The jailer re-tied the woman to the torture rack.

Wu Han asked, "Your name is Tian Lanqing?" ”

"Yes!"

The woman squeezed a word out between her teeth.

"Who is your mastermind?"

"That's me."

"Who is the messenger of the Lord?"

"It's me too!"

Wu Han looked at the woman who called herself Tian Lanqing and smiled.

He nodded, and a jailer brought the leather bag from the wooden shelf.

Wu Han opened the leather bag, pinched out a silver needle from it, and said with a smile: "I'm glad that you don't tell the truth, so that I can make you feel what life is worse than death!" ”

As he spoke, he pinched Tian Lanqing's chin and said fiercely: "The woman who dares to hurt me, even if you are the king of heaven, I will peel your skin, break your bones, and pump your tendons!" ”

As he spoke, he let go of Tian Lanqing's chin fiercely, moved his palm down, and brought the silver needle over little by little.

The moment the silver needle pierced her chest, Tian Lanqing let out a scream almost like a ghost horn, and saw that the skin and flesh on her body were jumping suddenly.

Wu Han didn't care about this, he stabbed deeper and deeper, and gradually, half of the silver needle pierced into it.

Tian Lanqing couldn't stand this kind of heart-piercing pain anymore, her eyes rolled upward, and she fainted in pain.

Wu Han took a step back and said coldly: "Wake her up!" ”

A bucket of cold water was poured down, and Tian Lanqing woke up again.

She glared at Wu Han angrily, and scolded word by word: "Wu Han, you must not die well!" Kill me if you kind! ”

"Kill you?

How could I be willing to kill you! ”

As he spoke, Wu Han took out a thicker and longer silver needle from his skin, raised his head and pinched the other side of Tian Lanqing's heart, and said, "I still have to let you taste the taste of life is worse than death!" ”

As he spoke, he pierced the silver needle into it.

In a heart-rending scream, Tian Lanqing fell into a coma again.

"Wake up!"

Another bucket of cold water was poured on his head, and Wu Han also took out a silver needle from his skin again, still slowly piercing into Tian Lanqing's chest.

Soon, Tian Lanqing fell into a coma for the third time.

When the jailer kicked over the third bucket of water, Deng Chen walked in briskly from outside.

He first looked at Wu Han, and then at Tian Lanqing, who was unconscious with several silver needles in his chest, he walked forward quickly and said, "Gong Wu, next, let me interrogate!" ”

"No, you don't! Wei Qing, I have to pry her mouth open today! ”

Wu Han said in a deep voice.

Deng Chen sighed lightly, leaned into Wu Han's ear, and whispered: "Ziyan, she can't die now, if you really put people to death, you can't explain it to Your Majesty." ”

"Wei Qing rest assured, I have my own sense of proportion."

Deng Chen smiled bitterly, is it still measured?

If this continues, not to mention women, even men will have to be hurt to death.

He said with a straight face: "Ziyan, you go and rest first, let me interrogate for half an hour." ”

"Just half an hour?"

"Hmmm! Just half an hour! ”

Wu Han thought about it, nodded, and said, "Okay, Weiqing, let's talk, just half an hour." ”

As he spoke, he pulled out his handkerchief and wiped his hands vigorously, as if he had just touched something.

He led his men out of the torture chamber.

Seeing Wu Han and the others leave, Deng Chen looked at Tian Lanqing, who was tortured to the point of losing his human form, and shook his head helplessly.

While Tian Lanqing was still in a coma, he slowly pulled out the silver needle inserted in her chest.

When he pulled out the second one, Tian Lanqing woke up from the pain again, her voice was already hoarse, and she couldn't make too much noise, just a whimper in her throat.

Deng Chen continued to pull out the silver needle and said, "Tian Lanqing, do you know who the woman you stabbed last night was?" ”

At this time, Tian Lanqing, up and down her body, there was no place that was not trembling and painful.

Her upper and lower teeth collided, making a clattering sound, and she looked at Deng Chen with a distracted gaze, without saying a word.

