Chapter 44: Serial Killing
Xiao Suzi watched the back of An Daoqi in the sunset, the cool wind shook his neckline, and he suddenly had a trace of sourness in his heart, perhaps this sourness came from the fact that he had just been appreciated by the emperor, but he knew a tragic ending;
Xiao Suzi was silent for a long time, returned to the imperial study, and saw that Xiaoyaozi was still in a daze on the chair, so he made up a reason to comfort the emperor, and stepped forward to persuade: "Your Majesty, Xiao Suzi just sent Lord An out, and I heard Lord An say on the way, since the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, this "Tui Bei Tu" has been a royal banned book, this book is only regarded as a treasure among the people, and has become a popular poetry collection that everyone has copied. Maybe it's passed on and passed on, and it will be passed on like a moth, so you don't have to take it seriously. ”
"Really?" Xiaoyaozi helped up his chair, sat up straight, and cheered up a little.
"Really!" replied Su Zi categorically.
"Hehe, that's good, quick, let Anddage come back and repeat it carefully to my boy, and see if there's anything missing between the lines. Xiaoyaozi stretched out her hand and shook her finger and smiled.
"Your Majesty, Lord An has gone back, and now Lord An should have left the imperial city and arrived home. Xiao Suzi bowed his head and replied.
"Ahh
"Obey, Your Majesty!" With that, Xiao Suzi took ten royal guards and hurried to Andorki's mansion on horseback. When Xiao Suzi led his men and horses to Anfu, he found that An Daoqi had already taken his family out of the city in a carriage and left the Han Kingdom, and he didn't even bring furniture and books in a hurry. "Well, it seems that this time it's really going to be over. Xiao Suzi pounded the wall and sighed.
Back in the imperial study, Xiao Suzi knelt down and bowed his head and said, "Your Majesty, the slave is derelict in his duties, and An Daoqi's family has fled, do you want to send someone to chase after you?"
Xiaoyaozi didn't mean to blame after hearing this, his expression was much more indifferent, he took a sip of tea and said with a smile: "Since you can't keep him, don't chase him, let him go." My book "Push Back Map" was given to me by the monk, and the bell must be tied to the bell. You personally order fifty people to go with me to the capital to find this monk, and there may be other answers. ”
"Obey, Your Majesty!" Xiao Suzi said and stepped back, went to select fifty clever soldiers of the Imperial Forest Army, and followed Xiaoyaozi out of the imperial city overnight.
"Listen, everyone, go separately to find out if there is a group of six monks to rest, eat and stay in the shop, don't miss an inn or restaurant. Meet at the Peking Inn after three hours. Xiao Suzi gave an order, and the fifty Imperial Forest Army dispersed.
"Shopkeeper, did you see six monks for food and lodging?" all the way to the visitor inn and restaurant, all of which were fruitless, and everyone finally met at the Beiping Inn.
Xiaoyaozi saw that everyone was tired, so he ordered: "Everyone is tired, go back and rest! Xiao Suzi, you pretend to be the scholar of Brother Gongzi, you go to the Beiping Inn to book a room, I want to be quiet here tonight." See again tomorrow. "The people have to be ordered to do it.
Early the next morning, Xiaoyaozi and Xiao Suzi came down to the first floor of the inn for breakfast, and heard Zao Wou-Ki at the next table talking about it:
"Sister Hua, I was lucky to meet that master yesterday. Now that I think about it, I feel that the master is really powerful and bodhisattva-hearted. The bat demon laughed.
"Aunt Hua, it's not, it's not the old monk, you two husbands and wives may see Lord Hades now!" said the Wind Demon stroked his long hair and smiled.
"The master has been kind to us, but he saved our family of three. Hua Gu touched her stomach and smiled.
"A family of three, my dear, when are you happy?" Zao Wou-Ki jumped up from his seat excitedly, picked up Hua Gu, hugged her and shouted, "I'm going to be a father!
"Hehe, look at you, let me down, there are so many people here. Hua Gu was shy.
Zao Wou-Ki slowly put Hua Gu down, helped her sit down, put a few more pieces of meat into her bowl, and said with a smile: "Honey, eat more! ”
"Ahem!ahem!In public, pay attention to the influence!" Lei Li covered his mouth and coughed to remind Zao Wou-Ki, and everyone laughed.
Xiaoyaozi picked up a cup of tea, leaned over to Zao Wouji's table, and asked with a smile, "How many people, are you polite." Xiao Suzi followed behind, smiling, bending down and nodding to say hello.
"Are you?" Zhao Wou-Ki turned his head and asked while chewing peanuts, looking at Xiaoyaozi's son-in-law dress, he couldn't recognize this old Taoist priest.
