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Chapter 250: Surrendering Xuzhou

Xu Yuan's sword moved, cutting the tendons in Tiebei Gai's hands and feet.

After being promoted to the sixth-rate alchemy cultivator, the first thing he did last night was to refine the sword pill again, and it also reached the sixth-rate level.

The Iron Back Cover is now vulnerable in the hands of Lord Xu.

"Jia Yi, take Shenhun away!"

"Yes!"

Jia Yi led his men onto the stage and quickly took the iron back cover away.

Lang Xiaoba saw Xu Yuan still standing there motionless: "Sir?"

Xu Yuan stood with his hands behind his back, looking at the stage: "Watch this show with me."

Lang Xiaoba looked confused. Is there still hope?
On the stage, Xiao Loufang wiped the blood from the corner of her mouth and bowed to the audience: "Ladies and gentlemen, allow me to change my clothes."

Not long after, the sound of gongs and drums rang out again, Xiao Loufang reappeared on the stage, and all the characters from the Liang family troupe followed suit to perform supporting roles.

Xu Yuan calmed down and listened to the play carefully.

Xiao Loufang's singing style is quite skillful, vigorous and mellow, full of desolate and sad emotions.

His voice is no longer as good as it used to be, but the emotions in his voice have become more real and full because of what he has experienced in the past ten years and the special situation at this moment.

"The Emperor Gaozu of Han founded the country.

The splendid family nation has been passed down for four hundred years.

Until now, the fortune has declined and the four directions are in turmoil.

The country is in chaos due to the slander of treacherous people and the monarch is weak and the ministers are strong.

Outside, the Yellow Turban bandits are plundering everywhere.

The princes divided the territory and each of them dominated one side.

But my Xuzhou city has many people and a vast land.

If war breaks out, the people will suffer disaster.

I hope you will lead this county without any humility.

Even if I die, I will still be blessed."

"Giving Up Xuzhou" is a Three Kingdoms play, which sings the part where Tao Qian gave up Xuzhou to Liu Bei.

The last scene is the death of Tao Qian:
"Instantly I felt the blood rushing to my heart,

The three souls scatter, the seven spirits drift, and one life returns to the underworld."

All the characters on the stage burst into tears, and the play ended.

Everyone should have bowed and left together.

Xiao Loufang staggered.

"Liu Bei" beside him hurriedly supported him. Xiao Loufang refused to leave the stage. She supported the people around her and stood still, looking at Xu Yuan: "Sir, please don't let my lineage be cut off because of a scum like me!"

Xu Yuan's expression changed, and Xiao Loufang also knew that she had cast a spell on him.

He deliberately chose the play "Giving Up Xuzhou" with the intention of giving up his Taoist skills and continuing to pass on the "law".

Xiao Loufang had no complaints at all, only pleading in her eyes.

Yesterday he knew that he would not live long, and there were only two things that worried him: one was the sins he had committed, and the other was... his own Dharma, which must not be broken because of him.

Xu Yuan nodded and said to Lang Xiaoba, "Xiaoba, go up and kneel down."

Lang Xiaoba was bewildered: "Sir?"

"I became your disciple and received Xiao Loufang's inheritance."

Lang Xiaoba walked up to the stage in a daze, knelt down and kowtowed three times to Xiao Loufang.

Xiao Loufang could no longer hold on, and blood kept gushing out of her mouth.

He struggled to take out a booklet from his arms and handed it to Lang Xiaoba with trembling hands: "Sir, quickly..."

Xu Yuan then urged the commercial law.

When Lang Xiaoba took the booklet with both hands, he suddenly felt something entering his body.

When he looked up again, Xiao Loufang had collapsed, his eyes were glazed over and he was no longer breathing.

Boss Liang let out a long sigh, but couldn't utter a single suitable word for a long time.

Xu Yuan came up to the stage and patted Lang Xiaoba on the shoulder: "Get up, Xiao Loufang has passed his method to you."

"You stay here, take care of your master's funeral, and then... pay off his debts."

"I'm going back to the yamen to handle the case first."

Xu Yuan looked at Xiao Loufang's body again and bowed with his fists clasped.

This actor finally held on to the last bit of bottom line.

Don't sell your "Dharma" when you are addicted.

