Chapter 245: Heavy Canons in Troubled Times (Part II)

The sky is obscure, and chaos is stuck.

Suddenly, the rising sun, hidden behind the clouds, suddenly broke through the clouds and sprinkled its light on the earth; The brilliant light shone on the faces of all living beings, as if gilded with a layer of gold paint, and everyone had a shallow smile on their faces, which was full of brilliance.

"Left and right, get a pair of bows and arrows!"

The corners of Yuan Mai's mouth, who was sitting on the tiger skin seat, curled slightly, revealing a hint of a suspicious smile, but with a murderous aura, which made the people kneeling below shudder.

A moment later, a guard brought Yuan Mai a pair of bows and arrows, horned bows and white feather arrows.

"What is this young assassin going to do?"

Zhang Pei couldn't guess what Master Shi wanted to bow and arrow for, and looked at Yuan Mai in confusion.

There's no way Assassin Lady could have someone shoot me with an arrow, right? In the 400 years of the Han Dynasty, there has been no such execution. Have you ever heard of torture such as beheading, Ling Chi, and splitting the corpses of five horses, but have you never heard of being shot to death with arrows?

Taking the bow and arrow, Yuan Mai slowly stood up straight, moved his muscles and bones, and then took out a feather arrow from the quiver, put it on the horn bow, and slowly aimed at Zhang Pei.

"...... you want?"

Zhang Pei asked in horror, at this moment he smelled the breath of death.

Before the words fell, the feather arrow slashed like a meteor, impartial, and shot through the throat of the evil young man at once......

"Uh...... Goo ......"

Before Zhang Pei could react, he already felt weak, and a cool breeze poured into his body from his throat, and his whole body was suddenly weak; The pupils dilate, and the limbs are weak and weak. Slowly collapsed to the ground, his eyes wide open, and he whimpered......

An arrow shot Zhang Pei, Yuan Mai clapped his hands casually, threw the horn bow in his hand in front of the table, and said loudly to the people: "Have you seen it, it was this bow and arrow that killed this evil young man, and it has nothing to do with me?" According to Zhang Pei's theory, I can punish this bow and arrow, right? ”

Only then did the onlookers understand the intention of Lord Shi. They all cheered: "Your Excellency said it well." It was indeed this bow and arrow that shot Zhang Pei, and it has nothing to do with adults! ”

Fu Zhu and Tian Chou stood aside and watched dumbfounded, they didn't expect Yuan Gongzi to do this, and shot Zhang Pei to death in front of everyone's eyes. And the archery is so accurate. It penetrated Zhang Pei's throat at once. I'm not afraid of hurting the people by mistake, it's really a master of art who is bold!

shot Zhang Pei in a fit of rage, which was certainly happy. But after all, Yuan Mai is an official, a government organization, not a bandit who is happy to take revenge, he can kill people, but he must give an explanation to the people.

After getting out of the evil spirit in his chest, Yuan Mai felt a lot more comfortable, facing the onlookers, he announced loudly: "Zhang Pei, a member of the Zhang clan, is twenty years old, and often bullies people, and bullies men and women have happened. ”

Listening to the sentence of Lord Assassin Shi, the people applauded in unison, and burst into cheers: "Kill well, kill wonderfully, treat others in their own way, the villains deserve their crimes, and they are innocent of death!" ”

"Spare your life!"

Seeing the embarrassed son lying in a pool of blood like a dead dog, Yao Nu suddenly trembled with fright, and she collapsed on the ground and couldn't get up.

Yuan Mai glanced at the woman, although she was a little beautiful, but she loved vanity, coveted wealth and wealth, colluded with new love, and killed her old love, her heart was as vicious as a snake and scorpion, and she must not be spared, but her crime would not be executed, and after a little consideration, the verdict was given.

"The people's daughter Yao, greedy for vanity, betrayed her old love, and instigated the evil young Zhang Pei to beat the young man of the Jia family to death, which is an unforgivable crime. From now on, he was taken into custody and sent to the barracks as a military prostitute! ”

This woman is quite beautiful, throw it into the barracks to reward the three armies, otherwise, the sex life in the army cannot be solved, and the soldiers will toss out moths.

"No!"

A long time ago, a soldier like a wolf and a tiger stepped forward, one by one, and lifted up Yao Nu, who was paralyzed on the ground, dragged it down, and sent it straight to the barracks.

The treacherous and cunning Zhang Li has been scared half to death, paralyzed on the ground and neither dares to beg for mercy nor cry, his mind is buzzing in a mess, he knew that he regretted it today?

