In the mysterious and deep prison of Jingzhao Mansion, there are remnants of candles, like ghost fires, which are clearly extinguished and beating.

It was still the beginning of spring, and the cold, damp musty smell permeated the entire dungeon.

Wu Jingmo touched the mossy dungeon wall, and with a few small soldiers, he carefully climbed the stairs.

Walking down the stone steps all the way to a foot underground, there is the water prison where Jingzhao Mansion holds felons.

Before Wu Jingmo reached the deepest underground water cell, he heard someone screaming again and again, like a pig scalded by boiling water, screaming and wailing to the sky.

The piercing sound, as if imprisoned by four airtight walls, and the sound of water drawn out by the dying struggle of the prisoner's limbs, echoed inside and outside the water prison, shaking Wu Jingmo unconsciously stopped.

The ghost crying wolf howl in the water prison also stopped abruptly in an instant.

After a moment of silence, there was the sound of chains pulling.

Wu Jingmo began to sense that something was wrong.

The father appointed Tian Zifang to be responsible for interrogating the Cao gang of thieves who were arrested, but Tian Zifang himself knows a lot, although he has an impatient and reckless personality, but he is not a ruthless person.

With Tian Zifang's temperament, no matter how loud the cruel words are, at most he can bear to bleed the fourth child and suffer a lot.

Besides, Tian Zifang was originally from the Cao Gang, although he formed a relationship with the old steward of the helmsman last time because of the Cao Gang at night, but Tian Zifang is a person who has no city and cares about the old love, and he should not torture him to death in turn for the fourth child to besiege and chase him last time.

"My lord, or I'll go and see it first."

A young soldier beside him pondered Wu Jingmo's expression for a while, and whispered in his ear.

Wu Jingmo paused.

The little soldier got the approval of the upper peak, took a step ahead, jumped down, and got into the small door that was half-open in the water prison, and shouted with courage in his mouth

"Who's Here?"

I saw that in the filthy water prison, a white shadow kept shaking with the ripples on the water surface.

Presumably that is the fourth prisoner who was thrown into the water prison.

Half of the prisoner's body was chained under the water, and the top half of his body floated face down on the foul-smelling sewage.

I don't know if it was because someone had already killed someone, or if it was just a brief shock caused by torture that I couldn't stand the torture

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"Get him up quickly, you can't let him die like this"

Wu Jingmo saw the situation in the prison through the small door of the water prison, and shouted in a hurry.

He pinched his nose and was about to pass through the small door of the water dungeon, taking a few steps forward to see more clearly.

I didn't take a few steps before, but I was disgusted by the black, black, yellow, and smelly water prison in front of me, and I almost wanted to vomit.

"My lord, except for the criminals, there is no one else in this water prison, could it be that this old man committed suicide in fear of sin"

The little soldier waded through this filthy muddy water and struggled to get to the prisoner and reported to Wu Jingmo.

Wu Jingmo covered his mouth and nose with his sleeve, his eyes only stared at the ripples in the water, and did not speak.

The soldier quickly flipped the white figure up, holding his upper body with both hands and making it stand upright.

I saw that the man's eyes were closed, his face was pale, and his lips were purple, as if he had lost his breath.

Although the man had changed into a prison uniform, his hair was messy, and his body was covered with some unsightly pickled stains, Wu Jingmo had confirmed it when he looked at it

This person is the fourth brother of the Cao Gang Helmsman who chased and killed them on the cross street before, it is him, that's right.

Seeing that the man looked pitiful and didn't know whether he was drowned or tortured to death by internal injuries, Wu Jingmo was shocked and hurriedly ordered

"Is he dead, hurry up and fish him up to see"

The soldier propped up the man's body with one arm, and the other poked under his nose and replied happily

"My lord, he's still breathing a sigh of relief, but fortunately we came in time."

With that, the little soldier drew his sword, raised his arms high, and slashed at the chains that were tied to the prisoners in the water.

The water prison has always been used to imprison felons, and the chains are made of the thickest, heaviest and most solid, and the small soldiers have not succeeded in cutting them several times.

Wu Jingmo immediately ordered the rest of the entourage to get the key to the locking chain, and then looked around at this small water prison that was only ten feet square, frowned, looked solemn, and roared

"Be careful, there's someone underwater"

I saw a figure suddenly jump up from the extremely turbid water, splashing countless fishy and unpleasant splashes.

It was too late, and the young soldier was silent, and he had already used his knife to split the filthy splashes that were flying, taking advantage of the fact that the man had just come out of the water

With a big breath, he quickly put the big knife on the front of the man's neck.

"How are you?"

After Xiao Bing looked at it, he was dumbfounded in surprise, and his jaw dropped by the man.

The few Jingzhao Mansion soldiers in front of and behind Wu Jingmo were also shocked.

Someone opened his mouth and counted the falls

"Brother, why can't you think of doing this kind of business for people to drill dung to kill people?"

"Lord Wu has always treated you well, how can you bear him at a critical moment?"

"That's it, last time you found a broken knife in Tianxiang Building, our Lord Xiao Wu also took credit for you, what do you want to do now?"

"Don't just take credit, but also get a reward and get the head, if you don't want to be the leader, you can give it to me, why bother?"

The little leader of the government soldiers who had just come out of the dirty water was counted by them, and his face was red and his neck was thick.

Wu Jingmo raised his eyelids and looked at the man carefully.

I saw that the man was half buried in the water, standing with his hands in his hands, his head bowed, and he looked dejected, like a filthy chicken in soup who would not die.

His clothes were all soaked with the filth of dung, and when he raised his hand to wipe the drops of water from his forehead and sideburns, his head shook slightly, and a wriggling thing as white as maggots fell from his gray hair into the water.

Wu Jingmo couldn't help but feel numb in his scalp, his stomach was churning and churning, and he was nauseous for a long time, so he had to turn his head sideways and couldn't bear to look at it.

Wu Jingmo knew in his heart that the veteran in front of him who had entered the water prison to kill the fourth man was indeed the person in the mouth of his colleagues in the government soldiers, and when he was investigating the clues of the Jiang family's extermination case in Tianxiang Building a few years ago, he touched the willow leaf scimitar outside the No. 1 Water Pavilion of Tianzi.

This person is middle-aged, and he has served in Jingzhao Mansion for more than ten years, and everyone in Jingzhao Mansion calls him Da Zhuang.

This Da Zhuang is the most honest and diligent person on weekdays, and has always had a good reputation.

The soldiers of Jingzhao Mansion are also the same as other military camps and garrisons in Dajing, a group of big men, when they are not on duty, they will also get together from time to time, seeking pleasure, gambling and fighting.

However, this Da Zhuang is said to have never been involved in the business of their people's wine and wealth, and is often joked by everyone that Da Zhuang is strong and strong, and he is not strong at all.

Such a person, no matter how you look at it, he doesn't look like a person who will betray Shangfeng, lynch and kill the killer.