Chapter 9: The Fish and the Bear's Paw
Liu Yunhai and Xia Lan went back to the house with the unconscious Liu Yingying in their arms, according to what the Demon Sealer said, Liu Yingying would wake up in a few days, and one day... Two days... Three days... Liu Yingying's complexion was ruddy, just like normal sleep, but the hearts of Liu Yunhai and his wife seemed to be gradually sinking into hell.
"Master Huang Si is visiting!" the official said that the silence in the house was broken.
"Boss Huang, I don't know what happened to this visit?" and Liu Yunhai also coldly changed his name this time.
"Oh, hey, Lord Liu, I'm really sorry!" and Huang Laosi was very embarrassed, and said very apologetically: "I really do bad things with good intentions, I thought that I could let Ling Ai step into the ranks of cultivation, but I didn't expect to cause such a thing..."
A burst of anger rushed to the top of Liu Yunhai's head, and Liu Yunhai's eyebrows became a little hideous, and after a while, it took a lot of effort for Liu Yunhai to suppress this anger, and said very dejectedly: "No, it's not your fault, you can only blame my family Yingying's life is not good, the matter has come to this, and nothing can be said to be irreparable." ”
"No, no, no, I sincerely want to apologize, the incident started because of me, and I will take responsibility for this matter to the end. Huang Laosi expressed very sincerity at this time.
"How?" And Liu Yunhai is already very impatient, the matter has come to this, what else can be undone?
"Come on, bring up the spirit treasure!" Huang Laosi clapped his hands, there was already a thing sent by the servants left and right, Huang Laosi continued apologetically: "I asked Master Feng Demon, as long as Ling Ai is provided with spiritual objects to suck regularly, it can be guaranteed that Ling Ai is no different from before, Ling Ai was an ordinary person before, and he can be an ordinary person after that, in this way, I can also make up for my sins!"
"This..."Liu Yunhai felt the green tendons on his forehead jump twice: "How often should this spiritual treasure be used?
"Hey, things started because of me, what is this little money!" Huang Laosi waved his hand.
"I'm afraid this is inappropriate...."Liu Yunhai secretly felt that there were a lot of things wrong hidden in it.
"Ahhh
Liu Yunhai hurriedly got up and rushed into the bedroom, Xia Lan also rushed in almost at the same time, and Huang Laosi also followed, Liu Yunhai saw that Liu Yingying's back began to emerge with a pale white breath, needless to say, this is Yingying's own vitality.
Huang Laosi gestured violently to the servant at this moment, and the servant hurriedly lowered his eyebrows and presented the spirit treasure to him, Liu Yingying grabbed the spirit treasure into his hand like some kind of hungry beast, and the light blue aura was frantically inhaled by Liu Yingying, and Liu Yingying's whole person immediately stabilized, and fell asleep again in a groggy state.
"Hey!hey!" Liu Yunhai let out a long sigh, mixed with joy and sorrow for a while, and couldn't speak when he opened his mouth.
"Lord Liu, I will regularly send people to supply all kinds of spiritual objects, and this matter is settled. Huang Laosi took the opportunity to put on a very apologetic expression and said.
And Liu Yunhai waved his sleeves and acquiesced noncommittally.
Three months later.
"My lord, the interest rate of the Huang family's money bank has been raised from three thousandths to five percent, and it has violated the laws of the empire, do you want to investigate?"
"Put it aside, there's more important things to do.
"Your Excellency, the Lingbao has been delivered!"
A year later.
"My lord, the interest rate of the Huang family money village has been raised to 100%, do you want to check?"
"The Huang family is the brother of the third strong man in the street, and our little mansion can't find it!"
Two years later.
"The Huang family killed the debtor and hung the victim in the gatehouse, which is too much!"
"Save it, our family was pinched to death by Huang Laosi, and I won't care about it!"
"Hey, now that the government and businessmen are colluding, when will we ordinary people be the leader?"
"Yo, Lord Liu, recently he has also been an official and majestic, and his sleeves are breezy!" Huang Laosi entered the door with a spirit treasure and a rather arrogant expression.
"Fourth brother, I have something to say!" Liu Yunhai said very embarrassed: "Your Qian Zhuang died a few days ago, and now Xicheng is boiling and shaking a lot!"
"A few untouchables, if they die, they will die, killing people to pay for their lives, and paying off debts, it is justified!" Huang Laosi threw Lingbao on the table and said very indifferently: "They owe me thousands of taels of debts and refuse to return them, shouldn't they kill them?"