"In Xia Liu Shu, the shopkeeper of the Futong Rice Store in the capital, I just heard a few people say that a monk has magic power, and it just so happens that my old house has been haunted recently, and I want to ask you to ask this monk to help exorcise evil spirits. I also hope that all friends will make it convenient to tell the contemptible monk where he is now. Xiaoyaozi opened the folding fan and said slowly, Xiao Suzi followed behind and nodded and smiled.
"Oh, the monk you mentioned, he cast a spell yesterday to relieve me and my lady of the Gu poison and left. I heard his apprentice say that he was the abbot of Shaolin Temple, and I thought he should go back to Shaolin Temple. Zao Wou-Ki said with a smile.
"Thank you! Xiao Suzi go quickly!" After that, Xiaoyaozi hurriedly bet a gold ingot to the shopkeeper, pulled out the two horses of the inn, and galloped away in the southwest direction on horseback, followed by Xiao Suzi on horseback.
"Your Majesty, it's been one night, and they must have gone away. When he was about to reach the Deshan Gate pass in the southwest, Xiao Suzi caught up with Xiaoyaozidao.
"I chased after me for the sake of verification. Since there is no result, and I have no regrets, let's go back. Xiaoyaozi grabbed the reins, turned the horse's head, and said with a faint smile, a persistent heart finally let go.
Xiaoyaozi and Xiao Suzi rode back slowly and leisurely, and saw groups of fleeing refugees pouring into the Han Kingdom on the road, Xiaoyaozi couldn't help but feel sad and sighed: "If there are constant wars and chaos today, the displaced people are in the wilderness, and the lives are miserable, and our generation is ashamed! I was born to not be able to stabilize the four seas, and I am in harmony with Kyushu, the sin of my generation! Xiao Suzi, you said that if the Han Kingdom is lost in my hands, what face will I have under the Jiuquan to meet the ancestors of the Liu family?"
"Your Majesty, you are too worried. Everything will be fine. Xiao Suzi comforted.
When Xiaoyaozi and Xiao Suzi returned to the Beiping Inn, they returned the horse, retrieved the deposit, and were about to leave, when the shopkeeper suddenly stopped Xiaoyaozi: "Guest officer, I heard that you are inquiring about the whereabouts of Master Wujue, right, I heard from the neighbors that he flew back yesterday with the other five monks in robes." ”
"The master flew back in his robe?" said Xiaoyaozi in surprise.
"Well, everyone said he flew back in his robe. The shopkeeper said with a serious face.
"Nonsense, how is this possible? You've read too many fairy tales, haven't you?" Xiao Suzi pointed to the shopkeeper's question, and ten thousand question marks popped up above his head to fight.
"I'll go, how is this impossible? As we all know, Master Enlightenment is a high-ranking monk, you can ride a rocket to the sky, what is the matter of riding a flying carpet?!" the shopkeeper shook his head, bowed his hand, and walked to the back kitchen.
"Hey, hey, you're back, why are you leaving?!" Xiao Suzi shouted at the shopkeeper.
"Shhhh Guest, don't be noisy, we have other guests here, don't disturb others' rest. A cashier girl at the front desk of the Peking Inn pointed to the wooden sign on the wall behind her that said "Don't make loud noises" and smiled, "What our shopkeeper said is true, and I've heard about it." At that time, the disciple of the master of enlightenment asked him why his master did not return on foot, and the master of enlightenment said that in order to practice, he asked his master again, and the master advised me to be diligent and tempered on weekdays, and it was not better to practice his body when he walked back, and the master of enlightenment said that when he went back this time, he took the old and frail master of the martial arts with him, and he was worried that the long-distance journey would make the body of the master of the martial arts overstrained, which would facilitate his travel, and at this time the effort saving was practice. All the disciples clasped their palms together and bowed. The Master of Enlightenment then took off the golden robe on his body, recited a spell, and let the robe carrying the six people fly up and flew towards the Shaolin Temple in the southwest direction. ”
"I think all this is providential, since this is the will of heaven, I will not force anything to change, everything will be natural. Xiaoyaozi sighed.
"Childe, what should we do now?" Xiao Suzi said.
"Hehe, what else can I do, go back. Xiaoyaozi smiled.
Xiaoyaozi returned to the dormitory, brought a robe, embroidered several sets of female books on it, handed it to Xiao Suzi and said: "Send this robe to Hutong No. 6 Lingnan Road in Beijing and hand it to the righteous girl, and tell her to take care of this matter in the future." "Xiao Suzi has to be ordered to do it.
Ghost Dao Ichiro led 100,000 Jincheng soldiers all the way to the east, killing the capital of the Han Kingdom, burning and looting everywhere he went, poisoning the four fields, and complaining.
