Chapter 25 To be honest, can you live in exchange?
We mentioned in the last article that Huang Donglai deceived Na Xiong Fengshan into kneeling down and begging for mercy without even using any blood.
When the surrounding onlookers saw this scene, they all realized that Xiong Fengshan was indeed a fake miracle doctor, and the one on the eaves at this moment was the real immortal.
Therefore, in line with the principle of "whoever wins, we will support him", the people began to curse Xiong Fengshan at that time, and all kinds of pigs and chickens that could not lay eggs were placed in the shit basins of Xiong Fengshan.
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Of course, they were not stupid, they were just yelling and cursing from a distance, and no one dared to step forward and hit someone. After all, no one wanted to test whether this "evil way" would jump over the wall and retaliate.
To make a long story short, when Huang Donglai saw that the situation was under control, he calmed the people present a little and asked them to stop scolding and listen to what he had to say.
After the crowd calmed down, Huang Donglai first explained that the conversation between Xiong Fengshan and Fang Pan just now was made possible by his "little trick" so that everyone outside the temple could hear it.
As soon as the common people heard that it was the work of a great immortal, they accepted the order and stopped worrying about the details.
Then, Huang Donglai said: Although this evildoer is not very good, he has some knowledge of magic. Even if he is handed over to the government or the people, they will not be able to deal with it, so it is best to capture him and take him back and question him carefully about his crimes.
Make a decision, I hope you won’t stop me.
When the people heard this, they thought it made sense, but some people were still confused about it.
What are you struggling with?
Of course it was the money that was defrauded.
To put it bluntly, the people don't care much about Xiong Fengshan's life or death. What they care about is the money they have been defrauded in the past six months.
Huang Donglai also understood this, so he immediately jumped off the roof and landed in front of a house.
There are dozens of people locked up in this room, some of them are the officials who went up the mountain with the fake Fangpan, and the other part are the fake monks who were put down by them before; in addition, the real Fangpan who was hidden in the sedan chair
, I’m also lying in this room right now.
At this time, Huang Donglai opened the door, hooked his fingers, and called someone out from inside.
That was none other than Capt. Zhao from this county.
When Huang Donglai and others knocked down the government servant and the fake monk before, they deliberately did not knock him out, but restrained him and asked him not to act rashly, and to stay quietly in the room with those who were knocked out to "see the good show."
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As a result, Capt. Zhao hid in the house and watched the whole process of Xiong Fengshan's gang being broken up.
What? You asked him why he didn't rush out before?
Does he dare?
After witnessing how Fuzi, Lin Yuancheng and Tyrell brought down dozens of people in an instant, he dared to ignore their orders and come forward?
After hearing the broadcasted conversation between Jia Fangpan and Xiong Fengshan, and seeing an angry crowd rushing into the temple, did he dare to come out and stop it?
Even now, when Huang Donglai personally asked him to come out, he was still hesitating...
Because Fang Pan was corrupt, perverted the law, and colluded with Xiong Fengshan, Capt. Zhao undoubtedly knew about it; and as the county's captivity officer and the right-hand man of the county magistrate, it was impossible for him not to share in the benefits.
Now that Fang Pan's actions have been exposed, Zhao Captou, the accomplice who helped the tiger, walked into the crowd. Who is responsible for being beaten to death by random punches?
However, what Zhao Captou did not expect was...
After he came out, before he could say anything, Huang Donglai rushed over and said, "Fellow fellow villagers, I think we all know Capt. Zhao in this county. This time, it was all because of him who endured the humiliation, killed relatives in a righteous way, and reported Fang Pan and Xiong Fengshan to this immortal."
The evil deeds of collusion, today I can bring justice to you..."
As Brother Huang said this, he gave Capt. Zhao a look.
Capt. Zhao also understood immediately. His expression that was timid a few seconds ago has now been replaced by a look of righteousness and awe-inspiring.
"Today, Capt. Zhao and I cooperated internally and externally, and led Fang Pan up the mountain, so that the truth was revealed to the public." Huang Donglai saw that Capt. Zhao cooperated very wisely, and continued, "Now Fang Pan and a group of heroes are involved in the mountain."
The remaining members of the lower class have all been tied up in this room behind Capt. Zhao. From now on, Capt. Zhao will act in accordance with the law and deal with them one by one... As for the money that Xiong Fengshan and Fang Pan have collected from everyone in the past few days, Zhao
The head catcher will also return to everyone after the liquidation is completed..."
After Huang Donglai said this in one breath, he said to the stunned Zhao Captou: "Isn't that right? Zhao Captou."
At this juncture, facing the scorching gazes of the masses, does he, surnamed Zhao, dare to say "no"?
If he didn't do what Huang Dong said, he would never have thought of walking out of the temple alive today.
