At the third watch, everything was silent, and the burned longhouse was still billowing with smoke.

Gao Shisheng You did not sleep, he was sitting cross-legged in the carriage, and there was a steaming hot perilla tea soup on the table, and the light and leisurely smell of tea and medicine diffused in the carriage with the heat.

People like to drink tea, and prefer to add aromatic herbs to boil as soup when matcha, which is the tea drinking custom of imitating the Song Dynasty.

In his later years, the Zen master Rongxi of Wannian Temple in Tiantai Mountain said that tea is "expensive tea, up to the realm of the heavens, and down to the people." Each shake is the medicine for one disease, and tea is the medicine for all diseases." It is also said that tea is "a gift from heaven" and "the origin of holy medicine". As a result, the name of tea medicine quickly spread in the world, whether there is a medicinal use, it is not known, but Nagata Sheng is convinced anyway, even when he goes out by car, he has to order people to bring all kinds of tea and soup to nourish the body.

Gao Shisheng is not good at drinking tea, and he is not used to the taste of medicinal tea, but in order to boost his spirits, he still took two sips of complacency, and asked condescendingly: "You are not assassinated with Junzhou, why are you here?" ”

The monk replied: "After the little monk arrived at the prison camp, he got a scribe's errand, and Bendao spent two or three years in prison, but I didn't expect that when I went down the mountain to transmit the documents, I was captured by this group of strongmen halfway, and the escorted Ashigaru was also killed by them." ”

The battalion officer of the Anbe prison camp is a believer in Shingon Buddhism, and he is very sympathetic when he learns that the monk Jingkong has been convicted of being assassinated, and seeing that he is well-versed in literature and ink, he was simply appointed as a scribe in charge of the criminal record, and there is no charge in the prison camp for people to remember, and there is no need to follow the prisoners to open the mine and smelting furnace every day, and it is very idle, but the luck seems to have run out here, and the first time he left the camp, he was taken away by the mountain ambush.

Gao Shisheng's heart turned, and he knew that it must be the mountain of Ghost Face Mountain, because of the two states of Yuanjun Chengping for many years, it is rare to hear of such a large number of thieves, dare to gather crowds to rob houses, and even intercept and kill Junfu Fenggong, but Fuzhi County is two hundred miles away from Suruga State, no matter why he came to Yuanjiang, but since he can come here, he must have the help of this pure space monk to guide the way.

The interrogation could not be biased and biased, and beckoned people to bring the other two injured and not dead Yamanbush to be brought in for questioning.

The monk of the clear sky dodged aside in fear, and whispered: "The man who kept the head of the moon generation is Mitsuhide Naito, who is wanted by Sunfu, and the axe-wielding dwarf who was killed by Fu Thief before was Shiro Nagano. ”

As soon as he said this, everyone present understood that it was a group of people from the Ghost Face Mountain Changye Party, no wonder they were so fierce and dead.

The two surviving Shanfu, with multiple injuries on their bodies, were tied up with ropes, dragged and pulled, pushed all the way, and finally rushed to the ox cart.

Mitsuhide Naito has a plain appearance, a wide face and a beard, not tall, about five feet two or three, his legs are still loops, and his legs are still not straight when he stands, which is a characteristic of riding a horse all year round, and he also carries an empty coarse cloth bow bag around his waist, his arms are long and powerful, and his thumb is covered with a pick, which is to prevent him from being scratched by the bowstring when shooting.

The Naito clan is said to have originated from Fujiwara Kitahide, and there are streams in Mikawa, Shinano, and Kai, so perhaps this Naito Mitsuhide came from one of the above three countries.

Gao Shisheng was noncommittal to the arrogant attitude of the two, but Ono Tadashi hated the other party's secret arrow to hurt people, and when he saw that they were captured, he dared to be rampant, and couldn't help but be furious, urging the horse to rush forward in a few steps, grabbed the reins, swung his wrist, and the horsewhip was whipped down, and a blood mark suddenly appeared on Naito Mitsuhide's face: "You are a death row prisoner, you don't kneel down when you see my hometown Sa!" ”

Mitsuhide Naito squinted his eyes, the corners of his mouth were bleeding, but he didn't cry out in pain, he was a good man, a real outlaw, since killing people and setting fires, he had never suffered such humiliation again, his temper was more violent than when he was farming in Shinano, he was attacked and killed for no reason, he was already resentful, and now he was whipped again, he hated it even more, and spat a mouthful of bloody spit at Ono Tadaaki, which hit the face of Ueno Monk, and scolded in the other party's tone: "You are a death row prisoner, and it is worth being such a dog to be a dog!" ”

"Amitabha, I have to kill you today!" Ono Tadaaki raised his sleeves and wiped them indiscriminately, but his face was all over his face, and when he heard the other party dare to scold himself for being a dog, he was so angry that he even shouted out the Buddha name that he hadn't recited for a long time, jumped off the horse, and raised his whip to hit again.

