Li Ruiyun's right-hand man, Luo Fengwei, a disciple of Tianxiao, remained calm and caught Ding Jiying's family who was making an attack in the east and west in an attempt to escape from the capital. Li Ruiyun and Wan'er were very impressed.
"Where," Luo Fengwei said modestly, "Actually, I'm just following orders. The truly powerful person should be our gang leader! It's the gang leader who has foresight and preparedness, and arranged in advance for his subordinates to pay special attention to those people. , otherwise how could we capture those traitors so smoothly?"
"Yes, our gang leader is wise and wise, and sister Luo, you are also indispensable." Wan'er's broad smile slowly faded, and then turned cold, "But these Ding Jinzhi and his son are really hateful! The gang leader regards them as I have great trust in my confidants and entrusted them with important responsibilities, but I never expected that they would do such a thing of surrendering to the enemy and betraying their trust. It is simply a wolfish ambition and heinous act!"
Li Ruiyun's eyes were pure and dark, "You are right, especially for a capricious villain like Ding Jinzhi, who has betrayed the master several times and has forgotten justice for profit. If I don't kill him, it will be difficult to eliminate the hatred in my heart!"
"Oh, it's a pity that he is not in our hands." Wan'er said with clenched teeth.
"He is not in our hands, but his son is here. It is only natural that the father's debt should be repaid by the son! And his son is not a fuel-efficient lamp. In this case, let's settle the old and new accounts together. I want Use his son to play a bigger game!"
When he said this, Li Ruiyun's jawline was tense, and his deep eyes were like a violent storm about to roll up...
Although it was daytime, the sky was very dark, and the sky was full of dark clouds, as if they were about to press down, making it suffocating. The haze-shrouded hall was full of evil spirits, and the dull thunder outside was rumbling non-stop, giving the appearance of "the storm is about to come, and the wind is filling the building."
Li Ruiyun's face was gloomy, and he was pacing back and forth in the hall with his hands behind his back; behind him, Taoist priest Bai Yu, Luo Fengwei, Yang Wan'er and others stood with bated breath and concentration, all with angry eyebrows and sinking faces.
In front of the steps of the main hall, a man stood with his back slightly bent. He was about thirty years old, handsome in appearance, with fair skin, slightly pointed eyebrows, and slightly pursed thin lips.
He kept his head lowered, with a thick haze covering his face. His ink-like eyes were gloomy, and his long eyelashes were weakly covering his eyelids, like a remade defective product that had been pulled off the altar, dejected. , decadent and depressed.
"Tell me, why are you doing this?" Li Ruiyun finally stopped and glanced back at him. His tone was very restrained, but there was an undercurrent of a storm slowly surging beneath his words.
"What Gang Leader Li said, I don't understand." Ding Jiying looked at a loss.
——Are you still pretending to be confused? I want to see how long you can last?
"Since I went to some Xiangguo Temple to see incense and fulfill my vows, why haven't I come back yet? Humph, if they hadn't intercepted me, Mr. Ding would have taken your family away long ago, right?" Li Ruiyun said unceremoniously. Straight to the point.
"Why are you flying far away? Mr. Li made me confused! We just saw the incense and fulfilled our vows. We felt that there was nothing else to do. We hadn't been to Xiangguo Temple for a long time, so we walked around outside the temple. That’s all, so the delay is a bit longer, so how could it be misunderstood that you haven’t come back for a long time?”
Ding Jiying looked excited and argued vigorously, "Also, I would like to ask Mr. Li why he sent someone to intercept us without asking any questions and brought us here without any explanation. What's the point?"
——After seeing each other for three days, you should look at each other with admiration. This Ding Jiying is quite powerful now. Not only does she use strong words and is good at sophistry, but she also tries to beat him up! It seems that if you don't show your trump card, you really won't be able to defeat him.
"Haha," Li Ruiyun narrowed his eyes and sneered, "It seems that Mr. Ding will not shed tears until he sees the coffin, and plans to carry it to the end! If this is the case, then don't blame Mr. Li for not saving face. Someone - "
The guards on both sides stepped forward in response.
"Bring people up." Li Ruiyun's voice was low and cold.
