Judge of the Lamp

Chapter 63 The Hero of the Lantern Yamen

Under the red light, Wu Xu was extremely ferocious.

"Say, what's your name?"

The two men didn't dare to speak, Xu Zhiqiong said: "If you don't speak again, you will be cut off."

After waiting for a while, Wu Xu said, "I didn't say anything."

Xu Zhiqiong touched the mechanism on the lantern pole, and a short knife popped out.

The lantern transformed from the square scarf is actually equipped with traps, Wu Xu has studied in the Mo family, right?

Xu Zhiqiong swung his dagger and chopped off the man's hand. The man screamed, "The villain's name is Wang Zhi!"

Another man shouted, "The villain's name is Geng Wu."

"What do you want to pester this girl late at night?"

Geng Wu said: "The villain got drunk and saw this girl was pretty, so he went up to talk to her. The villain has never touched this girl."

Wang Zhidao: "I just hugged it once, touched it twice, and did nothing."

The girl took a breath and cried: "They lie, they beat me, they want to strangle me, and they even sell me!"

Wu Xu smiled and said, "Are you human teeth?"

"We are not human teeth!" Wang Zhi shouted, "Who are you? Why did you cut off my hand? Let's see the officials, let's go to the officials!"

Xu Zhiqiong said: "You have already seen it! We are officials!"

Wu Xu said with a smile: "Commander Zhong wanted to catch people's teeth. You said it was such a coincidence that I met them. Take them to an open place to talk. Don't say that we have wronged him!"

After saying that, Wu Xu carried Geng Wu out of the alley.

Xu Zhiqiong asked Wang Zhi to get up and walk by himself. Wang Zhi got up and ran, but Xu Zhiqiong stepped forward and pierced one of his legs.

"This leg is too much for you, why don't I cut it off."

"Don't, don't, grandpa, keep my leg!"

Xu Zhiqiong touched Wang Zhi's head: "How about I chop off this head?"

He likes this head so much, the horns on top of this head are over three inches.

"No, grandpa, I'm going, I'm going!"

Wang Zhi followed Xu Zhiqiong to the entrance of the alley with a limp, Wu Xu threw Geng Wu on the ground, Xu Zhiqiong pierced Wang Zhi's knee, and Wang Zhi also lay on the ground.

Passers-by gathered, Wu Xu said to the girl, "Say what you just said again."

The girl was terrified: "Say, what are you talking about?"

Xu Zhiqiong asked, "How did they treat you?"

The girl trembled and said: "He, they, they beat me, they want to strangle me, and they want to sell me!"

The onlookers exclaimed: "This is a human tooth!"

"Wronged! Wronged!" Geng Wu shouted, "Master, we are not human teeth, we are just drunk and messing around, and we will beat the officials!"

Wu Xu laughed and said, "You say it's nonsense to beat a girl like that?"

Geng Wu cried: "The villain knows his mistake, master, please spare me once, I will let you beat me."

Wu Xu said: "Let me ask you, who are you going to sell this girl to?"

"We didn't want to sell it, we just talked nonsense."

Wu Xu stepped forward and broke Geng Wu's hand: "I'll ask you again, who did you sell it to?"

Geng Wu couldn't bear the pain, opened his mouth and shouted: "Sold to Lanpu County, eighty miles outside the city, there is an old man named Wei Laoer, who has never married a wife in his life, and is willing to give us fifteen taels of silver."

Wu Xu stepped forward and broke Geng Wu's hand again: "Only fifteen taels?"

"Master, it's only fifteen taels. I plead guilty. I'll go to the government with you. Lord, please spare my life!"

Onlookers scolded:
"These bastards deserve to be killed!"

"How many women have been abducted by them these days?"

Wang Zhi shouted: "Master, this is the first time for us, we have never done this kind of thing before, my mother is seriously ill at home, waiting to spend money to buy medicine, master, please spare me once, please forgive me !"

