Li Susu has been in charge of the family for three years, so he naturally knows that this kind of punishment is severe, even if the government tortures prisoners, he will only be hung for one hour.

"If my uncle knows, I'm afraid I'll be angry again, and besides, men and women ......don't kiss each other," Lu Yu hesitated.

Li Susu said: "Father, you don't have to worry, there is a slave family to take care of anything." I have always regarded Xiao Mercury as my sister, she is going to marry with me, and then she will be a girl in the room, and she will also be your concubine, if I am inconvenient every month in the future, I want her to accompany you, and now it is nothing to hug. ”

Lu Yu was originally a Kuangda person, but his face was slightly red when he heard this, and he walked forward no longer verbose.

He was so tall that he didn't have to climb a tree at all, but he reached the rope with his hand and untied the little mercury and held it in his arms.

This little girl had tears on her face, and just now she heard Li Susu's words, and then her face was flushed with shame, her head was lowered, and her long hair was unkempt and crying.

Lu Yu put her on the grass, Li Susu sat down, took out a comb from her arms and combed her hair.

Xiao Mercury cried even harder, crying: "Little lady, I'm sorry for you......"

Su Su pulled her into her arms, the two hugged each other, remembering that she had encountered so many difficulties after her mother's death, she also cried, and said: "Maybe it was the sin of the previous life, if you want the two of us to suffer this, in the future, you and I will serve a husband together, you must ask your husband first about everything, he is a disciple of Penglai, a descendant of the fairy family, and he will protect each other well!" ”

Xiao Mercury peeked at Lu Yu from Su Su's shoulder, Xia Fei cheeks, and hurriedly buried his head.

Lu Yu also felt a little pity, but in front of Su Su, he couldn't say anything, so he could only sit down cross-legged and wait.

The second daughter cried for a while, Su Su sorted out her emotions, combed her hair for Xiao Mercury, and then pulled her back to her courtyard, and instructed the servant before leaving: "If my father asks about this, I will say that I mean." ”

These servants were brought by Li Yuan from Chang'an, and they used to work under Li Susu, although she was sick for a few months, but her prestige still existed, so she naturally did not dare to disobey her orders.

Another day passed, Li Yuan invited everyone over, and when they met, they said: "I caught Shi Chengye today, and asked Zhongli Immortal Master to help Li ask questions." ”

After a while, someone brought a young monk with a lot of flowers, but he was sixteen or seventeen years old, with clear eyebrows and beautiful eyes, and his voice was a little thin, like a boy who had not changed his voice, and he only heard him say: "Are you Tan Yue mistaken, why do you treat the little monk like this?" ”

Guo Hong nodded, this person is really good-looking, and his voice is good, no wonder he will be a guest monk in the temple and easily gain Xiaomercury's trust.

Li Yuan snorted and said, "You must know who this official is, you must know it, you are not small, you dare to make a ghost in my house!" It's not really recruited! ”

Shi Chengye was taken aback, his eyes wandered a little, but he still insisted: "Amitabha, Li Tingshi has wronged the little monk, today I just came to visit my cousin, the monk is compassionate, and I have never done anything bad!" ”

No matter how Li Yuan threatened, Shi Chengye flatly denied it, saying that he didn't know anything about wood carving.

Xiao Mercury came up to confront him, but the monk kept pretending to be confused, so angry that Xiao Mercury pounced on him and grabbed him, scratching out a few cuts on his delicate face, which was considered broken.

Li Yuan asked the servants to drag him to the bottom of the hall and press him to the ground, take off his clothes and pants, and beat him with twenty rods!

The monk was beaten and cried wolf, dragged up and shouted: "You have been beaten into a trick, even if you admit it now, I will still retract my confession in court!" ”

Li Yuan was so angry that his beard trembled suddenly, Li Susu was hiding behind the screen, but then he couldn't help but come out and knock his father's back for relief.

"This is a bad rotten spine (green-skinned scoundrel), let's lock it up first and then reason." She whispered to her father.

