Zhang Hai trembled, kept acknowledging his mistake, and expressed his willingness to make atonement and do whatever I asked. The deputy prison manager also showed his loyalty and was so anxious that he almost ran out of the cell.
The guard in the cell next to him simply knelt down on one knee and promised to be loyal only to the leader and obey my orders from now on.
Elder Xuanyuan can use his connections to harm me, and I can also turn around and ask his people to bite him to death.
When the ceremony ended in the evening, Ximen Wuhen came with his people without even changing his clothes.
All the elders came together, as well as the official managers from various departments.
It’s not that they care about me, it’s just that Ximen Wuhen ran this way as if his buttocks were on fire. They couldn’t abandon the leader and go back to their respective homes.
Ximen Wuhen's real power was eclipsed, but his status was still there.
A group of people quickly gathered outside the prison. Ximen Wuhen smelled the smell of kerosene when he stepped into the prison door. When he saw that I was safe and sound at the door, his frown relaxed.
"What happened?" He took a deep breath, calmed down, and asked me slowly.
I told him what happened today, from when I found someone sneaking into the courtyard, to catching the man in black, to the guard holding the deputy steward hostage, who was discovered and captured by the patrol.
When a group of people arrived at the prison, and the assassination suspect Lang Jiang was brought in, the deputy prison manager ordered people to pour kerosene and prepare to set the prison on fire. After letting me take control, the kitchen steward came to confirm whether the fire was burning.
Ximen Wuhen asked the elders to wait outside the door, and no one was allowed to enter the prison door.
He sent someone to bring Lang Jiang and others out and put them all in the hall. The deputy cell manager and the guard who set the fire were also released and they were all gathered in the hall.
Ximen Wuhen put the chair at the door of the cell. He sat on it, facing the people outside the door, and behind him were two rows of kneeling suspects.
Starting from Lang Jiang, they were asked to explain one by one why they broke into the forbidden area of Yiyuanyuan's main hall, why they kidnapped the deputy steward of Yiyuanyuan, and why they assassinated the suspect and set fire to the prison.
Lang Jiang's throat and tongue are controlled by me. I can't control what he says, but I can control him biting his tongue to commit suicide.
So even if the gag cloth was removed, he could not seek death.
He was completely powerless, but he could speak. However, he had nothing to say. Ximen Wuhen asked him three times in person before he answered that he was curious about the forbidden hall in Yiyuanyuan and wanted to sneak in to take a look during the ceremony. He had no other intention.
Che Cong and the deputy steward of Yiyuanyuan had already rushed over. Che Cong stood beside Elder Gongsun. After hearing Lang Jiang said that he had no other intentions, he immediately asked why he broke in with a knife if he was just curious. go?
Someone spoke after him and said that breaking into the forbidden temple was a serious crime and should be dealt with according to the canons regardless of the purpose.
Lang Jiang is a close confidant of Elder Xuanyuan. He will not betray his master easily. He took the blame alone, which is what I expected.
Others were not as loyal as him. The food deliveryman who assassinated Lang Jiang said that the kitchen steward paid him a lot of money to kill him.
The kitchen steward said that he was bribed by Gu Feng to find a low-level servant who had access to Lang Jiang to assassinate him.
Gu Feng was another guard of Elder Xuanyuan, and he was also on the list of those who were beaten by Yunzhou that night.
The management of this cell is not an easy job. He has many jobs. He helps Gu Feng find the killers who work hard, and he can also get the kerosene used by the jail manager. ….
Both of them came to him because they wanted to use the help of a third party to do things without involving themselves.
This made the merchant hall master very angry. He shouted loudly that Xuanyuan Wumu had a black heart and even wanted to throw dirty water on him.
The kitchen was under the control of the merchant hall, and the kerosene was also kept by the merchant hall. The master of the merchant hall cried out that he was wronged. He was lax in controlling his subordinates, but he would never dare to instigate his subordinates to do this, let alone the fire in the prison. The sister of the leader who had just been found , that is, I, shouldn’t we be burned to death together? !
Even if he had a hundred courages, he wouldn't dare to do this.
Lang Jiang and Gu Feng are both Elder Xuanyuan's bodyguards. They are directly involved in today's matter. Whether they are in front of or behind the scenes, it is inevitable that Elder Xuanyuan will be implicated.
There are also meals in the cell specially prepared for Lang Jiang, and the poison in them comes from the Poison Hall.
Tonight is destined to be a sleepless night, Yun
Zhou Haoduanduan ran over and stayed with me. He was carrying a bag of snacks and holding a pillow that Xiaojiao had given him. When he met me, he gave me a look that said, "You know."
If I'm gone for a long time, Yunzhou will definitely make trouble. Xiaojiao has no choice but to bring him over.
When he saw me, he calmed down, put his pillow on the registration table at the door, and lay down on it to sleep.
I sat in front of the table and he slept behind the table, his head against my back.
