Chapter 38: Chaos Rises (2)

The last moment was still the prosperity of Shangyuan, and at this moment, the entire Gusu City fell into turmoil. Sun Ce took Da Qiao down the mountain from the path, avoiding the rioting crowd and rushing to the General's Mansion. Sun Quan was already fully dressed and was leading his troops to guard the main gate, when he saw Sun Ce and Da Qiao, he hurriedly greeted: "Eldest brother! Sister-in-law! ”

Sun Ce sent Da Qiao into the mansion, took her little hand and instructed: "Ying'er, you and your mother and the children stay at home, don't come out!" ”

Da Qiao bowed his head obediently, and his eyes were full of worry and worry: "Sun Lang, pay attention to safety......"

Sun Ce took her little hand and kissed it, ordered someone to close the door, and then didn't have time to change his armor, so he joined Sun Quan and others into the turbulence.

The path along the river was originally hung with small orange and red lanterns, but at this time it was trampled by the rioting crowd, covered with blood, broken hairpins, and green, in this situation, it looks particularly desolate. If it weren't for the festival, the quality of the defenders would have been able to suppress it quickly, but today coincided with the end of the New Year's Festival, and the number of people on duty was small, and those people in yellow shirts suddenly rioted, which caught the defenders off guard. But in the end, there was a huge disparity in military strength, and Sun Ce was confident that as long as the defenders of the city were dispatched, they would be able to suppress the rebels quickly.

Sure enough, Sun Cefang led his troops to the north gate of the city, and saw the scouts in the army coming to the horse, staggered off his horse and fell down in front of Sun Ce and said: "My lord, the demons in the city have all been cleared by Jiang Qin and Zhou Tai, and the main culprit Yu Ji has been arrested and brought to justice......

Yu Ji? Sun Ce frowned, the old Taoist priest who wrote the "Taiping Sutra"? If he wanted to make waves in Jiangdong, why didn't he choose when he left Wu County, and chose to choose when he returned with his troops, wouldn't he be asking for death? Sun Ce was suspicious, turned back to Sun Quan and said, "You take them to continue to arrest the sect members who are making trouble in the city, I'll take a look." ”

Since Sun Ce took over Wu County, the people have lived and worked in peace and contentment, and there are few traitors, but tonight's Taiping Road riot suddenly overcrowded the entire cell.

Sun Ce came on horseback and hurriedly followed the jailer into the depths of the prison door, but saw that the small cells on both sides were full of arrested sect members, they were not Taoist priests wearing square scarves and yellow robes, but ordinary people with short brown clothes, and most of them were old and young, Sun Ce was really curious, what made these seemingly honest ordinary people suddenly become rioting bandits.

A five-year-old boy held the fence of the cell door with both hands, a pair of big eyes stared straight at Sun Ce, seeing Sun Ce stop, the boy was so frightened that he quickly hid in, but Sun Ce was not annoyed, untied the tassel on the soldier's silver gun on his side, squatted down, stretched the red tassel into the prison fence and shook it. Seeing this, the little boy was no longer afraid, walked up to Sun Ce and took the tassel, and played with it curiously.

"Why are you here?" Seeing that the little guy was playing with it, Sun Ce took the opportunity to ask.

The little boy hesitated: "There is an elder brother in a yellow robe and a yellow scarf who came over and said that as long as you walk with him, you can see your father and mother." ”

"Have you seen your father and mother?" Sun Ce asked again.

The little boy shook his head and said, "No." My grandmother said that my father and mother were taken away shortly after I was born. So, I play in the mud at the door every day so that when my parents come back, they will be the first to see me. ”

Sun Ce wanted to find his biological parents for him, but he didn't expect this kind of answer. Five years ago, it was when he led his troops across the Yangtze River to attack Jiangdong. At that time, Xu Gongshang seized Wu County, and in order to mine the gold mines in the nearby mountains, he grabbed strong men everywhere to serve as laborers. If the child's parents have not returned since then, I am afraid that they will be more than lucky.

