Chapter 5: Suspected Possession by Erlang Shen

  Li Meng was startled in his heart and just wanted to raise the flat hoe in his hand when he heard the people behind him say repeatedly:

  "Li Meng, don't move, it's us."

  It turned out that Zhao Neng and Chen Liu had just pulled each other, and the situation on this side changed suddenly. Li Meng, who was standing there stupidly, had already knocked down five people in an instant. They then turned back again. At this time, these people looked at Li Meng with eyes full of reverence. Seeing Li Meng put down his carrying pole, Zhao Neng cautiously approached him, patted Li Meng's shoulder, and asked with a questioning tone:

  "Are you possessed by Erlang Shen...?"

  Li Meng suddenly felt a surge in his throat, the bloody smell on the scene rushed to his nose, he could no longer bear it, stretched out his hand to push away Zhao Neng beside him, and rushed to the side of the road, fell to the ground and started vomiting loudly. Everything he had eaten that morning was thrown up, it was a chaotic mess.

  Finally feeling a bit more comfortable, Li Meng slowly got up and asked Zhao Neng in a low voice:

  "Zhao, if I don't take action, what will these salt smugglers do to us?"

  "What else can we do, directly kill three or four and hang them on the roadside, then take the rest back to our village to extort money from each household, if they don't have money, rob their women, if they don't have women, capture them and throw them into prison to await death."

  Zhao Neng's tone was very relaxed, as if he was talking about something that was nothing out of the ordinary. Li Meng felt a bit better in his heart, and he had also seen these salt workers bullying people at the Xue family's and the salt yard, bringing disaster to the common people. In his heart, he also knew that these seven people were not good people, and if things didn't go well, all of them might lose their lives or be ruined today.

  But the modern man's mind, after the blood of courage and bravery has dissipated, is extremely unadapted, whether in spirit or in body. Hearing Zhao say this, Li Meng felt a little better in his heart.

  "With a 'pa' sound, the back had a sharp blade entering the flesh. Li Meng and Zhao Nai were both shocked to turn their heads, but saw Chen Liu's hand holding a salt knife, cutting off the person who was hit by Li Meng in the abdomen and fell to the ground, then turned red-eyed towards the two salt dings who were kowtowing and begging for mercy."

  Li Menggang wanted to stop him, but was pulled back by Zhao Neng, shaking his head and sighing...

  Chen Liu Zi walked up to the two people and, without heeding their pleas for mercy, grasped the steel knife in his hands and chopped down, one knife per person, both of whom fell. But Chen Liu Zi didn't stop after killing them; instead, he continued chopping with each knife, flesh and blood flying everywhere, the scene a bloody mess. After more than ten knives, Chen Liu Zi suddenly burst into loud wailing, still swinging his knife as he cried.

  "You bunch of ruthless salted dogs, the money my dad used to buy medicine to save his life, the money my dad used to save his life, my dad suffered for three days before he died, you salted dogs, beasts... Dad, you died miserably..."

  Chen Liu Zi seemed to have gone mad, crying and hacking at the same time. In the end, he threw down his knife and knelt weakly on the ground, wailing loudly with a hoarse voice, pitiful beyond compare.

  Witnessing this scene, Li Meng took a deep breath. Although the air was thick with the smell of blood, he felt less uncomfortable than before.

  In this era, if evil people are not killed, it is a crime against these good citizens.

  Chen Liu Zi knelt on the ground crying for a short while, then regained his composure, stood up and wiped his eyes, turned around to pick up the salt basket on the ground. Everyone tacitly avoided mentioning what had just happened with Yan Ding, about leaving Li Meng alone and running away.

  "Are we going to sell it?"

  Zhao hesitated and asked Li Meng, about the slaughter that had just occurred. Li Meng's sudden outburst of behavior made these military dependents vaguely regard Li Meng as their leader, waiting for him to make decisions. Previously, they had ridiculed and sympathized with the fool, but now they were deeply afraid of him, a stark contrast between before and after.

  At this time, Li Meng had also more or less recovered from the feeling of disgust. When he heard Zhao Neng's question, he didn't think there was anything wrong with it and replied according to his pre-transcendence thinking:

  "Of course, we'll still sell them. First, let's throw these salted corpses into a quiet place and bury the bloodstains with soil."

  Chen Liu-zi interrupted from the side:

  "What if there's still a salted dog in front?"

  A young man standing behind shouted out loud:

  "There's also Salty Dogzi, Li Meng has already taken care of him alone, didn't you hear Zhao Dage say that he was possessed by Erlang True Lord?"

  After all, it was an era of more than 400 years ago, and there were no atheists among the people. As soon as Zhao Neng made his judgment on Erlang True Lord, everyone nodded in agreement, and Chen Liu also remained silent. Li Meng waved his hand repeatedly and explained:

  "What's with the possession? I was scared stiff just now, thinking that if we didn't fight back, we'd be dead for sure, but if we did, there might still be a way to survive. That's why I rushed forward. And another thing, let's keep today's events under wraps, after all, seven lives were lost. If others find out, we'll all be in big trouble."

  These dozen or so sons of military families all nodded, and Li Meng continued to say:

  "There are only twelve of us, and Salty won't send out too many people to intercept. These salt dogs don't take us seriously at all. Even if they can't find anyone, the patrol will just think these salt dogs have gone off to play somewhere and won't be suspicious. Let's get rid of the body and continue on our way. We'll come back this way later."

  Li Meng finished speaking, and the eyes of these dozen or so military dependents looked at him differently. The men of the Wei military dependents could fight and kill, which was not rare; even the family guards of the commander and the thousand households had this skill. If someone said that Li Meng's mind was clear, that would be truly rare! This is what it means to have both bravery and strategy!

  Li Meng, who had been foolish for nearly twenty years in Xue's thousand households, suddenly stunned these people today.

  After listening to him, everyone had no questions. Seeing Li Meng was relatively weak, these people didn't need him to take action. They went over directly and moved those few corpses. Zhao Neng was still there shouting loudly:

  "Everyone kept their mouths tightly shut. If this news leaks out, we'll all be guilty of a capital offense and no one will be able to escape."

  Everyone responded with a loud "yes", and they began to transport the corpses in a flurry of activity. Although this hilly area didn't have any tall trees, it was covered with thickets and ravines crisscrossing everywhere. They would carry the corpses a few steps before throwing them into a hole and covering them with dirt, making it impossible for anyone to discover them.

  Li Meng finally finished speaking, and only then did he feel a sense of relief wash over him. He sat down on the road, watching as his companions moved the salt blocks. From their perspective, who knows how many evil deeds these young people had committed in the past? As they moved the blocks, they couldn't help but kick them a few times.

  On the other side, Zhao Neng and Chen Liu Zi joined forces to lift a corpse, just as they heard Li Meng shouting:

  "Zhao, big brother, wait."

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