Chapter 22 Kidnapped to the Execution Ground (Part 1)
() Bai Peng was pulled and tied to a wooden stake on a high platform outside by several strong men. He said that he would kill Ji Qi at dawn. He was innocent and helpless, just like Tang Monk meeting a monster. Look at the two other people beside him.
People, one of them was the one who was kicked off the horse by Lin Haiyun, the female queen in red. Could it be that they were Bajie and Sha Seng? I felt that the world was strange and I couldn't laugh or cry. But I didn't know where Wukong was?
The east is getting whiter, and most of the tents have been removed at this time, leaving a relatively flat area of tens of feet on the top of the hill. Thirty to fifty people are busy setting up tables, chairs and benches. In order to prevent the tables and chairs from tilting and shaking, they have to be placed on the legs.
It took a lot of work to put down the wooden wedge. It seems that there will be a grand gathering here. Why do they want to kill themselves to sacrifice the flag? Are these people planning to kill officials and rebel in a big way?
Bai Peng originally didn't believe that he would really be killed, but when he thought of this, his heart trembled, and he turned to ask his fellow soldier next to him who looked depressed and bowed his head in silence:
"Brothers, do you know what happened?"
The man who was kicked off the horse by the queen didn't say a word, didn't even raise his head. He looked very young, and his night clothes were quite clean. The shoe prints on his ribs were particularly clear, and it seemed that he had received much more than that kick...
Peng lowered his head and saw that he was the same. Lin Haiyun's shoe prints were all over his chest, abdomen and waist. They were not too small, but the clothes were stained with dried brown blood, which was not so conspicuous.
Another man, about thirty-five or six years old, glanced at Bai Peng: "Young man, have you ever married a wife and had children?"
Bai Peng shook his head.
The middle-aged man sighed: "Oh...what a pity, so young..."
Bai Peng was horrified when he heard this, and became more and more puzzled: "But why on earth do these bandits want to kill us?"
"They are doing something big, and if we catch them, they will naturally silence them."
"I didn't know what they were planning! I was baking steamed buns to eat on the roadside, and they caught me without any explanation! What an injustice!"
"There are more than a million people who have died unjustly in the world, and you are not the least of them. Young people, please remember not to give up until the last moment." The middle-aged man said and winked, and Bai Peng noticed that he was doing it.
Quietly, he attached the rope that tied his hands to the wooden stake and rubbed it.
So Bai Peng followed suit and used a wooden stake to grind the rope on his wrist. After only grinding it twice, he found that the wooden stake was smooth. This grinding for ten days and a half might not be effective, and he couldn't help but feel sad.
Recalling that a few hours ago, I held the sword against Juyang Taoist who was unable to resist. The old Taoist begged for mercy and cried with runny nose. I couldn't bear it at the time, but I still stabbed the sword in inch by inch. It was just because I was worried about not killing Juyang.
Yang Dao people will reveal the master's whereabouts. Why should the master's identity be kept secret? Even the old Taoist is probably confused, and he himself is even more clueless. He did not hesitate to "silence" the old Taoist.
Could it be that retribution has come so quickly now that he has been silenced by others inexplicably? Let his blood mix with the blood of the old Taoist and soak into the robe that Ling'er stole for him?
Thinking of Ling'er, I also thought that after I died, I didn't know whether Ling'er would be sad or whether she could still remember her after many years. When I thought about the sadness, tears gradually filled my eyes.
While Bai Peng was feeling sorry for himself, the sun had already risen and the venue gradually became bustling.
Many people came to the venue in groups of three or five, most of them majestic and with tattoos of dragons and beasts. When they met, they said to each other, "I've been looking at each other for a long time," and "I'm glad to meet you." They exchanged greetings with each other clasping hands. It seemed that they didn't know each other very well.