This time it was not polite, the horsewhip crackled in the air, and the two Naito Mitsuhide, who were pumping straight, rolled all over the ground, Ono Tadaaki was a fierce monk when he was in Ueno, and he was not afraid of their resistance. A whip made the other party's clothes tattered, and his face was covered with blood, but Ono Tadaaki did not kill him, and he did not hurt the muscles and bones of the two, at least before Gosa gave the order, he did not wait to abolish the two people.

"Stand down!"

"No!" Seeing Xiang Sa's words, Ono Tadaaki gritted his teeth and retreated.

"A dog is a dog! The master bit indiscriminately without speaking, and the master spoke, and was so frightened that he rolled back into the nest with his tail between his legs! Mitsuhide Naito turned around and sat up, and spitted at the back of the turner: "Phew! What is it! ”

Although Gao Shisheng didn't know how to meet, he could also see that these two Yamanbushi were ruthless and fierce in their bones, especially the leader Mitsuhide Naito, who was by no means a good person.

"It is worthy of being a famous thief in the East China Sea, and the ordinary interrogation method must not be able to scare the two of them, do you want someone to cut one down for questioning first." Gao Shisheng was thinking in his heart which questioning strategy was more secure.

He was already shouting and shouting to kill in his heart, and his sight couldn't help but have a strong killing intent, spinning around the necks of the two like knives, but he made Naito Mitsuhide feel uncomfortable, and finally couldn't bear it anymore and glared back fiercely.

After asking, let people drag them down and kill them with a knife, and it would be a disaster to keep them! Since the other party is bent on death, Gao Shisheng doesn't need to be polite to them, this kind of habitual bandit has long been on his hands, and he doesn't know how many lives he has on his hands, which can be regarded as eliminating harm for the people, I have to say that since he took office, the fierce blood of the martial arts on his body has become heavier and heavier.

The corpses of both the enemy and the enemy have been collected. The corpses of their own people were specially emptied in a cart to store, and after returning to their hometowns, the monks were asked to do the rituals, and then they were buried in a unified manner, while the corpses of thieves were much more casual.

Except for those that were charred in the longhouse and could not be dragged out, the rest were all cut off and waiting to be taken to the county to find the commissioner for a reward.

Because of the many cases committed by the Nagano Party, the wanted ones spread all over the East China Sea, and the purchase reward was naturally quite high, an ordinary party member was worth 10,000 yuan, not to mention the three bandit leaders, and the Jun Mansion had an order, whether they were dead or alive, as long as they were arrested and brought to justice, they would be rewarded with 100,000 Yongle money.

For a while, there was a sound of chopping and slashing and jubilant conversations all around, but it was Aoki Daizen, who killed seven or eight Yamanbushi including Shiro Nagano, who was still calm and indifferent to the fact that his family was about to be rewarded, and found a clean place to shelter from the rain.

"Xiangsa, what to do with the corpse!" Seeing that the two Yamanbush were stubbornly resisting, Hasegawa Hayato deliberately lifted a string of heads and came over to help intimidate.

Naito Mitsuhide's face did not change, the person next to him did not have such good courage, and suddenly saw the bloody heads of so many of his companions, he could no longer support it, and knelt on the ground with a thud, trembling, but he also gritted his teeth and refused to forgive.

Gao Shisheng frowned, he was very displeased with Hasegawa Hayato's methods, and pointed to a forest not far away: "My Buddha is merciful, although I am a thief, I can't just abandon the corpse in the field, let the beasts eat it, help them Lin Meng!" Lin Meng was about to bury the body in the woods, and then instructed: "Dig the pit deeper, remember to erect a pillar, and it will be counted as a tombstone." ”

"Thank you so much, remember to pick a good spot for me later!" Hearing the samurai sitting on the ox cart and letting people bury the mountain under his hand, Mitsuhide Naito's face softened slightly.

Gao Shisheng saw that he opened his mouth to thank him, but because of this, he smiled and said: "Why bother to say thank you!" I am also a good man, why don't I want to serve the court shogunate, but become a thief? ”

Mitsuhide Naito was stunned at first, then laughed out loud, and asked rhetorically: "In the world that this dog entered, there are many harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes of the imperial court, the shogunate, and the daimyo, and I can't count them!" The criminal law is heavy, people eat people, money buys money, thieves become officials, and officials become thieves. What is a thief, what is an official, in the final analysis, it is Lao Tzu who dares to kill and rob! I don't want to be like these dogs you have, can't I be a human if I want to? This sentence is extremely arrogant, as if he is not a prisoner waiting for death, but a general with tens of thousands of troops in his hands.

