Chapter 124 Mr. Feng

Chen Liqin watched coldly, but Jin Zhu was not relenting: "Master Chen, suppressing the civil unrest was originally the responsibility of your Luocheng government office. From the time you came here until now, I have not heard you say a word of thanks."

Chen Liqin snorted coldly and kept silent.

Jin Zhu laughed angrily, turned his head and looked at Chen Ji and said loudly: "I told you not to get involved in this matter, but you insisted on getting involved. What's the matter? People don't even appreciate it. Let's go. If I get involved in the affairs of civil servants again in the future, it will be my own fault!"

Chen Ji shook his head: "Sir, we can't leave yet, there is still something to be done."

Jin Zhu said anxiously, "You have taken down Liu Mingxian and captured Jingchao Si Cao, which is a great achievement. If nothing goes wrong, the path to cultivation will be delivered to Luocheng soon. If you withdraw now, it will have nothing to do with you if they mess up in the future. If you continue to stay here, who knows what kind of shit these civil servants will put on you!"

Chen Ji did not answer.

The Golden Pig sneered, "Forget it, forget it. I don't care whether you live or die. If you want to stay here, then stay here. If anything happens in the future, don't come to me to complain."

As he said that, the golden pig turned around and left with the Pegasus. Xifeng turned back several times to persuade Chen Ji, but finally gave up.

Zhang Zhuo put down the killing stick in his hand and advised Chen Ji: "Actually, he is doing this for your own good."

Chen Ji hummed: "I understand."

The porridge gradually became thicker, and Zhang Zhuo ordered people to extinguish the fire at the bottom of the pot.

An officer asked, "Sir, can you serve the porridge?"

Zhang Zhuo shook his head: "No, we have to wait until the porridge cools down."

When the porridge was served, the victims lined up one by one to get the porridge. Those who had bowls used them, and those who didn't have bowls held it in their hands.

It was not until this moment that Chen Ji understood why Zhang Zhuo wanted to wait until the porridge cooled down, because many of the victims who had fled did not even have a decent bowl.

At this time, a man took a mouthful of porridge from his bowl and suddenly threw the bowl to the ground: "Damn it, these officials fooled us and mixed sand into the porridge!"

As he said this, he pulled a middle-aged man who was holding porridge in both hands and scattered the porridge on the ground: "Don't drink it, pick up your weapons and fight them. Let's rush into the city to eat and drink, and don't suffer this bullshit!"

The man wanted to incite the victims to rebel, but the next moment, the victims queuing around him rushed over and lay on the ground, scooping the rice porridge mixed with mud into their mouths, and no one paid any attention to him.

The man was startled. He turned around to look at the victims and slowly retreated into the crowd.

Among the victims, some men who were originally eager to move suddenly became silent. After receiving the porridge, they squatted on the ground silently, swallowed sand mouthful by mouthful, and poured all the porridge into their mouths, leaving nothing behind.

Time passes bit by bit.

The porridge distribution lasted from the morning till the evening, and no one cursed at all. The assassins of the Liu family that Chen Ji wanted to capture had completely disappeared.

Zhang Zhuo saw this and said to Chen Ji, "Your method didn't work. They are smarter than you thought. When they saw that things were impossible, they immediately lay dormant. These Liu family's death warriors are not reckless men. They are the elite of the elite in the Yanshi camp. They are brave and resourceful."

Chen Ji bowed to him and said, "As mentioned before, I need to trouble Master Zhang now."

"Oh?"

Chen Ji explained, "I've heard that Lord Zhang has a photographic memory and can recite the classics, history, and literature by heart. Have you remembered the details I just told you to pay attention to?"

Zhang Zhuo laughed out loud: "So you've already taken my photographic memory into account... Don't worry, I've already memorized those people you mentioned! Follow me to arrest them!"

After saying that, he led the officers into the crowd to arrest people. In just a few breaths, he pulled out a person from the victims and knocked him to the ground.

The man was pinned to the ground by the officer's knees, and he screamed, "Sir, why are you arresting me?"

"Do you have any parents here?"

"No, my parents died in the flood."

"Do you have a wife and children here?"

"No, my wife and children also died in the flood."

Zhang Zhuo sneered, "The victims had been hungry for days, and they drank all the porridge they received, and they wanted another bowl. You have no wife, children, or parents, and you received the porridge but didn't drink it on the spot. How do you explain that?"

The man cried out, "Sir, you want to convict me based on this alone? It's unfair!"

Zhang Zhuo said indifferently: "This method may lead to the wrong arrest, but in an emergency, I will take the initiative and put you all in jail first. If you are truly wronged, I will let you go."

It is better to kill the wrong person than to let him go, so this is the only special method I have to resort to.

However, at this moment, the Liu family's assassins saw that Zhang Zhuo was taking a risk and no longer held back.

They drew short knives from their sleeves and dispersed, bypassing Zhang Zhuo and the officials, and rushed straight to the porridge stand through the victims!

Zhang Zhuo looked back suddenly and realized that these people were not coming for him, but to kill Chen Ji!

He shouted at the officers: "Stop them!"

The officer backed off.

My monthly salary is just a few dollars, why should I exchange my life with such a desperate man?

There were more than twenty assassins full of murderous intent. Chen Liqin suddenly turned his head and saw Chen Ji standing under the porridge shed with an expressionless face, staring at the assassins coldly.

The assassins were getting closer and closer, but Chen Ji refused to retreat or give in.

The next moment, a meteor was seen shooting down from the city wall, piercing the thighs of Liu family's assassins one by one like thunder.

