Peach and plum spring breeze and a glass of wine

The street is full of pedestrians converging in one direction.

Yang Ge and Wang Dali walked through the increasingly crowded crowd and walked back to Yuelai Inn.

From a distance, Yang Ge saw Shopkeeper Liu standing in the half-open door of the inn, surrounded by a circle of business owners.

Seeing Yang Ge's return, shopkeeper Liu was overjoyed to greet him: "You are finally here!"

Yang Ge approached and asked confusedly: "Shopkeeper, what's going on?"

Wang Dali opened his mouth and chatted about gossip as neatly as Allegro, but when it came to serious matters, it was like cotton crotch. He stuttered here and there for a long time and couldn't figure it out.

Yang Ge listened to what he said all the way without understanding what was going on.

Shopkeeper Liu first dismissed the neighbors who were gathered in front of the inn, and waited until there were only three of them left in the inn. Then he said: "The gangsters who came to rob our inn the night before were caught. The government asked us all to come to the inn Wait, we will bring the bad guy here for identification later."

‘Is the embroidery guard so efficient? ’

Yang Ge understood, and then pointed to the flow of people outside the door: "Then these people on the street are..."

Shopkeeper Liu: "Just look at the fun, the officials are escorting the gangster to parade through the streets!"

"Parade?"

Yang Ge was stunned for two seconds before he suddenly came to his senses and praised in his heart: 'As expected of a person who does big things, the pattern is big! ’

He first thought that Shen Fa would send someone to spread the word and directly kill the man in black with the "martial arts secret book left by Jiang Kui" the night before.

Unexpectedly, Shen Fa would publicize this matter in such a big way, and would not hesitate to push it to a political level that would scare the monkeys.

In this way...

It solved his problem once and for all.

He also killed chickens to scare monkeys and strengthened public security during the martial arts test.

It also indirectly demonstrated the majesty of the imperial court and the majesty of the embroidered guards in front of the lawless Jianghu people.

It can be said that it kills three birds with one stone!

Compared with Shen Fa's method, his method was not only passive and petty, but also failed to solve the problem at its root.

Shopkeeper Liu seemed to have thought of this, and asked expectantly: "Brother, this time, that matter is over, right?"

Yang Ge nodded firmly: "It must be in the past. The officials have come forward. If you come back to make trouble with us, wouldn't that be a slap in the face of the officials? It's not worth it!"

After hearing Yang Ge's categorical guarantee, the big stone hanging in Shopkeeper Liu's heart finally fell to the ground.

He followed his chest and said with relief: "It's over, it's over... We haven't been able to sleep all night for the past two days, just because we're afraid that this thing will harm you. If that happens, we'll spend the rest of our lives Don’t even think about living in peace!”

After the matter was settled, he finally spoke out the worries in his heart.

Yang Ge was touched. He forced a smile and comforted him: "You just think too much. Didn't I tell you yesterday that it was nothing serious? You still don't believe me!"

Shopkeeper Liu turned around and pulled over a chair, slowly sat down, and waved his hands with a smile: "Yes or no, we have a scale in mind."

Yang Ge smiled, said nothing more, and turned to Wang Dali and said: "Brother Wang, follow me to boil some water and make a few pots of hot tea. The officials will come to the door later. We can't even drink hot water." If you don’t even entertain them, that would be too rude.”

These words made shopkeeper Liu unable to sit still. He slapped his forehead and stood up: "I was negligent, I was negligent. Let's go boil some water. Let's go get the good tea we saved..."

It was a coincidence that the three people in the inn were just making tea in a hurry when they heard a loud sound of a gong.

The three of them rushed out to welcome him.

In the center of the crowded long street, more than 20 dignified officials, wearing splendid black-bottomed robes with sleeves and silver-threaded oxtail knives on their waists and hips, were escorting a middle-aged man who was covered in blood and whose hands and feet were shackled. The young man was walking towards this side beating gongs and drums.

Yang Ge was mentally prepared. After glancing around at the embroidered guards in splendid attire, he turned his attention to the shackled middle-aged man. He felt that this man's figure was indeed very similar to that of the man who entered the inn the night before. The man in black.

Shopkeeper Liu was not mentally prepared. The moment he saw the embroidered guards' attire, he was so frightened that his legs weakened: "What the hell, embroidered guards!"

Yang Ge quickly supported him with quick eyes and hands: "Don't be afraid. We are all good citizens. The adults of the Xiuyi Guard are here to uphold justice for us. What are you afraid of?"

