Prince of Song Dynasty

Chapter 116
Li Zhong was already tired of the endless words of the four big men, so he agreed, grinned grimly, and beckoned the eight guards to ride over on horseback.

Seeing this, the four big men ran away.But these four people were just ordinary people, how could they run faster than fast horses? They had just run more than 20 paces when they were caught up by Li Zhong's men, they surrounded them, knocked them down in twos and twos, tied them with ropes, and brought them over. Kneeling in front of Ye Chen, crying for mercy.Being so spineless, Ye Chen believed that as long as he used a little tricks, he could get some secrets out of their mouths.

Ye Chen made a decision at this time. The more he thought about it, the more murderous intent he felt. This was what he encountered. No matter whether there was something strange in the encounter process, these thieves dared to abuse him in broad daylight in front of so many people. Killing innocents, I have never encountered them, or in other words, these thieves have done many outrageous things in Sizhou over the years, and how many people have been killed indiscriminately.

"How many people are there in Puzhaowang Temple?" Ye Chen had already got off the carriage at this time, and asked the four big men who were kneeling on the ground.

The four hesitated for a moment, and then said one after another: "There are two more."

Ye Chen actually didn't want to try this matter personally from the bottom of his heart. After thinking about it for a while, he didn't continue to ask questions, and said to Li Junhao: "Brother Li! You and Shiwa took a thief and sneaked into Puzhaowang Temple by detour, and met Mr. Xu After that, let the thief lead the way. Control those two people. Then look at the cellar and don't let anyone approach it."

Li Junhao and Shiwa agreed, and escorted a thief casually, without riding a horse, and walked towards the valley on foot.

At this time, the girl dressed as a young lady came back to her senses, suddenly raised her head, looked at the four thieves with steel knives around her neck, screamed, and rushed forward.

Seeing this, Ye Chen sighed, and quickly asked the maid to hold him back, although he also wanted to kill the four thieves casually.But on the one hand, he came from the legal society of the later generations after all, and he was not on the battlefield at this time, so he was not used to killing people casually.On the other hand, these people are all witnesses, and he wants to hand them over to Wang Xin and Hu Zhengyi later.Of course, no matter whether they were brought to justice or lynched by Ye Chen, the fate of these four people was already doomed in Ye Chen's heart.

After crying for a while, the lady gradually regained her senses, broke away from the servant girl, ran to Ye Chen in a few steps, knelt down with a thump, and said in tears, "My lord! I beg you to avenge the little girl and kill these villains!" Thief, the little girl is willing to be the son, the maidservant, and the slave in this life."

Ye Chen stared in a daze, and then he saw clearly the appearance of the young lady and the maidservant.

Judging from the lady's attire, she is not from a wealthy family, at most she is a lady from a small landlord family, she looks seventeen or eighteen years old, and she is dressed in cloth and hairpin skirts, but she is a handsome bird from the deep mountains, and a beautiful woman from a small household, with a unique beauty The color is typical of Xiaojiabiyu in the south of the Yangtze River, especially the weak taste with a bit of book fragrance, which is not seen in many ordinary girls. At this time, the pear blossoms are raining, which is even more lovely.

The servant girl was dressed as a maidservant, about the same age as the young lady, wearing a light blue blouse and plain blue skirt, she was petite at first, and had a baby face, she was really cute, even though she was ten years old He is six or seven years old, but just looking at his face and figure, he looks like he is thirteen or fourteen years old. He is obviously sobbing sadly all the time, but he still has a cuteness, which makes people feel the same love and affection, and is also quite pleasing to the eye. .

Ye Chen wanted to help the young lady up, but he remembered that this era is not the future, and it is an iron law whether men and women can kiss or not, and the maid also knelt down at this time.

Ye Chen hesitated at this moment, but the young lady was already kneeling on the ground, her head touched the ground, and there was a loud "dong dong" sound: "Please! Young Master! Take revenge for me, and I will serve you as your maidservant and slave."

Ye Chen saw that the girl's fair forehead was turning green and red, and his heart softened. He sighed and said, "Okay! I promise you, I will avenge you. Hurry up and help your young lady up."

When the two women stood up, Ye Chen hesitated for a moment and said, "Then how do you want to take revenge?"

The lady was stunned for a moment, then looked at the three thieves and said, "Kill them."

The three thieves suddenly showed panic, and one of them pointed to the big man who had been asking for someone with Ye Chen before, and said, "The old man and his wife were killed by him. Don't care about me."

Seeing this, the other person followed suit and shouted, "That's right, he killed him. He really doesn't care about our business."

Ye Chen turned his head to look at the two girls, and the maid said, "He killed it. Miss and I saw it from a distance."

At this time, the lady also stared at the man carefully, and said with red eyes: "He killed it."

After finishing speaking, he knelt down to Ye Chen again, and said, "Young master! Please, the enmity between parents is irreconcilable. If I don't kill him to avenge my parents, how can I be worthy of giving birth to me under the nine springs?" Take care of my parents."

