man sanctified in death row vest

Chapter 221 Human Pillar and Sacrifice (5300 words chapter)
April days are always accompanied by continuous drizzle.

On the street, pedestrians holding paper umbrellas of various colors are bustling.

Zheng's taxi drivers are diligent and hardworking, running in the streets and alleys, soliciting customers for their livelihood.

As they ran, hearty laughter and cadenced whistles echoed around the imperial city, making people stop and smile when they heard it - Zheng's coachman has already become one of the two unique scenery in the imperial city.

And another unique scenery disappeared not long ago: ravens all over the sky, falling at the same time.

The sight of thousands of ravens falling to their deaths at the same time made the people panic, thinking that it was a sign of disaster from heaven; but soon some officials from the government issued an article to refute the rumors, saying that there was no such thing, but why, the official people Can't even come up with a reasonable explanation.

Of course, food, clothing, housing and transportation are the foundation of people's livelihood. People who live and work in peace and contentment now quickly forget this.

Qing Shisan and Zheng Xiu were still chatting under the eaves.

Without leaving home, he arranged things.

Zheng Xiu had nothing to do to think about it, so he ordered a batch of limited edition paper umbrellas by the way.

The ribs of the umbrella are inlaid with gold and jade, printed with the words "Lucky Fortune", limited to 88 pieces, unique and unique number, cost 30 taels, sold for 660 six taels of silver, specially designed for the rich in the city.

The selling point of the publicity is that the universe is hidden in the umbrella bone, which can shoot steel needles. It is a must-have product for home travel and rivers and lakes.

If it goes well, you can earn more than 5 taels of silver as soon as you change hands.

The happiness of the rich is so unpretentious, purely to make money.

When Qing Shisan heard this, he smiled and called Master Gaoming, and arranged it again.

There are countless capable people in the Zheng family, and the craftsmen are all first-class. Isn't it easy to make a treasured umbrella that hides the universe.

When Qing Shisan asked why the master suddenly wanted to tinker with such a "retro" thing, Zheng Xiu smiled and said nothing.

"Meow!"

Xiaofeng jumped down from the side frivolously, jumped straight into Zheng Xiu's arms, found a comfortable position to curl up, squinted her eyes and remained motionless.

Zheng Xiu habitually stroked Xiao Fengmiao's hair, which was soft and smooth, and seemed to be getting fat again.

Touching and touching, Zheng Xiu couldn't help laughing, and then he remembered that this cat was not the one he and Feng Bei raised in the world in the painting.

"When did you get so close to me?"

Zheng Xiu smiled at the kitten in his arms.

He vaguely remembered that when he wanted to tease the cat in the past, he could scare the orange cat into a shocked face.

"Woo meow..."

The orange cat rolled over with vacant eyes, with its belly facing up, as if signaling Zheng Xiu to scratch her belly.

[Idiot meow. 】

Zheng Xiu's movement of stroking the cat's butt suddenly froze, and he covered his ears in surprise.

Auditory hallucinations?

What is this [foreign language] rummaging around?
"Meow meow meow!"

The orange cat rolled happily in Zheng Xiu's arms.

It looks like it's very close to Zheng Xiu, and it doesn't look like a cat that can curse.

At this moment, Qing Shisan spoke, which attracted Zheng Xiu's attention.

"My lord, there is one thing that you will definitely be interested in."

Zheng Xiu continued to tease the cat, and returned to Qing Shisan: "Say it."

"Do you still remember not long ago, before you fell ill, the royal family of the Wei family set up a crown prince at the ancestor worship ceremony on March [-]rd?"

Zheng Xiu was taken aback. After a hundred years, if Qing Shisan hadn't mentioned it, he would have really forgotten about it.

In fact, this matter has nothing to do with him. It has nothing to do with who he establishes. way declined.

Now that Qing Shisan mentioned it, Zheng Xiu became interested again.It is reasonable to say that the establishment of the reserve, although on the surface it will not cause bloodshed, but open and secret struggles are necessary. Zheng Xiu looked calm and asked about the follow-up.

"Hehe," Qing Shisan smoked a dry cigarette, and laughed a few times: "At that time, the master suffered a serious illness, and our Zheng family lost their backbone. We were all like frightened birds, afraid that this fire would burn our heads."

"It is said that the second prince almost went far south to find another way."

Zheng Xiu tried hard to flip through the memories in his mind.

After a hundred years, it is not easy to re-identify the previous characters.

Qing Shisan looked at Zheng Xiu frowned in thought and distress, and kindly reminded: "The most arrogant and domineering one."

Oh, remembered.

The kid who asked me if I knew how to write dead.

Zheng Xiu nodded: "I remember, what happened later."

