Chapter 173

Xiling is the capital of the Southern Jin Dynasty. Its area is larger than that of Kyoto City of Western Shu. Half of it is close to the sea, so it is rich in material things.

Zhuang Xiaohan, the king of the Southern Jin Dynasty, was a very casual person.

In the whole Yanhuang land, he is willing to borrow troops. Whether he is a friend or an enemy, he can borrow as long as he gives enough silver.

However, he is a murderous person and often attacks neighboring tribes and small countries, which is a very annoying existence.

But at the same time, he has strength, so ordinary small countries have no choice.

When Su Yin and Yun came to Xiling city at dawn, there was a little bloodbath in the air.

——This is the breath of victory after Zhuang Xiaohan took three cities of Wu and Yue and slaughtered thousands of people.

In order to celebrate this great victory, Zhuang Xiaohan, who is obsessed with witch culture, is going to hold an unprecedented sacrifice.

The most attractive sacrificial activity is to offer sacrifices to heaven, which is to use living people to light sky lamps.

The so-called "lighting the sky lamp" is to soak the living people in tung oil for 12 hours, then wrap them with sackcloth and light them from the foot to the end. It is called "human candle".

The longer the candle was burned, the more good news the Southern Jin Dynasty had.

The origin of the "human candle" used this time is not small, that is, the fourth Prince of the Western Shu state.

There are three reasons why the fourth Prince is used to worship heaven.

1. The king of the Western Shu Kingdom has not paid back the money he borrowed from the army. It seems that he will not.

2. It's said that when the fourth Prince absconded this time, he used a beautiful man's trick to Zhuang Xiaohan's concubine. He hated his wife more than heaven.

3. Zhuang Xiaohan has disdained to be a friend with Xishu. He wants to take the opportunity to declare war on Xishu.

Although the two countries, one in the South and the other in the west, are far away from each other, this does not affect the ambition of Zhuang Xiaohan.

Su Yin and Yun stay in the emperor's building at dawn. After analyzing the defense plan of sacrificing the temple of heaven for a long time, they both feel that there are many crises.

Finally, Su brought out a bad idea: "general, otherwise, villain disguised as high priest, go to find out first, you are responsible for saving people?"

"The high priest of the Southern Jin Dynasty is the head of the Wu clan. Do you know the language of the Wu clan?"

"Hey, hey, little people don't know witch language, but little people know something else."

Knowing that she was alert at dawn, Yun agreed to try her method.

He got the news of the high priest from the dark owl, and found that he often haunted a place called Nianhua Xiaozhu, so he brought Su with him overnight.

At this time, the two quietly lie on the beam, focusing on the men and women in the room under the beam, without blinking an eye.

"Matchless, you stare at them for half an hour, what can you see?" For a long time, the voice of cloud Breaking Dawn lowered asked.

Su Yin rubbed the nosebleed that was about to flow out, and whispered: "general, I think their posture is very difficult!"

The cloud breaks dawn to look at her meaningfully, way: "time is almost, you wait here, I go down to arrest a person!"

Immediately, the cloud broke the dawn, pulled up the towel to cover his face, and jumped down the beam like an eagle.

He hung upside down under the eaves, moistened the window paper with saliva, poked a small bamboo tube in, and gently blew a mouthful of smoke.

The movement in the room stopped abruptly. He opened the window and went inside. He picked up the high priest.

The high priest was just weak and didn't faint. He looked at the cloud in shock and said, "what are you going to do, bold maniac? I am the high priest of the court. Don't be rude

The cloud breaks dawn and pinches the high priest's mouth to throw a pill into it, saying: "this medicine is highly toxic. Don't use it to force poison. I won't make money or kill you."

The high priest said, "what are you going to do?"

"It's said that Zhuang Xiaohan is going to hold a big sacrifice. What should he do?"

The cloud breaks dawn to say to poke with the sword to poke the high priest already dead some place, way: "good living say, otherwise cut for you."

"The great sacrifice is naturally the main point of the sky lantern worship, which is to pray for the king and borrow the mysterious power to attack the Western Shu, Eastern Yue and other countries. My emperor wants to rule the world."

"Oh, Zhuang Xiaohan's tone is not small!" Cloud dawn disdainfully pick eyebrows, and asked: "when to hold?"

"Tomorrow night."

"Who is the candle?"

"Wu Zhuang Nan Zhao, the fourth Prince of Western Shu."

"Excellent!"

The cloud breaks dawn to finish saying to raise a hand to beat to ring a finger, Su leads to pull up face towel to cover face in a hurry, lift tile to jump down.

But she did not grasp the landing position, directly fell on the woman.

Women's eyes are still floating, may be used medicine, eyes such as silk.

Su Yin blushed, arched her hand toward the woman and said, "I'm sorry to offend you." then she knocked her unconscious.

Cloud Breaking Dawn pointed to the high priest's clothes and grimace mask on the edge for Su Yin to put on, and said: "you can't save people for a while. You can find out first. Be careful in everything."

"I understand!"

Su Yin put the robe of the high priest on his body and put on his symbolic mask of grimace. He was just in shape.

The cloud breaks dawn to embrace her to jump, directly flew out from the hole in the roof, toward the proton mansion on the other side of the imperial city.

Proton house is actually an abandoned courtyard, but there are a lot of imperial guards guarding around the courtyard with strict security. A strong smell of tung oil floated out of the yard, with a little strange smell.

There were two witches in the courtyard whispering, "did the high priest go to collect Yin to replenish Yang tonight? Can he practice his forbidden skill? "

"Hum, practice fart, he has been possessed for a long time, the old man is in the name of the slogan of collecting Yin and tonifying yang to live by life."

"Be careful, there are forbidden forces all around here."

"What are you afraid of? Zhongyuan Festival is coming soon. The old man took advantage of the mysterious power of the monarch. I guess he wanted to use the opportunity of burning protons to borrow a corpse. "

When Su Yin heard this, he arched his hand at dawn, jumped down the beam, pretended to be a high priest and walked towards proton house.

At the door, the Imperial Guard saw her and immediately bowed respectfully: "high priest!"

Su Yin didn't say a word. He swaggered into the yard, glanced at the wizard who had just spoken, and said coldly, "what happened to the proton?"

The wizard who spoke ill of the high priest bowed carefully and said, "to the high priest, the proton can't stand the pain of eighteen clavicle nails. He has fainted."

"Well, follow me to have a look!"

"Yes

The wizard led Su Yin to the side hall. The disgusting smell of tung oil was getting stronger and stronger, and there was a surge of blood in it.

There is a basement in the side hall, and the smell comes from the entrance of the stairs.

When Su Yin came here, he waved his hand back to prevent the wizard from following. She went into the basement alone, and was almost vomited out by the bloody gas.

It stinks!

Su Yin carefully looked at the secret room, especially surprised.

This is a stone chamber. The stone walls around it are carved with witchcraft incantations. There is a layer of blood on these incantations, as if they were soaked with blood.

In the middle of the stone room was a cross stake, on which was tied a man with a haircut. His whole body was covered with hemp cloth smelling of tung oil.

This man is very tall. Su Yin is not short, but he is half a head taller than Su Yin, almost as tall as Yun dawning.

Seeing that there was no one in the room, Su Yin stepped forward to lift the man's hair and saw a bloody face.

He narrowed his eyes. His brow bones were sharp and angular. From the center of the brow to the bridge of the nose, he was as straight as a knife.

Wocao, is the fourth prince so handsome?

Su Yin was stunned and took out the picture given by cloud Breaking Dawn. Looking at the fat baby above, she shook her head with a sigh.

Time is like a shuttle, time is like a shuttle