A Journey Through the Worlds of Film and Television.

Lu Cheng never liked to procrastinate when doing things. After coming out of Shuntian Prefecture Yamen, he immediately ordered people to arrest the rogue Peng Laosan from West City and brought him to the Yamen for interrogation alone.

"Peng Laosan, five days ago, at 1:01 pm in the morning, you were driving a donkey cart and collided with a horse-drawn carriage from the Xifang Clan and Tao Clan porcelain shops. Is this true?"

Peng Lao San was obviously a reckless person. Facing Lu Cheng's question, he was not afraid at all: "My Lord, that is true. However, I only damaged some of their porcelain and have already paid for it. This doesn't seem to be illegal, right?"

"Oh? You know the law?"

"Of course you don't look down on me. If you kill someone, you must pay for it. If you owe someone money, you must pay for it. If you break someone's things, you must pay for it. These villains know that."

"If you accidentally damaged someone else's things, it's understandable. But if you accepted someone's favor and did it on purpose, then it's not just a matter of simply paying money. Deliberately planning, robbing by trickery, and attempting to embezzle other people's property is a serious crime! Peng Laosan, have you really thought it through?

Are you going to sacrifice yourself for the five taels of silver given by Qian Gui, the housekeeper of the Lu Mansion?"

"How do you know it was five taels... I didn't take any money from others, it was just an accident."

"An accident? Explain it to me. You didn't have a donkey cart at home, so why did you suddenly borrow a donkey cart the night before, and then happened to pass by that intersection the next morning? Why did you drive that donkey cart? Why don't you explain everything?"

"This...I..."

"You can't answer, right? I know not only that you took the five taels of silver from Qiangui, but I also know that on the sixth day of August, you stole a purse of a passing merchant, which contained five gold beans and twelve taels of silver. On the fifteenth day of August, you took advantage of the Mid-Autumn Festival to sneak into the widow Liu's house, with ill intentions, and were scratched. There are still scratches on your chest now, right?"

As Lu Cheng told Peng Laosan about all the things he had done, Peng Laosan was immediately frightened and turned pale: "Sir, how...how do you know all this?"

"The law of nature is clear, and retribution will come. If you don't know it, you better not do it yourself. Now, I'm going to ask you again, was it the housekeeper of the Lu Mansion who instructed you to deliberately destroy and damage the porcelain in Tao's Porcelain Shop?"

"Yes…"

Although Lu Cheng is not a top criminal investigator or interrogation expert, he is a top psychologist and hypnotist, and he also has identification skills to assist him. No criminal can hide any secrets in front of him.

After intimidating Peng Lao San, Lu Cheng immediately asked the legal advisor of the government office to record his confession, which detailed the process of how the Lu family's housekeeper bribed him.

Afterwards, Lu Cheng personally led a group of bailiffs to the Lu family.

That morning, the Lu family also received the news in advance that Lu Cheng had taken over Tao Sheng's report, but they relied on the support of the Marquis' Mansion and did not take a sixth-rank prosecutor seriously.

However, the Lu family did not expect that Lu Cheng would bring people to arrest them that afternoon.

"What are you doing?"

"Lu family steward Zhang San and Lu family eldest son Lu Yanchang are involved in a case and need to be taken back to the government office for questioning. What? Do you Lu family want to resist?"

"How dare you arrest me? Do you know who my brother-in-law is?"

"take away!"

Lu Cheng didn't waste any time and directly brought the young master of the Lu family and the housekeeper Zhang San back to the yamen.

There were no surveillance videos or advanced criminal investigation techniques back then, but torture was not prohibited.

As long as there is a certain amount of witnesses or material evidence, regardless of whether the evidence is sufficient and complete, the suspect can be arrested and tortured to make him confess.

With such a case handling process, there are bound to be false and wrongful convictions.

But Lu Cheng has a cheat, so he won't wrongly accuse any suspect. As long as the suspect is identified, the means in between are not that important.

The Lu family's housekeeper Zhang San originally wanted to quibble, but with Peng Lao San's confession and Lu Cheng's frightening words, he was confused and confessed honestly as soon as the tongs were put in place and before the torture began.

Afterwards, Lu Cheng immediately interrogated Lu Yanchang.

The Lu family was originally a nouveau riche family, and Mr. Lu had only one son, who was usually spoiled, so Lu Yanchang had never suffered much. When he saw the torture instruments such as the clamps in front of him, he panicked: "You can't torture me, my brother-in-law is a young marquis."

"The laws of the Ming Dynasty are above all else. How can you be so rampant here? Lu Yanchang, if you confess early, you can still avoid some suffering. If you are stubborn and refuse to change your ways, don't blame me for punishing you severely!"

"I confess, I confess. It's just money. I don't want it..." Although he said so, there was undisguised resentment in the eyes of this young master Lu.

Lu Cheng first asked his lawyer to record his statement, and then checked the identification information of this Mr. Lu.

Although Mr. Lu's understanding of the Tao family's methods was a little superficial, he was very skilled in it. He even knew to arrange the ruffian Peng Laosan as a backup. It was obviously not the first time he did such a thing.

Now that we are investigating, of course we have to check it thoroughly.

Identification skills were focused on finding the criminal history of Mr. Lu, and soon other discoveries were made:

"In March of the 14th year of Changtai, he used trickery and robbery to buy the heirloom of Li Xiucai's family in the south of the city, a landscape painting, at a low price. In June of the 14th year of Changtai, he forcibly took the daughter of the Wu family in the west city as his concubine, and abused her to death three months later.

In August of the 13th year of Changtai, he went out of the city to hunt with the young marquis of Jing'an Marquisate. He happened to meet the daughter of a hunter in the mountains. He raped her in turn and dumped her body in the wilderness. The hunter and his wife were also killed, and a fire was set to burn the bodies of the hunter and his wife..."

Seeing this information, Lu Cheng frowned immediately, and anger rose in his heart. The young marquis of Jing'an Marquis's Mansion was obviously also a beast.

After the lawyer finished recording the confession, Lu Cheng suddenly spoke again: "Lu Yanchang, I have something else to ask you. Did you go hunting in Xishan on August 13 last year?"

Lu Yanchang thought for a moment after hearing this, and then his expression changed drastically: "No...no..."

"It seems that you are still not honest. Someone, come and put the clamp on Young Master Lu..."

After the tongs were used, as the two yamen runners pulled them to the left and right, Lu Yanchang's fingers were quickly squeezed and deformed, and blood flowed out.

His fingers were connected to his heart, and after being tortured by this plate, Lu Yanchang soon couldn't bear it anymore and showed signs of giving in. However, when he thought about the matter involving the Jing'an Marquis Mansion, he didn't dare to open his mouth.

"Someone, come here. Didn't you see that Mr. Lu's hands are dirty? Go get a basin of salt water and wash his hands thoroughly."

"Yes!"

After another round of torture, when Lu Cheng asked the same question again in a hypnotic tone, Lu Yanchang immediately answered honestly: "I confess..."