Chapter 8: The Swan Song
"Then dare to ask, what kind of wind can be used to report the news? What kind of letter can be reported? Who is the court criminal in the mouth of Second Brother Lei?"
"Zhou Xingzao, you have to see clearly, this is the 'Criminal Department', this is our territory, not your 'Thirteen Whirlwind Tencent Hall', it seems that we are not obliged to answer your old man's questions, right?"
"What if I, the 'Bear God', insist on waiting for an answer?" Zhou Xing took a big step forward, two tiger eyebrows, erected like a knife.
"Hehe-he-" Tang Tianlong grinded the silver dragon-shaped flying machine in his hand and sneered: "Then forgive this group of brothers, don't give Li Xiangye face!"
Ban Ma'er saw with his left hand and hooked with his right hand, followed by the thunder tiger with the "tiger tail stick", standing on the left and right sides of He Tang Tianlong, with horizontal eyebrows and sneering.
"Do you want to do it?" Zhou Xingzao also sneered. Their "Tencent Hall" thirteen whirlwinds, the "Criminal Department" Fox Party's yin and disobedience, deception and concealment, has long been unaccustomed to it, unbearable, if the other party takes the initiative to make trouble, he is happy to accompany him.
"Haha, everyone is doing things for the court and the emperor, why make a saber rattling and staring at the eyes in a trough, why make a sword rattling and staring at each other?
The sunlight outside came in through the doorway, but it blocked the man's fat figure, and by the time it hit the stone wall of the hall, it was already dim.
This man, of medium chubby stature, with a fat face glowing with oil, squeezed his two small eyes deep into his sockets, almost squinting them all. He laughed, and the fat all over his body trembled with excitement because of this laughter, and a shining fine brocade official robe on his body made waves like gilded light.
"The 'Sword God' Zhou Xing has long been a distinguished guest of our 'Criminal Department', and he can't be invited on weekdays. Now that I'm here, I can't say that this official wants to be the east, please ask the head of the boat to enjoy your face and eat before leaving, haha, haha......" He turned the huge jade wrench on the tail finger of his right hand with his left hand, and laughed all the way.
"Very good, very good, I don't think Lord Dao Shangshu is here, no wonder these subordinates of yours are so imposing, they have to do something with Xiao Zhou!" Zhou Xingzao sneered, and he was also disgusted by the laughing King of Yama.
"How dare you!" King Yama laughed again.
"Then, Xiaozhou won't bother and take his leave!" Zhou Xingzao sneered, picked up the chaos picker and walked towards the street entrance, without glancing at the fire meteor that was already lying coldly in the pool of blood in the iron gate.
-- The "Ten Palaces of Yan Jun" Yama King is in the second rank of the "Criminal Department" Shangshu, only one level lower than Li Xiang, Zhou Xing has long dared not make a mistake even if he is a master of the arts, after all, he has more important things waiting for him to do.
That is, do everything you can to inform and prevent Chen Yuan from going to the court to save people!
When Zhou Xing disappeared outside the iron gate, He Ban Ma'er glared and asked, "My lord, why do you want to whisper to him, are you afraid of the old man Li Gang?"
The smile of the Yama King Fat Lian had suddenly disappeared, and he bent down to look at the fire meteor, and suddenly his palms came out together, and he slapped the fire meteor on the chest silently.
He slapped this palm, opened his mouth and suddenly exhaled a breath of black gas, and a burst of bloody breath immediately diffused from the air. The "Heavenly Dragon and Earth Tiger" covered his mouth with the placket of his clothes and retreated, they knew that the best thing King Yama was at was "Turning Bones into Palms", which contained extremely powerful poisons, even if they were just sniffed in their noses, they would damage their internal organs.
"Giggles!"
The bones of the fire meteor's whole body made a rapid crisp sound, and then all the skin muscles slowly turned into blood and scattered on the bluestone floor. It didn't take long for him to melt all his clothes, leaving only a trace of water that smelled strange.
Ban Ma'er's face changed even in variables, and he couldn't help but feel regret and fear for what he had just said.
