Great Sui Guoshi

The blood-stained rag was stuffed into his mouth, and the policeman slapped him across the face: "Shut up!"

"Woooooooo..."

The Taoist held the cloth towel in his mouth, shook his head repeatedly, and looked at the scholar and chief arrester over there with aggrieved eyes, dragging them further and further away.

The sound of sobbing and aggrieved went away, and Zhang Dongming from the mansion was also brought here. On the way, he also learned from the police that there was something going on in Zhou's mansion. He looked tremblingly at Lu Liangsheng, and then at the majestic Zuo Zheng. Yang, hurriedly bowed.

"Great man... Zuo Butou, the old man was really wronged. The real Yangming said he could cure my son, but he never thought that he would harm Zhou Rong. Anyway, she is also my son's unmarried wife." .”

"Do you know, this arrester will find out, but I think you are old, so you can't go out at home for the time being, and the government will summon you, and you will be there at any time!"

Zuo Zhengyang looked at his age and put him in jail to await trial, which was a bit too much, not to mention the fact that he had to go to the Zhou Mansion for a while.

The matter is settled properly for the time being, that is, some policemen will be sent to bring the Taoist back, and he and the scholar will walk out of the house together.

The two were old acquaintances, chatting a few words while walking, and there were a few policemen following behind.

Walking on the street in the middle of the night, there were occasional dogs barking in the distance, and Lu Liangsheng also felt complicated about what Zhang Dongming said just now.

Next to him, the chief arrester, who was walking with a knife behind his back, laughed when he saw his expression.

"I'm in the yamen, dealing with these cases, and it's not uncommon to encounter such things. It's commonplace. By the way, you came here for Qiu Wei, right?"

Lu Liangsheng nodded.

Behind him, several policemen followed from a distance, Zuo Zhengyang glanced at it, and lowered his voice: "Since you are here for the exam, don't use your spells anymore. I know that you did the case of Mr. Chen, Mr. Shuhua!" , Mr. Min is an upright person, he hates evil like an enemy, and the two of them are willing to protect you, which has already proved that you are a human being, but the law is the law, breaking one cannot break the other."

The walking stopped, and the two stood together in the middle of the street. Lu Liangsheng did not avoid the chief arrester's gaze, his eyes were calm and clear.

"The Zuo catcher thought I did it, right or wrong?"

"Yes, but also wrong."

Zuo Zhengyang looked majestic, and after saying this, he shook his head again: "You and I have different positions. In the future, you will gain fame in the examination and become an official, and maybe you will be able to understand what Zuo said."

"Actually, now, I also understand."

Lu Liangsheng continued to walk forward, looking sideways at the lights in the nearby buildings.

"On the way of cultivating the Tao, there will be doubts when encountering people and things. Some people maintain their original intentions, some lose themselves, and some are negligent... Just like the matter between the Zhou family and the Zhang family, Zhang Dongming, as his son, made up his mind to do this kind of thing , it is also reasonable, the two families were supposed to be in-laws...but because of their eagerness to save their children, one Taoist's selfish desires ruined the marriage of the next generation, and there must be deep conflicts between the two families in the future. It’s really hard to guess.”

As he said that, he couldn't help but smile, and cupped his hands towards Zuo Zhengyang: "I was so emotional for a moment, I made Zuo Butou laugh."

"No problem."

Zuo Zhengyang waved his hand, followed by a smile: "Zuo heard that people who practice Taoism are all pure-hearted and ascetic, but today I saw a greedy person and a sentimental person, haha, okay, here I should turn back to the yamen I'm going to go to the Zhou Mansion to inquire about this matter tomorrow, so don't let it go!"

"Farewell!"

Lu Liangsheng cupped his hands, turned and walked to the side street.

The head catcher at the fork here did not leave immediately, holding the rein, looking at the distant figure, someone approached suspiciously.

"Boss, what are you looking at?"

"It's nothing."

Zuo Zhengyang smiled at the policeman, got on his horse, and shook the reins.

"Go back and interrogate that Taoist overnight!"

Immediately, he shouted violently: "Drive!" The horse galloped down the street.

******

When Lu Liangsheng returned to the Zhou Mansion, it was already late at night, and he quietly descended from the courtyard wall. Hong Lian came back early and greeted her at the door of the main room. She saw her face covered with long sleeves, her eyes bent into crescents.

Curiously asked: "What's wrong?"

Hong Lian held back her smile, stretched out her jade finger, and pointed to the room. Inside, Taoist Toad was standing at the head of the bed, waving his frog webs.