"I secretly inquired a lot of information from Mr. Jiang. It is Jiang Gaoyi, the one who is very close to the master, and now he is the Minister of the Ministry of Justice, Mr. Jiang." Qing Shisan seemed to "forget" many things after realizing that the master recovered from his illness. , when he spoke, he would remind him intimately that Zheng Xiu was very satisfied with Qing Shisan's understanding, with an encouraging smile on his face, Qing Shisan continued:
"First, the eldest prince paid a lot of money to hire the great writer Ximen Bei to come to his house to give a speech. Under pressure, Ximen Bei wrote two autobiographies for the eldest prince and spread them widely. Deeds, familiarity with poetry and books, going to the countryside to provide disaster relief, mastering everything in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting."

"Although the common people don't understand, after reading the book, the voices of the people talking about the First Prince have increased a lot."

Zheng Xiu listened quietly, and the orange cat turned over again.

"Woo... meow!"

[Shabi Meow. 】

Zheng Xiu seemed to understand again this time.

The orange cat was scolding the eldest prince.

"It's scolding."

Zheng Xiu smiled and patted the cat's butt.

The orange cat rolled its eyes, its expression was quite humane.

Qing Shisan gave Zheng Xiu a strange look.

"It's okay, you continue to talk, I'm listening."

"By the way, there is one more thing about the First Prince. It is said that one night in the palace, the First Prince was assassinated in the dormitory, and the First Prince was safe and sound in the end. According to various clues, the First Prince...is very likely to be pregnant. Gateway thaumaturgy."

"Oh? What method did he use?" Master Zheng's eyes lit up suddenly.

If the turbulent royal infighting is only to the extent that Zheng Xiu is "interested", then when it comes to "thaumaturgy", it is to the extent that Zheng Xiu can be "energized".

"Chess player. His chess skills are superb."

"Did you see it with your own eyes?"

"Guess. However, I'm [-]% sure."

Zheng Xiu closed his eyes, holding the orange cat in his arms, calmly: "Continue talking."

Qing Shisan secretly praised the magnanimity shown by the master at the moment.

I don't know why, after the master became seriously ill this time, let alone another person.Qing Shisan felt that the master seemed to have matured a lot all of a sudden, with the majesty of a high-ranking old man exuding all over his body.It's not at all like what this age can show.

"The first prince was assassinated that time. Although there is no definite number, the subordinates believe that it is very likely that the second prince did it. In short, it was nothing in the end. The second prince was impatient and wanted to escape from the imperial city and go south for his life. But for some reason, he didn’t leave in the end.”

"Later, there was an incident that the master might not have expected. When March [-]rd approached, many ministers publicly praised the third prince at the court."

Zheng Xiu's eyes were half-opened, and he was a little more surprised: "The third prince with a cowardly personality?"

"That's right, the third prince with a 'cowardly' temper." Qing Shisan grinned, placing the accent on the word "cowardly".

Zheng Xiu suddenly asked, "The third prince won?"

Qing Shisan narrowed his eyes and revealed a mysterious smile.

He laughed for a while, then slowly shook his head: "This time, the master guessed wrong. Or, all the people in the world who dare to guess guess wrong. No one can guess what the emperor is thinking."

Zheng Xiu thought for a while, and then showed a surprised expression: "They all lost? No wonder... as expected of Old Wei."

He suddenly remembered "many years ago", when Old Wei was in front of the prison camp, the emperor asked him three times.

Old Wei once asked Zheng Xiu himself, among the three sons, who was he most optimistic about.

Surprise floated into Qing Shisan's eyes.He never expected that the master would guess the result.After a while, Zheng Xiu of the Qing Dynasty gave a thumbs up: "As expected of the master!"

On the third day of the third month, the emperor announced to the world that the four princes had been appointed crown princes.

That's right, it was the fourth prince who was still drinking in the arms of the nanny just a few days after he was born.

"On the surface, the calculations of the three princes were all in vain, but in fact, Lao Wei passed this matter and thoroughly saw the means and temperament of the three princes. It is really worthy of the emperor's family, even his own son One time. It’s really not done well, the three princes are going to die.” Zheng Xiu said with emotion.

Qing Shisan also sighed: "So, there is nothing good about being born in the emperor's family."

"Ha ha."

Zheng Xiu smiled and didn't comment.

If this kind of talk is discussed outside, every single word will be killed.

But in the Zheng family, there are no taboos, and we can talk about it.

This is his territory, he Zheng Xiu has the final say.

Time passed quietly as the two gossiped about family affairs and had a happy relationship.

A few whistles sounded from the eaves, and Qing Shisan listened attentively: "They are already waiting in the meeting room."

"Let the brothers be vigilant... However, there is no raven now, so there is no need to worry too much."

"Don't worry, let alone ravens, not even a fly can fly into Zheng's house."

Qing Shisan said firmly.

