Chapter 18: The Red Dancer
In the night, Ling Yun slept in a pool of blood, and Hu Shao held a dagger in his hand, as cold as ice and snow.
Outside the courtyard, there was a commotion.
Hu Shao was slightly shocked in his heart, and only heard a person outside the hospital: "Someone reported the case, the Jiang family had a life case, brothers quickly block the front and rear courtyard doors, don't let the murderer escape!"
It turned out to be the county government's catch!
Hu Shao jumped lightly, jumped on the roof, tiptoed on, stepped over the thin blue tiles, turned over and jumped out of the backyard, and disappeared into the vast night.
The sky was about to dawn, and the four catchers on night duty lived in the front yard wing, and they were awakened from their sleep by the beaters who reported the crime, and they were greatly displeased, yawning for a long time, and the lonely moon had already set in the sky, and when it was dark before dawn, everyone did not notice the black figure on the roof.
Hu Shao had already expected that Ling Yun, who was stained with blood, would definitely be mistaken for the murderer of the Jiang family, so he didn't have to do it himself, just borrow a knife to kill someone.
I never thought that above the county government hall, Ling Yun, who was already a prisoner under the steps, was able to break the shackles and make trouble in the county government, no one was invincible, he was actually a peerless master who was deeply hidden, and even his father could not be defeated, but he was victimized.
Hu Shao doesn't seem to be sad about his father's death, because it has long been commonplace.
My father, who has loved him since he was a child, has died many times.
When she took Hu Shao to seek Gu Sect, she was only seven years old.
Gu Sect, this sect gathers the most vicious poison masters in the world.
Stepping into the mountain gate, a red-clothed dancer was greeted and exchanged a few words with her father.
The cardinal dancer smiled and put her arms around her father's neck, like a lover she hadn't seen in a long time.
She took the two hundred taels of gold from her father's waist and touched somewhere below, and the two of them looked extremely ambiguous.
The smiling father did not refuse, and gladly allowed her to do this immoral act in front of her beloved daughter.
In an instant, my father's lips were blue, his mouth was foaming at the mouth, and he didn't say a word, and fell to the ground and turned into a dead corpse.
This dancer is Hu Shao's master, a femme fatale with slender legs that have fascinated countless men, and her slender jade fingers have also killed countless lives.
In front of her, the most important rule of survival is not to look at her! otherwise, the rough man who makes her sick will die in an instant.
Seven-year-old Hu Shao witnessed his father's death, and since then he has been full of hatred for the Red Dancer and does not want to take revenge all the time.
In the three years that she was by the side of the Red Dancer, she learned thousands of techniques for refining poison and making Gu, and she also assassinated the Red Dancer thousands of times, but none of them succeeded.
The Red Dancer is like a poison jar, unresponsive to the natural immunity of the poison.
Three years later, Hu Shao, who had learned a poisonous skill, was sent home by the Red Dancer.
Hu Shao was unwilling, but helpless.
The red dancer watched her ride away in the car and spit out a mouthful of black blood: "I almost killed my mother more than a thousand times in three years!"
Back at the familiar door, the sad Hu Shao thought of his father and couldn't help but burst into tears.
"Shao'er is back!" a familiar voice said.
Hu Shao looked up in surprise and saw his father with a smile on his face, as amiable as ever, standing at the door waiting for his return.
She was amazed, three years ago, it was a nightmare, or was it a scene where the two of them colluded to devote themselves to the practice of poison techniques in order to fill their hatred?
In the hall of the county office, her father's body had been half charred, and she recalled the old incident and silently said in her heart: "Probably when I got home, my father was waiting for me at the door again like before." ”
The blood on the right side of her face oozed blood, dripping down her chin and falling onto the bluestone slab like a drop of water, forming a not very perfect round spot, surrounded by jagged teeth.
Hu Shao seemed to see his face at this moment from the jet-black blood spot.
"Am I ugly?" she hadn't been so disappointed in a long time.
I thought that if there was no expectation in life, there would be no loss, why is it still so sad and uncomfortable? The cyan birthmark is ugly enough, so what does it matter if there is more blood stain?
