【Kuan Xin】Snake and Venom

36 people, 36 families, all of them have lovers, parents, children and brothers and sisters. They may not be rich and wealthy, but they live in poverty, but they are stable and happy. They just guard a small home and stand in a troubled world.

The family and country were in turmoil, and the wind and rain forced them to fail, but they failed to bring down their home.

A long time ago, when the battle between Song and Xia was at its most intense, Great Song had always been at a disadvantage. In order to reverse the timing, the senior officials of Great Song decided to send people to infiltrate Xixia to search for news. Talents, after professional training, are sent to Xixia.

This proposal was applauded, so they sent troops to the streets, found 36 strong young people with poor families who still had parents and children to support, and promised to help them take good care of their families, telling them that as long as they agreed, their families would be happy. There is no need to work hard for a living, and as a condition of the transaction, the 36 people will abandon their official status and leave their hometown for Xixia.

From the moment they agreed to destroy their identities, there were 36 more homeless wandering souls in this world, wandering in the bloody Xixia officialdom.

They lived up to the high expectations of the Song court, and with their own efforts, they were compiled by the Xixia court in different years.

In Xixia, they still have no identity and belong to a little-known organization in Xixia called Yinbing Pavilion.Not many people know exactly what the Yinbing Pavilion does. The 36 people only know that they must unconditionally obey the direct orders issued by the Xixia Emperor.

Later, Yinbing Pavilion received an order to find Xixia's dungeon.

The underground city is just a legend that has been handed down from Xixia to the present, and the hope of finding its actual location is as slim as dust in the wind.

Because the task was extremely difficult, 36 people dispatched together. They didn't know what the dungeon in Xixia was useful for. As usual, they secretly passed the news of the dungeon back to Da Song. Unexpectedly, Da Song was very interested in this dungeon. The ground is high, and they are ordered to search for the dungeon with all their strength.

36 people rushed to tell each other. It took eight years of hard work to finally find out the traces about the location of the dungeon, and it took another nearly a year to confirm whether the dungeon really existed.

The dungeon does exist. They not only found it, but also drew a map, which recorded in detail the geographical environment and watershed conditions around the dungeon.On the map handed to the Xixia Emperor, they had manipulated it and drew several fork roads, but the map sent back to Da Song was completely accurate and accurate.

The day the 36 people sent the map back to the Song Dynasty was full of hope. They had been working abroad for so many years and hadn’t returned home for a long time. Whether the parents in the family are in good health, I wonder if the children in the family already know how to read...

With excited hearts, the 36 people were looking forward to the letter from Song Dynasty calling them back. Unexpectedly, what they waited for the next day was the news of Song Xia's peace talks.

The official newspaper said: In the dispute between Song and Xia, the people are in dire straits. Talk about peace immediately, and there will be no more wars.

But the information they got was that Da Song threatened Xixia with the excuse of the dungeon. After Xixia knew that his Yinbing Pavilion had betrayed him, out of some concerns, he gritted his teeth and accepted Da Song's request for peace talks. .

The two countries negotiated peace, and their identities were exposed, but Da Song didn't make any move to take them back, not even a verbal reassurance.

Their hearts were getting colder and colder. Seeing that Xixia's pursuers were approaching, they realized:

Da Song doesn't want them anymore.

36 people, 36 abandoned pawns, they had nothing in one night, no identity, no family, no hope, only one life left, finally fled back to Song Dynasty, fled back home, but because of the official case book Their names have long been erased and they cannot return to normal life.

They live like a street mouse, wandering around in darkness, seeing despair in front of them—they want to be a person with a status, but this world doesn't allow it.

They hated, gritted their teeth with hatred, and hated so ferociously.

The terrain of Qinghe Town is rugged and difficult to enter. It is a good place to avoid being chased by the soldiers. There are only old people left guarding empty guards, and the strong young people have all gone out to work. raised their own families.

The 36 people harbored great hatred, each of them found out where the young people in this town were, and then tied them to Qinghe Town with the skills they had learned. They also captured a butcher and killed them himself After that, the butcher was forced to skin them.

In order to protect themselves, and to remember everything they encountered, the 36 people drew a part of the map of the underground layer on human skins based on their memory, and put them on human skins, and lived in the appearance of others, using extremely bloody and cruel methods. means of taking away the identity of others.

Then, in just one night, all the old people in the village were slaughtered.

Then dozens of dead bodies were all thrown into the river where Yuan Zhongxin and his party entered the town, and they became fertilizer for the river mud-that day Xiaojing felt that there was something under his feet, which was actually right. , but I don't know whose limbs and broken bodies she stepped on.

If they lost their identities, they would be like wandering spirits. They had already killed and committed the great taboo in human skins, but now they have become real wild ghosts.

The families of the missing people came to look for them, but they didn't know that the human skin was still the same, but the people underneath were already different. Under the skin were all sinful devils.

Everyone listened to the man's narration in disbelief, their faces were like stormy waves.

Zhao Jian was stunned, she really wanted to ask questions, but she seemed to lose her voice in an instant, unable to speak.

Someone cried from the bottom: "We just want to have a new identity and want to go home—we have paid so hard for Da Song, how can Da Song be so ruthless?"

Xiaojing secretly wiped away his tears, and was already speechless; Wei Yanei's face was pale, and the pampered man never thought that such a cruel and inhuman thing would happen in this world, he murmured, but he didn't know what to say; Xue Ying Holding the knife tightly, his hand was trembling under closer inspection.

