Xia Yu protected the source of the fish in the mountains and mountains for a long time, unconsciously, the sky was flooded with a trace of fish belly white light, the night passed, the day dawned.

Xia Yu stopped, looked around, didn't find the killer of Chi Youhui, and said, "Your Highness, let's rest and rest." ”

Xia Yu and Yu Deyuan sat under the tree to rest, Yu Deyuan frowned, fell into deep thought, thinking about who hired Chi You to assassinate him, and who exposed his whereabouts to Chi Youhui?

Yu Deyuan went to Sangcheng Weifu for a private visit, this is top secret, before leaving, the people who know the news can count it on both palms, it seems that there are spies in the palace.

Yu Deyuan pondered for a long time, and Xia Yu called softly twice beside him: "Your Highness, Your Highness." ”

Yu Deyuan came back to his senses and looked at Xia Yu blankly.

Xia Yu said: "Your Highness, let's go, get out of here, find a densely populated place, and rest well." ”

Yu Deyuan followed Xia Yu and continued to walk forward, until the dawn of the day, he finally walked out of the woods and saw an official road, there was a simple small tea shed next to the official road, and a young couple was running there, making a fire and boiling water.

Xia Yu and Yu Deyuan walked into the tea shed and asked for some tea and snacks to quench their thirst and hunger.

Xia Yu asked, "Your Highness, should we continue to go to Sangcheng now, or return to Nandu?"

Yu Deyuan drank tea, hesitated, and said, "Let's continue to Sangcheng." ”

When Yu Deyuan left the southern capital, he brought more than a dozen guards with him, and now, those guards are all separated, life and death are unknown, and only Xia Yu is left by Yu Deyuan's side.

Xia Yu said: "Your Highness, do you find the public identity of the government, or continue to make a private visit to Weifu?"

Yu Deyuan thought about it, gritted his teeth, and said: "Continue to pay for private interviews, those unsightly cockroaches, hiding in dirty corners, thinking that they can scare Prince Ben with a little despicable tricks, wishful thinking!"

Yu Deyuan summoned a carrier pigeon from his divine sense, and muttered a few words in the pigeon's ear. The carrier pigeon spread its wings and flew in the direction of the southern capital.

Xia Yu and Yu Deyuan drank tea in the small tea shed, ate snacks, rested for a while, and then hurried along the official road in the direction of Sangcheng.

There is a small town near Sangcheng, called Ruyi Town, Xia Yu and Yu Deyuan rushed to Ruyi Town at noon. Walking into the town, both of them felt a little strange.

It stands to reason that Sangcheng is a densely populated big city in the Qianyuan Kingdom, and Ruyi Town is close to Sangcheng, so it should also be a bit prosperous, but what Xia Yu and Yu Deyuan saw was full of depression.

Nearly half of the shops on the street are closed, and the few that are open are barely alive. There are not many pedestrians on the street, and they are all discouraged and depressed. The streets were full of beggars, who were so thin that they had only a handful of bones and a breath left.

Under Yu Jingyao's governance, the Qianyuan Kingdom is now thriving, and the scene of Ruyi Town is diametrically opposed to the excellent situation of the Qianyuan Kingdom.

Yu Deyuan's face was gloomy, he was very angry, and he thought, Xie Zhenxi, this bastard, how did he govern Sang City, and what kind of face did he have to be the city lord of Sang City?!

The city lord of Sangcheng is named Xie Zhenxi, the son of the Xie family of the three major families of the Qianyuan Kingdom, who has been the city lord of Sangcheng for nearly ten years, and manages the land within a radius of 100 miles of Sangcheng.

Xia Yu and Yu Deyuan walked forward along the street, walked and walked, and came to a square, where firewood as high as a hill was piled up, and there was a person sitting on the firewood, this person was wearing a monk's robe, his knees were cross-legged, and his eyes were closed.

Xia Yu took a closer look, this person was a bhikshuni in his thirties, and Xia Yu also recognized that it was the water sound master he saved in the small restaurant a few days ago.

A group of people gathered under the firewood pile, looking at the sound of water, pointing and whispering. A little girl lay on the firewood pile, crying like a tearful person, the viewer was sad, and the listener wept.

This little girl is Shui Yin's apprentice Yun'er, Xia Yu and Yu Deyuan walked over and asked, "Yun'er, what's wrong?"

Yun'er looked up and saw that it was Xia Yu and Yu Deyuan, a bright light flashed in her eyes, and she shouted, "Benefactor, why are you here?"

"Let's go to Sangcheng to do some business, what's wrong with Master Shuiyin, why are you sitting on the firewood?" Xia Yu asked.

Yun'er cried again, crying so much that the pear blossoms brought rain, very sad, and said, "They are going to burn Master...... They are going to burn Master...... They're going to kill Master......"

Yun'er choked up and kept repeating a sentence.

Xia Yu said: "Yun'er, don't cry yet, what's going on?"

Yun'er controlled her sadness, wiped her tears, and said, "That day, Master and I left the small restaurant and walked straight all the way to this Ruyi Town. A group of people gathered in the town, saying that there was a drought and asking the town mayor Xie Gui to reduce taxes. Xie Gui not only did not listen to the people's will, but also ordered the officials to beat the people.

