It is said that on the day that Lin Kuan led the self-immolation, the two burned people were sent to Tokyo Medical College for treatment in time.

The old Confucian was seriously burned, burned beyond recognition, his face was scarred, and they were all adhered together, like centipedes gathered and intersected, anyway, no one is a ghost or a ghost, and he is not out of danger now.

Lin Kuan's injuries were milder, but his hands and back were burned, and of course his hair and eyebrows were also burned, but he was not disfigured, but his face was cracked, peeled, black and red, and now Y is conscious and there is no major problem.

And Gao Wenhuan had already captured the assassin who released Lin Kuan's black arrows, this assassin was the archery instructor of the forbidden army of the Infantry Military Division of the guards, named Jiang Degong, according to his confession, he was bewitched and instructed by Wei Liuxing to do this misdeeds.

He also explained that he and Wei Liuxing were originally fellow villagers, Wei Liuxing took care of him a lot, and also gave him a position as the head of the forbidden army, so first, he couldn't wipe his face, and second, Wei Liuxing gave him a hard fee of 500 yuan.

Gao Wenhuan found stolen silver from him on the spot, and also found a letter written to him by Wei Liuxing, which was to ask him to take advantage of the chaos to shoot rockets and burn Lin Kuan to death.

Gao Wenhuan did not dare to slack off, and hurriedly handed over the criminal Jiang Degong to Kaifeng Mansion, and Yin Wangsui of Kaifeng Mansion did not dare to slack off, and hurriedly invited Yang Ji, the secretary of Dali Temple, to jointly try the case.

The two immediately linked the bloodshed case of the marcher, the self-immolation case and the assassination of Meng Ming, and then analyzed the case, both of them felt that at this time, there was an action against Meng Xinxue, Tokyo University Hall and Meng Ming.

Its purpose is to confuse the public, deceive the scholars, and arouse the boiling public opinion of the people's dissatisfaction and criticism of Meng's Xinxue, and then achieve the sinister attempt to put Meng's Xinxue to death.

Wang Suishengtang first tried the case of the man in black who took advantage of the chaos to commit murder, and he ordered the group of criminals to be brought to the lobby for interrogation.

When the prisoner arrived, he saw him slap the startled wood, and then shouted loudly, "Ascend to the hall."

The official below suddenly shouted in a long voice: "Wei .....", Wu....", and then hit the ground with the killing stick in an orderly manner, and suddenly made a dull "pop" sound, which shocked people's hearts.

Wang then immediately interrogated a man in black, and he shouted in a deep voice: "The people in the hall who committed crimes should report their names as soon as possible and truthfully confess the crimes they have committed." ”

I saw that the man in black was silent, and he raised his head and looked directly at Wang Sui with disdain, looking like he could help me.

The king was immediately furious, and when he saw him, he said coldly:

"It's really a barbaric person, stubborn and ineffective, if you don't give you hardship, you don't know: "People's hearts are like iron, official law is like furnace", and the criminal law is ruthless. ”

Then he commanded in a loud voice: "Come, and the punishment will be served." ”

The officials immediately kicked the prisoner to the ground like wolves and tigers, wrenched his hands to his back, then pulled off his trousers, and carried out a "cane punishment", beating him with 30 boards on the spot, until his skin and flesh were broken, and he fainted to death on the spot.

Then he saw a servant bring a bucket of water and wake him up on the head, only to see that the prisoner was still gritting his teeth and not begging for mercy or giving an account.

Wang Sui asked again: "Do you recruit or not, if you don't recruit, you will still be punished." ”

The man still stubbornly refused to confess, so Wang Sui continued to call for execution, this time with a "stick" punishment.

The clamp stick is also known as the punishment of three feet of wood. It refers to the torture instruments used by the judicial officials of the Great Song Dynasty to force confessions.

It is used by squeezing the victim's feet with three connected wooden sticks, causing severe pain.

Seeing that this person's feet were squeezed so that "Gaba Gaba" sounded, his face was cold sweat, his face was distorted and hideous, he gritted his teeth, trembled all over, and let out a low scream in his mouth, but he still didn't explain.

In the end, I saw him smile miserably, and muttered: "Princess, I can't serve you anymore, I'm one step ahead." ”

After he finished speaking, he saw him gritting his teeth, laughing violently, and finally spitting blood from his mouth, and actually biting his tongue and killing himself.

When Wang saw this, he felt that this interrogation might be a bit tricky, and he sent someone to check the body of the deceased, and found that the deceased had a "red-faced monkey" tattooed on his chest and a "falcon" tattooed on his back.

Wang Sui was shocked when he saw it, he had been to Western Xia before, and knew that the warriors of Western Xia generally had such tattoos, this person was undoubtedly from Western Xia, and he suddenly felt that things were complicated, after all, this was a big crime involving betrayal of the Song Dynasty and collaborating with the enemy.

He continued to interrogate, people are divided into three, six, nine and so on, there are always people who are greedy for life and afraid of death, and there is no longer a lewd-looking man in black who confesses.

This person's name is Li Niu'er, a native of Tokyo, who lives in Xiliu Hutong, the second sweet water lane, and is a local scoundrel with strong martial arts;

Specializing in spilling, committing murder, and making trouble on the street, even for several lawsuits, I don't know how many times I have entered and exited the class room.

But at this time, he still had some eyesight, after all, he now learned that his accomplice was actually a Western Xia man, and he suddenly felt that something was wrong:

In the past, he was only in the class room for a few days at most, but this time he may have been implicated in killing his head and losing his head.

