Infinite Puzzle City

Chapter 276: Plunder

The squad leader Yang Mingjie was sharp-eyed and saw at a glance that the document in Xiao Ran's hand did not have a single word on it except for the seal of the governor.

Seeing this, his heart trembled, and he immediately realized that the master in front of him was probably not an easy person to deal with. He didn't dare to say a word and immediately stepped forward to lead the way and headed straight to the Tieshan Niangniang Temple.

Left the city and headed straight to the suburbs.

The Tieshan Niangniang Temple is neither big nor small. It stands on a mound and is surrounded by wheat fields, making it very conspicuous.

From time to time on the road, you can see some people going to Tieshan Niangniang Temple to burn incense.

Xiao Ran slowed down his pace and followed the crowd forward with a group of officers.

"Grandma...I'm hungry!"

A child, about seven or eight years old, pulled his grandmother's sleeve, stared at the steamed buns in his grandmother's bamboo basket, and couldn't help swallowing his saliva.

Hearing this, the child's grandmother took out half a pancake from her sleeve and gave it to the child.

The pancake was gray and no one knew what it was made of. The old lady handed the pancake to the child, who picked it up and started stuffing it into his mouth.

"Eat slowly. After we burn incense and worship Goddess Tieshan, grandma will cook porridge for you when we get home."

As they were talking, they saw two fat nuns in black robes walking down the mountain. Grandma came up to them and asked, "Two masters, when will the temple gate open? How long do we have to wait?"

Seeing someone blocking the way, the two fat nuns immediately became impatient. The nun on the left waved her hand and pushed the old lady directly to the ground. Immediately, the steamed buns in the bamboo basket rolled out, forcing the old lady to hurriedly bend down to pick them up.

He kept repeating, "What a sin, what a sin."

However, the fat nun at the side looked at the buns on the ground with disdain, walked forward, stepped on one of the buns and crushed it, saying disdainfully: "You poor guys, you use this kind of things every day to fool the Iron Mountain Goddess. The Iron Mountain Goddess is also kind-hearted. This time, she risked the sin of breaking the heavenly law for you and helped you to avoid the disaster for the next ten years. It's ok for you not to be grateful, but why can't you even take out some offerings."

"Woooooooo..."

Seeing the white steamed buns that his grandmother had worked so hard to buy being crushed to pieces by the fat nun, the child next to him burst into tears in grievance.

Perhaps because the crying sound was too harsh, another fat nun impatiently stepped forward and was about to slap the child: "Why are you crying? The Iron Mountain Goddess Temple will not tolerate uneducated wild monkeys like you running wild."

As he spoke, he swung his hand towards the child's face.

"puff!"

However, the next second, the child felt his cheek burning hot, followed by a pungent smell of blood.

Before he could understand what was happening, he saw the ferocious fat nun falling to the ground with horror on her face, screaming as she covered her severed wrists, rolling on the ground in pain.

The people around were also shocked when they saw this. They looked up and saw a group of officials surrounding the two fat nuns.

The young man in the lead was holding a blood-stained long knife in his hand and walked towards the other fat nun with a cold face.

"You!! Who are you? Are you crazy? This is Lady Tieshan..."

"puff!!!"

Before the fat nun could finish her words, Xiao Ran swung his sword and cut off the fat nun's head.

This scene frightened not only the pilgrims who were going up the mountain nearby, but even Yang Mingjie and others who were following behind were trembling with fear.

How can you kill people just like that? ? Where did this killer come from? ?

But Xiao Ran didn't care about that. When he returned the knife to Yang Mingjie, Yang Mingjie realized that the knife on his waist had been pulled out by Xiao Ran at some point, and he didn't even notice it.

"No, I didn't even see how he pulled out the knife?"

Yang Mingjie thought about it carefully and didn't find it strange anymore: "No wonder the governor only brought one guard with him. With his skills, he can easily beat ten or a hundred people."

"Who... who are you? We are the servants of Empress Tieshan. How dare you treat us like this?"

The nun with the broken hand fell to the ground and struggled backwards in the mud. She glared at Xiao Ran and the others and screamed loudly.

Seeing this, Xiao Ran snorted coldly: "What a bullshit Iron Mountain Goddess, who used the name of God to cause chaos in the area. She was killed by the Jiedushi Gao Da'er last night. How dare you still use her name to deceive people and exploit the people? You really deserve to die!"

"You...you're talking nonsense!"

The nun with the broken hand turned pale, but she still refused to admit it. Instead, she shouted to the ignorant people around her, "These people are all evil demons. Seeing that the queen was injured while protecting the people, they wanted to take advantage of the chaos to attack the queen. Everyone, can you..."

Without waiting for the nun with the broken arm to finish her words, Xiao Ran kicked the nun in the face, pressing her face directly into the mud. No matter how the nun struggled, she could not get free. She twisted her body in despair like a drowning person until she slowly ran out of breath.

This cruel method made everyone shiver all over, and those with poor mental ability almost fainted.

After hearing what the nun said just now, several believers wanted to jump out and argue to protect the nun. However, after seeing this scene, they immediately turned around and left without even daring to fart.

Protect the lady?? Just kidding.

It would be fine if these people were really officials, but the methods they used showed that they were really monsters and demons who dared to kill people.

If we have the ability to exorcise demons, why would we come to ask you, the Iron Mountain Goddess? I can be the Goddess myself. Seeing the crowd disperse, Xiao Ran felt relieved. The reason why he acted so ruthlessly was to shock the people. Otherwise, if these people were incited, it would be troublesome.

