A convoy of ten carriages was moving along the official road, the hooves of the horses making a crisp sound as they stepped on the road, and the wheels pressed against the ground, leaving traces of the road. The carriages in this convoy were plain in appearance, but the wood used was a very rare "turtle back wood", which has always been known for its durability, even more so than the masonry walls. Some big people who were afraid of being ambushed liked to use this wood to make sedan chairs, and some bodyguard dart carts also liked to use this wood.

On the two carriages at the head and end of the team, two large flags were raised, and the flags were embroidered with the four big characters of Sword Casting Villa, swearing that this was the convoy of Sword Casting Villa. Sword Forge Villa is well-known all over the world, and everyone knows it, and these four words are enough to scare away ordinary thieves.

This convoy shouldered the mission of escorting Zhao Zheng, and wanted to send Zhao Zhengan to the Taishan faction safely.

At this moment, Zhao Zheng was sitting in one of the carriages. The carriage was located in the center of the convoy and was protected by the masters of Sword Forge Villa in front and behind, making it very safe. Although there were only more than fifty people in this team, everyone was a good player, and all of them were elites carefully selected from the Sword Forge Villa.

In addition to these bodyguards on the surface, there is another group of masters secretly escorting them, including first-class masters such as Hua Xiangrong and Yunyou Quartet.

There are very few people in the world who can pose a threat to this convoy.

The road was not smooth, Zhao Zheng was up and down with the shaking of the carriage, in addition to him, there were two other people in the carriage, one was a sword slave, and the other was Shen Luoxia.

The sword slave is responsible for protecting Zhao Zheng closely, and he is almost inseparable from Zhao Zheng every day. At this time, he was holding a love sword. Sit there with your eyes closed.

Shen Luoxia and Zhao Zheng sat next to each other. is chatting with each other. Enjoy the midsummer scenery on the roadside. She was wearing the costume of a maid in Sword Casting Villa, which was deliberately arranged by Zhao Zheng in order to conceal her identity.

Zhao Zheng didn't want others to know that Shen Luoxia was his sister, so as not to bring danger to Shen Luoxia. If the gangsters know the relationship between the two, they are likely to take advantage of this to do unfavorable things to Shen Luoxia, and even kidnap Shen Luoxia to blackmail him.

People are afraid of being famous, pigs are afraid of being strong, this saying is really not false at all. Once a person has a reputation, all kinds of troubles will follow, and he has to plan more.

In addition to changing their outfits, both of them also paid attention to their titles, not as sisters and brothers, but as masters and servants. Shen Luoxia was really wronged by this, but she had no choice.

In fact, not only Shen Luoxia changed her outfit, but Song Kuaizui, Ren Qianqiu and others also changed into the clothes of their subordinates and blended into the team, and they only had a short time to meet Zhao Zheng every day.

Small talk. Zhao Zheng suddenly heard the sound of a volley speeding in the air, and the sound came from far and near. It's blazing fast. He closed his mouth, leaned over and lifted the curtain in front of him, and looked forward.

"Rest assured, it's not that someone is coming, it's that the scouts of the convoy are back." The sword slave didn't even blink an eyelid, and said leisurely.

"It's still the sword slave seniors who thought thoughtfully and sent spies to explore the way ahead." Zhao Zhengdao.

"It's not that I'm thoughtful, these things are arranged by my eldest brother, I just do what I order, if I am asked to arrange this trip, maybe it will be arranged."

"It's going to be hard for the sword slave seniors along the way."

"Even if it's hard, it's my own effort, who makes me reluctant to give up Zi Chujian." The sword slave lifted his right eyelid and took a deep look at Zi Chujian, who was lying on Zhao Zheng's knee. Once his gaze lands on it, it's hard to look away.

The sword slave was right, the person who flew in the air was not the attacker, but the spies sent out. This person is responsible for investigating the road conditions on the route of the convoy, as well as collecting information from all sides, and if he encounters some small thieves who are not open-eyed, he will also take action to clean up, saving some unnecessary trouble for the convoy.

Amid the shouts of many coachmen, the convoy stopped, and the spies jumped next to the carriage where Zhao Zheng and Jiannu were, and knelt on one knee.

