When Xiao Qin brought Hai Rui back to the High Priest's Cave, Hai Rui looked at the environment around the cave and spoke coldly.
"Although I have never been to the Great Chieftain's Mansion, I think that the Great Chieftain would not live in a cave. It doesn't look like a place for people to live." Xiao Qin sneered and said, "I know that scholars in the Ming Dynasty are tough-mouthed. . I just don’t know if the bones are as hard as the mouth!” Hai Rui said calmly: “I don’t know about others, but my mouth is not hard, just as a matter of etiquette. Are there hard bones? I have a few.” Xiao Qin took Hai Rui to the largest cave and saw the high priest sitting on the stage.
The high priest's skirt was not mended. Seeing the squirming snakes on the high priest's legs, Hai Rui was stunned for a moment and lowered his head.
Xiao Qin was very surprised, and the high priest was very proud: "Xiao Qin, I heard from the people who followed you that this person was very tough and quarrelsome with you along the way. I thought you were some kind of person, but it turns out it was just because you didn't have enough momentum. I have always said that if you want to succeed, you must be more domineering, your smile is only useful for little girls..."
"How unbecoming is it for a woman to have her thighs exposed! Don't look at anything inappropriate. It has nothing to do with whether you are domineering or not!" The high priest almost bit her tongue. She looked at her legs in disbelief, and then looked at them again. Hai Rui still lowered his head.
"Can't you see that my legs are made of wood with snakes on them?" Hai Rui sneered: "Whatever you are, are they legs? Even if they are just two pieces of wood, they are connected to your legs." It’s your legs that are on your body! This is a rule and etiquette! If your legs are fake, you can expose them at will. If the rest of your body is also fake, shouldn’t you be able to expose them at will as well?" Hai Rui said it righteously. The words were strict and the momentum was overwhelming. The high priest couldn't help but cover his legs with his skirt, and then he was shocked. Why should I listen to the nonsense of a prisoner?
"Xiao Qin, have you made it clear to him? Is he willing?" Xiao Qin shook his head: "I've made it clear. He said he refused for three reasons." The high priest was stunned. Ken, do all scholars like to make threes so much?
"Which three refuse?"
"First, he asked us to explain why we asked him to do this. If we can't explain the reason, he won't." The high priest was speechless: We want to use you to frame the court, what else can we say, pedantic !
"Second, he asked us to tell us the benefits of doing this to the court and the people of the world. If we couldn't, he refused." The high priest continued speechless: doing this would definitely be of no benefit to the court, let alone the people of the world. It's good, only for Xiao Qin and me.
"Third, even if we find the first two reasons, as long as this thing is false, that is to say, unless the imperial court really wants to issue an order to exterminate the Miao territory, otherwise he will not agree." The high priest stood up. : "He is playing tricks on you, are you a fool? You still hear him talk so much nonsense!" Xiao Qin smiled bitterly: "I was furious at first, thinking he was playing tricks on me, but then I found out that he was very serious, no It seems fake. As you know, I have always been very accurate in judging people. I feel that if the imperial court really issued an order, even if he knew it was wrong, as long as it was true, he would really tell the Miao people !" The high priest snorted: "Stop talking nonsense, Hai Rui, I have no reason to tell you. This matter is of no benefit to the people of the world, and it is false. If you don't tell me, I will kill you!" Because The hem of her skirt was covered, and Hai Rui raised his head, his face as cold as the high priest's, and even more stubborn.
"How can a man be happy in life, and why should he be afraid of death?" The high priest glanced at Xiao Qin, and Xiao Qin nodded, indicating that this guy was not a talkative, and what he said should be the truth.
The high priest thought for a while and smiled coldly: "I have seen people who are not afraid of death. But death is not the most terrifying thing. Have you heard of the prison?" Hai Rui nodded: "I have long wanted to go in and see Look, it's a pity that the official's petty talk and several petitions against the imperial government were intercepted by the magistrate and failed." This time the high priest and Xiao Qin looked at each other and were both shocked. Listen to this, does he want to go to prison but failed?
There are still fucking people like this? The high priest winked and signaled Xiao Qin to hold on, we can win. Then the two of them walked aside and discussed countermeasures in a low voice.
