Chapter 370: Ling Chi
Ma Luan's foot was extremely heavy, Cai Zhongman woke up after being kicked, blood oozed from his mouth, and he shouted repeatedly: "The general spares his life!" The general spares his life! ”
"Spare your life? Hehe! Bring me this dog thing! Gao Linshan, Gu Yuanqin, you two unsuccessful things also roll over to me! Saying that, Ma Lan turned over and got on his horse and headed in the direction of Jinman County. Gao Linshan and Gu Yuanqin hurriedly dragged Cai Zhongman to follow, and a group of personal soldiers also hurriedly followed.
Entering the Jinman County Ya, Cai Zhongman's wives and concubines and children in the front yard were gathering in the courtyard in a panic, and immediately surrounded Cai Zhongman after seeing him. Ma Ling ordered his soldiers to drive everyone away, and let Gao Gu and the two take Cai Zhongman to the lobby, and sat on it himself, leaving only Gao Gu and the two present in the hall, and then threw the head of the big shaman at Cai Zhongman's feet.
"Lao Gao, Lao Gu, sit down! Cai Zhongman, you colluded with the Persians, talk about the causes and consequences. I already know, Lao Gao Lao Gu still doesn't know, talk about the good things you did, let Lao Gao Lao Gu understand. ”
Cai Zhongman's face was miserable, he kowtowed the ground, and when he raised his head, his forehead was already full of flesh, and he said in a low voice: "Ma Xiang, the crime is not as good as his wife and children, my wives and children don't know what the villain does, I beg Ma Xiang to let them go." ”
"Are they all Han Chinese?"
"Ma Xiang Mingjian, all of them are Han Chinese."
"You should know my temperament, since I am a Han person, I am not at fault, so I am naturally fine. Tingzhou can't stay, after you die, I will send them to the river incognito, and divide the Yongye according to the rules, and then cultivate the fields to support themselves. Ma Lan waved his hand.
"Xie Ma Xiang!" Cai Zhongman kowtowed vigorously again, and when he raised his head, he was already covered with blood. He was going to abandon his wife and children and run away. Now I know that I can't escape death. Naturally, he thought about his wife and children. Hearing that Ma Lan assured that his wife and children were okay, he was relieved.
"Ma Xiangyu, I was in Chang'an City more than ten years ago, when Li Linfu was doing things, dominating the supergang and blocking the way of speech, I was conceited of what I had learned, and I wanted to seek a step into the body but couldn't, and I was extremely depressed for a while. Every day, I lingered in the Qin Mansion and Chu Pavilion to spend my time. One day I went to the Liquan Fang......"
After letting go of everything, Cai Zhongman had no obstacles in his heart, and told his story in detail.
After all, he was a literati, and his speech was extremely sharp, and he soon made the cause and effect clear. Gao Linshan and Gu Yuanqin realized that they had been deceived, and they were actually deceived by such traitors, and they were also shocked for a while.
originally thought that it was for the sake of the general, and imprisoned the Son of Heaven with the blood in his chest, but he didn't expect this to be the case. Before Cai Zhongman finished speaking, the two couldn't sit down in their seats. They all left their seats and knelt on the ground, bowing their heads to listen to Cai Zhongman's detailed explanation.
After Cai Zhongman finished speaking. Said miserably: "Ma Xiang, his subordinates know that they should die, and the despicable people don't dare to bother Ma Xiang to do it, and his subordinates will go down!" After saying that, he stood up, gritted his teeth vigorously, and rushed towards the pillar next to him.
Before he touched the pillar, a big hand reached over and grabbed Cai Zhongman. Cai Zhongman looked back and saw that it was Ma Lan.
"Ma Xiang, do you want to spare my life?" Cai Zhongman said repeatedly, with a look of hope in his eyes.
"Spare your life? It's a beautiful idea! Ma Ling smiled coldly, pinched Cai Zhongman's chin, and saw a flash of the knife, and half of his tongue fell out, and his movements were clean and neat.
Cai Zhongman screamed, his mouth was full of blood, and he fell to the ground in pain. Ma Lan smiled happily and said in a deep voice: "Old Gu, Old Gao, get up!" ”
Gao Linshan's face was pale and said: "General, Lao Gu and I are confused, we have been deceived by this traitor, and Lao Gu and I are willing to apologize with death!" ”
Gu Yuanqin didn't get up either, and nodded again and again.
"Let you get up, you will get up, nonsense!" Ma Lan shouted.
The two looked at each other, and when they stood up, they both looked ashamed. A person who is dozens of years old has actually fallen into such a big deal as someone else, and it doesn't matter if he dies, and he has brought so much trouble to the general!
Ma Lu looked at Cai Zhongman, who fell to the ground, and said: "Lao Gao, Lao Gu, such a thing as imprisoning the Son of Heaven is too big to spread out, and this traitor is also a person who knows, so I cut off his tongue." But there is nothing wrong with what you have done. ”
"Although this traitor is from the Persian Temple, what you said is the truth, the Son of Heaven does want us to shed blood, and he does have the intention of moving away from the Ma family's workshop. I don't care if I move away from the Ma family's workshop, but we are not guilty, the Son of Heaven wants us to shed blood, but this matter is not good. You two don't have to think too much, since I'm back, I'll naturally handle this matter. ”
"General, we're really ......"
"Well, no more talk. You have a clear conscience, and I naturally don't blame you. Now we have something to do, so we won't talk nonsense here. The henchmen of the Persian Temple are only afraid that there are still in the city, and we have to find out all of them. ”
Gu Yuanqin and Gao Linshan nodded, looking at Cai Zhongman on the ground with a face full of anger. After all, it was this guy who put it on the table and caused such a big incident, although the general is not to blame, but they can't get over it in their own hearts.
