As a traverser, although he has almost been corrupted, Sun Shaozong still has some resistance to the severe torture and punishment that often caused people to be disabled in ancient times.

Therefore, when Sun Shaozong investigated cases in the past, he rarely tortured prisoners until he had tangible evidence, and a few exceptions were mostly caused by roaring courts.

Lu Hui probably because of this, the Shenghe Sect Society had a big deal because of the kindness of the woman, so he specially rushed to send an official file of the Northwest Rebellion before closing the net.

It is a detailed record of the madness of the White Lotus Sect rebels in the winter of the thirty-first year of Guangde, and the subsequent effects caused by it.

At that time, the rebels of the White Lotus Sect had changed from a broken bamboo in the summer and autumn to a complete rout, and almost every day there was news that the prefecture and county were recovered by the official army, and the news that the incense lord and the helm master were defeated and killed was transmitted back to the White Lotus Sect's old nest, Pingliang Mansion.

Under this desperate atmosphere of three shocks, the White Lotus Sect's high-level control over the rebels gradually decreased to the level of infinitely approaching zero.

This is where the chaos begins.

From October 19 to the beginning of December when Pingliang City was recovered, in just one and a half months, the total population of Pingliang Mansion has dropped by more than 30%, and the city is even more empty than ten rooms!

After the recovery of Pingliang Mansion, the bones cleaned out of the city could not even be piled up in mass graves, so they had to build mass graves to store them.

In the autumn of the following year, the number of women dying in childbirth increased fourteen times as many as in previous years.

In July and August, Pingliang City was close to the abandoned baby Yingye, and there were homeless people who took it for food, and even resurrected their hips.

Tut~

The homeless people who are precarious have actually eaten fat on the legs of abandoned babies!

Even a person like Sun Shaozong, who is accustomed to seeing all kinds of murders, can't help but shudder when he looks at the few lines of small words in the file.

Not to mention that in addition to the cold data, the file also recorded many appalling tragedies in detail.

For example, in mid-November, Zhou, the master of the White Lotus Sect Aoki Hall, was blinded by an arrow in his right eye and suffered from sores and poisons, so he exclusively fed on human eyes, eating more than a dozen eyes every day, and claimed to be the reincarnation of Xiahou Yuanrang.

For example, at the end of November, the White Lotus Sect left army Sima Cheng set up a cauldron on the street, and forced the wives and children of the county officials who came to be looted to rebel against incestine in the pot.

For example, at the beginning of December, the Chinese army of the White Lotus Sect protected Su......

Looking at all of them, it is no wonder that the ancients had the saying that 'they would rather be a peaceful dog than a troubled world'.

Of course, even if you are deeply touched by the file, it does not mean that Sun Shaozong has to follow the example and force himself into brutality In most cases, small means at the spiritual level are often easier to break through the psychological defense line than bloody torture.

Get back to business.

said that Sun Shao dropped the black material and hurried to the Sanjin house in the back alley.

This was originally a temporary foothold for the last operation, but this time it was still near Qingxuguan, so it was reused.

When Sun Shaozong entered, he saw that the plainclothes of the three dragon guards were pretending to be small servants and sweeping where, so he called out to a person to explain a few words in his ear, and when the person took the order, he continued to rush to the inner courtyard.

"Senho-sama."

As soon as he crossed the second gate, Yang Licai had already heard the news and came out, bowed down and said: "As you expected, it is really two hard-mouthed ones, and they have asked for a long time with coaxing and fright, but they have not said a word. ”

Although this White Lotus Sect is not good at rebellion, the means of brainwashing are very good, and those who are sent to the capital to carry out hidden missions are all leaders among fanatics, and it is not easy to pry open their mouths.

Fortunately, Sun Shaozong had already made up his mind, so he didn't answer, only raised his chin slightly, and motioned for Yang Licai to lead the way.

The two of them went one after the other, and when they arrived at a secluded courtyard in the northwest corner, the dragon guard guarding the door opened the thick cloth curtain, and saw that under the dim light, the shopkeeper Wu and his wife were forming a large shape, tightly bound to the wall by iron cables.

The shopkeeper Wu is still dressed in a green coat and a small hat.

But his mother-in-law, Xu, has been stripped naked, and only a crimson belly pocket is left on her body, barely covering the spring color of two points and a line.

And in order to avoid chewing his tongue and committing suicide, Xu's mouth was also stuffed with a special bronze mouth ball.

