Chapter 44: The Trial of the Violent Chamber
In the city of Tokyo, there are prisons for prisoners, such as the prison of the Criminal Department, the prison of Dali Temple, the prison of Jing Zhaoyin, etc., but there is no prison in the Imperial Palace. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 infoBut there are also places where people are imprisoned, such as places dedicated to the palace people who make mistakes, such as secret rooms, dungeons, violent rooms, etc. After the assassination of Shengpinglou, all his murderers were arrested. But at this time, it was already night, time was pressing, and the emperor was eager to know the truth, so he didn't have time to transfer the prisoners.
In a violent room in the northeast corner of the palace, it is built in the middle of nowhere, because it is a place where people who often make mistakes. But even in the middle of nowhere, it does not look desolate, and here people are brought in every day, and after various punishments, they leave with a white cloth to cover their bodies.
Standing at the door, you can hear the screams of "whoops". Pushing the door in, there are all kinds of torture tools inside, iron chains, burning iron, hemp whips, iron hammers and other torture tools.
In one of the torture chambers of the violent chamber, he sat outside at night, leisurely fiddling with the tea leaves in the cup, and then drank them slowly, deaf to the mournful screams in the room. After they were caught here, they didn't interrogate a word, and they fought for a while. When people are tired and painful, their nerves will be fragile and easy to relax, and they are more likely to be flawed when speaking. Now, hold your temples with your fists and close your eyes.
Although his eyes were closed, he was not asleep, and his mind was running at high speed.
Twenty assassins, not one or two, such a large team hidden in the palace, didn't the Yulin Army notice it at all? Did they just enter the palace today, or had they been hidden in the palace for days? When they entered the palace, where was their hiding place? They are all skilled, well-organized, well-trained, orderly in advance and retreat, and have the same martial arts moves, and they are obviously professional killers. Who has the financial resources and courage to buy so many killers at once? Since he is a killer, he will kill people when he sees them, why do they only block him, Mo Yu and Concubine Shu, but not kill him, but only kill the emperor? If their target was the emperor, why did they let go of the guards around him when attacking, this killer was too merciful? What is their purpose in doing this? Could it be Liu Hao's person, it doesn't make sense! If it's Liu Hao, then why don't you let him do the internal response? Besides, if Liu Hao wanted to assassinate, then why did he arrest Liu Tong two days ago?
Could it be Concubine De, Concubine De wants to avenge Liu? No, Liu Tongren is still in prison, what she wants to do is to save people instead of killing the emperor.
People from Shu, people from the Southern Tang Dynasty? It is also possible that if the emperor of Zhou is killed, the Zhou State will definitely have civil strife, and then they can take advantage of the situation. Is that a person from Shu or a person from the Southern Tang Dynasty, such a large team, there must be an internal response in the palace, and who is this internal response?
The more I thought about it, the more chaotic it became, the more I thought about it, the more my head hurt, Yetian felt that my temples were violent, and I had to concentrate and calm down, telling myself that I couldn't mess up, Moyu was still uncertain about life and death, and I couldn't panic. From the beginning, today is the birthday of the Queen Mother, the first to arrive must be the concubines, then the emperor, and finally the Queen Mother, of course, there are too many people moving around. The emperor and the queen mother sit in the first place, with concubines on both sides and dancing girls in the middle. Behind the concubines, separated by a curtain tent, behind which is a musician.
Musicians? Could it be that they are hiding behind the curtain in the guise of musicians? No, the musicians fled with the chaos during the fight. Except for the one who shot the first arrow, the killers all came out from both sides, which means that these killers were always with the musicians, and the sound of silk and bamboo music just happened to cover the sound of their breathing. Why, then, didn't the first arrow be fired at that time sooner or later? It is not the beginning of the feast, nor is it the end of the feast. If he wasn't waiting, waiting for someone's signal, then who sent the signal, and with what signal?
When the first arrow came in, the Empress Dowager sat on the top, Mo Yu knelt on the ground, Concubine De stood, and the other concubines looked at the four of them with wide eyes. In the entire hall, except for the Queen Mother and the Emperor, as well as Gonggong An and Gonggong Ma, who are facing the palace gate, everyone is facing the palace gate with the back of their heads, which means that the killer can only receive the signal from the four of them. The two eunuchs were stunned and at a loss, the emperor stared at Mo Yu as if surprised, and the queen mother looked at Concubine De and nodded slightly.
No, with the situation of Concubine De at that time, the Queen Mother should have expressed her disappointment in her, then she should have shaked her head, how could it be a nod? If this nod is a signal, then what the Queen Mother saw at that time was not Concubine De at all, but the person who shot arrows outside the palace gate.
