Chapter 1572: Troop Commander
Chapter 1572: Chapter 1572: Troop Commander
Qin San Lang looked at Village Chief Tang, a cold smile appearing on his face: "Tang Wengui, as the leader of the village, allowing Rong people to infiltrate the village for more than two months without thinking to report to the authorities is a capital crime; as the village chief, instructing villagers not to resist the Rong and offering up the women and girls for their defilement in exchange for safety is also a capital crime."
Qin San Lang enumerated Village Chief Tang’s crimes, finally stating coldly: "Hong Dao, kill him."
Kill, kill him?!
Village Chief Tang was scared out of his wits, finally realizing that this young Lord Company Commander was not easy to fool, urgently cried: "Sir, I am innocent, it was the Rong who forced me to do it. If I didn’t help them hide and give them the village women to play with, they would kill all the men in the village and wipe out our lineage!"
Qin San Lang: "These claims might have held before, but saying them now, after trying to shift responsibility onto us, is useless. Hong Dao, execute him."
Village Chief Tang is a hindrance, cannot allow such a person to remain.
If Village Chief Tang became too afraid of the Rong people and sent messages to the Rong in nearby villages, it would jeopardize their efforts to secretly clear out the Rong.
"Kill, kill this old beast!" Mrs. Lao Fang pointed at Village Chief Tang, her face distorted, saying viciously: "He’s worthless, deserves to die!"
Mrs. Lao Fang hated Village Chief Tang intensely, this filthy creature had, under the Rong’s coaxing, given her husband’s wife to the Rong...
Her husband’s wife was Mrs. Lao Fang’s niece, so much in love with her husband, yet this vile man dared to do such a thing.
Madness, from the day the Rong entered the village, this filthy creature went mad!
Mrs. Lao Fang couldn’t allow Village Chief Tang to live, if the old dog continued living, what would happen to her husband and Brother Jun? Could life go on? For the sake of her family, Mrs. Lao Fang agreed to kill Village Chief Tang.
Tang Village Chief listened, his eyes wide with rage, glared at Mrs. Lao Fang: "Poisonous woman, you actually want to harm your kin, without my Old Tang family, could your Fang family have had days of plentiful food and warm clothes?"
He glanced at Tang Jun, threatening Mrs. Lao Fang: "I warn you, don’t push it too far, or even if I die, I’ll drag you all down with me in disgrace!"
"Shut up!" Mrs. Lao Fang was terrified, afraid Village Chief Tang would reveal her husband’s wife’s affair, making life impossible for her husband and Brother Jun, quickly rushed to grab the soldier’s sword to cut down Village Chief Tang.
But Hong Dao was quicker, the blade struck, severing Village Chief Tang’s head.
Village Chief Tang hadn’t even reacted, his head already fell to the ground.
Mrs. Lao Fang saw this, fell to the ground, but she laughed... the old dog was finally dead, the disgraceful thing done to her husband’s wife remained hidden, and her husband and Brother Jun wouldn’t be mocked.
It’s no wonder Mrs. Lao Fang didn’t want Village Chief Tang alive, defiled by Rong was innocent, and all the village women were the same, but if it was exposed... future generations would hang their heads in shame!
The villagers of Tangjia Zhuang were shocked by Tang Village Chief’s death, but recalling the night the Rong invaded the village, summoned them to his home only to have them all captured by the Rong, they wished to kill him.
If Village Chief Tang had been a bit more courageous, sacrificed his life, avoided calling them to gather, instead urged them to flee the village and summon help, Tangjia Zhuang wouldn’t have suffered such a calamity!
Qin San Lang: "Keep five of the captured Rong, drag out the rest and execute them."
So many Rong need to be killed to avoid future troubles, keeping a few as proof is sufficient.
"Yes." Hong Dao and the others quickly dragged out the living Rong, lined them up in two rows, over forty in total.
"Kill!" With Qin San Lang’s command, soldiers swung their swords at the Rong people’s necks.
The sound of chopping, heads were severed, rolled to the side.
"Good, kill them well!" Village people cheered, but then fell to the ground in tears... for over two months, they had suffered too much.
Qin San Lang waited for them to cry for a while, then instructed: "The Rong in the nearby villages are not dead, I need you to continue pretending the village is still under Rong control, do not leave the village, remain quietly at home, we will quickly clear out the Rong in the nearby villages."
The villagers saw he and the soldiers were indeed capable, able to kill the Rong hidden in the village, and obediently nodded.
Qin San Lang reiterated the words spoken by Hong Dao at Tang Laoliu’s family: "Several nearby villages are the same, no one should despise another, and they are innocent, must not be harmed twice, once by the Rong, then again by your rumors."
If this were in the southern part, villagers would drown these girls for the sake of face, but in the Northwest, wars were frequent, every generation leaving behind many widows, second marriages occurred often.
Widows aren’t virgins, and now these girls defiled aren’t virgins either, if you don’t despise widows, then you won’t despise these girls.
The villagers had family members defiled by Rong, understood this pain, couldn’t bear to further harm them with rumors, nodded and said: "Sir, rest assured, we will treat them well, after this passes, find them widowers to marry, won’t look down on them."
Qin San Lang nodded in satisfaction.
Tang Laoda: "Sir, these Rong send messages to their Troop Commander every three days, indicating they haven’t been exposed, tomorrow is the third day, if we don’t use a messenger wolf to send a message of safety to that Troop Commander, they might get suspicious!"
This indeed is quite a tricky matter.
Qin San Lang asked: "Do we know what the Rong write to their Lord Troop Commander each time?"
Though he understood Rong Language, if the content wasn’t right, it would be discovered by Golden Tent Troop Commander, ruining his plan.
Tang Laoda shook his head.
Tang Jun said: "My little aunt should know."
Little aunt served the beast leader for over two months, claimed she saw the beast leader write some strange words, if we ask little aunt, we might get some clues.
But little aunt suffered greatly, unsure if she could see men now?
Mrs. Lao Fang said: "Sir, I’ll go find Sister Ling, ask her."
Seeing Qin San Lang nodded, Mrs. Lao Fang went inside to find Tang Ling, explained the situation to her.
Tang Ling, having a mother like Mrs. Lao Fang, endured two months of torture for her family, proving she’s a strong girl, listened to Mrs. Lao Fang, then said: "Mother, go to big brother’s room, fetch paper and pen, I’ll draw the words the beast wrote."
Tang Ling didn’t know Rong Language, but she had seen Ah Tuo write many times, recognized those characters’ shapes, likened to drawing, she reproduced them.
"Yes, mother will fetch paper and pen." Mrs. Lao Fang quickly rose to fetch paper and pen.
Tang Ling slowly recalled, spent a night, finally reproducing the Rong script she remembered, let Mrs. Lao Fang take it to Qin San Lang.
Honestly, those Rong characters resembled talismans, but Qin San Lang understood Rong Language, after more than an hour, recognized the text content on the drawings.