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Ying Tianfu Ya sent two soldiers to the edict prison to take over the criminal "dusk", complete the official process, put shackles on dusk, and went out of the city gate to the north and took them to the frontier.

And the day before, the Jinyi Guards commanded Ji Gang to take the Beizhen Fusi Zhenfu envoy Pang Ying, as well as many Tiqi captains, who had quietly left Yingtiancheng overnight to lay out in advance.

On the same day that the dusk sent to the frontier, several groups of people quietly went out of the city.

On the same day, Ma Sanbao in the Forbidden City went out of Ouchi and led several horsemen straight to the east, heading to the direction of Suzhou and Hangzhou.

On the same day, Nanzhen Fusi quietly arrested a black market middleman.

In the Fusi Prison in Nanzhen, the oil lamps crackled, the candle shadows flickered, the fishy and rotten musty air was turbid and heavy, and the feeling of airtightness without seeing the light of day was almost suffocating.

The small torture chamber was full of torture instruments.

If it is an ordinary person, his legs will be weak when he walks into the torture room, and he can't wait to explain what his ancestors have done for the eighteen generations, anyway, after entering the torture room at dusk, he feels that he can't stand the torture of removing his nails casually.

This shows how perseverance the sages of history who endured torture were.

At dusk, he walked into the Nanzhen Fusi Prison.

He was supposed to be wearing shackles and walking on the way to the frontier.

After thinking about it, I felt that it was inappropriate, the danger factor was too high, and I still chose to let the stand-in go, it didn't hurt to have a big flaw, but it was better to fail the plan than to die by myself.

Looking at the prisoners who were tightly bound, I was a little surprised, thinking that this hard-mouthed middleman was so extraordinary, but I never thought that it was just an ordinary little old man.

Thin and black, old eyes cloudy.

No one would associate him with a tough guy who was tortured.

Sai Hazhi said softly: "It's him, called Song Ling, it is said that when he was young, he also studied and took the imperial examination, but unfortunately he failed to pass the examination repeatedly, and then went to the black market to survive, with his extraordinary mind and character, he played a world, there are dozens of people under his hands, this time take him, if we don't act secretly, I am afraid that there will be a large-scale fight." ”

Dusk asked, "Have you checked his background?" ”

Saihazhi: "I have checked, there is nothing special, the only strange thing is that he doesn't know where the money he has earned over the years has gone, don't believe it, the money he has earned over the years is really not less than what I have earned." ”

For example, in the case of bonuses, Song Ling took a 10% rebate, and he only needed to use his mouth to let his subordinates spread the news, and he still had a lot of such business.

Dusk took two steps back, and after sitting down, he motioned to the cavalry to loosen the black cloth that covered Song Ling's eyes.

Saihazhi also stepped back and sat down.

He wanted to see if there was any way to pry Song Ling's mouth open at dusk.

Dusk looked at Song Ling and said with a smile: "Accident? ”

Song Ling was shocked, "You weren't assigned to the frontier?" ”

Dusk smiled, didn't answer, and asked: "When you took that task, didn't you think that you would be arrested and imprisoned again, why did you take it when you knew it was hot?" ”

Song Ling was silent.

Dusk still smiled, "I know, people's faith is a strange thing, people with faith can really bear the extreme pain of the world, but what is your faith?" ”

Song Ling sighed: "No matter what you say, I won't betray my employer." ”

This is the foundation of his life.

Twilight shook her head, "I'm not going to convince you. ”

Song Ling laughed, "Torture? I'm half buried in the ground, will I still be afraid of pain and death? ”

Dusk said slowly: "Song Ling, my time is very precious, because I still have to read books to prepare for next year's imperial examination, so I will only give you two chances, and now it is the first time, are you willing to say who is hanging the bonus to take my head?" ”

Song Ling was dismissive.

Dusk was not in a hurry, and said with a smile: "Since you have chosen yourself, then I have no choice but to punish you, rest assured, this punishment that has long been lost will not hurt." ”

Saihazhi didn't understand, "What kind of punishment, is it still lost?" ”

Dusk said darkly, Saihazhi is sensible, knows how to sing double reeds, and said with a smile, "Do you know the king?" ”

Who doesn't know this.

Dusk said: "The king once invented a punishment called dripping punishment, which has long been lost, but unfortunately, I happen to know about this kind of torture that is unique in the world. ”

Was this really the invention of the King of the Ring?

It's hard to say, after all, the image of the king was smeared by the Zhou Dynasty - history has always been like this.

Saihazhi: "Dropping? ”

Dusk nodded, "Dripping requires a special device: at the four corners of a square base, four pillars support a hard wooden plank, and there is a palm-sized round hole in the middle of the board, the criminal sits on a comfortable chair in the middle of the base, and the top of his head is just above the round hole, but the criminal's head is fixed and cannot move, and his limbs can move freely, because of the obstruction of the hardwood plank above his head, the criminal cannot reach the top of his head that emerges from the round hole. Then a bucket was hung above the head of the criminal, and a small hole was drilled at the bottom of the bucket to let the water slowly drip on the top of the prisoner's head, and the criminal officer added water to the bucket every morning, and the bucket of water was exactly dripping in a day. ”

"And during the execution, we will ensure that the criminals have everything they need, good food and drink."

Song Ling was puzzled by what he heard.

It's just a drop of water.

Saihazhi, as the old man of Nanzhen Fusi and an expert in the edict prison, his eyes began to widen, "This punishment ......"

He had a feeling that the punishment would be terrible.

Dusk smiled, "Do you know that the water drops wear stones?" ”

Saihazhi nodded.

Dusk said: "The principle is similar. ”

In front of Song Ling, I talked about the process of dripping the punishment: in the initial period of execution, the criminal did not feel that he was being punished, about half a month, the criminal would feel a little strange on the top of his head, and in about a month, the criminal would begin to lose his hair, and at this time he would still not feel pain, until all the hair fell out, and at this moment the scalp was soft, swollen white and thick, and began to crack and peel off.

When a water-soaked scalp that is about to peel off will rot, the judge will add a decoction to the bucket to stop the scalp from rotting.

Under the extremely slow and gentle washing of the water droplets, the scalp broke away from the Heavenly Spirit Cover piece by piece, revealing the white skull.

The drops of water slowly eroded and washed away the prisoner's skull, but the water added a medicinal decoction to the wound did not become inflamed and rotted, and in the process, the prisoner was healthy and clear-headed, and felt the long and increasing pain without hindrance.

Day after day, the prisoner's skull gets thinner and thinner, the pain becomes more and more intense, the offender becomes unbearable, and the criminal officer needs to tie the criminal's hands to prevent him from harming himself.

Let the criminal continue to live, and the criminal will put a funnel in the criminal's mouth and pour vegetable porridge into him when he can't stop howling.

And so on for a year.

The criminal's body is already in pain, but his body still looks healthy and strong.

The droplets of water were still dripping, hitting the skull, which was not the same thickness, and the closer you got to the droplets, the more transparent the skull became.

Eventually, the skull will be pierced by water droplets, revealing a pink brain, and the thin, tiny fragments will be pushed into the brain tissue by the droplets that continue to fall, and the water droplets will eventually slowly drip through and mess with the brain, so that the criminal will slowly become an idiot in severe pain, and then slowly die.

It's an incredibly long process.

A year or even two years, or more.