In the dimly lit cell, Fan Chong staggered behind the jailer with shackles.

The Fan family has been operating in Yingzhou City for many years, and it can be regarded as deep-rooted. Fan Chong's popularity is very good, from the officials of the Governor's Mansion to the coachmen and hawkers, he is very familiar with him, and there are many people who have been favored by him.

The jailer in front of him was surnamed Jin, Fan Chong knew him, and he had received money from him before, but he rarely dealt with him, but he didn't expect them to meet on such an occasion today.

"Master Jin, where are you going?" Fan Chong asked in a low voice.

The jailer and the catcher are both servants, and their lowly status is not among the ninth-rate, and Fan Chong called the golden jailer a master, which can be regarded as respect.

The golden jailer didn't reply: "You'll know when you get to the place, don't ask so much!" ”

Fan Chong sighed and stopped talking.

Fan Chong was just a businessman, and his social status was also not high, so he knew that if he really got into trouble, no matter how much money he had, he would not be able to save his life. Because of this, he has been cautious all these years, and even if he is so low-key, it has been a disaster.

What went wrong?

Fan Chong was taken to prison by the officials, and no one told him what crime he had committed, and the more he did this, the more panicked he became.

Could it be ......

Fan Chong suddenly remembered the situation when Yan Ke visited the mansion a few days ago, and his heart couldn't help but sink. If it was really for that, this disaster would not be able to be avoided if it wanted to.

Thinking of this, Fan Chong's body couldn't help but tremble.

The golden jailer walked in front, and although he couldn't see Fan Chong's expression, he could guess a few points. He seemed to have some unbearable feeling in his heart, and suddenly stopped and turned around.

After looking at Fan Chong for a while, the golden jailer said slowly: "Master Fan, I don't know what you have done, but you have to know one thing, if you are targeted by those people, you will shed your skin if you don't die." They're ruthless, don't do anything with them! ”

They?

Who are they?

Fan Chong didn't know what the Golden Jailer meant.

Seeing Fan Chong's dazed face, the golden jailer shook his head: "I just see that you are a good person on weekdays, so I remind you, if you can pass this hurdle, you can ask for more blessings!" ”

As he spoke, the golden jailer turned around and walked forward again, and Ren Fan Chong asked how to ask, but he refused to speak again.

In front of a dark room, the golden jailer opened the door: "It's here!" Let's go inside! ”

Fan Chong glanced at the golden jailer, who was expressionless.

Fan Chong stubbornly walked into the room, and the door was closed behind him.

By the candlelight, Fan Chong saw everything inside clearly.

In the middle of the room was an iron torture rack, and on both sides of the room were all kinds of torture instruments.

"Master Fan, welcome!" A familiar voice came.

Fan Chong followed the prestige and saw a person sitting on a chair in the dark.

Although he could only see the general outline, Fan Chong recognized at a glance that this person was Shi Yanke, the governor of the Yingzhou Governor's Mansion.

If it's really an acquaintance, it's a familiar person who can't be more familiar.

Over the years in Yingzhou City, the official who has dealt with Fan Chong the most is Yan Ke, and Fan Chong has even more money than Zhao Wenhui in filial piety.

Yan Ke was standing beside two big men, both of them shirtless, with their arms folded in front of their chests, staring at Fan Chong coldly, making him shudder a little.

"Yan ...... Long history, you are ......" Fan Chong stammered and squeezed out a few words.

Yan Ke stood up, walked in front of Fan Chong, and said lightly with a smile on his face: "Master Fan, have you thought about everything I talked to you about that night?" ”

Sure enough, it was for the ancestral jade deer that Fan Chong finally figured out why he was imprisoned.

At this moment, Fan Chong was almost repentant, and he couldn't wait to slap himself a few times.

Fan Chong's regret is more than a little bit.

He regretted why he didn't listen to his son Fan Ziming's advice in the first place.

Fan Ziming once persuaded his father that these officials in Yingzhou City had been coveting the property of the Fan family, and maybe they would make a conspiracy to frame the Fan family that day. Fan Ziming strongly persuaded his father to move to Luoyang, after all, it was the feet of the Son of Heaven

Below, it is relatively safer. But Fan Chong was reluctant to leave the industry he had been operating for so long, and he didn't listen to his son's persuasion. Now it seems that his son's vision is still more accurate than he wants to see.

