Chapter 36: The Loyal Soul

The history of the Ministry of Shangshu Jianhou served as the envoy of Hebei Province, and the envoy was responsible for inspecting the affairs of the local provinces and states. The emperor was overjoyed when he heard this, and then issued an edict saying: "The appointment of this material must go beyond the conventional order, and the creation of great achievements must also go beyond the normal system. ”

He also said: "The pillar of the country, Ansimen, is the treasure of the birth of the river and mountain soldiers, and the outstanding talent of the mighty and outstanding; it is like the Great Wall, guarding and defending the frontier; and the decisive battle of the unified army is sure to win, which is in line with the military thinking of the grandson of the ancients and Wu Zi...... In the past, the old classics should be like the heroes of the Han Dynasty with mountains and rivers as an oath......"

The official department Shangshu Jianhou is naturally Du Rushan's person. Last time, An Simen asked for a performance, saying that he dreamed that Du Rushan gave him a dream, which made him win a great battle and killed the Tuyuhun chief Akbu. Afterwards, the emperor crowned Du Rushan as the Duke of Dingguo and gave him the first house, and An Simen's move made Du Rushan very useful, and gradually relaxed his vigilance. In order to appease An Simen, Shang Shu Jianhou of the special ministry said good things about An Simen in front of the emperor when he returned from a tour in Hebei, and the emperor had favored An Simen, and after hearing this, he naturally added an official to An Simen and rewarded him generously, which is not counted, and named An Simen's two wives Zhou and Duan as Mrs. Guo.

After Shi Lan's death, Henan Jiedu has been vacant so far, and many people in the DPRK and China have coveted this position, and finally it fell into the hands of An Simen. In this way, Henan, Hebei, Liangfan, and Haihai were all included in the pocket of Ansimen, and their power became more and more powerful.

A few days after the official was added to the knighthood, An Simen offered countless gold and silver utensils, slaves and maids, and camels and horses in order to thank heaven. The old house in the imperial city of Ansimen was visited by the government, and the emperor thought it was too simple and narrow, so he chose another piece of land in Qinren's visit and took out his own treasury money and silver to build another mansion for Ansishu. He also decreed that the officials concerned should be as gorgeous as they could be, regardless of how much money or goods were spent.

The emperor's favor for An Simen is getting higher and higher, but An Simen is not happy, because if he wants to realize his ambition to recover the Turks, he must remove all the obstacles in front of him, and Du Rushan is the largest mountain in front of him.

Fanyang Jiedu Mansion-Xishui Courtyard, An Simen played with the woman in his arms, the woman's eyes were like silk, and she ......was panting again and again. The door opened from the inside with a "squeak", and Wu Gong, who had one ear, walked in, saw the woman in An Simen's arms, and said coldly: "Get out!" The woman's face was discolored, and she hurriedly climbed out of An Simen's elastic belly, and ran to the door in disheveled clothes.

An Simen helped his stomach up, and he was not angry, and said with a smile: "Wu Gong, do you think this woman looks like Ji Guifei?" Wu Gong said angrily: "The woman who thinks about the emperor's old son all day long, you are fighting for some anger, you are the emperor, and you will be the emperor yourself, when the time comes, aren't all the women in the world yours?" An Simen said: "What you said is easy, let me ask you, to be the emperor, don't say anything else, how can Du Rushan pass this pass?" After finishing speaking, he sighed and said: " Wu Gong, we are our own family, I am not afraid of your jokes, I am very scared when I see him, even if I can't see it, I have nightmares when I think about it at night, he ...... He's terrible!" Wu Gong said: "Are you afraid of his yin and yang talisman?" An Simen said: "But isn't it? If he is unhappy one day, he will plant one or two on me, not to mention being an emperor, but I am afraid that he can be a puppet and be at his mercy." An Simen remembered the tragic life after being planted with the Yin and Yang Talisman, his face turned pale, and he couldn't help but tremble.

