It was noon, and the clouds were still thick in the northwest sky. Although there is no rain falling in the sky during the day, the clouds have not dispersed for a long time. If it doesn't clear today, I'm afraid the coolness will continue.

The crowd watched as the body was covered up and carried away through the small door, but fortunately there were two people in the cell, one in the guest room to the west and had difficulty moving, so they did not know that one of their companions had died. Chen Renhai said: "Governor Ma, quietly order that no one in the government should discuss this matter, lest the enemy find out." ”

Governor Ma replied to the order, and asked the officials on the left and right to go down and give orders. Chen Renhai said: "Now that person is the only one who can pull out the clues. ”

Long Xiangtian nodded and said, "This person's name is Han Zhuan, and he mentioned it when the one-eyed man in the prison scolded him after hearing about his confession. And this person was bought by the Yellow Elephant with money, and it must be the most greedy and afraid of death among these four people, so it is the greatest to break him. ”

"It's just that at this moment he is still suspicious of us, and if he cheats, we will lose everything. Poplar said.

Li Defei said: "After he confesses, I can take his confession and the two people in prison to see how the two people react, and then we can make a decision." ”

"That's the only way to try at the moment. Chen Renhai said.

After lunch, the sky had not yet cleared. The clouds were thick, and despite such a dense layer of clouds in the sky, the raindrops had not yet fallen. The wind is blowing so hard that the clouds are clearly fluttering, and if the rain has not yet fallen, I want to see the sunset in the evening.

In Fang Cai's room, Chen Renhai sat down in front of the man again and said, "I wonder if Your Excellency can think about it clearly?"

The man held on to the armrest of the chair and moved his body, since he sat on this chair, he always kept moving his body, always felt very uncomfortable, but on the bed it seemed that there was nothing to do himself, it was better to hold up his hands at any time and move his body.

"What if you are trying to deceive me? I will never say that I will not see the two men in prison. "That's human.

"Han Zhuan, after meeting, what should I do if you and others collude to confess? When the time comes, I will wait for nothing, and I am afraid that I will be tricked by you and others again. At this time, we can't believe you. Chen Renhai said.

When Han Zhu heard Chen Renhai say his name, he exclaimed, "How do you know my name?"

Chen Renhai said: "Won't they tell your name when they confess?"

After hearing this, Han Zhuan leaned his whole body on the chair and stopped moving. The back of his neck was now completely resting on the jade pillow. He sighed, "They...... I really confessed. That's it, that's it...... Once the name is confessed, I think the others are also confessed. A few of us and others have never told our names to outsiders, and the sect master has said that whoever tells the government their name is no different from apostasy, and even if they go out, they will die. Let's go get a pen and paper, but after I say it, you must destroy the whole yellow weevil, and not leave a single mouth alive."

"It's your selfish intention to let me do this, right? Of course, we want to wipe out the rebellion of the Heavenly Dao, but if we want to destroy it on the spot, we still need to show the emperor. There are many people involved in this case, and they may not be able to escape death, but if they want to be exterminated on the spot, it is not in accordance with the rules. Chen Renhai said.

"If you don't agree, I'll have to swear to death. Those two have already confessed, let them go, and kill me is "Han Zhuan Dao."

It turned out that Han Zhu had always been suspicious, and he didn't know if the two confessed, because he thought that it would be Chen Renhai who tricked him, so he never confessed. However, the one-eyed man called out his name, and as soon as Chen Renhai told him, he realized that the other party had really confessed to them, but if they said the other party's name to the government, it would be no different from a confession, and they had come to the government and did not intend to live. It's just that Han Zhu already felt that the two people in prison might have a glimmer of life, so he was a little hesitant, and his name was exposed, and at this moment he had concluded that the people in prison had confessed.

Chen Renhai said: "Until we have arrested all the people in the yellow weevils and convicted them all, we will definitely protect your safety." As long as these people are convicted, we will release you in a safe place. ”

After hearing this, Han Zhu thought carefully for a while and then opened his mouth.

At this time, there was a light rain outside, and I thought that after this light rain, the sky would clear.

In the cell, Long Xiangtian unfolded the confession in front of the one-eyed man. The one-eyed man looked at the confession and said nothing. "You have also read this paper, and now this person is exempt from sin, I don't know what you think?"

