But it was said that Gonggong Hu received 100,000 taels of silver tickets from the mysterious person that day, and then used words to deceive the dozen or so unconscious Jinyi guards.

Originally, although these brocade guards were afraid of Gonggong Hu, they secretly despised him, after all, they were all intact and always felt that they were better than Gonggong Hu.

Although the eunuch party is powerful in these years, he can't control other people's thoughts, but more than a dozen people think that after accepting Hu's father-in-law's love, they are much more submissive.

The group then walked more cautiously, but they also arrived at the boundary of Kaifeng Mansion safely.

Kaifeng Mansion Yin Liu Anshan personally led the ghost hand Ling Han and others out of the city for ten miles to greet them, giving enough face to Dongchang Jinyiwei.

As soon as he arrived in Kaifeng Mansion, he rushed to Kaifeng Mansion with more than a dozen Jinyi guards to the death row prison of Kaifeng Mansion overnight and interrogated the important prisoners of the court, but this court felony was none other than the ghost gate Guan San, who was captured by the Divine Fist Fang Changqi and the ghost hand Ling Han in Kaifeng Mansion - Scarface Ghost Face.

To say that although this scar-faced ghost face has a brutal temperament and does all kinds of evil in captivity, he is also a well-known man. fell into the hands of Yin Liu Anshan, who suffered from the severe punishment day and night, and the leather whip and soldering iron were commonplace, but he felt that the torture he had suffered in his life was not as good as this for more than a month, so he didn't say a word of forgiveness to the scar-faced ghost face or confided even a word about the secret where the ghost gate was closed and the cottage was located, which made the Kaifeng Mansion Yin Liu Anshan hate it so much that his teeth itched.

When Hu Gonggong was arraigned, the scar-faced ghost face had already taken off his human form, and he was originally called 'Scar-faced Ghost Face' because his face was extremely evil, and there was a hideous scar on the right side of his face like a meat centipede from his forehead to the corner of his mouth, but at that time, even if he was hideous, he still had a human appearance, at most he was seven points like a person and three points like a ghost, but after staying in the dim death row prison of Kaifeng Mansion for a month, he could no longer see the three-point human form.

Liu Anshan, the governor of the mansion, hated him for refusing to confess, and because of the repeated attacks and disturbances of the business roads around Kaifeng Mansion in the past few days, he accumulated a belly of resentment, and all of them were sprinkled on the body of Scarface and Ghost Face these days.

Thinking that ghost face was originally a man with five big and three thick, it is difficult to find a complete piece of skin around his body now, his whole person was hung in half of his mouth by a steel cable, and the clothes on his body had already been stripped off ** like a pig to be slaughtered under the butcher's hand, and the hideous scar on his right face had become so ordinary against the backdrop of the rotten wounds on his body these days.

As soon as Gonggong Hu entered this cell, he couldn't help frowning slightly, saying that the prisons of Dongchang and Jinyiwei were the most terrifying and dark places in the world, and in his opinion, this Kaifeng Mansion prison was not far behind.

After sending out all the officials on death row in Kaifeng Mansion, Gonggong Hu pulled over a brocade guard and whispered a few words.

This brocade-clothed guard officer worships the rank of the seventh grade of the general banner, and he is the leader of these dozen brocade-clothed guards, and he saw that his face was embarrassed, and he was embarrassed: "My lord, I'm afraid this guy won't be able to stand it." ”

Gonggong Hu snorted coldly, and his eyes flashed, and the general banner of the brocade guard didn't dare to say anything more, so he went to the side to direct his subordinates to start preparing torture tools. Gonggong Hu smiled darkly, took out a white handkerchief from his sleeve to cover his mouth and nose, and then looked at the movements of his Jinyi guards before turning around and leaving the cell.

Early the next morning, the ghost hand Ling Han heard such a news when he was still at home, the three leaders of the imperial court felons and ghosts, Scarface and Ghost Face, committed suicide last night in the Kaifeng Mansion Death Row Prison for fear of crime, this is the method used by the jailers and soldiers of the previous dynasties, all the court felons who were tortured in prison and couldn't stop dying were called guilty of suicide, just because the prisoners were so brutal and fierce that the murderers relied on torture to interrogate, so these prisoners died for unknown reasons, and the top often did not track them down.

Ghost Hand just didn't expect that Scarface Ghost Face, a man who had resisted the torture of Kaifeng Mansion for more than a month, would be abused to death by Hu Gonggong, the inspector of Dongchang, in just one night.

