Late at night, in the wilderness, a fat middle-aged man wearing official uniform walked forward with blank eyes and no signs of fatigue. He walked for an unknown amount of time, but he couldn't stop no matter what.
When I got down, my feet seemed to be out of control.
"Liu Shimin, where do you want to go? Why don't you quickly follow me back to Guo Beicheng." A gust of cold wind blew by, and a government servant suddenly appeared out of thin air holding a chain and landed in front of Magistrate Liu.
"Who are you?" Magistrate Liu asked blankly.
"I am a ghost agent from Guo Beicheng, and I have been specifically ordered to arrest your soul."
Gui Chai swung the chain in his hand to trap Magistrate Liu, and then pulled him into a sinister wind and flew towards Guo Beicheng.
Magistrate Liu seemed to have lost his wits and just followed this ghost in a daze, letting him restrain him.
In just a moment, Magistrate Liu arrived in front of a magnificent mansion.
There is a plaque hanging high in front of the house with four characters: Guo Beicheng Huang.
"Lord City God, Liu Shimin brings you here."
The mansion is like a county government office in the human world. There are ghost government officials inside. There is a middle-aged man wearing a vermilion official uniform, who is huge and looks like a statue in the temple. There seems to be a smell of incense gushing out between his breath.
It came out and enveloped the entire City God Temple.
"Liu Shimin, where are you?" Guo Beicheng Huang's voice was loud and echoed in the lobby.
Magistrate Liu stood there blankly, still at a loss.
"Lord City God, Magistrate Liu seems to have lost his soul, so I have to restrain his soul." Seeing this, the ghost officer immediately raised his hands and said.
The city god counted his fingers and immediately said with a smile: "The man who cut off his head was named Wu Fei. He used to be an executioner. When he killed Liu Shimin, he used two swords. The first sword took away Liu Shimin's soul, and the second sword took away Liu Shimin's soul.
The knife chopped off his head. This is a common beheading method used by executioners. They are afraid that the murdered person will turn into a ghost to seek revenge."
"Go and capture his remaining soul, otherwise he won't be able to reincarnate, so let's take him down first."
"Yes, Lord City God." The ghost messenger responded, and then pulled the soul of Magistrate Liu down.
County Magistrate Liu swayed and followed. A scarlet gash was clearly visible on his neck, with blood still oozing out.
At this time, Guo Beichenghuang immediately opened the book in his hand and saw that Liu Shimin's position had been outlined with a red pen, but at the end he added another stroke: his blessings were exhausted, his sins were extremely evil, and he would be reincarnated as a dog in the next life.
And above Liu Shimin, the name of Goddess Wang is also on it.
I saw a line of small black characters written below: Go to hell and never be reincarnated.
Two days have passed since Magistrate Liu died.
Within two days, this matter had spread a lot in Guobei County.
There are various voices of discussion.
During this period of time, the Li family kept its doors tightly closed and lived in isolation.
"The whole play has to be played out. I ordered Wu Fei to kidnap my father to avoid being caught and making further fuss about this matter." In the lobby of the Li family, Li Xiuyuan sat in the main seat and said calmly: "
Tieshan, call up two teams of guards and take one hundred thousand taels of silver to accompany me to Wangchuan Mountain."
"Two days have passed, and it's time to bring my father back."
"Yes, eldest young master, I will make arrangements right now." Tieshan responded.
"Steward Li, if you have enough work these days, you can continue to take care of the house." Li Xiuyuan said again.
"Don't worry, young master, I will do my best," Butler Li replied.
The real inside story of Magistrate Liu's murder was known to very few people in the Li family, only Butler Li and Tieshan.
These two people are loyal to the Li family and are not worried about leaks.
As for outsiders, even if they suspect that the Li family did this, so what?
The man has been killed, and there is no evidence to support his death. Li Xiuyuan has also completely discarded all connections. After all, Wu Fei in Wangchuan Mountain is indeed a robber.
It's just that a few years ago, Li Xiuyuan sent people from an escort agency to take down this group of bandits in Wangchuan Mountain.
With many inducements, Wu Fei and his subordinates surrendered and joined the escort agency.
But not openly, but secretly.
