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Chapter 433 [Purge of Traitors]

Question: What does it feel like to fall from a cliff over 70 meters high?
Answer: Excruciating pain!

The butler Liu, as he was called by the others, felt that all his bones were broken. Although he was a person with strong Qi and most of his muscles were tempered, he had not yet started to train his bones.

Moreover, even for a master at the Qi-Strong Root Bone Realm, if all the bones in the body are not fully tempered, falling from such a height will still result in broken bones and tendons.

"Clap!"

The sound of landing was heard, and he looked up dizzyly at the person who was looking down at him.

"Butler Liu, whose butler is this?"

"puff--"

Butler Liu opened his mouth but didn't say anything. Instead, he spat out a large mouthful of blood. Obviously, he had injured his internal organs. But it didn't matter. People in this era, whether they practiced martial arts or not, all had strong physiques.

If he can receive timely treatment and stay in bed for a year or two, he will be back to full health.

"Tie it up!"

Upon hearing this, the captains in the rear rushed out immediately. Two of them were the fastest. Without saying a word, they took out the tools specially used to deal with masters and ruthlessly pierced and locked the opponent's scapula.

Finally, the two of them cooperated with each other and used the special rope produced by Huo Ling of the Hundred Households Office to tie the man up tightly, as if he were a dumpling.

"My friend, don't struggle. This is the Dragon Binding Rope made by Huo Ling. If you are a sensible person, just accept your fate." One of the two people in charge of the tying up spoke in Butler Liu's ear.

The power of the Dragon Binding Rope is amazing. According to General Wang, even a person with a strong body will not be able to struggle once he is tied up.

The effect of that thing is that the more you struggle, the tighter it gets. People who are experienced and have seen the Dragon Binding Rope produced by Huo Ling, once tied up, will immediately lie there obediently and not move.

Dishonest?
There are countless ignorant people in the whole Ancient Fish Country who died from the Dragon Binding Rope that became tighter and tighter as they struggled. In the history of the death of the Dragon Binding Rope, there was a stubborn donkey who didn't believe in evil and struggled hard. As a result, all the bones in his body were broken, including the tempered bones. From then on, no one didn't believe in evil.

It must be said that the things produced by Huo Ling are indeed useful. When Butler Liu heard the three words "Dragon Binding Rope", he immediately stopped moving, fearing that he would be strangled to death.

On the other side, the bandits on the cliff who were trying to break out at all costs, turned around and ran away, planning to find another way, as soon as they heard the sound of the knife net piercing into the flesh and cutting their second brother into pieces, as well as the sound of the knife falling to the ground.

"Just keep watch."

Their mission was to prevent the bandits from escaping. Military orders were no joke. The sounds of fighting lasted for about an hour before finally dying down.

Afterwards, He Sheng led his captains to climb the mountain.

A group of strong men who came with them started to do odd jobs and clean up the battlefield.

Trophies?
That is something only lieutenants can touch.

"boom!"

"Oh, He Xiaoqi captured a bandit alive?" The captain teased with a smile while riding on his horse.

"Sir, I heard that the group of bandits who broke through called this man Butler Liu." With these words, the captain successfully got off his horse. He walked quickly to the butler who was tied up like a dumpling, pinched his chin, and looked at him carefully in the surrounding firelight.

"Haha, he really is the steward of our county lieutenant." After a while, the captain sneered.

Zhao Long’s housekeeper?
Damn, I was just mad at your brother to the point of vomiting blood, but you actually went to such great lengths to kill me!
"Tell me about it, Butler Liu."

"I'll tell you. I'll tell you."

Butler Liu said weakly, but before he could finish the second sentence, he suddenly spat out a mouthful of black blood and died.

"???"

The captain let go, and the steward's head drooped weakly.

"Ruthless enough."

"Sir, can we do something with the corpse?" Zhang Shan walked closer and whispered his suggestion.

"Make a fuss? Bullshit! Zhao Long can clear himself of any connection with the housekeeper by saying that he hasn't seen him for a long time. You can't accuse him of colluding with bandits just because his housekeeper was caught in Tiaojian Village? Without absolute evidence, if they wanted to bring him down, the Ancient Fish Country would have been in chaos a long time ago."

The captain cursed and swore, obviously angry at Zhao Long's cruel and ruthless behavior. He finally caught the tail of the man, but he saw that the tail was broken and he escaped.

General Wang stepped forward and examined Butler Liu's body, and drew his conclusion.

