Chapter 496: Those who believe in heaven are invincible

In China, there has always been no burning at the stake, and the punishment of crushing bones and ashes and cannon burning is the former basically for the bones of the deceased, and the latter is to roast people rather than burn people.

The reason why Aunt Bao shouted that sound, and then countless people responded to it, was because the demon girl brought Gu, and the rumor that the entire Wuchang was contaminated by Gu poison was known to everyone in the city. The movement of the southern barbarians outside intensified their panic even more.

Only by burning this demon girl and burning it clean, can we purify this city! Without the Gu Mother, the Gu poison will naturally dissipate.

Standing on the security door, listening to the call getting higher and closer, Zhang Boxing's cheeks flushed, and he shook his beard and said, "Okay! Good! This is the will of the people! This is providence! I, Uncle Zhang, go with the sky, come to someone, prepare firewood and oil! ”

He looked at the tens of thousands of southern barbarians under the city and smiled extremely happily: "Right in front of the eyes of these demons, burn their hearts!" These demons will crush their minds and collapse for a thousand miles! ”

The master kept wiping his sweat on the side, and said uneasily: "Dong Weng, isn't it...... Too risky? The emperor is not like this. ”

Zhang Boxing shook his head and said confidently: "Let's look at my heroic righteousness!" When the demons are defeated, the emperor will know my Zhang Boxing's loyalty! ”

He also secretly said in his heart, not only does the emperor know my loyalty, but Qingshi will also know my righteousness! I, Zhang Boxing, will definitely leave a name in history because of this! Maybe he will be like Zhao Gongming, and become the door god that every household has to stick.

In the city of Wuchang Prefecture, prisoner cars drove out of the alleys and into the streets, and countless people poured out and crowded on both sides of the street to watch.

"Burn her!"

"Burn her!"

At first, he just raised his arms and shouted at the top of his voice, but then he felt unhappy, and the vegetable leaves and rotten fruits flew towards the prisoner cart, and then they turned into wooden blocks, tiles, and stones, and smashed the prisoner cart with a rattling sound.

Hit by the stone tiles, in the muffled grunt, she looked up with difficulty, her face was already blurred with flesh and blood, and her eyes were still bright, and there was a trace of nervousness in them. She didn't know what kind of pain she was about to face, and she didn't know if she could carry the pain through the preparations she had made. But when she thought of another person, she was relieved, she had got what she wanted, and she could endure any pain.

"How can there be a thief in the prosperous era of benevolence, it turns out that this demon girl is the one who did it!"

"Kangxi Ye is afraid that he will be killed by her, damn it, really damn it!"

"My father-in-law suddenly fell ill a few days ago, and she is harming others! Burn! Hurry up and burn it! ”

"Sure enough, it's Zhang Qingtian, full of thoughts about eliminating harm for the people!

The people talked a lot, twisted their faces, and scolded loudly, looking particularly hideous.

A group of poor children rushed over, their faces full of hatred and hatred, waving bricks and tiles, trying to learn from the old days, and seeing the scene of prisoners being smashed with blood, but they were stopped by the officials near the prisoner's car.

"She has Gu poison on her body, don't you see that we are all so far away!?"

A servant who seemed to be the head of the squad gritted his teeth and scolded angrily, and the children scattered in fright.

The hideousness on his face and the fanatical shouts made the leader suddenly feel as if he was in a violent city that he had never seen before. The people in this city were originally very familiar, but now they are so strange, like cows, ghosts, snakes, and gods drilled out of the underworld.

If it weren't for the rumors that she was wearing Gu poison, these cows, ghosts, snakes, and gods would have swarmed up a long time ago, tearing and digging, and one person and one piece of meat, just like the people of Beijing in the former Ming Dynasty did to Yuan Chonghuan, and they would have killed her for a long time.

In a trance, a woman squeezed out of the crowd with her child in her arms, and said to the head of the class: "Poor master, my son's lungs are hot, just keep one blood steamed bun, and the silver is easy to say......"

The head of the team shuddered, the blood steamed buns that this woman said had always been there. As the old saying goes, human blood can cure tuberculosis and lung fever, and it is the best blood of the heart. The so-called heart blood means that when a person is beheaded, the yang energy is out of the body, and the blood qi is the most vigorous, so it is the most effective. 【1】

In the past, the executioner, the executioner, and the official at the execution ground would sell this blood steamed bun and get a little money, but now when he heard these three words, the squad leader felt a tightness in his chest and wanted to vomit.

Before he could reply, a mother-in-law on the side of the road sneered: "Did my sister just wake up?" Didn't hear the shout? This enchantress is going to be burned! Where do you get blood steamed buns to eat? ”

The woman's face was lost: "Burn? What such a waste......"

Looking at the figure on the prisoner car, the woman still didn't give up: "Poor master, before you burn it, let's cut it first?" ”

The team leader finally couldn't help it, and roared: "This woman is full of Gu poison, if you don't want to die, get away!" The woman screamed, hugged the child and hurriedly avoided.