The sword slave lifted the square curtain, glanced at the spy, and asked, "Is there any special situation ahead?" ”

"Back to the second master, ten miles further is Dachuan Town, today there is a special event in the county, the beggar gang will hold a 'Thousand Knives Conference' at three o'clock in the afternoon, and the evil thief Qin Xing will be executed in public. This is not a trivial matter, so I flew back to report it. The spy replied with a blank look.

The sword slave didn't react much when he heard the news, but it caught Zhao Zheng's attention.

"The beggars have captured Qinxing?" Zhao Zheng immediately leaned to the side of the car window and asked with concern.

"Yes, it is rumored that Xiao Qingyi, the elder of the Beggar Gang Torture Hall, caught Qin Xing, and it was also his idea to hold a Thousand Cuts Conference, in order to severely punish Qin Xing, an adulterous thief, and give a warning to other prostitutes." The spy replied.

"In this way, Qin Xing has pleaded guilty." Zhao Zheng said gloomily.

"There are all human and material evidence, of course he has to plead guilty."

"With a character like Ye Daxia presiding over the overall situation, he can't help but admit his guilt."

"Yes, it is said that Ye Daxia was also present when Qin Xing was arrested, and he was also present at today's Thousand Cuts Conference."

"For such an important matter, of course a hero like his old man has to attend." Zhao Zheng sneered quietly, and retreated to his original seat, he had already finished asking the two questions he was most concerned about, and he didn't ask the rest of the details. Besides, the sword slave is the head of the team, and it is inconvenient for him to talk too much as a junior.

The sword slave took over the conversation, asked some more questions, and then sent the spies away.

The spy flew up and was soon gone. The drivers raised their whips and the convoy was back on the road.

The carriage was silent for a moment, and Zhao Zheng suddenly broke this silence and requested: "Senior Sword Slave, the murder case of Qin Xing is quite involved with me, I want to go to the Thousand Cuts Conference and watch Qin Xing be punished with my own eyes." ”

"What does it have to do with you to put the thief to death? If there's nothing important, you'd better not join in the fun, lest there be any extraneous complications. The sword slave asked.

Qin Xing's crime in Dachuan Town sparked public outrage, and a group of warriors spontaneously organized together to investigate the case. I also helped at that time. Responsible for squatting in a family with a girl. I slept in a warehouse that night. I woke up to find that the girl had been killed, her head had been cut off and placed on the table. I looked at the head on the table and made up my mind that I must kill the gangster and avenge this girl. Zhao Zheng's calm tone was filled with unconcealable grief and indignation.

"It turns out that you have experienced this kind of thing before, it seems that you must hate Qin Xing in your heart. In that case, I can't be too unkind, if you want to see Qin Xing being tortured, then go and see it. The sword slave agreed.

"Thank you, senior." Zhao Zheng nodded in thanks, but what he hated in his heart was not Qin Xing, but someone else.

Shen Luoxia, who was next to her, saw that her younger brother looked solemn and seemed to have a very serious concern, so she raised her hand and patted her younger brother on the shoulder twice as a comfort.

Zhao Zheng squeezed out a smile and said that he was fine.

Ten miles is not far. The convoy soon arrived and saw the town of Okawa entrenched in the plains. It was still some time before three o'clock in the afternoon. The conference will be held later, and there will be plenty of time to rush over.

The Thousand Cuts Conference will inevitably attract many people to watch the excitement, and it cannot be held in the county, so it can only be held outside the county. Xiao Qingyi, the organizer of the conference, deliberately arranged the location in a cemetery outside the town of Dachuan, where the bodies of several victims were buried, and it was only fitting that Qin Xing would be executed there.

The road to the cemetery was very difficult, and the carriage was impassable at all, so the sword slave ordered the convoy to stand by, picked a few elites in the convoy, and escorted Zhao Zheng to the venue of the conference.

The further you go, the more cemeteries you encounter, most of which are simple dirt bags, and some don't even have tombstones. Where the dead stay, the living do not want to come, this cemetery is rarely visited on weekdays, but today it is particularly lively. A large crowd gathered in the cemetery, surrounded by three layers inside and three layers outside, and there were seven or eight hundred people at least.

The men were shouting angrily, and the content of the shouts was basically the same.

"Kill this son of a bitch! Avenge the dead girls! ”

"Kill him! Kill him! Cut off the flesh from his body one by one! ”

"Don't wait for three o'clock in the afternoon, kill him now!"