Wu Gong saw An Simen's whole body trembling like chaff, knowing that this little An Zitian was not afraid of the earth, and the whole world was only afraid of this Du Rushan, and thought: I have to think of a way to get rid of his fear, otherwise it will be difficult to achieve great things. In fact, Wu Gong had this idea, not starting today, he had already calculated in his heart, so he said: "Xiao Anzi, I have an idea, so that you don't have to be so afraid of him." "What do you have in mind?" An Simen asked lazily, he himself had racked his brains, thinking day and night about how to get rid of Du Rushan's control, but none of them worked. So much so that he didn't believe that Wu Gong could come up with any good ideas.

Wu Gongdao: "You are afraid of Du Rushan, nothing more than afraid of him two things, one is his martial arts, the other is his yin and yang charms, let's collect the world's masters, love money to give him two silver, lustful with his beauty, the official addiction to Xu Qi's official position, set up a "Juxian Hall", we can't beat him, what about ten hundred? As for the yin-yang talisman...... If you are accidentally planted, let's let the master of "Juxiantang" snatch his wife, threaten his wife, and solve your yin and yang talismans, since he has turned his face, he will not have a chance to plant it again in the future. Although Du Rushan is ruthless and unrighteous, he takes this wife very seriously......"

When An Simen heard Wu Gong say this, he couldn't help but interrupt him and said, "It's naturally good to be able to snatch his wife." But to rob people in that old thief's mansion is tantamount to a fool's dream!" Wu Gong said: "That's right! It's a little more difficult, but whether we can succeed depends on who we recruit from the "Juxian Hall". And ......", "And what?" Du Rushan hurriedly asked. "And Du Lao's wife also has a time to go out of the house, she will go to Yongle Temple on March 18 every year to burn incense and worship the Buddha...... "Wu Gongdao." "Ouch! don't make trouble!" Wu Gong shouted, it turned out that An Simen heard Wu Gong say that Mrs. Du would go to Yongle Temple every March 18, and felt that the chance of snatching Mrs. Du had increased exponentially, so he jumped up and hugged Wu Gong as soon as he was happy.

Yongle Temple is in Chang'an City, the temple incense is effective, the prayer and praying people are endless, and the pilgrims are weaving every day. Princes and aristocratic wives, businessmen and wealthy ladies love to go to this temple to pray for blessings. It is naturally a hundred times easier to set up an ambush here and rob Mrs. Du than in Du Rushan's house, An Simen danced happily, and said with a smile: "Wu Gong, you can come up with such a good idea, how much money, beauty, and official position are needed, you just ask!"

After Wu Gong left, An Simen was in a good mood, remembering that he had not finished playing just now, so he summoned the woman again, and after some play, he did the joy ......of clouds and rain again.

There are only three days left before the month, Qian Wanzhong still has no news, seeing that the January period is approaching in a blink of an eye, Gu Siyuan is as anxious as an ant on a hot pot, pacing back and forth in the room, can he not be in a hurry? The earnest eyes of the old friend on his deathbed are as vivid as yesterday, he will never allow Yu Yiqi to have anything to do, never! And what about Fan Kui? Du Rushan asked for his head, the three of them were tight-lipped about him, although Gu Siyuan was kind to Fan Kui, but he could not let him die for others, a person like Gu Siyuan would never be able to do such a thing. Before the lunch grain was eaten, Gu Siyuan had been walking in the room on an empty stomach for more than an hour, and he was still waiting for the news ...... Qian Wanzhong with hope.

"Your Excellency, your Excellency. Qian Wanzhong's anxious voice came from outside the door. Gu Siyuan stepped to the door with an arrow step, opened the door, and saw Qian Wanzhong's cheeks swollen and red, standing at the door with sweaty clothes, and there was no one beside him. Gu Siyuan said eagerly: "Didn't you find it?" He saw Qian Wanzhong standing at the door alone, only to feel that his heart slowly sank to the bottom. "Looking for it, it's not quite like it, I'll take you to take a look, can you see it?" Gu Siyuan said: "You lead the way, let's go! Let's take a look first!" After speaking, he didn't care about changing his clothes, and followed Qian Wanzhong out. "My lord, I didn't dare to take people to the house, so I put them in a house not far from the house, and I went out of the house and crossed Chunyang Street and Shigu Street, and it only took a meal to ride a horse...... It's really a stroke of luck to find someone to replace you like this, you should have found all the dungeons that you could find, and I didn't find anything that looked very similar to Fan Kui, and my subordinates were really incompetent......" Qian Wanzhong walked in front of him, his tone full of guilt. Gu Siyuan said: "How can this be blamed Brother Xian, let's ride over, in case it is not known, in short, let's go and see it first!"