"But your profit is too high!" Liu Yunhai held back for a long time before he said with difficulty: "Fourth brother, if you continue like this, something big will happen!"
"Yo, Lord Liu's words, is he going to investigate me according to law?" Huang Laosi was aggressive.
... Liu Yunhai caught a glimpse of Liu Yingying, who was practicing martial arts and swordsmanship outside the door, smiling lightly, and suppressed those complicated emotions vividly, and then said: "I just said something from my heart to the fourth brother." ”
"Hehehe, Lord Liu knows how to prioritize!" Huang Laosi got up and said very proudly: "My money bank has also opened a fourth one, this is all entrusted to Lord Liu's care for the past two years, everyone has money to earn together, my business is thriving, naturally there will be no loss of you!"
Four years later / Sanglin broke into court a few days ago.
"Xianggong, that Huang Laosi is getting more and more rampant. Xia Lan said worriedly: "In the past few months, there have been rumors in the civilian area that people have been forced to die and beaten to death, do we really care?"
"What's the matter?" Liu Yunhai seemed to be ten years older than four years ago at this time: "Yingying's life is pinched in the palm of his hand, without the spiritual treasure he gave, our daughter would have been..."
"Xianggong, those spirit treasures are worth a few dollars, without this moth, we have other ways!" Xia Lan was a little angry.
"I asked someone to inquire two years ago. Liu Yunhai looked a little depressed: "A spiritual treasure costs a thousand taels of silver, Yingying initially had to absorb one a month, and recently it has risen to one a week, we already owe Huang Lao 4780,000 taels of silver, this money, I'm afraid it will be for a lifetime..."
"So much...", and Xia Lan's eyes turned red for a moment: "Xianggong, this is all the people's fat and people's ointment of the people of Xicheng, it is the blood and blood of the people, you mean, our daughter is knocking the bones and sucking the marrow of our people, are we burying the people of our city with our own hands?"
"This...."Liu Yunhai was speechless, and then his face was full of sadness, and after a while, he shook his body and sighed loudly: "I'm already a trapped beast in a cage... I really... I really... I've been wondering why I was going to win the lift that year, and if I hadn't been lifted, wouldn't there be these things. ”
.........
"Report, there are dead people in the civilian area again!"
"Xianggong?"
"Hey...."
"Okay, if you don't go, I'll go!" Xia Lan felt a mixture of grief and anger, so she simply changed her uniform, picked up her sword and ran to the civilian area with the servants.
'Zhumen wine and meat stink, and there are frozen bones on the road'
As soon as Xia Lan entered the civilian area, she saw such a couplet written on the door of a certain house, and Xia Lan felt that the words were like knives, piercing her heart.
Now there was a chill in the entire civilian area, Xia Lan came to the house where the accident happened, and saw that the male owner was still hanging quietly on the beam, as if he was no longer alive, and the straw rope hanging around his neck was tattered, and it seemed that it had been used for a long time, and this straw rope fulfilled its last role: to take away the life of the male owner.
"Evil, where is the reason!" and the hostess dragged Xia Lan's clothes and cried tears: "Tell me, where is justice? Where is justice? I borrowed ten taels of silver, and now it has been turned into four hundred taels, four hundred taels, forcing my husband to death, forcing Aunt Zhang next door to death, leaving two motherless children!"
Xia Lan turned her head to look and saw that the two little babies were rubbing dirt, chewing on tattered grass roots, unable to swallow hard, and their snot dragged the old man's face sluggish.
"Madam, this was already the case last year, and this year it is even more serious, you see," the officials said with great embarrassment.
"I'm going to confront Huang Laosi, what my husband doesn't want to do, I'll do it!" Xia Lan saw the two children, as if she saw her own daughter, if her daughter encountered this situation when she was young, Xia Lan didn't dare to think about it at all.
"Huang Laosi, your evil days are over!" Xia Lan boarded the money bank, and didn't care about it, he opened his mouth and began to scold.
"Yo, brother and sister, why are you so angry, come and drink tea!" and Huang Laosi was very leisurely, and the seventh behind him was taking stock of the full cash box.
"Don't come with me, I'm going to Wangjing to denounce you!" Xia Lan said angrily: "I came this time to let you know that your days of power and fortune are over!"
