[Baiyutang] Wind-dried clothes

Bao Zheng on the other end led Li Yang to watch, and while walking, he told: "You can only look through the sill, and don't go close. The baskets containing food and clothing are also set aside, and you can't take them in. Someone will send them to you." With your brother." Li Yang agreed obediently.

Seeing that he was about to arrive at the single room where Li Tong was detained, he saw a small military man looking at the sill throwing things, cursing while throwing: "Wu that bird man, you don't clean your mouth, swear more What is it?" In the prison, Li Tong stood up and pulled the iron chain with rattling noises, and there was a sound of drinking and drinking from the iron-bound mouth, like a mad beast about to pounce.

Seeing this, Bao Zheng hurriedly shouted: "What are you doing? Get out of here!"

The soldier hurriedly put his sleeves away, muttering something in his mouth, turned around and walked away quickly.

On the side, Li Yang saw his brother trapped in chains with his hands and feet chained, his hair disheveled, his clothes stained with blood, and the ground was scattered with things thrown by the soldier earlier, which looked like smashed ceramic pieces. He felt terrified and glanced at two He turned his head to the side, not daring to look any further.

The dynasty came forward, pretending to whisper something in Bao Zheng's ear, and Bao Zheng looked at Li Yang and said, "You should visit Li Yang, and you must not go forward. There are other matters in this pavilion. I won't accompany you for now." After saying that, he looked out and walked away with the dynasty.

There was no one around for a while, Li Tong saw Li Yang trembling outside the sill, he sighed slightly in his heart, his mouth was covered with an iron tool, and his speech was vague, but he still said: "Brother, I'm the one who troubled you. You needn't be afraid."

Li Yang raised his eyes and looked around, Fang said: "Someone wants me to say... say..."

Hearing this, Li Tong suddenly pulled the iron chain like crazy, and shouted in his throat: "Don't talk! Don't talk!"

Li Yang was stunned for a moment, but saw Li Tong knelt down, bowing his neck as if to grab the ground.The iron chain restrained his movements, so that his head could not touch the ground, no matter what, he was only half an inch away.Veins sprouted on his neck, but Li Tong suddenly laughed out loud, and the entire cell reverberated.He smiled and said: "Under the green mountain, the dragon and the phoenix will fall! Get out of the abyss cage and overturn the mountain peak!"

The sound of armor colliding suddenly sounded all around, Wang Chao Mahan led a group of soldiers and rushed out, one group surrounded Li Yang, the other cut off the chains and rushed into the cell.

Li Tong suddenly poked his head out, stuck out his tongue, and licked the ceramic piece that fell in front of him.As soon as a soldier grabbed Li Tong's shoulders, he saw him screaming and raising his head, pus dripped out of his face one by one, drowning his face, and the mouth was full of foul-smelling and viscous yellow liquid , the teeth fell out one by one in the pus.The howling sound gradually weakened in the water-melted bones and blood, like a candle submerged in water.

Seeing this, Ma Han raised his voice and shouted: "It's corpse powder! Chop off his head!"

The soldier on the side raised his knife and fell off Li Tong's head with a click.The head rolled around a few times, and the iron tool knocked on the ground with a jingling sound. When it stopped, there was only a pair of iron tools with a mouth, with pus-yellow corpse fluid hanging on it.The headless corpse was suspended by iron chains, and the blood on the neck was sprayed several feet away, and the festering had stopped.

Seeing this, Li Yang lost his voice in shock, his knees knocked heavily on the ground, unable to stand up for a while.

Bao Zheng walked out from the shadows, Wang Chao looked at him and called softly: "Lord Bao, this..."

Bao Zheng waved his hand at him and said, "That's all."

Wang Chao pointed to Li Yang who was kneeling on the ground crying bitterly, and asked, "How to deal with this person?"

Bao Zheng said: "Put him in prison first, and wait for the court to come for trial."

The sergeant tied Li Yang's hands with a rope and pushed him into the execution room. Bao Zheng led Chao Mahan and the others to follow quickly.Li Yang was too terrified to cry, he just begged for mercy tremblingly.The sergeant looked at him and shoved him, and he staggered and fell to his knees, crawled up to Bao Zheng's feet elbow to knee, and slammed his head on the ground.