If this method falls into the hands of the wrong people, it will probably cause endless disasters.

Lang Xiaoba looked down at the booklet in his hand, on which were written three large, elegant characters: Liyuan Method.

Am I practicing both martial arts and magic?!
……

When Xu Yuan returned to the South City patrol room, Jia Yi had already finished the soul examination.

In fact, there was no need to examine the soul; the iron back cover had already collapsed. The shadow puppet was pressed against his back, and he could not move or think.

It's like being trapped in endless darkness.

This feeling is really terrible.

The moment Lin Wanmo took back the shadow puppet, the iron-backed cover, which had not had a drop of water for two days and two nights, was about to surrender.

But Lord Xu was still afraid that he would resist, so he cut the tendons of his hands and feet cleanly and neatly.

Tiebeigai almost cried, "Sir, there is no need to do this!"

I admit them all!

When he was brought back to the South City Patrol Office, he told everything Jia Yi asked him.

But Jia Yi thought about it and felt that he couldn't believe his "one-sided statement" for such a big thing.

Then he ordered people to examine the soul.

This time, Tiebeigai really shouted out: "Sir, there is no need to do this..."

Jia Yi became even more suspicious and ordered, "Examine strictly and repeatedly!"

The soul-examination process was extremely painful, and Tiebei Gai was tortured to the point of being on the verge of death.

It can also be regarded as a revenge for the innocent people who died tragically at his hands over the years.

When Xu Yuan returned, Jia Yi had already organized his men and horses and said, "Sir, these salt smugglers have a lair on a farm outside the city!"

"Let's go now!"

……

Xiaobeizhuang is twelve miles north of the city.

There is a large house on the farm, which was bought by Tiebeigai with the money he had saved over the years.

This is where he plans to retire after retiring.

The house comes with 120 acres of fertile farmland.

Only a limited number of people in the gang know about this place.

There are four families in the village who are Tiebei Gai's tenants - but they don't know that the so-called "kind-hearted" boss is actually Tiebei Gai, the salt smuggler who kills people without blinking an eye in Champa!

Tiebei Gai's men have been hiding in the house for the past two days.

Every day, two people would be secretly sent back to Champa to inquire about the news.

Xu Yuan and his men dismounted outside Xiaobei Village and walked, quickly surrounding the house.

Then he easily took down everyone.

In the entire gang, only Tiebei Gai is ranked seventh rate, and the rest are only eighth rate at best.

Most of them are just mediocre.

Then Xu Yuan ordered everyone to clean up the traces and hid in the house to wait for the opportunity.

In the afternoon, the two people who went to the city to inquire about the news came back and fell into the trap.

"There is no 'Nine Master' that Tiebei Gai confessed to."

"Even the four followers of the Ninth Master are missing!"

"Iron Back Gai's men confessed that after Tie Bei Gai and his men set off with the Blood Salt Demon, they never saw Jiu Ye and his four companions again.

I don’t even know when the other person left.”

After listening to Jia Yi's report, Xu Yuan stroked his chin and thought to himself, "Very cautious..."

After thinking for a moment, Xu Yuan waved his hand and said, "Search this house thoroughly."

"Yes!"

Xu Yuan now also uses some of the "code words".

"Search thoroughly" means tacitly allowing subordinates to secretly hide some valuables in the process.

This is also the rule in each yamen, and it is part of the income of yamen runners and captains.

But Jia Yi came back soon: "Sir, I found something."

It must be something they dare not dispose of without authorization.

Xu Yuan followed Jia Yi to the backyard, where there was a well with a hole near the water surface.

Inside was a small warehouse with several boxes of silver and a small box of gold jewelry.

In addition, there is a long and narrow iron box.

After Jia Yi followed Xu Yuan in, he took the initiative to open the iron box, revealing a pig dragon's head.

There are many pig dragons in Jiaozhi.

The big ones can grow to more than half a meter long.

There are legends of super pig dragons in various places in Jiaozhi, which are often three or five meters long. It is not supposed to be that big.

The head in the iron box was about seven feet long.

I estimate that when he was alive, his body might have been more than three meters long!
What surprised Xu Yuan the most was that a single black horn grew on the top of the pig dragon's head!

"Transformed into a dragon?!"

(End of this chapter)