When Ling Han arrived at the cell, the corpse officer of Kaifeng Mansion was reining in the corpse of the ghost face, to be precise, it was already difficult to tell that it was a human corpse.

Although Ling Han saw Ghost Face suffer inhuman torture for a month, but in his opinion now, even if Ghost Face was tortured in Kaifeng Mansion for three months, it was better than last night, and Ling Han now even regretted why he didn't have the 'ruthlessness' to give this underworld man a pleasure when he caught Scarface Ghost Face that day.

But Ling Han is just a patrolman, a catcher with a little fame, and a bad man who can be trampled to death in the officialdom.

When Gonggong Hu saw the ghost hand Ling Han, he didn't even wrinkle his eyebrows, as if he didn't see this person, and dropped a sentence lightly: "Kaifeng Mansion is also a famous city in the world, why is the torture equipment in this death row prison so shabby and tattered." Then he took his white handkerchief and wiped his hands gently, and got on the sedan chair and left with the help of his subordinates.

In the living room of the back office of Kaifeng Mansion, Liu Anshan, the governor of the mansion, accompanied the guest seat, but gave up the main seat to Gonggong Hu.

After everyone sat down, they only heard Liu Anshan speak: "Lord Hu has been traveling all the way for the matter of Kaifeng, and the journey is very hard. ”

Gonggong Hu said with a straight face: "Our family only knows how to do things for Jiang Gong wholeheartedly, how can I worry about a little hard work, and how can I have the heart to drink and feast if there are bandits outside Kaifeng Mansion." ”

When Liu Anshan saw this father-in-law Hu for the first time, he didn't know if he was really so loyal to his duties, and he was not angry when his mind was knocked back, and said with a smile: "What Lord Hu taught me is that you should have cultivated for a few days after a tiring journey, but the ghost face outside the city is restless, and the fear of thieves has changed, and Lord Hu's loyalty to duty is really a model for my generation." Ling Han listened to the order and immediately ordered all the men and horses to follow the adults to fight against the rebels. ”

Ling Han on the side hurriedly got up, just about to kneel down to receive the order.

But I heard Gonggong Hu say in a dark voice: "How can the thieves of the ghost gate still need such laborers to mobilize the people, the miscellaneous family has come south this time with more than a dozen brocade guards, all of whom are capable of recruiting and fighting well, and the scabies are in the bandits, and Lord Liu and all the virtuous people can live in Kaifeng Mansion City." ”

This ghost gate is entrenched in the place where the river and Shaanxi are at the junction for many years, and they have repeatedly conscripted and can't be treated, Liu Anshan saw that this Hu Gonggong was so trusted, and just wanted to mention a few words kindly, but Hu Gonggong didn't allow him to talk more, and he had already left with his subordinates.

Gonggong Hu is so arrogant and careless, even if it is a city like Liu Anshan, he is also annoyed, thinking that he dignified Kaifeng Mansion Yin Guan worships from the third-grade gold rank, this Gonggong Hu is just a small supervisor but from the five-grade silver rank, if it weren't for the fact that he is a slave under Jiang Gong of Dongchang, how could Liu Anshan be so respectful to this eunuch.

The ghost hand Ling Hanhou was on the side, Liu Anshan secretly thought in his heart that he would also make this rude person suffer some hardships, one showed that the strength of the ghost gate thief was not a hypocrisy of Kaifeng Mansion, and the other was also good for that Hu Gonggong to be soft. He instructed Ling Han to secretly gather all the men and soldiers to be on guard, but not to rush to the aid of Gonggong Hu and his party first.

Ling Han knew the filth in this officialdom, sighed secretly in his heart, and took the seal letter to gather the men and soldiers without mentioning it.

At the beginning, more than a dozen Jinyi guards were still secretly scolding Hu Gonggong for being arrogant and not knowing what to do, and he actually refused to send troops to help Kaifeng Mansion, obviously uneasy and well-intentioned to take the lives of these guards to fight the thieves of the ghost gate, so one by one they held the handle of the knife as if they were facing the enemy, and even had the selfish thought that when the thief was powerful, he gave up the plan of Hu Gonggong to flee for his life.

But seeing that the sky was getting dark, the group gradually traveled through several official roads of merchants near Kaifeng Mansion, but they did not really encounter even one bandit and rogue bandit, so they gradually changed their minds when the bandit in this ghost gate was vain, and he was so frightened that he didn't dare to show his face as soon as he heard the name of Dongchang Jinyiwei.