The guards snorted, turned around and went out. After a moment, they turned around and pushed and pushed someone up.
The man's hair was disheveled, covering almost half of his face, making it impossible to see his face clearly. His whole body was covered with mottled whip marks, mixed with sweat and blood, and adhered to the torn clothes. The scars and bloody flesh were all shocking.
Under the rough push of several wolf-like and tiger-like guards, he staggered. With every movement, waves of heartbreaking pain invaded uncontrollably and spread throughout his body instantly.
Before he even got close, he couldn't support his broken body and fell heavily to the ground like a lifeless bag.
"Master Ding, do you know this person?" Li Ruiyun raised the corners of his lips and smiled like a crescent moon.
Staring blankly at the blood-covered and miserable man in front of him, Ding Jiying felt a chill seeping out from deep in his heart. He shook his head numbly.
This man had been tortured beyond recognition. Although he felt somewhat familiar, he was so frightened that he almost didn't dare to look at him.
"Master Ding," the man struggled to raise his head, tremblingly pushing the messy hair away from his face, his eyes so bright that they seemed to be shining, "You...you really don't recognize me?"
"Zhou Huaiyi?!..." From his low and hoarse voice, Ding Jiying immediately recognized who it was, and couldn't help but scream, "Why is it you?...Why are you here?..."
Zhou Huaiyi bit his lips hard, smiled bitterly, lowered his eyes feebly, and finally said no words.
"Master Ding, do you want to know what's going on? Luo Fengwei, come and tell him." Li Ruiyun's face was filled with wanton playfulness, and he turned to the deep and introverted subordinate next to him.
"Yes." Luo Fengwei's face was calm, and his dark eyes were incredibly dark. He talked about the ups and downs that had happened in the past few days in a calm tone:
The secret guard at the border who inquired about the situation reported that Li Zhishan and Ding Jinzhi had angered Prince Guangling for some reason. One was killed and the other was detained... Ding Jinzhi sent someone back to deliver a letter saying: everything is going as planned and going smoothly... Ding Jiying He asked Li Ruiyun for leave and wanted to go with his mother and wife to see the incense at Xiangguo Temple outside the city to fulfill his vow, but he never returned...
Li Ruiyun was reminded by Luo Fengwei, Yang Wan'er and others that the more he thought about it, the more he realized something was wrong, so he arranged for a few capable men to arrest Zhou Huaiyi for a surprise interrogation. Under the hard and soft tactics of a group of cruel officials, Zhou Huaiyi could not survive the torture and had to be honest. Recruited confession:
It was true that under the coercion and inducement of Zhao Rui, Zhao Xu, and Ling Yun, he came back to deliver Ding Jinzhi's letter falsely reporting that he was safe - but in fact, Ding Jinzhi had long been controlled by King Guangling and the others.
The purpose is of course to convey false news, so as to confuse the public and paralyze Li Ruiyun and others; then King Guangling's army rushed to the capital in one go, catching them off guard!
"Master Ding, now that the witnesses and physical evidence are all there, do you have anything else to say?" Li Ruiyun glanced at Ding Jiying coolly.
His calm expression and calm tone sounded calm, but what was brewing in his eyes was a storm about to come.
Ding Jiying lowered his head in frustration and his face became extremely ugly.
After a long time, he raised his head with difficulty, his eyes fixed on Zhou Huaiyi, the man who was lying on the ground in a state of embarrassment and who had betrayed him. He said almost word by word through his teeth: "Zhou Huaiyi, you... you are greedy for life and afraid of death. The villain..."
"Mr. Ding, actually I...I can't help it!..." Zhou Huaiyi's eyes were red and he said in a hoarse voice: "You said that you have already been caught by him and confessed everything, so why bother to force him to do it?" How can I, a slave who clenches his teeth and hold on to himself, be a hero?"
"Confession, what confession?..." Ding Jiying pursed her lips tightly and widened her eyes, "I didn't say anything, Zhou Huaiyi, are you too stupid to fall for their plan to sow discord?"
"..." Zhou Huaiyi's face suddenly turned pale. He felt that his chest was tight and his throat was dry. He opened his mouth wide and could not speak for a long time...
