Qin Hongyu raised her eyebrows when she heard this, and threw the soul-beating whip in her hand into the air with a "pop!" sound.
Bai Er trembled subconsciously when he saw this, his little hedgehog eyes full of fear.
Qin Hongyu raised her hand and threw the soul-beating whip onto the execution rack on the wall. She didn't even look at Bai Er and said lightly:
"What's the injustice? Let's talk about it."
"Just say it, I..."
Bai Er glanced at Aunt Bai and continued:
"I just led the Hu family into the Golden Light Cave and killed several traitors... in the clan. Why should I be sentenced to the Department of Punishing Evil for one year, and then even more...
Are the demon souls scattered?"
"Bai Er! You led outsiders into the Golden Light Cave and killed everyone in your own family. How can you have the nerve to slander others as traitors?"
Aunt Bai couldn't help but scolded.
"As an important elder in the clan, betraying the clan and luring wolves into the house is a crime."
Qin Hongyu said to herself.
"Killing members of your own family is the second crime."
There was silence in the Crime Punishment Department. Everyone present was speechless and only listened to Qin Hongyu's eloquent talk.
"As a demon soul, if you fail to report to the underworld after leaving the body, you are guilty of three crimes."
"Wait a minute! I was ambushed by that surnamed Hui on the way. The demon soul trapped by it was completely beyond my control. How can it be blamed on me?"
Bai Er tried his best to argue with his small eyes open.
"But after you got out of trouble, you still insisted on escaping. In the end, you even forced me to take action personally. Isn't it enough?"
When Bai Er heard this, he closed his eyes and struggled again:
"Then I've only killed a few demons. I've never killed anyone easily before. I'm definitely not a great evil person. Why am I about to lose my soul?"
"Hmph, that's just a few ordinary demon lives. The least you've done to harm is a demon that has turned into a human form. Drag it on!"
When Feng Sanbao heard this, he immediately said yes, stepped forward and dragged Bai Er to the back of the palace with a torture rack.
Bai Er was tied to the rack and still struggled and screamed wildly. When he passed by Aunt Bai, he even spat and cursed at her:
"Bah! Si Chen's prodigal and poisonous woman killed my eldest brother and took possession of my Bai family's magic weapon. I want to show off, and I want to sue her! She also has a demon's destiny in her hands! She killed my brother!"<
/p>
Bai Er was dragged to the back of the palace, still roaring:
"Wu Jun is unfair, Bai Er refuses to accept it, that poisonous woman killed my brother, but she can be a guest..."
"...You are all colluding to harm me, Bai Er..."
"Bai Er is not convinced!"
"Bai Er... uh uh!"
The will-o'-the-wisps in the Evil Punishment Department were swaying, and it seemed to be a bit colder.
Qin Hongyu's face was as cold as frost. She turned her head and glanced at Aunt Bai and Wenjun coldly. Aunt Bai hurriedly saluted deeply:
"The Bai Eryi faction is talking nonsense. How dare the old slave harm his husband? He is all making false assumptions and framed the old slave."
Wenjun stood beside him and hurriedly raised his hands and said:
"Mother clearly knows that when the ghost of Aunt Bai comes to report to the underworld, her yin and yang records are clean, so her son dares to call her as a guest, and there is no record of killing her husband."
"Go to the council chamber!"
After Qin Hongyu finished speaking, she pushed Aunt Bai and Wenjun away, and when she passed by Cheng Yu, she cupped her fists and saluted:
"I've kept you waiting for a long time, sir. Please come this way!"
Cheng Yuke followed Qin Hongyu's instructions and followed Qin Hongyu out of the Evil Punishment Department and through the corridor to another side hall.
Qin Hongyu sat at the main seat, while Cheng Yu and Wenjun took the guest seats on both sides. However, Aunt Bai had no seat and stood behind Wenjun with her hands down.
A military judge brought three cups of herbal tea, and Cheng Yu took a sip. It was lighter than the tea at Qingchuan Wenjun Palace.