King Yama stood up and looked thoughtfully at his palms, which were slowly transforming from a burnt black to a normal red and white complexion. He smiled slowly: "The three of you all saw it just now, who killed Huo Laosi?"
The three of them were stunned when they heard this, and Tang Tianlong was the first to react: "Back to Lord Shangshu, the fire meteor was killed by Li Gang's right-hand man Zhou Xingzao!"
The nimble-minded Ban Ma'er immediately thought of the master's plan to "plant blame", and while admiring it in his heart, he immediately cooperated: "The subordinates and others have seen with their own eyes that Zhou Xing has already brutally killed our good colleague and good brother Huo Meteor in order to save the key criminals of the 'Tsing Yi Building'. β
At this time, even the thunder tiger, who had developed limbs and a dull mind, reacted and hurriedly expressed his position.
King Yama covered his nose with his snow-white palm and ordered: "Find a way to inform the master of the 'Five Elements Killer', the 'Five Elements Toutuo', to tell him the unfortunate news, and ask him to mourn the old man's day." β
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At this moment, the "Tsing Yi Building" has been dispatched from top to bottom, all over the beginning and end of the "Zhuangyuan Street".
- Hopefully, if I go now, I can still catch up to meet and block Chenyuan!
The pace of the boat in the early morning has never been so urgent, far away, I saw the vermilion lacquer gate of the "Tsing Yi Building", quietly half-hidden, and the two broken lanterns at the door swayed with the wind. There was no one at the door, only the morning breeze with no home, quietly blowing through the spotless white marble steps.
I'm too late!
Zhou Xing was in a hurry, stepped up the steps, knocked the huge copper knocker on the door casually, and before the sound could be transmitted into the courtyard, he had already rushed in.
The courtyard was also quiet, the path was full of flowers, no one was sweeping, all the doors and windows were wide open, as if the people in this courtyard were in too much hurry to leave, not only did the doors and windows not have time to close, but even the parrots under the eaves did not have time to collect.
"What is it that makes everyone go in a hurry?" At this time, in addition to rushing to the vegetable market to rescue Sana Caien, what else can make everyone as urgent as a fire?
Thinking of this, Zhou Xing sighed gloomily earlier. He knew very well that Chai Ruge had laid a dangerous and terrifying net at the entrance of the "Zhuangyuan" street and the vegetable market, and he turned a snow-white shadow wall with a pale face, and walked towards the backyard.
Suddenly, a small and low sound of the piano came into the ears, "ding ding dong dong", it seemed that the people who touched the qin had infinite hearts.
"Anyone?" Zhou Xing shouted early and walked quickly.
In front of it is a row of blue bricks and blue tiles of the north pavilion, the curtain at the door is low, and the sound of the piano comes from behind this curtain.
"Who?" someone whispered behind the curtain, also the voice of a young woman. As soon as the curtain was lifted, a woman in Tsing Yi had already rushed out, her face was full of sadness, it was the "thousand-faced fox" Hu Ling'er.
"The girl who strokes the piano inside is the sister of the eldest prince, right?" Zhou Xingzao said urgently: "In the lower Li Xiangfu, the head of Zhou Xingzao, there are 100,000 urgent things, I want to see the eldest prince!"
"Ling'er, please come inβ" As soon as the sound of the piano stopped, Miss Chenyuan said this, and then continued the sound of the embattled and ambushed piano.
Hu Ling'er stretched out her arms and stood across the door, her face full of suspicion.
Zhou Xing didn't have time to explain more, slanted his shoulders against Hu Ling'er, lifted the curtain and stepped in, and was suddenly startled.
The room was empty, except for the Chen Yuan girl sitting on the ground and the piano on her knees, the walls were empty, and there was nothing else. The room was cold, and only the Chenyuan girl, who hung her head and stroked the piano, hung down her head full of green silk to cover her face. Her ten fingers were slender and white, and her neatly trimmed nails shone faintly in the morning light.
