Kong Zhongqian ignored Ge Jiu and continued to murmur: "Lu Fengru... died long ago..."
Another voice came out of the darkness: "Brother Ge..."
Ge Jiu's whole body suddenly felt horrified. Yun Kong saw that his whole body was stiff, and he also saw sweat immediately showing on the back of his clothes.
Yun Kong looked at his other subordinates, all of them expressionless.
"Brother Ge..." The man slowly walked out of the darkness, his eyes almost sunken into his sockets, his face as yellow as white wax, and a Taoist crown on his head, "I... have been dead a long time ago... …”
The big black man suddenly screamed strangely and fell to the ground.
The torch in the darkness was slowly pulled down, illuminating the visitor.
A dark horse stepped out of the darkness eerily. Sitting on the horse was a man, dressed in a red official robe, with a frightening look in his eyes: "Ge Jiu..." The big knife in Ge Jiu's hand fell off. It landed on the ground and bounced a little.
"Ge Jiu and others killed seventeen members of the Song army the day before yesterday and robbed them of money. Do you admit it or not?"
The man's voice was decisive, and every sentence cut into Ge Jiu's heart.
Ge Jiu was trembling all over, clenching his teeth and asking loudly: "What Song Jun? Who are you?"
"You don't recognize it?"
The official waved back, and a dozen more people burst out from the darkness.
Those people had special shapes. Each of them had their hands and feet amputated, or their heads were broken off, with the skin hanging down on one side.
"It is this person..." One of them pointed at Ge Jiu, "Seventeen of us, on the orders of General Liu Guangshi, sneaked into the north and recruited people to surrender to the Song Dynasty. We met these people in the ruined temple on the way and killed us. ..." Ge Jiu looked back and saw that each of his men, who usually killed people without changing their expressions, had already fallen limp and fainted.
"What's the evidence?"
Ge Jiu knew that the official in front of him could not be dealt with casually, so he was determined to keep his words.
The official on horseback took out a booklet, carefully wrote a few words, and murmured to himself: "If you don't admit murder, your punishment will be increased..."
Then he turned around and asked those people: "Where is the evidence?"
"Evidence...General Liu Guangshi was in Jiangzhou and asked us to bring gold, silver, and copper coins across the river. They were tokens to be handed over to the soldiers who surrendered to the Song Dynasty. Each copper coin was cast with the four words "recruitment letter treasure"...obtained Those who have copper coins will be included in the army as long as they show the recruitment letter treasure to the Song army."
"Nothing special," another man with a piece of his head cut off said: "In order to make the Jin soldiers not want to fight, General Liu also gave the recruitment letter treasure to the Jin soldiers' prisoners of war, so that they could go home safely... Because of this , Jin Bingcai’s military morale collapsed and he had no intention of fighting.”
"The gold, silver and copper coins we carry could have saved thousands of people," a man with intestines hanging out of his belly pointed at Ge Jiu, "This is the man who killed us in the ruined temple!"
As soon as the man finished speaking, Ge Jiu inexplicably dropped a bag of money from his body, and as soon as it hit the ground, he opened his mouth and released a pile of copper coins.
Ge Jiu's face could not be whiter, but he still wanted to defend himself: "Didn't you tell me earlier? What is the use of these unusable money? And..." He pointed at the sinister Kong Zhongqian: "He wanted to rob this The money also killed many of us!”
The official on horseback paused and said, "You are right, that's why they are with me now."
Ge Jiudeng's hair stood on end.
"In troubled times, untimely death is normal," said the official on horseback. "However, the robbery of the recruitment letter treasure cast by General Liu Guangshi was too much interference and had a huge impact. The fate of tens of thousands of people was changed because of you. Originally, There is no forgiveness for sin, let alone sin upon sin!"
As he said that, the official placed the book firmly on the horse's back, picked up the ink pen, and said seriously: "Okay, Ge Jiu, Ma Sen, Li Hei and other seven people committed murder and swindled goods, causing a total of 218 human lives. After deducting the Yangshou, You should die before tomorrow."
The big pen was about to be approved, but suddenly stopped.
The official looked towards the woods.
Everyone looked over in unison.
In the forest, the old man who had just redressed his grievances against Yun Kong just put his neck through the noose and jumped off the tree with his strength.
The official then wrote: "Change it to seven o'clock noon."
After the large number of comments were finished, the people who had just stepped out of the darkness disappeared into the darkness one by one.
"Let's set off."
The official gave the order, and the black horse immediately galloped forward, and dozens of torches swarmed in.
No one bumped into them.
Ge Jiu and the others felt a cold wind blowing against their faces, and the icy wind penetrated their muscles and bones. The torches passed over their heads and disappeared into the darkness behind them.
The wind has passed, but the chill in my bones remains, and I feel a faint tingling sensation.
Ge Jiu came back to his senses, looked back, and suddenly thought, "Where is the Taoist priest?"
