Li Chongguang has been in Sheng'an City for half a month.

Starting from the beautiful land of Nanyue and the Jiuqu River far away from the world, Li Chongguang walked all the way to Sheng'an, a bustling Xiongcheng in the Central Plains. However, in this Sheng'an City, there are more wonderful things waiting for him.

The celebration of the birthday of the Queen Mother in Sheng'an City lasted for half a month. In addition to visiting various celebrations, Li Chongguang also opened the letter left by the Taoist of Tiansong from time to time, looked at the word "Yuelai" that appeared in it, and wondered what the mystery was.

Unexpectedly, as soon as the birthday celebration ended, on the execution ground of the Chengxi Vegetable Market Camp, he heard this name that had appeared in his mind many times.

Qin Tianjian chamberlain, Yuelai. There is no doubt that Tianji Xin is referring to.

Li Chongguang squeezed all the way to the innermost part of the execution ground, and then saw the heinous sinner Yuelai described in the notice of the beheaded officer.

This Yuelai turned out to be a little girl who was no older than cardamom.

Probably because she was too young and her body bones seemed thin, the shackles of the death row prisoner could not be fastened to her weak body at all, she was just cut off her arms and tied behind her back with a hemp rope.

Squeezing to the front of the crowd to watch the excitement, Li Chongguang saw clearly that in front of each death row prisoner, there was a wooden pier used to let the prisoner put his head, and the wooden pier had been soaked in human blood for many years, and each had a dark red greasy feeling.

Among the condemned prisoners, robbers who endangered people's lives, traffickers who trafficked infants, and officials who took bribes and bent the law were all hideous or treacherous. Only this little girl with a short stature is particularly conspicuous among the crowd of death row inmates.

As the execution progressed, behind each prisoner, there stood a red-clothed executioner with a tiger's back and a bear's waist, each holding a ghost-headed knife in his arms.

Some of the cowardly prisoners, during the execution, would lay their heads on the wooden piers, close their eyes, and shout, "Come." ”

If it is those who are timid and afraid of death, or have been frightened into a puddle of mud and cannot move, there are officers next to them who hold down their shoulders and forcibly put their heads on the wooden piers, and the executioners raise their knives and fall with a bang, and the prisoner's head rolls down like a ball into the bamboo basket in front of the pier.

Immediately, a servant stepped forward, verified his identity, and after completing the registration and making the register, he asked his family to come and pick up the body.

The sins of this life are cut off with a sword. It will not prevent you from entering the earth for peace, and will give you a chance to be a new person in the next life.

Seeing that it was about to be the turn of the little girl Yuelai, the executioner behind Yuelai felt a little pressure, he lowered his voice and secretly said to Yuelai, "Little Nizi, we are just rough people doing manual work, I hope you don't blame the uncle." ”

When Yuelai heard the executioner's tone, she actually sneered, "Don't worry, I know that you are also here to support your family, besides, life and death are fate." ”

The executioner nodded in surprise, picked up a bowl of spirits from the table next to him, and drank it down. Then he picked up a bowl and took a large mouthful of mellow syrup in his mouth, poof, and then the wine syrup sprayed all over the knife surface.

"Xiao Nizi, I don't see that you have any relatives, even if you don't pay for living, I will give you a happy one to ensure that you don't suffer. ”

When the executioner was eighteen years old and learned the craft from his master, he learned a truth from the master, that we cut down prisoners not only to get justice for those who were killed, but also to enable them to be reincarnated as human beings as soon as possible. Therefore, it is a good deed.

If the sin is so great that we can do it so that he will not die when he is tortured, so that he can suffer more on the path to liberation, and we will also help them repay the karma of this life.

If the criminal is not unreasonable, or has his own grievances, although the executioners cannot vindicate the grievances, they can at least give him a simple gift, so that the prisoner can get rid of the pain in the shortest possible time.

It's just that now that there are more executioners, there are gradually fewer people who can stick to this rule, and the families of death row inmates often get hints from the executioners in advance that if they want to leave, they should prepare some life expenses.

The executioner behind Yuelai, like other peers, hid his true face with a beard and hidden his inner thoughts, but he still couldn't bear the guilt of slashing and killing the head of an eight-year-old girl.

"Nizi, I'll let you go on the road refreshingly, and you can also let go of all the grievances in this life. ”

The ghost-headed broadsword slashed down with the whirring wind, but Yuelai didn't even blink an eye, staring at the hairs in the heart of the executioner, always feeling that something would happen.

With a loud bang, the big knife in the executioner's hand suddenly felt light, and the fallen half of the blade spun and plunged into the ground by more than an inch.

"What man!" the executioner shouted, and although he didn't see what was happening, he realized that the slightly thin young man who had suddenly appeared in front of him had used some means to cut the ghost-headed broadsword in his hand in two.

As the executioner's figure retreated, the soldiers on guard around him quickly surrounded him, but the young man gave up his hand unhurriedly.

"Ladies and gentlemen, I would like to ask, how could this girl who is less than ten years old commit such a heinous crime, if even such a young girl has to be killed, then what is the fairness and justice we maintain?"

As he spoke, he waved his palm, and the finger-thick hemp rope behind Yuelai broke in response, and Yuelai rubbed his arms that were somewhat numb by the hemp rope, while hiding behind Li Chongguang freely, and stuck out his tongue at the executioner.

The official in charge of supervising the beheading was most afraid that something would go wrong when he performed his duties, and seeing that there was a big change on the execution ground, he gave an order, and all the surrounding swords, axes, and archers surrounded him, and behind the prison beheader, there was also a middle-aged man dressed in black, who seemed to be a master.

