A hundred flavors of life

Chapter 1028: The winds and clouds gather, and two more are captured! (Please subscribe!)

Yu Rui was frightened by the sudden change in front of him, but he was born a military officer and was the general of a town guarding the border. Naturally, his courage was not comparable to that of the patrol officials. When he saw Hua Twelve killing his subordinates, he immediately reached out to draw his sword. At the same time, the dozen or so personal soldiers he brought with him also reacted very quickly and drew their swords to attack.

But just as Yu Rui had pulled out half of his sword, Hua Shier reached out and grabbed his neck, lifting him up with one hand. No matter how he struggled, he was like a chicken in his hand, unable to escape.

On the other side, Leopard-headed Lei Bao rushed into the group of personal soldiers like a tiger into a flock of sheep, punching and kicking them. In a short while, he knocked all the dozen personal soldiers to the ground. Then, as usual, his hair and beard stood up and he roared a few times.

Bao Longxing curled his lips at him:
"He's crazy. He keeps howling after beating people up!"

Lei Bao glared at him:
"What do you know? This is the only way to show off my power and make them afraid of me. I'm so fierce, are you afraid?"

Bao Longxing rolled his eyes:
"I'm not afraid of you. I'll treat you tonight at Chunxianglou. Can you call me brother and come and listen?"

The thunder leopard, who had just looked like a ferocious beast, immediately transformed into a ginger cat:
"Brother, can I have two?"

"Okay, it's my treat, you pay!"

"Tsk~~!" Lei Bao tsk- ...

Bao Longxing was not at all bothered by being called a poor bastard, and said to his nephew Bao Youwei: "People are calling you a poor bastard!"

"I'm poor anyway!" Bao Youwei spread his hands, looking as if it was just the way it was.

Hua Shier ignored these things. The characters in the nonsensical plots and their abnormal words and deeds were just that. He was used to it.

He sealed Yu Rui's acupoints and threw him aside. Then he ordered people to take Tang Long, who was brought back from Liujia Village, to jail. Then he closed the door of the yamen and announced to the public that the boss was pregnant and the yamen would not be open for business that day.

After arranging these things, Hua Shier asked Bao Longxing and Lei Bao to be quiet, and then he started searching Yu Rui and others.

A bundle was found on the body of the imperial envoy who was beaten to death by him. Inside the bundle was an imperial edict, some official documents, Yurui's seal and other items.

When the imperial edict was opened, it was indeed an order from Cixi appointing Yurui as the imperial envoy.

Xu Baijiu came over to take a look and found himself shaking and his face pale.

This was out of fear. He felt that his younger brother was becoming more and more daring. He had previously killed the county magistrate and the admiral of the navy, and now he was not even letting the imperial envoy go. If the truth were to be revealed, all nine generations of his family would be executed.

Hua Twelve saw that the cheap brother was a little scared, patted his shoulder with a smile, and then suddenly asked:
"Brother, you said there is no portrait on the imperial edict. Let alone Wumeng, even in the whole south, who knows who Yu Rui is?"

Xu Baijiu felt something was wrong: "What are you trying to do?"

Hua Shier did not answer, but turned to Lei Bao: "You are working in the capital, do you know Yu Rui?"

Lei Bao nodded heavily:

"do not know!"

Hua Twelve kicked him and said, "Why the hell are you nodding if you don't know me?"

Lei Bao quickly explained: "What I meant is that I have heard of Lord Yu's name, but because Lord Yu has been stationed at the border for many years, I have never seen him in person!"

Xu Baijiu listened to the conversation between the two and felt that something was wrong: "Don't mess around!"

Hua Shier smiled and waved to Bao Longxing:

"Third brother, you will be the county magistrate again from now on. I will return the position of county magistrate to you, and from now on I will be the imperial commissioner Yurui!"

After he and Bao Longxing became sworn brothers, for the sake of convenience, they included Xu Baijiu, their cheap elder brother, in their address, and Bao Longxing was ranked the third oldest.

