The Lord who use immortals as food

"Is there anything interesting about Gao Yang?"

"He likes to assume other people's names."

"who?"

"Zhang Sichue"

"He said his name was Zhang Sichuan?"

"Yes." Pei Ye nodded firmly, "We didn't know each other the first time we met, and he insisted on saying that and kept taking things out of his stomach. I suspect that he is out there every day to corrupt Mr. Zhongcheng. reputation."

"There is such a thing."

"The owner of the museum probably doesn't know about this."

"It doesn't matter whether I know it or not," Xu Chuo said, "but I know that Mr. Zhang definitely doesn't know."

Pei Ye raised his head slightly.

The two chatted incessantly, and Xu Chuo seemed to have turned all his attention here tonight, watching the development of the situation with him.

The search with heavy military presence ahead was still going on. To search such a large building would take more than one night, but it was not too difficult for Sergeant Yu Longwu to find anomalies in the target.

Pei Ye saw that the time was almost up, so he raised his sword and walked up. The man in black armor standing at the door turned his head and glanced at him. He nodded slightly without any words or movements. Pei Ye nodded and entered. Long Wujun was already inside. Occupied by the iron armor, Pei Ye walked forward until he reached the deepest part of the carp hall.

Dozens of people in armor were tightly surrounding, and some unknown people were held aside with their hands bound. There were middle-aged men in fine and elegant clothes, and there were fierce men who were shirtless and kneeling. One arm was limp, and two heavy weapons were used. The hammer rolled aside in a mess.

A dark wall was being dismantled, and the young man in silver armor stood aside to watch, holding his helmet in his hand, revealing his messy black hair and handsome face.

Pei Ye stepped forward and stood next to him: "So you really lead the troops, you are so majestic."

The young general sighed softly: "For me, the Youlong Military Army, who is holding the Shang Lang, riding on the gang is no better than galloping on the battlefield."

"Congratulations on Gaosheng."

"It's a pity that I have been cultivated for eight lifetimes now, and I can no longer hold me back with a mere sword."

Pei Ye looked over his head: "Is this where they hide people?"

"The Carp Hall has been visited almost everywhere, but there is a space behind this wall that cannot be seen from the outside." Shang Lang held his halberd, tilted his head and looked around and sighed, "It is really a luxurious place."

"This is just one of their properties. I never thought a gang could make so much money."

Shang Lang nodded: "You know, I just heard them say that the entry threshold for this place requires twenty taels of silver."

He looked at Pei Ye and repeated: "Think about it, twenty taels!"

Pei Ye frowned and nodded: "It's indeed expensive."

Shang Lang was silent for a moment, then turned back to watch the soldiers break through the wall. He sighed, kicked his halberd and picked up: "Be careful, there may be dead soldiers behind the wall."

Pei Ye nodded and held the hilt of the sword warily.

But after a moment, the two of them were startled. Shang Lang put his halberd on the ground again, and Pei Ye also let go.

Both of them looked at the demolished wall, their faces silent. Dozens of shackled people were huddled in different cages in fear or confusion. Their food and accommodation were not treated harshly, the cages were covered with brocade blankets, and they were provided with cakes and water. However, there was a cruelty created by man in each of them.

There is even a sense of nausea in the horror. There are scholars, warriors, and young and beautiful women. You don’t need to look too much to know that these are all the results of careful selection.

Pei Ye pursed her lips and slowly grasped the hilt of the sword again.

"This kind of taming is called a 'human pen'. Cut off the tongue, gouge out the eyes, break some of the tendons that produce strength, and then use methods to tame it, making it look like a wooden man."

Xuan Jiaren said emotionlessly. Pei Ye and Shang Lang stood beside him. At the door of the darkroom in the distance, a cleanly dressed, pale and quiet man was being led out.

Pei Ye was silent for a while: "Why? Use it as a ghostwriter? Write articles and poems for yourself, take exams and become famous? Can't they buy it with money?"

"Yes." Xuan Jiaren said, "But the main thing is to have fun."

".for fun?"

"It's like fighting crickets. Competing for literary talents, Feihua Ling, Qu Shuizhang, all literary plays can be played with human pens to compare whose is better and who's more powerful. Different pens have different literary talents and have their own specialties. Some people just Collect different ones to play with." Xuan Jiaren said indifferently, "Those with delicate figures and delicate faces are the most popular among the ladies of the aristocratic family."

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"When you get it, you can put a mask on your face, or decorate it with whatever you want. It's often very beautiful." He tilted his head slightly and pointed, "The same is true for those warriors. The meridian tree has to be locked, and the key is handed over. For the buyer. This kind of fighting people are not allowed to have hands. They usually have swords on their wrists, or they simply remove their limbs and replace them with Yangyilou's mechanical limbs. Some even deliberately make them look like dogs and wolves, and watch them fight. , gambling for fun.”

