After a while, Fu Bi quietly came to the outside of the wall with two soldiers carrying a ladder. The ladder was leaning against the wall. Fu Bi picked up his windy cloak and stepped up to climb up. Su Jin stopped him and said, "No, I
Come on, your cloak is silvery and dazzling, it is too eye-catching. Since those people came at night, they might be wearing the same clothes as me. The dark cloak is more suitable for the actual situation."
Fu Bi said: "It's better to ask the brothers to come up. Don't let me explain if you fall down with your small body."
Su Jin rolled his eyes and had to call a soldier to explain a few words in a low voice. The soldier then climbed up the ladder quietly and climbed slowly to the top of the wall. When he approached the top of the wall, he stretched his head slightly and then went down.
Shrinking, done quite well.
There was no sound on the stone tower, and it seemed that he was not aware of it; the soldier turned back and looked down at Su Jin, asking for his instructions; Su Jin gestured twice, and made a gesture of climbing up the wall and pulling up the ladder; the soldier nodded,
He climbed up the wall lightly and stayed still, but there was still no sound from the stone tower.
Fu Bi looked anxious and opened his mouth to talk to Su Jin. Su Jin put his hand to his lips and made a silent gesture, listening attentively; only hearing a "jumping" sound on the stone tower in the distance, Fu Bi and Yan Biyun were stunned.
Suddenly I heard Su Jin shouting: "Come down quickly!"
The soldier on the wall was stunned, and he leaned down on the ladder and slid down like a slide. At this moment, an arrow flew down diagonally past his head and sank into the open space outside the wall. Its wings vibrated and made a buzzing sound.
voice.
At the same time, there was a loud shout from the wall: "Who is it? Dare to break into the imperial post, patrol team, hurry up and get the person outside the courtyard."
The post station suddenly became noisy, and the sound of clattering footsteps was heard. The post patrol team alerted the guard patrol team, and everyone suddenly jumped on their backs.
Su Jin loudly said: "It turns out that the view from the stone tower can definitely detect people who climbed over the wall. It's time to report to the Lord and ask these postmen for questioning."
Fu Bi shouted loudly: "Go back to the inn quickly to prevent chaos."
The three people quickly returned to the door of the post station. There was a noise in front of them. A dozen post soldiers holding torches were blocked at the door by forty or fifty personal guards of Yan Shu. The post soldiers wanted to go out to get people, but the guards were told by Fu Bi to watch.
No one who was staying at the gate was allowed to leave, and the two sides kept arguing.
Fu Bi shouted: "Capture them and disarm them."
The guards rushed forward and surrendered all the weapons of the postmen. The postmen were confused and shouted: "Sir, what does this mean? We are the postmen here.
, even if we quarrel with them for a few words, it won’t surrender our weapons.”
Fu Bi shouted loudly: "Don't make any noise! Please feel aggrieved for now. Just stay in the yard and don't move. Later we will only divide the teachings. The figures on the wall just now were just a few of us, so you don't have to worry about anyone coming in."
The postmen, Monk Zhanger, were confused and had to sit down by the fire under Pu Dao's intimidation. A group of guards raised their swords to watch. Fu Bi quickly came to the backyard and sent people to remove all the postmen and servants.
He took them all and took them to the front yard, and then went to Yan Shu's room in person to report them.
Yan Shu had already fallen asleep when suddenly there was a noise and he ordered someone to ask what was going on. Fu Bi, who came in a hurry, quickly reported the situation. Yan Shu quickly got up and followed Fu Bi to the front yard of the inn.
"Where is the post general?" Yan Shu asked majestically.
A middle-aged man in his forties raised his hand and said: "Sir, I am here."
"What's your name and where are you from?"
"I, Liu Youlun, am from Zhecheng."
"Liu Youlun, do you know your guilt?"
"...Here, where do you start talking about this, sir?" Liu Youlun said aggrievedly: "I was patrolling the corridor of the back house with my brothers. I heard the brothers on the stone tower said that there was someone on the wall, and I just rushed out with the people to get it.
I was ordered to surrender my weapon by Master Fu. I..."
"Shut up. Is this what I'm asking about? It's about the case that happened at Niutou Station nine days ago. Yin Tangjie, the predecessor of Yingtian Prefecture, was killed in your station, along with more than a dozen personal guards escorted by me.
Is it possible to kill someone?"
"This... Sir, this is unjust. This was not done by young people. The incident happened suddenly without any warning that day. We didn't even know that Mr. Tang had been killed. In the morning, the handyman went to wake them up, only to find a
All sixteen people in the yard died, and we were wronged."
Yan Shu paced with his hands behind his back, staring at the expression of the post general and said: "Don't you have patrol posts and lookout posts on the stone tower? How come there are more than a dozen people dead in the post station and no one notices it?"
"This..." Liu Youlun looked very unnatural, hesitating and refusing to speak. The postmen also shrank their heads, looked around, and looked panicked.