Yu Rui was right beside him, and when he heard what he said, his eyes widened, but he was helpless and couldn't move.

Hua Shier did what he said. He had someone strip off Yurui's official uniform, and then he took it to the back hall to change into it. After putting on the clothes, he became the imperial envoy. As long as he didn't meet anyone Yurui was familiar with, and with Cixi's imperial edict and Yurui's official seal, who would dare to say that he was a fake imperial envoy?

Moreover, even if he met someone Yurui was familiar with, he could take the initiative, slander the other party for being in cahoots with bandits, and have him captured directly.

Even if the other party exposes him as a fake first, Hua Twelve can just take the imperial edict and bite back at the other party, slandering him for having ulterior motives, and see whether others will listen to the imperial edict or the other party's empty words!

Hua Shier came out of the inner hall after changing into the imperial envoy's uniform. He felt that it didn't fit him well and was a little too big. After all, Yu Rui was fat, so it was normal for the uniform to be a little too big. Although he was a little fat, he felt good about himself and smiled at Bao Longxing and the others:
"Why don't you show courtesy to this imperial envoy?"

The lackey Lei Bao was the first to react: "I am Lei Bao, your humble servant, honored to meet the Imperial Envoy!"

Bao Longxing also got his identity back: "Ninth-rank deputy county magistrate Bao Longxing, greets the imperial envoy!"

Bao Youwei also greeted him, while Xu Baijiu sat aside angrily:
"I don't want to mess around with you guys!"

Hua Twelve didn't care about his cheap brother, he walked up to Bao Longxing, pretending not to know him and said:

"You are Bao Longxing, you really look like a good person. I have already investigated and found that you really killed the horse bandits. According to the old demon, um, the old Buddha, you will be promoted three levels, that is, from the seventh rank. I will round it up to an even number for you, and you will be a seventh-rank county magistrate!"

Bao Longxing said with a flattering look on his face: "Thank you, second brother!"

Then he shouted happily:
"God bless me, I never thought that there would be a day when smoke would come out of my ancestral grave!"

Xu Baijiu looked at him with disgust and really wanted to ask, "Are you taking the words of a fake imperial envoy seriously?"
If Hua Shier wanted to impersonate the imperial envoy, he had to know some details about the imperial envoy, so he asked Lei Bao to take the county constables to interrogate Yu Rui's dozen or so personal soldiers separately.

This question actually caused two troubles.

First, Yurui did not come here alone, there were 500 soldiers stationed outside the city.

Second, as an imperial envoy, Yurui had to write reports to Cixi every once in a while to report on the situation.

For example, when he arrived in Wumeng this time, he had to write a memorial and send it to the capital through the post station, telling Cixi that he had arrived in Wumeng and how he planned to suppress the bandits. If this memorial was not delivered on time, Hua Shier, the fake imperial envoy, would probably not be able to serve for a few more days.

Xu Baijiu became anxious when he heard this. He thought that even if Hua Twelve had concealed the truth from others, he would not be able to hide it from Yurui's soldiers. No matter how good his brother was at fighting, he would not be able to get away with it when facing five hundred soldiers.

But what he didn't expect was that Hua Twelve looked nonchalant: "There are only 500 officers and soldiers. This imperial envoy doesn't have much prestige!"

Xu Baijiu felt that his brain was not enough:

"Those are five hundred soldiers, not five hundred puppets. How many corpse pills do you have? Do you still want to control them all?"

"Even if you have 500 of those poisons, how can you make them eat them willingly? Even if you deal with these officers and soldiers, what can you do with the memorials written by the imperial envoy to the court?"

Hua Twelve was not in a hurry at all: "I will open your eyes today!"

He found an official letter in the bundle of his subordinate, with Yurui's handwriting on it. Hua Twelve took a look at it and asked someone to prepare pen and ink. He used the letter paper in the bundle to write a neatly written memorial.