The swarthy iron chains, the turquoise copper balls, the white skin and flesh, and the red belly pockets, under the swaying light, sometimes seem to be thick and colorful, sometimes like ink and blue......

Thick and familiar, light and mournful!

Originally, it was just a slight appearance of the Xu family, but after this arrangement, he was stunned by a different kind of charm.

At this time, Yang Licai quietly explained on the side: "I heard that this Wu shopkeeper loves her as a lady, so I thought about using her body to threaten her, but unfortunately although the Wu shopkeeper was furious, he still gritted his teeth and refused to speak. ”

After a pause, he added: "Maybe it's because he didn't dare to do things desperately, or maybe it's really time for the sword to be able to do it......"

Before Yang Li finished speaking, Sun Shaozong had already stepped in, no matter how depraved he was, he had not yet reached the point of using the 'husband's current crime' to extract a confession.

However, as a member of the state secret service, Yang Licai's unscrupulous approach cannot be called anything wrong, so although Sun Shaozong disdains to listen to it, he does not mean to blame him.

After entering the house, Sun Shaozong's eyes first turned around Xu's belly pocket, staring at the embroidery of the unicorn sending the child picture on it, and secretly wondered whether to make up his mind on the 'child'.

For example, like the one in the Prince's Mansion, they concocted the illusion that the Xu family was pregnant, and used the 'hope for the future' to crush their will to die at this time.

But after thinking about it, although the Wu shopkeeper and his wife are not doctors, they have been running a pharmacy for so many years, and they must be more proficient in medical knowledge than ordinary people.

So this method was soon abandoned by him again.

Just staring at the immodest place, thinking about something extremely serious, the Xu clan suddenly struggled violently, and scolded vaguely in his mouth: "Dog thief, even if you have any ability, if you use it, if your aunt and grandmother frown, you will become a disciple of the Holy Sect in vain!" ”

Sun Shaozong withdrew his gaze from the trembling unicorn sending off the picture, and was about to talk to her, so as to take the opportunity to find out the bottom, but the shopkeeper Wu rushed to remind: "Lady, today you and I are just dead, don't do more theories with this dog thief, carefully smell what he smells, and harm the robe in the sect!" ”

Tut~

This shopkeeper Wu is really alert.

said that Sun Shaozong didn't feel any problem when he ate these few words of scolding.

But a few dragon guards next to him stopped doing it, copying the whip of the whip, taking the soldering iron of the soldering iron, and scolding with nonsense: "Be bold and anti-thief, dare to be presumptuous in front of my family's thousands of households!" ”

Xu snorted disdainfully, and the shopkeeper Wu was even more silent, obviously making up his mind not to speak again.

"Ugh."

Seeing this, Sun Shaozong sighed helplessly: "I originally wanted to finish the errand in a friendly manner, but the attitude of the two of them who refused to be thousands of miles away made Sun a little embarrassed." ”

"My lord, use the torture."

Yang Licai stepped forward in a timely manner and raised his white face, raised his hand and slashed it in the air, and sneered: "There is a saying that 'people's hearts are like iron, and official law is like a furnace', and Miki is not afraid that they will not reveal the truth!" ”

As he spoke, he pointed to the root of the west wall and said, "Look, I have people bring all the torture tools." ”

With this point, someone immediately shone the lantern over, but saw a three-tiered wooden shelf at the base of the west wall, which was full of all kinds of strange torture instruments.

Sun Shaozong walked up to the front playfully, picked up a stiff-bristled horse brush, and said curiously: "What kind of torture instrument is this?" ”

"Look, sir."

Yang Licai hurriedly picked up the thin-mouthed copper kettle next to him, and said with a smile: "These two are the same formula, first splash boiling water on the skin and flesh, and then rub it vigorously with a brush, until the bones are rubbed out, it is counted as a dismissal, and the punishment department calls this 'whitewashing'." ”

It's a kind of interesting name.

Sun Shaozong put down the stiff-bristled brush, and carefully picked up an iron ring with spikes inside and out, and before he could open his mouth to ask, Yang Licai hurriedly explained: "This thing is called 'boiling people', it only needs to be put around the neck, and no matter how heavy the punishment is, you can't faint." ”

"This is 'Lotus Root Broken Thread', which is much more ruthless than that clamping stick!"

"This is called 'crushing urging', and the meat scraped off with it can be directly used as dumpling filling."

"This thing is used on the nose ......"

"Unisex ......"