Fu Bi shouted: "What about this and that? I'm asking you questions, so I'll give you a quick answer."
Liu Youlun trembled and murmured: "Thieves... thieves come and go like the wind, and we can't detect it. This is also unthinkable."
Su Jin stepped forward and said with a smile: "Come and go like the wind? Just now when we climbed onto the wall, your tower sentry noticed it, and he fired his bow and shouted. How come that night it came and went like the wind, and we couldn't detect it?"
Liu Youlun was trembling and speechless; Fu Bi sneered and said: "It seems that you are unwilling to tell the truth if I don't show you some color. Come on, tie them all up, bring whips, and take off everyone's shirts."
Give me thirty lashes first and then talk."
The guards roared, and came forward like wolves and tigers. They tied up the postmen and the servants with ropes and tied them up. Someone had already brought a big cowhide whip, and two big men took the whip.
He dipped water in the basin and shook the tendon meat, grabbed Liu Youlun, and stabbed it twice to tear open the clothes on his upper body, exposing the flesh.
A big man spat into the palm of his hand, rubbed it, and sneered: "Straight bitch, you've got a lot of white meat all over your body. When this whip is used later, you'll be so particular."
Su Jin smiled and said: "Brother, what do you mean?"
"Hey, in our jargon, it's called red plum blossoms dotted in the snow. It's a good metaphor to describe a person like this with thin skin and white flesh."
Su Jin rolled his eyes. The executioner said so many things and even gave him such a poetic name. It was really dumbfounding.
The executioner lifted the whip, shook it twice in the air, and the tip of the whip made a snapping sound, which sounded very scary. After shaking the whip, he raised it high and shined it on Liu Youlun's body before falling down.
Liu Youlun shouted in horror: "Don't fight, don't fight, I said! Brothers, you can't blame me."
The whip barely stopped in mid-air, and the executioner spat at him and said: "You bitch, you have to be beaten. You're wasting all my hard work. With people like you, what else do you have to do?"
Yan Shu snorted and said, "Xiong Da Xiong Er, please step back."
The two groaned and stepped aside. Yan Shu walked up to Liu Youlun and shouted: "Tell me, what happened that day? Where were you when the strongman killed someone?"
Liu Youlun lay on the ground panting and murmured: "I said, if you spare us, it was an unintentional mistake on our part."
Fu Bi scolded: "You are talking nonsense, why don't you hurry up and say it?"
Su Jin leaned into Yan Shu's ear and whispered: "I went into the hall to ask questions so that I can record my confession. Besides, it seems that this matter involves not only him alone, but in front of everyone, I'm afraid I can't explain it all."
Yan Shu nodded and said: "Pull him in for questioning. All the others are detained here waiting for questioning."
Liu Youlun was half-dragged and half-lifted by the soldiers into the hall. Once the hall door was closed, the noise from the outside world was immediately cut off.
"Tell me, please be happy. If you please me, I will be happy too. You can't hide this." Yan Shu said calmly.
"I said, I said." Liu Youlun kowtowed, "I said everything."
"What happened that night?"
"That evening, a dozen soldiers and one person came to the inn to spend the night. The villain waited for them to show their fire cards for confirmation, and then arranged them in the T-shaped courtyard in the northeast corner according to the rules. Several soldiers told the villain that they
The person escorting them was a high official, so they couldn't leave. They could just wait for me to bring them food and water. I knew that this was the way to go according to the rules, so I agreed."
"Later, Chen Xiaoer came to me secretly and told me..."
"Who is Chen Xiaoer?" Yan Shu asked sharply.
"Replying to your lord, I am one of the postmen under my command, and he is being held outside."
"Well... keep talking."
"Chen Xiaoer came over and told me secretly that the person escorting looked like Lord Tang of Yingtian Mansion. Of course I didn't believe it and called him a fool. Lord Tang was promoted to a new post, but it felt like he was being escorted to Beijing..."
Then Chen Xiaoer swore that he was the prefect of the Tang Dynasty, and said that he went to Yingtian to watch the dragon boats during the Dragon Boat Festival, and that Mr. Tang even went on stage to honor the emperor, and said many things; he said that he squeezed into the audience and had a clear view."
"The villain is doubtful, but I think in my heart, we don't have to ask too much about being an official. We just do our jobs and get paid well, but I don't care too much."
Yan Shu twisted his beard in thought and asked: "Then why did the strongman come again? Where were you when the strongman came?"
"My lord, I haven't said anything yet. Can you give me a sip of water?"
Fu Bi was angry and wanted to kick him. Yan Shu waved his hand to stop him and said, "Give him some tea and speak slowly after drinking. The night is still long anyway."
The master put down his pen and brought a cup of herbal tea to Liu Youlun. Liu Youlun thought his mouth was dry because of fear, so he drank the tea in one breath, licked his lips and said, "Thank you, sir."