Xuanyuan Jue

Chapter 38
"It's the duty of every one of us to get rid of violence and protect the good!" Zha Wuzuo said seriously, "I'll follow suit after a while!"

Lu Ban was stunned: "You can't ride a horse, how can you get there?"

"Wouldn't it be enough to find someone to carry me?" Zha Wu said, "I know the general direction, and I can help guide the way."

Seeing Zha Wuzuo's insistence, Lu Bantou had no choice but to agree.He named two messengers and ordered the tea shed to be closed.

Taking advantage of this time, Zha Wuzuo sneaked up to Xianggua, and whispered to her not to say anything unnecessary, and waited until he and Feng Shen came back to talk about anything.Seeing Zha Wuzuo's serious face, Xianggua nodded with tears in his eyes, expressing his memory.

After the arrangements were made, Zha Wuzuo got on the back saddle of a fast horse.Lu Ban clamped the horse's belly with his head and legs, and rushed out first, and the horses quickly jumped on their horses, and followed closely behind.

Because they were holding torches, they couldn't ride too fast, so they all rode their horses and galloped slowly while looking around.

Walking to the fork in the official road, I saw the dead forest from a distance.Lu Bantou was about to let go and rush forward, but the check behind him stopped him.

"Lu Bantou," Zha Wuzuo's face turned pale after being bumped all the way, "Let's... let's go search in the woods!"

"The forest is so dark, what is there to look for?" Lu Ban turned his head back to the horse and said, "They are definitely not in there. Besides, the forest is too dense for horses to get in!"

Zha Wuzuo pointed to the snow on the side of the road: "Head Lu Ban, what do you think this is?"

Lu Ban looked up and saw something strange.It turned out that there was a row of shallow shoe prints on the snow.

"Okay, let's go to the forest and have a look!"

Lu Ban gave a shout, and all the horses responded quickly, and several riders rushed towards the dry forest.

When they arrived at the edge of the forest, they tied up their horses and rushed into the forest with swords drawn.

But it didn't take long, the first few were a little confused, always feeling like they were going around, but they didn't take a few steps forward.

Seeing this, Lu Bantou hurriedly ordered the horses to gather together, fearing that they would get lost in the forest.Just when he was at a loss, a new wind blew up in the forest, and a strong smell of burning was mixed with it.

Zha Wuzuo sniffed it, frowned and said, "Where is it burning?"

"No, something happened!" Lu Ban's expression changed drastically, and he said quickly to the surrounding horses, "Don't wander around, follow me!"

After speaking, Lu Ban started to drill left and right in the dense forest, and after a while, he found the open space in the forest.

At this moment, those wooden houses also burned down, with residual smoke still rising from the broken beams and broken pillars.The surrounding dead trees were also scorched a lot.

In the open space, several people and animals were lying in disorder.Fortunately, the fire did not spread, otherwise, these animals would have been burned to the point that there was not even a slag left.

Everyone was stunned by the tragic scene in front of them, and they all froze to the side, without making a sound for a long time.

Suddenly, a figure swayed and wailed at the same time: "But... but the mother hurts me to death!"

"Who?!" All the horses quickly shouted and surrounded the direction where the sound came from.

When they got closer, everyone realized that it was a big man with a scarred face dripping with blood.Not only that, behind the scar-faced man, there were also several ashen-faced men lying there.Their hands and feet were tied together, and they were pierced through their luteal bones with thin iron chains. If they moved slightly, the pain would be excruciating.

The lute bone is located under the shoulder and arm, if there is a hard object crossing it, it will damage the muscles and tendons, and it will move like ten thousand ants biting the bone, making it impossible to lift the whole arm.However, the person who pierced through the bone of the lute is not in danger of life, but all his strength has been lost, and his body is numb.It's like a wild bull with its nose caught by a farmer, who can be driven at will without any resistance.There are often officials who escort prisoners, in order not to make mistakes along the way, they will use this method to deal with those criminals who have been transferred.

A group of people were looking around, but the checker behind him started to shout.

Everyone looked back, only to find that Zha Wuzuo was half kneeling by the edge of the forest, holding a muddy man in his arms.

Needless to say, that person was Feng Shen who was unconscious.

Zha Wuzuo was anxious and frightened, while straightening Feng Shen's head and face, he pinched the person hard.

After pinching several times, Feng Shen slowly woke up.

