Standing together through thick and thin

Chapter 109 The Truth

"Okay, then talk slowly." Shao Qiu sat on a chair and asked other officials to pour him a cup of hot tea. After talking so much, he hadn't had a good drink of water since he was arrested, and Shao Qiu was also thirsty. Now, taking a deep breath, Shaoqiu took a sip of tea slowly, and said, "Biluochun, I really didn't expect that you could still drink such good tea. It seems that when you are in this line of work, you can really make money." There are so many benefits, even the county magistrate and prefect don't know about it!"

Shao Qiufu sighed again: "You should know, but don't worry about it.

After all, if the big shots come here, it doesn't make sense if they don't get something nice to entertain them, don't you think? "

"Yes, yes! These good teas are given to me by others. When you ask me for something, I will give you all kinds of good things!" Xingtou glanced at Shaoqiu, not knowing what thoughts had changed in his heart, and continued Said: "They all call me Xingtou. In fact, I also forgot my own name. I was originally a bandit, and later I became an executioner who cut off people's heads! Later, someone found that I made good instruments for punishing people. With some means, he was recruited here, and it has been more than 30 years since then."

"In our line of work, almost a few people are killed a day, sometimes more. What I do the most is to chop off the heads of twenty people a day. That is a large family with hundreds of people. At noon As soon as it arrived, the sign fell to the ground, the knife fell from the hand, and a living life was gone. Wailing, screaming, begging for mercy...all were useless. When the time came, blood flowed all over the place, and the entire execution ground was stained red with blood. It scared away many people, more than twenty heads rolled on the ground, and the surrounding screams and screams were interspersed with these cheerful laughter..." Xingtou looked at it quietly again. I glanced at Shaoqiu, saw that he didn't respond, let alone showed any fear, so I couldn't help but feel discouraged, "After that, I chopped off the heads of many people for several days. , the combined lives at hand didn’t kill that many people, gradually I became numb..."

As Xingtou said, Shao Qiu listened carefully, he could probably imagine what Xingtou did, but he didn't feel anything.

Fear, panic, fright... How could he be afraid if he had already left him in his previous life?

Not to mention just a dozen or so human heads, the most he had ever seen at that time was that the corpses were piled up into mountains, human beings, alien beasts, messy, half-dead, and incomplete ones piled up together... That was much more exciting than Xingtou said. At that time, he was shocked, unbelievable, and disheartened, but he was not afraid or frightened, because many of the piles of corpses were his. His masterpiece, the battle between humans and alien beasts, ended in a fiasco and cruelty.

"After I was transferred here, I studied the instruments of torture every day. At the beginning, the few people who served the sentence died. Later, I gradually learned how to torture people so that they can not die. It was very painful. Gradually, I became the head of the torturers. After working for so many years, there is no way to get out after traveling all over the world."

"How did you, a bandit, become an executioner?" Shao Qiu was very curious about this, and his transformation was too smooth.

"Hey." Xingtou smiled, "It's not difficult. There's no one to fight for being an executioner. Just give me a little money. It doesn't matter if you are a thief or a murderer. As long as you dare to do it and you are strong enough, Even if you are not strong enough, as long as you are capable and courageous, I will give you this meal."

"Well, who asked you to enter the execution room?"

"People in our line of work don't care about their status. The executioner in front of me saw that I had this talent, so he let me in. At first, he was his subordinate, but after he died, I came up. I don’t know who he is, but he said he remembers to put his head on his waistband every day, he killed so many people, sooner or later he will get it on his own head, and dying of old age is the best way to die.”

"Which family was the family you cut off? What happened?"

Xingtou gave Shao Qiu a weird look, why is he interested in these things?But since Shaoqiu asked, in order to avoid suffering, he still answered truthfully: "The family's surname is Qian, and there are more than a dozen Hanlin ancestors in the ancestors, and there are countless people. There are also three senior officials who have achieved the second rank. The sea transportation in Guangxi is rich and prosperous."

