Chapter 165: Woman's Kindness

This time, Ergouzi worked all night and worked hard. In the end, he only caught some useless evil cultivators and managed to get a few spiritual stones.

It was the same with Sun Wangcai. They got nothing and only arrested a lot of people.

There are thousands of cult messengers and undercover agents hiding in various places.

Ergouzi didn't dare to waste time, interrogated him all night, and tortured him severely.

He read so many books and learned many techniques from Yang Tie.

Among his current methods of interrogating intelligence, pouring pepper water should be regarded as the most relaxing torture method.

After a series of inhumane tortures, some people finally couldn't bear it anymore and confessed.

I tortured several people continuously and found two dens in total.

Ergouzi got the information and without any hesitation, he rode the goose and went straight to the other two dens.

As for notifying Magistrate Ding to arrest the cult together, we can only talk about it later.

We have already alerted the snake here, and I am afraid that other evil cultivators will escape, so we can only seize the time.

However, he hurriedly hurriedly arrived at these two dens, but they were already empty.

There was not a soul to be seen.

He rode the goose around the area several times, but could not find any trace of the cult.

It took a lot of effort to find clues about the cult, but they all stopped here.

We can only ride the big goose back to Shekou Mountain.

Looking at the large group of people in Shekou Mountain, I felt a little worried.

It's really difficult to deal with so many evil cultivators at one time.

Just kill them. Most of them are just farmers who are just poor and crazy. They are greedy for the few buckets of rice from the cult and have not done anything evil so far.

Ergouzi usually fights with immortal cultivators and kills those evil cultivators, but he is never merciful.

But facing these more than a thousand peasants who had no strength whatsoever, he tried several times but still couldn't do it.

If you don't want to kill people and lock them up, you don't have such a big cell, and you have to feed them.

As for release, it is absolutely impossible to release them. If they don't do evil now, it doesn't mean they won't do evil in the future.

This cult's way of practice will eventually lead to cannibalism.

If a person commits a crime and is not punished, how will he be able to convince the public and deter others in the future?

Just when he was still hesitating, Magistrate Ding, not knowing how to get the news, had already arrived with his people.

"Master Zhang, I heard that you destroyed the cult dens overnight and arrested a large group of cultists. I heard the news and came here overnight to help you."

Seeing the dusty magistrate Ding, he rushed over without even having time to fix his hair.

"Thank you Ding Qingtian!"

Ergouzi cupped his hands and thanked Magistrate Ding.

"Everyone is serving the country and the people, so there is no need to thank you."

"There are so many evil cultivators hiding under the jurisdiction of this county. I am ashamed of the imperial court and the common people of Li."

When County Magistrate Ding said this, he looked at the large group of captured evil cultivators with a look of pain and regret on his face.

"Why are you so unsatisfactory and living up to my high expectations for you!"

Er Gouzi saw that Magistrate Ding was showing his true feelings at this moment, like a kind parent facing a group of disobedient children.

Sad for his misfortune, angry for his inability to fight.

"I won't say anything, just kill me!"

The boy who had previously angrily accused Er Gouzi of being a dog official, now had a stick in his neck and glared at him angrily.

Magistrate Ding glanced at the thousands of people who were tied up.

"I wonder how Master Zhang plans to deal with these people?"

"I haven't thought about it yet."

Ergouzi answered truthfully. He really hadn't thought about it yet. He didn't have such a big cell.

It would be good if they were left to work, but they must be tied with a chain in front and supervised with a whip in the back.

We have to constantly prevent them from escaping and causing damage, which is too troublesome.

"Since Mr. Zhang has not thought about it, why not give them all to me, and I will take them back to the county government to judge them one by one."

Ergouzi thought for a while and found that this was a good idea, just in time to dump this big burden on Magistrate Ding.

Magistrate Ding is a well-known Qingtian lord, so he will naturally deal with it fairly and justly.

His only shortcoming is that he is too kind and a bit womanly.

"Okay, then I'll trouble Magistrate Ding."

"Don't be so merciful this time. You must be more ruthless. Kill the evil cultivator with such arrogance that it will shock the people of the whole county."

Ergouzi was worried that Magistrate Ding was too soft-hearted and would not be able to do anything like him when the time came, so he did not forget to encourage him.

Both of them have similar hobbies, and even the shortcomings of being soft-hearted and soft-hearted are so similar that it's hard not to feel sympathy for each other.

"Don't worry, Mr. Zhang. I will not be merciful when facing the cultists. I will go on a killing spree this time."

Hearing what County Magistrate Ding said, Ergouzi was relieved.

As an official, you should be more decisive in killing. Sometimes you are too soft-hearted, so you are not suitable for being an official.

The two chatted for a while, and then Magistrate Ding took away the more than 1,000 evil cultivators, and Ergouzi had one less thing to worry about.

"Boss, do I still need to continue tracking down the cult?"