"Get the yin and yang book!"
Qin Hongyu raised her hand and pointed at Aunt Bai, and said to the military judge who was serving tea.
After hearing the words and bowing, Judge Wu hurriedly ran out. In less than half a cup of tea, he came back with a book of yin and yang and handed it to Qin Hongyu with both hands.
After Qin Hongyu took it, she first glanced at Aunt Bai, who was standing with her hands down, and then turned over the book with an expressionless face.
"Wow... Wow..."
There was silence in the hall, accompanied by the sound of turning pages. Cheng Yu glanced at Aunt Bai calmly while drinking tea: Well, this old woman is quite calm and collected.
I saw Qin Hongyu silently flipping through the Yin and Yang Book, then closing it and putting it on the desk in front of her.
"Well, then Bai Er has indeed wronged you, but you just dared to act wantonly in my Lord Wu's Palace and ignored my laws. You must be accustomed to being dignified in the world of the world. I will whip you three times in accordance with the law to make up for it."
Do you accept the punishment or not?"
Aunt Bai hurriedly knelt on the ground:
"The old slave was so angry that he lost his temper. Lord Wu taught him a lesson as a matter of course. The old slave was completely confused and there was nothing he didn't accept."
"Well, if you dare to do it again in the future, you will be wiped out in ashes according to the law!"
"Yes, I don't dare!"
Qin Hongyu nodded, looked at Cheng Yu and continued:
"This gentleman came to my palace to answer questions from you. The two of you are here to reminisce about old times. I will not disturb you for the time being. After you have finished your business, sir, you will go to my palace for a while."
After saying that, Cheng Yu stood up, cupped his fists and saluted, ignored Aunt Bai, and led Wenjun out of the palace and rustled away.
At this time, Cheng Yu and Aunt Bai were the only ones left in the hall. Cheng Yu motioned for her to sit down and finally placed the Wujun sword that had never left his hand on the coffee table beside him.
Aunt Bai was about to sit down when she glanced at the Wu Jun sword wrapped in cloth and was shocked.
I had seen him carrying this sword in the Confucian Temple before. At that time, I couldn't see anything unusual about the sword. Now in the underworld, I could feel the faint evil spirit in the heavy sword.
Recalling Lord Wu's attitude towards this person just now, Aunt Bai, who was about to sit down, quickly straightened up and declined:
"There's no place for me to sit here. I'm a distinguished friend of Mr. Wu, but it doesn't matter if I sit down. I'll just stand up."
Cheng Yu noticed that Mrs. Bai's self-identification had changed. She repeatedly called herself an old slave in front of Lord Wu, but then she changed back to her old self.
Thinking about it, although she is called a guest immortal in this underworld, her status is actually not high. Since she is a guest of Lord Wu, she is considered an outsider to them, so naturally she can no longer call herself an "old slave".
After repeatedly declining, Aunt Bai saw that Cheng Yu was indeed treating him sincerely, so she glanced outside the hall casually, sat down next to a chair behind her, and said carefully:
"Sir, this time I personally went to the underworld, what do you think?"
"It's something I asked about in the Confucian Temple before. I remember that day on the Yin side of Qingluo Mountain, the old lady once said that Cheng and my female Taoist friend wearing a green shirt could not step into the capital of Daliang City at the same time.
Within the scope, but why?”
Cheng Yu stopped asking around the bush and asked directly. Aunt Bai laughed and asked:
"It seems that Sir intends to go to the capital?"
Seeing Cheng Yu smiling and saying nothing, Aunt Bai quickly continued:
"I still remember that day before my demonic soul left my body, I had already smelled that the physiques of my husband and the girl in green clothes were extraordinary. I think even a half-dead woman like me at that time could smell it. My husband felt that King Wu in the capital was
Can’t the Wei Association notice the difference between the two of you?”
"Jinwuwei?"
This is indeed the first time Cheng Yu has heard of it.
