"He's your nephew?" Xu Ke couldn't help but ask rhetorically.

At this time, the white-haired old man suddenly leaned over Xu Ke and knelt on the ground, crying bitterly and said:

"The old man is guilty of a great sin! He lured this thief into the house and caused hundreds of thousands of living beings to be poisoned...... Today, thanks to Gongzi's action, he punished the evil and eliminated the traitors, saved the whole family of the old Zhuang from fire and water, and the whole family of the old owner of the old village, thank Gongzi for his great kindness!"

Xu Ke hurriedly stepped forward to help the old man up, and asked Wen Yanxiang:

"Old man, please get up, can you come for one of Xu?"

The white-haired old man looked around the room, only to see that there were all dying people, and under the body of this black-faced man Zhu Qianyuan, there was already a large pool of blood, and even Xu Ke's green clothes were stained with a lot of blood. He couldn't help but sigh a few more times, then led Xu Ke to sit in the front hall, ordered the little servant to light the lamp, and sent refreshments, and the old man told all the reasons for this......

It turned out that the name of this Zhuangzi was "Zhujiazhuang", and there lived in it the old lady Zhu and his family. This white-haired old man is also surnamed Zhu, his name is Hengfa, and he is the housekeeper of Zhujiazhuang. He is very famous within a radius of dozens of miles, and the hundreds of acres of fertile land around him are also the property of his family. This year, there has been a famine since the beginning of summer, and since then, the drought has intensified. The victims of the disaster in the surrounding ten miles and eight towns heard that Zhu Yuanwai had a good name, and they all rushed to ask for help. The old lady Zhu was originally willing to give alms, but the victims gathered more and more, Zhu the old lady was worried that his own food stocks would have to sit on the mountain sooner or later, and secondly, he was also afraid that the victims would make more trouble, so he thought about finding a person with kung fu to take care of his family and care for him.

At this time, Zhu Qianyuan, a distant cousin of Zhu Hengfa, happened to come over to take refuge. I heard that Zhu Qianyuan is quite famous in the rivers and lakes, and his kung fu is also very good, and he once killed more than 30 thieves overnight, and he was nicknamed "Thousand People Slaughter". Zhu Hengfa introduced his cousin to Mrs. Zhu and asked him to be a nurse in Zhuangzi.

That Zhu Qianyuan was quite obedient at the beginning, and he drove away all the victims who made trouble, which made the old lady Zhu very happy, not only rewarded him with a lot of silver taels, but also opened two wings for him to live in, and allowed a young maid to marry him. Unexpectedly, the more rewarding the old lady became, the more greedy Zhu Qianyuan was. Taking advantage of the fact that the government was busy dealing with the disaster, and the surrounding area was full of disaster victims, Zhu Qianyuan suddenly attacked, and overnight, he slapped more than 30 men up and down the entire Zhujiazhuang to death, and also took the corpses to the market for sale. The more than 40 female dependents left behind were imprisoned by him in various side rooms and used for him to prostitute himself every day. Zhu that the old lady had promised to marry his wife, but after just saying a few words about him, he was beaten to death by him, and the body was cut into several pieces by him and put into a cauldron to cook. While chewing meat and drinking soup, he also shouted that it was delicious, and it was called "big white chicken soup". From then on, the female dependents of Zhujiazhuang had a little disobedience to his wishes, so he chopped her alive in public, put the human flesh cut off by the knife into the pot inch by inch to fry and steam, and ate it with relish, so that the rest of the female dependents were frightened. He also renamed this Zhujiazhuang as "Turenzhuang......

