Jiang Hua was a thief with rough skin and thick flesh. He fell down from the roof. He was unconscious for a while and then woke up, but he kept pretending to be unconscious.
He might not be afraid of swords, but when he peeked at the thick and long silver needle in Zhang Bi's hand, he couldn't help but feel a little frightened.
"Second brother, wake him up first... where can I get some cold water?" Zhang Ben shook his head towards Lin Linyou.
"The horns are so tiny, where do you want me to get water?" Lin Linyou looked around, "Besides, there's no basin or ladle."
"Get the piss!"
"Don't tell me, I just want to pee!" Lin Lin said and went to untie the belt around his waist.
Zhang Ben roughly tore the clothes off Jiang Hua's chest and stretched out his cold fingers to measure him...
Jiang Hua panicked when he touched him, and was even more afraid of being peed on his face. Before he could be punished, he opened his eyes and shouted, "Don't mess around! I'm telling you! I am friends with your commander, Mr. Ji Gang, and we often Let’s make tea together!”
Seeing this, Lin Linyou had no choice but to put on the Luan belt again: "Keep it, use it later when you are unconscious from torture."
Zhang Ben punched Jiang Hua in the lower abdomen and grabbed his collar: "Let me ask you, where is Jiang Ayan now? Did you capture a Jin Yiwei? Where did you take him!?"
"I don't know." Jiang Hua sneered, raised his head and spit out a mouthful of bloody saliva on the street. He continued to let Zhang Ben pull him, lazily lowering his head back.
"Second brother! Help hold his feet!" As expected, Zhang Bi was a veteran in torture. He took off Jiang Hua's shoes and socks and inserted a silver needle into an acupuncture point on the sole of his foot. Jiang Hua immediately showed a look of pain on his face. He opened his mouth and couldn't help but cry out. He pushed his foot in hard, and Lin Linyou almost couldn't hold it. It felt harder than the pig's feet used to kill the New Year pig.
Zhang Ben carefully twisted the silver needle and slowly penetrated it. On a cold day, Jiang Hua had beads of sweat on his forehead, but he clenched his teeth and did not make a sound. He was still a good man.
"If you don't tell me, your foot will be useless. From now on, let alone Qinggong, you will have to use crutches to walk!"
As soon as the silver needle moved, Jiang Hua instinctively shrank his feet again. Finally he couldn't bear it anymore and shouted: "I said!"
Zhang Ben pulled out the silver needle and put it back into his sleeve.
"Brother, can this needle be used to pick teeth?" Lin Linyou let go of Jiang Hua's ankle and shook his hand in disgust. This guy is so good at Qinggong, but his feet are so smelly!
"Yes! If it doesn't work, you can still use it to test poison... You interrupted again!" Zhang Bi mentioned the pale Jiang Hua, "Tell me!"
According to Jiang Hua’s explanation...
Although he was expelled from the Governor's Mansion, he had been secretly working for Jiang Ayan and the others.
What effect does it have?
Relying on his superb qinggong and the uncanny ability to break through walls, Jiang Hua frequently entered girls' boudoirs at night. He used incense to stun the girls who were sleeping or awakened, then wrapped them in a single sheet and carried them to the roof. Running fast, as if walking on flat ground.
These girls are usually presented to the governor Li Zengzhi and his guests.
Before dawn the next day, Jiang Hua repeated his old trick and made the girl unconscious again, wrapped in a sheet and sent back to the boudoir.
When these girls woke up, they noticed something strange, and most of them did not dare to express themselves. In addition, the aftertaste of the incense made them dizzy, and some of them just thought it was a dream. The few who dared to tell their parents said, "Dreams follow evil spirits. "Fox is causing trouble", parents do not dare to report the matter to the government, and they do not dare to publicize it because of their reputation.
Gradually, their group of flower thieves became more courageous. They not only kidnapped young girls, but also kidnapped women they liked according to the taste of the guests. They did not send them back immediately at dawn. Some stayed for a few days longer, and some refused to give in and were killed. Some even The one who couldn't bear the humiliation and committed suicide...
Even if a woman files a police report, what can be done? That's Governor Li!