"Yes Yes Yes……"

Shopkeeper Liu nodded like a fool: "We are all good people... our ancestors have been good people for eight generations!"

Having said that, the old man's legs were still shaking like the little prince of electronic music.

Seeing Shopkeeper Liu's appearance, Yang Ge finally had an intuitive understanding of the intimidating power of Xiu Yiwei.

A group of embroidered guards escorted the middle-aged man to the door of Yuelai Inn. When the leading officer raised his hand, the entire team stopped.

"Are you the victims of Yuelai Inn?"

The embroidered guard officer pressed his sword on his waist and glanced at the three people in front of the inn door with his eyes as sharp as the cold wind.

Shopkeeper Liu came forward tremblingly, clasping his hands like pounding garlic: "Master Fei Fei Fei, we, we, we..."

Seeing that shopkeeper Liu was so nervous that he couldn't even hold his tongue straight, Yang Ge stepped forward, clasped his hands and said, "Sir, Cao Min and others are the storekeepers of Yuelai Inn. Someone did break into our Yuelai Inn the night before to commit murder. It's a bad guy discovered by ordinary people."

"That's just right!"

The embroidered guard officer turned sideways and pointed at the middle-aged man behind him: "Please carefully identify whether this is the criminal who committed the crime the night before?"

"yes!"

Yang Ge responded, and under the attention of countless people, he stepped forward and took a closer look at the middle-aged man.

The middle-aged man was speechless with a ball in his mouth. When he saw Yang Ge approaching him and looking at him intently, he screamed in horror, "Woo!"

With disheveled hair and tears streaming down his face, he was both ferocious and pitiful.

"be honest!"

Not knowing whether he was afraid that Yang Ge would be intimidated by the middle-aged man or that Yang Ge had other concerns, the officer turned around and kicked him to the ground.

Unexpectedly, the middle-aged man fell to the ground, howling and rolling on the ground, as if he had suffered some great injustice.

The crowd of onlookers was slightly commotion...

There was obviously no discussion, but there seemed to be countless mosquitoes and flies scurrying around in the air.

Yang Ge looked up at the embroidered guard officer.

But he found that the Xiu Yiwei officer was also looking at him...looking straight at him.

He lowered his head, stepped on the middle-aged man's neck, bent down and opened his clothes, and saw a hemostatic cloth tied around his left shoulder near his chest.

He opened the hemostatic cloth and found a hideous blood scab half a foot long, from left to right, with skin and flesh turned to both sides. Even after applying a thick layer of hemostatic medicine, black blood was still oozing out. Before his eyes.

Seeing this scar, Yang Ge finally determined the identity of the person at his feet.

The night before, the man in black overturned the table and extinguished the oil lamp on the table.

Therefore, Yang Ge's only clue to verify the identity of the man in black was the first ax he threw into the darkness... That was his last memory after the light went out, and the direction from which the man in black's cry came, to strike out. of an axe.

He clearly remembered that the ax hit the man in black's chest.

The subsequent tearing was just a few random chops. Although he felt that he had hit a few axes, he didn't know where he hit them.

"Sir, this person is indeed the gangster who broke into our Yuelai Inn the night before to commit murder. That night, the grassroots were forced to fight with the gangster. They used the ax used to chop wood at our inn to hit the gangster's chest... Sir, please Look, this scar is the evidence!”

Everyone's eyes followed Yang Ge's words and turned to the middle-aged man's chest.

The crowd gradually became still, and the vague sound of mosquitoes and flies flying in the air slowly disappeared.

The Xiuyi Guard officer glanced at the injuries, raised his head and asked, "Is there any physical evidence?"

Yang Ge clasped his hands: "There is physical evidence... Brother Wang, the firewood ax is hidden on the roof of the hut. Please go and get it."

When Wang Dali, who was like chaff in the room, heard this, he said "I'll get it right away" as if he was being pardoned, and ran towards the inn.

Upon seeing this, the officer of the Xiuyi Guards waved his hand, and immediately two Xiuyi Guards followed him in quickly, holding their sabers on their waists.

After a while, two Xiuyi guards held Wang Dali between them, retrieved a rusty ax with some blood stains on the blade, and presented it to the Xiuyi guard officer.

The embroidered guard officer took the firewood ax, walked to the middle-aged man and squatted down, holding the firewood ax and pointing it at the scars on his chest.

Soon, he waved to Yang Ge without looking back.

Yang Ge understood, raised his foot and released the middle-aged man's neck, bowed and took a step back.

