In the blacksmith shop in Maoer Alley, several blacksmiths were sweating profusely while forging iron tools. As the red iron tools gradually cooled, the prototype of a long sword appeared.
At this time, the closed door was banged, and the apprentice who was guarding the door ran in and said with a pale face: "There is an official official!"
Before he finished speaking, the door was smashed open, and a group of Jin Yiwei armed with swords rushed in and shouted loudly: "The Jin Yiwei are on an errand, no one is allowed to move!"
"Fight with them!" The blacksmiths naturally knew what a crime it was to make weapons privately, so they were not willing to take advantage of them. Several blacksmiths waved their red-hot iron drills and rushed towards the Jinyiwei.
Gunshots rang out, and the two blacksmiths fell to the ground after being shot, but the distance was too close and they were in the house, so the muskets seemed too stupid. The three blacksmiths rushed forward. The red iron drill waved and they were immediately forced back.
The guards and several blacksmiths took advantage of this fierce momentum and rushed from the house to the entrance of the courtyard. Just as they were about to rush out of the courtyard and escape to the alley, the three of them suddenly tripped at the same time and fell to the ground.
An unlucky blacksmith even fell on his iron drill. The red iron drill immediately burned half of his face with the smell of barbecue, and a heart-rending scream resounded through the sky.
Several black-clad guards who had laid trip wires jumped out of the darkness, suppressed the three blacksmiths who had been smashed to pieces, and then quickly blocked the injured guy's mouth... They didn't forget it.
The Governor's instructions made this guy howl like this, and he didn't know how many steaks he would have to eat back at Shangfeng!
Such a fierce scene is actually rare in tonight's arrests. After all, today is New Year's Eve, and the creditors are not collecting debts at this time, so the White Lotus cultists are not vigilant at all, and most of them are
He was held down directly under the quilt...
At dawn, people from all walks of life withdrew their troops. One hundred targets were captured, and a total of more than 400 people were captured. More than ten people who resisted arrest were killed, and several others escaped in chaos. According to the standards of this era, this operation was perfect.
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Sure enough, Wang Xian asked the kitchen to cook the dumplings. As soon as the officers and soldiers who returned from the team sat down, they could eat hot dumplings with two ounces of soju, and the fatigue and coldness of the night were swept away...
After eating, the arrested soldiers went home to rest. The Jin Yiwei in charge of the interrogation appeared in person. In a torture room, various torture instruments were laid out one by one. One suspect was dragged in, and the screams were heard one after another...
Wang Xian told Wu Wei and Er Hei to keep an eye on him, and hurried back home. Ah Heng got up just in time and smiled sweetly at him: "Good morning, Dad, happy New Year."
"Happy New Year, my dear daughter." Wang Xian happily hugged his daughter, with no trace of fatigue on his face.
There are indeed many taboos during the Spring Festival. Starting from the first day of the Lunar New Year, you cannot sweep the floor or splash water, for fear of sweeping away the year's luck. You cannot use knives or scissors, or steam or stir-fry, which means you cannot 'quarrel'.
Not to mention cutting your hair, saying unlucky words, and breaking all kinds of things.
After hearing so many rules, Ah Heng pouted and said, "It's not fun at all."
But Lingxiao smiled and said: "There are more fun things." Then he took Aheng out to visit the temple fair. Although Beijing was the new capital of the country, it was the capital of the Jin and Yuan dynasties. After the emperor conquered the country, he also
They attached great importance to the status of Beijing and moved hundreds of thousands of wealthy households to the south of the Yangtze River to fill Beijing. They were also exempted from taxes for five years, so that they could live and work in peace and contentment and create prosperity. Therefore, the city of Beijing gathered from the north and the south, and all industries prospered, and the prosperity was no less than that of the south of the Yangtze River.
As far as this temple fair is concerned, there are more than a dozen of them, large and small, inside and outside the capital. Some of them are close to each other, and the larger ones include Baiyun Temple and Dongyue Temple.
Wang Xian took his family to Baiyun Temple to see money eyes and touch monkeys. He went to Dongyue Temple to walk the blessing path, hang blessing plaques and walk around the blessing trees. He went to Tantuo Temple to burn incense and pray for blessings... Unknowingly, it was the fourth day of the Lunar New Year.
.After noon that day, he sent Baoyin Aheng home early, and then rushed to pick up two people outside the city before returning to Jinyiwei Yamen.
Hearing that he was back, Erhei and Deng Xiaoxian hurried over to meet him. They had been hiding in the torture room since New Year's Eve. After four days, their beard and hair were as messy as grass, and their jealousy was as red as lanterns... What a shame.
In this way, they still saw the two people standing behind Wang Xian at a glance. The two people were one tall and one short. They wore bamboo hats and their faces could not be seen clearly, but they could tell from their body shapes that they were a man and a woman.
"How's it going?" Wang Xian personally made a cup of tea for the two of them and delivered it to Erhei and the others. He didn't seem to have any intention of introducing them immediately, but he also didn't mean to avoid suspicion.
"Hey..." The two of them were fine at first, but when the adults asked, they became dejected. Erhei said depressedly: "I tortured them all the time, but I didn't get any useful information at all."
Deng Xiaoxian responded: "These cultists have brain problems and are not afraid of death at all!"
"There are still people who are not afraid of death?" Wang Xian frowned. The two mysterious people behind him seemed to be slightly moved, and the curtains of the bamboo hats moved automatically in the absence of wind...
