[Comprehensive classics] I build a dynasty in the book

Ji Shengyan stopped in Mengzhou for two days, and the scouts finally found the legendary bun shop for human flesh.He handed over the forbidden army to Yan Qing, and he took Hua Rong and Shi into Shizipo, to meet the legendary hag Sun Erniang for a while.

When we came to Shizipo along the road explored by the scouts, the first thing we saw was the huge ancient locust tree. This tree is at least hundreds of years old. The branches are so thick that five or six people can't surround it. There were many dead vines wrapped around the branches, and many birds stayed on the dead vines. When I walked in, I found that those birds were crows.

Ji Shengyan narrowed his eyes slightly, crows eat carrion, presumably it is easy to find rations in this place.

"Guest officer, there are good wine and good food in this slave shop, you can come here for a rest."

Ji Shengyan turned around, and saw a woman sitting on the threshold of the hotel beside the ancient locust tree. She was fairly good-looking, with a gold hairpin stuck in her head, wearing a red robe, most of her chest was exposed, and she was smiling. Yan looked at herself.

Shi Jin and Hua Rong looked at each other, trying to stand in front of Ji Shengyan but he stopped him, Ji Shengyan walked towards the woman, and said to her when he walked to the door of the store: "Serve some wine and food."

Walking into the tavern, Ji Shengyan found that the inside was very clean, but no matter how clean it was, he could easily smell the bloody smell from the air, which was the smell of human blood.

Hua Rong and Shi Jin followed Ji Shengyan closely. They had traveled the rivers and lakes for many years, and as soon as they entered the store, they knew that many people had died there.

After finding a seat by the window to sit down, Shi Jin bumped Hua Rong with his elbow, and whispered in his ear: "What do you mean, my lord? Just arrest the proprietress and come in for a bite." What food?"

Hua Rong glanced at him and made a gesture to shut him up.

"Objectively, this is our special yellow beef steamed stuffed bun, and this drink is also home-brewed." The proprietress put the steamed stuffed bun and wine jar on the wine table, raised the corner of her eyes at Ji Shengyan, and left in a charming manner up.

Shi Jin pouted. He didn't know what Ji Shengyan was up to. Seeing that the proprietress brought the wine and dishes, he lifted the seal of the wine jar and took a sip. liquor."

The taste of this wine is very strong, and Huarong, who is not a drinker, will find it attractive when he smells it, let alone Shi Jin.He took a big bowl and poured out the wine, then took a couple of sips and sighed after drinking, "Ugh...it's delicious!"

As soon as he finished sighing, Shi Jin saw Ji Shengyan, who was sitting opposite with no expression on his face, and was so frightened that he opened his mouth and let out a belch.

"Pfft!" Hua Rong turned his head to the side, and laughed without brotherly affection.

Shi Jin glared at Hua Rong, and after putting down his wine bowl, he imitated Ji Shengyan and sat upright.

Ji Shengyan ignored him, and he picked up the plate of yellow beef buns with his chopsticks.Only a small opening was made, and the rich meaty smell came out, and then a stream of oily soup flowed out of the bun.

Shi Jin swallowed his saliva, the steamed stuffed bun tasted really strong, no wonder the proprietress said it was a special feature of the hotel.

Ji Shengyan opened the bun completely, rummaged through the meat stuffing, found a piece, picked it up and threw it on the table.

"What is this?" Hua Rong looked closer.

Shi Jin picked it up and looked at it, unsure: "Looks like a fingernail?"

Ji Shengyan threw the chopsticks on the table, and said coldly, "Human nails."

Shi Jin trembled when he heard the words, and the fingernail in his hand fell into the wine bowl in front of him. He pursed his lips and asked, "Human nails? How could human nails be in the stuffing?"

Hua Rong immediately realized that he wanted to lift the table, but was stopped by Ji Shengyan.

"This is a human flesh bun!" Hua Rong lowered his voice, his tone full of anger.

Ji Shengyan glanced at Hua Rong: "Don't act rashly, first find their human flesh workshop."

Shi Jin didn't feel the smell of the steamed stuffed buns anymore, but felt that the smell made him sick, so he pushed the plate on which the steamed stuffed buns were placed away, and he didn't dare to drink the wine, he was worried that it was brewed with human blood.

"What should I do next?" Hua Rong asked Ji Shengyan.

