pia~ Another whip shadow whipped, this time, Jiang Ning used all his strength, with his legs and waist, and with his belt body fell to the side, he finally avoided it dangerously.

No matter which dynasty it was, in Jiang Ning's memory, the law was stipulated, and the jailers were not allowed to beat prisoners at will.

But Xiucai met Bing, and he couldn't explain it clearly, especially since he was still carrying a big crime of killing his wife at the moment, no one cared about his life or death at all, let alone being beaten in a prison cell, even if he died before the verdict came down, it is estimated that no one cared.

You know, there are countless people who die in prison cells every year, but there are even fewer jailers who are punished for the death of prisoners.

"Yo, do you still dare to hide?" The jailer saw that his whip was dodged by that Jiang Ning, and he was furious, and with a shake of his wrist, another whip shadow was thrown over.

This time, Jiang Ning didn't dodge, but just turned his head slightly, trying not to let the whip hit his face, and stubbornly resisted this blow with this weak body.

Under the thin clothes, a red blood mark oozed.

The back hurts hotly, for Jiang Ning, although the sensitivity of this body to pain is far inferior to his body, but the tolerance of this body is relatively worse, so that when he stood there and received the second whip, he couldn't help but cry out in pain after all.

"Don't you think it's too late to know that it hurts now?" the jailer sneered.

Jiang Ning knew that it was useless to deal with the jailer at this time, he was in a weak position, and forcibly resisting would only make the person worse, and if he couldn't keep it up, he would not be able to bear it after a few more blows, so he simply closed his mouth, squatted in the corner of the wall and looked like he was trembling because of the pain, and looked at the jailer outside the door with a look of fear.

This time, the jailer frowned, and finally did not whip again.

Although the crime is undoubtedly a capital crime, but it was beaten to death, if someone above asked, it would really be a little difficult to explain, so since Jiang Ning confessed, he was no longer aggressive, but spat in disgust in the cell, and said disdainfully: "Your life is now in the waning days, and there are no days left, you might as well think about how you should behave in the next life in the remaining time!"

After taking two steps, the man turned his head again and sneered: "Oh, I forgot, a person like you should be a beast in the next life." ”

Jiang Ning turned his head and turned his face in the direction of the wall, and didn't look at him, just waiting for the man to walk away, he muttered in a low voice: "Damn, the jailer here is really bad talking!"

He didn't have the same idle time as a little jailer, and he turned around and forgot about the humiliation he had just been made by the jailer. The inferior roots of human beings were thoroughly understood by him when he was a beggar in his early years.

Rather than settling with an inconsequential jailer, think about how you can get out of this cell.

"Hey, hey!" At this time, in the cell next door, a thin old man poked his head and looked at Jiang Ning, "I heard that you are the former inspector of the Imperial Palace, Pei Jinxin?"

"It turns out that the owner of my body is called Pei Jinxin!" Jiang Ning muttered in a low voice.

"What are you talking about?" said the old man.

"That's right," Jiang Ning said, "I am Pei Jinxin." ”

The old man just glanced Jiang Ning up and down, and said with a smile: "They are arresting people now, but they are becoming more and more casual." Don't say any evidence, with your little body, who can you kill?"

"Not really. Jiang Ning pouted the words in his heart as soon as he opened his mouth.

If he wanted to say that he killed his wife to fool around with other women, then, if the woman was poisoned by himself, Jiang Ning might still believe it, but that person was strangled to death by himself, Jiang Ning was a little unbelievable.

Now as the temporary owner of this body, Jiang Ning really knows that with this weak body, compared to a slightly healthier woman, he is afraid that he is far behind in terms of strength, and it is almost impossible to strangle a woman to death in the case of fierce fighting.

The old man was probably confined to this cell for so long that there was no one to speak to for a long time, so he talked a little bit about it.

"Seven or eight years ago, when the old man and I were in prison, Jane knew that the old guy's daughter was a little fat man, and her strength was also very tight, and now she is an adult marriage, I am afraid that the body and strength should not be underestimated, just like you, the two together are not enough for others to clean up, and they are strangled to death, even if you are not strangled to death, even if you are powerful!" the old man said with some sarcasm.

Only then did Jiang Ning know that his cheap father-in-law who was almost angry with himself was called Jian Zizhi.

"I have been working for the Inspectorate for a long time, and I have handled a lot of cases," Jiang Ning bragged and did not make a draft: "If you are planning to kill someone, you should be fully prepared, why can you be discovered by others so easily? ”

"Hey," the old man sighed helplessly, and said, "Whether you were wronged or not is not important now, the important thing is that since you have entered this prison, if you want to go out, I am afraid that it will only be time to die." ”

Jiang Ning peeked at the old man's condition, and he actually looked like a fallen person at the end of the world.

"Why, your old man is also ......"

The withered old man nodded, his face full of sadness.

