Si Tian Guan

Chapter 157 Commander Liu

Liu Chongming led the horse and walked back along the market.

This road is very familiar, every time Shen Zhou is called by his aunt to accompany him, he will rush over there in a hurry to bring him back.

The weather is cold, and cotton curtains are hung on the streets to do business, which makes the hot bun shop stand out.

The beef buns at that shop are delicious, and they both like them.

When I came here in the past, the little fox would run over carefully on the ice and snow, and then run back with the hot buns wrapped up in his sleeves.

They ate a steamed stuffed bun in the freezing weather, they were as familiar as an old couple, and as sweet as a newlywed.

Liu Chongming stopped for a while opposite the steamed stuffed bun shop, his eyes were a little blurred by the steaming steam, so he decided to lead the horse and pass by.

There is a fruit shop further ahead, the little fox is still not used to sweets, so they each buy their own, he likes ice and snow plums, and the little fox likes the sour vinegar crabapple.

He hides and hides, but he will always be stuffed, and his teeth are so sore that they are about to fall out, but the next time the little fox is fed, he will still open his mouth willingly.

Liu Chongming stared at the half-closed door, a little lost in thought.

The shopkeeper in the shop came out to greet him, and he naturally recognized him as a regular customer, so he brought a freshly pickled crabapple in vinegar, he looked at it for a while, and put one in his mouth.

It was still so sour, so sour that tears were about to come out.

The rapid sound of horseshoes galloped from far to near, Liu Chongming looked back and waved to the shopkeeper. After a while, he saw the man on the horse jumping off the horse in front of him.

"My lord," the man cupped his hands and half knelt, "The emperor ordered me to announce that my lord will enter the palace."

As if asking for credit, the man had a happy expression on his face. After Liu Chongming got on the horse, he hurried a few steps behind him, leaned forward and whispered something.

"Congratulations, Shizi," the man paused, then smiled mysteriously, "Congratulations Commander Liu."

Liu Chongming had a faint smile on his face: "Thank you."

He raised his head, and the straight road in front of him led to the iron wall, which was and is now an airtight prison.

There, someone walked on the forest of knives for him, so he has no right to be depressed.

He once broke through that palace door in ignorance and did something unforgivable. This time, even if he just wanted to say sorry, he would be invincible.

The warmth in the room is not as hot as the sweat in the curtain.

The man was almost at the end, he suddenly strangled the person lying under him, and hit him hard.

"Ah Ru..." He squinted his eyes, and with a hoarse voice in his throat, he murmured fiercely: "...Ah Ru..."

Before the smell of joy and the sound of panting completely dissipated, the curtain was lifted, and the man came out with his clothes on, his spirits waning.

"what's up?"

The people who had been wandering outside the door didn't dare to delay, they hurriedly opened the door and entered, and presented a letter with both hands, regardless of the coldness in their body.

"Excuse me, my lord, something happened in Nan Ya."

Mu Jingyan shook off the letter paper and looked at it carefully.

The people on the side explained to him repeatedly: "The afternoon before yesterday, the emperor suddenly announced Liu Chongming to enter the palace, without even discussing with the three elders, he was directly mentioned as the commander of the Jinxiu camp."

"The night before yesterday, the Jinxiu Camp raided Zuo Xiaowei. It is said that many people were arrested, even Ren Rui was with him. Now they are all being detained in the Jinxiu Camp."

"My lord, Ren Rui sent you news some time ago, saying that he has made great achievements in suppressing bandits in the paddock, and he will be promoted in the near future. What... What did he do?"

"Ren Rui..." Mu Jingyan frowned and asked, "How is the situation in Jinxiu Camp?"

"Ever since we found out that something happened to Ren Rui, we've been trying to gather information from inside, but we didn't expect Liu Chongming to be more troublesome than we imagined."

The man sighed: "When he took care of the Jinxiu camp a while ago, he replaced his own people in and took the opportunity to send a lot of people away. Now the garrison is strictly guarded, and the people inside can't spread the news, and the people outside I can’t get in either. I still don’t know what happened.”

