Unparalleled Double Harmony

Chapter 308 Tell the truth, can you save your life?

We mentioned in the last book that Huang Donglai tricked Naxiong Fengshan into kneeling and begging for mercy without bloodshed.

When the surrounding onlookers saw this scene, they all realized that this Xiongfeng Mountain was indeed a fake miracle doctor, but the one on the roof at this moment is the real immortal.

Therefore, in line with the principle of "whoever wins, we will stand", the common people began to yell at Xiongfeng Mountain at that time, and all kinds of shit bowls that don't give birth to pigs and chickens don't lay eggs were buckled on Xiongfeng Mountain up.

Of course, they were not stupid, they were all just yelling and cursing from a distance, and none of them dared to step forward and beat people, after all, no one wanted to try whether this "demonic way" would jump over the wall in a hurry to pay for it or something.

To make a long story short, Huang Donglai saw that the situation was under control, so he reassured the crowd a little bit, telling them to stop their scolding and listen to him.

When the crowd calmed down, Huang Donglai first explained that the conversation between Xiong Fengshan and Fang Pan just now was only heard by everyone outside the temple because of his "little plan".

As soon as the common people heard that it was the work of the Great Immortal, they accepted it as it was ordered, and stopped entangled in various details.

Then, Huang Donglai said again: Although this demon is not very good, he still has a little bit of magic. Even if he is handed over to the government or the people, they can't deal with it. Make a decision, I hope everyone will not block it.

When the common people heard this, it made sense, but some people still struggled with it.

What are you struggling with?

Of course it was the money that was cheated out of me.

To put it bluntly, the people don't care much about the life and death of Xiongfeng Mountain, what they care about is the money they have been cheated of in the past six months?
Huang Donglai also understood this, so he immediately jumped off the roof and landed in front of a house.

In this room, there are dozens of people imprisoned, some of them are the officials who went up the mountain with the fake Fang Pan, and the other part are the fake monks who were brought down by them before; in addition, the real Fang Pan who was hidden in the sedan chair , is also lying in this room right now.

At this time, Huang Donglai opened the door, hooked his fingers, and called out a person from inside.

That's no one else, it's Butou Zhao from this county.

When Huang Donglai and others brought down the yamen servant and the fake monk before, they deliberately did not knock him out, but just restrained him, told him not to act rashly, and quietly stayed in the room with those knocked out people, "seeing a good show ".

As a result, Catcher Zhao hid in the house and saw the whole process of the Xiongfengshan gang being broken.

What?You asked him why he didn't rush out before?
Does he dare?
After witnessing how Fuzi, Lin Yuancheng, and Tyrell knocked down dozens of people in an instant, he dared to ignore their orders and come forward?

When he heard the broadcasted dialogue between Fake Fang Pan and Xiong Fengshan, and saw the angry crowd rushing into the monastery, how dare he come out to stop it?
Even now, when Huang Donglai personally asked him to come out, he is still hesitating...

Because Fang Pan corrupted the law and colluded with Xiong Fengshan, Catcher Zhao undoubtedly knew about it; and as a Catcher in this county, it is impossible for him not to share the benefits.

Now that Fang Pan's actions have been exposed, Zhao Butou, an accomplice of the tiger, came to the crowd, who is to blame for being beaten to death by random punches?
Of course, what catcher Zhao didn't expect was...

After he came out, before he could open his mouth, Huang Donglai rushed to say, "Fellow folks, I think everyone in this county knows Catcher Zhao. This time, it was all because of him bearing the burden of humiliation and righteously destroying relatives, he reported Fang Pan and Xiongfengshan to this immortal. The evil deeds of collusion, today I can uphold justice for everyone..."

Brother Huang gave Zhao Butou a look while talking.

Catcher Zhao also understood immediately, his timid look a few seconds ago had changed into a dignified look.

"Today, Zhao Tutou cooperated with me from the inside out and led Fang Pan up the mountain, so that the truth can be revealed to the public." Huang Donglai saw that Zhao Tutou cooperated tactfully, and then continued, "Now Fang Pan and a group of heroes are serving the mountains. All the remnants of the subordinates have been tied up in the room behind Zhao Butou. Zhao Butou will act in accordance with the law and deal with them one by one... As for the money that Xiongfengshan and Fang Pan have collected from everyone for many days, Zhao The headhunters will also be refunded to everyone after the liquidation is completed..."

After Huang Donglai finished speaking in one breath, he said to Zhao Butou, who was already in a daze, "Isn't it? Zhao Butou."

At this juncture, facing the scorching eyes of the crowd, how dare his surname Zhao say "no"?

If he didn't do what Huang Dong said, he would definitely not get out of this temple alive today.

