After the prefect told this to Wei Fu and the others, Wei Fu suddenly realized: "No wonder they couldn't summon the 'God' after a long time. It turns out that we destroyed it first."
Long Yin suddenly thought of something, and he said to the prefect, "You should probably have someone investigate the temple where your mother often invites people to pray."
Normally, evil spirits are afraid of gods and Buddhas.
The prefect looked at the prince. There were not many people in their yamen. If they investigated these things at this time, it would ruin the prince's plan.
The prince said, "Send someone to the temple first!"
As for General Mao, he was able to keep people calm.
"If you don't have enough manpower, you can borrow some from General Mao."
Since you are receiving military pay from the court, you should do something for the court.
If he had not known that General Mao's soldiers were loyal to him and that no one else could control them, he would have directly revealed the fact that General Mao was in league with the bandits.
The prefect hesitated and asked, "If we allow General Mao's men to enter the city, will it be detrimental to His Highness's safety?"
The prince said, "General Mao doesn't know that I know his true identity yet. He just thinks I'm asking him for help. As long as we don't break up, he won't attack me."
So many bandits were not raised overnight, and General Mao has been stationed here for many years, so they are deeply rooted.
Whenever he passed by here in the past, he would occasionally visit the army to express his condolences on behalf of his father. At that time, he did not find any problems with General Mao, and General Mao did not reveal any flaws.
It is enough to show that he is a very cautious person. At the most minimal guess, General Mao is after money. If he is after money, he will definitely try his best to avoid conflict with him, the prince. He will not take the initiative to cause trouble or make things bigger, but will only try to find ways to settle things peacefully.
To put it in a broader sense, if General Mao wanted to rebel, now is not the right time to do so. If he jumps out, what else can he do except make all previous preparations fail?
Killing them all would only attract the emperor's attention, and then the emperor would take action against General Mao. General Mao was incapable of resisting the imperial court.
Moreover, General Mao should now be well aware of the power of Fu'er and Young Master Long, so he would not dare to act rashly.
Since the prince said so, the prefect will definitely do so.
"But whoever is guilty of a crime will be severely punished according to the law."
"Yes." The prefect took the order and went to work.
Seeing that Wei Fu was still somewhat unhappy, the Crown Prince picked her up and said softly, "You and Young Master Long were both out playing during lunch. You definitely didn't eat enough or well. How about I take you to Jingxiao Tower for dinner?"
Before the prince said it, Wei Fu didn't feel like eating. Now that he said it, Wei Fu immediately felt hungry. She hugged the prince's arm and said softly, "Fu'er wants to eat five big elbows, braised pork, lion's head, and four-happiness meatballs..."
She counted them in a row, and the prince naturally responded with a smile.
"Fuer and her little brother only ate a few fish, a rabbit and some bird eggs at noon today." She said pitifully, feeling very wronged.
The prince said distressedly: "Next time Fu'er goes out to play, remember to eat first."
Wei nodded helplessly.
The prince took Wei Fu out for dinner, and was relieved to see that Wei Fu's mood had improved and he was no longer as depressed as before.
What happened in Taohua Village was truly shocking, especially after they returned. The prefect conducted a thorough investigation and discovered that almost all married men in Taohua Village had their hands stained with the blood of their wives.
A long time ago, Taohua Village would offer sacrifices to a mother and son almost every year, and the one who performed the sacrifices would be their husband/father.
After those men killed their wives and children, they would share a woman with their brothers at home.
In Taohua Village, women are required to do the work in the fields, take care of household chores after returning home, and take care of the children. Men almost don't have to do anything.
And those women were all too willing to do this, because from birth they were taught that women were filthy after marriage, and therefore needed to perform many acts to atone for their sins. After their sins were atonement, they might be chosen by the gods and offered as sacrifices to serve them. This was the men giving the women the opportunity to be sacrificed and serve the gods, so the women needed to do these things to support and repay the men.
Because women were killed every year in the village, and even in years of famine, more sacrifices were held. Girls were scarce in the village, and before the little girls got married, the villagers treated them well because they were worried that they would not survive and there would be no sacrifices in the future.
Because a long time ago, people from outside did not dare to marry into Taohua Village.
In the past, people in Taohua Village would buy women or capture women and take them back, but the women from outside would never believe their words and would naturally resist.
I heard that a woman, knowing that she was going to be a sacrifice, killed her husband with a pair of scissors while he was sleeping, cut open his stomach, and then ran away when it was dark.
There was also a woman who secretly set fire and almost burned down the entire village.
From then on, the people of Taohua Village stopped marrying women from outside.
Government officials also counted more than 300 corpses in a cave behind Taohua Village, which means that the evil spirit eliminated by Wei Fu had been plaguing Taohua Village for at least 300 years.
When Wei Fu found out about this, it was already time for dinner.
At this time, General Mao was also dining at the same table with them. When he heard about what happened in Taohua Village, even this iron-blooded general couldn't help but feel a chill down his spine.
The prefect said at the beginning that he was afraid that he could not keep his official position, but now it doesn’t matter whether he can keep it or not. He just wants to take advantage of the opportunity that the prince and Wei Fu are here to clean up the entire Liaocheng.
The deaths that occurred in Liaocheng earlier were not caused by his negligence as he had not yet taken office, but the events in Taohua Village and Jokhang Temple were closely related to him.
He took people to the Jokhang Temple, sealed the temple, and forcibly arrested the monks for interrogation. Only then did he find out that the monks were all fake monks, and many of them were even murderers and flower thieves.
In recent years, these people have taken advantage of their status as monks to kill many people and defile many women, committing heinous crimes.
After listening to this, Long Yin couldn't help but sigh in his heart: "The evil of human nature knows no bounds."
General Mao, the sanctimonious co-prefect, said, "Lord Sun, you are so incompetent as a parent official. If the Crown Prince and the Princess hadn't passed by, no one would have known about these murders in Liaocheng!"
When the prince heard General Mao's words, his eyes darkened.
He seemed to be blaming the prefect, but in fact he was trying to sow discord between them and the prefect.
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