Fang Jie¡¯s dagger stayed an inch outside Lu Ou¡¯s heart, his hand was so steady. The dagger stopped in mid-air without shaking at all, as if the handle was inserted into a rock. But those hands were neither rocks nor immovable. As long as he pressed down gently, the dagger would pierce Lu Ou's skin and stab into his heart. Twist the hand holding the knife back and forth once or twice, and that heart will break.
"Now answer my first question."
Fang Jie squatted next to Lu Ou and asked: "How many times have people from the Fo Sect visited Luo Yao over the years. Who is the identity of the visitor from the Fo Sect? What did they talk about and how long did they stay? Tell as much as you know. Don't tell me anything. Doubt my judgment and the information I already know, you are only a blink of an eye away from death."
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Lu Ou's eyes flickered: "I don't know much. You should know that I haven't been in the General's Mansion for a long time."
"But you and Rowan are close."
Fang Jie said: "So you know more than the people who have been in Luo Yao Mansion for a long time, which is why I came to find you. In fact, the reason why I took action against you when I was in Hongxiu Zhaoli in the imperial capital, I wanted to force you to answer these questions at that time, but it was a pity that Ye Jinnan came too quickly. "
"Say it, a broken life is also a life."
Fang Jie said patiently: "And it is possible for a broken person to become a master."
Lu Ou swallowed hard, his Adam's apple rising and falling.
"I only know twice, but I don't know the identity of the Buddha, because the Major General only mentioned it to me occasionally. You believe me If the Major General refuses to tell me, I don't dare to ask myself. Young Master The general only mentioned it when he was drinking one day. In recent years, people from the Buddhist sect have dared to come to the general. But the young general did not know what they talked about, because when the general met with people from the Buddhist sect, no one was around him. No one stayed. And besides the Major General, almost no one else knew about it."
"The young general speculates that it seems that people from the Buddhist sect are planning to preach in the southwest and want to find the general's accommodation. But you also know that your majesty hates people from the Buddhist sect. How could the general allow people from the Buddhist sect to establish a foothold in the southwest?"
"You really don't know the identity of the Buddhist sect who went to see Luo Yao?"
"I really don't knowbut I guess his status is not low. It's not easy for ordinary people to meet the general."
"Um"
Fang Jie nodded: "Even if your answer is more honest, it is almost the same as what I already know. The second question is about those barbarian wizards. How many wizards do Luo Yao have in his house?"
"I only know two people It seems that when the general ordered the slaughter of several barbarian tribes, these two people came to the door on their own. They said they could help the general and work for the general. But they asked the general not to kill them all. The general left two of the people from those tribes, but he still ordered that all the young men of those tribes be slaughtered. No one was left who was over ten years old and under sixty years old. "
Fang Jie hummed and said, "This is in line with Luo Yao's temperament."
He looked at Lu Ou and asked, "Then do you know if Luo Yao raised those wizards and asked them to do anything?"
"That's not true!"
Lu Ou said: "Although I haven't been in the General's Mansion for a long time, I have only seen the two barbarian wizards a few times. They seem to just live in a separate courtyard behind the General's Mansion. They rarely come out and move around, and I have never heard of them. What did the general ask them to do?"
"When did Luo Yao start taking in those wizards?"
¡°I don¡¯t know¡I really don¡¯t know¡¡±
Fang Jie shook his head helplessly: "You were very honest just now, but now you are not honest at all. I told you that I know a lot about Luo Yao, and I may not know what you said."
His dagger suddenly slashed across, leaving a deep wound on Lu Ou's left leg with a squeaking sound. Soon, blood emerged from the wound like a stream. This knife solution was extremely precise, and it missed Lu Ou's artery by just a hair.
"ah"
Lu Ou exclaimed and shrank back: "I really don't know."
Fang Jie sighed, took out the rope from the deerskin bag at his waist, tied up Lu Ou, and then hung him on the branch of a big tree. The tied up Lu Ou was swaying in mid-air, blood dripping from his thighs.
Fang Jie took out a very thin bamboo tube from his leather bag and sharpened one end. Then he walked up to Lu Ou, raised his head and looked at Lu Ou and said seriously: "I showed mercy to that knife just now because you were the first one." ?The answer to this question is quite honest. Let me ask you again now, when did Luo Yao start taking in those barbarian wizards? "
"I¡¡"
Lu Ou hesitated for a moment, but Fang Jie did not hesitate.
He stabbed the thin bamboo tube into Lu Ou's thigh with a pop, and accurately inserted it into the artery. Soon, blood flowed down the bamboo tube, dripping, and dyed a few grasses on the ground red.
"If I don't pull out this bamboo tube, you will probably die of excessive blood loss in half an hour at most. By then, the blood-dried corpse will be as shriveled as a dead tree, and even the greediest wolf will not Eat your flesh. You can imagine the process of bleeding until you die. Although it is not too painful, you can clearly feel your weakness a little bit, and you can clearly feel the strength in your body. It was stripped off piece by piece.¡±
He walked not far away, sat down on a stone, took out his pipe, filled it with tobacco, lit it and took a puff: "Although I don't have much time, I still have it until you die."
"A long time ago there was a barbarian wizard beside the general a long time ago!"
Lu Ou begged: "Please, pull that thing out of my leg."
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"Time, number of people."
Fang Jie blew out a puff of smoke from his mouth and did not get up immediately.