What's more, it is said that among his guests were not only Ji Gang, the commander of the Jinyi Guards, Qin Zhengxue, a doctor in the Ministry of Rites, but also Zhu Gaoxu, the King of Han Dynasty, who was his guest.
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"You really managed to support an entire Jiaofangsi by yourself!" Zhang Bi sighed, "When are you going to take me to see the world?"
"Hi!" Jiang Hua breathed a sigh of relief and said with a smile, "Easy to say, easy to say! I wonder what kind of things do you like?"
Zhang Ben thought for a while and said: "I like..."
A big hand covered Zhang Ben's mouth, pushed his head, stepped forward and stepped on Jiang Hua's lower abdomen - it was Lin Linyou.
"Second brother, why are you so rude!" Zhang Bi frowned and wiped his mouth, "It feels like you have picked your buttocks with your hands, it stinks!"
Lin Linyou stretched out his hand and waved: "I just grabbed his feet, did you forget?"
Zhang Bi: “Oh—too!”
"I didn't ask you to say this!" Lin Linyou felt that Jiang Hua was deliberately revealing this, using Ji Gang and the others to frighten them, "Where is Jiang Ayan?"
"I really don't know." Jiang Hua was confident that his shock had worked.
"Do you think that if you move out Ji Gang and Li Zengzhi, we won't dare to touch you?" Lin Linyou leaned down, grabbed Jiang Hua's chin with his five-fingered sword, and turned his face to the left. Look, twist to the right, look.
Jiang Hua was a little flustered for a moment: "Sir, it's okay...I, I said everything I needed to say, really!"
Lin Linyou: "There are also two swallows tattooed on his face."
Jiang Hua: "It embodies the beautiful wish of being as light as a swallow."
Even so, Lin Linyou still vaguely saw the words "thief" and "second degree" covered in the swallowtails behind his ears.
Turns out to be a prisoner with tattoos on his cheeks! He must have returned from exile due to the amnesty, or he may have slipped back.
Lin Linyou: "Tell me, if the emperor saw you tattooing his former titles on a face like yours, and using it to cover up your tattoos, would he be overjoyed, or would he be furious?"
Jiang Hua glanced at Lin Linyou timidly: "Ah... you Jin Yiwei are really good at creating clever names..."
Lin Linyou drew the knife in his hand: "If not, will I cut off the name on your face now?"
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Six years ago, Li Jinglong and his younger brother Li Zengzhi were impeached by Zhu Neng, the Duke of Chengguo, Jian Yi, the Minister of Civil Affairs, and others for treason, but the emperor only removed Li Jinglong's title of meritorious official.
These people have big roots in the court and have a small general banner. How can they dare to go against them?
Although we know that they will be overthrown soon, no matter before or after their fall, it is still easy to get rid of a small general banner due to the intricate relationship between the government and the central government for many years.
Lin Linyou knew this, so he always kept a low profile as an official and would not take the initiative to provoke the powerful and involve them in the case - he did not want to do anything big to get promoted, as long as he could freely visit the Jiaofang Division and save the poor people. Girls, he was content.
But he is not afraid of them, let alone the dogs under their command.
As long as their vital interests are not touched and a few dogs are beaten, these dignitaries will not turn against Jin Yiwei.
You know, our Jinyi Guards are the only guards directly under the emperor among the twenty-two guards in the personal army, and are His Majesty’s personal dogs!
Dog bites dog, who is afraid of whom?
Although Jiang Hua didn't know that Li Jinglong and the others would fall soon, he also knew that if he really got in front of the emperor, not even gods could save him. Governor Li and the others may regret the loss of a capable man like me, but they will never come to the rescue during this sensitive period.
So he finally spoke:
"I only know that he is very likely to be at Yuhuatai... and the Jin Yiwei you are looking for may be there too!"
"Yuhuatai?!" Zhang Ben stood up after hearing this.
Suddenly there was a flash of sword light, and Jiang Hua screamed and hugged his legs.
A stream of blood was picked up by the blade and splashed on the white wall opposite. At the same time, Lin Lin sheathed the spring knife.
"Second brother..."
"It's a great favor to save this kind of person's life." Lin Linyou's eyes were gloomy, "I'm going to kill you today and see how you continue to harm the girl!"