Yuan Mai set his eyes on Zhang Li again: "Zhang Li, it is a big mistake for you to indulge the rebels, kill the innocent, usually oppress the villagers, act as a blessing, and neglect discipline. This time, in order to exonerate the inferior son, he even instigated the clansmen to besiege the official mansion, which is like a rebellion, and the crime is unforgivable! Your Zhang family's clansmen are locked up in prison for a total of 817 people, and you need to pay 100 stone per person for ransom before you can redeem them. In addition, forty rods will be given, and the execution will be carried out immediately! ”

Zhang Liji put his head on the ground, kowtowed like pounding garlic, and wailed and begged for mercy: "Little Lao'er is willing to admit punishment, willing to admit punishment, but I am already a young man, and I really can't stand the cane punishment, please make you kind!" ”

In recent years, Zhang Li often went to Yecheng to visit Ji's family to visit relatives, and drank with Fu Zhu several times at the wine banquet, which is considered familiar. At this moment, I saw Fu Zhu sitting on the side, kneeling on the ground and begging: "Lord Fu is a guest, please make a word for the old and decrepit!" It must not be forgotten! ”

Seeing that Zhang Yuanwai, who had a white beard, lost his beloved son in front of him, and wanted to take the cane behind, he knelt on the ground at this moment and wept bitterly, miserable; Frustrated in his heart, he pleaded with Yuan Mai and said: "Son, Zhang Pei has already repented of the law, Zhang Yuanwai is more than sixty years old, and his body is weak, I'm afraid I can't hold the board, so let's open the net and spare him once!" ”

Although Yuan Mai has always respected Fu Zhu, he didn't even think about it this time, so he simply refused: "I can do other things according to my husband and Mr., but this matter must not be!" ”

Yuan Mai walked out from behind the table as he spoke, stood in the center of the crowd with his hands behind his back, and said loudly: "The state has national laws, and the family has family rules. Zhang Yuanwai connived at the rebels, bullied others, disregarded people's lives, and instigated the clansmen to besiege the government, the crime is unforgivable! In troubled times, we need to use heavy canons, and forgetfulness is inevitably too correct. Today, we must bring them to justice, not only to punish them, but also to beat them! What I am fighting today is not just Zhang Li's board, but all the inferior gentry who are bullying and bullying in the future, if anyone dares to be a traitor and a criminal in the future, he will bully the weak. This Zhang Pei is your end! ”

"Long live the Assassin Commander!"

Listening to Yuan Mai's sonorous words, the nearly 20,000 onlookers burst out into cheers in unison, and the smiles on their faces could no longer be hidden, as bright as the rising sun breaking through the haze in the sky.

Seeing that Lord Assassin Shi was so decisive and jealous, and quietly hiding behind the people to peek at the noble gentlemen were all awe-inspiring, and they made up their minds one by one that they must strictly restrain the clansmen after returning home, so as not to cause trouble to the door.

Yuan Mai glanced at Yao's father and Yao's mother who were kneeling under his feet again. Reprimanded: "You husband and wife forget their righteousness for the sake of profit. Greedy and stingy, since he is greedy for the wealth of the Zhang family and wants to reassign his daughter to the Zhang family, why not return the dowry of the Jia family? As a result, such a life lawsuit was provoked. Your husband and wife are the culprits......"

The soldier shouted, "Drag it down." Each of them shall be punished with sixty rods. Set an example! ”

"No!"

The wolf-like soldier stepped forward a few steps, pressed Zhang Li and Yao to the ground, and took off his pants. In front of the people, he waved his military stick and slammed it down, and within a few strokes, the skin and flesh were opened, and the screams were loud.

After the twenty-six and seven sticks went down, Zhang Li couldn't bear the heavy responsibility because of his age, and Yao's mother fainted to death because she was old.

"My lord, the prisoner has fainted, what should I do?"

The executioner took two steps forward and bowed down to ask for instructions.

Yuan Mai's face was like frost, without any joy or sorrow, and he said coldly: "Keep calling me!" Until they have counted enough, when they are bullying, have they ever had mercy? Sin deserves it, life and death are in heaven! ”

The soldier received the order, and at the sound of the order, the sergeant who was responsible for the staff continued to wave the stick and beat it until he had beaten several times.

Zhang Li and Yao's mother have passed out, dying, not knowing whether they are alive or dead; Yao's father only had one breath left, his eyes open and moaning, numb and painless. They were carried by their families in cars and left the scene in a gloomy manner.

A turmoil passed like this, the people gradually dispersed, Yuan Mai ordered the guards to pack up the tables and chairs, and prepared to go home, who knew that an unexpected thing happened at this time!

With a "duh", the sound of metal hitting the ground sounded......

Everyone looked closely, only to see that a huge iron ball fell in the middle of the street, smashing the bluestone on the ground into a crater, emitting a puff of smoke and dust.

"It's not good, there are assassins, protect Lord Assassin!"

