Chapter 156: Debt Collection (4)
Gently closing the door, hearing a heart-rending cough in the house, Cheng Pingzhi sighed, walked down the stairs with heavy steps, and walked step by step to the backyard of the inn.
He was transferred to the Uekyo Household Department and served as a squire.
Talking about promotion, he was originally a feudal official, and this time it could only be regarded as a flat tone at best, but what made him happy was that he finally left the place in Anyang County that made his heart tremble. He had hardly slept well since he had been out of the death camp, and as soon as he closed his eyes, he seemed to see countless hideous-looking people rushing towards him with machetes.
The death battalion was tricked into the city by himself. He made full use of the little incense between him and them to lure them into the city, and in Anyang City at that time, except for himself, no one else could trick the death camp into the city.
This made him feel uneasy.
He felt that he was not a bad person, but in this matter, he played a very dishonorable role. knew that the other party was wronged, but he still became an accomplice and sent those men who killed the enemy for the country to the point of no return.
The only thing that can comfort him, and what makes him feel a little depressed, is that he is doing what he is ordered. As a courtier of Da Chu, it is his duty to obey the orders and obey the holy decree.
With a light car, he quietly left Anyang City, accompanied only by his wife and a few of his own family members. Madame's illness recurred, because of the fright of that night. It's a pity that there is no longer a miracle doctor like Shu Chang, and now Shu Chang has become a wanted criminal in the imperial court.
Compared with the stuffiness in the house, the yard is much cooler, especially the few big trees near the courtyard wall, dancing with the wind, and the sound of the shaking leaves brings a cool evening breeze, which makes his hot heart seem a little calmer. Looking back at the room upstairs with the lights on, every cough, I could see the reflection on the window paper shaking violently, I don't know if Madame can survive this hurdle.
But it's still summer, and when it's winter, it's the life and death of Mrs., Cheng Pingzhi is a little afraid to think about it.
There were soft footsteps behind him, Cheng Pingzhi didn't look back, thinking it was the accompanying family member, "Go take care of Mrs., don't worry about me, I'll sit down and come up." He said.
The footsteps behind him stopped, and after a while, a voice suddenly sounded: "Madame's illness again?" Sounds like a lot more serious than before! ”
Cheng Pingzhi Huo Ran turned his head and looked at Shu Chang who appeared behind him like a ghost in the night as if he had seen a ghost, "You, you ......"
"Thanks to Lord Cheng, now I am a prisoner of the imperial court." Shu Chang smiled, walked to the edge of the stone table, and sat down, "Now I don't dare to go out during the day, and I can only wait until the dead of night to dare to come out like a ghost." What a coincidence, I actually met Master Cheng here. ”
Cheng Pingzhi was shocked from the beginning, and after Shu Chang said this, he calmed down, and looked at Shu Chang deeply, "Is it really a coincidence?" ”
The smile on Shu Chang's face slowly faded, and he looked at Cheng Pingzhi, "Cheng Junshou, more than a thousand brothers died in the city in the death camp, do you have a little guilt?" ”
Cheng Pingzhi's face changed slightly, and he said after a while: "Cheng, as a great Chu minister, was ordered to do it, and he had to do it, and he couldn't help it." That night, the common people suffered heavy casualties, do you know Shuchang? ”
Shu Chang sneered: "If you don't make this account, you should remember the head of the death camp?" Or when Master Cheng thinks that the knife is slashing at the head, those people in the death camp should stretch their necks longer to make you more comfortable! ”
Cheng Pingzhi fell silent, "You are here to seek revenge on me?" ”
"It wasn't supposed to be me coming to you." Shu Chang pointed to the back of Cheng Pingzhi, Cheng Pingzhi turned his head, and at some point, under the shadow of a big tree behind him, there was a man holding an iron knife in his arms, although the moonlight was bright, but the person stood between the mottled shades, but he couldn't see his face clearly. "But I remembered that we had known each other and had a little bit of friendship, so I did more than I could. If you let him come, your death will inevitably be ugly. ”
Listening to Shu Chang's naked words, Cheng Pingzhi didn't seem to be very surprised, "Will the doctor also kill people?" ”
"Bodhisattva's heart, thunderbolt means, you say that, but you don't know me yet. How can the brothers of the death camp die in vain? Shu Chang sneered and took out a small porcelain vase from his arms, "It's just that I read on the little friendship we had in the past, and I will let you die a little more comfortably." ”
Cheng Pingzhi lowered his head, looked at his toes, and didn't react for a while.
"Don't think about how to escape, just three days ago, Xin gradually left, Yang Yi and they have already been beheaded, but their death is a little miserable." He nodded behind Cheng Pingzhi, "He got it." ”
"Who is he?" Cheng Pingzhi stretched out his hand and grabbed the porcelain vase.
"Qin Feng!" Shu Chang said lightly. "You're surprised he's alive, aren't you?"