Li Yuan nodded, and asked the monk to be taken to the former government prison for detention.

Seeing this, Guo Hong whispered to Lu Yu.

At this time, Li Yuan asked, "I don't know what Zhongli Refiner thinks?"

Guo Hong patted his belly and said: "I heard Xiao Mercury say the day before yesterday that she and this Shi Chengye are both descendants of the eunuch Chen Hongzhi, thinking that this person was originally from the palace, maybe he has seen the emperor, so he is naturally not afraid of Li Taishou's official authority." ”

Li Yuan nodded again and again after hearing this, and the tone in his heart calmed down a little.

Guo Hong said again: "This person knows that if he confesses, he will inevitably die, so he simply asks and asks, and now there are two ways to make him speak, the easier one is to promise him, as long as he confesses behind the scenes, he will not be held accountable, he is so young, he must also be an errand runner, and the old monk behind him is the mastermind!" ”

Li Yuanyi frowned and said, "It's not proper, Shi Chengye is different from Xiao Mercury, he deliberately wants to harm my family, how can he let it go easily?" ”

He didn't even want to spare the little mercury, let alone the more serious crime.

"You can also pretend to promise him first, and then deal with it together when the old monk is caught." Hongdou followed He Qiong out and whispered.

Several women hid behind the screen just now, waiting for Shi Chengye to be escorted away before coming out.

"The husband will do what he says, how can he go back on his word?" Guo Hong said with hesitation.

Li Yuan listened to Guo Hong's words, stroked his palms and said: "What Zhongli Refiner said is right, I am a dignified state assassin history, how can I lose my trust with a little monk, and ask the refiner to talk about the second method." ”

Zhong Liquan said: "This method is a bit cumbersome, and it needs to be so ......."

Shi Chengye was locked in a cell, and because he kept yelling and the jailer was annoyed, he blocked the monk's mouth with a cloth.

The light outside the bars was getting dimmer, and soon the stars were seen twinkling.

He thought of what happened today, and became more and more afraid, it is estimated that this time his little life will be explained here, and he secretly cursed the master in his heart, if he hadn't let himself come to investigate, he would not have fallen into such a desperate situation!

Just when he was in a trance, he vaguely heard the sound of the door opening, and when he opened his eyes in a daze, he saw two five-and-a-half-foot (one meter seven) blue-faced fanged monsters, carrying lanterns and walking in.

He recognized at a glance that these two monsters were very similar to the wood carving, and they should be the legendary Yaksha!

Shi Chengye was so frightened that his teeth chattered, and he was dragged backwards from his cell by two Yaksha with his legs tied to an iron chain.

Before going to bed, I remembered that there was starlight outside the iron window, but at this time, I saw that the window was dark.

He was dragged out a dozen steps, probably to the place where the prisoners were tortured, and when he barely raised his head, he saw a Yaksha more than eight feet tall (two meters four) standing in the middle, looking coldly at this side.

When Shi Chengye saw that it looked terrifying, and there was blood on its teeth that was about to coagulate, he trembled all over his body like chaff, and kept shouting: "Help!" Help me! ”

The great yaksha stretched out his long claws and struck him twice on his bare head, saliva almost touching his face.

The two Yaksha next to him turned him over, took a carpenter's long saw, and gestured it around his waist.

Shi Chengye hid to the side, struggling to escape, but was dragged back by Yasha and flailed his head with a wooden flail.

He couldn't see below, felt a heart-piercing pain in his waist, and lost sensation in his lower body, and then saw one of the little ghosts dragging half of his body with only two legs, and turned to him, the sawn waist wound was still spurting blood!

"This, this is my leg?!"

Although Shi Chengye couldn't see it, he had already imagined the tragic situation of being beheaded in half, and his heart was broken.