He regretted even more that he shouldn't have shown off in front of Yan Ke in the first place.

The ancestral Yulu has been seven or eight generations to Fan Chong's generation. Fan Chong has always regarded it as the treasure of the Fan family's town, and he has never shown it to anyone, and even his son does not know the existence of this jade deer. Once, after Fan Chong and Yan Ke drank freely in their own house, the ghost sent the ancestral treasure out for Yan Ke to watch, and Yan Ke was targeted.

What Fan Chong regretted the most was that he didn't hand over Yulu directly to Yan Ke that night.

Yan Ke came to visit the mansion and asked Fan Chong for the jade deer directly, saying that Zhao Wenhui wanted to give the jade deer to King Liang as a birthday gift. Fan Chong was very hesitant at that time, and only said that he would consider it, but did not agree. In fact, Yulu was just a dead thing, and at least it could save the Fan family if it was handed over at that time. But now, Yulu is no longer under his hands, how can Yan Ke give up?

"Yan ...... Yan Changshi...... Yulu ...... It's gone......" Fan Chong's speech became unfavorable.

"Gone?" Yan Ke was stunned, and then laughed, "Master Fan, do you think it's a very interesting thing to tease me?" ”

"No, no, no!" Fan Chong hurriedly explained: "Fan doesn't dare, Yan Changshi, Yulu is really missing." I've kept it in the secret room of my study, and Yulu was still there when you left my house that night. But the next night, when I entered the secret room, it was gone. I searched up and down the house but couldn't find it, I guess someone stole it! ”

Yan Ke looked at Fan Chong coldly and did not speak.

The sweat on Fan Chong's back came down, and he said incoherently: "Yan Changshi, if you don't believe it, you can send someone to my house to search, what I said is true!" ”

Yan Ke seemed to smile: "Master Fan, do you think I will believe your words?" ”

Fan Chong knew that of course Yan Ke wouldn't believe it, even if it was him, he wouldn't believe it.

But the problem is that the jade deer is indeed lost, and he can't conjure another one.

Thinking of this, Fan Chong couldn't help but secretly cry bitterly in his heart.

Seeing that Fan Chong didn't speak, Yan Ke snorted coldly and said, "It seems that you are toasting and not eating and drinking!" ”

"Yan Changshi, wronged!" Fan Chong hurriedly knelt on the ground and begged for mercy in fright, "Please let me go, what I said is true!" ”

"Hit me hard!" Yan Ke commanded his men.

The two men set up Fan Chong, pushed him to the torture bed on the side, and tied his hands and feet into a figure of ten with a cowhide rope to prevent him from struggling due to pain during the torture.

Then, a man quickly ripped off Fan Chong's clothes, revealing his skin.

The two of them stood on either side of the torture bed, their canes in their hands as if they had just been painted, shining with a chilling sheen.

"Master Fan, your ass will soon turn into two lumps of flesh and blood, you have to think about it!" Yan Ke's eerie voice came into Fan Chong's ears.

"Yan Changshi, please believe me, what I said is true!" Fan Chong shouted hoarsely.

"I don't know what to do!"

With Yan Ke's "execution", behind him was the sound of a thorny cane cutting through the air, and Fan Chong subconsciously shrank his shoulders.

The cane landed on Fan Chong's ass with a dull sound, as if shattering the surface of a calm lake. His body shook, and he had to cry out "ah" in his mouth, with a sudden pain.

As he left, a red mark four fingers wide crossed his left and right buttocks.

Second time.

The third one.

After ten canes, Fan Chong's buttocks were red and swollen, and there was no way not to let the scars superimpose.

"To say it or not to say it!" Fan Chong's ears heard Yan Ke's vicious voice again.

Fan Chong, who was used to being pampered, had suffered such a crime, he no longer had any strength in his body, and muttered in his mouth: "It's really lost!" ”

As the cane fell again and again, Fan Chong's buttocks soon became red and swollen, and a little worrying purple sand appeared.

After forty rods, Fan Chong had already done it

He passed out in a coma.

Looking at Fan Chong, who was paralyzed on the torture bed, Yan Ke's face showed hesitation.

