Ding Daxie had a complicated look on his face, frowning as he looked at Fang Gu and Xiao Yuexian who were tied together.
Just now he discovered that there was someone in the passage, so he immediately called the three brothers of the Bai family to go out together. After grabbing two of them, he rubbed the wind-like blade against his neck, and the two of them were ready to do anything.
Knowing that this place was actually a brothel, Ding Daxie couldn't help but curse in his heart, but when he understood Fang Gu's identity, he was surprised and happy again.
But there was no plan for what to do next, so Bai Zhan, who had a faster pace, had to be sent back to deliver the message.
According to what Xiao Yuexian said, there were thirty or forty people in the Yingchun Garden. Bai Ao meant to hold them back as long as possible, waiting for news from Zhao Tong. If the other party found out, he would kill them all.
Ding Daxie had no other choice. After thinking for a moment, he followed Bai Ao's advice, but he had to get two of them into the passage first.
Fang Gu's face turned pale at this time. When he saw Ding Daxie coming to drag him, he wanted to shout loudly, but was knocked unconscious by two flat knives. Xiao Yuexian was calmer on the contrary, with a stiff expression and neither crying nor fussing, except for the "tick-tick-tick" sound at the trouser legs. , wet a large area.
About an hour later, Ding Daxie heard noisy footsteps coming from the flower house above, and someone was calling and calling. After searching for a long time and finding nothing, he went out and left.
Obviously, the disappearance of Fang Gu has alarmed the garden, and the other party is looking for them everywhere. However, according to Fang Gu's identity, the garden should not dare to report it to the official easily. If this matter is reported, they may not be able to suffer the consequences. Walk along.
After a while, the sound came from outside again. This time, as if in a panic, he began to toss hard, as if moving things like flower stands out of the door.
Ding Daxie glanced at Bai Ao. Bai Ao's face was filled with murderous aura, and he was holding a sword in his hand, which was so cold that it bit his bones.
Originally, it was difficult to hear the outside sounds clearly in the passage, but once the underground stone slabs were opened and communication began in the closed space for several years, the sounds became much louder.
The footsteps came closer and closer, and the words became clearer. It seemed like a woman was shouting: "This is really a dead end. General Fang's horses are still outside. He must not have left the garden. If you can't find him again, he will be raped by someone." He was taken away, but he didn't hear any calls for help, so he might still be hiding in the garden."
After a while, a rough voice said: "Mother-in-law, something is not right here."
The mother-in-law asked anxiously: "What's wrong?"
He said in a rough voice: "There are traces of someone coming, and the ground seems a little weird..."
Ding Crab below suddenly felt a violent knock on the top of his head. Bai Ao pointed his sword at the stone slab above, his eyes widening.
"Mother-in-law, it seems like it's empty down here!"
"Empty?" The mother-in-law was stunned when she heard this, and then said: "This flower house is an old house. The cover has not been opened. Quickly pry it open to see what's special underneath."
As the words fell, the stone slab was lifted up little by little. Before the people above could see the scene below clearly, a cold light pierced up like a silver dragon.
Although the Haoying Sword passed down from the Bai family can't compare with those famous swords that cut iron like clay, it is still extremely sharp and difficult to block with ordinary weapons.
In just a few breaths, five or six people fell on the ground of the flower house. Except for an old woman in a coquettish dress, the rest were all men who looked like thugs.
At this moment, Ding Daxie also came up. He looked at the dead bodies and sighed: "Since you have killed them, don't keep them all!"
A sneer appeared at the corner of Bai Ao's mouth: "Dalang is exactly what I want, killing people together with a certain person!"
The two of them had long asked from Xiao Yuexian how many people were alive in the garden. At this time, they harbored evil thoughts and quietly walked out of the flower house with knives and swords. They didn't care about any prostitutes, maids, or turtle goons, they were easy to kill.
Both of them have martial arts skills, Bai Ao is stronger, but he kills intentionally but not intentionally, and since the Yingchun Garden is closed and no one comes in or out, he kills everyone inside, and then Ding Daxie stays in the front building. Watching the door, Bai Ao returned to the passage and continued to wait for news about Zhao Tong.
About when the sun was setting to the west, voices came from far away in the passage. Brothers Bai Ao and Bai Ba looked through the torches, but they saw that many people were filing in from the other side, and the leader turned out to be Zhao Tong.
The two brothers hurriedly came forward to greet them. Bai Ao reported the murder. Zhao Tong nodded and his eyes fell on Fang Gu and Xiao Yuexian.
Fang Gu had already woken up. Hearing the conversation between the two parties, he still didn't know Zhao Tong's identity. He was so frightened that he trembled all over and lowered his head hard, not daring to raise his head.
Zhao Tong looked at him and smiled: "Your name is Fang Gu, are you Fang La's cousin?"
Fang Gu whispered: "Yes, yes..."
Zhao Tong thought for a moment and said, "Did you see me and Baihua drinking outside the city that day?"
Fang Gu said: "Look, I saw it... No, no, I didn't see it."
Zhao Tong frowned: "This person is dishonest. Let's give him some punishment. Just don't leave any obvious trauma!"
