(I’m very sorry to my book friends, I accidentally pasted part of the wrong content in yesterday’s chapter. I would like to express my apologies,)
"Humph," Baihu snorted coldly after hearing this, and then said with a serious face: "You are fooling me into thinking that I am a three-year-old child! You are very polite and seem to have read a few years of schooling. Could it be that you think that
I am a martial artist and easy to fool, huh?"
"Sir, this villain would never dare to do this. This clan of villains are indeed good people, indeed they are all good people." Tang Shipeng immediately knelt down and said.
Baihu asked a few more questions. Although Tang Shipeng knew that Jinyiwei probably had some evidence that his family was a White Lotus cultist, he still refused to admit it. If it was confirmed that his family members were indeed White Lotus cultists, they would not be killed.
, even during the Hongwu period, ordinary believers would not be put to death, but according to the current style of the court that catches criminals all day long and sends them overseas, their entire family may be exiled to a certain overseas vassal country. Although the Tang family is not living a good life.
Although he is considered wealthy, he can still live well. In recent years, more than a dozen tribesmen have been working in the kerosene mines in Lijin, and their lives have become more prosperous. Of course, they are not willing to go overseas.
Baihu's face became increasingly ugly, and he muttered in a low voice: "I thought you were Tang Jingyu's relatives, so I would be more polite to you, but since you are so stubborn, you can't blame me for being rude." He then shouted loudly.
: "Come here, arrest the heads of the Tang clan, the talkers in each house, and their wives and children, and take them back for interrogation."
"Yes!" Many soldiers below responded in agreement, put down their spears and drew knives from their waists to come forward to arrest people. They seemed to know who Tang Shipeng's wife and children were, and who was involved in what was said in each room. Even the Tang clan present
Everyone was crying and very embarrassed, but they accurately captured these people. At the same time, a person who looked like a general flag or a small flag turned around and walked out of the yard with five or six people. After a while, this group of people appeared in the yard again.
, everyone was holding a child in their hands. These children ranged from three or two years old to seven or eight years old. They were all struggling and crying: "Daddy, Mommy."
"Sir!" Tang Shipeng recognized at a glance that these children were their sons, and one of them was his grandson. He shouted with red eyes: "Sir, our Tang family is really not a White Lotus believer. You know it clearly.
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Baihu ignored him and just watched everyone including Tang Shipeng being tied up. He looked at Tang Shipeng for a while, and seeing that he still refused to explain, he ordered: "Bring him back to the Yamen for interrogation!" and shouted again: "
From today on, no one from the Tang family is allowed to leave the village without an order from the government. As long as one person leaves the village, he will be charged with absconding in fear of crime, and the entire Tang family will be imprisoned."
"Sir!" Tang Shipeng shouted again. At the same time, he was struggling in his heart. But in the end, he glanced to the side and still did not admit that the Tang family was a White Lotus cultist, nor did he confess Peng Ju.
"Take away!" Baihu shouted. The soldiers then escorted the arrested people out of the yard and left Xiguan Village.
It had been a while since they left before the people in the hospital stood up. Two of them rushed to Peng Ju and asked very worriedly: "Brother Peng, are you injured?"
The two of them were the ones who escorted Peng Ju out for inspection this time. Since the Tang family were all White Lotus believers, they were not worried about Peng Ju's safety in the village, so they were a little careless. After getting Peng Ju's permission, they sat in the corner of the yard and drank.
Start drinking. Later, the Jin Yiwei soldiers came in. They thought Peng Ju had been exposed and wanted to rush over to protect him, but as soon as he moved, one of them was shot in the back by the Jin Yiwei soldiers.
With ten soldiers, they didn't dare to move. Of course they could beat a few soldiers, but with so many people in the yard and fire blunderbuss, they could only endure it.
When Tang Shipeng was repeatedly asked whether he was a White Lotus cultist, the two of them raised their hearts in their throats, fearing that Tang Shipeng would confess Peng Ju at the next moment. After the Jinyi guards escorted more than 20 people from the Tang family and left,
They immediately rushed over. "My younger brother failed to protect Brother Peng when the army came in. Please ask Brother Peng to punish us!" Seeing that Peng Ju was not injured, the two of them immediately said.
"Brother Zhang, brother Liu, who could have imagined that the officers and soldiers would rush in so suddenly? How many officers and soldiers came in. If you come to protect your elder brother, you will only be killed. We who believe in Ming Zun are not afraid of death, but it is in vain.
They are dead." Of course Peng Ju would not punish them. And he was not in the mood to dwell on such a trivial matter at this time, so he immediately said: "Quickly, escort the elder brother out of Xiguan Village."
"Brother, the hundred households of Jin Yiwei just said that whenever a Tang family member leaves the village, he will be charged with absconding in fear of crime, and the entire Tang family will be arrested. Brother has a high status, and these ordinary believers are
The eldest brother should contribute, but there might be people from the government hiding near Xiguan Village. We will definitely be arrested if we go out!" Brother Liu said. Because the Ming Dynasty is so powerful now, they don't know how to speak on weekdays.
