In the room, Xiao Chen looked at Shopkeeper Li with a look of helplessness on his face.
After much effort, he finally found the place where the prince was being held, but someone tipped him off, causing the other party to transfer the prince in advance.
Finding the prince is a big deal, but finding the person who tipped off the news is the most urgent thing for Xiao Chen at the moment.
For someone like Shopkeeper Li who has established a stronghold for his own power, it is not that easy to pry open his mouth and get the whereabouts of the prince.
However, it should be less difficult to know who the reporter is from his mouth.
"Man, please be brave. She doesn't know anything about this matter. I hope Master Ziyi won't make things too difficult for her." Shopkeeper Li held up his fists and begged again.
"A woman, especially one who marries into a wealthy family like Shopkeeper Li, should be well-educated and sensible. In times of crisis like this, if you don't know how to protect yourself wisely, you will bite my captain. Did Shopkeeper Li ever know that you robbed the prince?
Come on, this means taking the lives of the people in Dongchang. You want my life and want me to accommodate you? Am I, Xiao Chen, so kind in your eyes?"
Looking at Shopkeeper Li, Xiao Chen grinned, not knowing what to say.
Without showing any "sincerity" at all, you just want me to let go. Even if you don't close your eyes all night, you can't dream in broad daylight?
What's more, it's still under the sun.
"Master Ziyi, at this point, my mission in Gu'an has come to an end. Don't ask me about the prince's whereabouts, I really don't know. But for other matters, I will answer you selectively."
Shopkeeper Li is also a smart man and shows sincerity.
"A woman really shouldn't get involved in this kind of thing. If she really doesn't know about it at all and is innocently implicated, it's really a pity. Shopkeeper Li's choice of three words, among which
The changes involved are a bit too big. Avoiding the important and taking the easy is also a selective answer." Xiao Chen smiled lightly, feeling somewhat confident in his heart.
It seems that shopkeeper Li really cares about his wife. He said before that this courtyard was built for his father-in-law. To put it bluntly, it was also to please his wife.
It's not scary if a person is strong. As long as you find his weaknesses, you can still open up the situation.
Shopkeeper Li's weakness should be his wife.
At this point, you can make a big fuss. Even if it's shameless, it doesn't matter. As long as you can blackmail Shopkeeper Li and hear what he doesn't want to say, any method doesn't matter.
"Master Ziyi, do you mean to let my wife go?" Shopkeeper Li's heart tightened, Xiao Chen seemed to have this vague intention.
As if his neck was uncomfortable, Xiao Chen closed his eyes and shook his head a few times.
"Does Shopkeeper Li want to hear the truth or a lie?"
"What's the truth, what's a lie?"
"When the court handles cases, no one will be spared who is implicated. This is the way to deal with people." Xiao Chen said with his head tilted and his mouth smashing as if chewing something.
Shopkeeper Li frowned: "What about the truth?"
"The truth is, I, Xiao Chen, still have some power in Dongchang. Especially in Gu'an, I basically have the final say. Whatever is seized and who is present at the scene, it all depends on me.
People have the final say." Looking at Shopkeeper Li, Xiao Chen smiled very obscenely.
Yes, this is blackmail and exchange.
The information you gave is valuable, so I will let your wife live.
On the contrary, if you keep silent, I will let you witness your wife's tongue being cut out and her teeth pulled out. If she still dares to resist and grabs people randomly, then her nails will be pulled out too.
"Dongchang is a new institution appointed by the emperor. I thought the methods would be more clever. I didn't expect that he would be as shameless as the former Jinyiwei." Shopkeeper Li gritted his teeth with hatred, and his words were not polite at all.
"That's wrong." Xiao Chen shook his head, "Shopkeeper Li still doesn't know enough about Dongchang. Most of the people in Dongchang are still very disciplined. But in order to handle cases, I am sometimes more shameless than Jin Yiwei.
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Shopkeeper Li chuckled: "I really thought highly of you before. Using blackmail to get the information you want from others is really impressive."
