Fang Jie's dagger was just an inch away from Lu Ou's heart, and his hand was so steady. The dagger stopped in mid-air without the slightest vibration, as if the hilt was stuck in a rock. But those hands were not rocks and were not fixed. As long as he pressed down lightly, the dagger would pierce through Lu Gu's skin and pierce into Lu's heart. Twist the hand holding the knife back and forth once or twice, and that heart will shatter.
"Now answer my first question."
Fang Jie squatted beside Lu Ou and asked, "How many times have people from the Buddhist sect approached Luo Yao over the years. What is the identity of the person from the Buddhist sect? What did they talk about and how long did they stay? Tell as much as you know, don't let me know." Doubt my judgment and what I already know, you are now only a blink of an eye away from death."
"I… "
Lu Ou's eyes flickered: "I don't know much, you should know that my time in the General's Mansion is not long."
"But you have a close relationship with Rowan."
Fang Jie said: "So you know more than the people who have been in Luoyao's mansion for a long time, and that's why I came to you. In fact, the reason why I took action against you when I was in the imperial capital's red sleeve move is because At that time, I wanted to force you to answer these questions, but it's a pity that Ye Jinnan came too soon."
"Let's talk, a broken life is also a life."
Fang Xie patiently said: "Moreover, a broken and incomplete person may become a master."
Lu Ou swallowed hard and spit, his Adam's apple rose and fell.
"I only knew about it twice, but I don't know the identity of Fozong, because the major general only mentioned it to me occasionally, you believe me... If the major general refuses to tell, I don't dare to ask myself. Major general I just mentioned it while drinking one day that some people from the Buddhist sect dared to come to the general over the years. But the minor general didn't know what they talked about, because when the general met with the people from the Buddhist sect, there was no one around him. Stay. And... besides the major general, almost no one knows about it."
"The Major General speculates that it seems that people from the Buddhist sect intend to preach in the southwest and want to find accommodation with the general. But you also know that your majesty hates the people of the Buddhist sect. How could the general allow the people of the Buddhist sect to gain 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 know... But I guess it should be of high status. It is not easy for ordinary people to meet the general."
"Um."
Fang Jie nodded: "Even if you answer honestly, it is almost the same as what I already know. The second question is about those barbarian wizards. How many wizards does Luo Yao's mansion have?"
"I only know two... It seems that when the general ordered the massacre of several barbarian tribes, these two people came to the door by themselves. They said they could help the general and do things for the general. But I begged the general not to kill all the barbarians. Several tribes, the general kept the two of them, but he still ordered the slaughter of all the young and strong men of those tribes, and none of the men over the age of ten and under the age of sixty was left."
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 what Luo Yao raised those wizards and asked them to do anything?"
"It's not!"
Lu Ou said: "Although I haven't been in the General's Mansion for a long time, I have only seen those two barbarian wizards a few times. They seem to only live in a courtyard behind the General's Mansion. They rarely come out and have never heard of them. What did the General tell them to do?"
"When did Luo Yao start taking in those wizards?"
"I don't know... really don't know..."
Fang Jie shook his head helplessly: "You were 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 chirping sound, and soon, blood gushed out of the wound like a stream. This knife method was grasped with great precision, and it only hurt Lu'ou's artery by a hair.
"ah."
Lu Ou exclaimed and shrank back: "I really don't know."
Fang Jie sighed, took out a rope from the buckskin pouch at his waist, tied Lugu up, and hung him on a branch of a big tree. The bound Lugu was staggering in mid-air, and blood dripped down from his thighs.
Fang Jie took out a very thin bamboo tube from his leather bag, sharpened one end, walked up to Lu Ou, raised his head to look at Lu Ou and said seriously: "I spared that knife just now because your first time The answer to one question is fairly honest. Let me ask you again now, since when did Luo Yao take 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 bang, and pierced it precisely into the artery. Soon, blood flowed down the bamboo tube, pattering down, dyeing the grass on the ground red.
"If I don't pull out this bamboo tube, it is estimated that you will die due to excessive blood loss in half an hour at most. By then, the blood-drained corpse will be shriveled like dead wood, and even the most greedy wolf will not Eat your meat. You can imagine the process of you bleeding to death. Although it is not too painful, you can clearly feel a little bit of weakness, and you can clearly feel the strength in your body One by one was stripped."
He walked not far away, sat down on a rock, took out his pipe, stuffed it with shredded tobacco, lit it, and took a puff: "Although I don't have much time, I still have some time to consume until you die."
"A long time ago... a long time ago, there was a barbarian wizard by the side of the general!"
Lu Ou begged: "Please, pull that thing off my leg."
…
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"Time, number of people."
Fang Jie exhaled a puff of smoke from his mouth, but didn't get up immediately.
"The major general once mentioned to me that the general had been superstitious about those barbarian wizards many years ago, and that the several conquests against the barbarians over the years were all because the general ordered the wizards from those tribes to work in his mansion. That's why the general ordered the attack because those wizards refused. It is said that the general raised those wizards but never let them out, but kept doing something in a secret place in the mansion."