But...if he really did what Huang Donglai wanted, Huang Donglai and his party would have walked away afterward, but all the aftermath work, as well as the responsibility of "stabbing Fang Pan in the back," would all have to be done by Mr. Zhao.
The back of the head fell down.
It's not easy to be a "hero". Who can tell whether it will be a blessing or a curse for you to take on this matter?
Justice is justice, and the king's law is the king's law. You are a head catcher who receives a salary from the imperial court, and you join forces with the gangsters to kill your boss, the local chief executive... If the higher-ups investigate this matter, the people will be safe.
You?
Capt. Zhao naturally wanted to answer these questions, but the situation in front of him did not allow him to have any other choice.
"Yes...yes." Zhao Captou could only reply with all his strength. Then he borrowed Poxia's donkey and shouted to the crowd at the top of his voice, "Fellow folks, don't worry, I, Zhao, will definitely take these
The evil party will be brought to justice and I will give you an explanation. I will also return all the money you have been defrauded based on the evidence collected!"
When they heard that the money was going to be refunded, the villagers were in a state of joy. They poured all kinds of nice words on Capt. Zhao and almost shouted "Long live the money."
So what happened next?
There is a hint in the book here that after Capt. Zhao woke up the confused policemen under him that day, he really arrested Fang Pan and the gang of fake monks.
He also kept doing nothing, knowing that he could no longer look back, so he had to "deal with" all Fang Pan and his related people quickly to prevent Fang Pan from contacting his backers in the court (basically, the more corrupt officials are, the more likely they are to be in the court)
China and Vietnam have backers, and of course the backers are all based on interests, not real friendship) to get away with it.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Capt. Zhao knows very well that if Fang Pan survives this time, he will be the one who will die.
Therefore, it was not long before Fang Pan "died of illness" in prison. His few family members also died in accidents within a short period of time. One of his sons was on the way to Beijing "because of gangsters trying to make money."
He killed himself and died", while his servants, concubines and others scattered like birds and beasts.
Those fake monks have nothing to say. They are just bandits. Once their identities are checked, almost all of them have criminal records. In addition, the bones of the monks they killed and impersonated in Wuren Temple are still buried in the temple.
, if you sit down, it will be a capital crime.
There is also the matter of "returning money to the people".
In fact, this is not difficult to do, because the Xiong Fengshan gang wants to share the stolen goods with Fang Pan, so there must be an account book, and each citizen has a record of how much he should withdraw.
As for the money, there was still part of it in Wuren Temple, and the shortfall was made up with Fang Pan's property that he had gained through corruption and abuse of law over the years.
After everything was settled, Capt. Zhao wrote a letter to the superior government office, reporting the ins and outs of the case.
And when the superiors sent people to Hu County to investigate, there were only a bunch of "irrefutable evidence" that had been filed and some corpses that had been cremated.
Seeing this, some people may wonder, how could he, a head catcher, accomplish this?
Of course not.
It would be impossible for Capt. Zhao to complete the entire aftermath process in such a thorough and meticulous manner, but if Fang Pan's master could help him... it wouldn't be difficult.
As we have said before, in the administrative system of Dashu, the magistrate and the policeman are public servants and are public officials, but the master is not, and the master is a private secretary hired by the county magistrate.
Ordinarily, this master should be the person Fang Pan trusts the most and the person who should do his best to rescue Fang Pan. However, Fang Pan's master chose to switch sides in this incident and sided with Capt. Zhao.
Bian, that's why Capt. Zhao was able to handle the matter so neatly.
If you want to ask why the master made such a choice, then I can only say that the reason is that Fang Pan has too many concubines, which he may not be able to take care of on his own, and the master has taken great pains to help him take care of a few of them.
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Of course, the prosperous days of Capt. Zhao and Master did not last long, and neither of them ended up well in the end, but those things were insignificant.
As for the people in Huxian County, they continued to live their lives as usual after quitting Xiongfengshan's "Mengxin Prescription".
In order to commemorate the "Old Immortal Xudong" who had helped them, they simply changed the Wuren Temple, which had no owner, into the "Xudong Temple".
A statue was built for him. From then on, the temple was established in Xi'an for a long time. It was very popular and became a scene in Dashu, but that is a story for another time.
For now, let’s get back to the story…
After Huang Donglai and others made a fuss in Wuren Temple, they captured Naxiong Fengshan and left.
This afternoon, in a forest.
Xiong Fengshan, who was kneeling on the ground, had just seen Huang Donglai, Fudozi, Lin Yuancheng and Tyrell at the same time.
Even now, he doesn't know that he has been fooled, and he doesn't know very well the abilities of the four people in front of him... which shows that their Tao skills are indeed low.
