Early October –

Gu Yunxi and the Overseer have been practicing martial arts and arrows on the school field for some days.

These days, Leng Qingtang began to look at Gu Yunxi with admiration. He found that this little girl was delicate on the outside, but on the inside she had a strong strength, like a pampas grass, innocent and simple but full of resilience.

In the morning, Leng Qingtang taught Gu Yunxi some simple self-defense techniques.

Leng Qingtang taught Gu Yunxi the "reverse buckle grab" style twice, and she mastered the basic essentials. The only drawback is that she still can't let go of her moves and footwork after repeated rehearsals many times.

After the formula, Gu Yunxi lay on the ground. The ground is covered with thick yellow sand, which is soft and soft, and people will not fall and hurt themselves if they fall on it.

"Come again! Do it again! ”

Leng Qingtang walked up and picked up Gu Yunxi from the ground, with a solemn expression. Several times, she obviously had the opportunity to fight back, but she just refused to attack him.

Gu Yunxi took a breath and re-set his posture.

The overseer attacked with his left palm, and Gu Yunxi raised his right arm to respond. As soon as the palm changed in the air, the figure of the Overseer turned to Gu Yunxi's back, and his right hand grabbed her shoulder.

Gu Yunxi's face collapsed, he twisted his left arm sharply, and used his hand to clasp the right palm of the Overseer, and then reversed his body shape and faced the Overseer.

The next step is to kick his leg at him.

Like the previous times, Gu Yunxi couldn't lift his legs for a long time.

"Kick it in! Kick—" Leng Qingtang showed a little impatience and ordered loudly.

"Overseer...... I don't dare! ”

Gu Yunxi is very honest, and he will say whatever he thinks in his heart.

"Why not?" Leng Qingtang secretly felt funny.

"You're the Overseer!" Gu Yunxi looked up at him and replied without thinking.

"There is no Overseer here, only enemies in front of you!"

Leng Qingtang raised his left hand angrily, and five iron fingers locked Gu Yunxi's throat. The little face's expression immediately changed, and a low moan came out of his throat.

"Like this, you're dead!" Leng Qingtang looked at her and admonished her in a deep voice.

It's a good thing to be kind-hearted, but if you don't be ruthless when you should be ruthless, people will have to worry about their lives!

"Cloud Tide...... Wrong! ”

Gu Yunxi raised his head with difficulty, and a sentence came out of his throat with difficulty.

Leng Qingtang let go of his hand, and saw Gu Yunxi sweating profusely, the dark green power suit on his new upper body was dirty, and his body was like a mud monkey, and his heart suddenly softened.

"Let's stop here today, go back and wash and change your clothes. Remember, if you strike at the enemy at the critical moment, be sure to put them to death. Once you give the other person a chance to breathe, you are the one who dies! ”

"Thank you, Bishop ......"

Gu Yunxi nodded, his eyes shining brightly, grateful and in awe of the Overseer.

Staring at the small face of melon seeds covered with dust and sweat in front of him, Leng Qingtang slowly raised his hand and smoothed out the strands of sweaty hair on Gu Yunxi's forehead.

The soft green silk was wrapped in sweat and slid between the plain white fingers, leaving wet marks.

The strange and subtle touch made Leng Qingtang's heart ripple with a slight trace. Then he shook her sweaty little hand, and he smiled softly at her:

"Let's go, go back to Dongchang for lunch."

——

Gu Yunxi woke up and found that he had overslept.

It was early in the morning. Hurriedly wiping her face, she took a bite of the snack and rushed to the main hall of the East Factory.

The Overseer was walking out with a group of men.

"Didn't I tell you to rest?"

Seeing Gu Yunxi running in in a panic, Leng Qingtang looked surprised.

"Where are you going, take me!"

"Go to Zhao Prison and pick up a prisoner. There's a lot of blood, and you can't go. ”

He said compassionately, seeing that the corners of her mouth were sticking to the scumbags of snacks, he couldn't help but smile, took out a handkerchief to help her wipe it clean, and neatly dressed the official uniform for her.

Gu Yunxi frowned at him and said recklessly:

"I've been taking medicine for a long time, and I'm getting better!"

"Don't be reckless, let's take care of it for a while!"

She put on an angry and unwilling little appearance, which was too cute in Leng Qingtang's eyes, and she couldn't help but raise her hand and pinch it lightly on half of her puffed cheek.

"Be obedient, I'll be back in a while!"

