In the eerie prison, the oil lamp flickered on and off.

The sound of "tick, tick, tick" water drops is clearly audible.

Bai Mingzhe put his hands on his hands and followed the Tingwei armor soldier slowly towards the depths of the prison.

Under the dim light, many prisoners were huddled in the corners of the cells in shabby prison uniforms, motionless and silent.

The damp breath mixed with the musty, disgusting smell made Bai Mingzhe's brow furrow all the time, unable to stretch for a long time.

The armor soldier behind him looked cold, and whipped the ground a few times with a whip,

"Whew! Syllable! ”

"Whew! Syllable! ”

He scolded viciously: "Don't look around, go faster!"

"Whoa!"

"Whoa."

The sound of chains tumbling could be heard from several cells in the depths of the cell.

Several big men with beards, fluffy hair, and dirt on their faces lay on the wooden railing, staring at Bai Mingzhe, baring their teeth and shouting:

"Yo, here's a newcomer."

"I don't know what crime I committed?"

"It looks like a little doll, and it is estimated that it will inevitably suffer from a meal of flesh and skin for a while."

"I hope Zhao Yu can open this kid's eyes well, so that we can listen to his screams."

"I can't wait."

"Suddenly, you should be quiet, look at this little doll is too scared to look human. Truly, on the verge of a calamity. ”

The Tingwei armor who escorted Bai Mingzhe had a gloomy face and roared: "Silence! No matter how noisy it is, each person will have ten killing whips! ”

Maybe they didn't want to be beaten for no reason, after these big men heard the killing whip, they immediately walked honestly to the corner of the cell, quietly, staring at Bai Mingzhe with a smile, looking like watching a play, and didn't say a word.

"Shake!"

The door to the depths of the prison opened, and Ting Wei's interrogation room appeared in front of Bai Mingzhe's eyes.

In the central position, it is very particular to enshrine the statue of Gaotao, the originator of Chinese justice, and at the foot of the statue, there is also a hedgehog beast.

The appearance of the beast resembles that of a sheep, with a dense and dark beast all over its body, bright eyes, and a single horn in the middle of its head.

On the walls on both sides, all kinds of iron torture instruments are hung.

chains, rattan whips, soldering irons......

Some of the torture instruments were still stained with dark red, dried blood.

Next to the torture instruments, three large braziers were placed.

In the brazier, there were also a few soldering irons that burned red.

The crimson light was like a smile from Zhu Rong.

Unlike the road I just walked, the air here is relatively fresh, and there is not much damp and rancid smell.

Just as Bai Mingzhe was about to carefully observe his surroundings, a series of muffled voices suddenly came from the corner of the interrogation room.

"Coming?"

"It's not easy, I thought I should have rushed back four days ago, but I didn't expect it to arrive now. The efficiency of the lieutenant needs to be improved. ”

"If Ting Wei makes a move, it will definitely not take such a long time."

Following the source of the sound, the figure of a middle-aged man gradually emerged from the darkness.

The middle-aged man was dressed in a black official uniform, with two jet-black mustaches above his mouth, and an iron string in his slender hand.

There were also a few pieces of half-burned lamb on top of the iron skewers, and he had just eaten a barbecue behind the brazier.

Bai Mingzhe asked suspiciously, "What is the honorable driver?"

The middle-aged man held a mutton skewer in one hand and tidied up his clothes with the other.

He wiped the oil juice from his mouth, smiled, and said to Bai Mingzhe politely: "Bai Yushi, it's been a long time!"

"My name is Zhao Yu, Tingwei is Zhang Zhong, Zhang Gong's subordinate official, and the official is the left supervisor of Tingwei."

Bai Mingzhe: "!!"

Although Han Anguo had already informed the official in charge of the interrogation, he was still a little excited after seeing it.

Cool official Zhao Yu!

The second person under the court is the left prisoner of the court captain.

As for the first person under Tingwei, it is Zhang Tang, the right supervisor of Tingwei! Han Chengqin, respect the right, is the so-called unsurpassed.