"The Major General once mentioned to me that the General had been superstitious about the barbarian wizards many years ago. The several conquests against the barbarians over the years were all because the General ordered the wizards from those tribes to come and work in his mansion. , those wizards refused, so the general ordered the attack. It is said that the general kept the wizards but never let them out, but kept doing something in a secret place in the house. "
"The Major General got drunk once and seemed very dissatisfied. He said that the General was like this when he was a child. He asked the General's wife and it seemed that after the death of the eldest son Luo Wu, the General's character became more and more withdrawn. It got weird. Later, when the Shang Kingdom was pacified, the general had just been promoted to the left vanguard general. When he led troops to fight in the southwest, he heard that barbarian wizards knew many strange witchcraft, so he began to secretly recruit these people. "
"It's just that no one knows what the general is doing with these wizards."
"Perhapsmaybe the Major General and the Major General's wife should know."
Lu Ou's face was as white as paper, and he seemed out of breath after saying so many words in one breath. He looked at Fang Jie and begged: "Please, pull out that bamboo tube quickly, I don't want to die I don't want to die."
"Not urgent"
Fang Jie shook his head: "Continue, Luo Yao has collected those wizards and kept them in his house for so many years. Obviously, the number of them is not too small, and it is impossible that no flaws are exposed. If you think about it carefully, what those wizards are going to do and What is it about? Who is it? "
Because of anxiety and fear, the expression on Lu Ou's face was particularly complicated: "Let me think about itI want to think about it"
Lu Ou's brows frowned more and more. He lowered his head and could see the blood in the bamboo tube falling continuously. The more he looked, the stronger the fear became.
"I rememberedthose wizards live in the deepest courtyard of the General's Mansion and basically don't come out. But one time a wizard came out and told the guards in the mansion to go out and get fetal blood from children. They must be male. Children. And It is said that more than ten years ago, for some unknown reason, the general seemed to have killed many wizards in a rage. My father was also a member of the general's palace. When I was a teenager, my father had He once mentioned it at home that the screams in the courtyard behind the General's Mansion lasted for a long time more than ten years ago, and later he saw the General's bodyguards carrying many corpses out of the courtyard."
"Exactly more than ten years ago?"
Fang Jie asked immediately.
¡°I can¡¯t remember clearly, it must have been at least fourteen or five years ago.¡±
Lu Ou said urgently: "Please, pull out the bamboo tube quickly."
Fang Jie knocked his pipe on the stone and frowned gradually. He stood up and walked to Lu Ou and pulled out the bamboo pipe, then tore off a piece of Lu Ou's clothes and strangled his left leg.
"I said, as long as you answer my questions well, I won't embarrass you."
Fang Jie looked into Lu Ou's eyes and said, "Answer me another question now How many troops do you have in the left vanguard? Do the local officials of the Fourth Southwest Road allocate money from their treasury to honor Luo Yao every year?"
"Left midfielder"
Lu Ou felt that he was getting weaker and weaker, so the fear in his heart became more and more intense: "The number of troops on the left avant-garde should be no less than 400,000., the number of people reported to the court was 200,000, and the court paid them 200,000. The other troops are supported by local officials. Of course, the general would send troops to exterminate the barbarians every year, and he could also gain a lot of wealth. You know that there is no shortage of silver in the barbarian tribes, but they are all turned into jewelry and not circulated. Also, when the general Chen Bing was passing through Nanyan, Emperor Murong Shao of Nanyan would also send a lot of money to the general every year. "
Fang Jie hummed and asked, "Where are these 200,000 extra personnel stationed?"
"Most of them are stationed forty miles southwest of Yongzhou. Less than a hundred miles further south is Nanyan, and three hundred miles southwest is the tribe of Manzi."
Fang Jie nodded: "Last question How high is Luo Yao's cultivation?"
"I don't know Ever since the Shang Kingdom was destroyed, no one has seen the general take action again."
Lu Ou begged: "I have already told you everything you know, please let me down."
Fang Jie slowly shook his head.
Lu Ou's expression immediately changed: "Youyou are really lying to me."
Fang Jie was silent for a while and then said: "I really wanted to keep you to help me at the beginning. After all, with the help of someone like you, it would be much easier to find out Luo Yao's background. And you and Luo Wen have a good relationship. , and it can also help me get a lot of information from Luo Wen.¡±
"But I regret it."
Fang Jie sighed and said: "You have followed Luo Yao for so many years, but you have so easily told as much about him as you know. And if you follow me, I'm afraid you will sell me out without being forced by others. I It's my fault to regret it, because I ignored this before, but don't worry, I won't make you suffer."
He stretched out his hand to help Lu Ou tidy up his clothes: "You are unlucky to have met a person like me who always wants to be a good person but is destined not to be a good person."
"Fang Jie! Even if I die, I will not let you go even if I am a ghost. If there is an afterlife, I will cut you into pieces!"
"Let's wait until you become a ghost Also, don't talk to me about the afterlife. I understand it a little better than you. What's more, even if there is an afterlife, it will just kill you one more time."
Fang Jie stabbed the dagger into Lu Ou's heart, and then twisted the handle back and forth several times.
"Goodbye Also, let me tell you, I don't know what you said before. I have almost no information about Luo Yao."
He retracted the dagger, and then punched the ground beside him. With a bang, a big hole was made in the ground with his punch. After punching him three times in a row, he checked that the pit was almost big enough, then put Lu Ou's body in it and buried it with soil: "Let's bury it in the ground The only thing I can do is this."