Xu Zhiqiong was stunned for a long time, this horn could really fall off.
He quickly pulled Yuan up and took the opportunity to put the horns into his arms.
When he stood up, Yuan wanted to kneel down again. Xu Zhiqiong was annoyed:
"Why are you always kneeling to me? Can't you make something useful? Throw away the pot and replace it with a new one. Then cook a pot of dry rice for your son and stew some meat. I tell you that you can't kneel anymore. , you won’t listen, right? If you dare to kneel down again, drag me to the yamen and beat me to death, until the peaches bloom, you get up first!”
Xu Zhiqiong pulled Yuan up and warned her not to kneel again, while looking at Qin Changmao in the dark.
Qin Changmao lowered his head, deliberately avoiding Xu Zhiqiong's gaze.
What Xu Zhiqiong did just now made Qin Changmao feel deeply ashamed.
Xu Zhiqiong smiled and used the bronze medal to communicate: "Don't be a coward. I'll go to the toothbrush shop to find you at noon."
…
At noon, Xu Zhiqiong came to Qin Laosan's tooth brushing shop.
Qin Changmao invited Xu Zhiqiong into the shop and immediately closed the door.
There was a tea stove on the table, Xu Zhiqiong said with a smile: "Since we are going to fight between life and death, why are you so polite?"
Qin Changmao made the tea soup and said: "After all, we are from the same school, so how can we lose etiquette?"
Xu Zhiqiong picked up the tea cup and smelled it.
Qin Changmao said: "Don't worry, I won't poison you."
"I can trust you, but I'm not thirsty." Xu Zhiqiong put down the tea cup again.
Qin Changmao smiled bitterly: "We are really not the same people. I have a few things to ask you. If you can still feel your conscience, please answer truthfully."
Xu Zhiqiong put his hand on his chest: "I touched it, my conscience is here, you can ask."
"You killed Pei Shaobin, do you feel happy?"
Xu Zhiqiong shook his head.
Qin Changmao said: "You're not happy at all, right? You've already begun to regret it, right?"
Xu Zhiqiong still shook his head: "I don't regret it, I am very happy. When I saw him die, I felt happy all over!
I shook my head because I didn't kill Pei Shaobin. He went gambling, lost all his money, made trouble in the gambling house, and was beaten to death by the gangsters of the gambling house. Does this have anything to do with me? "
Qin Changmao was silent for a moment, then sneered: "Ma Shangfeng, I have been the eighth-grade chief registrar for more than thirty years, and you are playing this trick with me? Do you dare to say that you didn't force this man to death? Do you dare to say that you didn't kill him? Sinful karma?”
Xu Zhiqiong lowered his eyes and said, "I got the crime, so what?"
"So what? Do you treat common people like this?" Qin Changmao gritted his teeth and said, "He is a person, he is a life! But what do you think of him?"
Xu Zhiqiong asked in surprise: "He is a person, but others are not people? He is a life, but others are not lives?"
"He has never harmed anyone!"
"What a shame!" Xu Zhiqiong raised his eyebrows, "How did Yuan and her child get hurt by that beast?"
"Which family has never had a quarrel between a husband and wife? Pei Shaobin has never killed anyone or set a fire..."
Xu Zhiqiong smiled and said: "You think he doesn't want to? He just doesn't have the courage."
Qin Changmao shouted: "What you haven't done before, you haven't done yet!"
"He did it! You dare not say anything about a couple's quarrel. Is that a quarrel? That's murder!
The Yuan family is gentle and virtuous, diligent and thrifty in housekeeping, and works hard day and night. Even if they don't have enough to eat, it's okay to be poor, but they still live in fear. If something goes wrong, they will be beaten and scolded at every turn, and their lives will be in danger. But this is not murder with a dull knife!