"Where's Mu Jingde?"

With such a big incident happening in Nan Ya, it is impossible for King Qi to stand by and watch.

"It is said that Prince Qi went to the palace yesterday afternoon, and he hasn't come out yet. I heard from the people in the palace that the emperor was so angry that he was so angry that he hurt his body. The imperial doctors were also sent to the palace. I'm afraid it won't calm down."

Mu Jingyan propped his head, and slowly traced the ins and outs of the future, his eyes fell on Ren Rui's name.

"Now Mu Jingde's Zuo Xiao camp is handed over to Ren Rui, isn't it?"

"Yes."

"Since we only take the people from Zuo Xiaoying, Ren Rui must be the first one," he tapped the word "Lie Qu" on the paper: "The people of Lie Qu have never given up on it, but so many people appear at once, I am so surprised." It's the first time I've seen you."

"Recently, this is the only thing related to Ren Rui," he frowned. "If there is a problem, it can only be on these people. Ren Rui, a lunatic, has never changed his mind. I don't know where these people are. here."

"Yes, I'll go and investigate now," the man replied, and then asked puzzledly, "But don't talk about Ren Rui, how many of Prince Qi's subordinates had their heads killed in this way, why is the emperor so angry?"

"Go and check, you will find out after you check!"

The man hurriedly responded and was about to go out when he was stopped again.

"Wait a minute, there is one more thing." Mu Jingyan slowly twiddled the paper: "It happened suddenly, there must be something strange. It has been more than half a month since the paddock came back, why did the emperor think of holding this matter now?"

"Yes," the man had followed Mu Jingyan for many years, and he immediately understood: "This subordinate will go and investigate."

The door was closed, and the room became quiet. After a while, the woman slid down from the bed, kowtowed on the ground, and went out the door quietly.

Mu Jingyan raised his eyes, looked at the back that resembled Liu Qingru, and took a sip of tea.

"Qingru..." He murmured and sighed, "Why do you have to have a child, why do you have to force me to do something to you?"

In the dark and narrow lower cell, the sound of iron chains scraping the ground came from far and near, which made people feel tense.

But the people in chains and shackles don't seem to care about their current situation at all, and they walk carelessly.

The two jailers pushed and shoved several times, but he didn't care. He didn't look around until he reached the first step, and bowed his hands to the person sitting in the middle.

"Master, we meet again. This outfit looks good."

"General Ren, it's absurd." Liu Chongming sat still and explained to him with a smile: "I am also following orders. This is the first time I do this job. If I don't do well, the general and brothers will forgive me."

In addition to them in the torture room, three or forty people from the Zuo Xiao camp had been brought over earlier, all of whom were more or less respectable, and were shamelessly tied to the iron bars beside the wall in a string.

Everyone was in a state of panic at first, but seeing Ren Rui's lazy and salivating appearance, and looking at each other, they all seemed to be reassured.

Liu Chongming raised his hand, and the jailer hurriedly pushed the torture frame over and hung Ren Rui's hands on it.

"My lord, is this trying to torture me? I'm from Nanya! Even if I'm at fault, Prince Qi will punish me," Ren Rui sneered, "My lord, think clearly, Jinxiu Camp is not a place for children to play games."

Liu Chongming also laughed, got up slowly, and stretched out his hand to the side.

The attendant hurriedly handed over his saber.

"How do you count it as playing house?"

Liu Chongming held the sword in his hand, and the blade was a few inches away, pointing vaguely at Ren Rui.

"The general is right. After all, I am still young, and I have more thoughts on playing. Coming to Jinxiu Camp is also a new game. Let the general play a game with me today."

"What do you want to play? I will accompany you!" Seeing that he was bluffing a few times, Ren Rui laughed loudly: "Xiao Shizi, when I was in Jinnan Mansion..."