One-eyed man: "Hahaha...... Opinion, no doubt, let me see if there is a mistake, but how can I tell you?"

"I knew you were talking like that. Long Xiangtian put away the paper, paced in front of the man, and continued: "If what he offered was false, your eyes would not be like this. ”

The one-eyed man glared at Long Xiangtian, and Long Xiangtian said, "Okay, I know." You are bent on opposing the court, and now that you have been caught, I think you have been thinking about killing yourself, no matter what, I will definitely get your wish. With that, Long Xiangtian walked out of the prison and said to the jailer: "Give him some good food these days, I don't think there are many days when he can eat good food."

At this time, Li Defei was still interrogating the man, but the man didn't look at the paper at all, and kept closing his eyes so that Li Defei would not interrogate any details. After hearing Li Defei say that someone confessed, the man did not go crazy like the one-eyed man, but let out a long sigh, and then tilted his head to the side, even more listless than before he was imprisoned. Li Defei couldn't judge, his eyes were closed like this, and his face didn't move at all, did he want to cover it up, or did the person feel that the result was so unacceptable?

"Your Excellency doesn't want to say, just that

Let's not talk about it. Anyway, the confession has been issued, and in a few days, all of you in the Yellow Weevils will come to this prison to meet together. Li Defei also took the paper and got out of prison.

In the back hall, Chen Renhai was laying out a plan to arrest him, and he was drawing circles on the map. Long Xiangtian and Li Defei went to the back hall together, and Li Defei said: "Everyone, the person I interrogated didn't eat oil and salt, and even closed his eyes tightly, his face was expressionless, and he couldn't tell at all." After that, he slapped the paper on the table, and at this moment Li Defei also lost his calmness, he had never been helpless at this moment, this was their first interrogation, but he felt so uncomfortable.

Long Xiangtian said: "The person who wants to come to Brother Li for interrogation is the most 'tenacious'. Although the one-eyed man had a hard mouth, the look on his face betrayed him many times, and the confessions on this paper were all true, and the remnants of the yellow weevils in Ganliang Mansion did not know about it. We need to arrest them immediately. ”

"What Brother Long said is very true" Chen Renhai turned his head to face the crowd: "Don't open the notice of the past few days, the couple and I still need to detain them for a few days." Wait until you catch those thieves before making a decision. Fortunately, many people did not know the details of last night's fighting. Immediately fly pigeons to send a message, so that all these counties on the map are under martial law, and no one is allowed to enter or leave."

Governor Ma replied to the order, and immediately sent the officials to order. Long Xiangtian said: "Longxi is the important place for its head, but those people have been ambushed by us, and I don't know where they will flee to." As for the strongholds in the cities of Liangzhou and Longbei and the surrounding counties, the flying pigeon and the Ganliang army guarding here went to arrest them, and if they resisted, they would be exterminated on the spot."

"In a village that came out of Longbei, Han Zhu said that the whole village was a henchman of the Yellow Weevil, and from his mouth, it was known that the village was the life-saving straw of the Yellow Weevil, and all the people who committed a murder in the Yellow Weep had to take refuge there. But we are going to kill all the people in that village?" said Poplar.

Long Xiangtian said: "Kill them all to set an example"

"Brother Long, I'm afraid that's not appropriate, right?" said Poplar.

Long Xiangtian said: "This village in Longbei is located on the mountain north of Longbei, and there is only a township about ten miles below the mountain, and there are at least twenty-five miles to Longbei. Many villagers in this village are doing some black things, and many Ya women have partnered with those scum abductors in the rivers and lakes without the permission of others, selling some young women or some male babies to the village in this mountain to be wives and children, and many of the abducted people are subdued alive, and the whole village actually helps each other to keep an eye on each other, and there are girls who want to run away and are caught back by them and starve to death for three days. Later, the imperial court captured many of these women and abductors, and the abductors confessed to the village. At that time, the village was sentenced to hanging, and some villagers were determined to oppose the imperial court, and they were also beheaded, but the law did not hold the public accountable, and after the rest of the villagers returned the women and boys they bought, the officials did not pursue some of the men and the light cane punishment. This is also recorded in the file of Ganliang Mansion, after so many years, I thought that they could abandon evil and follow good, and the Ganliang army who came to report also said that there was nothing unusual, but now I look at it, but there are evil deeds, and now I must not tolerate it."

