Chapter 167: Torture
Tang Lang passed by the reed shed and deliberately slowed down, looked inside, and found that there were listless patients lying on the beds, the situation was exactly the same as before Hang Xiaoyu, and he was even more determined in his heart, but in order to be more conclusive, he deliberately stopped.
"Why don't you leave?" the leader of the officials asked.
Tang Lang said confidently: "Lord Guancha, it is better to let me choose a patient at random to treat for a while, Hang Qianjin was also the same disease before, and he has been cured by me." If I can cure one person on the spot, does it also mean that I have been wronged!"
"This ......," the leader of the officials hesitated slightly: "Maybe this is a trick you have deliberately played, the thief shouts to catch the thief! First make people sick, and then heal them, so as to achieve some ulterior purposes!"
"What's in it for me to do this?" Tang Lang asked rhetorically.
The head of the official was at a loss for answer, when one of his men whispered, "My lord, I have a relative who is also suffering from this strange disease, and he is inside. Why don't you let him in and try it, if he can cure my relative, it can be regarded as saving someone's life!"
"Okay, I'll let you try! If you can really heal the person, I'll explain the situation to you in front of the lord of the city!" the head of the government nodded in agreement.
Tang Lang lifted the curtain of the pergola, a pungent smell of medicine made him frown, the medical level here is obviously much worse than that of Hangzhou, several doctors just use some ordinary tonic medicine to the patient to regulate the body, but the medicine is not right at all, it is useless.
The official found the location of his relative, Tang Lang saw that it was a middle-aged man, so he didn't have too many taboos, and when he was about to put his hand on the patient's chest to find the cause, he suddenly remembered that Hang Xiaoyu was also watching behind him, so as to avoid her association, he helped the patient to sit up and put his hand on the other party's back.
Hang Xiaoyu is very clever, where does she not know the meaning of Tang Lang's move, she also recalled the charming picture just now, but she thought in her heart: "Hard mouth, obviously you secretly like me, otherwise what you did just now is not like this, but you have to take advantage of me." ”
Tang Lang, who was engrossed in searching for the gray energy in the patient's body, didn't know that he had caused such a big misunderstanding to Hang Xiaoyu, and under his careful search, he really found the same gray energy, but he didn't use the method just now to inhale it into the system, but in front of several officials, he pulled the gray energy out of the patient's body and sealed it in a porcelain bottle containing the pill with him.
Tang Lang threw a return spell at the patient, and the patient who was dying just now immediately recovered some of his spirits, turned over and sat up: "But it suffocates me!"
Holding the porcelain bottle in his hand, Tang Lang said calmly: "Now believe what I said! Someone maliciously poisoned the goods in my store, these people should be symptoms of poisoning, as long as the toxin is taken out of the body, it can be cured immediately!"
"Help!"
"Help me, I'm still young......"
The remaining more than a dozen patients supported this body and shouted for help, several doctors were also stunned by Tang Lang's statement, and the leader of the government officials did not know how to deal with it, so he sent one of his subordinates to report the news to the city lord.
"Report!"
A servant trotted all the way to the front of the city lord's mansion and was stopped by a middle-aged man dressed as a scribe: "Why are you so flustered?"
"Counselor Hu, that's ......" the official hurriedly recounted everything that happened outside the mansion.
The scribe surnamed Hu squinted his eyes and hesitated for a moment, then waved his hand to let him retreat: "I know, I'll notify the city lord!"
"If it is really like what the official reported, this Tang Lang has already seen through the methods of the Bao family, if I go to report to the city lord like this, I am afraid it will be difficult to complete Bao Jian'an's entrustment! Well, I will ...... like this" The scribe surnamed Hu muttered to himself, and then walked towards the meeting hall.
In the conference hall, Feng Honglang, the city lord of Yuanshui City, was listening to the report of his subordinates. What has upset him recently is the upcoming annual competition of the nine cities under the command of the lord of Shao'an County. Yuanshui City is located on the border, the population and economy are ranked low in Shao'an County, last year's evaluation was the penultimate one, and he has been reprimanded by the county lord, if he is still at the bottom this year, it will be difficult for him to keep the position of the city lord.
Fortunately, the five major families in Yuanshui are doing well this year, especially the Yao family's inn and the Hang family's pawn have recently made a lot of novel and famous halls, and there is also a Tianxiang restaurant of the Feng family, which has very interesting storytelling every day, and the reputation has reached the ears of several other city lords, which finally made him a little relieved.
But in the past few days, there has been a strange illness inexplicably, which has made the entire Yuanshui City depressed a lot, and he can't help but be a little angry, while stabilizing his condition, he personally asked his subordinates about the arrest and interrogation, if this Duobao shop is really related to the strange disease, it will definitely be severely punished.
"In this way, there were no accidents during the entire arrest process, and there was nothing special about the confessions of all the clerks? But its shopkeeper Tang Lang has not yet been brought to justice! What Feng Kangbo said has nothing to do with him!" Feng Honglang became more and more angry the more he listened, and couldn't help but snort coldly, the ink-colored robe on his body was windless, and it was obvious that his anger had reached a certain level.
