Yang Ruoqing lit up all the lights and looked around again: "I came to this place more than ten years ago and came in with your brother-in-law."

"What?"

"Yeah," Yang Ruoqing nodded, walked a few steps in the huge stone room, sat down lazily on a stone stool next to her, patted the armrests of the stool with both hands, and said lightly with a taste of memories:

"Many years ago, there was a man named Li Dashan in Lijia Village. Hundreds of acres of fields, mountains, forests, tea gardens, and peach orchards were all owned by Li Dashan... At that time, he was not only a great squire in this area, but also had a reputation far and wide."

"Later, because my father had a dispute with the long-term worker of Li Dashan's family, my father was beaten. The housekeeper of Li Dashan's family was very arrogant. In order to vent his anger, your brother-in-law and I sneaked into the Li family's compound that day...

We happened to catch up with Li Dashan who brought in his concubine, and we wandered around in the backyard of Li's house, and for the first time we discovered this secret room."

"Ah?" Liu Xueyun's face was full of surprise, and he also looked around.

In the secret room, apart from the stone bench that Yang Ruoqing was sitting on, there were some smashed black stones scattered on the ground, and the overturned shrine covered with cobwebs, there was basically nothing else to be found.

Yang Ruoqing nodded, pointed to several places in the stone chamber, and continued to talk to Liu Xueyun about the discoveries made back then.

The biggest discovery was naturally the secret that Li Dashan was a follower of the Black Lotus Sect.

On the surface, he was a good person who benefited the village. He dug a reservoir for Lijia Village, built roads and bridges, and even opened a porridge shop to help the villagers during famine years. Everyone remembered his kindness.

However, in fact, in the secret room under his house, the bones of children who had been lost for no reason from the surrounding villages were everywhere.

"Now, those black stones at your feet are the stone grinding troughs that Tang Yazi and I broke."

"There is also a large piece of the wall over there that was pried off, which was used to worship Maitreya Buddha,"

Maitreya Buddha is the god believed by followers of the Black Lotus Sect. Liu Xueyun personally came into contact with this area while following Yang Ruoqing in the capital.

Even though he had never followed Yang Ruoqing before, he had heard about the Black Lotus Sect when he was still working as a police officer in Changle County.

"The Black Lotus Sect is really harmful to people, it's so evil, it's a sect, it's abominable!" Liu Xueyun followed Yang Ruoqing's instructions, and wherever he glanced, he seemed to be able to picture the scene at that time.

"That's not all. If you look at the stone slab above your head, do you see a lot of iron hooks?" Yang Ruoqing asked again.

Liu Xueyun raised his head, and at a glance he did see sporadic iron hooks embedded deeply into the top of the stone wall.

But when I looked again, I felt that the layout of these iron hooks was a little different.

He couldn't help but stand up straight, holding the torch in his hand high and approaching each one to look at them.

"At that time, there was an iron cage hanging on each of these iron hooks. The iron cages were covered with black cloth, and the boys under one year old were imprisoned inside, while the ones covered with red cloth were girls."

Yang Ruoqing's voice sounded next, and people came to Liu Xueyun's side.

She raised her hand and pointed at the iron hooks: "Look, the placement of these iron hooks is very particular. When put together, it looks like a blooming lotus."

Liu Xueyun frowned, looked at all this with hatred, gritted his teeth and said: "Everywhere is full of sin and blood!"

Yang Ruoqing shrugged: "Otherwise, why would we say that cults harm people!"

"Sister, what happened next? Has Mr. Li Dashan been brought to justice?" Liu Xueyun asked.

That's not a good person, that can't even be called a human being. At best, he's an evil ghost in human skin.

"What do you mean?" Yang Ruoqing tucked a strand of hair behind her ear, smiling with a hint of wryness.

"At that time, Mr. Li Dashan was indeed taken away by officials, but in the end he was kidnapped by the Black Lotus Sect's associates, because he has been collecting money for the Black Lotus Sect these years, and is not an ordinary believer in the Black Lotus Sect.

It’s reached ‘one official and half job’.”

If he were an ordinary believer, he would probably be cannon fodder.

Because Li Dashan is an "insider", once it falls into the hands of the government, all the dens and connections in this area may be uprooted.

Therefore, the Black Lotus Sect sent forces to kidnap Li Dashan.

When Liu Xueyun heard that all the hard work had gone to waste, Liu Xueyun was so angry that he kicked the stone stool next to him away.

"That's unreasonable!"

It's a pity that he was only in his teens and a child at that time. Even if he risks his life now, he still can't let go.

"Don't be angry, things can turn around." Yang Ruoqing glanced at Liu Xueyun and smiled.

Liu Xueyun temporarily suppressed the overwhelming anger in her heart and looked at her, eagerly waiting for the follow-up.

"Li Dashan is unlucky to say the least. After escaping back to the Black Lotus Sect headquarters, he worked hard for his life. Once there was a mission that required him to return to the Niushan area. He volunteered to take over the mission as a local.

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"We happened to meet each other in the mountains. At that time, your brother-in-law was already serving in the southern military camp, and I also made friends with Brother Zuo from Huguang County."

"Li Dashan has thrown himself into a trap, and he will definitely not be as good as him. Brother Zuo has a kind of medicine. If Li Dashan takes that medicine, he will need to ask for an antidote from us every once in a while, otherwise he will die from the poison.

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"Since then, Li Dashan has been pitiful. He was caught in the middle and acted as our internal correspondent."

"This relationship lasted for three to five years. Later, General Tiangong died, and there was internal turmoil among the leaderless Black Lotus Sect. It seems that Li Dashan was also killed in the internal strife."

If he had not been killed, he would have died of the poison long ago without asking for an antidote after so many years.

"If he dies, it will be an advantage for him. It would be merciful for a villain like him to kill him with a knife, so he should be allowed to taste life worse than death." Liu Xueyun's face was still full of anger.

When the conversation changed, he became a little worried again: "Is it possible that he is not dead yet, but that he just found an expert to prepare the antidote?"

"Your concerns are understandable, but this result is absolutely impossible."

"Sister, why are you so sure?"

"Because the person who prepared the medicine was Mr. Zuo, Brother Zuo, and Brother Zuo is not only a successful businessman representative of Daqi, but also a direct descendant of the Mo family."

"A direct descendant of the Mo family?" Liu Xueyun's eyes suddenly opened wide.

I have never eaten pork, but I have seen pigs running away.

What kind of inheritance is the Mohist family? At the beginning, the Kong family and the Han family were compared. It was a big family that lasted for several dynasties. It is said that the founder of the Mohist family could create a wooden horse that could run by itself and a glider that could fly in the sky.

The book also records that in the flower hall of the Mohist family, the beautiful maids who served tea and water to the guests were not actually flesh and blood, but made of leather, wood, and a series of complicated and profound mechanisms that could look real.

"I believe it. Mr. Li Dashan should have died a long time ago." Liu Xueyun nodded vigorously, no longer having any doubt in his heart.
Chapter completed!