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Chapter 41: Harvesting and Mutilation (Please bookmark and follow)

"Wuwu wu~!"

Behind Chen Gou'er, that small beast resembling a wolfhound crawled out, lifting its head and emitting a series of whimper sounds.

"Your Majesty, please take a look. This is the Spirit Beast cultivated by this humble subject, named the 'Nine-Eared Hound'. Legend has it that it is born with nine ears, which is why it can understand human speech and comprehend human affairs..."

Chen Gou'er introduced it extensively, and that black dog also squatted in place, nodding ingratiatingly.

Zheng Yi looked at this wolfhound, and the more he looked at it, the more wrong it felt.

Is this really a Spirit Beast?

He walked around the wolfhound in a circle, while Chen Gou'er at the side was sweating profusely from nervousness.

The few imperial concubines around also crowded over.

Lu Liner took the lead and said, "This dog is so ugly~! Its body is so small, and its head is so big."

Xu Qingluan also asked doubtfully, "Why do I smell a stench of blood?"

Li Changle said, "Dogs eat meat, of course there is a smell of blood."

"Mother~ This puppy looks so fierce!"

"Big puppy~"

"The smell of blood...?"

Zheng Yi's heart stirred, and only then did he react.

It was true that there was a smell of blood on a dog.

However, this was the imperial palace. When Chen Gou'er and the 'Nine-Eared Hound' in his hands entered the palace to have an audience, they would inevitably be washed and scrubbed by the palace eunuchs to avoid offending the nobles.

Why was there still a smell of blood after the Nine-Eared Hound was washed?

Unless...

"Chen Gou'er, make your Nine-Eared Hound walk two circles!"

"Walk two circles?"

Chen Gou'er was stunned for a moment, but still said, "Yes, Your Majesty."

"Gou'er, walk two circles!"

As soon as the words fell, the wolfhound stood up and walked two circles around him.

Its walking posture was also very strange: its head pointed downward, its buttocks raised high, and its steps unsteady and faltering.

Compared to ordinary canine species, this Nine-Eared Hound did not look like a dog at all.

Instead, it looked like...

At this moment, Zheng Yi finally reacted, a flash of murderous intent flitting across his eyes.

"Your Majesty~..."

Behind him, Zhao Su Ling also seemed to remember something and said in a low voice, "This thing seems to be..."

"Audacious!"

Zheng Yi shouted angrily, startling Chen Gou'er so much that he subconsciously collapsed onto the ground on his knees.

"Y-Your Majesty? Wh-What's wrong?"

"How very bold of you...!"

Zheng Yi said angrily, "You actually dare to carry out the act of harvesting and mutilation right under Our nose!"

Indeed.

The wolfhound he called the 'Nine-Eared Hound' was not any Spirit Beast at all.

Instead, it was a young child concocted entirely by his own hands!

The so-called harvesting and mutilation was one of the most vicious and cruel methods among professional beggars.

Artificially creating some disabled people or "monsters", using this as a cover to win the sympathy of the world, and thereby obtaining large amounts of money bestowed by passersby.

For example, breaking hands and feet, blinding eyes, and cutting off noses.

Even worse, breaking or twisting children's limbs to form one monster after another, and subsequently using this to obtain massive alms from passersby.

And the 'Nine-Eared Hound' before them was undoubtedly the most brutal method among them.

Peeling off the entire skin of a young child while ensuring they did not die, and then using special methods to strip off the fur of a wolfhound.

While the blood of both parties had not yet dried, draping the dog skin over the young child to form the so-called 'human-shaped hound'.

Then conducting training so that it could defraud others of money and property through acrobatics, animal taming, and other methods.

This technique was extremely brutal and completely devoid of human nature.

Young children whose skin was torn off and covered with dog skin usually could not live past three to five years before their entire bodies festered and they died.

This person... deserves to be killed!

"Harvesting and mutilation?"

Lu Liner asked curiously, "What does that mean?"

Xu Qingluan's complexion, however, turned pale.

Having briefly ventured into the Martial Forest in the past, she naturally knew about the matter of harvesting and mutilation. She quickly pulled Lu Liner and whispered, "Your Majesty the Empress, it is better for you not to know about this matter."

"Why? I insist on knowing! Hmph!"

"You...!"