After a few months, Zhu Qianyuan recruited more than ten minions from nowhere, and I don't know who came up with the idea, saying that the person's blood can dye the cloth, and the red cloth dyed is Yin Hongsheng blood, which is very popular in the Jiangnan area. He started a blood-stained cloth business in Zhuangzi. Every day he would lead the minions and plunder the plague from all about, and the young and strong would work for him, and the old and the young and the infirm would be used for him to bleed and dye the cloth. Pity these victims, suddenly encountered natural disasters, but also encountered man-made disasters, were robbed to this "slaughtering village" for no reason, not to survive but not to die, every day to be hung in the beam of the house to bleed, until there is no blood to release, but also to be pulled to the human market, as livestock to sell. There are also some people who do not know where to go, once they enter this "slaughtering village", they will never leave the village...... In order to prevent anyone from escaping and informing, he also got a dumb medicine from the green forest, and these people became mute after eating for a long time......

When Xu Ke heard this, he couldn't help but feel inexplicably angry in his heart, and slapped it on the table with a "snap", which shook the table into a crack, and all the cups on the table fell to the ground. He got up and said angrily:

"I can't imagine that under my brilliant work, there are such people who do no evil, and there is such a miserable realm in my Heavenly Empire!"

Zhu Hengfa lamented: "Cough! Childe...... Under the catastrophe, people are like pigs and dogs, and their lives are like ants......"

Xu Ke asked, "This thief is so lawless, ...... you No one will report to the official?"

Zhu Hengfa cried: "This Zhujiazhuang is within a radius of 100 miles, there are disaster victims everywhere, I heard that even in that Xuchang City, there are many disaster victims grabbing food and making trouble every day, the government only thinks about sending troops to suppress it, and try its best to defend the city, who will take care of the affairs in your Zhuangzi......? Decay is also ......"

Xu Ke said gently: "Old man...... Don't blame yourself, last night you first refused me outside the door, and then placed me in a side room, this fist protection, Xu already understood. You are powerless, you are not the opponent of the thief, and it is normal for people to protect themselves in case of trouble, and now, this 'Thousand People Slaughter' is full of evil, and it has been cooked by Xu, and the old man can rest assured......"

Zhu Hengfa pondered for a moment, and then asked: "Young Master Xu, although the first evil has been eliminated, there are still twelve minions under his 'Thousand People Slaughter' in this Zhuangzi. Do you want to ...... Childe?"

Xu Ke waved his hand and said: "God has the virtue of a good life, since these are all minions, there is no need to kill them all, you call them all, and after I teach them a lesson, they will all ......be dismissed."

Zhu Hengfa regarded Xu Ke as a god at this time, and naturally obeyed his words, so the housekeeper immediately ordered several housekeepers to light up and down the air and death lamps in Hezhuang, and ordered people to call all the twelve minions to the front yard, and at the same time, the five-section body of Zhu Qianyuan, the "Thousand People Slaughter", was also carried to the middle of the front yard.

These twelve minions were originally just some robbers who blocked the road and robbed, and in the disaster area, they were just begging for a bite to eat, and most of the bad things they did were forced by the "Thousand People Massacre". Now, they saw that the corpse of the "Thousand People Slaughter" was lying on the ground, and they heard that the young Xu Shaoxia's martial arts were fascinated, and they all knelt on the ground and shouted for mercy......

Xu Ke adhered to the meaning of "the first evil has been eliminated, and the remaining offenders are not asked", and reprimanded the twelve people loudly, and the last sentence: "If you do illegal things again, and Xu hears about it, it will be like this thief!" Xu Ke waved his hand and ordered it to disperse on its own......

Zhu Hengfa took Xu Ke to look at it house by house, and saw that there were people locked up in each room, less than ten people, more than dozens of people, all of them were people with pale faces and thin hands and feet. The men were scarred between their fingers and toes, apparently from constant knife stabs. After they are usually cut with a knife and bled out, they will be fed some blood-invigorating medicine by Zhu Qianyuan, which is called "fat medicine" in Zhuangzi. These people who have been fed dumb medicine and fat medicine are cut and bloodletted by knives every day, but Zhu Qianyuan has a good grasp of this bloodletting gap, after these people are bloodletting, their lives can be left to survive, and the "Thousand People Slaughter" will call these people who specialize in bloodletting "blood chickens". In these more than 30 rooms, hundreds of "blood chickens" were imprisoned......

