Judge of the Lamp

Chapter 87

The lantern bearers were busy thanking Lin Tianzheng.

The onmyojis were busy begging for rain to put out the fire.

Wu Xu pointed to the corpses all over the floor and said, "Clean up your things."

Xu Zhiqiong blinked: "Pack what?"

Wu Xu frowned and said, "What did you say to clean up?"

Did he ask me to clean up my horns?

The corpses on the ground, except for the four fourth ranks, are a group of eunuchs, and their horns are not short.

But what is the use of these horns if I collect them?I didn't kill these people either.

Wu Xu whispered to Xu Zhiqiong: "The deaths of these people are somehow related to you, please clean up for them."

How much does Wu Xu know about the profession of judges?How does he seem to know more than me?
He said to clean up, then clean up.

Xu Zhiqiong took off the horns one by one. Most of the eunuchs' horns were more than two inches, and Xu Zhiqiong didn't bother to take the horns that were less than two inches.

Four fourth-grade cultivators, the shortest is six inches, and the longest is eight inches and five.

I didn't kill it, can it be counted?

If only it could count,
The horns of the thirty-four eunuchs, each more than two inches long, can be exchanged for more than seven hundred merits. These alone can fill up all the merits required by the eighth rank, and there are more than one hundred left.

The four fourth-rank cultivators are worth more than three hundred points of merit. If it is all mine, plus what I earned before, I am afraid that more than half of the seventh-rank cultivators will be skipped.

If you think too much, if you didn't kill yourself, you definitely can't count.

When I went to Yan Luodian to exchange the voucher, the first sentence was clearly written: Ma Shangfeng, the ninth-rank judge, personally killed the prisoner.

If you didn't personally kill the criminals, how can you get rewards?How can there be such a cheap thing?
Forget it, give it to Xia Hu, it may be useful to her, just treat it as a favor.

After tidying up, Wu Xu took Xu Zhiqiong to a place where no one was around, and asked in a low voice, "Is Liang Yuming dead?"

Xu Zhiqiong shook his head and said, "No, he was sent to the Yamen by Jiang Shaoshi."

"Trash!" Wu Xu said angrily, "Didn't I tell you to kill him if you had the chance! If something goes wrong, I'll take it!"

Xu Zhiqiong was also very annoyed: "I risked my life, and you still call me a waste? Dean Lin and Jiang Shaoshi both stopped me from killing, and Yu Chilan, you don't know how strong she is, holding her in her arms Li, almost smothered me!

And Yu Shan from Wuwei camp, you don't know how useless that man is, he dare not even beat him..."

Xu Zhiqiong kept pouring bitter water, Wu Xu said bitterly: "You feel wronged, I play six and four ranks by myself, but who pities me?"

Xu Zhiqiong lowered his eyes and said, "So, what rank are you?"

Wu Xu looked at Xu Zhiqiong from the corner of his eyes: "So, what kind of Taoism are you?"

Xu Zhiqiong lowered his head and said, "Pretend I never asked."

Wu Xu smiled: "Have you collected a lot?"

"Take it, what did you take?" Xu Zhiqiong started to be silly.

"Head, I will count merit for you!" There is nothing wrong with Wu Xu's words. It is reasonable and reasonable to count meritorious service based on the head for killing the enemy.

It's just that this feat doesn't mean anything.

Xu Zhiqiong smiled foolishly: "It's all about doing your duty. Say, what merits are you talking about, Qianhu, you're out of touch, you're out of luck."

Wu Xu sneered, then sighed: "Liang Yuming is not easy to deal with."

Xu Zhiqiong said: "According to the law, kill him."

"It's not that easy. Daxuan's law is for the royal family to enjoy, not to make the royal family suffer. We have to find a way to deal with him."

Xu Zhiqiong's eyes lit up: "How to deal with it?"

Wu Xu thought for a moment and said: "Two ways, first, you go to the prison tonight, kill him, and then resign yourself to fate."

Xu Zhiqiong shook his head foolishly and said, "This plan is wrong."

Wu Xu said: "The second way, I will go to the prison tonight, kill him, and then let fate."

Xu Zhiqiong nodded foolishly and said, "This plan is very good."

"Bah! Face!"

The two seemed to be joking, but they had actually made up their minds that Liang Yuming would die in prison tonight.

The vicious battle with Liang Yuming, the son of King Huai, has come to an end.