You really know how to talk nonsense, the horns on the heads of these two people are more than three inches, how could it be the first offender?
These are two habitual offenders who have ruined many good women.

What they said about Wei Er Er is not true, and they are just talking about Hu Chai here, just to delay time and try to drag it to the government.

These old people have some contacts in the government, and spending more money to manage them may save their lives.

Wu Xu didn't speak, pulled Geng Wu's arm, rolled up his sleeves to look, then pulled Wang Zhi's arm, looked also.

Xu Zhiqiong knew what he was looking at, he wanted to see if there were scars on the arms of these two people.

Seeing no scars, Wu Xu was a little disappointed, turned around and said to the crowd: "According to the Daxuan law, abducting a woman in the street is a capital crime. Now the Lantern Yamen has found out the case, and the two will be executed immediately!"

Wang Zhi shouted: "How dare you! Who are you? How dare you just..."

Before he finished speaking, Xu Zhiqiong grabbed his hair, wiped his neck with a knife, and when he was dead, he grabbed his horns off.

Before eating forty-six meritorious deeds, he was still short of fifty-four to be promoted to the ninth rank.

There is one horn of Fan Baocai in his arms, barely twenty.

Wang Zhi's horn is more than three inches. If he is lucky, he will be able to accumulate meritorious deeds this time!
It would be great if Geng Wu could be killed, but Geng Wu was at Wu Xu's feet, it seemed that Wu Xu was going to trample him to death.

Wu Xu raised his foot, but didn't step on it.

He looked at Xu Zhiqiong and motioned for him to do it.

There are such good things!
Xu Zhiqiong didn't think much, stepped forward and grabbed Geng Wu's hair.

Geng Wu shouted: "Grandpa, I still have a nursing baby at home, please spare my life!"

"You know how to cherish your child, but that girl is not the heart and soul of your parents?" Xu Zhiqiong smiled, wiped Geng Wu's neck, and took away his sinful karma.

These two criminal karmas add up to more than [-] points, and this is the ninth rank...

Strange, how did it go so smoothly?

Xu Zhiqiong looked at Wu Xu.

Wu Xu looked at the corpse and said, "Leave these two thieves here, and expose the corpse here!"

After speaking, Wu Xu left.

Xu Zhiqiong turned on the lights in the back, serving Qianhu pretending to be aggressive.

After not taking two steps, the girl who sits on the seat suddenly caught up and shouted, "Grandfather, stay a step!"

Xu Zhiqiong and Wu Xu turned around, wiped the sitting girl and knelt on the ground and said, "The two benefactors are the lamp bearers!"

Xu Zhiqiong stretched out his hand to Wu Xu, and said loudly: "This is Wu Qianhu of our yamen in charge! These two people were judged by Wu Qianhu!"

Wu Xu stretched out his hand to Xu Zhiqiong, and said loudly: "This is Xu Zhiqiong from our yamen in charge! "Drunken Spring Breeze" was written by Xu Zhiqiong!"

After finishing speaking, the two turned around and left, and the girl sitting on the seat kept kowtowing to their backs: "The little girl's name is Cai Shisan, and she kowtows to the two benefactors."

Cai Shisan, the name came from...

It can't be said to be ugly, children from poor families are so casually named, presumably this girl was born on the thirteenth day of a certain month.

The onlookers stared at the corpse for a long time, and suddenly heard a shout: "Okay! Good kill!"

With this shout, all the onlookers followed suit.

"Okay! This is Wu Qianhu, he looks like a hero!"

"That Xu Denglang is also a hero! He killed a tiger in the Zhou family!"

"Okay, everyone in charge of the lamp is a hero! Good!"

……

"Okay! Okay!" Zhong Shen laughed loudly, "Bofeng did a great job! This is how I will grow the prestige of the imperial city!"

Zhong Shen turned to Shi Xun and Jiang Feili and said, "You two should study hard too. If you see a human tooth, kill me. I don't believe that you can't kill this evil wind! Bofeng, what you have done is in line with my wishes. Reward!"