At this time, a strange voice came from a distance, and someone seemed to pinch his throat and speak: "Quickly bring the evil things you have done to the truth, otherwise you will be subjected to all the punishments in hell, pull out your tongue and heart, throw you into the oil pot and fry you, and taste all the swords and fire!" ”

Shi Chengye said tremblingly: "The boy's surname is Sun, and when he was six years old, he peeked at the widow next door taking a bath,...... Later, he entered the palace and was adopted as an adopted son by a nobleman......"

He chattered for a long time, talked about the evil things in his life, and finally said that he used wood carving to harm people: "My master's Dharma name is Yizhen, and he is one of the four great monks of the world's righteous character generation in Tantra. He looked for a wood carving in a monastery in Henan, saying that it was left by the practice of the Tantric predecessors thirty years ago, and after the seventeen hosts became more and more successful, one was still missing to complete the merits, and he did not want to be given to an official's family by the ignorant new prison.

After inquiring, Master Yizhen learned that this official was Li Yuan, the assassin of Yuezhou, so he chased it all the way, and he pretended to be a gardener to sneak into the assassin's mansion, but found that the wood carving was thrown by the child in the courtyard in the wind and rain, and it was already somewhat damaged.

After looking closely, I found that I needed to make an offering of incense. The master said that it may be caused by Wuzong's destruction of the Buddha and the destruction of the wood carving.

"At that time, the owner of this back garden was Li Susu's little lady, my master chatted a few words, and found that she was very suitable as the eighteenth host, so he went to the nearby temple to live in tin, and sent a message to the little monk from Chang'an.

"When the little monk arrived, I found out that the master had already made a statement, and learned that the maid of the little lady Susu was my cousin who was sold, so I asked the little monk to come over, just to get closer to Li Susu step by step through the small mercury ......"

After Shi Chengye finished speaking, his heart settled down a lot, and he peeked at the big yaksha and felt that the body shape was a little familiar.

Before he could figure out what was going on, a voice came from the air again, saying, "This is your confession, let him draw a confession!" ”

A scroll of documents floated down in the air, and the two little yaksha picked it up, took Shi Chengye's back-tied hand, and helped him hold the pen and draw a circle on it.

Shi Chengye suddenly remembered why he felt familiar, and he shouted: "You deceived me, this doesn't count!" ”

The two little yaksha beside him took off their masks, one was Cao Shouzhen and the other was Lu Zhizhen.

Li Yuan accompanied Guo Hong to walk in from the outside, and the big yaksha on the opposite side wiped his face, it was Lu Yu.

Lu Yu pinched his throat and said to Shi Chengye: "What about lying to you? All the people present are witnesses, you said it voluntarily, when the autumn decision is made this year, this bald head is indispensable on the tree outside the market! ”

His voice was exactly the same as the one that had come from the air just now.

Shi Chengye's face turned pale, although he reacted quickly, but he did admit it himself, there is no way to deny it, there are so many people to testify, Li Yuan has no problem even if he is beaten to death, maybe this Li Tingshi is waiting for him to talk back.

It's better to behead than to die, and if it drags on until next year, if there is an amnesty during this period, the life will be picked up.

After the emperor ascended the throne, he had granted amnesty twice, namely the first year of Dazhong and the second year of Dazhong, both of which were amnesty to the world.

When he thought of this, he no longer denied it, and admitted the matter very honestly, so as not to suffer from flesh and skin.

At this time, a servant came to help him open the flail, only to see that his lower body was intact, but now he was still unconscious from the waist down.

Lu Zhizhen seemed to know what he was thinking, so he said: "I intercepted your acupuncture points, and I will not be conscious until tomorrow, and I will be able to walk in three days." ”

Although there are no points to solve acupoints in martial arts, it can also paralyze the body by striking key parts, and it will seriously lose consciousness or even be disabled, which is called acupoint interception.

Shi Chengye looked at the half of the body on the ground in front of him that was still spurting blood, and asked, "How is this done?" ”

Cao Shouzhen smiled, dug out the blood bag installed on the fake body, and showed it to him.