In this battle, [-] captive women were rescued, [-] foreign cultivators of the fourth grade were killed, [-] servants were killed, and an onmyoji was killed, and [-] people were captured, including Liang Yuming.

In addition, Qingdeng Lang Wang Zhennan, Sun Weiguang, Shi Weiming and others led the crowd to Yinggeyuan, Wangyulou, Zuixin Pavilion, Yu'an Pavilion, Li San Tea House, Dehua Class and other places to arrest related accomplices.

Except for a fourth-rank golden silkworm who escaped, all the thieves were wiped out, and this battle can be called a complete victory.

The physical evidence at the scene has been packed, and Wu Xu led the crowd back to the Yamen. On the way, they discussed the countermeasures, the content is as follows:
Liang Yuming, in the prison of the Yamen in charge of the lantern, argued with the green lantern man because of trivial matters, and was accidentally beaten to death by the green lantern man, and then the green lantern man committed suicide in fear of crime.

The Green Lantern who killed the son is Xiao Songting.

What a plausible story!

What a plausible ending!

Xu Zhiqiong got the guy ready and asked Wu Xu, "Go to the prison first, or kill the ghost first?"

Wu Xu thought for a moment: "First kill the inner ghost."

The two went under the window of Yi Hongdeng's small house, quietly watching the situation in the window.

Of course, the small house in the red light is not a narrow single room. It has a front hall and a bedroom. It is not a luxury, but it is by no means simple.

At this moment, Yi Xulou and Xiao Songting were having a drink, completely unaware that Wu Xu and Xu Zhiqiong were outside the window.

Yi Xulou smiled and poured Xiao Songting a glass of wine.

Xiao Songting looked sad, picked up the cup, and drank it down.

Looking at his expression, it seemed that he was also aware of his situation, and this meal was his death sentence.

Xu Zhiqiong waited for He Wuxu's order, and took the opportunity to reap another wave of merit.

Wu Xu saw that the two were drinking happily, and signaled Xu Zhiqiong to start later, allowing them to drink two more glasses.

Xu Zhiqiong wanted to take this opportunity to see Xiao Songting's criminal karma, but it didn't matter, he found that Xiao Songting had no horns on his head!
Without horns, there are only two possibilities. One is that this person has a special identity and Xu Zhiqiong can't see it.

Second, this is not human at all.

Xu Zhiqiong got up suddenly, jumped into the window, and stood in front of the two of them.

Yi Xulou poured Xiao Songting a glass of wine, and Xiao Songting drank it down.

They didn't seem to see Xu Zhiqiong, they kept repeating what they did just now.

Why can't they see Xu Zhiqiong...

Xu Zhiqiong stepped forward and pushed the two of them, and the two who were still pushing glasses and changing cups immediately collapsed on the ground.

Even lying on the ground, the two of them were still pushing cups and changing cups.

They are not human beings, but two moving puppets!
Wu Xu was taken aback for a moment, and suddenly shouted: "Go and find Qu Jinshan!"

Yin and Yang cultivators have their own strengths, Tong Qingqiu is good at medicine, Qu Jinshan is good at making flesh and blood puppets.

These two are flesh and blood puppets!Extremely realistic flesh puppets.

The reason why Yi Xulou still has horns on his head is because this flesh and blood puppet was made of his corpse!
Yi Xulou is dead!
Unexpectedly, the red lantern man who was in charge of the yamen, the sixth-rank murderer, died in the hands of Xiao Songting.

Xiao Songting knows yin and yang skills!
Being able to kill Yi Xulou and make such a realistic puppet proves that his cultivation level is not low!

Xu Zhiqiong was about to look for Qu Jinshan, but he was stunned again before taking two steps.

"Not good! Go to prison!"

Xiao Songting may not have left the Yamen yet!

The two rushed all the way to the prison, and when they entered the cell, they saw Liang Yuming sitting in the corner of the cell with a slumped expression.

Xu Zhiqiong walked into the cell and pushed Liang Yuming.

Liang Yuming's body softened and he fell to the ground, exactly like the two puppets before.

Liang Yuming was dropped!
Wu Xu shouted: "Who came here?"

A jailer said: "It was only then that Xiao Baihu came to search for criminals, and the villain dared not stop him."

Wu Xu said angrily: "He took the prisoner out, you dare not stop him?"

The jailer shook his head again and again: "Xiao Baihu didn't take the prisoner out, the villain really saw it, Xiao Baihu went in and asked a few words and then came out!"