One night, a soldier suddenly came to report: "General, there is an emergency!" The advance officer came to report that the officers and men of the forward unit had been attacked by strange snakes, suffering heavy casualties and heavy losses. ”
"What's the situation? Was it Zhang Xianzhong or Liu Shu's ambush?" said Ichiro Ghost Dao in surprise.
"General, it was not an ambush by the army, it was attacked by a poisonous snake. After being bitten by a snake, the soldiers contracted some kind of virus. General, look, this body was also carried back from the front. The military doctor had already dissected and seen many of these corpses in front of him, and these deceased were all blue and black, their pupils were constricted, some of the deceased were still haunted by blood-colored fireflies on the top of their heads, there were sharp tooth marks on the calves or heels that had been bitten by snakes, there were a large number of purple spots and blisters around the wounds, there were black-purple pulp blood oozing from the wounds, the skin or subcutaneous tissues were ulcerated, necrosis, and bleeding from the seven orifices; the military doctors did not result in the autopsy of the corpses, and it was not known what caused the death. The soldier pointed to a corpse that the two of them had brought in and said slowly, and Ichiro slowly looked around the corpse, squatted down at the corpse's feet, picked open the corpse's trouser legs with his sword, looked closer, and said for a long time, "I know." Hurry up and carry the corpse down. The soldier waved for the two men to carry the body down.
"General, according to the soldiers at the front, you have seen several oily green snakes in the forward barracks, and two of them have red eyes that are very terrifying. The snout scales and the internasal scales are both upturned dorsally, the head is triangular, the back is black-brown, the head and abdomen and throat are white, scattered with a few black-brown spots, and the tongue is "hissed" and sticking out the tongue. Because the snakes were so fast, none of them were killed or caught. The soldier continued.
"This is a Gu snake, of course you can't catch it. The general order was to go down and remove and empty all the tents within a radius of 100 meters from my camp. Except for my camp, all the other marching camps put torches and fires inside and outside the camps, so that special people waited, sprinkled realgar wine around the camps, and added some mint leaves and chamomile to the food. Let me go to the fields and woods to catch some frogs, and let the voles hang outside my tent in airy, sealed iron buckets with air, and hang some bells under the barrels, so that I can slaughter these Gu snakes. Ichiro Onitochiro sneered.
"Yes, General!" said the soldier, and retreated.
At night, the moon is dark and the wind is high, and there are bursts of crisp bells and frogs and voles outside the quiet barracks, and the ghost knife Ichiro holds down the long knife on his waist and rushes out of the camp tent, and sure enough, there are several five-step snakes wrapped around the iron bucket, and there are a few days when the snake's head sticks into the iron bucket to prey on and bite frogs and voles, and there are two green snakes with red eyes shining "hissing" and sticking out their tongues, and the end of their tails is constantly shaking, making a "rustling" sound.
"Lightning Slash in the Sea!" Ghost Dao Ichiro jumped up, flew into the air, drew his long knife and swung it horizontally in the direction of the iron bucket, a huge wave of water mixed with lightning and thunderbolts like a flood beast instantly penetrated the iron bucket, the current crackled, the water splashed, the iron bucket was split in half, and the frogs, voles, and five-step snakes inside were stunned by the current and scattered in the water. Ghost Dao Ichiro asked people to take tongs to clamp those five-step snakes and put them in a leather bag, walked over to take a closer look at the stagnant water, and sighed: "Alas, it's a pity to let those two Gu snakes escape." ”
Unexpectedly, those soldiers cut off the head of the five-step snake they caught, and sent it directly to the kitchen to let the cook cook two pots of snake soup, and the big guy happily discussed:
"It's been a long time since I've eaten game, and tonight I've had a big meal, it's great!"
"Snake meat is nourishing, after eating, mosquitoes in the wild will not bite, haha!"
"Haha...... I really hope that such a delicious enemy will come back to fight!"
The boiled snake soup was divided into a bowl for each person, "This tastes so fresh!" "Fucking happiness! I haven't eaten such a delicious meal for a long time!" Everyone was intoxicated with the delicious snake soup, what they never expected was that the snake soup they drank was all from the yin blood of scorpions, snakes, geckos, centipedes, and toads for a long time, and the five-step snake after the curse, and the soldiers who drank the snake soup quickly foamed at the mouth one by one, convulsed and died. It was too late to find out, and there was no way to return to the sky, and there was chaos in the army for a while, and Ichiro Oni Dao had no other way but to be angry, after all, he didn't expect that the snake itself was also cursed.