"This little world, whether it is in the officialdom or anywhere else, is no different, the party is the same and different, since ancient times. The old man said: "After I worshipped the official, I asked myself if I didn't have the knowledge and ability to help the world, and I didn't think that I could fight those corrupt officials, so I asked for a transfer and came to a remote state and county to be a parent official, just to keep one side peaceful, and to learn from Mr. Wuliu, to live alone, and to live freely, but I never thought that even so, they couldn't tolerate me......"

Jiang Ning slandered in his heart: "You don't even have the courage to fight against others, and people can handle you as much as they want!"

People will never be grateful for your kindness, they will just take it for granted and take it for granted. When one day you suddenly get upset and suddenly not so good, they will think that you are a terrible person and will sneer at you.

On the contrary, those who have never behaved badly, as long as they do a little good deed, people will feel that this person has changed for the good and is very worthy of praise.

Speaking of which, this is known as aesthetic fatigue. It's very unfair, but it's also very realistic.

If kindness has no edge, it is weak and can be bullied!

While Jiang Ning sympathized with the old man in his heart, he also felt that the reason why he was here was, to a certain extent, an inevitability.

"Of course," Jiang Ning thought for a while, and said truthfully: "Officials protect each other, interests collude, and the whole body is affected, if something goes wrong in the place, and a person needs to be introduced as a substitute for the dead ghost, a person like the old gentleman is simply the most suitable!"

Although Jiang Ning did not serve above the imperial court, the things in the sect are probably not much different from the rivers and lakes and the imperial court.

As if Jiang Ning had said it, the old man looked bitter and sighed: " It's hard for you to have such insight at a young age, you are right, I am not in their interest system, even if I am convicted, I don't know who among them are involved in that matter, let alone bite indiscriminately, and involve some irrelevant people, so they will be dragged out to take the blame, if I am alone, it is just that my daughter suffered from the pond fish, cut off her official status, and now outside, I don't know whether she is alive or dead, how is she doing?"

Seeing that the old man showed such a sad attitude, Jiang Ning also felt a little sad in his heart, but at this moment, he himself was still difficult to protect, and his cultivation was gone, even if he had the heart to help the old man, he was powerless. I had to endure the pain caused by the whiplash on my back, gritted my teeth and walked over, squatted down and comforted: "Even if the green mountains cover the bright moon, there are always plum blossoms and proud frost and snow, and there are many hardships for good people in this world, but it may not be impossible to have a happy ending, believe me, one day, things will get better little by little!"

"I hope so!" The old man's eyes were dim, obviously he didn't have much hope for Jiang Ning's words, it was because he had come to hope over the years, and then he was disappointed too many times, rather than fall into the abyss of despair again after rekindling hope, he would rather not have any hope at all, at least not have to bear the painful gap of falling back into the abyss from the halfway up the mountain.

But at the same time, he was unwilling to use his tragic experience and lessons to extinguish the glimmer of hope in Jiang Ning's heart, so he could only be silent.

It's just that although Jiang Ning looks like a young man, the soul in this body is actually nearly fifty years old, and if you really want to calculate the age, it is not much younger than the old man in front of him, he can naturally see the emotional changes in the old man, but he doesn't care.

Life in the world, even in the most dangerous desperate situation, we must have the hope of seeing the clouds, Tong Fat once said to him: "As long as you don't admit defeat, the world will not be able to completely defeat you!"

Jiang Ning thought so.

After falling down the Listening Wind Cliff, there was a time when Jiang Ning felt that his whole world was dark and colorless, but Que'er came and brought him back to the world from the abyss.

Since then, Jiang Ning has known that there may not be many beautiful things in this world and they will not last long, but as long as you look for them with your heart, you can always find them.

As long as you don't admit defeat, as long as you can get back up after being defeated by the world, maybe the process will be slow, but as long as you don't give up, you will still wait until the day when the clouds will see the light of day.

At this moment, the old man may have given up, but Jiang Ning didn't, he told himself, I still have a chance, there must be a chance!

No, the next day, the opportunity came!

According to the laws of the Dayi Dynasty, there is also a process of arraignment of prisoners under normal circumstances, and officials like Jiang Ning who commit crimes should have been handed over to the Criminal Department for review and finalization, and then transferred to Dali Temple for review and final judgment.

However, as the supervisory body of the Dayi Dynasty, in addition to being the center of the entire dynasty, the Inspectorate also has the right to supervise hundreds of officials, supervise criminal cases, and even directly try officials at some times.

For example, if an official within the Dali Temple or the Criminal Department itself commits a crime, especially an official with a relatively high rank, in order to avoid suspicion, the task of trial and conviction will be transferred to the Inspectorate.

And Jiang Ning's body, which originally worked as an inspector, was a royal history, and in order to avoid suspicion, he naturally had to be handed over to the Criminal Department for review.