Fang Gu almost fainted when he heard this. He was scared to death and wanted to tell the truth about everything, but later he was worried that Zhao Tong would be unhappy after hearing this, so he hurriedly changed his words. Who knew that his cleverness was in the wrong place, and the other party was going to torture him directly.
He hurriedly shouted: "Spare my life, spare your life, let me do whatever I want, but don't torture me..."
Bai Ba sneered "hehe" and walked over. His Bai family was from Kaifeng Mansion. Although he was no longer on duty, the interrogation and torture methods were passed down.
He got a small wooden stick from nowhere, cut it into a thin stick shape with his sword, then grabbed Fang Gu's palm, and with a slight exertion, the wooden stick was inserted directly into the belly of the middle finger.
This time, it was inserted close to the bones, scraping the tendons and blood vessels, and Fang Gu immediately screamed out in pain.
Zhao Tong looked expressionless on the side. In the criminal law, this is called "stick finger". It is more commonly used. A three-inch bamboo stick or iron needle is used to pierce the prisoner's finger, causing the prisoner unbearable pain. This is used by cruel officials to extract confessions. Some people are so Being beaten into a move.
The nerves on the fingers are densely packed, so the pain is extremely high, and the executioner's skills are different, so the degree of pain is different.
"Grandpa, ancestor, don't, don't pierce me. Let me do whatever I want, don't pierce me..." Fang Gu burst into tears and couldn't help crying as he watched Bai Ba cut out another small bamboo stick.
Zhao Tong motioned to Bai Ba to pause and said, "Does it hurt?"
Fang Gu cried: "It hurts, it hurts so much. Grandpa can do anything you want me to do, just don't prick me anymore..."
Zhao Tong smiled. At this time, someone from behind gave him a folding chair. He sat down and said, "You can do anything?"
Fang Gu said: "I can do anything, as long as grandpa spares my life and no longer tortures..."
Zhao Tong looked at him for a few seconds and said: "In that case, I have one thing for you to do... I heard that your bandit army likes to light people's sky lanterns and cook meat and fry bones. This matter can be easily handled. No, I’ll try it on you.”
Fang Gu was so frightened that his face changed shape when he heard this. He had seen all those things, and he knew how miserable the tortured people were. The miserable screams of those people before they died are still shuddering to think about.
He quickly said: "The small one must be done well, it must be done well!"
Bai Ba came forward again at this time, and he was so frightened that he immediately trembled, thinking that another sign was coming, so he hid back. Bai Ba coldly snorted and grabbed his hand, but did not prick it. Instead, he violently pulled the sign from before. With a tug, he pulled it out immediately.
This time, he felt a terrible pain again. He almost fainted from the pain. It took him a long time to recover, but he saw Zhao Tong smiling and saying, "Can it really be done?"
Fang Gu sobbed: "It can be done well, it can be done well..."
Zhao Tong nodded, and then slowly talked about the matter, which lasted two to three quarters of an hour.
After he finished speaking, he closed his eyes slightly and said nothing, but Fang Gu was dumbfounded. Although Fang Gu thought that the other party might let his family surrender and betray him, in the current situation, he could only save his life first, but he did not expect that the other party actually asked him to do it. For such a big event, he was asked to deceive the city gate of Hangzhou.
This is something that there is no turning back. Once he does it, regardless of whether it is successful or not, he will be reviled by everyone, and even the genealogy will remove him.
Zhao Tong waited for him to think for a moment, then opened his eyes and said, "With your official position in the bandit army, is it not difficult to accomplish this?"
Fang Gu hesitated and said: "The younger one can indeed approach the city gate, but every city is guarded by generals. The younger one is only a deputy general and has no right to give orders independently."
Zhao Tong said: "This is simple. If your surname is Fang, just use Fang Baihua's name to pass the command. There is no need to go through any generals!"
Fang Gu didn't dare to say no, so he said: "You can give it a try, see if it works..."
Zhao Tong interrupted him and said, "Fang Gu."
"Little, little here..."
Zhao Tong said: "You know who I am, right?"
Fang Gu said hurriedly: "I know, my grandpa is His Highness the King of Qin of the Song Dynasty."
Zhao Tong nodded and said: "Since you know it, that's good. I think there is something that you may not have understood. I just said that if you don't handle it well, you will be punished and die. What if you handle it well?"
"Little, little..." Fang Gu didn't know what Zhao Tong was going to say, and he didn't know how to answer.
Zhao Tong said slowly: "Whose official should I be? I don't believe that his official position in Fang La is better than his official position in the Song Dynasty!"
"Prince..." Fang Gu was stunned.
Zhao Tong leaned forward slightly, and his voice was full of bewitching: "How can Fang La's rebel army compare with the Western Army? They will be defeated overnight. When the time comes, they will kill the nine tribes. It is your Fang family who is helping." All the ancestral graves of the Fang family have to be dug up, but... if you can accomplish this, I will recommend you an official position, and then not only will the ancestral graves of your Fang family be preserved, but you, Fang Gu, will also be able to honor your ancestors!"