"Yo, also accuse me, you are a woman, no one will pay attention to this and don't say it yet. Huang Laosi smiled contemptuously: "We are grasshoppers on a rope, your daughter has eaten 680,000 taels of spiritual treasures, and she wants to go to hell together!"
"I don't care so much!" Xia Lan coldly dropped this sentence and turned around: "If the road is uneven, someone will shovel it, and if it is uneven, someone will take care of it! I will bear the cowardice of my husband, and I will collect your evil!"
"Yo, Lao Qi, she won't be serious, right?" Huang Laosi looked at Xia Lan, who was angry and went downstairs, and turned his head to ask Lao Qi.
"Well, she's definitely serious. Lao Qi raised one eye and nodded very pertinently.
"Then what do you want? Hurry up and take her!" Huang Laosi jumped to his feet: "Wangjing checks it out, the third brother can't hold it, we all have to die!"
"Okay!" Lao Qi bent over at this time, like a weird prawn, he found a pitch-black soul lamp in the corner, Lao Qi stuffed the bright soul coffin into the soul lamp and held it with his left hand, and shouted at Xia Lan's back with his right hand: "Soul detention!"
"Ahh
And a translucent soul was dragged out of Xia Lan's body, Xia Lan's body fell down the stairs without a sound, and the left and right officials hurriedly supported them with a frightened face.
"Go back and tell your family, Lord Liu, that you have the confidence to come to me to talk to you after you have handled the relationship between your wife and children!" Huang Laosi grinned and said without being salty.
"My lord, it's not good, Madame's soul has been detained by Huang Laosi!" The officials were also frightened one by one, carrying Xia Lan's body, and shouted as soon as they returned home.
"What?" Liu Yunhai staggered out.
"Mother, what's wrong with you?" Liu Yingying also rushed up, and was firmly stunned by the situation in front of her.
The officials talked about the whole thing, Liu Yunhai sat directly on the ground, unable to hold back a fart, and Liu Yingying's face became worse and worse, and when she heard it, the whole person was shrouded in a gloom in the end.
"Dad, you said that the spiritual treasures I smoked are very cheap, and they are all bought by your official salary, these are all fakes?" Liu Yingying asked in a low voice at this time.
... Liu Yunhai nodded slightly.
"In the past few years, people have been forced to die in civilian areas, and the Huang family's usury has been reduced to 500 percent, is it all because of your acquiescence and connivance?" Liu Yingying asked again.
"I'm doing this for you. Liu Yunhai opened his mouth tremblingly: "I was pinched by the neck, so it can only be like this..."
"For my survival, thirty families have died in Xicheng. Liu Yingying continued to say in a low voice: "Then, all the spiritual laws and martial arts cheats you have given me in the past four years are all provided by Huang Laosi?"
... Liu Yunhai covered his face and nodded.
"Oh my God, I have become a curse, depriving the lives of the people of the Empire in the name of the children of the officials of the Empire. And Liu Yingying looked at the sky like this, smiled bitterly and muttered to herself.
"Yingying, there are priorities, this is my decision, I can't complain about you!" Liu Yunhai struggled to stand up at this time.
"Look at what you have done in my name??? I would rather not survive like this! You are such a cowardly and despicable act, you are not worthy of being my father!!" Liu Yingying raised her eyebrows, and shouted with tears in her eyes.
Liu Yunhai hadn't yet stood firm, and he was directly rushed by this sentence and sat down, Liu Yunhai seemed to see Xia Lan's demeanor and figure, determination and courage when he faced the robbers in Xishan twenty years ago and the demon beast riot thirteen years ago.
"And then?" Sang Lin squatted on the chair at this time and looked at Liu Yunhai with disdain: "You are really an out-and-out coward!"
"Yes, I'm a coward, I'm garbage!" Liu Yunhai said tremblingly at this time: "Then Yingying ran out in the middle of the night and ordered a money village of Huang Laosi, burning down the entire building, affecting ten private houses, and then Huang Laosi Xingshi asked for the guilt, I dragged on for several days, and today I finally couldn't stand it, so I had the scene you saw when you broke into the court." ”
"Then Yingying will be ready to blow herself up in court tomorrow, what are you going to do?" Sang Lin asked in a very calm tone.
"I'm fighting with that brute!" Liu Yunhai said as if he had put down all his determination at this time: "I will ambush the knife and axe man in the public court and kill Huang Laosi directly! I will fight with all my dignity and moral conscience to protect my daughter, and I will never let Ying Ying do anything!"