Now that Ye Weiyang has no "eyes" and is completely silent, Zheng's house has really become a dragon's den and a tiger's den.

Holding the little orange cat in his arms, Zheng Xiu walked slowly in Zheng's house, passed the promenade, fed the goldfish, watched the unopened lotus, stopped and walked for a while, and finally arrived at the living room.

In the living room, familiar faces were seated respectively, and they were quietly waiting for Zheng Xiu's arrival.

The other two giants of the fraternity, Ji Hongou and Pei Gaoya, were sitting on the side.

The monk sat awkwardly on the stool, and the four maidservants in charge of entertaining brought hot tea, and the monk quickly got up to thank him.

The former Yueyan, the undercover undercover on the bright side, Xi'er, the gold medal tailor of Zheng's cloth village, is looking left and right.

Yan Jiji was still dressed as a contractor. The honest old craftsman seemed to be participating in such a grand Zheng family meeting for the first time, and seemed restless.

From time to time, the gold medal tailor's eyes glanced at the seat above——someone's idea, there was an extra stool next to the chief seat, and Feng Bei with cold eyes sat on it.This way of arranging seats made Zheng Xiu slightly taken aback. It was obvious that he wanted to tell everyone that someone gave Feng Bei the status of "hostess".

When Zheng Xiu sat down with the cat in his arms, the orange cat saw Feng Bei, jumped out of Zheng Xiu's arms happily, jumped into Feng Bei's arms, and desperately pushed its furry head into Feng Bei's soft and big arms.

This familiar move made Zheng Xiu raise his brows, and Feng Bei also turned his gaze away at this moment. The two looked at each other, and they both saw a trace of shock and doubt in each other's eyes.

Zheng Xiu shook his head slightly.

Feng Bei nodded slightly.

Communication is over.

To put it simply: talk in detail in the room later.

Qing Shisan also sat down, crossed his legs, and turned off the cigarette.

"A lot of things have happened recently." Zheng Xiu started directly: "Recently, when I was away, the Zheng family thanked you brothers and sisters for taking care of you. The Zheng family has your help. Zheng feels that he has been lucky in his life, and he feels sorry for his ancestors. Bless the Zheng family."

"Master is serious."

"Where is!"

"Master is safe and sound."

Zheng Xiu first looked at Xi'er: "Recently, what happened to Ye Weiyang?"

Xi'er's answer is exactly the same as what Qing Shisan understands.

Quiet, too quiet.

Xi'er glanced at Fengbei.

In fact, she was more shocked than anyone else.She didn't know the inside story, and she didn't know that the relationship between Feng Bei and Mr. Zheng had reached such a level.But she has personally experienced Ye Weiyang chasing and killing Fengbei. Now Fengbei can sit in Zheng's house safe and sound. Wei Young's internal weirdness gave birth to countless speculations out of thin air.

"By the way, you also know about that." Zheng Xiu slapped his head and cursed himself for forgetfulness.In fact, after a hundred years of torture in the painting, many memories of the outside world have become blurred.Only then did he recall that Yueyan was also there when Fengbei was involved in the cannibal painting.Thinking of this, Zheng Xiu explained with a smile: "Fengbei is no longer Shangxian San, and you know it very well. Now, Ye Weiyang and our Zheng family are in a hostile relationship."

After a pause, Zheng Xiu added: "An endless hostile relationship."

Zheng Xiu's words can be regarded as defining the relationship between the two parties, and there is absolutely no possibility of detours.

Feng Bei looked at his sweetheart tenderly.

With Zheng Xiu's words, Qing Shisan, Ji Hongou, and Pei Gaoya sat up straight in an instant.

Ji Hongou took a deep breath: "This... is a big deal."

Qing Shisan smiled bitterly and said, "Master, you can really hide."

Pei Gaoya rubbed her head: "I'm worried that I won't have any work recently."

Xi'er quickly took out Ye Weiyang's waist card from her waist, she was a little dumbfounded: "No wonder I was chubby when I came here." She was referring to the "black cat" issued by Ye Weiyang, "My hair Xiaopang refused to come in because he felt the murderous intent of the master! Then can I go back?"

"Meow!"

The orange cat is even more happy.

"Don't make trouble."

Fengbei didn't dare to touch the little orange cat with his hands, for fear of accidentally touching the cat to death.She gave a habitual reprimand, and the orange cat immediately fell silent.

After being shocked, Xi'er unreservedly stated what she had seen and heard recently.

The undercover agent jumped back into place completely.

Everyone listened quietly.

At the end, Zheng Xiu lowered his head and pondered: "You mean, since that incident, the Ye Lord has never issued an order? Immediately after all the ravens died, the Ye Lord lost contact?"

"Ye Weiyang is useless now, she no longer deals with conspiracy cases?"