Let’s look at how old her baby is. He can’t even get a full meal, but how many punches and kicks did he take from that beast Pei Shaobin? If he doesn’t live to adulthood, is this not considered murder? "
Qin Changmao lowered his head: "I admit that Shaobin's actions are resentful, but I believe he can change!"
Xu Zhiqiong asked; "When can it be changed?"
"One year, two years, ten years or eight years, I believe he can change!"
"If the decades were changed, Yuan's mother and son would suffer for decades with him? I would hang the knife on your neck for decades, would you be able to bear it?"
Qin Changmao's eyes flashed fiercely: "You must have this ability too!"
"Why not!" Before he finished speaking, Xu Zhiqiong took out his sword from its sheath.
Qin Changmao tried to use the magic weapon to resist, but before the magic weapon could be revealed, the blade was already on Qin Changmao's neck.
Qin Changmao's cultivation level is at the eighth level, and Xu Zhiqiong's cultivation level is at the lower seventh level. The level already has advantages, and Xu Zhiqiong has the talent of speed, which is much faster than Qin Changmao.
Qin Changmao said in surprise: "You are not the eighth grade?"
Xu Zhiqiong said: "Don't worry about my cultivation level, I just ask are you afraid?"
Qin Changmao lowered his head: "Just kill me. I have nothing to say."
Xu Zhiqiong smiled and said: "Kill you? Is it worth it?"
"In my old life, I have been upright and aboveboard. There is nothing unworthy."
"I mean, am I worthy? Judge Daomen are not allowed to kill each other. If I kill you and destroy my cultivation, am I worthy? Are you worthy?" Xu Zhiqiong tilted his head and looked at Qin Changmao. He really wanted to see
It is a pity that the eyes of sin cannot see the horns of the judge.
Xu Zhiqiong said slowly: "There is a kind of evil in this world, which is called the evil of ignorance. You don't know that you are doing evil."
Qin Changmao raised his head and said: "Except for killing someone by mistake when I was young, I have never done any evil!"
Xu Zhiqiong shook his head and said: "You said that you have saved eight people like Pei Shaobin in your life. Each of them has 200 meritorious deeds. The total is 1,600 meritorious deeds. You should have been promoted to the seventh rank long ago. Why are you still at the eighth rank?"
Taste?"
Qin Changmao said: "Why should I tell you?"
"It's not that you refused to tell, I'm afraid you can't understand it yourself. If I'm not wrong, you saved these eight people, but you also killed many people, right?
Just like Mr. Yuan today, you gave the scum a way out, but drove many good people to a dead end? You don't want merit because you can't be promoted after receiving merit. You think you saved nine people and if you have perfect merit, you can let them go.
Are you entering the seventh level? The sky has eyes, so go ahead and have your sweet dreams!"
Qin Changmao blushed and said: "You are talking nonsense, I have never done any evil! I have been upright throughout my life..."
Xu Zhiqiong drew the knife, leaving a bloody mark on Qin Changmao's neck. Qin Changmao shivered in pain. Xu Zhiqiong smiled and said: "Does it hurt you? Do you still know it hurts? You only care about your own integrity, how can you know how much suffering others have suffered?
If you regard the Judge's Way as the mud path, what else will you do besides harming the mud? Judgment of life and death, but according to the laws of heaven, if you can't see the laws of heaven, how can God grant you cultivation!"
"Shu Zi! If you want to kill me, kill me. How can I allow you to humiliate me!" Qin Changmao threw a toothbrush at Xu Zhiqiong.
This tooth brush is extremely fast and powerful. If it is hit, it will penetrate Xu Zhiqiong's head.
But his motive for taking action was too obvious, and Xu Zhiqiong easily dodged it.
Xu Zhiqiong sighed: "You are indeed an upright person. Find another way to make a living instead of being a judge anymore."
"Nonsense, nonsense! You only know how to kill, but you don't know how to save people!" Qin Changmao picked up the magic weapon and wanted to fight Xu Zhiqiong desperately.