Use derogatory names to address Ming yamen or officials to prevent your identity from being revealed in inappropriate places.
"Let's not take the main road, let's go out through the tunnel." Peng Ju said.
"Is there any tunnel in Xiguan Village?"
"Yes. And the entrance is in this courtyard." Peng Ju looked at the people of the Tang family around him and slowly walked towards several houses in the courtyard. "Don't forget, Tang Jingyu is the Tang family.
He is a man whose father was the incense master in our religion back then. In order to prevent people from the imperial court from coming to arrest him, he built a tunnel under his house more than 20 years ago and opened an entrance in this courtyard. This
A tunnel leads directly to the woods outside the village, where you can escape. I happened to be in Xiguan Village when it was first built, and Tang Jingyu's father told me about it. I guess not many people in the Tang family remember it."
"Then will this tunnel be discovered by Jin Yiwei?"
"No. When this tunnel was first built, the entrance was very hidden. It has not been used for more than 20 years. It has long been integrated with the beds, tables and chairs, and will not be discovered." As he said that, Peng Jujian
No one noticed them and they rushed into the house. The other two people quickly followed.
Peng Ju walked into the back room, slowly pushed the table away, knocked on the ground carefully, and found a spot under it that was very empty. He hurriedly found the wrench and opened the lid according to the method taught to him by Tang Jingyu's father at that time. Suddenly, there was a smell of filth.
The air came out from below.
Peng Ju took out a fire stick from his body, blew and lit a candle on the table, and slowly put the candle bottle down. Seeing that the candle was not extinguished, he felt happy, thinking that he had indeed opened the vent, so he would
He went down to the tunnel. But then he thought of another possibility and hesitated again, but finally slowly walked into the tunnel. The two guards followed. Brother Zhang took the candle and the fire seal from Peng Ju and walked away.
Front; Brother Liu carefully closes the lid.
They didn't know how long they had walked, but there was no road ahead. Brother Zhang put down the candle bottle and groped forward. He slowly found a handle, lifted it hard, and opened the lid.
He immediately walked out first, stood there for a while, walked around again, and said: "Brother Peng, there is no fan of Jinyiwei outside!"
Peng Ju breathed a sigh of relief and walked out. He just saw that the candle was not extinguished, and thought that the second possibility was that Jin Yiwei had discovered this secret passage. So although it didn't show on his face, he was a little worried in his heart. At this time, he finally let go
Heart comes.
The three of them rested outside for a while, and Brother Liu asked, "Brother Peng, where are we going now?"
"Let's go to Dongguan Village. Most of the people in Dongguan Village are also brothers in our religion, and Master Mo Xiang also lives in that village." Brother Zhang said.
Peng Ju was silent for a while and said: "Go to Dongguan Village. But when you get to the village, brother Zhang, you first pretend to be passing by and go in to ask. And don't tell me that I'm here too."
"Brother Peng, why is this?" Brother Zhang didn't understand, but Peng Ju didn't answer.
After a while they came to the outside of Dongguan Village. Brother Peng Ju and Liu were hiding in the woods. Brother Zhang went in to investigate. It was getting dark at this time. I don’t know how long it took. When the sun completely set and the moon rose, Brother Zhang
Then he walked out very secretly, came to Peng Ju, and said in a very surprised tone: "Brother Peng, Mo Xiangzhu and the others were also captured! At the same time as Brother Tang and the others were captured, they were captured by another group of Jin Yiwei.
Yes. We also captured the clan leader and the talkers in each house!"
"What's going on?" Brother Liu was shocked: "How can there be so many fans of Jinyiwei in this small Putai County?" As far as he knew, there was only one hundred households in three counties in the entire Binzhou area, and they
When I came from Binzhou, I made sure that there were still people at the Jinyiwei Yamen in Binzhou.
Peng Ju's face was not surprised, and he asked: "Have the people in the village said how the people who came to arrest Brother Mo are in good spirits?"
"Jingqishen. They said that although these are also stories, they are completely different from what they have seen in the county before!" Brother Zhang thought for a while and then said.
"Sure enough," Peng Juque said: "Sure enough, Jin Yiwei not only got the news that the Tang family is a believer in our sect, but also got the news that many people are believers in our sect!" He then said angrily:
"Someone must have rebelled and defected to the government!"
He had been vaguely suspicious of this since he was in the Tang family just now. The person who called himself Jinyiwei Baihu was a stranger, not the local Jinyiwei Baihu he knew. It was normal for Jinyiwei to transfer officials, but how could it be in the first month? And those Jinyiwei's fans
The students were also different from those he had seen in the past. They all looked like elites at first glance, and they were definitely not the local Jinyiwei fans who had gradually become "big men". He had a vague suspicion that they were people transferred from other places.
But if it was only discovered that the Tang family was a member of the White Lotus cult, how would the government mobilize troops and mobilize people from other places to arrest them? There was a vague suspicion that many members of the cult had been discovered. I sent Brother Zhang to inquire in Dongguan Village, and it was indeed the case.