Xu Zhiqiong checked the cell and found traces of mercury under the puppet.

"A yin-yang magic circle was set up here," Xu Zhiqiong pointed at Quicksilver, "Xiao Songting entered the cell, sent Liang Yuming away with the yin-yang magic circle, and left a yin-yang puppet here. not come out."

Wu Xu broke the fence of the cell with one punch!
"Close the gate, search for me, dig three feet, find him for me!"

The Yamen was searched up and down until dawn, but no trace of Xiao Songting was found.

Wu Xu sat in the Mingdeng Pavilion, his face pale and ashen.

Xu Zhiqiong sat silently, bowed his head and was speechless.

In this case, only a fight can resolve the depression in my heart.

"If you can find a way to kill Liang Yuming, how can there be such chaos!"

"I've thought of all the ways I can think of. Your Jiang Shaoshi refused to let her go. If you fed her enough, how could she stop me?"

"You are young and strong, why don't you feed her?"

"So you can feed if you want?"

……

After the torment, Wu Xu's mood still didn't improve, so Xu Zhiqiong hurriedly cooked a jar of wine for Qianhu.

Wu Xu drank two cups, rubbed his forehead and sighed: "It was my plan that was wrong, but I shouldn't have let you wait outside the silk and satin village to guard, killing eleven brothers! But I failed to kill the thief leader!"

"It's not Qianhu's fault." Xu Zhiqiong poured another glass for Wu Xu.

This is really not Wu Xu's fault. There are six fourth grades in the silk and satin village. If fifty lantern bearers rush in at one go, needless to say, as long as the fourth grade Suzaku spits out a mouthful of fire, in that small place, they will be asked. How many of these fifty lantern bearers can survive?
Wu Xu risked his life and fought six fourth-rank battles alone, keeping the battle damage to a minimum. How can he be blamed for this?
The enemy's strength is so strong that they almost wiped out their entire army. No one has the right to blame Wu Xu for doing this!

"Still blame me!" Wu Xu took another drink, "I knew Xiao Songting was a spy, but I didn't expect him to have such a high level of cultivation. In order to prevent Liang Yuming from noticing, I didn't touch him. I should have killed him a long time ago. he!"

"It's not Qianhu's fault." Xu Zhiqiong poured another glass of wine.

On the surface, Xiao Songting has the cultivation base of the Seventh Rank Killing Dao, but he is actually a yin and yang cultivator. Qu Jinshan inferred from the flesh and blood puppets that Xiao Songting's Yin and Yang cultivation base has reached the fifth rank.

Five ranks of yin and yang plus seven ranks of killing dao, this is a dragon and phoenix among people who are unique in thousands of miles.

This kind of person acts as a spy for Liang Yuming?May I ask who can think of it?
Wu Xu clenched his fists and said, "No way, no way, I shouldn't let Yi Xulou take care of Xiao Songting. Yi Hongdeng is getting old, and he told me a few years ago, and he planned to go back to his hometown to live a quiet life. I didn't agree. I have no one under my command to replace him, I shouldn't have handed Xiao Songting over to him, it was I who killed him, and the old red lantern!"

Wu Xu gritted his teeth, annoyed.

It's not his fault either.

What else could he do?

In the entire Lantern Yamen, apart from Wu Xu, Yi Xulou has the highest cultivation level, who would have thought that even Yi Xulou would not be Xiao Songting's opponent?Besides Yi Xulou, who else could he give it to?

Wu Xu thumped the table, his eyes were red.

Xu Zhiqiong comforted: "Qianhu, we have all the witnesses and evidence, so there is no way that bastard Liang Yuming will deny his account and wait until he beheads someone else before coming to pay homage to his dead brother."

"Personal evidence?" Wu Xu shook his head, "Is that thing useless?"

"How can you say it's useless? Qianhu, even if we can't kill Liang Yuming in the end, we have solved a big case and made great contributions to the court!"

"For the imperial court?" Wu Xu smiled wryly, "Yes, I have made great contributions, and I am afraid I will be promoted."

What kind of expression is this? Isn't promotion a good thing?
Why is he about to cry?
"Qianhu, what's the matter, let's carry it together!"

"What are you carrying? What are you carrying?" Wu Xu shook his head and said, "You can't carry it, you can't be involved in this matter, you go home, I will grant you three days off, and you will not be allowed to go back to the Yamen for these three days. Can't go back."

(End of this chapter)