allonlinenovel Chapter 981 What if it's true? What if it's false?
Chapter 981 What if it's true? What if it's false?
The scholar, Yuecuo, who was imprisoned, was about forty years old. He was bound hand and foot, his mouth was stuffed with a rag, and his scholar's robe was tattered. Coupled with his bruised and swollen face, he looked quite comical.
Yang Shaofeng turned to look at Guan Sheng, a centurion of the Embroidered Uniform Guard, and asked, "What's going on with this guy? Didn't we tell you to bring him back?"
Guan Sheng unconsciously reached out and touched his right cheek, then glared at the scholar with resentment, and replied, "Your Highness, I originally went to invite him, but when I found him, he was drinking and carousing in a brothel."
"I don't know if this guy is feeling guilty or what, but as soon as he saw us, he tried to jump out the window and run away."
"After the brothers stopped him, this guy still dared to resist. Not only did he punch me in the face, but I also had to pay his bill at the brothel."
"Later on, this guy kept using foul language. Whenever he had a chance, he would try to run away, and if he couldn't run away, he would curse people."
"There's no other way, I can only have him tied up. Except for when he needs to eat or relieve himself, he's tied up like this the rest of the time."
Guan Sheng felt more and more aggrieved as she spoke.
Damn it! A dignified commander of the Embroidered Uniform Guard, who has done countless things like framing and extracting confessions through torture, has never paid for someone's drinks at a brothel before!
Furthermore, this dog looks like a lecherous and poor scoundrel, but unexpectedly he dared to fight against the Imperial Guards. He's practically a traitor to the Heavenly Guards!
Zhu Biao, however, was very curious.
The skill levels of the Jinyiwei captains varied, but the junior and senior captains were all experts who had crawled out of piles of dead bodies. Not to mention the centurions and captains, most of them had practiced the "Black Dragon Eighteen Hands" that my brother-in-law had mentioned. Their attacks were extremely insidious and vicious. Yet this scholar was able to resist and even punch a Jinyiwei centurion.
Seeing Zhu Biao's curious expression, Yang Shaofeng couldn't help but smile and said, "Luo Guanzhong is no ordinary poor and pedantic scholar. He was once an enemy of my father-in-law under Zhang Shicheng and also witnessed the ruthlessness of the Duke of Cao."
Having witnessed Li Wenzhong's ruthlessness firsthand, and being able to escape death from Li Wenzhong's hands, is enough to prove that Luo Guanzhong's martial arts skills were not low.
In fact, there were not many truly weaklings among the officials in the Ming Dynasty court.
If it really came down to a fight, those civil officials who always spout Confucian sayings and poetry might not be any less capable than ordinary military generals.
As for jumping out of the window to escape or resisting the Embroidered Uniform Guard?
This guy was Zhang Shicheng's trusted strategist back in the day.
Unfortunately, Luo Guanzhong was a master on paper but a weakling in practice. His strategies and tactics for Zhang Shicheng were all cracked and crushed by Li Shanchang and other cunning old foxes. Later, he simply retired from the martial arts world, went to Jiangnan, and lived in the Jiangsu and Zhejiang areas, where he wrote novels with Shi Nai'an.
Later, when Emperor Zhu established his reign and became emperor, he first issued an edict to recruit talented people, and then he held the imperial examinations. However, Luo Guanzhong dared not take the exams because he had been an enemy of Emperor Zhu.
When the Embroidered Uniform Guard came to his door, Luo Guanzhong's first thought was that the Zhu Emperor wanted to settle accounts with him.
In particular, Guan Sheng, a centurion of the Embroidered Uniform Guard, almost scared Luo Guanzhong to death when he said to him, "Luo Guanzhong? My garrison commander invites you."
Commander of the Embroidered Uniform Guard?
Isn't that the infamous Yang the Madman?
If the reputation of the Embroidered Uniform Guard is still limited to framing, extracting confessions under torture, and wiping out entire families at the drop of a hat, then Yang Shaofeng's reputation has truly reached the point of being utterly infamous.
It's said that someone is eight feet tall, has a waist ten spans wide, a blue face with fangs, looks fierce and evil, has arms that can support a horse, fists that can support a person, needs to drink three bowls of blood from a living person when he gets up, needs to eat the hearts and livers of two children for breakfast, and can stop children from crying at night by spreading all sorts of rumors.
Luo Guanzhong believed that being held accountable by Emperor Zhu would at most mean death, but being targeted by Yang the Madman would likely result in a fate worse than death.
Then, Luo Guanzhong did not hesitate to choose to resist.
The result of the resistance made Luo Guanzhong even more alarmed—if a mere few Jinyiwei (Imperial Guards) were so skilled, how much more insane must the Jinyiwei commander be?
Then, believing he was doomed to die, Luo Guanzhong chose to at least vent his anger before he died.
They criticized Emperor Zhu for being petty and narrow-minded, bringing up old grievances from many years ago.
He cursed Yang Shaofeng for having a mental breakdown and going crazy. He himself had been hiding away writing novels, yet Yang Shaofeng still managed to come knocking on his door.
Then, Luo Guanzhong got beaten up.
Dare to criticize those in power and the prince consort?
Do you really think the infamous reputation of the Embroidered Uniform Guard is just empty talk?
If Yang Shaofeng hadn't repeatedly instructed that the body must be kept alive, not seriously injured or killed, and especially that its hands must not be damaged, Luo Guanzhong's grave would probably be overgrown with weeds.
Yang Shaofeng ordered the prison door to be opened, walked straight in, looked down at Luo Guanzhong who was bound hand and foot, and said with a smile, "I sent someone to summon you because I have something to tell you to do."
"If you can obediently listen to me, then nod."
"If you are unwilling to work under me, I will have you released in a moment."
Luo Guanzhong stared intently at Yang Shaofeng, nodding frantically like a chicken pecking at rice.
Obeying orders obediently is not a problem.
No matter what Yang the madman wants him to do, it won't kill him.
As for being unwilling, how can one let oneself go?
Did you bleed yourself?
Everyone in the martial arts world knows that the Jinyiwei's prison is a den of iniquity, and no one has ever left alive.
Seeing Luo Guanzhong nodding frantically, Yang Shaofeng smiled with satisfaction and turned to Guan Sheng, instructing, "Have someone untie him, then take him to wash up properly and change his clothes."
Guan Sheng led his men out of the prison carrying Luo Guanzhong. Zhu Biao, while following Yang Shaofeng out, said, "Is my brother-in-law planning to have him write more novels like 'Water Margin'?"
Yang Shaofeng nodded with a smile and said, "That's right."
"However, this time I'm not asking him to write a long novel like 'Water Margin,' but rather short stories, preferably one story at a time."
“Especially the Vatican City, their dark history is more than just a little bit.”
"For example, a certain female leader was actually a woman disguised as a man. Unfortunately, this female leader also liked to keep male lovers. Later, she accidentally became pregnant and gave birth in the street during a tour."
Yang Shaofeng clicked his tongue and continued, "From now on, every new leader will have to sit in a chair with a hole in it, and several bishops from the Yeli Kewen Church will verify his identity to prevent anyone from doing the cross-dressing thing again."
Zhu Biao looked at Yang Shaofeng with suspicion. "Really? There are huge differences between men and women. Is it really possible for a woman to disguise herself as a man for many years without being discovered?"
Yang Shaofeng smiled nonchalantly and said, "So what if it's true? So what if it's false? As long as the people of Europe are willing to believe it, then it's true."