Chapter 23: The Emperor's Doubts
In the palace of the official residence of Chengguo,
At this time, it was the afternoon time, and the emperor was in the official palace to review the recitals of the adults...
And the palace maids and guards standing next to them were also closely accompanying the emperor...
And the soldier who came from afar, who was also in the cell, arranged by the Punishment Department to report to the emperor, also rushed to the outside of the official residence at this time...
When he was about to enter, he was stopped by the guards at the door, and he said to the two guards:
"Quickly let me in, I have something important to report to the emperor, and Lord Liang arranged for me to come"
said it very loudly, and the two guards outside directly set up the man at this time...
At this time, the voice reached the ears of the emperor who was criticizing the folds in the official palace.
The emperor said to one of the guards next to him:
"Go and see what's going on"
So, the guard's father-in-law walked out, and the soldier who came to report the news outside saw that it was a cronie arranged by the emperor who had come, and he immediately surrounded him and said to the guard's father-in-law:
"Father-in-law, report to His Majesty the Emperor quickly, the little one has an important matter to report, and Lord Liang arranged for me to come over"
After speaking, he took out the thing that Lord Liang gave him like a plaque from his pocket and showed it to his father-in-law, and when his father-in-law saw it, he signaled to the two guards next to him,
The two guards put him down...
The father-in-law then said to him:
"Okay, you wait here, I'll report to the emperor"
Then my father-in-law went in.
When he had entered, the Emperor asked:
"What's the matter?"
"Back to the emperor, it is the cronies sent by Lord Liang of the Criminal Department who governs the city bordering the northwest country to report to you something."
Father-in-law said,
"Okay, let him in"
The Emperor said,
"Yes"
The father-in-law replied.
So the father-in-law went out, and when he came to the man, he said to the man:
"Let's go, let's go in"
"Thank you, thank you"
The man replied.
So, he and his father-in-law went into the palace, and after entering, the emperor also put down the fold in his hand at this time, and looked at the man...
When the man saw the emperor, he also knelt down at this time, and kowtowed to the emperor on the stage and said:
"Long live my emperor, long live, long live"
"Okay, flat"
The Emperor said,
"Emperor Xie"
He said, and stood up.
"Your Majesty, Lord Liang asked me to tell you that strange people have recently been found in our city..."
He said anxiously,
"What, that, don't be in a hurry, you speak slowly"
Before he could finish his sentence, the Emperor interrupted him and spoke to him, and then to the guards beside him:
"Go, move him a stool, and bring him a cup of tea"
"Yes"
The two guards next to him replied, and then went down...
"Small, thank you Emperor, don't use the small one"
He knelt down again, and said...
At this time, the two guards who had just gone down next to him brought a chair and a cup of tea to him, and the emperor looked at him and said:
"You don't have to be scared and anxious, you sit down and talk to me slowly."
"Then thank you, Your Majesty the Emperor."
He said, and sat down, and the two guards departed, and returned to the Emperor's side to stand.
After sitting down, he took a sip of tea, and then said to the emperor:
"Your Majesty the Emperor, this is the case, Lord Sui Liang received a report from the people in the streets of our city, saying that there is a strange person, and the bad person's body will automatically generate and grow a kind of shield on that person's body, and will also protect himself from the outside touching his body... The people all suspected that the man must be a different ghost clan, so the people dodged one after another, and when our officers and soldiers went there, they found that there were no strange features on the person's body, but the people in the city said that the man was a strange person, so we took the man to our cell, and at the same time, we also caught a thief of a middle-aged woman who fled from the northwest country, she and the strange man were together when they were caught, and they were also arrested voluntarily. The two of them are now being held in our cell, and Lord Liang will not let me report this to you as soon as possible. ”
After finishing speaking, the emperor looked at him quietly and did not speak, and then he knelt down in panic after looking at the emperor with such a look and said to the emperor:
"Back to the emperor, the little one doesn't dare to lie, what the little one said is true"
"Back to the emperor, I heard other soldiers talking about it, that strange man seems to be the little young man who was one of the three celestial masters you asked to stay that time."