Helplessly dumped, Gu Yunxi had no choice but to go back to the South Courtyard alone.

Sitting in the room sullenly, I took a plate of melon seeds and peeled them, and lost the skin, leaving only the melon kernels in a clean teacup.

She plans to mix it with dried apricots and black hemp seeds bought on the street a few days ago, mix them with icing sugar and mash them, and then they can be used as a seasoning for water chestnut soup.

The Overseer was not there, and the small courtyard was so quiet that even the sound of a leaf falling from the plane tree outside was clearly audible.

Hell?

Wu Di thought of the eldest sister Gu Yunyao's entrustment-

Her good looks, isn't Zhao An imprisoned in Zhao Prison?

The eldest sister gave me the opportunity to find him, and today is the ready-made opportunity!

Gu Yunxi couldn't sit still, threw down the half-peeled melon seeds, thought seriously for a moment, and slipped out of the room.

——

Dongchang Zhaojiao is located a few miles outside the factory, and it is remote and barren.

In the dark, damp cell, the whip was whipped and howled horribly, and it came out of the dark corner.

Next to the iron door of the cell, a charcoal fire was burning. In the dark, the flames were gorgeous and unrestrained, like monsters, fangs and claws.

The stone walls were stiff and cold, airtight and airtight, and the foul air was filled with a suffocating smell of blood and death.

It was a clear morning, but the sun could not penetrate the windowless chamber.

"Ahem...... Leng Qingtang, if you harm Zhongliang and cause chaos to the dynasty, you are not afraid...... Eighteen Layers of Hell, Never Reborn, ...... You"

On the humanoid iron pillar, an old man with gray sideburns was tied up with five flowers, and he had just eaten the whip, and at this time, the white middle coat on his body was covered with blood.

But his bones were very hard, Leng Qingtang waved his hand to let the jailer stop, and he immediately spat on the bloody phlegm while panting, and continued to scold.

After days of torture, the water and rice have not entered, and even the iron beaten people are difficult to parry, let alone the old man with a sixtieth birthday. Scolding is scolding, and the voice has become vague and much weaker.

"Lord Zhong, didn't you confess your guilt earlier? You and I are pure, and I will also give you a good liberation, so why consume each other? ”

Leng Qingtang was wearing a clean blue and white unicorn auspicious cloud tightly clustered admiral uniform, leaning on the chaise longue covered with animal skins, and said unhurriedly with his thin lips, his eyes were completely focused on the gilded jade wrench in his hand, and he never looked up at the prisoner at all.

Cheng Wanli, who was in charge of the execution, stood next to the concubine, with a serious expression and a halberd blade pinned to his waist.

Lord Zhong took a few breaths hard, and his old yellow eyes were so wide that he almost burst two eyelids. At this moment, his mood was extremely excited, the meridians on his forehead and neck were bulging from the roots, and the whole person looked more like a powerful ghost who crawled out of the hell of Ah Nose.

"You make the officer confess, how can the officer confess? This official has served the court for 30 years, and is a courtier, honest and honest. You eunuch actually slandered your own officials for forming a party for personal gain, taking bribes, and conspiring with local officials to sell official positions? Haha, it's ridiculous! With you, a rootless eunuch, you dare to speak your tongue and frame the court for loyalty! ”

"Framed?"

Leng Qingtang smiled strangely, slightly moved his handsome and upright figure, and picked up a few pages of paper on the long table in front of the chaise long.

These papers are all letters written by the tied Zhong to local officials, and the content is roughly that he received the money of a certain wealthy household and recommended the relatives and friends of the wealthy household to the official department to enter the court as officials.

The slender fingers brushed the letter, and when his eyes scanned the handwriting on it again, Leng Qingtang himself felt funny, and couldn't help but chuckle.

He knew better than Lord Zhong who was bound in front of him that these letters, which were used as evidence of conviction, were all written by himself.

Leng Qingtang has been practicing calligraphy since he was a child, and with a little study of all kinds of brushwork, he can copy it.

This time to deal with the servant of the ministry, he can be regarded as a long-term line that has not been less than five years. And Old Man Zhong does things without leakage, so that Dongchang can't grasp the key handle.

Leng Qingtang decided to close the line, he couldn't wait. So, in order to prove it, he hid himself in the shadows and made it durable.

"Indeed, it was Ben Governor who framed Lord Chung......"

The conversation changed, and Leng Qingtang didn't want to continue to play dumb riddles with this person who was still struggling to survive.

