Chapter 82: Three-footed god, unhappy retribution
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The southeast has a beautiful appearance, a bridge of smoke and willows, and Yangzhou has been prosperous since ancient times.
After a long journey, spending many days and nights on the boat, Chen Sanlang finally arrived in Yangzhou City.
When you are down-to-earth, you will feel a little weak, as if your body is still floating with the boat on the water, and you will feel an unreal sense of visibility.
Tired, so tired...
He finally understood the true meaning of the idiom "hard work and hardship", but fortunately he had practiced it. Otherwise, with his originally gentle and weak body, he would have to go all the way to Yangzhou, at least half dead. If he didn't lie down for ten days and half a month, he would not be able to recover his vitality.
It's really not easy to go out, especially for a long trip.
It's better to remember the world, with four wheels running fast, and even strange things that can soar like birds in the sky, with speeds beyond imagination, thousands of miles, just a meal.
He shook his head, as if he wanted to shake his head's dizziness.
The dock was very lively, with crowds of people, mixed sounds, and the air was filled with fishy smell, which was quite unpleasant.
He originally wanted to rest here for a while, but he couldn't stand the smell, so he had to support himself, carry his books and head towards Yangzhou City.
The pier is still a distance from the city, and you can see the majestic city wall from afar. A flag is flying on the top of the wall, flies in the wind, and is extremely imposing.
Seeing that it was close, but the road was very far away. When he asked a passerby, he said that there were still dozens of miles away. Chen Sanlang was stunned. Seeing that there was a carriage hired by someone beside him, the price was not expensive. He immediately rented one and lie in the carriage, and he didn't want to move anymore.
The driver who drove the carriage was dark and strong, with a little pockmark on his face and a lot of mouth, and asked questions. Chen Sanlang was too lazy to pay attention to it, so he replied that he was a scholar who came to participate in the provincial examination. Then he closed his eyes and rested.
The road surface was slightly bumpy, but the shaking was not large, and I felt comfortable. A feeling of fatigue surged into my heart and I slowly fell asleep.
Suddenly, with a thump, Chen Sanlang suddenly woke up. He lifted the curtain of the car and looked out, and was stunned.
But I saw the mountains and forests outside, the roads were dilapidated, and there were dense bushes on both sides, which was very deserted.
Such a path is definitely not the road to Yangzhou City.
Chen Sanlang's eyes flashed coldly and asked, "Where are you, the coachman, going to pull me?"
The coachman grinned and said, "Scholar, you dare to get in Hu Mazi's car, so you can only blame you for being unlucky." Seeing Chen Sanlang looking weak, he heard that he was from another place with an accent, and he was alone. He was so fat that he would not be slaughtered. He would be sorry for his signature.
Although he was soliciting customers on the Yangzhou wharf, he would have some troublesome hands and feet when he was caught, and he had several lives on his hands. However, he only took single foreigners, who were well-off and had to take action, first dragging people to a deserted place, and then destroying the corpse. The matter was done invisible and unaware. No one knew about it for many years. And those foreigners who died in vain could not find out after they disappeared. The information was too blocked, and when the family members felt something was wrong, it might have been a year and a half before they reported the case to the local government. It was too late.
Chen Sanlang was a scholar who rushed to Yangzhou to participate in the provincial examination. He had a scholar's fame, but this was not intimidating to Hu Mazi. It was precisely because he came to the exam thousands of miles away and must have a lot of money on him. If he had a big harvest, he could have a long rest.
When he arrived in the depths of the jungle, Hu Mazi tied the horse, then flew out of the shaft, pulled out a dagger from the secret compartment, held it in his hand brightly, and turned to the back of the car: "Scholar, please hand over all the money you have on your body so that the old man would not take action."
He originally thought that Chen Sanlang would jump out of the car in panic, but now it seems that the scholar must have been scared into a mess and a pile of mud. He is useless as a scholar, only knows how to speak and only knows how to do things. Once something happens, he will be finished immediately.
Hu Mazi once killed a scholar before. When the knife lit up, he was full of feces and urine, which was useless.
Swish!
The dagger lifted the curtain of the car. Seeing Chen Sanlang sitting in it calmly, he looked at him with a calm expression, and couldn't help but be stunned: It seemed that something was wrong...
But after all, he had seen many people with blood, so how could he be easily frightened and shouted: "Scholar, get out and die."
Chen Sanlang's eyes were bright and quiet: "You are not doing a serious business, but you do such a kind of business that you are trying to kill money. Are you not afraid of retribution?"
"retribution?"
Hu Mazi laughed: "Every time I kill someone, I will go to the Bodhisattva Temple to burn incense and worship the gods. The Bodhisattva has received so much incense from me, so I am very close to me."
Chen Sanlang sneered: "That's just clay wood. There are gods who raise their heads three feet away, and they will be retribution. It's not that you don't have to repay you. The time is not here, and when the time comes, you will be rewarded immediately."
Hu Mazi felt inexplicably irritable: "Stop talking nonsense, but you are going to be killed by me soon. This is retribution." As he said that, he jumped into the carriage to get people.
He was unwilling to use a knife in the car to avoid blood splashing out and dirting the area and making it difficult to clean it. Anyway, the other party was just a scholar without any strength. He didn't need much effort to catch it and take it down.
call!