At this time, a jailer came up and reported to Bao Zheng: "The basket brought by Li Yang is indeed some ordinary food and clothing."

Bao Zheng nodded, and Li Yang hurriedly said: "Caomin...Caomin brother violated the king's law...but Caomin is a law-abiding person...never...never have any crooked thoughts..."

Bao Zheng saw him like this, so he asked him directly: "Who is it that sent you the message?"

Li Yang replied: "Caomin didn't... didn't see anyone...he was standing outside Caomin's window...threatening Caomin..."

Bao Zheng heard that he couldn't utter a complete sentence for a long time, so he roughly speculated about the situation at the time, and asked: "What letter does that person want you to send to Li Tong?"

Li Yang said incoherently: "It is... a poem."

Bao Zheng asked, "What poem?"

Li Yang tremblingly said: "Thousands of miles Pianhong...even the wings and feathers, one day...the other day scattered into floating clouds."

When Bao Zheng heard this, he thought to himself, isn't this the secret code for the meeting of Hongjian Pavilion that Ouyang Chun and the others mentioned?What exactly do these words mean.He thought for a moment, then suddenly shouted: "Not good!" Turning his head suddenly, he greeted Wang Chao Mahan and said, "It's been tricked! Go quickly and find the soldier who was watching Li Tong throwing things."

Immediately, the prison camp was boiling up and down, pushing and shoving in and out, and the armor collided and clanged.In order not to get away from others, Chao Mahan gathered all the soldiers in the village in the open space in the center of the village, and questioned them one by one.First, they asked the sergeant who was guarding Li Tong, but they didn't know how to sneak in such a big man.At that time, no one thought that such an ordinary soldier had other plans, so no one saw his face clearly and let him go.

Zhao Mahan knew in his heart that the time had passed and he would not be able to find him long ago. They searched so aggressively for the purpose of explaining to Bao Zheng.

When the two went back to report, they bumped into Bao Zheng inspecting Li Tong's headless body.Bao Zheng lifted up the clothes on the corpse, and saw a scar the size of two thumbs on his back, as if it had been branded with a branding iron. Most of the scab on the scar had fallen off, revealing the new pink flesh underneath. Like a tattoo on a piece of cinnabar.But if you look closely at the outline, it does look like a phenom.

Chao Mahan was standing by, Bao Zheng frowned and thought for a moment, then said: "Seeing that this tattoo has been burned off with a soldering iron, and Li Yang said that Li Tong had just returned home, it is obvious that he had retired. The people behind the scenes only regarded him as an abandoned son. I am afraid that Han Er Yuanwai never heard the truth from him, and he said that he would return to the side of Master Xiangyang, which was also a lie."

Wang Chao asked: "Since this is the case, wouldn't all the busy work last time be in vain?"

Bao Zheng shook his head and said: "Not really. Li Tong's coming to the wedding banquet was ordered by the master behind him, and his master may have already planned the next countermeasure. Since he said the word 'Xiangyang', he definitely didn't just talk nonsense."

Ma Han sighed: "Who is it that has such a meticulous mind?"

Bao Zheng didn't answer, he changed the subject and asked, "Didn't the sergeant who threw the object be caught?"

Both Wang and Ma were immediately embarrassed, and replied falteringly: "The villain is not effective in handling things, I hope Mr. Bao will punish him severely."

Bao Zheng waved his hand and said: "This pavilion also knows that most of them will not be able to catch, so you two don't blame yourself."

The two of Wang Ma breathed a sigh of relief.Bao Zheng said: "Let Li Yang be blinded, but the real assassin has already lurked in the stronghold, this time the pavilion has miscalculated again." At the end, he asked, "Which of you remembers the short songs that Li Tong recited before his death? "

Wang Chao said: "The villain remembers what is 'Under the green mountain, the dragon and the phoenix will fall. Out of the abyss cage, and the mountain peak will fall'."

Bao Zheng pondered for a moment and asked, "What do you think he said?"

Ma Han responded, "Isn't it another sign of Shilaozi from Hongjian Pavilion?"

