"My lord, the prisoner has finished his trial, this is a crime of mortal hospitality, and the case of the murder of Fang Shengyu, he also pleaded guilty. ”

On the morning of the second day, Li Xiuyuan, who was in the prefect's yamen, received a confession letter from Cui Wei.

"It's over so soon? Li Xiuyuan looked at the confession book in his hand, and his eyes couldn't help but move slightly: "Tell me about the origin of this person." ”

"Yes, sir. Cui Wei said: "This maid named Xi'er, formerly known as Wang Erxi, is a person from a county in Shandong, because she was poor since she was a child, she was sold to a certain family as a scholar, and later she couldn't stand the abuse of her master and ran away, and went to the capital to worship a demon as a master, and learned to dress as a man and a woman

The ability to pretend. ”

"Can you become like this just by dressing up?" Li Xiuyuan said, "It said that he had taken pills, and only then did he hide his Adam's apple, his skin became fair, and he had the posture of a woman. ”

"Yes, my lord, this Wang Erxi has eaten a pill given to him by his master, and he has a beautiful figure because he is dressed up. Cui Wei said.

Li Xiuyuan said: "This pill has been wiped out, and the confession will be rewritten by the civil official, if some dignitaries know that there is such a pill, who knows how many boys they will harm." ”

Cui Wei paused for a moment, and then immediately understood what he meant.

There are many dignitaries and dignitaries in the capital who like it**, if you know that there is such a pill in the world, it is difficult to guarantee that no one will satisfy your own personal habits and let people find it.

"My lord, this is not the first time that Wang Erxi has been sold into the mansion of a dignitary and dignitary as a woman, this is the seventh time he has committed a crime, every time he enters a mansion, he must first seduce the lady of the house, and because the lady of the house only thinks he is a woman, so he has never been guarded against it, so he easily succeeds every time,

After succeeding, Wang Erxi used this as a threat, asking for a large amount of money, gold and silver, and then wrapped up the money, absconded from the house, and continued to sell himself after the squandering. ”

Although those women knew that they had been deceived, they did not dare to reveal it because of their reputation, so that his affairs were never discovered. ”

After listening to this, Li Xiuyuan smiled and said: "Cheating money and sex, this guy is very powerful, and such a means can also be thought of, if anyone is greedy to buy such a maid into the house, who is afraid that he will fall into eight lifetimes of mold, it seems that this cheap still can't be greedy." ”

Cui Wei said again, "What the lord said, and according to Wang Erxi, there are already many people who do his business, and there are more than ten disciples under his master alone, all of whom have taken pills and disguised as men. ”

"In this way, this is pulling out the radish and bringing out the mud," Li Xiuyuan said: "In the capital, there are three families named in this crime book who have been deceived, hehe, if those adults know that their wives have cuckolded themselves, I don't know what kind ......of mood they will have, but

What I didn't expect was that there were still many people who committed crimes by such means. ”

"Did you find out where his master was? Find out and arrest him, and save that guy from continuing to spread this kind of murderous scheme. ”

Cui Wei said: "Yes, my lord, I will order the jailer of the prison to interrogate and interrogate." ”

"Very well, then you can go. Li Xiuyuan waved his hand.

But right now.

The mansion of Zhang Yuan, the servant of the capital ministry.

Today, many literati, scholars, and officials came to visit him.

It's all about Li Xiuyuan.

"Lord Zhang, do you want to impeach that Li Xiuyuan to this official, as soon as this person took over the prefect, he drove the lower officials and others out of the yamen, and also removed the officials in the yamen and replaced them with his own soldiers

When he was about to go to the prefect's yamen to ask for clarification, he was detained by Li Xiuyuan's people and put in prison. ”

"Then Li Xiuyuan's evil deeds are not only like this, he broke into Fang's mansion under the pretext of thoroughly investigating the case of Fang Shengyu's assassination, bullied Lord Fang's widow and orphan, and even in order to solve the case, he did not hesitate to arrest a maid in Lord Fang's mansion and forcibly pointed out that he was a demon of the Wutong Sect, and he didn't know what method he used

persuaded everyone in the Fang Mansion, and even Mrs. Fang was grateful to her. Xia Guan felt that this person must have used despicable means to threaten them, and asked Lord Zhang to uphold justice. ”

"Yes, what they said is very reasonable, this Li Xiuyuan has only been in office for three days and has done so many things, if he is allowed to continue to do it, God knows what else he will do. ”

Zhang Yuan, the servant of the ministry, squinted his eyes slightly and listened to the complaints of these people, he knew in his heart that it was just Li Xiuyuan who offended these people when he was doing things, and now he had sued himself.

