Chapter 344: Charlatans
"You have done a good job, and the rest of the matter will be handled by this king, and you can study this flood with peace of mind."
"Qingqing knows." Mu Qingge nodded, she believed that according to Yin Nanchen's character, she would never let go of any criminal.
Everyone waited for about a stick of incense, and Leng Ying directly arrested the county order.
The county magistrate was a bearded old man over sixty years old, and when he saw the corpse by the lake, his old face immediately changed.
"Weichen knocks on the prince, the prince is a thousand years old, a thousand years old!" The county commander leaned over and lay on the ground and said tremblingly.
"Do you know what this is?" Yin Nanchen sat on a wicker chair with a cold face, majestic and majestic.
"Back to the prince, this is ...... Corpse. The county order replied.
"These eight bodies were salvaged from Lake Toya under your jurisdiction, what do you have to say?" Yin Nanchen's voice was cold.
Although he already knew the reason for this incident, he still had to go through the motions and ask all those words, so as not to miss anything.
"Lord Wang, Weichen doesn't know what's going on with this corpse!" The county magistrate replied with a sad face.
"That has already done everything! What is your intention in deceiving the people with a boy to sacrifice to the so-called gods? As soon as Yin Nanchen's palm was blowing, the ground was full of rocks and dust.
"The king, the prince, the ministers are wronged!" The county magistrate cried.
He turned to look at the man who was kneeling behind him and kowtowing, and asked angrily, "You brute, why do you want to frame this official?" ”
He was also very surprised at this time, he obviously didn't say anything just now, how did this prince know?!
"Master, the little one is not ......"
"What nonsense, keep kowtowing to your head!" Mu Qingge glared angrily.
"Yes, yes......" The servant shook in fright and kowtowed to the ground again.
"This king has no patience to listen to your nonsense here." Yin Nanchen glanced coldly at the little old man who was kneeling on the ground, "Recruit all the things you have done, and this king can still give you a way to live." ”
The county magistrate was lying on the ground trembling, but he refused to speak.
"Since you don't cry when you don't see the coffin, then don't blame this king for being ruthless." Yin Nanchen sneered and called Leng Ying over, "Leng Ying, go to the mansion to arrest people, arrest the whole family of this county order, tie them up and throw them into this lake." ”
"Wang ......" Mu Qingge was just about to be surprised, when he saw Leng Ying answer expressionlessly, "My subordinates will go." ”
Could it be that Yin Nanchen really wants to drown this guy's entire family alive?
Mu Qingge stared incredulously, although she had already heard of Yin Nanchen's cold face and ruthlessness, but there was a debtor and a master, wouldn't it be a disaster to the old and the young......
No, he must have been just to scare and scare this county order, Yin Nanchen has never been such a cruel person, didn't he tell himself just now not to harm the people?
Seeing Leng Ying's figure leave decisively, the county order was also a little nervous.
The Manchu Dynasty is civil and military, who doesn't know Yin Nanchen's resolute methods?
"Lord, king
Master, I'll recruit, I'll recruit them all! The county order crawled on the ground like a prawn and said tremblingly.
"Say." Although it was summer, as soon as Yin Nanchen's voice came out, people couldn't help but shudder.
"Half a year ago, a Taoist priest came to our town, and the Taoist priest was extremely accurate in fortune-telling, and he knew how to do it......" The county commander stumbled because he was afraid, "He said that after half a year, Bashu Town will definitely usher in a great water disaster, and he must sacrifice eight children to the water god who lives in Lake Toya in order to escape the catastrophe......"
"Because of a charlatan, you believe it?" Yin Nanchen flicked his sleeves, "Because of a liar, he killed eight children, Chen County Order, what crime should you be guilty of!" ”
"No, Lord Wang, that Taoist priest really has magical powers!" The county magistrate still did not give up, and continued, "That Taoist priest can reach into the smoking oil pot!"
Like this kind of bull-nosed Taoist priest who doesn't do good deeds, Mu Qingge will always beat the other party into the line of liars.
She didn't believe that that charlatan could really have any magical powers.
"That's borax at work." Mu Qingge crossed his arms and shoulders and smiled coldly, he didn't expect that this kind of trick that was outdated for hundreds of years was still being used!
"Borax will produce gas when it is hot, put borax in the pot, it looks like the oil pot is boiling, but in fact, it is not hot at all, you were deceived by that Taoist priest at all!"
After listening to Mu Qingge's words, the county order was a little panicked.
"No, it can't be! That Taoist priest can also slash demons with a sword! This can't be fake! ”
"What is a sword slashing demon?" Mu Qingge asked.