"These two items can be sold for three to five hundred taels each. A famous knight or a beautiful cultivator is more expensive." The Xuanjia man took back his hand and looked at the group of women at the end, "These ones that only have looks are much cheaper."

Pei Ye tilted his head and said, "Who is buying these?"

The Xuanjia man was silent.

"I can't tell who is buying it," Shang Lang said in a low voice, "It's a fashionable luxury style."

Pei Ye frowned.

"A bunch of disgusting maggots." Xuan Jiaren said indifferently, "Sooner or later, they will have red birds hanging on their heads."

After saying this, he turned around with his gun and put on the reins of his horse: "Everyone is brought back to the Forbidden Garden. Shang Lang will leave fifty people to wait for people from Jingzhao Mansion and Dali Temple."

"Yes!" Shang Lang clasped his fists and lowered his head.

Pei Ye still remembered that when they came flying over, they said that Liguan "hidden weapons secretly", and now it turned out that more than ten people took off the military crossbows they were carrying and threw them on the ground as evidence.

Two hundred horses came riding down the street, and the big pavilion was swept away by the wind without any resistance. The first pavilion in Pingkang and the first gang in Chang'an did not have enough power to be seen at this time, but Pei At this moment, Liquid had an inexplicable intuition that this was more of an unexpected opportunity, just the outpost of some kind of violent collision.

Pei Ye walked out of the disappeared door. No one approached for nearly twenty feet on the street, but further away, people gathered to watch the excitement.

Pei Ye suddenly said: "Actually, to put it bluntly, they are just traffickers."

"Yes." Xu Chuo responded, "You can guess what is going on under the Taiping Cao without checking, so there won't be much new."

"Then for a trafficking case, is there anything wrong with launching such a battle?"

Pei Ye followed Ding Yukang to find out here. He was also used to piercing the enemy's heart like a sharp knife. In his mind, there were many ways to deal with the woman, whether it was to let him infiltrate or send a few people to assist, or It may be a more appropriate method to let these soldiers invade in plainclothes.

Mobilizing the heavy cavalry of the Forbidden Army in this way will inevitably awaken too many forces.

"There's nothing wrong with it." Xu Chuo said, "Separating the threads and peeling off the cocoons is how you find the truth, and tearing away the cover-ups is what I do when I want to see the truth."

She said: "Tell Shenjing that I am going to attack the Taiping Cao Gang. Let's see who will stand up."

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Pei Ye felt for a moment that Xu Chuo was indeed sitting in front of a larger chessboard. After a moment of confusion, his eyes returned to his eyes and he could see his position more clearly: "Then how to move it?"

"The Law of the Tang Dynasty: Anyone who plunders people and sells them into slaves will be hanged; those who make slaves of slaves will be exiled for three thousand miles; those who make wives, concubines and descendants will be exiled for three years." Xu Chuoping said in a low voice, "As for this case, Just get to the bottom of it.”

"Shang Lang said that this is not an isolated case, but a trend of the powerful people in Shenjing." Pei Ye said.

"Then this trend will be banned in this case."

"Jing Zhaoyin, is he one of ours?"

"Opponent." Xu Chuo said, "But it doesn't matter, this case will be established."

Pei Ye left Pingkangfang at night.

He gradually began to understand that the Imperial Army could take it by surprise, forcefully break in, and destroy a carp house, but to push this case forward, to the entire Taiping Cao Gang, and even further back, of course, it would still require the capital. Zhaofu came to investigate, but the government order still had to come from Nanya.

Pei Ye remembered that Xu Chuo once said that they lacked influence on Nanya, so he asked this question, and now he also realized how much resistance the woman would move forward in the future.

That was indeed not his field. Pei Ye returned to the Sword Xiuyuan with his sword, but the two of them who lived together did not take a break and continued to study and practice swordsmanship. Pei Ye nodded, ate something, washed his face, and took the Jade Fei Sword Theory to quietly think about the third level of Fusion Moves.

The stars and the moon were silent, and when the moon was in the sky, Yan and Yang finally got up and went back to the house. Yan Feiqing looked at the roommate on the eaves who usually slept the earliest, and said, "So busy?"

"I don't feel sleepy today." Pei Ye lay on the roof holding a book and taking advantage of the moonlight, "You guys should rest."

Yan Feiqing then returned to the house.

Looking from the rooftops under the imperial city, the city of Shenjing, with its endless lights, spreads out into a sea of ​​stars. It is huge, prosperous, and so beautiful that it makes people crazy.