"I don't know how to save people? Who saved Yuan today?"
Qin Changmao lowered his head and said nothing.
Xu Zhiqiong said: "Kill those who deserve to be killed, and save those who deserve to be saved. This is the way of a judge. You have wasted your life, but you can't even understand the basics of the Taoism. Open your toothbrushing shop, or
It would be a good idea to go to the Yin and Yang Division to get a job, but please don’t tarnish the reputation of our Taoist sect again.
From today on, I have taken over all the evildoers in your territory, and I will snatch them from you. If you don’t accept it, go and sue me. One day, I will get the power to clean up the house. If I see you and you still act as a judge, just wait.
Die!"
As soon as the words fell, Xu Zhiqiong turned invisible and disappeared.
"Shuzi, how dare you bully me!"
Qin Changmao cursed for a long time, burst into tears, and cried bitterly in the shop.
"I didn't do evil. I really didn't do evil. I didn't..."
…
After returning home and sleeping all afternoon, Xu Zhiqiong arrived at the Yamen at dusk to prepare for night patrol.
He missed Beiyuan a little. He wanted to have a drink with Wu Shanxing, watch the dance at the Peach Blossom Pavilion, have a bowl of cakes at Erjie Lin's flower cake shop, and take a look at the Begging Village to see if there were any evildoers there who wanted to die.
took over his territory.
Gulu
But Wu Xu had other instructions: "Follow me to the Yin and Yang Division tonight."
"Why are you going to that place?" Xu Zhiqiong was a little resistant to the Yin and Yang Division.
"What you promised will eventually be done."
"What did you promise?"
Wu Xu smiled bitterly: "It would be great if I were half as forgetful as you."
In fact, Xu Zhiqiong did not forget that Taibu agreed to help with conditions. After solving Liang Yuming's case, he had to help Taibu investigate the affairs of Anshuyuan.
As for An Shuyuan, both Wu Xu and Xu Zhiqiong were very resistant because this matter involved the royal family and directly involved the current prince.
But Wu Xu didn't want to owe Tai Bu a favor: "This old guy is very insidious. If you don't repay what you owe him, it's hard to say how much Luo chaos will happen in the future."
"What kind of chaos could there be?"
"He has an "Iron Promise Book". Things promised to him face to face will be recorded in the "Iron Promise Book."
revenge."
""Book of Iron Words"?" Xu Zhiqiong was stunned, "I didn't seem to see this thing at the time."
"It must have been recorded. He has quick hands, and I don't know how many hands he has. Anyway, he can't break his promise."
Is there such a magic weapon?
A person like Taibu doesn't seem to be a big-hearted person at first glance. How will he retaliate?
Xu Zhiqiong thought for a long time and said: "My subordinate has something to say, I don't know whether to say it or not?"
"Just tell me."
"As the saying goes, every injustice has its owner, and every debt has its owner. Since this favor is owed by Qianhu, Qianhu just needs to pay it back. This subordinate has nothing to do with it..."
A burst of murderous intent hit him, Xu Zhiqiong sniffed and said: "However, I have received the kindness of Qianhu Zhiyu, and I will go through fire and water without hesitation!"
When we arrived at the Onmyoji Division, Taibu was playing with a leaf.
After the two of them sat down, Taibu raised a leaf and asked Xu Zhiqiong: "Do you know what this is?"
Xu Zhiqiong shook his head and said, "I don't know."
Taibu asked again: "This is a locust tree leaf. Do you know where the locust tree leaves grow?"
Xu Zhiqiong still shook his head: "I don't know."
"Locust locust leaves grow on locust trees. You don't even know this?"
Xu Zhiqiong said in surprise: "There are trees like locust trees in this world? I really don't know this!"
Taibu said angrily: "I don't know this or that, what are you doing here?"
Xu Zhiqiong saluted and said: "I am so ignorant and ashamed, so I will say goodbye now!"