The general meaning of the memorial was that Yurui did not dare to be negligent after receiving the imperial edict, and rushed to Wumeng three days ago. After open and secret investigations, he confirmed that the story of Bao Longxing, the ninth-rank alternate magistrate of Wumeng, killing horse bandits was true. In addition, there was another chief constable in Wumeng named Xu Baijiu who was extremely capable, and he was recommended to the court to use him.

Finally, he wrote that he had already made a plan for the horse bandits, so the court and Empress Dowager could rest assured.

Xu Baijiu, Bao Longxing and others were watching in amazement. The reason was that Hua Shier wrote very quickly and his handwriting was exactly the same as Yurui's, without any difference at all. Even the writing style and the tone between the lines were exactly the same.

Xu Baijiu looked at his evil brother and asked, "How did you do that?"

Hua Shier just smiled faintly and didn't explain. He was just imitating the letter. Did he really think that his Jinyiwei badge was just a decoration?

After finishing the memorial and having someone send it to the post station, he then used the Three Corpses Brain God Pill to feed the dozen or so personal soldiers brought by Yu Rui. Then he had a sudden idea and used the Soul Transferring Technique to plant the seeds of fear in all the people except Xu Baijiu, making them afraid of the Three Corpses Brain God Pill and dare not betray them under any circumstances. This way, they complemented each other and were foolproof.

As for the five hundred officers and soldiers.
Half an hour later, Hua Twelve arrived at the barracks outside the city alone. As soon as he approached, he was discovered by a patrol soldier, who shouted, "What are you doing?"
"Stop, who are you?"

Hua Twelve waved his hands and stepped forward to greet: "Captain, don't shoot, it's me!"

While he was saying Chen Xiaoer's lines, his hands were not slow. He quickly unfolded the 'Qian Kun Yu Fan', activated his magic power, and fanned it towards the barracks. The next moment, the entire barracks turned into ink-like colors and rushed towards the treasure fan.

Within two breaths, the original barracks disappeared, and on the fan in Hua Twelve's hand, there appeared a landscape painting. The barracks in the painting were fully manned, and even the night watch officers and soldiers maintained the same look as when they had just questioned him.

Not far from the barracks in the painting, a few strokes of ink outlined a person tied up, and it was very lifelike, exactly the appearance of Yurui.

Needless to say, this imperial envoy, like the five hundred officers and soldiers, was captured by him using the "Qiankun Imperial Fan".

Hua Shier closed his fan and said, "We're done!"

After returning to the county government, the next day, news spread in the streets that the judge who had been sitting in the court was not Bao Longxing, but Lord Yu Ruiyu, the imperial envoy sent by the court to suppress the bandits. The streets became lively, and the teahouses and restaurants were talking about this matter.

This one said, "I knew it. Bao Longxing was almost a rat that everyone wanted to kill. How could he suddenly become a great official? It turns out that it's just like in the opera, where the imperial envoy went on a secret visit and borrowed his name!"

The other one said, "My third uncle's second daughter's aunt's youngest son's father-in-law's nephew's third cousin lives next door to Bao Longxing's family. I actually recognized that he was not Bao Longxing a long time ago, but I just didn't say it!"

People around were curious: "Why didn't you say anything?"

The man smiled smugly: "My wife goes to the government office every day to queue up to get live chickens. Only a fool would go against the master!"

The news had just come out in the morning and the county government posted a notice in the afternoon.

The notice said that Yan Dongsheng and Xiao Guiqing, two of the Forty Thieves, had been brought to justice, and Tang Long, the second in command among the Seventy-two Earthly Fiends, had been captured alive by the imperial envoy. His identity had been verified, and he would be beheaded outside the city in ten days as a display of public execution!
The news spread like wildfire and within three days had spread to an area of ​​a hundred miles. Many people in the martial arts world received the news and rushed to Wumeng.