According to the information of the intelligence soldiers, some people threw the herdsmen who were bitten to death by poisonous snakes into the upper reaches of the river, and the venom of poisonous hair, decay, and deterioration flowed down through the flowing water, and most of the soldiers who drank the water were directly poisoned, and those who were healthy were also dyed of edema, diarrhea, diarrhea, and collapse. Now our army is less than 40,000 men, and we are still ......," the soldier muttered.
"What else?!" Oni Daoichiro yelled angrily.
"It also includes soldiers who were poisoned and wounded. The soldier bowed his head and replied timidly.
"Niang Xipi! What kind of battle is this!? Hurry up and order to go back and go back to Jincheng to be the emperor of the soil for a few days!" Ichiro Ghost Dao was so angry that he almost vomited blood.
"Yes, General!" the soldier hurriedly blew the horn of defense, all the troops turned around, and Onitoichiro led everyone back to Jincheng in the starry night.
Before arriving in Jincheng, there was an urgent report: "General Qiyu, when our army left the city, Jincheng and Liangzhou had been captured by Li Zicheng's army, and your brother Liu Guowei's head was hanging on the city tower." We can't go back to Jincheng!"
"Liangzhou is also lost, I think it's really cold this time! Drive!" Ghost Dao Ichiro hurriedly led the rest of the army to the north, and those poisoned wounded soldiers lagged directly on the road, no one cared about them, and the more they died, the more they died. Ghost Dao Ichiro fled halfway with his exhausted division, where did he think that Liu Shu had already ordered the fine work placed in the northwest to send gold, silver, jewelry, wine and beauty to Li Zicheng, and Li Zicheng reached an agreement privately to defeat Liu Huangtian and carve up the northwest together;
Ghost Dao Ichiro weakly commanded the soldiers to flee north, and suddenly committed suicide from the front and rear, two men and horses held torches and shouted loudly, surrounding the army of Ghost Dao Ichiro, and the war horses of the Ghost Dao Ichiro army did not dare to advance. The galloping horse's hooves soon splashed the wind and sand, as if a sandstorm fell from the sky, and the arrows that lit the torches in all directions brushed and shot at the central target of the Ghost Dao Ichiro army, the soldiers of the Ghost Dao Ichiro were hit by arrows and fell off their horses, some were so frightened that they directly faked and fell down and held their shields to find cover, and the frightened horses were uncontrollable, and they ran around like crazy, killing and trampling countless soldiers, screaming, wailing, and * sound resounded throughout the entire corps, and the entire corps fell into a sea of fire and arrows, and was in chaos.
All this in front of him suddenly reminded Ghost Daoichiro of the battle outside the city of Muguo, and remembered that his good brother, the fire robbery, was burned to ashes, and suddenly became sad and said sadly: "I must escape alive, and I can't accompany a group of waste wood to die here." Now that the general trend has gone, it is important to save your life, anyway, this army was also pulled up by him Liu Huangtian."
At this moment, a flaming sword shot at Oni Dao Ichiro, and a soldier flew over to block the arrow for Oni Dao Ichiro, and the soldier who was hit by the arrow spat blood and said: "General, you run away! ”
"Good brother, rest in peace! I will definitely avenge you!" With that, Ichiro Onitochiro let out a long roar, whipped his horse's buttocks, raised his long knife high and rushed forward, swinging a knife on the left and right like the wind, and two powerful jets of water with lightning flashed scattered a piece of army in front of him, and those soldiers were soaked, lying in the pool of water and convulsed. The ghost knife Ichiro slashed left and right, killed a bloody road, flew out, and fled alone, leaving a frightened gaze behind him, who would have thought that Liu Huangtian would have such a superb magic skill.
Seeing that the general trend has gone, Ichiro Ichiro Yi changed back to his original electric soul appearance, blended into the ranks of the homeless people, slipped back to the Han Kingdom, returned to the Beiping Inn, found the wind demon and Lei Li, and after a while, he returned to the big family of Liancheng.
"Old man of the electric soul, where have you been in the past few months? I'm worried about us to death, we heard that the brother died in the first battle outside the city of Muguo, and you disappeared, and we thought that you had also encountered an accident. The Wind Demon patted the electric soul on the shoulder and smiled.
"Oh, I've been tracking down the murderer who killed the fire robbery, and I have been secretly visiting for a few months, and finally I have an eyebrow, the murderer who killed the fire robbery is the prince of the poetry country in the past and the current master of the wood country - the Kyushu monk!" said the electric soul angrily.
"It's good to come back safely, come, drink a cup of tea first, and dissipate your anger! Next time you see that Kyushu layman, take us to meet him, and we will avenge the fire robbery together!" Hua Gu handed the electric soul a cup of tea and comforted.
"Even if the Kyushu monk turns to ashes, I can recognize him!" said the electric soul with a clenched fist and thumped his thigh.