treacherous world

Sure enough, Liu Xie had a trick. He went out to appease the people. He didn't say that he had caught the hidden mountain monster, nor did he say that he hadn't caught it, but he just advised everyone not to hinder the handling of the case... He promised that this case will be completely resolved. , to give you an explanation.

Relying on the prestige he had built up over the years, the common people all dispersed. Liu Xie was careful, and he sent a few clever yamen servants to pretend to be common people to visit. Who was spreading rumors that the yamen had arrested hidden Mountain monster.

Not long after, those yamen servants came back, saying they were the family members of several squires.

Liu Xie frowned, sure enough!

In the house, everyone knew Hong Lie's identity and could communicate smoothly, but the next question was how to deal with him.

If the case back then was true, then Qian Dayou deserved to die, but he has his own law to deal with him, lynching is also a crime, and Hong Lie's words are also one-sided, waiting for evidence to be confirmed.

Zhao Pu asked Xiao Liang to talk to him, telling him to wait in the government office for a few days with peace of mind, they will find out everything and give the Xu family justice!

Hong Lie is very obedient, he has heard the names of Zhao Pu and Kaifeng Mansion outside the customs a long time ago, and he trusts them very much.So he agreed to stay in the yamen, but there was a request.

Everyone was puzzled, and saw him whistle out of the window. After a while, the huge black eagle flew over, landed on the branch, and looked at Honglie.

Hong Lie waved to it, and the eagle landed on the window sill, turned its head and looked at the surrounding people.

"Wow..." The fourth son leaned forward enviously, and Gongsun hurriedly stopped him because he was afraid that his eyes would be pecked.

"Can you help me raise it for a few days? He wants to eat raw meat. He is afraid of being beaten in the mountains. Just give him two taels of meat every day. I usually feed him wild rabbits or something."

Everyone nodded happily, Zhao Pu stretched out his finger and put it next to the eagle's leg.

The eagle looked at him, stepped on his hand with its paws, and flapped its wings. Zhao Pu lifted it up and praised, "Sure enough, pets should have such mighty pets! Those with round heads and round brains are not imposing at all!

The stone and scissors on the side were quite depressed.

The fourth son clapped his hands and looked at Falcon enviously, "What an air!"

The eagle turned his face to look at the fourth son, opened his mouth and let out a few whispers.

Hong Lie smiled, and said to the fourth son, "It likes you very much."

The fourth son blushed, reached out his hand, and gently stroked the eagle's fur. The eagle held its head upright and let him touch it, probably apologizing for attacking the fourth son just now.

Zhan Zhao winked at Bai Yutang—he really has spirituality!Don't know whether to give birth or not?

Bai Yutang looked at the sky and rolled his eyes - cats only lay babies, eagles lay eggs!

Hong Lie was supposed to be taken to prison, but the eagle flew up and stood on his shoulder, refusing to leave. Zhao Pu admired Hong Lie's loyalty, and felt that it was too awkward for a falcon to be locked up in a dark and damp dungeon. Fortunately, the fences around the room were fenced, and Hong Lie and Ying lived in it temporarily, and Liu Xie had no objection.Everyone had doubts in their hearts, if this Liu Xie was not a white-faced scholar but a black-faced scholar... then he must be the illegitimate son of Master Bao, why does he look so similar, could it be powdered? !

After Honglie caught it, the context of the case was basically clear. The key is that so far there are still many doubts.

Gongsun still went back to do the autopsy, and decided to talk about it in detail after the autopsy.

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang went out, just thinking about what to do next, when gray shadow jumped down from the eaves, "Lord Zhan, fifth master, there's some movement!"

"Huh?" Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang tilted their heads at the same time, looking puzzled, "What's going on?"

Gray Shadow felt a little helpless, "Didn't you tell us to stay with that obscene statue and wait for the situation?!"

"!" Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang immediately remembered, and asked in unison, "Then what's the specific situation?"

Gray Shadow said, "There has been no movement for a while, but this afternoon, someone started to move firewood to that place, a lot, and there are baskets of poisonous insects and poisonous things!"

"Are we going to start again?!" Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang looked at each other, and decided to act tonight to catch the current situation!They secretly arranged yamen servants to keep an eye on them, but they couldn't startle them.

As soon as Zhao Pu heard that there was a "good show" to watch, he wanted to take Gongsun to watch it, but everyone was still very afraid of the smell of poisonous smoke.