Looking at Li Chongguang, who was surrounded by heavy pressures, the prison officer felt a little comforted in his heart, and shouted at the young man in front of him who didn't know the height of the sky, "Those who rob the law field will punish the three clans." You're not trying to defy the law, are you? As for the crimes committed by the death row prisoners, it was determined by the Tingwei Mansion in accordance with the laws of our Great Xia Kingdom, and it had nothing to do with the people we executed. ”

"My lord means just cutting off the head, and it has nothing to do with you whether the prisoner is innocent or not?"

"Yes. ”

The prison officer answered categorically, but he never expected that this sentence stimulated the surrounding people of Sheng'an who like to watch the excitement, in addition to the adult world just to see the excitement of a beheading, in fact, everyone's heart also hides a trace of the most humble, the most simple sense of justice, listening to the prison officer's disregard for the lives of the people, together "boo".

This made the prison officer a little uncomfortable, but it stimulated his anger even more, and he shouted at the other executioners, "Kill this prisoner for me!"

The other officers and soldiers had no choice but to besiege but not attack, wanting to leave the credit for beheading such a clever little girl to the executioners dressed in red.

However, the executioners had the rules of the executioner, and the prisoner could only be handed over to the executioner who had arranged for him. Although Yuelai's executioner has been cut off by the devil's head broadsword, the remaining half of the broadsword is enough to cut off the neck of the little girl.

But that person was originally weak about slashing and killing such a young girl, and now a person who robbed the law field appeared out of thin air, with many years of experience in harvesting human lives, it is better to look at the situation.

Looking at the bluff of the officers and soldiers, but they didn't dare to let Yuelai's head move, nor did they dare to directly confront the person who robbed the law field, the man in Xuanyi who had been following behind the prison beheader suddenly bypassed the prison officer's wide and fat body, and whispered to the prison officer, "Since Lord Zhou is embarrassed, then why don't you let me solve this problem for the adult......

The high-spirited supervisor Lord Zhou, when he heard the words of the man in Xuanyi, not only was he not angry, but he immediately nodded his head to flatter.

"Originally, I didn't dare to bother Lord Tong, but since Lord Tong was willing to help, then the lower officials were naturally grateful. ”

The man in Xuanyi didn't talk nonsense, and came directly to Li Chongguang,

"I don't know what Your Excellency has to do with this demon girl, but the cultivators of my generation should support justice and ensure that the feet of this son of heaven are pure. ”

Li Chongguang arched his hand, "In Xia Nanyue, Li Chongguang, did not ask the adult Gao surname? I don't know this girl, but I received the master's arrangement, this woman is on a mission, I need to take her back to ask clearly, if she really should be killed, she will definitely be returned to the adult, and there is absolutely no intention of protection." ”

The man in Xuanyi didn't mind Li Chongguang's directness, he even admired Li Chongguang a little. This young man is alone, and in the face of such a disparity in strength, he still has the style of a general, and he has his own blood and shadow back then.

"In the lower Qintian, the sacrificial wine, Tong Baixiong. ”

After a moment's hesitation, Tong Baixiong continued to explain, "Don't be deceived by this Nizi's appearance, although she seems to be young, she is actually ...... In fact, he is treacherous and cunning, and he guards and steals from himself. ”

"Phew!"

Yuelai, who was hiding behind Li Chongguang, grabbed Li Chongguang's belt with one hand, exposed half of his face from under his armpit, and spat at Tong Baixiong,

"You spray people with blood, I didn't steal it, I didn't steal it, but it's you, I think it's the most suspicious. I really can't do it, wait for Master to come back and give us a review. ”

As soon as Yuelai said this, Tong Baixiong completely lost his patience, and then put on a posture, put his palms together on his chest, and then rotated one hundred and eighty degrees, and there was a faint golden light in his palms.

"Little Brother Li, since you insist on standing up for this goblin, then I can only do business and arrest both of you at the same time. ”

Li Chongguang didn't know what kind of skill this Bai Baixiong's extremely confident tone came from, so he had to be careful and vigilant, and at the same time told Yuelai, "You have to follow me, or we will be alone, I'm afraid we will lose our heads." Saying that, Li Chongguang also made a head-cutting action on his neck with the palm of his hand, which provoked Yuelai to stick out his tongue again, and his innocent smile made people feel pity when they looked at it.

Tong Baixiong had no intention of showing off his skills, he just wanted to correct Yuelai on the spot as soon as possible.

When he was sweating profusely because of the palms, the golden light in the palms became more and more abundant, and when the palms finally opened magically, a talisman wrapped in golden light swirled in the air and slowly rotated.

And at this moment, Yuelai's heart was also secretly proud, and this time it seemed to have a good premonition with herself. Master's words will probably come true.

Although Li Chongguang's body size is one size smaller than the heroic model he guessed, his spirit is commendable, at least he snatched himself out from under the knife.

Li Chongguang and Yuelai almost ignored the officials who came and went around them, and even ignored the hundred bears who were capturing them.

Tong Baixiong howled angrily,

"Sheng'an Xiongcheng, at the feet of the Son of Heaven, with the assistance of my Qin Tianjian, the dragon vein of the Son of Heaven is spit out with the aura of heaven and earth, and no demons and filths can be presumptuous!"

Who knew that Li Chongguang was not in a hurry and completely blocked Yuelai behind him, and just wanted to fight again, but he heard a shout from Tong Baixiong, "Heaven and earth!"

When Yuelai heard this name, she trembled slightly, and pulled the corner of Li Chongguang's clothes, "Big brother, his trick is still a bit powerful, let's find a way to escape." ”

Li Chongguang smiled secretly in his heart, "Escape, where can we run? But we won't sit still." ”

Li Chongguang silently took out the sword from the scabbard, and said calmly and powerfully,

"Master Tong has a net of heaven and earth, it just so happens that I have one to open the sky, let's talk about it together. ”