At this time, when he said this, the emperor was suddenly shocked.
When the man saw the Emperor in such a shocked manner, he said to the Emperor:
"Back to His Majesty the Emperor, because last time when our city was about to be destroyed by that ghost beggar, it was the god of the white-haired old man who rescued him in time..."
"Okay, you don't have to say it"
At this time, the emperor rebuked angrily.
Seeing this, the man had no choice but to stop talking, and then knelt on the ground and kowtowed:
"The emperor atoned for his sins, the emperor atoned"
"Get up"
The emperor said to him,
The man stood up, and when he had stood up, the Emperor said to him again:
"You go back and tell you Lord Liang that after the strange man you arrested is now locked up in your prison, you must treat him, and you must not torture that person, let alone interrogate that person in any way, on the contrary, you must treat that person with the delicacies of the mountains and seas in your city, and I will go and interrogate that person personally."
"Yes, yes, yes"
The man replied in a shudder.
"Okay, you can give this to Na Liang later."
The Emperor said, and then took out a brush and began to write...
After the writing was finished, he asked the father-in-law next to him to hand it to the man...
When the man had received it, the Emperor said to the man at this moment:
"Okay, you must quickly deliver this letter to Lord Liang quickly."
"Yes, the little one will definitely complete the emperor's orders as quickly as possible."
The man said it.
"Okay, there you go"
The emperor waved at him and said,
Then the man got up and turned and left the palace...
As soon as he had left the palace, he came to his horse, got on it, and ran to the place where they were in the city......
……
"Someone Coming"
The emperor said to the guards next to him,
"The Minions Are In"
The father-in-law and the guards next to him replied,
"Prepare the horse, I want to go to the waterfall mountain in the northwest country"
"Your Majesty, are you going to go, but the army of soldiers from our United Ethnic Nation is about to attack the Northwest Country, and the minions are afraid."
Father-in-law said,
At this time, the guard stepped forward and said:
"Your Majesty the Emperor, the minister thinks that the Emperor will not let go and directly send an army of soldiers, and let this soldier team hang the flag of our country, and then go to the Waterfall Mountain in the northwest country."
"Okay, then do what you want, you go and prepare"
The Emperor said,
"Obey"
He replied, and then stepped back......
……
In that big cell in the city of Chengguo, which borders the Northwest Country.
At this time, Lord Liang, who was in charge of this cell, separated the two of them into two cells next to each other, and the two cells were only separated by a few wooden pillars...
Because he still can't get a reply from the emperor, Lord Liang hasn't dealt with the two of them for the time being...
In the cell, the middle-aged woman was curled up in a corner of the cell at this time, looking at the ground with disappointed eyes...
And after Liu Ding was arrested, he was not so worried, he looked left and right at the cell...
It's still the original recipe building, the ground is covered with straw that is as dry as firewood, and the back wall is still covered with the same bricks piece by piece, and the front is also an iron fence made of iron...
Looking at the cell full of novelty, he was full of curiosity, and after looking left and right several times, he looked at the middle-aged woman next to it, which was also separated by wooden pillars...
He then walked over to the wooden post, looked at the middle-aged woman, and said to her:
"Hey, big sister"
The middle-aged woman looked at him, then turned her head back and lowered her head again, at which point he began to cry......
"Big sister, big sister, don't cry"
And this time the cry of the eldest sister also led the jailers to come over, one of the jailers took the rope whip that seemed to beat people directly in front of the middle-aged woman's cell, he first waved the whip in his hand, and the whip also made a random sound, startling the woman, and then, the jailer with the whip in his hand said to the woman:
"If you cry again, I'll give you a few lashes"
The woman was too frightened to cry at this time, then wiped her tears with her hand and nodded to the jailer with the whip in his hand.
The two jailers saw the woman nod and left...
