Xuanyuan Jue

Chapter 168
When you get out of the pagoda courtyard, it is convenient for soldiers to rummage in all halls and halls.This time is no better than before, firstly, there are many people, and secondly, it is no longer taken into account, so it is much cheaper to search.However, the people in the army were violent and reckless, and Luo's trespassing from east to west would inevitably destroy a lot of things in the temple. Feng Shen was eager to find people, so he didn't stop them too much.

While searching, a "crash" was heard not far away, followed by noisy voices and an uproar.

Feng Lu turned his head and saw that it was the Buddha Hall that had the accident.As soon as the two rushed to the front of the hall under the dripping eaves, several soldiers came out shouting. "Feng Xunjian, go and have a look, there is something wrong inside!"

Lu Ban's heart trembled, but Feng Shen had already stepped into the hall, he had no choice but to bite the bullet and follow.

There was a strange smell in the hall, it smelled like carrion mixed with medicine.Lu Ban frowned, and said to himself: "This Buddhist temple is really strange. Yesterday it smelled like cigarettes, but today it stinks."

Looking up again, there was a statue crooked on the ground.The statue was broken into several pieces, under the shattered tire of the right arm, a human hand protruded with sticky muscles and bones.

Feng Shen pushed everyone away, "What's going on?"

All the soldiers chattered, saying that they accidentally knocked down the statue just now, and they saw this scene.

Feng Shen's heart sank, and he ordered: "Knock off the surface of this statue!"

The soldiers peeled off the fetal mud according to the instructions, and a rotten corpse was slowly exposed.

When the corpse appeared, the whole hall exclaimed.Without saying a word, Feng Shen turned around and searched for the corner of the hall.The soldiers didn't know what he wanted to do, they just stared blankly.I saw Feng Shen came to a statue, raised his palm and shook it vigorously.

Lu Ban could see clearly that the statue Feng Shen shook was the "water-drinking woman Lilan". When he came to visit yesterday, he was really taken aback by it.

In a daze, Feng Shen had already pushed the statue to the ground, and everyone gathered around to have a look, and there was another dead body wrapped in the broken tire.

Lu Ban was stunned, "brother... this... this..."

Feng Shen repented and hated, "Brother, we were deceived by Hong Zhi's nonsense again... The statue moved suddenly yesterday, not because the mud was dry and cracked, but because the person in the statue struggled suddenly before he was completely dead. what!"

Lu Ban bowed his head and glanced, but saw that the skin of the corpse was gray and blue, although the body was stiff, but the nose and eyes were not sunken, it was indeed a new death.

Lu Ban shivered and looked around. "Could it be...all the statues in this temple..."

Feng Shen nodded slowly, and said through gritted teeth, "I'm afraid that's the case...the gang of thieves who actually turned the villagers who killed them into statues are really insane! At that time, a lot of incense was burned in the temple, probably to cover up the rotten smell of medicine. Now the incense candles have been extinguished, so I can't hide it. Alas...The villagers were killed innocently, and the corpses were trampled like this...Brothers, quickly destroy the statue of Hedian!"

"Yes!"

The soldiers were filled with grief and indignation, they beat and stripped the statues with their hands, and there was a lot of shouting and shouting in the hall, and the mud and dust flew up immediately.One after another statues fell, revealing corpses one by one.Some had black blood spilling from their orifices, purple spots on their skin, and some had rotten flesh, their faces blurred and difficult to distinguish.What's more, it has long since decayed into a skeleton, leaving only a bunch of chaffy hair sticking randomly to the top of the sallow skull.

Many of the officers and soldiers present had personally experienced slashing and killing battles, and the shocking sight in front of them immediately brought back to their minds the cruel scene of bloody oars and corpses lying in the fields in the past.

After going around the hall roughly, there are more than a hundred statues.Everyone was sad and hated, all trembling hands, cleaning up the mess in front of them.

At this time, in the underground hall at the bottom of the tower, although none of the surviving people woke up, their breathing became more stable.Fearing that the medicine would not be effective enough, Wu Lien-teh wrote another note and asked people to rush down the mountain to buy what they needed.Fortunately, it was convenient for the officers and soldiers to purchase it, and with the ready-made equipment in the hall, within half an hour, Wu Lien-teh prepared the auxiliary medicine.

Wu Lien-teh was worried, and when everything was safe, he asked a few soldiers to guard the troubles, and rushed to the front hall by himself.

As soon as he left the pagoda courtyard, he met the soldiers carrying the corpse, Wu Lien-teh rushed to meet Feng Shen and the others.

The dead bodies were transported out of the Buddha Hall one after another, filling up the empty space in the front hall in a short while.Looking at the piles of corpses, King Su's eyes seemed to burst into flames.His chest heaved violently, and his teeth were clenched. "Kawashima! What do you say!?"

Chuan Dao wiped the cold sweat from his forehead, and said with a strong face: "It's horrific... this gang of sticky sticks should be damned..."

"Damn it, he's not alive yet!" Su Wang angrily pointed at the crowd, "This king is asking them!"

At this point in the matter, Kawashima also knew that it was unreasonable for everyone to endure it, but he was unwilling to give up at this point, trying to win a chance. "My lord, please calm down. This group of rogues are greedy for wealth and honor, so they were bewitched by that sticky villain... Why do you need your lord to take care of such incompetent bastards? I will escort them back to the station in a while, and they should be sentenced to death." It's time to torture and torture, never favor appeasement!"

