The place in front of me is a bit like the ancestral hall in some village.

There are many villages in Dazhou, and there are generally many big families with the same surname living together. Ancestors are worshiped on weekdays, so a ancestral hall is built in the village.

As a place to worship the ancestral shrine, the ancestral hall often represents the façade of a family. Therefore, no matter what kind of place it is, the ancestral hall is often sacred, and it takes a lot of manpower and material resources to build.

Today it was like some kind of sacrificial ceremony, so the whole village did not go to work in the fields.

This is also a reasonable explanation.

Tang Yun waved his hand and motioned for the sergeant to put down the knife in his hand.

The place was really spacious, with a huge courtyard and a very large open space. In the middle of the clearing was a furnace, burning slowly. The brick walls of the courtyard are adorned with ribbons, dyed black, and fluttering in the wind.

Next to the stove, a person resembling a witch is chanting an unknown incantation. It was tedious and cumbersome, and he was pacing at his feet, holding a mallet in his hand, and striking a gong.

Obviously, the voice that Tang Yun and the others heard from outside was from this gong.

Everyone knelt on the ground and buried their heads in the ground, and the whole courtyard was very silent, except for the sound of gongs.

These were very focused, or rather religious, and no one looked up. So much so that Tang Yun and the others all came in, but no one found out.

"Brother Tang, look at what they worship, what is it?" Lu Pengyuan leaned into Tang Yun's ear and whispered.

In the center of the mourning hall is a stone sculpture of a monster with antlers on its head and brownish-red hair from its neck to its back. The stone is very finely carved, the hair is lifelike, and even red lacquer is used. Beneath the carved hair, there is a layer of scales.

It's definitely not a person, it's more like a monster.

It's just that the monster's head is covered with a black cloth, and its true face can't be seen clearly.

Tang Yun had never heard of worshipping a god to cover its head.

The sacrifice was still going on, and everything seemed to be normal here, except for the sacrificial deity above who didn't know where the sacredness was.

The steward glanced at it, and he found an acquaintance, so he pointed to a person on the side: "This person's name is Lin Mazi, and he is specifically responsible for providing vegetables to our palace." ”

In a village, it is impossible for everyone to grow vegetables. Like many farms in the Great Zhou, the farmers still rely on staple grains such as rice. The daily consumption of vegetables in the palace is huge, and it is far from enough for each family to provide it. Therefore, an intermediary is needed to collect all the vegetables together, and then the steward will collect them uniformly.

Lin Mazi, like many villagers, knelt on the ground.

Lu Pengyuan was anxious, after all, His Majesty only gave them three days. At the moment, regardless of whether these people were worshipping or not, he directly stepped forward and picked up that Lin Mazi, and said in a deep voice: "Is it you who provided vegetables to Yanwangfu?" ”

Lin Mazi is as his name suggests, and sure enough, his face is covered with pockmarks. Even half of his face seemed to have been gnawed by some wild beast, and there was a deep scar, which was very terrifying.

The sacrifice was interrupted, and the sound of the witch blessing came to an abrupt end.

All the villagers stood up and stared at Lu Pengyuan coldly, and Lu Pengyuan was a little panicked. Several sergeants hurriedly walked up to Lu Pengyuan and pulled out their knives.

"Who are you?" Lin Mazi's voice was very hoarse.

Lu Pengyuan looked around with a sneer: "What, do you still dare to attack the imperial court officials?" After saying that, he suddenly grabbed Lin Mazi's collar and pressed him to the ground. Lin Mazi is a very thin middle-aged man, where can he catch up with Lu Pengyuan's strength to practice martial arts since he was a child. was pressed by this, and couldn't help but scream in pain.

"What are you doing!"

"Stop!"

The crowd was so angry that all the surrounding villagers gathered around, and the sergeants held their swords in front of them.

"I don't want your village to be imprisoned, so I can explain it well, is it the silver ingot you stole from?" Lu Pengyuan said in a deep voice.

Lin Mazi raised his head and shouted, "I don't know what you say!" ”

Boom!

Lu Pengyuan kicked Lin Mazi's head hard, Lin Mazi's entire head was clubbed on the ground, and his mouth was suddenly stuffed with dirt. Lu Pengyuan crushed back and forth with his feet, and said angrily: "Lao Tzu doesn't have so much patience, where is the silver!" In the basket where you sent vegetables to Yanwangfu, was it the silver you put in! ”

"Mmmmmm Lin Mazi's mouth was full of dirt and he kept struggling.

After a long time, Lu Pengyuan grabbed Lin Mazi, his face seemed to be cut by the stones on the ground, and the blood kept flowing.

"I really don't know what you're talking about......" Lin Mazi looked very weak.

"Don't say it! In prison, I can't let you stop talking! "Lu Peng is evil.

Tang Yun patted Lu Pengyuan's shoulder and said in a deep voice; "The matter has not been investigated clearly, so let's try it out first."

"A few days ago, a batch of Kunlun purple melons entered the Yanwang Mansion, are you responsible for collecting them?" Tang Yun asked.

Lin Mazi was also a little scared by Lu Pengyuan's toss, and hurriedly said: "Yes, it's small." ”

"You don't have to be nervous, I just ask you, have you checked these vegetables, are there any silver ingots in them?"

Lin Mazi shook his head, and he trembled with palpitations: "Don't be embarrassed adults, what silver ingots and vegetables are picked from every household, can that thing be turned into silver?" ”

Looking at Lin Mazi's expression, it doesn't look like a fake.

Of course, a person's lies are difficult to see clearly from the outside.

At this moment, a mutation suddenly appeared.

We were in the middle of this courtyard, when we suddenly heard the sound of wheels mixed with the sound of horses' hooves from the street outside.

The road was dusty, and a carriage stopped at the gate of the courtyard.

The carriage looked very luxurious, and although it was used to haul goods, the back carriage was also made of fine lacquered wood. The rivets on the wheels still shimmer brightly. Horses are also good horses, and their hair is obviously well groomed. I don't want to be a beast used to pull a cart, but like an elite war horse in the forbidden army.

As if pulled out of a large family's house, a person stepped out of the carriage. Perhaps because it was too hot, this man was sitting in the carriage pulling the cart. That is, the speed of the carriage is not fast enough.

As soon as this person popped out of his head, he saw Tang Yun and his party.

The embroidered python brocade clothes on Tang Yun's body are very conspicuous, as for the five sergeants who followed, they are also the leopard riders of the right guard, although they are not fully armored, but the leather armor on their bodies, except for the Great Zhou army, no one will wear it.

When the man saw a group of people dressed like this here, a trace of panic suddenly flashed in his eyes, and the whole person froze in place.

Lu Pengyuan shouted: "Who are you?" ”

The man was startled by this loud roar, and he suddenly ran back into the carriage and galloped away.

"Call the shots, let the people outside surround him, don't let him run away!" Tang Yun shouted loudly.