802, Eternal damnation (2/2)
"Lord Dongxiong, Lord Langkan, Lord Jebu... none of your sons and grandsons did anything unusual on the first day. Ning
The next day they collected a large amount of gold, silver and jewelry from their respective estates.
Today is the third day. They asked their servants to prepare a good carriage, but they stayed at home all day and did not go anywhere in the carriage. "
Shidu knelt on the dark red blanket of the main hall, performed the dog ceremony to the Tibetan Prime Minister Zhongbajie who was sitting at the top, and reported one by one the movements of the descendants of the Ma Xiang family that Zhongbajie had ordered them to monitor.
"Is it going to get dark?"
After listening to Shi Du's words, Zhongbajie got up from behind the low desk, walked to the window, and pushed open the window panel.
The sun in the horizon was trembling and was about to sink under the plateau.
The plateau will be shrouded in cold darkness. rather
Shidu lowered his head and responded: "Lord Dongxiong and Lord Langkan may leave by carriage after dark - there are people staying in their respective manors to monitor them."
"Okay." Zhong Ba nodded, and his colleague Du said, "Send a message to those under your command, telling them not to disturb my sons and grandsons, just follow them and see where they go in the end. Just fine.
Make them turn back the way they came, and I will reward them with gold beads, gold shells, and silver grains! "
"yes!"
Shidu responded respectfully. After receiving Zhongbajie's approval, he bent down and slowly retreated from the dim hall. He transferred to his "Maben" and turned into a gust of black wind, traveling through the darkness and passing by Zhongbajie. The manors of several sons and grandsons of Prime Minister Jiejie conveyed the orders of Prime Minister Zhongba Jie one by one to other attendants staying in various manors.
He finally returned to Lord Dongxiong's manor and pretended to be a slave in the manor, hiding here and waiting for the darkness of night.
Lord Dongxiong treats his slaves very kindly. He will allow the slaves to sleep with the cattle and sheep in the shed, and give them fourteen spoons of tsampa every day - he newly inherited this area from the hands of Prime Minister Zhongbajie. In order to be extra kind to the slaves in the manor, he needs slaves to work for these territories. rather
It has been more than eight months since he inherited this territory, and not a single slave in his manor has died.
Lord Dongxiong is widely praised for his kindness.
The descendants of the Ma Xiang clan whom Prime Minister Zhongbajie ordered to monitor are actually those who have just inherited the territory and have not even been allocated the territory. They have not yet completely learned to distinguish themselves from slaves. Those slaves were particularly kind, but Shi Du believed that when they got used to their current life, they would sooner or later become just like other orthodox nobles.
Relying on the kindness of Lord Ma Xiangdongxiong, Shidu, like other slaves, was driven into the sheepfold. He was only tied with iron chains on his ankles and wrists, and was not restrained by horizontal wooden shackles.
In the smelly sheep pen, his hands and feet could still move freely.
In the sheepfold, those stinky slaves picked up the sheep that hid in dark corners, and fell asleep soundly with the help of the warm fur of the sheep.
Shidu leaned against the wooden pillar, and when other slaves were not paying attention, he forcibly pushed away a ewe that was approaching. rather
The starlight outside the shed combined with the cold wind blew into the ventilated shed.
Lord Dongxiong's manor fell into silence.
The silence didn't last long, and the sound of horse hooves began to become denser.
After a tiring day, the slaves hugged the sheep and slept soundly. Shi Du quietly walked to the shed door, raised his head slightly, and peered at the scene outside.
He saw——
A series of carriages with luxurious carvings were parked in front of the exquisite watchtower in the distance that was separated from the area where the slaves lived. The horses were kicking their hooves on the spot.
The wives, concubines, and children of Lord Ma Xiangdongxiong boarded the carriage one after another. rather
Before long,
The entire horse team began to march, passed through the gates in front of the two watchtowers, and ran all the way outside the manor.
Lord Ma Xiang took all the family members he could take with him, rode in a carriage, and rushed to the legendary 'under the hill' - a thought suddenly flashed through Shi Du's mind.
The legend of "under that hill" has been spread among the gods.
According to rumors, only those who have never contaminated the lives of innocent people or committed evil deeds can sense the location of the mysterious place and go to "that mountain" when they hear the four words "under that mountain". You can get eternal peace when you are off duty!
Shi Du had dealt with too many shady things for Prime Minister Zhongba Jie, and the blood of innocent people on his hands was already extremely heavy. When he heard the words "under that mountain hill", he didn't feel anything.
However, Dongxiong, Langkan and other descendants of the Ma Xiang family have never killed anyone. Prime Minister Zhongbajie ordered Shidu to monitor them, naturally because they sensed the existence of "under the hill" - they abandoned their manors, took only a large amount of gold and silver treasures, and their families, and prepared to go Throw yourself under the hill! rather
The magic "under that hill" could actually make several descendants of the Ma Xiang family willing to leave behind their current life of fine clothing and high status to join it?