Deng Chen continued: "That woman is Da Sima's wife, and she is also Da Sima's favorite woman.

What kind of person is Da Sima, I believe you also know something, you hurt his most beloved woman, do you think what means he will use to deal with you?

Only you can't think of the means, and you can't use the means without him. ”

Finally pulling out all the silver needles, he wiped them clean and put them back in his skin.

Then he turned to look at the jailer beside him and said, "Fetch a long robe!" ”

The jailer hurriedly agreed, walked out quickly, and after a short time, he came back with a gray robe, handed it to Deng Chen respectfully, and said, "My lord! ”

Deng Chen took it, put the robe on Tian Lanqing's body, and said: "This is Tingwei Prison, under torture, you have to confess sooner or later, rather than being tortured and humiliated to confess, it is better to make it clear as soon as possible." ”

Tian Lanqing's gaze gradually became focused, her body was not shaking as much as just now, and she said in a weak voice: "What should be said, I just said it." ”

Deng Chen was outside the torture room just now, and he heard it very clearly.

He smiled and said, "You mean, no one instructed you. ”

"Yes!"

"You did the assassination on your own initiative?"

"Yes!"

"Why?"

"Because Liu Xiu should be damned!"

"Why do you say that?"

"No, I just dare to say that!"

Deng Chen shrugged his shoulders and said, "You even dare to assassinate the Son of Heaven, I don't doubt your guts."

It's not easy for you to bear it for so long without confessing, but do you think those companions of yours can bear it as well as you? ”

His words made Tian Lanqing's face change, and she looked at Deng Chen suspiciously.

Deng Chen smiled indifferently and said: "What should be said, what should not be said, they all said, only you can persist until now, oh, by the way, there is another one, what is Hu Yong!" ”

Tian Lanqing's eyes were no longer so firm, and a flash of panic flashed.

Deng Chen said slowly: "But he can't last long, and he's not far from confessing." ”

He raised his hand and adjusted the robe on Tian Lanqing's body, wrapped the robe tighter, and said softly: "Now I will try you, it is your chance, if you still refuse to say anything, and then it will be replaced by Da Sima to continue to interrogate you, then, I'm afraid no one knows what you have to endure, perhaps, all the torture tools here, Da Sima will use them on your body one by one."

Do you really want that? ”

Water droplets dripped down Tian Lanqing's cheeks.

Deng Chen asked, "How old are you?"

Fifteen, sixteen?

Or seventeen?

If my daughters were still alive, they would probably not be a few years younger than you. ”

Tian Lanqing's eyes suddenly turned red, she lowered her head, and there were more droplets of water dripping on the ground.

"A good year should not be tortured like this, let alone die in this gloomy and cold cell.

Say it, tell everything you know, in fact, whether you say it or not, it will not affect the overall situation, the secrets you keep in your heart are no longer secrets, I believe, you can understand what I mean. ”

After Deng Chen finished speaking, he took a step back and looked at Tian Lanqing very patiently.

The latter lowered her head, her face changed, and after some time, she suddenly said, "King Xiping." ”

"What?"

Her voice was too low and too fast, and Deng Chen didn't hear it too clearly.

Tian Lanqing raised her head, met Deng Chen's scrutinizing gaze, and said, "We are all subordinates of King Xiping!" ”

The king of Xiping is Lu Fang, and the king of Xiping is not named by others, but by himself.

Hearing Tian Lanqing's words clearly, Deng Chen subconsciously squinted his eyes, it turned out that these assassins were all Lu Fang's subordinates.

This makes sense.

The four Ah under the command of Gongsun Shu suffered heavy casualties, especially after Ruan Xiu's death, his strength plummeted, and he is currently in Luoyang, and he can't make much movement.

As for Kui Huan, he had just sent an envoy to Luoyang to lobby, and it was unlikely that he would send another assassin to assassinate him.

Except for Gongsun Shu and Kui Huan, then the only one left is Lu Fang.

In fact, with the support of the Huns, Lu Fang has always been quite calm after occupying and annexing the state, and has not sought to expand outward, nor has he had too much or too direct conflict with the Luoyang court.