"In the generation that committed the crime, someone had already sat on the position of a first-rank official, but it didn't take long before they committed a crime, and all the families were killed! What did they commit? It seems that they have too much money and want to rebel. I bought a batch of private navy and private sea boats, and I can’t remember clearly. Over the years, many people said that they were killed by rebels, and he seemed to be the same, but I was just an executioner at the time, and I didn’t know the details. criminal's crime," continued. "Shao Qiu didn't ask any more. Many people probably know some important things. Shao Qiu asked Xingtou just out of curiosity, "Tell me, why did you frame me for stealing the prescription of cleaning agent?"A county magistrate, no matter how courageous he is, would not dare to frame the magistrate so blatantly. His papers have to be reviewed by the magistrate before being sent to the capital. Isn't it?Let me ask you, is there any news or someone from the capital?Or, whose way has Master Xu stepped in and whom has he offended?However, I think the first possibility is the most likely. Tell me, who is here?Or what news? "

If Mr. Xu blocked someone's way, he could have killed him when the Emperor's Mansion was in decline. If they didn't, it means they couldn't do it!Since it was impossible to do it at the beginning, it is even more impossible to do it now that the case of the Emperor's Mansion is over after all these years.As for offending whom?This is possible, after all, how could an official be able to sit firmly in that seat without offending anyone?

An official can really do a good job, either the emperor finds out that he needs such an upright official to give the people in the court a clean stream, so as to attract more scholars, or he is playing tricks, and the rest is of no avail. But to frame Mr. Xu at this time, he must have got some news.

So Shaoqiu guessed that someone in the capital wanted to deal with Mr. Xu, or some important person behind Mr. Zhifu, what news the capital brought or someone asked to do this, but he did not expect that they used such a clumsy strategy , but as long as Shaoqiu pleaded guilty, they killed Shaoqiu, and there would be no proof. Shaoqiu's "confession" is the most powerful proof.

However, this is just a small case involving the interests of the villagers. Master Xu can erase it casually, or just plead guilty and go into seclusion for a few days without any major punishment. How could it be possible that Master Xu pull down?Is there any backhand behind it?

Shao Qiu turned a few turns in his mind, and the torture head trembled all over. He didn't know how Shao Qiu came to this conclusion based on what he said, but it was almost the same.

Such a person, who said that he is a simple pair, a simple country man, if he has the opportunity to go to them, he must goug out their eyes and let them take a closer look, who is the country man!

"This, this..." Xingtou faltered, not knowing what to say, Shaoqiu looked at him fixedly, suddenly, a green mass of air condensed in his hands, and it shook towards Xingtou's forehead, with a ding, hitting On a very thin silver needle.

Xing Tou looked at the broken silver needle that fell on the ground, and his face was pale.

Shao Qiu ignored his terrified expression, and immediately shook the green light ball toward the small window gap, and something fell to the ground with a thud.

"Go and bring people in!" Shao Qiu said coldly.

Looking at Xingtou with a pale face, "It seems that I don't need to take action, and some people want you to die. So, you really know something. Did someone come from the capital?"

Xingtou stared at Shaoqiu, nodded with a pale face, the other side had already given up on him, the silver needle on the ground still made him feel fear, "Yes, yes, someone from the capital is here, from the Qin family."

"The Qin family?"

"Yes, the Qin family in the capital is extremely powerful, with one person above ten thousand, they are the right arm of the emperor. The current head of the family is Qin Zuoxiang! But in the end, Qin Zuoxiang fought with the emperor's master, and the emperor's mansion lost. "

Shao Qiu looked at Xingtou, he knew quite a lot, "Emperor Master's Mansion, Left Prime Minister's Mansion."

"Yes, at the beginning, these two families had equal power in the capital, and they didn't like each other. Later, when the new emperor ascended the throne, Zuo Xiang's family dominated, and the Imperial Master's Mansion began to decline..."

Shao Qiu nodded gradually, and finally understood why the Emperor's Mansion fell.

Although Lin Sihan said that his grandfather was framed, because his family suffered.

However, isn't this the result of competing for that seat?If it failed, even without the matter of his grandfather, there would be other things that put the emperor in danger.