Pei Ye quietly flipped through the book against this background and lay there all night.

The next three days were a rare period of sword-study and study without chores. Intensive reading on the new sword was completed, and Qingcheng Sword Theory also had another lesson. Pei Ye also went to the Imperial Academy again, but this time there was no Xu Chuo. He stayed with Fang Jidao and listened to a class.

Finally, on the fourth day, Xiuwen Guan sent him the news to go to Jingzhao Mansion.

In the past three days, a fierce and interactive confrontation appeared in the officialdom of Shenjing. The accountability for the Longwu Army's unauthorized actions took place immediately. However, the wave in the army did not spread to the outside world and seemed to be firmly suppressed. The origin of the business was a group in the army, and two hundred men and horses went to the brothel, but in the end it just ended without any illness.

The case of carp hiding and human trafficking was decided the next day. Nanya sentenced the relevant people to be executed or relocated according to the law, but he refused to talk about further possibilities and was determined to close the case.

But after three days of confrontation and pulling in different directions, the result was just as the woman said that night - the case was finally established.

Three divisions were established, and Di Jiu, the youngest Shaoqing of Dali Temple, took over the case and issued a writ for it.

He moved the third division away from Nanya and located it in Jingzhao Mansion.

When Pei Ye arrived at the Yamen of Jingzhao Mansion, the red-robed official was waiting at the door, and Li Zhao stood behind him with a sword in hand.

There was a carriage parked in front of them, and an important minister in purple official robes stood under the carriage with a cold expression.

"Master Lu, you came to the court without permission, which is rude." Hongpao said, "Because before this case was reported to the court, it was a public security matter under the Jingzhao Mansion. The Third Division is now taking over , I have to borrow treasure land files.”

"Di Jiu, some cases are cases and some cases are not cases. I advise you to be less stupid." Zipao said coldly.

Di Jiu raised his eyes and looked directly at him: "Sixty-seven disabled people were found in the Liguan, but the Liguan has no such business. Lu Zhaoyin, where did these people come from and where are they going? I have to ask two questions. There is no answer on his face. Zhaoyin is so eloquent, but he tells me that this is not a case? "

Lu Yugu's eyes darkened, and he said coldly: "People say that you, Di Jiu, are stupid and smelly, but you have lived up to your reputation today."

He then lifted the curtain and boarded the carriage, drove off and left.

Di Jiu turned towards Pei Ye at this moment, and what caught his eye first was a pair of piercing eyes and thick, peak-like eyebrows.

"Your Excellency must be Pei Yanjian." His eyebrows were bent downwards unaccustomedly at this time, showing a polite smile, "I am Di Jiu of Dali Temple, and this is my deputy Li Zhao, he said You’ve seen it before.”

Li Zhao took a step forward and said with some helplessness: "Sir, we have said that there are different official positions, so I should be the one to introduce them."

Di Jiu waved his hand: "Alas!"

Pei Ye cupped his fists and bowed: "Pei Ye has met your Excellency."

"How polite." Di Jiu raised his hand and walked towards the door, "Pei Yanjian, I think we have all seen the case. Let me make two points. First, these people are kept in the carp house. Because brothels often have people moving around, they are not conspicuous, so they serve as a transit point. Although the customers are wealthy, their status is limited. Therefore, these people want to sell to higher places, not through the carp house, but to another precious place for distribution. ”

Pei Ye nodded. He remembered the scene when they first met that night. Some people had not completely completed their "transformation". It was indeed more like a hoarding place.

"Secondly," a group of people walked into the government office, but it was a bit deserted. No one greeted or greeted them. Di Jiu's voice was as usual, "We have no idea about this place, it is difficult to search, and we lack the power. The carp hall We are still searching for traces, but the most feasible way is through Taiping Caogang.”

"Um."

"They have been colluding for a long time. One is to cover up, the other is illegal, and they can always be implicated."

"The Taiping Cao Gang can't leave."

"Of course I can't leave."

The three of them continued walking to the yamen. There were indeed very few officials on the road. When they met occasionally, they would look evasive. Pei Ye looked at this scene and suddenly remembered: "By the way, Mr. Di, I heard that the Third Division is not the Yushitai of the Ministry of Justice." Are you teaming up with Dali Temple? Why don’t you see the Vice Minister and the Imperial Censor?”

Di Jiu smiled: "One is sick, the other is procrastinating - don't think too much, this 'third division' is probably the three of us."

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"But it's just getting clean. Didn't you see that even the person named Lu has left?" He said in a low voice, "The entire officialdom is avoiding him like a snake and a scorpion. I want to find out clearly about it."

"Come on." He then pushed open the door of the case file room, "Today we will sort out all the cases related to the Taiping Cao."