"The old man told you not to move, if you move again, you will be beaten to death!"

On the bed, Sun Yingxian's body was wrapped in a bandage, and she lay there straight, with only a pair of eyes exposed.

"Hmm...Old...Toad...you try again!"

There was a pile of burnt Taoist robes on the ground, presumably the fighting method was injured by that evil way.

The toad entangled him round and round, and the frog's webs slapped the Taoist's frantic forehead from time to time: "So what if I hit the old man? If you are not good at learning, you will embarrass your master!"

Hearing footsteps, he looked back to see Lu Liangsheng coming in, and threw the remaining bandages over.

"Trouble him... I still have important things to do as a teacher."

"That...Master, the spirit under this room..."

Before the word 'medicine' was finished, the toad jumped out of the bed, pouted its buttocks and got under the bed again, waving its frog webs outward: "It's gone."

Uh……

Lu Liangsheng sighed, and sat on the edge of the bed with a bandage in his hand. Sun Yingxian said through the bandage, "Quickly loosen the nostrils, I'm going to be out of breath."

"My lord!" Nie Honglian floated over, picked up a bowl from the table and looked in, turned around, and said with a smile, "Master Toad doesn't seem to have applied medicine to Daozhang Sun..."

"Ah!! This old toad, he must have done it on purpose."

Ignoring the Taoist's screams, Lu Liangsheng was crying in his heart. He pressed him back and lay down, asked Hong Lian to come over to help, untied the bandage again, applied the medicine, and wrapped it up again. After finishing the work, Sun Yingxian had already screamed Sleeping, snoring sounded.

The scholar is also very tired, and the feeling of fatigue is really overwhelming, overthrowing everything.

"Ugh……"

Hong Lian went over, took a single coat and put it on him, floated to the window lattice, and lightly blew out the candle.

Just sitting beside the man so quietly, looking at his side face, with a slight smile on his cheeks, and lightly swinging his feet.

Hum a tune softly.

"Apricot blossoms prosper on the branches... the scholar in the crescent window outside the window...

With a sound, the knowledge in the book is completed....... Drink three cups and listen to the happy sound..."

Outside the window, it was the moonlight.

Chapter 61 Behind the Back

The clouds in the night sky reveal the crescent moon, the street is covered with a slight white mist, and there are moonlight pouring in from the small window in the government prison with two lanterns hanging on it.

clap clap clap...

The whip flew in mid-air and whipped it down fiercely. The executioner wiped off the blood stains on his face and washed it in the bucket next to him. The prisoners were brought in in the middle of the night and asked to interrogate them overnight, but usually they would be tortured first. Some killing power.

moment.

The cell door was opened, and a figure with a knife hanging from his waist led several arresters in quickly, waving his hands.

"Wake him up!"

"Yes!"

The cell boss quickly asked his subordinates to pour water from the bucket on the prisoner, the tattered Taoist robe was stained with blood, Yangming Taoist exhaled foul air, woke up slowly, and didn't even have the strength to beg for mercy.

The lips just kept murmuring: "...don't dare...don't dare..."

The black dog's blood broke his spell, and he came all the way to the government prison. The experienced policeman didn't give him a chance to use his magic power. He directly opened his mouth with a cloth, tied his fingers together, and framed his whole body On the rack, followed by a severe torture.

At this time, even if he found a chance to use his power to escape, his body was almost crippled, and he couldn't support himself out of the city.

Zuo Zhengyang untied the weapon and handed it to his deputy, looked at the Taoist on the rack, and stepped forward.

"This arrester has never seen magic spells before, can this Taoist priest perform one or two for me to see?"

On the torture rack, the hair was in a disheveled bun, and the dripping Taoist raised his face slightly, then shook his head lightly, and lowered it again.

"...By the way...I...I don't dare anymore, I beg the chief arrester to spare my life..."

"Forgive you?!" Zuo Zhengyang looked at him with his hands behind his back, and narrowed his eyes: "Wouldn't it be possible to worry about the lives of Zhou Mansion, Zhang Mansion, and this arrest in the future?"

Taoist Yangming shook his head again and again, with blood in the corner of his mouth, he made a difficult voice: "No... If I can save my life, I will never stay in Hegu County in the future... I beg the chief arrester to be kind... please be kind."

"It's really embarrassing for a cultivator."

The chief arrester's words echoed in the torture room, and Zuo Zhengyang looked at him and said again: "Fortunately, no one was killed. What did Ben catch you ask, what did you answer, what does the priest think?"