After explaining seven or eight things in a row, Sun Shaozong stopped, and his eagle-like eyes swirled back and forth on those torture instruments and the Wu shopkeeper and his wife.

Seeing this, Yang Licai hurriedly pretended to be impatient, and said, "My lord, which one do you think we should take first and give this pair of dog men and women a taste?" ”

As he spoke, he pursed his tongue excitedly.

This performance is very good in singing and writing, and it is based on the torture instruments of those people on the shelf, not to mention the others, even the dragon guards with lanterns on the side, they can't help but stand on end.

However, Shopkeeper Wu and Xu didn't even have the nature of a glance, and stared at each other with affection, as if they were already in another dimension.

Although this does not mean that they can really withstand all the torture, this calmness and calmness still have to make people sigh that this person who is armed with faith is different, even if they believe in a cult.

Sun Shaozong was silent for a long time, and saw that the couple were still nobody, so he slowly shook his head: "I don't need any of them." ”

Yang Licai was stunned when he heard this, and blurted out, "Then my lord, what do you mean?" ”

This time, it's not pretending, but it's really a little unclear.

Listening to Sun Shaozong, he smiled indifferently: "Actually, this official has been studying recently, how much blood does a person have to shed before he dies when he is not seriously injured, but he happened to meet two people who did not spare their lives, and they happened to be a man and a woman." ”

As he spoke, he grinned wide, revealing his white teeth, and commanded, "Come on, escort them to the back kitchen cellar for me." ”

Several dragon guards on the left and right responded in unison, and stepped forward to 'pluck' the shopkeeper Wu and his wife from the wall, but instead of removing the iron ropes on their bodies, they restrained them into a human stick, and blocked the ball with copper bars, and then carried them out as if they were carrying a box.

When the group arrived at the cellar at night, they saw that they had received the plainclothes ordered by Sun Shaozong before, and they were leading their colleagues to cultivate soil on two wooden stakes.

Seeing that the chief had arrived, several people hurriedly left the shovels in their hands and stepped forward to salute.

Sun Shaozong's only jaw was the head, and he pushed the two wooden stakes in the past, and saw that they were fixed very firmly, so he ordered someone to tie up the shopkeeper Wu and his wife with their backs to them.

And the plainclothes who were responsible for burying the stake did not know where to get a huge copper basin and put it in the open space between the two.

"This test, in fact, is quite simple."

Sun Shaozong said solemnly: "Later, I will make a cut on your wrist, let the blood slowly drip into the copper basin, and someone will come in every quarter of an hour to observe the situation. ”

"If you really regard death as home, it's not a big deal, just think that the people who helped the official solve my confusion are still waiting in the pharmacy, and sooner or later they can attract your comrades to take the bait."

While speaking, someone stepped forward and separated the right arm of the shopkeeper Wu and Xu's separately, and fixed them on top of the copper basin with a few ropes.

Sun Shaozong asked Yang Licai for a dagger, stepped forward and slashed each of them on their wrists, and slowly took out the pocket watch, looked at the scale on it and said: "It's three quarters [seven forty-five] at the moment, and you can probably see it before and after the hour, so let's enjoy it here." ”

As he spoke, he put the pocket watch on the wine jar next to him, and then beckoned everyone to retreat.

Touch~

Seeing the lid of the cellar falling, blocking the last ray of light, Yang Licai finally couldn't help but step forward and said, "My lord, why can't you understand this method?" The two knives only cut a small opening, and they didn't look like they were going to die. ”

"Nonsense."

Sun Shaozong rolled his eyes and scolded with a smile: "It's not easy to get it back, if you really kill someone, how can we explain to Lord Zhenfu?" ”

"Then ...... you do it?"

"There's a jar hanging on the beam."

Sun Shaozong said with a smile: "I deliberately threw the dagger in the cellar, and when I sent someone down to get it after a while, I quietly hung the jar upside down, and the water inside would drip from the cracks, creating the illusion that the blood would not stop." ”

"Imagine what it would be like for you to be tied up in the cellar and listen to the blood of yourself and your wife dripping into the copper basin?"

"Especially people like this, the more they are in a dark and silent environment, the easier it is to think crankily, and as soon as this heart and eye are active, it will not be far from 'greedy for life and afraid of death'."

"At that time, let's take advantage of the situation again, why worry that they refuse to tell the truth?"

When Yang Licai heard this, he couldn't help but shake his head and exclaimed: "The adult's methods are really amazing, and they are planted in your hands, they are really not wronged at all!" ”