Shi Chengye sighed and said: "These tricks of the Mongolian people came from the Daomen, and we monks are still laymen after all!" ”

Guo Hong saw that the more he talked, the more outrageous it became, he glanced at Li Yuan, fanned his fan and said, "Want to see the true magic of my Daomen?" ”

After he finished speaking, he took a step forward, walked in front of Shi Chengye, and raised his hand to slap him.

Shi Chengye had severe pain on the left side of his face, and he only felt that his eyes were full of gold stars and his head was buzzing.

After Li Yuan saw that this villain was beaten by "Zhong Liquan", a flower erupted from his right ear, and it was still growing!

The jailers who walked in and watched next to him all said "oh".

Guo Hong slapped his backhand on the right, the flower was beaten back, and Shi Chengye's left cheek puffed up and retracted, like a chirping toad!

"You have a bad conscience and harmed your fellow clan, and now you are full of evil!"

Guo Hong kicked him in the heel.

Cao Shouzhen went up and punched his head twice, which made Shi Chengye scream.

He got up and walked away, looking back at Guo Hong.

The brothers cooperated tacitly, and Cao Shouzhen borrowed the kung fu of beating people, and had already collected the props and hid them in his sleeves.

This set of tricks is smooth, even Lu Yu, who is known as an expert, didn't see the clues.

He Qiong hid aside and laughed, she had seen Guo and Cao torture many green skins near Hengshan to the point of being in a trance like madness in order to practice this method......

Li Yuan ordered Shi Chengye, who was still doubting his life, to be put back in his cell, and everyone began to discuss how to arrest the old monk Yizhen.

"What do you think of Zhongli Refiner?" Li Yuan asked.

"A certain family thinks that this old monk is a demon sect giant, and there must be a lot of henchmen, so he needs to be treated carefully. He shouldn't know that his apprentice has confessed by now, so we will set off immediately, and we will definitely be able to capture him by surprise!" ”

"So there is Lao Zhongli refiner and everyone, Li will send a thief to accompany him, and the teacher will be famous!"

Li Yuan immediately called Shi Zong, the thief arrester, from the front office of the mansion.

This robber arrester is in his thirties, short and capable, and is a hereditary military general, with the rank of "Renyong Captain" on the ninth grade.

Shi Zong ordered thirty soldiers and set off with Guo Hong and others, although he was a military general, he was also very sophisticated, and he was in awe of Buddhism and Taoism, and put himself in an auxiliary position, and everything was ordered by Guo Hong.

An hour later, the crowd returned in vain.

Yizhen has not appeared in the nearby temple for many days.

The clue is broken.

Guo Hong and others did not follow Shi Zong back to assassinate Shi Fu.

They still had to go north, and they couldn't stay in Yuezhou for too long, and when they saw that Yizhen was nowhere to be found, they quietly proposed it to Lu Yu.

Lu Yu had no choice but to tell Li Yuan that Zhong Liquan had left, Li Yuan was very sorry, Lu Yu said that the master was a master in the world, and he was uncertain, and he liked to leave as soon as he wanted......

Back at the inn, Guo Hong removed his makeup and returned to his original appearance, and took his stomach back from Wuxianggong, feeling extremely relaxed.

Finally, I don't have to play Zhongliquan anymore.

If you keep encore, you will definitely get addicted to alcohol...... Phew.

Because he pretended to be a ghost at night to scare Shi Chengye, he didn't sleep, and everyone said that they would rest for a day before setting off north.

Lu Yu also greeted Li Susu because they were leaving, and went back to the inn to accompany a few friends.

After eating at noon, Lu Yu was playing with the ghost puppet left by Zhong Liquan in the courtyard.

The puppet is covered with skin, and it feels very much like a human body to the touch.

At the beginning, Wang Du was scared and cried, and watched with He Qiong and Hongdou.

"Uncle Lu, what are you doing here?" Wang Dudu asked.

