The prison of the Criminal Department.

Dirty, dark, damp.

The foul smell and bloody smell make people smell sick.

Even in the daytime, the darkest part looks dark.

With a "clang", a cell door was opened, and two jailers dragged a ragged, bloodstained prisoner, and threw him to the ground without mercy.

The prisoner who had been severely punished lay like a dead dog, and if he had not squirmed occasionally, he might have been treated as a dead man.

This kind of thing has long been taken for granted.

The jailer was expressionless, and the prisoners in the prison were also numb, and when they entered here, whether they were guards or criminals, their hearts became particularly cold.

But the coldest heart could not help but tremble at this time, staring at the mouth of the prison head, because he didn't know if the next unlucky person was himself.

"Lu Youlin, come out."

Sure enough, the head of the cell, standing at the door, announced the next person to be interrogated.

Lu Youlin, whose hair was messy and whose clothes were not much better than those of the person who had just been tortured, had weak legs and fell to the ground for a long time and couldn't get up.

Two jailers stepped forward, one left and one right, and dragged him out as if they had just done before.

It's been a few days since I came in, and this is the third interrogation, and each interrogation feels like walking through purgatory.

glanced at the cell opposite where Fang Weimin was held alone, although Fang Weimin was interrogated as well, he was not like them as low-level officials, it seemed that he did not need to be severely punished, at least his clothes were untidy, but they were intact.

No matter what era it is, the lowest-level characters will always be cannon fodder.

But cannon fodder also wants to live.

All the people who came in were told that as long as they didn't admit it, they wouldn't be convicted, and everyone resisted with the hope of life, Lu Youlin also knew, and even at that moment, he was tempted, who is not afraid of death? Who wouldn't want to hold on to a chance to stay alive? But when he thought of Qiu Niang and the child, the hope in his heart was instantly shattered like the moon in the water.

But he was still hesitating, still hoping for a miracle.

In the gloomy cell, two jailers dragged him out and dragged him through the narrow aisles, and the prisoners on both sides looked at him with blank eyes, gloating and insensitive, but without sympathy.

He heard the cell door slam shut behind him, the low, heavy footsteps of the jailer beside him, the grinding of himself being dragged along, and even the crisp sound of a bell. In the gloomy prison, all the voices were infinitely amplified and became so clear.

"Jingle bell...... Jingle bell ......"

Bell? He was startled, and couldn't help but look at where the voice came from.

To his right, at the jailer's waist, hung a delicately patterned silver bracelet, on which hung several small delicate bells, from which the sound came as the jailer's steps swayed.

His eyes shrank sharply, and at a glance, he recognized that this was the one he bought and gave to them when Xiaolong Xiaohu was one year old, and the two children each had a pair, because the size could be properly adjusted, so he had never taken it off since he was a child, but now, one of them was hanging on this hateful jailer.

"Liuzi, where did that thing come from?"

The jailer on the left asked what he wanted to ask, and the jailer, known as the sixth son, lazily replied, "Bought it." ”

"Who are you fooling, it's just you, you have two dollars and drank wine, can you have spare money to buy this?"

"Hehe, someone else rewarded it."

"Who, so generous, why can't my brother meet such a good thing?"

"Why do you ask so much, you will definitely not meet it anyway, that person has already left the imperial capital."

"I'm even more curious when you say that, you say, that person is not related to you, why do you reward you?"

"How do I know, maybe I'm lucky." Liuzi rolled his eyes, "The man said, this is his child's body, I asked him why he rewarded me, he said that if the child is obedient, he will wear gold and silver in the future, some are enjoyable, and he doesn't care about this, if he is disobedient, it is useless to keep it, it is better to use it to reward people, and it can be good." ”

After the sixth son finished speaking, he seemed to glance at Lu Youlin with deep meaning.

When Lu Youlin heard this, he was already like five thunderbolts, his head "buzzed", and the whole person fell into boundless fear and darkness.

No matter how stupid he is, he can hear that the bell and those words are all warnings to him, those people have never forgotten him, and Qiu Niang and the child were taken away, and it was not a nightmare he had before.

The time has come for his promise with those people to be fulfilled.

"Lu Youlin, have you thought of anything?"

"Lu Youlin, do you admit your guilt?"

The same thing was asked several times, and the people below were lying on the ground in a daze, silent.

"Punishment."

The interrogation and presiding trial were dominated by Cao Pei, the secretary of the Criminal Department, and Liu Rui and Liu Min, the sixth prince, were on the side for the trial. Cao Pei, who had nothing to do, had no choice but to keep being tortured and beaten, hoping to use cold torture instruments to open the stubborn mouths of these people and bring a turning point to the interrogation.

Still like the man in front, Lu Youlin was dragged and tied to a pillar, and the jailer who executed Kong Wu was powerful, tightened the whip in his hand, and threw it over with a "whew".

"Ah......" The whips executed in the prison were all with barbs, and when the whip went down, there was a striking bloodstain, and the flesh and blood foam carried by the barbs flew together with the broken clothes.

The unbearable pain, the pain that penetrated deep into the bone marrow woke up Lu Youlin, who was sluggish because of falling into the shadow of death, snorted in pain, and after suffering the second whipping, the double pain and oppression of body and spirit finally made him completely collapse, and he used all his strength to shout, "I move." ”

Lu Youlin confessed all the guilt and testified that Fang Weimin instigated it.

With his confession, the following things are much easier, just like dominoes, under the chain reaction, except for Fang Weimin, who is still gritting his teeth, everyone else has confessed.

At this point, it doesn't matter whether there is a confession from Fang Weimin or not.

Fang Weimin, who was still fantasizing about the protection of the three princes and the protector of the country, did not know that when Liu Rui handed the results of the interrogation to the emperor in front of the Manchu civil and military forces, the protector was the first to stand up and demand that this kind of person who committed the most heinous crime be punished with capital punishment, otherwise he could not enlighten the world and achieve the purpose of setting an example.

The third prince, Liu Zhi, wept bitterly in front of the emperor, knelt in front of the emperor, and bitterly confessed his youth and ignorance, being deceived by traitors, and not knowing people, not being strict in governance, and ineffective control.

There was no doubt about this case, and it was extremely rare for the hall to unify its voice, and the emperor announced the results of the handling in court.

All those involved in the case were executed, their property confiscated, and their family servants were punished as official slaves; The main culprit Fang Weimin was sentenced to death by half, and all the direct members of the Fang family were sent to the southernmost barren land, and they were not allowed to leave in this life, and the Fang family's side family was also raided, and the clansmen were driven out of the imperial capital; All the confiscated family property was escorted to Hengzhou by the emperor as compensation for the common people of Hengzhou, and at the same time summoned the world as a warning.

As for the third prince, in view of his sincere attitude in admitting his mistakes, he was punished to think about it behind closed doors for three months to see the after-effects.

Suddenly, a big family and a famous family disappeared in an instant. The Fang family left the political center and disappeared and annihilated in the long river of history.

There is only Han water, which is still rushing and roaring, endlessly, and never stopping...... (To be continued.) )