Chapter 62
Liu Zhili stood in front of Cheng Dairen, her eyes dim and resentful, pitifully beautiful.
Actually, she hasn't been doing very well these days. Cheng Dairen had thought before that the Liu family was not easy to get along with, but he felt that as long as he established a good relationship with Liu Zhi, the Liu family would give face to their eldest miss and wouldn't make things too difficult.
He was wrong about this. Liu Zhi was indeed the former Miss of the Liu family, but she had fallen to become a high-ranking lady in the brothel, and she was still the original Miss of the Liu family.
She said she was clean and innocent, but someone had to believe her. Even if she hadn't lost her virginity, she must have drunk with men before, danced in front of people before... this... was already enough to shame her ancestors.
People always think of the worst, from ancient times to the present. So these days, Liu Zhi's life is probably like a phoenix that has lost its feathers and is no better than a chicken.
This is the first point where Cheng Dairen was wrong, and he also got another point wrong. In his previous life, his days were unusually miserable, and he always felt that women needed to be carefully coaxed, sending flowers, gifts, cars, and houses, always placing them in a high position. Even in this era of three wives and four concubines, he still thought about having a wife like Yao Huang and Niangzi, but psychologically he was the same as before.
In fact, it's not difficult to get a woman in this era, easier than what Cheng Da Lei thought. Two taels of silver can buy a young and pretty maid, cheaper than a donkey. Even if she serves as a concubine, her status is still lower than that of a high-ranking maid, just like Zhao Jie Niang in Dream of the Red Chamber, who gave birth to a son but was treated no better than a high-ranking maid. Even for a proper marriage, two oxen are enough to exchange for a young and pretty wife, of course, the betrothal gifts vary depending on the other party's status.
Cheng Dairen's identity is still that of a mountain bandit, and if he takes a liking to someone, as long as he has a way to snatch them away, then they are his. Just like Su Qing, if Cheng Dairen had the heart to be ruthless, she would have been the one to bear him children. Besides, whether it's the empress or the princess, whoever can be snatched is all the same.
In this era, you want to be Lin Daiyu, but there are hardly any Jia Baoyu.
The Liu family was forced to the end, thinking of a lawless law, using Liu Zhi to exchange for their safety. Naturally, someone opposed it, Mengzi Yun was definitely not in agreement, but for several old people of the Liu family, it didn't count as any loss, after all, what they sacrificed was just a fallen and disgraced Liu family.
Cheng Daire was stunned for a long time, and then he brushed a strand of disheveled hair behind Liu Ji's ear. Liu Ji's body trembled slightly, but then she remained completely still.
"Stay behind!" Cheng Dairen waved his hand magnanimously and granted amnesty.
The people of the Yanagida family were like those who had been granted a great amnesty, and they began to climb up the mountain in an endless stream. The people on the mountain also let out a sigh of relief, this kind of psychology is similar to everyone falling into a cesspit together, no one can laugh at anyone else's stench.
However, going up the mountain is not easy either. Generally, you need to clarify the number of people, register names, and divide them into groups according to their original work.
Before long, the sky turned dark and there were only a few people left at the foot of the mountain, with just one lonely fire.
"Liu Lao, let's go up the mountain too."
"It's getting late and Old Liu hasn't had a good rest for some days."
"Go ahead, you guys go first, I'll walk slowly, no rush."
Liu Muyun smiled and said a sentence, looking up at the mountain, Cheng Dairen also looked at him, but always felt that the face illuminated by the firelight had something else.
Right after that, Liu Muyun did something nobody expected. He pushed away the people beside him, took a few steps back, and with great force, he smashed his head into the ground, shouting out one sentence before his death.
"The ancestors of the Liu family have arrived to see you all!"
Blood flows everywhere, shocking the entire mountain, and a suffocating silence of death fills both the top and bottom of the mountain.
Cheng Dali's eyes widened in incredulity, his face filled with unbelief.
Kě Liǔ Mù Yún's body fell to the ground, dead and gone, this matter is really too true.
It is unacceptable for a scholar to lack grandeur and perseverance when the mission is heavy and the journey is long. Is it not a heavy responsibility to take benevolence as one's own duty? And is it not a long journey to fulfill it until death?
It turns out that there are indeed such people in this world, who would rather die than give up their so-called glory.
On the mountain and under the mountain, everyone in the Liu family looked at Cheng Dairen with complex emotions on their faces, but their eyes expressed the same meaning: You drove Liu Muyun to death!
In people's hearts, Liu Mu Yun's image suddenly rose high, he chose to humiliate himself in order to let everyone live on, but proved the glory of the Liu family with his own death.
Ke Cheng felt that things were not like this. Behind Liu Muyun's strange smile, there seemed to be something else.
Suddenly, a strange smile appeared on Cheng Dairen's face as he muttered: "Old man, do you really want to play it so fiercely..."
Cheng Darui used his own methods to shatter the dignity of these people. Without dignity, they are hardly worthy of being called human. In this way, after they went up the mountain, it would be difficult for them to resist Cheng Darui again, and it would also be easier to manage them.
Liu Mu Yun's death, however, planted a nail in the hearts of these people. In the countless days that followed, they would remember Liu Mu Yun's dead expression, and this nail would one day be triggered, turning into a fuse that would eventually explode.
One death can clear his own reputation, one death can plant a calamity for Cheng Da Lei, it can be said that one death has two gains, but is it really worth it to exchange these with the cost of death?
This is the real Thick Black Theory, being ruthless to others and even more so to oneself.
In comparison, Cheng Dairen's attainments in the Thick Black Theory are simply one trick that doesn't work.
It turned out that smile was a sneer at Zhang Da Lei's youth and ignorance.
Then watch me pull out this nail.
After a while, Cheng Dairen sighed and said something he had said before: "Feudal etiquette is killing people!"
In any case, these people gathered later in the schoolyard of the mountain stronghold, with a confirmed population of 98, still two short of Cheng Dali's goal.
Cheng Dairen was at the highest point, and everyone looked at him with complex eyes, with dependence, sadness, hatred, yet having to succumb to shame.
Drool, gained fear value 10
Drool, gained fear value 11
Drool, gained fear value...
It turns out that this can also gain fear value, when others hate you, they are also afraid of you.
Everyone was waiting for Cheng Dairen to say something, and Xu Shenji and others were the same. They felt that people's hearts were unstable and urgently needed comfort. Sometimes language is a good tool for comfort.
What can be said? Cheng Dalai thought to himself, should he use the well-prepared speech from before, about brothers coming together for a common goal, or come up with something new...
Finally, amidst everyone's anticipation, Cheng Dalai waved his hand and spat out two words.
"Sleep."
That night, Liu Zhi moved into Cheng Daren's room. She washed and dressed up, even asking some of the women in the clan about the wedding night.
When Cheng Dali walked into the room and saw Liu Zhi sitting upright on the kang, he was completely stunned.
The two men locked eyes, equally tense and fearful.
Roger, received fear value 188
