Chapter 34 hunt down

Dayanling was crowded with people, and Shangguan Qing was ordered to lead a group of hunters to hunt down a voice in the crowd of laborers. who is crying Who is crying?Who is crying here?have you ever cried Is anyone here crying?Whoever cried, stand up for me! Most of the craftsmen stared blankly at Shangguanqing, their eyes raised all kinds of rhetorical questions, who cried?Look at our faces, there is only sweat on our faces, where are the tears?Who cries only when he is crazy, and who receives seventy-seven forty-nine lashes for nothing.why do we cryWe are born poor, and it is our destiny to carry stones and build cities. If our bones are tired and fall apart, we will be able to fight tomorrow after a night of sleep. We still have to work, what is there to cry about?The dying people in the sick shed also faced this investigation calmly. They told Shangguan Qing with violent coughing and bloodshot mouth corners, I have phlegm, blood, and heat, but no tears!What's the use of crying?There are several ways of death for the dead in Dayanling. Those who escaped from the convoy were caught by your captors and hanged for public display. Those who were thin could not fight against the bricks of the stone city, and vomited blood to death. Fever and death, a few stubborn and pessimistic people ran to the cliff, jumped off the cliff and fell to their death, there are only a few ways to die, they are not afraid of death, what is there to be afraid of, people who don’t know how to be afraid, how can there be tears!

Under Shangguanqing's cross-examination, several craftsmen admitted that they had sad faces, but refused to admit that they had cried.A young porter from remote Canglan County said that he wanted to cry, but he found a way to stop the tears effectively. He also honestly stuck out his tongue to show Shangguan Qing, saying that he would bite himself if he wanted to cry. He bit his tongue and bleed, and stopped crying when it hurt. Shangguan Qing checked the young porter's tongue and found that the tongue was bitten to a bloody mess.There is also a pair of twin brothers who are the focus of Shangguanqing's investigation. They obviously look lonely and their eyes are swollen, but others testify that the eyes of the two brothers are not swollen from crying, but swollen from laughing.Shangguan Qing asked the two brothers to laugh for him.The two brothers came, stood together, spread their arms towards each other like two birds in love, Shangguan Qing called out, what are you doing?Ready to go to the gallows?Someone nearby said to Shangguan Qing, don't worry, they will be able to laugh in a while.The catchers thought there was some good show to watch, but after waiting for a long time, it turned out to be a childish farce.It turned out that the two brothers were twins. Remembering that the old mother was sick and left unattended at home, one would cry when one was sad. In order to avoid this situation, they tickled each other. Can successfully break through tears and laugh.In front of a group of captors, after tickling each other, the two brothers laughed wildly in unison, laughing so much that Shangguan Qing and the others shuddered, went up and forcibly pulled the two brothers apart, each of them gave a slap in the face.

The arresters couldn't catch the crying, and they were all a little depressed. Some people began to whisper about General Jianyang's recent mental state. Shangguan Qing was very annoyed and said, subordinates are not allowed to discuss superiors!The general said that when he heard someone crying, someone must be crying. The general with the golden Kowloon helmet on his head is smarter than us. Not to mention looking for crying, even if he is looking for wind, we have no choice but to look for it! When they came to the quarry, the supervisor finally reported that a woman who was looking for her husband had cried in the quarry in the morning.It was a woman brought from a quarry by an ox cart carrying stones. The woman was crawling on the road with a stone on her back.Shangguan Qing saw that the overseer was hesitating, so he began to scold. He couldn't tell what his age was. After getting into the car, what happened to the woman?

It's not my responsibility, it's the responsibility of the quarry!The overseer first cleared himself up before he was willing to continue talking. The woman was surprised that she climbed into the bullock cart and carried the stone, and a frog followed her into the bullock cart. The driver confused her and said that the stone You can bring it up, but the frog can’t get in the car. The woman interceded for the frog, saying that one of them was looking for a husband and the other was looking for a son, and the frog was here to find a son! What frog?What is the frog looking for?Shangguan Qing yelled, tell me clearly, where did the frog go?Who is that frog's son?

The frog is so small, I don't know where it jumped. My eyes are mainly for the masonry. Regardless of the frog, I don't know who the frog's son is.The supervisor saw Shang Guanqing's angry face, and hurriedly added that the woman was looking for Wan Qiliang, and she was his wife. I caught a glimpse of her back, crawling with a stone on her back, crying while climbing. I think you are the son of that frog, otherwise you wouldn't be so stupid!Shangguan Qing hit the supervisor's self-esteem sharply, laughed to himself, and his eyes began to shoot at the straw sheds and stones around the quarry. What about the woman, where did she come from?

It was Wan Qiliang's daughter-in-law who came from Qingyun County, and she said that she walked a thousand miles in one autumn before arriving at Dayanling. What about Wan Qiliang? Call Wan Qiliang over! I can't scream anymore, Wan Qiliang is dead!The supervisor said that sixteen people from Qingyun County died in the landslide in Xia Tian, ​​and Wan Qiliang was also in it, buried alive by the stone! The supervisor took out a piece of bamboo from the cloth bag at the back of his waist and showed it to Shangguan Qing. A few words were roughly engraved on the bamboo piece: Qingyun County, Wanqiliang, Quarry, two dry and two sparse.The person's place of origin, name, place of labor, and daily rations are all clearly marked, but a red cross has been drawn on the name. When the arresters saw the red cross, they all frowned and chattered in unison. He said that he was already dead, so why did he come here?Take her to a wild grave, dig a bone for her, give her seven knives, and send her away!The overseer put away the cloth bag, showing embarrassment, and said that she was sent away according to the rules, and she could get seven knives with this person card, but she didn't want the card, as long as she was a person, where would I give it to him, even the bones? No, Wan Qiliang's bones are not in the wild grave. He died in Broken Heart Rock. His bones are now buried under the city wall. Unless the city wall is demolished, where can I dig her bones?She was crying on the quarry, how can I make her cry in the quarry, it is my responsibility to let the higher-ups hear it, so I drove her to cry elsewhere!

You selfish thing, other places are also Dayanling, don't let you cry!Shangguan Qing cried out angrily. When Shangguan Qing led his men to search for the woman from Qingyun County near the quarry, he heard the stonemasons chiseling stones with a gloomy and sad tone. It was crystal water droplets, and a few droplets splashed onto Shangguan Qing's face, and his hands were hot to the touch.Shangguan Qing went up to check suspiciously, first at the iron chisels and hammers in their hands, then at their faces and eyes. The stonemasons pointed to the wet stones on the ground and said, "You should take a look at the stones. The stones have been covered overnight. With so much water condensed, no matter how much you wipe it off, you won't be able to wipe it off.

The stone really seemed to be picked up from the water, shining with a wet light.Shangguan Qing stared at a stone and said, it didn't rain or fog at night, where did the water come from on the stone?Do stones shed tears?The stonemasons said that we don't know what happened to the stone. Since Wan Qiliang's daughter-in-law came, the stone began to cry.Anyway, we didn't shed tears, it was the stone that wept! Many strange drops of water were brought, but the woman from Qingyun County disappeared from the quarry.No one saw where the woman was going. Shangguan Qing asked everyone in the quarry. The eyes of most stonemasons showed that they had insight into the secret, but they all shook their heads firmly and said, we are chiseling stones, we Don't know where she went.There are also some people who are bold and dare to speak to the captors in a strange way. It was the frog who led the way for the woman. We are not frogs, so how do we know where she is going?

Later, a simple and honest old mason gave advice to Shang Guanqing. He pointed to the stones all over the floor and said, "You can follow the dripping stones to find her. Where she crawled, the stones are all wet!"