Chapter 1326: Hanging at the city gate

Wanqiliang looked up in shock: "Brother Afeng, I'm not going back!"

"Why?" Wanqifeng said calmly, "Is someone else's combat power worse than yours, or is someone else's discipline worse than yours? If you can't do it well, why can't someone else replace you?"

Wanqiliang's face flushed red, but he couldn't say a word.

That's right, he could come, why couldn't other warriors in Yangshan come?

Wanqifeng appreciated his anxious look and found it funny in his heart.

This silly child. If the Lord really wanted to drive Wanqiliang back, he wouldn't have to let Wanqifeng privately inform him; he could have kicked him out in front of everyone during the speech just now.

Naming names in front of everyone, the Lord hadn't done it just once or twice.

A bunch of arguments flashed through Wanqiliang's mind, but none of them seemed to be able to be said.

Wanqifeng looked at him, sighed, shook his head, and turned to leave.

At this moment, Wanqiliang finally realized, no longer arguing, but directly admitting his mistake: "Brother Afeng, I was wrong; ten merits can't make up for one fault; I shouldn't have violated the ban and privately discussed it! Can you go to the Island Master and plead for me? I won't do it again!"

Wanqifeng continued to keep a straight face: "The Lord transferred you from the islands to the Flash Gold Plain, and you were still reluctant. Why do you want to stay now?"

"Here... there is fighting here, here is better!" Wanqiliang scratched the back of his head, and for no reason remembered the boy who threw stones in the dark alley of Shizhou Tou.

He couldn't remember that face, but he remembered that look.

That look made him feel that the wounds on his body were not in vain.

Wanqifeng pointed out: "There are people calling you a benefactor here, right?"

"Brother Afeng, help me plead!" Wanqiliang said shamelessly, "I don't want to go back!"

Not only him, no one wanted to go back.

"Heh, banishment might be avoided, but a beating is inevitable!"

Wanqiliang was overjoyed: "Fine, fine, just beating is fine, beat as you like!"

Eight days later, Feng County.

This was a county city within the territory of the Pei Nation, with a population of over 170,000.

A merchant in a green robe and gray hat, dusty and tired, happened to enter the city before the city gate was locked.

As soon as he passed the city gate, he looked back.

Many people who had just entered the city did the same, looking up and pointing: on the city gate tower, a row of dead people with bulging eyes, protruding tongues, and swollen faces were hanging upside down! This way of death was truly being hanged alive, and it was a slow hanging method.

The gray hat counted, there were seven.

These seven unlucky ones had hung on the rope for at least one night before they died one after another.

Passersby looked up at them, and then spat on the ground.

Some even cursed "Good death."

A banner also stood on the city gate, with a few blood-red characters dancing wildly: Heaven's principles are clear, and retribution is swift; pay back in his own coin.

The banner was also painted with a pattern in fresh blood: a flood dragon head.

With just a few strokes, the charm was complete.

Most of the people around couldn't read, so they asked what was written on the banner.

There were also people watching the horse trough, and the gray hat squeezed in to see, only to find a flood dragon relief carving on the low, ugly gray wall.

Only a head and a small part of the neck were carved, already showing the majesty of the flood dragon. No matter where the onlookers stood, they felt that the flood dragon eyes, larger than lychees, were staring coldly at them.

Even if the gray hat didn't understand carving, he felt that this flood dragon head was lifelike, as if the flood dragon body was about to break through the wall in the next second, riding the clouds and mist.

He reached out and touched the relief, cold and hard, just the feel of ordinary brick and stone. But trying to pinch it hard, no, an invisible and gentle force bounced his fingers away.

Barrier?

There was actually an unusually gentle barrier attached to the relief, and one wouldn't discover it without intending to damage it.

Besides that, he didn't feel any supernatural powers around the relief.

The relief was just a relief.

"Excuse me, who carved this pattern?"

Everyone around shrugged, not knowing. Anyway, before the battle last night, there was nothing on the wall.

The waiter at the post station came over to lead the horse and answered casually: "Except for Heaven and gods, who would carve this on a broken wall for no reason?"

The gray hat looked back and saw that the post station was very close to the city gate.

He immediately stepped forward two steps, pointed to the corpses hanging on the city gate and the relief on the wall, and asked the waiter: "Excuse me, what is going on?"

The waiter originally didn't want to bother with him, but the few big coins he handed over made him energetic:

"Yesterday morning, before the city gate opened, these were hung on it. It scared many people at the time."

The gray hat was a bit surprised: "It's been hanging for two days like this, and Feng County hasn't taken them down?"

What are the officials doing? The waiter rolled his eyes: "Do you know what the characters on the banner, 'pay back in his own coin', mean?"

"Pay back in his own coin."

"Right, that's what I'm talking about." The waiter continued, "You outsiders don't know, but when we see these hanged ghosts, we only feel relieved! If it weren't for the fear of the smell, we would wish they hung there until the end of time!"

"Who are these people?" The gray hat asked knowingly.

"The bandit nest on the nearby Dai Mountain, from the big leader to the seventh leader, were all wiped out and hung here! The other small fry all died in the bandit nest on Dai Mountain; it is said that corpses were everywhere, very scary!"

The gray hat said "Oh": "Have you been to see it?"

"No, I, I'm busy, where would I have time to see dead people?" The waiter pointed to the city gate guards, "The officials went to see it."

He couldn't help but sneer: "This nest of bandits came down the mountain to rape and plunder every few days, harming the villages for nearly ten years, and the officials were useless! Last summer, the Dai Mountain bandits even came to besiege the city, grabbing more than a dozen people and hanging them outside the city."

He pointed to the city gate: "Just like this, hanging them, letting them die slowly. This group of bastards just liked to hang people for fun, and I still haven't forgotten that rampant laughter. Sigh, besieged for three days, hung for three days, until the county asked the commoners to raise money, only then did they send away this group of plague gods."

The gray hat understood: "If they don't die, they will come to besiege the city and extort money in the future."

Relying on the mountains to eat mountains, relying on the city to eat the city, these bandits didn't intend to take the city, just come over to collect money regularly. The commoners in the city were like the cows they raised, squeezed from time to time.

"Isn't that so?" The waiter shook his head, "I don't know who is so powerful to hang them on the city gate. The county said, hang for three full days, which means hang until tomorrow morning to finish. Heh, they finally did something that makes people happy."

Last year, the bandits hanged commoners for three days; this time it was their turn to be hanged, so they also had to hang for three full days.

This is the meaning of paying back in his own coin.

"Seven living people were hung on the city gate, and no one heard any wind or grass movement?"

The two had already walked outside the crowd, so the waiter lowered his voice: "The ones watching the gate are all masters; they all hide to gamble and sleep at night, and it's not bad if they think of looking at the city wall after an hour or two."

Changed the text today, published late, sorry.