Cheng Pingzhi's hand shook slightly, and he almost threw away the porcelain vase in his hand, turned his head, and glanced at Qin Feng in the shadows, "It's really unexpected, I can't believe it, it seems that the imperial court is deceiving people again." ”
"It's not a lie, on which side of the imperial court, they think Qin Feng is indeed dead." Shu Chang smiled slightly.
Cheng Pingzhi nodded, "One drink and one peck, there is a destiny, when Zhang Xiaomei escaped from the city with hundreds of people from the death camp, I thought that one day I would inevitably be killed, but I didn't expect this day to come so quickly." This is retribution, Shu Chang, for the sake of our past friendships, and for the sake of your death camp when it was outside Anyang City, I was not bad to you, can I ask you for one thing? ”
"Madame's illness?"
"With you, you won't be angry with my family, will you? You see, she coughs so badly that I'm just worried she won't get through it. Cheng Pingzhi pointed to the room where the lights were still on.
Shu Chang stood up and walked straight upstairs, looking at Shu Chang's back, Cheng Pingzhi also stood up, and raised the porcelain bottle in his hand at Qin Feng in the shadows, "If you owe you, you will pay it back." ”
Tilting his neck, Cheng Pingzhi drank the liquid in the porcelain bottle, sat down slowly, and slowly lay on the stone table. In the shadows, Qin Feng quietly disappeared.
The coughing from upstairs subsided, and as the lights were blown out, a man walked out of the room and gently closed the door.
Anyang City, County Shoufu, An Ruhai, Tan Jun, Scissors and others all looked grim, and the news just now shocked them. Xin gradually died, Yang Yi died, Cheng Pingzhi died, and dozens of accompanying internal guards also died. They didn't die on the same day, but because of the distance, the news of their deaths was sent to Anyang City on the same day.
Except for Tan Jun, the other people present were all insiders and participants in the death camp incident, and at this moment, in addition to Tan Jun, the other people had already set off a storm in their hearts.
"Is it the hand of Zhang Xiaozheng who fled into the Luoying Mountains?" Tan Jun asked.
An Ruhai shook his head slowly, "No, Zhang Xiaozheng doesn't have such a high skill. He took out a copy from the report that arrived, "This is the autopsy report of the local government and the internal guards, the time difference between the death of dozens of internal guards is extremely short, almost at the same time, they were beheaded at the same time, and judging from the wounds and the situation at the scene, the person who did it, the martial arts cultivation is at least above level nine." ”
Hearing An Ruhai's categorical judgment, the other people in the room all gasped. Ninth-level masters, now in the entire Anyang City, there is only one, and that is An Ruhai standing in front of them.
"Yang Yi was treated very violently before he died, and none of the bones in his body were intact, and they were trampled off one by one." An Ruhai said with a dark face: "Xin Yanli's death is even more bizarre, he actually scratched himself to death, it is unbelievable, he speculated that he was poisoned by some bizarre poison, so he caught his intestines out and didn't know it." ”
"It's Doctor, it's Doctor Shu!" The scissors trembled slightly, muttering in a low voice.
"Who are you talking about?" An Ruhai turned his head and looked at him.
"Shu Chang, the doctor of the death camp, the number one person on the wanted list. In addition to Qin Feng in the death camp, it was him. The medical skills are superb, and of course, the level of poison use is not low. Suqian added.
"Is Shu Chang's martial arts cultivation very high? I hadn't heard of it before. ”
"His martial arts cultivation is very low, and he is only at the level of four or five levels, so he can protect himself." Scissors took a deep breath and calmed himself down.
"So, there were at least two of them. Inferred from the time, Cheng Pingzhi should also be their hand, otherwise Cheng Pingzhi's treatment would be much better, it was suicide by taking poison. An Ruhai said: "It seems that there are many things in the death camp that we don't know, such as this ninth-level master who suddenly appeared." ”
"Or this person was invited by Shu Chang, Shu Chang has superb medical skills, traveled the rivers and lakes in his early years, and traveled extensively, so it is not a surprising thing to invite a master." Scissor Path.
"You may have a point, from now on, the whole city of Anyang City will be under martial law, if my guess is right, they will definitely come to Anyang City, General Duan, you have to be careful during this time."
"What should come will always come." Scissors' face turned a little pale.
"These days, I will stay in Anyang City." An Ruhai said: "Without the king's law, how can they be allowed to act so recklessly." ”
"Thank you Ann Shuai." The scissors arched at An Ruhai, "If there is nothing else, the last general will go to do things." An Shuai only gave the last general three months, and I don't want to disappoint An Shuai at that time. ”
"Go ahead!" An Ruhai waved his hand, "Anyang City is not somewhere else, even if he is a ninth-level master, it is not that he can come and leave as soon as he says." Tan Junshou, please also assist the military, strictly control, if you find a new face, you must not let it go easily. ”
"An Shuai rest assured." Tan Jun nodded again and again. (To be continued.) )