Ji Shengyan's ears moved slightly, he got up and walked quickly towards the back kitchen of the hotel.Pushing open the door of the back kitchen, I saw that the pots and pans were thrown all over the floor, the steamer on the stove was also overturned, and the buns rolled all over the floor.He picked up a steamed bun and opened it, smelly blood came out of the steamed stuffed bun, the bread was made of raw meat.

"Who?" Shi Jin yelled loudly, turned around and kicked open the door leading to the backyard from the back kitchen. When he chased out, he only saw two or three figures fleeing over the wall.

Hua Rong followed closely behind Shi Jin, saw the empty backyard, frowned and said, "They all escaped?"

"Damn it!" Shi Jin kicked away the scattered firewood at his feet, and said angrily, "These gangsters must have known about the news that the imperial guards stayed in Mengzhou. Your lord's demeanor is very different from Jianghu's. They must have noticed something."

"Hua Rong, put on the signal." Ji Shengyan's voice came from the back kitchen.

Hua Rong responded, and took out an ingenious object similar to a fire bag from his arms, unscrewed it and threw it into the sky.

Shi Jin returned to Ji Shengyan, "My lord, what shall we do next?"

Ji Shengyan looked around the yard, and said, "Take my handwriting and inform the Mengzhou government."

"Yes!"

Shi Jin rushed to the Mengzhou Yamen with Ji Shengyan's handwritten letter. Hua Rong brought out a chair from the shop. He put the chair beside Ji Shengyan and asked, "My lord, can the Mengzhou government really catch those bandits?"

"Yan Qing led the forbidden army to surround this place and they can't escape." Ji Shengyan didn't sit on a chair, he opened the door of the backyard, and found a river not far from the yard, and a small forest on the other side of the river. The trees in the forest are growing well. Leafy. "This way."

Upon hearing this, Hua Rong followed Ji Shengyan and walked upstream along the small river.

After walking for about a mile, after turning over a small hill, a crooked house appeared in front of the two of them.Hua Rong kicked open the door of the broken house ahead of Ji Shengyan, and an indescribable rancid smell rushed towards him.

After the smell in the house dissipated, Ji Shengyan walked in with Hua Rong.This should be the place where the shopkeeper handles human flesh. On the wall are several pieces of human skin stretched with thin bamboo poles. Several human legs and elbows are hung from the beams of the room. There is a stool in the middle of the room. There was flesh and blood on it, and hemp ropes were scattered all around. It is estimated that this stool was used to bind people and skin them.

Huarong took a breath, the bloody smell and the smell of rotting meat almost made him spit it out. Although he was a military officer, his family forced him to read some sage books when he was young. Such a tragic situation really made him unbearable. Bear.

"Find evidence that can identify the deceased." Ji Shengyan ordered without changing his expression. He had seen more tragic situations in the reincarnation world, so he was still able to face the scene in the house calmly.

The two searched the dilapidated house inside and out, and the most they found were shredded clothes, probably because the shopkeeper thought it was troublesome when dividing up human flesh, so they chopped up the clothes together.

After Ji Shengyan searched out all the evidence in the house, Yan Qing rushed over with his troops.

"Master, the owner of this black shop, Zhang Qing, the wife of the owner, Sun Erniang, and four other employees have all been arrested."

"Yeah." Ji Shengyan nodded, pointed to the outside of the house, and said to Hua Rong: "The human head is the hardest part of the human body, and it is generally difficult to break. Take someone to search around to see if you can find it."

"Yes!" Yan Qing took the order.

"Put the collected evidence together and hand it over to the local government office together." Ji Shengyan added.

Yan Qing summoned several forbidden soldiers to search according to Ji Shengyan's order, and Hua Rong also went to help when seeing this.

Afterwards, Ji Shengyan led the imperial army to station in Mengzhoupo for more than half a month before finding all the murdered bodies on Shizipo and at the same time purging the government of Mengzhou.

This magistrate of Mengzhou is inaction. He didn't notice such a heinous case in the territory under his jurisdiction. He didn't know how many business travelers died, but he said that the report was false and he beat him up. The lives of the people in Mengzhou can be imagined with the presence of their parents and officials.

After the prefect of Mengzhou was investigated and dealt with, Ji Shengyan punished several military officers in Mengzhou who oppressed the people, which led to the current state of Mengzhou without a leader. He had no choice but to let the forbidden army temporarily act as supervisor .

