At the beginning of August, Kou Sheng held the funeral of his filial piety in Yingfu and ordered civil and military officials to come to mourn.

And in front of everyone's eyes, he summoned Gongsun Zidu and asked, "Doctor Ying's tragic death was originally a hero who sacrificed his life for the country, but recently the widow heard some strange things, Gongsun Doctor, you have always been smart, you might as well guess what it is?" ”

Gong's grandson secretly glanced at the civil and military officials standing in the full hall, and even though he understood that the king in front of him had something to say, he said unhurriedly, "Forgive your subordinates for being stupid, please make it clear to the king." ”

Kou Sheng quietly looked at Gongsun Zidu, who looked at him calmly, and smiled without smiling, "The widow heard some soldiers who returned from Xu Du say that Doctor Ying was killed by the corporal instructed by my Minister Zheng, and the reason was because someone wanted to snatch the head of Xu Du, do you say it's ridiculous?" ”

Kou Sheng laughed deliberately, and the ministers couldn't figure out the holy will, so they had to keep silent.

Only Gongsun was a little surprised, not because of the cause of Yingxiaoyou's death, but because of the reason why Kou Sheng said these words.

said that in order to steal the first merit and kill Ying Xiaoyou, although this was not said explicitly, at this moment, I am afraid that even fools know that the spearhead is aimed at him as the deputy marshal.

A hint of mockery gradually appeared in the eyes of the grandson Du Rumo, he didn't know that he would be suspected of being the murderer of Ying Xiaoyou.

But whatever... Since someone wants to harm him, then he wants everyone to see what will happen to those who harm him!

Thinking of this, Gong's grandson smiled indifferently, quickly hid the emotions in his eyes, and said very reverently, "This matter is actually very simple, if the murderer is really my Zheng domestic minister, it is also when Ying Xiaoyou is defenseless, and the battlefield is dangerous, I and Ying Xiaoyou are attacking the gate of Xudu City in two ways, try to ask who Ying Xiaoyou will be defenseless when the battle situation is so critical?" ”

Speaking of this, Gongsun Zidu's eyes intentionally or unintentionally swept over the contemptuous Zhao Guogong and the Fang Shuying, who was the number one hero of this attack, and continued, "If the king is curious, you might as well check who Yingxiao and you met with the night before the army, and your subordinates believe that the king is Mingjun, and he will never let others suffer this injustice." ”

Zhao Guogong's face changed in horror when he heard this, but in order not to let Kou Sheng see the clues, he had to lower his head to his chest.

But despite this, his abnormal behavior still did not escape Kou Sheng's eyes.

"Mr. Sai Zhong," Kou Sheng narrowed his eyes slightly, and turned his gaze to the middle-aged man in black dark clothes standing respectfully beside Zhao Guogong, "Mr. Sai Zhong, what do you think?" ”

Seeing that Kou Sheng had the intention of kicking the ball to his side, there was a hint of respect in his treacherous eyes, and he stepped forward and bowed down to Kou Shengxing and said, "If the king wants to listen to his minister's humble opinion, then his minister will speak bluntly." ”

"But it doesn't hurt to say it!"

"Your Majesty thinks that the cause of Ying Xiaoyou's death is bizarre, and the details of the matter have to be investigated carefully before making a conclusion, although His Majesty did indeed show Zheng Guo's arrows on the corpse of Xiaoyou, but this may not be deliberately done by Xu Guoren in order to take revenge on my Zheng Guo for capturing Xu Capital." ”

"You mean to say... Xu Guoren provoked our relationship between monarchs and ministers to make us mess up? ”

"Your Majesty is afraid, the king doesn't have to take what His Majesty said to heart, what was just now is just the judgment of His Majesty, everything will be found out the truth of the matter, and the King will know it."

Kou Sheng waved his hand, "What is Mr. Sai Zhong talking about, Mr. is a person who has assisted the previous king, and the assumptions he said will naturally not be groundless, but the widow is thinking... If it is true as Mr. said, then isn't the person who spreads the rumors the heart of a jackal and fox, and everyone will be punished? ”

After that, Kou Sheng's eyes suddenly turned fierce, and he stared at Zhao Guogong, whose face had gradually turned blue.

When the old thief heard that Kou Sheng intended to include himself among the traitors, he was so frightened that he immediately "pounced" and fell to the ground.

provoked Kou Sheng to raise his eyebrows, "What is Zhao Guogong doing?" Is this for the Ying doctor who has already been buried, or for the widow? ”

Zhao Guogong naturally understood the meaning of Kou Sheng's words, accusing him, Zhao Guogong had such courage to dare to plot against King Zheng Guo.