But as soon as Lord Zhong heard this, he was anxious, and immediately turned into a fried old rooster, and tried his best to pounce on Leng Qingtang's side, a pair of hands and feet tied to the iron pillar violently slashed and kicked, that surprisingly amazing evil strength couldn't help but make Leng Qingtang begin to doubt, isn't this person suffering too much punishment, and his body can't resist the omen of light?

"Leng Qingtang, you gelding really has the means! He actually forged official documents to frame the imperial court officials—"

"Presumptuous!"

The old man scolded the "eunuch" and "gelding" one by one, and the jailer next to him immediately waved his arm, and was just about to throw the whip when he was taken away by a few steps forward.

"Fucking old thief! I'll let you scold! Let you scold again-"

Cheng Wanli pulled a few whips, and Old Man Zhong screamed indiscriminately, and his scarred and decayed body was overflowing with blood.

"False accusations...... Do you feel bad about it? ”

Leng Qingtang finally stood up slowly from the darkness, and walked calmly to the fire at the iron gate.

"So ten years ago, Zheng Guogong and the former overseer of Dongchang, who were forced to death because of Lord Zhong's slanderous words, how should they feel when they were tortured?"

After Sen Han finished speaking, he turned his yin but handsome face slightly, and his poisonous gaze fell on the old man who was speechless in vain.

The old man surnamed Zhong had his mouth half-open, his frightened eyes fixed on Leng Qingtang's face, and he didn't move.

Zheng Guogong, the feudal official of the Great Yi State, the once invincible and victorious general, failed the only time in his life, but it became the origin of the tragedy of the whole clan being wiped out.

"You ......"

Lord Zhong held his breath, and his old face was full of indescribable fear and helplessness.

Leng Qingtang is just a eunuch, how can he have the courage to falsify official evidence and deliberately frame the imperial court.

And, why, he actually brought up the incident of ten years?

Lord Zhong only felt that the aura of the entire cell condensed in an instant, and it was clear that the steaming furnace was burning, but the temperature of the space with four walls dropped sharply at this moment, becoming three points colder than the ice cellar.

After a moment of silence, Lord Zhong's trembling voice sounded weakly again in the cell:

"You, Leng Qingtang...... You, who are you? Who the hell are you?! ”

Leng Qingtang smiled proudly, and the piercing coldness in his voice echoed in the gloomy and boundless cell for a long time.

"Twenty-three years ago, Whitewater was ...... Do you remember? ”

He gritted his teeth and drank hatred, finished word by word, and finally turned his whole face to face the bloody man on the iron frame.

The handsome and outstanding facial features exude a natural noble atmosphere, with a clear charm, but there is also a kind of aura that is not angry and self-threatening.

At this moment, Tongtong's beating fire stained his eyes red, and his eyes were scarlet, making him look like a beast that had touched the scales and was about to explode into madness—

"My lord said that he has been an official for 30 years, and he has served Emperor Dayi in the past! Received the king's grace and promised the king's order, why did he betray and rebel and kill them all?! ”

The sonorous questioning was like thunder, and the old man suddenly held his breath, squinted his faint old eyes and looked at the beautiful face on the other side very carefully......

Could it be—

Something suddenly came to mind!

"Nope! No way! I won't ......" Lord Zhong seemed to be extremely frightened, and shook his head frequently, as if talking to himself.

Leng Qingtang's gaze shifted, staring at the fire in front of him, and there was no expression on his frozen face:

"As long as you...... Write down the truth of that incident twenty-three years ago, and read and draw, Ben Governor...... I can spare your family! ”

The old man's whole body convulsed violently as if possessed by an evil spirit, and a mouthful of blood spurted far away.

Leng Qingtang had already seen that the situation was wrong, and he turned around to avoid it. The old man's hot blood squirted onto the hot stove.

With a "beep", the blood was roasted into a few puffs of white smoke by the flames, squeezed and rolled into the air, and there was a rancid smell in the dirty air.

Cheng Wanli threw the thorny leather whip, leaned over and checked it carefully, then turned around and saluted Leng Qingtang:

"Lord Qiqi, the old man was stimulated, and his heart and lungs burst and died!"

Leng Qingtang waved his hand, looking unconcerned, as if he was already familiar with doing this easily:

"Forget it, Heng Zhi can't escape this time, and after a while, he will use his finger to stamp on the official document. The corpse still has to make a show, and together with the family members, they will be pushed to the mouth of the trouble tomorrow morning and beheaded to show the public-"

"Subordinates obey!"