"My lord." Shi Jin walked into the government office with a pile of paperwork, "The identity of the man killed by the black shop couple has been found out. After the notice was posted, the people who claimed the body came in droves."

Ji Shengyan glanced at Shi Jin and motioned for him to continue.

"They killed a total of more than a hundred people, because they never did anything to the people near Shizipo, so even if someone rumored that the proprietress made human flesh buns, the people would take it as a rumor. The couple mostly killed people passing by Shizipo Business travelers going to other places or people who are alone in the Jianghu. The method of killing is simple, first drug, stun the other party, then tie him on a peeling stool and peel the skin and bones. The meat is used to make buns, and the bones are stewed. In the woods across the river."

"How many of the dead were identified?"

"At present, there are 35 people who have all the evidence and have been claimed. These are business travelers with families. Those who have not been claimed may be because their homes are too far away from Mengzhou. It's hard to tell."

Ji Shengyan knocked on the table and asked again: "Sun Erniang and Zhang Qing, have you tried?"

Shi Jin nodded, "This piece of green was originally farming in Daoguangming Temple in Mengzhou. Because of a conflict with the monks in that temple, he killed the monks in the temple and set fire to the temple. Later, he went to Shizipo to rob merchants. He was defeated by Sun Erniang's father and became his son-in-law. The tavern on Shizipo was originally opened by Sun Erniang's father, and their family has always been doing human flesh trading."

Speaking of this, Shi Jin gritted his teeth, with a very vicious expression on his face: "These two people still have three strongholds in Mengzhou City, and they are doing this kind of business. They are capable, if they kill corrupt officials, bullies Scoundrels, I would call them heroes, but most of the people who died in their hands were helpless civilians, and their behavior was more brutal than those corrupt officials."

Ji Shengyan was quite surprised when he heard this. After all, in the original novel of the Water Margin, all the characters who can go to Liangshan regard human life as worthless. What they see is brotherhood and kindness. What do the common people care about?In order to achieve their goals, they will do whatever it takes to kill ordinary people. This is the code of conduct for this group of people.

Feeling the change in Shi Jin's thinking, Ji Shengyan's mood improved slightly. It seemed that the training was not in vain. Just like what Lin Yuzhou said, he didn't need soldiers to be loyal to the emperor, but they had to be patriotic, safeguard the interests of the country, and protect the peace of the people. It is the Song sergeant who needs to be put in the first place.

Ji Shengyan signaled Shi Jin to put down the document, "The whole matter is clear, after the new magistrate takes office, Sun Erniang and her party will be handed over to him, and he will decide how to judge." After finishing speaking, he turned and went to the back hall of the government office.

Shi Jin was stunned for a moment, and when he saw Ji Shengyan's back, he suddenly became upset. He ran to Hua Rong angrily, and repeated Ji Shengyan's words.

"My lord, what do you mean by this? Why should we give credit to the newly appointed magistrate for the people we arrested and the cases we investigated? Who is he?"

Hua Rong was wiping the arrowhead, and when he heard Shi Jin's complaint, he rolled his eyes, "Conquest on the battlefield is what we should do, but it's just two strongmen who kill people and steal goods, so we will give credit for that."

Shi Jin was very dissatisfied: "That's not what he said, the new magistrate doesn't know what he is like, he..."

"I heard that his name is Chen Dong. The candidate for this scientific examination is not very old, but he is very capable. He was single-handedly selected by the officials." Yan Qing heard Shi Jin's words from a long distance, and walked towards him leisurely .

"Didn't you take someone to appease the people? Why did you come back?" Shi Jin wondered.After Sun Erniang and Zhang Qing were arrested, what they committed spread throughout Mengzhou City. , Yan Qing went out early in the morning.

"A few people from the Jianghu were arrested, and they said they were friends of Erniang Sun and Zhang Qing, and they wanted to take the opportunity to rescue their husband and wife." Yan Qing sighed after finishing speaking.

When Sun Erniang was interrogated, Yan Qing knew that the other party didn't feel that she had done anything wrong, and even took pride in killing people. However, there are many people in the world who have the same idea as Sun Erniang.

"I hope Mengzhou is the end, and everything will be smooth after arriving in Qingzhou."