Chen Sanlang suddenly stood up and kicked him in his arms.
This kick was so heavy that Hu Mazi didn't expect it to be kicked firmly and fell to the ground. Before she could get up, Chen Sanlang had already jumped down and stepped on his face with another kick.
Hu Mazi was spinning, his mouth was salty, and he must have been bleeding. He was shocked: What's going on...
Just when he couldn't figure it out, Chen Sanlang came again with his third foot. This time, it was the vaginal vagina - the vaginal vaginal foot.
"ah!"
Hu Mazi let out a heart-wrenching scream, feeling that some key part was kicked and rolled in pain.
Chen Sanlang, Chen's three legs.
He clapped his hands and felt very satisfied: after all, his fiancée is a hero in the martial arts world, and his future father-in-law is a master of martial arts. After practicing hard for half a year, he should really be spanked without such skills.
As for Hu Mazi, to be honest, he is just a resident of the market, and he is covered in flesh and blood.
Time is precious, Chen Sanlang went up and took off his clothes, twisted them into a rope, tied Hu Mazi, and then drove him into the carriage. Seeing that he didn't like it, he used Chen's fourth leg - so Hu Mazi completely fell into a coma.
Chen Sanlang moved to the shaft of the carriage, waved his whip, drove the carriage out, and rushed to Yangzhou City.
This trip went smoothly. When we arrived at the city gate, we saw a large number of people entering and leaving the city, and we were lined up. On both sides of the solemn and spacious city gate, there were two fully armed soldiers, all with a strong aura, and they were obviously elite soldiers.
Such a situation is better than Jingxian or Nanyang Prefecture. I don’t know how many wins.
The four gates of Yangzhou City have similar layouts. There are three corridors in the middle. The left side is the entry and must be inspected. People from other places must also show the road quotation and will be allowed to be released after they are checked. The right side is the exit, but there are no restrictions. Generally speaking, they can come out freely. As for the middle, it is a special passage and is left for the public to enter and exit. Ordinary people cannot take this path.
Because the city gate is wide enough, even if it is divided into three roads, each road is not narrow.
Chen Sanlang got off the carriage, took out the document, crossed the crowd, talked directly to the gatekeepers, and told Hu Mazi about it.
He had the fame of scholars and fame, so he could surpass this. If he changed to ordinary people, he would be regarded as a ban by soldiers and beaten up.
When the soldier heard this, he attached great importance to it and immediately called a companion to come over and moved Hu Mazi, who was still unconscious, out of the car.
The next thing was very simple. The soldier captured Hu Mazi and handed it over to the officials for interrogation. Chen Sanlang, as a witness, had to be present. He used cold water to wake up Hu Mazi. When he saw him in the court, he knew that the matter was exposed and his psychological collapse, he didn't have to be punished at all, and he had to take anything.
After solving the major case, the official in charge of the interrogation was overjoyed and immediately sent a yamen runner to the crime site and excavated several corpses.
This time, all the evidences were there, and Hu Mazi was sent to a death row prison and was waiting to be executed.
The officials praised Chen Sanlang, who made meritorious service, and said that he was both civil and military. After knowing that he was a scholar who came to take the provincial examination, he was even more enthusiastic and asked a capable yamen runner to take Chen Sanlang to the Yangzhou Examination Institute to arrange accommodation.
The Xia Yu Dynasty emphasized the imperial examinations. Anyone who was qualified to participate in the provincial examinations would provide free accommodation and stay in an inn near the examination institute.
Longmen Inn is where Chen Sanlang lives. This name is derived from the meaning of "carp leaping on the dragon gate, turning into dragons and flying into a dragon", which is quite omen.
Because he came early and there was a yamen to say hello, he chose the room he lived in on the third floor, which was the best location. The room was large, the windows were bright and clean, and it was quite quiet, so he felt very satisfied.
After putting down his books and luggage, Chen Sanlang was extremely sleepy and fell asleep.
When I slept until the night, when I woke up, there were already many lights in Yangzhou City. I felt hungry and unfamiliar with the place. I was too lazy to go out to eat. I went downstairs and threw out a silver ingot and asked the waiter to arrange food.
It was rich and easy to do business. The waiter knew how to get a plate of beef, a pot of beef offal, a fat chicken, and two seasonal vegetables came up, and set a table. Then, following Chen Sanlang's instructions, he served a basin of rice and a pot of wine.
With so many things, he thought Chen Sanlang was going to treat him, but who knew that the scholar was sitting there with a golden sword and started eating alone.
The appetite is really big and good.
After eating and drinking, I gave a bunch of money and asked the waiter to get a big bucket of water to bathe.
After dealing with many trivial matters, he felt refreshed and happy. It was not too early. He did not go out to the street, but stood in front of the window and watched. He saw the bright lights on the street market, which were shining with the stars and moons in the sky, like a painting. Looking farther away, a long strip of lanterns decorated with various colors of lanterns meandered like snakes, which was very beautiful. There was a faint touching music of silk and bamboo floating in the wind, making people listen to it and be fascinated.
That is the world-famous Qinhuai River.
This is Yangzhou.
He is already in Yangzhou.
Chapter completed!