There was no emotion on Ximen Wuhen's face. When he wasn't speaking, he was very domineering. He looked like a domineering boss. His eyes were gloomy and sharp, and he glanced at the people outside the door without saying a word.
Gu Feng walked out from behind Elder Xuanyuan, took a few steps forward, and knelt in front of Ximen Wuhen at the door of the prison.
He admitted that he bribed the kitchen manager and obtained kerosene, and asked him to contact the deputy prison manager to set fire to the prison.
There is nothing to explain what he did. He just learned that I was in prison and wanted to avenge the beatings he received a few days ago. He believed that I was the one who ordered Yunzhou to hurt people. He did not want to see his master being beaten. As an elder of the Demon Cult, This is simply a disgrace.
Like Lang Jiang, he took all the blame and left it to the leader's disposal.
Elder Xuanyuan looked distressed and said that they had disappointed him so much. He was unable to discipline his subordinates well and asked the leader to punish them.
Ximen Wuhen looked at him coldly. He was silent for a moment before speaking with a cold tone: "An Qi is my only relative. You cannot afford to pay for her life."
His tone was solemn, making people feel chills running down their spines. He did not let Lang Jiang and Gu Feng die and ordered them to be sent to the Poison Hall.
The leader of the Poison Hall was dismissed from his post and started as a sweeper. If he wanted to return to his original position, it would depend on his performance in the future.
I have been appointed as the new Poison Hall Master, which means that Lang Jiang and Gu Feng will fall into my hands.
How to deal with the others? According to canon rules, it is also a serious crime to kidnap the deputy steward of Yiyuanyuan. The new guards only said that they had received orders from above and pretended not to hear anything they heard today.
They concealed something and spoke harshly, so Ximen Wuhen handed them over to the execution hall for interrogation.
When they heard the word "Exorcise Hall", they were more frightened than when they heard the word "Poison Hall", and they collapsed into a pile of mud.
There is no one who will not confess after entering the execution hall, not to mention that they do not have such a strong sense of faith and cannot survive one round.
Elder Xuanyuan was turbulent in his heart, but he pretended to be calm on the outside. He knew that we couldn't touch him now, and he wasn't too sad about the death of two of his close associates. However, we made him show up in front of the entire sect and turned around. Ximen Wuhen even used him to If so, ask him to give up some of his rights. ….
His people caused this catastrophe, and he had to shed some blood, even if it was to show others, he couldn't escape unscathed.
He is an elder who specializes in managing people. If he doesn't strictly control his subordinates, wouldn't it be a big joke? Ximen Wuhen openly questioned it, thinking that his abilities were limited and his official duties were heavy. It would be better to relieve some of the pressure.
Others will not openly speak for him at this time, because the witnesses and material evidence are all there, and this is the consequence of failure to silence him.
What they lost today can only be found later.
The lights were brightly lit outside the prison door, and the elders had different thoughts. Elder Gongsun, who supported Ximen Wuhen, stood up and agreed with the leader's decision.
His cronies are important witnesses. No matter what happens today, his position has been made clear.
There was no incident in Yiyuanyuan. After Ximen Wuhen dealt with the perpetrators, he announced the disbandment and everyone went back to their respective places. Before they could change their clothes, a group of people dressed up stood at the door of the prison.
The prison manager sent people to clean up all the kerosene on the ground, and the criminals were detained wherever they were supposed to be.
No one died tonight, and I fulfilled my promise to save the lives of Zhang Hai and others.
But they dared to set the prison on fire. For such a serious crime, the punishment would not be light.
Others returned to their residences, but I didn't. I went to the Poison Hall. Ximen Wuhen went back to change clothes first, and he wanted to talk to me later in the night.
I asked Xiaojiao to go back to our yard and report to Wan'er and the others that they were safe.
Yunzhou hugged the pillow and followed me to the Poison Hall. The former Poison Hall master was demoted to a handyman, changed out of the master's uniform, put on coarse clothes and lived in the servants' room.
He is concerned about this
Still indifferent, neither sad nor happy, and implements the superiors' decisions unconditionally.
There used to be a female hall leader in the Poison Hall, and there were women's uniforms, but she was not as tall as me, so the logistics department had to make a new set for me.
The original Demon Cult was not extravagant and wasteful. We used uniforms, household items, etc. as long as we could use them. We did not have the habit of exchanging a group of people for a group of things.
However, in recent years, some of the higher-ups in the church have been extravagant and wasteful, and Ximen Wuhen has no time to take care of it.
The logistics manager of Dutang followed me around, mainly to familiarize me with the environment.
I've been here before, so he doesn't need to introduce too much. He just talks about the daily work of the Poison Hall.
At the beginning, the Demon Cult wanted to fight for a place in the martial arts world. It involved all kinds of competitions and fights, whether it was one-on-one or a group against a group. It required many ways to kill the enemy. It was necessary to research unique poisons.
