Chapter 18: Justice is a Knife
Demon Xiuyan was still thinking about his Huangsha Town, and the words of the Nine-Clawed Ghost Hand did not stop.
Back then, your father, Luo Fuluo and Lantian Yu opened the Hall of Loyalty and Righteousness on the mountain behind your current Xiuyue Villa, and they thought they were the knife of justice, and the blade was pointing at me. And more than ten years ago, when there was an accident, I did it with myself, and the front and back of the village were surrounded and killed, and in one day, a large Xiuyue Villa could no longer carry out what they thought was justice, and they became the side of justice.
The knife of justice depends on who holds the handle of the knife in his hand first, and whoever the blade is pointed at will be unjust! This is how they were righteous with your master back then, and I, when I heard this name, it was not a good name, and the 'nine-clawed ghost hand' was clearly a thief!"
Mo Xiuyan thought about Lao Zhang Lao Wu in Huangsha Town, as well as their dog, when he saw him, he would always shake his head and tail, jump and vertically, and run around him and watch. Under the Liu family's peaches under the tree, half of the people in the town are eating his peaches. The pears of all families can be eaten, and those who pass by have a share.
There is no market, there are blacksmith shops, grocery stores, and people from the mountains dozens of miles away always come here to buy some daily necessities. Of course, there was a cloth shop, a rice shop, and without this little shop, they would not have met him when he fainted to death by the river. Their kindness is the kindness of their own hearts, and that kind of virtue only comes from the simplicity of the heart, and the evaluation of people always uses 'conscience and conscience', and there are only two kinds of people in a town. They have lived next to each other for generations, and no one knows anyone, and they have done something wrong, and overnight, everyone in the town knows about it, how can this bad thing be carried out!
The nine-clawed ghost hand said everything he wanted to talk about himself, these Xu may have been in his heart for more than ten years, this freedom, he can leave the yamen that made him sad, and his words were also by:
"Boy, three meals a day, put them in the room on time and in the right amount, whether to eat or not is my business. Living alone alone, for more than ten years, don't let me always have something to do in a day. โ
He chattered and chattered, but his melon seeds were not idle, he kept eating, and the stacking of the melon seed skin in front of him kept stopping. Demon Xiuyan Huangsha Town's affairs have come to the day he left again, as soon as he thought of that day, he couldn't sit still anymore, Huo got up, turned around and left, and walked a few steps before thinking about what else was going on? โ
"Just leaving?!"
The Nine-Clawed Ghost Hand asked rhetorically.
"What do you mean?"
"Why don't you go back and let them remember me or you!?"
Demon Xiuyan was confused this time:
"I've already scared the snake, and I want to go to the grass to find the snake?!"
"Yes! Yes, I have eaten melon seeds for more than 20 years, is it not for nothing, the county government has only shipped two boxes of silver in the past two days, I can't go with you empty-handed, if I meet Xiao Si who is not long-eyed, I don't want to suffer his anger, if there are two taels of silver on his body, he will not be silent. What's more, why did you show up in the yali to make a move? That reason must be found again. โ
"Oh, yes, I saw the man who came out and killed me. โ
"Who is it?"
"That blue-faced man, after I went to the room, he still besieged you. โ
"That's a newcomer, he only came in the past two days, it seems that he came from where he came to join the county Cheng, I don't know where this person came from, but now we go and arrest him, everything is not up to you. โ
Demon Xiuyan had the nine-clawed ghost hand to lead the way, and this time, he walked in directly from the back door, turned left and right, and went directly to the back office. For this yamen, the nine-clawed ghost hand is the oldest person, plus his identity as a porter, in a yamen, even if it is a lady's room, he can enter, not to mention that now he is just going to get a few taels of silver and catch another person, where will these be?
Entering the back living room, the nine-clawed ghost hand walked directly to the front of the middle hall, and as soon as he twisted an offering plate on the table, the table moved up, and the creaking sound and the rattling sound of gold and iron, he was not afraid at all.
The table was moved, and the colorful painting in the middle hall also moved, and a door appeared in front of the eyes of the Demon Xiuyan and the Nine-clawed Ghost Hand. The nine-clawed ghost hand seems to come here often, so he walked directly inside, took out a fire fold in his arms, and shook it in the air, and the fire lit up.
In the firelight, several black-clad iron-side wooden boxes were in front of the two of them. The nine-clawed ghost hand seems to have come to see it a long time ago, and he directly stretched out his hand to twist off the iron lock, and when he opened the box, he saw that the golden light and the light of the fire fold in his hand reflected each other together, and it was indeed a box of gold, and the nine-clawed ghost hand took two large ingots and stuffed them into his arms, and the rotten iron lock on the ground was also picked up again and thrown into the box. Mo Xiuyan had seen gold, but it was the first time he had seen so much gold at one time, so he reached out to lift the handle on the side of the box, and the huge iron ring looked like the head of a door, and where it looked like the head of a box.