Wu Xu stretched out his hand and said, "How much reward!"

Zhong Shen curled his lips and said: "If you want to talk about rewards, it's not vulgar. I have already written the memorial and recommend you to be the imperial envoy!"

As the governor of Huangcheng, from the fourth rank, Wu Xu is going to be promoted.

Shi Xun cast envious eyes, but Jiang Feili was a little worried.

This is not the first time Zhong Shen wants to promote Wu Xu, but Wu Xu refuses every time.

Being promoted to an official means that Wu Xu will no longer be in charge of the Deng Yamen, and will no longer cause trouble for Zhong Shen.

Sure enough, Wu Xu refused again: "I'm an ordinary person, I don't want an official, I want money."

Zhong Shen frowned and said, "You have been promoted to be a governor, do you know how much salary you have a year?"

Wu Xu crossed his hands: "If you don't pay me, I won't leave."

Zhong Shen's face was distorted with anger, he gritted his teeth and said, "Look at your face!"

……

Liang Yuming was reading a book in the study when a servant came in: "My lord, Wu Xu killed two people in the street."

This servant is none other than Hao Quan, the waiter in Wu Anfu's restaurant.

Liang Yuming frowned and said, "Is it one of us?"

Hao Quan shook his head: "It's not our people, these two are human teeth, they took money to do things for us."

"Before you died, what did you say?"

"Didn't say anything, Wu Xu didn't want him to say anything, didn't bring them back to the Yamen, didn't interrogate them, just killed them both."

Liang Yuming smiled: "This is an order given to him by Zhong Shen. Wu Xu, the rock, has finally given in. Have you found the Lantern Man in the wine shop?"

"I found it. His name is Xu Zhiqiong, and he was with Wu Xu last night."

"Xu Zhiqiong," Liang Yuming nodded, "It's this person again."

"He is by Wu Xu's side every day, so it's not easy for us to do anything."

Liang Yuming put down his hand, sighed and said, "Let him live for a few more days, it's rare for Wu Xu to calm down, so why bother to provoke him?"

Hao Quan said again: "The Lantern Yamen killed these two people and frightened many people. Now there is no one who is willing to do things for us."

"Then don't ask them to do things again," Liang Yuming said, "This group of ruffians are unreliable. Let us do the rest by ourselves."

While speaking, Liang Yuming had a pimple on his face.

The pimple slid down the cheek.

……

Xu Zhiqiong scratched his ears and cheeks in the small house, he couldn't stay any longer.

If Wu Xu doesn't let him go home, he won't be able to go to the Department of Punishment, if he can't go to the Department of Punishment, he won't be able to get meritorious service, and if he can't get meritorious service, he won't be able to be promoted.

How about taking a risk?
No, if someone comes to Xiaoshe and finds out that I'm not there, they'll just go out of their way.

While struggling, I suddenly heard someone knock on the door: "Zhiqiong, Qianhu told you to go to Mingdengxuan."

It was Xiao Songting.

Xu Zhiqiong has experience, when it comes to big things, Qu Jinshan must come to him, and when it comes to small things, it's Xiao Songting who comes.

When he arrived at the Lantern Yamen, Wu Xu was reading "Almanac".

What is the purpose of reading "Almanac"? Is this changing to fortune-telling?

Wu Xu was engrossed in reading it, and it took him a long time to put the book down: "You have worked hard these days."

Xu Zhiqiong sniffled: "It's not that hard, it's just a little boring."

"I grant you two days off, go back and rest."

Xu Zhiqiong was overjoyed, but then felt strange.

He let me go on leave, but he wasn't afraid that Liang Yuming would send someone to kill me?
Wu Xu took out a bag of silver from his bosom, handed it to Xu Zhiqiong, roughly weighed it, about thirty taels.

"Take it and spend it, don't go too far away, Qi Xin'an is still waiting for you in Goulan."

(End of this chapter)