When Li Zhen heard the crying sound, he couldn't help but look sideways. He saw that half a mile away from the left, it seemed as if a large number of people were crowded with tears. The crying sound came from the crowd.

"Go and have a look!" Li Zhen waved his hand, and everyone rushed over with Li Zhen.

The group rushed over and saw an old tree with crooked necks growing on a pile of soil in front of them. The old tree had been dead for a long time. At this time, a girl was tied to the tree. The girl was covered in rags and was tied to a branch with a hemp rope. There were piles of dry firewood piled up under the tree. Two middle-aged men stood by holding torches, and there were more than 100 men, women, young and old. Among the crowds, some were pointing fingers and some were talking. There was an old woman in rags, lying on the ground and crying with a miserable cry. So Li Zhen and his party could hear it from afar...

A white-haired old man stood in the middle of the crowd, obviously having just spoken to the crowd. At this time, everyone saw him suddenly wave his hand, and the two middle-aged men threw the torches in their hands into the pile of wood...

"Stop!" Li Zhen shouted.

Xu Ke, who was running in the front, saw the firewood pile on fire, and the fire was already rising. He stopped hesitating and jumped into the center of the firewood pile. He waved his sword and cut off the hemp rope. The girl on the branch fell weakly in his arms... Xu Ke did not dare to delay at all, and turned around and jumped, finally escaped from the fire...

Even though Xu Ke had a high level of internal skills and was flirted by the fire, his blue clothes had burned several holes, his hair was burned a few strands, and his face was already smoked by the fire and black and red...

Fortunately, the girl lying in Xu Ke's arms was unscathed. Thanks to Xu Ke's rescue in time. If it was a moment later, the life of this innocent girl would be immediately engulfed by the fire...

"Brother without illness! What a light skill! My old Xue was thinking about saving people just now, but you were one step faster!" Xue Tao stepped forward, patted Xu Ke on the shoulder, and said with a smile.

"Take them down!" Li Zhen behind him shouted angrily.

King Li Zhen of Wei arrived later. When he saw Xu Ke rescued the girl, he finally let go of his heart. But when he saw that the old man was so careless, he was furious and immediately ordered people to take the three murderers.

The imperial guards selected all the elites of the imperial guards. With the order of the King of Wei, three personal soldiers had already pulled out their waist knives and rushed forward with great momentum, begging the white-haired old man and the middle-aged man who threw the torch with two hands to Li Zhen.

Seeing that the crowd was panicked and everyone was at a loss, another personal soldier came forward and shouted:

"Bold and unruly people! The imperial envoy, King Wei, has come to this end. Why don't you kneel down quickly!"

When everyone heard that it was the imperial envoy, another prince was coming, and they hurriedly knelt down...

Li Zhen asked with his fingers on the white-haired old man kneeling on the ground:

"Who are you? Why did you openly burn a woman to death? Don't you know if I, Daqian, have a king's law? Should the murderer pay for his life?!"

The white-haired old man crawling on the ground said tremblingly: "Hu... Hui... Hui's imperial envoy, the villain's surname is Zhao and his name is Chunlin. He is the patriarch of Zhao Village... The villain... The villain is going to burn to death, but he is not a woman!"

"Isn't this a woman, is it still a man?" Xue Tao, who was standing beside him, couldn't help but feel funny and asked back.

"Return... back to this military master, the villain is going to burn to death... Actually, it's not a human, but a 'monster'!" Zhao Chunlin hurriedly defended.

"Bastard! This is obviously a woman, how can you tell that she is a monster?" Xue Tao shouted loudly.

"She...she is a monster! When she was a child, she killed her mother as soon as she was born. Later, when she was twelve, she killed her father... A month ago, her brother was killed by her... This person... This monster will die everywhere, and she will kill everyone around her. Next, will not harm the people in the village?" Zhao Chunlin said.

"Nonsense! This is just a miserable woman. Her parents died and her brother left her again. She is already a lonely person. If you don't want to be polite and care about her, why do you still have to imagine it out of thin air and accustom her to be a monster for no reason. In broad daylight, you will even burn her to death?!" Li Zhen asked sternly.

"When I go back to the imperial envoy, she... she is really a monster! This... we didn't guess it out of thin air, it was said by the "big immortal" in the village. The "big immortal" said that her horoscopes are all full of fire, and they are not one in a century. She is possessed by a drought bar!" Zhao Chunlin said again.