Gongsun made a list and asked the shadow guard to grab some medicine, and made a lot of smelly sachets for everyone to carry with them to avoid inhaling the medicine.

That night, everyone took advantage of the darkness to arrive at the gathering place in the outskirts... Sure enough, they saw that the fire had already risen, and now that weird ritual was going on.

For the convenience of identifying people, Liu Xie was also brought by the crowd. When he saw the men and women inside, Liu Xie was dumbfounded, shook his head again and again, and almost cried out.Zhan Zhao and the others covered their mouths in time and pulled them away.

Zhan Zhao asked, "What's wrong?"

"Impossible!" Liu Xie's eyes were red with anxiety, "Those...those are all law-abiding young offspring, and many of them are lay disciples of the Shantang. The young girls are all unmarried virgins. They are school scholars, filial and obedient, how could they do such a cold and immoral thing?! Absolutely impossible!"

Upon hearing this, Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang looked at each other, feeling strange, and they both knew that the people this time looked different from those last time.

"Master Liu, don't worry, let's observe again!"

Just as Zhan Zhao persuaded Liu Xie, Gongsun was brought over by Zhao Pu, "Those people are all drugged!"

"Drugged?!" Zhan Zhao and the others were taken aback.

"These people's eyes are dull and dull, and what they do is not normal." Gongsun said, "Also, those smokes are strong aphrodisiacs, which contain hallucinogenic ingredients. Once inhaled, they will be confused. It's no surprise that you do something so indulgent and daring!"

"So, they were tricked and then drugged." Liu Xie frowned, "Is this possible?"

"Yes!" Gongsun nodded and added, "It should be said, that's what happened!"

"You bastard!" Liu Xie stomped his feet, "Those are ignorant teenagers, young girls, who are so wicked, how will these children behave in the future?!"

"My lord!"

At this time, I saw the shadow guards arresting a few men... They were all dressed in black, and looked terrified. Liu Xie recognized them immediately, "You are servants of the Li family and the Wang family!"

"It's them who piled up the bonfire, prepared the materials, and just now wanted to pull the strange stone statue out of the forest!" The shadow guards said, "We asked, and they are all from the squire's family!"

Liu Xie sneered, "It turns out that you guys are the ones playing tricks!"

At this time, hearing that the scriptures over there were almost finished reciting, Zhan Zhao frowned, "Oh no!"

"It's okay!" Gongsun grabbed a few handfuls of herbs and handed them to the shadow guard, "Sprinkle them quietly into the fire, and people will be unconscious immediately!"

"Yes!" The shadow guard complied, and sure enough, those men and women in disheveled clothes immediately fainted.

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

At this moment, only someone in the forest was heard talking and laughing, and everyone hid behind the tree holding their breath.

It was Li Gang who spoke in a rough voice, "Haha...it is said that today's ones are all fresh!"

"I haven't eaten meat for several days. Those officials caught the white-faced ghost. This time the case has been solved, so it's time to go!" Wang Guiyou laughed and praised Li Gang's son for his ability. Ah, it’s like green out of blue.”

"Haha, when that official from the Kaifeng Mansion is gone, let's just do nothing and kill Liu Xie, who got in the way!"

The more they talked, the happier they became, and they laughed.

"By the way, the so-called monsters have been arrested now, and if there are disobedient girls, they can't be killed and blamed on the monsters."

"I have to be patient for a while, and wait for those officials to leave and Liu Xie to die!" Alas... I'm not happy, what kind of black-and-white favorite student has been kept in the dark by us for so many years? "

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Everyone was talking happily when someone behind them sneered, "So that's what happened."

"Who?" The squires turned pale with shock, and looked back...the blood turned cold in an instant.

I saw that it was Liu Xie who came out of the forest, with a group of government servants behind him, all of them were full of hatred. It turned out that everything was caused by these people. Pity so many young people who died in vain!

Seeing that something was wrong, the squires turned around and wanted to run away, but it was a pity that Zhan Zhao Bai Yutang and the others were standing in front of them.

"This……"

Li Gang and the others saw that there was no way out this time, their legs went limp, and they all fell to the ground, trembling, and the elation just now was gone.

Liu Xie was so angry that his face turned pale, and he ordered these people to be taken back for a trial.

When they heard that the Yinshan monster murder case was going to be tried, the people in Xinghua were shocked and came to watch it.

Liu Xiesheng Hall specially placed two seats on the side, with Zhao Pu on one side and Zhan Zhao on the other.