"He must have been poisoned before leaving the city. Zhao Long must have calculated the time and died immediately. No matter whether this person can fulfill Zhao's instructions, he will definitely not survive."

If you succeed, you die. If you fail, you die without any evidence.

As for whether the housekeeper would be captured and interrogated early, there was no need to think too much about it. When the Hundred Households went out of the city to suppress the bandits, it was impossible for them to carry torture instruments with them to use for torture and forced confession.

"Let the strong men take the body. I will return it to Lord Zhao when I return to the city." The captain said gritting his teeth, then got on his horse again, ready to capture the remaining two villages.

The following operations went smoothly, and we succeeded in capturing two mountain strongholds and seized a large amount of spoils. There was not much money, and most of it was food, fodder, and goods, with goods being the majority.

Large quantities of goods can only be sold by the captain through his personal connections. After all, there are relatively few people in Songlin County who can swallow so much goods. If you don’t have some connections or status, you can imagine that those people will try to lower the price to the point of death.

Of course, the centurion must have a hand in the oil. But everyone doesn't care about it. If you don't go through the official channel, the price will be too low and the money you get will be less. If you leave, of course someone will take a bite, but after taking a bite, the money is still a lot.

Around the afternoon, all the people from the Hundred Households Squad returned to Songlin County.

When entering the city, a large number of people stopped to watch.

My goodness, truckloads of corpses, we only see them once a year.

During this time, the captain gave an impromptu speech, warning everyone not to break the law. In particular, he specifically hung up Zhao Long's housekeeper, literally hung him up, directly at the city gate, as a deterrent.

After that, the news spread throughout the county.

Well, even if the housekeeper of the county lieutenant's family cooperated with the bandits, he would be beaten to death if caught. What's more, he was just an ordinary citizen with no background.

Some people also said that it was the county lieutenant who was in collusion with the bandits, or else the housekeeper must have been kicked in the head by a donkey, as he would not do his job as a housekeeper but instead collude with the bandits. The main person behind the collusion must be the county lieutenant.

All in all, Zhao Long was very angry about Baihu's actions, but he couldn't explode at all, and even had to say thank you with a pinched nose.

If he was narrow-minded like his brother Zhao Hu, he would have vomited blood and fainted long ago. However, from the fact that he was able to take the ruthless step of poisoning Butler Liu in advance, he also knew that Butler was nothing in his heart and had no status at all, so he was not so angry that he vomited blood.

The captains of the entire centurion unit rested for three days.

Patrolling day and night is the job of the strong men.

Oh, by the way, there are two exceptions - the general flag.

It is impossible for a captain to be on duty, and the small flags are not qualified. They are the main force in the battle to capture the camp, so it is not reasonable to let them be on duty. Only middle-level leaders can take over.

In three days, all the goods were sold out, and on the fourth day everyone came happily to divide the money.

Before going out, He Sheng took a special look at his debts.

[Repaying: "Tong Xuan Jue" - 120/14000. 】

[Repaying: "Shadow-Killing Blade Technique" - 0/1000. 】

Three days were all spent on practicing "Tong Xuan Jue". I only slept four hours a day, which means I could repay it forty times a day.

"Shadow-Killing Sword Technique"? What sword technique? Shadow-Killing what?
I don’t know.

At the centurion's office, the centurion took out two stacks of banknotes and handed them to the two general flags. Next, the small flags lined up to receive the money. "Yours."

"yours."

"yours."

After distributing the money for the small flags, the last ones to come were the one hundred captains.

"yours."

"yours."

"."

When it comes to distributing money, the captain always does it himself.

"Disperse. Those on duty during the day should stay. Those on duty at night, don't drink too much. There might be bold people causing trouble at night."

After saying that, he stood up and left the Hundred Households Office to go home. If he stayed on duty after finishing the most important task, wouldn't his official position be in vain?

He Sheng led his ten captains out, and they decided to go to a restaurant for a meal.

"How much did you receive, sir?"

"Let me see."

Some people were curious about the amount of his banknotes, but he didn't hide it. The ten flag officers in the station received the same amount, and when they met with the daytime duty officers at night, everyone would know the exact number sooner or later.

Opening the envelope, he took out the items and counted them.

"Three hundred and twenty-five taels."

"Ouch!!"

In fact, the captains could roughly analyze how much money each of the small flag officers, the general flag officers, and the centurions received by counting the silver bills in their hands.

However, after hearing the price of more than three hundred taels, they still couldn't help but exclaim.