Although he is the second person, in his daily life, he often uses an idiom that comes out of this guy.

"Historical Records: The Biography of Cool Officials": "Yu is an honest person. Since he became a servant, there have been no diners. The ministers asked Yu, but Yu did not thank him, but he did not know the invitation of friends and guests, and he was only single-minded. ”

Single-mindedness is made from this guy.

Bai Mingzhe took a deep breath, because he had a shackle on his body, he could only nod and say hello, "It turned out to be Lord Zhao Yu, disrespectful and disrespectful!" My lord forgives my sins, and I can't bow my hand. ”

"It doesn't matter, it doesn't matter. It is my honor to be able to come to my court as a guest. Zhao Yu laughed strangely, and at the same time threw the iron string in his hand into the brazier.

"Sting!"

As soon as the mutton touched the fiery red charcoal, it immediately made a sound of "thorn" and "thorn" fat explosion.

"Sting!"

Zhao Yu closed his eyes and carefully admired the "moving" music, with a weird smile on his face.

"What a beautiful voice, Bai Yushi, you are right."

"The fat in the lamb came out and jumped on the charcoal, and the sound was intoxicating."

Zhao Yu smiled, and then said: "Just livestock can play such beautiful and moving music, you say, if a person is close to a reddened soldering iron, what sound will appear?"

Bai Mingzhe stared at Zhao Yu and replied cautiously: "How can people be compared to livestock? Livestock has no respect for the elderly, no etiquette, no moral honor and disgrace, and can An be on a par with people? ”

Zhao Yu said with a smile: "Really? But sometimes, people don't pay attention to these things. ”

The Han family advocates filial piety, etiquette and righteousness, and the answer is almost fixed.

If you hesitate on this, it is easy to be underestimated or even disgusted.

So Bai Mingzhe's answer was straightforward.

"If you don't pay attention to these things, how can you call them human?"

Hearing the satisfactory answer, Zhao Yu nodded again and again, and said, "It seems that Bai Yushi also knows the general situation." They don't pay attention to respecting the inferior and the young, don't respect the common etiquette, and don't call them people. In this case, Bai Yu Shi Ru can't be called a human! ”

His face was hideous, revealing a penetrating smile, "You have violated Your Majesty's will and falsely issued an edict without authorization, causing hundreds of thousands of stone taxes to be scattered. If you don't respect the king and don't know etiquette, just as you say, how can you call it a human being? If you are not a human being, you can also be punished with this punishment! ”

Bai Mingzhe's face was a little ugly.

Unexpectedly, Zhao Yu was digging a pit to make himself jump.

Looking at this posture, I have to let myself be punished.

"I am the people of the world and the hearts of the Han people, why can't I call them people?" Bai Mingzhe responded coldly.

"Really? The people of the world? The heart of the Han people? Zhao Yu continued to laugh, "Do you think that by simply opening the warehouse, you can regain the hearts of the people?" ”

"Although the people are full, they don't know the opposite. However, after you have a full stomach, you have no pressure to return food, you don't like farming, and you want to continue to get disaster relief food in the coming year, what can you do? ”

"If there is a drought and locust plague in the coming year, and there is still no tax, how should you provide relief? Do you think that Your Majesty has not considered disaster relief? You underestimate my Han Dynasty too much! ”

"If you are in a warehouse today, there is no one out of ten! If the Huns attack, how should they resist? Although my Han soldiers are not afraid of death, they also need to have a full stomach! If you can't eat enough and don't have enough strength, how to wave your soldiers to stop the Huns and Yanmen! If the princes and kings take the opportunity to rebel, how can we resist? Have you considered these questions? ”

Zhao Yu's mouth was like a repeating crossbow, and he kept spitting out a series of interrogations.