He hurriedly stepped forward and said, "Lord Fu Yin, I recruited them, I am not in a group with them, I also received money and was instructed by others to act in a temporary partnership with them. These people are from Sanssouci Cave, and I heard that they are members of the "Dragon Gang". ”

Wang Sui and Yang Ji suddenly came to their senses when they heard this, they both felt that this was an extremely important clue, and the two of them also felt funny, a group of chickens and dogs and thieves dared to call it "stinging dragons." (蛰龙, zhé lóng, i.e., dormant dragon, or translated as "hibernating dragon in ancient times", a metaphor for a hidden warrior.) ）”

Moreover, they felt that this dragon gang was very likely to be inextricably linked with the Western Xia side, and it was very likely that the murder was also instigated by others, and they had been taking advantage of the chaos to commit murder, making the demonstrators bloody on the spot, and taking the opportunity to arouse the anger of those who did not know the truth against the University Hall of Tokyo.

Wang Sui took the opportunity to interrogate Li Niu'er and asked him to tell the specific location of the "Dragon Gang", but he claimed not to know.

The two of them immediately felt sorry, after all, they didn't get useful information from the other men in black, especially their hiding places, so the most important clues were cut off.

Wang Sui interrogated Wang Shenyan without stopping, and asked him to confess to the person who instigated him to commit murder, saying that as long as he boldly came forward, he would be able to make meritorious contributions.

Wang Sui said that he would definitely find an opportunity to ask the official family to forgive him for his crimes, and it would not affect his future scientific expedition.

Wang Shenyan recalled: "It was a poetry meeting five days ago", and then the picture followed his thoughts to the poetry meeting he participated in half a month ago.

The picture is set in Jinming Pond, Jinming Pond is located outside the Shuntian Gate in Tokyo, Jinming Pond was first chiseled in the Zhou period after the fifth dynasty, and was built many times by the Northern Song Dynasty, and became a huge scale, complete layout, beautiful scenery of the royal garden.

Nine miles and thirty steps around Jinming Pond, there are fairy bridges, three rainbows on the bridge deck, vermilion lacquer, the lower row of wild goose pillars, the central Longxing, called the camel hump, if the shape of the flying rainbow. There are five halls connected to the Baojin Building at the head of the bridge, located in the middle of the water, the heavy hall Yuyu, the Xionglou Jiege, the strange flowers and stones, the rare birds and monsters, the dock wharf, the war ship dragon boat, everything is complete.

Now the Queen Mother Liu E has opened it to the outside world, but except for March and April, which is free to open to the public, the rest of the time will be subject to admission fees; However, the number of visitors per day is limited to 2,000 per day in autumn and summer, and 500 per day in winter.

Wang Shenyan has been in Tokyo for many days, and he went to his classmate and friend Dong Lianliang, who is also a prisoner of Guozi, and he was arranged by Dong Lianliang to live in a separate courtyard of Daxiangguo Temple, where many scholars from all over the country came to Tokyo to study.

On the morning of the sixth day of the tenth month,

Dong Lianliang came to him with a happy face, and he came to his room excitedly and banged on the door vigorously.

I saw him shouting loudly: "Brother Mingzhi, are you there?" ”

Wang Shenyan hurriedly opened the door after hearing this, and saw him rush into the room, bringing in a gust of wind, and saw that his face was sweating, and there was heat coming out of the scarf, as if he had rushed all the way.

Wang Shenyan hurriedly asked, "Brother Chunhou, why did you come here in such a hurry?" ”

Dong Lianliang didn't answer, and saw that he saw a glass of water on the table, so he quickly took it up and drank it all, and then let out a long breath.

Then I saw him smile and said: "Brother Mingzhi, great joy, today is the time of our country's Zijian organized a poetry meeting, which will be held in Jinmingchi, I have obtained two places, and I am here to invite you to go." Didn't you always want to meet the great Confucian of the country? This opportunity is coming, you show your talent by the way, and strive to win the favor of the Confucians, this is a shortcut to "carp jumping over the dragon gate", you have to grasp it. ”

Wang Shenyan was also overjoyed when he heard it, so he cleaned up and hurriedly rushed to Jin Mingchi with Dong Lianliang.

When they arrived at Jinmingchi, the two handed in their vouchers, and then hurried in, and at this time there were more than 30 people at the scene.

Today's poetry will be held on a building ship in Jinmyeongji.

At this time, Jinming Pond has not yet frozen, the sky is clear, thousands of miles are blue, there is no wind and slightly warm, it is also a good day to travel.

Dong Lianliang led Wang Shenyan to the prisoner who was familiar with him, and then introduced him to these people one by one, but when he saw that these people were just being polite, he was speechless, which made him embarrassed and uneasy here.

I heard a young student say, "Ladies and gentlemen, do you know that there are Qing Qi people who have come to help the fun today, and Professor Wei has invited this year's Oiran Ning Zhihua to come and sit down. ”

When everyone heard this, they immediately cheered, many of them were fans of Ning Zhihua's (yōng dǔn), and they couldn't see it on weekdays, and when they heard it, they couldn't wait to see it immediately.

At this time, I saw a colored sedan chair coming in, and the purple bead curtain flowed down from the top of the sedan chair, and the dazzling red gold-inlaid lines covered the entire sedan body; The pale yellow curtains swayed in the wind, embroidered with red plum blossom patterns, and suddenly looked very magnificent.