The ground was thunderous, and the soldiers were startled, and they all raised their swords in their hands and formed a circle around Yuan Mai to form a protective momentum to prevent the assassins from taking advantage of the chaos to commit murder.

Zhou Cang drew his saber in his hand and commanded dozens of soldiers to surround the direction where the iron ball was thrown, "Surround all the crowd over there, the assassin is inside!" ”

Before the soldiers had time to line up, a big man came out of the crowd and said loudly: "Don't check, the big man dares to act, I smashed this iron ball!" ”

Yuan Mai looked at it, tsk, what a mighty man, I saw that this person was about eight feet eight inches tall, half a head taller than Zhou Cang, like an iron tower!

Different from Zhou Cang's dark skin, this person's skin is fair, the face of the Chinese character, thick eyebrows and big eyes, the voice is as loud as a bell, although the weather is cold, but the clothes on the body are extremely thin, although it is a robe, but tightly wrapped around the body, it can be seen that the chest muscles are very developed, and at first glance it is a mighty person.

"Fence it off, take it!"

Zhou Cang shouted loudly, and commanded the soldiers to surround the man in the middle, ready to arrest people.

"Stop, wait for me to ask!"

Yuan Mai retreated from the guards who protected him and walked out of the crowd. There must be a reason why this man threw iron balls for no reason, judging by his demeanor and look, he should not be an assassin.

First, if an Assassin wants to assassinate himself, he will never use a bulky weapon such as an iron ball, it is more appropriate to use a throwing knife or a cold arrow, and second, even if the Assassin is different and wants to hit himself with an iron ball, he should throw it at his side, not into an open place.

Third, even if the assassin missed, he should have taken advantage of the chaos to escape, and he should not jump out and admit it voluntarily, let alone stand up and pat his chest like him and admit that he did it.

Based on the above analysis, Yuan Mai decisively decided that this person was not an assassin, but perhaps a ranger.

Judging from the weapons he used, this kind of behavior is more like the Canghai Jun who assassinated Yingzheng with a big iron cone in Bolangsha four hundred years ago. Since ancient times, there have been many chivalrous warriors in Yan Zhao, and in this era of the rise of heroes, rangers and masters living in seclusion abound. Therefore, Yuan Mai concluded that this person is very likely to be a ranger who regards "Canghai Jun" as an idol.

Yuan Mai walked up to the big man, glanced at him, and bowed his hand and said: "Yuan Mai, the assassin of the state, is so polite, I don't know why the strong man has a big name, why he throws iron balls on the street for no reason?" ”

The man suddenly laughed "haha": "A certain family surname Zhu Mingao, the word is fair, he is a prodigal son who wanders the rivers and lakes, and he is good friends with Jia Liangdao in Jiangyi County. When he heard that his clan was being bullied, he asked me to come to Hanoi to find out the reason......

I wanted to kill the door and make the Zhang family restless, but who knew that the people of the Zhang family were arrested by the officials, so I followed them to the street to watch the excitement. Seeing that the adults dealt with it neatly, especially the reason for treating others in the way of others was even more hilarious, he kept holding back his laughter, and finally couldn't hold it back, and accidentally threw the iron ball. frightened the adults, and hoped to make the king forgive his sins! ”

"Justice? Who is this? ”

Yuan Mai muttered in his heart, he couldn't think of such a person for a while, but he felt a little déjà vu?

After all, there are too many characters in the Three Kingdoms, and people's memory is limited, so it is impossible for everyone to know everything. But looking at this person's burly figure, the iron ball thrown is thirty or forty pounds, he is definitely a strong man, maybe this person has some ability!

And Yuan Mai didn't believe what Zhu Gongdao said, he said that it was because he couldn't help but laugh and accidentally threw the iron ball out, which was pure nonsense. The more logical reason is that this warrior took a fancy to his decisive ruthlessness, so he caught his attention in a mysterious way, and Mao recommended himself!

"Isn't it a pity to see you throw such a heavy iron ball like a leisurely stroll, you must have a skill, buried in the people? I don't know if a strong man is willing to serve in the army? Yuan Mai smiled and tried his best to win over this warrior.

I wish justice is also bold, and he arched his hand and said: "The adults are decisive in their work, they are the masters of the people, and they do the right thing for the sky, and the villain admires them very much!" If you don't dislike it, the villain is willing to follow the horse before and after the saddle and serve you. It's just that this trip to Hanoi was entrusted by Jia Liangdao, and I should go back to Jiangyi first to resume my life before I can come back to follow the envoy! ”

The name "Jia Liangdao" was mentioned three times and twice from Zhu Gongdao's mouth, which immediately attracted Yuan Mai's attention, and he muttered in his heart: "Jia Liangdao? Who is Jia Liangdao? (To be continued......)