The elite cavalry ran into the house and saw the priest's body. They were silent for a moment, then stood with their heads bowed, waiting for instructions from their general.
"Bury the body," Jiang Zhuojun ordered the elite cavalryman, "You do this alone."
If one person did this, it meant that it should not be spread outside. The elite cavalry understood what he meant and answered Jiang Zhuojun loudly, "Yes", then dragged the priest's body out.
Jiang Zhuojun glanced at the blood on the ground, took out a pen and paper and wrote a short message to Jing Mo, briefly describing what happened tonight. At the end of the letter, Jiang Zhuojun wrote: "Qinghui is very likely to have been killed by the Eternal Life Temple."
He folded the letter into a very small ball and sealed it with wax. Jiang Zhuojun carefully hid the wax ball and waited until the rain stopped and the road was passable before he ordered someone to deliver the letter to Chiyang City and hand it to Jing Mo.
The chief and Xiao Wei were standing in front of the house where the people of Chiyan Village were locked up. When they heard the elite cavalrymen who were guarding the house say that the priest of the village was not in the house, the chief immediately shouted, "Can this man fly after becoming a wizard? You are standing here, can you let this old man run away?"
The two elite cavalrymen guarding the door looked at the boss. Every time they spoke to this guy, they had the urge to fight with him.
Xiao Wei pushed the big boss aside and asked the two elite cavalrymen, "Where did the priest go?"
The two elite cavalrymen shook their heads at Xiao Wei.
"You don't even know where he went?" the boss came over and shouted again.
Seeing the two elite cavalrymen shaking their heads again, Xiao Wei stopped asking questions and dragged the boss away.
The big boss was dragged away from the cell door by Xiao Wei. He shook off Xiao Wei's hand and said, "Why are you pulling me? Can't I find someone else?"
Xiao Wei sighed and said, "Can you use some brains?"
The big boss rolled up his sleeves and said, "You still want to fight with me at this time?"
Xiao Wei said, "Who else could have taken the person away and made the two guards keep silent except their general?"
The eldest boss said, "Jiang Zhuojun?"
Xiao Wei looked like he was saying, "What are you talking about?"
The eldest master looked up at the rain outside the eaves, and after a long while he said to Xiao Wei: "I wanted to fool him and say that the prince consort was possessed by evil spirits, but it seems that General Jiang didn't believe it."
Xiao Wei pulled the corner of his mouth. Unless Jiang Zhuojun was possessed by evil spirits, how could the current Ningyuan Hou believe such nonsense?
The eldest boss said, "You didn't see what the Prince Consort looked like at that time. In fact, he really looked like he was possessed by evil spirits. If the princess didn't come, Er Gouzi would have died in his hands. I can't figure it out now. What happened to the Prince Consort?"
As Xiao Wei listened to the boss's chatter, the corpse of the two maids in the Fengtian Imperial Palace came to his mind again. Xiao Wei closed his eyes and tried to tell himself that now was not the time to let his imagination run wild.
"I was thinking that as long as the princess brings the young master back, we will leave this evil place as soon as possible," the eldest boss said to Xiao Wei, "then maybe the prince consort will be fine. Now, the young master has been captured. It seems that we have to stay in the Miao land for a long time."
Xiao Wei said, “So?”
The eldest boss said, "So what? You're still asking me why now? Aren't you afraid that the longer we stay here, the crazier the Prince Consort will become?"
Xiao Wei frowned and asked, "Do you think the prince consort is crazy?"
The eldest boss sighed and said, "To be honest, I have seen a young man from a wealthy family in Donghai before. People in Donghai get married early. This young man got married at the age of thirteen, and his bride was twelve years old. On his wedding day, the city was decorated with lights and colors, as if everyone in the city was celebrating a festival. I wanted to take my brothers to do some small business that day. We have to eat, right?"
When Xiao Wei heard what the boss said, the corners of his mouth twitched. Is this man going to rob someone?
"Ahem," the eldest boss cleared his throat and said to Xiao Wei, "After the wedding banquet was over, I heard the house was quiet, and was about to take my brothers in. Guess what? There was a scream in the house, so creepy that my brothers and I didn't dare to go in. We thought it was some of our colleagues who came to beg for food. But after a while, the screams were quiet again, and I..."
Xiao Wei got impatient when he heard this and said to the boss, "What on earth do you want to tell me?"
"That young man went crazy and killed all the more than a hundred people in his family in one night," the boss spoke concisely this time.
"What?" Xiao Wei said in disbelief.
"Why would I lie to you?" The eldest son said, "The young master was captured alive, and I have never heard that he practiced martial arts. The bailiffs of the government office could not do anything to him. Later, the city defense troops came, dozens of them, but it was useless. I was so anxious that I wanted to take my brothers to fight. During the fight, the young master stood there motionless, and the prefect took the opportunity to order the arrows to be shot, and the young master was shot to death with thousands of arrows through the heart."
Xiao Wei was a sensitive person. After hearing the boss's description, he immediately asked, "Do you think the prince consort is the same as that young master?"
"He is a handsome and elegant man on weekdays, but when he suddenly goes crazy, even gods and demons can't stop him," the boss said, "I just want to tell you that there is a kind of madness that can't be seen on weekdays."
Xiao Wei was silent.
"The doctors in the city all said that the young master was suffering from madness," the boss whispered, "and then a group of monks came. Damn it!" When the boss said this, he remembered something and looked at Xiao Wei with wide eyes and said, "They are a group of people from the Temple of Eternal Life!"
Xiao Wei was suddenly startled and asked, "What did they say about that young master?"
The eldest boss tried hard to recall and said, "I remember they were chanting scriptures and then they said that the young master became a demon with just one thought."
"One thought becomes a demon?" Xiao Wei asked, "What does this mean?"
"How should I know?" The big boss pointed to the top of his head and said to Xiao Wei, "In the end, they drove a long nail into the young master's head, from the top of his head. I heard that it was a soul-driving nail, something that would make people never reincarnate. Damn, at that time, I should have known that the people in the Eternal Life Temple were not good people. I don't know if that young master was harmed by the Eternal Life Temple. If I were alive today, I would calculate it."
Xiao Wei said, "What do you want to calculate?"
"If the young master were alive today, he would be eighteen, and a few months away from nineteen," the eldest master said, jumping up and down on the spot, saying, "Mother, Wei, is the young master the same age as our prince consort?"
Eighteen, and in a few months he would be nineteen, which would naturally make him the same age as Gu Xinglang.
Xiao Wei's hands and feet turned cold at this moment. He suddenly went crazy and killed the whole family, including the young master of a wealthy family who was the same age as Gu Xinglang, the monks of the Eternal Life Temple, and the two bodies of the maids in the Fengtian Imperial Palace. Is there any connection between these and Gu Xinglang who suddenly killed people tonight?
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