Taibu said angrily: "Wu Qianhu! If you don't keep your word, how can it be done by your husband! If you encounter any difficulties in the future, no matter how you beg me, I will never give you a second glance!"
Wu Xu smiled bitterly: "Zhiqiong, listen to what he has to say."
"What more can be said? Didn't he just want me to go to Anshuyuan with these locust leaves? There is a locust tree in the inner courtyard of Anshuyuan, and it almost killed me!"
"Brilliant!" Taibu praised, "Since you have been there once, you are not only familiar with the road, but also know the dangers. This trip is entrusted to you, and you will definitely live up to the trust!"
What was delivered to me?
Xu Zhiqiong shook his head and said: "Taibu, I can't go to this place!"
Taibu said: "Hunter, do you know the origin of that locust tree?"
"I don't know, and I don't want to know. When we Qianhu promised to help you, we made it clear that if this matter only involves the grudges of the royal family, our Yamen will never interfere."
Taibu praised: "Well said, this matter concerns all the people in the world!"
"Why does it matter to the common people? Please provide some evidence."
"The evidence is this leaf," Taibu said, holding the locust tree leaf, "Hunter, can you tell me the origin of this tree?"
You're fucking back again.
"Taibu, no matter what you say, I can't go to Anshuyuan."
Taibu sighed: "In the past, you fought bloody battles with powerful enemies in the Longjiao Ghost Market, and never flinched despite mountains of swords and seas of fire. Now you can't go to just Anshuyuan?"
No need to put a high hat on me, I won’t accept your trick.
Xu Zhiqiong said: "Taibu, let me tell you the truth, if I don't go to Anshuyuan, I won't go either dead or alive. It's better to say that I can't go to other places, even Anshuyuan!"
Taibu raised his tea cup and drank it all in one gulp: "Then it's settled."
Xu Zhiqiong was stunned: "What has been decided?"
Taibu took out a book and wrote on it: Xu Zhiqiong promised me that it would be easy to talk about other places.
What is this?
Is this the "Iron Book of Words"?
Xu Zhiqiong said: "What did you write down on it?"
Taibu said, "Go to the palace tomorrow night."
Xu Zhiqiong almost jumped up: "What palace are you going to?"
"Didn't you say that it would be easier to talk somewhere else?"
"Does this count?" Xu Zhiqiong laughed angrily, "It's easy to say, easy to say, I just said, I didn't say I would do it!"
Taibu looked at Wu Xu and said: "If you fail to keep your word, how can it be done by your husband!"
Wu Xu blinked: "The Imperial Palace is guarded by the Forbidden Army, how can the Lantern Man get there?"
That’s right!
The Lantern Man has no qualifications to enter the palace.
Does this old guy want me to force my way in?
Can I break into the palace?
Taibu gave Wu Xu a cup of tea and said with a smile: "Qianhu, if I didn't know the inside story, how could I dare to speak rashly? Someone from your yamen is in the palace. I know this."
Is there such a thing?
Xu Zhiqiong looked at Wu Xu in surprise, but Wu Xu did not deny it.
The two looked at each other for a long time, and Wu Xu said: "What is there in the palace that Taibu is so interested in?"
Taibu said: "A book called "The Record of the Wrathful Ancestor"!"
"The Record of Angry Ancestors"?
Xu Zhiqiong was shocked.
I always feel that the title of this book seems to be related to a certain organization.
Wu Xu was also surprised: "How could this thing appear in the palace?"
Taifu said: "There must be a reason for the groundless news. I have already received the news. I just ask Qianhu to verify it."
Wu Xu thought for a moment: "In such a huge palace, how can we tell where the Record of the Wrathful Ancestor is?"
Taibu said: "As far as I know, this book is in the East Palace."
Wu Xu stood up and said, "Taibu, don't make fun of me!"
Taibu said: "Otherwise, how can we talk about this matter? It concerns all the people in the world!"