Judge of the Lamp

Chapter 20 The Eye of Sin
I'm like them?
Xu Zhiqiong recalled those two ghost-like men wearing masks.

Although their methods are a bit crude, they are quite powerful. If they don't focus their attention on their eyes, it seems that no one can see them.

Is this the skill of a rank eight judge?

What about those people with horns?
The Taoist priest: "They are mortals, and those are not horns, but sin karma. Everyone has sin karma on their heads, including the man with the lantern."

Xu Zhiqiong stared at Lantern Lantern for a long time. Lantern Lantern was wearing a black gauze hat, so he couldn't see the crime.

"Focus on the eyes, they are the pupils of my ninth-rank skill of the Taoism_Sin Karma. This Lantern Lantern is the eighth-rank killer, and his rank is higher than yours, so he needs to use more effort!"

Under the guidance of the Taoist priest, Xu Zhiqiong continued to concentrate his thoughts, and finally saw the crime of Lantern Lantern.

Through the black gauze hat, Qing Denglang also has a horn on his head, which seems to be slightly shorter than the two servants.

The Taoist said in a low voice; "It's not ripe yet."

"What do you mean by not familiar?"

"When it reaches two inches, the sin karma is ripe, and you can pick it. The sin karma you pick can be exchanged for meritorious deeds."

While talking, the two maidservants were brought to Qingdenglang. The Taoist priest whispered: "There is trouble."

Suffering really came, as long as there is a little interrogation, Xu Zhiqiong will be involved in this matter.

Trouble, it's too late even if you want to kill someone now.

Qing Denglang pointed to Mrs. Zhang's body and asked the maid: "The two of them killed this woman?"

The maidservant turned pale and nodded.

"The two of them are this woman's enemies?"

The two shook their heads.

"What do these two people have to do with this woman?"

One maid shook her head, and the other nodded. They were frightened and couldn't understand Qing Denglang's question for a while. They didn't know what the so-called "entanglement" referred to.

"I asked them what's the matter!" Qing Denglang raised his voice, and the two women trembled in fright. Xu Zhiqiong saw a white light appear behind the two maidservants, lingered for a moment, and then disappeared.

It was the Taoist priest, he circled around the two maidservants twice at a very fast speed, and then ran to nowhere.

What did he do in the past?
There were more and more people watching the excitement around, and the noise was getting louder and louder. The two women shook like chaff for a long time, no matter what Qing Denglang asked, they couldn't say a word.

Qing Denglang frowned, turned around and said to his subordinates: "Lang Lantern, hold the lamp!"

As soon as the word "holding the lamp" was heard, the onlookers quickly dispersed, and the knowledgeable people immediately hid in the distance, and the rest of the ignorant ones stayed close and stared.

If Xu Zhiqiong hadn't been attached to the mouse, he probably would have stretched his neck to watch the fun like these uninformed people.

A white lamp man took out a small wooden box, Xu Zhiqiong had seen this small wooden box before.

Bai Denglang tapped the mechanism, opened the wooden box, and a strong light flashed, and everyone covered their eyes.

Twelve blue lanterns with a diameter of two feet flew out of the box, suspended in the air at a height of more than two meters, six in a row, divided into two rows on the left and right, sandwiching a corridor more than ten meters long and three meters wide.

The reason why it is called a corridor is because under the two columns of lanterns, there is an invisible wall. The people who were watching nearby were directly hit by the wall and flew to the distance. Some people were even beaten to death.

It's no wonder that when someone hears the word "holding the lamp", they will immediately avoid it. It turns out that the wooden box in Bai Denglang's hand has such a terrible mechanism.

These two invisible walls are called Biao Chi Iron Wall. Outside the iron wall, within five feet, if someone approaches, they will be knocked away by the air mechanism of the iron wall.

The corridor sandwiched between these two invisible walls is called the Lantern Court. As the name suggests, this is the place where Lantern Lantern interrogates prisoners on the spot.

Can the two handmaids escape?
can.

The Lantern Court is just a corridor with a length of only ten meters. The left and right sides are sealed, and the front and back are open.

They can rush up to meet Qing Denglang, and if they defeat Qing Denglang, they can rush out of the court.

If you dare not rush to Qing Denglang, you can also turn around and run away. There are two Bai Denglang waiting at the end of the corridor. If you defeat Bai Denglang, they can also rush out of the court.

Can they defeat the Lantern Lantern?Obviously impossible.

They dare not even move.

From the moment Qingdenglang shouted "hand the lamp", one of their feet had already stepped into the gate of hell. Qingdenglang could take their lives at any time, and he didn't have to bear any responsibility for it.

The two maidservants stood in the center of the lamp-handling courtroom, their faces had lost all color.

Qing Denglang held up the green lantern in his hand, and shined it on the faces of the two of them: "I will ask you two questions, and you two must answer honestly. If you dare to tell a lie, you will be tortured under one lamp, and I will let you live." Better to die!"

In Daxuan, you don't have to kneel in court, even if you are a suspect, you can stand up for trial.

But the two maidservants were so frightened that their muscles and bones went numb, they knelt on the ground with a plop, and kowtowed like pounding garlic. Qing Denglang asked, "What's your name?"

"My name is Qing He!"

"My name is Yan Cui!"

Qing Denglang asked again: "Who is the dead woman?"

"It's our wife, the wife of Mr. Zhang, the head of the Ministry of Criminal Justice."

"Who are these two men?"

"It's a servant from our house. The one who lost his head is called Wang Liu, and the other is called Lu San."

Lu San?

Qing Denglang looked down at the corpse. This Lu San was a servant with a ninth-rank cultivation.

