Nie Zhongyou glanced at the cell for a while, closed his eyes, and seemed to have returned to the situation when Li Xia killed someone...
Across the thick wooden fence, Pang Tianxi leaned on Lu Bingxiong's neck to drink blood. His lips were split, and his eyes were still filled with satisfaction, indicating that he was really thirsty. After all, the prison only gave him a glass of water a day, so he
I drank it very seriously, and I didn’t mind that Lu Bingxiong’s blood was fishy and smelly.
His limbs were all shackled, making it difficult for him to move.
From this point of view, it was easy for Li Xia to kill him.
wrong.
Lu Bingxiong's body blocked Pang Tian? Most of his body was also blocked by the fence. The bone knife penetrated at a very tricky angle, fast, accurate and ruthless.
There was only one fatal wound, and Li Xia only stabbed him once.
There were two wounds on Lu Bingxiong, indicating that Li Xia had one more wound.
In other words, Li Xia was panicked when he killed Lu Bingxiong, but when he killed Pang Tian?, he was already confident that he could kill him with one blow.
It's a bad habit not to retaliate after killing someone.
But the satisfaction in Pang Tian's eyes showed that he died simply and died before he could react.
Li Xia has this strength.
Also, at that time, the surrounding jailers had already rushed in and were pointing at Li Xia and scolding him. It would be good for an ordinary young man not to cry under the scolding of these vicious jailers, but he actually dared to kill people in front of them...
Nie Zhongyou opened his eyes after reviewing all the details.
"I originally thought that the reason why you killed Pang Tian was because you were not angry. You were not angry that he was full of evil but I wanted to let him go."
Li Xia said: "You are not letting him go, but letting him do things. This is fair. I am not resentful. This is the opportunity I want."
"Yes, I want him to do something very important, more important than the eleven people he cooks."
Nie Zhongyou said, looking at Pang Tianchu's body, his expression seemed a little regretful, and said: "I was thinking on the way here, if you kill him to uphold justice and miss my big deal, I will cut you into pieces."
Break."
"Do you hate procedural justice?" Li Xia said, "In other words, do you hate things that are legal and dignified?"
Nie Zhongyou chewed on the words "procedural justice" and knew that Li Xia deliberately said some obscure words to show his ability.
But Nie Zhongyou thought about it and said seriously: "You are wrong, I hate civil servants. Except for a few people, I hate most civil servants."
After hearing this, Li Xia breathed a sigh of relief.
Looking at Nie Zhongyou's clothes, it is obvious that his rank is not too high, which makes people worry about whether he really has the power to pardon a death row prisoner. But now that he can say such things, it shows that he has a lot of power.
Li Xia judged that Nie Zhongyou had a backer, and he might be one of the "few people".
"What do you think I want Pang Tian to do?" Nie Zhongyou asked again.
"You also paid attention to Lu Bingxiong yesterday and thought he was too thin. I guess you are looking for a ruthless killer." Li Xia said, "I can be this killer."
He was not a killer in his previous life. Fencing was just a sport, not for killing people.
But after traveling through time, what he saw was that "he" was dead, but Pang Tian had a chance to survive. He knew that the more evil people here are, the more likely they are to survive.
On the other hand, he has a "sense of separation" that allows him not to regard the people here as living people, so he can kill them without any scruples.
Later, his inner self-protection mechanism told him to "just treat this world as a real game", which minimized his negative emotions after killing people.
So, when Nie Zhongyou looked around, he saw that Li Xia was a villain.
However, Nie Zhongyou shook his head and said: "You guessed it wrong, I am not looking for Pang Tian to be a killer. I am looking for him because of his identity as a survivor of the Jin Kingdom and because he still has connections in the hometown of the Jin Kingdom.
.Now if you kill the person I want to use, you will die too..."
"No." Nie Zhongyou said again: "You missed my big deal. It would be too easy for you to kill you. I will make you die badly."
After saying that, without waiting for Li Xia's response, he snorted "You're smart", turned around and walked out...
~~
Bai Mao huddled his short body into a ball, looking completely insignificant.
After Nie Zhongyou left, he poked his head in and whispered to Li Xia: "What should you do?"
Li Xia glanced at the guards outside the cell and saw that they had taken away the bone knife placed outside the railing, but did not open the cell door to remove the body.
"It doesn't matter, I am already a death row prisoner. No matter what, the situation will not be worse." Li Xia said, "Besides, he will take me out."
Bai Mao was a little worried about Li Xia, muttering in his heart, "After all this, you are still talking nonsense", but with a look of concern on his face, he asked: "Why?"