Even more secretly thought that it was still a eunuch like Gonggong Hu who was cunning, since this ghost gate was so unbearable and timid, then why did he need to give the credit for suppressing the bandits to the shrimp soldiers and crab generals of Kaifeng Mansion, of course, it was better for them to enjoy it exclusively in Dongchang and Jinyiwei.

I saw that the previous Jinyi Wei Zongqi rode a yellow horse under his crotch to Hu's father-in-law's side, and flattered: "Lord Hu's divine power is incomparable, this thief in the Ghost Gate Pass area, I heard that Lord Hu's name has long fled and disappeared." ”

When Gonggong Hu came out to beg for thieves at this time, it was not good to sit in a sedan chair again, and at this time he also rode a green horse, and when he went out of the city before, he himself was also uneasy about Rarity, for fear that the masked mysterious man who gave him 100,000 taels of silver tickets that day would coax him, and now he saw that the bandit in the ghost gate was really as the mysterious man said that day to retreat, and a heart of seven up and eight down was put down.

Hearing the praise of this general banner, he couldn't help but be secretly complacent, and said unashamedly: "In fact, that day, you were poisoned by the thieves and plotted, and the miscellaneous family fought with these thieves, and the leader of the ghost gate was seriously injured by the miscellaneous family's heavy hand. Now I am afraid that I will die for a long time, how can the bits and pieces of the Ghost Gate Pass dare to be presumptuous in front of the miscellaneous family, I think they have already escaped from this Henan. ”

When a brocade guard Xiaoqi on the side heard the conversation between the general banner and Gonggong Hu, he also clapped his horse and came over, and said hurriedly: "Then won't we go back empty-handed this time, how can we hand over to the top without some gains." ”

Gonggong Hu also frowned slightly when he heard Xiaoqi's words, although as long as the official roads in the Kaifeng Mansion area were too peaceful, his task this time would be completed. But if you don't kill a few thieves under your hands, you can't show your ability, and it's not easy to win the trust of people after returning to Beijing.

At this time, another Jinyi guard Xiaoqi Pegasus, who was sent to the front to explore the way, reported back: "Lord Qiqi, there is cooking smoke rising in the northwest direction of the official road ahead. ”

When Hu Gonggong heard this, he looked up to the southwest, and sure enough, the cooking smoke was faintly visible, thinking that it was a village where people gathered, and the shape and thickness of the smoke deviated from the official road about dozens of miles away from here.

Thinking of this, Gonggong Hu's heart moved, and he had an idea, and said to the Jinyi Wei General Banner beside him: "I heard that the bandits in this area are brutal and often loot the village, do you say that the village can avoid the robbery of the bandits." ”

This Jinyi Wei Zongqi is not a foolish person, although Gonggong Hu's words are only half said, he vaguely guessed it, and said tentatively: "According to his subordinates, this village may be targeted by the thieves of the ghost gate at this moment." ”

Father-in-law Hu pretended to be surprised and said: "But what about the faint smoke." ”

The general banner replied: "In the humble opinion of my subordinates, that smoke can't be the fire set by the bandits of the Ghost Gate after committing murder and looting. ”

Gonggong Hu showed a slightly satisfied look, and said anxiously: "I really can't imagine that this thief in the ghost gate is so vicious, not to mention looting and looting, but in the end he still set fire to the village, and I don't know if the miscellaneous family can save those people from fire and water when they rush now." ”

Hearing this, Zongqi already understood the adult's intentions, and sighed: "I'm afraid that the goodness of the village has fallen into the hands of the enemy, and when the subordinates and others rush to the horses, they can only kill the bandits and can't save the people." ”

Gonggong Hu sighed: "Okay, even if you can't save the people and kill the bandits, it's good, and I ordered to go down and set off immediately." ”

The general flag gestured to the brocade guard behind him, and the group galloped towards the place where the smoke rose.

By the time Hu Gonggong and the others returned to the outside of Kaifeng Mansion again, it was already nightfall, and they saw bloody bags hanging on the mounts of each Jinyi guard, but the bags contained human heads that were panicked and dead.

The small village thirty-seven miles southwest of Kaifeng Province was now engulfed in flames, and the billowing smoke and heat wave reflected the sky here in a blood-red color.