The high priest's method was simple and crude: "Use the poison ivy whip. Give him a few whips first to see if he is the same as he appears." Xiao Qin shook her head: "We have to rely on him to read out the false edict in front of everyone. If he is green-faced, It's swollen and bruised all over. Anyone can tell at a glance that it's fake and forced! Don't worry, I'll use the Divine Art of Ultimate Bliss to crush one of his toes. The ten fingers are connected to the heart. The pain is unbearable. Put on your shoes and start from the outside. You can't tell." The high priest nodded: "Pinch slowly, little by little. Broken bones are not very painful, but the rubbing after the fracture is the most painful." Xiao Qin walked to Hai Rui with a smile. Side: "Hai Rui, I advise you again, it's best to agree to us. Not only will I save your dignity, but if you dare not go back, I will also guarantee that you will live more comfortably in Miao territory than in the Central Plains!" Hai Rui said coldly She said coldly: "My hometown is where I feel at ease! I can live comfortably wherever I go!" Xiao Qin sighed, grabbed Hai Rui's ankle, and lifted it under Hai Rui's surprised gaze. Hai Rui picked it up head-down.
Hai Rui knew that he was powerless, so he simply gave up resisting and closed his eyes to avoid accidentally seeing what he shouldn't have seen.
There was a sharp pain in my little toe, a sharp pain at first, then a slight relief, and then suddenly a more severe pain hit me.
The broken bones were like countless knives, gouging out flesh and cutting tendons under Xiao Qin's fingers. The severe pain made Hai Rui almost faint, but then the next wave of severe pain made him wake up again.
After an unknown amount of time, Hai Rui was thrown to the ground. Xiao Qin looked at the cold sweat on his face with a smile and said lightly.
"Hai Rui, this is just a small test. Do you want to reconsider?" Hai Rui stood up unsteadily. Due to the severe pain in his little toe, he could not stand very steadily, but he still carefully wiped the dirt off his clothes.
"If you already have a great skill, why bother to try it in a small way? It's better to try it in a big way." Xiao Qin's smiling expression faltered slightly. She stretched out a hand and pressed it on the acupuncture points on Hai Rui's vest. In the blink of an eye, an internal force surged through each area. The meridians are running wildly between each other.
This pain is different from the pain of flesh and blood just now. Hai Rui's internal organs felt like they were being fried in boiling oil. There was no electricity at that time, so Hai Rui didn't understand that this feeling was actually similar to being electrified.
Hai Rui fell to the ground, his whole body convulsed, tears and runny nose flowed wildly, he gritted his teeth and remained silent. Because he clenched his teeth too tightly, the blood from his gums flowed down the gaps between his teeth and filled his mouth.
After a while, Xiao Qin let go of his hand, took a few breaths from exhaustion, and watched Hai Rui struggling on the ground.
"Hai Rui, how do you feel? I have only used this trick on churchgoers who have made big mistakes and want to keep using it. No one who has tasted it dares to make another mistake." Hai Rui fluttered on the ground. After a long time, I stood up unsteadily, wiped the tears and snot from my face, and dusted the dirt on my clothes. I found that I couldn't dust it off anymore, so I gave up.
"It's nothing more than a small skill." Xiao Qin was furious, raised his hand, thought about it, put it down again, turned to look at the high priest, meaning that there is nothing I can do for the time being, it's your turn.
The high priest chuckled softly: "If it doesn't harm the appearance, compared to the poisonous spell, the two spells of imprisonment are still too rough." She stepped forward, pinched Hai Rui's face, and fed a pill to her. into Hai Rui's mouth, then let go and looked at Xiao Qin with a smile.
After a while, Hai Rui fell to the ground and rolled back and forth. Xiao Qin looked at him worriedly.
"Don't kill him. It's useless for us to kill him. It's only useful if he lives!" The high priest sneered: "Don't worry, these Gu insects are very tiny and can't actually cause much harm to people, but they like to go there. Drilling into human meridians. In fact, compared to human flesh and blood, the pain that directly acts on the meridians is the most painful. What Zhao Yu studies is how to find the densest locations of meridians. But my Gu worms directly stimulate the meridians. "Tell me, which one hurts more?" Xiao Qin doesn't know, and doesn't want to know.
Hai Rui had passed out and woke up many times on the ground. He rolled and twisted, but he still refused to make a sound.
As time passed, the expression on the high priest's face became more and more ugly. Finally, Hai Rui stopped rolling. His whole body looked like he had been fished out of the water, and his sweat was all over the floor.
Xiao Qin raised her eyebrows and looked at the high priest. The high priest gritted his teeth and said: "The voodoo is dead. This kind of voodoo itself is not long-lived, let alone no one has survived for such a long time. It seems that even giving him another pill will make no difference." Hai Rui struggled this time. After a long time, he slowly stood up and leaned against the stone wall. He couldn't even brush off his clothes. He opened his mouth full of blood and his voice was hoarse.