Gongsun was behind the screen to make the master's record, Bai Yutang was not from the government, and took Xiao Liang's fourth son, leaning in the hall behind Gongsun, listening to the trial.Liu Xie first brought up the servants who were helping the squires and asked them to tell what happened.

It turned out that all of this was done by Li Gang and other squires for their own selfish desires!

The Huansha Festival selects beauties, and there are many beauties in Xinghua, and the gentry look envious and have evil thoughts.

They ran into a wandering Taoist priest who was passing by, who specialized in aphrodisiac and aphrodisiac drugs.

Several country gentry chatted with him, and heard that he had a folk prescription that could promote the happiness of the couple's boudoir, so they spent a lot of money to buy his prescription, and asked him if there was any medicine that could make people obedient or lose consciousness.So, that was selling them psychedelic drugs again.

The legend of the hidden mountain monster has existed since ancient times, and there are always people who enter the mountain forest and see a person with a snow-white body and wings, suspected to be a monster!In fact, what they saw was Bai Yuan or Hong Lie.Because Hong Lie was in the mountains when he was a child, and he was very similar to the real residents of the hidden mountain in the legend. Many coincidences, coupled with the white ape, formed the illusion that there were monsters in the hidden mountain.

Those squires magnified the lies of the hidden mountain monster, so that people could not get close to the mountains and forests, so that they could do whatever they wanted.

They sent people to search the mountain, and accidentally picked up a stone statue from a valley. It is said that the place where the stone statue was located seemed to be a mass grave in the past, and there were many dead bones in it.On a whim, they conceived such a plan.

First of all, they bought monks and Taoists on the top of the mountain to help find good-looking men and women, and gave them skeletons, saying that they could use the skeletons to enter the mountain to restore them.

This kind of skull with a mark, the mark is actually put on by drugs, once holding the skull for a long time, it will be poisoned, and the whole person is confused. At this time, as long as you tell them what to do, those people will do it.

And every year the winner of the beauty pageant at the Huansha Festival has to go to the temple to restore it, that is already management.

So, those poor beauties were told after being poisoned—one night, come to the place where the bonfire is.

What awaits them is a catastrophe.

When the beauties arrived on the mountain, the bonfire had already been lit, the medicine was burned, and the smoke made everyone drowsy.These people were delirious, chanting scriptures with a family member who sneaked in, and they were so distracted that they finally lost their sex under the influence of drugs.

The reason for doing this is so that if it is discovered, it is easy to say that it is the work of the evil cult and the evil sect, so that the responsibility can be shirked.

And just as they were doing that immoral thing, these squires came and joined in the fun.After the work is done, they will take some of the particularly beautiful ones home and threaten them to help pick up customers to make money.

Even if the other men and women woke up the next day, they would flee in despair. For the sake of innocence, who would dare to report to the officials? !

Those who were taken back either satisfied the private desires of the squires on weekdays, or were directly given to local officials for bribes.Those who refused to agree or who were looking for death would threaten to tell the scandal or kill their family members.

There are a few who are particularly staunch, and they will be detained forcibly, find an ugly one to change clothes, or kill them directly... They smear honey on the face of the corpse, let the vicious dogs come in and bite, and after the disfigurement, they are called martial arts Gaoqiang The nurse sent him back home, creating the illusion that the monster in the hidden mountain cannibalized people.One can shirk responsibility, and coming... can also make people more afraid to approach the mountain forest.

Liu Xie ordered that all the real half-immortals who were responsible for sending the skeletons be arrested on the mountain. After asking, it was true.

They then sent people to forcibly break into the country gentry's suburban courtyard, and indeed rescued many boys and girls who had been tortured and imprisoned.

When the people of Xinghua heard about this, they were furious.

Liu Xie ordered these squires to be imprisoned and paraded through the streets. Those squires suffered a crime and were cast aside by the people of the city. They were covered with rotten eggs, stones, and rotten leaves, just like before. The scenery is really incomparable.

Liu Xie was halfway through the trial and felt it was appalling, so he wrote to Bao Zheng.When Bao Zheng reported to the palace, the government and the public were shocked.

Zhao Zhen beat his chest and pointed at Bao Zheng, "Bao Qing, you have had two horrific cases in a row this month, which makes me feel bad every day!"

Bao Zheng was also helpless.

Zhao Zhen shook his head, and ordered Liu Xie to investigate strictly. Those squires were kept alive, and they were punished to death, so that their hatred would be relieved!

