[062] Ten Servants
"Yes, is anyone..."
The man heard Qin Yuesheng's question and immediately started shouting, but for some reason, his voice was very weak, as if he had been on a hunger strike for several days.
"Who are you?" Qin Yuesheng asked again.
"Peng Fei...the villagers of Pengqiao Village..."
"Are you locked up here by Village Chief Peng?"
"yes……"
Qin Yuesheng reached out and grabbed the shaking handle, and put the bucket down.
Then he grabbed the rope and jumped down, and fell steadily to the bottom of the well.
As he got closer, Qin Yuesheng realized that this person was not just tied with an iron lock, but also had two iron cones inserted on his shoulder, which directly nailed his body to the wall of the well.
Such injuries are not enough even if they are exchanged for external warriors. If they are not healed in time, there is basically no way to survive.
Qin Yuesheng looked at the two already decayed wounds on Peng Fei's shoulders, and his expression was very serious.
This iron cone was inserted into the other person's shoulder for a long time, and no medication was given to heal the wound. The degree of suppuration and inflammation was quite serious.
Looking at Peng Fei's face was bloodless and his eyes were unconscious. Even if Qin Yuesheng didn't understand medical skills, he could feel that he wouldn't live long.
"Why do they lock you up here?" Qin Yuesheng stepped forward and used the evil-suppressing knife to cut off the iron cone behind Peng Fei, and then cut off the iron locks on his body one by one.
"Then, those two thieves wanted to get into Pengqiao Village. One of them was proficient in disguise. When they killed Village Chief Peng, they wanted to replace him and force me to explain various affairs in Pengqiao Village to them so that they would not be seen through by other villagers."
"So that's it." Qin Yuesheng knew it.
He helped Peng Fei up from the ground, Qin Yuesheng reached out and put his fingers on his pulse, and suddenly felt his breath weak, afraid that he would not last long.
"Young hero, I know my situation. I am not afraid of death, but I just can't let go of something. Can you please help me and my fellow villagers after you go out, and whether Xie Lan is still alive."
Peng Fei was supported by Qin Yuesheng and used all his strength to say.
"Who is this Xie Lan?"
"It was my wife who had not passed the door. I don't know why the two thieves came to Pengqiao Village for. But when I heard them discussing, I said that some women were needed as sacrifices. There were no other villages within a radius of 100 miles near Pengqiao Village. I was worried about Xie Lan..."
Peng Fei said this and there was no sound. Looking at his eyes that were beginning to dissipate, Qin Yuesheng nodded: "Okay, I'll ask for you, but now I'll take you out first."
"No need for young hero. This is my ancestral home. After I die, if you know that Xie Lan is safe and sound, please ask her to come and help me bury my body in the backyard of the house. If she has encountered an accident, you can completely seal the well and let me sleep here."
In Qin Yuesheng's gaze, Peng Fei finally looked up at the night sky on the well, and his eyes gradually fell into dead silence.
"Please trouble you, young man."
After the past rejuvenation, his life was like a candle in the wind, completely extinguished.
"Oh." Qin Yuesheng slowly placed Peng Fei's body on the ground, jumped back to the ground.
He could only say that he felt a little regretful about Peng Fei's incident. If he could find him one or two days earlier, the result might be different.
After running out of the Peach Blossom Forest to find the body of "College Peng", Qin Yuesheng directly decomposed him.
Destroy corpses and traces, once and for all.
Fortunately this time, after the body of "College Peng" was dismantled, a ball of light finally fell.
Qin Yuesheng then smashed it and immediately obtained a skill called "disguise".
"Good thing." Qin Yuesheng nodded with satisfaction. In the future, there is an all-round essence to improve this ability, which will be of great help to some actions that need to conceal their identity in the future.
"Go and deal with the bodies of the two corpse ghosts, so that no one will know what happened tonight." Qin Yuesheng said intimately, and then sneaked into the night.
...
The next day.
After Qin Yuesheng got up, he went out to find a villager to ask about Peng Fei and Xie Lan.
"That boy Peng Fei is a martial arts fanatic. He can be regarded as the number one master in our Pengqiao Village. Unfortunately, he suddenly went crazy for some reason, and he didn't know where he went out.
His wife who had not passed away was from another place. One day, Village Chief Peng met a shopkeeper of Xiufang in Yangzhou Prefecture. He heard that there was a female worker, embroiderer, and Xie Lan went there. There were also many girls in our village, all of whom were taken by Village Chief Peng.”
The villagers carrying the hoe talked loudly at Qin Yuesheng, not paying any attention to his gloomy face.
What kind of job recruitment in the Xiufang is afraid that all the girls have been sent to the spider's mouth and fed them.
"Where is the village chief Peng now? Since the matter in your village has been resolved, it's time for me to leave. I want to say hello to him before leaving."
"Missary Chief?" The villager scratched his head: "I don't know, I'll go find Young Master Qin for you."
"Yeah, thank you."
After the villagers left, Qin Yuesheng arrived at the yard located in the peach blossom forest as quickly as possible.
Looking at the dry well with Peng Fei's body hidden.
