Shopkeeper Li had also heard of the name of Captain Ziyi.
This time, under the orders of King Zhu Gaoxu of Han Dynasty, he went to Beijing to create public opinion, and his target was Dongchang.
Therefore, before coming here, I made a special effort to learn more about the situation of Xiao Chen, the purple-clothed captain.
In his impression, Xiao Chen was an insidious, vicious, murderous, yet extremely difficult demon to deal with.
I never expected that not only could he speak eloquently, but after knowing that he was the leader of this conspiracy, instead of taking him down, he would actually let himself up.
Are you reluctant to kill yourself? What is so special about you that makes him not want to kill him?
"You don't want me to stand up and correct His Highness the King of Han, do you?" Shopkeeper Li raised his hand, blocked Xiao Chen's support, and said slowly.
"The King of Han's move is aimed at Dongchang. And Dongchang is an agency directly under the emperor and does things for the emperor. Who is the emperor? He is the biological father of the King of Han. As a son, targeting his own father, is this behavior inappropriate?
Unfilial?"
Shopkeeper Li frowned, as if what he said made sense.
"People say that a tiger's poison cannot eat its seeds. Although the emperor stands at the pinnacle of the Ming Dynasty, he is still a human being of flesh and blood. As for the King of Han, apart from punishing him, he will never take his life. The shopkeeper is also a
Scholars, as for whether to risk your life and be a foolish and loyal person, you should stand up and correct the mistakes of the King of Han, and become a righteous person who truly considers the country and the country, you should think about it yourself."
In a word, Shopkeeper Li's position is really wavering.
"However, my family was detained in Le'an Prefecture by the King of Han. With King Han's character, let alone me standing up to testify against him, even if this mission is not completed satisfactorily, they will all be in danger. If I really stand in Dongchang
My people here may also be affected."
Hearing what Shopkeeper Li said, Xiao Chen knew in his heart that this person had been captured.
"The shopkeeper can rest assured about this matter. As long as you agree to stand up, Dongchang will be responsible for the safety of your family and clan members."
Shopkeeper Li wanted to say something more, but Xiao Chen pulled him up from the ground.
"What's the point of this small grocery store? I'll take you to a place and get you a lot of books. You can study hard."
"There is no one here. The King of Han will find out."
"Don't worry, I will arrange for someone to guard here instead of you."
...
It was not until dark that the more than 30 real and fake monks who were creating public opinion in the capital were all arrested.
However, these people were not detained in the Prison Prison, but were all sent to the Dongchang Prison.
While Ma Yunshan was applying healing medicine on his body, Du Shaoqin rushed back to Dongchang Prison to prepare for the arrangements for these people.
In the stove room at the entrance to the prison, the fire had long since stopped burning.
A thick wooden board was placed on the stove's countertop, which was used as a table.
On the wooden board, there is a pot of hot water, a tea bowl, and a blue and white porcelain tea can.
Xiao Chen moved a chair and sat next to it, holding the Tao Te Ching he had brought back from the grocery store in his hand, flipping through it casually.
Duan Tianming walked in: "The last monk has been arrested and brought to justice."
"Thank you for your hard work. Sit down and have a cup of tea." Xiao Chen raised his head and pointed to the seat opposite him.
"You only prepared a tea bowl, do you want me and you to use one?" Duan Tianming complained as he sat down on the chair.
"There is it in Du Shaoqin's room, you won't go get it yourself?"
"Who can I drink tea from if you don't have a bowl?" Duan Tianming muttered, stood up again and walked out of the door.
Not long after, he walked in again with a tea bowl in his hand.
He opened the lid of the tea can, pinched some tea leaves and put them into the tea bowl. Then he picked up the kettle and filled the tea bowl with hot water. Then he sat on the chair, shaking his head and kneading his thighs and calves.
It wasn't until the two of them had finished three bowls of fragrant tea that Du Shaoqin arranged all the monks one by one.
Holding a booklet in his hand, he walked into the stove room.
"I have registered their names and room numbers. Are we going to try them overnight tomorrow?" Du Shaoqin said, looking at Xiao Chen who was devoted to studying the Tao Te Ching.
"Oh?" As if he didn't listen at all just now, Xiao Chen asked, "Trial? Who is being tried?"
"These monks."
"What are the reasons for interrogating these monks? Put them all in a cell." Xiao Chen said calmly.
"My Lord in Purple, there are more than thirty people here. How can they not be overcrowded to death if they are locked up in one cell? I have put them in one cell each and properly detained them."
