Don't be clouded

"Are the prisoners caught in the Chongzhou case imprisoned in Dali Temple? Why not in the prison of the Ministry of Criminal Justice?" Ji Bieyun was puzzled.

According to the past rules, the prison of Dali Temple is rarely used, and most prisoners will be held in the prison of the Ministry of Criminal Justice.What's more, this kind of criminal who committed the murder case should be strictly guarded in the special prison of the Ministry of Punishment.

They walked up a long corridor lined with cells, but they were all empty.

While leading the way, Gan Cunyi replied: "It is true that there are too many people who have died. The other two departments agreed that the prisoners are locked up in Dali Temple so that we can interrogate them at any time during the investigation."

The saint ordered the three divisions to interrogate, and the other two divisions were Yushitai and the Ministry of punishment.

If he stayed in Dali Temple for a few days, Ji Bieyun, a member of the other two divisions, would not worry about missing him.

He walked in with Gan Cunyi calmly. After turning a corner, the place was even more shady, and the torch couldn't penetrate the darkness at all.From a distance, several people could be seen guarding outside the innermost prison, enclosing the cell tightly.

After seeing them coming, he made way to the sides.

Ji Bieyun saw a grown man lying in the prison. Although he was wearing only his jacket, he didn't feel embarrassed, and even his hair was neatly tied up.Right now, he was closing his eyes, not sure if he was really asleep or closed his eyes to rest his mind.However, it is not ordinary people who can calmly deal with this situation.

After Gan Cunyi brought the people there, he prepared to leave. There were still many things waiting for him to arrange. After a hasty explanation, he left in a hurry with the original guards.

Ji Bieyun took down the torch on the side wall and stuck it into the railing, trying to see it more clearly.

The cell was surrounded by walls on three sides, and naturally there were no windows on the ground floor. The only entrance and exit was the iron railing.As if for insurance, two chains were hung on the door, each one as thick as half a fist.There was nothing in the cell other than a dirty bedding on the floor.

Seeing this, one of the soldiers he brought stepped forward, took the iron chain tied to the door and shook it, deliberately making noise.Seeing that the man still didn't respond, he turned his head and muttered to Ji Bieyun, "Why does it look like he's dead?"

Ji Bieyun nodded.

He also felt that this person was too calm, not like the despair of surviving after being arrested, but as if he had given up struggling.

And why is there only one prisoner?

The two families were wiped out, there must be other helpers, maybe they haven't been caught yet?

He took back the torch and said softly: "Go up and tell the lieutenant that if he finishes his work, he will bring a dozen or so brothers down to guard against death."

"What about Zhong Lang himself? Why don't you go up and rest?"

Ji Bieyun was taken aback when he heard this, he never thought of handing everything over to the staff below.

After thinking about it, he said, "Then you stay here, I'll go up and call for someone, and see if there's anything else."

When he returned to the ground, the body had been moved almost, but he met another person at the door.

It was Duan Wenfu, the censor Zhongcheng who had congratulated him after the court was over that day.

As the person in charge of Yushitai, it is reasonable to come to Dali Temple in person.

Duan Wenfu couldn't hide his surprise when he saw him, and turned around to let the others in Yushitai go in first, and walked over to greet him alone.

"Is General Ji coming to Dali Temple today for business?"

Ji Bieyun also politely replied: "Dali Temple is busy today, so I'm here to help with some chores."

Duan Zhongcheng nodded, turned around to look at the boxes being lifted, and let out a long sigh.

"It's really scary. Only in times of war can I occasionally hear about the extermination of a state governor. I don't know what happened recently. The case of the Minister of Rites happened not long ago, and now there is such a tragedy..." Said Here the topic is brought back in time, "Forget it, the matter at hand is more important. General Ji is busy, so I won't bother you."

After talking to himself for a while, Duan Wenfu nodded and strode away again.

