Zhu Yuntao came from afar with the elite soldiers of Bashu and was stationed in the Qin army camp located ten miles outside the West City Gate. After all, the defense in Chang'an City is empty, and the Bashu army is brave and brave; Even if Zhou Changfeng wanted to win people's hearts, he didn't dare to use his head to test the sincerity of the Bashu army.

Of course, although Zhu Yuntao is a bit stupid, his mind is not stupid; He has served Zhou Yuanqing for many years and knows the taboo in the heart of a monarch. When the two met for the first time, with Zhu Yuntao's knowledge, they didn't worry too much about this. Zhu Yuntao entered Chang'an City with only four guards; Even the old Qin Palace, where he stayed, and the servants and maids who should be served, were all sent by the queen from the Yang Palace.

This kind of selfless behavior of heaven and earth also made Zhou Changfeng dispel the concerns of "strong guests suppressing the master".

Since Xiang Qing took the third reinforcement to pull out; Chang'an City fell into an embarrassing situation where there were no soldiers available. In order to maintain the dignity of the base camp, Zhou Changfeng can only place all the elite soldiers and strong generals on the four city walls, so as not to be seen through the empty old foundation of his own defense.

As for his own defense, it is also the "Ouchi Guard Group" composed of a hundred Sanqin folk masters!

However, tonight, Weiyang Palace was really attacked, and his unlucky relative Wang Beiguang also completely exposed his unsightly "bottoms"; was originally a "harmless" private bag, but in this special period, Zhou Changfeng encountered the danger of forcing the palace on the front line of life and death.

If it weren't for the current queen Lao Beng's pearls, she wouldn't be able to withstand the twists and turns; If you don't behead the Wang family, it will be difficult to get out of his chest!

But what he never expected was that just when his life was hanging by a thread, it was Zhu Yuntao, a mad dog who had just bitten him, who personally took the four guards into the palace and solved the danger of forcing a confession!

Not only that, listening to his words, he did this thing very beautifully!

First of all, a total of twenty-four killers entered the palace tonight, and he stabbed twenty-three people, but left one of the first offenders alive as a breakthrough point in this case. Judging from this act alone, he could not be the mastermind of this matter! Secondly, after he eliminated the killer, he immediately threw all his weapons into the courtyard, and even dismissed his four guards, which also showed the loyalty of a courtier; In the end, after he had strangled all the thieves, he did not ask himself to open the courtyard gate, but knelt outside alone to wait for the order; This kind of indication shows that Zhu Yuntao is not only effective in handling things, but also very respectful and respectful to himself, the "new master......

Like such a rare loyal and good general, I really don't know how Emperor Tianyou endured it at the beginning!

However, moving is moving, sighing is embarrassing; But after all, tonight's Weiyang Palace is full of crises, and it is difficult to distinguish between good and evil; So no matter what, Zhou Changfeng won't open this courtyard door easily!

"Ahem! The king of Bashu entered the palace late at night in order to hoe and kill thieves, what is the crime? It's just that I'm a little tired tonight, so I shouldn't thank you in person! In the early morning of tomorrow, I will send someone to invite me to discuss the situation with the king of Bashu. ”

"The last will obey...... May I ask your Majesty, what should the thief do? ”

“…… Well...... this."

Zhou Changfeng pretended to groan, and gave the great eunuch Liang Bao another color; The other party quietly climbed up the wall to take a look, and then nodded to Zhou Changfeng.

“…… Since the thief was captured by the king of Bashu, then you should take him back and interrogate him first. Remember, be sure to leave your mouth alive. ”

"The last will obey."

After finishing speaking, Zhu Yuntao stood up, bent down and grabbed his hand, and carried the tied Jia Lao Liu on his right shoulder; As he strode forward, dripping with blood and corpses all over the ground, he walked out of the palace......

After a while, Zhou Changfeng asked Liang Bao to open the courtyard door; I saw no less than forty or fifty corpses lying on the ground outside the courtyard of the imperial study; Half were dressed in guard uniforms, and half were dressed in black and masked......

"Liang Bao, tear off the assassin's veil, I want to see with my own eyes what kind of faces these traitors who committed rebellion look like!"

Liang Bao obeyed the order, and after seeing a few people, he replied:

"Back to Your Majesty's words, according to the old slave, these people should be capable people on the rivers and lakes; They all have hateful faces, ugly features, and none of them have the appearance of human ......."

After Zhou Changfeng lowered his head and discerned the faces of several black-clothed people, he saw that they were all crooked melons and cracked dates, so he waved his hand without interest, and turned around and walked towards the imperial study:

"Tell someone to collect it, and get me some water to clean my hands and put on my face......"

After Zhou Changfeng washed again, he turned around and lay on the dragon couch, sleepless all night.

And Zhu Yuntao, who was stained with blood, carried Jia Lao Liu, who was tied up with five flowers, and slowly walked out of the deserted and empty Weiyang Palace and returned to the old Qin Palace. However, the two entered the courtyard through the back door, and instead of going straight to the wing, they walked to the vegetable cellar next to the kitchen shed.

In fact, this vegetable cellar is the prison where Zhou Changfeng has set up privately. Zhu Yuntao opened the lid of the vegetable cellar, and after coughing a few times, there were also three jaw applause below, one fast and two slow.

