Yongxuan nodded, wiped his face and said, "I want to go to the main hall to observe mourning for E Niang."
Yongzhang patted him on the shoulder and said, "That's right. I have a stomachache. I'll go wash my hands first, and then I'll accompany you to the main hall to observe mourning."
After watching Yongxuan leave, Yongzhang hurriedly walked to the backyard, following the path he took last night, carefully identifying the branches along the road. It was still dark at the moment, and although there were street lights and the light of the stars and the moon, it was still dark and difficult to walk along the way.
You see, it is extremely difficult to distinguish.
After a long time, Yong Zhang just looked around and didn't find the piece of cloth hooked off his clothes. Fearing that he might have missed it, he looked back and looked again, but still didn't find anything.
He murmured: "Isn't it broken here?"
"Brother Third, what are you doing here?" Yong Zhang was startled by the sudden voice. He quickly turned around and recognized a palace servant from Chonghua Palace. He calmly said: "I came to clean my hands just now and found that
The jade pendant was gone, so I came over to look for it, but I couldn’t find it after searching around.”
The palace servant said: "Would you like my servant to help you find it?"
How could Yongzhang agree? He immediately said: "No need. If you can't find it, forget it. The left and right are not very valuable." As he said that, he walked towards the main hall. After walking a few steps, he couldn't help but look back.
, I still haven’t found the piece of rag.
In the end... is it not here, or was it taken away first?
This question has always made Yongzhang uneasy. As long as someone takes another look at him, he will panic in his heart, fearing that the person will suddenly take out the rag that he has been unable to find. Fortunately, until dawn, what he was worried about did not happen.
, it seems that it was not scratched in Chonghua Palace.
At the same time, little Mencius was paralyzed on the ground and gasping for air, looking extremely painful. However, the strange thing was that there were no scars on his body. Only when you look carefully, you will find some tiny pinholes next to him.
There are also Liu Qi and Xiao Yuanzi, all three of them look similar.
Dehai twisted the slender steel needle in his hand and said coldly: "It's already midnight, are you still unwilling to tell the truth?"
Xiao Yuanzi glanced at the two people next to him, gritted his teeth and said: "We have told you everything we know, what else do you want us to say."
Dehai sneered and said: "You have a tough mouth, but do you really think that except for those painful points just now, our family has nothing to do with you?" After a pause, he said: "Although our family has never liked to use them,
Those violent methods, but the emperor has told you that we must pry your mouths open, even if our family doesn't like it.
Come on, count the hours, the emperor will go to court in two hours, we must seize the time, lest the emperor blame us." Following his words, a young eunuch carried the red-hot charcoal stove.
Coming in, there was also a leather whip soaked in water. The water in the copper basin looked a bit red, which was quite strange.
Dehai took out the leather whip from it, threw it hard on the ground, and said with a half-smile: "Do you know what kind of water this is? This is water boiled with the hottest chili peppers in Sichuan. Using a whip soaked in it to whip the body is as good as salt water.
It’s much more exciting, which one wants to try it first?”
Little Mencius cried: "Eunuch De, please let us go. We really don't know anything. Concubine Yi's death has nothing to do with us. Please believe us."
"Our family believes in you." Dehai's words gave Xiao Mengzi and the others a glimmer of hope. Unfortunately, this hope disappeared in just a moment. "It's a pity that the emperor does not believe it, so our family can only act according to orders."
"Even if you beat us to death, you will still get the same answer." Faced with Xiao Yuanzi's words, Dehai said nonchalantly: "Then give it a try." As soon as he finished speaking, the long whip in his hand was already in his hand.
The sound of howling wind fell on Xiao Yuanzi, and the screams that had just stopped for a while sounded again in the Shenxing Division.
Whips dipped in pepper water, red-hot branding, special clamps, etc., were all used in turn to attack Little Mencius and the others, torturing them until they cried for father and mother, wishing they had never been born.
After finishing the round of drawings, the jailer said awkwardly: "Chief manager, they still refuse to confess. If they continue like this, they may cause death, so it is better to carry out the execution later."
Dehai glared at him and said coldly: "Later? The emperor will punish you, will you bear it?"
The inner prisoner bowed his head and did not dare to speak when he asked. Dehai gave Xiao Yuanzi and the others a hard look. He originally had a way to treat these three people, but Hongli issued an order not to allow the three of them to die, so that
He couldn't use many methods. After thinking for a while, Dehai said coldly: "Go and bring me the mercury."
The jailer said in shock: "Chief Supervisor, once the mercury is poured down, it will kill them."
"Do I need you to remind our family? Go and get it immediately!" Under Dehai's urging, the eunuch did not dare to ask any more questions and retreated as instructed. After a while, a palace official came in and said a few words in Dehai's ear.
, the latter's face changed slightly, and he went out with him. No one was left to look after Xiao Yuanzi and the others. In fact, there was no need to watch. Based on the situation of the few of them, it was impossible to escape from the Shenxing Division. Moreover,
Even if you get out of the Shenxing Division, can you still escape from the Forbidden City?
After Dehai left, Liu Qi said weakly: "I...I can't stand it anymore. This Dehai is simply a pervert. He actually wants mercury. If this continues, we will all die."
Little Mencius moved his body slightly, and immediately felt pain all over his body. He took a breath and said, "Rather than suffer such torture, I would rather die."
Liu Qi twitched the corner of his mouth and said in a harsh voice: "Let's... tell the story. Even if we can't survive, at least we can have a good time."
Before Xiao Mencius could speak, Xiao Yuanzi said coldly: "Don't be stupid. Do you really think that if you tell the truth, they will give us a happy life? Impossible. On the contrary, they will add endless pain to us."
It’s all on us.”
Xiao Mengzi tried his best to turn his head and stared at Xiao Yuanzi, and said with hatred: "You still have the nerve to say this. If it weren't for you, how could Brother Liu and I have ended up in this situation? All of this is because of you and your master.
Harmful."
"We have already come this far, is there any point in talking about right and wrong?" Xiao Yuanzi endured the pain and continued: "If you want to survive, you have to control your mouth and don't say things you shouldn't say."
"But mercury..." Before Liu Qi could finish speaking, Xiao Yuanzi already said: "Those are just words he used to scare us. The emperor has said that he wants to save our lives, and he is just a supervisor of the Punishment Department.
, how dare you take our lives."
Little Mencius said painfully: "But... I really can't stand it anymore. This kind of pain is not much better than peeling skin and cramping."
Xiao Yuanzi listened to the faint footsteps outside and suddenly said: "Xiao Mengzi, do you really want to end it? Even if such an end means death?"