Ji Bieyun stayed where he was and looked at this person's back, thinking in his heart, it seems that the three divisions are going to gather in Dali Temple, which is convenient for him.

**

In the afternoon of the same day, the three divisions interrogated the prisoner together.Sitting in the high hall of Dali Temple were Shaoqing Gan Cunyi, Yushi Zhongcheng Duan Wenfu, and the Minister of the Ministry of Punishment who had just arrived.

After Ji Bieyun pushed the prisoner from the prison to the hall, he stepped aside and watched.

He went to the morgue at the back before burning incense. The ground was covered with a white cloth, and the charred and mutilated corpses were placed on the ground. The smell filled the whole room.

When they left, there were already roughly 30 dead on the ground.

The pictures of those corpses are still spinning in his mind, and the unrecognizable fragments have made it impossible to recognize the appearance of the dead before they were alive.

Even if he deliberately didn't think much about it, this massacre reminded him of the Liu family.The two things are not the same, one is the treason of the first emperor, and the whole family was convicted, but the other was murdered, and a fire was set to destroy the corpse.

Obviously there are so many differences, but he couldn't control the chill on his body.

Until a loud shout from the hall brought him back to reality.

"36 people, how could you take their lives alone! It's already at this point, and you haven't really recruited them!"

It was Gan Cunyi who said this. Among the three officials, he was the only one who was showing joy and anger, and the other two were as stable as Mount Tai.

Also motionless was the prisoner under the hall, kneeling on the ground weakly, with his upper body bent, and his half-raised face was expressionless.

The identity of this person was the coachman of Chongzhou Governor Shi's mansion, and he was the only one who killed the two extermination cases. He didn't say a word about the rest, and kept his mouth shut.

The scene was stalemate, so he had to be executed.

This is not the first time Ji Bieyun has seen whipping with his own eyes.No matter it is the city of bones or the city of capital, the whips used to beat people are almost the same, a black whip, which looks soft but is actually very resilient, when it falls on the body, it can tear the clothes on the face, and then embed it deeply into the flesh.

It's just that the torturers were obviously lighter this time. After all, they couldn't knock people out and beat them to death, and they were counting on this person to tell the whereabouts of their accomplices.

Ji Bieyun watched coldly, but the hands behind his back could not hold back and clenched into fists.

The five welts on his back were hidden under his clothes. He knew it was an illusion, but he still felt that the wound that had completely healed was burning faintly.

His welts were from a whip soaked in salt water.

The pain at that time has gone, but now he still remembers the sound of the wind when the long whip was swung, even mixed with the hunting and snow wind of the Bone City, it was especially chilling.

Ji Bieyun forced himself to watch the prisoner being tortured, and his heart, which was finally warmed by the warm sun in Chenjing, cooled down again.The blood on his body was boiling hot, as if he was clamoring to pay back all the suffering he had suffered.

But who to ask for repayment?

He counted, and when he swung the fourth whip, the man finally couldn't help the pain in his mouth, and screamed out.

Gan Cunyi in the hall signaled to stop, and asked the other party again if he had any accomplices.

This time the answer is still no.

The interrogation has reached a stalemate, and harsher punishments cannot be performed in this hall, and can only be carried out in the dungeon, so as not to fall into the pretext of extorting confessions by torture.

They, You Xiaowei, took the prisoner back to the dungeon. Gan Shaoqing meant to let him rest for a while, and he would be interrogated later.

Ji Bieyun stood outside the cell again, looking at the man with bloodstains on his back, wanting to say something to break the calm, but he didn't know what to say for a while.This man was a murderer arrested by the Chongzhou government. He was escorted all the way to Beijing, and he was burdened with a huge life lawsuit, but he was still so... docile.

He couldn't figure it out, so he opened his mouth to the inside and said, "Cai Han, if you want to die, there are a hundred kinds of torture waiting here, so that your soul will be scattered but you still can't take your last breath."