Qing Denglang asked: "An ordinary servant, or a guard invited by your master?"

The maid said: "I also do the work of looking after the house, carrying water, pulling carts and sweeping the yard. I also do these jobs."

"Handy boy?" Qing Denglang suspected that the two maidservants were lying.

In the Daxuan capital, there are not too few people with cultivation, but they are also one of the best.

Although the ninth grade is the lowest level of cultivation, it is more than enough to be a guard for a rich family, and it will not be reduced to a handyman.

Qing Denglang then asked: "Why did these two people kill your wife?"

A maid said: "Tonight our wife has nothing to do, and she wanted to walk by the river and in the alley. When she met a seller of flower cakes, she asked the two of them to buy some. My wife thought they were too expensive. , kicked them both feet, the two people justified a few words, annoyed Madam, and beat them again, thinking Madam acted harshly, these two suddenly went mad and beat Madam to death."

Xu Zhiqiong was taken aback, and rubbed his ears with his paws.

What does this say?
Where did you come from that sells flower cakes?
Why doesn't she talk about dogs?
Why has this maid lost her mind?

Xu Zhiqiong was confused when he heard it, but another maid nodded frequently beside her, trying her best to prove that what she said was true.

After a little deduction, Xu Zhiqiong figured it out, their memories had been tampered with.

This is what the priest did.

Qing Denglang frowned, he didn't know about the dog, and there was nothing flawed in what this woman said, but in this era, it is only natural for a master to beat a servant, and it is rare for a servant to kill his master for such a trivial matter.

Could it be that this matter has something to do with the recent man-eating monster?

That monster only picked young women to attack. Although this Mrs. Zhang was beyond recognition, judging from her figure and clothes, she didn't seem to be very old.

Qing Denglang asked again: "How long have these two servants been in your house?"

The maid thought about it: "It should be almost two months, I remember they came in the twelfth lunar month."

"The twelfth lunar month?"

Qing Denglang pondered for a moment, then ordered: "Turn off the lights!"

Bai Denglang opened the wooden box again, and the twelve lanterns returned to the wooden box one after another.

Qing Deng Lang ordered the two maidservants and the bodies of the three of them to be brought back to the Lantern Yamen, and the Lantern Lang left, and the onlookers dispersed one after another.

A mouse squatted by the river, watching the people walking quietly. On their heads, as long as they were not wearing hats, long or short, they could see a black horn.

Everyone is gone, but the mouse is still there.

The mouse combed the fur on its cheek with its paw.

The two maidservants never mentioned the dog thing!

If there is no dog, it proves that there is no me!

The mouse half sat up and squatted by the river, laughing non-stop.

After laughing for a while, a burst of energy struck, and the mouse ran back to Xu Zhiqiong's yard driven by the energy, and the soul returned from the mouse to Xu Zhiqiong's body.

Xu Zhiqiong sat on the ground and met the mouse's eyes. The mouse blinked, turned around, and walked away wagging its tail.

Xu Zhiqiong blinked, adjusted his sitting posture, and thought about what happened tonight.

It is very difficult to think clearly about every detail. First, think clearly about two key points, crime and merit.

While thinking about it, the Taoist priest appeared next to him, sighed and said, "There are too many troubles in the future, and I finally took care of them."

The Taoist priest has gone to take care of the future troubles, and the two maidservants are the future troubles.

He tampered with the memories of the two maidservants.

Temporary tampering, or permanent tampering?

When they went to the Lantern Yamen, would they think about the dog again?
The Taoist burped, interrupting Xu Zhiqiong's train of thought.

He just went to Tong Qingqiu's yard and drank a large pot of broth. That pot of broth is also a future trouble, and it is a very important physical evidence.

The Taoist priest drank the big pot of soup to help Xu Zhiqiong eliminate the physical evidence, definitely not because he wanted to eat meat.

Wiping off the grease stains on his lips, he said to Xu Zhiqiong, "Now it's time to receive meritorious service."

"What merits do you receive?"

"The feat of killing a vicious dog."

Xu Zhiqiong was surprised and said, "Didn't you get it? You gave a golden bean."

"That's a reward for helping you enter the ranks. Killing traitors is a meritorious service. In my Taoist sect, improving your cultivation depends entirely on merit."

Relying on meritorious service to improve one's cultivation level is the so-called meritorious service system, which Xu Zhiqiong learned in the academy.

There are two types of cultivation, one is called the practice system, and the other is called the meritorious service system.

The White Tiger Killing Dao belongs to the practice system, and it depends on talent and practice to improve the level.

But Suzaku's way of life belongs to the merit system, and it depends on completing specific tasks to improve its rank.

The merit system is also good, at least he knows how to advance, although the difficulty of those tasks is crushing.

The Taoist priest looked at Xu Zhiqiong: "Just write it down, nine liters and eight are smooth, eight liters and seven are harder than reaching the sky, seven liters and six are even more difficult, six liters and five peaks turn around, and fifth grades go up. Let's see the fate." , Now come with me to get the crime.”

Whose karma to take?Didn't the other two judges take away the crimes?

The Taoist priest went to the stove and lifted the lid of the pot. Most of the dog meat was eaten, but the dog's head was still there. The Taoist priest held up the dog's head. Xu Zhiqiong looked at it intently for a while, and saw a three-inch-long horn on it.

This dog has a long sin karma!

"Take it off, one inch of crime, ten meritorious deeds, three inches and two cents, all belong to you!"

　Chapter [-] of "Judge in Hand of the Lantern" is over, thanks to the eternal fairy tale dream for Sarah's leader, this is the first leader of Sarah, thank you readers for your support.

　　
　
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