Sun Wangcai has been a beggar for a year, sleeping in the open air every day, and now he looks like a beggar without having to disguise himself.

"There is no need to investigate for the time being. We will wait for the county government to see if we can find out some useful information."

"You have worked hard during this period, just rest and practice."

Ergouzi said, and took out a few bottles of Peiyuan Dan and handed them to Sun Wangcai, asking him to distribute them to everyone who had contributed this time.

The matter came to an end for the time being. After a busy day and night, Ergouzi returned to Shekou Mountain and had a good sleep.

When I woke up, I saw Yushan holding a hoe in each hand, turning like a windmill, working very efficiently.

"Yushan, take a break, don't get tired!"

It would have been better if Ergouzi didn't say anything. When he shouted, Yushan moved faster, and his hands danced into a group of afterimages.

"Is Yushan sick? I feel like he has become stupid recently."

Chang Ling'er's voice sounded in Ergouzi's mind.

"This is called giving, do you understand?"

"A person who doesn't know how to give will never achieve success."

"You and your snake baby should learn from Yushan."

In his mind, Ergouzi used his spiritual sense to refute Chang Ling'er's incorrect views.

Children should be taught well from an early age so that they can grow up to be useful to the family.

"But I don't see Yushan's achievements?"

Chang Ling'er is quite stubborn and still half-believes and half-doubts Ergouzi's words.

"You can't just focus on the present, you have to look at the long term."

"Moreover, you should pursue a higher level of spiritual happiness."

"Look at Yushan, he is very happy now, he enjoys it."

"When you learn to give, you can experience his kind of happiness."

"..."

Er Gouzi has read so many books of sages, and he can talk about great principles at will. It is still easy to educate a child.

Chang Ling'er nodded silently, it seems to be the case, Er Gouzi knows a lot.

Just when Er Gouzi was teaching Chang Ling'er, Sun Wangcai's voice came up from the foot of the mountain.

"Boss!"

"Boss, something happened again."

What happened again? Er Gouzi could only jump to the foot of the mountain again.

"Boss, Ma Laoer and Ma Laowu, more than a dozen people in these two families, all died."

Ma Laoer and Ma Laowu were the two tenants who were caught first.

Er Gouzi used them as clues to follow the clues and find out the cult's nest.

"How did they die?"

"They were killed, and died miserably."

Er Gouzi and Sun Wangcai went to the village where the two men lived.

The bodies of Ma Laoer and Ma Laowu were hung on the gate, and their skin had been peeled off, leaving only two bloody and mutilated bodies.

In their homes, their family members were lying on the ground in all directions.

From the way these people died, they were severely tortured and tortured to death.

Even a three-year-old child was not spared.

When Er Gouzi saw the miserable state of the bodies, he was furious.

"Sun Wangcai, continue to investigate!"

"Yes!"

"Expand the scope of the investigation, not only Anchang County, but also the surrounding counties.

Also, don't just focus on the farmers, but also investigate the landlords and the people in the government office."

He had a bad feeling in his heart.

Because the clues were provided by the Ma brothers at the beginning, this matter was kept secret, and most people didn't know about it.

At least the cult had not noticed it before he closed the net yesterday.

After closing the net, he did not reveal it to the outside world, and only mentioned it to County Magistrate Ding. At that time, only two or three important figures in the government office were present.

This made him doubt the Anchang County Government Office.

However, since it involved people in the government, he could not speak without evidence, so he could only ask Sun Wangcai to investigate carefully.

Er Gouzi ordered Sun Wangcai and gave him a large stack of talismans at the same time.

To investigate secretly, it would take a lot of invisibility talismans and breath-holding talismans.

Since the last Daoxuan secret collection, there are fewer people selling talismans in the black market, and the price of talismans has increased by several percent.

Fortunately, he can make elixirs. Among the dozens of acres of ginseng on the mountain, several acres have reached the age of 100 years, which is just right for refining Peiyuan Dan.

With the increase of ginseng age and the improvement of alchemy technology, he can now refine eight pills of Peiyuan Dan with one piece of medicinal materials.

The price of one Peiyuan Pill is three Lingshi, and one furnace can sell 24 Lingshi.

And its main cost is only a hundred-year-old ginseng, and other auxiliary medicines and spiritual charcoal are worthless.

Alchemy is definitely the third most profitable business in the entire Great Zhou Dynasty, except for stealing and robbing.

The only pity is that he can't sell it in large quantities as blatantly as the government's Alchemy Pavilion.

Every time he goes to the black market, he is cautious and only dares to sell three or five pills, or barter with others.

Because the pills are monopolized by the Great Zhou government, if he sells too many, it will be easily detected.

As a result, the pills in the black market are in short supply, and everyone is competing for them at high prices.

However, the pills in Er Gouzi's hands are seriously unsalable, and can only be used to feed the big white geese, reward Yushan, and reward his subordinates.

The pill market is like ice and fire.