Since there were many people from the world who were not in the same group as the Queen and the others, and they had not yet begun to discuss business matters, Bai Peng felt that it was the right time to express his grievances, so he mustered up the courage to shout loudly: "The injustice~~~~~~is in vain~~~ ~~~"
The man watching over him quickly came over and kicked Bai Peng hard: "Shut up!" Bai Peng shut up knowingly, but he had successfully attracted the attention of everyone in the audience.
After a while, a middle-aged man in a brocade robe, surrounded by several entourages, walked onto the stage from one side, stood in front of Bai Peng and looked at him: "Where is your injustice?"
The entourage brought an imperial chair and placed it behind the man in brocade robe. The man in brocade robe sat down with a graceful expression and said, "Let's talk."
Bai Peng blurted out: "I don't know what you are planning. I baked steamed buns and ate them alone on the roadside, and I didn't violate any laws. I said I killed Taoist Juyang. You didn't believe it, but you didn't go to verify it. Why? Do you think I'm a spy and want to kill me?"
The man in the brocade robe twisted his beard with his hand and stared into Bai Peng's eyes: "Well, you said you didn't know what we were planning... but how did you know that we had plans? How did you know that we were using you as a spy?"
Bai Peng was startled, feeling that he had said the wrong thing.
Standing next to the man in brocade robes was a middle-aged man dressed as a scribe but with a wretched and uneducated face. His tone was quite gentle: "Young man, we will not wrongly accuse good people, but if you are still unwilling to tell the truth right now, no one can save you. .”
"He didn't tell the truth!" The female queen Lin Haiyun also rushed over, but her words came before anyone arrived.
Bai Peng was angry again: "You woman have no sense at all! It's in vain that I thought you were Chang'e in the Moon Palace, and I had a good impression of you."
Lin Haiyun laughed: "Haha, I am Chang'e? How do you get your eyes?"
The wretched scribe next to him also laughed: "Haiyun, don't use your nickname of 'Red Rakshasa' from now on. How about changing it to 'Moon Palace Chi Lian, Life-killing Chang'e'?"
Lin Haiyun shook her head: "No, no, how can Chang'e be as powerful as Rakshasa?"
Seeing them talking and laughing with each other, Bai Peng became even more angry and interrupted them with a loud voice: "Everything I said is the truth. He told me everything about planning and details." He looked at the middle-aged man next to him.
The middle-aged man had stopped grinding the rope, and now he spoke: "I told him, this kid doesn't understand anything, just let him go."
The man in brocade robe had sharp eyes and glanced at the middle-aged man: "Do you know each other?"
"I don't know!" Bai Peng and the middle-aged man said at the same time.
The man in brocade robes smiled slightly: "So, how did you kill Taoist Juyang when you were so weak in martial arts?"
Bai Peng's face turned red: "Who said I was not good at martial arts! I defeated Taoist Juyang in less than five moves, and then this...this..." He glared at Lin Haiyun angrily, "This...this woman hit me with a hidden weapon. , I happened to have just fallen into Taoist Juyang’s trap, and after taking his pills, my whole body became weak!”
The man in the golden robe smiled even more: "So, you are extremely powerful in martial arts, and you can kill Taoist Ju Yang in five moves. Then, the dead Taoist Ju Yang gave you a pill. If you take it, your whole body will become... Powerless?"
Bai Peng was stunned: "That's not what you meant. I didn't kill him at that time. After he lost to me, he said he was from the Wudang sect and tricked me into taking medicine. When I was completely weak, he ran back and laughed and said he was the giant. Yang Taoist, and then... and then..." Then Bai Peng couldn't continue, and continued to talk, it was the master who suddenly appeared and defeated the old Taoist, but the master refused to let anyone know his identity and whereabouts. How to explain this? At the moment My mind was racing, and I tried hard to make up an unknown master to replace the master.
The man in brocade robes smiled and said, "No need to roll your eyes, the knitting is not round." After saying that, he got up and left, and said to the people around him: "Send two people to the place he mentioned to look for Juyang Taoist.
Corpse. But whether there is one or not, this man is sneaky, full of lies, and will be killed in a moment. There is no mistake!"
Chapter completed!