"What are you still standing there for? Go ahead, capture the host alive and kill all the other monsters."

"Kill them all?"

Yang Mingjie was stunned for a few seconds. They were all servants working in the yamen. It was okay for them to act arrogantly and bully the common people on weekdays, but it would be a bit difficult for them to kill people.

But Xiao Ran didn't care about that. He squinted his eyes and stared coldly at the people who were looking up at Mingjie: "Why, do you have any questions? Or did you also accept benefits from this monster?"

"No, no, no, how dare I do that." Yang Mingjie said, turned around and waved to the yamen runners behind him, and drew the sword at his waist: "Brothers, capture the host alive, and kill the rest of the monsters without mercy, follow me!!!"

Yang Mingjie gritted his teeth and rushed forward with his men. He kicked the door open, rushed into the Niangniang Temple, and started hacking anyone he saw, regardless of whether the other person was from here or not. He just hacked them down first.

Suddenly, there were cries and screams in the temple.

In just the time it took to burn an incense stick, all the people in this popular Tieshan Niangniang Temple were killed, leaving only the abbot who had wet his pants to be dragged in front of Xiao Ran like a dead dog by Yang Mingjie and his men.

"You...are you crazy? Aren't you afraid of Empress Tieshan..." The host wanted to borrow Empress Tieshan's reputation to fight for himself, but he didn't expect that as soon as he opened his mouth, Xiao Ran glanced at Yang Mingjie and said, "Slap him!"

"promise!"

Yang Mingjie might not be good at killing people, but he is a professional at slapping people in the face. He picked up the handle of the knife, put the scabbard against the scabbard, and slapped the old nun in the face.

There was only the sound of popping, and in a blink of an eye twenty mouths came up, and the host's eyes immediately became clear.

Don't underestimate the skill of slapping. As the saying goes, a big slap can crack big tofu, while a small slap can break stones.

The business in this yamen requires real skills. If it were an ordinary person, there would be only two results after twenty slaps in the face.

These two results depend entirely on the mood of the adults in the room.

If the adults in the hall don't want to listen to this person, then even if this person doesn't faint, his brain will be confused, let alone speak.

If an adult wants this person to speak, then he should give him twenty slaps with just the right amount of force to make sure he is dazed but not brain-damaged. The most important thing is that after the slap, the mouth can still speak.

Therefore, as the squad leader, Yang Mingjie knew well how to deliver the slap and what effect it would have.

Seeing that the host seemed to be much more sober, Xiao Ran directly took out the appointment letter without a single word written on it, and said, "I obey your orders. Goddess Tieshan is a deity in name but a bandit in reality. Seal the temple and smash the door. Screw the leader of the bandits to death, and behead the rest of them for public display!"

"Sir!" Hearing this, the host panicked. So he was going to be tortured to death by slicing if he was spared? If he had known, he would have just hit his head against the wall and died. His legs went weak and he knelt on the ground begging for mercy: "Sir, please spare my life. Please have mercy on me. We were all deceived. This is none of our business. Sir, I am willing to hand over all my property. Please have mercy on me and spare my life."

This is what Xiao Ran was waiting for: "Yes, but whether you can survive depends on your ability. I will show you a way to survive. As long as you are willing, I guarantee that you will not only survive, but also have no worries about food and clothing for the rest of your life."

"There is such a good thing?"

"Of course, this is the order of Jiedushi Gao, how could he lie to you?"

Xiao Ran then signaled with his eyes to Yang Mingjie and others behind him to take the host in to sign the contract and seize all the real estate and properties.

Xiao Ran will not get involved in these things. Professional matters should be left to professionals.

After a while, all the people in charge came to Xiao Ran and handed him the written confession and the list.

Xiao Ran didn't read the confession. He just took the list and examined it carefully before a smile appeared on his face: "Sure enough, these guys are still rich."

Not to mention the above-mentioned land properties, the deposits in the money houses alone amounted to 660,000 taels of silver and 40,000 taels of gold.

There are countless other gold, silver, jewelry and antique properties.

This shows how this Lady Tieshan made money.

But this amount of money is not a lot, but also not a little... If it is just for marrying a wife and buying some property, it is enough. But if you want to raise an army and recruit soldiers, this amount of money is nothing, not even enough to fill the gaps in your teeth.

Thinking of this, Xiao Ran took the host's statement and scanned it at a glance. Then he raised his eyes slightly and a sneer gradually appeared on his face: "If she hadn't mentioned it, I would have forgotten that there are still many big families in Ruzhou City."

After saying that, he waved his hand and said, "Let's go back!"

Soon after everyone left, a huge fire broke out inside the Tieshan Niangniang Temple.

The fire was obviously carefully started, and the flames surged and grew bigger and bigger.

In less than a cup of tea, the flames engulfed the entire Tieshan Niangniang Temple. Xiao Ran watched the houses burn down before he felt relieved and left with his men.

But not long after they left, some people came out and spontaneously walked to the Niangniang Temple which had been burned to ruins.

An old man who was missing a leg looked at the burnt statue of the Iron Mountain Goddess and couldn't help but sigh. He looked around and took advantage of the fact that no one was paying attention to him. He reached out and grabbed a piece of the broken stone and stuffed it into his arms. He didn't mind the burning sensation of the broken stone in his arms, which burned his skin and flesh. He silently said in his heart:

"May your Majesty bless you, may your Majesty bless you..."

(End of this chapter)