The steward came in and reported: "Sir, someone from the Criminal Department is here. They say they just caught a spy and want you to go and have a look in the prison."
"Oh," Wang Yun put down the things in his hands very calmly and stood up, "change my clothes for me!"
"Sir," the steward said with some worry, "are you going to just go there like this? You are not a Beijing official. Why did the Ministry of Punishment ask you to go there when they caught someone? This... must be aimed at you intentionally."
Wang Yun raised his head with a look of contempt on his face. It seemed that just one spy could not convict him.
"If I haven't returned home early tomorrow morning," Wang Yun said and looked at the steward, "you should know what to do?"
The steward immediately nodded: "I'll go to the Metropolitan Procuratorate to find some royal censors who are good friends with me."
As long as the censor came forward and someone gave up the pursuit, he would be safe and sound. After returning from Duogansi, he didn't understand anything else, but he knew very well what the human heart was. At least with a little use, he could achieve what he wanted.
the goal of.
The prison of the Criminal Department was dark.
What Wang Yun didn't expect was that he was not the only one invited. There were many officials, big and small, in the capital. Some of them were familiar with each other, and some simply couldn't name them, so they just handed them over as a courtesy.
"Calling us here so late is a bit too much."
"Who can refuse to give me this face when Sir Hong invites you?"
"They say they want us to come over and help. What can we do for you?"
As soon as he finished speaking, several jailors came over pressing him down.
The man's upper body was tied up, something was gagged in his mouth, and the jailer used several torches to illuminate his face.
The head of the Criminal Department stepped forward and said, "Please ask some adults to see if they recognize this person."
"Is this Duo Gansi's spy? He looks like someone from our Zhou Dynasty."
The head of the Criminal Department shook his head: "No, this is the person who contacted Duo Gansi's messenger. The messenger gave him Duo Gansi's secret message, and he then passed it on..."
His words stopped abruptly.
"You mean, he will pass the secret message to one of us? Why do you say that? Where is the basis for it?"
"This man opened a pen and ink shop in Beijing. We, your lords, had people check it out. That shop has connections with several lords' houses."
"Absurd, that's why."
The head of the Criminal Department said: "As you all know, the Criminal Ministry and the Military Ministry are investigating this case recently. We dare not neglect it, for fear that the higher-ups will blame us and we will have to wrong you, sir."
Being involved with spies is somewhat unsettling.
Just when everything was quiet, the sound of execution suddenly came from the cell not far away.
The sound of hitting the flesh made everyone look up.
They vaguely saw a man being tied to the torture rack without making a single scream, as if he had long been accustomed to being tortured like this.
Panting, the executioner dropped the whip in his hand and began to interrogate the man: "Tell me, what is your conspiracy here?"
What does this mean? Everyone frowned. Some people wanted to ask questions, but were stopped by the head of the Criminal Department. The head whispered: "Speak lower, adults. Don't scare Mr. Xian."
"Master Xian? Where is he?"
The chief officer said: "The person to be executed is Mr. Xian Qingchen."
"What, you...could it be possible that Mr. Xian...is a spy."
The chief said softly: "Everyone knows that Mr. Xian is seriously ill. The strange thing is that Mr. Xian is much better after he goes to the prison. He doesn't make any noise or shout. He stays there quietly every day, just like
Just like a normal person."
Wang Yun frowned slightly.
After Xian Qingchen came back from Duogansi, his madness never recovered. The imperial doctors tried all their methods, but there was no improvement. However, no matter how hard he was treated, no one would put him in prison.
"Who came up with such an idea?" Wang Yun's voice was a little low.
"I don't know. This is all explained by the superiors. I thought it was all nonsense at first, but I didn't expect it to actually work."
"Then why are you interrogating Mr. Xian?" Someone finally asked.
The chief said in a low voice: "Only in this way can Mr. Xian speak."
"Peace talks," the tied Xian Qingchen finally said in a hoarse voice, "if there is peace talks, years of war can be avoided. I want to see Kang...Kangji Chieftain, yes...Kangji Chieftain will believe me."
Xian Qingchen spoke.
He actually started talking like a normal person.
Xian Qingchen's voice and the damp and dark cell seemed to take him many years ago.
Wang Yun felt the pain coming from his toes and body, the skin and flesh were cut open, and the sharp knife scraped against the bones. He could hear the sound that kept ringing in his mind and never dissipated.
Sweat broke out on Wang Yun's forehead.
Xian Qingchen said: "Why don't you let me see Kang...Ji Tusi..."
"Sir Wang Yun," said the head of the Criminal Department, "when you saw Mr. Xian, did Mr. Xian look like this?"
Wang Yun nodded.
"You can see how hateful Duo Gansi is. I, the majestic Zhou, have given them such honor, and they actually humiliated the Zhou officials like this. Lord Wang must have suffered a lot."
The head of the Criminal Department said: "Master Wang, when you went to Duogansi, didn't Duogansi promise that he would follow the example of the previous dynasty and be recruited by us? What happened next?"
Wang Yundao: "Kangji regretted it."
The words that the head of the Criminal Department asked him were all asked by the court after he came back from Duogansi. What he said at that time cannot change at all now.
After asking, the head of the Criminal Department turned to look at the jailer. The jailer walked up to Xian Qingchen and repeated Wang Yun's words: "Chief Kangji regretted it."
"No, it's impossible," Xian Qingchen said, "You are lying to me... Chieftain Kangji has already believed in me. Only with the success of the peace talks and the support of Dazhou can he stabilize his position.
You are not from Kangji Tusi, who are you? You want to destroy the peace talks."
"Dazhou has sent an envoy..." Xian Qingchen suddenly covered his head as he said this, and shouted intermittently: "There is an envoy... There is an envoy... The king... the king...
Wang Yun..."
Xian Qingchen finally shouted: "Wang Yun..." His face was full of surprise, but suddenly he seemed to have thought of something, "Wang Yun... no... no..."
"No...no..." Xian Qingchen covered his mouth and huddled up, as if his shouting would cause some trouble, his face was full of fear.
The door of the cell next to him suddenly opened, and several teenage children walked out.
Seeing these children, Xian Qingchen's eyes widened.
The jailer took out the knife in his hand.
Xian Qingchen was suddenly stimulated. He suddenly stood up and staggered to the children, pushing them and pushing them to the ground with such force.
Before the children could react, a knife was already in front of them.
The jailer stabbed the child unceremoniously.
One child fell to the ground, and the jailer chased the remaining children.
Xian Qingchen kept screaming like he was going crazy: "Run...run...you guys...stop...stop..." He seemed to have turned back into that madman again.
"No... no..." Xian Qingchen yelled, his eyes were opened, and tears were streaming down his face, "You can't do this, you can't kill them... Wang Yun... you can't kill them, Wang Yun..."
Wang Yun had a gloomy face, and under the light of the torch, he looked extremely ferocious.
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