"Since you said that the prison is not as good as your methods, it seems that the prison is not that scary. You will still have to go there in the future." Xiao Qin frowned and looked at the high priest: "It seems that the only way is to rely on the heart Gu. You can refine your heart." How long does it take to make Gu?" The high priest said coldly: "It will take at least a year to refine another pair. However, I have one." Xiao Qin couldn't help but think of the last time she met the high priest. He smiled.
"I forgot about this. As long as the Gu Master has mind Gu, he can control the old, weak and weak without being in pairs. However, that kind of control lasts only a short time and is easily interrupted by others. He must be completely It's very difficult to finish reciting the imperial edict without revealing one's faults." The high priest said proudly: "How can Qinggu and the others be compared with me? Hai Rui has no power to restrain a chicken, so I should have no problem controlling him for as long as a stick of incense. It's just that this method consumes too much energy and blood. I don't want to use it unless it is absolutely necessary. If you are worried, just give it a try and you will know." The high priest walked to a place three steps away from Hai Rui and stood there, the color of his eyes gradually changing. become red.
Hai Rui's mind suddenly went blank, but he regained consciousness immediately and found that his mouth had been opened. He didn't know what to say, so he quickly gritted his teeth.
The high priest was stunned and couldn't believe it. He activated the power of his heart Gu again. This time, Hai Rui could feel his consciousness gradually blurring. He gritted his teeth and suddenly sneered.
"Pretend to be a god! Since you are pretending to be a god, I will also ask the gods to drive out the ghosts!" After saying this, the high priest really felt that the power of his mind was being strongly resisted, as if he was competing with a peerless master.
But Fang Mingming is just a middle-aged and elderly scholar with no inner strength! Could it be that he really knew how to ask God?
Xiao Qin frowned: "What kind of god are you inviting? Don't you Central Plains people have to set up altars to pray for gods? Who did you learn from, Xiao Feng?" The high priest roared and activated the power of the heart gu with all his strength. , a huge force, like a huge wave, drowned Hai Rui instantly.
Hai Rui's heart was beating wildly and his vision was blurry. He knew he couldn't hold on any longer and roared wildly.
"Student Hai Rui, I respectfully invite Wen Gong Song Rui! The heaven and earth are righteous, and they are mixed and endowed with manifolds. Below are the rivers and mountains, and above are the sun and stars. People call it Haoran, and it is as vast as the sky." Every time I read a sentence, the sea Rui's mind became clearer, and his figure became straighter and straighter, while the expression of the high priest became more and more ferocious.
"The imperial road should be Qingyi, Hanhe Tu Mingting. It's time to see the best, and draw pictures one by one!" With a pop, the high priest spurted out a mouthful of blood, took a few steps back, and sat directly on the stone chair. , looked at Hai Rui furiously and horrified.
Hai Rui was leaning against the stone wall, laughing with his mouth full of blood. Xiao Qin stepped forward, knocked him unconscious with a palm, and threw him into a small cave.
Then he turned back and looked at the high priest with a wry smile. The two looked at each other, both speechless. What about the easy handling that was promised?
Was it easy to agree? How could we meet such a weirdo? If I had known this, it would be better to keep Hu Zongxian, maybe the chance would be greater!
What is the most painful thing? Even when everything was going smoothly and just one step away from success, I suddenly discovered that the small square package in my hand actually contained crayfish gloves!
Seeing the furious expression of the high priest, Xiao Qin was worried that she would kill Hai Rui in anger, so she expressed comfort.
"Cousin, victory or defeat is a common thing in the military. We don't have to fight for a moment. I think he was just captured and his momentum is still strong. Maybe he will be detained for two days..."
"Dead!" Xiao Qin was stunned: "What is dead?" The high priest was still frightened: "My heart Gu is dead! I almost couldn't control it just now. In order to prevent the backlash, I can only kill it. This heart Gu is dead. I have been raising Gu for many years and nothing like this has ever happened to me. This person is really a monster!" Xiao Qin frowned. He originally had other uses for the High Priest's Heart Gu, but now he can only adjust his plan. .
But that's not important. What's important is what to do now.
