Chapter 1236 Farewell

But if she escapes, it may be the death of the whole village.

With so many lives on her back, even if she escapes, will she still live in this mountain for the rest of her life?

"aunt……"

Xiaobao was still crying loudly.

Shen Qingci sighed, and then she wiped Xiaobao's face with her sleeve, and hugged Xiaobao again.

It's a blessing or a curse, and if it's a disaster, you can't avoid it, maybe it's not what she thinks, it's just that she thinks too much.

When she carried Xiaobao to the foot of the mountain, she couldn't help but hugged Xiaobao tightly with both hands.

The officers and soldiers came from the village. Her palms were covered with cold sweat, and she couldn't help lowering her head. Her feet were also heavy, and she couldn't take any steps.

She looked back at the entrance of the village. At this time, there were already many officers and soldiers standing at the entrance of the village, and every villager had a sad look on their faces.

Involuntarily, Shen Qingci frowned lightly, as if these officers and soldiers were not looking for her.

She hurriedly hugged Xiaobao and went to Uncle Wu's house. At this time, Uncle Wu and Aunt Wu were standing at the door, and Aunt Wu was crying anxiously from time to time.

"Where did our little treasure go?" Fifth Aunt really wanted to find Xiaobao now, but those officers and soldiers blocked the outside and wouldn't let them go at all. Xiaobao was her lifeline, if If something really happened to Xiaobao, then she would not live anymore.

"He went to find Xiaoya."

Fifth Uncle was also worried about Xiaobao, but he already knew that Xiaobao must have gone to find Shen Qingci.

"What are you looking for with her?"

Fifth Aunt didn't want to mention that person, and when she mentioned it, her heart felt as if she was holding her breath.

"Aren't you looking for her, looking for your Junlan?"

Wu Zheng asked Aunt Wu, husband and wife still can't share joys and sorrows, let alone a cousin who looks like a thousand li.

Fifth Aunt was also choked, and her face was extremely ugly.

Junlan, Junlan, and when Junlan's name was mentioned, Fifth Aunt would hate to have her teeth crushed, and it hurt.

She drove away a demon, but brought a white-eyed wolf to the family. That Junlan actually stole her silver, which cost a total of three hundred taels. Just when she wanted to get the silver back, misfortunes never come singly of.

The officers and soldiers also entered the village, and they were not allowed to leave. Xiaobao got lost, Junlan couldn't catch up, and the silver was also taken away. With so much silver, it was really digging her heart, digging her Her liver is killing her.

"Little Treasure..." Just when Aunt Wu was about to feel the pain, she heard Uncle Wu's voice.

She looked up and saw Shen Qingci walking over with Xiaobao in his arms.

And the officers and soldiers naturally saw them.

"Are you from this family?"

The officers and soldiers asked Shen Qingci.

Shen Qingci stood there without moving, but Fifth Uncle hurried over and explained.

"Officer, she is my distant niece, she came to join us, we have no children, we originally wanted to adopt," he shook his head at Shen Qingci, meaning to tell her not to say anything.

After all, Shen Qingci was picked up by him, and he didn't know what his identity was before. These officers and soldiers are not easy to mess with, but he is just afraid, what will happen if these officers and soldiers charge them with some crime?

"That's your home."

Officials don't care if it's a biological daughter, a niece, or a adopted daughter, as long as it's a family.

What the officials did was to add one to a roster without a name, and just wrote a stepdaughter, which was considered as an extra person.

"He Wu, now at the request of the court, your He family must send one person, both male and female, you can decide on your own."

Shen Qingci didn't understand, to send someone, who to send, and what to do?

"My lord, can you join us in discussing it?"

Uncle Wu apologized to the official with a smiling face, and then, while there was no one there, stuffed something into the official's hand. When the official squeezed his hand, he knew what it was?

The official officer also collected the money calmly, "Success, I will give you half a day to discuss, and I will wait to pick you up later."

The fifth uncle bowed his head and bowed his head, and sent the official to leave, but the official did not leave, but went to the next house. The whole village seemed to be shrouded in a very strange and frightening atmosphere.

It seems that the cries of the people in the village can be heard, one family after another, one person after another, but such a thing has never happened in Dazhou.

Could it be that this is due to conscription, but even if it is a conscription, Fifth Uncle's current age is not suitable for joining the army. Even if Fifth Uncle is forced to go, no matter where he is, he can still use money to exempt from corvee.

It's not that Uncle Wu doesn't have money, even if he gave Shen Qingci five hundred taels of silver, he still has five or six hundred taels. Could it be that he would buy his life with money?

"Let's go in."

Fifth Uncle wiped his face, and opened the door. Shen Qingci just nodded to Fifth Uncle, but to Fifth Aunt, it was a superfluous look, and he never gave her a point.

Fifth Uncle took Xiaobao from Shen Qingci's arms, and at this time Xiaobao had fallen asleep lying on her shoulders, his body was filthy from falling, this poor little appearance made Fifth Uncle very sad Distressed, but now there is no time to take care of him.

Shen Qingci sat down, just wanting to know, what exactly are these people going to do?

"Actually, I never asked where you came from?"

Uncle Wu smiled, but this smile was a bit bitter, "It doesn't matter where you are from, I know you are a good boy and you won't hurt anyone."

Shen Qingci lightly clenched his fingers on his legs.

Then she stretched out her finger, dipped some water in the cup, and wrote on the table.

"What happened?"

No one knew that she could read and write, and so did Uncle Wu.

In fact, the current Shen Qingci doesn't talk about writing, even if she can speak, Uncle Wu won't find anything strange?

"Alas..." Fifth Uncle sighed, Cang Tao is famous for melting iron, but this melting iron is not easy to practice, this time I don't know what the imperial court is for, it needs a lot of pig iron, So let's be strong men.

Shen Qingci's eyes moved slightly, but he didn't interrupt Fifth Uncle.

"The imperial court asked each household in my village to send one person to practice iron, and to practice iron..." He couldn't hide his sobs as he spoke.

"This iron-melting technique is no better than forging iron. Forging iron can still return home, but those who melted iron in the past, if they go in, they can't come back."

Can't, come back again?

Shen Qingci didn't understand, did this mean, where did he die?

Uncle Wu understood what she was thinking?

"Even if we don't die there, it's impossible for us to come back. I'm afraid that the art of melting iron will be spread by others. It's like this every time. A wife can't see her husband, a husband can't return home, and a son can't see his biological father. Although it is not a farewell, But it’s life and death, so no one wants to go, once you go, you can’t come back.”

And what is the difference between life and death?