"Why, did you give up on us? What did we do wrong?" The man lowered his head in despair and asked, he was not facing Yuan Zhongxin's people, but the mountains and rivers of the Great Song Dynasty.

Da Song was so wide and open that he refused to give them even a small shelter.

Wang Kuan closed his eyes and sighed, his tone full of sadness and helplessness: "Da Song's treatment at this time is indeed unfair, but no matter what, you should not kill innocent people indiscriminately."

Dozens of human lives were wiped out overnight, how wronged.

The 36 people were devastated and all hope was lost.

Yuan Zhongxin sat on the wooden chair, his expression was unclear, and he kept silent.

Wang Kuan looked at him sideways and found that his mental state was not right, so he quickly squatted down, looked up at him slightly, and asked worriedly, "Yuan Zhongxin, what's wrong with you?"

Yuan Zhongxin was brought back to his senses by him, his eyes were in confusion, and he said for a long time, "I'm fine." He looked at the 36 people, and felt a headache for a while, how should he deal with such people?Let them continue to live freely in Qinghe Town, despite knowing that they have committed such a heinous crime?

Yuan Zhongxin rubbed his brows and sighed, finally understood why Lu Guannian had so many elite soldiers, why he sent them Qizhai to deal with this matter.I'm afraid that this matter is related to Da Song's face, and the officers and soldiers reached out to slap Da Song in the face. In the eyes of the common people, Da Song's prestige will no longer be, which will eventually lead to more serious consequences.

The man looked at the clueless Yuan Zhongxin, and suddenly felt relieved, "Do you want the map on us?"

Yuan Zhongxin frowned, with a puzzled look on his face: "Why should I?"

The man was startled, and then he laughed out loud, letting out the infinite sadness buried in his heart, his eyes dimmed: "Okay, young man, you are fine." His eyes passed Yuan Zhongxin, looked at him The friends behind him guessed that Yuan Zhongxin and the others came here not to investigate clearly, but to give Qinghe Town an end.

The sins that have lasted for more than a month should finally come to an end.

Until now, the 36 people have seen their hearts clearly. They hid in Qinghe Town, not for survival, not to experience what it's like to be a human being again—they did this just to keep that breath in their hearts, but to In order to vent their hatred.

They were not reconciled, so they came up with countless excuses to deceive themselves, and committed serious crimes.

"Young man, don't worry, we will give ourselves an end." After meeting Yuan Zhongxin and the others, the 36 people never thought about living.

Yuan Zhongxin didn't speak, just stared at him for a moment.

The man turned his head and looked back: "There is a big pit covered by a thick black cloth, and there are many sticks of firewood in it, can I trouble you to light it for me?"

Wei Yanei turned pale with shock: "Are you going to burn yourself to death?"

The man looked down at the human skin covering himself, and the corners of his mouth slightly raised, showing a relieved smile: "All our encounters are all because of this map, since you don't want it, then burn it—— we I have already committed the sins, and there is no possibility of redemption. I heard that burning to death is a very tortured death method, if the pain before our death can slightly reduce the resentment of this world towards us, then let’s do it.”

Then, he turned his head and looked at the 35 brothers behind him, with tears in his eyes and a gloomy look in his eyes, but with a smile on his face: "Brothers, I was arguing with you this morning, I'm sorry, it was me It's your fault."

35 people wept uncontrollably.

Yuan Zhongxin's expression was extremely complicated, he pursed his lips tightly, and after a long time he said with great difficulty: "Go and uncover the cloth and light the fire."

Wang Kuan froze for a moment, then nodded to Xue Ying and Wei Yanei.

"Old thief, send Zhao Jian and Xiao Jing out first." Yuan Zhongxin closed his eyes weakly and said wearily.

The old thief looked at Yuan Zhongxin worriedly for a moment, then raised his hand, and the rogues quietly followed behind the old thief, surrounded Zhao Jian and Xiaojing who were dazed and pale, and slowly left the town.

Wang Kuan and Xue Ying worked together to remove the thick cloth, the big pit in front of him was extremely deep, and there were indeed countless dry firewood inside, Wei Yanei took out a firearm from his bosom, hesitated for a moment, and threw it down. After a while, a raging fire ignited in the pit, and hot air rushed to the face.

The man took the lead and stood up, followed by the 35 people behind him. He bowed slightly to Yuan Zhongxin, "Thank you, young man." Then, step by step, he walked towards the fire pit behind him and stood still.

Yuan Zhongxin was stunned, not knowing why he wanted to thank himself, he shouted: "Wait!"

The man turned his head.

"That idiot, why didn't you kill him?"

The man said: "Daniu said, that is his brother who depends on each other for life. Since he is already crazy, there is no need to be silenced."

At this time, Wang Kuan and the others had already walked back to Yuan Zhongxin.

The man said to Yuan Zhongxin and the others: "Young man, hurry up and go, the smell of burning is probably not good, don't scare you."

Yuan Zhongxin didn't move, and the other three naturally didn't move either, just staring at the 36 people in front of the fire pit.

The man stopped trying to persuade him, and looked up at the sky. At this moment, the sky was blue and cloudless. Suddenly, he yelled tragically: "Brothers, Lao Yu will go first! In the next life, we will be good people! Be careful! Don't be fooled!"

Then, he jumped down decisively, followed by 35 people without hesitation.

All of a sudden, wisps of black smoke shot up into the sky, and after a while, they were blown away by the wind.

From the moment they jumped into the fire pit, no one screamed except for the crackling sound of dry wood burning.

The evil debt left by Qinghe Town has finally been paid off.

Since then, there is no more Qinghe Town, no more 36 wandering souls.

They all went home.