There were no more than half of the living people in this small village, and the mutilated bodies of the entire village of 117 people were now scattered throughout the village, most of them burned to ashes as the flames spread.

Ghost hand Ling Han was ordered to lead people to guard the city tower at the west gate of Kaifeng Mansion at this time, and when he saw a group of people coming down from the city, he hurriedly ordered his subordinates to be on guard, and only after seeing clearly that it was Gonggong Hu and his party did he order people to open the city gate and put it into the city.

Yin Liu Anshan of Kaifeng Mansion can't believe it until now, the fierce and mighty Ghost Gate Pass thieves in the river and Shaanxi were killed and dispersed by the Hu Gonggong in front of him, and no state government sent troops to respond, only these dozen brocade guards and a crippled eunuch can really have such a great ability, but the fifty-three heades piled up in front of him are bloody, but he can't refute them.

In order to be proper, Liu Anshan specially secretly sent a few spies to step on the business roads around Fucheng, but he really disappeared from the bandits of the Ghost Gate Pass, so he had to believe that the rebellion of the Ghost Gate Pass was really calmed down.

It's just that this time the bandit Hu Gonggong only brought a dozen Jinyi guards' entourage and did not use a single soldier in the state capital, which further highlighted his mediocrity and incompetence as the Yin of Kaifeng Mansion, and Kaifeng Mansion couldn't even get any credit this time, Liu Anshan couldn't help but hate and fear Hu Gonggong and a few people when he thought about this section.

But Liu Anshan is an old oilman in the officialdom after all, and the thoughts in his heart will not be revealed in the slightest on his face, I saw him treat Hu Gonggong and others with a happy face, not only in Kaifeng Mansion Piaoxiangzhai feast for Hu Gonggong and others to celebrate, but also the praise and praise of Dongchang and Jinyiwei during the banquet never stopped.

After three rounds of wine and five flavors, it is needless to say that the wine and delicacies of Piaoxiangzhai are also the singers and singers who accompany them. Seeing that the atmosphere was lively, Gonggong Hu's pale face without a trace of blood seemed to be stained with a little ruddy.

Liu Anshan saw that the time had come to stand up and toast, and said: "The prestige of Dongchang and Jinyiwei, Liu has heard of it for a long time, and now when I see a character like Lord Hu, I know that those rumors are not enough to describe the power of your lords." ”

Gonggong Hu couldn't help but be overjoyed when he saw Liu Anshan praise like this, and said: "Lord Liu is polite, our family is just an unknown person under Jiang Gong, how can we praise it so much, the benefits of Kaifeng's suppression of bandits this time rely on Jiang Gong's cultivation and the protection of the saints, how dare our family be greedy for such credit." ”

Liu Anshan saw that this gelding dog did not steal merit but was not in the trap, he wanted to use words to coax and lead this Hu Gonggong arrogant gaffe to start, only to find that this gelding dog is really not easy to deal with, and saw that this gelding dog opened his mouth and closed his mouth and only mentioned the favor of Jiang Gong and the saint but did not mention the meaning of Kaifeng Mansion at all, and the jealousy and hatred of this gelding dog was a little deeper, but he still held back, and said with a smile: "Lord Hu is really too modest, this ghost gate pass bandit entrenched in the area of Heshan and Shaanxi for several years, it is really a big trouble for the imperial court, and now it is taken in the prestige of the East Factory." 'Retreat temporarily, I'm just afraid of ......" Liu Anshan bit the word 'temporary' very hard, just to squeeze this Hu Gonggong into the water.

If Gonggong Hu hadn't heard it, he said curiously: "What are you afraid of?"

Kaifeng Mansion Yin Liu Anshan sighed: "I'm afraid that it will become worse in the future, if this is the case, it should not be Jiang Gong's intention." ”

Gonggong Hu's face fell, and he squinted at Liu Anshan and asked, "Then what should I do according to the meaning of Lord Yin Liu." ”

The words have already been said, and Liu Anshan can only grit his teeth and say: "According to the meaning of this mansion, I hope that Lord Hu can cooperate with the state government to uproot and eliminate all the thieves in the ghost gate of the ghost Yin Mountain, these things are just a gesture for Gonggong Hu, but the people in the Heshan area are great favors, if it can be done, it will be a great achievement, and it will be good for everyone present to be happy to enter the lord and increase the official." ”

At this time, everyone present already had a little bit of alcohol, except for the more than a dozen brocade guards except for Gonggong Hu, who were even more moved when they heard this, this time they came to the south to see that the ghost gate was vulnerable, if they could take advantage of the situation to get rid of it, it was an increase in the attack, and when they thought of this, they all put down the wine glass in their hands and looked at the meaning of Gonggong Hu.