The two of them went out of the mansion gate, rode fast horses, and Qian Wanzhong led the way in front, running towards the house one after the other. When I came to the corner of Chunyang Street, I suddenly saw a group of people in front of me, about 20 people, escorting a prisoner cart, on which a man was handcuffed and shackled, and his face was covered with blood. When the first person saw Gu Siyuan, he immediately dismounted and knelt down to salute, Gu Siyuan recognized this person as House Ming, and it was Counselor Cao of Du Rushan Mansion. After bowing his head slightly, he asked, "What kind of prisoner did you catch?" The house said: "Lord Hui, this prisoner is extremely evil, and it took great pains to capture him, it seems that his name is Fan Kui, who served as a cavalry captain in Fan Yang......"

Gu Siyuan's head sounded, and he hurriedly looked at the prisoner car, and carefully identified that it was indeed Fan Kui. Fan Kui's face was covered with blood and his hair was unkempt, and neither of them dreamed that it would be him, so when they saw him at first glance, they didn't recognize him. "Impossible! How could it be? How could they catch him?" After Fan Kui rescued Zhang Yihammer and sent Zhang Yihammer to Banxian Town in Henan, Yu Yiqi placed him in an absolutely safe place, while Zhang Yihammer went up to Huashan. Fan Kui's hiding place was impossible for Du Rushan's people to find, and at this point, Gu Siyuan had no doubt at all. So he stared at Fan Kui in confusion, Fan Kui only glanced at the two of them, pretended not to know, and immediately looked up at the sky.

The house Ming escorted Fan Kui away, and the two of them were still standing in place, unable to come back to their senses for a while, and kept saying in their hearts: "Impossible, absolutely impossible!" At this moment, it is already superfluous to look at the person who was found from the prison. The two of them were stunned for a moment, turned their horses' heads, and walked back. "My lord, if Fan Kui is arrested, will the others be in danger?" Qian Wanzhong said. "Fan Kui was not arrested, but deliberately sent to them to be arrested!" Gu Siyuan said affirmatively. Gu Siyuan thought to himself: Fan Kui's hiding place is quite hidden, with his own understanding of Fan Kui, someone must have inadvertently leaked the news and let Fan Kui know about this matter, in order not to affect the overall plan, he chose to sacrifice himself to protect the overall situation. "It must be like this, he has already entrusted his life to the adults. Qian Wanzhong said sadly.

......Who instructed you?" The Qinglong envoy held a three-inch-long sharp knife in his hand, stretched out his mouth to add blood from the tip of the knife, and asked as he looked at the Suzaku envoy beside him. Qinglong was in a very good mood at the moment, and he personally caught Fan Kui in Banxian Town, Henan, and Du Rushan asked Fang Ming to escort Fan Kui back to Beijing. The Qinglong envoy has always suspected that Fan Kui rescued Zhang Yihammer, which was secretly instructed by Zhu Xian'er. Now, as long as Fan Kui is recruited by some means, Zhu Xian'er will be finished. "Zhu Xian'er, if Lao Tzu can't get you, he won't let others be happy, Lao Tzu will ruin you!" Qinglong said fiercely in his heart.

Fan Kui was tied to a cross made of logs, his upper body was naked, his outstretched hands were tied to the logs, his face was covered in blood, his hair was wet and still dripping, his eyes drooped, and his whole body was convulsed. Apparently tortured by the Qinglong envoy Lian and fainted, and then was woken up with cold water and continued to be handcuffed.