The middle-aged man listened to the entire conversation between Yang Ge and the Xiu Yiwei officer. As soon as he got up, he kept kowtowing to the Xiu Yiwei officer.

The Xiu Yiwei officer removed the ball from his mouth, stood up and shouted condescendingly: "Ding Man, do you admit or not that the criminal sneaked into Yuelai Inn the night before, broke into the house to commit murder, and plotted evil?"

The evidence was conclusive. How could the middle-aged man dare to stand up to the powerful embroidered guard? He immediately cried and begged for mercy: "Your Majesty, the common people just wanted to rob that night..."

The officer of the Xiuyi Guard coldly interrupted his plea for mercy: "Just plead guilty!"

The middle-aged man was stunned for a moment, then straightened up suddenly and was about to shout...

Unfortunately, it's too late.

"Keng."

A dazzling flash of light was seen.

Before Yang Ge, who was standing behind the middle-aged man, could realize what was happening, his face was hit by a pool of warm liquid.

He subconsciously touched his cheek and took a closer look: it was red and sticky.

When he lowered his head again, he saw the middle-aged man's head rolling to the ground. It bounced on the ground twice like a ball, then rolled all the way to his feet, turned over to his face, and stared at him. The frightened face with big eyes looked straight at him...

Yang Ge suddenly shuddered, and a numbness like an electric shock spread from his tailbone. In an instant, it climbed up to his scalp and turned into goosebumps all over his body.

"Bang."

The headless corpse fell heavily, and bright red blood spurted out like an open faucet, flowing and dyeing the ground scarlet.

Yang Ge finally came to his senses, took seven or eight steps back in a row, sat down on the ground, and scratched his body wildly with his hands.

He closed his eyes tightly, not daring to look at the bloody scene in front of him.

But the bloody scene of human heads and headless corpses floating on the red carpet seemed to be engraved in his mind.

The goosebumps all over his body came out in waves of madness, and he couldn't stop itching no matter how hard he scratched it!

The embroidered guard officer glanced at him disdainfully, turned around to face the many people watching the excitement, pointed the long knife in his hand at the headless body of the middle-aged man, and shouted loudly.

"Ding Man, the bodyguard of Taiyuan Prefecture's Huwei Bodyguard Bureau, is lawless and daring. He committed the capital crime of breaking into a house, committing murder, seeking wealth and killing during the preparation period for the military exercise. He has ruined the grace of the Holy One and undermined the integrity of the military exercise. He deserves to be punished and cannot be forgiven. , hereby clarify the canonical punishment and serve as a warning to others!"

The crowd was silent for a moment, and suddenly someone shouted: "Your Excellency is wise!"

"Master Qingtian!"

"The adults are here, and the blue sky in Luting County will be..."

The crowd exploded with cheers and praises, as if it was a festival.

Only Yang Ge was still sitting there scratching his head and head frantically: "Nightmare, nightmare..."

…

At the right time, I was on the second floor of a residential building not far away from the Yuelai Inn.

Shen Fa sat in front of the window, staring intently at the drama that was about to end in front of the Yuelai Inn.

Behind him, a dozen figures in messy clothes, like street vendors' lackeys, were walking back and forth in a hurry.

"Painter, the guest was sitting on the floor scratching his head and scratching his head, closing his eyes and not daring to look directly at the decapitated corpse. He was shouting in a low voice: 'Nightmare, nightmare, bedding', 'Crazy, all fucking crazy'... Well, the latest news is that the guest vomited. .”

"Accounting room, the guest bought six bushels of corn, two bushels of wheat, two pounds of pork meat, and three taels of private salt at Lutingdong Market on June 18th, which cost him one hundred and twenty-seven dollars."

"In Li Zheng, Caitou Valley in Dongshi has land and a well-off family. The only daughter Gu welcomes the spring and is pretty. She intends to recruit guests as her son-in-law. She asked the shopkeeper three times to make peace with her, but they were all declined. She said she has no intention of starting a family and starting a business. Gu I was so excited to welcome the spring that I went to the inn privately to find a guest, but the guest avoided him..."

"Master, three months ago, a Japanese businessman came to the inn to strike a tip. The little king got three coins as a reward. The little king was so happy that he told the guest to go with him to collect the reward. The guest said: 'You Japanese kid, there are small things but no big meanings. "People have faces but no hearts." I advise Xiao Wang not to be deceived by illusions. Xiao Wang suspects that the guests are jealous of his reward, so he tells his neighbors..."

Shen Fa listened to the reports behind him, and the image of Yang Ge became clearer and clearer in his mind.