"Aunt Pan, why don't you scold these people for being wolf-hearted? Why don't you scold these people for being demons and monsters? Before you treated and saved people in Hunan, many of them were from Hubei. You make sacrifices for the dead and pray for them to ascend to Heaven, and what are these people doing? ”

The leader of the squad struggled to follow the prisoner car, staring around in confusion, hoping only for a miracle.

There is still no miracle, the cry came from the city, closer and closer, louder and louder, I am afraid that there are not tens of thousands of people, who can compare with the people outside the city.

"Is that the shouts of the common people? Are they blinded by lard, or are they bewitched by that Zhang Boxing and lost their souls!? ”

On the high platform of the camp under the city, Wu Ya's face was pale, while Long Zhilan looked worriedly at Li Yan, who seemed to be a little distracted. Looking through the binoculars, the Qing soldiers were setting up firewood on the torture platform, and they were actually going to burn the golden bell.

Lang Shining was even more puzzled, and while drawing a cross on his chest and whispering a prayer, he thought to himself: "When did the Chinese learn the way of the court?" ”

"Put the plate aunt!"

"Let her go!"

"Let go!"

Enraged by the cries of the city and the movement on the torture platform, the people of the city finally threw away their banners and stopped pleading, and the shouts gradually converged into a tidal wave.

The city is "burning her", and the outside of the city is "letting people go", the two waves of sound collide together, holding each other, and the clouds above seem to have joined this battle group, accumulating more and more, and the originally clear morning color also seems extremely gloomy.

"Let go! Let go! ”

Lao Chen followed his partners and waved his fists, with rhythm, and shouted like this.

"That's all! Overpower the goblins inside! ”

He organized more people and shouted together, but as he shouted, he felt that the cry was not strong enough.

"I really dare to be unfavorable to Aunt Pan, God will punish them!"

"If you don't let people go, you will be damned!"

"Yes, damned!"

Lao Chen and many others became enthusiastic and began to think of more threatening slogans. After a while, "If you don't let people go, you will be damned!" This more proactive slogan replaces the previous simple voice of asking for help.

"As I expected, it was exactly the same! This woman is the mother of the Nanban people, and if you burn her, you can get rid of the demonic spirit of the Nanban! ”

On the city tower, Zhang Boxing felt that he was in his hands, his whole body was hot, and his feet seemed to be stepping on these two voices that were fighting each other, as if he was in the clouds and mist, looking at the sky.

"Fourth brother! Let me wait for the ants to attack the city! ”

"Yes, we have tens of thousands of people, and we are full of war, and they will fill the trenches, and we will wait to climb the city!"

"It's too late!"

Seeing this situation, in the distance under the city, Wu Ya and other generals knelt down to Li Shi and asked for battle.

Drive these people to siege the city?

Li Shi, who was also restless, heard this opinion, and in an instant, countless thoughts turned through his mind.

He has always been decisive in doing things, and rarely hesitates, but at this time he really hesitated. A voice shouted in my head, as it should be! What is the sacrifice of these people in order to save my woman? Besides, they were willing to let their newborn faith be stained with blood!

But another voice is shouting, this is not right! Even if you don't ask the stupid question of which is more important than a pan golden bell or tens of thousands of people, have you ever thought about the consequences of doing so? Today's people will use this faith to devote themselves to the fire and blood to save people, and tomorrow they will use this faith to kill people with guns and swords, and judge the world! Do you want to lead this China to a future of theocracy? Are you going to take the White Lotus Sect, the Red Yang Sect, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Boxer Rebellion to revive China? What is the future of this country that you have worked hard for years and painstakingly to build?

Li Xian was at a loss, he didn't know how to choose. At this time, he was extremely self-blaming. Pan Jinling's goodness comes from his salvation, Pan Jinling's deeds come from his pointing, and Panjinling's name comes from the Catholicism he created. Pan Jinling was originally created by him, and it was he who single-handedly sent her to the torture platform......

It's hateful that although he realized something and came to Hunan in a hurry, he couldn't avoid God's responsibility after all. Is this God pushing him to destroy his creation for the sake of the future he wants?

Just when he was in a trance, the people in the city suddenly let out a huge exclamation tide, Li Xian looked up, and felt dizzy in front of him, it was not Xue Xue who was alert next to him, leaning in front of him, he almost fell to the ground.

A figure has been put on the execution table......

A hot breath flowed in Li Xian's chest like molten gold and iron, so hot, so painful, Li Xian exhaled with difficulty, ready to start mental construction, waiting for the worst. "Your Majesty! The Catholics are gathering to take counsel and prepare for the siege! ”

Yi Ming's voice sounded, and he stared nervously at Li Shi's expression while hurrying to report.

"Your Majesty, let the small people cooperate with the army to attack the city! Rescue Aunt Pan and send all these sinners to the underworld! ”

Then Xu Lingti brought a large group of people, these hundreds of people were either the leaders of the Lord's Church or the leaders of organizations such as the "Yingci Hospital Patients' Association", and they knelt on the ground and shouted loudly.