"This ......"

"Shut up!"

As soon as Jia Laoliu wanted to speak, he was scolded by Zhu Yuntao in a low voice, and then walked down the vegetable cellar with him......

In the early morning of the next day, Liang Bao, the chief eunuch of Weiyang Palace, came to the old Qin Mansion with a golden saddle and a royal horse, and picked up Zhu Yuntao, who was already neatly dressed and was about to leave the city, and entered the palace to face the saint. And several little eunuchs who came with Liang Bao also carried the bloodied and flesh-curled prisoner Jia Laoliu into the outer palace prison with a broken straw mat, ready for the second trial.

Because the internal supervisors fought bravely and escorted them last night, today it is Liang Bao's godson, the little inner supervisor Liang Yugong, who is responsible for presiding over Jia Laoliu.

"Old hero, although it is a great rebellion for you to enter the palace and assassinate; But we admire your old and strong courage! It's just that the matter has come to this, and the result of your old success and failure is irreversible. Jianghu people pay attention to a husband like you who is willing to gamble and lose, and you have to dare to do it, right! You can do it well for the elderly, so that our family can save effort and "spit out" directly, right? ”

Jia Lao Liu raised his head, looked at the white-faced and beardless young inner prisoner, smiled contemptuously, and only replied with one word:

"Phew!"

"Oh, if you have something to say, don't spit, it's dirty! Take a good look at your stinky virtues, what kind of appearance has been tossed into by the King of Bashu, even if you have the bottom, you must have been cleaned up a long time ago, right? Well, since you don't want to give face, then our family won't ask; Anyway, today's second trial is a formality; A few times to toss you to death, our family can also deal with it! ”

After finishing speaking, Liang Bao's "godson" Liang Yugong beckoned to several small internal supervisors behind him:

"Come on, come on, let the old hero evaluate our means. Oh yes, tell the people in the imperial dining room, you are waiting for delicious food and drink at noon, and you are not afraid of spending money, but you have to give the life of the old hero to our family! We are a unique skill with eight hundred and eight hands, but we lack an old expert who has seen the world, to advise and advise! ”

Several little eunuchs responded and opened four large wooden boxes in front of Jia Laoliu; It was filled with all kinds of torture tools, and it looked like a carpenter's shop......

"Hmm...... Since we are meeting for the first time, we can be polite first. In this way, I will first serve you four "women's dishes" and taste the taste. Come on, plug the old hero's mouth, our family is soft-hearted, but I can't hear people cry out in pain...... Forget it, I'd better go out......"

The so-called four "women's dishes" are actually four common punishments: sticking officials, inserting bamboo sticks, clamping sticks, and "rising step by step", which is commonly known as the tiger chair.

The reason why Liang Yugong called these four methods of torture "women's dishes" is not because the pain caused is less; Rather, it is because the trauma left by this method is less and does not affect the continuation of the trial; Moreover, when the civil yamen tried the case, these four "scenes" of minor punishments were often applied to female prisoners.

Jia Lao Liu was born as a bandit in the rivers and lakes, and he is an iron-clad tough guy! After he ate these four "appetizers" hard, although the pain was that his face was blue, his lips were white, and he was covered in cold sweat, he didn't even show any signs of opening his mouth!

Liang Yugong, who walked back into the prison, looked at the indifference and disdain in his eyes, and praised with some surprise:

"It's really an old Jianghu, with a hard bone, which makes our family admire! Little guys, now that the four appetizers have been eaten, shouldn't you bring the old hero down to "yo-yo eat"? ”

This move seems to be kind, but it is not Liang Yugong's kindness, but the residual power of the tiger chair is still there! Because his legs were raised high by stone bricks, Jia Laoliu's knees were already in pain; Untying him from the tiger chair at this moment and forcing him to walk would have caused permanent trauma to his legs......

Of course, in order to prevent this old Jianghu from breaking the can, after seeing that he understood the power, Liang Yugong raised his hand and shouted to stop:

"Wait! Jia Lao Yishi, why did you bother to do this? Don't think that if you don't open your mouth when you die, our family won't know anything. Your identity is not a secret to our family. Your real name is Jia Kanglian, your ancestral home is Huizhou, and there are six brothers in this generation, and you are the youngest. When you were twelve years old, you old boy didn't study well and stole the jade bracelet of the daughter of a large local family. Later, you committed a crime and went to prison, and you were taken by an old thief, robbed, and accepted as a disciple, and since then you have devoted yourself to the green forest, is what our family said right? ”

Jia Laoliu, who was desperately resisting the pain, heard that his heart moved, and he suddenly raised his head and stared at Liang Yugong's fair and feminine face.

"Yo Yo Yo ...... Don't keep staring at me like that, it's scary...... Assassinating the king and killing him is a capital crime of beheading; Let me tell you the truth, no matter how much you explain, you will definitely not be able to get out. But you are not afraid of death after living for such a long time, don't you want to make some "good fate" for your two nephews in your hometown in Huizhou? Besides, if you don't say it now, our family will be punished next; At that time, if you want to say, the sin of broken bones and tendons will be in vain! ”