17. Chapter 17
Looking at the familiar scene in front of him, Li Shao smiled indifferently.
Originally, there was no secret room in the Zilan Palace, but the one in front of him was specially built for him by Li Zhengming's craftsmen, and it was the same size as the inner courtyard of the Zilan Palace, but it was very spacious.
There are three stone chambers โกโก the secret room.
One is a bedroom, which has a rammed earthen bed on the spot, the bed is covered with hay, a set of dusty bedding on the hay, and a soft pillow that can be wrung out of water, and there is a simple wooden frame four stories high, and the wooden frame is full of books, all of which Li Shao asked from Li Zheng.
Behind a wall to the east of the bedroom was a half-foot square pool, less than half a foot high, containing cold water, and the water vapor emitted from it made the whole chamber even more damp and cold.
And the most shocking thing is the largest stone room in this secret room, in this stone room, whether it is on the ground or hanging on the wall, there are torture tools, some of which were used by Changsun Boyi and Xie Jun when interrogating prisoners of war in the past, but most of them have never been seen or even heard of by the two, and those are also Li Zheng who has nothing to do with the order of people, and they will be used during interrogations in the Criminal Department on weekdays, and they will also be used when questioning Li Shao in the Zilan Palace. There were pools of blackened blood on the walls and on the floor of the stone chamber, which were deeply immersed in the stone and soil.
"Why is there a torture chamber...... Why is there a torture chamber here?! The eldest grandson Boyi's eyes were about to split, and he asked with red eyes.
However, Li Shao hung his head, and Yong Ning looked at the sky, both unwilling to speak.
Xie Jun hesitated to walk into the torture room, I don't know if it was a psychological effect, when he approached the pile of torture instruments, suddenly there was a strong smell of blood, which made Xie Jun's stomach turn upside down.
It's not that he hasn't smelled blood, but he can't bear it at the thought that the blood on the blackened walls and ground originally belonged to Li Shao.
took down a black leather whip hanging on the wall, Xie Jun touched the tiny barb on one side of the leather whip, and only felt a chill in his heart.
"I left Beijing nine years ago to find my eldest grandson, and I lost contact with you six years ago, and you have been here for the next six years?"
"It's six and a half years," Seeing that Li Shao still didn't plan to speak, Wei Ze answered Xie Jun's question on behalf of Li Shao, "In the first half of the year, His Highness was locked up in a prison, and our people can still deliver messages for His Highness, but ...... But Li Zheng spent half a year building this prison, and after His Highness was transferred here, it was difficult for us to contact His Highness, and the contact with Master Xie had to be interrupted.
After that, Lord Yong entered the court according to the plan, and relied on giving Li Zheng a message to gain trust, and finally got Li Zheng's approval after sacrificing the lives of several adults and making His Highness suffer some flesh and skin, and then we had the opportunity to contact His Highness. Until Li Zheng leads people to escape from the palace, we can take His Highness out of this dark ghost place! โ
Back then, they all wanted to kill Li Zheng, as long as they killed Li Zheng, His Royal Highness would not have to suffer, but whether it was virtuous or brutal, the emperor was the emperor, and Li Zheng was not hopelessly stupid, as a tyrant, he knew that many people wanted to kill him, so the generals of the Sixteen Guards of the Imperial City and the Yulin Army were all Li Zheng's cronies, and the guards in the Zichen Palace were even more leaky, they had nothing to do with Li Zheng at all, so they could only wait, and wait for the eldest Sun Boyi to lead hundreds of thousands of troops into Chang'an. But they didn't expect that the wait would be six years......
Xie Jun closed his eyes and sighed.
No wonder the people he sent back to Chang'an couldn't find Li Shao, it was already very difficult for them to avoid the guards of the palace to search around, where would they have the energy to find a secret room in this huge palace?
Several people who were immersed in grief suddenly heard a "poof" sound, and they were all startled, and after following the reputation, they saw that the eldest Sun Boyi had walked to the edge of the pool at some point, and at this time the person had already jumped down.
"Bo Yi!" Li Shao's face turned pale, and he turned around and was about to pull Sun Boyi up, but he was stopped by Wei Feng and Yong Ning.
"Don't go there!" Yong Ning pulled Li Shao's arm with one hand and wrapped it around Li Shao's waist with the other, and stared coldly at the eldest grandson Boyi in the water, "The water vapor by the pool is too heavy, you can't go over." โ
Li Shao was pulled by two people, but Xie Jun was no one to care, and ran to the edge of the pool in three or two steps, shouting angrily at the eldest grandson Boyi in the water: "Are you fucking crazy?" Come on! โ
How cold is the water under this zร i, how dare the eldest grandson jump down? What should I do if I get sick? Now is the time when none of them can fall, is he too stimulated and really crazy?
As if he hadn't heard Xie Jun's voice, the eldest grandson Boyi walked to the other side of the pool with water up to his chest, reached out and touched the wall, and then fished out a small arm-thick iron chain from the water.
"He tied you up with this?" Eldest Sun Boyi's voice trembled.
The underground is already cold, and the water in the underground is even colder, and the iron chains soaked in the water are also cold and cold. Li Zheng, how could he keep Li Shao in such a place? How did he ......
Hearing the voice of the eldest grandson Boyi, Li Shao felt a pain in his heart, and after firmly pushing Yongning away, he walked to the edge of the pool: "Boyi, aren't I here well?" โ
"He's your brother!" Eldest Sun Boyi roared angrily, and tears welled up, "He's your brother, how can he do this to you?" How could he?! Yes!!!! โ
Seeing the eldest grandson Boyi pounding the cold wall with resentment, Li Shao smiled bitterly, turned around and sat on the edge of the pool with his cloak on.
He also felt that he and Li Zheng were brothers after all, they were so good when they were young, and even if they had to compete for the throne when they grew up, they wouldn't use too many tricks, but he still thought too well.
Li Zheng hated him, because his mother robbed the queen of the main family, because he robbed his sister-in-law Li Zheng's light, even if Li Zheng had ascended the throne as the emperor, the important ministers in the court still remembered him, so Li Zheng hated him to the bone.
The death of the mother concubine is Li Zheng in the middle of the trouble, the death of the eldest sister is Li Zheng's warning to him, when he is in charge of the world with the support of the Li clan, Li Zheng will be next to more than 200,000 Chang'an troops to show off his might, so more and more loyal ministers and good generals died because of him, and he can save very few, so he also hates himself, hates his father and Li Zheng at the same time, but also hates himself.
The eldest grandson Boyi suddenly walked back from the other side of the pool, held Li Shao's hand hanging on the edge of the pool, put it on his forehead and cried and muttered, "I'm sorry...... I'm sorry...... Sorry ......"
The tears of the eldest grandson Boyi wet the back of Li Shao's hand in a blink of an eye, which was cold, but it made Li Shao's heart warm: "You are the only one in the world who will cry like this for me." โ
Yongning They will only be angry for him and unhappy for him, but they will not cry, Yunzhu is a girl, even if she sees a bird injured, she will cry, only Bo Yi is the one who will only cry out of proportion for his grievances and pain.
"It's all in the past, I'm really fine."