His brothers were still trembling on the ground, looking at him pitifully.
"What about the Taoist priest?!"
He yelled irrationally.
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After a night of chaos, the forest was slowly enveloped in morning light, waking up bit by bit.
The morning mist blows gently through the forest, and the pink moisture flows lightly, giving you a chill when you inhale it into your lungs.
All the people in the woods had left and started heading south on the main road.
At this moment, two people quietly set out on the road.
When they passed through the woods last night, they also passed the old man hanging in the tree.
The old man deliberately hung himself by the road, spitting out a black tongue and glaring resentfully towards the south.
Yun Kong looked up at the old man seriously and told the beggar: "Last night, he mustered up the courage to complain to me, but he still ended up resentful."
The breeze pushed the old man, causing him to slowly turn around in mid-air, his eyes brushing across Yun Kong's face.
The beggar cut his hands off his back and said, "It's all your fault for being disobedient."
"disobedient?"
"Sajia Qian Dingzhu and Wan Dingzhu told me to walk slowly, walk slower, but you refused to listen and troubled me twice."
Yun Kong gratefully held up his hands and said, "I saved you twice for my hard work, but I really can't repay him."
"Don't say more," said the beggar, "I said it first. I knew you were in trouble, so I couldn't help you. But from now on, you follow me, but you must walk slower."
"This time I dare not not listen."
"Probably if you walk like this, you will arrive at General Liu Guangshi's camp by nightfall, right? Don't forget your copper coin then."
Yun Kong took out the copper coin with "Recruitment Letter Treasure" cast in his arms.
"If you pass the customs today, this copper coin will be of great benefit."
As they walked along, they looked at the messy footprints left by the people in front of them, which were so intricate and overlapping that they were confused.
The two of them talked about their experiences on the road, and as they walked, near noon, a piece of yellow sand rolled up on the road, bringing with it a deep cold air.
"Hey, those words are evil."
The beggar said, pulling Yun Kong to the roadside.
The yellow sand rolled over one after another, and there were faint shadows of figures and swords in the sand, mixed with the rustling and whispering sounds.
Occasionally, a cry or two came from the rolling dust, and the sound of chaotic footsteps passed by.
A bit of cold air passed in front of Yunkong, affecting the white cloth move and making the two copper bells on the move noisy.
The yellow sand was noisy for a while before it all passed. It turned a corner at the far end of the road and disappeared from the sight of the two of them.
"That's a Yin soldier." The beggar looked over and said.
"Pindao has heard of it, but this is the first time he has seen it."
"Is this your first time?" Beggar smiled, "The Sa family has met him several times."
"Just tell me and listen to it. It will relieve your boredom along the way."
The beggar said it, but that is another story, and I will tell it again when I have the opportunity.
After walking for a while, the sun may be heading west and the sky is getting darker.
"here we go again."
Yun Kong said, dragging the beggar's stand to the roadside.
"What?" The beggar looked around in confusion.
"You've passed the Yin soldiers." The beggar looked at the road seriously and didn't see even a walking ant: "Did you really see something?"
Yunkong was stunned, turned around and looked forward, wondering: Didn't the beggar see it?
There was another large group of people in front of them, and the yellow sand on the road was raised in a mighty manner. The sand even floated to the eyeballs, causing Yun Kong to cry.
Yun Kong saw clearly. He recognized the leader. He was the official who was riding on the black horse last night. He was still riding on the black horse now.
A group of soldiers shouted in front of and behind the high-ranking officials, shouting at a group of figures dragging behind them. The figures were blurry in the yellow sand in the sky.
"It's from last night..." Yun Kong murmured.
The beggar still saw nothing: "Xianjia, is it possible that you have yin and yang eyes?"
"Oh my God."
"What?"
"It's them."
"who?"
"Ge Jiu, the one named Ge Jiu, and the black one."
The beggar looked at Yunkong curiously. Yunkong's face was in a daze, his lips were slightly open, and he was looking straight at the calm road with a frown.
He saw something flowing in Yun Kong's eyes.
The beggar was startled and quickly got closer to look into Yun Kong's eyes.
In the dark eyes of Yun Kong, there are many figures.
The beggar turned around to look at the main road, which was still as quiet as still water.
Yun Kong slowly turned his neck, as if watching something go away.
After a long time, he came back to his senses: "Did you see that? Those evil people are all chained up."
The beggar gritted his teeth and said with a bitter smile: "The Sa family didn't see anyone, but according to what you said, the Sa family is sure of two things."
Yun Kong waited for him to say.
"First, this may not be a journey through the Yin soldiers, but a journey through the underworld," Beggar said. "Second, the Sa family believes that it is probably the end of time now, and it may have been a long time."
"Then...General Liu's camp may be arriving soon, right?"
"It seems that now we should step up our pace."
Yun Kong smiled and said, "It's up to you."