"Tell me, where are you from? Where did you come from? Who did you learn the magic from?" Huang Dong didn't take off his disguise even when he arrived, and asked in a pretentious tone as he stood in front of Xiong Fengshan.
"Yes..." Xiong Fengshan lowered his head and replied with a very honest look, "The younger one's real name is Xiong Ashan. He was born in the Qinling Mountains. He has been growing leeks with his parents since he was a child. Hey, leeks...
When I was thirty, both my parents died. As a poor person, I had not married a wife in my thirties. As the saying goes, if you are poor, you want to change... I heard that selling medicine makes more money than selling vegetables, so I changed.
I went to the mountains to collect herbs and sold them to drug stores in the county. After doing this for several years, I got to know a lot of medicinal materials and how to use them.
"Then one day, I was collecting herbs in the mountains. I encountered heavy fog and accidentally lost my way. I was trapped in the mountains for two days and two nights. On the third day, I accidentally found an injured doe in the forest.
, I was hungry in my belly at that time, and I wanted to kill it for meat. Unexpectedly, as soon as I raised the knife, another young deer jumped out of the forest next to me and rushed to block the doe.
"When I saw this scene, I thought that I was all alone, both of my parents had died. If I killed the doe in front of me, the young deer would be all alone. So I felt compassion, put down the knife, and returned the knife.
I got some herbs and applied them to the injured deer.
"Unexpectedly, halfway through taking the medicine, the two deer in front of me disappeared without a trace. Then a masked Taoist nun appeared in front of me. She said that I had good intentions and deserved the opportunity, so she passed it on to me.
A few superficial skills, and then left.
"It's a pity that she never told me her name. Over the years, when I mentioned her, I could only call her master..."
What Xiong Fengshan said was sincere and vivid, and it didn't look like he was lying.
Lin Yuancheng and Tyrell almost believed in him.
However...
"Compiled, then compiled." Huang Donglai didn't take Xiong Fengshan's description seriously.
Xiong Fengshan's trick may be able to deceive others, but in the eyes of people like Huang Donglai, who has a habit of bragging (that is, "just bragging, so serious about making hair"), and hangs out with Sun Yixie, an old liar, all day long.
, that’s funny.
Huang Donglai knew very well that a professional swindler like Xiong Fengshan might not be 50% truthful even when he was about to die, not to mention that Xiong Fengshan was a liar who was good at speaking and acting skills...
Can you believe the whitewashing remarks he made now to describe himself as pitiful and kind-hearted?
"Eh? Great Immortal, this...I..." When Xiong Fengshan saw that Huang Donglai didn't buy what he said, he didn't know what to say.
Because Xiong Fengshan is still very confident in this line that he carefully arranged. After all, it is the ultimate means to "guarantee" and "save life", so he has already practiced the acting skills of telling this line to a very high level, and there is no way he can do it.
I thought I would be rejected immediately.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Furthermore, Xiong Fengshan also couldn’t figure out: What could be contained in his “seven percent true and three percent false” statement that could not be proven or falsified?
The flaw was found instantly.
"What am I?" Huang Donglai saw that he couldn't speak clearly, so he said impatiently, "I can make up four stories like yours in the time it takes me to poop..." As he said this, he stretched out his hand and broke it.
Pointing her fingers and chanting, "I saved Bambi on the first day of the month, gave Quasimodo a plastic surgery on the second day of the month, changed the course of the Titanic on the third day of the month, and on the fourth day of the month I transformed into a giant of light and laid down a giant
Big dinosaur...Look, who doesn't know how to blow hair?"
Everyone, these are the four things he said. Several people around him didn't understand a word of it, but from his context, they can already guess his argument.
Perhaps in order to prevent Huang Donglai from distorting the topic further, Fudozi also spoke at this time: "Xiong, if you dare to tell a lie again, don't blame Pindao for being ruthless..."
"Uncle, calm down, calm down..." Huang Donglai was impatient and said he wanted to take action, so he quickly went up to dissuade him, fearing that the latter would beat the old liar into a pulp on impulse.
When Xiong Fengshan saw that "Old Immortal Xudong" actually called the young-looking Taoist priest beside him "Uncle," his heart skipped a beat. Only then did he realize that Fuzi was the most powerful person on the scene.
An expert is a person who has reached the "state of rejuvenation", and Xiong Fengshan has only seen one person with this kind of cultivation in his life, and that is his master...
"Okay...I said..." Knowing that it was unlikely that he would get away with it and there would be no chance of escape, Xiong Fengshan's tone changed again, "I told the truth, can I live in exchange for it?"
"You tell me first, we will decide whether to keep you alive or not." Huang Donglai did not give him a definite answer.
Because at this time, if Huang Donglai just agreed and said, "As long as you say it, we will keep you alive," then Xiong Fengshan would know that this was a perfunctory statement to get him to speak as soon as possible. Such a promise is
There is no credibility at all.
