novel bin Chapter 8 There's always a reason why someone is pitiful.
Chapter 8 There's always a reason why someone is pitiful.
A young man walked towards the threshing ground through the mist, carrying a knife in his left hand and a disheveled, disfigured head in his right.
The boy walked steadily through the mist, as if the object in his hand were nothing more than an ordinary thing. The mist dampened his clothes and blurred his expression, but his eyes shone with an astonishing light, like tempered iron.
Perhaps because the discussion had become a topic of conversation, or perhaps because the fog obscured visibility, almost none of the villagers noticed the boy's arrival.
As the distance gradually closed, the man who had been swallowing chaff, who seemed to have been searching for something, suddenly had his eyes light up!
Confusion, astonishment, surprise...
The moment the man confirmed that the boy was Xiao Jin, his eyes widened suddenly, his pupils contracted sharply, as if he had seen something incredible.
Not to mention that Xiao Jin had never received salt from the threshing ground, the dripping blood from the knife tip, and the disfigured head that was somewhat chilling... what's going on?
After staring intently to confirm, the man instinctively rubbed his eyes hard, and even after confirming again, he still seemed unable to believe what his eyes were seeing.
Is this still the same Xiao Jin who was cowardly, timid, and complacent, who didn't even dare to fart after being whipped ten times?
While the man who swallowed the chaff was filled with mixed feelings and puzzled as he ate,
Villagers gradually spotted Xiao Jin approaching through the fog...
Unlike the man who swallowed chaff, he did not have many reactions—such as exclaiming in surprise!
In this desolate and hopeless Qingxi Village, someone actually committed murder!
More importantly, the killer... Xiao Jin?
The incident happened so suddenly and so unusually that the villagers were all stunned and remained in a state of shock, as if in a deathly silence!
"Um? 』
Xiao Jin had considered how the villagers would react, but he never expected that their gazes would make him feel like a monster who didn't belong to this world, nothing more.
The person in the hand is holding Muramasa's head; isn't this reaction a bit too calm?
After a brief moment of reflection, Xiao Jin paid no attention to the matter and looked towards where Wang Suiyue and Liu Yu were, walking straight over as if no one else was there.
As they approached and their eyes met, Xiao Jin and Liu Yu were both stunned almost simultaneously.
"Holy crap! What the hell is this woman?"
From his vantage point, Xiao Jin had only caught a glimpse of Liu Yu's figure and had praised her in his heart several times. He even harbored a wicked thought—to rape her first and then kill her!
But looking closer... what was originally a sweet dream... instantly turned into a nightmare!
With her extremely alluring figure and voluptuous appearance, Liu Yu's face, marked by a birthmark and a few long hairs, made her utterly ugly!
With just one glance, Xiao Jin got goosebumps all over, and even forgot why he was there in the first place.
As for Liu Yu, she naturally didn't have the same thoughts as Xiao Jin. Her eyes were fixed on the head in Xiao Jin's hand, her brows furrowed. This... Muramasa?
What a joke! How can such a disfigured head prove that it is Muramasa?
Even more speechless than Xiao Jin, Liu Yu, after a brief moment of stunned silence, swallowed hard and pointed at the head Xiao Jin was holding: "You...you, you damned Liu Ji! I told you not to embezzle the villagers' food, their only means of survival! Now you've got your comeuppance!"
Liu Ji?
Most villagers seemed to only hear the name Liu Ji, because Liu Ji was the great philanthropist in the hearts of the villagers and the village head of Qingxi Village.
After a brief silence, a woman suddenly shouted at Xiao Jin, "You heartless little beast, how dare you plot against the village head!"
"This, this, this kid actually killed Muramasa!"
"What should we do...?"
"Without Muramasa, how are we supposed to face the Iron Slaughter Guard...?"
"..."
"You damned wretch, have you forgotten how the village head treated you and your child?"
"Yes, without the village head, this mother and daughter would probably have starved to death long ago!"
"We shouldn't have let that mother and child stay in Qingxi Village back then!"
"..."
In the eyes of the villagers, the village head Liu Ji took the best care of Xiao Muyu and her son, which made some villagers feel resentful. If it weren't for the village head's "goodness", they probably would have driven the mother and son out of Qingxi Village long ago, since they were outsiders.
As for Liu Ji's reputation among the villagers, besides the fact that he, as the village head, handled all the affairs of the village, big and small, he would also help any family in dire straits to some extent.
Over time, the villagers only remembered the good things about the village head.
"Wow!"
"Are all these guys idiots? They've all embezzled your lifeline, and you're still defending these scoundrels?"
"How is Wonima considered a beast for ridding the people of a scourge?"
"You'll be damned by God!"
With his head buzzing and his temper flaring, Xiao Jin shoved Muramasa's head into the crowd and yelled, "All of you, shut the hell up!"
This sudden scene, coupled with Xiao Jin's unexpected shout, caused complete silence.
"Are you all just bored and have nothing better to do than stuff your ears with donkey hair?" After saying that, Xiao Jin glared fiercely at everyone.
"Embezzlement?"
Finally, someone realized what was happening.
"Did Mrs. Muramasa just say that Muramasa... embezzled our rations?"
"..."
At this point, the villagers still seemed unwilling to believe it.
"You heard me right!" The man who had been swallowing chaff seemed to have found some kind of relief, his voice louder and more powerful than ever before. "It's because that scoundrel Liu Ji embezzled our rations that Xiao boy was filled with righteous indignation and wanted to kill him as soon as possible!"
"Holy crap!"
Hearing the words of the man who swallowed chaff, Xiao Jin unconsciously wiped his forehead. Was this an indirect attempt to steal his brother's lines?
Could it be that Mother deliberately arranged this...? He instinctively looked around. His view outside the crowd was unobstructed. Xiao Muyu was following Xiao Jin's gaze and nodded very calmly, leaving Xiao Jin completely confused.
At this moment, the man who had been swallowing chaff had already stepped out of the crowd and approached Liu Yu, causing Liu Yu to tremble inexplicably.
Everything is but a fleeting moment.
Whether it was a deliberate arrangement or a chance occurrence, Xiao Jin was just about to continue the drama with the man who swallowed chaff...
"That's not right!" a voice suddenly rang out from the crowd. "Muramasa would never do such a thing!"
Immediately, someone chimed in: "That makes sense. Leaving aside the village head's usual help to us, how much of our rations could we possibly have to embezzle?"
In the villagers' minds, how much grain could the village headman possibly embezzle, given that they could barely pay their grain tax and avoid being harassed by the Iron Guards with the help of the village headman's money?
"Holy shit, that really hurts!"
Upon hearing what the villagers said, Xiao Jin was furious. He couldn't play by his mother's rules anymore.
"You bunch of utterly ignorant and pathetic creatures deserve to starve to death!"
His words were sharp, his domineering aura was overwhelming, and the glint in his eyes sent chills down the spines of the villagers. They had never seen Xiao Jin like this before, leaving them stunned and unsure what to do.
"Even the most pitiful person has something hateful about them!" Xiao Jin, changing his tune on the spur of the moment, hadn't yet organized his thoughts and blurted out, "So-called good people aren't necessarily without their despicable aspects!"