"It's not too late to get to know each other again. In one sentence, use your wife's life in exchange for the information you know. Should we exchange it or not?" Xiao Chen said lightly.
"Do you know what faith is? Faith means that you can give up everything for this. Madam, she must be able to understand this." At the end of the sentence, shopkeeper Li seemed to have no confidence, and his voice gradually became lower.
"Okay, it's settled. Anyway, there are only a few days left for the emperor to return to the capital. It seems that I can't find the whereabouts of the prince. Duan Tianming, prepare the guys, I will do it myself today."
Leaving shopkeeper Li at a loss, Xiao Chen walked out of the room.
The iron door closed with a bang from the outside, and a big lock fell neatly.
Shopkeeper Li panicked for a while, lying on the iron door, looking out eagerly through the hole the size of a bowl.
He thought that Xiao Chen would give in. As long as he was not allowed to tell the information about Mr. Zhang, Wang Zhongzhen and others, he was willing to accept Xiao Chen in exchange.
But he didn't expect that Xiao Chen didn't give him any room for maneuver.
Is it true, as Xiao Chen said, that if there was no information about the prince before the emperor returned to Beijing, all the people in Dongchang would be punished?
Since the outcome has already been decided, will they stop struggling too much?
No wonder, after Xiao Chen found the piece of cloth left by the prince, he didn't interrogate himself overnight. He was just going through the motions. He had given up on tracing the prince's whereabouts?!
Lying on the door, shopkeeper Li regretted extremely.
This stronghold in Gu'an County has fallen, and one can imagine his fate. For the great cause he has planned, he will choose to sacrifice without hesitation.
However, my wife is an innocent person and she has no idea about it.
It's all my fault. I usually doted on her so much that she was fearless. The Dongchang she faced now was a group of tigers and wolves.
Today, this group of tiger and wolf masters know that they will not live long, so they may take pleasure in torturing their wives.
To have to watch your wife being tortured is a thousand or ten thousand times more painful than killing yourself.
Clenching a fist with his right hand, Shopkeeper Li hit his head hard.
In the square outside, Xiao Chen ordered someone to bring a long stool.
On top of the stool, there was a whetstone about a foot long. Next to it, there was a wooden basin with half a basin of water in it.
A five-inch long scimitar was placed on the whetstone.
Next to it, there are several chairs.
Xiao Chen, Duan Tianming, Liu Rufeng, and Wei Qi sat on it in a row.
"Just torture a woman, don't you need to make the scene so grand?" Duan Tianming held a grass branch in his hand and poked it between his teeth.
"The Emperor is about to come back, but there is still no clue about the whereabouts of this prince. This is probably the last time that we, as members of the court, will torture a prisoner. Be more solemn and have something to think about in the future." Xiao Chen smiled.
said.
"Are you still going to do it yourself?" Duan Tianming asked.
"I sawed Cangcheng's fingers, but I have never cut my tongue. If I don't cut it with my own hands today, I'm afraid I won't have a chance in the future." After saying that, Xiao Chen stood up and sat astride him.
On top of that long wooden bench.
Picking up the five-inch long scimitar, his left hand dipped a little water in the basin on the ground and dripped it on the whetstone, ready to sharpen the knife.
"How about I sharpen it? If the knife cannot be sharpened well, it will not be able to cut out the tongue at once, and it will be difficult to cut the second knife." Duan Tianming, who was sitting on the chair and watching, said softly.
"Why is it difficult to strike with the second knife?" Xiao Chen was startled and stopped sharpening the knife.
"It hurts. The other person will close his mouth tightly and never open it again. And he may suddenly attack back and bite him violently." Duan Tianming said with lingering fear, as if someone had bitten him back.
"Isn't it enough to pull out the tooth first?" Xiao Chen rolled his eyes at the other party, took the machete and sharpened it back and forth on the whetstone, "If she doesn't open her mouth, use a stick to pry it open and it's over.
?We have so many grown men, but we can’t pry open a woman’s mouth?”
Looking at the scene outside and listening to their conversation, Shopkeeper Li's heart was about to break.