When he pulled Moyu down the steps, Moyu's expression was wrong, as if there was fear, surprise, and panic. Moyu has always been a careful person, could it be that she saw something at that time? In such a chaotic scene at that time, the Queen Mother was still standing in front of the case, immovable, and calmly.
Dowager......
Yetian opened his eyes suddenly, startled by his own guess. How could it be the Queen Mother? Why would she do that? If his guess is true, how will he tell the emperor?
A guard ran out, clenched his fists in front of Yetian and said, "Lord Ye." ”
Listening to the quiet side room, Yetian frowned slightly, and said, "Fainted? ”
The guard nodded, "Yes." ”
"How many people are left?"
"Seven."
Originally, it was served in a pot, but unfortunately their collars were poisoned, and the Yulin Army was caught off guard and let them commit suicide. Fortunately, Yetian reacted quickly, and those Yulin soldiers also reacted quickly, so they saved a few unlucky ghosts.
A sneer appeared at the corner of Ye Tian's mouth, daring to hurt his Moyu and looking for death. "Seven, that's enough. Divide them into two separate locks, and the last one who faints is locked up alone. ”
"Yes."
Yetian picked up the tea cup on the table and poured a sip, the tea was already cold, and when he drank it in his mouth, the bitter taste spread. Turning to a room where two prisoners were kept, he found a chair and sat down, and a guard brought two waist tags, handed them to him, and said, "This is from them." ”
Ye Tian looked at two bronze platoons, one engraved with Jiazi and the other engraved with the word B. I can't help but wonder, A and B, their names? Then the name is too simple, is it a different team?
"Take off their shirts."
Some guards followed the order and stepped forward to take off their clothes, but they saw that each of them had different words engraved on their arms, yuan, pick.
Ye Tian stepped forward to check it, it was a tattoo, it should have just been carved not long ago, and then looked at the sign in his hand, and asked: "Who are these two fast cards?" ”
"The word A is on the left, and the word B is on the right."
A yuan, B pick. Their names, or code names? Try it and you'll find out. Yetian handed the two cards to the guards and instructed, "Put them away, go and see the others, see if they have any words on them, write them down, and then put on their clothes." ”
"Yes."
Yetian turned around and walked out of the room to check on the other people's bodies. Sure enough, all but one of them had freshly carved tattoos on their bodies. Ye Tian wondered, the tattoo had just been tattooed, it was obviously new, could it be that these people had just joined the killer organization? No way, these killers are obviously veterans.
Back in the room he had just been, he walked to the chair and sat down, tapping his left hand rhythmically on the tabletop, and commanded, "Wake them up." ”
After the unconscious people were splashed with a bucket of ice water, they woke up slowly, and the pain all over their bodies struck their bodies, and the fresh wounds met the cold water, and even the hair on their heads was in pain.
The two of them looked up, their blurred vision making out who was in front of them. shook his head violently, and shook off the water droplets on his head so that he could see the person sitting in front of him clearly, and the person on the right smiled disdainfully at the corner of his mouth: "What, he can't do it, replaced you?" ”
The person on the left saw his companion's ridicule, and also echoed: "That's it, it's not enough for our brother to tickle!" Haha....."
Yetian still looked hippie and playful, and said with a smile: "You don't have to worry about them, they do this kind of technical work every day, they won't be tired, it's you who are tired." ”
The man on the left snorted coldly, and then said, "You won't know anything, because we won't say anything." If you do what we do, it will end sooner or later, you have to kill or chop, whatever you want. Three hundred years later, Lao Tzu is a good man again. ”
"Three hundred years from now, you're still not a good man, I don't know, because I won't live that long. If you can live for 300 years, you will be either a demon or a demon. ”
The man struggled for a while, "You ......" and then calmed down again, laughed three times, and said, "You don't have to provoke Lao Tzu, this trick is useless to Lao Tzu." ”
Useless? Didn't you just get out of control? Cut.
The man on the right breathed down and said, "You don't have to work in vain, do what we do, we have our rules, what you can say and what you can't say." If we say it, how will we gain a foothold in the future? ”
"Big brother, don't talk nonsense with them. Hmph, you have the ability to come to Lao Tzu, what other tricks are there, all of them are used, Lao Tzu's body is itching tightly! ”
Yetian lowered his head and played with the jade pendant hanging on his belt, and when he looked down from above, he could only see the top of his head and the fingers he was playing with. "A mouthful of Lao Tzu, speaking so vulgarly, it's really insulting, didn't your mother name you?"