Ling Yun didn't expect that the beautiful and the ugly could gather on the same face, such a strong conflict, which made people feel both regretful and destructive, like burning a fine piece of porcelain, only the urge to break it and burn it again.
Especially the bloody stain on his face, he was quite sorry, he wanted to kill her with the tail of a poisonous needle, but he didn't expect to cut his face, or the flawless half of his face.
"Although you are not beautiful, you are not ugly, but you are just ......" Ling Yun was speechless for a moment, not knowing how to answer her question.
"Kill me quickly!" Hu Shao knelt on the ground, closed his eyes, and a few tears on his eyelashes were visible, and his face was willing to die.
Ling Yun couldn't do it, who could bear to kill a person who had no resistance?
Outside the county office, the drums suddenly sounded.
"Someone beating the drum?" Ling Yun was surprised, and thought about it, this is the county government, and it is normal for someone to beat the drum and sound the grievance.
Without waiting for Ling Yun and Hu Shao to react, a bunch of people pulled and cursed each other and rushed into the county office with the gate open.
In the courtyard, the corpses of the officials had turned into yellow juice, which showed the cruelty of the venom attached to the poison needle, and a layer of cyan skin had been eroded off the floor tiles, revealing a pale white-gray color.
One person stepped on the yellow juice and couldn't help but cover his nose: "It stinks, it stinks! How dare anyone pee in the county office!" The smoke emitted by the pungent yellow juice almost burned off his nose hair.
The others also coughed, which forced them to dare not open their mouths to argue loudly.
When they came to the door of the lobby, several people hurriedly knelt on the ground and kowtowed again and again: "Please uphold justice!" "I am wronged, please make the decision for me!" "My lord, don't believe his nonsense!" ......
The crowd was gossiping, and the hall was in chaos.
When Ling Yun first saw them kneeling, he didn't know why, he looked down at the county magistrate's official uniform on his body, and suddenly realized: "Wang Sancheng, this dog official, lives in a simple place on weekdays and doesn't contact the people, so this group of people has never seen him, and mistakenly thinks that I am a county official!"
He was afraid that everyone would find out about the abnormality of the county office, and when he looked back, Wang Sancheng's body had already become a pile of ashes, and Hu Yinshan's half-charred body was nowhere to be found.
Hu Shao also disappeared together, and when he saw someone rushing into the county office outside, he had already covered his veil and flew away from the back hall.
Ling Yun was suspicious, what he didn't know was that although the vicious fight just now had made a mess of the county office, it was just that this group of people had never been to the county office, and they didn't know what the county government usually looked like, so it was not surprising that the hall often tortured prisoners, and it was not surprising that there was a mess everywhere.
Ling Yun shouted: "Why did you come to the county office?
When everyone saw the county official speak, they didn't dare to make any more noise, and the county hall was silent for a while.
"You say it first!" Ling Yun pointed at him when he saw that there were eight people who came, an old man dressed as a farmer, with a face that had worked for a long time, had been weathered, was full of wrinkles, and was cracked and dark, and he looked like an honest man.
The old man was shouting that he had been wronged, his forehead was full of beads of sweat, his black face was red, and he hurriedly said: "My lord, the old man is a farmer, planting a few acres of thin fields, barely making a living, and has always done his duty, never daring to do evil, and doing those things that violate the law and discipline. These people didn't slander me for stealing their cattle, I was really wronged!"
Another strong man was full of indignation, his face was full of indignation, and he hurriedly said: "Didn't you steal the cow? Then why are the cow bones all behind your house, but the poor old cattle of my family can still plow the land for three years and five years, and they are stolen and eaten by this old man!"
Ling Yun thought that it was a major human life case that had caused trouble to the county government, but he didn't expect that it was a cow that was stolen, and said, "What the hell is going on?
The strong man saw that the county magistrate had been asking the old man, obviously showing favoritism, and his face was indignant.
The old man burst into tears and said: "My lord, they are my neighbors, they recently lost a cow, and they have to slander me for stealing and eating it, thinking that my old man is alone, even if he slaughters a cow, where can he finish eating?"