He knew Fan Chong, it stands to reason that Fan Chong couldn't stand such torture at all, but he didn't say anything about the whereabouts of Yulu, could it be that Yulu was really stolen by someone?

The deer is the king's benefit and the next, it is a gentle and benevolent beast, and is often a hermit mount for the immortals. And because "deer" and "lu" have the same sound, so the deer also has a symbol of power and career. "Chasing the Central Plains" and "Entering Lu and Adding Officials" all came from this.

The jade deer in Fanfu, Yan Ke has seen it with his own eyes, it is really auspicious. On the occasion of congratulating King Liang on his birthday, he sent such a jade deer, wishing him eternal wealth and prosperity, and keeping King Liang would be satisfied.

Yan Ke patted his chest in front of Zhao Wenhui, so he was bound to win this vice chairman.

Thinking of this, Yan Ke ordered his subordinates: "Wake him up!" ”

"Whoa!"

A large basin of cold water poured down, and Fan Chong, who was lying on the torture bed, shivered.

Yan Ke looked down at Fan Chong who was lying on the torture bed, and said with a hideous expression: "Master Fan, this is your last chance, if you don't tell the truth, I dare to guarantee that you will regret it for the rest of your life!" ”

In his breath, Fan Chong said intermittently: "Find ...... Not anymore! It's true...... Can't find it......"

As he spoke, Fan Chong's snot and tears fell.

Yan Ke waved his hand and commanded: "Get on the iron shoes!" ”

Iron shoes?

When people hear this name, their first reaction is shoes made of iron, and it doesn't seem to be a big deal.

In fact, this is a very terrible punishment in the torture chamber of the Yingzhou capital.

The "Iron Shoes" are similar to the "Cannon Burning Punishment" of the King of the Emperor thousands of years ago, which is a special kind of shoe, which is put in a charcoal fire to burn red, and then clip it out, so that the prisoner can wear it barefoot, and the skin will be charred and rotten immediately, and even if he does not die, he will end up with lifelong disability.

Such a punishment is simply cruel.

From this point of view, Yan Ke does not intend to let Fan Chong go.

As the iron shoes were forcibly put on Fan Chong's feet, I saw choking green smoke rising, and a scorched smell made people can't help but be disgusted.

Fan Chong was so pained that a white light exploded in front of him, the green tendons on his head were severely reprimanded, and the scream of "ah" turned into a low choked voice because of weakness.

No doubt he passed out again.

Yan Ke looked at Fan Chong, who no longer looked like a person, and didn't speak for a long time.

The two men on the side didn't know what Yan Ke was thinking, and they stood there and didn't dare to move.

Finally, Yan Ke gestured to his two subordinates: "Send him back to prison!" ”

As if the two men were granted amnesty, they untied Fan Chong from the torture bed without delay, and each dragged one arm out of the torture chamber, leaving a long trail of blood on the ground.

……

It was already late at night, but the living room in the backyard of the Yingzhou Governor's Mansion was brightly lit.

Zhao Wenhui, dressed in civilian clothes, sat on a chair, and Yan Ke sat next to him.

The sleepy-eyed Zhao Wenhui looked at Fang Hatshui standing in front of him, and asked in a deep voice: "Mr. Fang, do you know why the governor of Pontus called you late at night?" ”

Fang Hatshui shook his head, and replied without being humble or arrogant: "My subordinates don't know, please make it clear!" ”

"An ancestral jade deer in Fan's Mansion was stolen the day before yesterday, and the governor of Bendu ordered you to solve the case within five days, and you must recover the jade deer!"

"Yulu stolen?" Fang Hatshui couldn't help but be stunned, "Didn't Fan Chong be taken down from prison for stealing the official seal?" Why did you get involved with the theft of the white deer? ”

"You don't have to worry about the theft of the official seal!" Zhao Wenhui's tone was not polite at all, "You just have to go all out to recover the Yulu, the governor of Bendu said the ugly words in front, and if you can't see the jade deer in five days, don't blame the governor of Bendu for being unkind!" ”

Fang Hatshui promised: "Please rest assured, your subordinates will go all out!" ”

After Fang Hatshui left, Zhao Wenhui glanced at Yan Ke beside him: "Are you sure this jade deer was really stolen?" Could it be that Fan Chong is playing some tricks? ”

"I'm sure! He didn't dare! Yan Ke's words are conclusive.