Congratulations on opening the coffin

Seeing the crowd of people watching gradually gather around, the guard who was beaten to the ground felt a burst of embarrassment, covered his chest, and yelled at Shen Ruo in fear and anger: "You wait for me, you dare to attack the yamen, I’m sure you won’t be able to eat and walk around!”

While cursing, he turned around and ran away.

However, how could Shen Ruo let him startle the snake like this, she looked around for a week, and saw that there was a bundle of hemp rope on the cart, she raised the corners of her mouth, and tied the hemp rope into a circle.

When the guard thought she had successfully escaped, she flipped in the air, threw the noose out of the air, and was just pulling the guard in. When she pulled hard, the guard was pulled up like a kite, and fell straight back. at her feet.

The guard struggled desperately, but the noose tied to him became tighter and tighter, until he was desperate and cried to Shen Ruo: "What do you want?"

She stepped on the guard's chest, bent down, and whispered: "I hate people who neglect their duties the most."

"what?"

"Isn't your task to send us living sacrifices to the assembly? Why are you running?"

The guard was completely dumbfounded.

However, before he could react, Shen Ruo had dragged him back to the bullock cart, tore off the purse from his waist, threw it away, and said with a little distaste: "Why is this so? Forget it, just Take it as compensation for your rudeness just now."

Guard Erkang, his last living expenses this month!Girl, are you a robber?

Shen Ruo took the dozen or so copper coins, bought two bags of chestnuts and five roasted sweet potatoes, turned back to the ox cart, and handed these to the children: "Hey, I've finished digesting the pancakes in the morning, eat some Something, the brother guard asked for it."

Guard: "..." His heart was bleeding.

The children cheered enthusiastically, and crowded around, snatching all the things in Shen Ruo's hands, but there was some order in the chaos, and each child was given half a sweet potato and four fried chestnuts.

The oldest girl handed the remaining half of a sweet potato to Shen Ruo: "Erya, this is yours."

Shen Ruo was stunned for a moment, took the sweet potato with a smile, took a bite, it was very sweet and sweet, she smiled and said: "Okay, let's all get in the car, and eat while walking."

The children got into the car obediently, holding sweet potatoes and gnawing on them happily.

The alluring aroma of rich sweet potatoes and roasted chestnuts floated to the guard's nose. He took a deep breath, and tears flowed from the corners of his mouth. However, at this moment, there was a tugging feeling on his neck, and the faint voice was like a devil. Came from behind: "What are you doing standing there stupidly, lead the way."

The corner of the guard's mouth twitched, as if he wanted to say something, but due to the opponent's coercion and strong force, he had to obey obediently.

After he walked for a while, he gradually calmed down, and he was a little puzzled, so he asked, "Girl, you are so powerful, why do you need to be a living sacrifice?"

As soon as he finished asking, the neck that was wrapped by the noose tightened suddenly, and a cold voice came: "Don't meddle in other people's business, people who know more often die earlier, understand?"

"Understood!" The guard nodded in fright, but in the next second, a flash of light flashed in his mind, and he asked, "Girl, did you come here for that evil dragon?"

The person behind didn't speak, but he intuitively guessed right.

"Girl, if this is the case, I advise you to forget it."

Shen Ruo raised his eyebrows and asked unhurriedly, "Why?"

"Haven't you seen it before? The dragon is ten feet long, with a big mouth, and it can swallow houses. When it first came to Hanshui Town, several of our brothers died in its hands. , Although you have extraordinary skills, girl, you are by no means a match for that dragon."

Shen Ruo fell silent for a moment, not because he was overwhelmed by the power of the dragon, but because the guard said that someone had died at the hands of the dragon.

Her eyes were slightly condensed: "If this is the case, then I will go even more."

The guard didn't expect her to say that, and was dumbfounded for a moment.

After walking forward for more than a quarter of an hour, the guards stopped: "Well, the place is here. In front of you is the prison cell of Hanshui Town. The boys and girls who brought the living sacrifices will be temporarily detained there. They will be sent to the Han River together when the ceremony is held tomorrow. .”

Shen Ruo looked at the earthen house made of mud and bricks in front of him, and then glanced at the guard: "Then what are you doing standing there, there are still more than 50 meters left, let's go."

He pointed to the hemp rope around his neck, hesitated and said, "Can you untie it for me first? They will be very surprised if I show it to the prison like this."

Shen Ruo squinted at him: "You don't want to take the opportunity to escape and ask for help from the prison, do you?"

"How could it be!? If you do this, you will be struck by lightning and die!" the guard said indignantly.

She propped up her chin, and said with great interest: "Then add another sentence of cutting off children and grandchildren, and the roots of descendants will rot."

"..." The guard had an unbelievable expression on his face, and finally gritted his teeth, "Okay, if I take the opportunity to file a complaint, I will stop..."

However, before he finished speaking, Shen Ruo put away the hemp rope: "Okay, I'm just kidding you, the place is here anyway, even if you ask the jailer for help, it will be troublesome at most, and you will be taken away." It's all tied up."

She said this very easily, but the guard knew what she said was true, and he even wondered whether even the entire town's yamen could beat the woman in front of him.

After clearing up his mood, the guard pulled the ox cart to the cell. The jailer took out the key, opened the cell door, and complained, "This is the last batch. It's getting dark, and I'm still rushing home for dinner." .”

The guard, who was hiding something in his heart, did not expect to be spoken to by the jailer. After a moment of panic, he hurriedly replied: "This is the last batch. There are 100 people in total. Can this prison hold it?"

With the rhizome of dog's tail grass in his mouth, the jailer said carelessly, "So what if it can't fit, I can just squeeze, anyway, they are going to die tomorrow anyway, so why pay attention to this?"

The guards were indifferent to this matter at first, and even felt that they had caused him trouble, but after spending a short time with these children, he felt a little sad when he heard these words again.

After the cell door was opened, the unique musty and unpleasant smell in the confined space with little ventilation wafted out in an instant. The children covered their mouths and noses in disgust, but they no longer huddled together and cried like before. It's just because they have a common belief that they will be fine tomorrow, because with Arya around, she will definitely protect them.

In this regard, they are convinced.

Their group was locked up by the jailer with children from two other villages. No. 30 people were locked in a cell less than ten square meters. It was so crowded that their intestines were squeezed out. The two could only stand, looking at each other face to face, with an indescribable embarrassment.