Bao Zheng shook his head and said, "Have you ever heard of 'Da Chu Xing, King Chen Sheng'?"

Wang Chao said: "Master Bao, you mean that someone wants to change the dynasty?"

Bao Zheng sighed: "Nursery rhymes and short songs are never prophecies, but ulterior motives."

Wang Chao hurriedly asked: "According to what Master Bao said, Li Tong recited four short songs before he died, what was in his mind?"

Bao Zheng murmured: "Maybe they told us in private that someone wants to rebel."

Wang Chao said: "Master Bao is not sure?"

"The entire matter has only been seen here and there. Who knows what ghosts and ghosts are hidden under this muddy water? I don't know much about it, so how dare I draw conclusions at will?" Bao Zheng explained for the headless corpse. Covered clothes, said in a low voice, "Maybe it's because I know I'm going to die, and I just want to vent my anger. The inference of the rebellion must not be leaked."

Chao Mahan responded, and then asked: "How to deal with Li Tong's soft-boned younger brother?"

Bao Zheng pondered for a moment and said: "He was also used by someone, so there is no need to hold on to him, so Li Tong's body was cremated and his ashes were taken home for burial."

Not long after, Li Yang came out of the prison camp, holding the urn in his hand, weeping lowly, his hands and feet were still weak.When I walked home, the setting sun was already in the sky.He untied the chain and opened the copper lock, and pushed open the wooden door with a creak.

The courtyard returned to its usual silence.Li Yang recalled the few days when Li Tong lived there, at this moment he had cooked meals for his younger brother and brought them to the table.After eating, the two brothers sat in the yard to enjoy the shade.Li Tong said that with the money, in a few months, he will marry a beautiful wife to his younger brother.The two brothers chatted and laughed.This is indeed a lively and happy life that Li Yang has never lived before.

Seeing that the sky was getting dark and the returning birds were flying across the roof, Li Yang stood up and wanted to put Li Tong's ashes in the house first.

Wipe a fire, light the oil lamp, the room is dimly lit, and the dim yellow light blurs out of the window. Li Yang glanced at it, and suddenly saw a figure reflected on the window paper, hanging upside down, like a bat, in the oil. The moment the light came on, it disappeared.Li Yang was startled, and his heart was filled with fifteen buckets.He asked in a trembling voice, "Who is outside the window?"

"Brother, you brother died so badly—" the voice from outside the window was gloomy.

As soon as Li Yang heard this, the tragic scene of Li Tong's death appeared in his mind, his legs were like sifting chaff, his body was like soft mud, and he was about to slip limply to the ground.He knelt on the ground with a plop, kowtowed to the shadow and said, "Brother... my younger brother is also... forced... my younger brother never wanted to harm you..."

"Brother You is not fair--" the voice outside the window was still talking, "Brother You was wandering, he only thought about the reunion of brothers one day, but after Brother You was arrested and imprisoned, you turned around and betrayed Bao Longtu You killed brother bad—now you say you never hurt brother bad!" As soon as the words fell, the voice hissed, like thousands of ghosts roaring at the gate of hell.

Hearing this, Li Yang was heartbroken. While crying, he kowtowed to the shadow outside the window and begged for mercy, "Brother...how can I ask my younger brother...to pay for my sins? I won't...don't come to my younger brother anymore?"

"Brother wants you to avenge me!"

Hearing this, Li Yang cried: "Little brother...is a jealous...and he can't kill people...how can I avenge brother?"

The voice said: "Brother You don't need you to kill people - at noon the next day, you only need to come to Zeng Ji Tea House in Beicheng Square to avenge Brother You."

At this moment, Li Yang's mind was in a mess, and he only dared to agree to the order of the shadow outside the window.

The voice said again: "If you don't come by then, don't blame Brother You for not recognizing you as a brother!"

After saying this, the shadow hanging upside down outside the window suddenly disappeared.Li Yang sat on the ground, his hands and feet were soft, he got up after a while, and ran out the door, and saw a shadow stepping on a swallow tile like a thin wave, covered in moonlight, like a gust of wind, quietly disappearing into the night.