At this time, Liu Ding walked to the wooden pillar, looked at the woman, and said:
"I said, eldest sister, you have nothing to cry about. If you have anything on your mind, tell my brother about it, maybe I can help you."
The middle-aged woman slowly looked up at Liu Ding at this time, and then got up and walked in front of the place where Liu Ding was standing, and then she sat down again and sat on the straw on the ground. After sitting down, she looked at Liu Ding and said:
"Alas, how nice it would be if I were a citizen of the Cheng Nation"
"What, eldest sister, aren't you from this ethnic country?"
Liu Ding asked,
"Hmm"
The middle-aged woman nodded,
"Then, eldest sister, where are you from, how did you get to the territory here of the Chengguo ethnic group?"
Liu Ding asked in surprise,
At this time, she lowered her head again, and when she was about to cry again, Liu Ding was almost frightened at this time, and then boasted to him:
"Shhhh
As soon as she heard this, the middle-aged woman choked up, then rubbed her eyes with her hands and wiped her tears.
She looked at Liu Ding again and said to Liu Ding:
"Alas, don't mention it, since the Emperor of our Northwest Kingdom released the ghost clan that had been suppressed underground to the surface. Our whole Northwest Country, my whole family has not had a good day all day."
"Eldest sister, what about your family?"
Liu Ding asked,
"Alas, my whole family was killed by the beggars of the ghost clan, my husband was killed by the ghost beggar with that spell of the fireball first blown up and then burned to death, my children were also burned to death by the ghost beggar, and my house was burned by the ghost beggars."
The eldest sister said,
"Sister, how are you..."
Before Liu Ding finished speaking, everyone took the lead in grabbing the words and said:
"Well, ever since I was captured by the ghost beggar, their beggar has raped me several times a day, sometimes a dozen times... I can't die if I want to, alas"
"In order to survive, I secretly came to this country"
At this time, in the cell, this middle-aged woman from the northwest country was telling Liu Ding everything that happened and faced her......
………
In the waterfall mountain,
At this time, the emperor's convoy had quietly come to the location of the waterfall mountain, and the soldiers stationed here saw that the emperor was coming, and they all cheered up and were full of joy...
And the commander and General Wu stationed here heard from the soldiers that the emperor was coming, and came directly to the bottom of the mountain, and after seeing the emperor, they directly bowed to the emperor...
"Long live my emperor, long live, long live, long live, long live"
"Two Aiqing, please be flat"
The emperor looked at the commander and General Wu and said,
"Emperor Xie"
The two said,
"Two Aiqing, I ask you, are those three Heavenly God Masters still on this mountain? How are they cultivating?"
The emperor looked at the two and asked,
At this time, General Wu took the lead in saying to the emperor:
"Back to the emperor, there are only two Heavenly God Masters left here at present, and one Heavenly God Master has already descended the mountain a few days ago, and it is said that he is going to go outside to cultivate."
"General Wu, what is the Heavenly God Master who came down the mountain, is it a young man, a middle-aged man, or an old man?"
The emperor asked,
"Back to the emperor, the Celestial Master who came down the mountain is a young Celestial Master"
General Wu said,
When he heard this result, the emperor was shocked at this time, and he could now feel that the strange man reported by the soldiers was still a young man, and he also said that the person who was one of the heavenly god masters might be the one who walked down the mountain...
And at this time, the commander also stepped forward and replied:
"Back to the emperor, there are currently two Heavenly God Masters but there is no such child, and the cultivation skills of the two of them have been greatly improved..."
"Are those two Celestial Masters still on the mountain?"
The Emperor asked,
"It's right there"
General Wu replied,
"Okay, you two come with me now, and let's ask the white-haired old man's master what the situation is..."
"Obey"
The commander and General Wu replied at the same time,
Then, under the leadership of the emperor, the commander and General Wu, followed by several soldiers went up the mountain together...
Before they reached the halfway up the hill, which was the location of the white-haired old man and the monk's cultivation, at this time, they looked at it from a distance and found that it was very different...
And at this moment, a deafening sound like an explosion came from above...