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The autumn wind rolled up the yellow leaves, filling the courtyard.

Sui You stood up and listened to the words spoken by the county magistrate.

"Ping An Dao?"

His expression changed:

"These evil cult demons also want to take advantage of the chaos?"

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"No problem, let them come."

Shangguan Yun wiped the corners of his mouth elegantly with a handkerchief, as if everything was in his hands, with an awe-inspiring confidence:

"Let Yao Wangtang know, after all, they are the ones who dug up their ancestral graves."

Sui You's eyes flickered, and he nodded: "Your Excellency has a good idea."

There have always been various evil cults in all dynasties, especially in troubled times, where evil cults have a natural breeding ground.

Most evil cults, in essence, are just to deceive the people's money in their pockets, or to deceive believers, especially female believers, to practice dual cultivation with them for their own selfish interests.

This kind of cult is not worth worrying about, and it will not become a big climate. It is basically a small cult gang entrenched in a certain county or township, just like a bandit, and can be wiped out by sending troops at random.

But there is a kind of cult that cannot be underestimated.

That is...

They don't want anything.

They don't want believers to donate incense and don't want believers to build temples for them, and they don't covet beauty at all...

They even treat believers for free.

This kind of cult is the most terrifying.

Because they don't want anything, they can establish a more "holy and selfless" impression in the hearts of the people.

However, those in high positions can see it at a glance.

The less they want, the greater their ambitions.

Ping An Dao, this mysterious Taoist organization that suddenly emerged from Baojiao County, also emerged with disasters and epidemics, and then they used the banner of free treatment and talisman water to heal injuries...

The key is that those talisman waters are really effective!

This item alone is completely on par with Yaowangtang, one of the three major forces in the county.

Taking away someone's money is tantamount to killing their parents.

Yaowangtang sells medicine. If you provide free medical treatment and magic water to save people, how can Yaowangtang do business?

………………

Caishikou was a mess, with rotten vegetable leaves, fruits, peaches, pigs, sheep, fish and shrimps everywhere.

Not far away, the crossroads where the people of Baojiao County usually come to buy vegetables have been completely cleared, and the people are blocked twenty feet away.

The four intersections are guarded by the officers and soldiers of the county government, and no one can get close to the twenty feet range.

In the middle of the crossroads, there is no execution platform, only nine figures kneeling on the ground, with black cloth on their heads, wearing white prison uniforms, and wooden signs hanging around their necks with their crimes written on them.

Gululululu~~

Chen Ku followed the prison car escorting Ni Kun and came to Caishikou. He stood among the people and watched Ni Kun being escorted off the prison car, wearing shackles and kneeling with the ten people.

Ni Kun was forced to kneel there, approaching beheading. No one could be calm at this time. Even the most famous bandits would be afraid and their legs would tremble.

This is the instinct of human nature, the greatest fear between life and death!

In order to overcome or divert the great fear of death, Ni Kun knelt with the nine death row prisoners, staring at Chen Ku in the crowd:

"Little thief! Little thief! I will haunt you even after I die and become a ghost, and I will make you die a miserable death! Ah, I don't want to die, I don't want to die, ah, ah..."

The more he gritted his teeth, the more his teeth trembled in fear, and he couldn't speak clearly.

"I... I don't want to die..."

Chen Ku stood among the people. Although he had killed people, those people died very quickly when they were dying, not like this scene at all...

All the death row prisoners knew that they were about to die. This kind of countdown to death was the most tormenting and painful, and it was more terrible than the moment of death.

Chen Ku noticed that several death row inmates with their faces covered by black cloth were trembling all over and urinating and shitting.

"I remember watching some interviews in my previous life. Even the most vicious death row inmates would urinate and shit all over the floor when they were executed, and would convulse before they died..."

Chen Ku looked at the various postures of the ten death row inmates at the crossroads, and his heart was complicated. He realized that the mood he felt when he killed people was different from the mood he felt when he was watching the execution of the death row inmates.

Suddenly, he noticed that among the ten death row inmates, even a great thief like Ni Kun in the inner energy realm was trembling all over and trembling with his lips before he died, and he was as scared as if he had epilepsy...

However, there was a death row inmate with a black cloth covering his head and his face could not be seen. He didn't know whether he was numb or accepted his fate calmly. He actually knelt straight there without moving.

