Judge Li had fine skin and tender flesh, and was treated like a local emperor in the smelting field. At most, the courtesan's wife would scratch a few charming marks on his body as a souvenir of their lovemaking. He had never suffered such a heinous crime.
After the second blow, all his little thoughts that had been turning over and over disappeared immediately, and he betrayed his master without loyalty.
"I was wrong! Prince Jin, I was wrong! It hurts so much! No, it's not my fault, I'm not wrong, it was all the superiors who asked me to do this! Stop cutting me, it hurts... I was wronged! It was the superiors!
They asked me to do it! They asked me to fill the vents! They also used a little sulfur...it hurts..."
In his cry for father and mother, he explained everything clearly, but he was not stupid. He didn't tell who wrote him the letter or where the letter was hidden.
King Jin sneered in the cave and said to Huang Ting: "That's enough."
Huang Ting immediately shouted at the entrance of the cave, and two executioners dragged Judge Li in like a bloody gourd.
The rain turned into blood, filling the narrow hole. Judge Li was stabbed four times, both moderately and severely, and his chest was dripping with blood. A guard took a handful of plant ashes from the fire and sprinkled it on his chest to stop the bleeding.
Xu Laiyu had not executed a beheading for many years. When he saw the scene before him, he couldn't help but feel a surge in his stomach and wanted to vomit.
However, after Judge Li received such a simple and crude hemostatic treatment, he managed to regain his breath: "Prince Jin, what I'm telling you is the truth. As long as you put down your position and go out, I will hand over the letter without reservation."
King Jin smiled: "Why don't you burn the letter?"
"This..." Judge Li said the truth after hesitating, "I thought that if the people above abandon me, I would have no choice but to use this as a life-saving talisman."
King Jin raised his head and patted his head: "Don't you know that the nobles in Kyoto like to kill people and silence them? Do you know that the person who killed you almost ran into my people today?"
Judge Li was a little dazed. When he saw King Jin looking at him expressionlessly, and what he said seemed to be true, he couldn't help but blinked: "It's impossible - Li... I'm a confidant of the person above, how could he possibly
Kill me? He also gave me money for activities. As long as Luo Shuaisi has money, he will help."
King Jin smiled calmly, but his eyes could see into Judge Li's heart: "Li Lin, deputy envoy of Yantie, I know this person. Ten years ago, Prime Minister Zhang promoted him to Yantie because he had made great contributions to certain things.
The position of iron has remained unchanged for ten years. You actually think that a person who can not move on iron for ten years will tell you the rules."
He couldn't help but pat Judge Li's face: "How naive."
Salt and iron is the fattest piece of meat in the entire Sansi. Countless people are staring at this fat piece of meat and salivating, wishing they could swallow it in one gulp. These people do everything they can to move their butts to this position.
They are extremely fierce, and they will not let go of Li Lin's every move. If he makes even half a step wrong, these eager competitors will pull him down without hesitation.
No one is perfect. Even the King of Jin made mistakes when he was not careful. He often walked on thin ice and fell into the abyss if he was not careful. But for ten years, Li Lin did not let anyone catch him.
Not only did he not let anyone do it, but he became more and more closely connected with the Zhang family.
King Jin's words opened a gap in Judge Li's dim head.
Judge Li took it seriously and thought for a long time, and finally had to admit that what King Jin said was very reasonable.
After making sense, he was in a state of shock of being deceived, and finally thought that in the field of power, he was at the bottom - lacking both wisdom and courage.
Once he recognized the reality, he quickly became a stranger and turned to King Jin.
"Yes, it was me who was ordered by Li Lin, deputy envoy of Salt and Iron, to lead you up the mountain and place the explosives. The explosives were placed by his people. He said he didn't trust others and asked me to light the fuse myself. I was afraid that my ears would be damaged.
He was deafened by the explosion, so he arranged for the house boy to light the fire. He was unlucky, and the gravel made a big hole in his head, and he died on the spot."
After Xu Laiyu heard this, he thought that if he lived too comfortably, his mind would deteriorate easily. The boy was stoned to death on the spot. He actually thought it was bad luck.
But now that he was frightened, Judge Li's degenerated brain began to spin, slowly revealing the mind of a normal person.
"I really don't know anything..." Judge Li defended himself vigorously, bursting into tears, confessing his heart, and cleaning up all the bad things.
After hearing his sophistry, Xu Laiyu rolled his eyes and hit the nail on the head: "Don't you know that explosions can kill people? Don't tell me that workers' lives are worthless."
Judge Li rolled his eyes in circles, but couldn't find anything to refute. Finally, he flattered Xu Laiyu: "Magistrate Xu really loves his people like his own son."
This flattery was simply ironic to the ears of Xu Laiyu, who was a soft-spoken and unsociable official. He immediately snorted, rolled up his sleeves, and went to help Huang Ting make soup.
The fire in the cave was warm. Judge Li asked for his clothes again and put them on after drying them. The wound didn't seem that painful. Looking at King Jin's expression, he didn't mean to kill him again. He immediately felt the beauty of a hard life.
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He ran to Xu Laiyu, picked up a wooden stick and put it in his hand to decide whether to burn it or not, and said to Xu Laiyu: "Look at King Jin, he is calm in the face of danger. He really has a general - the wind of the true dragon."
After hearing this, Xu Laiyu found that Judge Li had already boarded King Jin's ship on his own wishful thinking, and was flattering King Jin, so he sneered and ignored him.
Unexpectedly, Judge Li also complained about him: "You, the county magistrate, surrendered to the King of Jin without saying a word, and you still made a show in front of me. Do you know that it is said outside that you are dead, and your wife has set up a tomb for you?"
, send all your money to your parents’ house and prepare to remarry.”
When Xu Laiyu received this bad news, his figure suddenly became half shorter.
Just as Judge Li was crackling the poison, Song Huiyue and Yinxiao arrived in the rain.
Before anyone arrived, the sound of horse hooves sounded first, and the palace guards went out to check. Within a moment, Song Huiyue's voice sounded: "Your Majesty!"
When King Jin heard Song Huiyue's voice, he stood up suddenly. He stood up so hard that the wound on his waist that had just been bandaged stretched open. He ignored the pain, dusted himself off vigorously, and walked out with long strides.
When we arrived at the entrance of the cave, Song Huiyue walked in dripping wet.
He stretched out his hands, held Song Huiyue's shoulders, and then looked at her face carefully.
Song Huiyue's eyes were so big, so bright, shining like stars, the only bright light in his gloomy life.
Finally, King Jin opened his hands and hugged her hard.
Song Huiyue's breath poured into his nose. There was no fragrance, not even as fragrant as his own, but her scent was always unique and could make him stay in the messy world, as if he was originally illusory and could
He could change into any shape, but Song Huiyue sketched him out and kept him as he was before.
He exerted great force, and his arm was almost embedded in Song Huiyue's bones.