But... If he really did what Huang Donglai wanted, Huang Donglai and his party would pat their butts and leave afterwards, but all the aftermath work, as well as the responsibility of "stabbing Fang Pan in the back", must be arrested by Zhao. Head back down.

It's not easy to be a "hero". Who can tell whether it will be a blessing or a curse for you to take on this matter?
Justice is justice, and the law of the king is the law of the king. You are a headhunter who is paid by the imperial court, and you join hands with people from the rivers and lakes to kill your boss, that is, the local chief executive... You?
Zhao Butou also thought about these problems, but the current situation did not allow him to have other choices.

"Yes... yes." Catcher Zhao could only bite the bullet and reply, and then he borrowed the donkey from the slope and said loudly to the crowd, "Fellow folks, don't worry, I, Mr. Zhao, will definitely Bring these villains to justice, and I will give you an explanation, and I will return all the money you have been defrauded based on the evidence I have collected!"

As soon as they heard that the money was going to be refunded, the villagers were in a state of joy, and all the good words were pressed on Zhao Butou, and he almost shouted long live.

So what happened to it?
The book here implies that Zhao Butou really arrested Fang Pan and those fake monks after waking up those ignorant police officers under him that day.

He also kept on doing two things, knowing that he could no longer turn back, so he had to "dispose" of Fang Pan and his related people quickly, so as to prevent the surname Fang from contacting his backers in the court (basically, the more corrupt officials, China and Vietnam have backers, and of course the backers are all based on interests, not to mention true friendship) to get rid of the crime.

Zhao Butou knew very well that if Fang Pan could survive this time, he would be the one who would die.

Therefore, not long after, Fang Pan "died of illness" in prison, and his few family members also died of accidents in a short period of time. Take your life and die", and his subordinates and concubines are scattered like birds and beasts.

There is nothing to say about those fake monks. They are bandits. After checking their identities, almost all of them have a criminal record. In addition, the bones of the monks who were killed by them in Wuren Temple and replaced by fake names are still buried in the temple. , If it is confirmed, it will be a capital offense.

And there is...the matter of "returning the money to the people".

In fact, this matter is not difficult to do, because the Xiongfengshan gang wants to share the spoils with Fang Pan, so there must be an account book, and there is a record of how much each citizen should refund.

As for the money, there is still some money left in Wuren Temple, and the shortfall is made up with Fang Pan's family property obtained through corruption and perverting the law over the years.

After all the dust settled, Zhao Butou wrote a letter to the higher-level yamen, reporting the cause and effect of the case.

And when the superiors sent people to Hu County to investigate, there were only a bunch of "iron evidence" that had been filed and some cremated corpses left.

Seeing this, some people may wonder, can he do things like this with a headhunter?
Of course not.

The entire aftermath process can be completed so meticulously, it is impossible for Zhao Butou to do it alone, but if Fang Pan's master helps him...it will not be difficult.

As we mentioned earlier, in Dalong’s administrative system, the county magistrate and the catcher are both paid public rations and are public officials, but the master is not, and the master is a private secretary hired by the county magistrate.

Ordinarily, this master should be Fang Pan's most trusted person, and the person who should do his best to rescue Fang Pan, but Fang Pan's master chose to turn against him in this incident and stood by Zhao Butou. That's why Catcher Zhao handled things so neatly.

If you want to ask why this master made such a choice, then I can only say that the reason is that Fang Pan has a lot of concubines, and he may not be able to take care of them alone, and the master also took great pains to help the master take care of a few of them up.

Of course, Zhao Butou and the master's good days didn't last too long, and the two of them didn't end up well in the end, but those things are not worth mentioning anymore.

As for the people in Hu County, after weaning off the "Mengxin Fang" from Xiongfeng Mountain, their lives are still going on.

In order to commemorate the "Old Immortal Xudong" who once helped them, they simply changed Wuren Temple, which had no owner, into "Xudong Temple". A statue of God was built for him, and since then the temple has been fixed in Xi'an for a long time, and the incense is very good, and it has become a scene in Daqian, but that's a later story.

For now, let's get back to the story...

After Huang Donglai and others made a fuss in Wuren Temple, they captured Naxiong Fengshan and left.

In the afternoon of this day, in a forest.

Xiongfengshan, who was kneeling on the ground, saw Huang Donglai, Fudozi, Lin Yuancheng, and Tyrell at the same time just now.

Even now, he doesn't know that he has been fooled, and he is not very clear about the abilities of the four people in front of him... It can be seen that their Taoism skills are really low.

"Tell me, what is your background? Where did you come from? Who did you learn spells from?" Huang Dong asked, standing in front of Xiongfeng Mountain, without taking off his disguise.