Governor Ma said: "The case in this village was undertaken by the lower officials and Lord Shangshu of the Criminal Department, and it was Lord Shangshu who was kind at that time, so he did not punish the whole village, and it has been peaceful here for many years, but I didn't expect it to be so ......."

Bai Yang said: "Brother Chen, what do you think?"

Chen Renhai patted Bai Yang's shoulder and said, "You shouldn't be compassionate at this time, Brother Bai." These villagers are not good people in the first place, and I am afraid that the entire village has been confused by the thieves in the yellow weevil armor at this time and joined the Heavenly Dao. If they don't resist after being caught, I'll wait for a careful review before making a decision, and if they resist and have a fight with the officers and soldiers, we will just kill them on the spot."

Bai Yang thought for a while and said, "Then the people in the Heavenly Dao in Longbei Village will go to me......

"Brother Bai, I'd better go. "Long Xiang Heavenly Dao.

Bai Yang said: "Brother Long is worried that I will release those villagers?"

As soon as these words were spoken, no one in the house spoke, of course Governor Ma knew that he should not say a word at this moment, and the others did not know how to respond at this moment Chen Renhai also knew the character of Baiyang, and he was afraid that it was not suitable to go to the village in Longbei, but he also knew that if he said these words at this moment, he would be distrustful of Baiyang, so he did not speak. But Long Xiangtian said this before him, and he didn't know how to deal with it at the moment.

Long Xiangtian said: "Yes, I'm worried that you will be indecisive and will let those villagers go." ”

"If they really break the law, I will not tolerate it, and if they are determined to oppose the court and fight with us, I will definitely correct the law on the spot, so there is no need for Brother Long to worry" Bai Yang said.

Long Xiangtian said: "If those villagers come to fight with you and others, and then they are defeated and begging bitterly, will you let them go?"

Chen Renhai and the others were a little uncomfortable with Long Xiangtian's aggressiveness at this moment, although they knew that Long Xiangtian's question would make Bai Yang fall into deep thought, but they felt that such words should not be said to their colleagues.

"In my opinion, it's good for Brother Bai to go, Brother Long still goes to arrest Yu Qing and other leaders, Brother Li and I go to Liangzhou, I'll wait to pack up, set off immediately, and then act at night after the enemy is entrenched, brothers, I will roughly distribute: Brother Long and Brother Leng will go to Longxi, Brother Bai and Brother Mei will go to Longbei, Brother Yuwen and I will go to the south of Liangzhou, and Brother Li and Brother Ren will go to the north of Liangzhou. After the fourteenth, we will meet in the palace, this battle is not trivial, we must have some gains," Chen Renhai said.

Long Xiangtian straightened his sword, Poplar tightened his belt, and the rest were also tidying up their clothes. Chen Renhai patrolled the horses

Fu said: "Governor Ma, please also take our message at any time in the palace." The two people in the cell, without our order, are not allowed to do any punishment on them, as for Na Han Zhuan, eat with him three times a day, find someone to take care of his daily life, and take medicine with him every day according to the medicine prescribed by Brother Yuwen. And General Zhou and the couple, they must not tell them that their family has suffered an accident, and they need to find someone to take care of them every day and eat three meals with them. ”

Governor Ma said: "Your Majesty respectfully obeys your orders, and please rest assured." ”

"Governor Ma, if I don't come back after 14 days, please send troops to these places for reinforcements immediately. "Long Xiang Heavenly Dao.

Governor Ma also replied to the order, and after a few more words, everyone went out of the palace, summoned the guards who accompanied them, and after a little distribution, they divided into teams and went on the road.

When I left the city, the sun was already in the west, and the whole cool city, large and small, seemed to be surrounded by a circle of black spots. Ganliang Mansion under the sky, more than ten cities, and more than 20 towns and villages, many places have been under martial law in these days. The people have been anxious for so long, and many people are thinking that there will be a good outcome.

But the days are still passing, the army, the arrest has not yet dispersed, many people out of the city to be searched at least five times, and there are carriages across the city, at least seven times, in order to prevent some soldiers because of fatigue and impatience not careful inspection, so the soldiers change shifts very diligently.