"They believe that if you die for the Buddha Mother, you can reach the Western Bliss." Deng Xiaoxian glanced at the two of them, looked away and said: "If the secret of the Buddha Mother is revealed, you will go to the eighteenth level of hell, and you will never be reincarnated."
"So many believers, are they so firm?" Wang Xian asked unconvincingly.
"Of course not, but the vast majority of believers don't know anything about it." Deng Xiaoxian said: "The other party is very cunning. I am afraid that except for a few core figures, these believers don't know what they are going to do next."
"However, it's already the fourth day of the Lunar New Year, and things are still calm in Beijing," Erhei said with a smile: "It seems that our actions have had some deterrent effect, maybe they have given up."
"Don't be careless." Wang Xian frowned and said, "It's not the most chaotic Shangyuan Festival yet, anything can happen." He looked at Deng Xiaoxian and said, "Well, tonight's interrogation is suspended. You just have to listen to this."
Two orders."
"This..." Deng Xiaoxian was stunned for a moment, but still obeyed his orders honestly. "Yes."
Wang Xian looked back at the two people, his eyes lingering on the woman for a longer time. After a while, he said in a deep voice: "Please."
"Don't worry, sir!" The two of them lowered their heads and clasped their fists. The man responded in a deep voice, and then said to Deng Xiaoxian: "Please, sir, please take us to the imperial prison."
"Okay." Although full of doubts, Deng Xiaoxian nodded and led the two of them out of the front hall.
As soon as Deng Xiaoxian left, Erhei came up to Wang Xian and said, "I wonder why these two look so familiar?"
"Haha..." Wang Xian smiled in a showy way and whispered: "Just watch the show."
At night, the city of Beijing is completely silent, and the sound of firecrackers that have been heard for several days has also disappeared...
In the Prison Temple and in the Jinyiwei Prison, days of interrogation finally came to an end. The Jinyiwei officers dragged the scarred White Lotus cultists back to the prison, opened the cell door, and threw them in one by one like sacks.
A member of the Hundred Households glared fiercely at the white lotus believers in the cell who were in ragged clothes and with blood-stained faces, and sneered: "It's been four days of interrogation, and not a single person has died. You must think that our Jinyiwei is running a charity, right?"
?" He laughed strangely and raised his voice: "Listen up, monsters, in a few hours it will be the fifth day of the Lunar New Year. The fifth day of the Lunar New Year will break the fifth day of the Lunar New Year. The taboos attached to the Chinese New Year can be broken, and we Jin Yiwei can kill people!"
Although those believers said they regarded death as home, they still couldn't help but tremble after hearing these words. They also heard the hundreds of households laugh and say: "Starting tomorrow, I will let you truly understand what it means to be a hell on earth with death and no life!"
‘Bah!’ A believer finally couldn’t bear it anymore and spit out a mouthful of bloody phlegm on the bridge of the nose of the hundred households.
"Okay!" All the believers cheered loudly, and many people secretly worried about him, wondering what kind of punishment this comrade would receive.
Sure enough, the hundred households wiped the bloody phlegm from the bridge of their noses, their facial features were distorted with anger, they pointed at the believer and shouted: "Drag him out!"
Several Jinyi guards rushed forward and tried to open the cell door.
In the cell, the White Lotus cultists tried to hide the brother who had caused trouble as far as possible while staring at the Jin Yiwei who rushed to the cell door. At this moment, a scene that stunned all the believers happened outside the cell door. The roaring
Hundreds of households, as well as the Jin Yiwei who rushed over, were suddenly cast into immobilization techniques, and they all maintained their postures and were frozen there...
Looking at the wooden stake-like guards, the believers rubbed their eyes hard to make sure they were not dazzled, and couldn't help but be dumbfounded. Then, an even weirder phenomenon continued to happen. The torches in the cell suddenly went out, and then there were countless lights, coming from both ends of the corridor.
The light is soft, illuminating the dark cell brightly and warmly.
Then, there were bursts of Sanskrit sounds, falling flowers filled the sky, and countless petals fell from the top of the cell. Along with the petals, a beautiful woman in white clothes and white skirt, barefoot and long hair, with hands tied in Dharma seals, quietly appeared in front of the believers. See
The woman stepped on the lotus and looked majestic. Some believers suddenly shouted out loud: "Holy girl! Pay homage to the holy girl!"
"Ah!" Hearing the shouts of others, more people also woke up. Isn't this the saintly majesty of the White Lotus Sect?! The believers quickly knelt down and worshiped devoutly.
The saint looked at the believers with pity and said with a smile: "You are worshiping the wrong person." Her voice was charming, as if every word could penetrate people's pores.
"Goodbye!" Someone shouted: "You are the previous saint before Mother Buddha! I heard you preach in Heze before!"
"Haha." The saint stopped denying it and said with a smile: "Yes, I am the former saint. Now she has achieved enlightenment and has returned to bliss. I passed by this place today and saw believers suffering. I thought of the old love.
, so I came over to see what happened.”
"Holy Maiden, have mercy! Please help Holy Maiden!" Although all the believers looked forward to death, no one would let go of the chance to live. Since they had seen the Holy Maiden's magic power with their own eyes, of course they asked her to do something to save themselves.
"It's naturally not difficult to save you." The saint said, "But the Western Paradise has its own rules. I cannot interfere indiscriminately with the human court."