"After the decline of the Emperor's Mansion, the power of the Zuoxiang Mansion in the capital has become even more unresistable." Xingtou glanced at Shao Qiu, lowered his head and didn't know what he was thinking.

"The new emperor ascends the throne? Since the Imperial Master's Mansion and the Zuo Xiang's Mansion are equally powerful, how did the Zuo Prime Minister let the prince he assisted ascend the throne? The Emperor's Mansion will always do nothing?"

"This, I don't know too much! I just remember that at that time, it seemed to be a problem of military strength, and the emperor's division was defeated..."

"Strength? Where did the Zuoxiang mansion get the troops? Where did the emperor's division get the troops? Aren't they civil servants? How could they have military power?"

"They themselves don't need to be in power, as long as the people under them are in power. Zuo Xiang's son-in-law is the general who put down the Nanman! One of the disciples of the emperor's teacher, Jiang Hong, was the servant of the military department, and he held a hundred thousand in the capital. Soldiers and horses. These years, the general has been recuperating in Beijing, and his troops are all in southern Xinjiang. I heard that he was recalled by the general a few years ago. When the former emperor was seriously ill, the emperor asked Jiang Hong to mobilize the capital. But the soldiers in Beijing, no matter how many soldiers there are, are just wine bags and rice bags. They are used to being pampered. How can they be strong soldiers who often fight outside? Jiang Hong's [-] soldiers are no match for the general's [-] soldiers. What's more, when the great general pacified the Southern Man, he used his troops like a god, and was treacherous and changeable. No matter how powerful the emperor's teacher was, he was nothing more than lip service, and the Minister of the Ministry of War had never been on the battlefield..."

"That's it, but it's not right..." Shaoqiu always felt that something was wrong, "Even if Prime Minister Zuo wanted to eliminate the remnants of the emperor's teacher, he would not use such a clumsy method. What's going on?"

Xingtou said bitterly: "I, I am the only executioner. Even if I can get the secret from the mouth of the criminal, I don't know about those schemes! However, there is one thing. In recent years, the capital is no longer Zuo Xiang's family dominates, and his son-in-law's power seems to surpass that of Qin's family. Now, the emperor also trusts the general..."

"How did you find out about these things?"

"Hey, this is nothing. Although I am a criminal chief, I am not only in Jixian County, but also in the capital. In our line of work, the more we know, the faster we die. I have narrowly escaped death several times in the capital, and I know a lot of things that cannot be said, otherwise it will be a dead end. I remember when I was interrogating the emperor, I watched from the sidelines , the emperor's teacher is worthy of being an emperor's teacher, with a strong character, no matter what kind of torture he suffered, he still refused to plead guilty, and in the end he fainted because he couldn't bear the torture, and the officials pressed his hand and put him in custody!"

Shao Qiu continued to ask some questions, and Xingtou answered them one by one, without hiding anything.

"Okay, I know what I need to know, let him go!"

Xingtou looked at Shao Qiu in disbelief, unexpectedly, Shao Qiu was really willing to let him go, so he heard Shao Qiu say: "Rewrite the confession letter you just gave me, and write it better."

Xingtou didn't know what Shao Qiu wanted to do, but he didn't dare to neglect Shao Qiu's order, and immediately wrote down the confession he had shown to Shao Qiu before.

Shao Qiu took the confession and smiled, "It's well written, I can't tell, your writing is very good!"

"Hey, when I was young, I read books!"

At this time, the two officials had already returned, and said: "There is no one outside." Shao Qiu nodded, "Have you left? That's fine, let him inform his master and see what they will do next."

"You can't go in!" A voice came from the prison road.

Shaoqiu heard the reputation and looked over, and saw that many officials were holding Li Xiuye's body to prevent him from going forward.But Li Xiuye ​​even dragged them over.

Shao Qiu glanced at Xingtou, who immediately ordered someone to let him in.

The official left, Li Xiuye ​​walked in front of Shao Qiu, looked up and down the mountain, then looked at Shao Qiu dissatisfied, Shao Qiu smiled and said: "I'm fine, they can't do anything to me."