"My master was compassionate, so he stepped forward to stop Xie Gui. Xie Gui advertised himself as a devout Buddhist, and he did not act rudely to his master, but asked him to ask him for rain. He said that within three days, if Master begged for rain, he would release Master and reduce taxes for the people. If you can't ask for rain, Master is a demon, wanting, wanting...... Burn Master alive!"

In the end, Yun'er couldn't cry.

Xia Yu was indignant and shouted: "Ridiculous, it doesn't rain in the world, how can it be controlled by manpower?" ”

Master Shuiyin has been sitting on the pyre for two days and two nights, the water and rice have not entered, the wind and the sun are blowing, and the body is about to reach the limit. Books.com

Xia Yu wanted to climb the pyre to save Master Shuiyin, the onlookers were immediately in an uproar, Yun'er stepped forward and grabbed Xia Yu, shouting: "I can't help it, I can't help it." ”

Xia Yu stopped, very surprised, and asked, "Why?"

Yun'er pointed to Master Shuiyin, who had an iron chain tied to his body, and a big bell was attached to one end of the chain, as long as Master Shuiyin's body moved, the big bell would ring.

Yun'er said: "If this bell rings, Xie Gui's soldiers will come over immediately." ”

Xia Yu didn't care, and shouted: "What others are afraid of Xie Gui, I'm not afraid!"

As he spoke, Xia Yu jumped and jumped onto the firewood.

Xie Gui is a slave of the Xie family, and he has been a follower to Xie Zhenxi since he was a child, and he is more clever. After Xie Zhenxi became the lord of Sangcheng, he promoted Xie Gui and appointed Xie Gui as the mayor of Ruyi Town.

Xie Gui often tied up those who resisted him to the square to show the public, and did not send troops to watch, but tied an iron chain to the body of the person who showed the public, and connected a bell. If anyone dared to save the person who showed the public, the bell would ring, and Xie Gui's soldiers would be killed immediately.

The people of Ruyi Town call that iron chain a soul chain, and they all call that bell a life-killing bell. Anyone who is tied with a soul chain and a life-killing bell will be exposed to the sun and die nine times out of ten, which is very miserable.

Shui Yin had been exposed to the sun for two days and was already in a semi-comatose state, Xia Yu reached out to untie the chains on Shui Yin's body.

The onlookers below shouted: "Can't solve it, can't solve it, when the bell rings, none of you will survive." ”

The people were full of fear of the Death Bell, and they all knew Xie Gui's methods. In the past, some people did not believe in evil and rang the bell of death, and as a result, those people without exception had to be tortured and tortured to death.

What the people are most afraid of is this death bell, this death bell seems to be an object in hell, and when the bell rings, it means that someone is going to die a tragic death.

Xia Yu stood on the pyre, looking at the people around him, and the people were persuading Xia Yu not to ring the death bell.

Xia Yu looked calm, summoned the Tianxin Sword, and cut the iron chain with a sword. The death bell shook and made a "dang" sound.

The people were all terrified, and they all stepped back, as if they were too close and the bell could take their lives.

Xia Yu picked up Shuiyin, jumped off the pyre, and said to Yun'er: "Give the master some water." ”

Yun'er hurriedly took out the water bag and fed Shui Yin a few sips of water.

Putting down the water sound master, Xia Yu jumped on the pyre again and looked at the people around him. The surrounding people were terrified, they looked at Xia Yu like ghosts, and they all felt that Xia Yu was dying and his life was not long.

Xia Yu said: "Today I will let everyone take a look at who this death knell is for!"

Xia Yu waved the Tianxin Sword and struck wildly according to the fatal bell.

Dangdang!~~~

The death bell rang non-stop, and the rapid sound of the bell spread throughout the entire Ruyi Town, circling and echoing in the sky.

The onlookers were so frightened that their legs went limp, a few people sat down on the ground, and a few people were so frightened that they covered their ears and did not dare to listen to the bell.

After a wild bang, the fatal bell fell from the bell frame and fell to the ground, raising a cloud of dust.

In the dust, Xia Yu held the Tianxin Sword and stood on the firewood, like the god of war in the sky, and like a rakshasa in hell, full of majesty.

After a while, a group of officers and soldiers hurried over, and a small officer led by him was furious and shouted: "Damn, which ghost who doesn't know how to die, dares to ring the bell of death!"

"The grandfather who rang the bell is here," Xia Yu cocked his thumb and pointed to his nose.

The petty officer ordered his soldiers, "Take down this daring maniac for me!"

The soldiers were carrying knives and guns, ready to climb up the pyre more than one person high and drag Xia Yu down. Xia Yu brandished the Tianxin Sword, slashed over, reached out to chop his hand, and cut off the head of the probe, and after a miserable scream, several soldiers were drenched in blood and fell under the pyre.

The petty officer was furious and shouted: "Little rabbit cub, you still dare to attack the officers and soldiers, I have to break your body into ten thousand pieces!"

The petty officer drew his sword and ordered the soldiers to storm, and more than twenty soldiers, from four directions, front, front, left and right, climbed towards the pyre.

Xia Yu clenched the Tianxin Sword and kept slashing, killing so that the firewood pile was stained red with blood, and the soldier's corpse was spread under the firewood.

Xia Yu said: "You scum who have brought disaster to the country and the people, I will kill one if you come, and I will kill one pair when you come to two!"

The soldiers surrounded the pyre, not daring to come forward, and the petty officer called a soldier and said, "Hurry up and inform the town chief, go quickly!"