This is what the leader of the mountain plan, Saburo Nagano, said, Naito Mitsuhide thought it was true, especially whenever he saw those scrawny, dull-eyed, and slaughtered people, he was even more glad that he still had some courage and was able to survive in this cannibalistic world.

Everyone present did not expect that a thief could still tell such a thought-provoking truth, but it made people look at this insight differently.

However, Gao Shisheng didn't have the heart to debate with Naito Mitsuhide, the question of who is the official and who is the thief, as he said, the strong wins, and now he asks him, not him.

"It's just a matter of killing you, don't worry, are you Mitsuhide Naito of the Ghost Face Mountain Nagano Party?"

"That monk didn't tell you everything, why did you ask." Mitsuhide Naito sat on the ground impatiently, wrinkled his eyebrows and glared, and said viciously: "Since you asked me, then I should ask you!" You're the Gosa that the man just shouted at, the nephew of Asahina Motocho? ”

"It's down there!" Gao Shisheng smiled and nodded, this mountain is really interesting, he is about to be killed, Wuzi still refuses to suffer, these days he is surrounded by this kind of temper, but he is also used to it.

"You don't stay in Ghost Face Mountain, what are you doing in Yuanjiang?"

"We are a bunch of subordinate, we will go wherever we eat, we will walk sideways if we love to walk horizontally, we will walk vertically if we love to walk vertically, depending on whether we are happy or not, how can we walk like this, and we still have to report to you?"

Seeing that Mitsuhide Naito was so arrogant, Gao Shisheng was not surprised, this kind of thief with a blood debt on his body would be strange if he replied honestly, and the other party's exquisite archery skills made him love talents; "You are so bold in this mountain, I sent someone to surrender, not only did you not surrender, but you didn't want to be shot directly on the spot by a bow and arrow, you must know that the crime of unauthorized killing is unforgivable."

Mitsuhide Naito took a sip: "It's a death left and right, what else can there be, it's hard to cut off my head twice." You dog officials, always use the head to scare the honest people, with the knives and guns in your hands, grab money and food to be more ruthless than our mountain ambush, and tell you plainly, will you be afraid of death if you go up to the mountain to be a thief? If I was lucky enough not to die, I would meet me in the wilderness next time, and I was skinned and thrown into the mountain stream and fell to death. ”

scolded a few words, and saw that no one took care of his house. Naito Mitsuhide stopped talking unconsciously, and said to Gao Shisheng: "Lao Tzu scolded happily, if you have something to say, ask quickly, and if you don't have anything to say, quickly chop me with a knife!" ”

He said it reasonably, Gao Shisheng bowed his head slightly, and said, "Palm mouth." ”

Someone next to him immediately dragged Mitsuhide Naito down, and without waiting for him to react, he gave more than a dozen big slaps one after another, and the outlaw thief who hit him had a gold star in his eyes, and he only felt that the world was spinning.

He turned to interrogate another person, but after a few questions, he didn't ask anything useful.

"And detain it first, and then send it to the county and let the criminal record be interrogated carefully." The weather was cloudy and rainy, and he didn't bother to ask for any more reasons, so he simply asked people to take the two Shanfu down and lock them up first, and then send them to the county and torture them, so they naturally knew why they came to Yuanjiang.

Nagata Mori dusted off the rain on his body, walked back from the back of the convoy with an umbrella, and happened to see Lang Dang escorting two mountain ambushes: "Xiangzuo, why are these two thieves still left." ”

In this vicious fight, more than ten people were killed and injured by the Lang Party raised by Nagata's family, and Nagata Sheng personally led people to collect and load the corpses, and reloaded the unloaded goods, wine and money and food are things that occupy space, how to re-stack it is very troublesome, the number of these ox carts is enough to make the more than 1,000 banners stationed in Saku City live happily for a while.

For this reason, another livestock and a car were checked again to confirm whether the cattle and horses were injured and whether the things on the cart were tied up strong enough.

"Always ask first and then dispose of it, can the goods be lost?" Fang just left the goods on the side of the road for a long time, no one took care of it, although it was raining heavily in the middle of the night, but it was difficult to guarantee that no one would pass by, and this bribe was also very important to go to the county to sue him, Gao Shisheng was very concerned.

"There was no shortage after the count."

Gao Shisheng nodded, and didn't ask any more, it was not early, and there must be no way to rest tonight, so let the entourage find two old houses to shelter from the rain, and go to make a fire to keep warm, and let people take the monk to wash up, change into clean clothes, and bring them to see themselves for questioning.