Three and a half women in four courtyards

Chapter 21

Time passed quickly. Seeing that the three stars outside the window had turned to the west, and the big mauling star had risen, it was estimated that it had passed the time.

Both of them were a little sleepy, and when they were half asleep, they suddenly heard the dog in the yard bark strangely, then there was no more sound, and there was a dead silence outside.

His Majesty the Fourth Emperor and Hou Mingli immediately sat up in shock, fully refreshed, listening to the movement outside, not daring to breathe.

After a while, Hou Mingli took out the gun from under the pillow and said, "Brother, I'll go out and see what happened to the dog."

Hou Mingli held the lantern in one hand and the gun in the other. He pushed the door open with the barrel of the gun, and a gust of cold wind immediately penetrated into his sleeve.

He shivered subconsciously, looked outside, but saw nothing.

The crescent is like a Mongolian scimitar hanging on the old elm tree next to the gate, occasionally shaking twice.

The yard is not too dark, a bit hazy.

He walked straight towards the kennel, and saw a dark thing lying beside the kennel from a distance.

Walking closer, with the light of the lantern, Hou Mingli couldn't help taking a deep breath.

It turned out that the dark thing was a big yellow dog from the Fourth Emperor's family.It lay there motionless with blood dripping from its neck.

Hou Mingli turned around quickly.

Before he could turn around, there was something hard on his waist behind him: "Don't move! If you move, I will kill you." A person whispered.

Hou Mingli raised his gun when he turned around.Before his hand could pull the trigger, the gun was taken away.

Almost instantly, he felt something hit the back of his head, and he didn't know anything.

Hearing some movement outside from the Four Emperors, he opened the door and came out to see what happened.

As soon as he opened the door, he was stunned by the sight in front of him.

I saw that there were lanterns and torches in every corner of the entire Cong's courtyard, illuminating the Cong's courtyard as if it were daytime.

There were more than 20 people in the yard, all of them wrapped half of their faces with a piece of cloth, showing dozens of eyes staring at him.

He thought, it's over, what should come is still here.

Bao Yixian in the back room had already slept with Wu Laqin.

When the mother and son were asleep, she was awakened suddenly by the sound of the door latch.

She sat up suddenly, pushing Wu Laqin awake.

Before they were even dressed, the door opened.

Three masked men with torches and guns came in and whispered to them, "Don't shout, anyone who shouts will be killed!"

They were driven to the room of Cong Duo and Cong Su Hua.

The two children had their hands tied, and some masked men were rummaging through boxes and cabinets to find things.

The four people were driven to the top of the kang, squatted down, tied together, and then covered with a big quilt.

Two people watched with sticks in their hands and warned them: "Don't make a sound, don't shout, don't move around, and hit anyone who moves!"

Covered in the quilt and unable to see anything outside, Congduo felt uncomfortable, so he pouted his buttocks, and was severely beaten with a stick.

Looking at the situation in front of him from the Fourth Emperor, the one in the front room couldn't think of a good way.

He clenched his fists and said: "Ah, um! I have a wide relationship (extensive contacts) in Daxigouchuan, and sometimes I am not thorough. A mistake may offend everyone. May I ask who is the master? Come out to touch the code (meet and talk), I don’t know what you want to spread (what to do), just ask.”

Seeing the crowd parting at this time, someone dragged a person over and threw the dragged person to the ground, but the person lay on the ground without saying a word.

Seeing that it was Hou Mingli from the Four Emperors, he begged and said: "Ang, there is a grievance, and the debt has an owner. If you are looking for revenge, please come to me alone. Don't implicate my brothers and the women and children in the yard!" Please forgive me!"

I saw a 30-year-old axle man in the crowd whispering: "Oh, he didn't snort (dead), and he woke up in two hours! You don't have to talk nonsense. We are here to borrow some money and food. To survive the famine."

The four emperors clasped their fists together and said: "Ang, I am a doctor who treats people. I really don't have much money and food at home. I have two hanging coppers in my house, and there are dozens of catties of millet in the rice cabinet. You can take them."

The axle man smiled softly and said, "Hmph, you live in such a big yard, and you only have two slings of copper coins and dozens of catties of millet. Do you think we are three-year-olds?"

"Ang, this yard of mine is only left over from my ancestors. Cong is a dull person who doesn't know how to run a family business. He can only make ends meet by traveling from village to household to see a doctor. He really doesn't have that much money." His Majesty the Fourth Emperor argued.

In Congduo's room in the back room, Bao Yixian and the others were covered under quilts.

Feeling that she couldn't breathe, Wu Laqin raised her head, trying to catch her breath, but was hit on the head by a guard.

With this sudden blow, Wu Laqin's head seemed to explode, and he instinctively cursed in Mongolian: "Pisi Da (grass mud horse), don't be so stupid (short of heart)!"

"Ta-Mongoliu?" (You are a Mongolian)" the guards suddenly lifted the quilt and asked Wulaqin.

Wu Laqin nodded stubbornly.

The watchman immediately summoned his accomplices to report.

"Oh, from the Four Emperors! It is said that you are a big family with a radius of tens of miles. If you have no money, people here will go to the northwest wind?" The axle man was a little angry, "It seems that you are a stingy local rich man. Don't suffer a little, you don't know that Lord Ma has three eyes!"

Turning around, he said to the others: "You're welcome, tie him up! Clean up his stove and give him 'Liaoguoqizi'!"

"Liaoguoshazi" is a kind of punishment for the beard to force the rich man to hand over the money.

The households in Chilechuan all have stoves built with adobe, and the inside is made into a round cavity with mud. This is the pot.

The eight-print large iron pot is supported on the top of the pot, and firewood is put from the mouth of the stove to the bottom of the pot for cooking.

"Liaoguo siazi" means to take down the pot, tie people up, and place it horizontally on the stove.

Light a fire in the pot, and use the fire to burn the bound people.

The fuel used in this punishment is not firewood, but book paper.

Tear off the pages of the book and set it on fire to directly burn the human skin.

The biggest feature of this kind of fuel is that it will not burn people to death in a short time, but it will make people terrified and painful.

Generally, if you can't bear it, you will tell where the money is hidden halfway.

However, there are really masters who can endure the pain of burning.

It is said that there is a rich man named Wang Yongfu in Wudaocha, Daxigouchuan, who is very urine (strong).

The beard burned him from the head first, then the face, neck, chest, back, buttocks and limbs.

The hair on his whole body was scorched off, and he looked like a carbon stick, but the old rich man Wang Yongfu still didn't say a word.

Until Huzi burned a box of books in his house, he didn't reveal the place where the money was hidden, until he was burned to death by the burning book paper.

(End of this chapter)