The man named Cai Han was originally lying face down on the quilt, but after hearing this sentence, he turned his head with difficulty, his eyes fixed on him, and his heavy breathing made the scattered hair float up and down.

But still do not speak.

Seeing this, Ji Bieyun didn't persuade him any more, and took out the small porcelain bottle Gan Cunyi gave him from his sleeve.

He stated the facts generally, and said in a flat tone: "Gan Shaoqing said, you need to take medicine for this injury, otherwise you may not be able to survive the torture later."

Cai Han's body trembled suddenly, Ji Bieyun just pretended not to see it.

The Chongzhou Miemen case is no small matter. The motive of this person committing the crime is still unclear, and it is even uncertain whether he did it. The subsequent interrogation is still long.

**

Ji Bieyun came to Dali Temple to help for two days, and the joint trial of the three divisions also went on for two days, but the progress was extremely slow.

For one thing, Cai Han refused to reveal his accomplices, and his own motivation was only a quarrel with the master, which is really weak.Secondly, the people sent by Dali Temple to investigate in Chongzhou have not returned for a long time, and there is nothing in the letter they sent. Cai Han's family members have disappeared.

Things are getting more and more strange, and Cai Han seems to be pushed out to ward off crimes.

And Ji Bieyun also secretly observed for two days, the three officials in charge of this case did not make any mistakes, and the entire third department did not cover up.

Just when he thought he had entered a dead end, Cai Han, who was like a pool of stagnant water, finally had waves.

The progress of the interrogation stagnated, but there was an order from His Majesty above, Gan Shaoqing wanted to cheat Cai Han out of desperation.When the other two divisions were not in Dali Temple at night, let Ji Bieyun bring him up again for interrogation.

After putting him on the torture rack, Gan Cunyi pretended to let the torturer back down, and lied that he had found Cai Han's family and was on his way to the capital.

Ji Bieyun stood in the corner, listening silently, thinking that this kind of lie can only be told once, if Cai Han cannot be deceived, there will be no hope in the future.

However, to everyone's surprise, Cai Han, who was originally like a puddle of blood, suddenly raised his head and looked at Gan Cunyi through his messy hair.

"You actually found it?"

it turns out?

Ji Bieyun also came to his senses, frowning and looking over.

Gan Cunyi was worthy of being in Dali Temple for many years, and he looked like he was talking nonsense, so he replied calmly: "Of course, do you think they hide it well?"

After that, he suddenly became irritable, and his tone was not so good: "I'm tired of interrogation after two days, why don't I tell you the truth, this case was ordered by the Holy Spirit, and we can't guarantee other things as officials. , but we must ensure that the results are submitted as soon as possible. As for the lives of your family... If you insist on keeping it a secret, then we can't take care of that much. Are you right?"

After a while, dead silence spread.

No one dared to interrupt the silence, so they could only wait patiently for Cai Han's next words.

After an unknown amount of time, Cai Han finally said, "I let go."

Ji Bieyun caught a glimpse of Gan Cunyi picking up the teacup, and secretly breathed a sigh of relief while drinking tea.

"But I have to see them first." Cai Han spoke slowly, as if trying to catch his breath, "After seeing them, you have to send them away from Daliang to Xihuan, and ask them to write their own A letter is coming."

Gan Cunyi paused as he put down his teacup, feeling a little annoyed, "You're already in this situation and you're asking for conditions... isn't it a little bit of an overreaching?"

However, Cai Han lowered his head again, and continued to act like a walking dead without knowing it.

Gan Shaoqing turned his head to look at Ji Bieyun, and Ji Bieyun could only shrug his shoulders.

The development of the matter to this point can only show that the people behind it are hiding a lot.Either use another lie to complete the lie, find someone to pretend to be Cai Han's family, or change the road and investigate Chongzhou.

The author says:

These few chapters follow the plot, Guanchen didn’t make much appearance, and in a few more chapters he will be stuck with Xiaoyun