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Cai Zhongman kept rolling on the ground, making a hehe sound in his mouth, and suddenly grabbed a piece of convulsive flesh, and saw that it was his own tongue. After he was about to hit the pillar and was caught by Ma Luan, he thought that he might survive, but he didn't expect to encounter such a thing, and his heart was also chaotic at the moment.
At this time, I heard Ma Lu say, "Pull it out, cut it for me!" Then the two figures leaned in, dragged him up, and left.
With half a tongue in his hand, he was dragged out of the lobby by the two of them, and heard a familiar cry, which seemed to be his family, and a few people seemed to pounce, but they were driven away by another group of people. Before he had time to take a closer look, he had already left the Jinman County Office, and it didn't take long for him to be tied to a wooden frame.
There were many onlookers, who couldn't see their faces clearly in a drowsy state, their mouths were bleeding constantly, and their strength was getting weaker and weaker. Barely opened his eyes, and saw that it was a cross street outside the state office, and it was crowded with excitement, and there were three people standing in the open space at the front, one of whom was Ma Xiang. The other two were Gao Linshan and Gu Yuanqin.
Ma Xiang was talking to the two of them. The two of them nodded their heads one after another. Not long after, another man came to him and argued loudly with Ma Xiang.
He also knew that person, it was the famous Duan Junzi in Anxi, and the meaning of Duan Junzi's words was that he was an official of the imperial court, even if he committed a capital crime, Ma Xiang could not dispose of it at will. Cai Zhongman thinks this is the reason. Suddenly felt that he had a trace of vitality, but it didn't take long for Duan Junzi to seem to be persuaded by Ma Xiang, and he shook his head and sighed and walked out of the crowd.
Seeing Duan Junzi shaking his head and leaving the crowd, and the people around him cheering loudly, Cai Zhongman felt that he was about to finish, and he couldn't help but be a little disappointed. What Ma Xiang said just now didn't know what kind of punishment it was, he was familiar with Tang Liudian, but he had never heard of this kind of punishment. Lao Gao and Lao Gu should have never heard of it, so Ma Xiang explained it to them.
The three of them conspired to do something big. He was about to die, but these two men became executioners. Cai Zhongman felt that he was a little wronged, and thought that he had designed to imprison the Tang Dynasty, which was a great event, and he was a little proud in his heart, and wanted to shout a few words, but found that his tongue was still in his hand.
Disheartened for a while, he threw his tongue to the ground, and as a result, his tongue kept jumping on the ground, like a living creature. Cai Zhong wanted to laugh in his heart, and suddenly Lao Gao and Lao Gu walked over with gloomy faces, and then he was stripped of his clothes by the two, and then a big net was tightly wrapped around his body.
Being naked in such a public, what kind of body is it, it is simply insulting to the extreme, Cai Zhongman wanted to protest, but suddenly remembered that he had no tongue, and he was suddenly discouraged in his heart. At this time, Lao Gao and Lao Gu both had a thin knife in their hands, and they came to the big net, aiming at the skin and flesh of his bulging mesh, and with a slight wave, Cai Zhongman felt a chill on his body, and two pieces of meat fell to the ground.
"Is this Ling Chi's punishment?" Cai Zhongman thought in his heart, it turned out that this was the punishment that Ma Xiang said, this was to cut off the flesh on his body piece by piece. This is a good way, and it should be the case to deal with those extremely vicious criminals, but there is no record in Tang Liudian, how Ma Xiang came up with this method. It is worthy of being a horse, but it is different.
Standing naked in front of so many people, he was not very comfortable at first, but soon Cai Zhongman got used to it. Compared to the sharp pain in the mouth, the slices of meat are nothing. Looking back on his life, he is also a person with ambitions, and he has been conscientious in the past ten years in Tingzhou, and he has never done anything bad, and the only bad thing in his life is this time. I'm sorry for Ma Xiang and the Son of Heaven, but the others haven't been sorry, but they became the first person to die of this kind of punishment, and it seems that Ma Zheng really regarded himself as a vicious person.
Thinking of this, Cai Zhongman tried his best to raise his head and glance at Ma Xiang, but in the eyes of the other party, he saw only disgust, and suddenly felt a little sad in his heart. If it weren't for Li Linfu's efforts in the court, claiming that there was no sage, how could he not contribute to the country with his own talents, how could he meet those people in the Persian Temple, and how could he go to this bitter cold place to be a small county commander, for more than ten years, and finally fell into such a fate.
Back then, I also wanted to make contributions to the Tang Dynasty, who knew that it would end up like this. Looking at this, Ma really hated the Persian Temple to the extreme, Ma Xiang and the Persian Temple fought the law, and he couldn't see what the final result was, and if he caught the people of the Persian Temple, I am afraid that the same punishment would be used.
The pieces of meat fell off piece by piece, his strength continued to weaken, and thinking of the past of his life, Cai Zhong was full of mixed feelings.
"Tang traitor!"
These were the two words that Ma Xiang kept saying, and then gradually it became used by everyone, and the people who watched the excitement cheered loudly while repeating these two words.
This is also a new word, just like Ling Chi, Cai Zhongman thought in his heart.
Then suddenly he lost the slightest strength, felt extremely sleepy, and finally glanced at the people in front of him, and smiled reluctantly.
At this time, his face was no longer faceless, and his smile was just a muscle tug, and he looked more and more hideous.
Cai Zhongman didn't notice that he didn't smile very well, and after laughing, he closed his eyes tiredly, and then his body slowly became cold, and the speed of blood flowing out of the wound became slower and slower. (To be continued......)