The well water of the two sides did not interfere with the river water, and they were safe and sound for a long time.

This time, Lu Fang suddenly sent assassins to Luoyang to assassinate the Son of Heaven, which made Deng Chen suddenly have an ominous premonition in his heart, as if something big was about to happen.

Deng Chen asked, "Why did Lu Fang send you to assassinate the Son of Heaven?" ”

Tian Lanqing glanced at Deng Chen, shook her head and said, "I don't know."

I'm just doing what I'm told. ”

"How many of you are in Luoyang?"

"I don't know."

Seeing Deng Chen raise his eyebrows, Tian Lanqing said: "I really don't know how many people there are, I only know that there are twenty-three people in our group." ”

Deng Chen thought for a while, shook his head and said, "That's not right! Of the assassins who committed yesterday's assassination, seventeen were killed and four were captured, making a total of twenty-one, and two were missing. ”

"Those two are at Zhou Sheng's house."

Zhou Sheng...... The head of the Hundred Operas? ”

"Yes.

We threatened Zhou Sheng's family with him to let our people join his Hundred Opera, and then follow his Hundred Opera Troupe and blend into the palace. ”

Tian Lanqing said.

"You've planned it well, it's been very well-planned.

Where do you all live? ”

"Jinmen South Street."

"Suburbs?"

"Yes!"

Deng Chen asked, Tian Lanqing replied, and the conversation between the two was extremely fast.

Deng Chen suddenly asked again: "Why did Lu Fang assassinate the Son of Heaven?" ”

Tian Lanqing glanced up at Deng Chen, shook her head and said, "I've already said it, I don't know."

We are just subordinates, and when we receive orders, we do things according to them, and we are not qualified to ask the reason. ”

Deng Chen stared at Tian Lanqing for a long time, nodded, turned his head to look at the Peng officials on the side, and asked, "Have you recorded everything?" ”

The official hurriedly got up, held the bamboo slip, came to Deng Chen's approach, bowed down, and said, "My lord, the lower officials have already recorded." ”

Deng Chen glanced at it and said yes.

He shook his head at the jailers on the left and right, and said, "Put her down and send her back to her cell." ”

A jailer stepped forward and reminded in a low voice, "My lord, Da Sima...... Da Sima probably didn't want to let her go back to her cell. ”

Deng Chen's eyes widened, and he said, "This is the Tingwei Mansion, not the Great Sima Mansion." ”

Whose orders do you have to obey, don't you have a point in your own heart?

The jailer shrank in fright, and hurriedly called his companion over, untied Tian Lanqing's rope, and then dragged her back to the cell.

Deng Chen took the record of the clerk and looked at it carefully.

As soon as he saw half of it, Wu Han walked in from outside in a rage and shouted loudly: "Hey, Weiqing, why did you send that Tian Lanqing back to the cell?"

I'm not done yet! ”

"She's got everything she needs to say."

As he spoke, Deng Chen shook the bamboo slip in his hand.

Wu Han glanced at it, waved his hand and said, "Don't count it, I have to interrogate her personally!" ”

Deng Chen looked at Wu Han helplessly, and said meaningfully: "Ziyan is a big Sima, let's stop in moderation!" ”

Da Sima should have the heart of Da Sima, and torturing a captured captive is really detrimental to Da Sima's prestige.

Wu Han was very upset when he heard this, and said, "Weiqing, what did she do last night, didn't you see it?"

Just because she dared to assassinate His Majesty, I can't spare her! ”

"It's not a pity for her to die, but Your Majesty will put her to death, not us."

Deng Chen was afraid that Wu Han would hold on to this matter, so he deliberately changed the topic and asked, "Ziyan knows, who instructed these assassins?" ”

"Who is it?"

"Lu Fang."

"Lu Fang?"

Wu Han frowned.

Deng Chen said with a solemn face: "Surprised! When I heard this, I was also surprised! I ...... in my heart There's always a bad feeling that it's not going to be good, I'm afraid...... There is going to be chaos in the north. ”