"There are too many reasons." Li Xia said: "The first thing he did was to examine me instead of venting his anger; he was testing me, investigating me, and suppressing my arrogance; he is a practical person."
"That's... great."
Bai Mao also hopes that Li Xia will get out early because he doesn't want to sit in the same cell with him anymore.
Before, although Lu Bingxiong was a murderer, he was still easy to get along with and had no intention of doing anything to him, Bai Mao. However, this Li Xia was really murderous and the most evil person among evil people.
"White-haired rat, you don't want to go with me, right?" Li Xia asked.
Bai Mao subconsciously took a few steps back and said, "I won't leave...I stole things. I deserve to be in jail for a few more years. I deserve to be punished by the "Song Xingtong" more."
Li Xia doesn't force anything either.
He could see that Bai Mao had some relationship with Prison Leader Liu, and he was able to squat in the death row because it was spacious.
But he didn't say anything about it.
Bai Mao rolled his thief eyes and said, "I think it's definitely not a good thing to go out with that person to do business. If it was a good thing, why would he go to the death row to pick people? I was living a good life."
Yes, you might end up dead if you go out, right? But then again, you are different from me. You will die anyway...well, you are a very capable person..."
~~
Nie Zhongyou took a big bite of the cooking cake, and didn't care if the crumbs of the cake got on his clothes.
He was still standing outside the county government office, eating breakfast and waiting for news.
He wanted to scare Li Xia and see his courage.
He, Nie Zhongyou, had the courage of Jing Ke to assassinate the King of Qin, but he could not imitate Jing Ke and lead Qin Wuyang who changed his temper in the battle.
Not long after, a jailer came over and handed him the bone knife and reported softly.
Nie Zhongyou nodded and put the bone knife into his arms.
After a long time, a young man hurried over and said: "I checked..."
This person's name is "Linzi", and he is always joking. For example, he often jokes about his name and says, "The forest is big and has all kinds of birds. There are no objects next to me, but there are many birds."
But he was very reliable when it came to getting things done, and Nie Zhongyu had already figured out what he wanted to inquire about during his breakfast.
Lin Zidao: "Li Xia, sixteen years old. His father, Li Yong, also named Shooyuan, was once the governor of Yuhang County. He was dismissed from office four years ago due to crimes. Li Xia's mother, Yang, also passed away four years ago, and Li Yong did not renew his marriage.
, took a concubine, Mrs. Liu, and had no other relatives at home...
According to neighbors, the Li family and his son usually live in seclusion and do not interact with others.
The day before yesterday, at Jianjia Tower, Li Xia was jealous of Sun Tianji, the fourth son of Sun Yingzhi, the young minister of Taichang Temple. During the dispute between the two, Li Xia beat Sun Tianji to death, so he was imprisoned and sentenced to hanging."
Nie Zhongyou said: "Then this is a 'fight killing' rather than an 'accidental killing'. If someone accidentally kills someone out of anger during a fight, why is he sentenced to death?"
Lin Zidao: "Perhaps because the Sun family is powerful, the sentence was homicide. The Director of Prisons and the Ministry of Punishment immediately reviewed the conviction and sent Li Xia to death row directly."
"Oh, it's so fast."
Nie Zhongyou bit the cooking cake, took out a bloody bone knife from his arms and handed it over with his free hand.
"Where do you think this knife came from?"
Lin Zidao: "Is Lu Bingxiong working in prison? He is free anyway."
Nie Zhongyou said: "These are not pig bones. Pig bones are not that hard. They are donkey bones. There cannot be donkey bones in the prison. Someone prepared this knife for Lu Bingxiong. Moreover, this person put a lot of thought into it."
"
Lin Zi asked: "Is the Sun family afraid that Li Yong will pay copper coins to redeem Li Xia?"
Nie Zhongyou shook his head and said: "It's not that simple... Where is Li Yongren?"
"Just as I was about to say this, there was a fire in Li's house last night, and both Li Yong and his concubine, Mrs. Liu, disappeared."
"Fire?"
Nie Zhongyou thought for a while, a hint of sneer appeared on his stern face, and ordered: "Go and take out the order, boy, I will use it."
"Will it offend anyone?"
"I'm too lazy to care. But it's hard to predict whether Li Xia will come back alive or not. Let those people guess as much as they can."
"Ha... But I'm not wrong when I say it. How old is this guy? He's already killed three people..."
~~
With a "click" sound, Lin Zi handcuffed Li Xia.