Lingyun didn't know that in this era, cattle could be cultivated, and they were the most important tools and assets of the farmer, and the law clearly prohibited the consumption of cultivated cattle, and if it was slaughtered live, it was a felony to kill the head, so the old man was so excited.
Everyone else was just as angry, pointing and poking at the old man, and scolding him endlessly.
Ling Yun observed his words and felt that the old man did not look like a lie, and said sharply: "The old man eats a cow alone, why do you need to eat it for two or three months, how can you wronged others for stealing cattle!"
Another old man said loudly: "My lord, he may not be able to eat it all, but he can sell it on the street, not to mention that he was a butcher when he was young, and he was the best at cutting cattle and meat!"
Ling Yun asked, "Are the seven of you the same family that stole the cattle?"
The strong man pointed to the old man and replied, "My lord, this is my uncle, I am his nephew, those two are my uncle's sons, and the other three are my friends." My uncle has been bullied by this old man, originally we saw him as a pitiful single, kindly gave him a piece of land and let him build three grass houses, and have a place to live, but I didn't expect that En would take revenge and eat our cattle!
The old man kowtowed to the bleeding on his forehead, and said, "My lord, wronged, wronged! That is the ancestral land of the old Han family!"
Ling Yun hurriedly supported him, and understood what was going on.
He yawned and said casually: "Lord Ben, I am tired today, such a trivial matter, you should step back first!"
The strong man hurriedly said: "My lord, stealing and slaughtering live cattle is a sin of killing heads, not a trivial matter!"
Ling Yun said angrily: "Let you stand down, didn't you hear?"
When everyone saw that the county lord was angry, they didn't dare to make a sound, glanced at each other, and had no choice but to get up and want to leave.
Ling Yun, who was sitting on the Taishi chair, squinted his eyes, secretly observing everyone, and saw a few people whispering in a low voice, with a look of panic on his face.
He picked up the pitch-black waking wood, slapped it violently, became furious, and shouted: "The cattle thief dares to stand up!!"
Everyone was shocked, and three people were terrified, trembling, and fell to their knees on the ground, kowtowing incessantly.
Ling Yun laughed and said, "You stole the cow!"
The three men pleaded guilty: "Your Excellency, we just ate beef, not the mastermind of stealing cattle!"
Ling Yun asked, "Who is the mastermind?"
The three of them glanced at the strong man, whose face was like ashes, knelt on the ground, and said, "My lord, it's none of my business, it's the three ......of them."
One person said angrily: "If you hadn't said that you stole your uncle's beef to eat, we would have come up with this bad idea?" and said that if your uncle pursues it, you will frame the old man, and then occupy his land to build a house for you, isn't it all your idea?"
The old man looked angry, pointed to the strong man's head, and said angrily: "You bad thing that is not angry!"
The strong man is like a defeated rooster, drooping his head, not daring to squeak, completely losing his previous domineering spirit.
Seeing that the injustice was washed away, the old man hurriedly knelt down and thanked: "Thank you, Master for saving your life! Master Wang is really a big man in the sky, it seems that those rumors before are all nonsense, but they scared the old man to death!"
Ling Yun couldn't help but be happy, and said in his heart: "Haha, I did a good thing for Wang Sancheng, which can be regarded as overtaking him!"
Ling Yun didn't know how to use pen and ink, so he orally pronounced the verdict: "The first offender of slaughtering cattle in the audience will be sentenced to pay you a live cow to the uncle, and the other three accomplices, who do not distinguish between right and wrong, are actually fox friends and dog friends, and the four of you will be sentenced to work for the uncle's family and the old Han family for one year each, and you must not be lucky, otherwise you will be caught and beheaded!"
The four of them thought that capital crimes were inevitable, but now they saw that they only needed to do two years of long-term work, and they couldn't help but be overjoyed and kowtow to thank them.
After everyone kowtowed, they left the county office, Ling Yun was proud, and thought to himself: "It seems that the detective novel was not read in vain before, and I didn't expect that it would come in handy one day!"
"Sure enough, it's a white bread and a blue sky!" Hu Shao's voice sounded from the back hall.
Ling Yun suddenly became alert, jumped up from the Taishi chair, and said with a smile: "You haven't left yet?"