"This person has a good mentality."

Just as Chen Ku admired the calmness of the death row inmate who was different from the other death row inmates,

At the end of the execution ground, the county lieutenant in black official uniform sat on a grandmaster chair with a square table in front of him. He gently picked up a cup of tea, took a sip and asked, "It's three quarters past noon. How much time is left?"

The county lieutenant is the third in command under the county magistrate.

In the Daji Dynasty, each county had a seventh-rank official, two eighth-rank officials, and some ninth-rank officials, such as the chief clerk, the patrol inspector, and the heads of the three shifts and six rooms.

The only seventh-rank official was the county's justice, Shangguan Yun.

There are two deputies under him. One is the county magistrate, who assists him in handling the government affairs of a county. He is the "prime minister" of a county. There is another one whose status is slightly lower than the county magistrate. He is the county lieutenant, who is in charge of catching thieves and public security. Officials in criminal and judicial affairs are generally slightly lower in rank than the county magistrate. They are also one of the county magistrate's deputies and the third-in-command in a county.

The person sitting on the execution platform now is Wei Ma Tianlin, the third in command of Baojiao County.

"It's still half a quarter of an hour before we return to the county captain."

"There's no need to miss this half a moment!"

Lieutenant Ma County sneered lightly:

"They are all extremely evil people. Let's execute them. Many people are still waiting to see blood."

"Your Majesty the County Lieutenant has given an order. Noon has arrived. Starting from left to right, we must identify the person one by one and carry out the execution!"

Accompanied by a loud shout.

Some of the people at Caishikou had closed their eyes in fear, while others were waiting to watch with their eyes wide open in curiosity.

An executioner with a red scarf on his head first took off the hood of the first person on the left. He was a man about thirty years old. After identifying himself, he raised the knife and dropped it...

"hiss……"

Chen Ku listened to a series of panic and gasps from the people around him, and then saw the good man's head rolling to the ground.

"Hurry, hurry, dip in blood while it's hot. If someone wants to dip in blood, hurry up! A steamed bun with blood for one person! One tael of silver!"

The moment the head hit the ground, Chen Ku looked at the police officers responsible for maintaining order at the scene and started shouting around the people.

"I, I, I, I want one, please sir... My child is infected with the epidemic and is waiting for help."

Chen Ku looked at the crowd and saw that many people opened their hands and handed out money. The jailers immediately took a dozen steamed buns from the cage next to them, kicked them into their arms, and ran to the neck of the man on the execution platform. He went up and dipped the steamed buns in the blood of more than a dozen people. After coming down, he collected the money with one hand and handed out the steamed buns with the other.

This time, a dead head, a steamed bun worth more than ten cents, actually made more than ten taels of silver, and there were still people who didn't buy it.

"Wait for the next one. This person's blood is no longer hot, so it won't work."

Chen Ku looked dumbfounded, and then felt chills in his heart. It was not because of the ignorance of the people. Human blood steamed buns were something that existed in the previous life before the founding of the People's Republic of China. Needless to say, it is very common in today's ancient times...

But making money from this is a bit... disgusting.

Chen Ku couldn't help but remain silent. Anyone who was an apprentice at Yaowangtang knew that human blood steamed buns could not cure diseases.

Otherwise, Chai Tiangui wouldn't have to shed tears of gratitude to Chen Ku for sending him a bait rat that could really cure hundreds of poisons.

Naturally, the government will know better about whether human blood steamed buns can cure diseases, but they still sell them for money...

The official in charge today is the county captain. Naturally, it was the county captain who acquiesced.

Chen Ku was not ready to read any more.

But just when he was about to turn around and leave.

[A group of Ping'an Tao demons threw talismans and enveloped this place, which was detrimental to the Lord and created evil spirits...]

A huge warning message appeared in Chen Ku's mind, and he subconsciously raised his head.

boom! !

I saw a sky full of yellow talisman paper thrown from nowhere in the air, and landed on the shops and the ground around Caishikou. They exploded immediately, forming waves of air, and the impact spread. .

Many people were injured in an instant.

Chen Ku was among the crowd and was instantly affected. He felt that the fire and air waves were covering him, and they were about to spread to him, and he would be seriously injured even if he was not dead.

At the critical moment, he transformed.