The murderous aura of hundreds of people condensed together, resounding in the graveyard and reaching the sky.

You don't have to guess to know that the person these people want to kill must be Qin Xing.

Qin Xing, as a flower thief, picks flowers and asks willows, is romantic, and has ruined many women from good families, and he is indeed innocent. But the thirteen murders were not done by him, and his sins should be borne by him, and those that were not his sins should not be borne by him. Even if he was slashed with a thousand knives, the thirteen wronged souls would not be comforted.

Zhao's front sank like water, his sword eyebrows flew obliquely, and he walked towards the crowd step by step, intending to witness the whole process of the execution up close.

The sword slave looked around, feeling that there were too many people gathered here, and he was afraid of changes when he squeezed into the crowd, so he patted Zhao Zheng on the shoulder and said, "Boy, let's jump directly into the center of the crowd." ”

Zhao Zheng nodded, with a slight force under his feet, he jumped over the congested wall in front of him. The sword slave and several other bodyguards also jumped in. These people are all good players, and the high jump is not a matter of effort.

In the center of the crowd was a simple meeting place, enclosed by a wooden fence to keep onlookers out. There is a wooden pillar in the center of the venue, and there is a person tied to the pillar, and this person is Qin Xing!

His present appearance was far from what he had been before, his face was as withered as ashes, his eyes were dull, his cheeks were deeply sunken, and his unkempt hair was tied up in a headband. Not to mention people who don't know Qin Xing, even those who know Qin Xing are difficult to recognize him now. He is now wearing only a pair of middle pants, and his upper body is completely naked.

Behind the pillar that tied the qinxing, there was a row of tables, a number of people sat behind the tables, some beggar disciples were lined up on both sides, and next to the beggar gang disciples, there were also a few ordinary people who were crying and crying. These people are the families of the victims, and today's execution of Qinxing has aroused their sadness.

Among the people seated, there were three people with the highest status, namely Xiao Qingyi, the elder of the Beggar Gang's Torture Hall, Ye Zhiqiu, a famous hero, and a local Yamen representative in Dachuan Town.

No matter how strong the martial arts are, the power in the hands cannot be greater than the royal power. Even if Xiao Qingyi is an elder of the beggar gang, he has no right to execute a person in public, he must greet the government and go through the judicial process. It's like this kind of meeting where a prisoner is executed in public. A member of the yamen must be invited to come forward.

Don't look at the master sent by the yamen, who is powerless. In terms of seating, he sat in a high position. Next to Xiao Qingyi.

Next to Ye Zhiqiu, there was also his beloved apprentice Kong Yunjie. After so many days of recuperation, this young man has now fully recovered and regained his former spirit.

Zhao Zheng happened to fall in front of Qin Xing and glanced at Qin Xing.

Qin Xing has been mentally tortured for many days, and now he is so confused that he can't even recognize Zhao Zheng. After just one glance, he lowered his head again.

The sword slave stepped forward, hugged his fist with Xiao Qingyi, said hello, and expressed his desire to come over and join in the fun. Xiao Qingyi indifferently agreed, and made room for the sword slave to show respect. Ye Zhiqiu has always been enthusiastic about dealing with people, and he also came up to say a few polite words to the sword slave, and said that it was a pity that he could not participate in the Zichu Sword Competition.

When these respected martial arts masters were talking, Kong Yunjie on the side set his eyes on Zhao Zheng. Unconcealed hostility. His lips moved, and he wanted to say something cruel several times. But he gritted his teeth and swallowed it back. It's not that he's afraid of Zhao Zheng, but that the master has explained to him before and told him to learn to be restrained in the future, and to be quiet no matter what happens.

Ye Zhiqiu noticed the strangeness of his beloved disciple, and also set his eyes on Zhao Zheng, but his eyes were very kind, without the slightest hostility. He twisted his beard in his hand and said with a smile: "Zhao Shaoxia, we meet again." When we arrested Qin Xing together, I thought you were a young and promising person, you could defeat the heroes and win the Zichu Sword, so it can be seen that I really didn't look away. ”

No matter how much Zhao Zheng resisted Ye Zhiqiu's master and apprentice, on this occasion, he could only reply honestly and bury all hostility deep in his heart. He restrained the turbulent mood swings, clasped his fists and saluted: "Ye Daxia praises falsely, if you talk about being young and promising, how can I compare to your senior apprentice." ”

"Don't be modest, if he is better than you, how can he lose to you in the ring."