Everyone knows that the 72 Earthly Fiends are always cruel and brutal, and they are willing to kill entire families. Now that the second in command has been arrested by the government, how can they just sit there and do nothing? These people from the martial arts world are here to watch the fun, and they are sure that the 72 Earthly Fiends will rob the execution ground.

In just three days, hundreds of people from the martial arts world flocked to Wumeng.

The surge in tourists brought temporary prosperity to the local area. Many street performers came here upon hearing the news. The streets were like a temple fair, with people jostling each other, vendors everywhere, and street performers performing on the street to make a living. It was very lively for a while.

Liu Ziqing went to Renjia Town these two days to discuss a medicinal materials business with the local richest man, Mr. Ren. As soon as he returned to Wumeng, he heard about the imperial envoy's secret visit and immediately rushed to the county government in a sedan chair.

But she knew that the person who pretended to be Bao Longxing before was Hua Twelve, who was not an imperial envoy at all. Now that things have changed, she was worried about Hua Twelve's safety. She couldn't feel at ease unless she went to see what the situation was.

After meeting each other, I was at a loss whether to laugh or cry. After just one day's absence, this man had really turned from a county magistrate into an imperial envoy.

He opened his mouth, and a thousand words finally merged into one sentence: "You, don't mess around, be careful!"

Hua Shier looked at Xu Baijiu who was standing aside as if nothing had happened, and felt that something was wrong. Facing Liu Ziqing's earnest gaze, he was a little embarrassed:
"Don't worry, I have my own plan!"

"That's good!"

Liu Ziqing looked at the large official uniform on Hua Twelve and couldn't help but laugh:
"Where did you find this official uniform? It's too big. Take it off and I'll help you alter it."

Piaoxiang Pavilion, the largest restaurant in the county, is crowded with customers at this time.

At a private seat by the window, Yu Jiaolong, dressed as a man, was having dinner with the Blue-Eyed Fox. At the table behind them, they were chatting vividly about the Imperial Envoy's secret visit and his plan to capture the second in command of the Seventy-Two Earthly Fiends.

Yu Jiaolong happily whispered to the blue-eyed fox in a voice that only the two of them could hear:

"Master's Wife, my father is awesome!"

The blue-eyed fox sneered: "That's new. Your father is good at leading troops in battles, but when did he have such means?"

Yu Jiaolong was about to explode in dissatisfaction when she saw the blue-eyed fox's face change. He was originally sitting opposite her, sideways at the door, but suddenly changed his position and sat next to her, facing the window with his back to the door.

She had never seen her master's wife so nervous before, and she couldn't help but turn her head to look at the door. She saw a tall man dressed like a scholar, holding a sword in his hand, walking up the stairs.

"Don't look at it, we can't afford to offend you!"

The blue-eyed fox reminded in a low voice, but instead of turning around obediently, Yu Jiaolong looked at the scholar eagerly.

The scholar was very sensitive. He turned around and met Yu Jiaolong's eyes. Seeing that it was a young man with bright eyes and white teeth, he smiled and nodded slightly. Then he was led by the waiter to the empty seat.

When the scholar sat down with his back to them, the blue-eyed fox grabbed Yu Jiaolong and quickly went downstairs.

Just as they were about to disappear at the stairs, the scholar turned around with a puzzled look. He felt that the figure next to the young man seemed familiar, but he couldn't remember where he had seen it.

After leaving the restaurant, the blue-eyed fox pulled Yu Jiaolong around and around until they reached another street. Only then did he relax and whispered:

"You are so bold! I told you to stop looking, but you still kept looking!"

Yu Jiaolong was not convinced and said, "What are you afraid of? Didn't you say that we, the master and the disciple, are enough to dominate the world?"

"He's different!"

"What's different?"

"He is Li Mubai!"

Although they spoke in low voices and were in a busy city, no one should have heard them, but someone turned around and looked over here.