Seeing this, Ye Chen sighed in his heart, knowing that this woman saw her parents being killed in order to save her, and she was heartbroken.And the best way to get rid of this woman's knots is to let her do it herself, otherwise, if she is not careful, she will have troubles and depression for the rest of her life.

Thinking of this, Ye Chen took the saber of the guard next to him, handed it to the woman, and said, "In this case, then you kill him with your own hands and avenge your parents!"

Seeing this, the guard at the side quickly pulled the other two thieves aside.

The girl took the knife without hesitation, bit her lip, stood up, and pulled out the knife with some difficulty with a "shua".Walking up slowly, her whole body was trembling.The big man widened his eyes and said, "Don't kill me, I can't help it...ah!"

The girl slashed on the thief's shoulder, but her strength was too weak, and the cut was not deep. Fortunately, the knife was very sharp, and the wound was an inch deep. Blood splashed out, and soon stained the man red. The thief has half of his upper body.

The guard who held the thief with a knife at the back hurriedly avoided, the girl's knife was completely inaccurate, and if she accidentally cut her arm, it would be bad.

The thief was only bound, his legs were not tied, and the knife on his neck was gone. He screamed and wanted to run away, but was kicked back by a guard. He fell to the ground and screamed like a pig. of.

"My parents obviously didn't provoke you, why did you kill them... woo woo woo..." The girl's face was pale, her arms trembled violently after seeing the blood, her face was full of tears, and she cried while biting Gritting his teeth, he continued to catch up and hack.

Poor that thief, he was hacked more than ten times and still alive, his blood splashed all over the girl's body.This beautiful and weak girl was covered in blood, but her expression was filled with the joy of getting revenge, which looked very strange.

After letting the guards handle the corpse, Ye Chen saw the girl who threw down the knife and threw herself into the maid's arms crying, Ye Chen knew that he had done the right thing, that a witness was not killed in vain, and the girl's heart was resolved.

Considering that a group of people entered the valley at this time, especially with two women, the two thieves guarding the cellar might see it from a distance and feel that something was wrong.Therefore, Ye Chen did not rush into the valley, but took advantage of this time to ask the maid about their origins.

As Ye Chen expected before, the two daughters are not from rich families, but they can be considered as small rich families.The lady's surname is Sun, and her name is Xueying. The maid is an orphan adopted by the Sun family. She grew up with Sun Xueying. The name is Xiaomo.

The Sun family owns nearly [-] mu of good fertile land, and people in the town call old man Sun Yuanwai when they see him.Let's listen to the servant girl saying that the ancestor of the Sun family was a scholar in the Tang Dynasty and had been a Jinshi. Although the family has declined and the number of people is small, the habit of scholarly disciples has always existed.Sun Xueying is an only seedling. She was loved and cared by her parents since she was a child, and she is well-educated and literate.At the same time, because of its beauty, it is also a well-known Xiaojiabiyu in Sizhou.

Guessing that the time was almost up, Ye Chen handed over the two carriages to Yu Wen, and asked him to take two guards to help the two daughters to contain the corpses of the old couple of the Sun family, and escorted them back to the Sun family in Shimen Town, and let Yu Wen three People stayed in Shimen Town to help prepare for the funeral.In addition, he told Yu Wen that what happened today must not be exposed. If the relatives and neighbors of the Sun family asked about it, they would say that they were led down from the cliff and died.

Then, Ye Chen led the people along the main road to Puzhaowang Temple.Naturally, the two thieves had to take them with them.

The Puzhaowang Temple is really big, covering an area of ​​more than 100 mu. However, after the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Rebellion, although it is still famous, it is not as grand as it was in the Tang Dynasty.As a result, nearly half of the houses used by monks to stay are empty.

The fire broke out suddenly at noon, and a monk in charge of the front hall invited all the pilgrims out for fear of hurting the guests.But after the pilgrims left, the fire was quickly put out by the monks.

In the distance, the Puzhaowang Temple can be vaguely seen. Under the blue sky and white clouds, among the green mountains and clear waters, two corner cornices are exposed.It seems that the Puzhaowang Temple is even deeper. This ancient Zen temple was first built in the Tang Dynasty during the Tang Zhongzong period. For more than 200 years, there have been many eminent monks, and it is a must-go place for people in Jianghuai who believe in and worship Buddha.

It is not deep into the valley, only three or four hundred steps away, and you can see the majestic and tall temple outer gate of Puzhaowang Temple.It's not that the Puguang Valley is too shallow, but because the temple occupies too much land.

At this time, several monks had been waiting in front of the temple gate for a long time, Xu Fangyi was among them, but Shiwa and Li Junhao couldn't see them.

Xu Fangyi had already made arrangements before, and sent [-] guan incense money to the temple, which was not too much among the incense money that Puzhaowang Temple had received in the past, but it was not too little either.At least it is enough for the monks in the temple to arrange their residences properly and enthusiastically, and even prepare the vegetarian lunch at noon.

Ye Chen heard Xiaomo's description before, and speculated that the grain stored in a certain cellar of Puzhaowang Temple had exceeded at least [-] shi.

(End of this chapter)