Qin Yuesheng said to himself: "Your wife is probably gone. I will follow your last wish and hope to rest in peace."
Then he slapped the edge of the well with his palm, and a large amount of mud and stone collapsed towards the roller below. Under Qin Yuesheng's destruction, the place was quickly completely flattened, and there was no trace of the well being there any more.
...
Outside Pengqiao Village.
"Young Master Qin is not here. The village chief probably is not in the village. We don't know where he is now. The main reason is that the village chief often goes out without saying hello on weekdays. We are all used to it."
Several villagers sent Qin Yuesheng out of the high wall, and everyone was very grateful for Qin Yuesheng's helping their village solve the problem of spider-eating people.
Before leaving, Qin Yuesheng insisted on giving him various local specialties, including local eggs, old duck, bacon, pickled vegetables, etc.
But all of them were rejected by Qin Yuesheng.
"It's okay, I have to go back and report the details of this clue. I'll say goodbye first. There will be a date later."
He carried the sack containing the upper body of the beauty spider on his shoulders, and Qin Yuesheng clasped his fists to everyone, then turned around and left Pengqiao Village.
Looking at Qin Yuesheng's back, all the villagers sighed: "What a good person who is responsible."
...
When I came, I was because of the mountains and ridges. I didn’t know the specific location of Pengqiao Village, so I needed someone to lead the way. Naturally, there would be no trouble to return. Qingyang City has a huge goal, so Qin Yuesheng just needs to find the right direction and run out of Meteor Star Mountain, so he will not have to worry about not being able to find the location of Qingyang City.
When he returned to Qingyang City, Qin Yuesheng immediately went to the yamen and showed Bai Hao what he brought back from Pengqiao Village.
He also told the other party what he had experienced in Pengqiao Village.
As soon as he heard what Qin Yuesheng said, Bai Hao frowned immediately, and his face was gloomy: "A little deacon in Jinyin Pavilion actually did such a crazy thing in order to get in touch with the eunuch."
"Mr. Bai, I have a question. Shouldn't eunuchs live in Chang'an City to be responsible for palace affairs? Why are eunuchs working in Yangzhou Prefecture?" Qin Yuesheng asked in confusion.
"This matter is complicated." Bai Hao rubbed his temples, held his chin and said:
"Today, Your Majesty was a wise ruler when he was young, and he had the assistance of the wise ministers and ministers of the people of the world, Lin Po and Lian Xiangru, to help the people of the world have no worries about food and clothing, and to avoid war for more than twenty years.
But since the priest reached his seventies, he gradually became greedy for pleasure, and was addicted to it and could not extricate himself. He only knew how to enjoy himself and built a large number of buildings all day long.
It even forced 200,000 green and strong men to invest four years to build a golden city, including a jewelry garden, flowers, plants and trees, jade jewels and stones, and a beautiful palace, with thousands of beautiful women waiting for the holy place to be favored by the holy people.
Among them, the wine pond and meat forest are the most famous. The pond made of ice jade can accommodate hundreds of people to take a bath in it at the same time. Once it is filled with fine wine, the fragrance of the wine will soon spread throughout the Golden City.
In the meat forest, hundreds of imperial chefs cook various cattle, sheep, pigs, dogs, chickens, ducks, geese and fish in it all year round. After it is ready, it hangs it on the branches of the iron tree and waits for guests to take it down and enjoy it at will.
The literati often say, "The mellow and fragrant wine pool makes people intoxicated, and the meat forest can make people full." However, it cannot tell you about 10% of the 10th anniversary of the happy and fairy-like life in the Golden City.
It is because the emperor was so indulgent and neglected in the government affairs that the eunuchs in the palace quietly rose up and took root in the government and the country, and even reached the point where he interfered in politics behind the scenes. Many eunuchs were sent from Chang'an to various places in the Tang Dynasty to serve as officials."
Qin Yuesheng couldn't help but be shocked: "There is such a thing. Lord Bai, what about the two virtuous ministers and prime ministers you mentioned before? The emperor is so absurd. As important officials of the Tang Dynasty, they dare not attend the meeting and risk their lives to advise me?"
"Oh." Bai Hao sighed: "Mr. Lian Xiangru passed away during the second summer heat of the past year. Now he is relying on Lord Lin Po to support himself in the court, but the emperor stayed in his door to him. If even Lord Lin Po went there one day, the Tang Dynasty would be in danger.
Although the three kingdoms of Liao, Jin and Western Xia in the north have surrendered to the Tang Dynasty and still pay tribute every year, once something goes wrong with the Tang Dynasty, they will immediately turn into evil wolves who go south to hunt and eat a few bites of flesh and blood from the Tang Dynasty.
By then, it will be a waste of people."
"Does the emperor care about this situation at all? It's all the hegemony passed down from ancestors."
"With those eunuchs who are the priests blocking the situation outside, how could the priests know what the current situation of the Tang Dynasty is today? All these "meanors" must be counted on those ten eunuchs who are not men or women."
Qin Yuesheng said: "Ten eunuchs?"
Chapter completed!