"Yes..." Xiong Fengshan lowered his head and replied honestly, "My real name is Xiong'a Shan, and I was born in the Qinling Mountains. I grew leeks and leeks with my parents since I was a child... My parents died when I was 30 years old. I was poor and white, and I didn’t marry a wife when I was over 30. As the saying goes, if you are poor, you want to change... I heard that selling medicine makes more money than selling vegetables, so I changed to the mountains Collecting herbs and selling them to pharmacies in the county town, I have been doing this for several years, and I have also learned a lot of medicinal materials and the usage of several medicines.

"Then one day, when I was gathering herbs in the mountains, I encountered heavy fog and lost my way. I was trapped in the mountains for two days and two nights. On the third day, I accidentally found a doe in the forest that could not be injured. At that time, I was hungry and wanted to kill it for meat, but I didn't expect that just as I raised the knife, another young deer sprang out from the nearby forest and rushed to block the doe.

"Seeing this scene, I thought that my parents were both dead, and I was alone. If I killed the doe in front of me, the young deer would also be lonely and helpless, so I felt compassion, put down the knife, and took it He took some herbs and applied it to the wounded deer.

"Unexpectedly, halfway through the application of the medicine, the Erlu in front of me disappeared without a trace, and then a masked Taoist nun appeared in front of me. She said that I had kind thoughts in my heart and deserved the opportunity, and then passed it on to me. A little superficial ability, and then swaggered away.

"It's a pity that her old man never told me her name from the beginning to the end. I have mentioned her for many years, and I can only address her as Master..."

Xiong Fengshan's words are sincere and vivid, it doesn't look like a lie.

Almost both Lin Yuancheng and Tyrell believed in him.

Of course...

"Make it up, keep making it up." Huang Donglai didn't care about this description of Xiongfeng Mountain.

Xiong Fengshan may be able to deceive others, but in the eyes of people like Huang Donglai (that is, "just bragging, so serious about it") who are prone to flirting with Sun Yixie, an old liar , that's funny.

Huang Donglai knew very well that professional fraudsters like Xiong Fengshan may not tell [-]% of the truth even at the moment of death, not to mention that Xiong Fengshan is a liar who is good at speaking and acting... Can you believe the whitewashing remarks he said at this moment, describing himself as pitiful and kind?

"Eh? Great Immortal, this...I..." Xiong Fengshan saw that Huang Donglai didn't buy into his rhetoric, and for a moment didn't know what to answer.

Because Xiong Fengshan is still very confident in this line that he has carefully composed. After all, this is the ultimate means to "safeguard the bottom" and "save life", so he has already practiced the acting skills of telling this line to perfection. If you think about it, you will be rejected immediately.

Furthermore, Xiong Fengshan also couldn't figure out: what flaws could be found in an instant in his "seven points true and three points false", which cannot be proved or falsified.

"What me?" Huang Donglai said impatiently when he saw that he was unable to speak clearly, "I can make up four stories like yours..." As he spoke, he stretched out his hand and broke Pointing fingers and muttering, "I saved Bambi's mother on the first day of this month, I gave Quasimodo plastic surgery on the second day of the month, I changed the course of the Titanic on the third day of the month, and I turned into a giant of light on the fourth day and lay down one Big dinosaur...Look, who can blow their hair?"

Ladies and gentlemen, as far as he said these four things, the few people around him didn't understand a single sentence, but from his context, they can already guess his argument.

Maybe it was to prevent Huang Donglai from further misleading the topic, Fudoko also spoke at this time: "My surname is Xiong, if you dare to say a lie again, don't blame Pindao's subordinates for being ruthless..."

"Uncle, calm down, calm down..." Huang Donglai didn't listen to him and said that he wanted to do something, so he hurried up to dissuade him, for fear that the latter would turn the old liar into a sesame paste on impulse.

When Xiong Fengshan saw that "Old Immortal Xudong" actually called the young-looking Taoist beside him "Master Uncle", his heart skipped a beat. Only then did he realize that Fudoko was the most powerful person on the scene. The expert is a person who has reached the "state of rejuvenation", and Xiong Fengshan has only seen one person with this kind of cultivation in his life, and that is his master...

"Okay... let me say..." Knowing that it is impossible to get away with it, and there will be no chance to escape, Xiong Fengshan's tone changed again, "I'm telling the truth, can I save my life?"

"You talk first, we will care about whether you want to stay or not." Huang Donglai didn't give him an affirmative answer.

Because at this time, if Huang Donglai agrees immediately, saying "You just need to say it, we will keep you alive", then Xiong Fengshan will know that this is a perfunctory word for him to speak as soon as possible. Such a promise is No credibility.