After Liu Xie got the order, he continued to try the case.

After the squire was taken to prison, Li Feifei came to the case in person before Liu Xie passed it on.

Liu Xie frowned slightly and asked him to come up.

Li was very frank, saying that he only discovered his father's criminal activities recently, which is really contemptible, but due to his father's power, he could not report it to the authorities, and there was no evidence.So, he deliberately transferred the piece of silk to Bai Yutang, so that everyone could follow along.

When Zhao Pu heard this, he secretly cursed fart!

The fourth son was so dazed that he tugged on Bai Yutang's sleeve and said, "Bai Bai, that person is very, very cunning!"

Bai Yutang nodded, "It's indeed cunning!"

How could Liu Xie be in this position, but Li is very shrewd and wise, and he is wise to protect himself. He came to assist in the investigation of the case, and secondly, it is not surprising that those who don't know it. Everyone has no evidence, so they can only watch him get away with it.

Li Feifei also donated all of the Li family's finances to the victim, as if he wanted to fly away!

"He wants to run away!" Zhan Zhao was in a hurry, "I always think he can't be an innocent person!"

Bai Yutang rested his chin with one hand, "I also think he is not a good person, but unfortunately there is no proof, otherwise we can just get rid of him."

Zhan Zhao glanced at him, Bai Yutang shrugged, "Tell me what you want."

"Now there are a few things that need to be investigated!" Zhan Zhao said, "It's the case of the Xu family back then."

"A large amount of money was found in the squire's family!" Liu Xie was helpless. "Basically, it is definitely inseparable, but they still need to admit it! I would like to know all the facts of the case back then, and see if any fish slipped through the net."

"Hmm..." Zhao Pu smiled, "Actually, it doesn't matter, who cares, he will be executed by Ling Chi anyway, and it can be regarded as revenge for Mr. Xu's family."

"Hey..." Gongsun suddenly slapped his head, "Our trick of scaring people last time was useless, but it can be used now!"

Everyone was stunned... That's right!

Afterwards, Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang went out, and decided to tell Hong Lie about scaring those gentry and ask him to help.

"They all admitted to killing others, but they didn't admit to killing Amao, Li's family, and Li Feifan's murder, right?" Seeing that Bai Yutang frowned and seemed puzzled, Zhan Zhao asked.

"Hmm..." Bai Yutang nodded, feeling that this case was still a bit strange.

"Hello." Zhan Zhao lightly poked his arm, "What are you thinking?!"

"..." Bai Yutang said, "By the way, there is one thing I don't understand. That girl also has a skeleton in her hand, but if it is said that they are all for beautiful beauties, why..."

"My lord, my lord!"

At this time, I saw Feiying stumbling over from the backyard, with a complicated expression on his face.

"What's wrong?" Zhan Zhao asked her puzzled.

"Oh, I don't understand, come and take a look!" After saying that, she led Zhan Zhao Bai Yutang to the backyard, and the fourth son and Xiao Liang looked at each other and followed curiously.

Hong Lie is now free to move about. Originally, Liu Xie wanted to punish him for abusing lynching and murder, but when he heard about Qian Dayou's evil deeds, he immediately let him go.I just hate why he didn't kill all these people at that time, so that some young boys and girls who were victimized would be produced earlier.

Honglie was with the injured girl in the backyard. Her name was Qiaoqiao. After waking up, she felt relieved when she saw Honglie. After a few days of recuperation, she has recovered and can speak.

When they entered the gate, everyone was stunned.

I saw Qiaoqiao sitting on the bed, holding a human skin mask in her hand, looking at everyone timidly, after the mask was torn off... how could she still be an ugly person, a beauty!

"Oh!" The fourth son leaned over to take a closer look, "It's so beautiful! It's exactly like Aunt Pang!"

"Ahem." Xiao Liang added in a low voice, "Jin'er, you are younger than Concubine Pang!"

Everyone was also surprised.

"...So it's a beauty pretending to be an ugly person." Zhao Pu also walked in and nodded in admiration, "No wonder there is also a skeleton."

"Are you being half-ugly on purpose?" Zhan Zhao asked.

The girl hesitated for a while, then looked up at Honglie, "Brother Lie, I'm Xu Qiaoer."

Hong Lie was taken aback for a moment, and after a while, he jumped up and exclaimed, "Qiaoqiao!"

Everyone looked at each other in blank dismay—surnamed Xu? !Could it be that the Xu family was still alive back then? !