Aunt Bai was also a little surprised when she saw Cheng Yu's reaction.
"What? Sir, you don't know Jinwuwei?"
Seeing Cheng Yu shaking his head slightly, Aunt Bai pondered and said with a smile:
"Sir seems to be a powerful person from outside Daliang. It doesn't matter if you don't know. I am willing to sell you a favor and explain it to him in detail."
Cheng Yu frowned slightly, Aunt Bai was just selling her favors, and there must be a price for that.
It's just that the way she eats doesn't look like the mother of a dignified family, but rather has the habit of being a common citizen who can't afford to be early.
"Cheng doesn't know how much this favor from Aunt Bai is worth?"
"It's very simple. If you meet my miserable child again in the world someday, and you can save his life, please don't just sit idly by."
"That little white hedgehog named Bai Zhong'er?"
Aunt Bai nodded, Cheng Yu stared into her eyes, and suddenly thought of Mrs. Que inexplicably.
"That's what I promise you."
When Aunt Bai heard this, her eyes suddenly became hazy, and she quickly stood up and bowed respectfully to Cheng Yu:
"I would like to first thank you for your kindness."
……
After a cup of tea, Cheng Yu finally learned from Aunt Bai the origin of the Jinwu Guard and the general situation in the capital.
It turns out that the capital of Daliang has a population of one million, and it is divided into the Imperial City, the Inner City, and the Outer City from the inside to the outside.
The ten-mile radius is exactly the limit of the imperial city wall. The Jinwu Guards are responsible for protecting the imperial city, so there is a barrier on the city wall. Any evil spirit who wants to enter the imperial city to do evil will definitely trigger the barrier.
Attract the Jinwu Guards.
As for the Jinwu Guard, it was established when Liang Taizu ascended the throne. Its duty is to protect the royal family and maintain the destiny of a country.
According to what Aunt Bai said, in Cheng Yu's opinion, it is somewhat similar to some of the responsibilities of the Jin Yiwei in the early Ming Dynasty.
It's just that this Jinwu Guard is dedicated to dealing with the demons, evil spirits and cultivators in the world who cause trouble. After all, this is the world of cultivation, and they must also be a group of cultivators who receive royal salaries.
As for the inner city and outer city outside the imperial city, they are under the control of the Five Cities Military and Horse Division.
However, if cultivators or monsters cause trouble outside the imperial city, they will also provoke the Jinwu Guards. The Five Cities Soldiers and Horses Division is only responsible for mundane matters.
As for the size and strength of Jinwu Guards in the imperial city, Aunt Bai really doesn’t know.
In fact, it is just because the former Dazhao Kingdom enshrined the Five Immortals Family as the Immortal Masters to protect the country. The five families were divided into the Five Elements and each guarded one side. Only the Huang Family Tu Xing guarded the central capital.
Jinxing guards the west, and the Bai family's Immortal Protector Temple is built southwest of Dazhao.
At that time, the head of the Bai family was still there. He sensed that the fate of the country had collapsed. He also heard that the Dazhao Dynasty had perished. The head of the Huang family, the great protector of the country, was missing. The heads of the Hui family and the Liu family were killed respectively. The Hu family had been wiped out.
After running away from the world, the head of the Bai family also decided to withdraw to the Jinguang Cave on his own initiative, but he did not have any fight with the Jinwu Guards.
Cheng Yu nodded secretly. The purpose of his planned trip to the capital was to see the prosperous world of the capital.
Secondly, he wanted to deliver the family letter for Mr. Zhang. His nephew was working as an errand in Prince Yu’s Mansion. According to Cheng Yu’s judgment, Prince Yu’s Mansion should not be in the imperial city, but probably in the inner city close to the imperial city. p>
In fact, it doesn't matter even if it's actually in the imperial city. At most, you can just spend some money and ask someone to take it in.
And another point is that his sparrow self has successfully passed through two demon-subduing barriers before. As long as the soul is restored, Cheng Yu may not be able to fly into the imperial city's barrier.