"Master Feng!" Zha Wuzuo was overjoyed, "You finally woke up...you scared me to death!"

Feng Shen paused for a long time before he vaguely recognized Zha Wuzuo's appearance.His face was bloodless, and the corners of his mouth moved slightly: "Cha...Master Cha...you...how did you come in?"

Before Zha Wuzuo could speak, the head of Lu Ban stepped forward and said: "Feng has single-handedly defeated all these gangsters. When he returns to the yamen, my lord should remember your credit!"

Feng Shen shook his head, and smiled bleakly: "Lu... Lu Ban was joking. Thanks to your timely help... If it wasn't so... Feng would have fallen here..."

"Aid? What aid?" Zha Wuzuo was stunned for a moment, and said, "We just got here!"

"What?" Hearing this, Feng Shen was also taken aback.He felt that some strength had recovered from his body, and he was about to struggle to get up from the ground.

"Oh, my young master," Zha Wuzuo hurriedly held Feng Shen down, "you can calm down for a while! Hey? Why are you still wearing only a single jacket? It's freezing cold, don't let the cold damage your bones... ...Look at the holes on the back, I'm afraid I can't have this gown..."

"How many holes?" Feng Shen shuddered, stretching out his hands to cover his back, "Where are they? Don't look at them!"

Zha Wuzuo wondered: "You are not a shy girl, see what is the matter? Besides, they are all holes the size of finger belly, what can you see?"

Feng Shen let out a long breath: "Master Zha... I feel a chill running down my spine, please help me find some clothes to wear."

"Look at my sharp eyes." Zha Wu patted his head, and hurriedly took off a mandarin jacket from his body, "Master Feng, mine is lined with dog fur, wrapped around my body, it looks like a small stove!"

Feng Shen smiled gratefully at Zha Zuo, and put the dog-skin jacket on his body: "I'm so cold, I won't be polite to Mr. Zha..."

After putting on the mandarin jacket, Feng Shen took advantage of Zha Wuzuo's support to slowly stand up from the ground, moved his legs and feet a little, and found that there was nothing serious except for the soreness on his body.Seeing that his palm had been cut with blood, Zha Wuzuo tore off a piece of cloth from his clothes, and bound him hastily.

At this moment, Lu Ban also led people to check.There were seven villains, three of them died, and the remaining four were locked under the tree.There were four or five burnt pig carcasses lying across the open space, and the "Wu monkey" with different heads also fell miserably among them.

Looking at these "pig monkeys" who died in vain, Feng Shen couldn't help but his eyes became sore, he didn't care about Zha Zuo's obstruction, he took off a piece of clothing from the dead body, found the head of "Wu Hou" in a place, wrapped it up in a bundle .

Seeing Feng Shen woke up, the scar-faced man cursed at the top of his voice again: "Feng! You have the ability... If you have the ability, let's be clear! Backstabbing... What kind of a good man?"

"You're still a good guy? I'm bah!" Zha Wuzuo spat fiercely at the scar-faced man, "You seven beat one, and you were all defeated by Master Feng. What kind of a hero do you have? To deal with you and other villains, thousands of knives! It's cheap! Don't make noise here! Save your energy and go to Shuntian Mansion for torture!"

"I... fight with you!" The scar-faced man was ashamed and annoyed, wanting to fight with trapped beasts.

The horse next to him was about to see him, he stomped him to the ground, pulled the iron chain on his lute bone, and pulled it hard: "Be honest!"

The iron chain pierced through the muscles and bones, and it was already extremely painful, but when it was pulled, blood flowed profusely immediately.

"Ah!" The scar-faced man screamed, rolling on the ground in pain.

Seeing this scene, Lu Ban turned his head to Feng Shen and said coldly: "I really can't see...Feng's experience has such a thunderbolt trick!"

"The leader's words are wrong." Feng Shen waved his hand, "The matter of wearing the pipa bone was not done by Feng."

"Oh?" Lu Ban looked at Feng Shen with erratic eyes.

"However," Feng Shen pointed at the corpses of bandits on the ground, and paused, "These villains were killed by Feng himself!"

Lu Ban frowned with thick eyebrows: "So, there is someone else wearing the lute bone?"

"I'm afraid that's the case," Feng Shen said, "It's useless to speculate out of thin air, why don't you ask those few survivors."

"Alright," Lu Ban nodded his head, and stepped on the scar-faced man, "I ask you, who is the one who wears your locks?"

(End of this chapter)