All the generals, including Xue Xue, Lang Shining and others, all looked at Li Shi. His answer will determine what color will be applied to the scene in front of him. It will also determine what kind of organization this nascent Catholicism will become, and it will also determine what kind of country Anglo-Chinese will be in the future.

Li Shi took a deep breath and asked rhetorically, "Is it useful?" ”

Everyone bowed their heads, and said in their hearts that naturally there was not much hope, but if they didn't try, how could they have a chance?

Li Shi looked at Yiming: "Everyone...... Really willing to fight for your life? ”

Yi Ming said: "Of course not everyone, but everyone has received the great favor of the Heavenly Temple and the Yingci Temple, in such a situation, it is difficult to suppress the blood qi, as long as someone takes the lead......"

Before he finished speaking, a wild cry rang out, and a group of people ran to the moat, and poofed straight down the river, swimming towards the city wall. The city walls were full of guns and guns, and none of the people flinched, and when they came ashore and rushed under the city walls, there were few people standing anymore. But only those few people remained, still like crazy, actually grabbing the cracks in the bricks of the city wall, and climbing up step by step.

"That's ...... It was a patient who had been cured in the Yingde Leprosy Hall......"

Xue Xue sighed, he came from Yingde and knew the origin of this group of people.

In a matter of moments, the few people who had climbed the city wall were knocked down, and together with the victims in the river and under the city, tens of thousands of people screamed in mourning, and at the same time the crowd began to stir.

Li Xi finally made a decision, "Everyone, ......"

He looked at the kneeling men, and his words were very harsh.

"Heaven has set a vocation, and it is a soldier's business to fight and fight. I lead the army to protect the country, to protect the people, to protect your wealth and your lives......"

"In our country, as long as the soldiers still have a breath, as long as the soldiers are still in front of you, it will not be your turn to throw your heads and spill your blood!"

"Farmers should work in the fields, scholars should bury their heads in official paperwork, merchants should go to the countryside to dredge commercial goods, and students should study the way of heaven diligently, we ...... To each his own vocation! ”

Li Shi accentuated his tone on the word "vocation", which caused Xue Xue and Lang Shining on the side to think thoughtfully, and quickly took out a piece of paper and wrote it down.

"But those sinners, who will punish them!?"

Looking at the high platform on the city tower, those who still have some sanity in their minds know that it is too late at the moment, and those church leaders asked sadly, they really can't accept it, in such a situation, do nothing.

Li Shi said in a loud voice: "Believe in the heavens...... Invincibility! You have no enemies! Heaven and below, everyone is dusty, everyone is guilty, and you have no right to judge others! God is in everyone's heart, and everyone only atons for their own God! ”

Yi Ming and Xu Lingti glanced at each other, and emotions such as relaxation, relief, happiness and shame were transmitted back and forth.

The crowd asked in a mournful voice, "Do you want to sit back and watch those sinners get away with it!" Sit and watch them commit evil deeds, but no one will give them retribution!? ”

Xu Lingti suddenly said in a loud voice: "Have you forgotten Your Majesty's words when you raised the army, and have you forgotten the agreement that Your Majesty made with everyone!?" ”

Yi Ming said loudly: "Follow the way of heaven and hang the people to kill crimes!" Only Your Majesty has the right to rule on behalf of Heaven! ”

Li Xi looked at the torture platform and said secretly in his heart, Jin Ling, you are really going, I will make a ruling for this Wuchang City!

He said firmly: "People are doing it, the sky is watching, I will take care of ......"

Everyone choked up and left, and under the leadership of Yiming and Xu Lingti, they persuaded the surging crowd to stop. The sorrow became louder and louder, but the restless and violent atmosphere gradually dissipated.

"Are you really looking at it like that......

Long Zhilan is a woman, and she feels that she is about to watch this tragedy, and she can't accept it at all.

"Look clearly, I'll watch without blinking."

Li Xi was already calm, but he still had a little hope in his heart, the people of the Black Cat and the Heaven and Earth Society were in the city, could they create a miracle? But at this point, I'm afraid it's too late......

Just when Li Shi was also in despair, several people rushed over, the leader was Luo Tangyuan, followed by a man and a woman, he vaguely recognized the man, it was Jiangnan hero Gan Fengchi, who worked in the Praetorian Guard, and then was dug by Luo Tangyuan to the Military Intelligence Department, the woman is more familiar, it is Xiaohong, by the way, now called Siniang.

Luo Tangyuan's face was mixed with inexplicable sadness and joy, he whispered in Li Yan's ear, Li Yan's pupils gradually dilated, he reached out to support Wu Ya and Xue Xue's shoulders, and both of them felt at the same time that Li Yan's body had become weak.

Luo Tangyuan said again: "Ortai is already our people, and the prefect of Wuchang is secretly helping and hooking up with them. Then contact Ortai and let him declare that he will no longer interfere with Zhang Boxing, but he does not want to stay in Wuchang anymore, so we followed Ortai and Guntai out of the city. ”

Li Xian's pupils turned tight, and he almost gritted his teeth and asked in a low voice, "Who is that up there?" ”