The assassins looked up suddenly and found that the Pegasus had returned.

Tianma, dressed in white, stood on the parapet, holding an invisible bow in both hands, drawing the string and shooting!
When the meteor arrow burst out, a strong wind blew up, stirring his clothes up and down!
Chen Liqin was surprised and asked, "You just hinted that Jin Zhu left after quarreling with me, and you also deliberately mentioned in front of the victims that it was you who brought down Liu Mingxian. Are you trying to use yourself as bait?"

Chen Ji looked at him calmly, then turned his gaze back to the battlefield. Under the rain of meteors and arrows, the Liu family's soldiers had nowhere to hide.

Someone shouted, "Raise your shields!"

The Liu family's assassins were extremely strong. They grabbed the clothes of the victims from behind and held them in front of them to use as shields, hoping to use the victims to force Tianma to act cautiously.

But who would have thought that before the Pegasus stopped pulling the bow, the bursting meteor arrows mercilessly pierced through the chests of the victims first and then the chests of the dead soldiers.

Without the slightest hesitation.

The hostage dilemma did not bother Tianma at all, as if the blood in his bones was naturally cold.

It was as if he never saw any victims of the disaster, only the loyal soldiers behind them.

This is what the Silijian has been criticized for. As Jin Zhu said, the eunuchs raise people like raising Gu, and there are no more poisonous Gu insects in the world than them.

"Retreat!" The Liu family warriors turned around and fled for their lives. The three zodiac signs above attacked without any scruples and coldly. They couldn't muster any fighting spirit.

Zhang Zhuo picked up a sword and roared, "Don't let them run away!"

The sound of iron hooves was heard from the city gate. Golden Pig rushed out first, leading the secret spies to charge, and caught up with the assassins one by one from behind and chopped them to the ground.

Chen Ji let out a breath of foul air.

The overall situation has been decided.

After an unknown amount of time, Zhang Zhu and Jin Zhu returned to the porridge shed with the Liu family assassins. They boasted proudly, "There are six survivors left. Boy, let's quickly interrogate them and find out who is behind them... Hey, where are they?"

Where is Chen Ji's figure under the porridge stall at this moment?
Zhang Zhuo looked at Chen Liqin: "Where are they?"

Chen Liqin replied: "He said he had something important to attend to, so he left first."

Zhang Zhuo stroked his beard and said regretfully, "What a pity, what a pity. I wanted to chat with him more."

Chen Liqin was a little confused: "Is Mr. Zhang familiar with him?"

Zhang Zhuo thought for a moment and said, "I feel like I'm more familiar with him than you."

Jin Zhu turned around and forcibly pulled out all the fingernails of Liu's assassins in the porridge shed, and actually tortured them on the spot: "Tell me, who ordered this? Is it Liu Mingxian?"

The Liu family assassin said nothing, only staring at everyone in the room viciously. When his eyes swept to the golden pig, he spat hard: "Eunuch party, hawk dog!"

The golden pig chuckled and said, "He's really tough. Someone, come and pull out his yellow teeth for me, so that he can only eat soft food in the future!"

But just as he finished speaking, he heard the sound of carriage wheels pressing on the stone road from the city gate.

Golden Pig turned his head and saw a carriage slowly driving out of the city gate and stopping in front of the porridge stall.

A middle-aged scholar in a blue Confucian robe sat in the driver's seat and said with a smile, "Master Jinzhu, long time no see."

Jin Zhu narrowed his eyes, as if facing a formidable enemy: "Mr. Feng."

Mr. Feng, who was dressed in a blue scholar's robe, jumped off the carriage and bowed: "There is a gift for you in the carriage, please take a look."

The Golden Pig raised his head to take a look at the Pegasus on the city wall, then he slowly moved forward and lifted the carriage curtain with the tip of his knife: "Liu Mingxian?!"

Mr. Feng cupped his hands and smiled warmly, "My master said that this rebellious son wanted to kill the thief of Jing Dynasty but almost caused a disaster. He committed suicide at home out of fear of punishment."

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On Anxi Street, Chen Ji took off his straw hat and ran wildly. He clearly passed by Taiping Medical Clinic but did not go in. Instead, he kept his head down and continued on his way.

He stopped in front of a small bookstore, looked up at the plaque of "Zhixing Academy", and heard the deep sound of reading from the room: "The Book of Songs says: The territory of a country is thousands of miles, but it is the people who stop at it..."

Chen Ji straightened his clothes, wiped the sweat from his forehead, and stepped over the threshold.

When I walked to the backyard, I saw a middle-aged man in a blue Confucian robe holding a scripture and walking with a loud voice.

He is undoubtedly the king of saints.

In the yard, Chen Wenzong, Chen Wenxiao, Zhang Xia, the Crown Prince, and Princess Baili were kneeling on straw mats. Princess Baili turned around and saw that it was Chen Ji who came. Her face changed immediately and she winked at him.

At this moment, Wang Daosheng looked up at Chen Ji, put down the scripture in his hand, and asked slowly, "Are you Chen Ji?"

Chen Ji hummed: "Sorry sir, I have something important to deal with, so I am late."

"What's the matter?"

"Sorry sir, I can't tell you."

Wang Daosheng waved the scripture calmly and said, "Go stand facing the wall in the front hall."

"it is good."

Chen Ji walked back to the front hall, facing the wall, smelling the bookish scent in the room, and felt tiredness invade his mind.

After two days and two nights, even the officials could not bear it anymore.

At some point, he listened to the sound of reading in the yard, leaned his forehead against the wall, and slowly closed his eyes.

(End of this chapter)