The blue-eyed fox became alert and looked over, only to see a tall and handsome young man, with a very beautiful woman in cheongsam beside him. She didn't know them, so she felt relieved.

When the young man saw Yu Jiaolong, he was slightly startled, then the corner of his mouth curled up, and he turned his head to look at a pair of Baiyue siblings who were performing a flying knife show on the street.

Yu Jiaolong felt that the young man's eyes were rude and was about to go up to argue, but was pulled away by the blue-eyed fox, who reminded her:

"There are all kinds of people in Wumeng right now, don't cause any trouble. Let's go to the county government office to look for your father first!"

Yu Jiaolong followed the blue-eyed fox and left, glaring at the young man fiercely, then turned around and said:

"Master's Wife, didn't you say you would take me to travel the world? Are you afraid of Li Mubai? I don't want to see my father. I haven't had enough fun yet!"

The blue-eyed fox was helpless: "Then let's find a place to stay first."

The young man before was Hua Twelve. He had just heard the conversation between the master and disciple, and found that the woman dressed as a man looked similar to Gong Er, so he guessed their identities.

However, he did not take this master and disciple pair seriously, but included them in his mission, intending to fatten them up before killing them. With the relationship with Yurui, they would definitely meet again in the future.

At this moment, the performance of the brother and sister in front of him reached a critical moment. The girl stood in front of the wooden target, and the brother, with his eyes blindfolded, threw the knife as fast as lightning. The onlookers screamed in surprise at every dangerous blow, but every time the knife grazed the girl's body and limbs, it hit the wooden board accurately.

When the girl left, the flying knives on the wooden board formed the outline of a person.

Hua Shier directly rewarded him with ten taels of silver. He had seen similar performances in later generations, also involving a man and a woman. However, most of the time it was not the man's flying knife that was accurate, but the woman's speed in dodging. Such fast and accurate flying knives were basically not seen in later generations.

The older brother of the siblings, seeing Hua Twelve's generosity, bowed to him:

"Don't say anything more. Thank you for the reward, sir!"

The girl also followed suit and clasped her hands together.

When Hua Twelve smiled and nodded, and turned to leave, Liu Ziqing beside him asked curiously:
"Why do you want to thank me for the reward? Don't talk about it anymore?"

Hua Twelve said nonsense: "It should mean that it is a great favor that needs no thanks!"

As soon as he finished speaking, someone behind him took over:
"No, my brother's name is Mo Zaijiang, and mine is Mo Zaiti. Sir, my brother said you gave me a lot of silver, so I'll give you a golden pill. Come buy it from us when you're done!"

When I turned around, I saw a beautiful face that was both pure and sexy. It was the younger sister of the Baiyue siblings.

Hua Twelve coughed lightly: "Then I can't use it, because I have never fallen!"

After hearing this, the two girls blushed and spat. Hua Twelve was surprised:
"I said I was very stable in horse stance and never fell down. What did you think?"

After he said this, someone on his left or right stepped on him, and they all ran away in shame.

Hua Twelve laughed and snorted, "What an unhealthy thought!"

That night, two black shadows performed light skills, climbed over the eaves and walls, and got into the county jail. They used knockout incense to stun the guards, sneaked into the death row, and found Tang Long imprisoned in the innermost cell.

One of the petite figures took off her veil and turned out to be a charming woman. The woman looked at Tang Long with complicated eyes:

"Tang Long, it's you. Why don't you kneel down when you see Shisan Niang?"

Tang Long saw who was coming and shouted anxiously: "Hurry up, this is a trap!"

Unfortunately, it was too late. I heard someone shouting from the direction of the prison door:

"Close the door and let the dog out!"

The next day, the government office posted another notice that the female bandit Shisan Niang and the male bandit Xu Kun, two of the Seventy-two Earthly Fiends, were captured by the imperial envoy. Six days later, they were executed together with Tang Long!
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