There was a small courtyard, and there were two wings on each side, but there were more than 20 middle-aged men imprisoned in it. These people specialize in dyeing and printing cloth and other hard labor chores in Zhuangzi, and are called "roosters" by Zhu Qianyuan. They were fed dumb medicine by the "Thousand People Slaughter", and they couldn't even speak with "yaya" in their mouths.

As soon as Dong Shou entered the compound, there were more than ten rooms, but all the women were closed. Zhu Hengfa pushed open one of the rooms, only to see six or seven unkempt young women huddled inside, several of whom were already disheveled and with bare thighs......

Xu Ke sighed, closed the door, and returned to the front hall with Zhu Hengfa. Along the way, Xu Ke asked about the situation of those female dependents, Zhu Hengfa said miserably, the original more than 40 female dependents of Zhujiazhuang, are the concubines of the old lady Zhu and the daughter-in-law and granddaughter-in-law, Zhu Qianyuan locked them in the backyard, prostitution with them every day, once there is a little bored person, she will be killed and cooked, and now half of the female dependents have been chopped and axed by the "thousand people slaughtered" knife, thrown into the kettle, and all turned into food in his belly. Most of the more than 60 women who are currently locked up in the backyard are also victims who were captured by Zhu Qianyuan, and in Zhu Qianyuan's mouth, they are just called "hens". According to the temperament of this "Thousand People Slaughter" who likes to eat human flesh, if Xu Ke hadn't rescued them, these women would have turned into a meal on the plate of Zhu Qianyuan sooner or later......

Xu Ke said with emotion: "This guy has already committed adultery, plunder, and all kinds of evil, why is he so outrageous that he actually did something like devouring human flesh?!"

Zhu Hengfa sighed: "Xu Gongzi doesn't know, now I have suffered a great drought in both Huai, the grass and trees are withering, the livestock are gone, there is no pork and beef on the street, as for the chicken, duck and fish, it is even more difficult to find...... Otherwise, there would not be that 'human market'......"

Xu Ke asked: "Old man, Xu has heard you talk about the 'human market' many times, but I don't know what kind of place this 'human market' is? Is it really a blatant human trafficking?"

Zhu Heng wanted to speak and stopped, but just shook his head and said: "The 'human market' is five miles south of Xuchang City, as for what is sold in the 'human market', the son will know ...... if he sees it."

......

Xu Ke chatted with Zhu Hengfa for more than an hour, and explained that the housekeeper needed to take care of those who were called "blood chickens", "roosters", and "hens", and when their conditions improved, those who were willing to leave should be sent home, and those who were willing to stay should be taken in as good students......

After finishing these things, it was already the beginning of the year, and I wish Hengfa to send it early. Xu Ke asked him to invite Master Yuanren over, and after having breakfast with him, he went out with the monk......

Zhu Heng, the chief housekeeper of Zhujiazhuang, sent out the gate and sent Xu Ke and Yuanren out of the road half a mile away, before he reluctantly said goodbye to the way.

At the time of parting, Xu Ke felt the past, and couldn't help but move in his heart, and suddenly said to Zhu Hengfa and a few people next to him:

"I wish the housekeeper, I don't hide it, Xu is an official of the imperial court, and he is in the position of a hundred households in Tsing Yiwei, and he was ordered to tour the south this time, which is really for disaster relief...... From now on, in addition to taking proper care of the patients in the village, if there are disaster victims around, you should also open the village as much as possible, and it is ...... to do your best to provide relief."

Zhu Hengfa hurriedly bowed down, nodded again and again, and said: "It turned out to be Lord Xu, old and disrespectful! Disrespectful! I am really fortunate to have the name of Lord Xu! In the future, I will definitely follow the teachings of Lord Xu, do good deeds, and feed people to save people......

When Yuanren next to him heard this, he couldn't help but droop his eyes, salute together, and read in his mouth:

"Nam no Amitabha...... My Buddha is merciful, and whoever saves a life, is better than creating a seventh-level floating slaughter...... Feeding the living, accumulating virtue...... The change of the donor's word is very good!"