"Ah?" Fang Gu was stunned when he heard this. He hadn't thought about this just now. He only thought that if he did this well, he would be able to survive, but he never thought that if he did it, he could become an official.
That was an official of the Song Dynasty! Fang Gu took a breath.
For some reason, he had always felt that the officials of the Song Dynasty were actually officials, while the officials of the Holy Dynasty were a bit of a joke. How many cities did the Holy Dynasty occupy? The Song Dynasty truly owned the world, and the Song Dynasty was the orthodoxy.
"Your Majesty..." Fang Gu murmured: "Little..."
Zhao Tong looked at his expression and chuckled: "I have always been true to my word and will never be deceived on this matter. Don't worry!"
Fang Gu hurriedly said: "That's not what I mean. I will try my best to handle this matter. If I don't do it well, I will either beat or kill me."
At this moment, he suddenly realized that death was still scary, but there was no other way to go. Either die now, or do something for the other party to deceive the gate of Hangzhou. If he failed to deceive him, he might also die, but Die later, if you cheat...
Although he would suffer countless infamy if he cheated, but he was a farmer's painter, why did he care about the infamy? If the King of Qin was serious about what he said, giving him an official position in the Song Dynasty would really honor the ancestors. As for the expulsion of the family tree, when Fang La was defeated, wouldn't he have the final say on those things? First fire all these rebellious officials and traitors!
Zhao Tong said: "As the old saying goes, those who know the current affairs are heroes. You should be a hero if you take this step. However, it is known all over the world that I keep my word, and I will never go back on my words when I obey the official duties. But you... I The king still doesn’t quite believe you.”
Fang Gu couldn't help but get anxious after hearing this. He wanted to make a vow, but he didn't know whether Zhao Tong believed it or not. He felt as if he was scratching his head and scratching his liver.
Zhao Tong said: "I have an idea, please come!"
Shi Qian heard the words from behind and came up: "Your Majesty."
Zhao Tong said: "Did you bring the things?"
Shi Qian took out two small boxes from his body and said with a smile, "My lord, I brought them all."
Zhao Tong nodded and said nothing.
Shi Qian opened the box with a snap, revealing a strange blue beetle, the size of a pigeon egg. He glanced at Fang Gu with ill intentions, then pointed at the beetle and said to Fang Gu, "This is a seedling." Once the rotten bone soul-eating worms of the Five Poison Sect of Xinjiang are eaten into the stomach, if no antidote is available for thirty-six hours, they will begin to eat the human heart and bone marrow. Finally, after eating the inside, they will crawl out of the stomach, leaving only a A piece of human skin.”
Fang Gu had never seen such a big beetle before. He saw that this thing had a pair of extremely ferocious mouthparts, and its two front legs were serrated like a mantis. They were rubbing against each other and making a "squeaking" sound.
His scalp felt numb when he saw it, and he couldn't help but shudder when he heard Shi Qian's words. Shi Qian suddenly took a step forward, pinched open his mouth, and threw the beetle in.
Fang Gu was so frightened that he wanted to scream, but the rotten bone soul-eating beetle reached his throat. The saw teeth on its legs scratched his throat. He was speechless immediately. Then Shi Qian moved and slapped him on the back, and the beetle fell in. In the belly.
Fang Gu sat there without daring to move, his eyes were full of fear, and he was about to cry again.
Zhao Tong said at this time: "You don't have to be afraid. This insect will attack in three days. If you handle this matter well, I will naturally give you the antidote and give you an official title. If you can do it, If it doesn’t work well, the worms will eat up all the internal organs and marrow, so I can’t blame you.”
Fang Gu groaned in his heart. Just as he was about to say a few words to express his loyalty, he saw the monkey-like man in front of him opening another small box.
Inside this box is a bright red pill, the color is very strange, and the red color is a bit sinister.
Fang Gu was dumbfounded and screamed inwardly, then Shi Qian said hey: "This is the flesh-changing pill. It will take effect thirty-six hours after taking it. If you don't get the antidote, the skin and flesh all over your body will turn into pus." Death, coupled with the rotten bone soul-eating worm, there won’t even be any residue left in the custody!”
After he finished speaking, he pinched Fang Gu's mouth open again, flicked the pill, and rolled it into Fang Gu's belly.
Fang Gu was sweating profusely at this moment. Even the finger that had been tortured just now felt less painful. His heart and mind were filled with huge fear. This fear actually overshadowed the physical pain.
Zhao Tong said slowly: "Do your job well, and I will give you the antidote in three days."
Fang Gu trembled and said, "Yes, it's the prince..."
Bai Ao came over at this time: "Your Majesty, what should I do with that woman?"
Zhao Tong frowned and glanced at him. Without saying a word, he stood up and walked into the passage with his hands behind his hands.
Bai Ao immediately turned around, walked up to Xiao Yuexian, drew out his sword and slashed. In an instant, he saw a beautiful head flying out, and blood splattered on Fang Gu's head and face next to him.
Fang Gu was flooded with blood, rolled his eyes, and passed out.
(End of chapter)