But some time ago, there was a big case of changing death row prisoners, the emperor was angry, and the people of the Criminal Department and Dali Temple were connected with a large number of people, and the Shangshu of the Criminal Department and Dali Temple Qing were all involved, and they were imprisoned, and they were now locked up in this prison like Jiang Ning, and the rest of the people had some difficulties in maintaining the normal operation of the institution, let alone dealing with Jiang Ning's murder.

In desperation, this inspectorate couldn't care about avoiding any suspicions, and all the files about Jiang Ning were left here, waiting for Lord Zuodu Yushi to make a ruling.

On the second day, Jiang Ning was taken out of the prison and taken to the lobby of the Inspectorate.

As soon as he entered the lobby and raised his head, the solemn plaque of righteousness and brightness met Jiang Ning's eyes.

Sitting at the top of the hall was a middle-aged man with a majestic bearing, and after the two jailers carried Jiang Ning into the hall, and forcibly pressed his body to make him kneel in the hall, the man was shocked, and Jiang Ning's weak body couldn't help but tremble.

"Li Yanxi, are you guilty!" Don't ask the reason, don't ask the process, open your mouth to ask the guilt.

Jiang Ning forcibly suppressed the instinctive fear in this body at this moment, raised his head a little stubbornly, stared at the face of the person at the top of the lobby with fixed eyes, smiled lightly, and said flatly: "Back to my lord, Li Yanxi doesn't know." ”

The startling wood sounded again, and when the man spoke again, the corners of his eyebrows and eyes had already brought a trace of gloom.

"Someone!" The man sneered: "This bold maniac, the court staff fifteen to show punishment," said the man condescendingly, looking at Jiang Ning's gaze with a hint of mockery: "I want to see if your bones have your own hard mouth." ”

Jiang Ning looked around, the left and right officials either sneered, or hung up high on their own business, but there were some people after all, there were some people who were faintly unbearable, but because of the person sitting in the hall, they didn't dare to say a word to protect them.

Obviously, this Lord of the Imperial History of the Left Capital has accumulated great authority, and among these inspectors, few people dare to take advantage of him.

Court Staff Fifteen, for an ordinary person, it is not unbearable, but for the owner of the body that Jiang Ning is leaning over now, it is a cruel disposal.

After these fifteen court staffs, his small body is estimated to have half a life, let alone speaking out against or defending himself, whether he can survive or not is between the two.

The person in front of him was anxious to die by himself without asking for any reason, and maybe he was also involved in this unjust case on his own.

Zuodu Yushi meddled in the affairs of the Criminal Department, and the trial turned out to be an official in his own government, and the human and material evidence was complete, and he would be convicted immediately, no matter how he looked at it, he was a little weak-minded.

Jiang Ning's mind flowed, and the longer it dragged on, the more he felt that that person must have something to do with his case.

"It seems that he has either offended someone, or because what he has done before in this body has infringed on the interests of some people. Thinking of this, Jiang Ning opened his mouth and said, "Lord Zuodu Yushi, are you going to bend into a move?"

The man in the hall sneered: "Half a month ago, you killed your wife at home, and disguised yourself as a hanger, hoping to escape the law, so that you can live and fly with your little lover in Nanyuan, and now your tricks have been exposed, and there are all human and material evidence, there is no grievance, how can you be beaten?"

Jiang Ning replied with a sneer: "Just by relying on a corpse and a pair of pinch marks, can it be proved that I killed the person?"

The man in the hall was about to speak, and the first person wearing the official uniform of the complement said: "Clever words, in your imperial palace, in addition to you and your wife, there are only a few subordinates, not to mention whether those subordinates dare to commit crimes and hurt the master, the four of them, they all have alibi certificates that day, you are the only one, you can't tell where you are, if it's not you, is it hell?"

Jiang Ning said: "It's not clear whether those alibi proofs are true or false, even if I was the only one in the Imperial Mansion at that time, it can't rule out the possibility that outsiders sneaked in and killed my wife and blamed me, and even more can't rule out that after my wife hanged herself, someone moved on her corpse, so many possibilities, the adults didn't even check it, and concluded that the murderer was me, maybe it was too hasty and anxious, right?"

If there are only this group of officials in the hall at this moment, then the Zuodu Imperial History Master doesn't have to pay attention to Jiang Ning's defense, here he has the final say, since he believes that Jiang Ning is guilty, then he has to suffer if he wants to be short, and he has to suffer if he doesn't want to!

But not now.

When the Inspectorate tried the case, the people were allowed to watch it outside the hall to show justice, and now under Jiang Ning's words, if he really beat him regardless of it, then even if it is not a trick, it will change its taste, not to mention that his heart is a little bit of a trick, if he lets those people who have heard about it spread falsely, then his reputation will be stinky.

What made him most depressed was that the emperor didn't know which tendon was not right, when trying Jiang Ning's case, he sent a fifteenth prince who has always had a fair personality to listen to him, if he couldn't have a clear explanation, under Jiang Ning's clever tongue, I am afraid that there would be no way to reach a conclusion!