"It's to take a blank piece of paper and nail the ghost, and then squirt out a mouthful of water, and the ghost will appear immediately! At this time, a sword was cut down, and the ghost became two halves, and the town of Bashu was haunted at that time, and the Taoist priest used this method to exorcise the ghost! ”
"It's not as useful as salt." Mu Qingge sneered, "That piece of paper must have been processed in advance, as long as you use a brush dipped in alkaline water to draw the shape of a ghost, you won't see anything after it is dried." At this time, if you spray turmeric water again, it will react and take on the shape of a red ghost, is it that I only need to use my sword to cut this piece of paper in half, and it will become a sword to slash demons? ”
Mu Qingge, as a girl who believes in science in the 21st century, counts these little tricks like a treasure.
"What, what, how is it possible?!"
"Chen County Order, if you don't believe me, I can perform with you in public."
"Side, side......" For a while, the county order couldn't even say a complete sentence.
"Lord, can Qingqing let the townspeople here come in, expose the deception of the Taoist priests for everyone, and break the feudal superstitions?" Mu Qingge turned his head and looked at Yin Nanchen seriously.
"Good!" Yin Nanchen nodded, and the appreciation for Mu Qingge in his eyes was a little more.
: Yin Nanchen's opinion +200
Eh, is this guy actually interested in this?
I knew that she should be fine, so I performed some acrobatics in the house to brush up my favor......
Mu Qingge ordered everything he needed for his performance, and ordered the elite soldiers to vacate their positions and let them out
The townsfolk who had been watching the situation all came in.
In order not to leave a psychological shadow on the child, she also deliberately asked the body to be covered with a white cloth.
A few spears were raised, and no sooner had they opened a small opening for the townsfolk than the hordes of townsfolk poured in like a flood.
"Next, please take a good look at what it means to enter the oil pot empty-handed!" Mu Qingge prepared the props and calmly put his hand into the oil pot.
"Side Princess! Don't ......" The onlookers stopped at first, but the smiling expression on Shang Mu Qingge's face became a deathly tranquility.
"If you don't believe it, you can try it for yourself, whether this so-called oil pot is hot or not."
Mu Qingge pulled his hand out, and a fair-skinned and slender hand was not as hot and full of bubbles as the townspeople thought, and it was not even red.
"I, I'll try!" Seeing that no townspeople dared to step forward, one of Yin Nanchen's subordinates volunteered to come forward.
"Very well, warrior who breaks superstition, please put your hand in it."
"Good!" Without much hesitation, the man put his hand inside, left it in for a moment, and then took it out again.
"Do you feel the scorching heat, this warrior?"
"Back to the princess, the temperature inside this pot is no different from the outside temperature, even a three-year-old child can put his hand in it."
"Then you say, I am familiar with gods and spirits, and I have strange arts?"
"Since, of course not." The man replied.
The faces of the onlookers became extremely ugly, and some people had already raised doubts about the prefectural order.
"Very good, these ten taels of silver were given to you by the prince, but who still dares to put their hands in it? The villagers who are willing to work with me to break this superstition will all receive a silver reward or two from the king. Mu Qingge took out the silver tael in his arms and shook it at the townspeople.
Although a tael of silver is not much, it is also the expenses of many families for a month, and for a while, the townspeople have poured over.
"It turns out that it's really not hot!"
"How can this not be hot?!"
"Could it be that the Taoist priest is a charlatan?"
"No, it can't be......"
Mu Qingge looked at the townspeople who were talking about it, and finally breathed a sigh of relief in his heart.
It seems that these townspeople are not yet ignorant to the point of irretrievability.
"Okay, the next thing is the so-called sword slashing demon." Mu Qingge took the props and showed them like flowing water.
At this moment, the townspeople finally couldn't hold back their restlessness.
Mu Qingge struck while the iron was hot and let the soldiers lift the white cloth, "This Taoist priest relied on a few tricks in the rivers and lakes to do nonsense in Bashu, and even did something that hurt the heavens and reason, such as sacrificing boys. ”
The townsfolk looked at the terrible scene on the ground and took a step back.
For a while, the sound of crying, screaming, and scolding was endless.
"My child!"
Suddenly a woman's scream came from the crowd, "My son! ”
"You, the county commander who killed a thousand knives, actually joined forces with the Taoist priest to deceive us! My child died in vain! ”
"I'm going to kill you!"
"You're just a parent, you should
Die! ”
After discovering that they had been deceived, the anger of the masses was especially high, and the lake was boiling in an instant, and the crowd instantly drowned the county order.
"Qingren." Yin Nanchen gave orders to his subordinates with a cold face.
"Yes." After receiving the order, the elite soldiers surrounded and drove out the chaotic townspeople again.
Mu Qingge looked at the corpses of several boys lying by the lake, feeling sad and helpless, "Leng Ying, you can help me find some better coffins and bury these children on the mountain over there." ”
She crouched down, endured the rancid smell on her face, and wiped their faces clean with a handkerchief.
"Side princess, but if those townspeople come to ......"
"They don't deserve to be parents." Mu Qingge shook her head, she didn't understand how her parents could bear to send their children to sacrifice.
"If anyone comes to ask, you will send them away with some silver, and say that I want someone from King Yin's mansion."
"Yes."
(End of chapter)