They threatened me, saying if I didn't go with them, they'd kill my lover.
They also gave me fifty taels of silver, which is hidden at my lover's home.
Fang Er said to Zhang De, who was nearby, "Go search her home."
After Zhang De left.
Fang Er looked at the other three.
"Tell me, who are you people?"
Two of them remained silent.
Another one spat at Fang Er.
"Peh! Kill me or flog me as you please, but don't expect anything from me!"
"Heh! Still a man! Good, good!"
"Go to the manor, fetch a dog."
After Fang Er finished speaking, he leaned closer to Zhao Long's ear and whispered a few words.
The three captives were confused.
"What the hell?
Shouldn't it be whips, branding irons, or clamps?
Why fetch a dog?
"Not long after, Zhao Long returned with a black mongrel, handing it and a jar to Fang Er.
"This belongs to old man Ma's house."
Fang Er would never let his own Golden Retriever be involved in such matters!
"Come, strip him bare!"
Fang Er turned and sat on a chair.
Guan Chang and Zhao Long stepped forward and quickly stripped the man naked.
"You! What do you want to do!"
The man began to show fear.
The unknown is the most terrifying.
Fang Er smiled.
"Aren't you a man? Sorry, I like men! Heh heh."
Fang Er opened the jar and, using a twig, scooped out a lump of white paste.
It was greasy.
It was pig fat.
"Here, smear it on him."
Zhao Long brutally spread the man's legs apart.
Guan Chang, holding the twig, carefully smeared the pig fat.
The man felt the greasiness and the coldness on his body.
Then he looked at the big black dog in front of him, which was drooling uncontrollably.
His hair stood on end.
He stiffened his neck and roared at Fang Er.
"Have the guts to kill me with a single blow! Acting like this is not the act of a hero!"
"Tell me now, and I'll give you a quick end. That way, everyone is happy.
"So, are you going to talk or not?"
Fang Er led the black dog, loosening the leash slightly.
The black dog let out a low growl, looking eagerly at the pig fat on the man's lower body.
It smelled so good!
Saliva streamed down, dripping from the dog's mouth.
"Kill me! I won't say anything even if you kill me!"
The man was stubborn.
Fang Er readily complied, flicking his hand and releasing the dog's leash entirely.
The big black dog pounced directly.
It immediately started licking the pig fat with loud slurping sounds.
"Hahaha! It tickles! It tickles! Kill me!"
The man, held down by Zhao Long, struggled uncontrollably.
The other two men, their hands and feet bound, watched with terror!
What a terrifying interrogation method!
The fragrant pig fat made the big black dog very happy.
Suddenly, it felt something like a flick against its nose.
The dog's head lifted, looking displeased at the object.
"Damn it!
"Someone dared to poke my nose!"
Then.
It bit down directly!
"Ah~~~!"
The man let out a scream and then passed out.
Guan Chang fetched a bucket of ice-cold well water and poured it directly onto him.
"Cool to the bone, heart soaring!"
The man opened his eyes and felt an indescribable pain in his lower body surging towards his brain.
Looking at the blood on the big black dog's mouth.
And the dog's eyes, which had become somewhat bloodthirsty.
He shivered like a sieve.
"I'll talk! I'll tell you everything! Please give me a quick death!
"Pull the dog away."
Fang Er looked at the big black dog with a hint of disgust.
Guan Chang picked up the dog leash from the ground and pulled the dog aside.
The big black dog growled at Guan Chang and turned to bite him.
Guan Chang promptly kicked it over.
"This damn thing! A dog that has tasted human blood is truly unreliable!"
Seeing the dog being pulled away, the man, before Fang Er could ask, began to confess.
This man's surname was Zheng, and his name was Zheng Da Diao. He was the steward of the Hejian branch of the Zheng clan of Xingyang.
The other two were spies sent by Goguryeo.
Their mission was related to gunpowder.
Because Fang Er had destroyed the main branch of the Zheng clan of Xingyang, and Li Er had stood by and done nothing.
The Zheng family of Hejian, instigated by these two spies, had become collaborators.
With the reason clarified, Fang Er turned his gaze to the two Goguryeo spies.
"You only want the gunpowder formula? This means Goguryeo has managed to build cannons?"
The two spies moved their lips, then glanced at each other.
Seeing their obvious apprehension,
Fang Er had Guan Long drag one of them out.
The remaining one seemed to breathe a sigh of relief.
And began to confess.
"That damn big black dog was too terrifying!"
It turned out.
At Sun Family Manor outside Shenyang City back then.
When Fang Er went to destroy the cannons and silence witnesses, a craftsman's wife happened to be giving birth.
So, he wasn't in that courtyard that day.
Later, Yeon Gaesomun found him, and relying on his memory of the cannon's structure, he managed to recreate the cannon.
He didn't understand gunpowder.
But he had encountered it before.
Using the taste from his memory, he managed to figure out the components of gunpowder.
Saltpeter, sulfur, and charcoal.
However, due to not knowing the precise proportions, his repeated experiments always failed to achieve the desired effect.
The cannons couldn't fire far.