With that said, Du Shaoqin handed the booklet in his hand to Xiao Chen.
"Isn't this a waste of energy?" Xiao Chen didn't even look at it, but stretched out his hand to block the pamphlet back, "You also go and get a tea bowl, sit here and drink tea until it gets dark."
"What kind of tea should you drink? It won't get dark soon?" Du Shaoqin asked.
"Oh. I can't express myself clearly. I'll have to wait until midnight."
"What are you doing in the second half of the night?" Duan Tianming on the side was confused and couldn't help asking.
Is it possible that there will be any big operations in the middle of the night? But Xiao Chen didn't ask him to prepare manpower.
"I'll go back to the Ministry of Justice in the middle of the night. Can these people in Ma Yunshan let them sleep peacefully and peacefully?" Xiao Chen put down the book, picked up the tea bowl and took another sip.
"What about these monks? Just lock them up like this?" Du Shaoqin asked.
"In the middle of the night, we killed everyone except the shopkeeper and the Liujie monk."
"Kill them all? Kill them all without even trying them?"
"What's there to judge? Isn't it just to create public opinion on the streets? Just kill him for such a trivial matter. There is no need to delve into it."
"But I always feel a little hasty." Du Shaoqin said.
"What's so rash? They sneaked into the city this time, and I let them disappear quietly. Isn't it just what they wanted?"
"What about the corpse? Take it to a ditch outside the city and throw it away? These people are wearing monk's clothes. I'm afraid it will cause a lot of trouble."
Xiao Chen raised his hand and rubbed his brow: "It's really a bit troublesome. If it doesn't work, arrange manpower. Now go out of the city and find a more desolate place to dig a hole. Kill them in the middle of the night, pull them over and bury them."
Duan Tianming stood up, picked up the tea bowl on the table, drank it all in one gulp, and casually placed the empty tea bowl on the wooden board: "I'll go, I'll do this kind of hard work."
"Okay, you two, one digs holes and the other kills people. Neither of you will be idle." As he said that, Xiao Chen picked up the Tao Te Ching again and started reading.
The moon rose more than two feet high, casting cold light over the capital. A few wild cats were running around in the streets, and their shadows stretched by the moonlight flickered east and west, looking extremely ghostly.
The door of Dongchang Prison was slowly opened from the inside, and five or six carriages slowly drove out.
The carriage was filled with corpses with bare heads scattered all over the place.
"I'm going to transport the body out, do you want to come with me?" Du Shaoqin walked into the stove room and looked at Xiao Chen and said.
"It's already midnight so soon?" Xiao Chen closed the book and stood up, "You go bury the person first, and I'll return the book to the shopkeeper. Let's meet in the prison of the Criminal Department."
"Okay." Du Shaoqin turned around and walked out of the stove room, chasing the carriage in the distance.
In the cell where Shopkeeper Li was imprisoned, the lamp basin on the wall flickered, and the half-foot-high flame illuminated the cell very brightly.
On the small bed in the corner, the quilts were neatly folded, without any trace of being moved.
Shopkeeper Li squatted behind the door, looking outside nervously through the low food opening on the iron door.
"Open the cell door." A voice came from outside.
"Yes." Someone responded.
Immediately afterwards, there was a "clatter" sound, which seemed to be the sound of getting a key.
Shopkeeper Li hurriedly stood up, hurriedly walked to the small bed in the corner, and sat down.
With a "creak" sound, the iron door was opened from the outside, and Xiao Chen walked in with a smile.
"The shopkeeper's Tao Te Ching is really difficult to understand. I read it for a long time, but I didn't understand anything." Xiao Chen raised the book in his hand and walked to the small bed and put the book there.
On neatly stacked quilts.
"Where are those monks? What did you do to them?" At this time, shopkeeper Li didn't have any thoughts about books.
Just now, there were several muffled sounds coming from outside, and I vaguely saw several monks being carried out from the food outlet.
"Kill." Xiao Chen said casually.
"Kill?" Shopkeeper Li felt a chill in his heart.
There are more than thirty people here. Among them, there are more than twenty Buddhist disciples.
Although I despise these Buddhists from the bottom of my heart, they are monks after all, so why can’t I leave them a way to survive?
Even if their crimes are heinous, we should at least try them, convict them, and let them die in an honorable manner.
I just caught him like this, and he just killed me without asking any questions. Is this, this, is this still what humans do?