The scribe surnamed Hu walked in and saw this scene, and he was secretly happy in his heart, but he still said quietly on the surface: "Tell the city lord ......"
"I'll talk about something later! Bring Feng Kangbo and the main members of Duobao Xiaodian together, and I will interrogate them personally!" Feng Honglang was furious, and he didn't want to listen to other people's reports at all, and the scribe surnamed Hu was also happy to see it, so he stepped aside and kept silent.
It didn't take long for Feng Kangbo and Li Xinjue to be brought up, and the two of them were still wearing the ring around their necks that isolated spiritual power, looking a little tired.
"Feng Kangbo, Duobao Store has a close cooperation with your Feng family, what do you have to explain about this strange illness in the city?" asked Feng Honglang menacingly.
Feng Kangbo arched his hand and replied: "Back to the city lord! Duobao Xiaodian and my Feng family are indeed a cooperative relationship, we are all businesses that operate our own business, how can we have anything to do with any strange disease, please don't believe those ill-intentioned rumors!"
"So the Duobao shop was wronged?" Feng Honglang turned his head to look at Li Xinjue: "Tell me, why do these patients get sick after arriving at the Duobao shop, how can there be such a coincidence! You are all refugees from Tianqing, Yuanshui City took you in for a temporary stay, not only did you not know how to repay the favor, but spread strange diseases, what is your intention?"
Li Xinjue said in a deep voice: "City Lord, it is true that we are from the Tianqing Kingdom, and we came to Yuanshui City to operate a shop just to earn cultivation resources, and there is absolutely no conspiracy or trickery!"
"Hmph! It's all clever words! It seems that if I don't let you see the methods of the city lord, you won't make friends according to the truth
Someone is coming, ......" Feng Honglang shouted, and immediately a servant sent two sets of torture instruments like helmets.
"The Tianlan Empire governs the country with benevolence, and it will not torture suspects, but there are always some evil people who want to defy the law, so they have the helmet of truth and bring them to them!"
As soon as Feng Kangbo saw the Helmet of Truth, he immediately changed color: "City Lord, the sequelae of this Helmet of Truth is very huge, and it may even damage the sanity, we are really wronged, and we should not be treated like this!"
"Since you know the disadvantages of the Helmet of Truth, don't you hurry up and recruit it!" Feng Honglang made a look, and several fierce and vicious servants were going to bring torture instruments according to the two of them.
"Wait!" Li Xinjue took a step forward: "Lord City Lord, is this Helmet of Truth really reliable? If it is proved through its torture that my Duobao Shop has nothing to do with strange diseases, can my Lord let Uncle Kang and my other brothers go! I voluntarily bring the Helm of Truth to be interrogated!"
Feng Kangbo hurriedly dissuaded: "Xiao Li, you don't know how powerful this mantra helmet is! I heard that anyone who has been used with this thing, to say the least, will be in a state of confusion for dozens of days, if the mind is not strong, it may even not be able to recover, and become a stupid person!"
"Uncle Kang, it's better for me to suffer alone than for everyone to suffer this injustice! And I firmly believe that I won't be affected too much, don't worry!" Li Xinjue looked calm, as if he was saying another trivial matter.
"Okay!As long as you can prove your innocence and that of Duobao Xiaodian under the torture of the Helmet of Truth, the city lord will naturally give you justice!" Feng Honglang has changed his opinion of Li Xinjue, if he can really pass the torture, he will no longer embarrass the other party.
A servant put the helmet of mantra in his hand on Li Xinjue's head, the entire head and face were all tightly covered, only the ears and mouth were exposed, and just when the official was about to activate the formation above, a voice came from outside at the right time.
"Lord of the city, I, the shopkeeper, didn't show up, what is the use of interrogating my brother!
Everyone looked towards the door of the council chamber, and saw a well-proportioned and energetic young man stepping through the door.
The scribe surnamed Hu's face changed slightly, and he was the first to react: "Bold and fanatical, dare to trespass into the council hall! Quickly take him down and send him to a prison cell!"
"Is this the city lord? no matter how much cultivation or courage is completely unqualified!" Although Tang Lang didn't know what the other party's intentions were, he was the first to jump out and be hostile to himself, so he deliberately robbed the other party without leaving any mercy.
But this time to grab the white, the scribe surnamed Hu is not easy to justify, so angry that his face is pale, and he can only endure it for the time being.
"What a sharp-toothed Duobao shopkeeper!" Feng Honglang sat at the end of the hall, his expression not angry and arrogant: "Since you keep thinking about your brother, why did you deliberately avoid the summons of the city lord and come now?"
I was called by the lord of the Hang family to treat Hang Qianjin for a strange illness early this morning, and then I heard that the lord of the city ordered the whole city to arrest my clerks. When I hurried here, I passed by the reed shed outside the house and saw many patients in pain, so I couldn't help but help them with diagnosis and treatment, and finally cured all of them before hurrying here. ”