was likely to be interrogated. Especially at the scene of the bloody crime, many things were difficult to explain. Therefore, in order to avoid trouble, he did not approach the floor with seventeen corpses, but stood far away and looked at each other from a distance.
After watching for a while, he sighed softly, then turned around silently and walked out of the village.
He lowered his head and walked silently on the dirt road under the setting sun. The road was dark red like blood and long.
He walked very slowly, as if he planned to go on like this for the rest of his life and reach the end of his life.
However, no matter how long the road is, there will always be a time to go.
When his steps stopped helplessly, he had already walked into a valley full of flowers and plants. The flowers were beautiful, and even in the darkening twilight, they could easily find their colorful and gorgeous beauty.
However, although they are beautiful, they are absolutely eclipsed compared to the woman in white dress standing in the attic!
Although she was still wearing a ferocious squid face on her face, he knew that behind the ugly squid face was a beautiful and gorgeous face.
Beauty is like wine.
This beauty is a pot of poisonous wine.
Back then, he drank it off guard, and at that moment, his soul was poisoned.
The soul is invaded by poison and the reason is blinded, which makes the brothers turn against each other and the friendship is determined.
A lamp is hung on the pillar in the attic, shaking gently with the night wind blowing. Under the dim light, the graceful figure is even more lonely.
A hint of melancholy flashed across her eyes, and she sighed softly, as if she was murmuring in a dream: "Five years have passed so quickly, and it blinked in the fingers, as if it was yesterday..."
He didn't speak, even lowered his head, as if he had lost the desire to speak.
The woman in white dress said quietly: "Xia Liang, do you still love me? I know that you have always loved me deeply, otherwise you would not have made an appointment today. Do you dare to deny it?"
Xia Liang finally spoke and said softly: "I have never denied my feelings for you, but, you, you...you really disappointed me, very disappointed..."
The woman in the white dress was stunned, as if she was touched, and then her eyes became wet like fog and said quietly: "Xia Liang, you are all men. Of course, you don't know how difficult it is for women to gain a foothold in the world. In order to survive, some things, even if they go against their conscience, have to be done."
Xia Liang sneered and said, "Is this the reason why you train, organize a team, and do things like killing and looting that are harmful to the world?"
The woman in white dress said in a low voice: "I, I have dismissed everyone. Isn't this enough?"
Xia Liang slowly raised his head, looked at her, and sighed: "If I hadn't passed by Dongjiao Village today, I hadn't seen those seventeen lives lying coldly on the ground, maybe I would have changed your mind. However, the facts told me that even if I had given five years and five years of opportunity, you still had no change, and even became more cruel - among the victims, there were three two or three years of children, and one baby who died in the arms of his mother's breastfeeding before he was born!"
He gave a slight salute, and then, his tone was extremely cold and fierce, and word burst out from his teeth: "Ye Yinghua, I want to know whether your conscience was eaten by a dog! Are you still a human?"
Ye Yinghua was silent, and a waterline appeared on the crock of the crock, and it slid down silently.
Xia Liang sighed and said with a loss: "Ye Yinghua, I'm useless for you. I didn't allow Mu Qiangnong to attack you and give you the opportunity to reform. However, in fact, he was right, you really won't change. Instead of letting you hurt the relationship between the three of us, it's better to kill you, so that, at least, you will leave us a beautiful memory."
Ye Yinghua bit her lip and said, "Do you hate me so much? I have dismissed my subordinates and stopped doing it. Can't you forgive me? There is a saying that if you put down your butcher's knife and become a Buddha, can't you give me another chance?"
At this moment, Xia Liang felt very painful, and it was so painful that it was almost unspeakable. After taking a deep breath, he felt that the air was as sharp as a knife, cutting into his internal organs, making him feel heart-wrenching.
After a while, he slowly said, "Ye Yinghua, I can forgive you, but what you do must accept the sanctions you deserve, otherwise where will the justice and morality in the world be left?"
Ye Yinghua said: "As for this reason, you still have to attack me?"
Xia Liang slowly took off the kitchen knife from his waist and said softly: "When I came out with this knife, I thought it would not have to come in handy. I knew that once I used it, I would be in pain. I was already very afraid to face the pain. After all, it has been in pain for five years, but in the end, I had no choice..."
Ye Yinghua suddenly sneered and said, "Xia Liang, don't forget that you are not my opponent. Besides, as far as I know, you have been staying in the restaurant kitchen for three years to do some rough things about killing chickens and killing ducks. The world's hustle and bustle have long worn away your spirits, and your martial arts are getting worse. What's the enemy of me? I don't want to kill you, just leave."
Xia Liang said slowly: "Even if I die at your hands today, I must do it. Otherwise, even if I live for a hundred years, I will suffer with conscience, and life is worse than death."
"Okay!" Ye Yinghua was furious, "Since you want to die for the so-called morality and be a guardian of the world, I will fulfill your wishes!"
Chapter completed!