So his face was like earth, he fell to the ground and trembled, and said, "The old minister is terrified, he is really old and has stood for a long time, and his legs and feet have not obeyed the call, which has disturbed the king, please forgive the king!" ”

Seeing that he still had the psychology of luck, Kou Sheng sneered, "It's okay that his legs and feet don't listen to the call, if Zhao Guogong's heart doesn't listen to the call, then it will be troublesome!" ”

"The king's lesson is extremely good!" Zhao Guogong wiped the cold sweat from his forehead, "But the old minister thinks that what Mr. Sai Zhong said is right, and Mr. Sai Zhong, who is now a clue, feels that something is wrong, so it is better to investigate carefully and then make a decision, otherwise it will not be good for the thieves of Xu Guo to take advantage of the loophole." ”

"Oh?" Kou Sheng squinted at the shameless man on the ground, and pretended to be puzzled, "But how does the widow remember the person who came to the widow to report that day, he did remind the widow again and again, saying that all this must have been done by Zheng Guo's ministers?" ”

"This..." Zhao Guogong raised his hand again, wiped the corners of his forehead in cold sweat, and couldn't say why for a while.

Kou Sheng smiled and turned to the priest again, "Sir, you can tell me... What should the widow do now? ”

Kou Sheng looked at the priest with great anticipation, but he didn't know that the priest had already seen through the obscurity in the words of the two monarchs and ministers.

and must not offend any party, but the words are biased and the rumors are not opened, "If the king is not at ease, his subordinates know a way, which can not only not hurt the relationship between the monarch and the minister, but also make the murderer collapse and confess himself." ”

"What's the solution? Say it quickly, sir! Kou Sheng stared at the priest with interest.

"In his early years, His Majesty had fought with the king, and when the army passed through the Queen Mother Mountain, it happened that a couple claiming to be Persians were holding a pig, a dog, and a chicken, and were doing it around the corpse of a child. ”

"Practice? Why? "I was puzzled.

"Your Majesty also felt very strange as the king at that time, so he asked the two men, and then learned that they and the dead children were originally a family of three who were doing business along the way, but the years were not good, who had ever wanted to pass through the valley of the Queen Mother Mountain, and a gang of robbers came out, not only robbed the family of goods, but also killed the couple's seven-year-old son, the couple was grief-stricken, but the two knew that the arms could not twist the thighs, and the other party was a robber with many people. Finally, when they were cornered, they remembered a spell in their native Persia. ”

"Spell..."Kou Sheng muttered, and the corner of his eyes intentionally or unintentionally swept over the grandson of Gongzi Du who was calm and calm, and Zhao Guogong, whose face was becoming more and more weird.

"This so-called spell is actually a boar, a dog and a rooster lose some blood, and then walk around the dead body, so as to achieve the effect of a psychic curse."

Kou Sheng hooked his lips and smiled, looking at the priest's eyes with a hint of playfulness, "That works?" ”

"The king will know if you try it!"

In order not to be accused of bullying the king, the priest who had not tried it himself deliberately made vague statements, so that even if the spell failed in the future, he could excuse himself with the wrong method.

Kou Sheng didn't pursue it, after all, he knew that most of this kind of things with ghosts and supernatural powers were said by the world to seek comfort in his heart, and he borrowed this method at this time just to see if it was the ministers who had two hearts, or Xu Guozhen really wanted to provoke the incident between Zheng Guojun and his ministers, that's all.

So after thinking for a moment, Kou Sheng waved his big hand and said to the palace man, "Come on, let the soldiers who follow Doctor Ying in Xu Du take out a boar, a dog, and a rooster!" ”

"Yes!" The palace man flicked his sleeves and led the order to retreat.

Kou Sheng rushed to the civil and military officials who came to mourn and said, "Doctor Ying is dedicated to my Zheng Guosheji, even if there is the slightest grievance, the widow will not tolerate it." ”

Civil and military officials bowed down one after another, saying, "The king is wise! ”

After waiting for a long time, the palace man who had gone out to pass the order finally led two soldiers in, with a boar, a dog and a chicken in their hands.

"What shall I do now, sir?" Kou Sheng asked the priest for advice.

The priest bowed to the coffin of Ying's filial piety, and then took out a delicate knife from his sleeve and said to the two soldiers, "You must make the pig, the dog and the chicken go around the coffin of Dr. Ying, if the pig does not leave, then use this knife to cut its neck, if the dog does not leave, then cut off its tail, if the chicken does not go..."