"The major general once got drunk and seemed very dissatisfied. He said that the general was like this when he was a child. He asked the general's wife. It seems that after the death of the eldest son Luo Wu, the general's character became more withdrawn. It was weird. Later, when the Shang Kingdom was pacified, the General had just been promoted to the General of the Left Front Guard. When he was leading troops to fight in the Southwest, he heard that barbarian wizards could do many strange and weird witchcrafts, so he began to secretly search for these people. "
"It's just that no one knows what the general is looking for these wizards for."
"Perhaps... maybe the major general and the wife of the major general should know."
Lu Ou's face was as white as paper, and he was out of breath after talking so much in one breath. He looked at Fang Jie and begged, "Please, quickly pull out that bamboo tube, I don't want to die... I don't want to die."
"Not urgent."
Fang Jie shook his head: "Continue to say, for so many years, Luo Yao has recruited those wizards to raise in his mansion. Obviously, the number of them will not be too small, and it is impossible not to show any flaws. If you think about it carefully, what those wizards have to do and About what? Who? Or what?"
Because of anxiety and fear, the expression on Lu Ou's face was extraordinarily complicated: "Let me think... let me think..."
Lu Ou's frown became tighter and tighter, and he could see the blood in the bamboo tube continuously falling down when he lowered his head. The more you look at it, the stronger the fear becomes.
"I remembered... Those wizards lived in the deepest courtyard of the General's Mansion, and they basically didn't come out. But once a wizard came out and told the guards in the mansion to go out and get the fetal blood of a child. It must be a boy. Yes. Also... It is said that more than ten years ago, for some unknown reason, the General seemed to have killed many wizards in a fit of anger. My father was also a member of the General’s mansion. When I was a teenager, my father was in the The family mentioned that more than ten years ago, the howling in the other courtyard behind the General’s Mansion lasted for a long time, and later he saw the general’s personal guards carrying many corpses out of the other courtyard.”
"Ten years ago?"
Fang Jie immediately asked.
"I don't remember clearly, but it must have been at least fourteen or five years ago."
Lu Ou said eagerly, "Please, pull out that bamboo tube quickly."
Fang Jie knocked his pipe on the stone, his brows gradually wrinkled. He got up and went to Lu Ou to pull out the bamboo tube, then tore off a piece of Lu Ou's clothes and strangled his left leg.
"I said, as long as you answer my question well, I won't make things difficult for you."
Fang Jie looked into Lu Ou's eyes and said, "Answer me one more question now... How many soldiers are left in front of the left? Do the local officials in the four southwestern provinces allocate money from the treasury every year to honor Luo Yao?"
"Left forward..."
Lu Ou felt that he was really getting weaker and weaker, so the fear in his heart became more and more intense: "The left front guard should have no less than 400,000 troops, and the number reported to the imperial court is 200,000, and the imperial court pays 200,000 yuan. Others People and horses are all supported by local officials. Of course, the general will send troops to wipe out those barbarians every year, and he can also get a lot of wealth. You know that there is no shortage of silver in the barbarian tribe, but they are all sold as ornaments. Circulation. Besides, the Great General Chen Bing is passing through Nanyan, and Nanyan Emperor Murong Sha will also send a lot of money to the Great General every year."
Fang Jie hummed and asked, "Where are these 200,000 extra troops stationed?"
"Most are stationed forty miles southwest of Yongzhou. Less than a hundred miles south is Nanyan, and three hundred miles southwest is Manzi's tribe."
Fang Jie nodded: "The last question... how high is Luo Yao's cultivation?"
"I don't know... Ever since the Kingdom of Shang was wiped out, no one has seen the great general take action again."
Lu Ou pleaded: "I've already told you what I know, let me down."
Fang Jie shook his head slowly.
Lu Ou's face immediately changed: "You... you are really lying to me."
Fang Jie was silent for a while and then said: "At the beginning, I really wanted to keep you to help me. After all, with the help of someone like you, Zha Luoyao's background will be much easier. And you and Luo Wen have a good relationship. , It can also help me get a lot of news from Luo Wen."
"But I regret it."
Fang Jie sighed and said, "You have followed Luo Yao for so many years, but you have told him all the details so easily. And if you follow me, I am afraid that you will sell me without being forced by others. I It's my fault to go back on it because I overlooked it before. But don't worry, I won't make you miserable."
He stretched out his hand to help Lu Ou straighten his clothes: "It's your bad luck that you met a person like me who always wants to be a good person but is destined not to be a good person."
"Fang Jie! I am dead, even a ghost will not let you go. If there is an afterlife, I will tear you apart!"
"Let's talk about it after you become a ghost... Besides, don't talk about the afterlife to me. I understand it a little deeper 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 of the knife back and forth several times.
"Goodbye... And let me tell you, I don't know anything about what you said before, and I have almost no news about Luo Yao."
He retracted the dagger, and then punched the ground beside him, with a bang, a big hole was punched out in the ground by his punch. After punching three times in a row, he checked that the pit was almost big enough, then put Lu Ou's body in and buried it with soil: "It's safe in the ground...the only thing I can do is this."