The man on the left snorted, with contempt in his heart. What tricks can a weak scholar have, his mouth is full of insults and insults. "Who said I don't have a name......"
"Shut up." The man on the right shouted, really open-mouthed. The person on the left was drunk like this, and he also realized it, and shouted: "Hmph, I won't tell you, I won't say a word." ”
On the face that couldn't be seen in the night sky, the corners of his mouth turned up slightly, and he smiled: "If you don't say it, I know, isn't it Yi Shi?"
The man on the left stared at him in disbelief and said urgently, "How do you know ......"
"Shut up." The person on the right roared again, this time a little louder than just now.
The man on the left finally realizes what a mistake he has made, and if a killer even tells his own name, then he has no meaning in existing. Whether it is a fellow practitioner or a seller, he will not look for him anymore, and even his name can be said casually, and he can sell the buyer casually.
Yetian raised his head, put away his cynicism, and said expressionlessly: "You don't have to yell at him, not only his name, but the name of all of you, I know it, you are Jia Yuan!" ”
Seeing his pretended calm expression, but his hands were only clenched into fists, and Ye Tian knew that he was not wrong. There are so many people in a killer organization, and it makes sense to number them by hour or by sexagenary branch for ease of management, but why should they ask their own names? As if I want to tell someone, that's my name.
Yetian got up, walked in front of Jia Yuan, and said with a smile: "Jia Yuan, Yi Shi, Jia Chen, Geng Wu, Xin Wei, Jia Zi, do you want me to say?" Then he walked up to Yi Shi, shook his head, and said with a smile: "You don't have to look at me like this, do you want to know how I know your name?" ”
Hearing Ye Tian's question, Jia Yuan was afraid that Yi Shi would be taken into his bend again, so he spoke: "We all have tokens on us, and we have tattoos on our bodies, it is not surprising that you can guess." ”
"You're right, you'll know it at a glance!" In the night sky, a wise man brought a tea cup to his hand. He took it, nodded at the man, and then walked around Yi Shi with a tea cup, came to their backs, looked at the torture instruments on the wall, and said, "A bunch of stupid donkeys with no brains, I didn't have the heart to guess." ”
"Who do you say is a stupid donkey?" Otoshi yelled in a violent temper.
Yetian stood behind him, ignoring him. "He said that you were stupid donkeys and promoted you, but you were fools who were sold, and they happily counted the money for others."
Yi Shi wanted to turn his head and scold the person behind him, but he couldn't twist it, so he jumped to his feet in anger. "You sissy, your head is full of sour water, besides, we are stupid donkeys, believe it or not, Lao Tzu slaughtered you with a knife."
Sissy? Yetian looked at himself from top to bottom, did he? A Yuan's puzzled voice came from behind him, "What do you mean?" ”
"Well, I'm glad there's one with a little brain. You're calmer than him, smarter than him. Yetian gently plucked the tea leaves, took a sip, and felt that there was still no tea fragrance brewed by Moyu, so he simply closed the lid. Let me ask you, what is the remuneration for each mission you do in this business? ”
"Depending on the difficulty of the mission, and the object to be killed."
Well, as expected, Yetian hooked his lips and continued to ask, "What about killing the emperor?" ”
Kill the emperor, who would dare to take this kind of work? Although it is said that they take people's money and people to eliminate disasters, but they can generally not be enemies of the court, they are not enemies, even if they are good at kung fu, they are not able to defeat the thousands of troops and horses of the court. Even if the assassination of the emperor is successful, then it is impossible for them to mix in the road in the future.
Yi Shi said: "What emperor, that person pretended to be the emperor and held the queen mother hostage, we did this to eliminate harm for the people, eliminate violence and peace." ”
Pretending to be an emperor? This news had to shock Yetian. "Are you sure you're assassinating a fake emperor? What if it's true? ”
"No way, the head told us, the employer said that the emperor was fake, and the real emperor has been put under house arrest. It was to make a move when he was in charge of the expedition and let the Zhou army be defeated. ”
Yetian turned around, walked in front of Yi Shi, and said coldly: "If your head says that the emperor is fake, you will believe it, haven't you thought about being used?" What you killed was the real emperor, the emperor of Zhou. ”
Hearing this, both looked at each other in shock. "Emperor, you said that the person we killed was the emperor?"
"What do you think? Stupid donkey. ”
This employer must know the imperial court very well. Since he can tell whether the emperor is real or fake, he must be someone close to the emperor, otherwise others will not believe it. There is also a possibility that their head deceived them, but the employer who connected with these killers must be someone in the court or in the palace.