Li Xiuye ​​glared at Xingtou, Xingtou felt his body trembling.

All these people, who are they!

Shao Qiu smiled and took Li Xiuye's hand, "Ah Ye, I have something I want you to do for me!"

Li Xiuye ​​looked at Shaoqiu, "What's the matter?"

"Give this to the magistrate, and it must be in his hands! Also, tell him that the people from the Qin family are here."

Xingtou's eyes lit up. This Shuang'er is not only powerful, but also very clear-headed. Why should the higher-ups deal with him for no reason?Still using such a stupid way?

Xingtou thought a lot here, Li Xiuye ​​nodded and left the cell, no one rushed to stop him, Shao Qiu faced Xingtou and said: "If anyone comes to visit the prison, remember to let them in!"

"Yes!"

Xingtou didn't dare to say a word.

"By the way, if you want to survive, I think you should know what to do!"

Xingtou only felt a pain in his head again, nodded quickly and said: "Yes, I understand that Qin Chu limped into the house with a cane and a calm expression. Hearing that Lin Sihan had gone out again, he smiled helplessly and shook his head. shook his head.

"That kid is just impatient, eh...he doesn't look like his father at all."

Old Zheng also echoed, "Yes, Young Master Lin is not only impatient, but also very affectionate and righteous. The Shao family took him in, and he treats them as his relatives!"

Qin Chu paused and sighed, "That's fine, he's still a child, so he shouldn't be too gloomy and always remember hatred."

"That's what the shopkeeper said."

Qin Chu looked at Lao Zheng and saw that he had been following behind him, and asked, "Why, what's the matter?"

"Shopkeeper, Yingjiu is back and has been waiting for a while."

"I see." After hearing Lao Zheng's words, Qin Chu turned around and left directly. His pace was also a little anxious, but because of his limp, no matter how hurried he walked, it was just like ordinary people's pace.

Yingjiu is one of his capable subordinates. He explained Yingjiu's mission without any accidents. He will not come back until the mission is completed. Something must have happened.

He hated his leg a little.

But now there is nothing he can do, he can only live the rest of his life with such a limping leg.

I originally thought that the rest of my life would be peaceful, but now, it seems that I can't calm down.

Qin Chu shook his head and stopped thinking about these things. He entered the room, closed the door, and a figure suddenly appeared in the room.

"master!"

"Yingjiu? Didn't you ask you to protect the people in the prison? Why did you come here?"

"The subordinates are indeed protecting him. They want to torture Shaoqiu in private to force him to confess his guilt! The subordinates were about to go in, but they were blocked."

"A member of the Qin family?" Qin Chu's face turned cold, "Sure enough, this matter is not easy!"

"Yes!" Yingjiu unfolded to the side, "The subordinates brought him back, but he committed suicide, nothing was asked."

"Well, I see, let's go down!"

Seeing that Xuan Jiu was still standing there, Qin Chu asked, "What? What else is there?"

Yingjiu knelt on the ground and said: "This subordinate is incompetent. This person was not knocked out by this subordinate, but was wounded by a hidden weapon flying from nowhere. The subordinate didn't see clearly. It seems to be a hidden weapon, and it seems to be A ball of green light, which hurt him, disappeared without a trace, and the subordinates could not find any traces, just because this person went to the prison to put a hidden weapon!"

"Put a hidden weapon in the prison?"

"Yes" "Who did you kill?"

"Punisher!"

Clear body paused, his brows furrowed, as if he couldn't figure it out.

"Shao Qiu is fine, there are still people secretly protecting him, it seems that there are people behind him!"

"Subordinates don't know."

"Forget it, since that's the case, you can go out. This matter is in your stomach, so you don't need to talk about it. As for this, let you, keep it, and let Brother Han see it, so that he can understand that this matter is not serious. Simple!"

"Yes! This subordinate retire!"

Qin Chu looked at the back of Yingjiu walking out, and took the corpse on the ground out, sitting on the chair and thinking, not knowing what he was thinking.