Chapter 166 Ghost Gang 6

Zhang Lingyu wanted to leave, Mrs. Wen warmly retained, and Lingyu secretly said: "I want to kill your husband over there, and I can't bear to sit and eat and drink at your house here, but there is no other way, not killing him is not enough to make people angry." Thinking of this, he said, "I came on horseback, and besides, I have to go to the county seat to see if I really capture the Ghost King." Mrs. Wen kept her again and again, but Lingyu still insisted on leaving the Wen family, and secretly thought: "Seeing that Mrs. is also a kind person, she will be widowed if she is unfortunate, and she can't blame me, mainly because he has done too much evil and is unforgivable." Thinking of walking towards the outside of the village, the sun had just set.

Zhang Lingyu came to Zhuangkou to whistle, the oolong horse ran quickly from the grass in the distance, Lingyu jumped on the horse, shook the reins and ran along the original road towards the county seat. As the saying goes, Maxima travels thousands of miles in a day and eight hundred at night, and the distance of dozens of miles quickly arrived at Shangying County, but the sky is still dark, Lingyu saw that the city gate was not closed and urged the horse to enter the city, and slowly tried to find an inn on the street, and walked for a while to see four lanterns hanging on the front door, and the lanterns had the words "Wan'an Inn".

Zhang Lingyu rode his horse to the door of Wan'an Inn, Xiao Er heard the sound in the house and went out to see, and saw a handsome young man on a horse with a backpack and a sword and a dusty servant jumping off the horse, Xiao Er hurriedly greeted him with a smile on his face and said: "Does Childe want to stay in the hotel?" Lingyu said: "Yes, prepare an upper room for me, and my horse must also have good materials." Xiao Er smiled and said, "Okay." He turned his head up and shouted into the house, "Li San, come and lead Gongzi's horse to the backyard and add good forage." A young man immediately ran out of the house, ran to Lingyu and said, 'Please give me the horse.' After speaking, he took the reins from Lingyu's hand and led the horse from the side to the backyard. Xiao Er smiled and said to Lingyu: "Childe, please follow me to the counter." ’

Zhang Lingyu walked into the inn with Xiao Er. I saw that there were fifty percent of the guests in the hall. They are all eating and drinking. They are all talking about the destruction of the Ghost Gang, and they are all gossip, and no one can tell the specific situation. Lingyu followed Xiao to the cabinet and took the key, Lingyu said: "Little second brother, you get me some wine and food first, and then enter the room after eating." Xiao Er responded and brought Lingyu to an empty table by the window and sat down, Xiao Er said, "Childe, what dish do you want to thank." Lingyu said, "Put a few of the best dishes in your store." Just a good pot of wine. Xiao Er said: "Childe, wait a minute, it will be fine immediately." Then he went down to the kitchen.

A middle-aged drinker looked at Lingyu's dusty appearance and said, "I think Gongzi seems to have just entered the city, hasn't the city gate been closed yet?" Lingyu said: "Yes, the city gate is still wide open." A young man at the table next to him said, 'Do you know why the gates are not closed at such a late hour?' The middle-aged drinker said: "I must have heard that the Ghost Gang has been destroyed, and there is no need to close the city gate when the world is peaceful." The young man said, "Of course not, that's because Wen Zhutou led people to escort the ghost gang leader to the culprit, and the ghost king has not returned." The middle-aged drinker asked, 'How do you know so clearly?' The young man said, "My cousin is a catcher in the Yamen, and he told me." ’

After a while, Xiao Er brought up the wine and food that Lingyu wanted, put it on the table, and put it on the table: "Son, you use it slowly, if you have anything, just tell me." Lingyu said, "It's okay now, you can go and get busy." Then he poured himself a drink, ate and drank. Because I didn't eat at noon, plus the good food and wine were even sweeter. Lingyu was full of wine and food and was about to ask Xiao Er to take him to the guest room, when he suddenly heard the sound of cars and horses on the street, Xiao Er hurriedly ran to the gate and looked down the street, and said in surprise: "It's Wen Zhutou who escorted the ghost gang back." When the drinkers in the house heard this, they all got up and went out to see what was going on, and someone said, 'Who is the prisoner, and why haven't you seen a single person locked up by the gang?' The other said, "Is it true that the pockets of the carriage are full of swag?" Everybody's talking.

Zhang Lingyu looked at the street from the window, and saw the ghost lying on the carriage without moving, so he said to him with a sound transmission: "Wen Jianzhang, I have been to your house, I believe that you are telling the truth, you can rest assured that you will go to the Fa, it is best not to play any tricks." When the Ghost King heard this, he hurriedly looked up, but he didn't see Lingyu, and knew that it was Lingyu's voice in the dark, so he lowered his head and buried it again.

The next day, the trial was held in the hall of the county government, the door was open for people to observe, the gate of the hall was crowded, most people were still waiting outside the gate to hear the news, the people of Wangjiazhuang and Liujiazhuang testified, and the ghost king confessed to all his crimes. For the villains of the Ghost Gang, as long as it is confirmed that it is correct, it does not have to be reported to the Criminal Department to correct the law on the spot, and the court has allocated 5,000 taels of silver to reward the meritorious people. The county lord pronounced the sentence on the spot, and three days later he was executed at the entrance of the vegetable market on Nanjie, using the method of dividing the corpse of five horses; because Zhang Lingyu did not know where to go, he gave the silver reward to the people of Wangjiazhuang and Liujiazhuang. Later, Wang Yuanwai and Liu Yuanwai discussed taking out some silver to compensate the victims' families, and the rest of the silver was used to build a Zhang Tianshi Temple, but it was Zhang Lingyu's statue, which was not mentioned later.

As soon as the news that the ghost king was going to be divided by five horses, it immediately spread, and three days later, in the morning, the vegetable market on the south street of Shangying County was already crowded with people, and at nine o'clock Wen Zhu took the arrester to escort the ghost king to the vegetable market with a prisoner car, and cursed him all the way, and some even threw some dirt on his head. The prisoner cart came to the Caishikou execution ground, and the two arresters quickly dragged the ghost king off the prisoner cart and put him in the execution ground, one of them quickly stretched out his legs and swept the ghost king to the ground, let him face the sky on his back, his hands and feet were spread like a big zigzag, and his hands, feet and head were tied with ropes and carried on the bodies of the five horses, and the five catchers quickly led the five horses to stand in five different directions; on the other side of the execution ground was a row of wooden stakes, on which dozens of unrecognizable human heads were hung; the county magistrate sat on the prison beheading platform and waited until three o'clock in the afternoon to order the execution. Although the sun is scorching, no one wants to leave even though the people watching are sweating, but they feel that time passes too slowly, in fact, there is one person who feels that time passes more slowly, like a time like a year, that is the Ghost King, who wants to end it earlier than those spectators to seek liberation.

Time did not slow down, it continued to move forward as usual, and finally three o'clock in the afternoon, the county magistrate said loudly: "Three o'clock in the afternoon has arrived, execution." After saying that, he threw down the order sign, and Wen Zhutou picked up the order sign and walked over and said, "Execution." The five hunters led the horses and walked forward slowly, and the hands and feet and neck of the ghost king were gradually elongated, and only the terrible screams were heard floating on the execution ground, and everyone stared at the gradually lengthening limbs and necks, and at this time they all seemed to hold their breath, and there was no noise. There was an indescribable sense of pleasure in everyone's hearts, and Wen Zhutou really didn't know what it would be like to know that it was his father who was lying on the ground. (To be continued......)