"The silver notes we got are 65 taels, and 100 lieutenants get 6,500 taels. The lieutenants get 20% of the total, which is 32,500 taels. The small flags get 325 taels, the general flag gets 3,250 taels, and the centurions get 16,250 taels."

"If we suppress bandits every day, wouldn't it be..." Upon hearing someone calculate the earnings of everyone in the Hundred Households Unit, a captain who had just joined the unit for less than a year couldn't help but fantasize.

"Snapped!"

His fantasy was interrupted by a colleague next to him who patted him on the back of the head.

"You're overthinking it. Bandits are not usually that wealthy. It's just the end of the year, and many merchants are selling goods everywhere. Do you know why it took so many days to suppress the bandits?
The purpose is to wait until the mountain bandits are rich, and then we will go to suppress them. In this way, not only can we make merit, but we can also get money, and the merchants who were robbed will have to hold their noses and thank them.

I'll tell you something you don't know. The centurion received more than 16,000 taels. The money he received from the merchants who bought the goods was conservatively estimated to be more than 20,000 taels.

Don't forget that merchants whose goods were robbed by robbers must thank our centurion. Why are you going to thank him with nothing but a simple thank you?"

Next, the group of people had a good meal, and the total cost for the eleven people was fifty-five taels of silver. Each person spent five taels of silver, which shows how luxurious this meal was in the small Songlin County.

There were hardly any individual customers in the restaurant, all of them were small flags and captains under the general flag officer Wang who was on duty at night. When the people on duty during the day were off duty at night, the restaurant could make a lot of money again.

In the evening, when He Sheng arrived at the Hundred Households Office, he found that all those on duty and those off duty were standing in an orderly formation in the middle of the yard.

On the steps, the captain had a cold face. Next to him, there was a man wearing a mask without a pattern. He was dressed in black, and if it weren't for his unusually bright eyes, you wouldn't have been able to tell there was someone standing there.

"Is everyone here?" asked the masked man in black.

"All of them are here, without any mistakes or omissions."

The captain glanced down and nodded.

"Okay, you will announce what happens next. Perform the punishment in front of them. Clean up the bad habits in the Hundred Households Office."

"Yes." The captain responded.

When the people below saw this, they couldn't help but be shocked.

Baihu is a high-ranking official in the Film Department.

Seeing a centurion bow his head and respond, one can imagine the identity of the masked man.

"According to Tianshu's intelligence, there is a traitor in our Hundred Households Office."

As soon as these words came out, the whole courtyard was in an uproar. Traitors were always unwelcome. When it comes to stabbing someone in the back, traitors stab the hardest.

"quiet!"

The captain shouted angrily, his voice so loud that it drowned out the noise of hundreds of people.

"General Wang, won't you come out and explain?"

"???"

"!!!"

Wang Li looked grim. He never expected that he would be caught by Tianshu's Thousand Faces Man.

"Tell me, how did you pass on the news that we were leaving the city to suppress the bandits? How did you collude with the butler Liu who was in collusion with the bandits to kill He Xiaoqi? What benefits did the butler Liu give you to make you betray the Hundred Households?"

"."

Wang Li remained silent.

Although the people in the Hundred Households Office heard the story from Butler Liu, they all knew that Zhao Long was the real culprit. Unfortunately, there was no substantial evidence to convict him.

"If you can give me some explanation, I will give you a quick death." The captain spoke again. After all, he was an old subordinate, so he should at least give him a quick death.

The Mingzheng punishment is not just a casual remark. For the person being punished, it is absolutely the most painful torture in the world.

"Sir, there is no explanation. The whole matter was discussed between Butler Liu and me, and Zhao Long never showed up. If he had no background, our Yingsi could send him to Disha and treat him well. The key is that he is not without a backer."

After saying that, he kept silent.

"You're so stubborn."

The captain knew in his heart why Wang Li didn't say anything. After all, the other party had parents, a wife and children.

If he didn't tell, at most he would be punished. If it was a family, the film company would not kill them. Even if they didn't do anything, they would still suffer. Unless they were colluding with the enemy, or something like colluding with the enemy, it was a serious crime.

If it were to be told, the family would definitely be in trouble given the way Zhao Long treated Butler Liu, who had been with him for decades and always at his beck and call.

"Okay, let's go to the torture."

As soon as he finished speaking, two masked men stood out from behind, each holding a wooden tray. On one tray was something resembling a fishing net, and on the other was a small knife that shone with a cold light.

"He Xiaoqi, you execute him yourself."

(End of this chapter)