Is this Pang Tian? The pair of shackles he originally wore were nothing more than two iron chains, one cuffing his hands and the other cuffing his feet, restricting the range of movement.
After sacrificing this part of freedom, Li Xia gained another part of freedom.
He walked out of the cell.
The strong light made it almost impossible for him to open his eyes, but he still squinted, unwilling to close them.
This was Qiantang County in ancient times, the administrative seat of Hangzhou...perhaps called Lin'an Prefecture, and probably the Shangcheng District of Hangzhou City in later generations.
Looking around, everything is prosperous.
The black tiles and white walls outline the ancient Jiangnan charm. Through the gap between the two restaurants, you can see the passing ships on the Qiantang River.
The streets and alleys are full of shouts, crowded with pedestrians, lively and busy.
The southeast is beautiful, the three Wu cities, Qiantang has been prosperous since ancient times. Smoked willow painted bridges, wind curtains and green curtains, there are hundreds of thousands of homes...
Before Li Xia could take a closer look, Nie Zhongyou was already striding away. Lin Zi grabbed the iron chain on his hand and pulled him to follow Nie Zhongyou and turned into an alley.
He gradually adapted to the bright light outside and looked up at the sky, which was so blue that it was so beautiful that it was breathtaking.
Li Xia thought to himself that his private plane fell from here, but in another time and space...
Nie Zhongyou was definitely not of high rank. He didn't have any means of transportation when he went out, and he only walked on a pair of shabby feet.
After walking for about a quarter of an hour, I left the bustling streets and entered a house at the foot of Wushan Mountain.
This house is unremarkable, with simple furnishings.
Nie Zhongyou took Li Xia into one of the rooms. Lin Zi took out the key and opened the shackles on Li Xia's left foot, and handcuffed the iron chain to the iron ring on the wall.
Li Xia didn't care about this. What mattered was that after walking this distance, he was very hungry.
Up to now, he has not eaten anything for a day.
Hunger, a feeling I have never tasted before, is much more painful than imagined...
"I'm hungry."
Nie Zhongyou took out two pieces of cooking cakes from his arms and handed them to him, saying: "You wait here for two days, we will set off in two days."
Li Xia ate the cooking cakes, and the chains on his hands jingled.
After he finished chewing the food in his mouth, he picked up the water glass on the table and took a sip before saying: "Okay, you tell me the details of the mission, I will try my best to complete it, and then you let me go free."
Nie Zhongyou seemed to have not heard anything and said to himself: "Your father is in my hands."
Li Xia was silent for a moment.
Nie Zhongyou said: "If you disobey my order, your father will die."
"It doesn't have to be like this, I'm very trustworthy." Li Xia said, "You give me your life, and I'll do something for you."
Nie Zhongyou seemed to be unable to understand what others were saying, and continued: "I don't know why you and your son offended the Sun family, and I don't want to know. But you know very well that without me this time, you and your son will definitely die."
Li Xia didn't know.
He kept the word "Sun Family" in his mind and thought about how he would respond if he saw that father.
On the other hand, he believed that Nie Zhongyou might be a very capable person, but he was definitely not a good leader.
A good leader will not use shackles to employ people.
A good leader, even if he threatens the other party's relatives, should be gentle and gentle, instead of being so straightforward: "If you don't listen to me, I will kill your father."
Fortunately, Nie Zhongyou's straightforward character is not entirely a bad thing.
Fortunately, Nie Zhongyou had no intention of letting Li Xia meet his father.
Li Xia was glad that the secret was not leaked...
~~
Nie Zhong was slightly surprised when he saw that Li Xia didn't ask to see Li Yong despite the threat.
He added another point to his evaluation of Li Xia, that he was unkind and unjust.
But he thought this was fine, since he didn't really catch Li Yong anyway, he just wanted to scare the kid.
Not mentioning it, just in case you have to make excuses.
So Nie Zhongyou stopped mentioning the Sun family's affairs to avoid leaking the truth...
~~
"I will definitely repay you for your great kindness." Li Xia added, "What do you want me to do?"
"You don't have to know what to do specifically." Nie Zhongyou said, "Come with me to Kaifeng and do whatever I ask you to do."
"good."
Hearing that he was going to Kaifeng, Li Xia was thinking that the "Four Years of the Great Song Dynasty's Xingchang" would still be unsuccessful in the Northern Song Dynasty, but he heard Nie Zhongyou ask another question.
"I'm going to the enemy's territory and narrowly escaped death. Do you have any unfulfilled wishes?"