He turned around, turned his back to Bai Mingzhe, and said in an echo that seemed to come from the Wanzhang Ice Cave: "Today, since you have come to my court and prison, then I can't treat Bai Yushi badly. On the orders of His Majesty, torture Bai Yushi! ”

Zhao Yu waved his hand, his sleeves fanned the cool breeze, and shouted: "Someone!" Tie Hakugoshi to the pillar! Get ready for torture! ”

"No!"

The two armorers immediately removed the shackles from Bai Mingzhe's hands and instead tied their hands to a pillar the thickness of a hugging wood with ropes.

"Dang!"

Bring the brazier to the side of the pillar.

Suddenly, Bai Mingzhe suddenly felt the heat.

Zhao Yu took off a whip from the wall and shook it hard: "Huh! Syllable! ”

He seems to have changed into a different person, completely different from the polite scholar temperament just now.

With a gloomy expression on his face, he smiled fiercely and said, "Bai Yushi, you have to answer the content of your inquiry next." Captain Wu is more enlightened, unlike a lieutenant, as long as you explain clearly, the punishment can be waived! ”

"As for you, if you want to atone for your sins with money, then it is better to give up the idea. Thou shalt commit a sin that requires at least twenty million gold, that is, two thousand gold. ”

"Now in the court, there is no minister who has this ability. Even if it is in the middle of the guard, I estimate that the family property is at most 1,500 gold. ”

Bai Mingzhe twisted his head, glanced at Zhao Yu, and said loudly: "Lord Tingwei Zuo Jian is very anxious." When the grass people arrived here, they didn't have a stick of incense, so they were going to start torturing them. ”

Looking at the soldering iron mixed with charcoal and burning red in the brazier, he forced himself to calm down and said: "Everyone in the world says that Tingwei is a cool official, presumably Lord Zhao Yu should also be a cool official."

"Hahahaha, what's wrong with cool officials? As long as you can complete the tasks assigned by Your Majesty, all means can be used! Zhao Yu opened his mouth and laughed.

"It's a pity, I'm afraid that Lord Zuo Supervisor of the Imperial Lieutenant will be disappointed today." Bai Mingzhe sighed and shook his head, "Although I really want to see Jun's methods, it's a pity that now is not the time." ”

Zhao Yu squinted his eyes, looked Bai Mingzhe up and down, and said, "I don't understand, where did you get your confidence?" At this point, do you think you can get me to stop with just a few words? If you don't torture and let you get out intact, where is my face? ”

"Lord Tingwei Zuo Supervisor, don't worry, as long as you see what is in my arms, you will naturally understand." Bai Mingzhe Nunu mouthed, signaling that he had something in his arms.

"Oh?" Zhao Yu looked at Bai Mingzhe's chest in surprise.

Due to the loose Hanfu and the fact that the original owner of Bai Mingzhe's body didn't eat much and was relatively thin, Zhao Yu really didn't pay much attention to the abnormalities in the clothes in his arms.

Now that he was prompted, he took a closer look.

It seems that there is indeed some bulging.

He gave the Tingwei armor a look and said, "You go and take out the things."

"No!"

The armor stepped forward and tore the shirt from Bai Mingzhe's chest.

A large brownish-yellow, bloodstained linen cloth appeared inside.

"Unfold it!"

"No!"

The two armorers held one end in one hand, and kept backing away, carefully unfolding the sackcloth.

"Wow!"

Bai Mingzhe looked at the slowly unfolding linen, grinned, and said sonorously: "This is a gift from the three elders of Pingyin County. Since the people could not write their names, they put their fingerprints on them. ”

"This cloth is fifteen steps long, and a total of three elders of Taiyuan County, thirteen elders of the township, and thirteen thousand two hundred and fifteen people have been pressed on this cloth."

"Although I don't know what is written on it in the Pingyin County Decree, I suggest that if you plan to torture me, it is best to ask Your Majesty. Hahaha, otherwise, you will be insulted by the people of the world and bring shame to your family for generations! ”

"Hahahaha." Bai Mingzhe smiled happily, not caring at all about Zhao Yu's vaguely changing face.