"Nowadays, there are frequent conspiracies happening everywhere, but no one cares about them?"

"Even the Emperor couldn't find Yezhu?"

Zheng Xiu was no less surprised than Yueyan.

He thought that killing the crowman was nothing more than blinding Yezhu's eyes, nothing more.Unexpectedly, the raven is not only Zhu's eyes, but also the medium through which Zhu issues instructions.

Now the crow-keeper has been completely killed, and the crow-keeper's eyes have been taken away. Zhu, who has been hiding behind the scenes, has no medium to communicate with Ye Weiyang. Now, is he completely hiding?
"What is he trying to do?"

Zheng Xiu fell into deep thought.

The three giants of the Brotherhood, the four servants, the monk, and Feng Bei were all puzzled by what they heard.

When Zheng Xiu said that he and Ye Weiyang would never die, they thought it was going to war.Fengbei also wants to find out the candle behind the scenes, and end the grievances of 20 years ago, or even 200 years ago.But now when they heard it, the candle was completely hidden, and Ye Weiyang's operating system was completely paralyzed, and their newly aroused interest was like punching the cotton with a hard fist, which was extremely uncomfortable.

"Could it be..."

He had previously speculated that the reason Zhu did not dare to approach the imperial city was because there was an extremely dark place under the imperial palace, which was the place where Gongsun Mo drew the cannibal painting 100 years ago.As the saying goes, when things go wrong, there must be a demon, and Ye Weiyang's weirdness made Zheng Xiu have a bad guess.

"Uncle Yan, I have two things to trouble you."

Zheng Xiu quickly arranged the matter: "One is to build a batch of swords for me. I will draw the styles of the swords for you later. Don't look at me with such eyes. I am not trying to rebel. The swords don't need to be sharp. If someone from above asks, I will explain myself."

"In addition, please trouble Uncle Yan to help dig some tunnels to penetrate the whole city. But be sure to avoid the vicinity of the palace. As for the tunnel route, I will give it to you later."

Yan Jiji quickly agreed, his demeanor was somewhat flattered.

Zheng Xiu closed his eyes and thought for a moment: "Also, arrange a time, I want to meet Ximen Bei."

Zhizhi and the others took out the paper and took notes.

This is their job.

"Xi'er, continue to pay attention to Ye Weiyang's movements, and once the Lord Ye sends orders in a new way, please notify me in time."

Xi'er agreed with a bitter face.

Well, I have to go back to being an undercover agent.

Whether it was the movement of the royal family or Ye Weiyang's extinguishing of the fire, everything became peaceful, as if everything went according to Zheng Xiu's wishes.If you want to make a fuss, you can't start a fight, if you want to fight, you can't get over it.But on the contrary, it was this weird "smoothness" that made Zheng Xiu feel more uneasy.

Zhu has lived in the world with different identities for thousands of years. Zheng Xiu doesn't think that killing the crow raiser can completely make Zhu give up the overall situation of the "Hundred Years Sacrifice".He would rather believe that Zhu had other plans.

In fact, before he intervened in the Baili Village incident, there was no Ye Weiyang or Raven in the world, everything was hidden in the dark.The "big change in the world" caused by Zheng Xiu's intervention is nothing more than making these mysteries hidden under the water come to the fore.

"No." Zheng Xiu, who closed his eyes in thought, opened them suddenly, and took a look at Feng Bei.

Although it is said that 200 years ago, in the Cicada Valley, three different people became human pillars at the same time.But the ghosts of 20 years ago may not be the same.Is the Treasure King a stranger?Wei Chen is a stranger?Fengbei's father too?Plus Fengbei?

This seems to be the wrong amount.

"Fengbei's father is not a stranger!" Zheng Xiu compared the Sun Cicada Valley 200 years ago with the Baili Village 20 years ago.If you use the idea of ​​"ceremony" to think about it... then think about the murals left by Richan Valley.

Zheng Xiu came to a sudden: "No, in addition to aliens, there must be a 'sacrifice'! Atulu 200 years ago is a sacrifice! Fengbei's father 20 years ago is also a sacrifice!"

"Is there a possibility that the three human pillars used to suppress Chang Dark don't have to be at the same place, as long as they happen at different places at a similar time, they can also have the same effect?"

"Could it be that Zhu intends to continue the layout in other places?"

Many thoughts emerged in Zheng Xiu's mind.

All questions that no one can answer.

The candle that has lived for a thousand years is like a huge elusive shadow, entrenched in Zheng Xiu's heart, making him uneasy.

Arranging some trivial matters again, after much deliberation, Zheng Xiu decided to sneak a peek in the palace tonight.

He wanted to find out what was left of the huge secret room at the bottom of the palace after the real Gongsun Mo drew the cannibal painting.

　Ask for a monthly pass!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)