But this "self-care" is very real, and it makes Xiong Fengshan feel that his chances of survival are higher.

"The part I just said, the ones in front, are all true..." Xiong Fengshan said, "It's just... I lied about the part about killing the deer." He paused, and said in a deep voice, "That day , When I saw the young deer jumping out to protect the doe, what I thought was... the doe was seriously injured, even if I rescued it, I might not survive, but if I could eat its meat, I would definitely survive , so the doe must die, and once the doe dies, the young deer may not be able to live long. In addition, their mother and child are separated, which is very miserable, so I simply kill the young deer first, and then kill the doe... To save They suffer."

Hearing this, Lin Yuancheng and Tyrell, who believed in Xiongfeng Mountain just now, both frowned.

One person, one face, two skins.

One thing, one mouth, two words.

At this moment, the old liar Xiong Fengshan really taught Xiaolin and Tyrell a lesson, making them more careful in everything in the future.

After all, there are too many people like Xiongfengshan in the Jianghu. When a person kneels down in front of you and begs for mercy, his words and deeds may make him look like a person worthy of sympathy and worthy of letting go, but in fact, What is his true heart, when will he reveal that sinister side, you may never know.

"And that 'master' of yours decided to accept you after seeing you do such a thing?" Fudoko looked at Xiongfeng Mountain at this time and asked along the way.

"That's right..." Xiong Fengshan nodded, "Her old man didn't accept me because I saved the deer, but because I not only killed the deer, but also killed the two deer together, so she accepted me."

"Hmph..." Fudoko sneered, "And you actually know the name of your master, right?"

"Yes, it's just that the master told me not to spread the word, so I usually use the excuse just now..." Xiong Fengshan had nothing to hide in order to survive at this time, "My master's surname is Pan Minghui. According to her, She is a casual cultivator in the world, and people in the Taoist world call her the Immortal Demon King."

Hearing this, even the expression on Fudoko's face changed slightly, and he couldn't help saying: "It's actually her..."

"Huh?" Seeing this, Huang Donglai immediately asked softly, "Master, do you know this 'Undead Demon King'?"

"I've only heard of her name..." Fudoko said, "I don't know how long this person has lived, anyway, according to what I heard, she is at least from my master's generation It's..."

Speaking of this, even Fudoko felt a little scared, and said to himself: Fortunately, this Xiongfengshan in front of him has only obtained some superficial spells taught by the Immortal Demon King. If he is a formal student, I am afraid that there will be a fierce fight today.

"Then what happened next?" After a few seconds, Huang Donglai said again, signaling Xiong Fengshan to continue.

"Later..." Xiong Fengshan also said while recalling, "Because I learned some spells from my master, I don't want to do the drudgery of collecting herbs anymore, and I want to rely on the skills I learned to make a fortune...

"However, I was born as a villager in the mountains, and I have a clumsy tongue. After becoming a alchemist, I am not even as good as those fake Taoist priests who have no skills and bluff.

"So...slowly, I got along with them and learned to be an eloquent liar...and I do know magic, so naturally I gradually became 'rich'.

"I've been hanging around like this for decades, cheating everywhere, changing identities a lot, until half a year ago, when I joined Liu Er's group, I started pretending to be a miracle doctor in this Wuren Temple."

Speaking of this, Xiong Fengshan spoke quickly: "Hey, but I have to make it clear... the original group of monks in Wuren Temple were all killed by Liu Er and the others. That was really not my idea. I wasn't there at all, and when I arrived, everyone would be dead." As he spoke, he even raised his voice, "I swear! Over the years, although I, Xiong Ashan, have been bluffing around with some fur magic, I really didn't Killed people!"

These few words of his, although they sound like urgent words when begging for mercy, are still credible.

It is true that Xiong Fengshan is very indifferent to the life and death of others, but he is not a bloodthirsty person.

Just like when he faced those two deer back then, he has his own logic of life and death at the moment of life and death, but in normal times, there is still a difference between him and Liu Er who would kill for profit or on a whim.

It was also because of this that the Undead Demon King looked at him high and taught him something.

"Okay, I believe you." Fudoko listened, without thinking too much, and said, "But the death penalty can be forgiven, but the life penalty cannot be forgiven...Your life can be kept, but the Taoism on your body should not be kept. "

When these words came out, Xiong Fengshan lost consciousness before he could make any response.

For Fudoko, it is very easy to abolish the Taoism of a small character like Xiong Fengshan and make it impossible for him to practice in the future.

It's just that Fudozi, who can pinch and count, didn't expect that his act of saving Xiong Fengshan's life today would be the introduction of a catastrophe in the future.

Of course, the story of the "Four Devils in China" is another story.

(End of this chapter)