"Douse him with ice water!" shouted as the mirror hung high, and a county magistrate sat majestically above the lobby.

A servant lifted a bucket of ice water scooped up from a deep well and threw it at a corpse on the ground.

Lingyun slept soundly, and suddenly felt a chill in his body, straight through his chest and back, and woke up from a sweet dream in an instant, only to see that his body was covered with shackles, his flesh had already been peeled open, and the officials on both sides were fierce and vicious, and there was a county official with angry eyes sitting in the hall, and the two wings of the official hat were like two chopsticks.

Just when Lingyun was confused, the county official shouted angrily: "Wicked people in the audience, you are guilty!"

"Guilty, what crime have I committed?" Ling Yun asked confusedly.

"Copying hands to ask questions, don't recruit people, come here, use torture!" The county magistrate threw down a bamboo stick, and the officials on both sides rushed up with water and fire sticks.

"Don't do it!" Ling Yun shouted. I thought to myself, a hero doesn't suffer immediate losses, it's better to recruit first, and then see what is going on.

"I did. ”

The county magistrate was overjoyed and said, "Count yourself smart, save a lot of flesh and skin pain before you die, sign and draw a pledge." The master next to him put the prepared judgment paper in front of Ling Yun, as well as a plate of red seal clay.

Ling Yun glanced at the judgment paper, his eyes widened, it was full of traditional characters, but he knew them all roughly.

The verdict paper mainly reads: "The criminal Mouchun, a slave of the Hu family, is ruthless and acts like an animal...... There were more than 10 crimes, involving 37 deaths and injuries, one of which was the case of the burning of the thatched house in Pubei Village, and the eleven deaths were all poor beggars, the second was the tragedy of the Jiang family's annihilation, which killed five people, and the third was the murder of the maid, because of the refusal to allow the adultery, the Hu family maid was killed by the murderer or dog, or burned the corpse, or killed by a knife, a total of six people, four of them...... The eleventh, killing the shopkeeper of the cloth shop, abandoning the body outside the south city gate, the twelfth ...... , a total of thirteen crimes, the crime is extremely heinous, and it should be punished with capital punishment!"

Ling Yun was dumbfounded, searching hard for his memories, but Xiaochun was obviously a good person, and he had never done anything illegal, let alone done these murderous deeds that had lost his conscience.

He remembered that last night, when he came out of the cloth shop, he felt a little hungry, so he went into a nearby restaurant.

Unexpectedly, the man greeted him warmly, so he took out a tael of silver that the cloth shop owner had given him, ordered a table of sumptuous wine and food, and had a full meal, and he called the beggars on the street to come in and have a full meal.

The shopkeeper of the hotel was accompanied by a smiling face, although he was not very happy, and he couldn't say anything, and he thought that this was an elder of the beggar gang, and he brought a group of little beggars to eat and drink.

Walking out of the restaurant, Ling Yun went to a ready-to-wear store, bought a coat that didn't fit well, and reluctantly changed out of the dirty and smelly clothes on his body.

Putting on a gorgeous dress, walking on the road suddenly felt different, and the pedestrians who passed by were smiling, no longer avoiding it with disgust as before.

After not taking a bath for a long time and feeling uncomfortable, Ling Yun planned to find a place to take a bath and take a bath comfortably.

I walked all over the street, but unfortunately there is no place like a bathroom on this street. He thought about it, he didn't necessarily go to a special bathroom, the restaurant where he stayed always had a place to take a bath, so he walked to the most prosperous restaurant on the street, this one was much more spacious than the one he had just eaten, it was four stories high, and it was the tallest building on the street.

The plaque of the restaurant is majestic, and the vigorous and powerful Wei tablet is written "Wanxian Building".

After entering the door, the proprietress greeted her warmly, after all, she was dressed in gorgeous clothes, and she looked like a rich lord, but this proprietress wore heavy makeup, and a strong and complicated fragrance hit, as if the perfume was mixed with green onions, Ling Yun almost wanted to vomit, but wanted to avoid her.

The lobby of the restaurant is decorated with tacky, red and purple, the fragrance strikes people everywhere, all kinds of silk cloth cover down, the silk string orchestra resounds with exotic music, and the men and women in the lobby sit at a table.

Ling Yun immediately knew what kind of place it was: "Poor Xiaochun, he was a virgin before he died, help him come here today to break a place, I'm afraid it is also the will of heaven in the dark, and the will of heaven is difficult to disobey." ”

Half-pushing and half-pulling, Lingyun was arranged by the old bustard on a table in the corner, and then three girls with heavy makeup came to the table.

"Uncle, who do you like?" said the old bustard with a flattering smile.

Ling Yun glanced at it, and felt that these three were all a little old under the white powder makeup, the youngest was probably a half-old, and the other two might not be much younger than the old bustard.

"Ahem, are there any younger ones?" Ling Yun asked.

The old bustard's eyes lit up and said, "I know that the uncle has a high taste, so please invite it on the second floor." ”

The second floor is different from the first floor, it is a small independent room, the old bustard took Lingyun into a room, inside is a large wooden bed covered with a curtain, there is a tea table in the room, a few chairs, and a bench next to it, I don't know what to do.

"Is there a place to take a bath?" Ling Yun asked.

"Yes, yes, uncle, really good at playing, please come to the third floor. The old bustard said happily.

The cost of each floor doubles, and the old bustard naturally likes this kind of generous guests.

The furnishings of the rooms on the third floor are not much different from those on the second floor, except that there is a large round wooden barrel in the room.

The old bustard asked, "Is this master satisfied?"

Ling Yun looked around and thought, "I don't know what the fourth floor looks like, forget it, let's go next time, let's take a shower today." ”

"Let's do it, hurry up and fill up the bathwater. Lingyun said.

The old bustard was a little surprised, taking a bath should be the last step, but since the uncle wants to take a bath first, she has no objection, and she can take a bath again after a while, and you can collect the money twice, why not.

It didn't take long for the bath water to fill up. Originally, the pot in the big restaurant was always boiling hot water, but it took some effort for the guy to bring it up bucket by bucket, and it didn't take long.

Ling Yun had already agreed with the old bustard that he would take a bath first, and then choose a girl, so no one bothered him, and he happily jumped into the wooden barrel and took a hot bath.

The heat was steaming, and when I was falling asleep, I heard a woman's cry from the backyard of the restaurant.

A few swift whippings, a man's thick voice: "You cry again!

Ling Yun leaned against the window and looked into the backyard.

The woman sobbed and lowered her voice, dressed in thin clothes, revealing a few whiplash marks, and white and bloodstained skin underneath.

At this time, the early summer has not yet arrived, the weather is slightly cool, especially when the sun has set, and the twilight is about to rise, and the woman is a little shivering, I don't know if it is because of the pain of the whipping or the cold weather.

Ling Yun couldn't help but feel a little sympathetic, in this dark era, women were forced to become prostitutes, thinking of their own era, countless temptations of money and materials, there were countless women who volunteered to be prostitutes, and there was no need to force them to become prostitutes at all.

But I am just a passer-by in this world, can I save this one, can I save the thousands of brothels in the world? Not to mention saving her, how can she live on her own? In this world, there is no land, no food storage, I am afraid that she will starve to death in one winter.

Ling Yun was uneasy, and he couldn't bear to look at it, so he closed his eyes and continued to take a bath, his heart beating non-stop.