"I heard that this Hai Rui is a filial son, and he doesn't have a son yet. I can find a Han who is doing business in Miao territory to meet his mother." The high priest frowned and said, "Speaking of which, I still have I didn’t ask you about it. Why didn’t you kill those academic officers and soldiers and let them report to the General Military Mansion? If we are going to start an uprising, shouldn’t we catch the court by surprise? Then we should let the court get it as late as possible The better the news!" Xiao Qin sighed: "If we can delay the attack until summer and control the big chieftain's mansion, of course it will be. But this time the operation in the capital failed, the White Lotus Sect existed in name only. If we don't take action as soon as possible, we will only I was afraid of long nights and many dreams, so I had no choice but to act in advance. But although I controlled the chieftain's mansion at this time, it was still half a year before the great famine came. Although the court was corrupt, there was also a lot of capable people. If others don't say it, just say that I Brother Feng, no matter how I hide the news, I'm afraid he will eventually find out about the incident in Miao territory. Take Hai Rui for example, he doesn't want to stay in the Yushi Mansion, running around all day long, etc. Can't you hear the news? Even if we don't arrest him, he will soon know that something happened in the Chieftain's Mansion! Now that we have arrested him, even if we kill all his followers and academic officers, we won't be able to go back to get the money at the end of the month. Will the General Soldier not be suspicious when people go back? As long as the General Soldier sends people into the Miao Territory to investigate, the paper will not be able to cover up the fire. Instead of doing this, it is better to let the court know that the Miao Territory is going to rebel and see the court's reaction. If the imperial court is angered and directly sends troops to encircle and suppress, then we won't even need Hai Rui! The Miao territory will naturally be under our control! Even if the imperial court does not send troops to encircle and suppress, it will not care about Hai Rui, but the attention They must have all been attracted to the Miao Territory. We still need to find ways to set fire to grain depots in various places and destroy spring plowing and autumn harvests. The more attention the court pays to the Miao Territory, the less attention it will pay to other places. The easier it will be for us to succeed!" The high priest was silent. After a long time, he wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth and stood up.
"The plan is good. After the tragic defeat, you can quickly clean up the mess and adjust the plan. You are indeed the most outstanding talent of the Xiao family over the years. I was seriously injured today and need careful recuperation. Just go ahead and do it. Can the Xiao family recover? Success may only be seen once!" Three days later, he patrolled the Censor's Mansion.
Hai Rui's wife was weeping silently while stewing cabbage and tofu in the pot. The commander-in-chief Chen Tianyu did not dare to hide the news for a long time. After much deliberation, he went to the house in person and told the old lady that Hai Rui had been arrested and might be forced to rebel.
Hai Rui's wife fainted at that time, but the old lady was still calm. She just glanced at her little granddaughter Nannan and sighed.
"The general will inevitably die on the battlefield. As the censor of the Miao Territory, he should know where this place is. It's a pity that he will be ashamed of his ancestors." Chen Tianyu was shocked, and it took him a long time to comfort the old lady: "I think Master Hai is the same. You adopted him, so you don't have to worry too much about this problem. Please ask Mrs. Hai to adopt another one to continue the incense." The old lady glanced at him and said, "I gave birth to Hai Rui in ten months of pregnancy. How can Mr. Chen be like this? Explanation?" Chen Tianyu was stunned, and after a long time he said hesitantly: "I think the old lady's behavior really doesn't look like Mr. Hai's biological mother..." He suddenly thought of another question: "Old lady, even if you are willing to give up, Master Hai, if Master Hai is forced to commit treason, the whole family will be implicated!" The old lady shook her head: "Master Chen, don't worry, Hai Rui is dead and will not betray the imperial court. You have insulted your ancestors." Chen Tianyu said in his heart that you are really confident, but you don't know the methods of the people in Miao territory!
I could only say a few words of relief and go back to my hometown to prepare for the patrol of soldiers and horses. After a while, someone knocked on the door.
After asking the question, the servant ran over to report to the old lady.
"He is a Han who came from the Miao border wall. He was doing business there. The chieftain's mansion gave him money and asked him to come to the old lady to get a letter." Hai Rui's wife immediately threw down the cabbage and tofu in the pot and ran away. Come over: "What letter? What letter?" The servant looked at the old lady, then looked at the lady, hesitating and refused to say, the old lady said lightly: "It doesn't matter if you just say it."
"The visitor said that they heard that Mr. Hai is a filial son, but he still doesn't have a son. Please give him some advice, but it's just a matter of a few words, and then let him go." Mrs. Hai Rui's face was filled with emotion. Blushing and tears falling again, the old lady glanced at her, obviously dissatisfied with her.
"Bring me a pen and paper." A day later, Xiao Qin received a handwritten letter from Hai Rui's mother. He opened it and took a look at it. His face turned pale and he tore it into pieces.
"If you are not a family, you will not enter the same house!" The words on the pieces of paper scattered in the wind were vaguely legible.
"The heaven and earth have righteousness, and are mixed and endowed with manifolds..."
