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"Look at it!" Centurion Luda whispered to Zhao Yong and soaked the raw cowhide whip in the well water.

"Yes, master." Zhao Yong nodded, and his gaze fell on a frightened person tied to a wooden stake not far away.

This puffy was forcible to take the property of a widow surnamed Liu, and this widow Liu happened to be Ruda's shade. After discussing with the other sergeant, Ruda felt that the crime was not supreme to the county government, so he set a punishment of ten lashes. Although there are only ten lashes, the whip of the sergeant beating people is not ordinary, but it is made of three strands of raw cowhide twisted, after soaking the well water, a whip goes down and the skin is immediately opened. The Kansai sergeant was very experienced, and in order to prevent the victim from screaming indiscriminately, he bit off his tongue and gagged him tightly with rags.

"Mother, I'm afraid." Widow Liu's child hid her head in her mother's arms for a while, and then came out again.

He looked pitifully at the wicked man who had been tied up, and even now, the child still had lingering fears about the "bad guys".

This kind of scoundrel is the most rampant and domineering in the countryside, and the crimes committed will not be punished by the county government, and the people can only worship the ghosts and gods and stay away, and a woman like Widow Liu, who has lost her husband's support, does not dare to offend him. When this scoundrel came to seize the land, no one in the village dared to take care of it. Fortunately, before her husband died, he coincidentally became Luda's shade, and Widow Liu came to Luda to complain about her grievances with the mood of trying it out, but she didn't expect this official to really reach out and take care of things. Seeing Ruda gather his neighbors and tie this wicked man to a stake to prepare for a whip was really relieved.

"Offended this wicked man," Widow Liu thought again, "he won't blame us orphans and widows." ”

She was worried, as if the wicked man's eyes begging for mercy also hid fierceness, and hurriedly reached out and buried the child's head in her arms.

Ruda didn't care so much, he carried a leather whip in his hand, and walked towards the tortured scoundrel step by step with a blank face.

The man's upper clothes had been stripped off to reveal his back, and he was trembling with fear like a chicken, his hands were tied to the stakes of the execution, and he was still writhing and struggling, and his mouth kept making "woo, woo" sounds. Ruda ignored it, walked straight up, waved his leather whip, and made a "pop" in the air.

Although it didn't hit the man's back, the man was shocked, and cold sweat had come down from his forehead.

Just when he felt that there was no pain in his back, and he was secretly relieved that the whip had not yet been put on, he heard a "pop" sound again.

"Ahh The whip flew up, leaving a deep blood mark on his back. Shocking. The crowd of onlookers let out an exclamation, many women and children closed their eyes, and Widow Liu was so frightened that she closed her eyes at that time, but when she opened her eyes again, she saw that the scoundrel was rolling his eyes, the water was dripping under his crotch, and there was a deep whip mark on his back, which was constantly gushing blood, and Widow Liu was also indescribably relieved in her heart.

Zhao Zhuo snorted lightly, covering his eyes with his hands, but Zhao Yong watched this scene with wide eyes.

Chen Si and Chen Jie stood beside them, and they had also seen this kind of whipping scene in Kansai, so their demeanor was still very calm. However, it is rare for a sergeant to punish Yinhu after all, so this time, Lu Dutou of the Zhao Mansion took action to punish the villain, and Zhang Caiwei also specially asked Chen Si and Chen Jie to watch together, not only to learn not to be merciful, but also to learn the attitude of the sergeant to be responsible for Yinhu. "The emperor is first and foremost a sergeant!" This famous saying of the founding emperor has been regarded as a testament by successive royal families. Even the crown prince Chen Zhong is like an ordinary sergeant who shades more than a dozen families, so as to hone his heart as a sergeant. If the descendants of the Chen clan didn't even have the courage of a sergeant in the end, and had the kindness of a woman, wouldn't those powerful families who were wiped out by the Chen clan laugh in the underworld.

Splash was tied to a wooden stake, twisting desperately, and his gagged mouth made a "whining" sound like a dog begging for mercy.

Ruda didn't care about it, while he was still fresh, he whipped it over again.

"Woo-" The splash let out a miserable cry from his throat, although the sound was not loud, but it was enough to make the listener feel a chill from the bottom of his heart, and even goosebumps, the splash skin even tilted to the side in the direction of the whip, but it was useless, and a deep blood mark was added to his back, the whip marks were vertical and horizontal, as if a big "ten" word, and the blood gushed out again. Ruda didn't stop, while the splash was still sober, he waved his hand and "pop-pop-" on both sides, adding two bloody whip marks on the back of the splash. The guy kicked his leg desperately like a dead dog, and finally rolled his eyes and fainted. The onlookers involuntarily let out a burst of exclamation. In the crowd, the two green-shirted scholars frowned in unison.

"It's rude," Huang said in a low voice, "brutal and unkind." ”

"Simple," He Ji took a deep breath, "but it works." ”

The two friends looked at each other, and each looked away again.

Huang had decided to move to Kanto, while He Ji planned to stay and try to apply for a scribe. Today was to congratulate and set up a banquet to send Huang Dianyi, and the two heard that there were sergeants here to execute Yin Hu, so they rushed here together. Unexpectedly, just this simple thing, the two friends who went their separate ways had different opinions. If you don't go, maybe we'll see each other again in more than ten years, and you don't know what the situation will be?