The Chenyuan girl who played the piano pointed to the sad tune, and she knew that her husband had died, so she only made the last decision. Ling Zhouxing couldn't help but feel a slight sour nose when he heard it, and he almost cried in the sound of the piano.
"Sister Chenyuan. Zhou Xing only felt that the other party was as amiable as a big sister next door, he felt that his eyes were rubbed with sand and uncomfortable, and the rest of the words were choked in his throat, but he was afraid that he would accidentally hook out the tears first.
"Little brother, you are my brother's friend in the rivers and lakes, right? You're late, he's out to do something......" Miss Chenyuan said with a smile, her voice indescribably poignant.
"Hurry, let the eldest prince come back! There are many ambushes inside and outside the court, the death row prisoner is fake, the real Sana Na Caien, who was tortured in the 'heavenly prison', has committed suicide......" Zhou Xingzao raised his hand and slowly stretched out his baggage, revealing the bloody head inside, the blood had dried up, leaving a dark purple stain on the skull.
"Sister, there is a person named 'Fire Meteor' in the 'Heavenly Prison', who asked me to send my brother-in-law's head out, and he has already sacrificed-" Zhou Xing turned his head early, not daring to look at the sister's mournful countenance.
As soon as the piano sounded, the tune immediately became shattered, and it was impossible to continue, but the Chenyuan girl who was stroking the piano did not stand up, she still had a calm smile on her face, she just trembled a little and whispered: "Ling'er, set off a spark signal, notify the eldest prince to cancel the action, and only then will you ...... Got home safely......"
Hu Linger replied sadly and left quickly.
Miss Chenyuan always had that distressing smile on her face, she changed into a white dress, held the head of her deceased husband in both hands, and whimpered lowly......
Zhou Xing had been guarding outside the door of the small pavilion for a long time, thinking about his heartstrings, not knowing what his heartstrings touched, he suddenly slapped himself hard, as if talking to himself: "People are the new widowed sister who has just lost her husband, how can I have the dirty idea of liking her? Bear God, Bear God, you are still not human?"
One shallow and two deep, two urgent and one slow, three cyan fireworks, soaring into the sky-
"Withdraw!" Chen Yuan, who was lying on the roof of the "Wind and Rain Fragrance Building", waved to Liu Shuyi beside him with a sad and angry expression against the backdrop of fireworks in the sky!
Immediately afterwards, countless cyan figures, from the dark alleys, building signs, downtown markets, streets, people and other places, silently and in an orderly manner, slowly retreated.
There were golden-clad guards with sabers on all sides of the execution ground, and in the leeward part of the guard patrol against the wall, there was also a long case for public housing and a chair covered with a large red cloth.
Gong Chen, the new chief catcher of the "Six Doors" supervisor "Standing proudly in the sky and protecting the dragon", is a mysterious figure in his thirties, with a long body and a jade, and an eagle-shaped mask to cover his facial features.
At this moment, he was facing the big snake that was lying on the side but not stiff, "Ghost Seeing Sorrow" Suo Lingchi, and sneered: "The officials are all gone, it seems that the scene of Prince Xiaochai is arranged for nothing?"
Suo Lingchi smiled "hehe": "Chai Ruge's backyard caught fire, and his sister Angel County Lord escaped from 'Dongying', he is pleading guilty to the emperor at the moment, where can he take care of this?"
"Who is this 'substitute ghost'?" Gong Chen pointed to the center of the execution ground with a sharp chin, where the red-clothed executioner knelt under the knife and waited for the execution, and the death row prisoner with his hair scattered.
"He is in the stadium 'Shanhe Society' next to Master Li's house, drunk and beaten the current emperor and Gao Taiwei An Dongye. Suo Lingchi pretended to be mysterious and leaned over and laughed in a low voice.
"So," Gong Chen's "Eagle God" mask swept through the surging crowd around the execution ground, and took a breath and said, "Today, our audience is more than one group;
The three of them arrived at noon, and Suo Lingchi narrowed his snake eyes: "The show has just begun-"
(End of volume)