But in these days, the county and towns are under strict martial law, and anyone with a discerning eye knows that there are people who the court wants to arrest. But the more discerning people still have their own high opinions at the moment, they will say that the court wants to cover up, and it is helpless to do so, the people in this album are definitely not the same as those depicted by the court, they are afraid that they have made good suggestions to the court, and there are corrupt officials in the court who are unwilling, so it will be so.

Of course, they didn't dare to say this in front of any official, and they didn't know any news from the government, but they could just say such high-minded talk like a story, the taxes handed over to the yamen were all harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes, and the roadblocks on the road meant that there were heroes in the rivers and lakes who were wronged, but they were very smart and would not openly rebel against the imperial court like the people in the heavenly way, so they could only be like Chen Sheng and Wu Guang in the streets and alleys, although there were still some of them who didn't know the "Historical Records" How is the uprising of Chen Sheng and Wu Guang recorded?

It was only said that the sky was clear on this day, and Bai Yang led Ouchi's guards and sergeants out of Longbei together, preparing to go to the village where all the people were anti-court.

Out of the city, through the township, the sky is gradually getting dark.

Before Poplar reached the village, one of the sergeants fled down the hill in a hurry, only to see the sergeant staggering down the slope with his head bleeding. Mei Jin ran down at the foot of the mountain, and said, "Commander Bai, it seems that someone has escaped and come down the mountain."

"Brothers, let's go up together and ask him who he is," Poplar said.

So saying, the people drove forward and saw that it was a broken soldier. Mei Jin immediately asked, "Are you a soldier in the Ganliang army, why are you so flustered, what happened in this village?"

The soldier hadn't taken a breath at the moment, and Poplar said, "You take a break first, take a breath and then talk to me."

"Ahead...... Villagers riot...... A villager wanted to leave the village, saying that he would send his soon-to-be-born wife to the town's hospital to deliver the baby, but the soldiers received the orders of the adults in Ganliang Mansion and stayed here until they were allowed to go. At this time, the villagers took firewood knives and hoes, and killed together to fight with us, we did not dare to fight back, so we could only resist a little, but who would have thought that the villagers would fight more and more bravely, and many brothers were injured, and the sergeant major asked me to wait down the mountain to ask the guards in the town if they could let them go......" The soldier said.

Bai Yang flashed his waist card and said, "No need, I am the chief of the Northwest Governor's case, in charge of the case, and I can also transfer troops." You go up with me and lead the way."

The soldier immediately ran to the hillside, and when Poplar gave an order, all the soldiers and horses hurried up the mountain, only to see that a large group of people were gathered at the entrance of the village. Poplar shouted and said, "Stop it all"

When the villagers saw another group of men and horses coming in front of them, they stopped one after another.

The soldiers also withdrew from both sides, and a villager ran to kneel down in front of the poplar horse, and said: "My lord, I am helpless, I am about to give birth, I see, my lord, she is in pain, and she is bleeding, and now she is hanging for her life with some ginseng tablets......"

Poplar turned his head to look at the pregnant woman who was wailing in pain on the cart, and said, "Wait until you get out of the way first, and send a few brothers to follow the couple." The rest of the villagers are not allowed to go."

The rest of the villagers stopped, and the soldiers made way of a road. Mei Jin watched the cart slowly come over, looking at the pregnant woman who was sweating in pain, the pregnant woman passed by him, it seemed that he felt something strange, and immediately shouted: "Stop"

At this point, the villager stopped the cart, and all that was left was the cry of pain from the pregnant woman. The villager immediately ran to Mei Jin and shouted: "My lord's grace, if the villain's wife is not sent to the hospital, I am afraid that it will be one corpse and two lives."

"Your wife is pregnant with a ghost fetus, right?" Mei Jin said.

The man said: "What are you talking about, my lord?" The villagers were all scolding at this time, and Mei Jin said: "With such a sleeping method, the fetus has fallen early, and your wife has never been pregnant, right?"

General Poplar asked, "Is what you said true?"

Mei Jin said: "If a pregnant woman is pregnant and doesn't know the fetal position, how can she sleep on this wheelbarrow?

After that, the pregnant woman jumped up, and sure enough, a package fell out of her lower abdomen. The package was like a ball of meat, straight towards Mei Jin, but fortunately, Poplar split it with a sword.

"Rush," the woman said.