Lu Yu was changing the puppet's costume: "Master likes to be scary, I'm going to change it and make it look like a scholar, so it's more interesting to take it out." ”

So the three girls laughed together to help, they changed the puppet with human hair, Lu Yu redid his face again, got dressed, and soon became a handsome boy of thirteen or fourteen years old.

"Senior Brother Lu has a scholar, let's give him a name!" He Qiong said.

"Since it's made of wood, let's call it a sycamore." Yun Xuansu was also watching from the sidelines, and couldn't help but interject.

"Okay, good, it's called Sycamore!" The three girls unanimously decided.

Lu Yu didn't have an opinion, he opened a small hole three fingers thick in the puppet's abdomen, and poured oil into it with a sharp-spouted pot.

"Uncle Shi, what is this for?" Wang Dudu asked again.

Lu Yu said: "The belly of the puppet is the hub of the mechanism, and it is also the place where the gears are densest, and this hole is specially used to pour oil to lubricate the gears. ”

Wang Du wanted to reach in, but Lu Yu hurriedly grabbed it and said, "The gears are iron, and the fingers will be broken!" ”

At this time, the guy suddenly came in and said, "Someone named and wanted to find a guest official surnamed Lu." ”

Lu Yu put the pot down and hurriedly went to wash his hands.

Hongdou found a branch, and poked it into the small hole in Wutong's stomach while Lu Yu turned around, and it was stirred into pieces with a few clicks.

The three girls stuck out their tongues.

Lu Yu asked the guy to bring people in, a man and a woman.

The woman in front was thirty-six or seventeen years old, very beautiful, followed by a middle-aged man in his forties.

When the woman saw everyone, she found the tallest Lu Yu at a glance, and asked, "Are you a Taoist?" ”

Lu Yu was stunned for a moment and then came to his senses, glanced at Yun Xuansu and He Qiong next to him, Yun He and the two looked at the sky, and Hongdou and Wang Du both scraped their skin together and made a mouth shape:

Baths.

Despised ......

Lu Yu saw Guo Hong snickering beside him, so he asked in a low voice: "My image, my image!" How could they not mention the matter of the bathhouse? ”

"Fart."

Lv Yu: ???

Guo Hong: "I'm making an analogy, you have stepped on a piece of, and the smell can't be removed, so if you want people not to mention that piece of, just walk into the dung pit bravely." Let one thing become your signature, such as farting in public, and they will forget about the bathhouse, and they will call you ...... Hmmm......"

Lu Yu nodded again and again after listening to the reason, and finally reacted: "Fart basket?

…… Also signs?!

Are you ready for my suave image to collapse completely? ”

Guo Hong groaned: "Senior brother, the word image is outdated, and it should be called a person."

Don't be modest, since the soup bath incident, your personality has collapsed, and you have been upgraded from a romantic little fire line to a lewd uncle. ”

Lv Yu: I'm still ...... Humility is so vain!

……

The woman who came in looked around, as if looking for someone.

Lu Yu arched his hand and said to the woman: "I am a Huidao person below, I don't know what this lady is looking for me?" ”

She stared at Lu Yu and said, "My daughter is here with you?" ”

When Yun Xuansu and the others saw her appearance, they immediately woke up, this is the mother of the white peony, and the mother and daughter are really similar.

All the women were smiling.

There's a lot of excitement to see.

Lu Yu replied: "I have been elsewhere for the past two days, and I just came back today, and I have never seen that little lady." ”

"She left a message saying to look for you, and then she disappeared!" The woman was so anxious that she burst into tears.

The middle-aged man in the back stepped forward and bowed his hand to everyone: "Li Congqing, who joined the army in the Lower Assassination Mansion, was originally a courtesan, and taught his daughter skills since he was a child, and when the child was ten years old, he took a stage name White Peony." She is only thirteen years old this year, and she doesn't want to meet this Huidao person by chance, so she left a message saying that she wants to come out to find you, and if she is here, I hope to let her come out to meet. ”

ps:

Historical figures: Li Congzhen, Zhang.