Before his laughter fell, there was a sudden pause in his throat, and he heard screams of exclamation, and the severe pain in his mouth spread to his whole body, and then he saw Liu Chongming pick some bright red ball from the ground and put it on the tip of his sword .

"It turns out that if a person loses his tongue, he really can't speak." Liu Chongming said with an innocent face, "What should I do, I haven't asked anything yet."

Ren Rui finally became frightened.

He was an overlord who walked sideways in Jinnan Mansion, and after he came to the capital, he knew that he was protected by two princes in the open and in the dark, and he could easily get away with the capital crime at the beginning, and he never took Liu Chongming in his eyes.

But now he realizes that this unscrupulous little prince doesn't know the depth of the water and the depth of the water.

He lost his tongue, so he could only spurt blood from his mouth, and struggled with a whimper.

The guards on both sides stepped forward together, and instead of locking down his ankles, they pulled his knees apart and tied them to the rack to both sides.

Ren Rui suddenly understood what was happening, and struggled like crazy.

Liu Chongming took his time, looked around, everyone in the Zuo Xiao camp was silent under this look, for fear of making an extra sound, their tongues would disappear.

"General Ren said that I like to play," he flicked the tongue aside, and raised his sword again: "Then I will show the general what I usually play."

The sword edge sniffed and cut through Ren Rui's trousers, one after another, ignoring Ren Rui's hysterical struggle, until the outer trousers and obscene trousers were so torn that nothing could cover them.

"The general is old, so he should have been familiar with these things for a long time." Liu Chongming patiently picked out his belt: "But it's the first time to be played, isn't it very fresh?"

Everyone in the Zuo Xiao camp was stunned for a long time. Some turned their heads and didn't want to look at them, but they were quickly rewarded with whips by the people guarding the side.

Either watch carefully, or be beaten to death on the spot.

Ren Rui's bottom clothes have been picked out completely, and his legs are tied on both sides in front of dozens of subordinates, which is a great shame.

He struggled so hard that he almost collapsed, and suddenly a gurgling sound came from his throat.

It seemed to be laughing, and it seemed to be cursing, spurting from the mouth that was constantly gushing blood, like a ghost.

Liu Chongming took a few steps back, sat back on the chair, and watched the man in front of him go crazy.

"General Ren, you've had enough fun, can you recruit now?"

As if he didn't see the tongue on the ground, he asked slowly: "When we were in the paddock, who were the people the general rounded up on Beiwangpo?"

"Looking at the commotion in the city, does the general know who did it?"

"Are the dozens of heads captured by the general the old people of Liequ? Where did you find them?"

"There is a Zhuangzi in the south of Beiwangpo. The people in the Zhuangzi had their heads cut off and they were neatly locked up in the room. The murderer also closed the door properly so that people outside could not find the abnormality inside."

"Does the general know who the murderer is?"

Ren Rui was hanging on the torture frame with his head up, and he didn't even have the chance to bite his tongue. He just moved his lips in vain, and a terrifying sound came out of his throat.

The laughter in this silence is creepy.

Liu Chongming waited patiently for a moment, and naturally did not wait for an answer, so he clapped his hands lightly twice.

Someone outside the door came in with a bucket, and when he poured it into the wooden basin, he saw that the basin was full of twisted and sliding eels. At a glance, there were dense black backs and yellow bellies.

The two lifted up the basin, and Ren Rui's whole lower body sank into the basin amidst heart-piercing screams. At first, he still had the strength to move and struggle, but after a while, only the convulsions of his body's conditioned reflex remained. , the person has rolled his eyes and passed out.

In the lower abdomen, you can still see two finger-thick bulges running around.

Someone on the iron railing by the wall leaned to one side, and was so frightened that he fainted. Someone screamed uncontrollably, and under Liu Chongming's glance, he was strangled again.

"Have you seen everything clearly?" Liu Chongming slowly washed his hands in the basin before walking around in front of everyone.

"Did you remember all the questions I just asked?"

"The one who is willing to have a good chat is naturally my friend of Liu Chongming."

"Otherwise, he is a lesson for you."