"Sir, the imperial envoy! She... She is really a drought! Otherwise... Otherwise, how could the dozens of villages around this place not rain for a year... It was all her drought that made the Dragon Prince angry!... Or burned her to death, the Dragon Prince's anger would not be relieved. If the Dragon Prince doesn't come again, the severe drought here would not be cured!" said the middle-aged man kneeling next to him.

Li Zhen couldn't help but sneer in his heart. He thought that this drought was more than a few dozen villages. Nearly a hundred prefectures and counties in the four sixteen prefectures and sixteen prefectures in Daqian were all affected, and that were thousands of villages! What does this drought have to do with a girl? Ignorance of villagers, so ignorant!

However, at this time, even if King Wei was an imperial envoy, he could not kill and punish him at will. Seeing Xu Ke put the girl aside, although he was still unconscious, he knew that he was not seriously injured and did not want to do anything, and then said:

"Why are you so ignorant?! Where does the monster come from under the emperor?! This is clearly a weak girl, what does it have to do with the severe drought in the world? It is said that "God has the virtue of life"... You see such a lonely woman in the same village who does not help but commits violence instead. She treats her life as a mustard and burns her privately! Such a crime is not tolerated by the laws of heaven, and the law cannot escape! The lonely king Nian'er and others are confused by the words of evil, so they have no intention of doing evil. They are willing to forgive you. If you commit it again, you will definitely not forgive!"

Seeing that the imperial envoy spared their lives and did not punish him, Zhao Chunlin kowtowed and thanked him. Li Zhen ordered the more than a hundred villagers to get up and disperse themselves...

Seeing Zhao Chunlin turning around and leaving, Xu Ke hurriedly stepped forward to stop him and asked, "Who is the 'big immortal' you said? Where is he now? This person is talking nonsense, slandering, confusing the public, taking human life, and hiding evil intentions. Today, Xu must catch him!"

"Little General! I dare not say that... He is really a 'big immortal' of ours! All the people in these ten miles and eight villages believe in his words!... The young general must not... not catch him... Otherwise, the 'big immortal' will be angry and will bring disaster..." Zhao Chunlin said stutteringly. The last two sentences, which came out of Zhao Chunlin's mouth, were as thin as the sound of mosquitoes and flies. I think he did not want to anger Xu Ke again.

"Tell me, where is this 'big immortal'!..." Xu Ke grabbed Zhao Chunlin's arm and wanted to wait for another question, but saw Li Zhen waved his hand to him, so he had to let go of his hand and let the white-haired old patriarch run away in panic...

The villagers of Zhao Village were frightened and afraid of being punished by the imperial envoy. At this time, they received the forgiveness of the King of Wei, and dared not delay. They were like frightened birds, and they all escaped in a moment. Only the white-haired old woman who had fallen to the ground and cried bitterly was still there, with tears on her cheeks...

"Old man, who are you from this girl? What is her name? Are your patriarchs' words just now true?" Li Zhen asked quietly.

"Her surname is Zhao, and everyone in the village calls her Xiaoyu. Her old body is just a distant relative of her, and she is her aunt and grandma. Xiaoyu is a miserable girl, and her relatives are dead... The patriarch said she is a monster, which is nonsense! The old woman watched her grow up, Xiaoyu is a good girl. She is good-minded and diligent in her work. In the village, she is polite to everyone. She takes care of me, an old woman, and she helps me wash clothes every day, and she has to share half of the brown rice with me. She treats me even more with her granddaughter..."

While talking, the white-haired old woman took off her patched gray cloth shirt and covered Zhao Xiaoyu who was unconscious...

Li Zhen asked, "Old man, this little jade girl is in the nearby village, but do you have any other relatives?" The implication was that he had an inconvenience to send the woman with the imperial envoy to take the ceremonial guard, so he needed to find someone to entrust her...

The white-haired old woman hurriedly knelt down at Li Zhen again and cried, "My little jade granddaughter is really a miserable girl! The imperial envoy, the prince, Qiansheng! Please pity her, take her away. From now on, let her be a maid and a slave, do whatever you want! If you don't take her away, according to the temper of our patriarch, she will have no way to live..."

Li Zhen couldn't help but hesitate. He thought to himself that he was anxious at the time and was only concerned about saving people, but after all, he was a woman of unknown origin and a villager in a disaster area. If he took her back to Beijing, what if someone said that he was an imperial envoy to take advantage of the disaster relief and buy the daughter of the victim back home to be a prostitute, what if this spreads it?

At this time, the north wind was still blowing vigorously, and the fire next to it had burned out. After the crooked old tree was burned by the fire, only a pile of ashes were left.
Chapter completed!