At that time, there were many people in Dutang, many research projects, and sufficient funds.
But as the Demonic Cult took root in the north and the martial arts status became stable, the Poison Hall was optimized.
The Demon Cult no longer invests a lot of manpower and financial resources in the research and development of new poisons, but mainly produces poisons and antidotes with existing formulas.
If someone likes research and doesn’t want to give up, that’s fine. Anyway, if you don’t have money, there will be no one. Those who are willing to research will find a way on their own.
Today's Poison Hall is a department with light work, and the most important task is to guard the poison warehouse.
Whether it is a patent medicine, antidote or manufacturing materials, nothing is missing.
The logistics supervisor is responsible for guarding the warehouse. It is not yet known whose side he is from.
He specifically mentioned the poisonous people locked up in the empty room in the backyard. Generally, servants who violated serious religious rules or injured their superiors would be sent to the Poison Hall to test the poison. ….
It doesn't want people's lives. It poisons people a few times and makes people suffer. After suffering enough, they will be let go.
Unless there are special circumstances, the poisonous person mentioned by the logistics manager has been punished in the Poison Hall for three full years.
He is someone who has been specially told by his superiors not to let go.
The original hall master must have followed orders, but the logistics manager was not sure what my attitude was, because this poisonous man was sent by Elder Xuanyuan, and now the whole church knows that I have an affair with him.
Everyone below also knows that the factions/struggles within the Demon Cult have begun.
In the past, it was elders fighting with each other, but now it is the leader fighting with the elders. The congregation can only choose sides. The original church leader wants to be neutral, but he will still be affected.
I came here with the intention of clearing up wasteland and farming, but it turned out that I had to deal with Ximen Wuhen's political enemies first.
Sure enough... there is no useless land in the world!
I have already accepted Ximen Wuhen, and I must stand by his side.
After getting familiar with the environment, I returned to our yard, put Yunzhou to bed, and talked with Ximen Wuhen in the yard.
Those who were monitoring the courtyard have been withdrawn. Now Nan Jiu and his people are secretly guarding the small courtyard, while the new employees patrol openly according to their shifts.
I thought Ximen Wuhen was going to talk about how to fight in the future, so I waited for him to talk about business in the middle of the night in the cool night breeze.
Obviously I still haven't remembered the lesson. There has never been anything serious between Ximen Wuhen and me!
After he asked me if I was hurt, he said nothing more. I said I wasn't hurt at all. He nodded reassuringly, got up and said he was going back to sleep.
"Brother, is this question worth your while after changing clothes, skipping midnight snacks and rushing over here to ask?" I wanted to crack open his head again and study his brain circuitry.
"Of course, other things don't matter. I have to go to bed, and you and your brother-in-law should go to bed early." After Ximen Wuhen finished speaking, he yawned, and without saying anything else, he turned around and left!
"I don't think you're the leader of the church, so give up your position to me!" I couldn't help but complain about him.
"I agree." Ximen Wuhen replied calmly without looking back.
I went back to the house to wash up, and when I walked to the bed, I smelled a familiar sweet smell.
Doesn't this smell like roasted sweet potatoes? How could it come from the bed?
Yunzhou didn't sleep with his elbows in his arms today. I had a bad feeling, so I opened the quilt and looked for...
There was nothing wrong with the front. I pushed Yunzhou and asked him to turn sideways. Sure enough, he
Underneath his body was a big sweet potato with a broken stomach and intestinal fluid!
"Don't all of you handsome people like to cause trouble for others!?" I found a cloth, took off the sweet potato cake stuck to the bed sheet, wiped it casually, ignored it, and let him continue sleeping. Well, this is not much better than the urine kang.
I was still sitting cross-legged on the chair next to meditating, exercising my powers.
Wan'er and guard Jia came to see us the next morning, and we had breakfast together.
They felt relieved when they saw that Yun Zhou and I were fine. The first battle against Elder Xuanyuan was to make him take me lightly, so Wan'er and the others were not able to participate. They expressed regret that they hoped that I could give them a chance to participate next time. .
Our struggle with the elders has just begun. I say there will be opportunities in the future, so don't be afraid.
After breakfast, I took Yunzhou to the Poison Hall to take office. The first thing I did when I took office was to meet the strange man who had been poisoned for three years and still didn't die.
Ordinarily, he is just a servant, and his martial arts skills cannot surpass those of the four guardians, let alone be comparable to Ximen Wuhen.
Such people have been poisoned for a year and a half, and their bodies are already riddled with holes. If they are released, they will die.
But he actually persisted for three years, even though his empty room was almost like a prison cell, and the key to the door lock was only held by the leader of the Poison Hall.
I had already received a bunch of keys during the handover last night. The logistics manager was afraid that he would offend me if he didn't speak properly, so he reminded me repeatedly that poisonous people look scary, so I must be mentally prepared. .
The medicine is life-threatening