"It was your master who let me go that day, and that's why I picked up a bargain."

"I heard Yun Jie talk about the process of your martial arts competition, and there was no one who let anyone at that time, but it's a pity that I had important things to do at the time and missed your wonderful competition."

"Do you mean the capture of Qinxing?" Zhao Zheng asked intentionally.

"Exactly." Ye Zhiqiu nodded with a smile.

Zhao Zheng's mind was racing, and he speculated that Ye Zhiqiu was using the arrest of Qin Xing as an excuse, but in fact, he was secretly killing people and planting false accusations, and counted all his lives on Qin Xing's head. His hand, dangling to his right, crept into a fist, his nails digging into the flesh. He forcibly suppressed his anger and said calmly: "I want to catch the drunk and pick flowers. Qin Xing is not an easy task, it is really hard Ye Daxia. ”

"Where, where, I'm just doing a disservice, the person who found Qinxing is a member of the beggar gang, and the person who caught Qinxing is Elder Xiao, nothing to do with me at all." Ye Zhiqiu snorted and said.

Zhao Zheng didn't want to pay attention to Ye Zhiqiu anymore, and turned around to look at the famous Dragon Descending Judge. Xiao Qingyi said, "Elder Xiao is above, and the juniors are courteous here." You can catch the lewd thief Qin Xing, which is really a big harm to the martial arts. ”

Xiao Qingyi bowed slightly, counted as a response, and didn't say anything.

Zhao Zheng also greeted several other martial arts masters present, and then walked around to the back of the sword slave, quietly waiting for the three o'clock in the afternoon to arrive.

The time had finally come, and the sun had reached the very center of the firmament, despite the dark clouds in the sky.

Xiao Qingyi's calm eyes suddenly shot out two sharp edges, and said categorically: "Three o'clock in the afternoon has arrived, the execution will be carried out immediately, and let a few family members of the deceased knife the criminal Qin Xing first!" ”

The beggars and gangs responded one after another, and the onlookers also raised their cries one after another, and this cemetery may not have been so lively for several years. One of the beggars walked up to the weeping family of the deceased with a plate on which several special knives were placed.

This knife is similar to a knife for peeling melons, and the blade presents a right-angled twist, which can easily pierce into the flesh of a person with a twisted tip, ripping off a piece of flesh. The blade of this kind of execution knife is very sharp, but the zigzag blade is only the size of a fingernail, and if it does not hit the vital point, even if it is cut dozens of times, it will not kill anyone.

This kind of execution knife was invented by Xiao Qingyi after he became the elder of the Beggar Gang Torture Hall, and it was specially used to execute prisoners in Ling Chi.

Anyone who saw Ling Chi's process for the first time did not have a nightmare that night. Xiao Qingyi has always been a person who is used to giving people nightmares.

Although it had been discussed in advance, after the families of the deceased picked up the execution knives. His hands still shook involuntarily. Each of these men had a firing knife in his hand. Stand there and shiver. No one dared to go to Qinxing for a long time.

"If you can't do it, think about those relatives who were killed by Qin Xing, did Qin Xing hesitate when he killed your relatives?" Xiao Qingyi snorted and asked coldly.

The sound was like a merciless whip that struck the families of the dead, forcing them to move forward.

Finally, one of the family members of the deceased plucked up the courage and cried, "Good daughter. Daddy has avenged you! You are scattered in the spirit of the sky, watch from the side! After speaking, he rushed to Qin Xing in a hurry, and swung a heavy knife at the arm that had lost three turns.

Blood splattered, and a piece of flesh fell to the ground.

The noisy onlookers around suddenly closed their mouths and watched this scene with wide eyes one by one.

One of the family members of the deceased was only allowed to cut one knife, and the person who used the first knife took a good head, and the rest of the family members of the deceased plucked up their courage and rushed to Qinxing one after another, waving the execution knife in their hands.

It didn't take long for Qin Xing's upper body to be injured and bloody. Pieces. Instead of screaming, he gritted his teeth. Holding his breath, he was going to scold someone with this breath.

Scolding whom?

Of course, he scolded Ye Zhiqiu's master and apprentice!

