idle mistress

Chapter 19 Mud Bodhisattva

And not far from the few people, the remaining traces of the fire reminded her that just last night, a life was incinerated there alive.

She knew that she shouldn't have come, some things could not be changed by her own power, but her feet just didn't listen.

Seeing that she was about to enter the training ground, a guarded soldier reached out to stop her, and she stopped, just as she was thinking of returning in vain.Another guard recognized her, and said to the soldier, "He seems to be someone next to Mr. Zhao."

The man looked her up and down: "Are you someone next to Mr. Zhao?"

"Yes." Xu Weiqiu nodded.

Hearing this, the man stepped aside and let her in.

Under the scorching sun, the prisoners were all tied up, and some prisoners couldn't bear it anymore and lay limp on the ground, motionless, not knowing whether they were dead or alive.

The other ones with their eyes open also knelt on the ground staggeringly. Due to the high surface temperature, their postures were a bit weird and distorted.

The scene in front of him was too miserable to bear to look directly at.

Xu Weiqiu clutched his heart, not knowing what to do for a while.Then, she saw a water tank in the distance, so she walked over without thinking twice, scooped up a ladle of water, and walked towards a few people.

When some prisoners saw the water ladle in her hand, they regained their spirits in a moment of despondency, moved their chapped lips, and pushed the people around them with their elbows.

Several people were already dizzy from the sun, and they didn't understand what was going on at first, until they saw her holding a water ladle, their eyes were full of longing.

Seeing this, the guards in the distance didn't come forward to stop her, probably because they thought her actions were ordered by Zhao Yan.They don't think any slave dares to act without authorization, unless it is to die.

She approached and took the lead in feeding water to the prisoner with the scar on his face. He glanced at her and raised his head to drink, attracting envious eyes from the people around him.

Someone couldn't hold back, and said eagerly, "Old Chen, don't drink it all up, save me a sip."

"Don't worry, everyone has it."

Xu Weiqiu comforted her with words, and the water in a scoop was quickly drank. Lao Chen thanked her, she nodded, turned around and ran to continue to fetch water.

One person was fed with a water ladle, and when the third person was fed, a black shadow shrouded in the rear. The prisoners who were waiting anxiously saw the person coming, their eyes looked frightened, and the surroundings suddenly became quiet, and the air condensed .

But the two people who are feeding and drinking water haven't noticed it yet.

"Drink slowly, don't choke..." As soon as the words finished, there was a sharp pain in the back, Xu Weiqiu hissed, his hands trembled uncontrollably, and the remaining water in the ladle fell to the ground.

She turned around in horror...

Zhao Yan stood behind her with a horse whip in his hand, his back was lighted, his tall figure was like an emissary from hell.

Xu Weiqiu's heart tightened for a moment, he was really afraid that he would raise his horsewhip to whip his face again, but he didn't, he just looked at her and asked:
"Zhao Fu, what are you doing?"

Under his gaze, she felt chills on her back on a hot day, she turned around and explained weakly: "I... I just fed them some water, nothing else... "

Zhao Yan snorted coldly:
"It's ridiculous, even if you are a bodhisattva, you can't protect yourself, yet you come to sympathize with others."

After saying this, he dropped the horsewhip in his hand and turned around to walk back. Xu Weiqiu endured the pain, picked up the horsewhip from the ground and followed him.

But he heard him say to the two guards: "Give them some water."

Xu Weiqiu breathed a sigh of relief, wondering if this person had finally found out his conscience, but he heard him add another sentence: "It's a good thing for them to die like this."

"..."

After being whipped, Xu Weiqiu was completely honest. She didn't dare to inquire about the fate of those prisoners, and she waited carefully in front of Zhao Yan, not daring to slack off in the slightest; she knew very well that her life and death depended only on his thoughts between.

After a few days like this, she went to the kitchen to fetch breakfast for Zhao Yan, but she was stopped by Mrs. Chen on the way.

"Brother Xiaoyu, follow me..."

While speaking, Aunt Chen stretched out her hand and pulled her to a corner where she couldn't help.

Seeing the other party's sneaky look, Xu Weiqiu looked puzzled and said, "Ma'am, what's the matter?"

"Hush!" Aunt Chen signaled her not to speak, then looked around warily, a servant came not far away, and the two fell silent in a tacit understanding.

After the famous family member Ding walked away, Aunt Chen took her hand and said earnestly: "Brother Xiaoyu, I really came to you because I had nowhere to go. Please help me."

"Please tell me, I will help if I can."

"Brother Xiaoyu, Mr. Zhao caught a few escaped prisoners earlier, you know about this, right?"

Hearing this, Xu Weiqiu's expression suddenly became serious.

She said nothing, waiting for her to speak.

Aunt Chen looked at her face, hesitated for a moment and continued, "The leader is named Chen, and he is my husband."

"Ah?" This time, Xu Weiqiu was greatly surprised: "You mean the one with a scar on his face?"

"Yes." Aunt Chen nodded.

This was something she didn't expect, Xu Weiqiu didn't react for a while, and looked at the other party in astonishment.
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In the dead of night, Xu Weiqiu was lying on Datong Fu, thinking about what Mrs. Chen had said during the day.

"You have been following Mr. Zhao...do you know where he locked up my husband?"

"Aren't they all locked up in the detention camp?"

Aunt Chen shook her head and said, "We have searched everywhere for our people, and there are none."

Why is she asking that?Also, she said their people, do they have a group?At this moment, the only thing Xu Weiqiu can think of is that these people want to rob prison?
At the time she replied that she did not know, and in fact she did not know.

No matter what Aunt Chen wants to do, reason tells her that if she wants to survive, she should not go into this muddy water.

Aunt Chen's disappointed expression flashed across her mind...

The scab on the back of the hand was scalded by the iron, and the whip wound on the back was still there. The feeling of the whip on the flesh was uncomfortable, and she didn't want to suffer a third time...

She warned herself like this, but from time to time, the tragic situation of those prisoners on the training ground flashed through her mind, as well as the lives tied to the pyre and burned to death, and the horrific cries were vividly remembered.

She is a doctor, and she is used to seeing life and death; but when a living life was burned to death in front of her eyes, she was helpless, which made her hard to let go for a long time.

She doesn't want to think about it, every time she thinks about it, she still has lingering fears in her heart, all these are reminding her that now she is no longer Shen Qing,

(End of this chapter)