This Kaifeng Mansion Yin Liu Anshan is clever and clever, if he hears his proposal at first glance, Gonggong Hu can't help but move. But he knew better than everyone present the horror of the thief at the ghost gate.

The mysterious man he met that day didn't know what his identity was at the Ghost Gate, but he was able to raise his hand and put down the dozen brocade guards, Hu Gonggong still has self-knowledge, that day the mysterious man bribed him heavily and ordered the ghost gate pass thieves to withdraw from Henan, but he was not afraid of his Hu Gonggong's 'divine might', if it wasn't for the thief's fear of the power of Dongchang and Jinyiwei, I am afraid that more than a dozen of them would go to the underworld to report together that day. At this time, he really tore his face with the mysterious ghost, but it didn't do him any good to Gonggong Hu, and maybe he would be killed.

Slowly put down the wine glass in his hand, first suppressed the group of Jinyi Wei fools who were about to move with his eyes, only to hear Gonggong Hu sneer and say: "Only then did the miscellaneous family receive the favor of Jiang Gong and the Holy Lord to kill and disperse the thieves and relieve the difficulties of the Kaifeng Mansion business road, and the possibility of these thieves being repelled by our family and scattered and hiding is extremely high, that is, these thieves really gathered together and returned to the cottage, and the miscellaneous family wanted to ask Lord Liu, Kaifeng Mansion can find out the specific location of the ghost gate?"

Liu Anshan said: "This mansion has some signs and is still ......"

Gonggong Hu didn't allow Liu Anshan to say that he was forced step by step: "The miscellaneous family still wants to ask, but there is a thief in this ghost gate in this world?"

Don't wait for Liu Anshan to answer and said sharply: "Are the miscellaneous family and these brocade guards under his command obeying Jiang Gong's subordinates, or are they your subordinates Lord Liu." ”

Speaking of which, the Dongchang and Jinyiwei are nominally directly under the royal family, in fact, in addition to the Shengshang, the director of the Dongchang Factory, Jiang Jingzhong, and Jiang Gong can command the move, even if he Liu Anshan is the official position of the Kaifeng Mansion Yin is much higher than this Hu Gonggong, but he has no right to accuse the transfer.

Liu Anshan hurriedly explained: "Lord Hu misunderstood, this government does not dare to command and dispatch you, but the thieves have to ......."

"Oh?" I only heard Gonggong Hu reply, "The miscellaneous family also knows that the affairs of the land of Yifu are complicated. ”

Liu Anshan also said that this Hu Gonggong's tone was loose, and as soon as he breathed a sigh of relief, he saw that Hu Gonggong immediately followed the yin and yang strange qi and said: "If Lord Liu is really powerless and incapable of taking care of the land of a mansion, why not help Lord Liu to give Jiang Gong a few words of 'good words' to share the worries of the adult." ”

This Hu Gonggong said a few words, Kaifeng Mansion Yin Liu Anshan was already scared out of a cold sweat, and did not dare to mention the matter of Hu Gonggong and his party to exterminate the ghost gate, seeing that the guests and hosts had their own thoughts and a banquet, and finally ended hastily and broke up unhappily.

Within a few days, Gonggong Hu led his brocade-clothed guards and attendants to return to Jingshi Shuntianfu to find Jiang Gong's life. And since he tore his face, Liu Anshan didn't want to be perfunctory, and said that he was not feeling well and saw off the Tongzhi of Kaifeng Mansion as a cadre.

And this Ghost Gate Pass is a group of thieves, since Scarface Ghost Face was whipped in the Kaifeng Mansion Death Row Prison, the Nine Lives Yama King got the strict order of the sect leader brought by the Red Lotus, and was forced to lead the Ghost Gate Pass and a group of thieves to temporarily withdraw from Henan.

The Nine Lives Hades and the Black-faced Judge heard that the third brother's ghost face was bent to death and his liver and intestines were broken, and the two did not dare to resent the Holy Sect and the Red Lotus Messenger, so they had to write down their anger and a blood debt on the Three Mountains Dart Bureau and the Ghost Hand Ling Han.