"Hmph, that's not necessary!" Su Wang sneered, "I'm idle because I'm idle, so I'll do it for you, lest you get the notoriety of 'fraternal cannibalism'!"

"My lord..."

Chuan Dao wanted to say more, but Feng Shen interrupted: "At that time, this group of rogues will be executed. If Mr. Chuan Dao is interested, you can come and supervise and execute them together."

Chuan Dao said bitterly: "You have to forgive others and forgive others, why bother Feng Xunjian to be aggressive?"

"It's really shameless!" Feng Shen scolded, "When they killed my innocent people, did they ever think of a word of forgiveness? Did they ever read a word of forgiveness? And Mr. Kawashima said it was 'coercion'. Understood! Do you mean to force you or force this group of ronin? This tone sounds like a group!"

"Bloody mouth!" Chuan Dao felt that he had slipped his words, and he said angrily, "Who is with them!? I mean, the prince has a lot of forgiveness, maybe he can give them a chance to reform..."

"Hahaha", Su Wang looked up to the sky and smiled, his eyes turned cold. "Brother Feng Wai, you guessed wrong this time! This king wants a small stomach today! Come on, take all these rogues back to the capital, and after the trial, all of them will abandon the market to sue the dead!"

As soon as the words fell, the officers and soldiers rushed forward to arrest people.All the Renren struggled desperately, and all shouted at King Su.

"Wait a minute!" Seeing something wrong, King Su asked, "What the hell are they calling?"

Just as Chuan Dao was about to translate, Su Wang turned his face to Wu Lien-teh. "You come and tell this king."

Seeing the question, Wu Lien-teh said, "They said...even if they were about to die, they would not die at the hands of the Chinese..."

"Damn it! It's not so cheap to die quickly, you have to teach these villains to suffer piecemeal!" Lu Ban was so angry that he couldn't speak.The rest of the soldiers held their swords and watched with anger on their faces.

King Su waved his hand and said: "Killing people is nothing more than nodding their heads, and the condemned prisoner has to be fed wine and meat before his execution. How about this, Brother Feng, I will sell you face!"

Chuan Dao was still King Su and wanted to be accommodating, he was both surprised and happy: "Your Majesty's intention is to hand them over to me for treatment?"

"That's right, I'll leave it to you!" Su Wang said, "This group of rogues don't want to be punished by the Qing Dynasty, that's the best thing! Killing them, which are not as good as beasts, makes my hands dirty! Feng Wai Brother, it just so happens that you are stationed here, and you execute the punishment on the spot, isn't it just fulfilling their wish?"

"On the spot?" Chuan Dao felt a chill in his heart, "The lord is saying...you want us to kill people on the spot?"

"Yes," Su Wang said, "You will let them leave the temple standing upright when you are the king? Brother Feng Wai, this is the last concession of the king. After they are executed, the rest will not be pursued by the king. Already!"

"My lord," Feng Shen said urgently, "the villain hasn't been interrogated yet..."

"Needless to say," King Su said, "I have my own plans."

In fact, King Su understood that there must be another mastermind behind this group of rogues.However, if the retrial continues, the public will be implicated, and it will easily lead to drastic changes in diplomatic relations.And forcing the Dongyang people to do it themselves, even if they traced it out, they would not be able to blame the court.It's just that it's inconvenient to share this thought with Feng Shenming in front of Kawashima.

Seeing Chuan Dao standing still, King Su urged again: "Brother Feng Wai has not made a decision, is it because he can't bear to make a move?"

Chuan Dao shook his head, "My lord has an order, I dare not disobey it, I will start to arrange it now!"

After walking back to the team, Kawashima relayed King Su's intentions to Zhuwo.Sugawara twisted his face and almost broke out on the spot.

"Don't be reckless!" Kawashima yelled in a low voice, "Clashing with the Qing army now is undoubtedly hitting a stone with an egg!"

Sugawara forbearance said: "Then... what should I do then?"

"I'll go talk to Sakamoto and the others..." Kawashima sighed, and walked towards the Qing soldiers who were surrounding the Renren. "Brothers please stay aside temporarily, I have something to say to this group of wanderers!"

The soldiers all looked at King Su, saw him nodding his head slowly, and then scattered around.

Chuan Dao lowered his voice, choked up and said: "Dr. Sakamoto, brothers... Kawashima is incompetent, I'm afraid I won't be able to save you this time..."

Sakamoto smiled miserably, "Kawashima-kun doesn't need to blame himself, we already planned to die for our country."

Chuan Dao said: "Your lords sacrifice their lives for righteousness, Chuan Dao will definitely play the military department truthfully, and the emperor will think of your loyalty and bravery, and will definitely pursue you as samurai!"

The qualification of a "samurai" is a great honor in the East.There was a hint of joy on Zhu Ren's face, and they all asked in trembling voices: "Mr. Kawashima, can we go to righteousness with... can we use 'harakiri'?"

"Of course," Kawashima said sternly, "Samurai, the empire is proud of you!"

Seeing Zhu Nin's strange expression, Lu Ban poked Wu Lien-teh with his head. "Hey, old Wu, what are they talking about? They don't look right, don't you want to play tricks?"

Wu Lien-teh shook his head and said, "It's too far away, I can't hear clearly..."

Lu Ban still wanted to ask, but Chuan Dao returned with a sullen face.

"My lord, everything has been arranged!"

"Okay," Su Wang said, "then don't delay, let them die early and be reborn early!"

"However, thieves have their own way," Kawashima said, "Please allow me, my lord, to give them a decent death according to our oriental customs!"

(End of this chapter)