Taoist Yangming stared at him blankly, opened his bloody mouth and laughed, nodding his head again and again.

"Whatever your lord asks, I say yes."

"Okay, since the Taoist priest is straightforward, I will never break my promise."

Zuo Zhengyang waved his hand and asked Bo to stand beside him with the confession before he spoke.

"How much silver taels do you accept from Zhang Dongming to work for him?"

"170 taels."

"What did you do?"

"My lord...seek a cure for Zhang Liancheng's son, Zhang Fuzhu's son."

"Where is the elixir? Why are you persecuting Zhou Zhen's daughter? The two of them had a marriage contract, so why did they kill each other?"

"The elixir is under Zhou Rong's boudoir, and it is a trace of earth spirit that breeds people. Master Zhang Fu knows the relationship between the two families, and his son hurt his body because of the fox charm, so he has no face to come to the door, so he has to let his own way. I don't know, Zhou Rong was hurt by me."

Zuo Zhengyang nodded.

"Even if what you said is the truth, why do you want to hurt people? With your magic power as a cultivator, you can easily take it out."

There was a pause in the words, before the Taoist on the shelf could answer, Zuo Zhengyang spoke suddenly, his voice thundering like thunder: "It is clear that you still want to do nasty things to Zhou Rong!!!"

Daoist Yangming was stunned for a moment, he had been tortured before, his whole body was covered with wounds, the pain from the tearing wound made him unable to concentrate, he was suddenly disturbed by this loud shout, and subconsciously shook his head to argue.

"My lord, I didn't do anything nasty in this way. I just wanted to drag Zhang Liancheng to death..."

When the words came to this point, everyone in the prison looked at the Taoist and let out a long sound of "Oh!" meaningfully.

Only then did Taoist Yangming realize that he had been cheated, and he was hanging limply on the torture rack, not daring to look at the arresting head on the other side.

Zuo Zhengyang raised his chin with his hand, staring at the pattern surrounded by five fires on the Taoist's chest.

"Treasure stealing hurts people... It seems that the Taoist chief has concealed a lot of things, so I will ask you again, are you responsible for the case of Yuanwai Chen in Fushui County?"

The Taoist on the shelf didn't dare to speak indiscriminately at the moment, afraid of being clichéd again, so he shook his head repeatedly.

“No…..I didn’t…..no”

"It seems that Taoist still needs help to think about it." Zuo Zhengyang took half a step back, and the interrogator from the prison came over, dipped in salt water, and was about to be tortured.

Zuo Zhengyang wiped the blood stains on his fingertips, took the weapon, turned around and left the cell, waved his hands: "This arrest will not break his promise, let him go, but cut off the tendons of his hands and feet, and cut off his tongue, so as not to harm anyone again."

Just as the deputy was clasping his hands, Taoist Yangming's screams suddenly sounded in the cell, and the cell leader holding the whip was stunned.

"I haven't started fighting yet, what's your name?!"

Outside, Zuo Zhengyang, who hadn't gone far, also stopped, and looked inside from the outside. On the torture rack, the Taoist struggled desperately with strength from nowhere, his eyes widened, and he looked at the dome of the cell, tearing Heartbreaking screams.

"Ahhh... my lord, save me."

Zuo Zhengyang rushed into the cell and yelled, "Put him down!"

However, the Taoist's voice was mixed with his yelling, and in an instant, the bones were brittle, and there was a loud bang.

Blood mist exploded in the cell.

Zuo Zhengyang waved his hand to disperse the pervasive blood mist, and after a while, he could see clearly. On the torture rack opposite, only the Taoist's pair of arms were left hanging there.

He glanced around and saw that the ground and the wooden pillars of the fence were full of broken flesh and remains of Taoist robes.

There was silence for a while.

"Clean up here and report the truth."

Walking outside, the bright colors have already shone, took a breath, recalled what happened before, and frowned.

"It seems that something terrible happened...and it was silenced."

The white fog on the street gradually dissipated, and the white fish maws lit up and rose to the clouds. The city, which had been silent all night, gradually became noisy. Residents near the Zhang Mansion got up early to buy vegetables and fetch water, and gathered by the well to chat about their daily routines.

"Ouch, a strange thing happened last night, something called in the night."

"Did you hear that too?"

"...Didn't you hear it? It was like thunder. I was still sleeping on the bed at the time, and I was so frightened that I fell to the ground."