Who made himself a servant?

"This official already knows about this, Li Xiuyuan was born in this show, he first became a scholar and a martial artist, and stepped into the court by destroying the King of the Nine Mountains, it is inevitable that he will be a little ambitious and arrogant, after all, he is young and vigorous? But since this Li Xiuyuan has done so many things that make people dissatisfied,

It is true that impeachment and impeachment should be carried out, and if several people are willing to join forces, this official is willing to take the lead. Zhang Yuandao.

These literati who came to complain, the officials were overjoyed when they heard this, and they expressed their willingness to jointly play and impeach Li Xiuyuan together.

Zhang Yuan naturally knew in his heart that one impeachment would not bring down Li Xiuyuan, but it would not get in the way, it was just to leave a bad impression on the official family first, and then continue to impeach a few times later.

The official's ears are soft, and if he does it a few more times, Li Xiuyuan estimates that he will not even have the position of the prefect properly, and he will soon be dismissed and leave.

As for returning to Yangzhou as a assassin, it was even more of a dream.

It's night.

Zhang Yuan asked the servant to light the candle in the study, and then sharpened the ink and twisted the pen, thinking a little, and preparing to write a note of impeachment.

But just when he picked up the pen and dye the ink and was about to write.

"Let's do it~!"

A drop of ink on the tip of the pen fell on the white paper, but what surprised Zhang Yuan was that the ink that fell was not black, but red.

"Click~!"

A slight cracking sound sounded, but Zhang Yuan found that the very handy brush in his hand suddenly cracked from the middle and became two halves.

The barrel of the pen, the tip of the pen fell on the white paper and became a mess.

Zhang Yuan's face was around him, and he stood up suddenly, his face was solemn, and he held his breath and looked at the broken ink pen in front of him.

"The tip of the pen is dripping blood, and the ink pen is cracking, which is an ominous sign. ”

This vision, such as the fall of the flag of the commander in the army, is a great omen, symbolizing the death of the master.

As a servant of the ministry, I have seen a lot, and I believe in some things.

"I can't write this piece .......," Zhang Yuan didn't know why such an idea popped up in his mind.

But then he smiled dumbly: "Zi Bu is strange and confused, as a servant of the ministry, is he also afraid of retribution? If there is retribution, how can this official be a waiter, as an official of the imperial court, even the ghosts and gods have to take a detour when they see this official." ”

Thinking of this, Zhang Yuan chose another ink pen and prepared to continue writing the recital.

But when he reached out, he found that his right hand was dyed with a little ink at some point, and the back of his hand was blackened.

I reached out and wiped it, but found that there was no ink on my fingers.

The black imprint ink stained .....

But Zhang Yuan saw that the black mark in his hand was rapidly spreading and getting bigger, and at the same time, he also felt dizzy, he leaned on the desk and rubbed his head: "What's the matter? Why does this official feel extremely tired and .....drowsy today?"

Before he could finish speaking, he collapsed and fell unconscious on his desk.

At this time, a pitch-black centipede came out of the cracked pen next to him, and this centipede swam around the white paper, and then went down Zhang Yuan's cheek into his ear.

A moment later.

Zhang Yuan's whole body trembled slightly, and then blood flowed from his ears and nose, and his breath was quickly cut off.

But after a few more hours, Zhang Yuan, who was out of breath, suddenly opened his eyes and sobered up.

His eyes were pitch black and had no pupils, which made him look strange.

"Finally wait for the day when your fellow blessings are exhausted, it's really not easy to murder a squire, this person has accumulated too much merit in his previous life, and he hasn't been consumed for almost ten years as a squire, if he hadn't participated in the murder of that human saint, it is estimated that he will have ten years of official status in the next life

Fortune...... But now, not only will I lose my life, but I will also suffer in the next life. The literati hold the pen to harm others, such as a thief using a knife to kill people, these evil thoughts instantly extinguished the last bit of merit of this person, so that I have a start

Opportunity to murder. ”

Zhang Yuan muttered in his mouth, and then moved his hands and feet again, revealing a satisfied look.

Looking at the neatly arranged movement, it was immediately lost.

"Fighting grass and startling snakes, this is a bad thing for the ancestors, these literati are not enough to succeed and more than to lose. ”