Li Changle at the side chuckled and whispered, "That harvesting and mutilation, you see, is breaking the hands and feet of young children all over..."

A few breaths later, Lu Liner's face suddenly turned deathly pale and extremely ugly. She hurriedly turned around and ran to the side of the nearby pond to retch.

Xu Qingluan frowned and said, "Changle, why did you provoke her?"

"Hmph! I just can't stand her stinky face acting all imposing and tyrannical~!"

The several women whispered among themselves, while Chen Gou'er on the other side had collapsed entirely to the ground, trembling with fear, his urine and feces flowing in disorder.

His entire family did this kind of work, and they had already formed a fairly large organization.

Especially himself, he was even an outstanding figure among them.

He could guarantee that the 'human hounds' produced from his hands would not die within ten years, earning him a large sum of black-hearted money.

This time, under the instigation of his subordinates and people around him, he thought of tearing off the Seeking Immortal Decree.

First swindle a sum of money, and run away quickly before being discovered.

Unexpectedly, not long after he saw the emperor, his methods were discovered.

Zheng Yi couldn't be bothered to listen to this person's sophistry and said coldly, "Drag him down and subject him to lingchi!"

"Although his wife, children, and co-habiting family members did not know about it, exile them to Nanyue County, and behead any accomplices!"

Lu Lian knelt on the ground and said, "Understood!"

"Sp-Spare my life...!"

Chen Gou'er was truly paralyzed this time, collapsing on the ground with snot and tears streaming down, while the people around him were filled with expressions of disgust.

Two Jinyi Guards walked up, hauled him up, and walked away.

Lingchi.

"In addition, summon the imperial physician to come and check... him."

"Understood!"

What Zheng Yi spoke of was precisely this human hound concocted by Chen Gou'er.

He didn't know whether it could survive under the imperial physician's methods.

"And."

Zheng Yi continued, "This person certainly has organized helpers. Take the Jinyi Guards to investigate clearly and bring all of them to justice."

"Those who dare to resist will be executed without mercy!"

"Understood!"

Lu Lian accepted the order and left, while Zheng Yi turned back to stare fixedly at the last person.

"Hu Bafeng, you had better say something that interests Us. Otherwise..."

Before his words finished, Hu Bafeng dropped to his knees on the ground with a thump.

"Spare my life, Your Majesty! Spare my life, Your Majesty!"

"T-This humble subject indeed knows how to seek dragons and point for gold, and survey feng shui. B-But this humble subject is not any feng shui master, but rather..."

"A tomb raider, right."

Zhao Su Ling casually said, "Your Majesty, the very first time this person appeared, this minister already saw through his identity."

"He wears water-fire shoes, and on his body there is also soft corpse incense and the rot smell of corpses. He actually dares to come and swindle Your Majesty... He truly deserves to die!"

"Spare my life, Your Majesty! Spare my life, Your Majesty...!"

Hu Bafeng knelt on the ground kowtowing incessantly. At this moment, he dared not say anything else and could only continuously beg for his life.

"A tomb raider?"

Mojin?

Banshan?

Xieling?

Regarding tomb raiding, Zheng Yi also had some interest.

However, thinking of his own identity, his interest immediately waned.

Under the whole heaven, besides cultivation secret scriptures, there was nothing he lacked. Did he need to acquire wealth through tomb raiding?

Unless...

There was a tomb of a cultivation practitioner!

Zheng Yi immediately said, "Lock him up first, don't let him get away."

"Understood!"

All three people were taken away, and Zheng Yi shook his head helplessly.

He had originally thought that someone from the cultivation world had truly come to tear off the bounty notice, but he hadn't expected them to be three swindlers!

However, these three swindlers also gave him quite a surprise.

Flames.

Tomb raiding.

As for Chen Gou'er's harvesting and mutilation, he would undoubtedly die!

Just at this moment, a eunuch quickly walked over.

"Your Majesty! A battle report from Bin Province!"

"Xu Mujun?"

Zheng Yi's eyes lit up, and he snatched the battle report from the eunuch's hands.

Xu Qingluan also hurriedly walked over: "Your Majesty, how is my father?"

Zheng Yi finished reading the battle report at a glance, his eyes looking peculiar as he said, "Minister Xu actually killed a cultivation practitioner?!"

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