Du Rushan sat on the chair next to him, frowning, he didn't look at Fan Kui at all, he just stared at Zhu Xian'er without turning his eyes. Seeing that Fan Kui was still the same as just now, the Qinglong envoy bit his lips tightly and said without saying a word, so he said angrily: "Four nails pierce armor!" Someone next to him immediately brought two large and two small four iron nails, the small one was about three inches long, and the large one was five inches long. The torture of "four nails piercing armor" was invented by the Qinglong envoy, that is, four long nails were used to penetrate the limbs and nail the tortured person to a log.

Instead of nailing the palm of the hand, two smaller nails are driven into the cylinder from the pulse of the wrist, and the larger nail is driven into the ankle. During the process of nailing the pulse of the wrist, the muscle keys connecting the shoulders will break, forcing the prisoner to rely on the muscles of the back to let the air flow out of the lungs to breathe, so that the back must be off the column, and the weight of the whole body can only be borne by the iron nails of the feet...... This is the most brutal form of criminal law, in which the victim will not die until the last drop of blood has been shed, and the whole process will be extremely painful and conscious.

One of them was about to nail a small iron nail into Fan Kui's left wrist, only to hear Du Rushan say: "Wait! Let Suzaku come!"

...... From the moment she entered this room and saw Fan Kui, Yu Yiqi knew that she would undergo the biggest test in her life today. Even if it's just the inappropriateness of one of his eyes, it will fall into Du Rushan's eyes. Fan Kui pretended not to know her during the trial, and asked her fiercely who she was, but he looked at his eyes and told himself that he was ready to die for the sake of Master Gu. "What should I do? What should I do?" Yu Yiqi kept asking herself, she thought about fighting to the death to save Fan Kui, but this was just an extra life, and it would ruin Uncle Gu's big deal.

But, now! Du Rushan wants to pick up the iron nail in his hand to nail Fan Kui's wrist, how can Yu Yiqi get his hands on it? But does he have any other choice? Yu Yiqi took a deep breath and walked towards Fan Kui...... "You can't shake your hands, you can't shake your feet! You can't shed tears!" Yu Yiqi kept telling herself.

Du Rushan looked at Yu Yiqi's eyes like a deep pool, silently, and walked towards Fan Kui steadily...... With a nail in his left hand and a hammer in his right hand, he drove it into ...... left wrist.

This is what a young girl can bear, at this time her heart is like Fan Kui on the cross, enduring the most painful torment.

"Yes, I shouldn't doubt it. Yu Yiqi told herself, slowly walking towards Fan Kui's right hand. The tip of the iron nail in his left hand was inward, and he was calculating the distance that Fan Kui's neck could stretch, and when the two were about to pass by, Fan Kui shouted: "Dead demon girl, you dare to nail me, I will bite you to death!" After speaking, he stretched his neck to bite Yu Yiqi's right ear, but took advantage of the situation to cross his neck from the tip of the nail, Yu Yiqi's body deviated to the right, and his left wrist was reversed, only to see a blood line shoot out from Fan Kui's neck and shins, Fan Kui laughed and said: "Dead demon girl!

It turned out that when Du Rushan asked her to carry out the torture of "four nails piercing armor", Yu Yiqi had almost made a decision, and when she nailed Fan Kui's left wrist with an iron nail, Fan Kui whispered to her the words "Kill me!" made her even more painful. Yes, if he had to die, why should he be tortured by that inhuman torture before he died? Now what I can help him is to free him as soon as possible.

When Yu Yiqi walked towards Fan Kui's right hand, the tip of the iron nail was pointed inward, and then the cuff was covered. When Fan Kui bit her right ear, Yu Yiqi pretended to dodge and blocked Du Rushan's sight with her body, and her left wrist was reversed, and the tip of the nail was unmatched, and the two times were forced, and the great artery on the tibia was immediately cut .......

Du Rushan looked at Fan Kui, who was already dead, and then looked at the cold and charming face in front of Fan Kui, and left without looking back. The Qinglong envoy glanced at Yu Yiqi fiercely, and dropped a sentence: "Pull it out and feed the dog!" and left stupidly.