As soon as Mo Xiuyan exerted his strength, he only felt that the weight was about 300 catties, which means that this box of gold was not less than 600 catties, how much gold was this, in this county office?
The nine-clawed ghost hand saw that the demon cultivator saw so much gold, and there was no such greed and joy on his face, so he just calmly weighed it, and looked around at this secret room.
"Come, boy, I'll take these two boxes out and throw them in the fish-watching pond in the courtyard. โ
Demon Xiuyan looked at the nine-clawed ghost hand, and obediently lifted the iron ring on one side of the box, and the nine-clawed ghost held the other side. I still think that this is really a physical job, but what I really want is to finish this here quickly and catch the blue-faced man.
Cheering up, the two of them pulled and pulled, and finally walked to the fish pond in the backyard, and when they reached the stone steps, they lightly plunged the box into the water, and there was no water wave, and the box disappeared. Again, it occurred to Mo Xiuyan that these two boxes of gold were worth the money even if it was a Xiuyue Villa, and this bad old man should only put two buckets of fish into the water, and there was no joy at all about getting rich or robbing him, so why should he raise him by himself? These gold seemed to be just sparse and ordinary things in his eyes.
This kind of thing is common, how could he have committed something against the master back then? He actually let the master and his father participate together? The second box of gold sank into the water, and Mo Xiuyan had no intention of catching the blue-faced man:
"What did you take from your teacher's house, and what would be important?"
"You don't know who your master is?"
"I don't know. โ
"Hey!" the nine-handed ghost melon let out a long sigh:
"You really don't know how blessed you are, and I can't have a teacher like him to teach you! I don't have the mood to tell you.
Let's go, find someone. It's just that they're not here, so it's hard to say if they're not here? It's just that they're not here, so I don't have to kill people for many years, and it's not easy to kill people, and dying a person always makes me sick for a few days. โ
"Who is my master?"
Mo Xiuyan stood by the pool and didn't leave, bent on asking about the unknowns of the master.
"Go, these words should be said only when you are drinking, so that your master will not be angry with me in the future. โ
"There is something in the words of the seniors, and then talk to me after drinking, after you say it, your words may become, which is the drunken wine talk, how can there be the truth!"
"Boy, there are so many things, you really don't want me to have a place to eat, I don't want all these two boxes of gold, give you a box, even if it is also a good thing for your father to say for me back then, I didn't let your master cripple me. But I still have a box of gold, and it will take me a lifetime to eat it.
This is someone's territory, and once we are surrounded by the copper net and iron hook, no one will come to save us two this time!"
"Let's go, it's over here, you must tell me about the life experience of my teacher. โ
"Cover it, don't let people find out that you are from Xiuyue Villa, after all, I am going to retire there, if I don't look away, you can send me to the end." โ
Mo Xiuyan put the green on his neck on his face, and a mystery arose in his heart, this bad old man actually believed that he could send him to the end? But now he couldn't ask anymore, so he had to follow him silently and walk to a corridor on the left.
Looking at the nine-clawed ghost hand walking in this county office, it was a little sneaky. When I turned to a courtyard, I saw that it was pitch black in the courtyard and inside the house, and there was a person there.
"Let's go, don't look for it, they are waiting for us to go and throw themselves into the net, there is no helper, this copper net and iron hook is not so easy to break, this thing is your father's tool when they were bandits, it was through this thing that they caught me back then, and today, they can still catch me again. At first, they were caught off guard for a while, but now that they are prepared, it is not clear that they have a backhand, otherwise, they would not have waited in the lobby. โ
Demon Xiuyan didn't dare to risk exploring it again for a while, after all, this copper net and iron hook were also in Xiuyue Villa, but why did it appear in the lobby of this Buyin County, and he had to go back and ask the Nine-Clawed Ghost Hand or Luo Fuluo.
Under the leadership of the nine-clawed ghost hand, Mo Xiuyan also walked out of the county government in a big way. When I returned to the small courtyard, I saw that Brother Han was squatting pitifully by the door, holding his knees with his hands, a big old brain, almost buried between his legs. Hearing the footsteps, Huo Yiyi stood up, and the little appearance of seeing his relatives on the face of this tall and black man was so sincere and funny, and there was infinite amusement in the pitiful:
"Less, less ยทยทยทยทยทยท"
Stammered and couldn't speak for a while:
"I also said that you don't want me anymore, young master, where will I go to eat in the future. โ