Sun Ce touched the child's little brain, then stood up and looked around, only to see that the people in the prison were full of such innocent and desperate looks. How could they ever think of harming the township, but they were bewitched by others because of some obsessions in their hearts, and became puppets in the hands of people with ulterior motives. Words seem to be softer than the blade, but they can poison people's hearts, and even kill people invisibly. Sun Ce really didn't expect that when he was fighting on the front line, there were remnants of the Yellow Turban here to take the opportunity to incite the people, and then remembering that day when Huang Zu was not executed, Sun Ce only felt angry and hateful, but fortunately reason was still there, he said to the jailer in a deep voice: "Tell you that the jailer on duty must ask the relationship between these sects one by one, and record the time and motivation of everyone's participation to corroborate each other." Anyone who proves that he has been deceived and coerced will be released after knowing the benefits. If there is any concealment and collusion, fishing in troubled waters, together with the rest of the sect, there will be no forgiveness! ”

The jailer said yes again and again, and presented a case file with both hands: "Lord, Lord Zhang has already tried Yu Ji, this is the accusation and confession prepared by Lord Zhang himself, please take a look at it." ”

In one of the largest cells in the deepest part of the prison, Yu Ji, who was more than a year old, meditated cross-legged, struggling to support himself. The moonlight shined through the two iron windows on the wall behind him, shining on his white robe stained with mud, which was completely desolate, and when he saw Sun Ce coming, he slowly raised his heavy head, and said with a smile: "General Sun, you are really getting more and more proud......

Sun Ce and Yu Ji came face to face, and suddenly remembered the incident when he met him on the street last year to preach: "Proud? If you are really proud, you should have ended up last year, and it will save you from causing trouble to Jiangnan, and two or three hundred innocent civilians died in one night! ”

"The old man has already said that this matter has nothing to do with me! The old man is just preaching there, whether you believe it or not......"

"Nothing to do with you?" When Sun Ce heard this, he was angry, and said angrily, "The Yellow Turban Rebellion back then was obviously provoked by you writing that scripture, and you also said that it had nothing to do with you, but Emperor Ling actually believed it, thinking that you were old, did not directly participate in the riot, and did not punish the crime. But Gu is not with the Spirit Emperor, and under the slander and abuse of you and your followers, Gu has already become the 'King of Evil' who is 'obedient and tyrannical and persecutes the people'. If you really have no intention of rebelling, why do you go around arranging Lone and instigating the people? If I don't kill you, how can I be worthy of the people who died tragically tonight! ”

"The old man has come and gone to Wuhui, cultivated for more than 80 years, and how many people have been affected by disasters, as the so-called reincarnation of heaven, planting good causes and getting good results, the old man is not guilty to death at all!"

"What a 'sow good cause and reap good fruit'! Let me see what 'good causes' you have planted! Sun Ce said, ordered the jailer to interrogate the confession file of Yu Ji's subordinates, and casually turned a page to read: "'During the Jianning period, he preached in Yizhou. Due to the severity of the disaster, people flocked to seek medical advice. I don't know how to do medicine, but I hold the nine-section scepter as a blessing, teach the sick to kowtow and think about it, and drink it with the water. Those who are sick or self-healing will believe in this person; If it does not heal, then the cloud does not believe. It was to teach tens of thousands of people, and to receive ten thousand taels of gold, and countless people died because of illness and did not heal themselves. ’”

Sun Ce turned another page and read: "'During the Xiping period, the establishment of religious respects, the establishment of dioceses, and the promulgation of doctrines were divided into 369 and so on. If you don't donate, you will be poisoned and die, which is called disbelief. The congregants all went bankrupt to donate to the sect, and there were countless wealthy women. Choose the female beauty as the protector of the Dharma, hug the left and right, drive by the day, and commit adultery at night, which is called to dedicate the Tao with one's body. Those who have female dependents who are unbearable* and kill themselves are abandoned in the wilderness, and they are said to be unbelievers. ’”

Sun Ce slammed the case file containing the confession on the ground and asked Yu Jidao: "This is what you said about 'planting good causes and reaping good results'?" Such an evil demon crookedly, in the name of preaching, committing robbery and adultery, do you have half of the awe of the Taoist ancestors? Who is it that does not believe? If I don't kill all of your demagogic scourges, I'll be sorry for the people of my hometown! Come! According to the law, there shall be no mistake in putting this man's head at the corner of the street at noon tomorrow! ”

In Baqiu City, Xiao Qiao was tired, and woke up from sleeping until three o'clock in the morning, and realized that the sky was already bright, so she hurriedly got up and washed, and quickly walked out of the wing room after cleaning up.

Zhou Yu was in the front hall, Zhang Luoren cleaned up the room, and when he saw Xiao Qiao, he greeted with a smile: "Yo, Madame woke up, how did you rest last night?" ”

Xiao Qiao's face turned red, and he rolled his handkerchief and said angrily: "It's so late, why didn't you wake me up, the people in the house don't know how to laugh." ”

"There are guests coming today, if Madame doesn't rest well, where will she be spiritual."

Got guests? She has just come from Wu Land, and is anyone going to come here? Xiao Qiao opened his mouth to ask, but listened to Xiao Xiao's loud report: "Lang Jun, here!" Here it comes! ”