farce a ups and downs

The prefect of Qingzhou solves another strange case!

A few days ago, the magistrate received news from an unknown person, saying that the master of the Xuyu sect was the orphan of the former prince, who privately made dragon robes, forged weapons, and recruited troops.

The prefect of Qingzhou was terrified when he received the news. If the news is false, everyone will be happy. If the news is true, for this first article alone, the higher authorities will definitely punish him for the crime of lax supervision, and some serious officials will lose their positions.

No matter how young the magistrate is, he is still an official, and there are countless people who covet this position. If the news leaks out, someone with a heart will take a copy, saying that he is harboring the orphan of the former prince, and his life may be lost.

So, as soon as he received the news, the magistrate personally brought people to Mount Xuyu.

What appeared in front of everyone was a mountain with a crack in the middle, as if someone had knocked it down from the top of the mountain with a sledgehammer. The collapsed deep pit and the once glorious Xuyu Gate are now in ruins.

Under the ruins, officers and soldiers discovered fragments of Perak, and the prefect guessed that this powerful explosive caused the earthquake, which in turn caused the landslide.

How many thunderbolts had to be detonated to create such a bottomless crack?The more the magistrate thought about it, the more afraid he became, and he was even more grateful to the person who sent the letter to the government.

When cleaning up the scene, the officers and soldiers found a bright yellow robe from under the ruins. When the prefect saw it, his eyes immediately turned black.

Burned!It must be burned!

Whether or not to report to the magistrate after the burning has become the biggest question for the magistrate. If the report is made, isn't it true that Xumen is hiding the orphan of the former prince?But if he didn't report it, not all the people present were his confidantes, as long as one person spread the word, he would also be questioned.

The master leaned over and said something like this, and the prefect suddenly became enlightened.

It still needs to be reported, but how to say it is the art of language.

In addition to the dragon robe, a batch of undamaged weapons were also found, as well as some seriously injured disciples of the Xuyu Sect. All of them were wounded, but they were not fatal. What was fatal was the moment the Xuyu Gate collapsed. The falling rock hit him squarely.

After a brief count, there were dozens of survivors. For a while, the supply of beds in the Yamen Prison was in short supply.

The weapons were confiscated, and the disciples of the Xumen were thrown into prison.

In prison, these people recruited everything.

It turned out that they were not disciples of the Xuyu Sect at all. The original disciples of the Xuyu Sect had long been emptied out by Chen Xuan, and there was a big change in the internal affairs. These people were all recruited by Chen Xuan from other places, and there were teenagers among them.

In addition to the Xuyumen incident, the magistrate also discovered that several villages at the foot of the mountain had monitors planted by bandits, and immediately ordered them to be arrested and interrogated together.

I don't know if I don't have a trial. After the trial, there was a big change in the Qingzhou Yamen, and all the tax collectors in charge of contacting these villages were replaced.Regarding Huntian Village, several officials in the yamen unanimously decided that it was time to suppress the bandits!If you can't finish the suppression, you have to suppress it. In short, drill the officers and soldiers first.

Because of the help of people with good intentions, another version of this matter was circulated in the Jianghu.

The current sect master of the Xuyu Sect deceived the master and exterminated the ancestors, misbehaved, colluded with bandits, and was wiped out by a knight. Since then, there has been no Xuyu Sect in the Jianghu.

In the frontier mine, two disgraced young men led a group of miners to escape.These are good people who have been sold here, but the local officials don't care about them, and force them to stay here to work for him.The two young people were attracted by a clue, but they didn't expect that there were hundreds of good people trapped here.

Officials are not benevolent, but Jianghu people can't kill people.

But there are ways to make them suffer.

Before they came, the official's nemesis had been notified, and he was believed to have been in this position for a short time.

The resettlement of hundreds of miners is naturally to let them go home. Those who have no home will find a place with mountains and rivers to live temporarily. Those who cannot go home due to injuries will be brought by fellow villagers. Teenagers, they traveled together, were knocked out and sold here by traffickers, and didn't know the way home, the two young people decided to take them on the road together.

Earlier, through a letter with Master Uncle He, he knew that Master had accepted a Junior Junior Brother for them. Not only that, but Master also planned to participate in this session of the Sword-Questioning Conference. It should have arrived in Qingzhou.

Therefore, the youth's next destination is Qingzhou.

On the way, they also learned about Xuyumen and the enthusiastic knight who assisted the magistrate in handling the case. The two young people looked at each other and said in unison:

"It's Master!"

After the two young men washed their faces and changed into clean clothes, their eyebrows and eyebrows were [-]% similar, but one had an aura like the surface of a lake blown by a breeze, while the other had slightly raised eyes, lips and raised eyebrows that were all evil.

"Brother, tell me, what kind of person is this closed disciple accepted by Master?"

The gentle young man had a smile on his lips: "It must be a good boy with a tough mind."

"I don't think so. You must be good-looking to be in the eyes of the master."

"...Little Si, don't say this in front of Junior Brother."

"I know bro."

At this time, Shen Feiyu didn't know that he was being missed by two senior brothers who had never met before. After he was escorted back to the torture room of Huntian Village, he thought he would be severely tortured, but the second village master seemed to have forgotten him. He didn't show up for several days.

What's even more peculiar is that, as a prisoner in the bandit's den, he eats three meals a day, including big fish and meat, and occasionally has supper.The bandits who brought the food would stare at him for a while every time, until he finished the food before taking away the empty bowl with satisfaction.

Shen Feiyu couldn't help but ponder, is it because the bandit brother who delivered the food has a high level of ideological and moral consciousness, and he is not allowed to waste food, or is it because he is full to eat so that he can go on the road?No matter which one, healing and preserving physical strength are the most important.