Speaking of this, a chill of anger rose in the priest's eyes, and he continued in a fierce voice, "Then kill it!" ”

The soldiers looked at each other, but they did not dare to disobey.

After saying that, the priest took the incense from the hands of the palace people and bowed to the coffin of Ying Xiaoyou.

When he planted the incense sticking with curling green smoke in front of the tablet, he ordered the two soldiers to start driving pigs, dogs, and chickens around the coffin.

At first, it was smooth, and although the three animals walked slowly, they never stopped.

Even everyone thought that the spell would go smoothly, and they couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

But at this moment, the pig's footsteps stopped...

"Sss I don't know who in the crowd gasped.

provoked a fierce glare from Kou Sheng, and the soldier slashed the pig's neck with a knife.

The boar screamed, and the wound immediately flowed red blood.

The soldier withdrew his knife and hurried forward with the three animals.

This time, because the pig was injured, the degree of movement became faster.

Everyone also watched with fear, one circle, two circles...

It wasn't until the third lap that sure enough...

The dog suddenly stopped again! And sniffing something left and right.

"What's going on? Is that really the case? Some of the civil and military officials began to whisper.

The soldier with the sword in his hand gradually panicked, but since the priest had given the order, he had no choice but to do so.

So in the dog's whining, a bloody tail was decisively removed and thrown in front of everyone.

But let the two animals in front of them make painful sounds, and although the blood dripping on the ground and staining the ground red, the priest and the two soldiers still looked at the two soldiers with expressionless faces, and did not mean to stop at all.

Will the last chicken also stop?

Everyone secretly speculated.

The two people who were driving the animals looked at the blood and the bright red coffins all over the ground, and they couldn't help but ooze beads of sweat on their foreheads, and the current scene was ten times more terrifying than the picture of the piles of corpses they had seen on the battlefield.

Now the two of them just secretly prayed in their hearts that the chicken would not stop stopping.

But words that backfire are never empty words.

Despite the strong prayers of the two, the brightly colored rooster stopped without letting go!

At this moment, the people next to them were completely silent.

The soldier looked at the blank face of the soldier, and was stunned for a long time, and finally there was really no choice, so he caught the chicken from the ground...

As a red demonic flower exploded under his hand, a small living life gradually lost its vitality in the struggle.

It's just that when everyone comes back to their senses...

At this moment, Ying Xiaoyou's coffin has long been surrounded by blood, and with the red lacquered coffin as the center, with blood as red ink, a huge circle is drawn alive.

"Sir, look—" Kou Sheng sniffed the smell of blood in the air, and frowned.

The priest didn't have time to speak, and in the right time, a gloomy demonic wind blew on the mourning hall, mixed with a fishy smell and slapped wildly on everyone's faces.

There was a mess underneath.

"Sir!" Kou Sheng also began to look a little at a loss, so he had to watch the sky above his head getting darker and darker, and suddenly thunder and lightning were thundering, and he turned back to his senses as if asking for help and stared at the priest.

And the priest Zhong originally just wanted to fool and fool everyone, but where had he seen such a scene, when a thunderstorm fell above his head, his face turned pale and gray.

"It's over, this is Ying Xiaoyou's coming back!"

"Yes, yes, there will be grievances in the death of filial friends!"

"But there is a debtor and a debtor, filial piety should go to find the murderer of him!"

The crowd below began to make a mess of porridge.

Among them, only the grandson was still standing in place with a calm face, and a sarcastic smile was drawn on his beautiful face, "It's really rare and weird!" ”

After that, the white figure slowly passed through the crowd, walked to Kou Sheng's side and bowed down, "Please move indoors, look at this weather, I'm afraid it's going to hail!" ”

"Hail?" Doubtful.

Before he could finish speaking, something hit him on the top of the head.

Immediately after, one, two, three...

He covered his head in pain, and when he lowered his eyes, many Xiaoice balls had already fallen on the ground.

"Please move indoors, the King." Gongsun and grandson all said again.

Kou Sheng looked at him meaningfully, and finally entered the main hall as he said.

At this time, the priest with a sluggish expression was also helped in by the palace people.

Seeing this, Kou Sheng hurriedly asked him, "Sir, what do you think of the result?" Did the spell work successfully? ”

But where can the priest still bother to answer his question?

He himself was still trapped in the fright he had just had, and he couldn't come back to his senses.

Seeing this, Kou Sheng couldn't help frowning and shook his arm, "Sir? ”

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