"Phew! Is it a fraud? Ruda stabbed the bucket with the handle of the whip and stabbed the unconscious splash.

"Look at your domineering appearance, and it's a bit heavy, but who expected you to be a soft egg." Seeing that the scoundrel did not react, Ruda spat fiercely and scolded. He squinted at the faint splash, then at the frightened and frightened villagers, and said in a muffled voice, "Whoever is frightened by your soft egg is really blind." The next time it happens to me, ten lashes will kill you. According to the decree of the imperial court, the flogging should be suspended after passing out, and the execution should continue after ten days of recuperation. After speaking, he glared at Widow Liu and said: "See clearly, next time this guy dares to disturb you, come to report immediately, even if he escapes to the edge of the sky, he will be arrested and angry with you!" ”

Widow Liu nodded busily. Although she was weak, she looked at the miserable appearance of the splashing skin, and she fainted to death with only four whips, and she didn't believe that he dared to come to seek revenge, and she fled to the edge of the sky to catch Yunyun back, and she didn't take it to heart. As everyone knows, although Ruda's words are a bit exaggerated, but it is not unprovoked, when he was in Kansai, there was a thief who took revenge on Yinhu and fled to the outside of the city overnight, and more than a dozen sergeants joined forces to arrest him back, revenge on Yinhu, and the crime of absconding was not small, and finally sent him to the bitter cold land of northern Xinjiang as a slave.

"The man fainted? What a ...... is Uncle Ru Do the sergeants have to be so fierce? ”

A trace of unbearability flashed in Zhao Zhuo's eyes. She didn't understand why Lu Dutou, who usually looked kind, had become vicious. Not only the prisoner who had been beaten unconscious by the whip, but also the other people looked at Ruda with fear.

"My eldest lady." Chen Jie was older than Zhao Zhuo, and said in a low voice, "You don't go out of one door, and you don't go out of the second door, but you don't know that inside the Kanto Yamen, those big masters, swords and pen officials are intriguing, playing with words, as if there is no blood on their hands, in fact, the torture tricks at the bottom are ten times more vicious than whipping, but once you do something wrong, you will blindly shirk the blame, and in the end you can't find a responsible person." And Uncle Lu, the referee he made and the execution himself, the right and wrong are borne by one person, he is the punishment, but in fact, what he bears on his shoulders is the responsibility of the entire court to the people of Limin. ”

"But ......" Zhao Zhuo looked at Chen Jie with wide eyes, and finally could only nod sullenly.

On the other side, Luda had already called Zhao Yong and Chen Si, two children, together and taught them what the responsibilities of a sergeant were.

The most important lesson for a concubine like this is the sense of responsibility, the responsibility to the household, to the family, and to the country, and this lesson will be accumulated layer by layer from the time the child is sensible, and will completely permeate their hearts.

............

The red sun was sinking in the west, the stars were twinkling in the sky, and the earth was completely plunged into night.

Three horses were tied to the outside of the small tent, and there were no lights in the tent to avoid detection.

However, the air was even hotter than next to the fire. Li Ruobing and Zhu Ying hugged each other tightly, as if they were using each other's bodies to keep warm. Since fleeing from Shangjing, Li Ruobing expected that the Liao army would definitely be intercepted on the road to the south, and the Liao and Song Dynasty were exchanging troops, and the border must be tightly sealed. Therefore, Li Ruobing planned to go to the wintering ground of a desert tribe he met on the way to grazing, hide for a winter, wait until the spring flowers bloom and then go south, or make a detour to Xia Guo'an's Northern Military Division, and then return to Luoyang to live in seclusion. Therefore, Li Ruobing unexpectedly did not go south directly, but took Zhu Ying to the northwest to see the Liao army that avoided the search for Zhu Ying's whereabouts to the south.

The farther they went to the northwest, the thinner the Liao army's strength became, and sometimes there was no one for a day in a row.

At the beginning, the two were still worried, and they slept in their clothes at night, the sky was blue, the wilderness was vast, and the two seemed to be drifting in the boundless sea in a lonely boat together, except for each other's warmth, there was no comfort, and naturally the affairs of men and women happened. Since Zhu Ying followed Li Ruobing, she has been determined to abandon all reserve. Li Ruobing is in her thirties, and it is the time when she is full of energy, and she tastes tenderness for the first time, and she is a little tired of it. During the day, he is gentle with Zhu Ying, and whenever night falls, he likes to hold her quietly in his arms, smell her body fragrance, feel her soft body, and whisper to her about some interesting things he has experienced...... At the beginning of the day, his fatigue was completely dissipated, and if it weren't for the limited dry food and water, he would hardly be in such a hurry to hurry, and he felt that as long as he was with beautiful women, everywhere was Elysium.

And Zhu Ying also enjoyed this feeling very much, shrunk in Li Ruobing's arms, skin to skin contact with each other, quietly listened to him, and felt the warm and intimate atmosphere spread between the two, this kind of taste of the fusion of men and women was something she had never felt. And whenever she heard about the torture that Li Ruobing had suffered, she would tremble as if she had fallen into an ice cellar, and at this time, she would also take the initiative to hold Li Ruobing's body and stick her body tightly to his body, as if to let the two people become one and never be separated from each other again.