But this "own calculation" is very real, and it actually makes Xiong Fengshan feel that his chances of survival are higher.
"The part I just said and the previous ones are all true..." Xiong Fengshan said, "It's just... I lied about the part about killing the deer." He paused and said in a deep voice, "That day
, when I saw the young deer jumping out to protect the doe, what I thought was...the doe was seriously injured, and even if she was rescued, she might not survive, but if I could eat its meat, I would definitely survive.
, so this doe must die, and once the doe dies, the young deer may not be able to live long. In addition, the separation of mother and child is very miserable, so I simply kill the young deer first and then the doe... to save time.
They suffer."
Hearing this, Lin Yuancheng and Tyrell, who had just believed Xiong Fengshan, both frowned.
One person, one face, two skins.
One thing, one mouth, two times said.
At this moment, Xiong Fengshan, the old liar, really taught Xiao Lin and Tyrell a lesson, making them more thoughtful in everything in the future.
After all, there are too many people like Xiong Fengshan in the world. When a person kneels down in front of you and begs for mercy, his words and deeds may make him look like a person worthy of sympathy and worthy of letting go. But in fact,
What's really inside him, and when he will reveal his sinister side, you may never know.
"And your 'master' decided to accept you after seeing you do such a thing?" Fudozi looked at Xiong Fengshan at this time and asked.
"That's right..." Xiong Fengshan nodded, "She didn't accept me because I saved the deer, but because I not only killed the deer, but also killed two deer together, she accepted me."
"Hmph..." Fudoko sneered, "And you actually know the name of your master, right?"
"Yes, it's just that Master asked me not to tell anyone about it, so I usually use the words I just said..." At this time, Xiong Fengshan had nothing to hide in order to survive, "My master's surname is Pan Minghui. According to what she said,
She is a loose cultivator from this life, and is known as the Immortal Demon King in Taoist circles."
Hearing this, even the expression on Fudozi's face changed slightly, and he couldn't help but mutter: "It's her..."
"Huh?" Huang Donglai saw this and immediately asked softly, "Uncle, do you know this 'immortal devil'?"
"I have only heard of her name..." Fudozi said, "It is unknown how long this person has lived. Anyway, from what I have heard, she is at least from my master's generation.
Already..."
At this point, even Fudozi felt a little scared, and thought to himself: Fortunately, the Xiong Fengshan in front of me only had some superficial magic skills taught by the Immortal Demon King. If he had been a formal disciple, I'm afraid he would have had to fight hard today.
"What happened next?" After a few seconds, Huang Donglai said again, signaling Xiong Fengshan to continue.
"Later..." Xiong Fengshan also said as he recalled, "Because I learned some spells from my master, I no longer wanted to do the drudgery of collecting herbs. I wanted to rely on the skills I learned to make a fortune...
"However, I was born in a village in the mountains and was clumsy in speech. After becoming an alchemist, I didn't even get along as well as those fake Taoist priests who had no skills and were ostentatious.
"So...slowly, I joined their ranks and became a eloquent liar...and since I knew magic, I naturally became 'rich' gradually.
"I have been living like this for decades, cheating everywhere and changing my identity a lot. Until six months ago, I hooked up with Liu Er and his gang, and I started pretending to be a miracle doctor in Wuren Temple."
At this point, Xiong Fengshan spoke quickly and urgently: "Hey, but I have to make it clear...the original group of monks in Wuren Temple were all killed by Liu Er and the others. It was really not my idea.
I wasn't there at all, and everyone was dead when I arrived." As he spoke, he even raised his voice, "I swear! Over the years, although I, Xiong Ashan, have been swindling around with some superficial spells, I really can't.
It’s killed people!”
Although his words sounded like urgent words begging for mercy, they were still believable.
It is true that Xiong Fengshan is very indifferent to the life and death of others, but he is not a murderous person.
Just like when he faced the two deer, he had his own logic of life and death at the moment of life and death, but in normal times, there was a difference between him and Liu Er, who would kill for profit or on a whim.
It was precisely because of this that the Immortal Demon King looked up to him and taught him something.
"Okay, I believe you." After listening, Fuzi said without thinking too much, "But death penalty can be avoided, but living crime cannot be forgiven... You can keep your life, but the Taoist skills in you should not be kept.
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When these words came out, Xiong Fengshan lost consciousness before he could make any response.
It would be easy for Fudozi to abolish the Taoist skills of a small character like Xiong Fengshan and make him unable to practice them in the future.
It's just that Fuzizi, who is good at pinching and calculating, never thought that his move today to save Xiong Fengshan's life would be the beginning of a catastrophe in the future.
Of course, the story of "Four Demons Chaosing China" is a story for another time.