"Ye Zhiqiu, you sanctimonious turtle bastard, it is obvious that you and your dog apprentices are practicing evil skills and killing women everywhere, but you wrongly accused me of killing them. Don't be too happy, I won't let you go even if I die, even if I get to the underworld, I will explain this matter in front of the king of Yama, and let the king of Yama administer justice for me! ”

Qin Xing opened his throat and roared, scolding endlessly.

Ye Zhiqiu's master and apprentice listened to this scolding, and they all showed a sneer.

"This adulterer, before he died, was still taking advantage of his tongue, telling right and wrong in front of people, saying such things that no one would believe at all. Although I, Ye Zhiqiu, can't be a chivalrous character, I have always been upright and never do anything unkind, let alone kill innocents. I really don't understand what Qin Xing thinks, he actually wants to condemn me, and he has to wronged me to be the real murderer, which is really laughable. Ye Zhiqiu smiled and shook his head.

"Ye Daxia, don't worry, no one will believe this kind of thing at all, who in the rivers and lakes doesn't know who you are, how can you do such a bad thing."

"That's it, that is, it must be because Ye Daxia has been mobilizing everyone to arrest him, so he has a grudge, so he wronged you."

"It's so hateful that he is still saying those ugly words there, in my opinion, I simply pointed at his dumb hole, or cut off his tongue, so as not to make noise there and spoil Ye Daxia's mood."

"Yes, cut out his tongue!"

"Ye Daxia, as long as you give an order, I will go over and use the knife!"

Some people who tend to be inflammatory, have made their positions stand and slapped their horses.

Ye Zhiqiu smiled and waved his hand: "I have received your wishes, but just cut your tongue or something." Elder Xiao here is the head of the family, everything is up to him, how to execute Qin Xing, he is free to arrange, we should not interfere. ”

"Qin Xing still wants to wronged a good person before he dies, it's really hateful, it's good to order his dumb hole." Xiao Qingyi took over and said.

"Since Elder Xiao has agreed, then I will do it, lest he say those words that are difficult to reach the hall of elegance and dirty everyone's ears."

"Don't bother Ye Daxia, just leave this matter to me." Xiao Qingyi took the first step and raised his hand and waved it without a trace.

Two invisible internal forces flew out and were accurately placed on the two acupoints of Qinxing, the acupoints in one of the points were dumb acupoints, and the acupoints in the other point turned out to be pain-relieving acupoints!

Qin Xing instantly became dumb and could no longer shout. The pain in his body disappeared as if he had become a wooden man.

The onlookers only knew that Qin Xing was hit by a dumb acupoint, but no one found out that he was also hit by a pain-relieving acupoint. If someone finds out about this, they will definitely not agree, because then Qin Xing will not suffer.

Did Xiao Qingyi make a mistake?

Of course it can't be, with his cultivation, he will never make such a mistake, he did it on purpose.

Qin Xing could no longer speak, and could only watch others stab him, and the pain in his heart was beyond the imagination of outsiders.

Following the family of the deceased, there were executioners from the beggar gang who carried out the execution, slashing at Qin Xing's flesh and blood.

Qin Xing's body was bleeding profusely, and he gradually lost consciousness and hung his head. Just when he was about to come to the end of his life, Xiao Qingyi's lips opened slightly, and he said, "Qin Xing, I can't completely believe your words, but I can't completely deny your words, because what you said also has a certain truth. I originally wanted to detain you temporarily as you said, and then dispose of you after everything is settled, but in this case, it will definitely make Ye Zhiqiu unhappy. As an elder of the Beggar Gang Torture Hall, I am not afraid of offending Ye Zhiqiu, but I am just worried that he will become suspicious and destroy the evidence. In order to stabilize Ye Zhiqiu as much as possible, I can only pretend not to believe you and execute you as soon as possible. Anyway, you are a damned person yourself, even if you didn't kill those thirteen lives, you deserve to be punished. But I assure you that you will not be wronged, and that after your death, I will investigate the matter thoroughly. If things are really as you said, everything is done by Ye Zhiqiu's master and apprentice, whether he is a hero or a young hero, I will definitely put the two of them to death! ”

Hearing this, Qin Xing returned to the light before he was dying, and suddenly opened his eyes and bloomed with a fierce gaze. (To be continued......)