In other words, the Ma Xiang family has reached a critical juncture. The luxurious life of the noble lords of the Ma Xiang family will eventually disappear in an instant like a mirror, so these descendants of the Ma Xiang family can give up their current lives. Phantom, go to pursue 'that hillock'?
However, these descendants of Maxiang could sense the location of ‘under the hill’, but it did not mean that their wives, concubines, and children could also sense the location of ‘under the hill’ - they took their families to pursue ‘under the hill’, could that mysterious place still give them a response?
Thoughts ran through Shi Du’s mind.
He watched the convoy of the Dongxiong nobles drive straight ahead and were about to drive out of the manor - a bloody arm grew out of his wrist and ankle, exuding a gloomy and strange arm, grabbing the chains on his hands and feet and pulling them lightly, and then the chains broke!
Shi Du silently climbed over the low wall of the sheep shed, rode his ‘Ma Ben’, and chased the convoy of the Dongxiong lord!
The convoy rushed into the cold night.
On the dark plain, only the lanterns hanging on the carriage could slightly illuminate the surrounding roads.
Shi Du drove Ma Ben, turned into a black wind, and circled around the convoy.
The several masters who were responsible for escorting the nobles in the convoy did not notice Shidu's presence at all - he hid himself very well.
In a carriage in the middle of the convoy.
The fat Lord Dongxiong was dressed in silk and satin. He sat in the carriage, and his body almost occupied most of the seats. The concubine could only sit on his legs and kept stroking his chest to relieve his frantic heartbeat.
Dongxiong clenched his fists, staring at the two carriage doors in front of him, and beads of sweat kept oozing from his forehead.
"Go south from here!" Ning
At a certain moment, Dongxiong suddenly shouted.
The concubine immediately turned to look outside the door.
"Go south!"
The driver responded immediately.
"Go south!"
Dongxiong's order quickly spread throughout the convoy, and the convoy turned south.
The concubine turned around and breathed a sigh of relief. Ning
She gently stroked Dongxiong's chest to calm him down, and said softly: "'Under the hill' has been responding to you. You have never lost your way. Why are you so nervous?"
"You also heard the four words 'under the hill'. Why didn't the mysterious place respond to you?" Dongxiong calmed down a little. He did not answer the concubine's question. He gently pinched the other's waist and asked the concubine.
"I don't know..." The concubine's eyes were full of uneasiness.
Dongxiong sighed and said in a low voice: "In the whole manor, only I established a connection with the mysterious place after hearing the four words 'under the hill'. The mysterious place also responded to my call and pointed the way forward for me.
But when my father mentioned 'under the hill', he clearly said that as long as 'your hands have never been stained with the blood of innocent people and have never done great evil things', you can feel the four words 'under the hill'..."
The concubine lowered her head, her eyes became more and more uneasy.
Dongxiong was completely unaware of her reaction. He pinched the delicate skin on her waist and continued, "That's what my father said, but the actual situation is not like that. Ning
For example, you, my wife, my son and daughter...
You usually can't bear to see a sheep being killed in front of your eyes, so how could your hands be stained with the blood of innocent people? How could you do such a great evil?
But you have no reaction to the four words 'under the hill'.
-It can be seen that what my father said may be wrong.
Only specific people can sense the existence of 'under the hill'.
I am worried now-I am the specific person. If I go to the hill alone, there should be no problem, but I brought you who have not sensed the existence of the hill...I don't know if I can still get close to that mysterious place?"
The concubine lowered her head and exhaled gently. Ning
When she heard Dongxiong say that his wife and children were kind-hearted people and it was impossible for them to have innocent people's blood on their hands, the corners of her mouth could not help but curl up slightly.
"Don't worry, sir.
You are the man chosen by heaven, and you can sense the location of that mysterious place.
With your leadership, we will definitely reach 'the foot of that hill'.
The gods have chosen you, and you have chosen us. Since you have chosen, it cannot be changed..." In the carriage, the concubine persuaded Dongxiong with soft words.
Dongxiong hugged the concubine, and in the next hour, he gave the horse team more than ten instructions to change direction.
Shi Du turned into a black wind and always hovered around the carriage. Ning
Until the long and cold night passed.
Until every horse had worn out its hooves and was exhausted.
At dawn, a horse team that was frozen in the long and cold night stopped on the wilderness.
All the people and horses in this horse team were frozen to death.
The ten-mile radius where they were was full of dense horse hoof prints.
Those horse hoof prints overlapped layer by layer, trampling the soil firmly, forming a large circle.
The soil in the big circle was sunken one foot deeper than the surrounding area. Ning
Throughout the long night, the horse team kept repeating and turning along this circle.
Beside the horse team, Shi Du and his horse Ben perished together.
In the distance, a ragged man with a lightning mark engraved on his forehead led many people in the same clothes and approached the caravan full of gold, silver, treasures and food.