In fact, he was still a robber on Wangchuan Mountain, but he no longer robbed families and homes.
The reason for this arrangement is that Li Xiuyuan was afraid that one day the Li family would do something disgraceful and would need Wu Fei's place.
"Set off."
After some preparations, Li Xiuyuan set off from the house on a thousand-mile horse, leading a team of men and horses, and escorting one hundred thousand taels of silver.
In order to finish this last scene, he had to go to Wangchuan Mountain in person.
As for the one hundred thousand taels of silver, it just went around in a circle and returned to the Li family.
Li Xiuyuan was riding on the horse, but after experiencing this incident, he was filled with emotions.
"Everyone in the world says that demons and ghosts are scary, but what is even more terrifying is the human heart. Demons and monsters who eat people will be punished by heaven, but if people's hearts are in chaos, then who will care? The laws of the imperial court can only control the common people, not those who
A man who lives in a temple."
While I was thinking, the motorcade was gradually leaving Guobei County.
"Look, it's the Li family's motorcade, led by the eldest young master of the Li family. Where are they going?"
"Idiot, you don't know this yet. The eldest young master is going to Wangchuan Mountain to redeem someone. Doesn't he know that Mr. Li was kidnapped by the thief Wu Fei from Wangchuan Mountain? When he saw that there were no ten big boxes, he was shocked.
It is the ransom money."
"With so much money, I'm afraid it's no less than 100,000 people. Hey, in the final analysis, all this was caused by that dog official. If it hadn't been for him, how could such a thing have happened in the county."
People in Guobei County began to discuss, and their hatred for Magistrate Liu, a dog-eat-dog official, deepened, and they began to sympathize with the Li family's plight.
Li Xiuyuan's face was calm and unmoved. Although he used some conspiracies and tricks, in reality he was just presenting the truth to everyone.
Things are not right or wrong, free public comment.
The convoy is getting further and further away.
By evening, they had already left the boundaries of Guobei County.
"Tieshan, go take two people to see if there are any villages or inns nearby. It's getting very late. Let's find a place to stay first and start our journey tomorrow." Li Xiuyuan said.
"Yes, young master." Tieshan nodded at the two of them and immediately rode away quickly.
Soon, they came back again.
"Young Master, there is a village three miles ahead," Tieshan said.
"Very good, let's go and stay there." Li Xiuyuan said.
When the convoy reached the entrance of the village, a young man who was covered in rags and looked like a beggar suddenly rushed over and stopped Tieshan's mount in front of him.
"I have a mirror here, please, can you let me look at it?" The beggar boy looked haggard, stopped in front of the horse and begged.
He was holding a simple bronze mirror in his hand, which seemed to have been around for some time.
"Uu."
Tieshan's expression changed and he hurriedly stopped his horse.
"Boy, you are too reckless. If you stop the horse casually, something might happen."
"Please, sir, let me take a look at this bronze mirror. Just take a look at it." The beggar boy was not afraid of the horses in front of him at all. He just kept begging Tieshan and others to take a look at the mirror in his hands.
Bronze mirror.
At this time, Li Xiuyuan came on horseback out of curiosity: "What happened to Tieshan?"
"Back to the young master, I don't even know that this young man stopped my horse and asked me to look at the mirror in his hand." Tieshan also looked puzzled.
Li Xiuyuan turned over and dismounted and said: "Little brother, why do you stop us people and ask us to look in the mirror?"
When the young beggar saw Li Xiuyuan approaching, he quickly took a look at him with the bronze mirror in his hand.
But something strange happened. There was supposed to be a shadow of someone on the bronze mirror, but after Li Xiuyuan looked at it, there was no shadow at all, and it was completely empty.
"Huh." Li Xiuyuan also became curious.
This bronze mirror is extraordinary.
The beggar boy suddenly looked a little disappointed, and then looked at others in the bronze mirror like crazy.
But strangely enough, other people had their shadows on the bronze mirror, but the beggar boy still looked extremely lost.
"Why do I, a great man, look in the mirror? Go ahead." One of the guards glared at him impatiently and shouted.
Li Xiuyuan became even more curious at this point.
This beggar boy seems to be looking for someone with the mirror.