After a few days of recuperation, the pain in the lower back was basically gone. With the soft sword in the hands of the second village master, Shen Feiyu wondered if he could escape with bare hands.

Just as he was thinking, the door that hadn't been pushed open for a long time creaked softly.

Shen Feiyu focused and raised her eyes.

It's finally here.

In addition to the second village master, there was also a tall man who was the leader of the bandits who intercepted them that day.Seeing that the second village master followed the man step by step, Shen Feiyu felt hesitant.

The man stopped in front of Shen Feiyu, his eyes were like eagles, and he flashed fiercely, "I recognize you."

"I saw it not long ago."

"No," the man suddenly leaned over and pinched Shen Feiyu's face, rubbing his rough fingers on the delicate skin, "Three years ago, the bride brought back by elder brother was you."

Hearing this, Shen Feiyu squinted his eyes and looked at the man in front of him carefully. As expected, there was a sense of familiarity. His gaze passed over the woman beside him, and he was suddenly stunned.

A bell is tied around the woman's waist.

He hadn't noticed it before, but when he saw it suddenly, and then contacted the man's big brother, Shen Feiyu's face suddenly changed.

Three years ago, he switched identities with Qing Wan and was arrested in Huntian Village. At that time, the village owner sat on his left and right sides respectively with his second younger brother Cui Jue and third sister Cui Jinse. The wine he drank was poisoned, and he started an internal fight, intending to seize the throne, but he didn't want to kill Yan Linsheng halfway, breaking his plan.

Cui Xuan sneered: "That Yan Linsheng seems to have been a disciple of the Lingjue Sect, and you, his junior brother? It's really a turn of events. Today, if you fall into my hands, don't even think about getting out alive."

Cui Jinse: "Brother, do you want me to kill him?"

"No, don't kill him for the time being," Cui Jue knocked the man unconscious with a knife in his hand, straightened up and said, "Qingzhou Yamen is already organizing people to take the knife against us, he is our bargaining chip just like those villagers, and he is more valuable .”

"How to say?"

"The Xuyu Gate has undergone tremendous changes, and our way out has been blocked. It should be his master." Cui Xuan looked down at Shen Feiyu coldly, "He is his master's favorite, and if he makes good use of it, he will inevitably turn against the army. , that Luo Wenchu ​​has outstanding fighting power."

Cui Jinse smiled: "My brother is still thoughtful."

"Go and arrange it, and tell the brothers not to be lazy, that Luo Wenchu ​​may sneak in at any time."

A figure hurried past outside the door. Hearing these words, the corners of his mouth raised slightly, drawing a condensed arc.

When he came to the most heavily guarded place, the smile on his face suddenly became natural and warm, and he shouted loudly: "Brothers, let's eat!"

The bandits immediately cheered, and their movements of grabbing food were extremely fast.

Someone saw that he was standing beside him and couldn't get any food, so he kindly threw a chicken drumstick to him, "Here, Er Er, I reward you!"

"Thank you brother."

The man named Er Er bit off a big mouthful of chicken thigh with a bright smile.When he got to a place where no one was around, he raised his middle finger, pointed towards his throat, and immediately spit out the food he had just eaten.

He touched his face, touched the edge, and tore it lightly, that inconspicuous face in the crowd suddenly changed, revealing an incomparably handsome face. .

"This human skin|mask is really uncomfortable after wearing it for a long time..."

Luo Wenchu ​​took a look at the execution room, saw Cui Xuan's brothers and sisters both leaving, and then looked at the bandits who were devouring their food, his eyes narrowed slightly.

Just thinking about being on guard now?late.

But he said that that day, he came out from the Xuyu Gate and walked down the mountain, but he couldn't find the figure of his little apprentice, so he was so angry that he turned to the Xuyu Gate and the bandits, and turned his head to find trouble with Laoshizi's Huntian Village , Halfway through the journey, suddenly heard a howling, Luo Wenchu ​​pushed aside the grass, and saw the golden-eyed spirit fox lying dying in the grass.

And it was biting a piece of white clothes in its mouth.

It was the material of the clothes Shen Feiyu wore.

Luo Wenchu ​​immediately took Linghu down the mountain to seek medical treatment, and then sent a letter about Chen Xuan to the prefect of Qingzhou, and the matter of Xuyumen was temporarily over.

After calming down, Luo Wenchu ​​recalled it carefully. In a moment, there were less than two hundred disciples in the sect, but the number of weapons they forged far exceeded this number. It was absolutely impossible for Chen Xuan to lead these hundreds of people to rebel. Definitely somewhere else.

Don't even think about this "other place", Huntian Village.

It is still possible to try with one block and one hundred, but in the face of thousands of troops, martial arts masters have to bow down, even if they are recognized as the number one in martial arts.Luo Wenchu ​​made a detailed plan, sneaked into Huntian Village that night, switched identities with a bandit who was in charge of delivering meals, and took advantage of his position to deliver meals to his apprentices, with each meal having one more chicken leg than others .

Every time Luo Wenchu ​​looked at the little disciples in the torture room, Luo Wenchu ​​suddenly felt a sense of satisfaction from raising cubs in captivity.

This sense of satisfaction is slightly morbid and not humane.

Two bandits approached in the distance, Luo Wenchu ​​put on the human skin mask again, and passed them by.

At night, a trace of choking smoke is mixed in the night wind, the smoke is similar to the thick smoke from burning firewood and straw, but no one notices it.

When the smoke was getting thicker, the hurried shouts spread throughout the entire mountain.

"It's on fire—!"